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Current Affairs 15 September 2026: 20 Exam Facts and 15 MCQs for SSC, Banking, BPSC and JSSC
Current Affairs 15 September 2026: 20 Exam Facts and 15 MCQs for SSC, Banking, BPSC and JSSC
New Delhi shut down half its traffic for the 18th BRICS Summit at Bharat Mandapam on 12 and 13 September, and almost every big fact of this week comes out of that one venue. Add the August inflation prints released on 14 September, three Asia Cup trophies for India inside four days, and a 32,388-post teacher advertisement sitting on the BPSC website, and 15 September is a date worth revising slowly.
Below you get 20 facts from the last 24 hours, each tagged with the exam that actually asks this stuff. After that, 15 objective questions built only from these facts. Read once, attempt the questions without scrolling back up, then check what stayed in your head.
National
- 18th BRICS Summit: India chaired the 18th BRICS Summit at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi on 12 and 13 September 2026, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the chair and the theme "Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability". (Exam tag: All exams)
- New Delhi Declaration: BRICS members unanimously adopted the 140-paragraph New Delhi Declaration on 12 September, covering UN Security Council reform, terror financing, trade, energy and health cooperation. (Exam tag: BPSC / SSC / All exams)
- Bloc size: The grouping now runs with 11 full members including Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the UAE, plus 10 partner countries such as Belarus, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Uganda, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. (Exam tag: All exams)
- Leaders' meetings: On the sidelines the Prime Minister held bilateral meetings with the Presidents of South Africa, Kazakhstan and the Philippines, the Chairperson of the African Union, and the Vice Presidents of Nigeria and Uganda. (Exam tag: SSC / Railway)
- Election Commission abroad: Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar began a three-day official visit to Bhutan, announced through PIB on 14 September 2026. (Exam tag: SSC / Banking / BPSC)
- Delhi Declaration on Drylands: The Dryland Congress 2026 wrapped up in Delhi on 13 September with a Delhi Declaration on Drylands, released through the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. (Exam tag: All exams)
International
- India and MERCOSUR open PTA talks: On 14 September 2026 India and the South American bloc MERCOSUR formally launched negotiations to widen their Preferential Trade Agreement, which was signed in 2004 and came into force in 2009. (Exam tag: Banking / BPSC / SSC)
- Who signed: Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal signed for India alongside Uruguay's Ambassador Alberto Guani and Paraguay's Ambassador Fleming Raul Duarte Ramos. (Exam tag: All exams)
- First Additional Protocol: The two sides signed a protocol giving electronic Certificates of Origin the same legal validity as paper certificates, cutting clearance time and paperwork at customs. (Exam tag: Banking / SSC)
- The numbers behind it: India currently offers tariff concessions on 450 tariff lines and MERCOSUR on 452, while two-way trade stood at USD 21.8 billion in 2025-26. MERCOSUR groups Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. (Exam tag: Banking / BPSC)
- New BRICS mechanisms: The summit announced a BRICS Grain Exchange, a Startup Innovation Fund, a BRICS Incubator Network and a Payment Task Force working on local-currency interoperability. (Exam tag: Banking / All exams)
- Traditional medicine: BRICS backed an expert group on traditional medicine, a push led by India's Ministry of AYUSH. (Exam tag: All exams)
Economy and Banking
- WPI inflation: Wholesale price inflation rose to 9.92 per cent in August 2026 from 9.78 per cent in July, with the index at 110.8, released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry on 14 September. (Exam tag: Banking / SSC / Railway)
- What pushed WPI up: Fuel and power inflation jumped to 22.93 per cent, manufactured products to 8.37 per cent and the food index to 7.05 per cent. (Exam tag: Banking)
- Retail inflation: CPI inflation for August 2026 came in at 4.82 per cent with the Consumer Food Price Index at 5.95 per cent, released by MoSPI on 14 September 2026. (Exam tag: Banking / SSC)
- Rural versus urban: Rural CPI at 5.23 per cent ran well above urban CPI at 4.31 per cent, and rural food inflation at 6.13 per cent beat the urban 5.64 per cent. (Exam tag: Banking / BPSC)
- Urban co-operative banks: The Reserve Bank is restarting its licensing framework for urban co-operative banks after a gap of roughly 22 years. (Exam tag: Banking)
- Polymer notes: RBI has planned a field trial of polymer banknotes with 1 billion pieces each of the ₹10 and ₹20 denominations. (Exam tag: Banking / SSC)
- E-fraud compensation: The RBI's digital-fraud compensation framework has been pushed to January 2027; first-time victims can get up to ₹25,000 or 85 per cent of the loss, whichever is lower, with banks given 45 days for domestic and 60 days for cross-border complaints. (Exam tag: Banking)
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Index and rankings snapshot
Sports
