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Highlights of Current Affairs 21 September 2026
- India launched an indigenous Life Cycle Assessment framework with a GHG calculator (developed by IISc, IIT Madras, IIT-BHU) to help Urban Local Bodies scientifically select solid waste management technologies.
- The Antarctic ozone hole expanded to ~25 million sq km in 2026 (5 million above average) per Copernicus (CAMS), attributed to extreme stratospheric cold rather than a reversal of the Montreal Protocol’s ozone recovery trend.
- Spanish paleontologists discovered ~150-million-year-old Diplodocus fossils in Teruel, Spain — the first outside North America — suggesting temporary land bridges once linked the continents in the Late Jurassic.
- PMAY-U and PMAY-U 2.0 together delivered over one crore pucca houses; the second phase (2024-2029) targets an additional 1 crore families with up to ₹2.5 lakh assistance per unit.
- PM Vishwakarma Scheme hit its 30 lakh registration target within three years, with an IIM Mumbai evaluation finding 93% of beneficiaries reported income gains after training across its 18 covered trades.
- India hosted the 10th World Circular Economy Forum 2026 in Gandhinagar — the first WCEF held in South Asia — jointly organized by Finland’s Sitra and India’s CPCB.
- Djibouti became the 72nd country (8th African nation) to sign the Artemis Accords, the non-binding US-led framework for peaceful space exploration that India joined in 2023.
- The Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague convicted former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi and three ex-KLA leaders of war crimes from the 1998-99 conflict, sentencing Thaçi to 25 years; India does not recognize Kosovo’s independence.
- New Zealand passed legislation implementing its April 2026 FTA with India, under which ~95% of NZ exports to India get tariff cuts while all Indian goods gain duty-free access to New Zealand.
- India’s first soil-carbon payments were released under the “Aadi” programme (led by Grow Indigo with ICAR guidance) to 2,550 Punjab and Haryana farmers who adopted Direct Seeded Rice and reduced tillage practices.
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