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Daily Current Affairs 5 September 2026
Welcome to the Ujiyari Daily Current Affairs edition for Saturday, September 5, 2026, which is Teachers Day and the International Day of Charity. India’s nomination of the Rangpur-Sivasagar Historic Ensemble, the six-century Ahom capital in Assam, has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List, extending the Ahom cultural inscription that began with the Charaideo Moidams. In New Delhi, the Chief Justice of India opened the three-day BRICS Chief Justices Forum, a judicial-diplomacy track that runs into next week’s BRICS Leaders Summit at Bharat Mandapam. President Droupadi Murmu conferred the National Teachers Awards on 48 school teachers and on 21 higher education and polytechnic teachers at Vigyan Bhawan on the birth anniversary of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. The Ministry of Education’s Prime Minister Research Chair Scheme has entered its selection phase, aimed at drawing Indian-origin researchers based abroad back into premier Indian institutions. India’s team returned from the 19th International Earth Science Olympiad in Turin with nine medals, in what the Ministry of Earth Sciences called India’s best-ever performance at the event, and the US Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval to camizestrant, a next-generation oral SERD for advanced breast cancer with the ESR1 mutation, whose regulatory logic sits at the frontier of precision oncology. In the roundup, the International Day of Charity is read against India’s statutory framework for charitable activity, Munitions India signed an MoU with Drogo Aerospace at Pune to jointly build loitering munitions and UAVs, and the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute announced an inaugural iBRICS Global Sovereign Capital Summit alongside the BRICS Leaders meeting. Today’s edition carries six deep-dive articles, a news roundup, eight editorial analyses drawn from five newspapers, three State PCS editions and a practice quiz.