One Liner Current Affairs: June 2025

National Affairs

1. Bihar became the first state with mobile-phone voting, in six Nagar Panchayats. Notes ›
2. NSO (MoSPI) launched the GoIStats mobile app on Statistics Day 2025 under eSankhyiki. Notes ›
3. An Early Harappan burial (3300-2600 BCE) was found at Lakhapar, Kutch, Gujarat, in an excavation led by University of Kerala's archaeology department. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

4. SBI planned a next-generation 'Only Yono' mobile app as part of a major FY26 digital overhaul. Notes ›
5. SEBI imposed a ₹25 lakh penalty on BSE Limited after an inspection covering February 2021 to September 2022. Notes ›
6. Goa fintech Instifi received final RBI authorization to operate as a payment aggregator. Notes ›

Economy

7. RBI cut the repo rate by 100 bps between February and June 2025, yet banks kept FY26 credit growth guidance at 11-13%. Notes ›

International Affairs

8. The World Bank moved Pakistan and Afghanistan from South Asia to the Middle East and North Africa region. Notes ›
9. India rejected a supplemental award issued by a Court of Arbitration under the Indus Waters Treaty 1960. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

10. The Union Home Minister inaugurated National Turmeric Board headquarters at Nizamabad, meeting a 40-year demand of farmers. Notes ›
11. The environment ministry issued model rules to ease felling of trees on farmland. Notes ›

Science & Technology

12. Green chemistry designs products and processes that reduce or avoid hazardous substances. Notes ›

Environment & Ecology

13. Kerala Forest Department plans mass sterilisation of bonnet macaques to tackle human-wildlife conflict. Notes ›
14. CREA found secondary pollutants, mainly ammonium sulphate, cause nearly one-third of India's PM2.5. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

15. The 19th Statistics Day was observed on 29 June 2025 with the theme 75 Years of National Sample Survey. Notes ›

Government Schemes

1. The Sugamya Bharat App was revamped by DEPwD under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. Notes ›
2. Jual Oram launched Adi Karmyogi (Beta), a training drive for tribal-area governance, at a Tribal Affairs Ministry conference. Notes ›
3. PMJJBY, launched on 9 May 2015 by the Ministry of Finance, is a government-backed term life insurance scheme. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

4. DBS Bank India Ltd. (DBIL) announced a complete waiver of prepayment and foreclosure charges for UDYAM-registered MSME borrowers. Notes ›
5. On 27 June 2025 SEBI announced search and seizure operations over pump and dump schemes. Notes ›
6. RBI issued final due diligence and onboarding guidelines for AePS Touchpoint Operators on June 28, 2025. Notes ›
7. SEBI revised minimum disclosures for audit committee and shareholder approval of RPTs. Notes ›
8. Business Correspondents approached the Finance Ministry over pay that has not risen. Notes ›
9. On June 28, FM Nirmala Sitharaman asked PSB heads to use RBI's 50 bps rate cut to push credit growth. Notes ›

Economy

10. The Centre planned stakeholder consultation on Uniform Renewable Energy Tariffs. Notes ›
11. Only four buybacks worth ₹186 crore were recorded by 26 June 2025, against 38 worth over ₹8,000 crore the previous year. Notes ›

International Affairs

12. Indian negotiators are in the US to finalise a mini trade deal before the 8 July deadline. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

13. NSO (MoSPI) released the report on 28 June 2025, with estimates at current and constant 2011-12 prices. Notes ›

Science & Technology

14. US satcom firm Starlink is set to clear its final regulatory requirement for offering services in India. Notes ›

Environment & Ecology

15. India's first butterfly sanctuary now lies in the Western Ghats of Kerala. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

16. India ranked 99th of 167 countries in SDSN's Sustainable Development Report, its first top-100 place. Notes ›

National Affairs

1. Keeladi, in Sivaganga district on the Vaigai about 12 km southeast of Madurai, has yielded over 18,000 antiquities. Notes ›
2. Sagarmala Finance Corporation Limited (SMFCL) is India's first maritime sector NBFC. Notes ›
3. Indian freestyle wrestlers won 2 gold and 2 bronze on the last day of the Asian under-17 championships in Vung Tau, Vietnam. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

4. Bank of Baroda launched the bob Flexi Systematic Deposit Plan (SDP), an upgraded version of its SDP. Notes ›
5. SBI partnered with FPSB India to include CFP certification in staff training. Notes ›
6. Equitas Small Finance Bank and Edelweiss Life Insurance formed a bancassurance partnership to sell life insurance to Equitas customers. Notes ›
7. IRDAI inspections of health and general insurers flagged Health Insurance Master Circular lapses. Notes ›
8. A breach of Aditya Birla Capital's ABCD app hit the digital gold accounts of hundreds of users. Notes ›

Economy

9. MSME credit crossed ₹40 trillion as of March 2025, growing 20% year on year, as per CRIF High Mark. Notes ›
10. World Bank's $3-a-day line shows 5.75% of Indians in extreme poverty in 2022-23, versus 27% in 2011-12. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

11. A 15-day Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan outreach heard 18.5 lakh farmers in Odisha, West Bengal and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Notes ›
12. ICAR-IISR, Kozhikode developed a bio-pesticide from the native fungus Lecanicillium psalliotae to control cardamom thrips. Notes ›
13. China, the top urea producer, is easing its urea export ban. Notes ›

Science & Technology

14. Shukla is the second Indian in space after Rakesh Sharma (1984) and the first Indian to reach the ISS. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

15. MoSPI announced a nationwide household income survey from next year. Notes ›

National Affairs

1. The Emergency of 1975 lasted 21 months under PM Indira Gandhi; its 50th anniversary was marked as Samvidhan Hatya Divas. Notes ›
2. India took four golds at the Asian under-17 wrestling championships in Vung Tau, Vietnam. Notes ›

