Daily Current Affairs — 6 September 2026: BRICS Summit, RBI Liquidity Auction, ISRO Privatisation Row & Women's Asia Cup

Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan began a four-day tour of the Northeast on 6 September, covering Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh; the tour opened in Guwahati with the golden jubilee celebrations of Geetanagar College and the convocation of Srimanta Sankaradeva University of Health Sciences.

UPSC released the notification for the Combined Geo-Scientist (Preliminary) Examination 2027, inviting applications for 127 vacancies in the Geological Survey of India, Central Ground Water Board and related departments; online applications close on 22 September 2026, with the preliminary exam on 10 January 2027.

The Delhi High Court invited applications for 150 Group-B posts — 117 Senior Personal Assistant and 33 Personal Assistant — with online applications open from 15 September to 5 October 2026, requiring candidates to clear typing, shorthand, a main descriptive exam and an interview.

The RBI announced a 30-day Variable Rate Reverse Repo auction worth Rs 7 lakh crore for 7 September 2026 to absorb surplus banking-system liquidity, which had crossed Rs 10.32 lakh crore; funds will reverse on 7 October, with premature-reversal options via the E-Kuber portal.

India's merchandise exports rose 6.7% year-on-year to $35.1 billion in August 2026 while imports fell 10.12% to $61.59 billion, narrowing the trade deficit to $26.49 billion, per Commerce Ministry data; the US remained India's top export destination.

State Bank of India invited applications for 207 Specialist Cadre Officer posts on contract in its Wealth Management and Premier Banking vertical — including 91 VP-Wealth and 73 AVP-Wealth roles — with online applications open until 25 September 2026 and selection through shortlisting and interview.

The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) opened applications for 30 Officer Grade A (Assistant Manager) vacancies across General, Research, Actuary and Official Language streams, with applications open until 24 September 2026 and Phase I online screening on 15 October.

Delhi Traffic Police issued advisories for BRICS motorcade rehearsals on 6 September ahead of the 18th BRICS Summit, which India will host on 12-13 September at Bharat Mandapam under the theme 'Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation, and Sustainability' — India's fourth time chairing the grouping.

Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said on 4 September that India will finalise a trade deal with the US only once Washington offers tariff terms giving Indian exporters an edge over competitors, with talks continuing after the February 2026 framework agreement.

One week after the 26 August Himalayan glacier collapse on Langtang Lirung, Nepali and Chinese authorities revised the toll upward to over 1,300 killed and more than 5,500 still missing along the Trishuli-Bhotekoshi river corridor, with India, Australia and South Korea assisting Nepal's rescue effort.

Nine ISRO employee associations, representing around 5,000 of its 18,100 staff, wrote to Chairman V Narayanan on 4 September seeking clarity on transferring launch-vehicle manufacturing — already begun with SSLV going to HAL — to private industry, after IN-SPACe Chairman Pawan Kumar Goenka said ISRO would eventually stop building launch vehicles.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate the fifth edition of SEMICON India 2026 on 17 September at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi, under the government's expanded Rs 1.27 lakh crore Semicon 2.0 programme covering chip design, fabrication and packaging.

Researchers at IIT Madras and IISc Bengaluru created an all-inorganic analogue of ferrocene, reviving interest in boron-based chemistry nearly five decades after early work on the element, in a study published in the journal Science.

The Indian Navy commissioned INS Samarthak, a 3,750-tonne weapons and sensor test-support vessel handed over on 27 August 2026, built to recover aerial, surface and underwater targets used during naval exercises.

The IAF confirmed its second edition of the multinational air exercise Tarang Shakti will run 26 September-12 October 2026 in a single phase at Jodhpur, with air forces from the US, UAE, Australia, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Singapore and Sri Lanka participating and over 30 nations attending as observers, marking the debut of US F-35 jets at an Indian exercise.

HAL said deliveries of Tejas Mk1A fighters to the IAF are set to begin in August-September 2026 as GE F404 engine supply stabilises, with about 30 aircraft already manufactured and flight-tested and now awaiting engines for formal induction.

India began its 2026 All India Tiger Estimation, the world's largest wildlife survey, which for the first time will count tigers outside sanctuary and corridor boundaries as well; the National Tiger Conservation Authority and Wildlife Institute of India are coordinating field surveys through the year, with the final report due by late 2026 or early 2027.

India crossed 300 GW of installed non-fossil power capacity as of 31 July 2026, with solar capacity at 164.59 GW and wind at 58.14 GW, after adding a record 29 GW of new solar and wind capacity in the first half of 2026, driven partly by rooftop solar under PM Surya Ghar.

India Women thrashed Pakistan Women by seven wickets in the Women's T20 Asia Cup 2026 in Dubai on 5 September, bowling Pakistan out for 55 — their lowest-ever T20I total — before chasing the target down in 8.4 overs; Shree Charani was named Player of the Match.

The Duleep Trophy 2026-27 final between East Zone and South Zone began on 6 September at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai — East Zone's first appearance in the final since 2012-13, when they last won the title at the same venue.

India's women's recurve archery team of Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Kumkum Mohod won gold at the Archery World Cup 2026 stage in Shanghai, beating hosts China in a shoot-off, while Jyothi Surekha led the women's compound team to gold at the Puebla stage.

The Nobel Prize committees confirmed the 2026 announcement schedule: Physiology or Medicine on 5 October, Physics on 6 October, Chemistry on 7 October, Literature on 8 October, the Peace Prize on 9 October, and Economic Sciences on 12 October.

Private hospitals empanelled under Ayushman Bharat (PM-JAY) in Haryana paused services from 1 September 2026, with the Indian Medical Association's Haryana unit saying claim payments have been pending for over six months.

Maharashtra became the first state to pass the Women Farmers Empowerment Bill 2026, de-linking land ownership from formal 'farmer' recognition so women farmers can directly access subsidies, credit and welfare schemes without needing a land title in their name.

Kochi hosted the fourth edition of WikiConference India 2026 from 4-6 September, themed 'Reimagining the Knowledge Commons', organised by IIIT-Hyderabad with the Wikimedians of Kerala User Group for Indic-language Wikimedia contributors.

NESt Fest 2026, a two-day Northeast culture festival, was held in Delhi on 4-5 September featuring a cultural parade, folk music and dance performances, and an exhibition of tribal handicrafts and cuisine from the northeastern states.