During a ceremony hosted by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, the Republic of Türkiye signed the Artemis Accords, joining the growing international coalition of like-minded nations dedicated to peaceful, transparent space exploration.
Turkish Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır signed on behalf of Türkiye. The President of the Turkish Space Agency Yusuf Kıraç, and the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Space and Environment Connor Tomlinson, also participated in the event.
Türkiye’s recent achievements in human spaceflight underscore its commitment to space exploration. In 2024, the country’s first astronaut, Alper Gezervaci, traveled to the International Space Station on Axiom Mission 3 and conducted scientific research alongside NASA astronauts.Türkiye will soon launch its first lunar mission, AYAP-1.
World Coconut Day is observed every year on 2 September to highlight the importance of coconuts in agriculture, nutrition, livelihoods, and sustainable development.
Organised by International Coconut Community(ICC), an intergovernmental organisation of coconut-producing countries.
Theme (2026): "Coconut for Circular Economy: Building Partnerships for Maximum Value."
Significance: Promotes the coconut sector's role in food security, rural employment, eco-friendly products, and the efficient use of every part of the coconut through a circular economy approach.
Skyscraper Day is observed annually on 3 September to celebrate the architectural, engineering, and technological achievements behind the world's tallest buildings. The day also commemorates the birth anniversary of renowned American architect Louis Sullivan (1856–1924), who is often regarded as the "Father of Skyscrapers."
A skyscraper is a continuously habitable high-rise building, generally considered to be 150 meters (492 feet) or taller, according to the
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).
The International Day of Charity is observed every year on 5 September to promote charitable activities, volunteerism, and solidarity in addressing poverty and humanitarian challenges worldwide.
The date marks the death anniversary of Mother Teresa, who dedicated her life to serving the poor and marginalized.
The International Day of Charity was established by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) through Resolution A/RES/67/105 and was first observed in 2013.
Teachers' Day is celebrated every year on 5 September in India to honour the contributions of teachers in shaping society and to commemorate the birth anniversary of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, India's second President and a renowned philosopher and educator.
On 5 September, the President of India presents the National Teachers' Award to outstanding teachers from across the country for their exceptional contributions to school education.
Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Shri Manohar Lal, in the presence of Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shri Mohan Yadav, inaugurated the Indore Metro Priority Corridor–2, marking a significant milestone in the city’s urban mobility journey. Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Shri Tokhan Sahu was also present on the occasion
The newly inaugurated phase-I (Reach-II) of approx 11 km comprising 11-stations starting from Super Corridor-3 to Malviya Nagar Chauraha and has been developed at an estimated cost of Rs.2,850 crore. With this expansion, the Indore Metro network now comprises 16 operational stations covering approximately 17 km,
with a cumulative project cost of about Rs.4,370 crore. The Metro will provide citizens with a faster, safer, more comfortable and reliable mode of transport while strengthening connectivity between residential, commercial and employment centres.
Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan released a commemorative postage stamp to mark the 75th anniversary of Tamil daily Dinamalar, praising the newspaper for earning the trust of readers by upholding the values of truth, patriotism and public service.
The Vice-President also highlighted the importance of nurturing the next generation and appreciated Dinamalar’s educational initiative ‘Pattam’, which provides school students with content on general awareness, language skills and scientific innovations.
In Badminton, Indian pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty clinched the men’s doubles title at the China Masters in Shenzhen . The Indian duo defeated China’s He Ji Ting and Ren Xiang Yu 11-21, 21-13, 21-17 in the summit clash to secured India’s first-ever title at the China Masters.
The victory marks the duo’s second title of the season. They had earlier won the Singapore Open Super 750 and finished runners-up at the Thailand Open Super 500. Satwik and Chirag booked their place in the final after defeating Malaysia’s Nur Mohd Azriyn Ayub and Tan Wee Kiong 21-15, 18-21, 21-11 in the semifinals.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah outlined a three-year roadmap to make India drug-free by 2029, calling for a coordinated national campaign against narcotics. Mr Shah was addressing a press conference in Goa during his three-day visit to the state.the government has strengthened enforcement, intelligence-sharing, financial investigations and
rehabilitation measures since 2019.The roadmap is based on four pillars – intelligence- and operations-based enforcement, control of precursor and synthetic drugs, demand and harm reduction, and capacity building and coordination.The government has set a target of dismantling 100 international and inter-state drug networks,
bringing 100 narcotics-related fugitives to India and destroying 100 clandestine drug laboratories over the next three years.
