Daily Current Affairs 8 September 2026

Welcome to the Ujiyari Daily Current Affairs edition for Tuesday, September 8, 2026. India has joined a US-led 26-nation global 6G network initiative finalised on the sidelines of the G20 Innovation Ministerial at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, taking a seat at the table where the next generation of wireless standards will be written. Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated projects worth over ₹35,000 crore at Vadodara and marked the full-length commissioning of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor with the final 326 route-kilometres between Sanand-Makarpura, New Umbergaon-New Saphale and New Saphale-JNPA. The Defence Acquisition Council, chaired by Rajnath Singh, cleared capital acquisitions worth ₹1.10 lakh crore with approximately 98 per cent to be sourced domestically, covering CBRN Reconnaissance Vehicles, Arudhra radars and multi-purpose jammers. The 5th National Steering Committee of PM-SETU, the ₹60,000 crore skilling scheme, approved ₹735.70 crore for three new ITI clusters at Bhiwadi, Medchal and Meerut, taking the cumulative approval past ₹2,171 crore across nine clusters. The Supreme Court, on a bench led by CJI Surya Kant, set a non-extendable deadline of 30 November 2026 for the High-Powered Committee, chaired by Kanchan Devi, to submit its Aravalli report, refusing a six-month extension request that would have run to February 2027. India will host the expanded 11-nation 18th BRICS Summit at Bharat Mandapam on 12 and 13 September 2026, under the theme “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability.” Astrogate Labs unveiled India’s first indigenous Optical Inter-Satellite Link ground terminal at the 9th Bengaluru Space Expo, and the 72nd National Film Awards will move outside Delhi for the first time in the awards’ seventy-two-year history, to Ekta Nagar, Gujarat, on 22 September 2026. In the roundup, IRDAI penalises ICICI Lombard ₹1 crore for outsourcing and governance breaches, French President Emmanuel Macron presses Ursula von der Leyen for an EU-wide social-media ban for under-15s, the 27th World Knowledge Forum opens in Seoul with an address by former UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Lt Athira Suresh is commissioned into the Indian Army at OTA Gaya, and the world marks the 60th International Literacy Day. Today’s edition carries eight deep-dive articles, a news roundup, ten editorial analyses drawn from five newspapers, three State PCS editions and a practice quiz.