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Highlights of September 2nd Week Current Affairs
- The Ministry of Tribal Affairs clarified that the Forest Rights Act, 2006 does not explicitly mandate “100% Gram Sabha consent” for Stage-II forest clearance, sparking debate between infrastructure execution and tribal self-governance protections under PESA.
- India completed 10 years of Flexible Inflation Targeting (introduced 2016 under Section 45ZA of the RBI Act), but faces criticism over a flat Phillips Curve, weak wage-inflation links, and inflation driven mainly by supply-side shocks rather than demand.
- The National Biodiversity Authority crossed ₹200 crore in cumulative Access and Benefit-Sharing disbursements under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, with Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra as top recipients.
- Archaeological excavations at Rajghat, Varanasi (first studied by Krishna Deva in 1940) uncovered pre-NBPW pottery dating settlement origins to around 800 BCE, along with seals, punch-marked coins and ivory artefacts revealing ancient Kashi’s urban history.
- The UN General Assembly voted 164-1 (US against, 6 abstentions, India in favour) on a Togo-led proposal promoting the Equal Earth projection over the Mercator projection, which exaggerates the size of high-latitude regions like Greenland relative to Africa.
- The Vibrant Villages Programme (launched 2023) is developing India’s border villages through Village Action Plans and PMGSY-IV road connectivity, split into VVP-I (northern border, Centrally Sponsored) and VVP-II (other borders, fully Centre-funded).
- The Department of Social Justice and Empowerment appointed new leadership to the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis, a non-statutory body under the 1993 Act working on sanitation workers’ dignity, safety and rehabilitation.
- The Union Home Minister unveiled a three-year roadmap for a Drug-Free India by 2029 (within the broader 2047 goal), focusing on intelligence-led enforcement, precursor chemical control, and financial-trail investigations via the ED and FIU.
- India’s ABS framework, rooted in the CBD (1992) and Nagoya Protocol (2010), operates through a three-tier structure — the National Biodiversity Authority, State Biodiversity Boards, and Biodiversity Management Committees — supporting global commitments like the Kunming-Montreal Framework’s Target 13.
- Mechanisms like NCORD (2019), the Darknet Monitoring Cell under NCB, and Anti-Narcotics Task Forces are being strengthened as part of India’s multi-agency approach to dismantling drug trafficking networks under the NDPS Act, 1985.
- The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution (164 in favour, US against, 6 abstentions) endorsing the Equal Earth projection over the 1569 Mercator projection to better represent continents’ true relative sizes, especially Africa’s.
- The Ministry of Tribal Affairs’ clarification on Gram Sabha consent for forest diversion has reignited debate, even as landmark cases like the Niyamgiri judgment (2013) affirmed Gram Sabhas’ central role in protecting tribal cultural rights.
- Concerns over judicial integrity resurfaced after a Supreme Court judge alleged nepotism against the Acting Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court, spotlighting gaps like the lapsed Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, 2010 and the “Uncle Judge” phenomenon.
- A decade into Flexible Inflation Targeting (4% target, 2-6% band under Section 45ZA), India’s average CPI inflation fell from 6.8% (2012-16) to 4.9% post-FIT, though supply-side shocks and weak monetary transmission remain challenges.
- The Green Climate Fund faced criticism after a seven-year delay in clearing Nepal’s $49.9 million GLOF-resilience proposal, highlighting slow climate-finance access for vulnerable developing nations.
- The RBI absorbed nearly ₹6.02 lakh crore via Variable Rate Reverse Repo auctions amid a ₹10.32 lakh crore liquidity surplus, aiming to align the Weighted Average Call Rate with its policy repo rate.
- The Cabinet reaffirmed ECLGS 5.0, offering up to ₹2.55 lakh crore in guaranteed credit (100% for MSMEs) to cushion businesses from disruptions linked to the West Asia crisis.
- ASI declared Telangana’s 12th-13th century Gollala Gudi Temple, near the UNESCO-listed Ramappa Temple, a Monument of National Importance, showcasing distinctive Kakatiya-era interlocking masonry and “sandbox” foundation technology.
- India drilled two geothermal wells at Puga, Ladakh (over 14,000 feet elevation) for its first 1 MW geothermal demonstration plant, part of a broader push under the National Policy on Geothermal Energy notified in September 2025.
