UPSC Current Affairs 06 May 2026 — The Hindu

• Silencing academia, weakening democratic space
• RE meets global electricity demand for the first time
• Cabinet approves four more judges for Supreme Court
• Cabinet clears three railway projects worth ₹23,437 crore
• Cabinet gives nod to make insult to Vande Mataram an offence
• 30 banks integrated with UDGAM portal to help legal heirs trace funds
• Medical negligence claims can be pursued against a dead doctor’s heirs, says SC
• Building bridges
• Supreme Court defines life imprisonment
• India’s energy security amid conflicts
• Industrial heat pumps and the case for cleaning industrial heat
• Thailand scraps treaty on energy, maritime territory with Cambodia
• Govt. hikes sugarcane FRP by ₹10 per quintal
• A radiation ‘glitch’ limits quantum computing
• Govt. sets 12-week limit to process FDI applications
• India-U.K. FTA: JLR reduces Range Rover CBU models by up to ₹75 lakh
• Govt. approves fifth edition of credit guarantee scheme
• Cabinet okays Micro LED plant, OSAT facility in Gujarat
• Assam Assembly may not have a Leader of Opposition
• Attacks against Christians rising in Odisha, say activists
• Informant in POCSO case moves HC against police history-sheet
• ‘Fraudulent financial ads on Meta evading SEBI guidelines’