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🔬 Research & Discoveries 📍 West Bengal Important

India's advanced Ocean Research Vessel 'ORV Sagar Manthan' launched at GRSE's Rishi Bankim Shipyard, Kolkata

On 9 September 2026, the Ocean Research Vessel 'Sagar Manthan', built by GRSE for the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research under the Deep Ocean Mission, was launched in Kolkata.

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🌿 Environment & Ecology 📍 Haryana Important

CAQM pulls up Haryana pollution board over non-functional video monitoring at construction sites

On 8 September 2026, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) reviewed the Haryana State Pollution Control Board's non-compliance with its directions on registering construction and demolition sites and installing working video monitoring systems.

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🌿 Environment & Ecology 📍 Karnataka

India and Japan hold 7th Joint Working Group meeting on forests in Bengaluru

On 8 September 2026, India and Japan held the 7th meeting of their Joint Working Group on forests in Bengaluru and endorsed a 2027–2031 roadmap under their 2015 Memorandum of Cooperation.

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🌿 Climate Change 📍 Delhi Important

NITI Aayog's e-FAST India launches PACT platform to scale zero-emission trucks

On 7 September 2026, NITI Aayog Member Rajiv Gauba launched the Platform for Aggregating Clean Transport (PACT) at the 5th e-FAST India Summit to pool freight demand and speed up deployment of zero-emission trucks.

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📅 Important Days & Themes 📍 India Important

International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies observed on 7 September; NCAP covers 130 cities

India marked the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies on 7 September 2026, with a PIB backgrounder noting that the National Clean Air Programme now covers 130 cities and has released ₹16,423.55 crore in performance-linked grants.

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🌿 Environment & Ecology 📍 Chandigarh Important

16th National Meet of State Biodiversity Boards held at Chandigarh

On 6 September 2026, the National Biodiversity Authority opened the two-day 16th National Meet of State Biodiversity Boards and UT Biodiversity Councils at Chandigarh to strengthen biodiversity governance at State and local levels.

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🌿 Wildlife & Protected Areas 📍 Haryana Important

International Vulture Awareness Day 2026 marked at Panchkula with national workshop on vulture recovery

On 6 September 2026, Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav led International Vulture Awareness Day celebrations at Panchkula, Haryana, and opened a national workshop titled 'From Crisis to Recovery – Conserving India's Vultures'.

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🌿 Environment & Ecology 📍 India Must know

National Biodiversity Authority's ABS disbursements cross ₹200 crore

On 5 September 2026, the National Biodiversity Authority said its cumulative Access and Benefit-Sharing disbursements have crossed ₹200 crore, with ₹8.23 crore more sanctioned to States and UTs.

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🌿 Environment & Ecology 📍 Haryana Important

CAQM inspection drive in Nuh finds 17 of 35 industrial units non-compliant

On 3 September 2026, the Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas ran a special industrial inspection drive in Nuh, Haryana, and found 17 of 35 units violating norms.

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🌿 Disasters 📍 India Important

Home Secretary reviews Himalayan States' preparedness for GLOFs and avalanches

On 3 September 2026, Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan reviewed the preparedness of five Himalayan States and UTs against Glacial Lake Outburst Floods and snow avalanches.

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🚄 Railways, Roads & Aviation 📍 Haryana Important

Sonowal reviews green shipping corridors and port green-fuel readiness at TERI

On 3 September 2026, Ports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal reviewed proposed zero-emission shipping corridors and green fuel bunkering hubs at TERI's Gwal Pahari campus in Gurugram.

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🌿 Environment & Ecology 📍 India

NHAI announces Green Highways Excellence Awards 2026

On 3 September 2026, the National Highways Authority of India announced the winners of the Green Highways Excellence Awards 2026 for plantation and landscaping along National Highways.

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🏛️ Governance & Administration 📍 India Important

PM Modi chairs valedictory session of first National Departmental Summit on Water

On 2 September 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the closing session of the two-day National Departmental Summit on Water, the first in a planned series of Centre–State departmental summits.

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🌿 Wildlife & Protected Areas 📍 Delhi Important

International workshop on tiger landscapes opens; IBCA and ADB sign MoU

On 2 September 2026, Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav inaugurated an international workshop on tiger landscapes in New Delhi, where the International Big Cat Alliance and the Asian Development Bank signed an MoU.

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🌿 Environment & Ecology 📍 Delhi Important

4th Indo-German Environment Forum: India and Germany sign wetlands declaration

On 1 September 2026, India and Germany signed a Joint Declaration of Intent on the conservation and wise use of Wetlands of International Importance at the 4th Indo-German Environment Forum in New Delhi.

