Current Affairs

Current Affairs at a glance

> World Food Safety Day - 7 June
Theme - Food Safety Everyone's Business

> Financial Literacy Week - June 3 to June 7
Theme - Farmers

> World Brain Tumor Day - 8 June

> World Oceans Day - 8 June
Theme - Gender and the Ocean

> Former Doordarshan and All India Radio News Editor Laldingliana Sailo passed away in Aizawl

> IAF signs a deal worth Rs. 300 crore with Israel to buy around 100 Spice-2000 bombs

> Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy makes a record of having max 5 deputy chief ministers and a full cabinet of 25 members which would represent the aspirations of all communities

> Tata Mutual Fund announces India's first mutual fund side pocket

> Liverpool won the Europeans's biggest club tournament Champions League for the sixth time

> Zarengold, the first tourist train in Russian arctic region started from St. Petersburg railway station

> Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will attend 2 day meeting of G-20 Finance Ministries and Central Bank Governors in Japan

> Rihanna becomes the World's richest female musician according to Forbes Magazine

> Tamil Nadu signs $287 million loan agreement with World Bank for its Health Reform Programme TNHSRP

> 2 week long Garuda Exercise will take place from July Ist between Indian Air Force and French Air Force

> PM Modi reconstitutes NITI Aayog by introducing Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah and Nirmal Sitharaman as ex-officio members of the think tank headed by PM Modi, Rajiv Kumar will continue to be the vice-chairperson

> Wipro founder and recipient of Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan awards Azim H Premji will retire by the end of July

> Tree Bank inaugurated on World Environment Day by Tata Steel

> Tayari Jones wins 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction for her fourth novel 'An American Marriage'

> Former UEFA president Lennart Johnsson dies

> Sweden's teenage climate acitvist Greta Thunberg got Amnesty award

> 2019 Women's FIFA world cup began in France

> Justice Dhirubhai Naranbhai sworn in Chief Justice of Delhi High Court

> Military government chief Prayuth Chan-ocha elected Thai PM

> India born Pramila Jayapal becomes first South Asian American Woman to chair US house

> Six time Grammy award winner singer and song writer Dr John passed away at age of 77 due to heart attack

> Confederation of Indian Industry has launched a Fiscal Performance index to assess state and central budgets

> Kumar Ayer becomes first Indian Origin member in UK Foreign Office Board

> N Gopalswami appointed first BCCI's electoral officer

> Former US President Jimmy Carter receives Statesmanship award

> PM Modi to be conferred with Maldives's highest honor 'Rule of Nishan Izzuddeen'

> Mahindra automobile wins Gold Medal in South Africa

> SriLankan airlines named world's most punctual airlines

> Rafael Nadal and Ashleigh Barty wins French Open 2019

> Lewis Hamilton wins Canadian Grand Prix

> India will gift a cricket stadium to Maldives

> India and Maldive agrees to launch Ferry service between kochi and Maldivian Capital Male

> Sri Lankan President Srisena gifted Buddha statue to PM Modi

> Bangladesh elected as UNWTO vice president 

> Bengluru CM Kumaraswamy launches 'Pink Sarathi' vehicles under Nirbhaya scheme

> Hyderabad to host International Quran Exhibition

> Portugal wins UEFA Nations League by beating Netherlands

> India's first dinosaur museum to be built in Gujrat

> Canada to ban single use plastics from 2021

> Novak Djokovic topped in  ATP rankings of 2019