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The United Nations General Assembly adopted the “Correct the Map” resolution on 4 September 2026 to address cartographic distortions in world maps. India voted in favour of the resolution and clarified that its support covered equal-area map projections in general, not the Equal Earth projection alone.
Argentina and the United Kingdom have renewed a long-running sovereignty dispute over the Falkland Islands, which Argentina calls Las Malvinas. On 3 September 2026, Argentine President Javier Milei announced plans for economic sanctions against foreign firms involved in offshore oil and gas extraction near the islands without Argentine approval.
The United Nations General Assembly approved an African-led resolution on 4 September 2026 to promote maps that show continents in more accurate relative sizes. The resolution supports the use of the Equal Earth projection and moves away from the 16th-century Mercator projection in educational and public mapping contexts.
The India-Afghanistan Joint Working Group on Trade, Commerce and Investment held a virtual meeting on 1 September 2026 to review bilateral trade and commercial cooperation. The meeting covered trade facilitation, customs cooperation, visa facilitation for Afghan traders, banking and financial cooperation, energy, tariff concessions, and cargo connectivity.
India and Canada held their annual Foreign Office Consultations on 2 September 2026 at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. The Indian delegation was led by MEA Secretary (East) Rudrendra Tandon, and the Canadian delegation was led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Arun Thangaraj.
On 2 September 2026, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority facilitated the export of NPOP-certified ethnic organic rice from Tripura to Austria and the Netherlands. The consignment was flagged off in Agartala and marked Tripura’s first organic agricultural shipment to the European market.
India and Belgium signed multiple Memoranda of Understanding in New Delhi on 2 and 3 September 2026 during bilateral talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever. The agreements covered renewable energy, defence-industrial cooperation, migration and mobility, semiconductor collaboration, and critical minerals processing and recycling.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation launched international hub-and-spoke flight operations at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport (SVPIA) in Ahmedabad on 1 September 2026. Union Minister of Civil Aviation K. Ram Mohan Naidu and Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel inaugurated the service at Ahmedabad, which became the third Indian airport under the ministry’s hub-and-spoke framework.
Joshua Wong, a 29-year-old pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong, pleaded guilty on 2 September 2026 at the High Court in Admiralty to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces under the national security law. The case concerns allegations of contacts with foreign politicians and calls for sanctions after the national security law took effect in 2020.
The Republic of Türkiye became the 71st country to sign the Artemis Accords on 31 August 2026. The signing took place at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and placed Türkiye in a U.S.-led framework for peaceful and cooperative space exploration.
The 4th Meeting of the India–Denmark Joint Working Group on MSME development, innovation and intellectual property was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 24 to 28 August 2026. The talks involved the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises of India and the Danish Patent and Trademark Office, with discussions on technology adoption, technology commercialisation and IP-led growth.
Bangladesh and China have started preparations for their first “2+2” diplomacy and defence dialogue, which combines foreign affairs and defence-level talks. The proposed mechanism includes a State Minister-level Diplomacy and Defence Dialogue and an early Foreign Minister-level Strategic Dialogue.