TWO NEW MICROSNAIL SPECIES FOUND IN MEGHALAYA

* RESEARCHERS HAVE DISCOVERED TWO NEW MICROSNAIL SPECIES IN MEGHALAYA 'S LIMESTONE CAVE SYSTEM ( KREM PURI & ARWAH CAVES) 

SPECIES NAMED AS 

* GEORISSA MEGHALAYAENSIS 

- IT IS SMALL, ORANGISH RED SNAIL, WITH DISTINCTIVE MESH LIKE SHELL PATTERNS, 

* ACMELLA BENSONI ( NAMED IN HONOUR TO BRITISH MALACOLOGIST WILLIAM H BENSON) 

- THE SPECIES IS MINUTE, WHITE AND SEMI - TRANSPARENT, ADAPTED TO DAMP CAVE ENVIRONMENT 

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 29TH MAY 2026

1) Hyderabad Based Zen Technologies Has Unveiled India's First Integrated Smart Border Suite ( ISBS) 

2) ISRO's Chandrayaan -2 Dual Frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar ( DFSAR) Observation Revealed The Subsurface Ice In Lunar South Polar Regions 

* Chandrayaan 2 Orbiter Is A Microwave Imaging Instrument In L And S-Band Frequencies And The First Fully Polari metric SAR To Study The Moon 

3) Bhubaneswar, Odisha Set To Host The 2028 ASIAN Indoor Athletics Championships 

4) Dr Raman Meenakshi Sundaram Joins As The New Director Of CSIR - NAARM 

5) Bena Sareen Wins 2026 Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize For Amitava Kumar's My Beloved Wife 

6) Essar Ports Salaya Terminal Has Been Awarded The International Safety Award By Brit Safe.

7) IAIRO Appoints Vishal Mehta As Technical Advisor 

8) Power Foundation Of India (PFI) Has Appointed Dr Ravindra Kumar Tyagi as It's Director General.

9) Indian Army And Air India Limited Signed A Memorandum Of Cooperation 

10) Visa India Appoints Actor Shah Rukh Khan As Brand Ambassador 

11) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah Announced Resignation 

12) GM Mitrabha Guha Has Won The Commonwealth Chess Championships 2026

13) BPCL Appoints Pushp Kumar Nayar As Human Resources Director.

14) Legendry Poet Bashir Badr Passed Away. ( PADMASHREE AWARDEE) 

SLOVENIA APPOINTS NEW PRIME MINISTER

* SLOVENIA APPOINTS JANEZ JANSA AS NEW PRIME MINISTER OF COUNTRY 

* CAPITAL OF SLOVENIA - LJUBIJANA 

* CURRENCY - EURO 

UPDATED CHIEF MINISTER OF STATES AND UTS ( INDIA)

ANDHRA PRADESH - N CHANDRA BABU NAIDU 

ARUNACHAL PRADESH - PREM KHANDU 

ASSAM - HIMANTA BISWA SARMA * 

BIHAR - SAMRAT CHAUDHARY * 

CHATTISGARH - VISHNU DEO SAI 

DELHI - REKHA GUPTA 

GOA - Dr. PRAMOD SAWANT 

GUJARAT - BHUPENDRA PATEL 

HARYANA - NAYAB SINGH SAINI 

HIMACHAL PRADESH - SUKHVIBDER SINGH SUKU 

JAMMU & KASMIR - OMAR ABDULLAH 

JHARKHAND - HEMANT SOREN 

KARNATAKA - SIDDHARAMAIH 

KERALA - V D SATEESHAN 

MADHYA PRADESH - Dr MOHAN YADAV 

MANIPUR - Y KHEMCHAND SINGH 

MEGHALAYA - CONRAD K SANGHMA 

MIZORAM - LALDUHOMA 

NAGALAND - NEIPHIO RIO 

ODISHA - MOHAN CHARAN MAJHI 

PUNJAB - BHAGWANT MANN 

RAJASTHAN - BHAJAN LAL SHARMA 

SIKKIM - PREM SINGH TAMANG 

TAMILNADU - VIJAY JOSEPH * 

TRIPURA - MANIK SAHA 

TELENGANA - REVANTH REDDY 

UTTARAKHAND - PUSHKAR SINGH DHAMI 

UTTAR PRADESH - YOGI ADITYANATH 

WEST BENGAL - SUVENDHU ADHIKARY* 

PUDUCHERRY - N RANGASWAMY 

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 28TH MAY 2026

World Otter Day - 27th May 

1) Indian Grandmaster Inyian Panneerselvam Wins Double Gold At Rapid And Blitz Title Champions At Srilanka 

2) The Completion Commission In India (CCI) Has Approved The Merger Of Indovida India Private Limited With Into EPL Limited 

3) Manipur's David Maisnam Wins Mister Heritage 2026 Title At Philippines.

