UPSC Current Affairs 01 May 2026 — The Hindu

• States with revenue deficits may face fiscal stress: Centre
• India’s sprint beyond the dairy red line to the Pacific
• A century after legal recognition, workers still lack real protection
• SC issues notice on petition for ‘revenue judicial service cadre’
• SC asks petitioner to turn in first-generation copy of leaked Manipur audio to forensic lab
• India’s first green methanol plant to turn Kutch’s most invasive weed into marine fuel
• Fire incidents in trains: sabotage not ruled out
• Russo-German Treaty
• EU kickstarts Mercosur pact to counter U.S. trade hit
• Iran vows to protect its nuclear programme
• Delhi HC freezes Sunjay Kapur’s assets amid family dispute
• ₹10,000 airfare increase for Haj pilgrims draws flak
• Trade unionists and stories beyond labour rights
• Oil crisis fuels push for clean energy transition
• Lift abortion time limit for minor rape survivors: SC
• Tigress, four cubs die in past two weeks at Kanha Tiger Reserve
• K.C. Venugopal to return as chairman of House panel
• ‘Systemic failures’ made tribal man take his sister’s skeletal remains to bank, finds probe
• Only revoked lapsed ordinance on Muslim quota, govt. tells HC
• Kavitha’s party to be called ‘Telangana Rakshana Sena’
• As U.S. eases cannabis curbs, firms may get access to IPOs and private funding
• Belgium eyes takeover of reactors from French giant to boost energy security