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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.
SpaceX’s Starship is scheduled for its 14th test flight and first orbital launch attempt on Monday, 28 September 2026. The Federal Aviation Administration issued the launch licence for Starship Flight 14 on 26 September 2026, and the mission is planned from Pad 2 at Starbase, Texas.
The Uttar Pradesh Food Safety and Drug Administration has made it mandatory for sweet shops and manufacturing establishments in the state to display a use-by date for sweets, including loose sweets, from 15 October 2026. The order applies to sweets sold in loose form and to sweets prepared in manufacturing units across Uttar Pradesh.
India finished 10th at the 48th WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai, China, which concluded on 27 September 2026. Team India won six silver medals and 20 Medals for Excellence at the global skills event.
Three Indian boxers, Ankush Panghal, Parveen Hooda, and Narender Berwal, reached the semi-finals at the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on 27 September 2026. A semi-final berth in boxing guarantees at least a bronze medal because both losing semi-finalists receive bronze medals.
India’s Harita Bhadra won the bronze medal in the women’s 200m final at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on 27 September 2026. She finished in 23.20 seconds and placed third behind Singapore’s Shanti Pereira and China’s Yujie Chen.
Iran completed the track-laying operation on the Chabahar-Zahedan railway in September 2026. The rail line connects the Port of Chabahar on the Gulf of Oman with Zahedan and links the port to Iran’s national rail network. The project is expected to become fully operational within three to four months from September 2026.
Hyderabad-based TakeMe2Space plans to launch India’s first networked orbital data centre mission in 2028. The mission will use two 100-kilogram MOI (My Orbital Infrastructure) constellation satellites and a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch under the Waymaker 2 rideshare mission.
NMDC Ltd. commissioned an integrated iron ore processing, slurry pipeline, and pellet-making project worth ₹5,427 crore in Chhattisgarh on 27 and 28 September 2026. The project includes a new iron ore processing plant at Bacheli, a 15 million tonne per annum slurry pipeline, and a 2 million tonne per annum pellet plant at Nagarnar.
The Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying is launching a Livestock Insurance Portal on 28 September 2026 in New Delhi. The portal is designed as a single digital platform for livestock insurance under the Livestock Insurance Scheme, with functions for policy issuance, claim processing, monitoring, and reporting.
Uttar Pradesh has set a target of increasing annual exports from about ₹2 lakh crore to ₹5 lakh crore by 2030. The target was announced on 27 September 2026 at the UP International Trade Show in Greater Noida. The export plan is linked to the state’s wider goal of becoming a $1 trillion economy.
India’s first LNG-powered train was flagged off on 27 September 2026 from Sabarmati Railway Station in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The train uses a diesel-plus-LNG dual-fuel system and runs with two 1,400 HP Driving Power Cars converted at the Sabarmati Integrated Coaching Depot.