National News

Fight against drug trafficking

• The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and Indian Railways announced a collaboration to strengthen the fight against drug trafficking.

Indian Railways

21st instalment of the PM-KISAN Scheme

• Union Minister of Agriculture Shivraj Singh Chouhan released the 21st instalment of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme for the farmers of flood and rain-affected Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, and Uttarakhand.

PM-KISAN

Postal Ballot Counting Rules

• The Election Commission has revised the rules relating to counting of postal ballots, making it mandatory for all postal ballot papers to be counted before the penultimate round of EVM and VVPATS counting is taken up.

Election Commission of India (ECI)

“Prayas”: Integrated Neuro Rehabilitation Centre

• The Ministry of Ayush unveiled "Prayas", an Integrated Neuro-Rehabilitation Centre at the All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), Goa.

NCERT to grant equivalence to Class 10 and 12 Certificates

• The Government of India has issued a notification entrusting the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) with the responsibility of granting equivalence to Secondary (Class 10th) and Senior Secondary (Class 12th) certificates awarded by various School Education Boards in India.

STATE SPECIAL NEWS

Appointment of 24 Judges in Allahabad High Court

• President Droupadi Murmu has appointed 24 Judges in the Allahabad High Court including Senior Advocates Vivek Saran, Garima Prashad and Sudhanshu Chauhan.

Quota for Backward Classes (BCs) in Telangana

• The Telangana government has issued an order to implement the 42 per cent quota for Backward Classes (BCs) in the upcoming local body elections.

2nd Regional Dialogue on State Support Mission

• NITI Aayog, in collaboration with the Maharashtra Institution for Transformation (MITRA), Government of Maharashtra successfully conducted the 2nd Regional Dialogue under the State Support Mission (SSM) at YASHADA in Pune.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Mandatory digital identification in UK

• UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that to reduce unauthorised immigration, British citizens and permanent residents will have to produce a mandatory digital identification card in order to get work.

US Announced New Round of Tariffs

SUMMITS AND CONFERNCES

BRICS Foreign Ministers Meet in New York

• External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar hosted a meeting of the BRICS Foreign Ministers in New York and also chaired India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Dialogue Forum Ministers on the sidelines of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly.

World Food India 2025

• The Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) organised 4rth edition of World Food India 2025 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.
• New Zealand and Saudi Arabia were the official Partner Countries, with Japan, the UAE, Vietnam, and Russia participating as Focus Countries.

2nd SCO Young Authors’ Conference

• The Ministry of Education in association with the Ministry of External Affairs organised 2nd Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Young Authors’ Conference in New Delhi.
• The theme of this conference was "Dynamics of Creative Spaces in the Digital Age: A Dialogue Among SCO Young Authors".

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)

3rd Digital Democracy Dialogue

• The 3rd Digital Democracy Dialogue was organized by the Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini, with support from the Entertainment Society of Goa and the state government in Panaji, Goa.
• D3 Community of Digital Creators, along with a Dialogue Book was launched in the Dialogue.

Indian Digital Gaming Society (IDGS) AGM 2025

• The Indian Digital Gaming Society (IDGS), a non-profit apex body under the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2025 at the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) headquarters in Mumbai.

UNPBC Ministerial meeting

• The 2025 United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (UNPBC) Ministerial meeting was held in New York under the theme, "Promoting Social Cohesion and Inclusive Governance to Foster Community Resilience and Sustainable Peace".

UN Peacebuilding Commission

6th Ministerial Meeting of the Group of Friends of Victims of Terrorism

• 6th Ministerial Meeting of the Group of Friends of Victims of Terrorism was held in in New York.
• Established in June 2019, the Group of Friends of Victims of Terrorism is a group of United Nations Member States and Observers formed to promote a comprehensive approach to the promotion and protection of the human rights of victims of terrorism.

