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Highlights of Current Affairs 18 September 2026
- India invoked Article 10 of the 1991 India-Pakistan Advance Notice Agreement (requiring 3 nautical mile naval separation) after PNS Hunain collided with an Indian Navy warship in the North Arabian Sea.
- NITI Aayog’s second India Electric Mobility Index showed EV sales rose from 0.5% (2018) to 8.25% of total sales (2025-26), with public charging stations growing from ~5,151 (Dec 2022) to over 29,000 (June 2025).
- The US’s first public admission of space-based weapons spotlighted gaps in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which bars WMDs in orbit but doesn’t comprehensively prohibit conventional space weapons or ASAT systems.
- MoEFCC launched India’s Net Zero Portal (for voluntary corporate GHG disclosure) and the NAPCC Dashboard to track national climate mission implementation.
- The Cabinet raised the EPFO mandatory wage ceiling from ₹15,000 to ₹25,000/month — the first change since 2014 — extending EPF, EPS and EDLI coverage to over 51 lakh additional workers.
- Six states signed an MoA reviving the 80-year-delayed Kishau Multipurpose Project on the Tons River (Yamuna’s largest tributary), featuring a 232.6m dam with 422 MW capacity and irrigation for ~97,000 hectares.
- The RGI will retain unchanged 1981-era Census Town criteria (population 5,000+, 75% non-agricultural male workforce, density 400/sq km) for Census 2027, despite EAC-PM estimates suggesting real urbanization may be as high as 63%.
- Kannada actor Anant Nag received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2024, becoming only the second Kannada actor after Dr. Rajkumar (1995) to win India’s highest cinema honor.
- CRPF officer Sanjukta Parashar, known as the “Iron Lady of Assam,” became the first woman to head the elite jungle-warfare unit CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action).
- Oman invited Indian investment in Sohar Port, a deep-sea port outside the Strait of Hormuz that offers India an alternative logistics route to Gulf energy resources without transiting the strategic chokepoint.
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