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Highlights of Current Affairs 8 September 2026
- The Ministry of Tribal Affairs clarified that the Forest Rights Act, 2006 does not explicitly mandate “100% Gram Sabha consent” for Stage-II forest clearance, sparking debate between infrastructure execution and tribal self-governance protections under PESA.
- India completed 10 years of Flexible Inflation Targeting (introduced 2016 under Section 45ZA of the RBI Act), but faces criticism over a flat Phillips Curve, weak wage-inflation links, and inflation driven mainly by supply-side shocks rather than demand.
- The National Biodiversity Authority crossed ₹200 crore in cumulative Access and Benefit-Sharing disbursements under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, with Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra as top recipients.
- Archaeological excavations at Rajghat, Varanasi (first studied by Krishna Deva in 1940) uncovered pre-NBPW pottery dating settlement origins to around 800 BCE, along with seals, punch-marked coins and ivory artefacts revealing ancient Kashi’s urban history.
- The UN General Assembly voted 164-1 (US against, 6 abstentions, India in favour) on a Togo-led proposal promoting the Equal Earth projection over the Mercator projection, which exaggerates the size of high-latitude regions like Greenland relative to Africa.
- The Vibrant Villages Programme (launched 2023) is developing India’s border villages through Village Action Plans and PMGSY-IV road connectivity, split into VVP-I (northern border, Centrally Sponsored) and VVP-II (other borders, fully Centre-funded).
- The Department of Social Justice and Empowerment appointed new leadership to the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis, a non-statutory body under the 1993 Act working on sanitation workers’ dignity, safety and rehabilitation.
- The Union Home Minister unveiled a three-year roadmap for a Drug-Free India by 2029 (within the broader 2047 goal), focusing on intelligence-led enforcement, precursor chemical control, and financial-trail investigations via the ED and FIU.
- India’s ABS framework, rooted in the CBD (1992) and Nagoya Protocol (2010), operates through a three-tier structure — the National Biodiversity Authority, State Biodiversity Boards, and Biodiversity Management Committees — supporting global commitments like the Kunming-Montreal Framework’s Target 13.
- Mechanisms like NCORD (2019), the Darknet Monitoring Cell under NCB, and Anti-Narcotics Task Forces are being strengthened as part of India’s multi-agency approach to dismantling drug trafficking networks under the NDPS Act, 1985.
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