Days in Focus
- Theme for International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 2019 (June 26) - Health for justice. Justice for Health.
Defence
- The IAF turned this air base virtually into a conflict theatre to commemorat 20 years of the Kargil War 1999 - Gwalior.
Economy
- According to APEDA, India’s total agricultural product exports for the financial year 2017-18 is valued at – USD 38 billion.
International
- A collaborative initiative between South Korea and India for providing assistance in prosthetic limbs sector - Jaipur Foot Korea.
- India’s candidature for non-permanent seat of the United Nations security council (UNSC) for term 2021-2022 has been approved unanimously by the - Asia-Pacific group (including Pakistan).
National
- Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) organised the second Conference cum International Buyers-Sellers Meet in - Imphal, Manipur.
Persons in News
- Author of autobiography “Lessons Life Taught Me Unknowingly” - Anupam Kher.
- Next chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) - Samant Goel.
- Next Director of Intelligence Bureau (IB) - Arvind Kumar.
- Indian who listed in the ‘100 Most Influential in UK-India Relations: Celebrating Women’ list that was launched by UK - Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
Sports
- First batsman who scored 500 runs in the World Cup 2019 - David Warner (Australia).
Science and Technology
- NASA's Curiosity rover has detected an unusually high level of methane on - Planet Mars.
General Knowledge
- South Korea – Capital: Seoul; Currency: Korean Republic won.
- Fourth planet from the Sun - Mars.
- The Kargil War was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place in - 1999.
- Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) was established in – 1985.
- Permanent members of the United Nations security council (UNSC) - China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
