Daily Current Affairs 30 September 2026

The 30 September 2026 edition leads with the Centre’s 2026-27 foodgrain target of 373.93 million tonnes, set below last year’s record harvest because of El Niño, and the Rabi plan that goes with it; the Centre’s move to the Supreme Court to halt the Calcutta High Court’s hearings on whether forest rights were settled for the Great Nicobar project; the Supreme Court’s ruling that a confession to the police cannot justify detention under the National Security Act, in a case from the Sambhal violence; and the revised Graded Response Action Plan for Delhi-NCR’s winter.

The roundup covers the Index of Services Production for July, the US zero-tariff list for speciality drugs, the Supreme Court on drug mark-ups, the student mental health survey, the stalled RDI Fund, India at the SCO in Islamabad and its rejection of Turkiye’s Kashmir remarks, the Naval Commanders’ Conference, Japan on the UNICORN radar deal, the first PRAMAAN forest certificates, Sambhar Lake before the NGT, a snake rediscovered in Kutch, a glacial lake early-warning system, Farmer IDs in Rajasthan, a seven-judge Bench on legislative privileges and PRAGATI-50. Twelve editorials from The Hindu and The Indian Express take up Statehood for Jammu and Kashmir, surveillance and privacy, the Muthanga verdict, trust in the UN, a gender-just Uniform Civil Code, CCTV at chemists, the memory of 1945, allowances for unemployed graduates, Delhi’s winter plan, courts and innovation, food labels and obesity and the US-Iran endgame, alongside a practice quiz.