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209 stories for “Current Affairs” · May 2026
Clear filtersIndia’s women’s recurve team won gold at the Archery World Cup Stage 2 in Shanghai. The trio of Deepika Kumari (Jharkhand), Ankita Bhakat (West Bengal) and Kumkum Mohod (Maharashtra) beat China 5-4 in a shoot-off in the...
The National e-Governance Division (NeGD) honoured five States for outstanding DigiLocker integration during the National Consultative Workshop on Strengthening Cybersecurity Frameworks for State Data. The awardees were...
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has inaugurated the Bhimmandali Eco Heritage Site in Sambalpur district of Odisha. Located in the Naktideul Forest Range, the site holds rock paintings and stone inscriptions more than 2...
The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) has released a report titled “A New Geopolitics of Food”. It says trade wars, military conflicts and weakening multilateral institutions are resh...
The Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) 2026 states that 82.2 million people were internally displaced across 104 countries by the end of 2025. It was released by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre tog...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the World Health Statistics Report 2026, its yearly compilation of global health indicators published since 2005. The report finds that progress on health-related Sustaina...
Scientists from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research – National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (ICAR-NBFGR) have discovered a new freshwater fish species, Labeo kaage, in the Cauvery River basin of Karnataka. It...
Scientists have proposed that a hidden ancient dwarf galaxy, named “Loki”, lies inside the Milky Way. A dwarf galaxy is a small galaxy with fewer stars and lower mass than large galaxies such as the Milky Way. The team s...
The Government of India has notified a 1% welfare cess on construction costs under the Code on Social Security, 2020. The levy applies to the total construction cost paid by employers for building and construction works,...
Maize has emerged as India’s largest feedstock for ethanol production in Ethanol Supply Year (ESY) 2025–26. The country produced 182 crore litres of maize-based ethanol in the first half of ESY 2025–26. Ethanol is made f...
World AIDS Vaccine Day was observed on 18 May 2026 to raise awareness about the need for a vaccine against HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). HIV attacks the body’s immune system and can lead to AIDS (Acquired Immunodef...
Two international observances fell in mid-May 2026. The International Day of Living Together in Peace is observed on 16 May every year to encourage peace, tolerance and harmony among people; its 2026 theme is “Building T...
