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1. Important Books and Authors investigate the crash of Air India flight
(June 2025) AI-171 in Ahmedabad.
❖ Modi’s Niti Shastra: The World’s His
Oyster — By Adish C. Agarwal ❖ Arun Srinivas has been appointed as
the new Managing Director and Head
❖ Prajal Kathe Na Atmakatha of Meta in India.
(Autobiography) — By Bandaru
Dattatreya ❖ Anuj Pandey has been appointed as
the new CEO of UGRO Capital Limited.
❖ Wings to Our Hopes – Volume II
(Speeches Compilation) — Released by ❖ Justice Sanjay Gowda was sworn in as
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh a judge of the Gujarat High Court on
June 9, 2025.
❖ The One: Cricket, My Life and More
(Autobiography) — By Shikhar Dhawan ❖ Keerthi Ganorkar has been appointed
as the new Managing Director of Sun
2. Important Appointments Pharmaceutical Industries.
(June 2025)
❖ Sailesh C. Mehta, Managing Director of ❖ Lt. Cdr. Yashasvi Solanki became the
Deepak Fertilizers and Petrochemicals first woman naval officer to be
Corporation Ltd., has been appointed appointed Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to the
as the new Chairman of the Fertiliser President.
Association of India (FAI).
❖ Shailendra Nath Gupta took charge as
❖ Professor Suman Chakraborty was the Director General of Defence
appointed Director of IIT Kharagpur. Estates on May 31, 2025.
➢ He is known for contributions to
microfluidics and rural healthcare ❖ S. Mahendra Dev has been appointed
tech. as the Chairman of the Economic
Advisory Council to the Prime Minister
❖ Rajiv Memani was appointed as (EAC-PM).
President of the Confederation of
Indian Industry (CII) on June 1, 2025. ❖ Prof. M. Satish Kumar has been
appointed as the first Dean of Queen’s
❖ Govind Mohan is heading the high- University Belfast’s (QUB) GIFT City
level multidisciplinary committee to campus.
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❖ Anantha Chandrakasan, originally from ❖ G. Sampath Kumar has become the
Chennai, has been appointed as the first Indian to be appointed as
next provost of MIT. Managing Director of Nippon Koei
India (NKI), marking a major milestone
❖ Cristiano Ronaldo, the legendary in the company’s journey.
footballer and five-time Ballon d'Or
winner, has been appointed as the ❖ India appointed Aliyawati Longkumer
Global Ambassador for the 2025 as the new ambassador to North
Esports World Cup. Korea, after a gap of 4 years.
❖ T. Rabi Shankar has been appointed as 3. Important Awards and Honours
a part-time member of the 16th (June 2025)
Finance Commission. ❖ Dr. Srinivas Mukkamala became the
first person of Indian origin to be
❖ Satpal Bhanu has been given interim elected President of the American
charge as MD & CEO of Life Insurance Medical Association (AMA).
Corporation of India (LIC) for three
months. ❖ Opal Suchata was crowned the 72nd
Miss World 2025 at the grand finale
❖ Sivasubramaniam Raman took over as held in Telangana.
Chairman of the Pension Fund
Regulatory and Development ❖ Desi Oon won the jury prize for Best
Authority (PFRDA). Commissioned Film at the 2025
Annecy International Animation
❖ Amitabh Kant, who managed diverse Festival in France.
assignments during his 45 years in
government service, has resigned as ❖ Sarah Joseph received the 2024
G20 Sherpa. He was appointed as Mathrubhumi Literary Award for her
India’s G20 Sherpa in July 2022. contribution to Malayalam literature.
❖ Anantha Chandrakasan has been ❖ Kumar Mangalam Birla was honoured
appointed the next provost of the with the USISPF Global Leadership
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Award 2025 for his contributions to
(MIT). global business.
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❖ India Post Payments Bank received the ❖ David Beckham is being awarded a
Digital Payments Award 2024–25 from knighthood in the 2025 King Charles III
the Department of Financial Services. Birthday Honours List for his
contributions to football and charity.
