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- Rajasthan's Senior Citizen Pilgrimage Scheme 2026, run by the Devasthan Department with a ₹150 crore budget, will take 56,000 elderly people on free pilgrimages: 50,000 by AC train and 6,000 by air to the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
- North India's first dedicated zinc park is being built on 111 acres at Kanchla, Bhilwara, after the ₹1 lakh crore and 1 lakh-job agreement with Vedanta at Rising Rajasthan. Only zinc-linked firms can set up plants there.
- Rajasthan will get about ₹11,000 crore as a 50-year interest-free loan under the Centre's SASCI capital investment scheme, after getting ₹10,547.88 crore in 2025-26. Projects must cost ₹5 crore or more, on a first-come basis.
- A NITI Aayog report of May 2026 says Rajasthan is the only state where classes 1 to 12 are taught on the same school campus; 27,889 schools offer this.
- Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia launched the indigenous Cell Broadcast System (CBS), built by C-DOT with NDMA and the Home Ministry, which sends disaster alerts within seconds to every active phone in a chosen area.
- The Quad (India, US, Japan, Australia) launched a Critical Minerals Initiative framework to raise about ₹1.6 lakh crore for secure mineral supply chains in the Indo-Pacific.
- 4 May — Results of the assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry were declared on 4 May 2026. The Election Commission had announced the election schedule on 5 March 2026.
- 4 May — Sunetra Pawar (NCP), wife of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, won the Baramati bypoll in Maharashtra by the biggest margin ever seen in an assembly bypoll in India.
- 5 May — During PM Modi's UAE visit on 5 May 2026, ADNOC was allowed to store up to 30 million barrels of crude oil in India's strategic petroleum reserve. The UAE is India's only partner in this programme, and Fujairah storage will also be explored.
- 19 May — On 19 May 2026 the Rajasthan Medical and Health Department won the WHO World No Tobacco Day Award 2026 for the South-East Asia Region.
News by topic
- Railways & Transport
- 3 one-liners
- Government & States
- 74 one-liners
- Science, Defence & Environment
- 19 one-liners
- World & Agreements
- 22 one-liners
- Sports, Awards & Days
- 16 one-liners
Railways & Transport
3 one-liners
Trains · stations · metro · roads.
National
- Rajasthan's Senior Citizen Pilgrimage Scheme 2026, run by the Devasthan Department with a ₹150 crore budget, will take 56,000 elderly people on free pilgrimages: 50,000 by AC train and 6,000 by air to the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
- Train pilgrims can visit places such as Haridwar, Rishikesh, Ayodhya, Varanasi, Dwarka, Somnath, Tirupati, Jagannath Puri, Rameswaram, Vaishno Devi, Amritsar, Patna Sahib, Bihar Sharif and Hazur Sahib Nanded. Each applicant picks three preferred destinations.
Summits, Agreements & Exercises
- 20 May — During the Cyprus visit, the Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service and Cyprus's diplomatic academy agreed to train together, and Cyprus's Larnaca rescue centre signed a search-and-rescue pact with India's defence ministry. India will gift a Bhishm Cube emergency medical kit.
Government & States
74 one-liners
Schemes · laws · states.
National
34 one-liners
34 National — 4 May – 27 May.
National — 34 one-liners
Part 1
12 one-liners
National: 12.
- To qualify, an applicant must be a Rajasthan native aged 60 or more on 1 April 2026, and neither the applicant nor the spouse can be an income-tax payer. Retired gazetted officers and earlier beneficiaries are not eligible.
- Food, stay, medical care and an escort are free during the pilgrimage, and people above 80 years of age are not allowed to travel by air.
- The Centre gave Rajasthan a record allocation of over ₹3,283 crore under PMAY-Gramin; ₹1,641 crore, the highest in three years, was released in 2025-26 alone.
- To meet the "housing for all by 2029" goal, the PMAY-G budget rose from ₹15,000 crore (2016-17) to ₹54,916 crore (2026-27). The rural development budget grew from ₹87,765 crore to ₹2,73,108 crore, over 211%.
