13 September 2026 — Current Affairs Quiz

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The Ministry of Women and Child Development launched the 9th Rashtriya Poshan Maah on 9 September 2026 at the Rudraksh Centre, Varanasi. Union Minister Annpurna Devi launched it under the theme Hamari Anganwadi, Hamari Jimmedari, part of Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0. Its five priorities include dietary diversity, hot cooked meals, Anganwadi Management Committees and 10 years of PMMVY. Poshan Abhiyaan began in 2018; the 8th Maah was launched from Dhar, Madhya Pradesh.

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On 9 September 2026, Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), a Defence PSU, launched ORV Sagar Manthan at its Rishi Bankim Shipyard in Kolkata. It is being built for NCPOR under the Ministry of Earth Sciences as part of Vertical-4 of the Deep Ocean Mission. Costing about Rs 840 crore, the 89.5 m vessel can survey to 6 km depth and has a 30-year service life. Delivery is due in 2028; it will replace Sagar Kanya, bought from Germany in 1983.

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The 22nd edition of Exercise Yudh Abhyas, the India-USA bilateral Army exercise, is being held in India from 9 to 28 September 2026. For the first time it uses a two-theatre format: the Mahajan Field Firing Ranges near Bikaner in Rajasthan for desert drills, and Auli in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, for high-altitude training. US troops come from the 11th Airborne Division and the 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force. Begun in 2004, the 21st edition was held at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, in 2025.

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The 18th BRICS Summit was held on 12-13 September 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, the same venue that hosted the 2023 G20 Summit. India took over the BRICS chairship on 1 January 2026 under the theme Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability. On 12 September the leaders adopted the New Delhi Declaration 2026 by consensus. China takes the chair in 2027.

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ISRO launched EOS-05, also called GISAT-1A, on GSLV-F17 at 2:55 am on 4 September 2026 from the Second Launch Pad at Sriharikota. It is India's first imaging satellite meant to work from geosynchronous orbit, watching the Indian subcontinent repeatedly from about 36,000 km for agriculture, water resources, forestry and disaster management. This was the 19th GSLV flight. The rocket left it in a Sub-GTO and the satellite raised its own orbit. Its predecessor EOS-03 was lost in 2021.

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President Droupadi Murmu appointed Dr Dinesh Sharma as Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on 5 September 2026, effective from the date he assumes charge. Sharma is a BJP Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh, a former Deputy Chief Minister of the state from 2017 to 2022 and a former Mayor of Lucknow. He succeeds Admiral D.K. Joshi (Retd), who held the post from 8 October 2017. The President appoints a Union Territory's Lieutenant Governor.