Daily Current Affairs 9 September 2026

Welcome to the Ujiyari Daily Current Affairs edition for Wednesday, September 9, 2026. Tata Advanced Systems Limited was declared L1 for the Indian Army’s Rs 20,000 crore Zorawar (AFV-ILT) light tank programme under the Make-I route, taking the development of a battle tank into private hands on a scale not seen before. Zorawar itself is a DRDO/CVRDE design whose prototype partner is L&T; TASL must now demonstrate two operational prototypes within 130 weeks, and Mahindra Defence, as L2, has also been invited to build one. Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) launched ORV Sagar Manthan at its Rishi Bankim Shipyard, Kolkata, India’s first indigenously designed and built ocean research vessel for the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), built under the Deep Ocean Mission; commissioning is scheduled for 2028. Google DeepMind released the AlphaGenome Atlas, an open-access ~1 petabyte resource of molecular-effect predictions for every one of the approximately 9 billion possible single-nucleotide variants in the human genome, with a new AlphaGenome Variant Impact score unifying coding and non-coding rankings. Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha announced at the ULLAS Mela in New Delhi on International Literacy Day that Tripura has recorded a zero per cent dropout rate at primary level in 2025-26 per UDISE+, with secondary dropout down from 25.51 per cent to 10.40 per cent since 2013-14. Odisha Forest Department patrols rescued five juvenile orangutans from the Bichitrapur Reserved Forest at Bhograi in Balasore district; the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau and the Odisha Crime Branch STF are investigating an international trafficking route into a country where the species is non-native. Akasa Air and BPCL flew a 1 per cent Sustainable Aviation Fuel blend on the Mumbai-Goa route, the airline’s first under their July 2026 supply agreement; India’s first commercial SAF flight was AirAsia India’s Pune-Delhi service of 19 May 2023. India’s indicative targets are 1 per cent SAF by 2027 and 5 per cent by 2030 on international departures. In the roundup, Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong’s first Chief Executive, dies at 89; the Indian Air Force announces Dronathon-2026 at the Pokhran range on 14-16 September 2026; a new lichen Buellia maharajensis is described from Mathikettan Shola National Park, Kerala; India’s 503 athletes, in a travelling party of 768, are sent off for the 20th Asian Games at Aichi-Nagoya, Japan; the world observes the UN International Day to Protect Education from Attack; and India remembers Dr Verghese Kurien on his death anniversary. Today’s edition carries six deep-dive articles, a news roundup, nine editorial analyses drawn from five newspapers, three State PCS editions and a practice quiz.