Current Affairs One-liners — 13 June 2026

Sat, 13 Jun 2026

• On 13 June 2026, the Government appointed Vice Chief Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth as the next Chief of the Army Staff with effect from the afternoon of 30 June 2026, when General Upendra Dwivedi retires.
• On 13 June 2026, the first batch of women cadets trained at the National Defence Academy was commissioned, with nine joining the Army at the IMA Dehradun parade reviewed by President Droupadi Murmu.
• The 16th BRICS Agriculture Ministers' Meeting, held on 12–13 June 2026 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, under India's Presidency, concluded on 13 June with unanimous adoption of the Indore Declaration.
• On 13 June 2026, Dr Jitendra Singh said India's start-ups grew from around 350 to about 2.3 lakh, making India the world's third-largest start-up ecosystem and creating nearly 24–25 lakh jobs in a decade.
• The National Biodiversity Authority has reconstituted its Expert Committee on Agrobiodiversity for one year under Section 13(1) of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, with Dr P. L. Gautam as Chair.
• On 13 June 2026 at the Air Force Academy, Dundigal, Hyderabad, 231 Flight Cadets (194 men and 37 women) were commissioned into the IAF at the Combined Graduation Parade reviewed by Rajnath Singh.
• On 13 June 2026 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) marked 50 years under the theme 'Resilient Urban India @2047'.
• MoS for Sports Raksha Khadse concluded a three-day visit (11–13 June 2026) to border areas of Ladakh under the Vibrant Villages Programme, including the border village of Hemya.
• INS Sharda departed Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 13 June 2026 after a port call featuring professional, training and sporting engagements with the Sri Lanka Navy.
• A Bihar student delegation led by IIT Patna concluded its Yuva Sangam Phase VI visit to Punjab, hosted by IIT Ropar, on 13 June 2026.