Days in Focus
- Theme for World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2019 (Jun 17) - Let’s Grow the Future Together.
Environment
- Newly established two highest weather stations in the world at - Mount Everest.
National
- The International Arbitration Center (IAC) will be set up in - New Delhi.
Sports
- Second player to play highest number of ODI matches for India - Mahendra Singh Dhoni (341) (first Sachin Tendulkar).
- Batsman who score fastest 11,000 runs - Virat Kohli (230 matches).
Science and Technology
- Two female scientists to head India’s ‘Chandrayaan-2’ mission, named - Ritu Karidhal (as mission director) and Muthayya Vanitha (as project director).
General Knowledge
- Lower assembly of Parliament of India - Lok Sabha.
- As per Indian Constitution, maximum number of Lok Sabha members - 552.
- First Lok Sabha - April 17, 1952.
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) – Founded in: 1964; Headquarters: Geneva (Switzerland).
- World's highest mountain ranges which is situated in Asia – Himalayas.
- World's highest peak - Everest (height 8848 meters).
