WEEKLY CURRENT AFFAIRS 16TH TO 22ND JUNE 2025

 World Sea Turtle Day -16th June 

THEME 2025  - Dancing Turtle Rocks 

1) India - CYPRUS Leaders Address Business Meet In Nicosia 

* Prime Minister Narendra Modi Became The First' INDIAN PM To Visit Cyprus After 20 Years. 

Cyprus President - Nikos Christodoulides 

* THE NSE International Exchange Gift City Signed MoU With CYPRUS Stock Exchange To Enable Cross Border Flows. 

* The National Payment Corporation Of India (NPCI) Signed An MoU With Eurobank Of Cyprus To Introduce UPI Service In Cyprus For Cross BORDER Transaction.

* India Cyprus Agreed To Instutionalize Coordination In Evacuation And Search And Rescue (SAR) Operation 

* Prime Minister Narendra Modi Has Conferred With The CYPRUS HIGHEST HONOUR - GRAND CROSS OF THE ORDER MAKARIOS III

2) Robert Kubica Wins The Formula 1 Race LeMans.

3) Taylor Fritz Wins The Men's Single Title At Stuttgart 2025.

* Gabriell Diallo Wins The Men's Single Title AT Hertogenbosch 

4) For The First Time In History In 116 Years Of History, The UK Foreign Intelligence Agency MI6 Will Lead By Woman - Blaise METREWELI 

5) Amitabh Kant Announced His Resignation As Secretary G20 Sherpa. (after 40 Years Of Service) 

6) Arun Srinivasan Has Appointed As The MD & india Head Of Meta.

7) Arunachal Pradesh Declared 2025-2035 As The Decade Of Hydropower To Unlock Its 58000 MW Project.

8) Aliawati Longkumer Has Been Appointed As The Indian Ambassador To North Korea.

9) Sandeep Sood Has Been Appointed As The Indian Ambassador To Republic Of Guinea.

10) The Caste Census Set To Begin From March 2027 In India.

( Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh On October 2026)

11) State Bank Of India (SBI) Has Cuts Savings Interest Rate By 25bps To 2.5%.

12) Kanha Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh Has Declared The Best Habitat Of Tigers.

* 10,2485 Herbivores Animals Recorded (Most) 

13) Lima Records 6.1 Magnitude Earthquake.

14) Andhra Pradesh Government To Repeal The Outdated NALA Act 2006.

15) Nellai Su Muthu, Former ISRO Scientist And Author Of 70+ Books Passed away.

16) Achal, The 5th Fast Patrol Vessel Built By Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) Launched For Indian Coast Guard 

17) NAEC Chairman Lalit Thakral Appointed As The Governing Body of ICIM.

World Crocodile Day - 17th June 

World Day To Combat Desertification And Drought - 17th June 

Theme 2025 - Restore The Land, Unlock The Opportunities 

* Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Has Unveiled The New Logo Of The INDIAN Council Of Philosophical Research (ICPR) At New Delhi.

* Prime Minister Narendra Modi Gifted A Silver Clutch Purse To The First Lady Of CYPRUS, Philipa Karsera.

* PRIME Minister Narendra Modi Gifted Kashmir Silk carpet To President Of Cyprus (Nikos Christodoulides) 

* SANDEEP Batra Has Been Reappointed As The Executive Director Of ICICI Bank For 2 Years.

* DRDO & IIT Delhi Demonstrate The Quantum Entanglement Based Free Space Quantum Secure Communication Over More Than 1 Km Distance.

* Macrotech Developers named Changes From Lodha Developers.

* 51st G7 Summit Set To Host At Kananaskis, Alberta.

* Former RBI Deputy Governor B P Kanungo Has Been Appointed As The Independent Director Of IIFL Finance.

* Ulaanbatar Set To Host The COP 17 In 2026.

* Kolkata Based Sisir Radar Has Developed Drone Borne Synthetic Aperture Radar ( DBSAR) 

* Council Of Europe Development Bank Partners With TCS.

* Sangeet Natak Akademi Award winning Eminent Dancer Mangala Bhatt Passed away.

* KARNAD KALEIDOSCOPE Book Author - Muralidhar Khajane 

* A New Mouse Deer at Gandhi Zoological Park 

* India Wins Bronze At The Under 19 Men's CAVA Championships 2025.

* Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Has Laid Foundation Stone of MINI Planetarium And ASTRO GLOBE Hanle Dark Sky Reserve In Hanle Ladakh 

* ARUNACHAL PRADESH : Whispers From The Hidden World Book Author - Yoges Nair 

* 1) A New Flowering Plant Species PORTULACA BHARAT Discovered In Aravali hills Near Jaipur, ( List Added In Endemic) 

* The Plant Is Discovered Under The Leadership Of Nishant Chauhan, a Committee Member Of Satpura Biodiversity Conservation Society (SCBC) 

* The Genus Portulaca Has Been Finds 153 Species in World 

* In India 11 Species Are Located, Can See At Dry And Semi - Arid Habitat 

2) ISRO Release A Comprehensive Flood Atlas Of Assam, Created Using 26 Years Of Satellite data Between 1998-2023.

3) Border Road Organisation (BRO) India Recived The Platinum Award At The India Skill Development Academy (ISDA) For Sela Tunnel.

4) The Indian Post Payment Bank (IPPB) Has Payment Bank Of The Year And Digital Payment Bank of The Year At The 9th Annual Indian Banking Summit And Awards 2025.

5) The UN General Assembly (UNGA) Has Adopted A Resolution Declaring December 4 Every Year As The International Day Against Unilateral Coercive Measures.

6) india Has Joined The Elite Global Group For Rinderpest Virus Cattle Plague Containment As The ICAR - National Institute Of High Security Animal Disease (NIHSAD) Bhopal Has Been Designate As The Category A Rinderpest Holding Facility.

* The Recognition Has Been Granted By The World Organisation For Animal Health (WOAH) And The Food And Agriculture Organisations (FAO) During The 92nd General Session Of WOAH (Paris) 

7) Indian Contingent Has Won 2 Gold, 8 Silver And 14 Bronze Medal At Thailand Para Badminton International 2025.

8) Lt General AVS Rathee Took Over The Command Of Konark Corps 

9) REIMAGINGI JAMMU & KASHMIR : A Pictorial Journey Book - Asish 

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10) Union Minister For Railway And Information And Broadcast Aswini Vaishnav Has Inaugurated The India's Largest Automobile GATI SHAKTI Multi Modal Cargo Terminal At Maruti Suzuki India Limited, Manesar, Haryana 

11) Chhattisgarh Ranked The Top In The Indian Justice Report 2025 

12) Dr Vikas Kumar And His Team Guidance A New Plant Species Has Been Discovered At Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh 

* Species Name - CREMANTHODIUM 

* FAMILY - ASTERACEAE 

13) Researchers Have Developed a Novel One Stop Colloidal Synthesis Process For Nanoparticles With A Unique Shell Structure With Nanoup Morphology ( That Is Partly Covered With Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) That Can Help With Photothermal Therapy (PTT) To Treat Cancer.

14) ICCR And University Of Nicosia Has Signed MoU To Set Up The ICCR Chair On Indian Studies. (during India - Cyprus) 

15) Professor Anantha Chandrashekharan Has Been Named Massachusetts Institute Of Technology As New Provost.

16) Two Significant Neolithic Archaeological Sites Has Been Identified And Document By Yaakkai Heritage Trust At Adiperumal Temple At Thathanur Tiruppur District 

17) India And Canada Have Agreed To Designate New High Commissioner For The First Time Since 2023.

18) INDOMITABLE : A Working Woman's Notes On Life, Work And Leadership Book Author - Arundhati Bhattacharya 

19) Rajiv Gandhi University Of Arunachal Pradesh Ranked 13th in IIIRF 2025.

20) India's Unemployment Rate Rises 5.6% in May From 5.1% in April.

