Indian and International Current Affairs and Breaking News in June 2023 (जून 2023 का करेंट अफेयर्स न्यूज)

Many important events have happened in India and abroad in June 2023. These events are often asked as current affairs questions in competitive exams. In the coming times, many questions will be asked from the current affairs section in the examinations of UPSC, Bihar Teacher Recruitment, Bihar Police Recruitment, SSC, Railway, Bank etc. That’s why it is necessary to have political, sports, cultural, diplomatic, economic information about the country and abroad. That’s why a list of the latest important news of the month of June 2023 is being given here.

• India’s GDP growth rate stood at 6.1% in the March quarter of 2023, while the growth rate in the financial year 2022-2023 stood at 7.2%.
• Amarendu Prakash took over as the chairman of SAIL on 31 May 2023.
• On May 31, 2023, market regulator SEBI cancelled the registration of Karvy Stock Broking, the country’s famous Sotock broking firm, on charges of misusing clients’ funds and securities.
• The Prime Minister of Nepal, Pushpakamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, who was on a visit to India, met the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on 1 June 2023 and agreed on several new agreements between India and Nepal.
• On June 1, 2023, amidst Manipur violence, Union Home Minister Amit Shah visited Manipur’s capital Imphal and announced that a judicial commission would be formed to investigate the violence. Meanwhile, Rajeev Singh, a 1993 batch IPS officer of Tripura cadre, was appointed as the Police DGP of Manipur for 3 years.
• According to the report released on 1 June 2023 by Times Higher Education Impact Ranking – 2023, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University located in Coimbatore is at the top position in India. Punjab’s Lovely Professional University is included in the world’s top 300 universities, which has been ranked between 101 and 200.
• In the evening of 2 June 2023, about 300 passengers died due to a collision between two passenger trains and a goods train in Balasore district of Odisha.
• Rahul Gandhi, who went on American tour, said in an interview on June 2, 2023, that he had questioned in Parliament  about the relation between BJP and Adani group, hence his membership of Parliament was terminated.
• Indian-American student Dev Shah won the title of Scripps National Spelling Bee 2023 on July 2, 2023, by telling the correct spelling of Psammophile.
• On 2 June 2023, the Indian junior men’s hockey team defeated Pakistan 2-1 to win the Junior Asia Cup title for the fourth time.

• In the evening of June 4, 2023, the bridge being built over the river Ganga between Sultanganj in Bhagalpur district of Bihar and Aguwani Ghat of Khagaria collapsed. A guard also died in this collapse.
• On 5 June 2023, the Union Ministry of Education, while announcing the National Institute of Ranking Framework 2023, ranked IIT Madras as the best educational institution at the All India level for the 5th consecutive year. Indian Institute of Science Bangalore got the second position in the overall category. After this, IIT Delhi got the third position.
• On 5 June 2023, film and television serial actor Gufi Paintal (78) died.
• In the Under-20 Athletics Championship held in South Korea, on 5 June 2023, India’s 17-year-old player Siddharth Chaudhary won the third gold medal by throwing the shot put at a distance of 19.52 meters.
• On 5 June 2023, India’s Dhanush Srikanth won India’s third gold medal by winning the men’s 10 meter air rifle event at the ISSF Jinor World Cup Shooting Competition held in Germany.
• CBI started the investigation of the train accident in Balasore on June 6, 2023.
• On 6 June 2023, India’s 18-year-old player Sunil Kumar won the gold medal in Decathlon in the Under-20 Athletics Championship held in South Korea.
• On 6 June 2023, India’s Amanpreet Singh won the gold medal in the men’s 25m pistol event and Meghna Sadula, Payal Khatri, and Simranpreet Kaur in the women’s 25m pistol event at the ISSF Junior World Cup shooting competition held in Germany.
• On June 7, 2023, the central government increased the minimum support price (MSP) of paddy by Rs 143 per quintal, giving relief to the farmers. Now the MSP of paddy has become Rs.2,183 per quintal.
• On June 7, 2023, amidst the ongoing violence in Manipur, a sick child and his mother going in an ambulance were burnt in the crowd along with the ambulance.

• New Generation Ballistic Missile ‘Agni Prime’ was successfully flight-tested by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha on June 07, 2023. The mark capability of Agni prime missile is up to 2000 km. It can also be fired from a mobile launcher.
• On 10 June 2023, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar made his daughter Supriya Sule and Praful Patel the working president of the party.
• On June 10, 2023, a young man named Shihab Chhotur reached Mecca on July 10 to perform Hajj on foot from Kerala. It covered a distance of 8640 kms in 370 days.
• From June 11, 2023, the Congress government of Karnataka made bus travel free for women.
• India won the title for the first time by defeating South Korea 2-1 in the final match of the Women’s Junior Hockey World Cup held in Japan on 11 June 2023.
• On June 11, 2023, film and television serial actor Mangal Dhillon passed away at the age of 64.
• On June 12, 2023, Rahul Gandhi during his US tour, Rahul Gandhi travelled 190 kilometers from Washington to New York with an Indian truck driver riding his truck.
• On June 14, 2023, a cyclone named Biparjoy hit the coast of Gujarat, due to which there was heavy rain in the region of Saurashtra and Kutch.
• According to Pakistan’s Interior Minister, on June 14, 2023, more than 300 Pakistani citizens aboard drowned in the sea when a boat sank off the coast of Greece.
• Bihar team won the title by defeating Rajasthan team in the final of National Junior Rugby Boys Competition held on 12-14 June 2023 at Chhatrapati Shivaji Stadium, Pune.

