Top Current Affair of the Day for 16th June 2025

The Government issued a notification to conduct the Census. The notification issued by the Home Ministry said that the reference date for the census shall be 1st March 2027 except for the Union territory of Ladakh the snow-bound non-synchronous areas of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the States of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. For these areas, the reference date shall be 1st October, 2026.
The Indian Union Finance Ministry has introduced a spending cap of 60% on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) for the first half of the Financial Year 2025-26. This marks change as the programme was previously exempt from such limitations.
India and Cyprus condemn terrorism and extremism in all its forms and manifestations; Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Cyprus President agree to deepen cooperation in key sectors including defence, maritime security, trade and investment.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred with the Grand Cross of the Order of Makarios III which is the highest civilian honour of Cyprus, by President Nikos Christodoulides at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia on June 16, 2025.
Iran is planning to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty amid intensifying conflict with Israel. President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran’s Parliament is drafting legislation to leave the nuclear treaty.