Current affairs grouped by GS paper (filter view; topic-level grouping uses syllabus_topic).
On 10 September 2026 the Ministry of Tribal Affairs held its first regional FRA review at Bengaluru with Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. By 30 June 2026, over 54 lakh individual claims had been received nationally, about 25.42 lakh titles given, over 10 lakh claims were pending and 19,845 Community Forest Rights recognised.
10 Sep 2026
A study by the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, reported by DST on 10 September 2026, measured magnetic minerals in sediments of Bakhira Lake in Sant Kabir Nagar, UP, to track 25,000 years of Indian Summer Monsoon change. Bakhira is an oxbow wetland of the Rapti and a Ramsar site since 2022. The record can improve monsoon models.
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 UIDAI launched an Aadhaar Face Authentication SDK and a testing Sandbox at the Global Fintech Fest 2026. The SDK puts face authentication inside a bank or fintech's own Android or iOS app, so users no longer need the separate FaceRD app. Face authentication, launched in 2021, has handled over 500 crore transactions.
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
As on 4 September 2026, India had sown kharif crops on 1,086.31 lakh hectares, against 1,104.00 lakh ha a year earlier, a fall of 17.69 lakh ha. Rice was down 16.37 lakh ha at 421.82 lakh ha. Pulses and jute and mesta were higher than last year, with Uttar Pradesh adding the most pulses area.
8 Sep 2026
The Indian Air Force and the Japan Air Self Defence Force held bilateral exercise Veer Guardian-2026 at Air Force Station Jodhpur from 9 to 22 September 2026. The IAF flew Tejas, Su-30 MKI and Rafale; JASDF flew F-2A fighters. Separately, the 7th India-Japan Joint Working Group on forests met in Bengaluru on 8 September.
8 Sep 2026
On 8 September 2026 the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying said it had stepped up control of Lumpy Skin Disease after sporadic cases since July 2026, mainly in UP, Rajasthan, Himachal, Haryana, Punjab and Uttarakhand. A Central Expert Team went to UP in August. Over 36.18 crore cattle have been vaccinated, and 3,461 cases were active.
8 Sep 2026