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Highlights of Current Affairs 15 September 2026
- The CCEA fixed jute MSP at ₹5,925/quintal for 2026-27 (61.8% return over cost), with West Bengal producing over 80% of India’s jute in the Ganga-Brahmaputra Delta.
- India launched an Incentive Scheme for Domestic PNG Connections (effective September 1, 2026) offering CGD entities 200 SCM of additional cheaper APM gas per activated connection, cutting payback periods from 10 years to about 3.
- At the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, PM Modi warned against the “weaponisation” of technology and critical minerals, highlighting China’s dominance in processing over 90% of rare earths used in permanent magnets.
- The unanimously adopted BRICS New Delhi Declaration 2026 saw China and Russia back India and Brazil for greater UNSC roles, opposed carbon-linked trade barriers like CBAM, and passed BRICS chairmanship to China for 2027.
- A female Badri calf was born via OPU-IVF technology using a Badri embryo transferred into a Sahiwal surrogate cow, advancing assisted reproduction for indigenous Uttarakhand cattle breed conservation.
- Houthi forces seized Yemen’s Mokha Port and strategic Mayun (Perim) Island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a chokepoint through which about 12% of global seaborne oil trade passes.
- The Colombo Security Conclave (originally a 2011 India-Sri Lanka-Maldives dialogue, now including Mauritius, Bangladesh and Seychelles) held a Table Top security exercise at India’s Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam.
- NASA’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured plasma vortices at solar granule boundaries caused by Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability, which twist magnetic field lines and can trigger solar flares and CMEs.
- UNEP’s “Hidden Assets” report found South Asia bears the highest air-pollution economic burden globally (~10% of regional GDP), while global outdoor air pollution caused an estimated 6.4 million premature deaths in 2025.
- National Fluorosis Day (September 9) highlighted that fluoride exceeded safe limits (1.5 mg/L) in 9.04% of India’s groundwater samples per CGWB 2024 data, with Rajasthan recording the highest contamination.
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