NEWS & VIEWS|||SARASIJ|||2nd MAY2026
NEWS & VIEWS|||SARASIJ|||2nd MAY2026
SUNDAY| VOL—V/2026/MAY
OPINIONATED, FOR FREE CIRCULATION.
*कष्टः खलु पराश्रयः।*
Dependence is indeed
painful.
INDIA: (GOI, SWARAJYA, VISHWAMITRA, HINDU POST, INDIA TODAY).
The Election Commission on Friday ordered repolling in 15
polling stations in Diamond Harbour and Magrahat Paschim Assembly seats in
South 24 Parganas district on Saturday. Polling will take place from 7 am to 6
pm at 11 booths in Magrahat Paschim and four booths in Diamond Harbour. The repolling came after the BJP alleged that
EVM buttons were found tampered with using tape in Falta, which is part of the
Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha constituency.
The 13.3-km "Missing Link" on the Mumbai-Pune
Expressway officially opened on May 1, 2026, cutting travel time by 20–30
minutes. The ₹6,695 crore project bypasses the congested Khandala Ghat section,
reducing the overall distance by 6 km.
The Indian government, led by the National Disaster
Management Authority (NDMA) and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), is
launching a nationwide mobile-based disaster alert system on May 2, 2026, for
real-time emergency warnings.
The government has notified the Citizenship (Amendment)
Rules, 2026, introducing revised provisions related to Overseas Citizen of
India (OCI) cardholders and citizenship applications.
Field operations for House listing and Housing Census (HLO),
under Phase 1 of Census 2027, have commenced
in Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Madhya
Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. This follows the completion of the notified 15-day
Self-Enumeration period in these States and Union Territories.
India has taken a major step towards modernising its highway
infrastructure with the launch of its first barrier-free tolling system on the
Delhi–Mumbai National Highway (NH-48). The system has been introduced at the
Chorayasi Toll Plaza on the Surat–Bharuch stretch in Gujarat, marking a shift
towards seamless and technology-driven toll collection. TOO LITTLE,TOO LATE, Mr. MINISTER.
Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang Golay has expressed
happiness as Sikkim has been declared the country’s first paperless judiciary
state.
Indian scientist Parveen Shaikh has won the 2026 Whitley
Award for her work in protecting the endangered Indian Skimmer. Her
community-led conservation model in the Ganga Basin is gaining global
recognition and will now expand to Prayagraj.
The Government of India have officially announced that the
2026 Kailash Mansarovar Yatra will take place from the June to August. It will
mark the another important step to restoring cross-border pilgrimage sites.
IRAN
WAR:
Trump said he is “not satisfied” with Iran’s latest proposal
and that the US is “not going to leave” the war “early”.
Iran’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi said Tehran remains open
to diplomacy if Washington stops its “expansionist approach” and “threatening
rhetoric”.
Israeli military says its air force “intercepted two
additional suspicious aerial targets” before they crossed into Israeli
territory after sirens sounded in northern Israel, warning of the “infiltration
of a hostile aircraft”.
Israeli forces also “launched interceptors” following alerts
of “rocket fire in the Kiryat Shmona area”, the military said.
Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri says the ceasefire
is only allowing Israel to “escalate its aggression”. BUT HEZBOLLAH
IS ACTIVE! Hezbollah launched nine attacks yesterday.
The White House told Congress that hostilities with Iran
have been “terminated” as a 60-day deadline for Trump to seek authorisation for
the war from Congress passed on Friday.
Iran’s IRGC says it will make Hormuz waters a “source of
security, prosperity” and exert “control over nearly 2,000km [1,243 miles] of
Iran’s coastline” in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.
Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges
Mohammadi has been transferred from prison to a hospital due to her
deteriorating health.
Fourteen IRGC members were killed when unexploded ordnance
detonated in the northwestern Zanjan province, Iran’s Fars News Agency
reported.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told his Iranian
counterpart that Russia is ready to provide any assistance to end the war
against Iran and establish peace in the region, Fars News Agency reported.
In an unconfirmed NEWS, it is learnt that Iran activated its
‘AIR DEFENCE SYSTEM’.
US blockade cost Iran $4.8bn in lost oil revenue: Axios
report.
WORLD:
(REUTER, AP, AFP, BLOOMBERG, CNN, WP)
The United States will remove tariffs on whiskey from the UK
in honours of King Charles and Queen Camilla, Trump wrote on social media
yesterday, following their visit to Washington.
Iran’s top diplomat has congratulated Ali al-Zaidi, who has
been named as the prime ministerial candidate by the governing Shia bloc.
Trump has also welcomed the nomination of al-Zaidi.
The US State Department said on Friday it was approving
military sales worth more than $8.6bn to Middle Eastern allies Israel, Qatar,
Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
A serious fertiliser crisis is certainly on the horizon, as
food prices have already begun to increase and could reach the levels seen
after the Russia-Ukraine war began, says commodities consultant Kona Haque.
Ukrainian forces struck an oil terminal in the Russian Black
Sea city of Tuapse, marking the fourth attack targeting the region’s oil
infrastructure in just over two weeks.
Turkey’s Défense Ministry criticized a plan to deploy French
troops to Cyprus yesterday, saying that it risks “upsetting the existing
delicate balance and heightening tensions on the island.”
Voters in the Caribbean island country elected Prime
Minister Gaston Browne for a fourth term yesterday.
The European Parliament has condemned China’s new ‘Ethnic
Unity Law’, warning that the law showcases a systematic attempt to erase the
cultural, religious and linguistic heritage of the Tibetan people.
MISHAPS:
In Madhya Pradesh, the death toll in the cruise boat capsize
incident in Jabalpur has risen to 9. The accident occurred last evening when a
cruise boat carrying 39 passengers sank in Bargi River near Khamaria Island
after being caught in a sudden violent storm and rough waves.
CLIMATE:
India is likely to witness an unusually wet start to the
pre-monsoon season, with the India Meteorological Department forecasting
above-normal rainfall across the country in May 2026.
GAMES
& SPORTS: -
A seven-year-old boy from Jharkhand has become the youngest
swimmer to cross the Palk Strait, completing the 29-km stretch between Sri
Lanka and India in a record time for his age category.
In Badminton, India won the first two opening matches in the
quarter-final of the Thomas Cup against Chinese Taipei at Horsens in Denmark.
DAS
KAPITAL:
The Japanese government intervened in the foreign exchange
market for the first time in nearly two years yesterday in order to prop up the
falling value of the yen, multiple news outlets reported.
Indian Share Market: -
*BSE SENSEX* 76,913.50 −582.86 (0.75%)🔻
*NIFTY* 23,997.55 −180.10 (0.74%)🔻
BULLIONS:
*GOLD* : ₹ 15,400/
01gm (24 krt)
*SILVER* : ₹
2,55,000/KG
Currency Exchange Rates:
*Euro* : ₹107/-*USD*
₹ 92/- *China¥* : ₹ 13/-
WHAT
IS NEXT:
Today, the EU-Mercosur trade deal takes provisional effect.
Today, the UK’s King Charles and Queen Camilla begin a visit
to Bermuda.
Tomorrow, Niue holds a general election.
Sunday, OPEC+ holds its first meeting without the United
Arab Emirates as a member.
THE END.
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