Government Schemes

3. Finance Ministry is exploring Phase 2 of PMJDY, a decade after its 2014 launch. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

4. NSE offered ₹1,388 crore (about $160 million) to SEBI to settle the co-location dispute. Notes ›
5. IRDAI penalised Edelweiss Life Insurance ₹1 crore. Notes ›
6. PSBs' share in CD issuance rose from 6% to 69% between 2022 and December 2024, while private banks fell from 85% to 30%. Notes ›
7. RazorpayX, Razorpay's business banking arm, launched Corporate Cards with Mastercard, RBL Bank and YES Bank. Notes ›
8. Union Bank of India plans to raise ₹6,000 crore through a mix of equity and debt. Notes ›

Economy

9. The GST Council was expected to meet in July 2025 after over six months. Notes ›
10. RBI's June 2025 Bulletin kept FY25 GDP growth at 6.5% and called the economy resilient despite global uncertainty. Notes ›
11. NSE planned electricity futures to hedge power price swings. Notes ›
12. Finance Ministry planned phased stake sales in New India Assurance and GIC Re. Notes ›
13. From 1 July 2025, call money trading runs until 7 PM instead of 5 PM. Notes ›

International Affairs

14. The Kailash Mansarovar Yatra resumed after six years, paused by COVID-19 and India-China border tensions. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

15. A 15-day Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan outreach ended with a report to Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Notes ›
16. The Union Cabinet approved CIP's South Asia Regional Centre (CSARC) at Singna, Agra, Uttar Pradesh. Notes ›
17. Shivraj Singh Chouhan cleared Price Support Scheme purchases: Madhya Pradesh (Moong, Urad) and Uttar Pradesh (Urad). Notes ›
18. The Centre announced a minimum support price of ₹1,616 per quintal for mangoes under MIS. Notes ›

Science & Technology

19. Ax-4 launched on 25 June 2025 on a Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center. Notes ›
20. Space docking joins two spacecraft in orbit into one larger structure. Notes ›

Environment & Ecology

21. Chhattisgarh's Forest Department and Tribal Welfare authorities are in a dispute over Community Forest Resource (CFR) management plans. Notes ›

Government Schemes

1. SPMEPCI aims to establish India as a global EV manufacturing hub and innovation centre. Notes ›
2. DAJA is run by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and named after Bhagwan Birsa Munda. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

3. EPFO raised the auto-settlement limit for advance claims from ₹1 lakh to ₹5 lakh. Notes ›
4. SEBI proposed two Executive Directors at each Market Infrastructure Institution. Notes ›
5. Venture capital is private equity money for high-growth startups, given in return for equity. Notes ›
6. Larsen & Toubro listed India's first ESG bonds on NSE. Notes ›
7. RazorpayX launched a corporate credit card for startups with Mastercard, RBL Bank and YES Bank. Notes ›
8. NPCI will launch NACH 3.0 in the first week of July 2025. Notes ›
9. RBI issued final IRACP norms for project finance at banks and NBFCs. Notes ›

Economy

10. On Friday, June 27, RBI was to hold a ₹1 trillion Variable Rate Reverse Repo (VRRR) auction with a seven-day tenor. Notes ›
11. S&P Global Ratings raised India's FY26 GDP growth forecast to 6.5%, up 0.2 percentage points. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

12. Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced crop-wise, state-specific planning, starting with a soybean review in Madhya Pradesh on June 26. Notes ›
13. Scientists wrote to the PM against India's first CRISPR-Cas9 genome-edited rice varieties. Notes ›
14. Haryana is expected to prohibit the same 11 pesticides that Punjab has already banned on basmati. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

15. India ranked 99th of 167 countries in the Sustainable Development Report 2025, scoring 67. Notes ›
16. NITI Aayog released India's Data Imperative: The Pivot Towards Quality on 25 June 2025. Notes ›

Awards & Persons

17. IPPB won the Digital Payments Award 2024-25 from DFS and ranked first among payments banks. Notes ›
18. Ten Indian startups were named in the WEF Tech Pioneers 2025 cohort. Notes ›

National Affairs

1. Monsoon erosion at Fort Kochi's South Beach exposed remains believed to be Fort Emmanuel (1503). Notes ›
2. The 25th Central Zonal Council meeting was held in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, chaired by the Union Home Minister. Notes ›
3. India performed 13,476 kidney transplants in 2024, far short of the 1 lakh recommended each year. Notes ›

Government Schemes

4. NAVYA, launched by MWCD and MSDE, is a pilot to skill adolescent girls aged 16-18. Notes ›
5. MoPR, IIM Ahmedabad and IIPA launched a Training of Trainers programme on Own Source Revenue. Notes ›
6. Tripura was declared fully literate under the ULLAS - Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

7. Fitch projected 12-13% loan growth in FY26 after RBI's 50 basis point rate cut. Notes ›
8. RBI cut SFBs' PSL target from 75% to 60% of ANBC. Notes ›
9. The Finance Ministry urged IRDAI to tighten oversight of premiums, claims and grievances. Notes ›
10. An HFC is an NBFC specialising in housing loans, regulated by RBI with some powers held by NHB. Notes ›
11. Only accredited or sophisticated investors can join angel funds under SEBI's new framework. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

12. A four-day Beej Utsav (Seed Festival) was held in the tribal tri-junction of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

13. India's coasts are seeing sea level rise above the global average of 3.4 mm per year. Notes ›

Government Schemes

1. The Union Health Ministry will integrate the Rare Donor Registry of India (RDRI) with e-Raktkosh. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

2. SEBI launched a comprehensive review of mutual fund regulations. Notes ›
3. SEBI eased startup, PSU delisting, AIF, REIT and InvIT rules at its board meeting. Notes ›
4. SEBI floated a discussion paper on responsible AI/ML use in the securities market, covering algorithmic trading. Notes ›
5. CRAs sought clarity on rating unlisted debt worth over ₹1 lakh crore, such as PTCs and unlisted bonds. Notes ›
6. RBI is building the Digital Payment Intelligence Platform (DPIP) to share real-time fraud data among banks. Notes ›

