PIB Current Affairs 7 September 2026

Banking & FinanceLowquizQuiz

PLI scheme for public sector bank executives kept in abeyance for FY 2025-26

•The Union Finance Minister met a delegation of public sector bank employees led by the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, which raised ex-gratia review, medical facilities for retired employees and the structure of the Performance Linked Incentive scheme.
•The government decided to keep the implementation of the PLI Scheme dated 19 November 2024 in abeyance for FY 2025-26.
•The scheme will instead be taken up in the ongoing Bipartite Settlement / Joint Note discussions.

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IndiaAI Mission holds bilateral AI dialogue with Sweden under the SITAC corridor

•The IndiaAI Mission under MeitY held a bilateral dialogue with a Swedish delegation at Electronics Niketan, New Delhi, under the Sweden-India Technology and AI Corridor (SITAC).
•The Indian side presented the mission's priorities - compute capacity, datasets and models, indigenous and domain-specific AI, application development, future skills, start-up financing and Safe & Trusted AI.
•Swedish participants included Autoliv, Consat, IKEA, Saab, Sandvik, SKF and Volvo Group; Indian participants included TCS, Tech Mahindra, CoRover.ai and Gnani.

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Goa Police receives President's Colour; AI call agent added to 1930 cyber helpline

•Union Home Minister Amit Shah presented the President's Colour to the Goa Police at Panaji on 7 September 2026.
•Goa Police has introduced an AI-based call agent for the 1930 cyber-fraud helpline that accepts complaints in all languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.
•Its conviction rate rose from 23 per cent to 53 per cent in a year, and 112 response time fell from 18 minutes to 8 minutes.

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Schemes & CommitteesLowquizQuiz

Rural Development Ministry holds national workshop on closing DDU-GKY 1.0 projects

•The Ministry of Rural Development held a two-day national workshop at NASC, Pusa, New Delhi on 7-8 September 2026 to agree a common approach for formally closing DDU-GKY 1.0 projects.
•Over 2,000 DDU-GKY 1.0 projects are awaiting completion of documentation; DDU-GKY 2.0 sets a placement target of at least 70 per cent.
•DDU-GKY is the placement-linked skilling arm of DAY-NRLM under the Ministry of Rural Development.

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INS Sudarshini concludes Barcelona port call under the Lokayan 26 global sailing expedition

•The Indian Navy's sail training ship INS Sudarshini concluded her port call at Barcelona, Spain, on 6 September 2026 as part of the ongoing Lokayan 26 expedition.
•The Commanding Officer held professional exchanges with senior officials of the Spanish Navy and maritime authorities, and the ship was opened to visitors from the Indian diaspora and local residents.
•Lokayan 26 is a ten-month global expedition spanning four continents, carrying over 200 trainees.

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NITI Aayog's e-FAST launches PACT and ZET Marketplace to aggregate demand for electric trucks

•NITI Aayog Member Rajiv Gauba launched the Platform for Aggregating Clean Transport (PACT) and the Zero Emission Truck (ZET) Marketplace at the 5th e-FAST India Summit 2026.
•PACT aggregates freight demand from shippers and logistics service providers and converts it into deployment opportunities on identified freight corridors.
•Electric freight vehicle deployments rose more than fourfold, from 201 in FY25 to 826 in FY26, with over 3,000 electric medium- and heavy-duty trucks now in operation.

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Polity & GovernanceMediumquizQuiz

ECI announces bye-elections to five Assembly seats and Nagaon Lok Sabha seat; polling on 6 October

•The Election Commission of India announced bye-elections to five Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and West Bengal and to one Parliamentary Constituency in Assam.
•All six vacancies arose from resignations, including Nandigram in West Bengal and the Nagaon Lok Sabha seat in Assam.
•Polling is on 6 October 2026 and counting on 9 October 2026, with the gazette notification on 9 September and nominations closing on 16 September.

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EconomyLowquizQuiz

CIL daily coal output up 35% and power dispatch 24% as monsoon recedes; rake loading hits 444

•Coal India Limited's average daily production rose about 35%, from around 1.36 million tonnes over the rain-affected first three days of September 2026 to about 1.83 MT on 6 September 2026.
•Average daily despatch to the power sector rose 24%, from about 1.37 MT to 1.7 MT over the same period, while overburden removal doubled from 2.5 to 5.1 million cubic metres.
•Rake loading to the power sector climbed from 370 rakes a day on 3 September to 444 on 6 September, a net addition of 74 rakes a day.

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Summits & ConferencesLowquizQuiz

India joins G20 Innovation Ministers' Meeting at Chapel Hill; ministers adopt Carolina Principles

•Minister of State for Electronics & IT and Commerce & Industry Jitin Prasada led the Indian delegation to the G20 Innovation Ministers' Meeting held on 1-2 September 2026 at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
•Ministers adopted a consensus Innovation Ministerial Statement built on six pillars, along with the Carolina Principles for Emerging Technologies, the AI Prosperity Objectives and the AI Prosperity Compact.
•India held bilaterals with the European Commission, France, Germany, the African Union and the US Commerce Secretary, and offered India Stack digital public infrastructure solutions to African countries.