❖ Sonu Sood received the Miss World
Humanitarian Award for assisting ❖ Katrina Kaif was appointed Global
migrants and the needy during the Brand Ambassador by the Maldives
COVID-19 crisis. MMPRC for its ‘Sunny Side of Life’
tourism campaign.
❖ Sushil Shukla was awarded the Sahitya
Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2025 for ❖ Dr. Sonal Mansingh received the 2023
his contribution to Hindi children’s Srimanta Sankardeva Award for her
literature. contribution to Indian culture.
❖ The Hindu won ‘The Champion of ❖ Prime Minister Narendra Modi was
Digital Media Awards South Asia 2025’ conferred the Grand Cross of the
for excellence in digital media Order of Makarios III in Cyprus for
innovation. strengthening bilateral relations.
❖ 15 nurses were honoured with the ❖ Ram Bahadur Rai was handed the
National Florence Nightingale Awards Padma Bhushan by Shri Satpal
2025 for their outstanding service. Chauhan at the IGNCA office.
❖ Alexander Penn received the Honorary ❖ Sadhguru, founder of Isha Foundation,
Leopard Award at the 78th Locarno was honoured with the ‘Global Indian
Film Festival for his contribution to of the Year’ award by the Canada India
cinema. Foundation.
❖ Serena Williams won the Princess of ❖ The Ministry of Tribal Affairs will
Asturias Award for Sports 2025 in institute the Bhagwan Birsa Munda
recognition of her tennis legacy. Award to promote research on sickle
cell disease.
❖ Rohini Gram Panchayat won the Gold
Prize in the National e-Governance
Awards 2025 for digital
transformation.
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❖ Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai received ❖ Smriti Mandhana is ranked No. 1 in the
the Uttam Yudh Seva Medal (UYSM) ICC ODI batting rankings (2025).
for his leadership in Operation
Sindoor. ❖ The Under-23 and Under-17 Asian
Wrestling Championships 2025 were
❖ G.R. Indugopan won the Kerala Sahitya held in Vung Tau, Vietnam.
Akademi Award for Best Novel 2024
for his excellence in Malayalam fiction. ❖ Glenn Maxwell retired from ODI
cricket in 2025.
4. Important Sports Affairs(June 2025)
❖ Neeraj Chopra clinched gold at the ❖ India won 9 medals in the Archery Asia
Paris Diamond League 2025, with a Cup 2025 – Singapore Leg 2.
throw of 88.16 m.
❖ Jasprit Bumrah became the first Asian
❖ India won 16 medals at the Taiwan bowler to take 150 Test wickets in
Athletics Open 2025. SENA countries.
❖ Viraj was unveiled as the mascot for ❖ Lando Norris won the Monaco Grand
the 12th World Para Athletics Prix 2025 on May 25.
Championships 2025.
❖ Magnus Carlsen won the 2025 Norway
❖ D. Gukesh defeated Magnus Carlsen in Chess Tournament.
Round 6 of the Norway Chess 2025
tournament. ❖ Carlos Alcaraz defeated Jiri Lehecka to
win the Queen's Club 2025 title.
❖ Nicholas Pooran announced
retirement from international cricket ❖ The Tendulkar-Anderson Trophy was
at age 28. announced as the new name for the
India vs England Test series.
❖ Mondo Duplantis broke his own world
record with a 6.28 m pole vault at the ❖ Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh won the
Stockholm Diamond League 2025. mixed doubles title at the 2nd Asian
Squash Doubles Championship 2025.
❖ South Africa beat Australia to win the
3rd ICC World Test Championship.
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❖ Rohini Gram Panchayat won Gold in ❖ The opening match of the ICC
the National e-Governance Awards Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 will be
2025. played in Bengaluru between India and
Sri Lanka.
❖ Heinrich Klaasen announced
retirement from international cricket ❖ Yajik Hinlung from Arunachal Pradesh
representing South Africa. won gold in the Women’s Model
Physique (up to 155 cm) at the 15th
❖ India won 8 gold medals at the Asian South Asian Bodybuilding
Athletics Championships 2025. Championship 2025.
