Daily Current Affairs 12 September 2026

The 12 September 2026 edition opens with Day One of the 18th BRICS Summit at Bharat Mandapam, preceded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bilaterals with President Vladimir Putin, President Masoud Pezeshkian and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the eve of the plenary. At the INNOPROM India 2026 plenary in New Delhi, Union Minister Piyush Goyal and Russia’s Anton Alikhanov set a USD 100 billion bilateral trade target for 2030 with USD 50 billion in two-way investment. The Supreme Court, through a bench of Justices J. B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran, directed FSSAI to file a scientifically justified timeline within ten days for Phase II of Front-of-Package Labelling, questioning the choice of a composite red hexagon and the treatment of ultra-processed foods. Scientists of ICAR-CICFR Bhimtal, with the Arunachal Pradesh Department of Fisheries and the Shar-Tso Committee, reported the first Indian record of the high-altitude snowtrout Schizopygopsis waddellii from Pangkang Teng Tso Lake in Tawang using integrative morphological and mitochondrial DNA taxonomy. Rail Vikas Nigam Limited achieved the 41st tunnel breakthrough on the 125 km Rishikesh-Karnaprayag rail project, completing the 10.847 km Escape Tunnel-1, taking overall tunnel excavation to about 97 per cent. Cochin Shipyard and Drydocks World, a DP World subsidiary, signed a Rs 1,800 crore 50:50 joint venture on the BRICS sidelines to run and expand the International Ship Repair Facility (ISRF) at Kochi. The roundup covers Saragarhi Day (129 years since the 1897 last stand of the 36th Sikh Regiment), Southern Railway completing 100 per cent electrification of its 5,068 route km broad-gauge network, SEBI’s Closing Auction Session consultation paper for expiry-day settlement, the IIT Madras-Samgnya Foundation quantum MoU, the Colombo Security Conclave table-top exercise at Visakhapatnam and the India-US TRUST initiative extension to undersea cables.