PIB Current Affairs 6 September 2026

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PM addresses inauguration of BAPS Swaminarayan Hindu Mandir in Paris

•Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the inauguration of the BAPS Swaminarayan Hindu Mandir in Paris by video message on 6 September 2026, calling it a new milestone in India-France cultural relations.
•The temple was consecrated by Mahant Swami Maharaj, spiritual head of BAPS; its stones were carved in India and assembled in France — described by the PM as 'Made in India, Built in France'.
•The PM linked it to the India-France Special Global Strategic Partnership spanning AI, defence, space and climate, and to 2026 being observed as the India-France Year of Innovation.

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Bharat Health Global Expo: Goyal calls for resilient pharma supply chains beyond generics

•Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, at Bharat Health Global Expo 2026 in New Delhi, called for globally integrated and resilient healthcare supply chains and a move beyond generics into new molecules, biosimilars and biotechnology.
•He said India had lost ground in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Key Starting Materials and that resilience means multiple sources rather than indigenising everything.
•He put medical value travel spending at about USD 8 billion, urged that it be pursued in mission mode, and offered support through bulk drug parks and plug-and-play industrial infrastructure.

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New Chairperson and members appointed to National Commission for Safai Karamcharis

•The Department of Social Justice and Empowerment appointed Bhagwat Prasad Makwana as Chairperson and Kaishab Bihari as Vice-Chairperson of the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis.
•Manoj Kumar Balmiki, Sushma Gaudiyal and Ravi Ramu Kalose were appointed Members; Sushma Gaudiyal is a returning Member.
•All appointments run up to 31 March 2028, matching the remaining tenure of the present Commission.

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Drug-free India roadmap for July 2026-July 2029 built on four pillars

•Union Home Minister Amit Shah, at a narcotics press conference in Panaji, announced a three-year roadmap from July 2026 to July 2029 for a drug-free India, run in mission mode with fixed timelines and quarterly outcome reviews.
•The roadmap rests on four pillars — intelligence and operation-based enforcement, precursor and synthetic drugs control, demand and harm reduction, and capacity building and coordination — with 25 components and over 200 action points.
•Seizures were placed at over 1.19 crore kg worth about Rs 1.89 lakh crore in 2014-2026, against 26 lakh kg worth about Rs 40,000 crore in 2004-2014.

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Goa's conviction rate rises from 22% to 53% after new criminal laws and ICJS

•Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a review meeting on Goa in Panaji with Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, attended by the Union Home Secretary, the Director of the Intelligence Bureau and the Indian Coast Guard.
•Goa's Director General of Police reported that the conviction rate has risen from 22% to 53% after the three new criminal laws and the Inter-operable Criminal Justice System took effect, with many criminal matters now decided in six to eight months.
•The agenda covered narcotics under the NDPS Act, coastal security, fugitives, disaster management, police modernisation, administration of enemy properties and deportation of illegal migrants.

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Coal Ministry: Punjab plants held 117% coal stock while PSPCL's PLF stayed at 42%

•The Ministry of Coal rejected reports blaming reduced generation at Punjab's thermal plants on inadequate central coal supply.
•PSPCL's plants held about 117% of the normative coal stock as on 4 September 2026, yet averaged a Plant Load Factor of only about 42% in August 2026, against Nabha Power's 93%.
•Coal offered by CIL subsidiaries to Punjab's independent power producers remains partly unbooked and unlifted.

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6th RISE Conclave at CSIR-IICB Kolkata: eight MoUs, four technology transfers

•The 6th RISE Conclave was held on 6-7 September 2026 at CSIR-IICB, Salt Lake, Kolkata, organised jointly by four CSIR laboratories on the theme 'Driving Innovation & Entrepreneurship for Viksit Bharat 2047'.
•It produced eight MoUs, four technology transfers, two product launches and one facility inauguration, with around 150 startups participating.
•Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh said 50-60 per cent of India's startups are outside the metros and asked scientific institutions to reach Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities.

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89th Fit India Sundays on Cycle Held in Surat on Nasha Mukt Yuva Theme

•The 89th edition of Fit India Sundays on Cycle was held at Surat, Gujarat on the theme 'Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat', led by the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports and Gujarat's Deputy Chief Minister.
•More than 5 million young people took part at over 25,000 locations across the country, and participants took the Nasha Mukt Pledge.
•The New Delhi edition, at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, carried a Teachers' Day theme honouring coaches and educators.

