This week, in story-arcs
11–17 May 2026
PIB published 239 releases this week · we curated 34 into 34 arcs.
Editor's note — Aditya Tiwari Sir
The crisis in West Asia set the week's frame: an Inter-Ministerial Briefing recurred Monday and Thursday, and the Finance Ministry's Bharat Maritime Insurance Pool plus the PM's UAE energy outcomes all read as one continuous response to crude-import risk and the Strait of Hormuz. Two big conservation arcs ran in parallel: the IBCA Summit (announced 11 May, then a string of pre-summit species events at Gir and Bhubaneswar) and a near-back-to-back diplomatic double-header, the Netherlands Strategic Partnership and the Sweden Polar Star, both rich in semiconductor, water and critical-minerals MoUs. On the data front, watch the divergence between cooling CPI (3.48%) and a sharply rising WPI (8.3%, fuel-driven) — that gap is itself an exam question. Don't skip the rescued entities: the Dam Safety Act backgrounder, the J&K limestone auctions and the PM E-DRIVE scheme each recurred quietly across two days, and the CAQM air-quality directions surfaced as a high-score release that never won a daily slot.
🏛️ Polity & Governance
tracked across 1 dayMGNREGA replaced: the 125-day rural job guarantee
VB-G RAM G Act commencement notified; rolls out 1 July 2026.
Ministry of Rural Development · 11 May ·
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tracked across 2 daysYuva Sangam Phase VI pairs 22 States
Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat youth exchange; 1.26 lakh registrations.
Ministry of Education · 12–15 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayECI orders Phase-III intensive electoral roll revision
SIR covers 16 States and 3 UTs; 36.73 crore electors.
Election Commission · 14 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayCensus 2027 house-listing begins on the ground
Phase-I HLO field operations start in five States/UTs; digital-first.
Ministry of Home Affairs · 17 May ·
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rescued · high-scoreDam Safety Act: how India watches 6,628 dams
India is 3rd worldwide in large dams; 26% are over 50 years old.
Ministry of Jal Shakti · 15 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayAmended BharatNet reaches Andhra's panchayats
Rs 2,432 crore for 13,426 GPs; Digital Bharat Nidhi funds it.
Ministry of Communications · 13 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayCCPA penalises coaching giants for fake toppers' claims
Rs 15 lakh fines for concealing which courses successful candidates took.
Ministry of Consumer Affairs · 15 May ·
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💰 Economy & Finance
single high-score releaseBharat Maritime Insurance Pool covers India's ships
USD 1.5 bn pool, USD 1.4 bn sovereign guarantee, against sanctions risk.
Ministry of Finance · 12 May ·
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tracked across 4 daysWest Asia crisis: India's energy and supply buffers
Inter-ministerial machinery managed crude, LPG and fertiliser through the conflict.
Ministry of Defence / MoPNG · 11–14 May ·
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tracked across 2 daysCPI cools to 3.48% as WPI jumps to 8.3%
Retail inflation eases while wholesale prices surge on fuel.
MoSPI / DPIIT · 12–14 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayPSBs post record Rs 1.98 lakh crore net profit
Fourth straight profitable year; NPAs at historic lows.
Ministry of Finance · 12 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayCabinet raises MSP for 14 Kharif crops
Marketing Season 2026-27; biggest hike for sunflower seed.
tracked across 1 dayRs 37,500 crore push for coal gasification
Targets 100 MT coal gasified by 2030; cuts import dependence.
tracked across 1 dayIndia's first semi high-speed rail cleared in Gujarat
Ahmedabad (Sarkhej)-Dholera, 134 km, Rs 20,667 crore.
tracked across 2 daysRare-earth magnet scheme reopens its global tender
Rs 7,280 crore REPM scheme aims at 6,000 MTPA capacity.
Ministry of Heavy Industries · 12–15 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayLEADS 2025: a new four-tier logistics ranking
DPIIT names Tamil Nadu, UP, Mizoram and Delhi as Exemplars.
Ministry of Commerce & Industry · 13 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayBarrier-less MLFF tolling rolls out near Delhi
ANPR plus FASTag; toll-collection cost to fall to 3-4%.
Ministry of Road Transport & Highways · 11 May ·
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rescued · recurredPM E-DRIVE scales EV charging nationwide
Rs 10,900 crore scheme; Karnataka gets 1,243 new chargers.
