JANUARY TO APRIL WORLD CURRENT AFFAIRS 2026

JANUARY - 

MIXED - 

* Bulgaria Adopts EURO As Its Official Currency. ( Became The 21st Nation To Adopt) 

*  The UN HAS Declared 2026 As The International Year Of The WOMAN FARMER.

* Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa Declared 60 Days State Emergency in 9 Province And 3 Municipality.

* Mexico Recorded A Earthquake Of Magnitude 6.4 

* Zambia Become The First' African Country To Take Mining Taxes in China's Yuan 

* Venezuela President Arrested By US Government,

*) Venezuela Vice President Delcy Rodriguez Set To Appointed As The Interim President.

* Oman Approved USD 29.77 Billion Budget For 2026 ( 4% Economic Growth) 

* Craig, Super Tusker Of Amboseli National Park Has Passed Away.

* A 6.7 Magnitude Earthquake Recorded in Davao Oriental Province, Southern Philippines.

 * US Military Seizes RUSSIAN Flagged Oil Tanker Linked To Venezuela Oil In North Atlantic.

 * US Army Has Unveiled New M1E3 Tank Prototype 

* Tunisian Film Maker Zoubeir Jlassi Won The World's Largest AI Film Award For His Film Lily.

* US Launched HAWKEYE STRIKE Against Syria's ISIS Terrorist. 

* Japan Became The World's First COUNTRY To Beginning Mining Rare Earth Metals From Ocean Floor.

* Indian Army Builds Third Bailey Bridge At Srilanka.

* US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP Imposed 10% Tarriff On Denmark, Norway, Sweden, FRANCE, Germany, UK, Nederlands, Greenland.

* United States President Donald Trump Has Host The BOARD OF Peace

 * Taylor Swift Set To Inducted To Song Writer Hall Of Fame.

*  Sinners Costume Designer Ruth E Carter Becomes Most Nominated Black Woman In Oscar History. (5th ) 

*  Srilanka Government Has Unveiled The Postage STAMP On Legendary Iranganie Seraainghe 

* Ancient Mummified Cheetah Found in Saudi Caves 

* Vietnam Top Leader To Lam Reappointed As Head Of Rulling Party'.

* World's Oldest Cave Art Has Been DISCOVERD In Indonesia Muna Island.

* NILGALA, Srilanka's 2nd Largest FOREST With a Land Area Of 40,685 Hectares Has Declared As The Protected RESERVE 

 * Archaeologist Have UNEARTHED 3400 Years Old Lost Golden City In Egypt.

* World Health Organisation ( WHO) Reports Says 188 Million Children And Adolescent Living With Obesity In World.

* US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP Has Launched The GREAT AMERICAN Recovery Initiative.

TWO NEW CORAL SPECIES - 

* Hong Kong Baptist University Marine Biologist Have Identified Two New Soft Coral Species From The Urban Water Of HKSAR And Zhuhai 

- Parasphaerasclera dimorpha Sp. nov 

- Paraminabea Inflata Sp nov 

APPOINTMENTS - 

* Iran Appoints New Central Bank Governor After Mass Protest in COUNTRY.

( ABDOLNASSER HEMMATI, FORMER ECONOMICS MINISTER OF IRAN ) 

* Zohran Mamdani Sworn In As New York City's 112th Mayor.

* Bangladesh Nationalist Party Has Appointed Tarique Rahman As Party Chairperson.

* Afghanistan Appoints Noor Ahmed Noor As Afganistan Embassy To India.

* Nickolay Mladenov To Lead The US President Donald Trump's Board Of Peace In Gaza.

* Dina Powell McCormick Appointed As President And Vice Chairman of Meta 

* Emilia Clarke Has Been Appointed Global Brand Ambassador Of Black Dog Soda

* Jordi Cruyff Appoints Ajax Technical Director.

INDIA - WORLD - 

* Pulkit Desai, a US Marine Veteran And Technology Professional Has Been Sworn In As Mayor Of Parsippany, New Jersey.

( First INDIAN - American)

*  PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI Explained Regarding 1000 th Anniversary Of Somnath Destruction.

* Nigerian Authorities Have Detained The Merchant Vessel MV Aruna Hulya Along With 22 Indian Crews ( Cocaine ) 

* INDIAN Origin Mathematician Nalini Joshi Has Been Named NSW Scientists Of The Year 2025

* German Chancellor Merz Has Visited To India.

