Current Affairs One-liners — 26 September 2025

Fri, 26 Sept 2025

• India added two wetlands from Bihar – Gokul Jalashay in Buxar and Udaipur Jheel in West Champaran – to the Ramsar list on 26 September 2025, taking the country's total to 93 Ramsar sites.
• The Indian Air Force decommissioned the MiG-21 at a ceremony in Chandigarh on 26 September 2025, marking the fighter's final operational sortie after service since 1963.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Bihar government's Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana by video conference on 26 September 2025 and transferred ₹10,000 each to 75 lakh women, a total of ₹7,500 crore.
• Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan released the 21st instalment of PM-KISAN on 26 September 2025 to farmers in flood-hit Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Uttarakhand, transferring over ₹540 crore to more than 27 lakh farmers.
• The Finance Ministry announced on 26 September 2025 that the government plans to borrow ₹6.77 lakh crore through dated securities in the second half of 2025-26, including ₹10,000 crore of Sovereign Green Bonds.
• Ladakh activist Sonam Wangchuk was detained under the National Security Act in Leh on 26 September 2025 on an order of the District Magistrate, Leh, and lodged in Jodhpur Central Jail the same night.
• The Department of Posts announced on 26 September 2025 a revised Inland Speed Post (document) tariff effective 1 October 2025, the first revision since October 2012, along with OTP-based delivery and a student discount.
• India's representative exercised the right of reply at the UN General Assembly on 26 September 2025, condemning the Pakistan Prime Minister's speech and demanding that Pakistan shut down terrorist camps.
• President Droupadi Murmu presented the National Geoscience Awards 2024 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre on 26 September 2025, with the Lifetime Achievement award going to Prof. Shyam Sundar Rai.
• A SODAR (Sound Detection and Ranging) system designed by CSIR–AMPRI, Bhopal, was inaugurated at the India Meteorological Department, Delhi, on CSIR's Foundation Day, 26 September 2025.
• The Central Consumer Protection Authority imposed a ₹2 lakh penalty on Digital Age Retail Pvt. Ltd. (FirstCry) on 26 September 2025 for showing 'MRP inclusive of all taxes' but adding GST on the discounted price at checkout.
• The Employees' State Insurance Corporation's provisional payroll data released on 26 September 2025 showed 20.36 lakh new employees enrolled under the ESI scheme in July 2025.
• Coal PSUs announced a Performance Linked Reward of ₹1,03,000 for non-executive workers of Coal India and SCCL on 26 September 2025.