AFCAT Current Affairs One-liners — Last 12 months

Tue, 26 May 2026

• On 26 May 2026 the Government of India constituted a High-Level Committee, chaired by Justice (Retd) Prakash Prabhakar Navlekar, to study demographic changes caused by illegal immigration and other abnormal reasons.
• On 26 May 2026 the Union Government notified the National Sports Governance (National Sports Board) Rules, 2026 and the National Sports Governance (National Sports Tribunal) Rules, 2026 under the National Sports Governance Act, 2025.
• On 26 May 2026 Social Justice Minister Dr Virendra Kumar launched the PM-AJAY Portal and AJAY Mobile App for end-to-end digital, real-time implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Anusuchit Jaati Abhyuday Yojana.
• On 26 May 2026 the Centre approved Skymap Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd.'s bid of about ₹121.01 crore for 100% equity and management control of Indian Medicines Pharmaceutical Corporation Limited (IMPCL), a CPSE under the Ministry of Ayush.
• The Department of Telecommunications has introduced user-friendly reforms to PM-WANI public Wi-Fi, including QR-based login for laptops, short 15, 30 and 60-minute plans and standardised hotspot names, announced on 26 May 2026.
• Telecom subscription data released on 26 May 2026 show India had 1,337.54 million telephone subscribers and 1,073.44 million broadband subscribers at the end of April 2026.
• KVIC's provisional data for 2025-26, released on 26 May 2026, show record sales of ₹1,87,105 crore and production of ₹1,25,296 crore, with employment for 2.04 crore people.
• The Ministry of Ayush held an online review and consultative meeting on 25–26 May 2026 on developing WHO International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI) and National Health Intervention Codes (NHIC) for Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani.
• On 26 May 2026 the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM), MeitY, launched an 'Investors Support' portal to give investors information and a grievance channel; 12 fab/packaging and 24 design projects have been approved under the Semicon India Programme so far.

Mon, 25 May 2026

• On 25 May 2026 Union Health Minister J P Nadda reviewed India's preparedness for Ebola, saying no case of Bundibugyo Ebola disease had been reported in India, after WHO declared the African outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
• On 25 May 2026 MoSPI released the report of the Technical Advisory Committee on revising the base year of the All-India Index of Industrial Production from 2011-12 to 2022-23, ahead of the new series' launch on 1 June 2026.
• MoS Communications Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani said on 25 May 2026 that India Post's revenue reached ₹15,373 crore in FY 2025-26, a single-year rise of ₹2,100 crore.
• On 25 May 2026 ICMR held 'Medical Innovations Patent Mitra: Innovators-to-Industry (I2I) Connect' in New Delhi, transferring 41 public health technologies to industry, including the first-ever transfer of inactivated KFD and Chandipura virus biomaterials.
• The Election Commission of India, with International IDEA under India's Chairship Programme 2026, began a five-day workshop on 'Risk Management and Electoral Resilience' at IIIDEM, New Delhi, on 25 May 2026.
• The first BRICS 2026 Tourism Working Group meeting was held virtually on 25 May 2026 under India's chairship; the second TWG and the BRICS Tourism Ministers' Meeting will be held in Jaipur in August 2026.
• On 25 May 2026 the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy decided that no blanket extension of the 1 June 2026 deadline for ALMM List-II for solar PV cells is needed, offering case-to-case relief instead.
• At a review on 25 May 2026, the Ministry of Mines said a record 212 mineral blocks were auctioned in FY 2025-26, the most in a single year since auctions began in 2015, including 22 critical and strategic mineral blocks.
• On 25 May 2026 the Government notified the LPG (Regulation of Supply and Distribution) Amendment Order, 2026, letting consumers who get a PNG connection either end their LPG connection within 30 days or obtain a transfer voucher to restore it later in a non-PNG area.
• On 25 May 2026 the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) launched the portal for the National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment (NeSDA) 2025.
• Researchers at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP), an autonomous institute of DST, found molecular evidence of massive wildfires that swept ancient Gondwana forests about 250 million years ago, as reported on 25 May 2026.

Sun, 24 May 2026

• On 24 May 2026 UPSC conducted the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination 2026, including the IFS (Preliminary), at 2,072 venues in 83 cities, using real-time face authentication of candidates for the first time.
• In Cyprus's parliamentary election on 24 May 2026, the centre-right Democratic Rally (DISY) won the most seats (17), while the far-right ELAM moved into third place with eight seats and two newcomer parties entered parliament.
• On 24 May 2026 Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan directed that professors and technical experts from IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur assist CBSE in ensuring a glitch-free re-evaluation process after problems with its post-result services portal.
• The Department of Consumer Affairs has amended the Legal Metrology (Government Approved Test Centre) Rules, 2013, letting GATCs verify five types of fuel dispensers, including CNG, LNG and hydrogen dispensers, as announced on 24 May 2026.

Sat, 23 May 2026

• On 23 May 2026 the Rural Development Ministry reviewed States' preparedness for the VB–G RAM G Act, 2025, which commences on 1 July 2026, and approved over 45 crore persondays of MGNREGS labour budget for June 2026.
• On 23 May 2026 DPIIT released operational guidelines for the BHAVYA Scheme, a Central Sector Scheme to develop 100 investment-ready industrial parks over 2026-27 to 2031-32 with an outlay of about ₹33,660 crore.
• Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal will visit Canada from 25 to 27 May 2026 with over 100 Indian businesses to push negotiations on the India–Canada Comprehensive Economic and Partnership Agreement (CEPA), the ministry announced on 23 May.
• On 23 May 2026 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and briefed him on progress in India–US cooperation.
• On 23 May 2026 Prime Minister Narendra Modi distributed more than 51,000 appointment letters to newly recruited youth at the 19th Rozgar Mela via video conferencing.
• On 23 May 2026 the Ministry of Education flagged off 56 government-school students from 15 States/UTs, all NMMS scholarship holders, for a 24–30 May visit to Japan under the Sakura Science Programme 2026.