Daily Current Affairs — 10 September 2026: BRICS Finance Meet, New Chief Justices & Defence Tech Push

Justice Mahesh Chandra Tripathi was sworn in as the 50th Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court on 9 September 2026, with Maharashtra Governor Jishnu Dev Varma administering the oath; he was earlier a judge of the Allahabad High Court.

Ladakh Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena was given additional charge as Lieutenant Governor of Jammu & Kashmir during the official US visit of incumbent LG Manoj Sinha.

The Union Cabinet approved three railway multitracking projects worth Rs 10,783 crore on 9 September 2026, adding about 656 km of track across West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, including the Kharagpur-Jharsuguda fourth line.

The Department of Food & Public Distribution signed an MoU with the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to cut storage losses and optimise logistics, including capacity-building for FCI staff.

The RBI authorised RNFI Services as a Payment Aggregator-Physical, after which PB Pay commenced operations following its February 2026 approval.

The RBI permitted ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company to acquire up to a 9.95% stake in CSB Bank.

Fintech firm Niyo secured a Payment Service Provider (PSP) licence from the IFSCA at GIFT City, Gandhinagar, to offer cross-border financial services.

NALCO signed a Technology Licensing Agreement with UAE's Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) in Dubai on 7 September 2026 to deploy DX+ Ultra smelting technology for a 0.5 MTPA brownfield expansion at Angul, Odisha, taking total capacity toward about 1 MTPA.

Jindal Stainless (JSL) signed a Technical Assistance Agreement with Japan's JFE Steel Corporation on 7 September 2026 to strengthen manufacturing capability for select ferritic stainless steel grades used in automotive parts, railway coaches and construction.

The final BRICS Finance Ministers' and Central Bank Governors' meeting concluded in Mumbai (9-10 September 2026) ahead of the 18th BRICS Leaders' Summit in New Delhi on 12-13 September.

The UN General Assembly voted 164-1 to adopt the 'Equal Earth' map projection over the centuries-old Mercator projection, to better represent the true relative size of continents like Africa; only the US voted against, six nations abstained.

128 High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) agreed a non-binding definitional text on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) in Geneva on 5 September 2026; India remains among the countries opposing a binding treaty.

Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's first post-colonial Chief Executive (1997-2005) and later Vice-Chairman of China's CPPCC, died at age 89.

GalaxEye became the first Indian startup to win a US patent for its OptoSAR technology, which synchronises optical and SAR (radar) sensors on a single satellite for simultaneous earth observation; its Mission Drishti satellite was the world's first OptoSAR imaging satellite.

DRDO floated its SHIELD programme — an S-band High-Power Microwave evaluation system using GaN-based solid-state amplifiers to test drone-electronics vulnerability, targeting a field strength of at least 3 kV/m, under its Technology Development Fund.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh concluded his three-day Sri Lanka visit (8-10 September) with 'highly productive' talks in Colombo with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on trade, defence and economic cooperation.

The Indian Army set up its 'AASHVAST' lab at the DG EME headquarters in New Delhi to detect Chinese-origin components in drones.

The IAF's Sarang Helicopter Display Team, flying the indigenous ALH Dhruv, performed at the second El Alamein International Airshow in Egypt (8-10 September 2026).

Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Krishna Swaminathan began an official visit to Australia and New Zealand from 9 September 2026 to deepen naval cooperation with the Royal Australian and Royal New Zealand Navies.

Botanists discovered a new lichen species, Buellia maharajensis, in the shola forests of Mathikettan Shola National Park, Idukki (Kerala), at 1,351 m elevation.

The 5th Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan Awards were conferred on Swachh Vayu Diwas (7 September 2026); Lucknow topped among cities above 10 lakh population with 198/200 points, Indore came second, and 108 of 130 assessed NCAP cities improved PM10 levels against their 2017-18 baseline.

The State of India's Environment 2026 report found that nearly 40% of India's tiger territory across 20 states overlaps with areas inhabited by about 60 million people, intensifying human-tiger conflict.

Ishan Kishan's 270 anchored East Zone's first-innings total of 708 in the Duleep Trophy 2026-27 final at Chennai, leaving South Zone (242/6) trailing by 466 runs.

India finished 4th at the Pickleball World Cup 2026 in Da Nang, Vietnam (30 August-6 September), winning 41 medals — 7 gold, 17 silver and 17 bronze — among 82 competing nations.

R Praggnanandhaa became the first Indian to win the Grand Chess Tour title, overturning a six-point deficit to beat Fabiano Caruana 15-13 in the 2026 finals at St Louis (22-27 August).

Justice Pushpendra Singh Bhati was sworn in as Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh on 9 September 2026 at SKUAST, Kashmir, with Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena administering the oath; he succeeds acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Kumar.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah presented the President's Colour to Goa Police in Panaji on 7 September 2026, honouring over 80 years of service; Goa Police's AI-powered cybercrime helpline has cut emergency response time from 18 to 8 minutes.

Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami launched the 'Mukhyamantri Yuva Bhavishya Nirman Yojana' on 8 September 2026, offering free online coaching to students in state universities and colleges for UPSC, State PSCs, SSC, Railways, Banking and Defence exams.

The Centre's 'Districts as Export Hubs' (DEH) initiative has expanded to cover over 770 districts, building on the One District One Product concept to connect local producers with global markets.

Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan concluded his four-day Northeast tour (6-9 September) in Arunachal Pradesh, attending a special session of the state Assembly and visiting the Jawaharlal Nehru State Museum in Itanagar.