Current Affairs One-liners — 18 June 2025
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Wed, 18 Jun 2025
- From 18 June 2025 at Camp Larzac, La Cavalerie, France, the Indian and French Armies are holding the 8th edition of the biennial joint military exercise SHAKTI, running till 1 July 2025.
- On 18 June 2025 in New Delhi, the third meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee approved 2,34,864 houses in nine states under PMAY-Urban 2.0.
- On 18 June 2025 in New Delhi, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh announced that Central Government employees under the Unified Pension Scheme will be eligible for retirement and death gratuity.
- On 18 June 2025 at Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, INS Arnala, the first Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft, was commissioned into the Eastern Naval Command in the presence of CDS Gen Anil Chauhan.
- On 18 June 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković on the first-ever visit of an Indian Prime Minister to Croatia.
- On 18 June 2025 in New Delhi, the Election Commission of India introduced a new Standard Operating Procedure to deliver Electors Photo Identity Cards within 15 days of an update in the electoral rolls.
- On 18 June 2025 in New Delhi, the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, NIOS and NCERT signed a tripartite MoU to promote inclusive education for persons with disabilities.
- On 18 June 2025 in Hyderabad, Telangana, BSNL soft-launched Quantum 5G FWA, an indigenous SIM-less fixed-wireless-access service, at its Ameerpet Exchange.
- On 18 June 2025 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, the Department of Consumer Affairs held a Round Table Conference on Time Dissemination under the theme 'One Nation, One Time'.
- On 18 June 2025 in New Delhi, the Government of Mizoram and the Digital India BHASHINI Division signed an MoU to promote multilingual governance and language technology in the Mizo language.
- On 18 June 2025 in New Delhi, the Executive Board of the Sahitya Akademi approved 24 writers for the Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2025.
- On 18 June 2025 in New Delhi, the Union Home Ministry announced that a High-Level Committee chaired by Amit Shah had approved ₹2,006.40 crore for recovery and reconstruction in Himachal Pradesh after the 2023 floods, landslides and cloudbursts.
- On 18 June 2025 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and MoS Pankaj Chaudhary presented the Digital Payments Awards hosted by the Department of Financial Services.
- On 18 June 2025, India and Ukraine held the first meeting of their Joint Working Group on Agriculture in virtual mode.