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1. Home Minister Amit Shah will launch Digital Land Port Management System today
- On June 9, Home Minister Amit Shah will launch the Digital Land Port Management System (LPMS).
- LPMS is a digital platform that will ease slot booking, payment and tracking for movement of goods at ports.
- Through LPMS, the functioning of all land ports will be linked into a single system. With this smart system, movement at the port will be documentless.
- This initiative is to make India’s border infrastructure modern and digital like airports and seaports.
- The main objective of LPMS launch is to make the country’s board security more strong and hi-tech.
- LPMS system will ease business and the time taken for security checks will be reduced to almost half.
- LPMS is part of smart border management. With this system, information related to logistics at the port will be available immediately during business.
- This system will easily enable end-to-end digital work for cargo and passengers including payment, tracking and single window clearance.
SPORTS 2. Alexander Zverev won Grand Slam
- On June 7, German tennis player Alexander Zverev won the first Grand Slam of his career.
- Zverev defeated Flavio Coboli of Italy in the final of French Open 2026.
- Zverev defeated Flavio in five sets 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7, 6-1.
- Zverev has played in the Grand Slam finals three times and semi-finals seven times.
- Zverev has also won two ATP Challenger Masters 1000 events.
- Zverev became the youngest ATP Finals champion since 2008.
- Zverev is the German player to win the French Open title after 89 years.
- Before Zverev, Germany’s Heiner Henkel had won this tournament in 1937.
- The four most prestigious tennis tournaments played during a calendar year, the French Open, the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, are called Grand Slams.
4. British actor Anthony Head passes away
- British actor Anthony Head passed away on June 7. He was 72 years old.
- Anthony was known for his roles in ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and ‘Ted Lasso’.
- Anthony played Rupert Giles in all seven seasons of ‘Buffy’ alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar.
- Anthony played the role of PM in the sketch comedy series ‘Little Britain’, which is considered to be his famous character.
- Anthony has also worked in The Iron Lady. Anthony played the role of ‘Sir Jeffrey Howe’ in this film.
- This film is based on the biography of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Anthony started his career with a theater in the UK.
MISCELLENEOUS
5. India-Nepal signed MoU for cross border digital payments
- On June 7, India and Nepal signed an MoU to fully implement cross border digital payments.
- This MoU took place during the visit of Nepal Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal to India.
- Under this MoU, it has been agreed to connect India’s UPI (Unified Payment Interface) and Nepal’s National Payment Interface (NPI).
- After this MoU, Nepalese citizens will be able to make digital payments in India and Indian citizens in Nepal through mobile.
- This facility will make personal remittance i.e. person to person and other cross border payments easier.
- Earlier, if an Indian citizen did any transaction in Nepal, he was charged between 1.3 and 2%.
- Whereas, this service is free for any Nepalese citizen in India from January 2020 for both UPI users and merchants.
- Any extra charges after this MoU will be borne by International Payments Limited (India) and Nepal Clearing House Limited (Nepal).
- Indian tourists were making UPI-based QR payments in Nepal since March 2024. Now after this MoU, payment will be easy in both the modes.
- India had signed an MoU for digital payments and remittances in 2023, which will now be implemented at the operational level.
- Along with this, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar also signed an agreement with Nepal on 72 health sector and 12 cultural sector projects as part of post-earthquake reconstruction projects in Nepal.
- India was the major donor for reconstruction in Nepal after the 2015 earthquake. India had promised $1 billion in grants and loans.
External Affairs Minister of India @DrSJaishankar and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nepal @shisir jointly launched the linkage between @UPI_NPCI 🇮🇳 and National Payments Interface 🇳🇵for facilitating cross-border personal remittances on 6 June 2026. Glance through the video… pic.twitter.com/TRw4gmrgv1— IndiaInNepal (@IndiaInNepal) June 8, 2026
6. AB-PMJAY scheme will start in West Bengal
- On June 8, the West Bengal government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Health Authority (NHA) for the Ayushman Bharat- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY).
- Union Health Minister J.P. in New Delhi. This MoU was signed in the presence of Nadda and West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari.
- The West Bengal government will now implement the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat scheme in the state and West Bengal will be the 36th state in the country to implement PMJAY.
- This will provide financial security to the people of West Bengal from health expenses. Under this scheme, beneficiaries can get their treatment in any hospital listed across the country.
- Under this scheme, heads of eligible families get cashless health cover up to Rs 5 lakh every year.
- In this scheme, the state and central governments together bear its expenses. In normal states, the central government bears 60% of the expenditure and the state government bears 40% of the expenditure.
- At the same time, in the North-Eastern and Himalayan states, the central government bears 90% of the expenditure and the state government bears 10% of the expenditure.
- Ayushman Bharat Yojana was launched on 23 September 2018 from Ranchi, Jharkhand.
today’s history
- In 1653, after a long time of 22 years, the construction of Taj Mahal of Agra was completed.
- After the death of the country’s first PM Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964, Lal Bahadur Shastri took over as the second PM of the country.
- Birsa Munda, a tribal freedom fighter who died in 1900, had led a movement against local landlords during the British rule.
- Padma Vibhushan in 2011 was given to famous painter M.F. (Maqbool Fida) Hussain passed away.
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