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Banking Current Affairs 2026 — Daily Updates, Quiz & Free PDF

Science & TechHighquizQuiz

SEMICON India 2026 concludes with 56 MoUs and RISC-V Grand Challenge winners

•SEMICON India 2026, the fifth edition of India's flagship semiconductor conference, concluded at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi after a three-day run from 17 to 19 September 2026 on the theme 'Silicon to Systems: Building the Ecosystem'.
•The concluding session carried 15 announcements covering indigenous processors, sovereign computing, AI and quantum platforms, fab automation and skilling; across three days the event recorded 56 MoUs, announcements and strategic initiatives.
•Winners of the Digital India RISC-V (DIR-V) Grand Challenge under MeitY's Chips to Startup programme were announced, with Rs 60 lakh shared by three teams building products on the indigenous SHAKTI and VEGA processors.

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Centre-State conference on Financing India's Journey towards Viksit Bharat concludes

•The Ministry of Finance concluded a two-day Conference on 'Financing India's Journey towards Viksit Bharat' in New Delhi, with Finance Ministers and Finance Secretaries of States and UTs with Legislature.
•Described as the first of its kind, it moved past the usual question of sharing Union tax revenue to how India's development over the next two decades will be financed.
•Day one covered macroeconomic priorities, savings and investment and fiscal resilience; day two covered agricultural transformation and the energy transition, with special sessions on GSDP measurement and new-age technology.

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PM-AJAY: Rs 11,186 crore released, 16,022 villages declared Adarsh Gram

•The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment released component-wise performance figures for the Pradhan Mantri Anusuchit Jaati Abhyuday Yojana (PM-AJAY), the merged Centrally Sponsored Scheme for Scheduled Caste development.
•Rs 11,186 crore has been released across the scheme's three components from FY 2014-15 to date, through the Adarsh Gram, Grant-in-Aid and Hostel routes.
•16,022 of 48,811 selected villages have been declared Adarsh Gram; the Grant-in-Aid component has reached 34.61 lakh beneficiaries.

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Biometric Aadhaar Authentication Mandatory for Subsidised LPG Refills from 1 October 2026

•From 1 October 2026, a domestic LPG consumer must have completed Biometric Aadhaar Authentication to book refills at the regulated Retail Selling Price with subsidy.
•As on 19 September 2026, 27.43 crore active domestic consumers — 89.9 per cent — had already completed the process and need do nothing further.
•Authentication can be completed at the time of delivery, at the distributor's showroom, or on an Oil Marketing Company mobile app.

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Asian Games Open in Aichi-Nagoya; PM Sends Best Wishes to the Indian Contingent

•The Prime Minister extended his best wishes to the Indian contingent as the Asian Games commenced in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on 19 September 2026.
•This is the 20th edition of the Games, hosted jointly by Aichi Prefecture and the city of Nagoya, and runs to 4 October 2026.
•The programme carries 43 sports, 71 disciplines and 469 medal events, with more than 11,000 athletes from 45 countries and regions expected.

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NLMC Board Recommends Monetisation Proposals Worth Over Rs 5,000 Crore

•The 21st Board meeting of the National Land Monetization Corporation Limited (NLMC) was held on 18 September 2026.
•The Board recommended monetisation proposals covering surplus land and building assets valued at over Rs 5,000 crore.
•It also approved NLMC's Annual Financial Statements and Directors' Report for the financial year 2025-26.

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DDU-GKY 2.0 Training Batches to Begin in 14 States and UTs from October 2026

•The Ministry of Rural Development will start DDU-GKY 2.0 training batches across most States and Union Territories from October 2026.
•In the first phase, 1,164 batches covering 34,920 rural youth begin training in 14 States/UTs, against a sanctioned target of 3,57,112 trainees by 31 December 2027.
•Targets for the two-year period 2026-28 have been allotted to all 31 participating States and UTs; 24 of them have already assigned 5.6 lakh targets across more than 1,200 projects.

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20th Rozgar Mela: 51,000 Appointment Letters Take Cumulative Tally to 12.75 Lakh

•The 20th National Rozgar Mela was held on 19 September 2026 at 45 locations, with the Prime Minister distributing over 51,000 appointment letters by video conferencing.
•The cumulative tally across 20 editions reached about 12.75 lakh appointment letters, against the original target of 10 lakh central government recruitments announced at launch.
•A PIB Backgrounder issued the same day set out the edition-wise record since the launch on 22 October 2022.

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PM Modi Hands Over 51,000 Appointment Letters at the 20th Rozgar Mela

•Prime Minister Narendra Modi distributed more than 51,000 appointment letters at the 20th Rozgar Mela on 19 September 2026 through video conferencing.
•The event was held simultaneously at 45 locations across India.
•The recruits join departments including Revenue, Railways, Home Affairs, Health and Family Welfare, Financial Services and Defence.

