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The United Nations General Assembly adopted its first declaration on sea-level rise on 24 September 2026 at a high-level meeting in New York during its 81st session. The declaration states that countries threatened by rising oceans do not automatically lose statehood if their territory becomes submerged, and it supports the stability of maritime zones such as territorial seas and exclusive economic zones.
The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding in New Delhi on 29 September 2026. The agreement covers the development and strengthening of the Statistical Business Register and the National Statistical Business Register.
India is preparing a new National Steel Policy with a target of more than 600 million tonnes of steelmaking capacity and over 500 million tonnes of steel consumption by 2047. The draft policy is intended to replace the National Steel Policy, 2017, which had a horizon up to 2030 and a capacity target of 300 million tonnes.
Odisha-based BonV Aero supplied 45 heavy-payload Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to the Indian Army’s Eastern Command on 28 September 2026. The UAVs are meant for tactical logistics and mission-specific operations in Northeast India, where terrain, weather, and limited road access affect surface movement.
Trinidad and Tobago is set to become the first Caribbean nation to adopt India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), a real-time digital payments system developed by the National Payments Corporation of India. The project involves a real-time payments platform modelled on UPI and is linked to technical cooperation between NPCI International Payments Limited and the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Trinidad and Tobago.
The Ministry of Labour and Employment launched the 90-day nationwide “Shram Samvad” awareness campaign on 28 September 2026. The campaign covers industrial clusters in 316 districts across all 36 States and Union Territories and focuses on the four Labour Codes and stakeholder dialogue.
Bodhana Sivanandan became the youngest Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in chess history at the age of 11 years on 28 September 2026. She secured her third and final WGM norm at the 46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, while representing England. The WGM title is awarded by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) and is one of the recognised women’s titles in chess.
Vithya Ramraj won the bronze medal in the women’s 400m hurdles at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on 28 September 2026. She clocked 54.75 seconds and broke PT Usha’s long-standing Indian national record of 55.42 seconds, which had stood since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
Gujarat restructured the Porbandar Forest Division on 29 September 2026 to strengthen forest administration and support lion rehabilitation in the Barda region. The reorganisation covers forest ranges, village boundaries, beat limits, and inter-divisional transfers for conservation management in western Gujarat.
Indian Naval Ship (INS) Ranvijay, a frontline destroyer of the Indian Navy, made a port call at Salalah in Oman on 29 September 2026. The visit formed part of the ship’s ongoing deployment and was linked with maritime cooperation between India and Oman.
Two Pakistani pilots, Zeeshan Ali and Khurram Daud, are undergoing astronaut training in China for a mission to the Tiangong space station in September 2026. One of them will become Pakistan’s first astronaut and the first foreign national to travel aboard China’s Tiangong space station.
The first steel bridge for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project in Maharashtra was launched on 28 September 2026 at Dive-Anjur village in Bhiwandi, Thane district. The bridge spans NH-3, also known as the Nashik Highway, and forms part of the high-speed rail corridor being developed by the National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited.