Current Affairs

Goddard Astronautics Award

Indias Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission has been honoured with the 2026 Goddard Astronautics Award by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), presented in Washington DC on 21 May 2026.

International Booker Prize

Yang Shuang-zis Taiwan Travelogue has won the 2026 International Booker Prize, awarded each year to the best work of fiction translated into English.

Agricola Medal

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred with the 2026 Agricola Medal by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) at its headquarters in Rome on 20 May 2026.

Royal Norwegian Order of Merit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred with Norways highest honour under the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit the Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit by King Harald V in a special ceremony in Oslo on 18 May 2026, marking the 32nd international honour received by the Indian PM during his tenure.

National Florence Nightingale Awards

The President of India, Droupadi Murmu, presented the National Florence Nightingale Awards for the year 2026 to the 15 nursing personnel on the occasion of International Nurses Day, at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 12 May 2026.

Pulitzer Prize

Two Indian journalists have won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for an art reporting project exposing cybercrime in India. Anand RK and Suparna Sharma, along with Natalie Obiko Pearson, were announced as the winners in the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary category for the report they produced for Bloomberg.

Subhas Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2025

Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) received the prestigious Subhas Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2025 on 2 May 2026, for its outstanding contributions to disaster management and ocean hazard early warning services.