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Daily Current Affairs: 1 June 2026

Current affairs of 1 June 2026: NFHS-6 Findings: Obesity Up, Stunting Down in India; SkyCast Aviation Weather System Debuts at Delhi’s IGI Airport; Sakura Science Programme 2026: 56 Indian Students Visit Japan, and 19 more topics. Key facts for every exam, with a quiz.

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In this issue: 22 topics

National Affairs

  1. Sakura Science Programme 2026: 56 Indian Students Visit Japan
  2. LPPI FY 2024-25 and Four Maritime Digital Modules Launched
  3. NeSDA 2025 Portal: DARPG’s e-Governance Assessment Tool
  4. RITES-CRISIL MoU for Data-led Infrastructure Consultancy

Government Schemes

  1. West Bengal Annapurna Yojana Enrolment Begins

Banking & Finance

  1. ECL Provisioning: RBI Moves Banks to Forward-Looking Loan-Loss Norms
  2. RBI Kill Switch for Digital Payments Explained
  3. West Bengal Gramin Bank Ties Up With Canara HSBC Life Insurance
  4. DBJ and HDFC Capital Join Hands on Housing Fund

Economy

  1. NSE and SUFI MoU on Steel Derivatives Ecosystem
  2. Taiwan Overtakes India as Fifth Largest Stock Market
  3. TCS and SKF Agree AI-Enabled ERP Modernisation Deal

International Affairs

  1. UN Peacekeepers Day 2026: Theme Invest in Peace, 29 May

Science & Technology

  1. SkyCast Aviation Weather System Debuts at Delhi’s IGI Airport
  2. PECVD System and RETINA Centre Open at IACS Kolkata
  3. IIT Madras Circulating Water Tunnel Facility Inaugurated
  4. VISTA: India’s First Indigenous Stratospheric Super Pressure Balloon

Environment & Ecology

  1. Amolops kamal: New Cascade Frog Found in Nagaland

Defence & Security

  1. IAF and IIT Bombay Team Up on AI Maintenance for Su-30MKI

Reports & Indexes

  1. NFHS-6 Findings: Obesity Up, Stunting Down in India
  2. 10th National Health Accounts: FY23 Health Spending Data

Awards & Persons

  1. Poet Bashir Badr Dies at 91 in Bhopal

National Affairs

Government Schemes

1. Sakura Science Programme 2026: 56 Indian Students Visit Japan

  • 56 Indian school students were sent to Japan under the Sakura Science Programme 2026 by the Department of School Education and Literacy.
  • The programme is funded and run by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), which functions under MEXT.
  • Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa joined India in the May 2026 batch of the week-long exchange.
  • NMMS offers ₹12,000 a year for classes 9 to 12 through DBT to meritorious students from weaker sections.
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Economy

2. LPPI FY 2024-25 and Four Maritime Digital Modules Launched

  • The Logistics Port Performance Index for FY 2024-25 ranks Indian ports in Dry Bulk, Liquid Bulk and Container Cargo segments.
  • Four digital platforms were launched with it: e-Navik grievance module, e-Samudra registration, Medical Practitioner Module and Unified Ship Recycling Portal.
  • Launch took place at the 37th Foundation Day of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority, the country's busiest container port.
  • Recycling aging ships at Hong Kong Convention-compliant Indian yards earns a credit note worth 40% of scrap value, usable for new shipbuilding.
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Government Schemes

Banking & Finance

Economy

6. ECL Provisioning: RBI Moves Banks to Forward-Looking Loan-Loss Norms

  • RBI issued its Master Direction on Expected Credit Loss (ECL) provisioning on 27 April; banks must comply by April 2027.
  • ECL replaces roughly thirty years of rule-based provisioning that began only after a loan turned bad.
  • Loans fall into Stage I (12-month expected loss), Stage II (SICR, lifetime loss) and Stage III (credit-impaired, lifetime loss).
  • ECL follows IFRS 9, whose Indian counterpart is Ind AS 109.
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Banking & Finance

7. RBI Kill Switch for Digital Payments Explained

  • RBI's Annual Report says it is exploring a universal Kill Switch across all digital payment channels.
  • The Kill Switch would let a user freeze every outgoing transaction from an account or wallet during a suspected scam.
  • Switch On/Switch Off lets users turn individual channels such as UPI, IMPS or international cards on or off.
  • Activation routes: banking app, SMS code, toll-free line, internet banking and IVR.
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Economy

Economy

10. NSE and SUFI MoU on Steel Derivatives Ecosystem

  • National Stock Exchange of India signed an MoU with the Steel Users Federation of India (SUFI).
  • The pact targets a stronger steel commodity derivatives ecosystem in India.
  • Focus areas are exchange-traded steel derivatives, hedging, market outreach and industry consultations.
  • Intended users include steel makers, MSMEs, OEMs, infrastructure firms and industrial consumers.
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International Affairs

Science & Technology

Science & Technology

14. SkyCast Aviation Weather System Debuts at Delhi’s IGI Airport

  • SkyCast is India's first integrated aviation weather intelligence system, set up at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi.
  • Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated it; it comes under Mission Mausam of the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
  • It monitors the air column up to about 3 km and issues nowcasts and alerts for a 3-hour window.
  • Five instruments feed it, including Radar Wind Profiler, SODAR, Microwave Radiometer, GFAS and CL61 Lidar-based Ceilometer.
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Environment & Ecology

Environment & Ecology

18. Amolops kamal: New Cascade Frog Found in Nagaland

  • Amolops kamal, the Nagaland Cascade Frog, is a species new to science, described by ZSI scientists.
  • It was found in hill streams near Singrep village, Kiphire district, Nagaland, close to the Myanmar border.
  • Fieldwork took place in August 2024; the description appeared in Records of the Zoological Survey of India.
  • The name honours Kamal Choudhury, former teacher of the lead author at B. Barooah College, Guwahati.
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Defence & Security

Reports & Indexes

Health & Social Issues

20. NFHS-6 Findings: Obesity Up, Stunting Down in India

  • NFHS-6 was fielded in 2023-24, covering about 6.79 lakh households in 715 districts, with IIPS Mumbai as nodal agency.
  • Female obesity (15-49 years) climbed from 24% to 30.7%; male obesity from 22.9% to 27.3%.
  • Child stunting fell from 35.5% to 29.3%; full immunisation (12-23 months) reached 87.1%.
  • Household health insurance cover jumped from 41% to 60.2%; Total Fertility Rate steady at 2.0.
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Awards & Persons

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