The campaign will reach 50 crore citizens and create one lakh ‘Nasha Mukt Mitras’. The number of de-addiction centres will be increased to 1,751.
The Melghat and Pench tiger reserves in Maharashtra have emerged as India’s most successful sites for the reintroduction of captive-bred vultures, recording encouraging survival rates. Akashvani correspondent reports that, according to the Bombay Natural History Society, or BNHS, 29 vultures released across the two reserves between December 2025 and
January 2026 recorded survival rates of up to 78 per cent.
The success demonstrates the viability of shifting bird release enclosures to prey-rich and inviolate tiger habitats. The results are a significant boost to ongoing efforts to conserve and restore India’s declining vulture populations.
Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal inaugurated the second skill development centre at Kandivali in North Mumbai. He announced plans to establish more such centres across North Mumbai and organise job fairs in collaboration with companies and industrial associations.
A project would be undertaken to comprehensively beautify Sanjay Gandhi National Park. The rapid progress of the Coastal Road project would transform the face of North Mumbai.
International Vulture Day is observed on the first Saturday of September every year to raise awareness about the ecological importance of vultures and the need to conserve these endangered scavengers. In 2026, it falls on 5 September.
Established by: BirdLife International and the Vulture Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC).
Vulture Conservation Breeding Centres (VCBCs) established in states such as Haryana, West Bengal, Assam, and Madhya Pradesh.
The National Action Plan for Vulture Conservation (2020–2025) promotes safe veterinary drugs, conservation breeding, and habitat protection.
The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) has crossed a significant milestone in the implementation of India’s Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) framework, with cumulative ABS disbursements exceeding 200 crore rupees.
NBA has sanctioned 8.23 crore rupees in access and benefit- sharing proceeds to be disbursed to states and UTs from utilisation of four key vegetable crops. These crops are Bitter Gourd, Okra, Chilli and onion. the distribution is based on the area under cultivation, as published by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
This approach will enable the ABS proceeds to be channelled towards States and Union Territories associated with the cultivation of the respective biological resources, where direct identification of the individual providers or source communities is not possible.
Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra have emerged as the largest cumulative recipients among the States and UTs receiving the ABS proceeds.
Private corporations have invested Rs. 30.3 trillion in fixed assets such as plant, machinery and intellectual property in FY25, a 7 per cent jump from the capital expenditure they made in the previous year, establishing a healthy growth in investments. In FY24, they had made a capital expenditure of Rs. 28.3 trillion,
showing an annual growth of 2.65 per cent, as per the detailed Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) figures for FY25 released by the ministry.
On the other hand, government capital spending slowed to 10.2 per cent in FY25 from 18.5 per cent in FY24, while total investment growth held at 8.2 per cent in FY25 compared to 9 per cent in year ago period.
Total investments in fixed assets stood at Rs 99.76 trillion in FY25.Public Non-Financial Corporations and the general government together formed about 24.2 per cent of the total GFCF.
India has received $295.23 million FDI in tea and coffee (processing and warehousing coffee), and $3.93 billion in rubber goods during April 2000 and March 2026.The government is considering liberalising foreign direct investment (FDI) norms in the plantation sector by bringing more commercial crops under the ambit.
At present, 100 per cent FDI under automatic route is permitted in the tea sector, including tea plantations, coffee, rubber, cardamom, palm and olive oil tree plantations.
Besides these, FDI is not allowed in any other plantation sector/activity. As per estimates, India is the largest banana producer in the world with over 30 million tonnes annually.
Indian Bank has received board approval to open a representative office in Dubai, as it seeks to expand its overseas operations, leveraging the large Indian diaspora across West Asia. Currently, the bank has a full-service international branch in Singapore and branches in Colombo and Jaffna (Sri Lanka).
