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- A Chinese team set a Guinness World Record by operating 116 TH-618 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for 34 minutes over 500 metres in a swimming pool in China, without human intervention.
- India won its first-ever Asian Games gold medal in the women’s recurve archery team event at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.
- A 3-year-old Royal Bengal tigress was translocated from Valmiki Tiger Reserve, Bihar, and released into Buxa Tiger Reserve in Alipurduar, West Bengal, marking the launch of the State’s first tiger reintroduction project.
- The Rogun Hydropower Project in Tajikistan is nearing its planned height of 335 metres, which would make it the world’s tallest dam after completion.
- The dam is being built on the Vakhsh River, a major tributary of the amu darya river system.
- Zuppa Geo Navigation Technologies signed an MoU with the Tamil Nadu Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Corporation (TNUAVC) to develop a DGCA-certified drone pilot training programme for Agniveers and defence personnel.
- OpenAI unveiled GPT-6.1 Sol and Dots AI agents at its DevDay 2026 conference in San Francisco, California, USA.
- SpaceX’s Starship reached Earth orbit for the first time and deployed 26 Starlink satellites during a test flight.
- India has crossed 1,000 km in quantum-secure communication, achieving more than half of the eight-year target of the National Quantum Mission in less than three years.
- The mission aims to strengthen national security and develop India’s quantum technology ecosystem.
- Six of the 24 Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committees are set to get new chairpersons, with the Trinamool Congress (TMC) losing two posts.
- BJP MPs Sudhanshu Trivedi, Sujeet Kumar, Shashank Mani and Sudhir Gupta will head the Commerce, Personnel, Labour and Railways Committees respectively, while Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Mukul Wasnik will head the Chemicals and Education Committees.
- India won its first athletics gold medal at the 2026 Asian Games in the women’s 4×400m relay at Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium, Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.
- World Rivers Day 2026 will be observed on 27 September, the fourth Sunday of September, to promote river conservation, protect freshwater ecosystems, and raise awareness about the importance of rivers.
- World Animal Day is observed annually on 4 October to promote animal welfare, protection and humane treatment of animals.
- The theme for the year 2026 is “See the World Through Their Eyes”.
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