Current affairs relevant to GS3.
The Incentive Scheme for Promotion of Domestic PNG Connections, launched on 18 August 2026 and in force since 1 September 2026, rewards city gas companies for adding billed home connections. For each connection above a set threshold, a company gets 200 standard cubic metres of cheaper APM gas. India had 1.74 crore home PNG connections on 18 August 2026.
13 Sep 2026
The ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI), Jodhpur, reported on 13 September 2026 that its four new moth bean varieties, CAZRI Moth-4, 5, 6 and 7, withstood a dry spell of about 35 days in the El Niño kharif season of 2026. They stayed green and set pods. Moth bean covers nearly 10 lakh hectares in western Rajasthan.
13 Sep 2026
On 12 September 2026 a 1.85-km road at Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, built with processed steel slag aggregates by CSIR-CRRI and Jindal Steel, got the Guinness World Record for the longest such road. The Science Minister said the technology can cut construction cost by about 40 per cent, give four times the strength, and need major maintenance only after about 15 years.
12 Sep 2026
On 11 September 2026 Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) and Drydocks World, a DP World company, signed a 50:50 joint venture agreement to operate and expand the International Ship Repair Facility (ISRF) at Cochin. It was signed on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi and is described as a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership in India's ship repair sector.
11 Sep 2026
On 11 September 2026, at the 3rd Global Summit on Advanced Materials, Critical Minerals and Metals organised by CII in New Delhi, the Science and Technology Minister said critical minerals are key to India's energy security, industrial competitiveness and national security. He called for capability across the value chain, from exploration to manufacturing, and set out five priorities.
11 Sep 2026
On 10 September 2026 the NSO released, for the first time, district-level estimates for India's unincorporated non-agricultural sector from ASUSE 2025, for 757 of 770 districts. The top 50 districts hold nearly one-third of establishments, workers and GVA, women form one-third of the workforce in 237 districts, and 280 districts beat the all-India GVA per worker.
10 Sep 2026
On 9 September 2026 the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved five Railway multitracking projects costing about ₹10,021 crore. They cover 17 districts in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana, add about 540 km to the network and are planned for completion by 2029-30. They will add freight capacity of 47 million tonnes a year.
9 Sep 2026
On 9 September 2026 India said it had endorsed the Call to Action for 6G Leadership and Security, joining over 20 like-minded governments, including the US, Japan, Korea and the UK, committed to open, interoperable, secure and resilient next-generation networks. It was announced at the G20 Innovation Ministerial in North Carolina. The Department of Telecommunications will lead India's follow-up.
9 Sep 2026
On 9 September 2026 ORV Sagar Manthan, an ocean research vessel designed and built by GRSE for the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, was launched at Kolkata. Built at about ₹840 crore under the Deep Ocean Mission, it will work even in the Southern Ocean, has a 30-year design life and will replace the 43-year-old ORV Sagar Kanya.
9 Sep 2026
On 8 September 2026 the Department of Telecommunications said its Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI), launched on 22 May 2025, had helped prevent suspected cyber-fraud losses of ₹5,043.73 crore by August 2026. FRI tags mobile numbers as medium, high or very high risk so banks and payment apps can stop a fraud before money leaves the account.
8 Sep 2026