- A single-day rise of 51,667 COVID-19 infections took India's case tally to 3,01,34,445 while the weekly positivity rate declined to 3 per cent, according to Union Health Ministry data on Friday.
- Indore in Madhya Pradesh and Surat in Gujarat were adjudged joint winners of the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry's Smart Cities Award 2020, while Uttar Pradesh secured the first position in the state awards category.
- Minister of State for Finance, Anurag Thakur said, that Govt announced tax exemption for expenditure on COVID-19 treatment & ex-gratia received on death due to COVID-19.
- Information & Broadcasting Minister, Prakash Javadekar has relaunched IIMC’s research Journals, Communicator and Sanchar Madhyam. Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) has been publishing Communicator since 1965 while Sanchar Madhyam was started in 1980.
- Chairman of COVID-19 Working Group of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI), Dr. Narendra Kumar Arora has said that the country will soon have the world’s first DNA-plasmid vaccine by Zydus Cadilla which has been Made in India.
- Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank assured students that proper evaluation criteria will be followed in Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE class 12th examination. under the evaluation criteria, the students will get results as per their ability and talent, if any student has issue with the results, they can appear in the exam in August this year.
- DRDO successfully test fired extended range version of indigenously developed Pinaka rocket from a Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher at Integrated Test Range , Chandipur off the coast of Odisha.
- External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said in a meeting that India supports all peace initiatives & brought several development projects to Afghanistan and the world knows what Pakistan brought...?
- The Indian Navy & the Air Force concluded a two-day passage exercise which began on 23 June (Wednesday) with US Navy Carrier Strike Group (CSG) Ronald Reagan during its transit through the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). The Navy’s INS Kochi & Teg, along with P-8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft & MiG 29K fighters, participated in the exercise.
- Serum Institute begins production of Covovax Covid-19 vaccine at Pune plant: Adar Poonawalla, CEO, SII, said.
- China operationalised its first fully electrified bullet train in the remote Himalayan region of Tibet, connecting the provincial capital Lhasa and Nyingchi, a strategically located Tibetan border town close to Arunachal Pradesh.
- Bangladesh to impose week long countrywide strict lockdown from Monday (28 June).
- Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, whose dying gasps under Chauvin’s knee on May 25, 2020, led to the biggest outcry against racial injustice in the U.S. in generations.
- 26 June - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
- In 1987, the United Nations General Assembly decided to observe 26th June as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking as an expression of its determination to strengthen action and cooperation to achieve the goal of an international society free of drug abuse
- 26 June - International Day in Support of Victims of Torture: The day was selected by the United Nations General Assembly because on 26 June 1945, the United Nations Charter was signed during the midst of World War II – the first international instrument obliging UN members to respect and promote human rights. So from
- 12 December, 1997 to eradicate torture and the effective functioning of the Convention against Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment this day is observed.
- India won 2nd medal at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun stage in Osijek, Croatia, as the Women’s 10M Air Pistol team beat Hungary 16-12 in the bronze medal match on 25 June (Friday). Shooters Rahi Sarnobat, Manu Bhaker and Yashaswini Deswal make it to medal contention.
- India’s schedule for second edition of the World Test Championship announced. New Zealand is scheduled to travel to India for a two-match Test series in November 2021.
- India cricket team tour of England, 2021:August 4-8: England vs India, First Test, Trent Bridge,August 12-16: England vs India, Second Test, Lord’s,August 25-29: England vs India, Third Test, Headingley,September 2-6: England vs India, Fourth Test, Kennington Oval,September 10-14: England vs India, Fifth Test, Old Trafford
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