September 2026 Monthly Current Affairs Magazine (Telugu)

September 2026 Monthly Current Affairs Magazine (Telugu) | APPSC Exam Preparation

Are you preparing for APPSC Group-1, Group-2, DSC, SI, or Police Constable exams? The ReadingRoomz September 2026 Current Affairs Magazine is your all-in-one monthly companion designed to save time, boost revision speed, and sharpen your exam performance. Packed with structured summaries, key facts, exam notes, and 177 practice MCQs with a complete answer key, this magazine ensures you never miss a critical current event that could appear in your next exam.

What’s Inside?

International Current Affairs:

• PM Modi’s Visit to Uzbekistan — India–Uzbekistan elevated to Comprehensive Strategic Partnership; 11 MoUs; UPI–UZQR QR interoperability agreement
• 26th SCO Summit, Bishkek — Bishkek Declaration; India to host first SCO Civilisation Dialogue Forum; 25th anniversary of SCO
• India–Belgium Strategic, Economic and Defence Cooperation — PM Bart De Wever’s visit; 80th anniversary of diplomatic ties in 2027
• Giorgia Meloni — Italy’s longest continuously serving postwar PM; 1,413 days in office
• Russia–North Korea open first road bridge across Tumen River
• India–Germany — 75 years of diplomatic relations in 2026
• New Arctic Security Agreement — US, Denmark and Greenland
• US deploys Space Control weapons in orbit — Outer Space Treaty 1967 context
• Indonesia’s Nickel Supply Curbs — INSG revises 2026 outlook from surplus to deficit
• OneSCD Global Partnership — India co-hosts at UNGA81; National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission
• Houthis expand control along Yemen’s Red Sea coast — Bab el-Mandeb significance
• Eritrea–Ethiopia tensions — Horn of Africa context
• India–MERCOSUR Preferential Trade Agreement expansion
• India–Pakistan naval collision in Arabian Sea; Shaksgam Valley dispute

National Current Affairs:

• TCS HyperVault — ₹70,000 crore, 1 GW AI Data Centre in Hyderabad
• Karnataka introduces ‘Tr’ prefix for teachers — first State in India
• Suru Summer Festival 2026 — Ladakh
• Jammu & Kashmir hosts first International Film Festival (IFFJK 2026)
• 9th Rashtriya Poshan Maah 2026 — Varanasi; theme: “Hamari Anganwadi, Hamari Zimmedari”
• Western Dedicated Freight Corridor fully completed — 1,506 km; JICA funding
• FSSAI proposes red hexagonal warning labels for high fat, sugar and salt foods
• Aranmula Uthrattathi Vallamkali — Kerala’s traditional boat festival
• Bihar–Jharkhand Sone River water-sharing agreement
• Mysuru to host India’s first L’Étape by Tour de France cycling event
• Varuna Elevated Corridor — ₹10,998 crore urban mobility project in Varanasi
• Hyderabad Liberation Day — Operation Polo, 1948
• Karnataka grants additional official language status to Tulu
• Starbucks GCC in Chennai — 800 jobs; Tamil Nadu India’s 3rd largest GCC hub
• Supreme Court strikes down Maharashtra’s Methanol Denaturation Rules
• Maharashtra Women Farmers’ Empowerment Bill — first State to give legal recognition to women as farmers
• National Institute of Sowa Rigpa (NISR) — Leh, Ladakh
• APEDA facilitates export of GI-tagged Gulbarga Tur Dal to Maldives
• India’s First Port-Based e-Methanol Plant — Deendayal Port, Kandla
• India’s First LNG-Powered Train — Sabarmati, Ahmedabad
• Spandan One Tele-ECG Network — Haryana
• Centre notifies four Mega Ports under Indian Ports Act 2025

AP State Current Affairs:

• Poola Subbaiah Veligonda Irrigation Project Phase I inaugurated — ₹7,983 crore; Krishna River; Prakasam, Nellore, Kadapa
• AP Literacy Rate rises to 82.1% — above the national average of 80.9%
• Akshara Andhra Programme — 100% adult literacy target by September 2027
• 892 AP Villages declared Adarsh Grams under PM-AJAY
• Amaravati Sangamam Project — ₹759 crore; AP State Public Library, auditorium, Global Institute of Good Governance
• AP Poultry Development Policy 2025–29
• AP showcases One Water Vision at IFAT India 2026
• Trishul Strategy — zero drugs, zero atrocities against women, zero road accidents
• Project Vasudha — overseas nursing employment in Germany
• AP ranks 1st in India in Patient Safety Standards — score 86/100
• Gurajada Jayanti declared State festival — September 21
• 662-year-old Vijayanagara inscription found in Sri Sathya Sai district — Bukka Raya I period
• AP Cabinet approves four new Police Commissionerates — Rajamahendravaram, Guntur, Tirupati, Kurnool
• Interarch Building Solutions to invest ₹300 crore at Athivaram Industrial Park, Nellore
• Chandavaram Buddhist Stupa — largest among 150 Buddhist stupas in AP; 2nd century BCE
• AP SSAAT wins SKOCH Gold Award — first State Social Audit Organisation to receive it
• Palle Panduga 3.0 — ₹11,085 crore; 6,000 km CC roads, 9,500 km BT roads

