One line Short Current Affairs for June 2023
- Global Gender Gap Index 2023: India ranked 127; topped by Iceland
- Global Liveability Index 2023 released; Vienna in Austria has topped the ranking
- Global Competitiveness Index 2023: India at 40
- IIT Bombay ranks 149th in the QS world ranking for 2024
- India beats China with the world’s second-largest road network
- Canada Launches ‘Digital Nomad Strategy’ for foreign workers
- Remains of new species of duck-billed dinosaur found in Chile
- USA announces to rejoin UNESCO in July 2023
- Intel and Germany sign agreement for $32.8 billion chip plant investment
- Estonia becomes 1st Baltic nation to legalize same-sex marriage
- Himalayan Glaciers on Track to Lose up to 75% of Ice by 2100: Report
- Europe is world’s fastest-warming continent: climate report
- Mumbai is the most expensive city for ex-pats in India
- Israel to release world’s first digital government bond
- The University of Edinburgh launches Hindi course
- Suriname to host Indian energy majors from 19 June
- 3rd Employment Working Group meeting organized in Geneva
- UAE Wins Presidency of World Meteorological Organization
- BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Cape Town
- Canada becomes the first country to start putting health warnings on cigarettes
- India set to remain UAE’s largest export destination by 2030
- UAE to Host the world’s largest Conservation Conference in 2025
- Israel introduces digital birth certificates
- Israel tests first autonomous flying taxi
- Algeria, Guyana, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone and Slovenia were elected as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council
- Ruby Sinha appointed as the President of BRICS CCI WE
- Umesh Kumar appoints as Chief of Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC)
- Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in as Greece’s PM
- Rajat Verma appoints as MD of DBS Bank India
- Vishesh Chandiok was appointed and initiated into the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
- AP Hota appoints as part-time Chairman of Federal Bank
- Rohit Jawa appoints as MD and CEO of Hindustan Unilever
- UN chief appoints Xu Haoliang of China as deputy head of UNDP
- Cristiano Ronaldo receives Guinness World Record award
- PM Modi conferred Egypt’s highest state honour ‘Order of the Nile’
- Priya A.S. received Sahitya Akademi Award 2023 for children’s literature
- Alappuzha doctor K Venugopal was selected for Indian Medical Association (IMA) award
- Pt P. D. Baul awarded 1st Kala Kranti Lifetime Achievement Award
- Britain appoints Jane Marriott as first female envoy to Pakistan
- Kamal Kishore Chatiwal takes over as MD of Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL)
- N S Vishwanathan appoints as part-time chairman of Axis Bank
- P N Vasudevan was re-appointed as MD & CEO of Equitas Small Finance Bank
- Ravi Sinha appoints as the new chief of RAW
- Swaminathan Janakiraman appointed as Deputy Governor of RBI
- Nusrat Chowdhary confirmed as first Muslim woman federal judge in US history
- Senior IAS officer Amit Agrawal assumes charge as CEO of UIDAI
- Hasmukh Adhia appointed as Chairman of GIFT City
- Eddie Wu appoints as new CEO of Alibaba Group
- Petteri Orpo elected as new PM of Finland
- Mahendra Lodha appointed interim MD & CEO of PTC India Financial Services Ltd (PFS)
- Arundhati Roy wins 45th European Essay Prize for ‘Azadi’
- Gita Press, Gorakhpur, awarded Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021
- Author Salman Rushdie was awarded the German Peace Prize in 2023
- Acharya Gopi is to be conferred with Jayashankar Award
- WHO DG Tedros Ghebreyesus awarded Olympic Order by IOC
- Defence Ministry approves MQ-9 Reaper drone deal with US
- Indian Army participates in multinational exercise ‘Khaan Quest 2023’
- India gifts missile corvette INS Kirpan to Vietnam
- BEL receives orders worth Rs 5900 crore for Akash Missiles
- Indian Army takes delivery of Mahindra Armada armoured vehicle
- Ritu Kalra was named Harvard’s vice president for finance and CFO
- Anantharaman appointed chairman of TransUnion Cibil
- Sanjay Swarup appoints as CMD of Container Corporation of India (CONCOR)
- Nitin Agarwal appointed as the new DG of BSF
- Pieter Elbers appointed as Chair-elect of International Air Transport Association (IATA) Board of Governors
- Epson India signs Rashmika Mandanna as brand ambassador
- Amit Agrawal appointed as CEO of UIDAI
- Amitava Mukherjee gets 3 months extension as CMD of NMDC
- Ramachandra Guha’s book wins Elizabeth Longford Prize in 2023
- Geological Survey of India Training Institute (GSITI) Hyderabad gets Accredited as ‘Athi Uttam’
- Indian film ‘When Climate Change Turns Violent’ wins WHO award
- Tayyip Erdogan re-elected as President of Turkey
- Krithivasan takes charge as CEO of TCS
- Ajay Yadav appoints as MD of Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI)
- Shalini Singh becomes 1st girl NCC cadet to complete mountaineering course
- Govt appoints Ashwani Kumar as MD & CEO of UCO Bank
- Rajesh Kumar Anand VSM takes over as Air Officer-in-Charge Administration (AOA)
- P Upadhyay INAS takes over as Director General of Naval Armament
- Bidyut Bihari Swain sworn in as UPSC member
- Amarendu Prakash appoints the chairman of SAIL
- Edgars Rinkevics was elected as the new president of Latvia
- Janardan Prasad was appointed as DG of the Geological Survey of India
- Hrithik Roshan appointed brand ambassador for Zebronics TV
- Indian American Ajay Banga assumes charge as World Bank President
- Dennis Francis elected 78th UNGA president
- Colonel Shuchita becomes 1st woman to command Communication Zone
- Wrangler signs Smriti Mandhana as brand ambassador
- South Korea launches first commercial-grade satellite
- Mazagon Dock signs deal with Germany to build diesel submarines