Defence Exams (NDA, CDS, CAPF) Current Affairs – June 2026

National

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2 National — Defence Exams (NDA, CDS, CAPF) Current Affairs – June 2026.

• Vibrant Villages Programme-II will develop 184 strategic villages in five border districts of Rajasthan: Sri Ganganagar 68, Bikaner 46, Barmer 36, Jaisalmer 30 and Phalodi 4.
• The programme aims to stop migration from villages on the international border, create livelihood chances and strengthen border security, with roads, power, drinking water, health, education, tourism and self-employment.

International

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1 International — 3 Jun.

• 3 Jun — The UN Security Council has 15 members: five permanent (China, France, Russia, UK, USA) and ten non-permanent, elected for two years with half renewed every year. India has been a non-permanent member eight times.

Economy & Banking

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4 Economy & Banking — Defence Exams (NDA, CDS, CAPF) Current Affairs – June 2026.

• These minerals matter for nuclear energy, missile defence, space technology, electric vehicles, semiconductors, strong magnets and wind turbines.
• The Centre has marked parts of the Siwana area as critical mineral blocks, and their auction and development are moving ahead, supporting India's critical mineral security and Atmanirbhar Bharat.
• The minister said strengthening Akashvani and Doordarshan in border areas from Kashmir to Kutch is a major aim, and urged a digital-first radio strategy with hyper-local content from local artists and craftspeople.
• A new person-to-person cross-border remittance link between India and Nepal was launched by joining UPI with Nepal's NPI, and NPCI International started UPI in Cambodia with a local bank.

Science & Technology

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1 Science & Technology — 3 Jun.

• 3 Jun — During the UK Foreign Secretary's visit, a mineral-security observatory was set up at IIT Dhanbad in partnership with the University of Cambridge.

Defence & Security

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5 Defence & Security — Defence Exams (NDA, CDS, CAPF) Current Affairs – June 2026.

• India gave Seychelles a fast patrol vessel, 10 utility vehicles and 15 Laser Radial class boats for its defence forces, plus 6 ambulances and supplies of rice and cement.
• India and France agreed to set up a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility for Rafale engines and to make Hammer missiles in India. They also agreed on a joint working group on AI and emerging technologies.
• The SIPRI Yearbook 2026 says nuclear-armed countries hold about 9,745 warheads in military stockpiles, of which about 86% belong to the USA and Russia.
• SIPRI ranks India the second-largest arms importer in 2021-25, after Ukraine. India also spent about $92 billion on its military in 2025, among the world's top spenders.
• The US Defense Department renamed the US Indo-Pacific Command back to US Pacific Command, dropping the word "Indo".

Appointments

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2 Appointments — 30 Jun.

Summits, Agreements & Exercises

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2 Summits, Agreements & Exercises — 3 Jun.

• 3 Jun — UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper visited India on 3-4 June, her first visit since taking office. The UK-India outcomes included a new University of Liverpool campus in Bengaluru and a Regional Maritime Security Centre of Excellence.
• 3 Jun — On 3 June 2026, Latvia, Austria, Kyrgyzstan, Zimbabwe and Trinidad and Tobago were chosen as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for 2027-28. Kyrgyzstan will sit on the Council for the first time.

International

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16 International — 5 Jun.

• UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) was founded in 1964 and has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
• The report finds serious challenges for India in 7 of the 17 SDGs. Hunger (SDG-2) is the worst, with the world's highest child malnutrition rate, while electricity access (SDG-7) and mobile internet use (SDG-9) improved.
• There are 17 Sustainable Development Goals with 169 targets, adopted by UN members in 2015 under the 2030 Agenda. In India, NITI Aayog is the nodal agency for the SDGs.
• Bangladesh's foreign minister Khalilur Rahman won the presidency of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, defeating Cyprus's envoy Andreas S. Kakouris by 99 votes to 91, out of 190 valid votes.
• The UN General Assembly was founded in 1945 and is based in New York. It has 193 members with one vote each, meets every September, and its presidency rotates among five regional groups.
• Lithuania became the first country to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty, the international treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, in March 2025.
• India's fall in the Global Peace Index was blamed on rising tension with Pakistan and Myanmar and ethnic violence in Manipur.
• Malaysia ordered social media accounts of children under 16 to be closed, made age-check systems mandatory on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and set fines of up to ₹24 crore.
• The UAE became the first Arab country to keep children up to 5 years away from social media, the strictest age limit.
• Canada introduced a new Social Media Act in Parliament that blocks social media use up to age 16.
• A federal court in Boston held the Trump administration's $100,000 (about ₹86 lakh) fee on H-1B visa applications to be wrong.
• Venezuela declared a nationwide state of emergency after a series of earthquakes struck the country in June 2026.
• Venezuela is in South America with Caracas as capital. It has the world's largest oil reserves, plus coal, iron ore, bauxite and gold.
• Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky returned Poland's highest honour, the Order of the White Eagle.
• Sri Lanka decided that indelible ink, which is used to mark the fingers of voters, will not be used in its future elections.
• 5 Jun — The G7 is an informal group with no permanent headquarters, begun in 1975 by six countries. Canada joined in 1976, Russia in 1998 (making it G8), and Russia was removed in 2014.

