PIB Current Affairs 12 September 2026

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BHASHINI CEO at IIM Calcutta's Lattice 2026 Showcases Language AI as Digital Public Infrastructure

•Amitabh Nag, CEO of the Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD), was Chief Guest at Lattice 2026, IIM Calcutta's business conclave, held on 12 September 2026 on the theme 'The Capability Decade'.
•BHASHINI's Shrutlekh tool transcribed and translated his talk live.
•BHASHINI powers over 800 government websites and supports 36 Indian text languages, 23 Indian voice languages and 35 international languages.

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Colombo Security Conclave Table Top Exercise on Illicit Maritime Activities Concludes at Visakhapatnam

•A three-day Colombo Security Conclave (CSC) Table Top Exercise ran from 9 to 11 September 2026 at Eastern Naval Command, Visakhapatnam.
•Its theme was a 'Coordinated Response to Illicit Maritime Activities in the Indian Ocean Region': maritime terrorism, narcotics, human trafficking and IUU fishing.
•Participants reviewed SOPs and information-sharing arrangements for Maritime Domain Awareness, in line with the MAHASAGAR vision.

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PM Meets Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed Ali at 18th BRICS Summit; Reviews Strategic Partnership

•PM Modi met Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed Ali on 12 September 2026 in New Delhi, on the sidelines of the 18th BRICS Summit held under India's chairship.
•They reviewed the India-Ethiopia Strategic Partnership in economic cooperation, defence and security, and capacity building.
•The meeting built on PM Modi's December 2025 visit to Addis Ababa, when ties were raised to a Strategic Partnership.

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PM Meets Vietnamese PM Le Minh Hung at BRICS Summit; Reviews Enhanced Comprehensive Strategic Partnership

•PM Modi met Vietnamese PM Le Minh Hung on 12 September 2026 on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit, New Delhi, where Vietnam took part as a BRICS Partner Country.
•The leaders reviewed ties elevated to an Enhanced Comprehensive Strategic Partnership during General Secretary and President To Lam's State Visit to India in May 2026.
•The release calls Vietnam a key pillar of India's Act East Policy.

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PM Meets Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim; Malaysia Agrees to Indian Consulate in Kota Kinabalu

•PM Modi met Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim on 12 September 2026 on the sidelines of the 18th BRICS Summit, New Delhi, where Malaysia took part as a BRICS Partner Country.
•Malaysia conveyed its concurrence to India opening a Consulate General in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
•The leaders reviewed the India-Malaysia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and the outcomes of PM Modi's February 2026 visit to Malaysia.

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PM Meets Abu Dhabi Crown Prince; IHC's USD 11.5 Billion Odisha Aluminium Project Welcomed

•PM Modi met Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, on 12 September 2026 on the sidelines of the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi.
•The leaders welcomed UAE's International Holding Company investing in a USD 11.5 billion integrated greenfield aluminium project in Odisha - India's largest integrated aluminium investment.
•They noted the role L'IMAD, the UAE's newest sovereign investment fund, could play in the partnership.

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First OPU-IVF Calf Born in Uttarakhand's Badri Cattle via ICAR-NDRI and GBPUAT Pantnagar

•A Badri female calf, produced through Ovum Pick-Up and In Vitro Fertilization (OPU-IVF), was born on 11 September 2026 after a Badri embryo was transferred into a Sahiwal recipient cow.
•The work is a collaboration of ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute (Karnal) and G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (Pantnagar), funded by the Uttarakhand Biotechnology Council, Haldi.
•Oocytes came from genetically valuable Badri donor cows; semen came from a superior Badri bull supplied by the Uttarakhand Livestock Development Board.

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SECL Produced 176.28 MT Coal in FY26, About 17% of India's Output

•South Eastern Coalfields Limited produced 176.28 MT of coal in FY 2025-26 - about 23% of Coal India's output and around 17% of India's total.
•India's coal production crossed 1 billion tonnes for the second year running in FY26, reaching 1.04 BT (provisional); coal generates about 73% of India's electricity.
•SECL's Gevra, Kusmunda and Dipka mega mines in Korba have a combined 185 MT capacity; output per man-shift more than doubled to 16.47 tonnes since 2013-14.

