World Fish Migration Day - 24th May
1) The Geological Survey Of India (GSI) Has Identified Deposits Of Critical Mineral In The Tukreswari Hills, And Sijukona Hills Of Goalpara District, Assam
2) Khasi And Garo Have Been Now Added To CBSE Language Curriculum
3) Nagaland State Biodiversity Board (NSBB) States That State Forest Cover Loss Of ABOUT 794.88 Sq km Between 2013 & 2023
4) Government Of India Has Sent A First Tranche Of Medical Support And Kit To Africa Amid Ebola Outbreak
5) Sikkim Officially A Member Of Brahmaputra Board
6) Dr Lharkyal Lama, PRESIDENT OF The International Buddhist Confederation Has Been Conferred The Prestigious Mahasadhamma Jyotikadhaj Title By Myanmar
7) Gulveer Singh Wins Silver In The World Athletics Continental Tour Silver Meet In Los Angels ( Men's 5000m He COMPLETED in 13:03:93
8) Justice Meenakshi Madan Rai Set To Become Patna High Court Chief Justice ( She Became The First Female Chief Justice Of Patna High court)
9) Lt Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena Has Launched An Ambitious Ecological Restoration Project To Reclaim Nearly 800 Acres Of Barren Island Near Spituk
World Thyroid Day - 25th May
THEME 2026 - THYROID AND NUTRITION
1) Odisha Forest Department Set To Introduce Caravan Tourism At 7 Eco - Tourism Sites.
2) Toshifumi Suzuki, The Founder Of The Seven - Eleven Japan Passed Away.
3) Defence Secretary Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh Has COMMISIONED A State Of Art Ring Gantry Based Linear Accelerator At Army Hospital, Delhi.
4) A Rare Sculpture Of Depict Celebrated Ganapatideba And Queen Somaladevi Has Been Discovered In Siddipet District ( Of Kakatiya Era) In Telengana
5) India Created History At The International Association Of Ultra runners 24 Hour Asia And Oceania Championship In Japan ( 5 Medals)
6) Assam Government Has Introduced The Uniform Civil Code Bill 2026
7) Paris Host The 93rd General Session Of World Organisation For Animals Health
* India Achieved Few
* Foot And Mouth Disease ( FMD) Endorse Control Programme
* Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ( BSE) Negligible Risk Status
* Contagious Bovine Pleuropne monia ( CBPP) Freedom Status
* African Horse Sickness ( AHS) Historical Freedom
8) Former Indian Cricketer Sunil Gavaskar Along With Mathew Hayden Has Launched The Midwicket Stories
9) YOU CAN BECOME ZERO SE HERO Book Author - Rajiv K Poddar
10) Former IAS OFFICER Elias George Has Been Appointed As The Chairperson Of The Board Of Director Federal Bank Limited
11) Veteran Congress Leader And SOCIAL Cultural Activist Mangalam Gopinath Passed Away
12) IIT MADRAS And MDL Have Launched An Advanced Circulating Water Tunnel Facility For Research In Hydrodynamic, Ship DESIGN, And Ocean Engineering
13) Odisha's Educationalist, Linguist, And Folk Storyteller Dr Mahendra Kumar Mishra Has Received Prestigious PADMA Shri
14) Puri, Odisha To Host The 2nd BRICS Technical Meeting On Disaster Risk Reduction
15) ICMR Launched First Of Its Kind Innovator Industry Platform
16) CDS General Anil Chauhan Has Launched The Tri Service Tele Directory Web Application.
17) Srilanka Has Introduced The Free Electronic Travel Authorization ( ETA) Scheme For Citizen Of 40 Countries, Including India
18) The Election Commission in India (ECI) APPOINTS Senior IAS OFFICER Neelam Meena As The New Chief Electoral Officer Of West Bengal
19) Ghalibaf Elected As Parliament Speaker Of Iran For 7th Time
20) Government Notified The Liquefied Petroleum Gas ( Regulation Of Supply And Distribution ) Amendment Order 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
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
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)
1) Russia Signed An Agreement With Kazakhstan To Build First Nuclear Plant In Central Asia's Largest COUNTRY
2) A Rare Dragonfly Named Gynacantha Khasiaca Has Rediscovered In Arunachal Pradesh After 110 Years.
3) Janes Janaza Appointed As New Prime Minister Of Slovenia
4) Lance Havildar Harbhajan Singh ( MONUSCO) And Naib Subedar Sujit Kumar Pradhan ( UNMISS) Set To Honoured By UN With The Dag Hammarskjold Medal POSTHUMOUSLY On International Peacekeepers Day
5) GSL Has Delivered The 5th Adamya Class FPV ICGS AKSHAY To Indian Coast Guard.