4) Olympian And Former Shooter Raja Randhir Singh Passed Away 

* He Served As The Secretary General Of The Indian Olympic Association 

* He Was Also Member Of International Olympics Committee 

5) Wildlife Institute Of India Has Recorded The Rusty Spotted Cat ( Prionailurus Rubiginosus) From The National Chambal Sanctuary.

6) Kolkata To Host The International Day Of Yoga 2026 Main Event 

Theme 2026 - Yoga For Healthy Ageing 

7) Red Balloon Launched India's First Super Pressure Balloon, ( Payload Upto 50 Kg) 

8)  Virat Kohli Became The First To Registered Four Consecutive 600+ Scores In Ipl History.

9) Thailand Became The First Country To Enforce 21 Day Ebola Quarantine 

10) Dr Sivaranjani Santosh An Indian Paediatricians And Public Health Advocate list In Forbes Self Made Woman 

11) Cabinet Approved The Continuation Of Scheme For Assistance In Ration Transport And Handling Income With Automation In PDS - An Umbrella SCHEME In The 16th Finance Commission Period Cycle.

12) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Shah Has Launched Rs 236 Crores Mission Queen Pineapple 

13) IIT ROORKEE Has Developed a Low Cost Torrefied Municipal Solid Waste ( MSW) Fuel Technology With Advanced Fuel Properties 

14) INDIAN Air Force Has Signed Three Contracts With IIT BOMBAY For Adoption Of Predictive Maintenance For Su -30 MKI Fleet 

15) Kishore Rithe, Director Bombay Natural History Society Has Honoured With The Sharadachandra Manohar Bhalerao Memorial Award 2025 ( For His Book - SATPUDYACHA SAATBAARA) 

16) India Became World's 2nd Largest Solar Market 

17) Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Witnessed The Commencement Of Construction Of JSW Mega Steel Plant At Paradip, Odisha 

18) The Assam Assembly Passed The Uniform Civil Code Assam Bill 2026 

19) Esha Singh Wins Gold In Women's 25m Pistol Event At ISSF WORLD CUP Munich 

20) Noted National Awards Winning Bengali Film Maker Anik Dutta Passed Away.

21) Lt Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena Of Ladakh Has Launched The Sindhu Jal Samriddhi Abhiyan And Inaugurated India's First Ever Rock Check Dam On Indus River 

22) Sikkim Declared Fully Literate State 

THREE NEW PLANT SPECIES DISCOVERED IN ARUNACHAL PRADESH

* RESEARCHERS HAVE DISCOVERED THREE NEW PLANT SPECIES IN ARUNACHAL PRADESH.

* PLANT SPECIES ARE FOUND IN TAWANG AND WEST KHAMANG DISTRICT 

* THREE NEW DECIDUOUS SPECIES - 

a) BERBERIS ORBICULARIS 

b) BERBERIS PSEUDOVIRESCENS 

c) BERBERIS TAWANGENSIS

A NEW SPECIES OF TOAD HAS BEEN DISCOVERD IN MEGHALAYA

* SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED A NEW TOAD SPECIES IN KHASI HILLS AT MEGHALAYA 

* SPECIES NAMED - DUTTAPHRYNUS DHARA ( DHARA NAMED AFTER KHASI FEMALE GARMENT) 

* COMMONLY WOVEN FROM MUGA SILK AND DRAPPED ELEGANTLY OVER BOTH SHOULDERS TO THE ANKLES 

* DHARA MEANS (IN KHASI) IS MORE TRADITIONAL ATTIRE ( DHARA OR JAINSEM) 

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A NEW ALGAL SPECIES DISCOVERED IN WESTERN GHATS ( NAMED AFTER SUBHRANSHU SHUKLA)

* RESEARCHERS HAVE DISCOVERED A NEW ALGAL SPECIES IN WESTERN GHATS ( KERALA) 

* SPECIES FAMILY BELONGS TO - INTERFILUM .

