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Why in news? On 18 April 2026 the Union Cabinet approved the creation of the Bharat Maritime Insurance Pool (BMI Pool) with a sovereign guarantee of �...
Why in news? International news reports have revealed that the United Arab Emirates secretly carried out airstrikes on Iranian infrastructure during t...
Why in news? Karnataka’s renowned Kukke Subrahmanya Temple announced that it earned about ₹167.89 crore in the financial year 2025–26. According...
Why in news? On 11 May 2026 a wild gaur (Indian bison) that had roamed through inhabited areas of Kannur district in Kerala was tranquillised and relo...
Why in news? The Ministry of Agriculture recently highlighted the achievements of the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture in a background pap...
Why in news? On 11 May 2026 the Chief Justice of India, Surya Kant, announced a digital platform called “One Case One Data” to integrate case info...
Why in news? The Ministry of Textiles announced on 11 May 2026 that the National Jute Board has been instrumental in deploying the Jute Crop Informati...
Why in news? During the Bio‑energy and Bio‑fertiliser Business (BBB) Summit held in May 2026, the Indian Biogas Association released a white paper...
Why in news? Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda and Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan jointly launched the SEHAT Mission (“Science Exce...
Why in news? The death of 37‑year‑old Indian technology professional Chiranjeevi Kolla on 5 May 2026 in California drew attention to Valley Fever,...
Why in news? On 12 May 2026 the Ministry of Mines, in collaboration with the Government of Jammu & Kashmir, launched the second tranche of auctions fo...
Why in news? Naturalists in Mumbai’s Aarey forest recently reported the presence of Cyrtodactylus varadgiri, a rare ground‑dwelling gecko named af...
Why in news? In early May 2026 the United Kingdom carried out its first medical parachute mission. An RAF A400M aircraft flew more than 3,000 kilometr...
Why in news? NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, en route to the metal‑rich asteroid 16 Psyche, photographed Mars as a thin crescent in early May 2026. The ...
Why in news? The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) recently released a group of long‑billed vultures, also called Indian vultures, into Melghat ...
Why in news? Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s first Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel (PM MITRA) park at Warangal in Telang...
Why in news? On 7 May 2026 the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN‑Habitat) unveiled the Catalogue of Solutions 2026‑2029 during the se...
Why in news? World Lupus Day is observed every year on 10 May to raise awareness about lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease. The 2026 campaign urged go...
Why in news? Rising tensions in the Strait of Hormuz have disrupted shipping routes through the Persian Gulf. To keep supplies flowing, Indian exporte...
Why in news? The Sabarmati River is often mentioned in civil services examinations because it flows through Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, two of Gujarat�...
