Asia Current Affairs One-liners — Last 6 months
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Tue, 12 May 2026
- On 12 May 2026 India and the International Fund for Agricultural Development launched a new eight-year Country Strategic Opportunities Programme (COSOP) for 2026–2033 to raise rural incomes and resilience.
- On 12 May 2026 the Ministry of Mines launched the second tranche of e-auction of 12 limestone blocks in Anantnag, Rajouri and Poonch districts of Jammu & Kashmir at Srinagar.
- The Railway Ministry said on 12 May 2026 that the four Jammu Tawi–Srinagar Vande Bharat services carried 44,727 passengers in the first ten days after their 2 May regularisation.
- On 12 May 2026 the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) of MHA and the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH) signed an MoU to feed I4C's Suspect Registry data into AI-driven fraud detection to catch mule accounts.
- On 12 May 2026 Heavy Industries Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy announced approval of 1,243 EV chargers for Karnataka with an outlay of ₹123.26 crore under the PM E-DRIVE scheme, at a national EV charging conference in Bengaluru.
- On 12 May 2026, International Nurses Day, President Droupadi Murmu conferred the National Florence Nightingale Awards 2026 on 15 nursing professionals at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
- On 12 May 2026 CSIR said 13 indigenous technologies of CSIR-Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, were transferred to industries and start-ups at a National Technology Day event at CSIR headquarters, New Delhi.
- On 11 May 2026 the National Centre for Good Governance began its first capacity-building programme for 29 senior civil servants of Seychelles, the first step under a February 2026 MoU to train 250 Seychellois officials.
Mon, 11 May 2026
- On 11 May 2026 the Centre notified that the Viksit Bharat – G RAM G Act, 2025, guaranteeing 125 days of wage employment, will come into force nationwide from 1 July 2026, when MGNREGA, 2005 stands repealed.
- On 11 May 2026 the 5th Informal Group of Ministers on West Asia, chaired by Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh, was told India has 60 days of crude oil and natural gas and 45 days of LPG, and fertiliser stocks of 199.65 LMT against a Kharif 2026 need of 390.54 LMT.
- On 11 May 2026 MoSPI's PLFS Quarterly Bulletin for January–March 2026 put the overall LFPR (15+, CWS) at 55.5% and estimated 57.4 crore persons employed, with urban unemployment on a declining trend.
- The Steel Ministry said on 11 May 2026 that Dr Ashok Kumar Panda, earlier Director (Finance), assumed charge as Chairman & Managing Director of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) on 9 May 2026.
- On National Technology Day, 11 May 2026, which recalls the Pokhran nuclear tests of 1998, the 'Vigyan–Tech' programme of 14 scientific ministries was held at BRIC–NII, New Delhi, where ICMR licensed three medical technologies to industry.
- On 11 May 2026 the Indian Coast Guard held the girder-laying ceremony for its 4th, 5th and 6th Air Cushion Vehicles at Chowgule Shipyard's Rassaim Yard in Goa; the hovercraft use 50% indigenous material.
- On 11 May 2026 Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said India will host the 1st International Big Cat Summit on 1–2 June in New Delhi and urged industry to fund big-cat conservation through the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA).
- On 11 May 2026 Union Minister Nitin Gadkari rolled out a first-of-its-kind barrier-less Multi-Lane Free Flow (MLFF) toll plaza at Mundka–Bakkarwala on Urban Extension Road-II in Delhi NCR.
- On 11 May 2026 PM Narendra Modi took part in the Somnath Amrut Mahotsav at Prabhas Patan, Gujarat, marking 75 years since the restored Somnath Temple was consecrated in 1951.
- On 11 May 2026 Union Ministers JP Nadda and Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched the SEHAT Mission in Delhi, a joint national mission of ICAR and ICMR linking agriculture with nutrition, disease prevention and farmer welfare.
- On 11 May 2026 Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated India's first integrated Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) field laboratory at IIT Bombay under Bharat Innovates 2026.
- On 11 May 2026 the Forum of Regulators (FOR), the statutory platform of Central and State electricity regulatory commissions set up in 2005, held its 100th meeting at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.
- On 11 May 2026 the Textiles Ministry described how the National Jute Board has run the Jute Crop Information System since 2023 with ISRO and the Jute Corporation of India, using the BHUVAN JUMP app and the PATSAN web platform.
Sun, 10 May 2026
- On 10 May 2026 Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief C. Joseph Vijay was sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu by Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar in Chennai, after his party won 108 of 234 seats in its first Assembly election.
- On 10 May 2026 PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the PM MITRA Park at Warangal, Telangana, the country's first functional PM MITRA Park built at ₹1,695.54 crore, as part of projects worth about ₹9,400 crore launched in Hyderabad.
- On 10 May 2026 Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan formally launched PMGSY-IV at Bhairunda in Madhya Pradesh's Sehore district, marking 25 years of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, and approved 973 roads worth ₹1,763.08 crore for MP.
- On 10 May 2026 Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed national preparedness for floods and heat waves, asking for Flood Crisis Management Teams in every state and an early warning system for at least 60 high-risk lakes.
- On 10 May 2026 Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Kumkum Mohod won the women's recurve team gold at the Archery World Cup Stage 2 in Shanghai, beating hosts China 5-4 (28-26) in a shoot-off.
- The Navy said on 10 May 2026 that its oceanographic research vessel INS Sagardhwani visited Cam Ranh, Vietnam from 4 to 8 May 2026, where DRDO's NPOL scientists engaged with Vietnamese oceanographers.
- On 10 May 2026 Union Home Minister Amit Shah released Solicitor General Tushar Mehta's book 'The Bench, the Bar, and the Bizarre and the Lawful and the Awful' in New Delhi, in the presence of Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant.
- On 10 May 2026 Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh reviewed the Sophisticated Analytical & Technical Help Institute (SATHI) set up at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi with support of the Department of Science & Technology.
- On 10 May 2026 PM Narendra Modi took part in the 45th anniversary celebrations of The Art of Living in Bengaluru, Karnataka, inaugurated its Meditation Temple and marked Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's 70th year.