* SPECIES NAMED - INTERFILUM SHUKLAII ( NAMED IN HONOUR TO GROUP CAPTAIN SUBHRANSHU SHUKLA) 

* SPECIES COLLECTED FROM KUMBHAVURUTTY FOREST 

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SHAW PRIZE 2026

* MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES - 

*) EMMANUEL CANDES 

*) CAMMILO DELELLIS 

LIFE SCIENCE & MEDICINE - 

*) ANNE DEJEAN 

*) HUGUES DE THE 

*) ZHU CHEN 

ASTRONOMY - 

*) Ken'ichi Nomoto 

*) Stanford Woosley 

( For Their Studies Of Stellar Explosion And The Origin Of The Elements) 

UNION AGRICULTURE MINISTER SHIVRAJ SINGH UNVEILED HIS BOOK

  8 In Presence of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai, H D DEVEGOUDA Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Has Launched His Book - APANAPAN

RENOWNED ARCHAEOLOGIST SHEREEN RATNAGAR PASSED AWAY

* ON 25TH MAY 2026 NOTED ARCHAEOLOGIST SHEREEN RATNAGAR PASSED AWAY.

* BORN IN - 1944 

* HER WORK ON INDUS VALLEY CIVILISATION 

* SHE WAS PROFESSOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANCIENT HISTORY AT THE CENTRE FOR HISTORICAL STUDIES AT JNU, NEW DELHI.

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NOTABLE BOOKS - 

* Encounter the Westerly Trade Of The Harappa Civilization (1981) 

* The End Of The Great Harappan Traditon 

* Understanding Harappa 

* Mobile And Marginalized People 

* Trading Encounters: From The Euphrates To The Indus In The Bronze Age 

* Ayodhya: Archaeology After Excavation 

* The Time chart History Of Ancient Egypt 

* Being Tribal 

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 27TH MAY 2026

1) IAS OFFICER Piyush Singla Has Been Appointed As The Director In The National Health Authority - Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission 

2) Ancient Hero Stone Linked To Rajendra Chola Unearthed Near Pochampali, 

3) Mahatma Gandhi University Honoured Actor Mammothy With Doctorate.

4) Vaccinium Piliferum, A rare And Endangered Wild Relative Of Blueberry Has Rediscovered In Arunachal Pradesh After 188 Years.

5) IIT Roorkee Has Developed Sustainable Barnyard Millet Based Edible Straws

6) Astronomers Spot A Blue Straggler Star Hosting Brown Dwarf 

7) In Presence of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Has Launched His Book - APANAPAN

8) Founder Of Kotak Mahindra Bank Uday Kotak Has Been Conferred With Padma Bhushan Award 

9) US And India Signed Strategic Critical Mineral Cooperation Framework To Secure Supply Chain For Technology, Energy, Defence.

10) At QUAD FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTERS MEETING ( Delhi) 

3 Major Takeaways - 

a) Agreed On Indo - Pacific MARITIME Surveillance And On A Common Operating Picture In The MARITIME Domain, Collaborate On Pilot Project In Fiji 

b) Finalise The QUAD Critical Mineral Framework 

C) Announced The QUAD Initiative On Indo - Pacific Energy Security, Management, POLICY, International Market Analysis And Emergency Response Exercise 

11) Veteran Actor Ramakant Dayama Passed Away 

12) Manipuri Astrophysicist Ronaldo Laishram Has Discovered A 12.6 billion Years Old Galaxy Structure ( Named After Manipur's LOKTAK Lake) LOKTAK PROTOCLUSTER 

13) Renowned Archaeologist Shereen Ratnagar Passed Away.

14) President Droupadi MURMU Has Flagged Off Pink Bus Service In Gangtok, Sikkim, Named Amma Didi Bahini Bus Seva For Only Women 

15) Union Minister Dr Virendra Kumar Has Launched The PM - AJAY Portal And AJAY Mobile Application To Digitize And Strengthen SC Welfare Scheme 

16) Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh Has Inaugurated The PECVD Setup, India's First Ever Indigenous Setup For Fabrication Of a Si Solar Cells At Kolkata 

17) ECI APPOINTS Ravi Prakash As New Chief Electoral Officer Of Puducherry 

18) Telengana Has Emerged As High Performer In The Logistics Ease Across Different States 2025 Report By Union Ministry of Commerce