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Highlights of Current Affairs 23 September 2026
- India, Australia, Barbados and others co-sponsored the P4M (Partners for Multilateralism) initiative at the UN80 session, reflecting the “Carney Doctrine” approach to reforming UN, IMF and WTO institutions amid a $4 trillion Global South financing gap.
- In Jaskaran Jeet Singh Deol v. State of Punjab (2026), the Supreme Court ruled that failure to furnish written arrest grounds under Article 22(1) unconstitutionalizes an arrest, mandating judicial Magistrate approval, superior-officer endorsement, and a new investigating officer before any re-arrest.
- Rural India achieved 100% sanitation coverage by 2019 (up from 39% in 2014) under Swachh Bharat Mission, with 5.69 lakh villages now reaching ODF Plus status, including 5.25 lakh at the “Model” tier.
- India approved a ₹7,280-crore Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Scheme to reduce 100% import dependence on sintered NdFeB magnets, as China controls ~91% of global rare-earth magnet refining.
- The US enacted the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, 2026, authorizing tariffs up to 100% on the top five buyers of Russian energy (potentially including India, the second-largest buyer) and up to 500% on Russian goods directly.
- At SEMICON India 2026, the India Deep Tech Alliance announced ₹2,170 crore in investments across 56 deep-tech companies and partnered with SEMI to launch the India Semiconductor Academy for fab-ready workforce training.
- NSO released India’s first district-level labour market indicators, showing Surat, Gujarat had the highest LFPR/WPR among top 100 districts while Darbhanga, Bihar had the lowest.
- Astronomers confirmed Elias 2-24 b, a Jupiter-like gas giant under 1 million years old orbiting a young T Tauri star in the Ophiuchus molecular cloud, as the youngest known exoplanet.
- GOBARdhan initiative under SBM-G Phase II has established 1,314 operational biogas plants across 582 districts, converting organic waste into biogas and manure alongside 12.22 crore household toilets built since 2014.
- NASA identified the 222-metre-wide McGetchin Crater on the Moon, formed in 2024, marking the largest newly formed impact crater documented anywhere in the Solar System.
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