- Rajasthan formed 1,811 new M-PACS (multipurpose primary agricultural cooperative societies), 3,434 new dairy cooperative societies and 31 new fisheries cooperative societies.
- A total of 6,526 PACS are fully computerised and "go-live", and 6,965 PACS work as Common Service Centres and e-Mitra kiosks.
- Rajasthan is first in India in cooperative digital payments with 9.60 crore successful transactions, and second in the country in PACS computerisation.
- After the ODOP policy amendment, micro units can get margin-money grants up to ₹20 lakh and small units up to ₹15 lakh for expansion. Applications are fully online and approved at district level.
- Along with the five-state polls, bypolls were announced for eight assembly seats in six states: Nagaland, Tripura, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat and Goa.
- To clean up voter lists, the Election Commission ran a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in four states: Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal and Assam.
- Under Article 124(1), Parliament fixes the number of Supreme Court judges by law. The strength was 31 in 2008 and 34 in 2019 under the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Act, 1956, as amended.
- The Supreme Court widened Article 21 (right to a life with dignity) to include moving freely on streets and public places without fear of being beaten or bitten by dogs.
Part 2
12 one-liners
National: 12.
- The Central Information Commission (CIC) reversed its own 2018 decision and held that the BCCI is outside the RTI Act because it is not owned, controlled or funded by the government.
- The NCRB report 'Crime in India 2024' recorded 58.85 lakh cognisable crimes, 6% fewer than in 2023, and the crime rate per lakh population fell to its lowest level since 2019. NCRB was set up in 1986 under the Home Ministry.
- In 'Crime in India 2024', Telangana led in cyber crime, Uttar Pradesh was highest in violent crime per person, Nagaland was lowest, and Kerala had the best chargesheet rate at 94.5%.
- The NCRB data showed a rise in cyber crime and in crimes against the elderly and children, while the crime rate against women and crimes against Scheduled Castes and Tribes fell.
- A new initiative named One Case One Data, led by the Chief Justice of India, was started to bring the data of courts across the country onto one platform.
- The Union Cabinet decided to amend the 1971 law on insults to national honour, so that insulting the national song Vande Mataram or obstructing its singing will also be punishable.
- Three social security schemes, PMJJBY, PMSBY and APY, completed 11 years in May 2026; all were launched on 9 May 2015 to give affordable insurance and pension cover to poorer groups.
- PMJJBY gives life cover for death from any cause at ₹436 a year to account holders aged 18-50 and must be renewed every year. PMSBY gives accident cover up to ₹2 lakh for under ₹20 a year (ages 18-70).
- Atal Pension Yojana (APY) is regulated by PFRDA and open to non-taxpaying account holders aged 18-40. It guarantees a monthly pension of ₹1,000 to ₹5,000 after age 60.
- Enrolment in the three schemes has reached about 27 crore in PMJJBY, 58 crore in PMSBY and over 9 crore in APY.
- The Ministry of Education began the sixth phase of Yuva Sangam, running since 2023, covering 22 pairs of states and Union Territories to build understanding and cultural links among youth.
- The Bureau of Indian Standards (working since 1947 under the Consumer Affairs Ministry) issued six new standards for aids for disabled and elderly people, such as elbow crutches, walking sticks, tactile maps and Braille items, supporting the Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan.
Part 3
4 May – 27 May
National: 10.
- 4 May — Results of the assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry were declared on 4 May 2026. The Election Commission had announced the election schedule on 5 March 2026.
- 4 May — Sunetra Pawar (NCP), wife of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, won the Baramati bypoll in Maharashtra by the biggest margin ever seen in an assembly bypoll in India.
- 5 May — A 5 May 2026 report says 19,46,884 pucca houses have been built in Rajasthan under PMAY-Gramin. The target is 24,97,121 houses, of which 24,32,445 have received administrative approval.
- 6 May — On 6 May 2026 President Droupadi Murmu issued an ordinance raising the Supreme Court's sanctioned strength from 34 to 38 judges, including the Chief Justice, a day after the Union Cabinet cleared the amendment bill.
