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Highlights of Current Affairs 24 September 2026
- The Visegrád Group (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) backed India’s UNSC permanent membership bid at the first V4-India Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, agreeing to institutionalize cooperation via annual meetings and a business forum.
- Maharashtra passed India’s first state law (Women Farmers Empowerment Act, 2026) recognizing women as farmers regardless of land ownership, as the UN declared 2026 the International Year of the Woman Farmer.
- Following BRICS support for de-dollarized payment alternatives to SWIFT (without proposing a common currency), India is advancing its own routes like Rupee Vostro Accounts, UPI-PayNow linkage with Singapore, and the multi-country Nexus Global Payments system.
- Renewed US plans for “space control weapons” have spotlighted a gap in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which bans WMDs in orbit but doesn’t comprehensively restrict conventional ASAT or counter-space weapons.
- World Rhino Day 2026 (“Keep the Five Alive”) highlighted that India’s Assam holds ~80% of the global Greater One-Horned Rhino population, with Kaziranga alone housing about 70%.
- Naga filmmaker Theja Rio’s Konyak-language film “Angh” won TIFF’s Platform Prize 2026, making it eligible for Oscar consideration under new rules and marking India’s only 2026 TIFF world premiere.
- Indian Navy ships INS Sahyadri and INS Kulish joined the ADMM-Plus Joint Cooperation Activity at Subic Bay, Philippines, involving ASEAN nations and eight Plus Countries including India, US, China and Russia.
- The government made BIS certification mandatory for smartphone screen protectors to ensure compliance with Indian quality and safety standards.
- The Vice-President inaugurated the 9th India International Water Week 2026 in New Delhi under the theme “Climate Resilient Water Management,” alongside the 2nd International WASH Conference.
- SECI (Solar Energy Corporation of India), originally set up in 2011 to implement the National Solar Mission before becoming a commercial Navratna PSU in 2015, marked its 15th Foundation Day.
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