Economy

7. Indian outward direct investment rose from $4 billion in 2014-15 to $29 billion in 2024-25, up 625%. Notes ›

International Affairs

8. The US struck Iran's nuclear facilities with 30,000-pound bombs in an operation named Operation Midnight Hammer. Notes ›
9. The Strait of Hormuz lies between Iran in the north and Oman in the south. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

10. India overtook China as the world's largest rice producer, with record output of 149 million tonnes in 2025. Notes ›
11. ICAR-CIAE Bhopal demonstrated a tractor-operated implement combining plastic mulch laying, drip lateral installation and planting in one pass. Notes ›

Science & Technology

12. Scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, found a rare germanium-rich composition in helium star A980. Notes ›

Environment & Ecology

13. Delhi's government, with IIT-Kanpur and the Department of Environment, planned its first cloud seeding pilot against severe winter air pollution. Notes ›

Defence & Security

14. INS Tamal is the Indian Navy's latest and final foreign-built stealth frigate. Notes ›

National Affairs

1. The 11th International Day of Yoga (IDY) was observed on June 21, 2025. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

2. Amendments to the Insurance Act are planned for the Monsoon Session to permit 100% FDI, up from 74%. Notes ›
3. RBI cut the PSL target for Small Finance Banks from 75% to 60% from FY26. Notes ›
4. Parametric insurance pays automatically once predefined thresholds such as temperature or rainfall are reached. Notes ›
5. RBI fined Fino Payments Bank ₹29.6 lakh for breaching payments bank licensing norms. Notes ›
6. SEBI proposed a framework for responsible AI and ML use in the securities market. Notes ›
7. Bajaj Allianz General Insurance launched a State-wise Health Insurance Policy across 25 states and 5 UTs. Notes ›
8. RBI released a Master Circular covering credit facilities for SCs and STs, aiming at wider credit access. Notes ›
9. RBI's Master Direction on Electronic Trading Platforms (16 June 2025) replaces 2018 guidelines with immediate effect. Notes ›
10. NABARD plans about ₹10,000 crore of disbursement in FY25 under its new Green Lending Facility. Notes ›
11. SEBI approved Tata Capital's IPO worth ₹17,200 crore. Notes ›

Economy

12. The 3-year to 10-year G-sec spread widened to 48 bps from 15 bps at FY26 start. Notes ›
13. CCI notified the Determination of Cost of Production Regulations, 2025 to assess predatory pricing using Average Total Cost. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

14. Nabcons, NABARD's consultancy arm, is applying AI, GIS and open-source tools to agriculture and water monitoring. Notes ›
15. The UN declared 2025 the International Year of Cooperatives; Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan addressed the seminar in Mumbai. Notes ›

Science & Technology

16. BSNL soft-launched Quantum 5G Fixed Wireless Access at its Ameerpet Exchange in Hyderabad. Notes ›
17. Direct-to-Device (D2D) lets ordinary smartphones connect straight to satellites without towers. Notes ›

National Affairs

1. A High Court held that privacy is a fundamental right but subject to reasonable restrictions. Notes ›

Government Schemes

2. FASTag annual pass begins 15 August 2025 for private non-commercial vehicles. Notes ›
3. PM-GKAY began in March 2020 under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package to cushion the poor during COVID-19. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

4. RBI's final project finance norms apply from October 1, 2025. Notes ›
5. SEBI formed a working group on unbundling trading and clearing fees and clearing corporation self-sufficiency. Notes ›
6. Bank of Maharashtra has announced a co-branding partnership with SBI Card for credit cards. Notes ›
7. HDFC Bank is launching a ₹12,500 crore IPO for its NBFC arm, HDB Financial Services. Notes ›

Economy

8. Sales of listed private non-financial firms grew 7.1% year-on-year in Q4 FY25, versus 8% in Q3 and 6.9% in Q4 FY24. Notes ›

International Affairs

9. INSTC is a 7,200 km multi-modal corridor linking India with Iran, Central Asia, Russia and Europe. Notes ›
10. World Refugee Day is observed every year on 20 June. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

11. Gramya Vikash Mancha implemented solar irrigation in Tamulpur district, Assam, with NABARD funding via the Tribal Development Fund. Notes ›

Science & Technology

12. India was finalising a ₹3,500-5,000 crore incentive scheme for rare earth minerals and magnets. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

13. PGI 2.0 covers 6 domains and 73 indicators, scored out of 1,000 across 10 performance levels. Notes ›
14. India's FDI stayed flat at about $28 billion in 2024, ranking 15th (up from 16th), per UNCTAD. Notes ›

Awards & Persons

15. Yuva Puraskar 2025 goes to 23 young writers, covering 24 Indian languages including English. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

1. SEBI's board eased ESOP retention, CCS lock-in and promoter contribution rules. Notes ›
2. Privately placed InvIT minimum allotment cut to a uniform ₹25 lakh. Notes ›
3. FM Sitharaman urged fintechs at the Digital Payments Awards 2025 to counter digital arrests, deepfakes and scams. Notes ›
4. SEBI urged investors to pay registered advisers and research analysts through the Centralized Fee Collection Mechanism (CeFCoM). Notes ›
5. First Abu Dhabi Bank, the UAE's largest bank, will implement Intellect Design Arena's eMACH.ai Lending platform. Notes ›
6. Only SBI had fully moved to SWIFT ISO 20022; four other banks were partly migrated. Notes ›
7. Standard Chartered came under RBI scrutiny over lapses in selling derivatives and weak risk controls. Notes ›