- 7 May — The second Joint Commanders' Conference 2026 was held on 7-8 May at South Western Command HQ, Jaipur, with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and CDS General Anil Chauhan present.
- 7 May — The conference was held on the first anniversary of Operation Sindoor (May 2025). Main topics were cyber-space warfare, countering psychological and information warfare, and AI-driven autonomous systems such as drones.
- 7 May — Work was done to finalise a joint theatre command structure for the three armed forces, and the Hindi version of "Vision 2047" was released at the Jaipur conference.
- 22 May — Pension rules were eased on 22 May 2026: disabled children need not resubmit a disability certificate every 3 years, and pensioners can give a life certificate through a mobile app using face recognition.
- 22 May — Non-gazetted employees other than Class IV can now issue life certificates through their SSO ID, and one gazetted officer, instead of two, can verify a family pension.
- 27 May — Applications for the pilgrimage scheme were taken from 27 May to 10 June 2026 on the department portal or at e-Mitra centres. Pilgrims are chosen by district-wise computerised lottery, and a Jan Aadhaar card is compulsory.
States & UTs
6 one-liners
6 States & UTs — 4 May.
- In West Bengal, the BJP defeated Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress with more than a two-thirds majority. Re-polling was held at Falta (24 Parganas) after EVM complaints, and BJP's Debangshu Panda won it.
- Sikkim became the first state in India with a paperless state judiciary, as announced by Chief Justice Surya Kant in Gangtok. It will use the AI platform Adalat AI and e-Committee tools of the Supreme Court.
- 4 May — In Assam, the BJP-led NDA won a three-fourths majority and formed the government for a third straight term. Turnout of 85.96% is the highest ever recorded in the state.
- 4 May — In Kerala, the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) ended ten years of rule by the Left's LDF. Voter turnout was 79.7%.
- 4 May — Other bypoll results: BJP's Akshay Shivajirao Kardile won the second Pune-district seat, and Congress won both Karnataka seats, Bagalkot (Umesh Hullappa Meti) and Davanagere South (Samarth Shamnur Mallikarjun).
- 4 May — BJP also won the Umreth seat in Gujarat (Harshadbhai Govindbhai Parmar), the Dharmanagar seat in Tripura (Jahar Chakraborty) and the Koridang seat in Nagaland (Daochier I. Imchen).
Economy & Banking
34 one-liners
34 Economy & Banking — 5 May – 22 May.
Economy & Banking — 34 one-liners
Part 1
12 one-liners
Economy & Banking: 12.
- Bhiwadi has investment proposals of over ₹1,200 crore; 11 tech companies have already invested ₹900 crore and begun production, giving direct jobs to 2,700 people.
- The Bhiwadi facility has a packaging capacity of 6 crore units a year, which is targeted to reach 40-60 crore units in 2-3 years.
- North India's first dedicated zinc park is being built on 111 acres at Kanchla, Bhilwara, after the ₹1 lakh crore and 1 lakh-job agreement with Vedanta at Rising Rajasthan. Only zinc-linked firms can set up plants there.
- Hindustan Zinc will build its main plant and a common facility centre on 5-7 acres of the zinc park, and has already proposed investment on 66 acres.
- New ODOP facility centres were approved in five districts: Dausa (stone products), Churu (handicraft and wood testing lab), Didwana-Kuchaman (CNC stone processing), Phalodi (climate-controlled sonamukhi warehouse) and Balotra (digital textile printing).
- The state's 2026-27 budget estimate is ₹1,91,103 crore. An AI-based tax intelligence system has also been installed to raise revenue and catch tax evasion.
- Rajasthan will get about ₹11,000 crore as a 50-year interest-free loan under the Centre's SASCI capital investment scheme, after getting ₹10,547.88 crore in 2025-26. Projects must cost ₹5 crore or more, on a first-come basis.
- RIICO allotted a record 2,072 plots in 2025-26, 135% more than the year before and the most in 10 years, about 6 plots a day. It opened 21 new industrial areas (one every 17 days) and acquired 10,440 acres.