Indian Bank plans to add 100 branches this year with a primary focus on increasing the bank's presence in the central and western parts of the country.The bank had 6,003 domestic branches as of June 30, 2026.The seventh-biggest public sector bank enhanced its presence in the eastern region and Uttar Pradesh with the amalgamation of Allahabad Bank in 2020
India's Bank of Baroda has raised $400 million through reissuance of its 5.3180% August 2031 U.S. dollar denominated bonds at a higher yield, becoming the second state-owned bank and the fifth issuer overall to tap the central bank's discounted funding window for more than $1 billion.
BoB, India's second-largest state-run lender by assets, will offer a yield of 5.3890% on the reissue. BoB had raised $400 million through three-year bonds at a 5.1140% coupon and $300 million through five-year notes at a 5.3180% coupon. The lender had sold these notes at a spread of 90 basis points and 100 bps over Treasuries, respectively.
Samtel HAL Display Systems Limited (SHDS), a joint venture between Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Samtel Avionics, inaugurated its new manufacturing facility at Udyog Vihar, Phase IV, Gurugram, marking a fresh push towards indigenisation in India's defence avionics sector.
The facility was formally opened by HAL Chairman and Managing Director Ravi K. SHDS holds the distinction of being India's first public-private joint venture in defence avionics to indigenously design, qualify and serially produce a multifunction display (MFD) for a fighter aircraft.
Pixxel, the planetary infrastructure company, has closed a $100 million Series C funding round co-led by Temasek and Seraphim, with participation from new investors 360 ONE Asset and IMM Investment, and existing investors Radical Ventures, growX ventures and others.
The investment marks the single-largest funding round raised by a space-technology company in India and signals Pixxel’s next phase of growth as it broadens its role across the space-tech value chain. The round takes the company’s total funding to $195 million.
Pixxel began with hyperspectral satellites designed to reveal information about the Earth’s surface beyond what conventional imagery can capture. Since then, the company has expanded its scope to include Aurora, its Earth intelligence software, and satellite systems for commercial and sovereign space missions.
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has launched its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, saying it has taken the lead over rival Anthropic in key areas such as software engineering, science and cybersecurity.
The company described GPT-6 Astra as “the world’s most intelligent” AI model as it seeks to regain its position at the top of the fast-growing AI industry. It has been just over a year since OpenAI launched the previous version of its flagship model, GPT-5.
India's U20 men's football team ended a 20-year wait by qualifying for the AFC U20 Asian Cup China 2027 after defeating Bangladesh 3-0 in their final Group B qualifier in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. India finished second in Group B with 6 points from three matches.
After Uzbekistan defeated Syria 3-0, India secured qualification as one of the seven best runners-up across the eight qualifying groups.
This marks India's first appearance in the AFC U20 Asian Cup since 2006.The AFC U20 Asian Cup 2027 will be held in China from March 24 to April 10, 2027.
Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli produced one of Formula 1's greatest comeback drives by winning the 2026 Italian Grand Prix at Monza after starting from 19th on the grid due to an engine penalty. The victory extended his championship lead and ended Italy's 60-year wait for a home winner at Monza.
Antonelli started 19th after serving a power-unit grid penalty. He carved through the field with aggressive overtakes and a well-timed pit stop during a Virtual Safety Car period. He passed teammate George Russell in the closing laps to secure victory. Max Verstappen finished third for Red Bull.
Antonelli became the first Italian driver to win the Italian Grand Prix at Monza since Ludovico Scarfiotti in 1966. It marked the 50th Formula 1 victory by an Italian driver. The win increased Antonelli's championship advantage to 66 points after 13 races, strengthening his bid to become the youngest F1 World Champion.
In a significant boost to India's higher education internationalisation efforts, Birkbeck, University of London has received a Letter of Intent (LoI) from the University Grants Commission (UGC) to establish its global campus in Bengaluru, Karnataka, under the UGC's 2023 regulations for foreign higher education institutions.
Birkbeck, University of London has received the 15th UGC Letter of Intent under the 2023 regulations to establish its campus at Sattva Tech Park, Whitefield, Bengaluru, where students will earn globally recognised University of London degrees without relocating to the UK.Tuition fees are expected to be around 60% lower than studying at the London campus.
Contributes to India's goal of raising the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education to 50% by 2035.
Strengthens the India–UK Vision 2035 partnership in education and research while expanding access to world-class higher education within India.
Founded in 1823, Birkbeck is a member institution of the University of London