- China’s proposed 60 GW mega hydropower project on the Yarlung Zangbo (Brahmaputra) near Medog raises Indian concerns over water security and seismic/glacial flood risks, given the absence of a binding India-China water-sharing treaty; separately, the Supreme Court raised the retirement age of district judges from 60 to 62 in seven consenting states.
- India and Japan’s defence ties evolved from the 2008 Joint Declaration through 2015’s tech cooperation agreement and 2020’s logistics pact to a 2026 Maritime Security MoA, alongside the co-developed UNICORN radio antenna programme.
- The Punjab Cabinet objected to Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra’s appointment as Punjab & Haryana High Court Chief Justice over inadequate state consultation, spotlighting how the Collegium process under Article 217 treats state consultation as non-binding.
- The UK recognized India’s Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS) as a qualifying carbon-pricing mechanism under its upcoming CBAM (effective January 2027), reducing double carbon-pricing risk for Indian steel, aluminium and cement exporters.
- NITI Aayog launched PACT (Platform for Aggregating Clean Transport) under its e-FAST India programme to aggregate freight demand and accelerate electric truck adoption, targeting heavy-duty vehicles that cause over one-third of transport emissions despite being just 3-4% of the fleet.
- Rajasthan’s Painted Haveli Towns of Shekhawati — spanning 14 towns across Jhunjhunu, Churu and Sikar districts — were added to UNESCO’s Tentative List for their distinctive fresco heritage.
- The Ministry of Women and Child Development launched the 9th Rashtriya Poshan Maah 2026 in Varanasi under the theme “Hamari Anganwadi Hamari Jimmedari,” marking ten years of the PM Matru Vandana Yojana.
- The 5th Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan Awards 2026 recognized Lucknow, Rourkela, and Kalinga Nagar as top performers in their respective population categories for clean-air initiatives among 130 NCAP cities.
- The Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI), run by DoT’s Digital Intelligence Platform, has prevented over ₹5,000 crore in suspected cyber-fraud losses since 2025 by assigning real-time risk levels to suspicious mobile numbers.
- India joined the US and 24 other countries in the “Call to Action for 6G Leadership and Security” initiative, while Exercise Veer Guardian-2026 at Jodhpur marked the first-ever deployment of Japanese fighter aircraft from an Indian air base.
- The Goa Police received the President’s Colour (Nishaan) for distinguished service, and the WHO South-East Asia region adopted the Dili Declaration at RC79 in Timor-Leste to address shortages of specialist healthcare professionals in underserved areas.
- The Supreme Court is examining the constitutional validity of the marital rape exception under BNS 2023 (Exception 2 to Section 63), weighing Article 14/21 arguments against concerns over misuse and marital stability.
- India’s trade deficit with BRICS nations tripled from $74.5 billion (FY2021) to $226.1 billion (FY2026), as imports surged 131.8% while exports grew just 48.8%, with China, UAE and Russia accounting for 84% of BRICS imports.
- The PM SHRI Scheme (2022-2027) is upgrading over 14,500 government schools into NEP 2020-aligned model institutions, selected through a “Challenge Mode” with up to two schools per block.
- India’s 2,843-km Dedicated Freight Corridor network was fully operationalized with the final stretches of the Western DFC (Dadri to JNPT), complementing the already-completed Eastern DFC (Ludhiana to Sonnagar).
- CMFRI developed MatsyaMetri, a smartphone app that estimates fish length and width from photographs, eliminating the need to physically handle specimens for fisheries research.
- Nepal formally requested support from the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) after August 2026 glacial-collapse flash floods, though the fund’s $822 million in pledges remains far below the estimated $2.8 billion need.
- India resumed its indigenous Cell Broadcast System (developed by C-DOT), which sends location-specific emergency alerts without internet connectivity across 2G-5G networks, integrated with the SACHET platform.
- The Indo-French TRISHNA mission (ISRO-CNES collaboration) is set to launch on a PSLV to monitor land-surface temperature, water stress, glaciers and urban heat islands via a sun-synchronous orbit at ~761 km altitude.