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PM-ABHIM: 10 Critical Care Blocks and 12 Public Health Labs Opened in Andhra Pradesh

•Union Health Minister J P Nadda opened 10 Critical Care Blocks and 12 Integrated Public Health Laboratories in Andhra Pradesh under PM-ABHIM.
•Nationally, 631 Critical Care Blocks have been sanctioned under PM-ABHIM; Andhra Pradesh has 24 CCBs (about Rs 606 crore) and 26 IPHLs (Rs 32.50 crore).
•The Centre approved Rs 1,271.80 crore for Andhra Pradesh across four components: CCBs, IPHLs, and urban and rural Ayushman Arogya Mandirs.

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World's Longest Steel Slag Road at Raigarh Earns Guinness Record for CSIR-CRRI

•A 1.85-km road at Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, built by CSIR-Central Road Research Institute with Jindal Steel, won the Guinness World Record for the 'World's Longest Road Built with Processed Steel Slag Aggregates'.
•The technology turns steel slag, a steel-making by-product, into road aggregates; the Minister said it can cut construction cost by about 40% and give four times the strength of conventional roads.
•CSIR-CRRI and Jindal Steel signed a Technology Transfer Agreement and launched the 'Steel Grit' brand.

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PIB Backgrounder: Bamboo Moves From Craft to Enterprise After the 2017 Forest Law Change

•A PIB Backgrounder traces how removing bamboo from the legal definition of 'tree' in 2017 opened bamboo cultivation, harvesting and transport to farmers and enterprises.
•The National Bamboo Mission, NECTAR's bamboo technologies and SHG-led enterprises under DAY-NRLM are expanding the value chain, especially in the Northeast.
•NECTAR interventions generate about 30 million person-days of work a year and have raised value addition on bamboo from 10% to as much as 70%.

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Modi-Xi Talks in New Delhi: Border Peace and Trade Imbalance on Agenda

•PM Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping on 12 September 2026 on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi, their first meeting since Tianjin in August 2025.
•Modi said ties must rest on 'three mutuals' - mutual respect, mutual sensitivity and mutual interest - and that peace in border areas is the essential basis of the relationship.
•Both sides committed to a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable boundary settlement and to addressing the structural trade imbalance and supply-chain issues.

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18th BRICS Summit: New Delhi Declaration Adopted as BRICS Marks 20 Years

•BRICS leaders adopted the 140-paragraph New Delhi Declaration at the XVIII BRICS Summit (New Delhi, 12-13 September 2026) under the theme 'Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability'.
•The summit marked 20 years of BRICS (2006-2026); two commemorative postage stamps were released.
•The Declaration condemned the 22 April 2025 terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir, opposed carbon border adjustment mechanisms, and called for UNSC, IMF, World Bank and WTO reform.

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PIB Current Affairs — 12 September 2026

BHASHINI CEO at IIM Calcutta's Lattice 2026 Showcases Language AI as Digital Public Infrastructure

Colombo Security Conclave Table Top Exercise on Illicit Maritime Activities Concludes at Visakhapatnam

PM Meets Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed Ali at 18th BRICS Summit; Reviews Strategic Partnership

PM Meets Vietnamese PM Le Minh Hung at BRICS Summit; Reviews Enhanced Comprehensive Strategic Partnership

PM Meets Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim; Malaysia Agrees to Indian Consulate in Kota Kinabalu

PM Meets Abu Dhabi Crown Prince; IHC's USD 11.5 Billion Odisha Aluminium Project Welcomed

First OPU-IVF Calf Born in Uttarakhand's Badri Cattle via ICAR-NDRI and GBPUAT Pantnagar

SECL Produced 176.28 MT Coal in FY26, About 17% of India's Output

PM-ABHIM: 10 Critical Care Blocks and 12 Public Health Labs Opened in Andhra Pradesh

World's Longest Steel Slag Road at Raigarh Earns Guinness Record for CSIR-CRRI

PIB Backgrounder: Bamboo Moves From Craft to Enterprise After the 2017 Forest Law Change

Modi-Xi Talks in New Delhi: Border Peace and Trade Imbalance on Agenda

18th BRICS Summit: New Delhi Declaration Adopted as BRICS Marks 20 Years