UPSC Current Affairs 23 May 2026 — The Hindu
- SC recalls ‘harsh’ remarks made over textbook row
- SC asks panel to review cartoons in textbooks
- Supreme Court asks panel to review cartoons in textbooks
- Parents, students challenge CBSE three-language rule
- SC asks police to register FIRs in missing person cases quickly and activate anti-trafficking cells
- 139 Indians released from Russian military service, Centre tells SC
- March 2026 saw net foreign investments decline to -$11.7 bn
- Demand driving growth, but economic outlook somewhat clouded: RBI report
- ‘Birth rate, infant deaths fall in India’
- India, Cyprus elevate bilateral ties to strategic partnership; ink pact for defence cooperation
- Rupee should not be allowed to hit ₹100 per dollar: RSS wing
- Cyber warfare is outpacing global legal accountability
- Alarm bells
- RBI board approves transfer of ₹2,86,588 cr. surplus to govt.
- RBI injects transient liquidity of ₹81,590 cr. via VRR auction
- Jaishankar to host Quad Ministers’ meet on May 26; discuss ‘free Indo-Pacific’
- EC announces Rajya Sabha polls for 24 seats on June 18
- Centre asks States, U.T.s to step up Ebola surveillance
- Centre says it will bring back people sent to Bangladesh
- ‘Mumbai Metropolitan Region to add ₹1.7 lakh crore to the economy’
- ‘Kumbh a blueprint for climate-friendly green infrastructure’
- ‘Maharashtra emerging as major hub for investment’
- Home and abroad
- Saffron clashes with green, again
- WHO sounds alarm on medical shortages in Gaza
- Maharashtra is India’s growth engine: Shinde
- ‘Smart border plan will make frontiers impregnable’
- HC slams WFI for denying Phogat a chance to participate in Asian Games selection trials
- Punjab local body polls to be held using ballot papers
- India successfully test-fires Agni-1 ballistic missile
- Govt. restricts Pregabalin sale after reports of drug abuse
- ‘Development is not about factories or roads; we must connect with people’
- Allahabad HC flags police failure to furnish arms licence details of ‘influential’ people
- HC asks why nursing is not declared ‘essential service’
- Interpreting the ‘rise’ of the Cockroach Janta Party
- Aggressive intermediary-led competition hurting general insurers’ profitability: report
- Import duty hike to cut India’s gold demand
- ‘India sees relations with China in a bilateral context, but Beijing has never seen it that way’
- EU moves to sanction Iran over Hormuz blockade
- Trump’s tax immunity deal may dent trust in U.S. tax system, warn experts
- SC refers UAPA bail curbs issue to larger Bench
- The Hindu is another name for trust, says Eknath Shinde
- ‘A direct job at Mazagaon dock generates 6.4 jobs in India’
- ‘Infrastructure is key catalyst for economic growth’
- letters to the editor
- Smart border concept is set to make frontiers ‘impregnable’: Amit Shah
- Union govt. extends NCB chief Anurag Garg’s tenure
- Centre promised more legislative powers for Ladakh, says delegation
- Reconstituted PAC meets; BJP objects to committee taking up issues suo motu
- 14801
- Hanuman: supreme guru
- Severe heatwave conditions to prevail in parts of India
- Two Indians die while descending Mount Everest
- Water Metro service will commence by 2028, says Rane
- Mumbai needs 10,000 buses, only 3,000 ply now: BMC chief
- VCK’s Vanni Arasu, IUML’s Shahjahan join Vijay’s Cabinet
- Bengal govt. notifies free bus travel for women from June 1
- Seed ball drive launched to boost green cover in Andhra Pradesh
- Goyal meets officials, industry bodies to boost manufacturing
- Dalmia Bharat to buy JAL’s cement assets in ₹2,850 cr. deal after Adani takeover
- LTM offers €160 mn for Randstad units
- ‘Firms giving priority to AI-ready skills’
- Rupee rises 76 paise to close at 95.60 against U.S. dollar
- Repco Home Finance Q4 net rises 3.2% to ₹129 crore
- Dhaka seeks Hasina’s return through legal process, says Minister
- Holy yearning
- Pakistan military chief Munir arrives in Tehran in push to end the Iran war
- Taiwan says U.S. hasn’t notified it of any pause in $14 billion arms sale
- Erdogan orders closure of liberal, independent university in Istanbul
- NATO Ministers sound out Washington on Trump’s ‘confusing’ troop moves
- Shoulder to shoulder
- Qatari team in Tehran to help secure U.S.-Iran deal to end war, says source
- Minimum wage: Karnataka notifies draft with 60% hike
- U.P. Congress chief’s ‘remarks against PM’ trigger political row
- Twisha’s husband detained; HC allows second autopsy
- Bengal CM meets Murmu, Modi, Shah on first visit to Delhi after taking charge
- Truck set on fire, people hurt: public hearing over limestone mining in Meghalaya called off
- Vadodara to host Vibrant Gujarat Regional Conference
- Storm symphony
- Nurdle menace persists a year after MSC Elsa 3 disaster
- Stray dog feeding plan in Bengaluru on the back burner
- Libraries must re-emerge as centres of knowledge: VP
- Lakshmi may have ended up a child bride
- Hitting a pause
- Tulsi Gabbard steps down as director of national intelligence
- SC grants bail to man held under UAPA after 5 years
- Cong. alleges cover-up of NEET leak, demands accountability from govt.
- CBI arrests woman, who was appointed as expert by NTA, for leaking physics questions
- HC grants interim bail to Khalid in 2020 case
- Bengali actors face heat after power shift to BJP; FIR filed over social media posts
- Governor outlines Assam govt. vision on UCC, demography; Congress MLAs stage walkout
- SP MP booked for ‘blocking traffic’ during protest
- Ex-Minister Thiruvanchoor elected as Kerala Speaker
- Puducherry Minister calls on PM Modi, BJP leaders in Delhi
- Political buzz to pick up in Karnataka with notification of RS polls to 4 seats
- TRS chief Kavitha held over protest on farmers’ issues
- In another League
- Lebanon says Israeli strike kills 10, including six rescuers and a child
- Residents burn an Ebola treatment centre in Congo as disease spreads
- Sunrisers prove too hot for Royal Challengers
- More questions than answers for CSK
- PBKS needs to beat LSG, but its fate rests on other results
- Ponting rues Kings’ inability to deliver in crunch moments
- WORLD CUP SQUADS
- SCOREBOARD
- ‘Wasn’t bowling well in the first few games, but I got my rhythm back’
- CSK captain Ruturaj fined for slow over-rate during loss to GT
- Raghuvanshi ruled out of IPL due to concussion, fracture
- Head coach Ponting throws his weight behind skipper Shreyas
- Whither Alexander Zverev, the forlorn scion of the lost generation?
- stacking up
- Major champion Aaron Rai: the ‘all-world’ English gentleman with Indian roots
- Hoary fixture