- The Agriculture Ministry approved upgrading 300 priority Krishi Vigyan Kendras by March 2027 and establishing entrepreneurship centres across all KVKs by December 2028, strengthening India’s farmer-extension network since the first KVK opened in Puducherry in 1974.
- NCRB data shows cruelty by husband/relatives was the largest category (27.2%) of reported crimes against women in 2024, while NFHS-5 found nearly 29% of ever-married women aged 18-49 have experienced spousal violence.
- India has over 2,800 Registered Unrecognised Political Parties (RUPPs), but only about 750 contested the 2024 General Election, renewing debate over accountability given the ECI’s limited deregistration powers under the 2002 INC v. Institute of Social Welfare ruling.
- The Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Amendment Rules, 2026 (effective January 1, 2027) mandate transparent discount pricing (based on the lowest price in the preceding 30 days), dark-pattern self-audits, and disclosure of imported products’ country of origin.
- The UK announced import restrictions on goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, amid concerns over settlement expansion in the E1 corridor threatening the two-state solution.
- FIU-IND issued compliance notices to 15 offshore Virtual Digital Asset Service Providers under the PMLA, 2002, reflecting growing regulatory scrutiny of crypto platforms for money laundering risks.
- The Dryland Congress 2026 in New Delhi, marking 50 years of ICAR-ICRISAT collaboration, is expected to adopt the “Delhi Declaration on Dryland (3D)” to boost South-South cooperation, given drylands cover 68% of India’s cultivated area.
- The MHA proposed a new “Chapter K” under Article 371 to grant Ladakh a directly elected body with legislative powers over land, culture, language, forests and natural resources.
- Five rescued juvenile orangutans were moved to Nandankanan Zoological Park in Odisha, spotlighting the critically endangered status of all three orangutan species (Bornean, Sumatran, and the rarest Tapanuli).
- OpenAI reported an internal AI system using around 10,000 agents over 88 hours to address a problem linked to the Navier-Stokes equations, one of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s seven Millennium Prize Problems.
- India launched its first indigenous Ocean Research Vessel, “Sagar Manthan,” built by GRSE for NCPOR under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, supporting Vertical-4 of India’s Deep Ocean Mission.
- Kerala’s Eravikulam National Park (India’s first national park, established 1978) was identified as a key habitat for the endangered Resplendent Shrub Frog, alongside its famed 12-year Neelakurinji flowering cycle.
- India is holding the BRICS Presidency in 2026, hosting the 18th Summit in New Delhi under the theme “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability,” with the grouping now expanded to 11 full members after Indonesia joined in January 2025.
- BRICS collectively accounts for over 40% of global GDP (PPP) and about 40% of global crude oil production, giving it significant leverage in energy markets and the push for de-dollarisation via local-currency transactions.
- The Ministry of Rural Development released operational guidelines for DILRMP 3.0 (2026-2031), aiming to build an integrated, interoperable GIS-based “Land Stack” combining cadastral maps, ownership records and court data.
- DILRMP’s Bhu-Aadhaar/ULPIN system assigns a 14-digit alphanumeric Unique Land Parcel Identification Number to georeferenced land parcels, while NAKSHA uses drones and GNSS surveys for urban land records.
- India’s air-quality monitoring network comprises 1,646 stations across 603 cities as of March 2026, with new CAQM particulate-matter emission norms of 50 mg/Nm³ for large industries applicable from October 2026.
- Road dust and construction activities contribute 40-50% of PM10 emissions in many Indian cities, prompting mandatory Dust Control and Management Cells for NCR road and construction agencies.
- Sediment analysis from Bakhira Lake (a Ramsar site since 2022) in Uttar Pradesh reconstructed nearly 25,000 years of Indian Summer Monsoon variability, capturing events like the Last Glacial Maximum and Younger Dryas.
- National Forest Martyrs Day (September 11) commemorates the 1730 Khejarli sacrifice, where over 360 Bishnoi community members, led by Amrita Devi Bishnoi, died protecting Khejri trees from felling.
- The Defence Acquisition Council granted Acceptance of Necessity for capital acquisition proposals worth about ₹1.10 lakh crore to strengthen India’s armed forces’ combat preparedness.
- At the First International Space Summit in Paris, India’s PM virtually outlined plans for an indigenous space station by 2035 and sending an Indian astronaut to the Moon by 2040.
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