NATIONAL NEWS

Khalistani operative Arrested

• National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested Kashmir Singh Galwaddi, a key Khalistani operative and one of the escapees from the high-profile 2016 Nabha jail break.

National Investigation Agency (NIA)

Blood camp at Ambedkar International Centre

• Minister of State for Science and Technology Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurated a blood camp at Ambedkar International Centre in the New Delhi on the occasion of National Technology Day.

STATE SPECIAL NEWS

Kerala to challenge Waqf Act

• The Kerala government has issued instructions to its legal officers to file an impleading petition to challenge the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 in the Supreme Court.

Kerala

Shivaji statue installed

• Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis unveiled a grand statue of Maratha ruler Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at the Rajkot fort in Sindhudurg which was collapsed earlier.

Maharashtra

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

US-China Trade Deal

• The United States announced a trade deal with China in Geneva, Switzerland which was hosted by Swiss government.

United States of America (USA)

“Failed free market experiment” Ends in UK

• The British government outlined plans to end what it called the “failed free market experiment” in mass immigration by restricting skilled worker visas to graduate-level jobs and forcing businesses to increase training for local workers.

United Kingdom

IMPORTANT DAYS

Buddha Purnima

• Buddha Purnima or Buddha Day is a Buddhist festival was celebrated today commemorating the birth of the prince Siddhartha Gautama but also the day when he attained Nirvana under the Mahabodhi tree at Bodh Gaya.

Buddhism

PERSON IN NEWS

Subbanna Ayyappan

• The body of former Director-General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Subbanna Ayyappan, 69, was recovered from the Cauvery at Srirangapatna, near Mysuru, in Karnataka.

Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)

ENVIRONMENT + SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

NASA-ISRO Radar Satellite

• According to Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman Dr. V. Narayanan the NASA-ISRO synthetic approach radar satellite is likely to be launched next month (June, 2025).

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

Scales Mount Kanchenjunga

• A team of 10 mountaineers comprising five Nepalese and five climbers from the UK, Kosovo, Iran and the UAE have successfully climbed the world’s third-highest peak – the 8,586-metre-high Mount Kanchenjunga.
• The feat achieved marks the first ascent of the peak this climbing season.

World’s longest banana infructescence

• An infructescence of about 4.2 metres has been recorded in a species of wild banana (Musa indandamanensis) from Andaman and Nicobar islands, making it the longest infructescence recorded in bananas across the world.

DEFENCE NEWS

Full Authority for Counteraction

• Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi reviewed the security situation with the Army Commanders of the Western Borders and granted full authority to the army commanders for counteraction in the kinetic domain to any violation of the understanding reached after the DGMO.

SPORTS

Archery World Cup 2025

• At the Archery World Cup Stage 2, India finished its campaign with seven medals, including two gold, one silver and four bronze medals in Shanghai, China.
• India’s Parth Sushant Salunkhe clinched a Bronze medal in Men’s Individual Recurve, while Deepika Kumari also won a Bronze in Women’s Individual Recurve event.

India-Sri Lanka Tri-Nation ODI Series

• The Indian women’s cricket team thrashed Sri Lanka by 97 runs in the final of the Tri-Nation ODI Series at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.

Asian Weightlifting Championships

• India’s Nirupama Devi finished 4th and China’s Li Shuang won the gold in the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Jiangshan, China.

Shotgun World Cup

• Olympian Kynan Chenai and Sabeera Haris combined well to beat Turkey’s Tolga Tuncer and Rumeysa Kaya 34-33 and claim the mixed trap bronze medal in the shotgun World Cup which concluded in Nicosia, Cyprus.