Daily Current Affairs 3 September 2026

Welcome to the Ujiyari Daily Current Affairs edition for Thursday, September 3, 2026. The Supreme Court invoked Article 142 on September 1 to quash every FIR registered anywhere in the country against students who protested the NEET-UG paper leak, and barred States from registering fresh ones, an order whose two limbs raise very different constitutional questions. Maharashtra published the draft roll of its Special Intensive Revision on August 31, carrying 7.71 crore electors against a pre-revision 9.78 crore, which leaves 21.14 per cent of the roll to be recovered through a one-month claims window. India’s first-quarter current account deficit was a comfortable 0.5 per cent of GDP and the overall balance of payments still ran a deficit, because the capital account turned negative. August GST collections rose 14.8 per cent gross and 8.3 per cent net, and the gap between those two numbers is the story. A 13.8 per cent monsoon deficit and the warmest August since 1901 pushed peak power demand to a record 258.27 GW while hydro generation fell. The Defence Minister released RAKSHA, a ten-year defence diplomacy roadmap, in New Delhi today, and the Belgian Prime Minister held talks with the Prime Minister on the India-EU trade agreement. The 81st United Nations General Assembly opens on September 8 amid an unresolved contest to succeed the Secretary-General. In the roundup, Bihar and Jharkhand settled a quarter-century dispute over the Sone river by agreement rather than by tribunal, the fourth inter-State water accord of the year through the Inter-State Council, and C-DOT released fourteen indigenous quantum security products. Today’s edition carries eight deep-dive articles, a news roundup, twelve editorial analyses, three State PCS editions and a practice quiz.