Summits, Agreements & Exercises

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11 Summits, Agreements & Exercises — 1 Jun – 27 Jun.

• The Netherlands' Queen Maxima, the UN Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance, visited India in late June to study India's UPI payment system.
• Uzbekistan became the newest member and the first from Central Asia of the New Development Bank (set up by BRICS in 2015, headquartered in Shanghai). Every member has one vote and none has a veto.
• India and Seychelles agreed on an Exim Bank umbrella line of credit, a UPI-based payment system, export of cheap generic medicines under Jan Aushadhi, an extradition treaty, and a 2026-31 agriculture action plan.
• During PM Modi's visit to France, both countries resolved to double bilateral trade within five years. The first "Bharat Innovates 2026" event was held at Nice.
• 1 Jun — Laos Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongsavanh Phomvihane made his first visit to India on 1-3 June, the 70th year of diplomatic ties. Both sides agreed to hold the Joint Commission meeting soon, and Laos invited Indian businesses to invest.
• 3 Jun — Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez Gomez visited India on 3-7 June, her sixth visit (earlier as foreign minister and vice-president). Both sides agreed to carry forward their long-term energy partnership.
• 5 Jun — The 52nd G7 Summit was held at Evian, France, on 5-7 June 2026 under President Emmanuel Macron, with India invited as a special guest. Its theme was building new partnerships and renewing international solidarity.
• 5 Jun — Besides India, the guests at the 2026 G7 Summit included Brazil, Egypt, South Korea, Qatar, Ukraine and the UAE.
• 5 Jun — G7 leaders agreed to prioritise cancer research (a French initiative), to cut dependence on outside countries for rare minerals below 60% by 2030, and to make children's chatbots and platforms safer with tech companies.
• 5 Jun — The G7 formed a new Critical Minerals Resilience and Production Alliance to keep the supply of minerals used in clean energy and digital technology reliable.
• 27 Jun — PM Modi made a state visit to Seychelles on 27-29 June 2026 and held talks with President Dr Patrick Herminie.

Science & Technology

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14 Science & Technology — 5 Jun – 29 Jun.

• JLN Medical College, Ajmer started a robotic surgery programme, the first of its kind in the state government system, inaugurated by Assembly Speaker Vasudev Devnani. It should improve surgical accuracy and train doctors in advanced technology.
• Robotic surgery at JLN Medical College, Ajmer, is expected to make operations more precise, reduce errors and let doctors learn new technology.
• Pune-based Nibe Limited completed the first technical trial of its indigenous loitering munition system Vayu Astra-1 at the Pokhran firing range in Jaisalmer district.
• Vayu Astra-1 uses advanced Israeli loitering-munition technology adapted to Indian needs and can strike anti-personnel targets up to 100 km away with a 10 kg warhead. A 'no-cost, no-commitment' demo was also shown.
• A loitering munition is a weapon that keeps circling in the air until a target is fixed and then dives straight onto it. This is its key feature.
• Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced an advanced quantum computing and communication lab and a separate AI lab at MNIT Jaipur. The quantum lab comes under MeitY's ICT academic project.
• The MNIT quantum lab will build indigenous capability in quantum key distribution (QKD), quantum computing simulation and quantum sensing hardware, and MNIT is to lead research in post-quantum cryptography. The AI lab will link to the IndiaAI Mission network.
• MNIT students will get access to Lam Research's Semiverse platform, a digital-twin system for learning chip making. More than 100 chips designed by students have already been made at the Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL), Mohali.
• The UC Berkeley School of Law banned the use of AI in exams, drafting, classwork and translation.
• The North Pole Dome in Western Australia is now considered the oldest known meteorite impact site on Earth, about 3.024 billion years old.
• 5 Jun — India's first E85 fuel, with 85% ethanol, was launched in Delhi on 5 June 2026. It is cheaper than petrol, has a higher octane rating and causes less pollution.
• 29 Jun — The Suman Roadmap 2030 aims to bring maternal deaths below 70 per 1 lakh live births by 2030, with special focus on 30 districts in 13 states where the rate is high.
• 29 Jun — The Samagra Shishu Bal Swasthya Karyakram (SSBSK) gives continuous home- and community-based care to children up to 36 months. It merges two older home-care schemes for newborns and young children.
• 29 Jun — The upgraded Anemia Mukt Bharat adds tracking to the old test-treat-talk model, making a four-step model, and brings low-birth-weight newborns in as a new beneficiary group.

