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Current Affairs 30th September 2026
Regulatory Authorities
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RBI-Registered NBFCs — RBI
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Housing Finance Companies — RBI
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Capital Market Regulation — SEBI
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Nidhi & Mutual Benefit Companies — MCA
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Chit Funds — State Governments
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Insurance — IRDAI
1. Jharkhand’s Traditional Folk Musical Instrument ‘Mandar’ Gets GI Tag
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Mandar, a traditional folk percussion instrument of Jharkhand, has received the Geographical Indication (GI) tag.
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Jharkhand received GI registration for Jharkhand Dokra Craft, Tribal Jewellery, Bamboo Crafts, and Tussar Silk Sarees & Fabrics.
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Darjeeling Tea of West Bengal was the first product to receive GI registration in India.
2. Environment Ministry Issues India’s First ‘PRAMAAN’ Certificates
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India's first PRAMAAN certificates under the Indian Forest and Wood Certification Scheme (IFWCS).
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The first certificates were given to Andhra Pradesh Forest Development Corporation (APFDC) and a bamboo farmer from Odisha.
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Certification bodies are accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies (NABCB) under the Quality Council of India (QCI).
3. Kolkata to Host India Energy Week 2027
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IEW 2027 will be held from 28–31 January 2027.
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The venue will be the New Town Convention Centre, Kolkata.
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The theme of IEW 2027 is “Unlocking Innovation. Securing Energy. Shaping Tomorrow.”
4. UIDAI Launches Five New Aadhaar Initiatives at Aadhaar Samvaad Kolkata
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The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) unveiled five new initiatives at Aadhaar Samvaad Kolkata.
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The five initiatives include Face Authentication for e-PDS, SWIK Portal 2.0, Sub-AUA/Sub-KUA (LITE) framework, Token Management System, and a revamped UIDAI website with BHASHINI integration.
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UIDAI functions under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
5.11th BIMSTEC Counter-Terrorism Meeting Held in New Delhi
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The 11th BIMSTEC Joint Working Group Meeting on Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (JWG-CTTC) was held in New Delhi.
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The participating countries were Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
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BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) was established on 6 June 1997, and its Secretariat is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
6. Fatima Zahra El Mansouri Becomes Morocco’s First Woman Prime Minister
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She succeeded Aziz Akhannouch as the Head of Government (Prime Minister) of Morocco.
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Mansouri became the second woman to serve as Prime Minister in the Arab world, after Tunisia's Najla Bouden.
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She was appointed by King Mohammed VI of Morocco.
7. TakeMe2Space to Launch India’s First Orbital Data Centre Mission
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TakeMe2Space, a Hyderabad-based space-tech startup, plans to launch India’s first networked orbital data centre mission in late 2028.
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The mission will use two 100-kg MOI satellites, each equipped with NVIDIA Thor GPUs and 100 TB of storage.
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The satellites are planned to launch aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 under the Waymaker-2 rideshare mission.
8. Neeru Dhanda Becomes First Indian Shooter to Win Asian Games Gold in Women’s Trap
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Neeru Dhanda, a 26-year-old shooter from Haryana, won the gold medal in the women’s individual trap event at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.
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She became the first Indian woman to win an individual Asian Games gold medal in trap shooting.
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China’s Sun Yunong won silver with 26, while Kuwait’s Abdulmalik Hajar won bronze with 21.
WHAT HAPPENED TODAY
30 September is observed as International Translation Day, with the 2026 theme “Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights” and the subtitle “The Power of Being Understood.”
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