Daily Current Affairs 22 September 2026

The 22 September 2026 edition leads with the Supreme Court’s ruling of 21 September in Jaskaran Jeet Singh Deol v. State of Punjab: when a person has been released because the police did not supply the grounds of arrest under Article 22(1), re-arrest requires written grounds and the sanction of a Judicial Magistrate, with the investigation moved to another officer. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change amended the EIA Notification, 2006 to make environmental clearances for ports, harbours, breakwaters and dredging valid for 20 years, extendable to 30. MoSPI published the Sources and Methods behind the new 2022-23 GDP series, which now uses double deflation for 28 of 30 manufacturing categories. The Supreme Court sought the Centre’s response to a challenge to the 2026 amendment of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act on Vande Mataram, observing that Bijoe Emmanuel (1986) still holds. The RBI issued its Basel III market-risk capital Directions, effective 1 April 2027. NPCIL began fuel loading at RAPP-8, the fourth indigenous 700 MWe PHWR. At UNGA-81, India co-sponsored the P4M grouping for multilateralism and held the first V4+India foreign ministers’ meeting as it campaigns for a 2028-29 UN Security Council seat.

The roundup covers the start of the monsoon’s withdrawal, the India-New Zealand FTA’s entry into force on 20 October, the next phase of UDAN, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award to Anant Nag, Project Cheetah, and India’s exercises with Mongolia and Japan. The editorials take up the SIR appeal data, a Malacca model for Hormuz, death sentences that ignore the Supreme Court’s safeguards, the sulphur shock to fertilisers, AI as a great-power game, the stalled India-China economic reset, the Greenland deal and water security, alongside a practice quiz.