Environment & Ecology

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14 Environment & Ecology — Defence Exams (NDA, CDS, CAPF) Current Affairs – June 2026.

• The Supreme Court sharply reprimanded the Rajasthan government after toxic industrial waste was found flowing into the Jojri river in Jodhpur through an illegal underground pipeline about 4 km long. It ordered accountability and action against guilty officials.
• The Jojri is a major tributary of the Luni river. The court said a clean environment is part of the right to life under Article 21, and told the state, RSPCB and other agencies to act within time limits.
• Union Forest Minister Bhupender Yadav and MoS Sanjay Seth laid foundations of and inaugurated works worth over ₹46 crore in Alwar, including canal lining (₹42.80 crore) and the Bhandera anicut (₹3.34 crore).
• Sariska Tiger Reserve in Alwar currently has a family of 56 tigers, tigresses and cubs.
• The Aravalli committee will check whether mining is spreading unchecked beyond the fixed distance limits in the Aravalli hills.
• Jai Prakash Narayan Bird Sanctuary, Ballia (Uttar Pradesh), became India's 100th Ramsar site. It hosts many birds that migrate every year from Siberia and Central Asia.
• The Ramsar Convention, a treaty to protect wetlands, was adopted in 1971 in Ramsar, Iran, and came into force in 1975. Tamil Nadu has the most Ramsar sites among Indian states.
• The Delhi Bird Atlas, a joint report of the Delhi Forest Department and Bird Count India, recorded 471 bird species in the capital, the most of any world capital after Nairobi.
• The National Biodiversity Authority issued a standard procedure under Section 38 of the Biodiversity Act, 2002, to identify and notify threatened species. So far 59 plant and 73 animal species from 17 states and 3 Union Territories are notified.
• The UNICEF Children's Climate Risk Report 2026 found about 29.6 crore children exposed to drought, extreme heat and heatwaves together, and 33.7 crore to river flood risk. Malaria threatens over 1 crore children.
• In UNICEF's 2026 climate risk report, the risk to children is highest in Somalia, Madagascar, Myanmar, Cambodia and Pakistan.
• The municipality of Terrasses-Vaudreuil in Quebec, Canada, legally recognised trees as living beings and will run programmes to protect trees, plant saplings and raise environmental awareness.
• India and Japan approved rules to put their Joint Crediting Mechanism into effect, to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
• The International Big Cat Alliance summit in New Delhi, planned for 1 July and focused on seven big cats (tiger, lion, leopard, snow leopard, cheetah, jaguar, puma), was postponed.

Sports

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3 Sports — Defence Exams (NDA, CDS, CAPF) Current Affairs – June 2026.

• India won the FIH Women's Hockey Nations Cup 2025-26 in New Zealand, beating the hosts 2-0 in the final. It is India's second Nations Cup title, after 2022.
• India won a record sixth SAFF Women's Championship at Goa in 2026, beating Bangladesh in the final.
• At the first World Yogasana Championship 2026 in Ahmedabad, India topped the medal table with 114 medals, including 102 gold. Athletes from 79 countries took part.

Awards & Honours

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9 Awards & Honours — Defence Exams (NDA, CDS, CAPF) Current Affairs – June 2026.

Appointments

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3 Appointments — 1 Jun.

Important Days

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1 Important Days — Defence Exams (NDA, CDS, CAPF) Current Affairs – June 2026.

• The CM announced a special yoga programme at Abu Raj on International Yoga Day under the theme 'Virasat Bhi, Vikas Bhi' (heritage as well as development).