23 June 2026 | English | FREE Current Affairs PDF

1. The Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare (DoPPW) has implemented various digital and grassroots initiatives over the past twelve years to improve the ease of living and digital empowerment of pensioners across India.

2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi disbursed incentives amounting to approximately ₹2,400 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana (PM-VBRY) during a special event held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.

3. Shri Vivek Aggarwal, Secretary in the Ministry of Culture, has been appointed as the Vice-President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for the July 2026 to June 2027 term, marking India’s first-ever tenure in this leadership position.

4. The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) to establish a long-term climate monitoring station under the Bharat Climate Observation Network (BCON).

5. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) signed a contract worth approximately ₹425 crore with Bharat Forge Limited, Pune, to acquire 12 sets of 1.25 Megawatt (MW) Marine Gas Turbine Generators for the Indian Navy.

6. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of a ₹25,016 crore coal gasification project at Lakhanpur in Jharsuguda district, Odisha, to establish India’s first commercial-scale coal-to-ammonium nitrate facility.

7. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) voted unanimously to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 5.25 per cent and maintain its neutral stance during its sixty first meeting held from June 3 to 5, 2026.

8. The beauty and personal care (BPC) products market in India is projected to reach 39 billion United States Dollars (USD) by 2030, driven by a fundamental shift in consumer behaviour, according to the Flipkart GlamUp Annual Beauty Trends Report 2026.

9. The Ministry of Coal announced that coal gasification projects worth more than sixty-five thousand crore rupees are currently under execution in India to convert coal into chemicals, fuels, and industrial feedstock.

10. The Department of Public Enterprises under the Ministry of Finance has officially upgraded Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited to a Navratna Central Public Sector Enterprise, making it the twenty-eighth such entity in India.

11. The consumer goods giant Unilever has entered into a multi-year partnership with the professional services firm Accenture to scale up its factory floor operations by building more than forty new artificial intelligence-powered digital twins over the next eighteen months.

12. According to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India’s foreign exchange reserves declined by 9.985 billion United States Dollars (USD) to hit 671.625 billion United States Dollars for the week ended 12 June.

13. The net direct tax collections of India grew by 14.64 per cent year-on-year to reach 5.21 trillion rupees between 1 April and 17 June 2026 for the Financial Year 2026–27 (FY27).

14. Multiple prominent Indian commercial banks and financial institutions are preparing to collectively raise over two billion United States Dollars (USD) through international bond markets to leverage a concessional currency swap window introduced by the central bank.

15. Essar Energy Transition Fuels and International Resources Holding Global Trading signed a 500 million United States Dollar agreement to establish a strategic crude oil sourcing and product supply facility for the Stanlow refinery in the United Kingdom.

16. The Andhra Pradesh State Investment Promotion Board cleared new industrial and technological investment proposals from 50 companies worth 30,515 crore rupees, which are projected to generate 29,677 jobs across the state.

17. The Maharashtra government has granted in-principle approval to set up a state-level MANTRA hub with an allocation of 60 crore rupees at the University of Mumbai to support patent filing, intellectual property management, and technology transfer.

18. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) cleared twenty-two crore rupees in financial aid for nine startups under the National Green Hydrogen Mission (NGHM) and launched the Green Hydrogen Certification Portal of India (GHCI).

19. The Government of India has approved the appointment of Hitesh Rameshchandra Joshi as the Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) of the state-owned General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC Re).

20. On World Sickle Cell Day (June 19, 2026), PACE Hospitals highlighted the critical role of early diagnostic testing, public awareness, and equitable healthcare access under the global theme “Closing the Survival Gap: Equity in Sickle Cell Disease.”

21. Renowned American scholar of Tibetan Buddhism and Padma Shri awardee Professor Robert A.F. Thurman passed away at the age of 84 in Woodstock, New York.

22. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has emerged as India’s highest-ranked institution by climbing to 118th position globally in the QS World University Rankings 2027, while the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) secured the world’s number one spot for the 15th consecutive year.

23. According to the Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER) 2026, Bengaluru has secured the second spot in Asia for AI innovation and officially entered the global top 10 rankings for both ecosystem performance and R&D.

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