21) Actress Kangana Ranaut Has Been Appointed As The Brand Ambassador Of World Para Athletic Championships 

22) Akinwumi A Adesina, President Of Development Bank Group Has Been Honoured With Grand Officer Of The Gabonese Order Of Merit 

23) Indian Top Five States With Environment Ranking 

* Andhra Pradesh 68.38 

* Karnataka 67.39 

* Kerala 66.62 

* Gujarat 66.24 

* Goa 65.23 

World Sickle Cell Awareness Day - 19th June 

Theme 2025 - Global Action, Local Impact: Empowering Communities For Effective Self Advocacy 

1) INS ARNALA - The Anti Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft Has Been Launched At The Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam By CDS General Anil Chauhan 

2) Odia Author Raj Kishor Padhi And Subrata Senapati Set To Receive The Bal Sahitya And Yuva PURASKAR Award By Central Sahitya Academy.

3) Indian Origin Professor Eshan Chattopadhyaya Won The 2025 World Godel Prize 2025.

4) Prime Minister Narendra Modi For The First Time Visited To Croatia (As First Indian PM) 

5) Rare Sighting Of Endangered Malbar Tree Toad Tillari Conservation Reserve, Sindhurgarh, Maharashtra .

6) Usain Boult Has Been Inducted into The Guinness World records 

7) India Launched The Operation SINDHU To Evacuate Indian Nationals From Iran. 

8) Hyderabad Based Raghu Vamsi Aerospace Has Unveiled Its Indigenous Kamikaze Drone (200 Km Range) 

9) Vinay Razdan Has Resigns As Chief Human Resources OFFICER Of HDFC BANK.

10) Andrej Plenkovic Has Presented a Reprint Of Vezdin's Sanskrit Grammar - The First Printed Sanskrit Grammar - Written In Latin By Scientist Filip Vezdin ( 1748-1806) 

* PRIME minister Narendra Modi Gifted Patachitra (Odisha ( To The President Of CROATIA ( Zoran Milanovic) 

* Prime Minister Narendra Modi Gifted Silver Candle Stand (Rajasthan) to Croatia PM.

* Prime minister Narendra Modi Gifted Danielle Smith Premier Of Alberta 

* Prime Minister Narendra Modi Gifts Made In Odisha Silver Filigree Clutch Purse To Governor General Of Canada.

11) Google Opens Its First Safety Engineering Centre In The Asia -Pacific Region In Hyderabad.

12) Noted Wildlife Environment Expert Maruti CHITAMPALLI Passed away.

13) Senior IAS OFFICER (1994 Batch ) Anuradha Thakur Appointed As The Part Time Member Of SEBI.

14) Shrivalli Bhamidipatty Wins The Prestigious Billie Jean King Cup Heart Award 

15) THE HINDU Has Awarded Champion Of Digital Media Award South Asia 2025.

16) Former Congress MLA Kakasaheb Patil Passed away.

17) West Bengal Legislative assembly Passed A Bill To Regulate The Cost Of Treatment In Private Clinical Treatment.

18) Dr Shalini Mulick Announced The Winner Of Inaugural Edition Of The IGF Archer Amish Award For Storytellers.

( For The Book The Way  Home) 

19) NCRTC Has Been Awarded Prestigious UITP Award ( Public And Urban Transport) 

20) Bihar Became The First State To Adopt Mobile Based E-voting System.

21) Mukund Acharya Appointed As The Chief Technology Officer Of SPNI.

22) Janhavi Dangeti, India's Youngest Analogue Astronaut elected For Historic 2029 Low Earth Orbit Expedition. ( FROM ANDHRA PRADESH) 

23) Nederlands Woman Team Has Win The FIH Pro League 2025 Title.

24) Reena Wins The Women's 55 kg Category Gold At The Under 23 Wrestling Championships.

* Sumit Wins Gold In Men's 55 Kg Category ( Men's) Ate U23 wrestling Greco Roman 

25) Indian Institute Of Astrophysics (IIA) Bengaluru Scientists Discovered a New Kind Of Stellar Chemistry 

* 1) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Gifted Mexico Prime minister Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo A Warli Painting During G7 Canada Summit.

2) 2007 IPS Batch Dr Sunil Gupta Has Been Appointed As The Deputy Director In The Bureau Of Police Research And Development By The Ministry Of Home Affairs.

3) IIT Mumbai Rank 2nd In India (129 Globally) By QS World University Ranking 2026.

