20-26 April 2026

Two stories owned the week. The first was diplomatic: ROK President Lee Jae Myung's state visit produced a 52-paragraph Joint Strategic Vision (2026-2030) plus shipbuilding, sustainability and energy statements, while Rajnath Singh's Berlin-Munich tour added a Defence Industrial Cooperation Roadmap with Germany - read these as one Indo-Pacific partnership arc, not separate cards. The second was domestic-resilience: the Strait of Hormuz crisis drove a daily inter-ministerial briefing every single day this week, each repeating the same instruments - the Natural Gas and Petroleum Products Distribution Order 2026 under the Essential Commodities Act 1955, the Rs 10/litre excise cut, and the LPG Control Order 2000; learn the instruments, not the day-by-day cylinder counts. On the rules front, the Online Gaming Rules 2026 (in force 1 May) and the SAF amendment to the ATF Control Order are clean prelims fodder. Now the rescues: the Northern/North-Zone Agriculture Conference recurred across four days yet never won a daily slot - it carries Natural Farming Mission, Farmer Registry and the urea/DAP subsidy figures, so don't skip it; INS Sudarshini's Lokayan 26 also surfaced twice (Casablanca, then Las Palmas) and is the easiest naval-diplomacy nameable of the month. Aditya Tiwari Sir's tip: when an entity repeats all week, the exam wants the framework it sits in, not the headline. Census 2027 and the two NITI urban-governance reports close a polity-heavy week.