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î International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in
Conflict observed on June 19.

î Russia's Yuri Gazinskiy scored the opening goal of the 2018
World Cup.

î Indian Army is observing year 2018 as “Year of Disabled
Soldiers in Line of Duty” to honour soldiers who have been
disabled in line of duty.

î The mascot of 2018 FIFA World Cup is Zabivaka, a wolf.

î The meaning of the name Zabivaka is ‘Goalscorer’.

î Ivan Duque elected new President of Colombia.

î Men's national association football teams affiliated to FIFA
are 211.

î A total of twelve stadiums in eleven Russian cities have
been built and renovated for the FIFA World Cup.

î Sustainable Gastronomy Day observed on June 18

î The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
(WDCDD) is observed every year on June 17 across to
world to promote public awareness of international efforts
to combat desertification.

î The first World Cup Football to be held in Eastern Europe
is 2018 World Cup.

î The International Day of Family Remittances (IDFR) is ob-
served every year on 16 June.

î India’s IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) became
first listed company in India to close day’s trade with mar-
ket capitalisation (m cap) of over Rs. 7 lakh crore (over
$103 billion).

î The opening ceremony of 2018 FIFA World Cup took place
on 14 June 2018, at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow

î The opening match of 2018 FIFA World Cup was played
between Russia and Saudi Arabia.

î The World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) is ob-
served every year on June 15 .

î Maharashtra government has signed Memorandum of Un-
derstanding (MoU) with Quebec province of Canada to in-
crease economic cooperation and welfare of tribal com-
munity in the state.

î The world's first of its kind and state-of-the-art International
Centre for ‘Humanitarian Forensics’ (ICHF) was launched
at the Gujarat Forensic Sciences University in Gandhinagar.

î Mithali Raj on June 7, 2018 became the first Indian crick-
eter to score 2,000 runs in T20 Internationals. Mithali Raj is
the highest run-scorer in women's international cricket and
the only female cricketer to have surpassed the 6,000 run
mark in ODIs with 6373 runs from 194 ODIs.

î 44th G7 summit was held in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada
in 2018 June.

î The 106th Indian Science Congress will be held at Lovely
Professional University (LPU) in Jalandhar, Punjab from
January 3 to 7, 2019.

î World Blood Donor Day observed every year across the
world on June 14 to thank voluntary, unpaid blood donors
for their life-saving gifts of blood.

î Renowned social activist and founder of Sulabh Interna-
tional, Dr Bindeshwar Pathak (75) was honoured with the
Japan’s prestigious Nikkei Asia Prize for his contribution to
Asia’s development.

î The fastest Super Computer in the world is Summit built by
USA. Formerly Sunway Taihulight of Chinas was the record
holder.

î The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance will be
awarded the Sansad Ratna Award 2018 for its outstanding
performance.

î Christiano Ronaldo (Portugal) scored the first hatrick in the
2018 World Cup Football.

î National Tribal Museum and National Tribal Research In-
stitute will be established in New Delhi.

î Ivan Duque was elected the new President of the South
American country Colombia.

î Tripura launched GPS and Wireless based 24x7 mobile
policing service.

î India has signed two Memorandum of understandings
(MoUs) with Cuba to enhance cooperation in biotechnol-
ogy and traditional medicine.

î The 28th plenery meeting of Nuclear Supply group was held
at Jurmala in Latvia.

î ICGS Rani Rashmoni is the recently commissioned fast
patrol vessel of Indian Coast Guard.

î Queen Pineapple has been declared as the state fruit of
Tripura state.

î Mike McCormack won the 2018 Dublin Literary Award
(Novel-Solar Bones)

î The venue of the National Yoga Olympiad 2018 organised
by NCERT was New Delhi.

î Haryana launched i-Haryali project to book tree saplings
for the public.

î 7star Gram Panchayat Rainbow Scheme was launched by
Haryana Government to rank panchayats in the state.

î India and Bangladesh have agreed to institute Coordinated
Patrol (CORPAT) as an annual exercise between navies of
two neighbouring countries.

î Kaiga Atomic Power Plant in Karnataka established record
by running continuously for 766 days.

î India has decided to provide Dornier aircraft to Seychelles.

î Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved setting up of
committee to lay down standards for metro rail systems in
the country.

î The decade 201-28 will be observed as Water Action De-
cade by the UNO.

î Carlos Sanchez of Colombia got the first red card in the
2018 World Cup Football.

î The first representative office of the Bharat Electronics Lim-
ited was inaugurated at Hanoi in Vietnam by the Union De-
fence Minister Nirmala Sitaraman.

î The Indian Army contingent comprising of 7 Garhwal Rifles
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Infantry Battalion Group was awarded United Nations Medal
for “selfless service”

î Solar Charka Mission was launched by Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises (MSME).

î Dr.Bindeshwar Pathak got the Nikkei Asia Prize 2018.

î The 10th Global Alliance to eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis
Conferecne was held at New Delhi.

î The winners of the first Cricket test match between India
and Afghanistan held at Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangaluru
is India.

î The first Indian cricketer to score century in the first ses-
sion of test cricket is Sikhar Dhawan.

î The number of test playing nations are 12 and last coun-
try to join the list is Afghanistan (14 June 2018). Other
countries in the list are England (15 March 1877), Aus-
tralia (15 March 1877), South Africa (12 March
1889),West Indies (23 June 1928), New Zealand (10
January 1930), India (25 June 1932), Pakistan (16 Oc-
tober 1952),Sri Lanka (17 February 1982),Zimbabwe (18
October 1992), Bangladesh (10 November 2000), Ire-
land (11 May 2018).

î GLONASS-M Navigation satellite was launched by Russia.

î Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of
Vanijya Bhawan, a new office complex in New Delhi for the
Department of Commerce.

î The mobile application COPCONNECT was launched by
Telengana Police to enhance the communication facility in
Police Department.

î India will be the venue of the first military exercise of
BIMSTEC.

î National Police Museum is at Chanakyapuri in New Delhi.

î Mongolia has launched construction of its first strategically
important oil refinery funded by India in southern Dornogovi
province.

î The theme of World Day against Child Labour 2018 was
'Generation Safe & Healthy'.

î The theme of 2018 World Ocean Day (June 8) is ‘Clean
Our Ocean’.

î Ravindra Prasad Jaiswal is appointed as the new Indian
Ambassador to Eritrea.

î International Albinism Awareness Day is observed on 13th
June.

î The theme of 2018 World Environment Day is ‘Beat Plastic
Pollution’.

î The theme of Yoga day of this year was “Yoga for Peace”.

î The United States under President Donald Trump adminis-
tration has announced its withdrawal from United Nations
Human Rights Council (UNHRC) .