One Minute Daily Current Affairs – 27 June 2025

                                  Sports

2029 edition of the World Police & Fire Games- Gujarat

• Be held across major cities in Gujarat, including Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, and Ekta Nagar.

 

Stop Clock- introduces in Test Cricket for 2025-27 World Test Championship (WTC) cycle by ICC to curb slow over rates.

 

                          Important days 

June 27- The International Day of Deafblindness

• Honouring Helen Keller

June 27- Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSME) Day

• Theme for 2025- “Enhancing the role of MSMEs as drivers of Sustainable Growth and Innovation.”

                     Science & Technology

Shubhanshu Shukla- become 634th Astronaut to reach space.

• Birth– Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
• Axiom Mission 4 is partnership between SpaceX and NASA.
• The second time an Indian has ventured into space, and the first to do so aboard the ISS since Rakesh Sharma’s 1984 mission.

 

                              Schemes

10 years- completed by AMRUT (Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation).

• launched on June 25, 2015
• Having sanctioned projects worth ₹2.73 lakh crore, alongside 2 crore+ tap connections and 1.5 crore sewer connections.

 

                          States News 

Humare Shikshak (digital platform)- launched by Madhya Pradesh.

• For mandatory E-Attendance for school teachers from 1 July 2025. 

Bonalu Festival-Telangana

 

Salkhan Fossils Park-  Sonbhadra district, Uttar Pradesh

• “Featured on UNESCO’s tentative list of World Heritage Sites, the park boasts fossils as old as 1.4 billion years, underscoring its significant paleontological importance.”

 

                               Reports 

“India’s Data Imperative” Report- launched by NITI Aayog

• Highlighting the vital importance of high-quality data in advancing India’s digital governance, the release took place in New Delhi.

 

                           Appointments

Zou Jiayi- Appointed as New Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) President.

• Replaced- Jin Liqun
• AIIB Headquarters: Beijing, China

Anuj Pandey- Appointed as CEO of UGRO Capital

 

                             International 

Iran- After the U.S. launched airstrikes on nuclear facilities, Iran announced the suspension of its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

•  IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

                                 National

National e-Governance Division (NeGD)- Organized a two-day workshop on artificial intelligence at IIT Delhi’s Department of Management Studies.

                         Banking & Business

Sagarmala Finance Corporation Limited (SMFCL)- country’s first Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) dedicated to maritime development

• Inaugurated by Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. 

                                    Awards 

2024 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards-

• Best Novel: G R Indugopan for Aano
• Poetry: Anitha Thampi for Muringa Vazha Kariveppu
• Short Story: V Shinilal for Garisappa Aruvi Athava Oru Jalayathra
• Fellowship: K V Ramakrishnan
• Lifetime Contribution: Ezhacheri Ramachandran 

                                    BOOKS

The One: Cricket, My Life and More- autobiography of Shikhar Dhawan