| TOPIC | SUBJECT | PAPER |
| BEIJING HAS A MARITIME DISPUTE WITH TOKYO | INTERNATIONAL REALTIONS | PRELIMS |
| RARE DRAGONFLY | ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY | PRELIMS |
| EIGHTH INDIAN OPEN PARA ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS | SPORTS | PRELIMS |
| LOKTAK PROTOCLUSTER | SPACE AND TIME | PRELIMS |
| DNA BARCODING | TECHNOLOGY | PRELIMS |
| SPORTS MINISTRY NOTIFIES FORMATION OF NSB AND NST TO STREAMLINE GOVERNANCE AND MINIMISE LITIGATION | NATINAL BODIES | PRELIMS |
| STATEMENT | GEOGRAPHY | PRELIMS |
| STATEMENT | TECHNOLOGY | PRELIMS |
| KADAPAKKAM LAKE | GEOGRAPHY | PRELIMS |
| SARTHAK-PDS | SCHEME | PRELIMS/MAINS GS 3 |
| DUTTAPHYRNUS DHARA | ||
| SC upholds SIR, says it is in consonance with Representation of the People Act: highlights | POLITY/ Representation of the People Act: | MAINS GS 2 |
| India, U.S. strike Critical Minerals deal amid China concerns | POLITY/INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | MAINS GS 2 |
| Supreme Court constitutes panel under Home Secretary to draw up action plan to clean Yamuna | POLITY | MAINS GS2 |
BEIJING HAS A MARITIME DISPUTE WITH TOKYO
In the East China Sea, Beijing has a maritime dispute with Tokyo over the uninhabited islets called Senkakus, controlled by Japan. China calls them the Diaoyu Islands
RARE DRAGONFLY
- An insect that enjoys a near-360° vision with thousands of lenses, and can stay still in the air, has resurfaced in Arunachal Pradesh’s Changlang district.from the Namdapha National Park and Tiger Reserve.
- This insect with two compound eyes, each with thousands of tiny lenses and photoreceptor clusters, was last described from the erstwhile Abor Hills in 1914.
EIGHTH INDIAN OPEN PARA ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Kerala’s Mohammed Basil clocked 10.63s to win the men’s 100m T47 event in the 8th Indian Open Para Athletics Championships in Bengaluru on Tuesday. Haney (Haryana) claimed the men’s discus throw F37 gold with a best effort of 54.03 m.
Haryana’s Sharmila took home the women’s shot put F57 gold with a winning throw of 9.86m.
LOKTAK PROTOCLUSTER
Dr. Ronaldo Laishram, an Indian astrophysicist based in Japan, led an international team in discovering the “Loktak Protocluster,” a massive 12.6-billion-year-old “city of galaxies.” He named the ancient structure after Manipur’s iconic Loktak Lake to immortalize the northeastern state’s identity in the cosmos
DNA BARCODING
DNA barcoding is a scientific method of identifying species using a short, standardized segment of DNA..
SPORTS MINISTRY NOTIFIES FORMATION OF NSB AND NST TO STREAMLINE GOVERNANCE AND MINIMISE LITIGATION
- The Sports Ministry on Tuesday (May 26, 2026) officially notified the formation and composition of the National Sports Board (NSB) and the National Sports Tribunal (NST) under the National Sports Governance Act 2025.
- While the NSB will oversee recognition and governance standards of national sports federations and their allied units, the NST will be an independent quasi-judicial body to ensure speedy and cost-effective resolution of disputes and minimise sports litigations.
- No civil court shall have jurisdiction to entertain any suit or proceeding in respect of any matter on which the National Sports Tribunal is empowered to determine, and no injunction shall be granted
STATEMENT
Uttarakhand has recorded 375 forest fire incidents between February 15 and May 24 this year, affecting a total area of 319.67 hectares
STATEMENT
CAR-T (Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell) therapy, a breakthrough in oncology, is being adapted to reprogram the immune system and reset it in severe, refractory autoimmune diseases
KADAPAKKAM LAKE
Kadapakkam Lake is a 135-acre waterbody in Manali, North Chennai, undergoing a major transformation by the Greater Chennai Corporation into the city’s largest eco-park. Supported by the Asian Development Bank
SARTHAK-PDS
cabinet approves integration and continuation of two schemes viz.
(i) “assistance to state agencies for intra-state movement of foodgrains and fps dealers’ margin under nfsa” and
(ii) “scheme for modernization and reforms through technology in public distribution system (smart pds)” under umbrella scheme sarthak-pds
sarthak-pds scheme seeks to modernize, integrate and intelligently optimize pds operations through advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (ai), machine learning (ml), natural language processing (nlp) and blockchain, by creating standardized architectures and unified databases for real-time monitoring, ai-driven grievance and analytics systems, state command control centres for data-driven oversight, and iso-certified process frameworks to ensure transparency, security and sustainability in pds operations.
DUTTAPHYRNUS DHARA
- Duttaphyrnus dhara, a new-to-science toad recorded from the hills of Meghalaya.
- The finding also highlights the Meghalaya plateau as an important centre of amphibian diversity and endemism within the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot.
MAINS
1.SC upholds SIR, says it is in consonance with Representation of the People Act: highlights NF SATCK