India recorded a peak power demand of 256.1 GW on April 25, 2026, with solar plants supplying 21.5 percent of the afternoon load — a historic high. Yet the same day told a more sobering story: solar contributed only 10.8 percent of daily generation across the full 24-hour period and a negligible 0.1 percent of…
The Union Cabinet on May 5, 2026, approved an amendment to the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, to make any insult or obstruction to the singing of the National Song, Vande Mataram, a punishable offence. The amendment, which will require parliamentary passage, extends the Act’s existing prohibition — covering insults to the…
Researchers from Google Quantum AI published a paper in Physical Review X on May 4, 2026, identifying a previously underappreciated threat to quantum computing systems — correlated phase error bursts caused by ionising radiation from outer space and trace radioactive elements in the earth’s crust. When even a small dose of such radiation strikes the…
The ceasefire between the United States and Iran, reached approximately one month before the reporting date of May 6, 2026, following the February 28 U.S.-Israel strikes against Iran, continues to hold nominally but with mounting fragility. On May 5, the U.S. military confirmed sinking six small Iranian boats that threatened commercial shipping in the Strait…
The ongoing conflict in West Asia, centred on tensions involving Iran, the United States, and Israel, has disrupted the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway through which approximately 25 percent of the world’s traded crude oil flows. India, which imports over 85 percent of its crude oil requirements and sources nearly 45 percent of…
The Union Cabinet on May 5, 2026, approved an increase in the sanctioned strength of the Supreme Court of India from 34 judges (including the Chief Justice of India) to 38, marking the first such expansion in six years. The move comes against the backdrop of a staggering backlog of 92,385 cases pending before the…