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Pawan Sehrawat Replaces Tajinderpal Toor as India's Male Flag-Bearer at Asian Games

•Kabaddi raider Pawan Sehrawat replaced shot putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor as India's male flag-bearer at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games opening ceremony on 19 September 2026.
•The Indian Olympic Association cited technical reasons; Toor's ceremonial kit had not reached him in time.
•Shooter Manu Bhaker remained India's female flag-bearer and led the contingent alongside Sehrawat.

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HONOHON, the Flame Mascot of the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games

•HONOHON is the official mascot of the 20th Asian Games, Aichi-Nagoya 2026, and took an active part in the opening ceremony at Nagoya on 19 September 2026.
•Its name comes from the Japanese 'honoho', linked to the word for flame; the figure is drawn as a bright fire shaped like an ear of rice.
•Its ears come from the Shachihoko, the tiger-headed fish that guards Nagoya Castle, and the red markings around its eyes are kumadori, the make-up of Kabuki theatre.

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20th Asian Games Open in Aichi-Nagoya as Emperor Naruhito Declares Games Open

•The 20th Asian Games opened at the Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium in Nagoya on 19 September 2026, with Emperor Naruhito declaring the Games open.
•The Games are hosted jointly by Aichi Prefecture and the city of Nagoya, Japan, from 19 September to 4 October 2026 under the slogan 'Imagine One Asia'.
•The ceremony, themed 'Harmonic Heart Beat', was directed by Japanese filmmaker Yukihiko Tsutsumi and began at 6:00 pm JST (2:30 pm IST).

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PM Opens NGT's International Conference on the Future of Environment and Climate Dynamics

•The Prime Minister inaugurated the National Green Tribunal's two-day International Conference on 'The Future of Environment and Climate Dynamics' at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 19 September 2026, and launched the NGT Mobile Application.
•The conference brings together jurists, policymakers and scientists from 17 countries, along with the United Nations Environment Programme and the Asian Development Bank, across four technical sessions.
•The Prime Minister argued that responsibility for carbon emissions has been wrongly placed on developing countries, with India's per-capita emissions less than half the global average.

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Centre Doubles Bulk Consumers' Sugar Stock Limit to 30 Days, but Only From Imported Sugar

•The government on 18 September 2026 relaxed the stockholding limit for bulk sugar consumers from 15 days to 30 days of their requirement, ahead of the festive season.
•The extra 15 days must be sourced exclusively from sugar imported under the Advance Authorisation Scheme (AAS) or the Tariff Rate Quota (TRQ); open-market sugar stays capped at 15 days.
•A bulk consumer is an entity using more than 10 tonnes of sugar a month as raw material or for industrial consumption.

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AIFF Announces Inaugural U15 Women's Youth League at Belagavi from 15 October

•The All India Football Federation announced on 18 September 2026 that the inaugural U15 Women's Youth League will begin on 15 October 2026.
•All matches will be played at the Sporting Planet Sports Complex in Belagavi, Karnataka, with the final on 31 October 2026.
•Sixteen teams from across India are divided into four groups of four; the top two from each group reach the quarter-finals.

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Anthropic and Accenture Commit $2 Billion to Independent AI Model Evaluation

•Anthropic and Accenture announced a partnership on 18 September 2026 for the independent evaluation of frontier AI models.
•Each company has committed at least $1 billion over five years, taking the total to $2 billion for evaluation capacity.
•Accenture's specialist AI business, Faculty, will lead the work - evaluating Anthropic's models, red-teaming them, running alignment assessments and testing safeguards.

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FCRA NGOs Halve in a Decade Even as Foreign Contributions Rise to Rs 22,974 Crore

•The Ministry of Home Affairs told the first meeting of a Joint Committee of Parliament on 18 September 2026 that active FCRA-registered NGOs have fallen from 29,022 in 2015 to 14,466.
•Over the same period foreign contributions rose from Rs 17,832 crore in 2015-16 to Rs 22,974 crore in 2024-25 - fewer NGOs receiving more money.
•The FCRA registration of 21,983 NGOs has been cancelled so far, 91.3% of them for failure to file annual returns.

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Hansraj Singh Verma Appointed India's Next Ambassador to Cuba

•The Ministry of External Affairs announced on 18 September 2026 that Hansraj Singh Verma will be India's next Ambassador to the Republic of Cuba.
•Verma is an Indian Foreign Service officer of the 2008 batch, currently Consul General of India at Sao Paulo, Brazil.
•He succeeds T. Armstrong Changsan, who took charge in Havana in June 2024 and was named India's Ambassador to Armenia in August 2026.