Economy

8. Gold drove 17% of core inflation's rise; core was 4.2% in May 2025 while headline CPI was 2.8%. Notes ›

International Affairs

9. The 50th G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Canada ended without a joint communique for lack of consensus. Notes ›
10. UNOC 2025 was held in Nice, France, on 9-13 June, co-hosted by France and Costa Rica, focusing on SDG 14. Notes ›
11. India launched Operation Sindhu to bring home its nationals amid the escalating Israel-Iran conflict. Notes ›
12. PM Narendra Modi held talks with Croatian PM Andrej Plenkovic in Zagreb on defence, space, infrastructure and technology. Notes ›
13. India and Canada agreed to bring back High Commissioners in New Delhi and Ottawa after a two-year diplomatic freeze. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

14. Garuda Aerospace opened a Chennai facility to make over 100,000 drones by 2026, and 300 Centres of Excellence were inaugurated. Notes ›
15. Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan confirmed plans to amend the Seed Act against spurious seeds. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

16. India had 54 institutions in QS World University Rankings 2026, up from 46 in 2025. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

1. Fintech players explored an MDR on UPI payments restricted to large merchants only. Notes ›
2. RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra said SFB universal bank applications would be decided soon. Notes ›
3. From September 1, 2025, NSE weekly expiries move to Tuesday and BSE's to Thursday. Notes ›
4. RBI's KYC notification norms apply from 1 January 2026. Notes ›
5. SEBI barred Sanjiv Bhasin, a director at IIFL Securities, from the securities market for fraudulent front running. Notes ›
6. Consumer payments app POP raised $30 million from Razorpay. Notes ›

Economy

7. Retail inflation dropped to a 75-month low of 2.8% in May 2025; wholesale inflation fell to 0.4%. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

8. Tropical Agrosystem (India) launched the #SawalKalKaHai sustainability campaign. Notes ›

Science & Technology

9. Adobe officially launched a standalone Firefly app for Android and iOS. Notes ›

Environment & Ecology

10. The Bonn Climate Change Conference is an annual technical climate meeting, first held in 1995. Notes ›
11. Kerala High Court ordered a ban on single-use plastic items in chosen areas of the State. Notes ›

Defence & Security

12. SIPRI 2025 estimates India holds 180 nuclear warheads, more than Pakistan's 170; China has about 600. Notes ›
13. The 8th edition of Exercise Shakti begins on 18 June and runs to 1 July 2025. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

14. The sDQI for Scheduled Commercial Banks rose to 89.3 in March 2025 from 88.6 in March 2024. Notes ›

National Affairs

1. India's next Census will be held in 2027, and it will be the country's first digital Census. Notes ›
2. Amit Shah launched three disaster-management technology platforms. Notes ›
3. Ojas Deotale and Aditi Swami, reigning compound individual World champions, missed selection for the World Archery Championships. Notes ›

Government Schemes

4. The Dharti Aaba Janbhagidari Abhiyan is a nationwide saturation campaign, flagship of Janjatiya Gaurav Varsh. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

5. ATMs rose only from 211,000 in FY21 to 212,000 in FY25, per RBI data. Notes ›
6. TRAI, RBI and select banks began a pilot to digitise legacy paper consents. Notes ›
7. RBI issued draft rupee IRD regulations on June 17, 2025. Notes ›
8. CeFCoM, launched 1 October 2024, is run by BSE Ltd and MF Utilities India. Notes ›
9. Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank opened Sahakar Suraksha, India's first Cyber Security Operations Centre for cooperative banks. Notes ›
10. Indian Overseas Bank launched Locate IOB, a web-based finder for its branches and ATMs. Notes ›
11. Poonawalla Fincorp, an NBFC of the Cyrus Poonawalla Group, launched Business Loan 24/7. Notes ›

Economy

12. India's unemployment rate (15+) rose to 5.6% in May 2025 from 5.1% in April. Notes ›
13. FPIs asked SEBI to stretch licence renewal from 3 to 5 years. Notes ›
14. India's trade deficit fell to $6.6 billion in May 2025. Notes ›

International Affairs

15. Modi's Cyprus trip was his first foreign visit after Operation Sindoor in May 2025. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

16. NABARD's District Development Manager (DDM) office in Kiphire, Nagaland, was inaugurated on 16 June 2025. Notes ›

Science & Technology

17. Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is India's first astronaut aboard the ISS, on the Axiom-4 mission. Notes ›
18. TRAI issued a tariff cap under the Telecommunication Tariff (71st Amendment) Order, 2025. Notes ›

Environment & Ecology

19. Portulaca bharat is a new endemic flowering plant from the Aravallis near Jaipur. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

20. The Reuters Institute's 2025 report surveyed 100,000 respondents across 48 countries. Notes ›

Government Schemes

1. The second batch of Phase 2 NAKSHA training started on 16 June 2025 at four Centres of Excellence. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

2. SEBI's 18 June board meeting was the second under chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey. Notes ›
3. RRBs began with five banks on October 2, 1975; ownership is Centre 50%, States 15%, sponsors 35%. Notes ›
4. SEBI's ESG-labelled bond framework, effective 5 June 2025, requires continuous monitoring and third-party verification. Notes ›
5. Jupiter and Scapia launched UPI-compatible RuPay credit cards with CSB Bank and Federal Bank respectively. Notes ›
6. NPCI and IDRBT signed an MoU on June 12, 2025 to strengthen cyber resilience in India's digital payments. Notes ›

Economy

7. Finance Ministry was likely to amend a conflicting refund provision in the draft Income Tax Bill, 2025. Notes ›

International Affairs

8. PM Modi met Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Tianjin. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

9. Ancient Indian farming followed the sky and seasons, treating agriculture as harmony between human effort and nature. Notes ›