- Of the ₹35 lakh crore investment proposals at the Rising Rajasthan Summit, agreements worth over ₹4.25 lakh crore have started work; the largest share, ₹26 lakh crore, is in energy such as solar, wind and green hydrogen.
- Rising Rajasthan investments are expected to create over 6 lakh new jobs for the state's youth in sectors like automobiles and textiles.
- The debt of Rajasthan's three discoms fell from ₹97,970 crore in 2024-25 to ₹96,618 crore in 2025-26, a cut of ₹1,352 crore. Ajmer Discom's debt fell ₹935 crore and Jaipur's ₹644 crore, while Jodhpur's rose slightly.
- After the CM spoke to the Union Power Minister, PFC and REC now lend to discoms at a minimum of 8.75%, which is 0.90% to 1.40% cheaper than before.
Part 2
12 one-liners
Economy & Banking: 12.
- For the first time, the three discoms collected 101% of billed amount in 2025-26, ₹740 crore more than billing, or over ₹77,492 crore. Jaipur Discom reached 102%, its best in 26 years.
- Jaipur Discom replaced faulty meters to reach "zero defective meters", cutting electricity-duty exemption loss from ₹2.04 crore to ₹14.84 lakh.
- Jaipur Discom earned a record ₹118.45 crore by auctioning scrap this year, nearly double the amount of the last two years.
- Union Minister Nitin Gadkari launched India's first multi-lane free-flow (MLFF) tolling at the Choryasi toll plaza on NH-48 (Surat-Bharuch), where number-plate recognition and FASTag let vehicles pass without stopping.
- The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved a ship-repair centre at Vadinar, Gujarat, built by Deendayal Port Authority and Cochin Shipyard for ₹1,570 crore, with a 650 m jetty and two floating dry docks.
- The Centre approved a 30 km sea bridge over the Gulf of Khambhat linking Bhavnagar (Saurashtra) with Bharuch; it will be longer than Mumbai's Atal Setu (21.8 km) and India's longest sea bridge.
- The Cabinet approved a coal and lignite gasification incentive scheme of ₹37,500 crore to reach 100 million tonnes of coal gasification by 2030, with support up to 20% of plant and machinery cost, to cut imports.
- The Prime Minister opened India's first operational PM MITRA (mega integrated textile region and apparel) park at Warangal, Telangana, built at ₹695.54 crore; seven such parks were sanctioned in March 2023.
- In the Textile Ministry's LEADS Report 2025, states and Union Territories are placed in four tiers. Tamil Nadu topped the 'role model' tier among coastal states and Delhi among Union Territories.
- India and Vietnam set a new trade target of $25 billion by 2030. Vietnam will explore letting Indian firms supply medicines to its public health system from 2027, and Indian grapes and Vietnamese dragon fruit will get market access.
- India and the US signed an agreement to secure reliable supply of rare earth elements and other critical minerals, with cooperation in mining and recycling to reduce dependence on China.
- The UAE announced its exit from both OPEC and the wider OPEC+ alliance, effective May 2026, after reviewing its production policy, capacity and long-term economic priorities.
Part 3
5 May – 22 May
Economy & Banking: 10.
- The UAE wants to raise its oil capacity of about 5 million barrels a day further by 2027 to fund Vision 2030 investment. Iran-linked instability and risks near the Strait of Hormuz also pressured its export routes.
- The UAE's exit may weaken OPEC's power to fix global oil prices, could soften prices as supply grows, and may give the US a strategic advantage in energy diplomacy.
- The US Court of International Trade struck down the Trump administration's temporary 10% tariff applied to all countries at once.
- After the second India-EU Trade and Technology Council working-group meeting, a joint €5.2 million project was launched to strengthen recycling of electric-vehicle batteries.
- Taiwan's listed companies reached a combined market value of $4.95 trillion as demand for semiconductors and AI chips grew, making Taiwan the world's fifth-largest stock market.