* Union Petroleum And Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri Has Announced Urja Bharat PTE Limited, Joint Venture With Indian Oil And Bharat Petro Resources Limited Has Successfully Discovered Light Crude Oil In Abu Dhabi Onshore Block -1 

* Indian Navy's Ins Tir, INS Shardul And INS SUJATA And ICGS SAARATHI Have Visited To Singapore For Training 

* For The First Time Karnataka 3 GI Tagged Product Nanjangud Rasabale Bannana, Mysore Beetle Leaf, indi Lime Exports To Maldives.

* Indian Air Force MCC C-17 Aircraft Carrying 30 Tonnes Of Humanitarian Assistance To Philippines.

* Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Manuel Albares To Visit India 

*  India Gifts First Batch Of 61 Vehicles To Nepal For Election.

* Indian Origin Jigar Thakkar Appointed As Vice President Of Amazon Quick Suite.

*  President Of European Council Antonio Costa And President Of The European Commission Ursula Von Der Leyen Will Be The India's Republic Day 2026 Honour of Guest.

STEPS DOWN - 

* Warren Buffett Has Steps Down As Berkshire Hathway As CEO After 6 DECADES.

INDIA- WORLD - 

* Ambassador Of QUAD Nations Meeting Held At Beijing, China 

* Mauritius President Dharambeer Gokhool Has Visited To Andhra Pradesh, 

FEBRUARY - 

* Saif -al- Islam Gaddafi , Son Of Late Libyan Leader Muammar Gadaffi Has Assassinated.

*  China Has Sentenced It's Former Justice Minister Tang Yijun To Life In Prison For Corruption.

* Saudi Arabia Has Introduced Passport For Camels 

* Iran Shows Its Most ADVANCED Long Range Ballistic missile - KHORRMSHAHR-4 

* Russian Defence Force Has Successfully Launched The Soyuz -2 1b First Orbital Launch Of 2026 

* Madagascar Records The Cyclone Gezani 

* Bangladesh BNP Party Wins The Parliamentary Election 

* Sophie Adenot, Became The 2nd French Woman To Travel Into Space, 

* Mozambique Launched digital e-Visa For 183 Countries 

* An Extinct Ancient Species Of Crocodile Has Been Discovered in South West England ( Named - Galhadosuchus Jonesi) 

* Scientists Have Discovered 95 Millions Years Old Fossils Of New Species Of Spinasourus Called Spinasourus Mirabilis in AFRICA.

* 1000 Years Old Tomb Found In Panama, 

* F-16 Jet Crashes In Turkiyes Balikesir 

* Chinese  led Team Finds First Evidence Of Bone Cancer in 99 Million Years Old Amber Lizard In Myanmar.

* PAKISTAN Against Afganistan War Named - OPERATION GHAZAB LIL HAQ.

*  Denmark Became The First' COUNTRY In The European union To Eliminate Mother To Child Transmission Of HIV - And Syphilis.

INDIA - WORLD - 

*  President Dr Patrick Herminie Of Seychelles Has Arrived Chennai, India 

* Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias Has Arrived India 

* Iran Sentenced Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi To 7 Years In Prison 

*  Indian Army Handed Over 50 military Utility Vehicles To Nepal Army.

* NATO Launched The ARCTIC SENTRY Mission 

* European Parliament Approved Euro 90 billion Loan Package To Support Ukraine Amid War With Russia.

* Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Will Be Guest, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA On Newly Elected Prime Minister Of Bangladesh 

* GI Tagged Salem Sago Consignment Has Sent From Tamilnadu To Canada.

* Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Visit To Tokyo, Japan.

* Mark Carney, Prime Minister Of Canada Has Arrived in India

* India And Italy Have Reaffirmed Their Shares Commitment To Facilitating Industry Partnership To Build Resilience Defence Chain.

APPOINTMENTS - 

* Jamie Fly Appointed As The CEO Of Freedom House ( US) 

* Asian Development Bank (ADB) Appoints Shannon Cowlin As New Country DIRECTOR For Srilanka.

* Dr Khalilur Rahman Sworn In As Foreign Minister Of Bangladesh.

* Toshimitsu Motegi Has Reappointment As Foreign Minister Of JAPAN.

* Major R Set To Assume Command As First Female Missile Ship Of Israel Navy.

MARCH - 

* Mauritius Suspends All Diplomatic Ties With Maldives.

* Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu Announced The Official Logo Of OPERATION ROARING LION.

* Iran Officially DECLARED The Closures Of The Strait Of Hormuz.