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Karnataka Clears Marine Biotechnology Policy 2026-31 With Rs 120 Crore Outlay

•The Karnataka Cabinet, meeting at Mangaluru on 18 September 2026, approved a Marine Biotechnology Policy for 2026-2031 with an outlay of Rs 120 crore.
•The policy targets growth of the state's Blue Bioeconomy from about USD 2 billion to USD 6-8 billion by 2031.
•It creates the Karnataka Institute of Marine Biotechnology and Blue Economy (KIMBE) at the Government Fisheries College, with labs, a biobank and incubation centres at Udupi.

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Trump Extends $100,000 H-1B Fee to September 2027 Amid Court Challenge

•US President Donald Trump on 18 September 2026 extended the $100,000 fee on certain H-1B petitions until 21 September 2027.
•The fee was first imposed by a proclamation of 19 September 2025 and was originally to expire on 21 September 2026.
•A federal district court vacated the fee on 8 June 2026 as an unlawful tax, and the First Circuit declined in July 2026 to block that ruling - so USCIS cannot currently collect it.

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Odisha Announces 870-Acre Silicon Valley at Naraj; Rs 23,600 Crore in Chip Proposals

•Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi announced an 870-acre 'Odisha Silicon Valley' at Naraj near Cuttack for semiconductor, electronics and IT industries.
•The announcement came at SEMICON India 2026, held at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi, from 17 to 19 September 2026 on the theme 'Silicon to Systems: Building the Ecosystem'.
•Odisha drew investment proposals worth about Rs 23,600 crore at the event, with a potential for roughly 6,100 jobs.

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UN Appoints Luke Lindberg of the US as World Food Programme Executive Director

•The United Nations appointed Luke J. Lindberg of the United States as Executive Director of the World Food Programme on 18 September 2026.
•The appointment was made jointly by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu, after the WFP Executive Board concurred at a special session in Rome.
•Lindberg, 37, was Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs at the US Department of Agriculture, and was nominated by President Donald Trump.

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Trump Signs Russia-Iran Sanctions Act; India Faces 100% Tariff Risk on Russian Oil

•US President Donald Trump signed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 (H.R. 5334) into law on 18 September 2026.
•The law lets the US President levy tariffs of up to 100% on the five largest foreign buyers of Russian crude oil and natural gas - a group that includes India and China.
•It also allows tariffs of up to 500% on all imports from Russia and up to 100% on countries aiding Russia's 'shadow fleet' of tankers; the powers are discretionary and lapse after five years.

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Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Hathaway Chairman; Son Howard Succeeds Him

•Warren Buffett, 96, stepped down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway on 18 September 2026, ending a run in the chair that began in 1970.
•He becomes Chairman Emeritus and stays on the board of directors.
•His son Howard Buffett, 71, a Berkshire director since 1993, takes over as chairman.

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Banking Current Affairs 2026

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SEMICON India 2026 concludes with 56 MoUs and RISC-V Grand Challenge winners

Centre-State conference on Financing India's Journey towards Viksit Bharat concludes

PM-AJAY: Rs 11,186 crore released, 16,022 villages declared Adarsh Gram

Biometric Aadhaar Authentication Mandatory for Subsidised LPG Refills from 1 October 2026

Asian Games Open in Aichi-Nagoya; PM Sends Best Wishes to the Indian Contingent

NLMC Board Recommends Monetisation Proposals Worth Over Rs 5,000 Crore

DDU-GKY 2.0 Training Batches to Begin in 14 States and UTs from October 2026

20th Rozgar Mela: 51,000 Appointment Letters Take Cumulative Tally to 12.75 Lakh

PM Modi Hands Over 51,000 Appointment Letters at the 20th Rozgar Mela

Pawan Sehrawat Replaces Tajinderpal Toor as India's Male Flag-Bearer at Asian Games

HONOHON, the Flame Mascot of the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games

20th Asian Games Open in Aichi-Nagoya as Emperor Naruhito Declares Games Open

PM Opens NGT's International Conference on the Future of Environment and Climate Dynamics

Centre Doubles Bulk Consumers' Sugar Stock Limit to 30 Days, but Only From Imported Sugar

AIFF Announces Inaugural U15 Women's Youth League at Belagavi from 15 October

Anthropic and Accenture Commit $2 Billion to Independent AI Model Evaluation

FCRA NGOs Halve in a Decade Even as Foreign Contributions Rise to Rs 22,974 Crore

Hansraj Singh Verma Appointed India's Next Ambassador to Cuba

Karnataka Clears Marine Biotechnology Policy 2026-31 With Rs 120 Crore Outlay

Trump Extends $100,000 H-1B Fee to September 2027 Amid Court Challenge

Odisha Announces 870-Acre Silicon Valley at Naraj; Rs 23,600 Crore in Chip Proposals

UN Appoints Luke Lindberg of the US as World Food Programme Executive Director

Trump Signs Russia-Iran Sanctions Act; India Faces 100% Tariff Risk on Russian Oil

Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Hathaway Chairman; Son Howard Succeeds Him

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