Global Food Regulators Summit 2025

• The Global Food Regulators Summit 2025 was hosted by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) in New Delhi.
• The central theme for 2025 was "Evolving Food Systems: Yatha Annam Tatha Manah," emphasizing the link between food quality and mental, physical, and social well-being.

29th Conference of Central and State Statistical Organizations (CoCSSO)

• The 29th Conference of Central and State Statistical Organizations (CoCSSO) was organized by India's Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) in Chandigarh.
• The theme of the conference was "Strengthening Local Level Governance".

ECONOMY & BANKING

Limit for Ways and Means Advances (WMA)

• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) capped the limit for Ways and Means Advances (WMA) for the central government for the second half of the financial year 2025-26 to 50,000 crore rupees.
• The WMA is a temporary advance given by the RBI to the central, state governments and Union Territories to tide over any mismatch in receipts and payments.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

FSSAI and Australia’s DAFF Signed MoU

• Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF), Australia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the area of Food Safety in New Delhi.

Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)

₹2 Lakh for Misleading Price Display

• The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) fined e-commerce platform FirstCry (Digital Age Retail Pvt. Ltd.) ₹2 lakh for misleading consumers by advertising products with prices inclusive of all taxes (MRP inclusive of all taxes), but then charging additional Goods and Services Tax (GST) at the checkout stage.

Discovery of Natural Gas in Andaman basin

• Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has announced that natural gas is discovered in the Andaman basin’s Sri Vijayapuram 2 well.

IMPORTANT DAYS

World Tourism Day

• Since 1980, the United Nations World Tourism Organization has celebrated World Tourism Day as international observances on September 27.
• Theme for year 2025 is "Tourism and Sustainable Transformation" which highlights tourism's transformative potential as an agent of positive change.

PERSON IN NEWS

Ravichandran Ashwin

• Ravichandran Ashwin becomes the first India international to sign with a BBL team, marking a major shift in BCCI’s overseas league policy.

Andrzej Bargiel

• Polish ski mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel became the first person to climb Mount Everest and complete a continuous ski descent without supplemental oxygen.

AWARDS & HONOURS

National Geoscience Awards 2024

• President Droupadi Murmu conferred the prestigious National Geoscience Awards 2024 at Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre in New Delhi.
• The National Geoscience Awards were instituted by the Ministry of Mines, Government of India in 1966.

Major Recipients

Changemaker of the Year Award

• Changemaker of the Year Award was conferred to Raja Babu Ummalaneni, Director-General, DRDO, during the ‘The Hindu businessline Changemaker Awards’ in Mumbai.

ENVIRONMENT + SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

World’s first closed fuel cycle nuclear power system

• President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia will launch the world’s first nuclear power system with a closed fuel cycle by 2030, at the World Atomic Week forum in Moscow.
• A nuclear power system with a closed fuel cycle involves reprocessing spent nuclear fuel (SNF) to recover and reuse fissile and fertile materials.

DEFENCE NEWS

Farewell to Legendary MiG-21

• The Indian Air Force bid farewell to the legendary MiG-21 at Chandigarh Air Base with a ceremonial flypast, Akash Ganga paratrooper salute, dignitary attendance, and aerial combat displays between MiG-21s and Jaguars.
• This aircraft was first inducted into the Indian Air Force’s fighter fleet in Chandigarh in the 1960s.

Indian Air Force

Nodal Technology Centre (NTC) Symposium-2025

• Base Repair Depot, Palam organised the Nodal Technology Centre (NTC) Symposium-2025 with the theme of ‘Indigenisation through Reverse Engineering Adopting Black Box Concept’ at New Delhi.

SPORTS

Sheetal Devi and Sarita

• Sheetal Devi and Sarita became the first Indian pair to reach the women’s compound open doubles final at the World Archery Para Championships in Gwangju, South Korea.

Jonathan Gavin Antony won Gold

• India’s 16-year-old Jonathan Gavin Antony stole the spotlight on Day 2 of the ISSF Junior World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun 2025 at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi.