Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: June 9, 2023

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for June 9, 2023

INDIA

  • Haryana CM Manohar Lal launches integrated Water Resources Action Plan-2023-25.
  • J&K maintains first rank in UT category in Food Safety Index 2022-23; for third time in row.
  • ISRO chairman S Somnath informs Chandrayaan 3 mission is planned to be launched by mid-July.
  • National Conference on Recent Advances in School Education to begin at Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology in Jalandhar.
  • Severe Cyclonic storm Biparjoy moves northwards of Arabian Sea; Coastal Gujarat kept on high alert.
  • The southwest monsoon arrived in Kerala, four days later than the original forecast date of June 4.
  • National Exit Test to start from 2024, says Health Ministry.
  • DRDO successfully tests ballistic missile ‘Agni Prime’.
  • Air India jet lands safely in San Francisco carrying 216 passengers and 16 crew members from Magadan in Russia where they were stranded for two days.

ECONOMY & CORPORATE

  • The Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided unanimously to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.5% for the second time.
  • RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said cooperative lenders will be able to do write-offs and execute settlements with defaulting borrowers.
  • RBI lets banks issue RuPay prepaid forex cards to help widen usage

WORLD

  • India and Serbia agree to set bilateral trade of 1 Billion Euros by end of this decade
  • Former U.S. President Donald Trump charged in classified documents probe.
  • U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that an El Nino climate phenomenon has arrived.

SPORTS

  • French Open 2023: Carlos Alcaraz to face with Novak Djokovic in the Men’s Singles semi-finals.
  • Indian contingent of 198 athletes to participate in Special Olympics World Summer Games 2023 in Germany.

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