❖ Gujarat will host the 23rd World Police ❖ Priyanka Goswami clinched gold in the
and Firefighting Games in 2029. 10 km Race Walk at the Austrian
Championships 2025.
❖ Cristiano Ronaldo was named Global
Ambassador for the 2025 Esports ❖ India won 27 medals at the Asia Para
World Cup. Badminton Championships 2025.
❖ Anahat Singh won two PSA Awards — ❖ Neeraj Chopra also secured gold at the
Women’s Challenger Player & Young Ostrava Golden Spike 2025 in the
Player of the Season. Czech Republic.
❖ Neeraj Chopra won gold in javelin ❖ Lalit Upadhyay began his international
throw at the Paris Diamond League hockey career in 2014 World Cup.
2025 with a throw of 88.16 m.
❖ MS Dhoni was inducted into the ICC
❖ The UN officially recognised the Hall of Fame in June 2025.
International Day of Play 2025 in 2024.
❖ Rishabh Pant became the first Indian
❖ Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) won the wicketkeeper-batsman to score a
2024–25 UEFA Champions League. century in both innings of a Test
match, achieving the feat against
❖ India won 4 medals at the Munich ISSF England.
World Cup 2025.
❖ Carlos Alcaraz of Spain won the French
Open 2025 title on June 8.
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➢ Theme - Accreditation: Empowering
❖ India won 27 medals at the Asia Para Small and Medium Enterprises
Badminton Championships 2025. (SMEs).
❖ Oscar Piastri won the 2025 Spanish ❖ World Day Against Child Labour -12
Grand Prix and leads the F1 June
championship standings. ➢ Theme - Progress is clear, but
there's more to do: let's speed up
❖ Portugal defeated Spain to win the efforts!.
2025 UEFA Nations League final.
❖ International Albinism Awareness Day
5. Important Days and Themes - 13 june
(June 2025) ➢ Theme - Demanding our rights:
❖ World Milk Day - 1 June Protect our skin, Preserve our lives.
❖ World Bicycle Day - 3 June ❖ World Blood Donor Day - 14 June
➢ Theme- Give blood, give hope:
❖ World Environment Day-5 June together we save lives.
➢ Theme - Beat Plastic Pollution
❖ World Elder Abuse Awareness Day - 15
❖ UN Russian Language Day - 6 June June
➢ Theme - Addressing Abuse of Older
❖ World Food Safety Day - 7 June Adults in Long-Term Care Facilities:
Through Data and Action.
➢ Theme - Food Safety: Science in
Action
❖ Global Wind Day - 15 June
➢ Theme - Day of Community Action.
❖ World Brain Tumour Day - 8 June
➢ Theme - Brain Health for All Ages.
❖ International Day of Family Remittance
❖ Day World Oceans Day - 8 June - 16 June
➢ Theme - Wonder: Sustaining what ➢ Theme - Remittances financing
development.
sustains us.
❖ World sea turtle Day - 16 June
❖ World Accreditation Day - 9 June
❖ World Crocodile day - 17 June
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Uttar Pradesh to empower adolescent
❖ World day to combat Desertification girls through vocational training.
And Draught - 17 June
➢ Theme - Restore the land. Unlock ❖ Ministry of Women and Child
the opportunities. Development organised the first-ever
National Consultation on Gender
❖ World refugees Day - 20 June Budgeting.
❖ World Music Day - 21 June ❖ Prime Minister Narendra Modi
➢ Theme - Healing Through Harmony inaugurated projects worth ₹13,500
crore and flagged off four new trains,
❖ International Day of the Seafarer - 25 including the Amrit Bharat Express
June (Saharsa–Mumbai), Namo Bharat
➢ Theme - My Harassment-Free Ship. Rapid Rail (Jaynagar–Patna), and new
trains between Pipra–Saharsa and
❖ International Day against Drug abuse Saharsa–Samastipur.
and illicit Trafficking - 26 June
➢ Theme - Breaking the Chains: ❖ The Telecom Regulatory Authority of
Prevention, Treatment and India (TRAI) has launched a pilot
Recovery for all. project for Digital Consent
Management to combat spam.
