Current Affairs One-liners — 04 May 2026

Mon, 04 May 2026

• The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) won 102 of Kerala's 140 Assembly seats in results declared on 4 May 2026, ending 10 years of Left Democratic Front (LDF) rule, while the BJP won three seats.
• Actor C. Joseph Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) emerged as the single largest party in Tamil Nadu on 4 May 2026 with 108 of 234 seats on its debut, ahead of the DMK's 59 and the AIADMK's 47, but fell 10 short of the majority mark of 118.
• The BJP-led NDA won 102 of Assam's 126 Assembly seats in results declared on 4 May 2026 to retain power for a third straight term, with the BJP alone winning 82, 18 more than the majority mark of 64.
• The BJP won 207 of the 293 West Bengal Assembly seats declared on 4 May 2026, reducing the ruling Trinamool Congress to 80 from 215 in 2021, and Suvendu Adhikari defeated Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Bhabanipur by 15,105 votes.
• The NDA led by Chief Minister N. Rangasamy's All India N. R. Congress (AINRC) won 18 of the 30 elected seats in the Puducherry Assembly in results declared on 4 May 2026, with the AINRC winning 12 and Rangasamy winning both seats he contested.
• Summer crops had been sown on 81.60 lakh hectares as on 1 May 2026, against 79.00 lakh hectares a year earlier, the Agriculture Ministry said on 4 May 2026, with coarse cereals and oilseeds up and rice down.
• The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) revoked Stage-I of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) across the NCR on 4 May 2026 after Delhi's average AQI improved from 175 on 3 May to 88 owing to rain, and its Enforcement Task Force reviewed 174 inspections the same day.
• The Union Health Ministry began a nationwide Fire Safety Week from 4 to 10 May 2026 with a pledge on 'Fire Safety in Health Facilities' led by Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava, and unveiled the National Guidelines on Fire and Life Safety in Healthcare Facilities (2026).
• Project Deepak of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), raised in 1961 and responsible for over 1,100 km of roads in Himachal Pradesh including the Hindustan-Tibet Road and stretches of the Manali-Leh axis, celebrated its 66th Raising Day in Shimla on 4 May 2026.
• The Indian Ocean Ship (IOS) Sagar, INS Sunayna, entered Yangon Harbour in Myanmar on 4 May 2026, coinciding with Chief of the Naval Staff Adm Dinesh K Tripathi's visit, in line with India's MAHASAGAR vision and Neighbourhood First policy.
• Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on 4 May 2026 reviewed proposed high-speed and high-density highway corridors in Maharashtra and nine State BOT projects covering 527 km of National Highways.
• The Ministry of Ayush held an Inter-Ministerial Committee meeting in New Delhi on 4 May 2026, chaired by Minister of State (Independent Charge) Prataprao Jadhav, to plan the International Day of Yoga 2026.
• The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting and the Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT), Mumbai, said on 4 May 2026 that enrolment is open for their national AI skilling programme for the creative sector, offering 15,000 scholarships developed with Google and YouTube.
• The Ministry of Panchayati Raj opened a two-day national workshop on Panchayat Development Plans in New Delhi on 4 May 2026, launching the People's Plan Campaign booklet for 2026-27, a committee report on improving Gram Panchayat Development Plans and the revamped eGramSwaraj planning portal.