Daily Current Affairs - 11 September 2026

NCSC Chairman Kishor Makwana was conferred the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Jan Seva Award 2026 at the 16th Sansad Ratna Awards held at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi.

PM Shri Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Ukhrul-1, Manipur won the 27th National Youth Parliament Competition 2025-26 for Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas; Union Minister Kiren Rijiju presented the Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru Running Parliamentary Shield.

Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) completed six years on 10 September 2026; India's fish production rose from 141.64 lakh tonnes in 2019-20 to 197.75 lakh tonnes in 2024-25 and fisheries exports rose from ₹46,663 crore to ₹73,890 crore in 2025-26.

Union Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched the Operational Guidelines for Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP) 3.0 with an outlay of ₹565.50 crore for 2026–2031; every land parcel will get a 14-digit Bhu-Aadhaar (ULPIN).

India's assessed Small Hydro Power potential is around 21 GW across over 7,100 identified sites; only about 5.2 GW has been harnessed, and the proposed Small Hydro Power Development Scheme for 2026-27 to 2030-31 has an outlay of ₹2,584.60 crore with a target of about 1,500 MW.

The Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) (Amendment) Rules, 2026 were notified and will come into force on 1 January 2027; they mandate disclosure of prior price during reductions, clear identification of sponsored listings and a yearly self-audit for compliance with Dark Patterns Guidelines, 2023.

TRAI issued the Standards of Quality of Service (Duration of Advertisements in Television Channels) (Repealing) Regulations, 2026, repealing the 2012 regulation that capped TV advertisements at 12 minutes per clock hour.

An agreement was signed for the Amended BharatNet Program in Jharkhand with financial support of ₹1,684 crore, covering 4,395 Gram Panchayats and providing on-demand connectivity to 26,777 villages.

MoS MSME Shobha Karandlaje inaugurated a new MSME Technology Centre at Devanahalli, Bengaluru, developed on 10 acres with ₹156 crore investment to train 10,000 trainees annually; another centre will come up in Belagavi at ₹178 crore.

Union Cabinet approved eight railway multitracking projects worth over ₹20,800 crore; the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train will commence next year with the initial 100-km Surat-Vapi section.

ESTIC-2026 (Emerging Science, Technology & Innovation Conclave) will be held from 27–29 October 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi; PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate it, and Nobel Laureates Joachim Frank, Richard J. Roberts and Kostya Novoselov will be faculty; its theme is 'Creative Minds, Catalyzing Science, Empowering Technologies'.

Odisha signed an MoU in Abu Dhabi with International Holding Company and Adani Group to explore 14 projects worth ₹2,10,500 crore with potential to create 8,68,200 jobs.

Home Minister Amit Shah chaired the third meeting of the Governing Body of the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) and stressed a zero-casualty vision for disaster-resilient villages and cities; SDRF allocation increased nearly fourfold and NDRF nearly threefold.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the first International Space Summit in Paris via video conference on 10 September 2026 and announced India aims to set up an Indian space station by 2035 and send an Indian astronaut to the Moon by 2040; over 430 satellites from 34 countries have been launched on Indian rockets.

In June 2026, DGCA successfully conducted India's first satellite-based landing system approach on a commercial jet using GAGAN, the ISRO-Airports Authority of India Satellite-Based Augmentation System operational since 2015 and the first SBAS certified for the equatorial region.

India's NavIC provides positioning, navigation and timing services up to about 1,500 km beyond India, and India signed an agreement with South Africa in 2025 to set up a NavIC reference station.

Indian Navy's sail training ship INS Sudarshini arrived at Livorno, Italy on 9 September 2026 as part of Lokayan 2026, after sailing over 17,400 nautical miles across 10 countries, and conducted a Passage Exercise with Italian Navy ship ITS Palinuro.

INS Mysore arrived at Lumut, Malaysia on 9 September 2026 for the 4th edition of the bilateral maritime exercise 'Samudra Laksamana' between the Indian Navy and Royal Malaysian Navy.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh described the maiden visit of Japan Air Self-Defense Force fighter aircraft to India as a milestone in the India-Japan defence partnership.

His Highness Prince Rahim Aga Khan V, the 50th Imam of the Ismaili Community and Chairman of AKDN, called on President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 10 September 2026 during his first official visit to India.

Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan will undertake his maiden visit to the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu on 11-12 September 2026.

Justice Alpesh Yeshwant Kogje was sworn in as the 30th Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court; Governor Mangubhai Patel administered the oath.

India is hosting the 18th BRICS Summit at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi on 12-13 September 2026; this is India's fourth BRICS Chairship with the theme 'Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability'. BRICS has 11 members representing 49.5% of global population, 40% of global GDP and 26% of global trade.

At the first INNOPROM India 2026 in New Delhi, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal called for India-Russia bilateral trade of $100 billion and two-way investment of $50 billion by 2030; India and the Eurasian Economic Union have begun formal FTA negotiations.

The 9th ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture and Forestry (9th AIMMAF) was held in New Delhi on 9 September 2026, co-chaired by India and the Philippines.

India and the European Union concluded negotiations on the India-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA), as announced during the Luxembourg ministerial visit to India from 7 to 9 September 2026.

The Global Dryland Congress 2026 began in New Delhi on 10 September 2026 with the theme 'Transforming Dryland Agriculture with South-South Cooperation'; it marks 50 years of ICAR-ICRISAT partnership with over 800 delegates from more than 25 countries.

At the BRICS WBA Women-Led Development Conference, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said nearly 300 million women in India have bank accounts, around 100 million rural women are members of over 9 million self-help groups, and over 30 million women are 'Lakhpati Didis'.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a telephone call from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on 10 September 2026 as India and Germany celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations and reviewed the India-Germany Strategic Partnership.

