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Daily Current Affairs: 16 June 2026

Current affairs of 16 June 2026: Global Peace Index 2026: Iceland Tops, India 127th; India-France Nice Visit: 13 Outcomes and UPI Expansion; BRICS Indore Declaration on Agriculture Adopted in June 2026, and 11 more topics. Key facts for every exam, with a quiz.

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In this issue: 14 topics

National Affairs

  1. Jharkhand GI Tags: Bhagaiya Silk, Kuchai Silk, Munda Jewellery
  2. NIUA Golden Jubilee: Resilient Urban India @2047 Event

Banking & Finance

  1. Mogaveera Co-operative Bank: RBI’s Six-Month Curbs
  2. IRDAI Draft Changes to Insurer Registration Rules After 100% FDI

International Affairs

  1. India-France Nice Visit: 13 Outcomes and UPI Expansion
  2. BRICS Indore Declaration on Agriculture Adopted in June 2026
  3. India-Slovakia Comprehensive Partnership: Modi-Fico Talks

Science & Technology

  1. Pluvicto Launch in India: First Radioligand Therapy for Prostate Cancer
  2. ISRO and DAE Develop Lunar Lander Heating System

Environment & Ecology

  1. Greater Hog Badger: Kaziranga’s First Population Assessment

Defence & Security

  1. LRLACM Flight Test: DRDO’s Long-Range Cruise Missile
  2. DRDO Tests Multi-Layered BMD and NASM-MR Missile
  3. First NDA-Trained Women Officers Commissioned in Armed Forces

Reports & Indexes

  1. Global Peace Index 2026: Iceland Tops, India 127th

National Affairs

Banking & Finance

Economy

3. Mogaveera Co-operative Bank: RBI’s Six-Month Curbs

  • RBI placed Mumbai's Mogaveera Co-operative Bank under directions for six months from close of business on 12 June 2026.
  • Without RBI's prior approval the bank cannot grant or renew loans, invest, or accept fresh deposits; a depositor may withdraw no more than ₹1 lakh.
  • The banking licence is not cancelled; salaries, rent and electricity bills can still be paid.
  • Eligible depositors keep DICGC insurance cover of up to ₹5 lakh per bank.
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Economy

4. IRDAI Draft Changes to Insurer Registration Rules After 100% FDI

  • IRDAI proposed major amendments to its insurance registration regulations to ease business and add safeguards after FDI in insurance rose to 100 per cent.
  • Union Budget 2025-26 took the foreign investment ceiling for insurers from 74 per cent up to 100 per cent, subject to conditions.
  • Proposals cover promoter eligibility, foreign investment safeguards, SPVs, share-transfer approvals, amalgamation, fees, names and forms.
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International Affairs

Agriculture & Rural Development

6. BRICS Indore Declaration on Agriculture Adopted in June 2026

  • The BRICS Indore Declaration won unanimous adoption when BRICS agriculture ministers met in Indore (Madhya Pradesh) in June 2026.
  • The farmer-centric charter covers food security, sustainable agriculture, trade, innovation and climate resilience.
  • India will lead four initiatives: a seed-rights forum, agro-ecology centres, a digital agriculture network and BRICS AgriN.
  • BRICS first met as BRIC in 2009; South Africa joined in 2011.
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International Relations

7. India-Slovakia Comprehensive Partnership: Modi-Fico Talks

  • India and Slovakia branded their relationship a Comprehensive Partnership after Narendra Modi met Slovak PM Robert Fico in Bratislava.
  • It was the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister since Slovakia came into being in 1993.
  • MoUs were signed on defence-industrial cooperation, labour mobility, higher education and digital technology.
  • Both leaders urged adoption of the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism at the UN.
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Science & Technology

Science & Technology

8. Pluvicto Launch in India: First Radioligand Therapy for Prostate Cancer

  • Novartis launched Pluvicto (lutetium-177 vipivotide tetraxetan), India's first regulator-approved radioligand therapy for advanced prostate cancer.
  • It treats PSMA-positive metastatic prostate cancer and is imported from facilities in Spain and Italy.
  • India records about 2,50,000 prostate cancer cases a year, over half found at advanced stages.
  • India has over 250 nuclear medicine centres.
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Environment & Ecology

Environment & Ecology

10. Greater Hog Badger: Kaziranga’s First Population Assessment

  • Kaziranga released its first-ever scientific assessment of the Greater Hog Badger (Arctonyx collaris), recording a healthy population.
  • The species is Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List and in Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
  • Assamese name is mati gahori (earth pig); the animal is nocturnal, burrowing and omnivorous.
  • The assessment covered the roughly 1,100 sq km floodplain network of the Kaziranga landscape.
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Defence & Security

Reports & Indexes

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