26 June Current Affairs 2025
🛡 Defense & Military • 🔬 Science & Technology • 🏅 Sports • 💰 Finance & Economy • 🏛 Government & Policy • 👥 Social Issues & Demography • 🎨 Arts & Culture | 20 MCQs | Practice & Earn XP
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📌 Quick Summary — 26 June Current Affairs 2025
🛡 Defense & Military
- Civilian Defence Minister: South Korean President nominated Ahn Gyu-back as the civilian Defence Minister, marking the first time in 64 years a civilian has been appointed to this role.
- ConvEx-3 (2025): The exercise is conducted to test and strengthen global preparedness and response mechanisms for severe nuclear or radiological emergencies with cross-border consequences.
🔬 Science & Technology
- EMM-negative Blood Group: The International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) officially recognized a new blood group system called EMM-negative, colloquially known as “Gwada negative”.
🏅 Sports
- Men’s FIH Hockey Junior World Cup 2025: The tournament will be hosted in Tamil Nadu, India.
- Jasprit Bumrah Record: Became the first Asian bowler to take 150 Test wickets across SENA countries (South Africa, England, New Zealand, and Australia).
- Rishabh Pant Century: In June 2025, he became the first Indian wicketkeeper-batsman to score a century in both innings of a Test match.
💰 Finance & Economy
- DGFT Import Ban: Banned the import of alloys of Palladium, Rhodium, and Iridium if they contain more than 1% gold by weight.
- Eutelsat Investment: Bharti Space Limited, a part of Bharti Enterprises, decided to invest Rs 313 crore in the French satellite operator Eutelsat.
🏛 Government & Policy
- UN Sustainable Development Report 2025: India ranks 99th out of 167 countries.
- NAVYA Initiative: Launched from Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh; a joint effort by MWCD and MSDE focusing on vocational training for young adolescent girls.
- National Conference of Estimates Committees: Inaugurated by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
- International Day of Women in Diplomacy: Celebrated globally every year on 24th June.
- Global Peace Index 2025: India ranks 115th globally with a GPI score of 2.229.
- Wings to Our Hopes Volume-2: A compilation of speeches delivered by the President of India, Draupadi Murmu.
👥 Social Issues & Demography
- International Day Against Drug Abuse: Observed every year on 26th June.
- OBC Status to Transgender: The Assam government announced that the transgender community in the state will be granted Other Backward Class (OBC) status.
🎨 Arts & Culture
- Chios Island: Located in the northeastern Aegean Sea, near the coast of Turkey (Greek island).
- JCB Prize: Awarded for outstanding work in the field of Literature (established in 2018).
- The New World Book: Authored by Ram Madhav, launched by the Vice-President.
- Guinness World Record for Yoga: Largest Yoga gathering at one place created in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
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