6. Important Schemes and Projects
(June 2025) ❖ Punjab government launched the
❖ Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa ‘Punjab Udyog Kranti’ initiative to
Sarma launched the Mukhya Mantrir promote industrial growth.
Jiban Anuprerana Yojana to support
research scholars. ❖ The Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan
concluded with a farmers’ conference
❖ Maharashtra launched Majhi in Bardoli, Gujarat, attended by Union
Vasundhara Abhiyan 6.0 (April 2025– Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh
March 2026) to promote sustainable Chouhan and CM Bhupendra Patel.
practices based on the
Panchmahabhuta principles. ❖ On World Environment Day 2025, the
Ministry of Social Justice and
❖ The Government of India launched the Empowerment launched the “Waste
NAVYA pilot initiative in Sonbhadra,
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Picker Enumeration App” under the ❖ The Ministry of Tribal Affairs launched
NAMASTE Scheme. the largest tribal empowerment
campaign, ‘Dharti Aba Jan Bhagidari
❖ The Ministry of Coal launched the C Abhiyan’, across 549 tribal districts and
CARES Version 2.0 portal to enhance 207 PVTG areas.
the welfare of coal workers by
streamlining provident fund (PF) and 7. India's Rank in Various Reports and
pension disbursements. Indexes (June 2025)
❖ India ranked 99th in the Sustainable
❖ Himachal Pradesh Chief minister Development Goals (SDGs) Index 2025,
Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu launched the reflecting mixed performance across
‘Rajiv Gandhi Van Samvardhan Yojana' global goals.
and the ‘Green Adoption Scheme'
from Hamirpur. ❖ India ranked 10th in the Climate
Change Performance Index (CCPI)
❖ The Government of India launched the 2025, reflecting strong climate action.
‘Ayush Nivesh Saarthi’ portal during
the Ayush Stakeholder and Industry ❖ India secured the 10th position in the
Meet at Vanijya Bhawan, New Delhi. Global Technology Index 2025,
showing strength in the tech sector.
❖ Union Minister of Coal and Mines Shri
G Kishan Reddy launched the C CARES ❖ The 25th edition of the NeSDA—Way
Version 2.0, a web portal of CMPFO, Forward Monthly Report was released
developed and designed by the Centre for May 2025.
for Development of Advanced
Computing (C-DAC). ❖ IIT Delhi was ranked the top Indian
institute in the QS World University
❖ Delhi University has introduced the Rankings 2026.
JAIHIND scheme (Janajati Immersive
Holistic Intervention for Novel ❖ India ranked 71st in the 2025 Energy
Development), aimed at empowering Transition Index, indicating moderate
Scheduled Tribe (ST) students from progress in clean energy transition.
remote and marginalized areas across
India. ❖ Uttar Pradesh emerged as the top
state in digital public procurement via
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the Government e-Marketplace 8. Important Summits (June 2025)
(GeM). ❖ The National Conference of Estimates
Committees of Parliament and
❖ Africa leads globally in both total State/UT Legislative Bodies was also
number and percentage of children held in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
engaged in child labour.
❖ The 4th edition of the India–Central
❖ In the WEF Global Gender Gap Index Asia Dialogue took place on June 6,
2025, India was ranked 131st out of 2025.
148 countries, highlighting gender
parity challenges. ❖ The 1st meeting of the Task Force on
Textile Export was held on June 10,
❖ The 22nd edition of the Secretariat 2025.
Reforms report was released by the
Department of Administrative Reforms ❖ The 3rd UN Ocean Conference 2025
for May 2025. was hosted by France and Costa Rica.
