- Vice Admiral Ajay Kochhar has assumed charge as the 48th Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff of India.
- Notable modern Urdu poet Bashir Badr, who passed away recently, was awarded the Padma Shri in 1989.
- The final match of the Indian Premier League 2026 will be played between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans.
- Suruchi Inder Singh won the gold medal in the women’s 10m air pistol event at the ISSF World Cup 2026 in Munich.
- Pooja Singh set a new Indian national senior record in high jump by clearing 1.93m at the Asian U-20 Athletics Championships.
- According to the National Family Health Survey-6, institutional deliveries in India have reached 90.6% of total births.
- India’s Total Fertility Rate has been recorded at 2.0 in the National Family Health Survey-6.
- The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways plans to mandate blending Isobutanol with diesel by the end of 2026.
- Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan issued the ‘Joint Air Defence Doctrine’ to make India’s airspace impenetrable.
- Blue Origin’s heavy-lift rocket ‘New Glenn’ exploded on its launch pad during a hot-fire test in Florida.
- The 1,200 MW Kalai-II Hydroelectric Project is proposed on the Lohit River in Arunachal Pradesh.
- Eight lion cubs died due to a suspected parasitic infection called ‘Babesia’ in the Gir National Park and Sanctuary.
- India’s first integrated aviation weather intelligence and forecasting facility, Skycast, has been installed at IGI Airport, New Delhi.
- Telangana’s Chief Minister has directed the launch of a one-stop, multi-purpose unified card for every citizen.
- Indian Railways has launched CHIRAG, an AI-powered center for modernizing Human Resources administration, in Hyderabad.
📅 May 31, 2026 · Sunday