- 5 May — Investments agreed on 5 May 2026: Emirates NBD will invest $3 billion in RBL Bank, International Holding Company $1 billion in Sammaan Capital, and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority will partner India's National Investment and Infrastructure Fund.
- 13 May — A broadband committee meeting on 13 May 2026, chaired by the Chief Secretary, set the target of 100% broadband in every village. The Centre will give up to ₹150 crore to help apply the Telecom Right of Way Rules 2024.
- 15 May — India's first SME semiconductor facility started on 15 May 2026 at Salarpur-Kushkhera, Bhiwadi (Alwar), inside the ECOTECH electronics manufacturing cluster.
- 22 May — On 22 May 2026 the cabinet under CM Bhajan Lal Sharma approved the Rajasthan Industrial Development Policy-2026, built on four pillars: Green, Governance, Growth and Global Linkages. It aims for a $350 billion economy by 2028-29.
- 22 May — The new industrial policy gives extra incentives to semiconductors, data centres, Global Capability Centres and defence manufacturing. It also covers MSME, ODOP, exports, textiles, tourism and agro-processing.
Science, Defence & Environment
19 one-liners
Space · tech · forces · ecology.
Science & Technology
12 one-liners
12 Science & Technology — 8 May – 19 May.
- A NITI Aayog report of May 2026 says Rajasthan is the only state where classes 1 to 12 are taught on the same school campus; 27,889 schools offer this.
- Integrated (class 1-12) schools are only 5.4% of schools in India, but 35% of them are in Rajasthan, so every third such school in the country is in the state.
- NITI Aayog notes that having all classes on one campus means children need not change schools again and again, which also reduces the dropout rate.
- Coal gasification means reacting coal with oxygen and steam under controlled conditions to make syngas, a mix of gases such as carbon monoxide and hydrogen, instead of burning the coal fully.
- Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia launched the indigenous Cell Broadcast System (CBS), built by C-DOT with NDMA and the Home Ministry, which sends disaster alerts within seconds to every active phone in a chosen area.
- Unlike SMS, which goes from one number to another and can jam, cell broadcast is area-based, reaches all phones in an area at once and is not affected by network congestion.
- ICAR and ICMR launched the Sehat Mission, an eight-year mission (2026-2033) linking farming, nutrition and health to curb malnutrition and disease.
- The Health Ministry introduced the Janani platform, a digital system to track health records of mothers and newborn babies through the reproductive period.
- India's first fully developed integrated CCUS (carbon capture, utilisation and storage) field laboratory was opened at IIT Bombay under Bharat Innovates 2026; led by Prof. Vikram Vishal, it stores CO2 in basalt rocks using non-potable water.
- The WHO estimates about 22.1 million (2.21 crore) excess deaths linked to Covid-19 worldwide between 2020 and 2023.
- 8 May — India and Cyprus together celebrated the first India-Cyprus Space Day on 8 May 2026, ahead of the Cyprus President's visit to India.
- 19 May — The WHO award recognised strict enforcement of tobacco laws (COTPA and the E-Cigarette Prohibition Act) in 2025-26, over 83,000 schools made tobacco-free, and about 2.55 lakh awareness activities.
Defence & Security
5 one-liners
5 Defence & Security — 2 May – 21 May.
- North Korea added a new clause to its nuclear doctrine: if leader Kim Jong-un is killed or unable to function, the military can launch an automatic nuclear counter-strike.
- 2 May — Indian Navy chief Admiral Dinesh K. Tripathi made a four-day official visit to Myanmar from 2 to 5 May 2026.
- 8 May — Defence Minister Rajnath Singh made an official visit to Vietnam on 8-9 May 2026.
- 19 May — Rajnath Singh visited South Korea on 19-21 May 2026 on an official visit.
- 21 May — Rajnath Singh and South Korea's former veterans affairs minister jointly dedicated the Indian War Memorial at Imjingak Park, Seoul, on 21 May 2026.
Environment & Ecology
2 one-liners
2 Environment & Ecology — Railway Exams (RRB) Current Affairs – May 2026.
- Mayon Volcano, an active volcano in the Philippines, made news after a recent eruption.
