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Highlights of Current Affairs 4 September 2026
- India’s river-interlinking (ILR) programme, dating to Sir Arthur Cotton’s 19th-century proposal, envisions 30 inter-basin links at an estimated ₹5 lakh crore cost, but faces criticism over climate-driven unreliability of “surplus” basin classifications and ecological/displacement concerns, as seen in the flagship Ken-Betwa project.
- The Supreme Court sought the government’s response on introducing totaliser machines to aggregate EVM votes across multiple booths, aiming to protect voter privacy while raising concerns about reduced booth-level verifiability.
- India’s real GDP growth accelerated to 7.8% in Q1 FY2026-27, beating RBI’s 7.0% projection, driven by manufacturing (9.2%), investment (11.9%) and exports (12.0%), though critics flag the real-nominal growth gap and jobless-growth concerns.
- India’s national income accounting now uses a 2022-23 base year, incorporating MCA-21 corporate data, GST returns, and double deflation methodology to better capture the post-pandemic economy.
- The Indian Copyright Office rejected the claim that AI can independently qualify as an “author” under the Copyright Act, 1957, holding that copyright requires human creative intent, though AI-assisted works with sufficient human authorship may still qualify.
- During his Kyrgyzstan visit, PM Modi gifted Bibek Debroy’s Mahabharata translation, a Ladakhi Tsug-dul blanket, and Dokra metalwork, highlighting parallels between the Mahabharata and Kyrgyzstan’s Epic of Manas.
- A UN report reportedly confirmed Syria was developing a nuclear reactor at Deir el-Zour under Bashar al-Assad, drawing attention to the region’s strategic position near the Iraq border.
- The Belgian Prime Minister visited New Delhi for three days, highlighting growing India-Belgium ties; Brussels hosts NATO headquarters and is a major EU institutional hub.
- The Supreme Court invoked Article 142 to quash nationwide FIRs against July 2026 NEET protesters, exercising its “complete justice” power as it previously did in the Bhopal gas tragedy settlement and the Ayodhya judgment.
- A new deep-sea skate species, Dipturus dhritiae, was discovered in the Arabian Sea under India’s Deep Ocean Mission, named after ZSI’s first woman director Dhriti Banerjee.
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