DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 21ST JUNE 2026

International Yoga Day - 21st June 

THEME 2026 - YOGA FOR HEALTHY AGEING 

1) Garden Reach Shipbuilders And Engineering (GRSE) Limited Gets Navaratna STATUS.

2) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Along With President Droupadi MURMU Have Laid Foundation Stone of India's First Commercial Scale Coal To Ammonium Nitrate Project In Jharsuguda, Odisha 

* World's 2nd Largest Coal Producer 

* The Project Being Developed By Bharat Coal Gasification And Chemical LIMITED ( BCGCL) A Joint Venture Of Coal India Limited And BHEL 

2) Union Home Minister Amit Shah Has Launched The NCRB - ABHIGYAN, CrPI, e-prosecution 2.0, Application At 26th All India Fingerprint Conference 2026 New Delhi 

* ABHIGYAN - A Next Generation Fingerprint Identification Platform That Gives Police Access To Over 1.29 Crores Fingerprint Records Through The NATIONAL Automated Fingerprint Identification SYSTEM 

* Suspect Identification In 35 Seconds 

3) Professor Jainendra Jain Became The First Indian To Win Prestigious WOLF Prize 2026 In Physics.

4) Neeraj Chopra Finishes Fourth At Doha Diamond LEAGUE.

* Rumesh Tharanga Ranked FIRST With 88.68 Meter ( Srilanka) 

5) An International Collaboration From Nalanda University, MAHE MANIPAL, Nagaland University, AND Teri Has Scoured 22km Stretch Of Brahamani River, Odisha For Microplastic, It's Carrying Toxic Cargo Of Chromium, Copper, Zinc, Cadmium, ( An Ecologically Sensitive Delta) 

6) Indian - Australian Scientist Professor Rajeev Varshney Named Among The World's Top Agri Food Pioneer. ( BY World Food Prize Foundation) 

7) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Has Inaugurated The Jowai - Nartiang - Kdiap - Khanduli ( JNKK) Road At Wahiajer Football Stadium In Meghalaya 

8) 1998 Batch IFS OFFICER Vishvas Vidu Sapkal Has Appointed As India's Next Ambassador To Slovak Republic.

9) The Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare Has Issued a Notification Under Section 26 A Of The Drug And Cosmetic Act 1940 

* Prohibiting The Manufacture The Sale, Sale And Distribution For Human Use Of 16 Fixed Dose Combination (FDC,)

10) Tunisia Vs Japan Marked The 1000th FIFA Games 

11) Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma Has Launched The ONDC - Digi Dukaan Initiative 

12) Lt Governor Of Delhi Taranjit Singh Sandhu Inaugurated The First Ever Woman Police Station Of Delhi 

13) IIT ROORKEE Researchers Have Identified Key Bioactive Compound In Ayurvedic Cow Urine Distillate ( Demonstrating The Significant Anti Viral Activity Against The Chickengunya Virus 

14) India's First 8 Lane Road Tunnel Beneath A Wildlife SANCTUARY Open On Delhi - Mumbai Expressway 

15) An Indian Army Observer Participated For The First Time In The OPERATION RENDER SAFE -2026 At East New Britain, Papua New Guinea From 15-19th June 2026 

* It Is Aimed To Enhance The Inter Operability And Cooperation In The Unexploded Ordnance ( UXO) And Explosive Remnants OF War (ERW) 

16) Indian Army's Lt General Manish Luthra Has Appointed As The GOC In C Of II STRIKE Corps 

17) The Brahmaputra Board Has Launched The Basisth Riverfront Development Project At Guwahati 

18) Bolivia Declared The State Of Emergency Because Of Economic Pressure