123- IIT DELHI (World Ranking) 

129 - IIT BOMBAY 

180 - IIT MADRAS 

215 - IIT KHARAGPUR 

219 - IISC BENGALURU 

222 - IIT KANPUR 

334 - IIT GUWAHATI 

339 - DELHI UNIVERSITY 

465 - ANNA UNIVERSITY 

503 - SHOOLONI UNIVERSITY 

556 - IIT INDORE 

558 - JNU 

566 - IIT VARANASI 

566 - SAVITRI BAI PHULE UNIVERSITY 

575 - Chandigarh University 

664 - IIT HYDERABAD 

664 - UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI 

668 - BITS PILANI 

676 - JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY 

691 - VIT VELLORE 

696 - SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL 

4) Reena Wins Gold In Women's 55 Kg At The Asian Under 23 Wrestling Championships.

* Priyansi Panipat Wins Gold In Women's 50kg At Under 23 Championship 

5) Sumit Wins India's First And Only Greco Roman Gold Medal At The 2025 Asian Under 23 Championship.

6) The India Central American Integration System (ICAIS) Virtual Dialogue INDIA -SICA Cooperation Held On 18th June 2025.

7) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Issues The RBI ( Project Finance) Direction 2025.

8) Bengaluru Will Host The Prestigious Billie Jean King Cup On 14th To 16th November 2025.

9) Radhika Gupta, MD & CEO Of Edelweiss Mutual Fund Launched His Book - MANGO MILLIONAIRE 

10) Two Time Wimbledon Champion Petra Kvitova Announced Retirement From International Tennis. (POST US OPEN SHE WILL RETIRE) 

* 31 TITLES 

* 6 X Fed Cup 

* Rio 2016 Bronze Medallist 

11) Assam Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) 480 In 2006 

125 In 2022 

12) Rafael Nadal Has Been Awarded The Noble Title Of Marquis Of Llevant de Mallorca By King Felipe VI Of Spain.

13) India Restricted The Imported Of Palladium, Rhodium And Iridium Alloy With Over 1% Gold By Weight.

14) IIT GUWAHATI Has Developed Fluoride Removal System That Treats 1000 Litres Of Water For Rs 20.

15) Jiya Rai, a 13 Years Old Girl From Kolkata Who Swam Srilanka To India in 13 Hours (Sea) 

16) Shreya Krishna Avl, Sailor Champion From Tamilnadu, Topped At The 16th YAI Monsoon Regatta 2025 Held At Hussain Sagar Lake, Hyderabad.

17) Former AIFF Vice President And Executive Committee Member Atuo Mezur Passed away.

18) Veteran Actor - Director Vivek Lagoo Passed away.

19) Bangladesh Government Appoints Asad Alam Siam As New Foreign Secretary.

20) WOMEN And Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi Launched a Gender Budgeting Knowledge Hub Portal.

21) Former Minister And Senior Leader Mangani Lal Mandal Has Officially Appointed As The New RJD President Of Bihar.

International Yoga Day - 21st June

Theme 2025 - Yoga For One Earth, One Health 

World Refugee Day - 20th June

1) GM Harika Dronavalli Has Finishes As Third At The Cairns Cup 2025.

2) Professor Suman Chakraborty Has Been Appointed As The Director Of IIT Kharagpur.

3) Under SEEDS ( Supply Of Equipment For Efficient Development Of SMES) Initiative India Sends USD 1 Million Worth SMe Machinery To St Vincent.

4) Sivasubramaniam Ramann Has Been Appointed As The Chairperson Of PFRDA.

5) NDTV India Appoints Rohit Vishwakarma As Managing Editor.

6) According To UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) More Than 100 Million People Are Currently Displaced in 2024.

7) Velavan Senthil Kumar Wins Bronze Medal At The Asian Squash Championship 2025.

8) Doomsday Fish Has Been Spotted In India.

9) Indian Navy Ship INS TEG Has Arrives Port Louis, Mauritius To Take Joint Surveillance Of Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone.

10) Prime minister Narendra Modi Inaugurates The Odisha Vision Documents 2036 & 2047 At Bhubaneswar 

* Prime minister Narendra Modi Flagged Of Train Service And Flagged 100 Electric Buses.