- Saudi Arabia is set to join the International Big Cat Alliance as its 26th member country.
World & Agreements
22 one-liners
Summits · MoUs · exercises.
International
5 one-liners
5 International — 23 May – 30 May.
- Iraq's parliament approved the new prime minister and a section of his cabinet.
- Karambir Singh Kang became Canada's first Sikh ship engineer to serve with a full beard at BC Ferries. He is from Kang village, Dhariwal tehsil, Gurdaspur (Punjab), and studied at BITS Pilani.
- People of Indian origin, about 9.17 lakh in number, have become the largest migrant group in Australia.
- 23 May — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio paid an official visit to India from 23 to 26 May 2026.
- 30 May — Among ASEAN members, Myanmar is the only neighbour of India where the Neighbourhood First policy and the Act East policy meet, which makes it strategically important.
Summits, Agreements & Exercises
17 one-liners
17 Summits, Agreements & Exercises — 5 May – 30 May.
- The Quad (India, US, Japan, Australia) launched a Critical Minerals Initiative framework to raise about ₹1.6 lakh crore for secure mineral supply chains in the Indo-Pacific.
- OPEC was founded in 1960 at Baghdad by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, and the UAE joined in 1967. Eleven active members remain: Algeria, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
- OPEC+ was formed in 2016 when OPEC members were joined by Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Brunei, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Oman, Russia, South Sudan and Sudan.
- The India-Africa Forum Summit, due on 28-31 May 2026, was postponed because Ebola cases were rising fast in Africa.
- In the Netherlands, during Modi's second visit, both sides agreed to build a strategic partnership, signed a customs mutual-assistance pact and set up a joint trade and investment committee with a fast-track mechanism.
- In Italy, at PM Giorgia Meloni's invitation, a foreign-minister-led mechanism was set up to deepen the Special Strategic Partnership, and the target of €20 billion trade by 2029 was reaffirmed.
- India and Italy agreed to set up an innovation centre named SINNOVIT India and to hold the first ministerial meeting this year to speed up the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC).
- 5 May — During PM Modi's UAE visit on 5 May 2026, ADNOC was allowed to store up to 30 million barrels of crude oil in India's strategic petroleum reserve. The UAE is India's only partner in this programme, and Fujairah storage will also be explored.
- 5 May — Vietnam's President To Lam visited India from 5 to 7 May 2026. Both sides agreed to start a diplomacy-defence 2+2 dialogue, Vietnam will join the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI), and the 2024-28 joint action plan will be implemented faster.
- 9 May — The India-Nordic Summit was held in Oslo, Norway on 9 May 2026. It followed the Stockholm (2018) and Copenhagen (2022) summits and created a new strategic partnership on green technology and innovation.
- 9 May — Leaders who met PM Modi at Oslo were Jonas Gahr Store (Norway), Petteri Orpo (Finland), Mette Frederiksen (Denmark, caretaker), Ulf Kristersson (Sweden) and Kristrun Frostadottir (Iceland).
- 9 May — At Oslo, India and the Nordic countries agreed to push the India-EFTA trade pact (TEPA), cooperate on the Arctic, climate action, STEM research and 6G, and work together on the Indo-Pacific maritime economy and defence production.
- 20 May — Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides visited India on 20-23 May 2026. The two countries will form a joint working group on counter-terrorism and approved the India-Cyprus Defence Cooperation Roadmap 2026-2031.
- 22 May — India and Ethiopia signed a bilateral market-access protocol in Geneva on 22 May 2026, linked to Ethiopia's membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
- 25 May — Australia's Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong visited India on 25-26 May 2026 and held a 2+2 meeting covering defence, trade, technology and supply chains.
- 26 May — Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi met PM Modi on 26 May 2026, and both stressed the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership for peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific.
- 30 May — Myanmar President U Min Aung Hlaing visited India from 30 May to 3 June 2026. Under the Mekong-Ganga ICCR scholarship scheme, seats for Myanmar students were raised from 36 to 100.
Sports, Awards & Days
16 one-liners
Results · honours · days · posts.