Environment & Ecology

10. An expert panel led by Principal Scientific Advisor Ajay Sood recommended rolling back the 2015 FGD mandate for coal plants. Notes ›
11. New jumping spider Spartaeus karigiri found near Karigiri (Elephant Hill), Devarayanadurga, Karnataka. Notes ›
12. The Eurasian otter was sighted in Kashmir after an absence of roughly 25-30 years. Notes ›

Defence & Security

13. MV Wan Hai 503, a Singapore-flagged container vessel, caught fire after an onboard explosion on June 9. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

14. India lost 2.31 million hectares of tree cover from 2001 to 2024, a 7.1% fall from the 2000 level. Notes ›

Government Schemes

1. The Centre approved 324 Forest Rights Act (FRA) cells, reported as the first such step since the 2006 Act. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

2. SBI cut its EBLR and home loan rate by 50 bps, matching the RBI repo rate cut; EBLR fell from 8.65% to 8.15%. Notes ›
3. RBI revised rules to ease reactivation of inoperative accounts and claims on unclaimed deposits. Notes ›
4. Scapia, a Bengaluru travel fintech, tied up with Federal Bank for the Scapia Federal RuPay Credit Card. Notes ›

Economy

5. The Income Tax Department sent notices to thousands of taxpayers who did not disclose crypto or VDA income. Notes ›
6. Gensol Engineering Ltd, which runs the BluSmart EV ride-hailing platform, entered insolvency proceedings. Notes ›

International Affairs

7. Oil prices jumped 8% in a day after Israel attacked Iran, stoking inflation fears in India. Notes ›
8. India abstained on 13 June 2025 from a UNGA vote seeking an immediate Gaza ceasefire, its fourth Gaza abstention in three years. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

9. The National Conference on Agri Stack was held on 14 June 2025 in New Delhi. Notes ›

National Affairs

1. Swadeshi Jagran Manch launched the Swadeshi Suraksha evam Swavlamban Abhiyan in Delhi. Notes ›
2. World Day Against Child Labour was observed globally on 13 June, with 138 million children still affected. Notes ›

Government Schemes

3. Schemes continue only after positive third-party evaluation; 54 Central schemes and 260 CSS are under review. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

4. RBI permitted separate trading of principal and interest parts of State Government Loans (SGLs). Notes ›
5. RBI issued revised KYC updation norms to clear pendency, mainly in DBT and PMJDY accounts. Notes ›
6. RBI held its second government bond buyback auction of FY26, adding durable liquidity. Notes ›
7. RBI planned to amend the Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) to bar overseas time deposits by residents. Notes ›
8. Groww Nifty India Internet ETF is billed as India's first ETF on the Nifty India Internet Index (TRI). Notes ›
9. Pune's Vishweshwar Sahakari Bank got Scheduled Bank status from RBI, the first in over two decades. Notes ›

Economy

10. CPI retail inflation fell to 2.8% in May 2025, the lowest in 75 months, last seen in February 2019. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

11. Garuda Aerospace's Agri-Drone Indigenisation Facility opened in Chennai, inaugurated by MoS Kamlesh Paswan. Notes ›

Defence & Security

12. The Indian Army trialled indigenous Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) drones able to hit enemy artillery positions across the border. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

13. India ranked 131 of 148 in WEF's Global Gender Gap Report 2025, down from 129, with a 64.1% score. Notes ›
14. Carbon pricing now covers about 28% of global GHG emissions and raised over $100 billion in 2024. Notes ›
15. FAO issued its 2025 marine fishery resources report during the 3rd UN Ocean Conference in Nice, France. Notes ›

Government Schemes

1. A VVGNLI study estimates 61 million gig workers by 2047, about 15% of the non-agricultural workforce. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

2. SEBI made the @valid UPI handle compulsory for all registered intermediaries from October 1, 2025. Notes ›
3. State-run MTNL defaulted on over ₹8,300 crore of bank loans. Notes ›
4. RBI raised gold loan LTV from 75% to 85% for loans below ₹2.5 lakh. Notes ›
5. RBI plans to bar LRS funds from foreign currency fixed deposits and interest-earning accounts abroad. Notes ›
6. FSDC, chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Mumbai, backed a universal KYC framework. Notes ›
7. RBI has begun regular audits and field inspections of newly licensed payment aggregators. Notes ›
8. RBI cut CRR by 100 bps in four equal tranches, from 4% to 3%. Notes ›
9. The Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill is expected in the Monsoon Session beginning 21 July 2025. Notes ›
10. The Finance Ministry amended Rule 8 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules, 1957. Notes ›
11. QIP lets listed Indian companies raise funds by issuing equity or equity-convertible securities (not warrants) to Qualified Institutional Buyers. Notes ›
12. CreditAccess Grameen, India's largest NBFC-MFI, raised a $100 million syndicated social loan. Notes ›
13. Paytm launched custom UPI IDs, removing the need to link handles to mobile numbers. Notes ›
14. DFCC Bank of Sri Lanka became the first foreign corporate to list a green bond at GIFT IFSC. Notes ›

Economy

15. SEBI approved NSE's monthly electricity futures contracts. Notes ›

International Affairs

16. India signed the BBNJ (High Seas Treaty) in September 2024 but was unlikely to ratify it at the Nice ocean conference. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

17. The first advance kharif acreage estimate in September 2025 will rely entirely on satellite data. Notes ›
18. The Agriculture Ministry launched CROPIC to apply AI to crop monitoring and PMFBY insurance. Notes ›
19. The Centre considered capping subsidised fertilizer based on scientific assessment. Notes ›
20. The Department of Fisheries held the Inland Fisheries & Aquaculture Meet 2025 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Notes ›

Science & Technology

21. India wants to secure imports of dysprosium and terbium, not found in extractable quantities domestically. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

