01 September 2026 Current Affairs & PDF

Today’s 01 September 2026 Current Affairs will provide you with important national and international updates that are highly relevant for all competitive exams.

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Highlights of 01 September 2026 Current Affairs

• North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appointed Kim Song-gi as the country’s new Defense Minister. Announced by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Kim Song-gi—previously serving as the director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People’s Army—replaced No Kwang-chol.
• A seven-year-old Indian-origin boy, Jivyan Reddy Dhruva, has made headlines in the United Kingdom by acing a high-level mathematics exam nearly a decade ahead of schedule. Jivyan scored 196 out of 240 across three papers in the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Higher Mathematics examination. He secured a Grade 8 (equivalent to an A), an exam typically taken by 16-year-old teenagers. Originally from Andhra Pradesh, Jivyan lives with his family in South Ruislip, west London. Until February 2026, he attended a mainstream primary school, after which his parents shifted him to home education to better accommodate his advanced learning pace.
• NASA recently launched its cutting-edge Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Headed to the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2)—roughly 1 million miles away—this bus-sized observatory is specifically engineered to be a “discovery machine” capable of finding the weird, the rare, and the unusual across the cosmos. Roman features a wide-field infrared camera that matches the sensitivity of the Hubble Space Telescope but surveys the sky 1,000 times faster, with a field of view more than 100 times wider.
• India has signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) via the U.S. Foreign Military Sales (FMS) route to procure the Javelin anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) system for the Indian Army. Valued at ₹292 crore, the limited-quantity emergency procurement aims to address critical operational requirements, while establishing frameworks for future co-production between Indian entities and U.S. manufacturers (Lockheed Martin and RTX).
• Argentina clinched their third Women’s Hockey World Cup title by defeating host and defending champions the Netherlands in a tense final, winning 3-1 in a penalty shootout after regulation time ended in a 1-1 draw. Goalkeeper Cristina Cosentino delivered a stellar performance during the shootout to secure the victory, ending the Netherlands’ dominant multi-year run on home soil.
• JSW MG Motor India has introduced the Hector Tomahawk PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), marking India’s entry into mainstream mass-market plug-in hybrids. Powered by a 1.5-litre petrol engine paired with a permanent-magnet electric motor and a 20.5 kWh battery pack. Delivers a pure electric range of over 115 km and a massive combined driving range of over 1,100 km on a full fuel tank and fully charged battery.
• London-based Prudential Plc (through its subsidiary Prudential Corporation Holdings) successfully sold a 2% stake (approx. 9.89 million shares) in ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company (AMC) via an open market transaction.
• Stock exchanges BSE and NSE together imposed a combined penalty of ₹59.14 lakh on three major public sector undertakings (PSUs) in the power sector—NTPC, SJVN, and REC. The fines were levied due to non-compliance with SEBI’s Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements (LODR) regulations—specifically Regulation 17(1)—pertaining to the shortfall in appointing the requisite number of independent directors and maintaining the mandated board composition.

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