Current Affairs One-liners — 15 May 2026

Fri, 15 May 2026

• On 15 May 2026 PM Narendra Modi visited the UAE, where India and the UAE signed an ISPRL–ADNOC pact for up to 30 million barrels of ADNOC crude in India's strategic reserves, a Framework for the Strategic Defence Partnership, and announced US$5 billion of UAE investment.
• The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) penalised Motion Education ₹10 lakh and Career Line Coaching, Sikar, ₹5 lakh for misleading advertisements under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, PIB said on 15 May 2026.
• On 15 May 2026 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Andhra Pradesh CM N. Chandrababu Naidu laid foundation stones for the AMCA Core Integration & Flight Testing Centre at Puttaparthi and BDL's Naval Systems Manufacturing Facility in Anakapalli district.
• India's total exports (merchandise and services) in April 2026 were estimated at US$80.80 billion, up 13.59% from April 2025, the Commerce Ministry said on 15 May 2026.
• The PLFS monthly bulletin for April 2026, released by MoSPI on 15 May 2026, put the urban unemployment rate (15+) at 6.6% and the overall labour force participation rate at 55.0%.
• On 15 May 2026 Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan inaugurated the Griha Pravesh of 5 lakh completed PMAY-G houses in Maharashtra at Satara and announced ₹8,368.50 crore of central assistance for FY 2026-27.
• On 15 May 2026 Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw virtually inaugurated Sahasra Semiconductors' ATMP/OSAT facility – Rajasthan's first semiconductor plant and India's first SME-led semiconductor facility – and ELCINA's Electronics Manufacturing Cluster at Bhiwadi.
• A PIB backgrounder of 15 May 2026 says India ranks third in the world with 6,628 specified dams, over 26% of them more than 50 years old, and that DRIP Phases II and III carry an outlay of ₹10,211 crore.
• The Kimberley Process (KP) Intersessional Meeting 2026, a four-day meeting on the natural diamond trade held under India's Chairship and its '3Cs' theme, concluded in Mumbai, PIB said on 15 May 2026.
• At its 28th full meeting on 15 May 2026, the Commission for Air Quality Management in Delhi-NCR (CAQM) approved draft directions for only electric L5 three-wheelers to be registered in Delhi from 1 January 2027 and for fuel only against a valid PUC certificate across NCR from 1 October 2026.
• Minister of State Jayant Chaudhary represented India at the swearing-in of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni for his seventh term and visited NFSU's Jinja campus, India's first overseas public academic campus, PIB said on 15 May 2026.
• Hindustan Copper Limited, a Miniratna CPSE under the Ministry of Mines, reported a record profit before tax of ₹1,232.73 crore for FY 2025-26, up 95%, the ministry said on 15 May 2026.
• CSIR's Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI), Bhopal, transferred its indigenous SODAR (Sound Detection and Ranging) technology to Meteoxperts Solutions, Noida, during its 46th Foundation Day celebrations, PIB said on 15 May 2026.