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16th National Meet of State Biodiversity Boards: States Told to Align With Amended Framework

•The 16th National Meet of State Biodiversity Boards and Union Territory Biodiversity Councils, organised by the National Biodiversity Authority, was held at Chandigarh on 6-7 September 2026.
•States and UTs were asked to align their rules, institutional mechanisms and implementation processes with the framework as amended by the Biological Diversity (Amendment) Act, 2023 and the Biological Diversity Rules, 2024.
•The Union Environment Minister called for making the country's more than 2.76 lakh Biodiversity Management Committees functional and for People's Biodiversity Registers to become dynamic local planning instruments.

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IAF's Sarang Helicopter Team Arrives in Egypt for El Alamein International Airshow

•The Indian Air Force's Sarang Helicopter Display Team has reached Egypt for the 2nd edition of the El Alamein International Airshow, held from 8 to 10 September 2026 at El Alamein International Airport.
•The team flies the indigenously designed and manufactured Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Dhruv and is described by the IAF as the world's only five-helicopter display team.
•It will fly its signature 'Dolphin Leap' and debut a new manoeuvre, the 'Spot Stall Turn'.

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Vulture Awareness Day 2026: Panchkula Workshop Pushes Vulture Safe Zones and Wild Recovery

•International Vulture Awareness Day 2026 was marked at Panchkula, Haryana, where the Union Environment Minister inaugurated a national workshop themed 'From Crisis to Recovery — Conserving India's Vultures'.
•The workshop was organised by MoEFCC with the Central Zoo Authority, the Haryana Forest and Wildlife Department, the Bombay Natural History Society and the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre, Pinjore.
•During 2025-26 the Pinjore centre housed 356 vultures, bred 35 chicks, released or contributed 87 birds for reintroduction, transferred 90 to other breeding institutions and trained 1,222 participants from 22 institutions.

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Indian Postal Service Officer Re-elected APPU Secretary-General for Second Term

•Dr. Vinaya Prakash Singh, a 1988-batch Indian Postal Service officer, was re-elected unopposed by acclamation as Secretary-General of the Asian-Pacific Postal Union at the 14th APPU Congress in Bangkok on 4 September 2026.
•His second four-year term runs from January 2027 to December 2030; he first took charge in January 2023 after being elected at the 13th APPU Congress in 2022.
•The APPU is a 32-member intergovernmental body headquartered in Bangkok and is a restricted (regional) union of the Universal Postal Union, the UN specialised agency for the postal sector.

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Vibrant Villages Programme: Rs 11,639 Crore Across Both Phases, 2,616 Border Villages

•A PIB Backgrounder consolidates the Vibrant Villages Programme, the Ministry of Home Affairs scheme for India's international land border villages, across its two phases with a combined outlay of Rs 11,639 crore covering more than 2,616 villages.
•VVP-I is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme for the northern border (Rs 4,800 crore, 662 priority villages); VVP-II is a fully Centre-funded Central Sector Scheme extending the model to all other land borders (Rs 6,839 crore, 1,954 villages).
•As of July 2026 the MHA had sanctioned 1,248 projects worth Rs 3,020.32 crore under VVP-I, including 111 road projects that will connect 134 villages with no earlier road access.

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PIB Current Affairs — 6 September 2026

PM addresses inauguration of BAPS Swaminarayan Hindu Mandir in Paris

Bharat Health Global Expo: Goyal calls for resilient pharma supply chains beyond generics

New Chairperson and members appointed to National Commission for Safai Karamcharis

Drug-free India roadmap for July 2026-July 2029 built on four pillars

Goa's conviction rate rises from 22% to 53% after new criminal laws and ICJS

Coal Ministry: Punjab plants held 117% coal stock while PSPCL's PLF stayed at 42%

6th RISE Conclave at CSIR-IICB Kolkata: eight MoUs, four technology transfers

89th Fit India Sundays on Cycle Held in Surat on Nasha Mukt Yuva Theme

16th National Meet of State Biodiversity Boards: States Told to Align With Amended Framework

IAF's Sarang Helicopter Team Arrives in Egypt for El Alamein International Airshow

Vulture Awareness Day 2026: Panchkula Workshop Pushes Vulture Safe Zones and Wild Recovery

Indian Postal Service Officer Re-elected APPU Secretary-General for Second Term

Vibrant Villages Programme: Rs 11,639 Crore Across Both Phases, 2,616 Border Villages