Daily Current Affairs - 7 September 2026

India defeated Pakistan by seven wickets in the Women's T20 Asia Cup at Dubai International Stadium on September 5, 2026; Pakistan was bowled out for 55 (its lowest-ever T20I total), Shafali Verma became the youngest batter to score 3,000 women's T20I runs, and Harmanpreet Kaur became the first captain to play 150 T20Is.

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty won the men's doubles title at China Masters 2026 in Shenzhen, defeating He Ji Ting and Ren Xiang Yu 11-21, 21-13, 21-17; this is India's first-ever China Masters title.

India will host the 18th BRICS Summit at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on September 12–13, 2026, as BRICS Chair 2026 with the theme 'Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability'.

The inaugural iBRICS Summit will be held in New Delhi on September 12–13, 2026, on the sidelines of the 18th BRICS Summit, with over 500 institutional investors, finance ministers and business leaders managing combined wealth of USD 1 trillion.

The Indian Air Force Sarang Helicopter Display Team, the world's only five-helicopter display team, reached Egypt to participate in the 2nd El Alamein International Airshow from September 8–10, 2026; it flies the indigenously designed ALH Dhruv.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will undertake a three-day official visit to Sri Lanka from September 8–10, 2026, to strengthen bilateral, maritime and defence cooperation.

Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket became the first commercial rocket to reach orbit from continental Europe, launching from Andøya Spaceport in Arctic Norway in September 2026 with five small satellites.

Dr. Vinaya Prakash Singh was re-elected Secretary-General of the Asian-Pacific Postal Union for a second consecutive four-year term (January 2027–December 2030) at the 14th APPU Congress in Bangkok on September 4, 2026.

Justice Maheshchandra Tripathi was appointed Chief Justice of Bombay High Court and is expected to become the 50th Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court.

President Droupadi Murmu appointed Dr. Dinesh Sharma as Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands; he succeeds Admiral D.K. Joshi (retd) and previously served as Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

Bhagwat Prasad Makwana was appointed Chairperson of the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK), with Kaishab Bihari as Vice-Chairperson, effective up to March 31, 2028.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced a three-year roadmap to make India drug-free by 2029, with targets such as dismantling 100 international/inter-state drug networks, bringing 100 narcotics fugitives to India, destroying 100 clandestine labs, creating one lakh 'Nasha Mukt Mitras', reaching 50 crore citizens and increasing de-addiction centres to 1,751.

Under Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan, 250 million citizens have been administered a pledge and 570,000 citizens have been freed from drug addiction through treatment and rehabilitation, Amit Shah stated in Goa.

Vice President C. P. Radhakrishnan attended the SSUHS convocation in Guwahati on September 6, 2026, and presented the Dr. John Berry White Award for 2023, 2024 and 2025; he stated that over 44 crore Ayushman cards have been issued, saving about ₹2 lakh crore in medical expenses.

The Vibrant Villages Programme was launched in 2023 with a combined outlay of ₹11,639 crore under VVP-I and VVP-II to develop more than 2,616 villages along India's international land borders.

The 89th Fit India Sundays on Cycle was held in Surat, Gujarat, with theme 'Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat'; over 5 million participants joined across more than 25,000 locations.

On International Vulture Awareness Day 2026, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav inaugurated a national workshop themed 'From Crisis to Recovery – Conserving India's Vultures' in Panchkula, Haryana; the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre housed 356 vultures and bred 35 chicks in 2025–26.

The 16th National Meet of State Biodiversity Boards and Union Territory Biodiversity Councils was held in Chandigarh on September 6–7, 2026, organised by the National Biodiversity Authority.

The 6th RISE Conclave 2026 was held at CSIR-IICB, Kolkata; it saw 8 MoUs, 4 technology transfers, 2 product launches and 1 facility inauguration, with 67 experts across 8 panels.

Vice President C. P. Radhakrishnan launched the India Valve Registry at India Valves 2026, a multicentre initiative to collect real-world data on transcatheter valve interventions in India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed via video conference the inauguration of the BAPS Swaminarayan Hindu Mandir in Paris on September 6, 2026, calling it a new milestone in India-France cultural relations; India and France are celebrating 2026 as the India-France Year of Innovation.

Luxembourg Deputy Prime Minister Xavier Bettel will undertake a three-day official visit to India from September 7–9, 2026, including talks with EAM S. Jaishankar and inauguration of a new SES campus in Chennai.

India voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolution 'Correct the Map: Rebalancing Global Cartographic Representation and Promoting Equitable Representation of the World's Regions, Particularly Africa', adopted on September 4, 2026; India later stated that the UTs of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh must be depicted according to India's official map.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at Shri Ram College of Commerce's centenary celebrations on September 5, 2026, highlighted India's 7.8% quarterly growth, smartphone exports worth over ₹2.5 lakh crore, defence production of nearly ₹2 lakh crore, defence exports of ₹40,000 crore, and railway electrification reaching nearly 100%.

Coal India Limited supplied 322.90 million tonnes of coal during April–August 2026, a 6.70% increase over 302.60 million tonnes in the year-ago period.

NBEMS conducted NEET-PG 2026 re-examination for 2,445 affected candidates of iON Digital Zone, Jaipur, across five test centres after power-supply issues disrupted the earlier exam.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav suspended three excise officials after suspected spurious liquor deaths in Sagar district left 10 people dead and about 35 hospitalised.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav began a three-day UAE visit to attract investment; the state exported goods worth ₹76,000 crore last year, and he will attend AIM Congress 2026 and invite investors to Global Investors Summit 2027.

Andhra Pradesh issued statutory rules for direct election of Mayors, Chairpersons and Ward Members in Urban Local Bodies; directly elected Mayors/Chairpersons will have a five-year term, and a 14-day identification exercise from September 8–21 will cover SC, ST, BC and women voters in 59 ULBs.

An NIA special court in Jagdalpur convicted all ten surviving accused in the May 2013 Jheeram Valley Maoist attack that killed 29 people; quantum of punishment is reserved for September 16.

Amit Shah said in Goa that implementation of the three new criminal laws and ICJS increased the conviction rate from 22% to 53%, with criminal matters being decided within 6 to 8 months.

An eruption of Indonesia's Mount Anak Krakatau on September 6, 2026, caused six airports to suspend operations and affected 301 flights, including 58 international flights at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

Nepal flash flood death toll rose to 1,344 with about 5,000 missing, including nearly 590 foreign nationals; floods were triggered by an ice-rock avalanche near the Nepal-Tibet border on August 26.

Seven core OPEC+ countries—Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman—decided to keep October oil output policy unchanged amid global uncertainty; UAE left OPEC+ in May 2026.

Union Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh arrived in Riyadh on his first official four-day bilateral visit to Saudi Arabia.