Daily Current Affairs 23 September 2026

The 23 September 2026 edition leads with the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s settlement order of 22 September closing disclosure and auditor peer-review proceedings against five Adani group companies for about Rs 1.51 crore, made without admitting or denying the findings under Section 15JB of the SEBI Act. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation warned that indiscriminate use of NSAIDs (Schedule H) and antibiotics risks chronic kidney disease, while the Supreme Court called a tenfold mark-up on an essential cancer drug “broad daylight dacoity”. NHAI issued uniform standards for high-speed access-controlled National Highways, towards 50,000 km of such corridors under Viksit Bharat 2047.

The roundup covers the dissolution of the Digital Communications Commission, the Supreme Court on the SC/ST Act’s Section 18A, a widow’s rights under Section 14(1) of the Hindu Succession Act and States’ power to levy a surcharge on sales tax, core sector growth of 4.8 per cent, Kavach 4.0, SLINEX-26 and Tarang Shakti-26, and the day’s observances: International Day of Sign Languages, Ayurveda Day, eight years of PM-JAY, Dinkar’s birth anniversary and the September equinox. The editorials take up Punjab’s groundwater, the Battle of Haifa and the politics of memory, treaties and arbitration, the principle of legality behind the UP Gangsters Act ruling, the farmer’s share of the food rupee, student deaths at the IITs, capital for private defence makers, the EPFO wage ceiling, district-level data on the informal economy and India’s inflation target, alongside a practice quiz.