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President Droupadi Murmu will present the 72nd National Film Awards on 22 September 2026 at Ekta Nagar (Kevadia), Gujarat, marking the ceremony's shift from Delhi.
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At the 72nd National Film Awards, 'Article 370' won Best Feature Film and Yami Gautam won Best Actress; Mammootty ('Bramayugam') and Kartik Aaryan ('Chandu Champion') shared Best Actor, while Randeep Hooda won Best Debut Director for 'Swatantrya Veer Savarkar'.
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At the 72nd National Film Awards, 'Bhangaar' won Best Non-Feature Film, 'Ram-Nami' won Best Documentary, and a Santhali film was honoured in the Non-Feature section for the first time; Sanjeev Shrivastava was named Best Film Critic and Dr Pradeep Kenchanuru's Kannada book won Best Book on Cinema.
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A 503-member Indian contingent for Asian Games 2026 received a grand send-off in New Delhi on 08 September 2026; Sahdev Yadav is Chef de Mission and over 300 athletes are first-time participants.
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The Indian women's hockey team left for the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, under captain Salima Tete and coach Sjoerd Marijne, eyeing gold and a direct LA 2028 Olympic berth.
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India won the FIH Hockey Women's Nations Cup title by defeating New Zealand 2-0 in the final and finished fifth at the Women's World Cup in 2026.
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On the penultimate day of Stage 3 of the World Archery Para Series in Ahmedabad (8 September 2026), India won two gold, two silver and one bronze; Harvinder Singh and Vijay Sundi won men's recurve team gold, while Toman Kumar and Shyam Sundar Swami won men's compound team gold.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 7th Global Fintech Fest 2026 in Mumbai (8-11 September), his third consecutive appearance, with theme 'Potential to Impact: Agentic AI | Tokenisation | Quantum: Trusted, Connected, Global Systems for Inclusive Finance'.
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UPI completed 10 years on 25 August 2026 and is now operational in 11 countries; it processed more than 2,400 crore transactions last month, as highlighted at Global Fintech Fest 2026.
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India's economy grew 7.8% in the April-June 2026 quarter; a Japanese credit rating agency upgraded India's sovereign rating to A- after three decades.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated development projects worth over ₹35,000 crore in Vadodara, Gujarat and announced completion of the 2,800+ km Dedicated Freight Corridor on 08 September 2026.
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The 9th Rashtriya Poshan Maah 2026 will be launched on 09 September 2026 at Varanasi with the theme 'Hamari Anganwadi Hamari Jimmedari'.
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Matru Vandana Yojana completed 10 years in 2026; PM highlighted an article by Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi on the scheme and Poshan Maah's 'Hamari Anganwadi, Hamari Zimmedari' vision.
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Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy launched the first-ever sector-wide CSR framework for Indian coal companies on 08 September 2026.
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Under Coal India's Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojana, over 1,050 bone marrow transplants have been completed with a total outlay of ₹130 crore across 21 empanelled hospitals.
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Round 1 of the ₹37,500 crore Scheme for Promotion of Surface Coal/Lignite Gasification Projects concluded with seven applications including NTPC and Adani Enterprises; the scheme targets 100 million tonnes of coal gasification capacity by 2030.
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The Department of Telecommunications' Financial Fraud Risk Indicator prevented over ₹5,000 crore in suspected cyber fraud losses in the fifteen months since its launch on 22 May 2025.
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The CRCS-Sahara Refund Portal was restored; ₹9,267 crore has been refunded to 41,56,711 Sahara depositors through Aadhaar-seeded bank accounts.
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The 5th National Steering Committee of PM-SETU approved Strategic Investment Plans worth ₹735.70 crore for ITI clusters in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana, taking cumulative PM-SETU investment to ₹2,171 crore.
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India's defence equipment exports reached an all-time high of approximately ₹39,000 crore, up from ₹600 crore 12 years ago; the defence budget for FY 2025-26 is ₹7.25 lakh crore.
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The Defence Acquisition Council cleared capital acquisition proposals worth over ₹1.10 lakh crore for the armed forces, with 98% of procurement from Indian industry, including CBRN Recce Vehicles, Advanced Light Helicopters, Arudhra Radars, Marine Gas Turbines, Ground-Based Multi-Purpose Jammer and DEFSAC System.
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Exercise Veer Guardian-2026 between the Indian Air Force and Japan Air Self Defence Force will be held at Air Force Station Jodhpur from 09 to 22 September 2026; IAF will field Tejas, Su-30MKI and Rafale jets, while JASDF will field F-2A fighters.
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IAF Dronathon-2026 is scheduled at Pokhran range, Jaisalmer from 14 to 16 September 2026 to showcase indigenous UAS/CUAS capabilities.
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Admiral Krishna Swaminathan, Chief of the Naval Staff, commenced an official visit to Australia and New Zealand on 09 September 2026.