*  The Supreme Leader Of Iran Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei Killed 

*  USGA Names Two New Prizes After Tiger Woods

* France, Germany And UK Have Now Joined Operation EPIC Fury Against Iran 

* NATCO Pharma Launched The Generic Blood Cancer Treatment Medicine In US.

*  Romania Joins As The New Member Of International Solar Alliance 

* Britain's Parliament Has Approved The Bill To End Hereditary Peers In House Of Lords .

 * Peru Declared A State Of Emergency in 283 Districts Amids Heavy Rains 

* Brazil Discovered Giant Dinosaur Species 

* Two Indian Flagged LPG Tankers Shivalik And Nanda Devi Have Granted Safe Passages Through Strait Of Hormuz 

*  China Has Launched The Kuaizhou - 11 Y7 Carrier Rocket From North West China 

 * UNESCO Has Designates The Medellin, Columbia As World Book Capital For 2027 

* 400 Afganistan People Killed, Pakistan Attacked 

* LGBTQ Right Advocate Bhumika Shrestha Set To First Transgender From Nepal To Serve As MP Of Centrist Rashtriya Swatantrata Party ( RSP) 

* ISRAEL Defence Minister Israel Katz Claimed Iran Security Chief Ali Larijani Was Killed 

* The United States Has Secured Energy Agreement Worth Around USD 57 Billion With indo - Pacific Partners 

* Argentina Withdrew From The World Health Organisation 

* The First Ministerial Meeting Of The China - Vietnam 3+3 Strategic Dialogue Held 

*  Britain, FRANCE, Germany, Italy And Nederlands And Japan To Agree To Join Efforts To Ensure Security Of Strait Of Hormuz.

* Mauritius Deputy Prime Minister Paul Berenger Resigned 

* Iran Launched 10 million Rial Bank Note

* Russia Launched The Soyuz -2.1 Carrying The MS -33 Cargo Spacecraft 

* A New Bilateral Agenda Has Kicked Between India And Russia 

* A Military Plane Carrying 125 People Crashed In South Western Colombia, 66 People Killed 

* Russia Officially Signed Deal With Vietnam To Build It's First Nuclear Power  Plant 

* Australia And European Union Have Signed a Trade Deal 

* Slovenia Became The First EU Country To Introduce Fuel Rationing Amid Energy Disruption 

* India Has Sent 1000 Matric Tonnes Of Rice To Sierra Leone 

* Ghana Became The First African Country To Sign a Security And Defence Partnership With The European Union 

* ) Philippines Declared Energy Emergency

* The UN General Assembly Has Adopted a Ghana Led Resolution Recognising Transatlantic Slavery As The Gravest Crime Against Humanity 

* China Has Launched It's MARS -2D Carrier Rocket With 2 Satellite  ( Gaojing -2 O5  & Gaojing - 2 06) 

* UAE Central Bank Approved Emirates NBD's Propose Stake Acquisition In RBL Bank 

*  North Korea And Belarus SIGNED Fundamental Treaty 

* Japan Recorded 6.2 Magnitude Earthquake 

* Taylor Swift Has Win 7 Awards At iHeart Radio Music Award 

* SOUTH AFRICA Has Excluded from G7 SUMMIT 

* Japan Launched The World's First Bullet Train For Freight Transport 

* China Has Became The Leading World International Patent Application in 2025

* China Launched The World's First Floating Island For Deep Sea Research 

* A Lawmaker In Myanmar Nominated Junta Chief Min Aung Hlaing Candidate For Vice President.

APPOINTMENTS - 

* General Seyyed Majid Ibn Al Reza Has Been Appointed As Acting Defence Minister Of Iran 

* Mojtaba Khamenei Elected As New Supreme Leader Of Islamic Republic Of Iran 

* US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP Appoints Markwayne Mullin As DHS CHIEF

* James Swan Appointed As New Head Of MONUSCO 

.* US President Donald Trump Has Appointed Erika Kirk As Head Of US Airforce Academy Board Of Visitors.

* Helene Rey, Professor Of Economics At London Business School (LBS) Appointed As Economic Advisor Of Bank Of International Settlement (BIS), Switzerland

*  Former IRGC Commander Mohhammad Baqer Zolqadr Named Iran's New Security Chief 

*) Srilankan Origin Athithiya Ananrharajah Appointed As DEPUTY Mayor In France.

INDIA -  WORLD  

* Deputy Prime Minister Of Malta Dr Ian Borg Visited India.

