Daily Current Affairs — 7 September 2026: High Court CJs, Forex Reserves Record, Bengaluru Space Expo, Archery Para Series

The Centre notified the appointment of Chief Justices to eight High Courts on 5 September 2026 based on Supreme Court Collegium recommendations, with Justice Sanjay Kumar Agrawal moving from the Chhattisgarh High Court to become the 44th Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court.

The Delhi Cabinet approved the Ease of Doing Business Bill, 2026, to issue all business clearances and licences in the capital through a single-window system.

The Union Cabinet approved a Minimum Support Price (MSP) hike for 14 Kharif crops for the 2026-27 marketing season.

The Supreme Court invoked its Article 142 powers on 3 September 2026 to protect the retiral and pensionary benefits of an employee whose caste certificate was found invalid after more than 25 years of service.

India's foreign exchange reserves rose $11.475 billion to an all-time high of $740.803 billion for the week ended 28 August 2026, a ninth straight weekly rise driven largely by the RBI's FCNR(B)/ECB swap facility.

RBI's Financial Stability Report projected that banks' gross NPA ratio could rise to about 3% by March 2026 from a 12-year low of 2.6% in September 2024; new RBI Master Directions tightening NPA classification take effect from April 2027.

The Union Cabinet cleared GMR Nagpur International Airport Limited's plan to redevelop Nagpur's Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport to an eventual capacity of 30 million passengers a year.

India and the UK are in the final stages of concluding an inter-governmental pact for the Indian Army's procurement of Martlet lightweight multirole missiles, alongside a separate agreement on electric propulsion systems for four Indian Navy Landing Platform Docks.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh unveiled DRDO's Defence Framework Policy 2026 (DFP-2026), aimed at strengthening functional empowerment, accountability and industry collaboration in India's indigenous defence R&D ecosystem.

India and China held their first Eastern Sector Corps Commander-level border meeting at the Vacha border point on 6 September 2026, operationalising the eight-point LAC consensus reached at the 25th Special Representatives talks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed a temporary air-and-energy-infrastructure truce with Russia under a US-led peace push, days after Washington cleared a $5 billion arms package for Saudi Arabia.

ISRO achieved, for the first time, a hot test of its Semi-Cryogenic Engine's Power Head Test Article at full 200-tonne thrust at the Propulsion Research Complex, Mahendragiri, on 5 September 2026.

Assam signed MoUs with IIT Madras and five other partners, Google AI, Wadhwani AI, Educate Girls, EkStep-AXL and Canva Education, to introduce AI-based teaching tools in government schools, piloting the IIT Madras platform in 50 schools first.

The 9th Bengaluru Space Expo opened at BIEC on 7 September 2026 under the theme Harnessing Space for Global Progress, organised by CII with ISRO, IN-SPACe and NSIL, even as India and France deepen space cooperation ahead of the Paris International Space Summit on 9-10 September.

Nepal formally sought climate compensation from India, China and the US, the world's top greenhouse-gas emitters, after the 26 August Langtang glacier collapse killed over 1,259 people and caused an estimated $4-5 billion in damage.

IMD's outlook says overall September 2026 rainfall is likely to be below normal nationally under El Nino conditions, even as its 5-11 September forecast flags rain over Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and coastal Andhra Pradesh, plus heavy-rain warnings for Uttarakhand and Delhi.

India is hosting the Hyundai World Archery Para Series for the first time, at the Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad from 5-9 September 2026, featuring around 100 para-archers from 20 countries across the Recurve Open, Compound Open, W1 and Visually Impaired categories.

At the Indian Football Awards 2026 in Kolkata, Owen Coyle of Jamshedpur FC was named Men's Coach of the Year, Sanan Mohammed K. the Young Player of the Year, and Lallianzuala Chhangte the Indian Footballer of the Year.

India's Nikita Porwal of Madhya Pradesh finished in the Top 40 at the 73rd Miss World 2026 pageant in Nha Trang, Vietnam, on 5 September 2026; Thailand's Suchata Chuangsri was crowned the winner.

BJP Rajya Sabha MP and former Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, succeeding Admiral D K Joshi (retd), who had held the post since October 2017.

Andhra Pradesh reopened applications for the NTR Bharosa Pension Scheme from 7-16 September 2026 to bring new eligible people into its social security pension net, which already covers nearly 62 lakh beneficiaries.

The Delhi government launched the Vayo Anand scheme for senior citizens aged 60 and above, with a Rs 25 crore outlay for 2026-27 to set up community centres offering yoga, meditation and indoor games such as carrom and ludo.