22. ILO says India's social protection coverage reached 64.3% in 2025, about 950 million people. Notes ›

National Affairs

1. The NaMo App launched the Jan Man Survey in June 2025. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

2. Nirmala Sitharaman chaired the 29th FSDC meeting in Mumbai on June 11, 2025. Notes ›
3. SEBI began probing Jane Street over alleged manipulation of Nifty 50 and banking indices via algorithms. Notes ›
4. AIFs are privately pooled investment vehicles regulated by SEBI (Alternative Investment Funds) Regulations, 2012. Notes ›
5. SEBI began recovery proceedings against OPG Securities and its directors over an unpaid April 2024 penalty. Notes ›
6. SEBI issued an operational framework for social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds on 5 June 2025. Notes ›
7. AU Small Finance Bank partnered with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to embed climate risk in its core banking. Notes ›
8. A zero-coupon bond pays no periodic interest; it is sold at a deep discount and redeemed at face value. Notes ›

Economy

9. Gross FDI rose 13.7% in FY25, yet net FDI fell to $0.4 billion from $44 billion in FY21. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

10. Nine Clean Plant projects were announced to supply disease-free planting material. Notes ›

Science & Technology

11. SaaS is a cloud delivery model: the provider hosts the app and users reach it through a browser on subscription. Notes ›

Environment & Ecology

12. India launched SAHAV, a real-time digital ocean data portal, at UNOC3 in Nice, France. Notes ›
13. Siamese Fireback (Lophura diardi), Thailand's national bird, was recorded in India for the first time. Notes ›

Defence & Security

14. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said the government targets ₹3 lakh crore of defence production by 2029. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

15. India's population was estimated at 146.39 crore by April 2025, ahead of China's 141.61 crore. Notes ›
16. NABARD's May 2025 RECSS covered 600 villages and 6,000 households. Notes ›
17. World Bank's June 2025 Global Economic Prospects kept India's FY26 GDP growth forecast unchanged at 6.3%. Notes ›

National Affairs

1. Minimum land for semiconductor and electronic component SEZs fell from 50 to 10 hectares (Rule 5). Notes ›

Government Schemes

2. Finance Ministry asked PSBs to speed up PMMY loans to eligible handloom weavers. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

3. RBI Deputy Governor M. Rajeshwar Rao flagged misselling and microfinance problems at an HSBC event. Notes ›
4. RBI discontinued daily Variable Rate Repo (VRR) auctions from June 11, 2025. Notes ›
5. Supreme Court ordered a CBI probe into the builder-bank nexus in subvention home loans. Notes ›
6. RBI Deputy Governor M. Rajeshwar Rao spoke on microfinance stress on 5 June 2025. Notes ›
7. Jana Small Finance Bank applied to RBI to convert into a universal bank. Notes ›
8. SBI is selling its ₹1,556 crore stressed exposure to Regen Powertech via a Swiss Challenge. Notes ›

Economy

9. Under the $3 a day line, India's poverty fell from 27.1% in 2011-12 to 5.3% in 2023-24. Notes ›
10. MCLR, the Marginal Cost of Funds-based Lending Rate, is the minimum rate a bank can charge, with limited exceptions. Notes ›
11. The Union Finance Minister chaired the 6th Governing Council meeting of NIIF. Notes ›
12. India-EFTA TEPA to take effect by September 2025, said Piyush Goyal. Notes ›
13. Maharashtra and Karnataka dominated India's FDI inflows in FY25. Notes ›
14. NHAI is considering a public infrastructure investment trust (InvIT) to open highway monetisation to retail investors. Notes ›

International Affairs

15. PM Modi visits Cyprus and Croatia around the G-7 Summit in Canada (15-17 June 2025). Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

16. Kukas village, Jaipur, has a farm pond model that can trap 10 crore litres of monsoon run-off. Notes ›
17. UNGA declared 2026 the International Year of the Woman Farmer, with 100+ co-sponsors. Notes ›
18. India has sorted US farm imports into three buckets by economic and political sensitivity. Notes ›

Science & Technology

19. DIBD (Bhashini) and CRIS signed an MoU for multilingual AI services across Indian Railways. Notes ›

Environment & Ecology

20. Delhi plans India's first e-waste eco park at Holambi Kalan, North Delhi. Notes ›

Awards & Persons

21. Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame for 2025. Notes ›

National Affairs

1. The Indian State Broadcasting Service became All India Radio (AIR) on 8 June 1936. Notes ›

Government Schemes

2. MGNREGS work demand surged in May and early June 2025, which economists link to seasonal patterns rather than rural distress. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

3. RBI notified the Lending Against Gold and Silver Collateral Directions, 2025 for all its regulated entities. Notes ›
4. The MPC cut the repo rate by 50 bps to 5.5% in June 2025. Notes ›
5. Banks proposed aligning tax treatment of NPAs with RBI norms. Notes ›
6. RBI offers ₹1,25,000 each to the three best original Hindi books on economics, banking or finance. Notes ›

Economy

7. Apparel exports are $37.8 billion in a $897.8 billion global T&A market: a 3% share. Notes ›

International Affairs

8. ICDRI 2025 was hosted in Europe for the first time, on coastal region resilience. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

9. Bayer launched BICOTA to control stem borer pests in rice, on sale from June 2025. Notes ›
10. India planned to raise ethanol blending in petrol from the current 19% (E19) to between 27% and 100%. Notes ›

Science & Technology

11. DRUM, built by IIT Kharagpur researchers, suggests routes with least exposure to air pollution. Notes ›
12. Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla was to pilot Axiom-4 and become the first Indian astronaut to reach the ISS. Notes ›

Environment & Ecology

13. India lost 2.33 million hectares of forest cover between 2001 and 2023. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

14. Bihar had the lowest 2022 sex ratio at birth: 891 girls per 1,000 boys, down from 964 in 2020. Notes ›
15. World Bank revised the global poverty line to $3 a day (2021 PPP) from $2.15 a day (2017 PPP). Notes ›

