May 2026 Monthly Current Affairs | Top 150 MCQs | Parcham Classes May One Shot Monthly CA

Summary

The video is a quiz-based revision session for May 2026 current affairs. The instructor asks multiple-choice questions, invites viewers to answer in the live chat, and then gives short explanations connecting recent news with static general knowledge. The portion provided covers the introduction, important days, books, appointments, obituaries, defence, science and technology, environment, and the beginning of state news.

Study approach and mnemonics

The instructor’s main study advice is to link current affairs with background knowledge instead of memorizing isolated facts.

• Connect current news to static GK. For example, news about Sikkim is used to review its statehood, constitutional history, geography, neighbouring regions, and the Teesta River.
• Use simple, visual memory hooks. The instructor demonstrates associating a date with a short image or story—for instance, linking 16 May with a visit to Sikkim, dengue, and light.
• Keep mnemonics uncomplicated. Choose the association that feels easiest to recall; students can adapt or create their own.
• Group information into tables and date-based sequences. This is used especially for important days and appointments.
• Revise consistently. The instructor recommends daily, weekly, and monthly current-affairs study where possible, and suggests limiting the number of sources rather than repeatedly switching between many.
• Use the session as revision, not necessarily as a complete substitute for daily study, particularly for higher-level exams.

Important days

A substantial part of the session reviews May observances, their dates, themes, and related static facts. Examples discussed include:

• 1 May: Vesak Day/Buddha Purnima, International Labour Day, and Maharashtra and Gujarat Statehood Days.
• 3 May: World Press Freedom Day and International Leopard Day.
• 4–12 May: Coal Miners’ Day, Asthma Day, World Athletics Day, Red Cross and Thalassemia observances, Mother’s Day, National Technology Day, and International Nurses Day.
• Mid-to-late May: International Day of Families, National Dengue Day, Sikkim Statehood Day, International Day of Light, World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, Museum Day, World Bee Day, and International Tea Day.
• 24–31 May: Observances including Africa Day, Menstrual Hygiene Day, World Hunger Day, International Day of UN Peacekeepers, Goa Statehood Day, and World No Tobacco Day.

The explanations add themes and background details—for example, the role of bees in pollination, the origins of National Technology Day, and the significance of Sikkim’s statehood.

Books and authors

The book segment quizzes viewers on authors, titles, and—in some cases—the people who released the books. Titles discussed include:

• The Bench, the Bar and the Bizarre and The Lawful and the Awful, attributed in the lecture to Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.
• Apnapan, by Shivraj Singh Chouhan, about his relationship and experiences with Narendra Modi.
• All-Time Favourite Friendship Stories, launched by Ruskin Bond.
• The Library Man of India: The Story of P. N. Panicker.
• India’s First Olympic Gold, about India’s first Olympic gold in hockey.

The instructor stresses remembering both the author and the releasing dignitary, since either may be asked in an exam.

Appointments

The session reviews appointments in India and abroad, with short role explanations and occasional name-based memory cues. Examples include:

• Lieutenant General N. S. Raja Subramanya as Chief of Defence Staff, alongside an explanation of the CDS’s coordinating role among the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
• Prasoon Joshi as Prasar Bharati chairman.
• Justice Anupinder Singh Grewal as president of the National Company Law Tribunal.
• Squadron Leader Sanya as the first woman officer in the Indian Air Force to receive the Cat A Qualified Flying Instructor qualification, as described in the lecture.
• P. Kumaran as India’s High Commissioner-designate to the United Kingdom.
• Raghav Chadha as chair of the Rajya Sabha Committee on Petitions.

The instructor also reviews other appointments through a rapid revision table, including military, government, business, and international positions.

Obituaries

The obituary round names people from science, sport, literature, politics, medicine, media, music, and film. Examples include:

• J. Craig Venter, associated with mapping an early draft of the human genome.
• Raja Randhir Singh, known for shooting and his role in Indian Olympic administration.
• Urdu poet Bashir Badr.
• Former Uttarakhand chief minister B. C. Khanduri.
• CNN founder Ted Turner.
• Japanese retail entrepreneur Tadashi Suzuki, as rendered in the subtitles.
• Saxophonist Sonny Rollins and actor Ramakant Dayama.