* Finland President Alexander Stubb Visited To India * 

* The Ashmolean Museum, In Oxford, England Has Returned a 16th Century Bronze Statue Of Saint Thirumangai Alvar To Government of India.

* india Dispatched A Humanitarian Assistance Of 1000 Matric Tonne Of Rice To Malawi 

* US President Donald Trump Announced Reliance Investment To Build American Oil Refinery

* First India Bound Vessel Liberia Flagged Shenlong Suezmax Reached At Mumbai, Via STRAIT OF HORMUZ 

* Spain Permanently Withdraw Ambassador To Israel

* Indian Army Launched The Major Bridge Project In Chilaw To Restore Link In Colombo.

* External Affairs Minister Dr S JAISHANKAR Set To Visit Brussels 

*  India And Belgium Have Agreed To Establish a Strategic Dialogue 

*  The Indian Flagged Crude Oil Tanker JAG LAADKI Arrived At Adani Ports, ( With 80,886 Matric Tonnes Crude oil) 

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* ) India Delivered a 2.5 Ton Consignment Of Emergency Medicine To Kabul, Afghanistan 

* The Icelandic Translation Of Bhagvat Gita Unveiled on 22nd March 2026 

*  India And Taiwan Bilateral Trade Surging 17% To Hit a Record USD 12.5 Billion in 2025 

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APRIL - 

* Chinese Scientists Have Recently DISCOVERD A Fossils Of New Species Of Ancient Ray Finned Fish That Lived About 244 Million Years Ago ( PTYCHOLEPIS HUOAE) 

* Eric TRUMP Unveiled The DONALD J Trumph Presidential library In Miami 

* China Pakistan Proposed Peace Plan For West Asia 

* Cameroon To Introduce Vice President Role After 50 Years.

*  Former Governor Of Russia's Kursk Region Alexei Smirnov Has Been Sentences To 14 Years Prisons 

* Former Bangladesh Speaker Shirin Sharmin Arrested 

* Myanmar Recorded 3.6 Magnitude Earthquake 

* Nepalese Movie Elephant In The Fog Becoming The First Nepalese Movie To SELECTED In The Un Certain Regard Section Of Cannes FILM Festival 

* Government Of Kazakhstan And Russia Have Incollboration Launched The Amur Tigers 

 *Punatsangchhu- 1 Hydropower Electric Project Of Bhutan Resumed After 7 Years

*  Japan's Sakurajima Volcano Erupted 

* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Has Appointed Major General Roman Gofman As Director Of Israeli Institute Of For Intelligence And Special Operation 

* Vice Admiral Mark Hammomd Has Been Appointed As The Australia Next Chief Of Defence 

* Niger Is The Newest MEMBER Of International Big Cat Alliance 

* Benin's Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni Wins The Country's Presidential Election 

* Super Typhoon Sinlaku Hits The Marian Island 

*  Lativia Became The 62nd Nations To Sign The Artemis Accords 

* State Bank of Pakistan Has Received Funds Of USD 1 Billion From Ministry Of Finance, Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia 

*  Mr Rumen Radev Wins The Parliamentary Election In Bulgaria 

* Archaeologist Have Found A 2200 Years Old Temple DISCOVERD In Egypt.

* NASA Unveiled The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope 

* Bahamas Achieved Elimination Of Mother To Child Transmission Of HIV 

* Russia Aerospace Forces Successfully Launched The Angara -1.2 Carrier Rocket 

* Jordan Became The 63rd Nations To Signed Artemis Accords.

*  China Has Became The First Country In The World To Achieve 5 Million Valid Invention Patents.

* Chinese Scientists Have Identified Two Previously Unknown Lunar Minerals From 1731 Grams of Moon Samples Returned By Change-5 Mission.

* Algeria Eliminate The Trachoma 

*  WHO Approved The First Malaria Drug For Baby ( The Combination Of Artemether And LumeFantrine) For Baby Whose Weight Under 5 kg 

* UNESCO And Oxford University Have Launched The AI, Justice And Rule Of Law, A First Kind Of Online Course To Help Judicial Professionals Navigate AI In Justice 

* Jordan Joins The International Solar Alliance as Member 

*  Bangladesh Launched First Power Unit Of The Rooppur Nuclear Plant By The Help Of Russia.