❖ A 2025 Holmati Nature Foundation ❖ Visakhapatnam was selected as the
survey found Bengaluru overtook national host city for the 11th
Mumbai with 80–85 leopards, International Yoga Day 2025.
becoming India's top metro in leopard
population. ❖ The 2025 G7 Summit was held in
Kananaskis, Canada.
❖ China and South Korea will co-host the
4th United Nations Ocean Conference
in 2028.
❖ Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla
inaugurated the National Conference
of Estimates Committees in Mumbai.
❖ The 21st Steering Committee Meeting
of Project Elephant was held in
Dehradun on June 26, 2025.
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❖ India declined to sign the joint
declaration at the SCO Defence 9. Miscellaneous Current Affairs
Ministers’ Meeting, which was held in (June 2025)
China in June 2025. ❖ The Indian Coast Guard has
inaugurated a dedicated jetty at
❖ Union Home Minister Amit Shah Vizhinjam Port to strengthen coastal
chaired a review meeting of the security operations.
world’s largest cooperative food grain
storage scheme in New Delhi. ❖ The National e-Vidhan Application
(NeVA) was inaugurated for the
❖ A bilateral meeting was held between Puducherry Legislative Assembly by
Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal the Union Minister of State for
and Japan’s Deputy Minister Terada Information and Broadcasting &
Yoshimichi in Oslo, Norway. Parliamentary Affairs.
❖ Annalena Barbock was elected ❖ Researchers from the Indian Institute
President of the 80th Session of the of Science (IISc) have developed a
United Nations General Assembly. novel metal-based nanozyme designed
to prevent abnormal blood clotting.
❖ India hosted the IATA Annual General
Meeting (AGM) after 42 years. ❖ As part of Bihar’s ‘Jal-Jeevan-Hariyali’
campaign, the Bikram Lock Canal Bank
❖ A two-day consultation meeting on solar power project was inaugurated in
Ease of Doing Research and Patna district to promote renewable
Development (R&D) was held in energy and curb environmental
Dehradun. damage from conventional sources.
❖ The United Nations General Assembly
has declared 2026 as the International
Year of Women Farmers.
❖ SAIL organized the “Defence Customer
Conclave-2025” in Durgapur,
showcasing its role in defence-grade
steel manufacturing.
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❖ An 800-year-old Shiva temple from the across eastern and northeastern
later Pandya period was discovered in states.
Udampatti.
❖ The Kerala High Court has directed the
❖ A 20-MW Battery Energy Storage implementation of a ban on single-use
System (BESS) was inaugurated in plastic starting from 2nd October
Kilokari, South Delhi, making it the 2025.
largest utility-scale energy storage ➢ The directive aligns with
system in South Asia. environmental protection goals.
❖ Justice Kaushik Chanda of the Calcutta ❖ The MGNREGA expenditure limit for FY
High Court permitted a 15-year-old girl 2025–26 was set at 60% of the total
to adopt her stepfather’s surname. budget in the first half of the year.
❖ The CBI issued a Silver Notice via ❖ The Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Interpol to trace Shubham Shokeen's (IIA) discovered a new type of stellar
global assets in a visa fraud case. chemistry in the A980 star.
❖ The National Institute of High Security ❖ The ‘ECoR Yatra’ app was launched to
Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal was provide real-time rail service
granted a Category A rinderpest information to pilgrims.
holding facility by the World
Organisation for Animal Health. ❖ The Department of Posts under the
Ministry of Communications has
❖ Union Minister of State for unveiled the policy document for
Environment, Forest and Climate DHRUVA (Digital Hub for Reference
Change, Kirti Vardhan Singh, attended and Unique Virtual Address), a
the High-Level International landmark initiative aimed at building a
Conference on Glaciers’ Preservation national-level Digital Address Digital
at Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Public Infrastructure (DPI).
❖ Union Home Minister Amit Shah ❖ Prime Minister Narendra Modi
inaugurated a new Central Forensic inaugurated the world’s highest
Science Laboratory (CFSL) building in railway arch bridge built on the
Kolkata, emphasizing its role in Chenab River in Jammu and Kashmir.
enhancing criminal investigations
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