6) Shrey Parikh Wins The Scripps National Spelling Bee
7) CCI's First Chairperson Dhanendra Kumar Passed Away
8) Vice Admiral Ajay Kochhar Assumed As 48th Vice Chief Of Naval Staff
9) NSA Ajit Doval Participate In The International Security Forum At Moscow
10) IIT GUWAHATI Has Developed 4D Anti Counterfeiting Nanomaterial To Combat Fake Currency
11) Bamsiakilwa Village In Nagaland Has Declared The Daukeling - Hebamlo Community Conserved Area To Protect The Elusive Asiatic Golden Cat
12) NIT ROURKELA Builds The AI POWERED Microscopy Technology For Quicker And Smarter Diseases Detection
13) Vijayawada Photographer T Srinivasa Reddy Has CONFERRED With AP S Master Honour For 2026 By Australian Photography Society
14) Shri Norbu Negi Has Appointed As The India's NEXT High Commissioner To Sierra Leone
15) Government Of Odisha, Intel And 3DGS ( US BASED) Signed MoU For Manufacturing Of Semiconductor Ecosystem In India
16) Shri Satyan Kumar Assumed As The Director ( Strategy And Corporate Affairs) Of ONGC
17) Eminent Scholar Dr Hiren Gohain To Received The Swahid Kushal Konwar Award 2026
18) 2005 Batch IFS OFFICER Muanpuii Saiawi Has Appointed As India's next High Commissioner To Cook Islands
19) Researchers At IIT MADRAS Has Developed An Injectable Hydrojel For Advanced Treatment Of Fibrosis
20) Princee Ani, IPS Officer Set Become First Tripura Frontier IG ( First Woman
* 2005 BATCH TRIPURA CADRE IPS OFFICER
* SHE BEFORE SERVED AS IG OF TRIPURA POLICE
* AND ALSO SERVED AS IG OF NATIONAL SECURITY GUARD (NSG)
* SHE IS KNOWN FOR FRONTIER OVERSEE OF 856 KM INTERNATIONAL BORDER OF BANGLADESH
21) Mangala Kanti Roy, Padmashree Awardee Sarinda Player Passed Away ( Known As Morog Dadu (
22) Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh Has Inaugurated India's First Integrated Next Generation Aviation Weather And Fog Monitoring System SKYCAST At Indira Gandhi International Airport New Delhi Under Mission Mausam
23) Indian Woman Volleyball Team Wins Bronze After Beating Host Nepal At CAVA Women's Championship 2026
24) On The Occasion Of World No Tobacco Day, UNION Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava Launched The Pilot Version Of The Tobacco Free Educational Institution - toFEI Application In New Delhi
25) NITI AYOG Released The Future Of India's Semiconductor Industry Roadmap
26) Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh Has Been Entrusted With Additional Charge Of DRDO
27) Noted IFS OFFICER H S Power Passed Away
28) NETRA Semiconductor Has Designed India's First EDGE AI SYSTEM - On Chip ( SoC) NETRA A2000 (12 nm Node)
29) Department Of Financial Services Has Launched The Common Landing Portal For Unclaimed Financial Assets To Facilitate Easier Access To Information On Unclaimed Financial Assets
WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY - 31ST MAY
THEME 2026 - Unmasking The Appeal - Countering Nicotine And Tobacco Addiction
1) Suruchi Phogat Wins Gold In Women's 10m Air Pistol EVENT At ISSF World Cup Munich
* Esha Singh Wins Silver In Same Event At ISSF World Cup Munich
2) Shri H S Power Passed Away ( An Notable IFS OFFICER ) MADHYA Pradesh Cadre
* He Was Director Of Project Tiger Till 1985
* Conferred With Padma Shri For Tiger And Wildlife Conservation
* Work For Kanha TIGER RESERVES
3) Pooja Singh Breaks The 14 Years Old National Records,At Asian U20 High Jump Gold
4) Rahul Jhakar Wins Gold In Men's Decathlon At Asian U20 Athletics Championships
* Nitin Gupta Wins Gold In Men's 5000m Race Walk
* Amanat Kamboj Wins Gold In Women's Discuss Throw
5) A Newly Discovered Wasp Species Has Named After Australian F1 Driver Oscar Piastri
6) Researchers From India And UK Has Developed An AI Tool - HISTO -Unet ( Cancer cell Map With Accuracy)
7) CDS GENERAL Anil Chauhan Retires After 4 Decades
8) Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal Has Launched Unified Ship Recycling Portal For Ship Recycling Credit Scheme To Boost Indian Shipbuilding
* Union Minister Also Launched The Logistics Ports Performance INDEX ( LPPI) For FY 2024/25 On The Occasion 37th Anniversary Of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority, Mumbai
* This INDEX Evaluate The Three Cargo Segment Dry Bulk, Liquid Bulk, And Container Cargo Using Operational Indicator Such As Cargo Handled Vessel Turn Around Time, Waiting Time, Ship Berth Day Output Etc.,
* Shri Sonowal Launched Four Initiative Developed By The Directorate General Of Shipping ( DGS) To Improve Service Delivery, Transparency, And Accountability For Seafarers, And Maritime Stakeholders
* Launched A Grievances Redressal Module Under e-Navik Platform
* A Ship Registration Module Under e-Samudra Portal
* A Medical Practitioner Module
* Unified Recycling Credit Note Module
9) Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Has Inaugurated The NAUSHENA SAURYA VATIKA In Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
10) K P Dhanapalan, Senior Congress Leader And Former KERALA MP Passed Away.
11) Indian Haj Mission Has Received Two Prestigious Labbaytum Awards From Saudi Ministry Of Hajj
12) Nikhil Chandrasekhar Wins Gold In Men's Steeplechase At U20 ASIAN Athletic Championship
13) Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh Has Launched The CPGRAMS AI Enabled Voice Chatbot, Samadhan Didi In New Delhi ( Developed By DARPG In Collaboration With BHASINI) For Citizen Grievances
14) Ghana Passed The Bill Criminalizing Homosexuality And The Promotion Of LGBTQ+ Activities
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