Rajeev Topno was appointed as Private Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Appointment Committee of Cabinet (ACC) approved the name of Topno on 18 June 2014.
myCopter Project Day will be held in Braunschweig in Germany on 20 November 2014.
Taiwanese poet, Yu Hsi translated 1330 couplets Tirukkural and poems of poet Subramanya Bharathi in Mandarin language.
Union Health Ministry gave consent for setting up of the Regional Institute of Paramedical Sciences in AIIMS Bhopal.
Former Captain of Bangladesh Mohammad Ashraful on 18 June 2014 was banned for eight years by the disciplinary panel
Former Nazi camp guard, Johann Breyer accused of aiding and abetting killing of Jews was arrested without bail in Philadelphia on 17 June 2014.
Indian Army on 18 June 2014 test-fired surface-to-air Akash missile from an Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Balasore, Odisha. This test was last among the validation trials being carried out by the Army on the first off production models of Akash Supersonic missile. Now it is ready for being induction in Indian army.
Reserve Bank of India on 18 June 2014 asked banks to disclose sector-wise advances in the Notes to Accounts to the financial statements from financial year 2014-15 onwards.
An 1856 British Guiana 1-cent postage stamp was sold for record 9.5 million US dollar on 18 June 2014 to become the world’s most valuable stamp.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on 18 June 2014 declared that number of people killed by the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa has risen to 337. It also said that in the second week of June 2014 14 deaths and 47 new cases were reported across the region.
Militants on 17 June 2014 captured Iraq's largest oil refinery Baiji refinery.
40 Indian workers on 17 June 2014 were reported to be missing from Mosul, Iraq.
The African Union’s Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) on 18 June 2014 unanimously restored the membership of Egypt into the apex body of African nations. The decision was reached at the meeting of the 15-member states of AUPSC in Addis Ababa, Egypt.
Union Cabinet on 18 June 2014 approved constitution of a three-member Supervisory Committee on the Mullaperiyar Dam. It will look into the issues about the safety and restoration of the dam. The Committee was set up in the light of Supreme Court judgment on the issue. SC earlier had directed Tamil Nadu and Kerala to raise the level of water in the dam to 142 feet.
