May 12, 2026 -- Daily Current Affairs

Today’s edition leads with the MoSPI provisional April 2026 CPI release pushing retail inflation to a 13-month high of 3.48 per cent – still inside the RBI tolerance band, but with food and silver doing the heavy lifting; the Supreme Court three-judge bench in Gunjan @ Girija Kumari v. State (NCT of Delhi) holding that casteist abuse inside a private house, outside public access or public gaze, does not attract Sections 3(1)® and 3(1)(s) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. We also cover the launch of the SEHAT Mission, a joint ICMR-ICAR convergence platform spanning agriculture, nutrition and public health; SEBI’s draft GARUDA framework compressing AIF scheme launches from 30 days to 10 working days; MoRTH’s overhaul of the BOT highway bidding framework opening tenders to sovereign wealth, pension and private equity funds; the NSO’s IIP print of 4.1 per cent for March 2026 with capital goods at a striking 14.6 per cent; the Centre’s notification slashing royalty on deepwater, ultra-deepwater and onshore oil and gas to revive E&P; and a UPSC-relevant treatment of International Nurses Day 2026 marking Florence Nightingale’s 206th birth anniversary alongside WHO’s second State of the World’s Nursing report.