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The inaugural India-Morocco Joint Defence Committee meeting was held in New Delhi on 08 September 2026; India-Morocco defence cooperation moves towards its 70th anniversary in 2027.
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh began his maiden three-day official visit to Sri Lanka on 08 September 2026 to strengthen maritime and security cooperation.
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India holds an exclusive International Seabed Authority exploration contract over 75,000 sq km in the Central Indian Ocean Basin; under the ₹4,077-crore Deep Ocean Mission, NIOT demonstrated indigenous deep-sea mining crawler systems at depths exceeding 5,000 metres, and India is the first country to hold two exploration contracts for polymetallic sulphides.
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At the WHO South-East Asia Regional Committee (RC79) in Timor-Leste, India stated medical colleges more than doubled from 387 in 2014 to 858, with MBBS seats rising from 51,348 to 1,42,464; the Region adopted the Dili Declaration on Equity in Specialized Care and India received two WHO South-East Asia Regional Awards.
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International Literacy Day 2026 was celebrated on 8 September with the theme 'Literacy for people, the planet and prosperity'; Tripura achieved a 95.6% literacy rate and crossed the Government of India's full-literacy benchmark.
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Bharat Ratna Dr Bhupen Hazarika's 100th birth anniversary was observed on 8 September 2026; Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Vice President C P Radhakrishnan paid tributes.
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India will host the 18th BRICS Leaders' Summit at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on 12-13 September 2026 under the theme 'Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability'; this is India's fourth BRICS chairship after 2012, 2016 and 2021.
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BRICS currently has 11 full members — Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE; partner countries include Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Uganda, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. The expanded grouping accounts for about 49.5% of the world's population, 40% of global GDP and 26% of global trade.
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The first Senior Highest Military Commander-Level Flag Meeting between India and China was held at Wacha (Arunachal Pradesh) on 6 September and at Damai on 7 September 2026.
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National Security Advisor Ajit Doval held the 25th round of India-China Special Representatives talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on 25 August 2026; the 36th WMCC meeting was held in New Delhi on 6 August 2026.
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The G20 Innovation Ministerial was held on 1-2 September 2026 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Union Minister of State Jitin Prasada led the Indian delegation; separately, India joined a US-led global initiative of 24 other countries on 6G technology.
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India sent 95 tonnes of relief material through seven aircraft to Nepal after flash floods; 169 Indian nationals were rescued and 275 are missing.
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The 8th India-Kuwait Foreign Office Consultations were held in Kuwait on 08 September 2026; India and Kuwait elevated ties to a Strategic Partnership in December 2024 and the Indian community in Kuwait is 1.05 million strong.
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The UK recognised India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme under its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, helping prevent dual carbon charges on exports such as steel, aluminium, fertiliser and cement; UK CBAM is set for implementation from 2027.
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India is now the world's second-largest mobile phone manufacturer; mobile exports have increased nearly 163 times to ₹2.6 lakh crore, and electronic goods production has risen to more than ₹11 lakh crore.
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India concluded trade agreements with 38 countries over the last 12 years, including FTAs with eight major nations; the India-European Union FTA was described as the 'Mother of All Deals'.
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In the Financial Times Masters in Management 2026 ranking, 14 Indian B-schools made the global top 100; IIM Bangalore ranked 21st, SPJIMR 26th and IIM Ahmedabad 27th, while the University of St Gallen topped the ranking.
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International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies is observed on 7 September as Swachh Vayu Diwas in India; under NCAP covering 130 cities, 108 cities recorded lower annual PM10 concentrations in FY 2025-26 than in 2017-18, with 72 achieving over 20% reduction.
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ICAR-National Research Centre on Mithun in Nagaland developed an AI-based system using YOLOv8n and DeepSORT to track Mithun behaviour in real time with 99.5% mean average precision.
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Scientists at ARCI developed a bi-layered single-piece dental implant combining Ti6Al4V titanium alloy and yttria-stabilised zirconia using Spark Plasma Sintering, achieving 99.5% density.
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More than 36.18 crore cattle have been vaccinated against Lumpy Skin Disease; it was first reported in India in West Bengal and Odisha in September 2019.
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Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena, Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, was appointed to discharge the functions of Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir during the leave absence of Shri Manoj Sinha on 08 September 2026.
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NCSC Chairman Shri Kishor Makwana will be conferred the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Jan Seva Puraskar 2026 during the 16th Sansad Ratna Awards in Delhi.
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World Physiotherapy Day was observed on 8 September; Dronacharya Award recipient Bishweshwar Nandi flagged off an awareness rally in Agartala, Tripura.
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India's automobile retail sales rose 17.51% year-on-year to a record 24.23 lakh units in August 2026; alternative-fuel passenger vehicles held a 41.95% share, surpassing petrol vehicles at 40.85%: FADA.
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Luxembourg Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel backed India's bid for a permanent UNSC seat and proposed that a two-thirds majority in the Security Council should override a veto.
