Current affairs September 7 – September 13, 2026 for CUET

The 2026 Asian Games were held in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, from 19 September to 4 October, on a five-cluster competition model. On 8 September the Sports Ministry sent off a 503-member Indian contingent of athletes and support staff, more than 300 of them first-timers. IOA President P.T. Usha was at the send-off, and Sahdev Yadav was Chef de Mission.

The mark to beat was the 107 medals India won at Hangzhou in 2022, its highest Asian Games tally. A March 2026 review expected more than 700 athletes; that was a projection, and 503 is the contingent that went.

On 9 September 2026 ISRO ran the flight acceptance hot test of the CE20 cryogenic engine picked for LVM3's seventh operational mission, M7. The test was held at the Main Engine and stage Test facility of the ISRO Propulsion Complex, Mahendragiri. The engine will be assembled into the C32 upper stage for the M7 mission, scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2026.

Future LVM3 missions plan to run the CE20 at an uprated thrust of 22 tonnes to carry heavier payloads, so the test was run at 22t. It also demonstrated a LOX tank pressurisation module meant for the C32 stages of Gaganyaan.

The Ocean Research Vessel Sagar Manthan was launched at the Rishi Bankim Shipyard in Kolkata on 9 September 2026. It was designed and built by the defence shipbuilder Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) for the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

On 10 September 2026 the Department of Consumer Affairs notified the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) (Amendment) Rules, 2026, amending the 2020 rules, to come into force on 1 January 2027. Every e-commerce entity must join the convergence process of the National Consumer Helpline, may not manipulate search results, and must give complainants a copy of the recorded complaint. In 2025 about 29 per cent of the helpline's 17.7 lakh grievances concerned e-commerce.

By 11 September 2026 more than 80 lakh doses of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine had been given under the National HPV Vaccination Campaign, launched by the Prime Minister in February 2026 to protect girls against cervical cancer. It offers 14-year-old girls a free, voluntary single dose at government health facilities, with parental consent — an annual cohort of about 1.2 crore girls.

The Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 2026, which received the President's assent on 13 August 2026, comes into force on 1 October 2026 and replaces the Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 1891. It is technology-neutral — banking records kept in physical, electronic, digital or cloud form are all recognised — and it standardises how such records are certified, including by digital signature, for use as evidence in court.

The eighteenth BRICS Summit was held in New Delhi on 12 and 13 September 2026, under the theme "Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability" — five words whose initials spell BRICS, which is both how the theme was chosen and the easiest way to hold it.

The New Delhi Declaration restates cooperation as resting on three pillars: political and security; economic and financial; and cultural and people-to-people. It records the contribution of partner countries and the growing role of the New Development Bank, which it describes as entering its second decade.

The nineteenth summit is to be held in China.