• On 14 June 2023, Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das was awarded Britain’s prestigious ‘Governor of the Year 2023’ award.
• On 15 June 2023, the Delhi Police filed a charge sheet against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the outgoing president of the Wrestling Federation of India, on charges of sexual harassment of female wrestlers.
• On June 16, 2023, a cyclone named Biparjoy reached Rajasthan after Gujarat, due to which heavy rains occurred in many districts of Rajasthan.
• On 16 June 2023, during the ongoing caste violence in Manipur, a mob attacked the residence of Union Minister of State for External Affairs RK Ranjan Singh and set his godown on fire, due to which property worth crores of rupees got burnt.
• On 16 June 2023, Simran Kumari (15 years), a player of Bihar state women’s football team, died in a road accident.
• On June 18, 2023, it was announced to give the Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2021 to Geeta Press.
• On June 18, 2023, the Indian football team won the title by defeating the Lebanese team 2-0 in the final of the Intercontinental Cup match held in Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha.
• On 18 June 2023, the men’s doubles pair of Indian badminton players Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty won the Indonesia Open Super 1000 badminton tournament title.
• Titan, a submersible owned and operated by the American travel and adventure business OceanGate, sank on June 18, 2023, some 370 nautical miles (690 km) off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. It carried five passengers and was a part of a tourist excursion to see the Titanic’s remains.
• On 19 June 2023, Bhavani Devi won the bronze medal in the Asian Fencing Championship held in Wuxi, China.

1. On June 19, 2023, India’s largest airline Indigo placed an order to buy 500 aeroplane of A 320 Neo Family aircraft. This is the biggest order ever placed by an Indian airline.
2. On 20 June 2023, Infosys co-founder and chairman Nandan Nilekani donated Rs 315 crore to IIT Bombay. He obtained his engineering degree from the same institute 50 years ago, so he donated this to his college.
3. On June 21, 2023, the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi did yoga with people from 135 countries at the United Nations Headquarters.
4. On June 21, 2023, the patron of Hindustani Awam Morcha and former Chief Minister of Bihar Jitan Ram Manjhi announced to join the NDA.
5. Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi met US President Joe Biden on 22 June 2023 in Washington. On 22 June itself, Modi addressed a joint meeting of the US Parliament.
6. On 23 June 2023, a joint meeting of 15 political parties was held in Patna, the capital of Bihar. Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Nitish Kumar, Lalu Yadav, Mamta Banerjee, Hemant Soren, MK Stalin, Arvind Kejriwal, Bhagwant Mann, Sharad Pawar, Supriya Sule, Praful Patel, Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti, Akhilesh Yadav were present in this meeting. Big leaders like Uddhav Thackeray, Sanjay Raut, Sitaram Yechury attended. The purpose of these meetings is to prepare a united front against the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
7. In a statement released on June 23, 2023, the Reserve Bank of India said that the country’s foreign exchange reserves increased by $23.5 million to $5960.98 million in the week ended June 16.
8. Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi reached Cairo on 24 June 2023 on a two-day visit to Egypt.
9. Shri Kashi Vishwanath Temple trust of Varanasi has increased the ticket rates for ‘Sugam Darshan’ and ‘Mangla Aarti’ in the month of Sawan. Now devotees will have to pay Rs.500 instead of Rs.300 for ‘Sugam Darshan’, and Rs.1000 instead of Rs.500 for ‘Mangla Aarti’.
10. In a special ceremony at the Presidency in Cairo on 25 June 2023, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, H.E. Mr. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, conferred Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi with the ‘Order of the Nile’, the highest civilian award of Egypt.

• On June 25, 2023, the Gauhati High Court, while passing an order on the petition of the Assam Wrestling Association, stayed the elections of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) to be held on July 11.
• ICC unveiled the trophy of the Men’s ODI World Cup 2023 on 26 June 2023 in the stratosphere at an altitude of 1.2 million feet above the Earth’s surface where the temperature was -65 degrees.
• On 26 June 2023, Indian women’s boxing team coach Bhaskar Bhat resigned from his post. He was appointed as the High Performance Director in the Sports Authority of India (SAI) earlier this month.
• In its cabinet meeting on 27 June 2023, the Bihar government took a decision that eligible candidates from other states can also apply for the recruitment of 1.75 lakh posts for the post of teachers in Bihar.
• On 27 June 2023, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was injured due to the emergency landing of her helicopter.
• On June 27, 2023, Rahul Gandhi went to a garage in Delhi and sat with the mechanics working there to know about the process of repairing the bike and talked to the mechanics about their condition.
• On 27 June 2023, the ICC announced the schedule of the ODI World Cup starting on 5 October 2023 in India. These matches will be organized in the stadiums of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Lucknow, Dharamshala, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Pune.
• On June 28, 2023, four criminals opened fire on Chandrashekhar Azad, a prominent Dalit leader of India, injuring Chandrashekhar Azad. Despite being a national level leader, the UP government has not given him any security.
• On June 28, 2023, it was announced to make Chhattisgarh state minister T S Singh Deo as Deputy Chief Minister.
• In response to an application under RTI, on 28 June 2023, it was told by the Railways that the number of vacant non-gazetted posts in Group-C (including Level 1) of the Railways as on 1 June this year is 2,74,580.
• Rahul Gandhi went to Churachandpur in Manipur state on 29 June 2023 to meet the people affected by the violence in Manipur and met the victims.
• On 30 June 2023, senior advocate Tushar Mehta was re-appointed as the Solicitor General of India for the next three years.
• On June 27, 2023, after the murder of a student in the capital of France, Paris, a fierce riot broke out there. Till June 30, 2023, many hundreds of people are reported to have been killed in this riot.