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Highlights of Current Affairs 1 September 2026
- India and Uzbekistan upgraded ties to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership during PM Modi’s visit, concluding a long-term uranium supply deal and setting a bilateral trade target of $5 billion by 2030.
- Uzbekistan conferred its highest state honour, the ‘Oliy Darajali Do’stlik’ (Order of Friendship), on PM Modi, alongside agreements on critical minerals, UPI–UZQR digital payment interoperability, and Aral Sea restoration support.
- The PARIVARTAN Scheme, with a ₹9,585 crore outlay, has onboarded 42 banks/NBFCs and 15 OEMs to replace over 2 lakh old BS-IV commercial vehicles in Delhi-NCR with BS-VI or electric alternatives.
- India’s higher education sector saw universities grow 69.6% and PhD enrolment surge 192.89% between 2014-15 and 2023-24, though graduate employability stands at only about 56.35% per the India Skills Report 2026.
- PMFBY (Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana) completed a decade, insuring over 92.46 crore farmer applications and paying claims exceeding ₹2.06 lakh crore since its 2016 launch.
- The Per Drop More Crop (PDMC) initiative has expanded micro-irrigation coverage to about 8.11% of India’s net sown area, offering up to 55% subsidy for small and marginal farmers.
- The government notified the Legal Metrology (Indian Standard Time) Rules, 2026, making IST the uniform legal/commercial time reference, supported by NavIC and CERN-origin White Rabbit synchronization technology.
- Nepal faces renewed flood risk from a barrier lake formed near the Nepal-Tibet border after a glacier collapse blocked river confluence, raising fears of a Landslide Lake Outburst Flood (LLOF).
- The Indian Army signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance with the US to procure Javelin anti-tank missile systems (developed by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon) via the Foreign Military Sales route.
- NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket to study black holes, exoplanets and galaxies, while CosmoCube, a proposed lunar far-side mission, aims to detect radio signals from over 13.5 billion years ago.
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