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The Indian Air Force and the Japan Air Self-Defence Force will conduct Veer Guardian-2026, a bilateral air defence exercise, at Air Force Station Jodhpur in Rajasthan. The 14-day exercise is scheduled from 9 September to 22 September 2026, and it is the second edition of the exercise after the inaugural edition in Japan in 2023.
Belgium’s Princess Elisabeth Island is an artificial energy island under construction in the North Sea, about 45 kilometres off the Belgian coast. The project is designed as a 5-hectare offshore energy hub for grid connection infrastructure linked to offshore wind power.
Akasa Air operated its first commercial flight with conventional aviation turbine fuel blended with 1% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) on 8 September 2026. The SAF blend was supplied by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), a public sector undertaking in India. The flight operated between Mumbai and Goa on the same day.
India launched the Ocean Research Vessel ORV Sagar Manthan (Yard 3041) on 09 September 2026 at the Rishi Bankim Shipyard in Kolkata. The vessel was designed, engineered and constructed by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited for the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved eight railway multi-tracking projects on 9 September 2026 with an estimated cost of Rs 20,804 crore. The projects will expand the Indian Railways network by about 1,196 km and are targeted for completion by the financial year 2029-30.
The 7th Meeting of the India-Japan Joint Working Group on cooperation in the forestry sector was held in Bengaluru, Karnataka, on 8 September 2026. The Indian delegation was led by Shri Ramesh Kumar Pandey, Additional Director General (Forests) in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and the Japanese delegation was led by Mr. Shimizu Kotaro, Deputy Director General of the Forestry Agency under Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
India joined a multilateral initiative on 7 September 2026 to guide the development and deployment of next-generation 6G telecommunications networks. The initiative includes the United States and 24 other nations and covers security, competitiveness, and technology innovation in advanced wireless systems.
The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change organised Swachh Vayu Diwas 2026 in New Delhi on 7 September 2026 and conferred the 5th Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan Awards. The event marked the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies and recognised cities and wards under the Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan framework.
The United Kingdom has included India’s Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS) in its indicative list of overseas carbon pricing mechanisms under the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). The Bureau of Energy Efficiency, under the Ministry of Power, received formal confirmation that the CCTS meets the criteria under the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism Regulations 2026.
Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal set an annual target of 10 million international medical value tourists for India during the Sanjeevani 2026 expo in New Delhi on 7 September 2026. He also stated that 3.5 million international patients have used Indian healthcare services over the past seven years.
The President’s Colour was presented to the Goa Police on 7 September 2026 at the Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium in Taleigao, Goa. Union Home Minister Amit Shah presented the honour, and Goa became the fifth state police force in India to receive the President’s Police Colour.
NITI Aayog launched the Platform for Aggregating Clean Transport (PACT) and the Zero Emission Truck (ZET) Marketplace on 7 September 2026 at the 5th e-FAST India Summit in New Delhi. The initiative is linked to zero-emission freight deployment, electric truck adoption, charging infrastructure planning, and business engagement among manufacturers, logistics service providers, charging operators, and financiers.