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Polity & GovernanceHighquizQuiz

28th Western Zonal Council meets at Panaji; Zonal Councils shift from dispute-settling to scheme monitoring

•The 28th meeting of the Western Zonal Council was held at Panaji, Goa, chaired by Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah.
•Zonal Councils are statutory advisory bodies created under Part III of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 — not under Article 263, which covers the Inter-State Council.
•PIB placed the meeting count at 25 during 2004-14 against 71 since 2014, with 1,893 issues discussed and 1,445 resolved.

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EconomyMediumquizQuiz

DGFT opens API for Certificates of Origin on Trade Connect platform

•DGFT has opened an Application Programming Interface facility for the issue and verification of Certificates of Origin through the Trade Connect e-Platform, notified in Trade Notice No. 25/2026-27 dated 7 September 2026.
•Exporters can now link their ERP or accounting software directly to the DGFT system instead of re-keying the same data on the portal.
•The facility covers both preferential Certificates of Origin, which unlock tariff concessions under trade agreements, and non-preferential ones used for customs clearance and trade remedy purposes.

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DefenceHighquizQuiz

DAC clears Rs 1.10 lakh crore in acquisitions, 98% from Indian industry

•The Defence Acquisition Council, chaired by the Raksha Mantri, accorded Acceptance of Necessity on 7 September 2026 to capital acquisition proposals worth about Rs 1,10,000 crore across all three services.
•About 98% of the approved procurement is to come from Indian industry.
•Army approvals cover CBRN Reconnaissance Vehicles, High Mobility Vehicles, Self-Propelled Mechanical Mine Layers, Advanced Light Helicopters, Trawl Tanks and the Sarvatra Bridge System.

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Science & TechLowquizQuiz

RRI team delays entanglement sudden death with a timed flip

•A team from the Raman Research Institute with the University of Calgary and Louisiana State University showed that a single, well-timed flip operation can delay - or entirely avoid - the abrupt loss of entanglement known as 'entanglement sudden death'.
•The work was partly funded by the Department of Science and Technology's National Quantum Mission and was published in Physical Review A in July.
•The result matters for quantum computing because it extends the life of fragile quantum links without any change to the hardware.

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EconomyMediumquizQuiz

RAS and biofloc units under PMMSY reshape India's aquaculture

•The Ministry set out the decade's fisheries record and the place of controlled-environment aquaculture in it: 9,467 Recirculatory Aquaculture Systems and 4,573 biofloc units approved under PMMSY.
•Fish production more than doubled from 95.79 lakh tonnes in 2013-14 to a record 198 lakh tonnes in 2024-25, with inland fisheries and aquaculture up 147% over the period.
•Seafood exports rose from Rs 30,213 crore in 2013-14 to a record Rs 73,890 crore in 2025-26.

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Schemes & CommitteesLowquizQuiz

Centre reviews KVK action plan: 300 upgrades by March 2027

•The Union Agriculture Minister reviewed the action plan for strengthening Krishi Vigyan Kendras through greater State participation, following the KVK recommendations of the 5th Chief Secretaries' Conference.
•Two dated targets anchor the plan: infrastructure upgradation of 300 prioritised KVKs by March 2027, and an Incubation-cum-Skill Centre in every KVK by December 2028.
•Pay, allowance and promotion reforms for KVK staff have been cleared by the Department of Expenditure, with States asked to fund NPS contributions and fill vacancies.

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Important DaysLowquizQuiz

11th Ayurveda Day set for 23 September 2026 at Nagpur

•The Ministry of Ayush held the curtain-raiser for the 11th Ayurveda Day, whose main celebration is fixed for 23 September 2026 at Nagpur, Maharashtra.
•The theme is 'Ayurveda for a Healthier Tomorrow', built on three campaign strands: integrative healthcare, evidence and research, and community wellbeing with sustainable living.
•Planned deliverables include the National Dhanwantari Ayurveda Awards 2026, safety dossiers on medicinal plants, Standard Treatment Guidelines for skin diseases, a report on the Ayush Services Sector and Ayush Vision 2030.

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Schemes & CommitteesMediumquizQuiz

Centre Tightens DBT Delivery of Pre-Matric and Post-Matric SC Scholarships

•The Centre has strengthened the delivery, monitoring and accountability framework for two centrally sponsored schemes — the Post-Matric Scholarship for Scheduled Castes and the Pre-Matric Scholarship for Scheduled Castes and Others.
•Both are open-ended and demand-driven, implemented by State Governments and Union Territory Administrations, with the central share paid directly into students' Aadhaar-seeded bank accounts.
•The Post-Matric scheme moved to Direct Benefit Transfer in 2021-22 and the Pre-Matric scheme in 2022-23.