- Women's Asia Cup: India beat Sri Lanka by 72 runs in the Women's Asia Cup 2026 final, posting 183/5 and bowling Sri Lanka out for 111, for India's eighth Asia Cup title under captain Harmanpreet Kaur. (Exam tag: All exams)
- Who did the damage: Shafali Verma hit 68 off 39 balls and Smriti Mandhana 59 off 39 in a record 129-run opening stand, while Sree Charani took 4/20. (Exam tag: All exams)
- Junior men's hockey: India beat Korea 4-1 to win a record sixth Junior Men's Hockey Asia Cup and book a place at the FIH Junior World Cup. (Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams)
- Junior women's hockey: India retained the Junior Women's Asia Cup by beating China 1-0, with Sanika Chandrakant Mane scoring the only goal for a third straight title. (Exam tag: All exams)
Awards
- Ramon Magsaysay Award 2026: The Foundation named three awardees for 2026 with no Indian on the list: Tommy Koh of Singapore, Runa Khan of Bangladesh and Bo Kyi of Myanmar. (Exam tag: All exams)
- Background you should know: The award was instituted in 1958 in memory of the Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and is often called Asia's Nobel Prize. (Exam tag: SSC / Railway / BPSC)
Science and Defence
- EOS-05 in orbit: ISRO launched EOS-05 on 4 September 2026 from Sriharikota aboard GSLV-F17, and at 2,367 kg it is the heaviest payload the GSLV has carried. (Exam tag: All exams)
- Why EOS-05 matters: It is India's first dedicated imaging satellite working from geosynchronous orbit, carrying visible, infrared, multispectral and hyperspectral sensors for cyclone, flood, forest-fire and crop monitoring. (Exam tag: SSC / Railway / BPSC)
- Exercise Samudra Laksamana: INS Mysore concluded the fourth edition of the India-Malaysia naval exercise Samudra Laksamana at Lumut, Malaysia, per the Ministry of Defence release of 14 September. (Exam tag: Defence / SSC / All exams)
- Two more defence notes: Sail training ship INS Sudarshini completed a port call at Barcelona, Spain, and the Indian Air Force held Dronathon 2026. (Exam tag: Defence / SSC)
Bihar and Jharkhand Special
This is the section most national CA channels skip, and it is exactly where BPSC, BSSC, JSSC and Bihar Police papers hunt for questions.
- BPSC TRE 4.0: The Bihar Public Service Commission has advertised 32,388 teacher posts under Advertisement No. 14/2026, with Class 11-12 taking the largest share at 16,101 posts, followed by Class 6-8 at 8,563, Class 9-10 at 3,877 and Class 1-5 at 3,847. (Exam tag: BPSC / BTET / TET)
- TRE 4.0 exam shape: The paper carries 150 questions for 150 marks in 2 hours with a one-third negative marking rule, and the application fee is ₹100. Check the exact application window on bpsc.bih.nic.in before you pay, because the start date has already been revised once. (Exam tag: BPSC / TET)
- BPSC 72nd CCE: Vacancies for the 72nd Combined Competitive Examination were revised down to 1,187 posts, and a corrigendum dated 4 September 2026 cut Police DySP posts under the Home Department from 22 to 20. (Exam tag: BPSC)
- Bihar Police Constable Operator: The Central Selection Board of Constable ran the written exam for 993 posts on 28 June 2026, with selected candidates placed in Pay Level 3, ₹21,700 to ₹69,100. (Exam tag: Bihar Police / BSSC)
- Jharkhand cancels 44 exams: The Jharkhand government cancelled 44 recruitment examinations held since 2014 through eight notifications on 19 August 2026, citing irregularities involving JPSC, JSSC and the outsourced agency TDPL. (Exam tag: JSSC / JPSC)
- What follows the cancellation: The state asked the High Court for a fast-track court on JPSC-JSSC irregularities, set up an internal vigilance cell, and gave a reform committee under IAS officer Amitabh Kaushal two months to report. (Exam tag: JSSC / JPSC)
- JPSC age relief: For the 14th JPSC examination the age cut-off date was moved back to 2022 from 1 August 2026, a partial win for aspirants who had demanded 2018. (Exam tag: JPSC / JSSC)
- Jharkhand loses a minister: Sudivya Kumar, JMM MLA from Giridih and minister for Higher and Technical Education, Urban Development, Tourism and Sports, died of cardiac arrest on 6 September 2026 at 56, and the state observed two days of mourning. (Exam tag: JSSC / JPSC / JTET)
Important Days
One honest caveat before you memorise the Important Days table: official 2026 themes for Engineers' Day and World Ozone Day were not confirmed on any government page at the time of writing, so learn the dates and the founding facts, not a theme line you saw on a WhatsApp forward.
Final Word
If you have to pick two items from today for a revision card, pick the BRICS numbers and the two inflation prints. Summit venues, themes and declaration names show up in SSC and Railway GK almost every cycle, and the WPI-versus-CPI gap is a favourite of banking paper setters because the gap itself tells a story: wholesale prices at 9.92 per cent against retail at 4.82 per cent means producers are absorbing a lot of the pain right now.
For Bihar and Jharkhand aspirants there is a practical job attached to today's news. Open bpsc.bih.nic.in and confirm the TRE 4.0 application window yourself, because two aggregator sites are carrying different start dates and only the commission's own notice settles it. If you are a JPSC aspirant, the 2022 age cut-off changes who is eligible, so recheck your own date before you build a study plan around the 14th examination.
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