📅 DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS — 4 JUNE 2026 For: UPSC | SSC | RPSC | RAS | Railway | Banking & All Competitive Exams ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. India Declared Maoist-Free — A Historic Milestone in Internal Security [Internal Security & Governance] India achieved a landmark milestone in its internal security history as the country was officially declared free from Left Wing Extremism (LWE) or Naxalism effective March 31, 2026. Union Home Minister Amit Shah had repeatedly pledged that India would become Naxal-free by March 2026, and the government has now confirmed the successful elimination of organised Maoist violence from all states. The decades-long Maoist insurgency had affected over 10 states including Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Maharashtra, and Andhra Pradesh. The final phase of operations in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh proved decisive, with security forces conducting sustained anti-Naxal operations under a coordinated central-state strategy. The government has now set 2031 as the welfare milestone for Bastar, focusing on tribal development, infrastructure, and PESA Act implementation. The Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 (PESA) grants gram sabhas special powers in scheduled tribal areas and is key to ensuring inclusive governance in post-Maoist regions. ⭐ Exam Note: India declared Maoist-free: March 31, 2026 | Home Minister: Amit Shah | PESA Act 1996 | Welfare milestone for Bastar: 2031 | Affected states: 10 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2. India–US Trade Talks Conclude in New Delhi — Interim Deal in Final Stage [Economy & International Relations] A four-day round of India–US trade negotiations concluded on 4 June 2026 in New Delhi. The US team was led by Chief Negotiator Brendan Lynch while India's side was led by Additional Secretary in the Department of Commerce, Darpan Jain. The talks aimed to finalise details of an Interim Trade Agreement whose broad framework was agreed upon on February 7, 2026. The negotiations covered market access, non-tariff measures, customs and trade facilitation, investment promotion, and economic security alignment. India proposed to eliminate or reduce tariffs on a wide range of US industrial and agricultural products including tree nuts, fruits, soybean oil, wine, and spirits. The interim deal is critical for India to avoid the 26% reciprocal tariff imposed by the US. A deadline of July 8, 2026 — when the 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs ends — has added urgency to the negotiations. ⭐ Exam Note: US negotiator: Brendan Lynch | India: Darpan Jain | Framework: Feb 7, 2026 | India faces 26% tariff | Deadline: July 8, 2026 | Ministry: Commerce ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3. India Appoints New Chief of Defence Staff — General N. S. Raja Subramani [Defence & National Security] General N. S. Raja Subramani assumed charge as India's new Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) on 31 May 2026. The CDS is the highest-ranking military officer in India and serves as the Principal Military Adviser to the Defence Minister on tri-services matters. The post was created in January 2020 following the recommendations of the Kargil Review Committee. General Raja Subramani previously served as the Vice Chief of Army Staff before being elevated to the role of CDS. His appointment comes when India is actively modernising its armed forces, integrating theatre commands, and expanding indigenous defence production. The CDS also heads the Department of Military Affairs (DMA). As CDS, General Raja Subramani will oversee the creation of Integrated Theatre Commands — a major structural reform bringing Army, Navy, and Air Force assets under unified operational commands. ⭐ Exam Note: New CDS: Gen. N. S. Raja Subramani | Assumed charge: 31 May 2026 | CDS post created: Jan 2020 | Also heads: Department of Military Affairs | Theatre Commands reform ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 4. India Considers Procuring Additional S-400 Air Defence Systems from Russia [Defence & International Affairs] India is actively considering the procurement of additional batches of Russian S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile systems following their highly effective performance during Operation Sindoor in May 2026. The S-400 systems played a critical role in neutralising aerial threats and demonstrated effectiveness in real combat conditions. India originally signed a $5 billion deal with Russia in October 2018 for five units of the S-400 system, despite US warnings of sanctions under CAATSA. Three squadrons have already been delivered and are operational. The proposed additional procurement is expected to be discussed when Russian President Vladimir Putin visits India later this year. The S-400 can engage aircraft, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles simultaneously at ranges up to 400 km and is considered one of the most advanced air defence systems in the world. India's decision signals deepening defence cooperation with Russia. ⭐ Exam Note: Original deal: $5 billion (Oct 2018) | 3 squadrons delivered | Effective in Operation Sindoor | CAATSA concern by US | Range: 400 km | Putin visit expected ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 5. India's IIP Adopts New Base Year 2022–23 — Industrial Output Grows 4.9% [Economy & Statistics] India's Index of Industrial Production (IIP) recorded a growth of 4.9% in April 2026. This data was released under a newly revised IIP series that adopted 2022–23 as the base year, replacing the earlier 2011–12 base year series. The revision was carried out by MoSPI to better reflect India's current industrial structure. The IIP measures growth in manufacturing, mining, and electricity generation. Manufacturing, which accounts