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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? 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? Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s first Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel (PM MITRA) park at Warangal in Telang...
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? 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? 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? Naturalists in Mumbai’s Aarey forest recently reported the presence of Cyrtodactylus varadgiri, a rare ground‑dwelling gecko named af...
Why in news? Farmers in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have reported severe crop losses due to an outbreak of the “litchi stink bug,” a sap‑sucking ins...
Why in news? A recent survey across the Western Ghats recorded only about 65 percent of the dragonfly and damselfly species historically known from th...
Why in news? A scientific paper published in May 2026 analysed the landslide‑triggered tsunami that struck Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord on 10 August 2...
Why in news? The Indian Coast Guard commissioned ICGS Achal, a new state‑of‑the‑art Fast Patrol Vessel, on 9 May 2026 at Goa Shipyard. The vesse...
Why in news? The Ministry of Panchayati Raj announced the winners of the National Panchayat Awards 2025 on 9 May 2026. Forty‑two Panchayats across I...
