UPSC EPFO / APFC Current Affairs One-liners — Last 7 days

Wed, 30 Sept 2026

• MoSPI released Annual Survey of Industries 2024-25 results on 30 September 2026: Gross Value Added of registered manufacturing grew 9.59% and total employment rose 7.19% to over 2 crore, with Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana the top five states in employment.
• On 30 September 2026 the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and the Food Corporation of India signed an MoU to research alternatives to chemical fumigation – nitrogen, carbon dioxide and CO2-phosphine – for wheat and rice storage, with ICAR-CIPHET Ludhiana implementing a two-year first phase.
• Wrestler Sunil Kumar won bronze in the men's Greco-Roman 87kg event at the Asian Games 2026 on 30 September, matching his 2022 Asian Games finish.
• The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope, in a collaboration including India's Raman Research Institute, made its first standalone detection of the glow of hydrogen from when the universe was about five billion years old (reported 30 September 2026).

Tue, 29 Sept 2026

• On 29 September 2026 at Aichi-Nagoya, Neeru Dhanda won the women's trap gold with an Asian record 28 out of 30 in the final, hours after winning team silver with Manisha Keer and Aashima Ahlawat.
• On 29 September 2026, the final day of athletics at Aichi-Nagoya, Kiran Pahal, M.R. Poovamma, Prachi Choudhary and Vithya Ramraj won the women's 4x400 m relay in 3:29.69 — India's only athletics gold of the Games.
• At the 48th WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai (23–26 September 2026), India's largest-ever contingent of 70 competitors in 63 skills finished 10th with 6 silver medals and 20 Medals for Excellence; the Ministry of Textiles reported on 29 September that NIFT students won two of the silvers.
• On 29 September 2026, the 17th Aadhaar Day, UIDAI held 'Aadhaar Samvaad' in Kolkata with over 600 stakeholders and unveiled five initiatives, including face authentication for ePDS.
• The 10th India–Republic of Korea Joint Committee Meeting on Defence Industries and Logistics was held in New Delhi on 29 September 2026.
• The Directorate General of Civil Aviation issued Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) Section 7, Series B, Part XXI setting out the syllabus for the gyroplane pilot licence, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said on 29 September 2026.
• The 4th Eco Warrior Awards, organised by IFSA and Indian Masterminds and reported by PIB on 29 September 2026, honoured 15 forest officers, with B. K. Singh receiving the lifetime award.
• The 2nd India–Italy Joint Working Group on Tourism met on 29 September 2026, co-chaired by Tourism Secretary Bhuvnesh Kumar and Emanuela Tripi, Secretary-General of Italy's Ministry of Tourism.

Mon, 28 Sept 2026

• At the 28th session of the FAO Committee on Forestry (COFO 28) in Rome (28 September – 2 October 2026), India highlighted that its forest and tree cover is 82.74 million hectares, or 25.17% of its geographical area.
• On 28 September 2026 at Aichi-Nagoya, Vithya Ramraj clocked 54.75 s to win women's 400 m hurdles bronze and break P.T. Usha's 55.42 s national record set at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
• On 28 September 2026 Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the conference on 'PRAHAAR – CT Policy and Strategy' in New Delhi and launched a new Extradition Portal to speed up bringing back fugitives from abroad.
• The Quick Estimate of the Index of Industrial Production (base 2022-23=100), released by MoSPI on 28 September 2026, shows 8.0% year-on-year growth in August 2026, up from 6.7% in July.
• The 14th meeting of the India–UAE High Level Joint Task Force on Investments (HLJTFI) was held in Mumbai on 28 September 2026, co-chaired by Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Managing Director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA).
• On 28 September 2026 the Central Board of Direct Taxes extended the due date for filing income tax returns for Assessment Year 2026-27, for persons subject to audit, from 31 October to 21 November 2026.
• On 28 September 2026 Union Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh (Lalan Singh) launched the Livestock Insurance Portal (rashtriyapashubima.dahd.gov.in) of the Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying.
• On 28 September 2026 at Aichi-Nagoya, shooter Esha Singh won silver in the women's 25 m pistol individual event and Pinkcy Balhara won bronze in the women's 78 kg kurash.
• On 28 September 2026 a delegation led by French Minister for Higher Education, Research and Space Philippe Baptiste met MoS Jitendra Singh in New Delhi to widen space cooperation.
• On 28 September 2026 the Ministry of Steel decided to set up a Steel Industry Safety Council (SISC), an apex industry safety body chaired by the Steel Secretary, supported by a new Steel Industry Safety Directorate (SISD).
• A 60-member Indian Armed Forces contingent left on 28 September 2026 for Oskemen, Kazakhstan, for the ninth edition of the India–Kazakhstan joint military exercise KAZIND, held from 28 September to 11 October 2026.
• The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said on 28 September 2026 that the FASTag Annual Pass has crossed one crore passes since its launch on 15 August 2025.

Sun, 27 Sept 2026

• The 46th Chess Olympiad ended at Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on 27 September 2026 with India, the defending champions from Budapest 2024, winning silver in the Open section and bronze in the Women's section.
• On 27 September 2026 India won five athletics medals at Aichi-Nagoya: silvers for Sarvesh Kushare (high jump) and Ancy Sojan (long jump), and bronzes for Parul Chaudhary (3000 m steeplechase, national record), Tejaswin Shankar (decathlon) and Harita Bhadra (200 m).
• In the 138th episode of Mann Ki Baat on 27 September 2026, PM Narendra Modi said the first phase of the census is nearly complete, with data of over 32 crore families recorded, and urged people to self-register on the census portal.
• On 27 September 2026 Abhay Singh and Anahat Singh won silver in the men's and women's squash singles at Aichi-Nagoya, both losing their finals to Malaysian defending champions.
• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman began an official visit to Qatar on 27 September 2026 (27–29 September) to attend the 11th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Doha on 28 September.
• On 27 September 2026 the Lalit Kala Akademi announced 20 Lalit Kala Akademi Awards at its 65th National Exhibition of Art (NEA).