Daily Current Affairs — 2 September 2026: Indus Waters Treaty, Kavach 4.0, ITR Record, Messi Retires

Indian Railways approved deployment of the indigenous Kavach 4.0 Automatic Train Protection system on the remaining 712 route-kilometres of the Moradabad Division (Northern Railway) at a cost of Rs 170 crore.

More than 7.8 crore Income Tax Returns were filed for Assessment Year 2026-27 by the 31 August deadline, a record that beats the 7.3 crore ITRs filed for AY 2025-26.

The State Bank of India released Probationary Officer (PO) 2026 score cards/marks for its ongoing recruitment drive to fill 1,500 PO posts.

The Madhya Pradesh Employees Selection Board (MPESB) opened online applications for 507 Sub-Inspector posts in the Madhya Pradesh Police under the MPESB MP Police SI 2026 recruitment.

The National Informatics Centre (NIC) invited online applications for 376 Scientific and Technical Assistant posts.

RBI data showed non-food bank credit grew 19.1% year-on-year to Rs 219.60 lakh crore as of July-end 2026, reflecting continued strong industrial and services lending.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the National Investment Policy for Urea-2026 (NIPU-2026) to encourage fresh investment in domestic gas-based urea manufacturing and cut import dependence.

PM Modi met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the 26th SCO Summit in Bishkek on 31 August, with talks covering West Asia tensions, maritime security and India-Iran trade, defence and pharma cooperation.

India began a three-week diplomatic outreach involving PM Modi, Nirmala Sitharaman, S Jaishankar, Piyush Goyal and NSA Ajit Doval, running up to the BRICS Summit that New Delhi will host in September.

India rejected a Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling that ordered it to treat the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty as fully binding and restrict construction on the Ratle Hydro-Electric Plant, calling the Hague-based tribunal 'illegally constituted' and reaffirming that the treaty remains held in abeyance.

NIELIT under MeitY is setting up India's first dedicated Quantum and AI University campus at Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, at a cost of Rs 730.7 crore, with programmes beginning in September 2026 at a temporary campus at Acharya Nagarjuna University.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh reviewed the FY2025-26 performance of India's 16 Defence PSUs, whose combined turnover rose 15.4% year-on-year to Rs 1.29 lakh crore, profit after tax rose 15.6% to Rs 23,136 crore, and exports grew 151.2%.

DRDO and the Indian Air Force will conduct carriage and release flight trials of the indigenous PGB-500 precision-guided bomb from Su-30MKI fighters during September-October 2026.

The IMD issued flash-flood and heavy-to-extremely-heavy rainfall warnings for about 20 states on 1 September, with the highest risk in Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Uttarakhand.

Argentina great Lionel Messi announced his retirement from international football at age 39, ending a career of 125 goals in 207 appearances that included the 2022 World Cup title and the 2026 World Cup final.

World number one Aryna Sabalenka opened her US Open 2026 campaign with a 6-2, 6-4 first-round win over Camila Osorio.

India's men's cricket team began its white-ball tour of Bangladesh on 1 September, comprising three ODIs and three T20Is, the first-ever bilateral men's T20I series between the two sides to be held in Bangladesh.

The 2026 Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia's highest civilian honour, was announced for three recipients: Tommy Koh (Singapore) for international diplomacy, Runa Khan (Bangladesh) for work with climate-vulnerable communities, and Bo Kyi (Myanmar) for human-rights advocacy.

The Ministry of Education named 48 teachers (26 men, 22 women, from 27 states, 7 Union Territories and 6 central government organisations) for the National Teachers' Awards 2026, to be conferred by President Droupadi Murmu on 5 September.

Bihar disbursed Rs 600 crore under the Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana at a Patna event where Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary also announced plans for the state's first all-women university.

Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary announced a new Mahila Vishwavidyalaya (women's university) whose vice-chancellor, faculty, staff and students will all be women.

The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet, chaired by CM Mohan Yadav, approved financial proposals worth over Rs 41,000 crore for infrastructure and welfare, including implementation of the state's 'Viksit Bharat: VB-G RAM G' rural employment scheme.

Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh hosted 'Sanskrit Gaurav Diwas' on 1-2 September, a cultural and literary event of lectures, poetry and classical performances celebrating the Sanskrit language.