Appointments & Elections

• New Permanent Rep. to

UN: Ruchira Kamboj
• IBA Athletes Committee
Chair: Lovlina Borgohain
• UNICEF Goodwill
Ambassador for 20th
Year: Sachin Tendulkar
• Lokpal’s Acting Chairman:
Pradip Kumar Mohanty
Important Days & Dates
• World Day Against Child
Labour: 12th June
• Theme: Universal Social
Protection to End Child Labour
• World Day to Combat
Desertification &
Drought: 17th June
• Theme: Rising up from
Drought Together
Important Days & Dates
• World Oceans Day: 8th June
• Theme: Revitalization-
Collective Action for Ocean
• World Food Safety Day: 7th June
• Theme: Safer Food, Better Health
• Int. Yoga Day (8th): 21st June
• Theme: Yoga for Humanity
• World Blood Donor Day: 14th June
International News
• Turkey changes its
Name to: Turkiye
• World Competitiveness
Index by: Int. Institute for
Mgmt. Dvlpmt. (IMD, Lausanne)
• 1st : Denmark / 2nd: Switzerland
• 3rd: Singapore / 37th: India
• PM to attend I2U2 Summit
• I2U2: (India, ISRAEL USA, UAE)
Development Projects
• PM unveils 11 Infra
Projects worth
Rs.31,500 Cr. in: TN
• PM unveils Projects
Worth Rs.22,000 Cr. in: Gujarat
• PM unveils 1406 Projects worth
Rs.80,000 Cr. in: Uttar Pradesh
• Multi Modal Logistic Park under
PM Gati Shakti at: Chennai
 Banking News
• For Cardless EMI Facility
ICICI Bank Partners with:
ZestMoney
• Co-Branded Credit Card
by IOCL &: AXIS Bank
• 1st CryptoIndex in Indian
Rupee: CRE8 (CoinSwitch)
• $250Mn. Fund for Lending
to Startups by: HSBC India
 Banking News
Monetary Policy Review
• Repo Rate: 4.9%
• Standing Deposit
Facility Rate (Floor of Liquidity
Adjustment Facility) window: 4.65%
• MSF & Bank Rate: 5.15%
• Fixed Reverse Repo Rate: 3.35%
• New Limit for Auto-Debit Mandate
through Cards & UPI: Rs. 15000
 Defence News
• 4000 KM Nuclear
Capable (Intermediate
Range Ballistic Missile)
fired from Dr.Kalam Island, Odisha: Agni-4
• Nuclear Capable Missile Short Range
Ballistic Missile tested from Chandipur,
Odisha: Prithvi-2
• 10th India-Bangladesh Ex. SAMPRITI held
at: Jashore Military Station, Bangladesh
 Defence News
• Bharat Dynamics bags
2,971Cr. Deal for Beyond
Visual Range Air-to-Air
Missile: Astra MK-1
• 38th India-Indonesia
CORPAT at: Andaman
Sea & Straits of Malacca
• Guided Missile Frigate
Decommissioned: INS Gomati (34 Yrs.)
 India in Focus
• MoU on Bilateral Coop.
in Climate Action, Env.
Protection with: Canada
• MoU on Bilateral Coop.
Framework on Climate
Action with: UAE
• MoU on Coop. in
Industries & Advanced Tech. with: UAE
• MoU in Health Sector with: USA
 India in Focus
• India & Israel sign Vision
Statement on: Def. Coop.
• ‘Country of Focus’ at 7th Mumbai
Int. Film Festival: Bangladesh
• $55Mn. Line of Credit for Urea Fertiliser
Procurement by to: Sri Lanka
• UNGA adopts Multilingualism
Resolution on: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu
• VP visits: Gabon, Qatar & Senegal
 State News
• India’s 1st Balika
Panchayat set up in:
Kunaria Village
(Kutch, Gujarat)
• No.1 State on 2021 Nat. E-Governance
Service Delivery Assessment: Kerala
• No.1 (UT): J&K
• No.1 (NE & Hill States): Nagaland
• Caste Based Census in: Bihar
 State News
Food Safety Index 21-22
1. TN 2. Guj. 3. Maha.
1. (Smaller States): Goa
1. (Union Territory): J&K
• Cheetah from S. Africa
& Baminia reintroduced
in Kuno Nat. Park in: MP
• PM launches Mukhyamantri
Matrushakti Yojana in: Guj.
 Govt. Schemes
• Nat. Portal for Credit
Linked Govt. Schemes:
Jan Samarth
• Scheme for Residential Education for
Students in Targeted Areas
(SHRESHTA) by: Ministry of Social Justice
& Empowerment
• For Meritorious SC Students of 9th to 12th
with Parental Income upto: 2.5 Lac Yearly
Inaugurations & Launches
• Nat. Tribal Research
Institute in: New Delhi
• Nat. Museum of
Customs & GST in: Dharohar (Goa)
• ‘Gallery of Revolutionaries’
Museum at Raj Bhavan in: Mumbai
• Launch of AKAM Series Coins of:
Rs. 1, 2, 5, 10 & 20