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Highlights of Current Affairs 6 October 2026
- The Finance Ministry finalized a revised Model Bilateral Investment Treaty for Cabinet approval, moving beyond the strict 2015 version’s 5-year local-remedy rule toward the India-UAE and India-Israel agreements’ 3-year period and portfolio investment coverage.
- The expanded GOBARdhan Scheme (2026-27 to 2035-36) targets a tenfold rise in Compressed Biogas production (0.4 to 5 million SCMD), with GAIL guaranteeing CBG offtake at ₹2,110/MMBtu until March 2036.
- PM-SETU completed one year, approving Strategic Investment Plans for 14 ITI clusters across 8 states, part of a ₹60,000 crore plan to upgrade 200 Hub and 800 Spoke ITIs with ADB/World Bank co-financing 50% of the Centre’s share.
- Following the Supreme Court’s Vanashakti v. Union of India (2026) ruling, MoEFCC resumed processing post-facto Environmental Clearance applications, with the Court quashing the 2021 SOP but preserving already-granted clearances.
- The Vice President and PM paid tribute to revolutionary Shyamji Krishna Varma (first Indian MA from Oxford) on his birth anniversary, recalling his 1905 founding of India House and The Indian Sociologist in London.
- India’s parliamentary delegation, led by the Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman, attended the 153rd IPU Assembly in Arusha, Tanzania (IPU founded 1889, headquartered in Geneva since 1921, with 183 member parliaments).
- The 19th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas Convention will be held in Kolkata from January 7-9, 2027, marking the anniversary of Gandhi’s 1915 return to India from South Africa.
- Tigress T138 was released into West Bengal’s Buxa Tiger Reserve (a Project Tiger reserve since 1983) as part of a phased reintroduction effort strengthening India-Bhutan ecological connectivity.
- A pilot programme released captive-bred Great Indian Bustards into Rajasthan’s Desert National Park, a critical habitat for this critically endangered, heaviest-flying bird species found only in five Indian states.
- India recorded 3,832 new child leprosy cases in 2025-26 — nearly double the NLEP’s 2,000 target — raising concerns about meeting the 2027 goal of interrupting district-level transmission.
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