National Affairs

1. A later-Pandya Shiva temple, Thennavanisvaram, was unearthed at Udampatti, Melur taluk, Madurai. Notes ›
2. Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched the Bharatiya Bhasha Anubhag (BBA), meaning the Indian Languages Section. Notes ›
3. NeVA is a digital platform for paperless working of State and UT legislatures, built on the One Nation - One Application idea. Notes ›
4. Regulations for Ladakh were issued under Article 240 of the Constitution, not through Sixth Schedule status. Notes ›

Government Schemes

5. Union Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju launched the UMEED portal for managing Waqf properties across India. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

6. Gold loan LTV up to ₹2.5 lakh rises from 75% to 85%. Notes ›
7. RBI lowered the qualifying asset threshold for NBFC-MFIs from 75% to 60%. Notes ›
8. RBI is reassessing bank licensing and ownership rules; Governor Sanjay Malhotra wants more banks and trustworthy promoters. Notes ›
9. RBI fined PayMe India ₹2 lakh for taking public deposits and an unapproved shareholding change above 26%. Notes ›
10. SEBI attached Mehul Choksi's bank, demat and mutual fund holdings to recover ₹2.1 crore. Notes ›

Economy

11. The MPC cut the repo rate by 50 basis points to 5.5%, the third cut since February 2025. Notes ›

International Affairs

12. The 4th India-Central Asia Dialogue in New Delhi was chaired by EAM S. Jaishankar with five Central Asian foreign ministers. Notes ›
13. India chairs the 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum for 2025-26. Notes ›
14. PM Narendra Modi will represent India at the G-7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. Notes ›

Defence & Security

15. INS Arnala, first of 16 ASW shallow water crafts, was commissioned at Visakhapatnam. Notes ›

National Affairs

1. PM Narendra Modi opened the Chenab Rail Bridge for traffic on 6 June 2025. Notes ›

Government Schemes

2. The Ayush Nivesh Saarthi portal was launched on 29 May 2025 at Vanijya Bhawan, New Delhi, by Piyush Goyal and Prataprao Jadhav. Notes ›
3. MoSJE launched the Waste Picker Enumeration App under NAMASTE on World Environment Day 2025. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

4. RBI cut the repo rate by 50 bps from 6.00% to 5.50%, the third cut of 2025 and the biggest in over two years. Notes ›
5. The IBC, 2016 is a single law for insolvency and bankruptcy, called India's exit law. Notes ›
6. RBI licensed Flipkart as an NBFC on 13 March 2025. Notes ›
7. IndusInd Bank disclosed derivatives accounting discrepancies on 10 March 2025. Notes ›
8. Bank credit growth slowed to 11.1% in FY25 from 15.3% in FY24; private banks fell to 9.5% by March 2025. Notes ›
9. Motilal Oswal launched India's first index fund tracking the BSE 1000 Total Return Index. Notes ›
10. SEBI's framework for ESG debt securities took effect on 5 June 2025. Notes ›
11. Tata Capital, an NBFC of the Tata Group, was set to get SEBI clearance for its IPO. Notes ›

International Affairs

12. On 13 February 2025 India and the US agreed to start Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) talks by fall 2025. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

13. FAIFA released 'Nourishing the Future: A Report on Climate-Resilient Agriculture' on June 5, 2025. Notes ›

Environment & Ecology

14. Dharmendra Pradhan launched Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam 2.0 on World Environment Day 2025 in New Delhi. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

15. MoSPI released the 8th EnviStats India on 5 June 2025, using the FDES 2013 framework. Notes ›

National Affairs

1. MHA announced the next Census by March 1, 2027, the first since 2011 after a 16-year gap. Notes ›
2. IRCTC deactivated 2.5 crore suspicious user IDs to stop bot booking. Notes ›

Government Schemes

3. The Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry is preparing a National Policy for Senior Citizens. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

4. SEBI said a large shareholder base without public fundraising is no breach of company law. Notes ›
5. Indian Bank introduced new NRE Savings Account variants for Non-Resident Indians. Notes ›

Economy

6. CPI inflation fell to 3.16% in April 2025 while the repo rate stayed at 6.0%. Notes ›

International Affairs

7. Nicaragua accepted the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies on 2 June 2025, the 101st member to do so. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

8. Agriculture Minister Chouhan spoke at NSEFI's 2025 conference and released its annual report. Notes ›

Environment & Ecology

9. World Environment Day 2025 (5 June): host Republic of Korea, theme Beat Plastic Pollution. Notes ›
10. Menar (Udaipur) and Khichan (Phalodi), both in Rajasthan, were designated Ramsar Sites before World Environment Day 2025. Notes ›

Defence & Security

11. 17 women cadets graduated from the National Defence Academy (NDA) in a development described as historic. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

12. ASER 2023: only 43% of Class 3 students can read Class 2-level text. Notes ›
13. NITI Aayog planned an Investment Friendliness Index ranking states on opportunity and risk. Notes ›

National Affairs

1. The Election Commission began real-time voter turnout reporting through the ECINET app. Notes ›
2. The WHO-created National Polio Surveillance Network (NPSN) has over 200 field units across India. Notes ›

Government Schemes

3. G. Kishan Reddy launched C CARES 2.0, developed by C-DAC. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

4. RBI is reviewing norms to ease foreign ownership limits in Indian banks. Notes ›
5. UPI monthly volume crossed 18.68 billion. Notes ›
6. SEBI approved HDB Financial Services' IPO worth ₹12,500 crore; the company is an HDFC Bank subsidiary. Notes ›
7. Bank investments in mutual funds rose 91% year on year to ₹1.19 lakh crore as of March 21, 2025. Notes ›
8. RBI was reviewing norms to ease foreign ownership in Indian banks. Notes ›
9. Moody's expects India's systemwide NPL ratio to stay at 2-3% for 12 months. Notes ›