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💹 Economy 📍 Chhattisgarh Important

Mines Ministry holds Raipur roadshow for 8th tranche of critical mineral auctions

On 31 August 2026, the Ministry of Mines held a roadshow in Raipur for the 8th tranche of critical and strategic mineral block auctions, which offers 20 blocks across nine States, five of them in Chhattisgarh.

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🌿 Environment & Ecology 📍 India Important

National Biodiversity Authority disburses ₹5.68 crore in benefit-sharing funds

On 30 August 2026, the National Biodiversity Authority said it had disbursed ₹5.68 crore under the Access and Benefit-Sharing mechanism, mainly linked to okra, cucumber and watermelon resources.

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🚄 Energy & Power 📍 India Important

Petroleum Ministry explains revised compressed biogas price under GOBARdhan

On 29 August 2026, the Petroleum Ministry said the compressed biogas (CBG) procurement price under the GOBARdhan Scheme is ₹2,110 per MMBtu, with government affordability support of ₹10 per kg to limit the burden on gas consumers.

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🚄 Energy & Power 📍 Maharashtra Important

Pralhad Joshi leads Mumbai roadshow for Bharat Renewable Energy Summit 2026; Maharashtra to be partner state

On 27 August 2026, New and Renewable Energy Minister Pralhad Joshi held a Mumbai roadshow for the Bharat Renewable Energy Summit & Expo 2026, set for 2–5 November at Bharat Mandapam, with Maharashtra as a partner state.

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🌿 Disasters 📍 Nepal Must know

Deadly flash flood hits Nepal along Bhote Koshi; India offers help and alerts Bihar, UP

A flash flood triggered by a glacier collapse on the Nepal–Tibet border devastated central Nepal on 26 August 2026; PM Modi offered all possible help and the Centre put Bihar and Uttar Pradesh on alert.

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🌿 Wildlife & Protected Areas 📍 Russia Important

India showcases snow leopard science at India–Russia roundtable in Moscow

India presented its advances in snow leopard population estimation, radio telemetry and genetic analysis at a Russian–Indian roundtable held in Moscow on 26 August 2026.

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🌿 Environment & Ecology 📍 Mongolia Important

India calls for community-led rangeland restoration at UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar

Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav called for community-led restoration of rangelands at a ministerial dialogue of UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on 26 August 2026.

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🌿 Climate Change 📍 Mongolia

India calls for drought resilience over drought response at UNCCD COP17

Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav told the UNCCD COP17 ministerial dialogue in Ulaanbaatar on 25 August 2026 that drought must be managed as a predictable, preventable risk.

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🌿 Environment & Ecology 📍 Mongolia Important

India restored 21.76 million hectares in 2011–2020, Bhupender Yadav tells UNCCD COP17

At an IUCN side event at UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar on 24 August 2026, Bhupender Yadav said India restored 21.76 million hectares during 2011–2020 under its Bonn Challenge pledge.

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🌿 Wildlife & Protected Areas 📍 India Important

National Biodiversity Authority releases ₹2.82 crore in benefit-sharing funds

The National Biodiversity Authority disbursed ₹2.82 crore under the Access and Benefit-Sharing mechanism on 22 August 2026, mostly to 27 State Biodiversity Boards and 3 UT Biodiversity Councils.

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🚄 Urban Development 📍 Tamil Nadu Important

India and ADB sign $230-million loan for Chennai water and sewerage

India and the Asian Development Bank signed a $230 million loan on 21 August 2026 for the Chennai Climate-Resilient Water Security and Sewerage Project.

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🌿 Environment & Ecology 📍 India Important

CMLRE releases national report on deep-sea fishery resources of India's EEZ

The Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology (CMLRE) released the National Report on Deep-Sea and Distant-Water Fishery Resources of the Indian EEZ on 20 August 2026, marking its silver jubilee.

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🌿 Environment & Ecology 📍 Uttar Pradesh

DRI seizes 54 ivory artefacts in Lucknow, four held

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence busted a wildlife trafficking syndicate in Lucknow on 19 August 2026, seizing 54 carved ivory artefacts and arresting four people.

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🌿 Environment & Ecology 📍 West Bengal

Nine killed in hotel fire on Kolkata's Mirza Ghalib Street

A fire at a hotel on Mirza Ghalib Street in central Kolkata in the early hours of 19 August 2026 killed nine people, including five Bangladeshi nationals.

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🌿 Environment & Ecology 📍 Delhi Important

CAQM orders phased shift to cleaner light goods vehicles in Delhi-NCR

The Commission for Air Quality Management, at its 29th full meeting on 18 August 2026, approved Direction No. 102 for phased restrictions on registering diesel, petrol and CNG light goods vehicles in Delhi-NCR from 2027.

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