Ministry of Heavy Industries · 12 May ·
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rescued · recurredJ&K limestone blocks go to second auction tranche
12 blocks across Anantnag, Rajouri, Poonch on offer.
Ministry of Mines · 11–12 May ·
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🔬 Science & Tech
tracked across 1 dayASML-Tata to back India's first front-end fab
Dutch lithography leader partners on the Dholera Fab.
Prime Minister's Office · 16 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayRajasthan gets its first semiconductor plant
Sahasra at Bhiwadi is India's first SME-led OSAT facility.
Ministry of Electronics & IT · 15 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayRDI Fund makes its first disbursement
Rs 50 crore to Eyestem; five deep-tech projects signed.
Ministry of Science & Technology · 16 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayIMD launches AI monsoon and 1-km rainfall forecasts
Mission Mausam adds probabilistic four-week monsoon prediction.
Ministry of Earth Sciences · 12 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayIndia chairs the Common Criteria Development Board
Two-year chair of the global IT-security certification body.
Ministry of Electronics & IT · 14 May ·
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🌿 Environment & Ecology
tracked across 3 daysIBCA Summit builds toward big-cat diplomacy
First International Big Cat Summit set for 1-2 June, New Delhi.
Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change · 11–14 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayIndia's first integrated CCUS lab opens at IIT Bombay
Pilot captures CO2 and stores it in Deccan basalt.
Ministry of Education · 11 May ·
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rescued · high-scoreCAQM tightens NCR air rules at 28th meeting
Electric-only 3-wheeler registration and stubble-burning targets.
Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change · 15 May ·
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🌐 International Relations
tracked across 2 daysIndia-Netherlands elevate ties to Strategic Partnership
PM's visit yields a 2026-2030 Roadmap and 14 agreements.
Prime Minister's Office · 16–17 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayPM's UAE visit anchors energy and AI compute
Seven outcomes; ADNOC in India's strategic oil reserve.
Prime Minister's Office · 15 May ·
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tracked across 2 daysIndia chairs the Kimberley Process in Mumbai
Intersessional 2026 advances the '3Cs' for natural diamonds.
Ministry of Commerce & Industry · 12–15 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayModi receives Sweden's Polar Star honour
First Asian leader to get the Commander Grand Cross.
Prime Minister's Office · 17 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayIndia hosts BRICS trade group as fourth-time chair
CGETI meets in Gandhinagar; intra-BRICS trade up 13-fold.
Ministry of Commerce & Industry · 16 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayIndia-IFAD launch eight-year rural strategy
COSOP 2026-2033 aligns with Viksit Bharat@2047.
Ministry of Finance · 12 May ·
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🤝 Schemes & Welfare
tracked across 1 daySEHAT Mission fuses farms, food and health
ICAR-ICMR converge agriculture, nutrition and public health.
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare · 11 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayMizoram Ginger Mission targets a value-chain leap
Rs 189.79 crore convergence push under Brand North East.
Ministry of DoNER · 13 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayMission Sikkim Organics launched on Statehood Day
Rs 360 crore to turn organic certification into a premium economy.
Ministry of DoNER · 16 May ·
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tracked across 2 daysWhite Revolution 2.0 frames new dairy push
Madhur Dairy plant inaugurated; goal to triple milk output.
Ministry of Cooperation · 16–17 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayNIOS drive to mainstream out-of-school children
Over two crore 14-18-year-olds are out of school.
Ministry of Education · 16 May ·
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rescued · recurring sectorCooperatives reach into fisheries
Fisheries-cooperative workshop pushes PM-MKSSY and PACS expansion.
Ministry of Cooperation · 15 May ·
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🛡️ Security & Defence
tracked across 2 daysAMCA programme gets its integration centre
Foundation stones laid for fifth-gen fighter infrastructure in AP.
Ministry of Defence · 14–15 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayI4C and RBIH join forces on mule accounts
MoU feeds the Suspect Registry into MuleHunter.ai.
Ministry of Home Affairs · 12 May ·
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tracked across 1 dayNCB makes India's first Captagon seizure
Operation RAGEPILL busts a Syria-linked synthetic-drug network.
Ministry of Home Affairs · 16 May ·
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