Sports
2 one-liners
2 Sports — 6 May.
- 6 May — Rajasthan sent its biggest team (6 teams, 47 players) to the 47th All India Electricity Employees Sports Competition in Pune, 6-8 May 2026. The women's kho-kho team was runner-up, and Deepak Kumar of Jaipur Discom won wrestling silver a third time.
- 6 May — The women's kho-kho team beat Gujarat in the semi-final and lost the final to host Maharashtra; Poonam of Suratgarh Thermal won Best Defender. The men's team, playing for the first time, finished third after beating Maharashtra.
Awards & Honours
1 one-liners
1 Awards & Honours — 19 May.
| Date | Award | Winner / reason |
|---|---|---|
| 19 May | WHO World No Tobacco Day Award 2026 | Rajasthan Medical and Health Department (South-East Asia Region) |
Appointments
11 one-liners
11 Appointments — Railway Exams (RRB) Current Affairs – May 2026.
| Date | Name | Appointed as |
|---|---|---|
| · | Himanta Biswa Sarma | Chief Minister of Assam (again) |
| · | Suvendu Adhikari | Chief Minister of West Bengal |
| · | V. D. Satheesan | Chief Minister of Kerala |
| · | Joseph Vijay | Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
| · | N. Rangasamy | Chief Minister of Puducherry (again) |
| · | Dr Sanjay Jaiswal (BJP) | Chairman, Estimates Committee, 2026-27 |
| · | Baijayant Panda (BJP) | Chairman, Committee on Public Undertakings, 2026-27 |
| · | K. C. Venugopal (Congress) | Chairman, Public Accounts Committee, 2026-27 |
| · | Faggan Singh Kulaste (BJP) | Chairman, Committee on Welfare of SCs and STs, 2026-27 |
| · | Justice Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar (retd) | Head of high-level committee on demographic changes due to illegal immigration |
| · | Tulsi Gabbard | Resigned as US Director of National Intelligence |
Books & Reports
2 one-liners
2 Books & Reports — Railway Exams (RRB) Current Affairs – May 2026.
- The IOM's World Migration Report 2026 says there were about 304 million international migrants by mid-2024, around 3.7% of the world's population.
- The same report says India has the most emigrants in the world and receives the most remittances, with Indians living mainly in the UAE, the US and Saudi Arabia.
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- Rajasthan's _____, run by the Devasthan Department with a ₹150 crore budget, will take 56,000 elderly people on free pilgrimages: 50,000 by AC train and 6,000 by air to the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
- Senior Citizen Pilgrimage Scheme 2026
- North India's first dedicated _____ is being built on 111 acres at Kanchla, Bhilwara, after the ₹1 lakh crore and 1 lakh-job agreement with Vedanta at Rising Rajasthan. Only zinc-linked firms can set up plants there.
- zinc park
- Rajasthan will get about _____ as a 50-year interest-free loan under the Centre's SASCI capital investment scheme, after getting ₹10,547.88 crore in 2025-26. Projects must cost ₹5 crore or more, on a first-come basis.
- ₹11,000 crore
- The debt of Rajasthan's three discoms fell from ₹97,970 crore in 2024-25 to _____ in 2025-26, a cut of ₹1,352 crore. Ajmer Discom's debt fell ₹935 crore and Jaipur's ₹644 crore, while Jodhpur's rose slightly.
- ₹96,618 crore
- A NITI Aayog report of May 2026 says Rajasthan is the only state where classes 1 to 12 are taught on the same school campus; _____ schools offer this.
- 27,889
- Union Minister Nitin Gadkari launched India's first _____ tolling at the Choryasi toll plaza on NH-48 (Surat-Bharuch), where number-plate recognition and FASTag let vehicles pass without stopping.
- multi-lane free-flow (MLFF)
- The Cabinet approved a _____ incentive scheme of ₹37,500 crore to reach 100 million tonnes of coal gasification by 2030, with support up to 20% of plant and machinery cost, to cut imports.
