May 13, 2026 -- Daily Current Affairs

Today’s edition leads with the DRDO Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), Hyderabad sustaining an Actively Cooled Full-Scale Scramjet Combustor for over 1,200 seconds – among the longest publicly reported scramjet ground tests anywhere, and a structural advance in India’s Hypersonic Cruise Missile Development Programme; and the full operationalisation of the four Labour Codes with the Centre notifying the residual Central Rules on May 9-11, 2026, completing the largest consolidation of Indian labour law since Independence (29 statutes folded into four). We also cover the launch of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana Phase IV (PMGSY-IV) at Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, on the silver jubilee of the scheme; the PLFS Quarterly Bulletin (January-March 2026) showing urban unemployment easing to 6.6 per cent (CWS, 15+); the swearing-in of C. Joseph Vijay as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and the constitutional architecture of Article 164(4) and the floor test scheduled for May 13; the camera-trap confirmation of a Royal Bengal Tiger in D’Ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, after roughly 20 years; the expansion of the Jute Crop Information System (JCIS) – an ISRO + National Jute Board satellite-monitoring platform anchored on BHUVAN JUMP and PATSAN; and the partial restoration of ADNOC’s Habshan gas-processing complex in the UAE and its bearing on India’s West Asia energy security and Strait of Hormuz bypass capacity.