Polity & Governance:

• Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2026 — referred to the Standing Committee; replaces the ISI Act, 1959
• Untouchability and Article 17 — Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955
• Appointment of Distinguished Jurist as SC judge — Article 124(3); unused provision
• Rajasthan High Court controversy — SC Collegium recommends new Chief Justice
• Totalisers in EVM Vote Counting — SC asks government to examine feasibility
• Centre proposes Article 371K for Ladakh — sui generis governance model
• Registered Unrecognised Political Parties — Section 29A, Representation of the People Act
• Uniform Civil Code — UCC in all NDA-ruled States before 2029 elections
• Dissent within Election Commission — majority decision rule under 2023 Act

Defence:

• India signs Javelin ATGM procurement deal with USA — FMS route
• DAC approves ₹1.10 lakh crore defence acquisition proposals — 98% from Indian industry
• Exercise Veer Guardian-2026 — IAF and Japan ASDF; Jodhpur; Tejas, Su-30 MKI, Rafale
• Exercise Yudh Abhyas 2026 — 22nd edition; India–USA; Bikaner and Auli
• Exercise Samudra Laksamana 2026 — India–Malaysia; 4th edition
• Colombo Security Conclave Tabletop Exercise — Visakhapatnam; 6 member nations
• SLINEX-26 — 13th edition; India–Sri Lanka; Visakhapatnam
• Exercise NOMADIC ELEPHANT 2026 — 18th edition; India–Mongolia; Pithoragarh
• Exercise VARUNA — 24th edition; India–France; INS Trishul
• Exercise Tarang Shakti 2026 — multinational; 7 countries; theme: Power in Partnership
• Exercise KAZIND-2026 — 9th edition; India–Kazakhstan; Oskemen

Economy:

• MoSPI releases NAS 2026 — base year 2022–23; India’s GDP growth revised to 7.8%
• India completes 10 years of Flexible Inflation Targeting — 4% CPI target, ±2% band
• India’s Jute Sector — world’s largest producer; MSP ₹5,925/quintal
• Bankers’ Books Evidence Act, 2026 — replaces 1891 Act; effective October 1, 2026
• New Development Bank — 139 projects, USD 42.9 billion; Maharaja Bond programme ₹25,000 crore
• New UPI Framework — P2P free; P2M above ₹2,000 at 0.4% MDR
• EPFO wage ceiling raised from ₹15,000 to ₹25,000 — 51+ lakh new employees covered
• India’s First Blue Bond — Sagarmala Finance Corporation; ₹600 crore; 10-year bonds
• Nidhi Companies advisory — MCA warning on high-return promises
• International Payment Systems — SWIFT, CIPS, SPFS, mBridge, CHIPS comparison table

Science & Technology:

• Vacuum Birefringence — QED prediction confirmed; magnetar observations
• NASA launches Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — Falcon Heavy; dark energy, dark matter
• Wakefield Accelerator — plasma-based particle acceleration
• ISRO launches GSLV-F17 carrying EOS-05 — India’s first imaging satellite from Geosynchronous Orbit
• India’s first geothermal wells at Puga Valley, Ladakh — 1 MW demonstration project
• Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope — world’s largest solar telescope; Hawaii
• ICAR develops AI-based monitoring system for Mithun — YOLOv8n model
• CosmoCube Mission — UK; lunar far side; 21-cm hydrogen signal; India’s PRATUSH
• GRSE launches ORV Sagar Manthan — Deep Ocean Mission; replaces Sagar Kanya
• Navier–Stokes Problem — Millennium Prize; OpenAI proposed solution, CMI lists as unsolved
• Melanoma — mRNA-based intismeran autogene therapy Phase III results
• Canal-Top Photovoltaics — 131 GW potential; AP among top States
• Bio-Based Biodegradable Plastic — PLA; BioE3 framework; Balrampur Chini Mills
• IST legally recognised — Legal Metrology (IST) Rules 2026; CSIR-NPL; caesium atomic clocks
• TRISHNA Mission — ISRO–CNES joint Earth observation; 2027 launch

Environment:

• Southwest Monsoon 2026 — AP records 42% rainfall deficit; joint third highest in India
• New Begonia species Begonia rajvikramanii — JNTBGRI; Western Ghats, Kollam, Kerala
• UN adopts Declaration on Sea-Level Rise — UNGA; 4.7 mm/year acceleration
• Committee on Forestry 28 — India’s forest cover 82.74 million hectares; 9th globally
• India’s Green Highways Programme — 3.61 crore saplings; bio-bitumen technology

Schemes & Programmes:

