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Highlights of Current Affairs 3 September 2026
- The Supreme Court’s Sukanya Shantha v. Union of India (2024) ruling expanded Article 17’s untouchability prohibition to cover caste-based notions of purity and stigma, not just physical exclusion, amid renewed debate over a shuddhikaran ritual controversy.
- The Delhi High Court, in Rakhi Bisht vs. Union of India, ruled that maternity leave cannot be grounds for demotion, holding that maternity protection covers professional status, managerial authority and career progression, not just pay and job continuity.
- At the 26th SCO Summit in Bishkek, chairmanship passed to Pakistan for 2026–27, with the Bishkek Declaration reaffirming Iran’s sovereignty and condemning US-Israel actions against it as violating international law.
- MeitY notified India Semiconductor Mission 2.0 (Semicon 2.0) with a ₹1,27,500 crore outlay across six pillars — design, machines/materials, fabs, packaging, R&D and talent — aiming to train 1 lakh additional semiconductor engineers.
- The Department of Pharmaceuticals launched the second call for the ₹5,000 crore PRIP Scheme to boost pharma-MedTech research, split between Centres of Excellence at NIPERs (₹700 crore) and industry/startup support (₹4,250 crore).
- The transition from MGNREGA (100 days, 100% Centre-funded wages) to the VB-G RAM G Act (125 days but with a possible 60-day blackout and 60:40 Centre-State cost sharing) has raised concerns about rights regression, linked to a reported 68% decline in rural employment generation in July–August 2026.
- The GCRMN’s 7th “Status of the World’s Coral Reefs” report found global hard coral cover has declined about 9.5% since 1980-2009, with 87% of reefs experiencing unprecedented heat stress in 2024.
- India’s Aditya-L1 solar observatory detected brief atmospheric brightenings that can precede major solar flares by several hours, potentially enabling early space-weather warnings.
- The V-Dem Report 2026 classified India as an “electoral autocracy,” ranking it 106th of 179 countries on the Electoral Democracy Index — its lowest score since the 1975 Emergency — a classification that has drawn methodological criticism.
- The 37th anniversary of the Baltic Way (1989) was marked, recalling the Singing Revolution where about 2 million people formed a 676-km human chain across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania demanding independence from the Soviet Union.
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