UPSC & State PCS · Daily Edition
Daily Current Affairs 14 September 2026
The 14 September 2026 edition, timed to Hindi Diwas, opens with Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurating the 6th All India Official Language Conference at the CIDCO Exhibition Centre, Navi Mumbai, and conferring the Rajbhasha Kirti and Rajbhasha Gaurav Puraskars for 2025-26 on ministries, public-sector undertakings, banks and individuals. In the western desert, the Indian Air Force opened Dronathon-2026 at the Pokhran Firing Range in Jaisalmer, a three-day industry showcase running 14 to 16 September 2026 of indigenous Unmanned Aerial Systems and Counter-UAS technologies aligned with Atmanirbhar Bharat. In Gandhinagar, India will host the 10th World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF 2026) at Mahatma Mandir from 15 to 18 September 2026, the first WCEF held in South Asia, convened by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change with the Finnish Innovation Fund SITRA. At Visakhapatnam, the three-day Table Top Exercise of the Colombo Security Conclave concluded on 11 September 2026 at the Headquarters, Eastern Naval Command, rehearsing coordinated responses to piracy, narcotics smuggling and human trafficking in the Indian Ocean Region for a grouping that now has six members: India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Mauritius, Bangladesh and Seychelles. And in the western arid zone, the ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute at Jodhpur reported that its moth bean (Vigna aconitifolia) varieties CAZRI Moth-6, 7, 8 and 9, released in stages over 2024 and 2025, sustained pod development through a 35-day rainless spell in Kharif 2026. The roundup carries the Rishikesh to Karnaprayag rail line’s 41st tunnel breakthrough, the IIT Madras-C-DOT Samgnya quantum MoU with QClairvoyance, the Drydocks World-Cochin Shipyard 50:50 joint venture, and a practice quiz.