The IAEA referred Iran to the UN Security Council for the first time in 20 years over failure to cooperate with a probe into uranium traces found at undeclared sites; Iran holds about 441 kg of uranium enriched to 60% purity.

Houthi forces reportedly took the strategic port city of Mocha near the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, raising concerns over global shipping and energy; Brent crude remained above $100 a barrel on 10 September 2026.

The National Statistics Office released first-ever district-level estimates for the unincorporated non-agricultural sector from ASUSE 2025 covering 757 districts; the top 50 districts account for nearly one-third of establishments, workforce and GVA, and all-India average GVA per worker is ₹1,56,539.

India's space economy is expected to reach US$40-45 billion by 2030, nearly five times its 2023 level; India's semiconductor sector has attracted about US$20 billion and data centre capacity has expanded fivefold to about 2 GW, according to Jefferies.

India has crossed 300 GW of installed non-fossil-fuel capacity, according to Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy Shripad Yesso Naik.

August 2026 was the world's joint-hottest month on record, tied with July 2023, with an average global surface air temperature of 16.96°C, 1.65°C above pre-industrial levels, according to EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service.

A new study of magnetic minerals in sediments of Bakhira Lake (Sant Kabir Nagar, Uttar Pradesh), a Ramsar Site since 2022, provided a 25,000-year record of Indian Summer Monsoon and climate changes in the Central Ganga Plain.

The death toll from flash floods in Nepal rose to 1,377 with over 5,000 missing as of 10 September 2026; India dispatched its eighth IAF flight with relief supplies, taking assistance to more than 130 tonnes since 26 August and deploying 54 experts.

More than 43.64 lakh people in 527 gram panchayats across 85 blocks of 14 Bihar districts were affected by floods as of 10 September 2026; the Ganga at Sultanganj flowed at 36.72 metres, 2.22 metres above danger level.

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus met Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda on the sidelines of the 79th WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia in Dili, Timor-Leste; India has around 1,60,000 Ayushman Arogya Mandirs and institutional deliveries rose from 78% to 93%.

UPI processed about 24,162 crore transactions worth ₹314 lakh crore in FY 2025-26; UPI accounts for 84% of domestic digital transactions and India handles 49% of the world's real-time digital payment volumes.

Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said at the Global Fintech Festival 2026 that India's broadband access grew from 6 crore to 103 crore in a decade, and the 5G rollout since 2022 now covers 99.9% of districts and 85% of the population within 26 months with ₹4.5 lakh crore capex.

The 7th Global Fintech Fest 2026 is being held in Mumbai with the theme 'Potential to Impact: Agentic AI, Tokenisation, Quantum – Trusted, Connected, Global Systems for Inclusive Finance'.

Equity mutual funds recorded net inflows of ₹29,328.62 crore in August 2026, up about 19% month-on-month, and SIP contributions reached a record ₹32,297 crore, according to AMFI; Sensex closed at 74,902.59 and Nifty at 23,477.80 on 10 September, snapping a three-day losing streak.

RBI recognised the Unified Fintech Forum (UFF) as a Self-Regulatory Organisation in the FinTech Sector (SRO-FT); the FinTech Association for Consumer Empowerment (FACE) was the first SRO-FT, recognised in August 2024.

FATF warned countries about growing misuse of gaming and gambling platforms for money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crimes.

At the India Ship Leasing and Financing Summit at GIFT City, it was highlighted that 38 ship lessors are registered and lease 43 vessels with over 2.99 million DWT capacity; the ₹25,000 crore Maritime Development Fund is expected to catalyse ₹1.5 lakh crore by 2030.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized around 41 kg of foreign-origin gold worth approximately ₹62 crore and arrested 24 persons, including three foreign nationals, in pan-India operations.

India is the world's third-largest startup ecosystem with more than 2.3 lakh startups, and over 50% of startups now come from small towns.

India women's junior hockey team thrashed Pakistan 19-0 in the quarterfinal of the 2026 Women's Junior Asia Cup in Moqi, China, with Pooja Malik scoring a hat-trick, to enter the semifinals.

India opened the World Para Shooting Championship in Changwon, South Korea with four medals; Mona Agarwal, Avani Lekhara and Mili Shah won gold in the R-2 10m Air Rifle Standing SH-1 team event, and Mona Agarwal became the first Indian shooter to qualify for the 2028 Los Angeles Paralympics; India's men's team won silver in R-1 10m Air Rifle Standing SH-1.

Elena Rybakina beat Zheng Qinwen 3-6 6-1 6-4 at the US Open 2026 and will become the new women's world number one, dethroning Aryna Sabalenka.

For the first time since Wimbledon 2009, all four top-seeded women—Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina, Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff—reached a Grand Slam semifinal at the US Open 2026.

Alexander Zverev reached the US Open 2026 semifinals and with 23 Grand Slam match wins in 2026 surpassed Boris Becker's German men's record of 22 set in 1989.

In the Women's Asia Cup cricket, India, led by Harmanpreet Kaur, will face Bangladesh in the semifinal in Dubai; India won all three group matches against Thailand, Hong Kong and Pakistan.

World Suicide Prevention Day 2026 was observed on 10 September to raise awareness about suicide prevention and mental health.

Swachhata Hi Seva 2026 will be observed from 17 September to 17 October 2026 with the theme 'Swachhata Mein Sahbhag, Swachh Bharat, Viksit Bharat'.

Former Punjab Minister and BJP leader Bhagat Chunni Lal passed away at the age of 94 in Jalandhar.

By-elections for Madurantakam and Dharapuram Reserved Assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu will be held on 6 October 2026.