Daily Current Affairs 29 September 2026

The 29 September 2026 edition leads with the Supreme Court’s refusal to stay the 0.4 per cent merchant discount rate on UPI payments above Rs 2,000, and its question about the legal character of the charge under the amended Section 10A of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, and with industrial output, which grew 8 per cent in August in the new IIP series with base year 2022-23.

The roundup covers the Collegium’s three nominees to the Supreme Court, the anti-defection case before the West Bengal Speaker, the Court’s questions on children’s social media contracts and the CBSE three-language rule, India at the International Whaling Commission, Exercise KAZIND, a CAG audit of Odisha’s mining funds, the drought response, the J&K Assembly’s statehood resolution, the PRAHAAR conference and the UN’s first declaration on sea-level rise. Nine editorials from The Hindu and The Indian Express take up food loss and waste, the Swaminathan Commission revisited, caste bias in AI, Odisha’s repeated rain, workers’ right to safety under the OSH Code, cash transfers and the Graduation Approach, women’s safety, the cost of defence self-reliance and the market sell-off and foreign portfolio outflows, alongside a practice quiz.