- coal and lignite gasification
- Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia launched the indigenous _____, built by C-DOT with NDMA and the Home Ministry, which sends disaster alerts within seconds to every active phone in a chosen area.
- Cell Broadcast System (CBS)
- India's first fully developed integrated _____ (carbon capture, utilisation and storage) field laboratory was opened at IIT Bombay under Bharat Innovates 2026; led by Prof. Vikram Vishal, it stores CO2 in basalt rocks using non-potable water.
- CCUS
- The _____ (India, US, Japan, Australia) launched a Critical Minerals Initiative framework to raise about ₹1.6 lakh crore for secure mineral supply chains in the Indo-Pacific.
- Quad
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What is the budget of the Senior Citizen Pilgrimage Scheme 2026 of Rajasthan?
- ₹100 crore
- ₹150 crore
- ₹250 crore
- ₹500 crore
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Answer: ₹150 crore — The scheme will take 56,000 senior citizens on free pilgrimages.
The Joint Commanders' Conference 2026 was held in Jaipur at which headquarters?
- Western Command
- Southern Command
- Central Command
- South Western Command
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Answer: South Western Command — It was held on 7-8 May 2026, on the first anniversary of Operation Sindoor.
The Rajasthan Medical and Health Department received which WHO award on 19 May 2026?
- Global Health Champion Award
- Healthy Cities Award
- Polio Eradication Award
- World No Tobacco Day Award 2026
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Answer: World No Tobacco Day Award 2026 — It was the award for the South-East Asia Region, for strict enforcement of tobacco laws.
According to NITI Aayog, what share of India's integrated class 1-12 schools is in Rajasthan?
- 5.4%
- 35%
- 15%
- 50%
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Answer: 35% — Such schools are 5.4% of all schools, but 35% of them are in Rajasthan.
Who became Kerala's Chief Minister after the UDF ended ten years of LDF rule in May 2026?
- Pinarayi Vijayan
- K. Sudhakaran
- V. D. Satheesan
- Ramesh Chennithala
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Answer: V. D. Satheesan — The Congress-led UDF won Kerala and V. D. Satheesan became the new Chief Minister.
What was the turnout in Assam's 2026 assembly election, the highest ever recorded in the state?
- 85.96%
- 79.70%
- 89.87%
- 72.40%
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Answer: 85.96% — Assam recorded 85.96% turnout; Kerala had 79.7% and Puducherry 89.87%.
In which city was the India-Nordic Summit held on 9 May 2026?
- Stockholm
- Oslo
- Copenhagen
- Helsinki
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Answer: Oslo — Earlier summits were at Stockholm (2018) and Copenhagen (2022).
Who visited India from 23 to 26 May 2026 as the US Secretary of State?
- Marco Rubio
- Antony Blinken
- Pete Hegseth
- Mike Pompeo
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Answer: Marco Rubio — Marco Rubio is the US Secretary of State in President Trump's government.
Where was the Indian War Memorial dedicated by Rajnath Singh in May 2026?
- Busan
- Incheon
- Imjingak Park, Seoul
- Panmunjom
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Answer: Imjingak Park, Seoul — Rajnath Singh dedicated it on 21 May 2026 during his South Korea visit.
Which Rajasthan government department runs the Senior Citizen Pilgrimage Scheme?
- Devasthan Department
- Tourism Department
- Social Justice Department
- Panchayati Raj Department
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Answer: Devasthan Department — The Devasthan Department runs the scheme and chooses pilgrims through a lottery.
India's first SME semiconductor facility was started in which place of Rajasthan?
- Bhilwara
- Bhiwadi
- Neemrana
- Kota
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Answer: Bhiwadi — It started on 15 May 2026 at Salarpur-Kushkhera in Bhiwadi, Alwar, inside the ECOTECH cluster.
Which organisation built the indigenous Cell Broadcast System for disaster alerts, with NDMA and the Home Ministry?
- ISRO
- BSNL
- C-DOT
- TRAI
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Answer: C-DOT — C-DOT, a Department of Telecommunications lab, developed the CBS, which alerts all phones in an area at once.