Defence

The defence section combines quiz questions, explanations of equipment and exercises, and short revision headlines. Topics include:

• Exercise Pragati 2026, described as a multilateral exercise hosted in Meghalaya, with attention to its purpose, participating countries, and focus on operations in forested and semi-mountainous terrain.
• The Sanchu Border Outpost and a proposed integrated, four-dimensional border-security approach.
• TARA, described as an indigenous glide-weapon system tested by DRDO and the Indian Air Force.
• Suryastra, described as an indigenous multi-calibre rocket-launcher system developed with Israeli collaboration.
• Abhay, a CBI AI-based tool for checking the authenticity of CBI notices and helping counter digital-arrest fraud.
• The Vikram VT-21 armoured platform project and the vehicles it is intended to replace.
• Naval vessels and classes, including Sindhu Kesari, Achal, Dunagiri, Agra, and Sanghamitra.
• Kautilya and Q-Force, described as Indian Army AI platforms for command intelligence and logistics.
• Vayu Astra-1, described as a loitering munition, and Kaal Bhairav, described as an AI-enabled combat aircraft project.
• Additional headlines on missiles, naval handovers, military operations, and defence trials.

Science and technology

This section covers space, astronomy, computing, medicine, and technology. Examples include:

• Loki, a newly identified dwarf galaxy candidate within the Milky Way.
• Galaxy Eye, described as an Indian startup’s optical-and-radar Earth-observation satellite.
• The John Wolf effect, explained through changes in plasma around Mars during solar activity.
• Pathfinder, an orbital data-centre satellite concept intended to process data in space rather than simply sending raw observations to Earth.
• Project Garuda, a proposed mass-production platform for medium-sized satellites.
• The Smile mission, a joint European Space Agency–Chinese Academy of Sciences mission to study interactions between the solar wind and Earth’s magnetosphere.
• Findings about possible lunar subsurface ice from the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter.
• Skyroot Aerospace becoming India’s first space-tech unicorn, as presented in the lecture.
• South Korea’s humanoid monk robot Gabby.
• Clear technology, a protein-imaging method attributed to the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research.
• Medical and digital topics including the drug pregabalin, the antiviral ensitrelvir, Google’s “information agents,” and a new Indian thermal-imaging payload for drones.

Environment and wildlife

The environment section reviews species, conservation statuses, habitats, protected areas, and environmental projects. Topics include:

• Satellite-tagging and releasing a Ganges softshell turtle in the Brahmaputra region.
• The International Big Cat Alliance and a planned summit in India.
• A lion-conservation programme in Gir.
• New lotus varieties, Mayuri and Paneer Rose.
• Baksa honey from Assam and its export.
• Amur falcons, their migration route, and satellite tagging in Manipur.
• A newly identified black night frog in Karnataka’s Western Ghats.
• The Loktak protocluster of young galaxies, named after Manipur’s Loktak Lake.
• Environmental concerns around the Kalai-II hydroelectric project, including the habitat of the critically endangered white-bellied heron.
• Haryana’s first constellation garden, at Saraswati Wildlife Sanctuary.
• A newly identified tree species, Humboldtia nayariana, in Kerala.
• Further headlines on wildlife discoveries, wetlands, diseases affecting livestock, volcanic activity, and conservation surveys.

State news and other exam-relevant facts

The state-news segment begins with questions and explanations on:

• Sikkim becoming fully literate under the Ullas initiative.
• Mission Queen Pineapple in Tripura.
• West Bengal’s proposed Annapurna Bhandar scheme and its payment amount and eligibility, as described in the lecture.
• Kumbhalgarh Fort, its history, UNESCO status, and long surviving wall.
• The Mahe Topo Raldo irrigation canal in Ladakh.
• India’s first portable bedside MRI system for ICU patients.
• India’s first hydrogen-powered train route, presented as Jind–Sonipat in Haryana.
• The Brahmaputra Board, its jurisdiction, statutory basis, and the addition of Sikkim and parts of West Bengal.
• Coal-mine production in Madhya Pradesh, the Gulmarg Gondola, the Anal Naga community’s forest-management systems, and other state-specific developments.

The video then begins a question on Tamil Nadu’s new chief minister before the supplied subtitles end.

Course and study materials

At the beginning and end, the instructor describes Parcham’s PDFs, magazines, question sets, and app-based courses. The materials are presented as optional study support, including a printable monthly PDF, MCQs with explanations, and condensed revision notes. The instructor distinguishes this monthly session from daily or weekly current-affairs study and recommends using suitable materials according to the exam and available preparation time.

Speakers and sources mentioned

• Speaker: One instructor, referred to throughout as “ma’am”; the channel context identifies her as Richa Ma’am of Parcham Classes. No guest speakers or interviewees appear in the supplied subtitles.
• Sources and institutions mentioned in the lecture: Parcham Classes and Parcham PSC; Indian government ministries and agencies including DRDO, the Indian Armed Forces, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Jal Shakti, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Ministry of Coal, CBI, NCB, APEDA, and ICMR; international bodies including the UN and UN General Assembly, ITU, FAO, IUCN, and the International Big Cat Alliance; and research or space organisations including ISRO, NASA, ESA, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and JNCASR.

Some names and details in the subtitles appear to be affected by automatic transcription errors.