for over 77% of the IIP weight, showed healthy growth led by pharmaceuticals, electronics, food processing, and automobiles. The base year change gives a more accurate picture of India's industrial performance by including new and emerging sectors in the measurement basket. ⭐ Exam Note: IIP growth April 2026: 4.9% | New base year: 2022–23 (old: 2011–12) | Released by: MoSPI | Manufacturing weight: ~77% | Three components: Mining, Manufacturing, Electricity ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 6. ICC Suspends Cricket Canada Over Governance Breaches [Sports & International Affairs] The International Cricket Council (ICC) suspended the membership of Cricket Canada with immediate effect following serious breaches of governance and membership obligations. The decision was taken during an ICC Board meeting following scrutiny of financial irregularities and failure to meet ICC governance standards. Under the suspension, Cricket Canada cannot participate in ICC events, receive ICC funding, or exercise voting rights. Canadian cricketers are also ineligible for ICC-sanctioned international matches during the suspension period. This follows similar ICC actions previously taken against boards in Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, and other associate member nations for governance failures. ⭐ Exam Note: ICC suspended: Cricket Canada | Reason: Governance & membership breaches | Effect: No ICC events, no funding | ICC HQ: Dubai ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 7. Meesho & BSE Launch 'Project Shikhar' to Help MSMEs Access Capital Markets [Economy & Startups] E-commerce platform Meesho partnered with BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) to launch Project Shikhar, designed to help Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) access India's capital markets through a structured listing pathway and equity funding framework. MSMEs contribute ~30% of India's GDP, account for 45% of exports, and employ over 11 crore people. Despite their importance, most MSMEs depend on informal credit. Project Shikhar offers mentorship, financial literacy, and a structured listing framework for smaller enterprises. BSE's SME platform has already helped hundreds of small companies list and raise capital, and Project Shikhar is expected to significantly expand this ecosystem. ⭐ Exam Note: Launched by: Meesho + BSE | Name: Project Shikhar | Goal: MSME capital market access | MSMEs: 30% GDP, 45% exports, 11 cr jobs | BSE HQ: Mumbai ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 8. India Sets Record Wheat Procurement of 320+ Lakh Tonnes in 2025–26 [Agriculture & Food Security] India's wheat procurement during Rabi Marketing Season 2025–26 crossed 320 lakh tonnes, setting a new record at MSP. Union Minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed procurement exceeded last year's 265.9 lakh tonnes significantly, driven by record wheat output of 115.3 million tonnes. Major contributing states: Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh. Wheat acreage hit a record 33.5 million hectares this year, supported by favourable weather, improved seeds, and expanded irrigation. The government also launched Depot Darpan Portal, Anna Mitra, and Anna Sahayata digital platforms to modernise the Public Distribution System (PDS). ⭐ Exam Note: Wheat procurement 2025–26: 320+ lakh tonnes (record) | Record production: 115.3 MT | FCI procures at MSP | Ministry: Food & Consumer Affairs | Minister: Pralhad Joshi ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 9. Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing Visits India — Bilateral Ties Strengthened [International Relations & Diplomacy] Myanmar's President Min Aung Hlaing concluded a six-day official visit to India from May 30 to June 3, 2026. Both countries signed bilateral agreements covering trade, connectivity, and humanitarian assistance, including discussions on the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project and India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway. India shares a 1, 643-km border with Myanmar across Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, and Mizoram. The bilateral relationship is strategically important for India's Act East Policy and maintaining peace along the northeastern border. India's engagement with Myanmar also serves as a counterbalance to China's growing influence in the country. ⭐ Exam Note: Visit: May 30 – June 3, 2026 | Myanmar President: Min Aung Hlaing | India–Myanmar border: 1, 643 km | Key project: Kaladan Multi-Modal | Policy: Neighbourhood First & Act East ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 10. IPL 2026 Winners — Royal Challengers Bengaluru Win Second Title [Sports] Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) won IPL 2026 (IPL 19) on May 31, 2026, defeating Gujarat Titans in the final at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad. This was RCB's second IPL title overall. The tournament ran from March 28 to May 31, 2026 under TATA IPL 2026 branding by BCCI. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Rajasthan Royals) won Most Valuable Player and Orange Cap with 776 runs. Kagiso Rabada (Gujarat Titans) won the Purple Cap with 29 wickets. Afghanistan's tour of India begins June 6, 2026 — one Test and three ODIs against India captained by Shubman Gill. ⭐ Exam Note: IPL 2026 winner: RCB (2nd title) | Runners-up: Gujarat Titans | MVP & Orange Cap: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (776 runs) | Purple Cap: Kagiso Rabada (29 wkts) | Venue: Narendra Modi Stadium ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 Search Tags: Daily Current Affairs 4 June 2026 | Current Affairs UPSC SSC RPSC RAS 2026 | Today GK 4 June | Aaj ke Current Affairs | Daily GK June 2026 | Current Affairs Jaipur | करंट अफेयर्स 4 जून 2026 📲 Follow us daily for more current affairs updates!