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EconomyLowquizQuiz

Five-Point Plan for Medical Value Tourism; Target Set at 10 Million Patients a Year

•Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal set out a five-point action plan for medical value tourism at Sanjeevani 2026, held during the Bharat Health Global Expo 2026 in New Delhi.
•He set a target of 10 million medical value tourists a year, against 3.5 million patients served over the past seven years, and said only NABH-accredited, verified and panelled hospitals should treat patients from abroad.
•Speaking separately at the Pharma Machtech and Labnext Expo 2026, he urged the industry to use India's expanded FTA network and strengthen the medtech innovation and intellectual property ecosystem.

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NIXI Hosts the 62nd APNIC Conference in Mumbai

•The 62nd APNIC Conference (APNIC 62) is being held in Mumbai from 4 to 10 September 2026 with more than 600 internet experts, policymakers and network operators.
•It is hosted by the National Internet Exchange of India and the Internet Service Providers Association of India with support from MeitY and the Government of Maharashtra, and organised by APNIC, the Asia Pacific region's not-for-profit internet number registry.
•NIXI and APNIC will sign an MoU on 8 September to strengthen IPv6 deployment and routing security in India.

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Polity & GovernanceMediumquizQuiz

NCW Holds All-India Workshop for Women Legislators on Gender-Responsive Governance

•Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla inaugurated a two-day All-India Capacity Building Workshop on 'Gender-Responsive Governance' organised by the National Commission for Women at Faridabad, Haryana.
•He described the 33% reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies as a historic need and said the focus must shift from supporting women to enabling them to shape policies and laws.
•Around 200 women legislators from 20 States and 2 Union Territories attended, alongside NCW Chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar.

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Swachh Vayu Diwas 2026: 108 of 130 NCAP Cities Cut PM10 Below 2017-18 Levels

•On the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, observed on 7 September, MoEFCC held Swachh Vayu Diwas 2026 and conferred the 5th Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan awards on the best-performing cities and, for the first time, wards.
•Under the National Clean Air Programme, 108 of 130 cities recorded lower annual PM10 in FY 2025-26 than in 2017-18: 72 cut it by more than 20%, 26 by more than 40%, and 14 met the National Ambient Air Quality Standards.
•Lucknow topped Category 1, Rourkela Category 2 and Kalinganagar Category 3; ward-level assessment covered over 7,400 wards, with Ward 70 of Lucknow first in Category 1.

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EconomyHighquizQuiz

India's Jute Sector: 76 Lakh Bales, ₹5,925 MSP and the Policy Stack Behind It

•A PIB Backgrounder sets out the state of India's jute sector: 76 lakh bales of raw jute and 12.80 lakh MT of jute goods in FY 2025-26, with India the world's largest raw jute producer and maker of about 75% of global jute goods.
•Raw jute MSP for FY 2026-27 is ₹5,925 per quintal, giving a 61.8% return over the all-India weighted average cost of production and about 147% above the FY 2014-15 level of ₹2,400.
•The policy stack runs through the National Jute Development Programme (₹485.58 crore, FY 2021-22 to FY 2025-26), its JUTE-ICARE and Jute Diversification components, and the compulsory jute packaging law.

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PIB Current Affairs — 7 September 2026

PLI scheme for public sector bank executives kept in abeyance for FY 2025-26

IndiaAI Mission holds bilateral AI dialogue with Sweden under the SITAC corridor

Goa Police receives President's Colour; AI call agent added to 1930 cyber helpline

Rural Development Ministry holds national workshop on closing DDU-GKY 1.0 projects

INS Sudarshini concludes Barcelona port call under the Lokayan 26 global sailing expedition

NITI Aayog's e-FAST launches PACT and ZET Marketplace to aggregate demand for electric trucks

ECI announces bye-elections to five Assembly seats and Nagaon Lok Sabha seat; polling on 6 October

CIL daily coal output up 35% and power dispatch 24% as monsoon recedes; rake loading hits 444

India joins G20 Innovation Ministers' Meeting at Chapel Hill; ministers adopt Carolina Principles

28th Western Zonal Council meets at Panaji; Zonal Councils shift from dispute-settling to scheme monitoring

DGFT opens API for Certificates of Origin on Trade Connect platform

DAC clears Rs 1.10 lakh crore in acquisitions, 98% from Indian industry

RRI team delays entanglement sudden death with a timed flip

RAS and biofloc units under PMMSY reshape India's aquaculture

Centre reviews KVK action plan: 300 upgrades by March 2027

11th Ayurveda Day set for 23 September 2026 at Nagpur

Centre Tightens DBT Delivery of Pre-Matric and Post-Matric SC Scholarships

Five-Point Plan for Medical Value Tourism; Target Set at 10 Million Patients a Year

NIXI Hosts the 62nd APNIC Conference in Mumbai

NCW Holds All-India Workshop for Women Legislators on Gender-Responsive Governance

Swachh Vayu Diwas 2026: 108 of 130 NCAP Cities Cut PM10 Below 2017-18 Levels

India's Jute Sector: 76 Lakh Bales, ₹5,925 MSP and the Policy Stack Behind It