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Daily Current Affairs: 5 June 2026

Current affairs of 5 June 2026: Navachar Mantra: Eligibility, Sectors and Incubation Details; Dalai Lama Receives Grammy for Audiobook Meditations; World Yogasana Sports Championship 2026: Ahmedabad Event Facts, and 13 more topics. Key facts for every exam, with a quiz.

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In this issue: 16 topics

National Affairs

  1. World Yogasana Sports Championship 2026: Ahmedabad Event Facts

Government Schemes

  1. Navachar Mantra: Eligibility, Sectors and Incubation Details
  2. Delhi-NCR Vehicle Replacement Scheme: Rs. 9,585 Crore
  3. Navachar Mantra Launch by Jayant Chaudhary: Key Points
  4. FCI Foodgrain Bag QR Tagging Extended to Three More States

Banking & Finance

  1. RBI Rupee-Support Package: PSU Loans, FCNR(B) and FAR Eased
  2. ADB and Standard Chartered Supply Chain Finance Agreements
  3. UPI in Cambodia: NPCI and ACLEDA Bank Partnership

International Affairs

  1. UNGA Picks Five Non-Permanent UNSC Members for 2027-28
  2. Telangana and Thuringia Sign Cooperation Agreement

Science & Technology

  1. T-Hub ORBIT Space-Tech Accelerator: Third Cohort Begins
  2. India’s First Flex-Fuel Passenger Vehicle: Wagon R Flex-Fuel

Reports & Indexes

  1. India Fifth in SIDE 2026 Digital Economy Ranking, Fourth in CHIPS AI
  2. OECD Economic Outlook: India FY27 Growth Forecast at 6.3%

Awards & Persons

  1. Dalai Lama Receives Grammy for Audiobook Meditations
  2. Food Planet Prize 2026: Andhra Pradesh’s APCNF Wins for Natural Farming

National Affairs

Government Schemes

Economy

2. Navachar Mantra: Eligibility, Sectors and Incubation Details

  • Navachar Mantra is an MSDE flagship scheme, run by NIESBUD, to find and scale grassroots innovations coming from rural India and Tier-2 or Tier-3 towns.
  • Open to people aged 18-55, with focus on aspirational districts, underserved areas and smaller towns; applications close 5 July 2026.
  • Ideas at validation or early prototype stage qualify; no registered company or finished product is required.
  • Selected innovators get a one-year structured incubation across six priority sectors.
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Government Schemes

3. Delhi-NCR Vehicle Replacement Scheme: Rs. 9,585 Crore

  • The Union Cabinet approved a two-year, Rs. 9,585 crore vehicle replacement scheme for Delhi-NCR.
  • It targets replacement of 2.07 lakh BS-IV and older trucks and buses with BS-VI-compliant or electric vehicles.
  • Covered areas: Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
  • Incentives include interest subvention, fuel vouchers, tax concessions, registration fee waivers and manufacturer discounts.
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Banking & Finance

Economy

6. RBI Rupee-Support Package: PSU Loans, FCNR(B) and FAR Eased

  • RBI announced a package to attract foreign capital and steady the rupee, announced by Governor Sanjay Malhotra.
  • PSU dollar borrowers and banks raising 3- to 5-year FCNR(B) deposits get hedging cost support until September 2026.
  • FAR now covers new 15-, 30- and 40-year G-secs; NRIs, OCIs and PROIs get higher equity limits without SEBI registration.
  • Export proceeds must now be realised within 9 months, down from the 15 months allowed in November 2025.
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Economy

7. ADB and Standard Chartered Supply Chain Finance Agreements

  • ADB and Standard Chartered signed risk-sharing agreements in Mumbai in June 2026 to strengthen supply chain finance in India.
  • The USD part is a Risk Participation Arrangement routed through GIFT City, Gujarat.
  • The onshore INR part is a Partial Guarantee Facility.
  • ADB was established in 1966, is headquartered in Manila and has 68 members, 49 of them from Asia-Pacific.
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Banking & Finance

8. UPI in Cambodia: NPCI and ACLEDA Bank Partnership

  • NPCI partnered with ACLEDA Bank to launch UPI acceptance in Cambodia, the latest country to accept UPI.
  • UPI is live in more than nine countries, such as the UAE, Singapore, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, France, Mauritius and Qatar.
  • Cambodia's capital is Phnom Penh; its currency is the Cambodian Riel, with the US dollar also widely used.
  • NPCI operates UPI, India's real-time system for instant bank-to-bank transfers through a mobile app.
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International Affairs

Science & Technology

Reports & Indexes

Awards & Persons

Agriculture & Rural Development

16. Food Planet Prize 2026: Andhra Pradesh’s APCNF Wins for Natural Farming

  • APCNF, the community-run natural farming programme of Andhra Pradesh, took the 2026 Food Planet Prize, awarded at Båstad in Sweden.
  • The prize, set up by Sweden's Curt Bergfors Foundation, is described as the world's largest environmental award on food systems.
  • APCNF began in 2016, is run by Rythu Sadhikara Samstha and covers 1.8 million farming families.
  • The grand prize is USD 1.5 million; specialised international finalists receive USD 150,000 each.
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