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Highlights of Current Affairs 12 September 2026
- 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.
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