Daily Current Affairs 26 September 2026

The 26 September 2026 edition leads with India’s signature of the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime in New York on 25 September, the first global treaty on cyber offences and electronic evidence. The WTO Dispute Settlement Body set up a panel on Russia’s complaint against the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, with India among the third parties. The Home Ministry extended AFSPA from 1 October in Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh for six months.

The roundup covers India’s first four mega ports, the first port-based e-methanol plant at Kandla, an order to captive coal plants under Section 11 of the Electricity Act, the WEF Travel and Tourism Development Index, the sixth tiger reserve evaluation, TRAI’s connectivity ratings, credit guarantees on TReDS, the half-year borrowing plan, the UN meeting on pandemics, an India-Liberia shipping-safety group, the Quad-at-Sea mission, the Election Commission’s full meeting, the UN day against nuclear weapons and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’s birth anniversary. The editorials take up the Western Ghats ESA, the UN at 81, India’s nuclear doctrine, lottery regulation, the “distinguished jurist” route to the Supreme Court, growth and inflation, wheat exports, rice policy and the Xi-Trump summit, alongside a practice quiz.