Economy

10. RBI launched the 2024-25 Foreign Liabilities and Assets (FLA) survey for mutual funds and asset management companies. Notes ›

International Affairs

11. India won the presidency of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS). Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

12. ICRISAT and RIS launched ISSCA to promote farm cooperation among Global South countries. Notes ›
13. NITI Aayog proposed a dual-track approach: selective tariff cuts on non-sensitive US farm imports plus targeted concessions where India has supply gaps. Notes ›
14. The Clean Plant Programme has a ₹300 crore budget and 9 projects, 3 of them in Maharashtra. Notes ›

Science & Technology

15. Axiom Mission-4 (Ax-4) to the International Space Station was moved from June 8 to June 10, 2025. Notes ›
16. ISSAR is compiled yearly by IS4OM under ISRO's Space Situational Awareness programme. Notes ›
17. BharatGen is a government-funded multimodal large language model for Indian languages. Notes ›

Environment & Ecology

18. An expert panel chaired by Ajay Sood recommends exempting most coal plants from mandatory FGD units. Notes ›

National Affairs

1. World champion D. Gukesh defeated World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in a classical game for the first time. Notes ›

Government Schemes

2. Social Justice Ministry invited proposals for District De-Addiction Centres in 291 gap districts of 30 States and UTs. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

3. Digital Rupee (e₹) is RBI's central bank digital currency and legal tender, unlike crypto. Notes ›
4. NSE has tried to list since 2016, but the co-location case, tech glitches and governance issues block the IPO. Notes ›
5. RBI requires regulated entities to fully provision for LSP-sourced loans even with a Default Loss Guarantee; deadline is September 30, 2025. Notes ›
6. Banks borrowed in TREPS at a weighted average 5.66% and parked money in RBI's SDF at 5.75%. Notes ›
7. Grameen Credit Score (GCS) is a rural-focused scoring mechanism for borrowers who have no formal credit history. Notes ›
8. The rupee was Asia's worst-performing currency of the quarter, staying broadly flat. Notes ›
9. RBI launched the Climate Risk Information System (RBI-CRIS) for financial institutions. Notes ›
10. RBI fined regulated entities ₹54.78 crore in FY25 via 353 actions. Notes ›
11. RBI planned the IFS Cloud for FY 2025-26, developed by IFTAS. Notes ›
12. UCO Bank, a state-run lender, named Sumit Khandelwal as its chief financial officer. Notes ›

Economy

13. RBI cut policy rates by 50 bps since February 2025; effective easing is about 75 bps as overnight rates track the SDF. Notes ›
14. Medium enterprises are 0.3% of MSMEs but earn about 40% of MSME export income. Notes ›
15. Gross FDI in FY25 was a record $81 billion, but net FDI was only $353 million. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

16. Agriculture uses nearly 70% of global freshwater, making water scarcity a leading ESG risk for agri-food. Notes ›
17. World Milk Day 2025 highlights milk as a global food and a livelihood source for millions. Notes ›

Science & Technology

18. BharatGen, India's first indigenous multimodal LLM, was launched by Dr. Jitendra Singh. Notes ›
19. CSIR-CCMB found the SHUKR gene in Arabidopsis thaliana's sporophyte; it controls pollen development. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

20. PLFS 2023-24 shows literacy at 80.9% for ages 7+ and 79.7% for 5+. Notes ›

National Affairs

1. Samagra Shiksha 2025-26 PAB meetings (March-April 2025) flagged many unrecognised private schools in Jharkhand and Bihar. Notes ›
2. NITI Aayog was finalising a National Brain Health Blueprint. Notes ›
3. CUTS International counted over 5.4 billion FY25 visits to the 15 biggest unauthorised gambling platforms. Notes ›

Government Schemes

4. Phase 2 NAKSHA capacity-building began on 2 June 2025 at five national Centres of Excellence. Notes ›

Banking & Finance

5. RBI's 9 April 2025 draft on gold loans seeks common rules for banks and NBFCs. Notes ›
6. India topped Chainalysis (2024) for grassroots crypto adoption, a second straight year. Notes ›
7. SBM ZET Credit Card, from ZET and SBM Bank India, is secured by a fixed deposit starting at ₹5,000. Notes ›
8. UPI volume grew 41.7% in FY25; its share of digital transactions reached 83.4% (79.4% in FY24). Notes ›
9. RBI plans a cash flow analysis framework to stress-test liquidity of Scheduled Commercial Banks under extreme but plausible scenarios. Notes ›
10. Razorpay moved its parent company from the US to India, a reverse flip ahead of a domestic IPO. Notes ›
11. Fintechs asked RBI to relax provisioning on loan pools backed by Default Loss Guarantees (DLGs). Notes ›

Economy

12. SBI Research projected household net financial savings of ₹22 lakh crore in FY25. Notes ›
13. IMF projected India to overtake Japan as the fourth-largest economy at about $4.2 trillion in 2025. Notes ›

International Affairs

14. India said at the first UN Glacier Conference in Dushanbe that terrorism obstructs the Indus Waters Treaty. Notes ›
15. Expo 2025 Osaka runs April 13 to October 13 on the theme 'Designing Future Society for Our Lives'. Notes ›

Agriculture & Rural

16. Crystal Crop Protection Limited launched RICEACT (rice herbicide) and JIVORA (cotton insecticide). Notes ›
17. Krishi Nivesh Portal was launched in September 2024 by the Agriculture Ministry. Notes ›

Science & Technology

18. IRRI screened 1.32 lakh rice accessions and studied 800 pigmented types closely. Notes ›

Environment & Ecology

19. A Science Advances study (28 May 2025) found polluted river water can be aerosolised at the ocean and inhaled. Notes ›

Reports & Indexes

20. A PRICE working paper found 52% of agricultural households earn non-farm income. Notes ›