• ECLGS 5.0 — ₹2.55 lakh crore; 100% guarantee for MSMEs; 90% for non-MSMEs
• Aadi Farmer Carbon Programme — ₹2.9 crore to 2,550 farmers; Punjab and Haryana; DSR method
• PMKKKY — 656 districts; 4,70,020 projects; ₹1,09,938 crore sanctioned
• Make in India completes 12 years — PLI ₹2.40 lakh crore investment; defence production ₹1.78 lakh crore
• DDU-GKY 2.0 — minimum placement extended to 6 months; ₹7,620 financial assistance
• PM-AJAY — SC empowerment; three merged schemes

Awards & Honours:

• PM Modi conferred Uzbekistan’s highest honour — Oliy Darajali Do’stlik Order
• Ramon Magsaysay Awards 2026 — Tommy Koh, Runa Khan, Bo Kyi
• National Teachers’ Awards 2026 — AP awardees: Rajesh Kouluri (School Education), Dr. Arun Babu (Higher Education, AIIMS Mangalagiri)
• 5th Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan 2026 — Lucknow 1st (above 10 lakh); Guntur joint 2nd (3–10 lakh); Vijayawada 8th
• Dr. Yelavarthy Nayudamma Memorial Award 2026 — Galla Ramachandra Naidu, Amara Raja Group
• Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2024 — Anant Nag
• Purnima Devi Barman — Changemaker of the Year; greater adjutant stork conservation

Rank & Reports:

• UNEP Limiting Overshoot Report 2026 — 1.5°C overshoot now unavoidable; peak warming ~1.8°C
• First-ever district-level estimates for unincorporated non-agricultural sector — Prakasam highest in AP
• India ranks 131st in Global Gender Gap Index 2026 — WEF; Iceland tops
• India Electric Mobility Index 2025 — Delhi tops; AP ranked 9th overall
• Domestic Tourism Expenditure Survey 2025–26 — pilgrimage highest at 48% of overnight trips

Committees & Conferences:

• NCLT forms first-ever five-member bench — Subhash Chandra insolvency case
• 7th Global Fintech Fest 2026 — Mumbai; theme: Agentic AI, Tokenisation, Quantum
• INNOPROM India 2026 — first-ever INNOPROM in India; India–Russia trade target USD 100 billion by 2030
• First International Space Summit 2026 — Paris; 90 countries; 1,100 companies
• Dryland Congress 2026 — ICAR–ICRISAT; New Delhi; 50 years of partnership
• 18th BRICS Summit 2026 — New Delhi; India chairs; theme: Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability
• World Circular Economy Forum 2026 — Gandhinagar; first WCEF in South Asia
• P4M Summit — EAM Jaishankar; UNGA81; 4F crisis framework
• 14th East Asia Summit Economic Ministers’ Meeting — India–ASEAN bilateral trade USD 128.38 billion
• 9th India International Water Week 2026 — Climate Resilient Water Management

Important Days:

• UN designates November 27 as International Day Against Child Marriage
• International Vulture Awareness Day 2026 — first Saturday of September; Panchkula, Haryana
• International Literacy Day — September 8; 60th anniversary; theme: Literacy for people, the planet and prosperity
• World Ozone Day 2026 — September 16; theme: Global Action for a Cooler Planet; Kigali Amendment
• World Patient Safety Day 2026 — September 17; theme: Safe care for noncommunicable diseases
• World Rhino Day 2026 — September 22; theme: Keep the Five Alive; Project Rhino
• World Tourism Day 2026 — September 27; theme: Digital Agenda and Artificial Intelligence

Persons in News, Sports & Miscellaneous:

• Gloria Steinem passes away at 92 — co-founder of Ms. magazine; second-wave feminist movement
• Dr. Bhupen Hazarika — 100th birth anniversary; Bharat Ratna 2019
• Acharya Vinoba Bhave — birth anniversary; Bhoodan Movement; Pochampally; Bharat Ratna 1983
• Mandeep K. Bhandari appointed new CBSE Chairperson
• Kimi Antonelli wins 2026 Italian Grand Prix — 7th win of season; first Italian to win Italian GP at Monza since 1966
• East Zone wins Duleep Trophy 2026 — 14-year wait; Tilak Varma Player of Tournament
• Joe Root breaks Sachin Tendulkar’s record — most Test fifties (69); Tendulkar held 68
• India wins Women’s T20 Asia Cup 2026 — record 8th title; Shafali Verma Player of the Match
• Abhishek Sharma scores fastest T20I century against Test-playing nation — 30 balls
• US Open 2026 — Zverev (men’s), Rybakina (women’s)
• India wins double gold in Kabaddi; gold in Women’s T20 Cricket at Asian Games 2026
• Sawan Barwal — historic silver in Men’s Marathon; new Indian national record
• India secures 10th position at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026
• Meta launches Muse personal AI assistant
• Operation Deep Manifest — DRI seizes 362 MT Pakistan-origin dry dates
• Marathi film Gondhal — India’s official Oscar 2027 entry
• Battle of Haifa — 23 September 1918; Jodhpur, Mysore and Hyderabad Lancers
• SPROUT, TAPAS and SHREYAS — key acronyms explained

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