Current Affairs One-liners — 01 June 2026
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Mon, 01 Jun 2026
- The India–Oman Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), signed in Muscat on 18 December 2025, entered into force on 1 June 2026, giving zero-duty access to 99.38% of India's exports to Oman.
- By notifications dated 1 June 2026 under Article 124(2), the President appointed four High Court Chief Justices and senior advocate Venkita Subramani Mohana as judges of the Supreme Court.
- On 1 June 2026 in New Delhi, PM Narendra Modi held talks with Myanmar President U Min Aung Hlaing, who chose India for his first foreign visit as President (30 May–3 June 2026).
- On 1 June 2026, MoSPI released the first Index of Industrial Production on the new base year 2022-23, showing 4.9% growth in April 2026, led by 6.2% growth in manufacturing.
- On 1 June 2026 in New Delhi, Dr Jitendra Singh launched the ₹200-crore Anusandhan National Research Foundation–Ministry of Jal Shakti MAHA Water Mission to support startups in the water sector.
- Telangana's revised minimum wages under the Code on Wages, 2019 came into effect on 1 June 2026, with four skill categories, three zones and e-commerce, courier and LPG distribution brought under the wage net.
- On 1 June 2026, Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh and Australian Deputy PM and Defence Minister Richard Marles co-chaired the second India–Australia Defence Ministers' Dialogue at the Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi.
- On 1 June 2026, NHSRCL achieved the breakthrough of the 417-metre Mountain Tunnel-07 at Ambesari village, Dahanu taluka, Palghar district, Maharashtra, for the Mumbai–Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project.
- On 1 June 2026 at Sri Vijaya Puram, Vice Admiral Vineet McCarty assumed charge as the 20th Commander-in-Chief of the Andaman & Nicobar Command, India's only Tri-Service Operational Command.
- On 1 June 2026, the Border Roads Organisation's Project Udayak celebrated its 37th Raising Day at Doomdooma, Assam; it maintains over 1,457 km of roads in eastern Arunachal Pradesh and parts of Assam.
- A study by the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, released on 1 June 2026, reconstructed nearly 4,000 years of climate and vegetation history of Majuli, Assam, the world's largest inhabited river island.
- On 1 June 2026, Air Marshal Tarun Chaudhry took over as AOC-in-C, Central Air Command, and Maj Gen Rachel Thomas as Additional Director General, Military Nursing Service.