Current Affairs One-liners — 28 April 2026

Tue, 28 Apr 2026

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 28 April 2026 attended the closing ceremony of Sikkim's 50th Year of Statehood celebrations at Paljor Stadium, Gangtok, and launched and inaugurated over 30 development projects; Sikkim became a full state through the Constitution (Thirty-sixth Amendment) Act, 1975.
• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh addressed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers' Meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on 28 April 2026, saying Operation Sindoor showed terrorism epicentres are no longer immune, and held bilaterals with Kyrgyz, Kazakh and Belarusian counterparts.
• Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in Visakhapatnam on 28 April 2026 that the gazette notification creating the South Coastal Railway zone will be issued with 1 June 2026 as the effective date, and announced 100% electrification of Andhra Pradesh's rail network.
• The 10th India–Kenya Joint Trade Committee met in Nairobi on 27–28 April 2026, co-chaired by Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal, and noted bilateral trade of USD 4.31 billion in 2025–26, up 24.91% from USD 3.45 billion.
• The Narcotics Control Bureau on 28 April 2026 secured the return of wanted drug trafficker Mohammad Salim Dola from Türkiye under 'Operation Global-Hunt'; he was taken into custody on arrival at IGI Airport, New Delhi.
• India's Index of Industrial Production grew 4.1% year-on-year in March 2026, as per MoSPI's quick estimate released on 28 April 2026, with mining up 5.5%, manufacturing 4.3% and electricity 0.8%.
• Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on 28 April 2026 announced that all sports-related intellectual property registrations — trademarks, copyrights, patents, designs, traditional knowledge and GIs — will be fee-exempt for three years, at World IP Day celebrations themed 'IP and Sports: Ready, Set, Innovate!'.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 28 April 2026 addressed a Mahila Sammelan in Varanasi, inaugurated and laid foundation stones for projects worth around ₹6,350 crore and flagged off the Banaras–Pune (Hadapsar) and Ayodhya–Mumbai (LTT) Amrit Bharat Express trains.
• Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on 28 April 2026 handed J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah the sanction letter for ₹3,566 crore of PMGSY-IV (Batch-II) road projects at SKICC, Srinagar, and released a DAY-NRLM Mother Sanction of over ₹4,568 crore for 24 States/UTs.
• The fourth edition of the India–Sri Lanka bilateral diving exercise IN–SLN DIVEX was held at Colombo from 21 to 28 April 2026 with the Indian Navy's diving support and submarine rescue vessel INS Nireekshak, featuring deep-sea dives beyond 55 metres.
• The Ministry of Coal on 28 April 2026 signed Coal Mine Development and Production Agreements for four mines from the 14th round of commercial auctions — the first in India with embedded Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) provisions.