* For The First Time Train Service Connecting To Boudh District of Odisha (18600 Crores Project Launched) 

11) President Droupadi Murmu Has Unveiled A Commemorative Postage Stamp Marking 125 Years Of Rajbhavan Nainital - 

12) BEL Has Received The Gold award For Adoption Of Smart Governance (e Chhawani Project) At Economics Times PSU Leadership And Excellence Award 2025.

13) H E Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri, Appointed As The Minister Of Economy And Tourism UAE 

* DR Thani Bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi Has Been Appointed As The Minister Of Foreign Trade Of UAE 

14) Prime minister Narendra Modi Flagged Off a State Of Art Locomotive Built At The Marhowra Plant, For Export To Republic Of Guinea 

15) Veteran Social Activist And Daily Newspapers SAMAJ (ODIA) Former Editor Niranjan Rath Passed away.

16) Hyderabad Based Paninian india Has Unveiled SVAYATT - L1 Next Generation Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile.

17) RBI Extends The Tenure Of Arun Kumar Singh As Additional Director Of Bandhan Bank.

18) Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta Has Unveiled The LOGO, MASCOT And Theme Of World Para Athletic Championships 2025 At New Delhi.

19) Indian Post Payment Bank (IPPB) Honours With The Digital Payment Awards By Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

20) President Draupadi Murmu Inaugurated The Rasthrapati Niketan And Rasthrapati Tapovan In Dehradun, Uttarakhand.

21) Indian Animation Movie DESI OON Has Won JURY AWARD At The ANNENCY Festival.

22) Scientists From The Centre For Nano And Soft Matter Sciences ( CeNS) Bengaluru Have Developed Next Generation Device That Produces Green Hydrogen By Splitting Water Molecules Using Only Solar Energy And Earth Abundant Materials, 

23) Neeraj Chopra Finishes As Top With 88.16 m At Prestigious Paris Diamond League 2025.

2nd Julian Weber -87.88m 

3rd Da Silva - 86.62m 

24) The Asian Development Bank And The World Bank Have Approved The Loan Worth Rs USD 1.5 Billion For Reforming Banking Sector.

25) UN Declare 2026 As The International Year Of Women Farmer.

26) Vijay Kumar Wins The James Beard Award For Best Chef.

27) DFCC Bank Became First Foreign Corporate To List A Bond On India's On NSE International Exchange.

1) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Releases The Commemorative Stamp On The Occasions Of 11th Anniversary Of International Yoga Day 

2) K Paul Thomas, Former MD & CEO Of ESAF Small Finance Bank Elected As The Chairman Of Sa-Dhan.

3) Vishakapatanam Host The 11th Edition Of International Day Of Yoga 2025.

4) 2011 Batch IPS OFFICER Sanjay Sain Has Been Appointed As The Deputy Inspector General (DIG) In The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).

5) Indian Woman Wrestlers Wins 9 Medals Including 5 Gold And Four Silver At Under 23 Asian Wrestling Championships Vietnam.

6) India's Maaya Rajeshwaran Clinched ITF J200 Gladbeck Title 2025.

7) Nitesh And Tulasimathi Wins Gold In Mixed Doubles At Asian Para Badminton Championship.

8) Manisha Wins Gold In SU5 Women's Single At Asian Para Badminton Championship 2025.

9) Odisha Government Has Notified The Revision Of Compensation For Depredation Under The Wildlife ( Protection) Odisha Rules 1974.

10) Nikhil Clinched Gold Medal In FS 61 Kg At Under 23 Asian Championship 2025.

11) Marathi Actor Tushar Ghadi Gaonkar Passed away.

12) Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Has Honour With The Honour To Civil Merit By Governor Of Bolivar.

13) Sukant Kadam & K Nitesh Have Won The Gold Medal In Men's Double At Asian Para Badminton Championship 2025.

14) Indian Para Athletes Have Won 16 Medals Including 3 Gold, 7 Silver And 6 Bronze Medal At Tunis World Para Athletics Grand Prix 2025.

15) Kerala Launched India's First Space And Defence Park.

16) Former International Cricketer Dave Syd Lawrence Passed away.

17) The Karnataka State Government Has Proposed To Introduce The Karnataka ( Prevention And Exclusion Or Injustice) (Right To Education And DIGNITY) Bill 2025.

18) Uttarakhand Has Launched India's First Yoga POLICY.