* UAE To Exit From OPEC 

INDIA - WORLD - 

*  India' Has Sent a Consignment Of 1000 Metric Tonnes Of Rice To Burkina  Faso 

* Denis Manturov, First Deputy Chairman Of Russian Federation And Co Chair Of The Indian Russia Inter Governmental Commission Has Arrived India 

* Tamilnadu Born Rini Sampath First South Asian in Washington DC Mayoral Race.

* Earthquake Of Magnitude 4.2 Recorded in INDIAN Ocean 

* ) India Sends Humanitarian Assistance To Afganistan.

* St Kitts And Nevis Foreign Minister Denzil Douglas Arrived In India.

* India Flagged LPG Tanker Green Asha Crosses Strait Of Hormuz 

* Minister Of State For External Affairs And Environment, Forest And Climate Change Kirti Vardhan Singh Will Set To Visit MYANMAR 

* External Affairs Minister Dr S JAISHANKAR And Saint Kitts And Nevis Foreign Minister Denzil L Douglas Have Inaugurated a New High Commission Of Their At New Delhi 

* India Sents 250 MT Food Grains To Seychelles Under Special Economic Package.

* India Has Withdraw Its Bid To Host COP 33 

* Indian Flagged LPG Tanker JAG VIKRAM Has Crossed The Strait Of Hormuz 

* India's Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders LIMITED Acquired 51% Stake In Colombo Dockyard PLC For USD 26.8 million 

* External Affairs Minister Dr S JAISHANKAR Has Handed Over 90 Electric Buses To Mauritius Prime Minister Dr Ramgoolam 

* India Delivered 13 Tonnes Of BCG Vaccine To Afganistan 

* Birckbeck University Of London Became The 10th UK University To Opening A Branch In India 

* Austrian Federal Chancellor Arrives In India' 

*  Made In India Locomotive Are Being Supplied To Mozombican Railways Through RITES.

* INDIAN Flagged Crude Oil Tanker Desh Garima Safely Crossed Strait Of Hormuz 

*  President Of South Korea Lee Jae Myung Has Visited To India 

* National Security Advisor Ajit Doval Visited To Saudi Arabia 

* Indian CDS Anil Chauhan Has Visited To UK 

* France Lifts Airport Transits VISA Requirement For Indian Nationals 

* India Approved Rs 30 Billion For Maldives Under SAARC Currency Swap.

*  India Has Handed Over 2 Personal Watercrafts And Safety Gear To Srilanka Coast Guard.

* Ecuador Minister Of Foreign Affairs And Human Mobility Gabriela Sommerfeld Rosero Arrives India 

* Ecuador Joins The International Solar Alliance And International Big Cat Alliance 

* Oil India Limited (OIL) Has Discovered Oil And Gas In Libya's Ghadames Basin

APPOINTMENTS - 

* Zeine Zeidane Appointed As IMF Director African Department 

* Deepa Dahal Appointed as The Press And Research Expert To Prime Minister BALENDRA SHAH.

* Hyun Song Shin Has Been Appointed As The New Governor Of Bank of Korea 

*  Nigerian President Named Taiwo Oyedele As New Finance Minister 

* Israel APOINTS MICHAEL Lotem Its First Ambassador To Somalia Land

NEW CHAIRMAN OF HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS LIMITED (HAL) APPOINTED

* RAVI. K HAS APPOINTED AS THE 22ND CHAIRMAN AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS LIMITED (HAL)

TENNIS EVENTS IN APRIL 2026

 MONTE CARLO MASTERS 2026 - 

MEN'S SINGLE - JANNIK SINNER BEAT CARLOS ALCATRAZ 

MEN'S DOUBLES - K KRAWIETZ & T PUTZ 

STUTTGART OPEN 2026 - 

* ELENA RYBAKINA WINS THE WOMEN'S SINGLE TITLE AT 2026 STUTTGART OPEN 

CHARLESTONE OPEN 2026 ( TENNIS) - 

WOMEN'S SINGLE - JESSICA PEGULA 

WOMEN'S DOUBLES - D KRAWCZYK & C MCNally 

BADMINTON EVENT IN APRIL 2026

BADMINTON ASIA CHAMPIONSHIP 2026 

MEN'S SINGLE - SHI YUQI BEAT AYUSH SHETTY 

WOMEN'S SINGLE - AN SE YOUNG 

MEN'S DOUBLES - KIM WON HO & SEO SEUNG JAE 

WOMEN'S DOUBLES - LI YIJING & LUO XUMIN 

MIXED DOUBLES - KIM JAE HYEON &JANG HA JEONG .