UPSC Current Affairs 16 September 2026 — The Hindu

Editorial

  • Lessons from India’s smallholder farmers
  • Montreal Protocol, signed on September 16, 1987, turned a 1970s scientific hypothesis into a successful international environmental treaty. How well do you know its story?
  • AI cooperation
  • Decoding India’s GDP base revision
  • Youth discontent and the changing face of protest
  • China’s open AI advantage may not last forever
  • Stability at the top
  • SIR: deletions have increased in Phase 3 States/UTS
  • 50 years ago: Good prospects of oil in Himalayas
  • 100 years ago: A school of music for Palghat
  • How AI risks can outpace safeguards
  • The rise of industrial tourism in China
  • Why public intellectuals matter in present-day India

National

  • SC seeks response from govt. on religious education plea
  • Goods exports surge lowers trade deficit
  • Lower margin for error in second phase of Census: Registrar-General
  • VB-G RAM G scheme trails MGNREGS by 9% in August

Business

  • ‘August retail inflation raises chances of RBI rate hike in October’
  • RBI files caveat after rejecting Tata Sons bid to avoid listing

Foreign

  • U.S. lawmaker seeks amendment in Russia sanctions Bill, naming India
  • Bangladesh court sentences seven Hasina aides to death

Regional

  • India’s 26% goods exports surge lowers trade deficit

Science

  • Nepal flash floods wash away dreams of clean, easy hydropower
  • Peak water: a flow U-turn