9 exam-relevant headlines, written simply. Read the bold fact in each — that's what exams ask.
The second wave of Assam's 2022 floods (June-September) forced the Brahmaputra and Barak rivers over their banks, affecting about 5.6 million people across 32 districts in one of the state's worst flood seasons in a decade; the season's death toll reached 197 and Silchar remained submerged for six days.
World Environment Day was observed on June 5, 2022 with the theme 'Only One Earth', hosted by Sweden to mark 50 years since the 1972 Stockholm Conference that established the observance.
On June 14, 2022 the government announced the Agnipath scheme: soldiers recruited as 'Agniveers' serve a four-year tenure (six months training plus 3.5 years deployment) at ages 17.5-21, with up to 25% of each batch retained in the permanent cadre and the rest discharged with a lump sum of about Rs 11.71 lakh and no pension. Nationwide protests broke out on June 16, and the 2022 recruitment age limit was relaxed to 23.
India's first private train under the Bharat Gaurav scheme began running on Southern Railway from June 14, 2022, operating on a Coimbatore-Shirdi route.
Opposition parties named former union minister Yashwant Sinha as their candidate for the July 2022 presidential election on June 21, 2022, setting up a contest against NDA nominee Droupadi Murmu.
The International Day of Yoga was observed on June 21 - proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his September 2014 UN address and adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 11, 2014 with a record 177 co-sponsoring nations; the first observance was held in 2015.
After a two-week rebellion led by Eknath Shinde, Uddhav Thackeray resigned as Maharashtra chief minister on June 29, 2022, hours before a floor test. Shinde was sworn in as chief minister on June 30 with Devendra Fadnavis as deputy chief minister.
Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra threw 89.94 m at the Stockholm Diamond League on June 30, 2022, setting a new Indian national record and finishing second behind Anderson Peters (90.31 m).
ISRO's PSLV-C53 launched on June 30, 2022 carrying three Singapore satellites (DS-EO, NeuSAR and SCOOB-1) from Sriharikota. Its spent fourth stage became the first actively stabilised PSLV Orbital Experiment Module (POEM) hosting six Indian payloads, including two from start-ups.
From exactly the headlines above. If you read the month, you should score 8+.
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