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