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18 September 2026 Current Affairs: CORE Programme 2026

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The current affairs for 18 September 2026 cover 4 stories and 10 practice questions. The edition covers Defence, National, Summits & Conferences. Every fact is drawn from an official government release, and each article cites the release it came from. Candidates preparing for SSC, Banking, UPSC, Railway and State exams can use the one-liners below for a quick revision of the day.

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Top Headlines

  1. CORE Programme 2026: Tri-Service Review Ends in New Delhi
  2. Kathakali Festival Opens in Chennai: Three Schools, Three Nights
  3. HAL Delivers Tejas Trainers and Dhruv NG Helicopters
  4. NHRC Ends Fifth ITEC Human Rights Course for Global South

One-liner Current Affairs

  • The 2026 CORE Programme closed at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi
  • Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff put it together; the Centre for Joint Warfare Studies ran it
  • It lasted five days, from 14 to 18 September 2026
  • All three Services attended, along with the Defence, External Affairs and Home ministries
  • Participants settled on a Whole-of-Nation approach as the way to handle security
  • The seventeenth Kathakali festival has opened at Bharata Kalakshetra Auditorium, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai
  • The Kalakshetra Foundation hosts it, working under the Ministry of Culture
  • Performances run across three evenings, 18 to 20 September 2026
  • Sadanam Academy, Kerala Kalamandalam and Margi Theatre stage one production each
  • Rukmini Devi Arundale founded the Kalakshetra Foundation in 1936
  • HAL handed over two Tejas LCA twin-seat trainers at Final Operational Clearance standard to the Indian Air Force
  • Three HTT 40 basic trainers also went to the Air Force at the same ceremony
  • Pawan Hans Limited received four Dhruv helicopters of the Next Generation variant
  • The ceremony was held at Bengaluru in Karnataka on 18 September 2026
  • Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh and Civil Aviation Minister Shri K Rammohan Naidu attended
  • The fifth ITEC Executive Capacity Building Programme on human rights concluded in New Delhi
  • The NHRC of India organised it in partnership with the Ministry of External Affairs
  • It ran for six days, beginning on 14 September 2026
  • Thirty-eight senior functionaries attended from fourteen national human rights institutions
  • NHRC Chairperson Justice V. Ramasubramanian gave the valedictory address

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Today's MCQs

Q1.DefenceMedium

The CORE Programme 2026, which concluded at the Manekshaw Centre, was conducted by which body?

  1. A.Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
  2. B.Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS)
  3. C.National Defence College
  4. D.Defence Research and Development Organisation
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Correct answer: B. Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS)

According to the Ministry of Defence, the Combined Operational Review and Evaluation Programme 2026 was organised by Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff and conducted by CENJOWS, concluding at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi.

Q2.DefenceMedium

Officials from which three ministries took part in the CORE Programme 2026?

  1. A.Defence, Finance and Home Affairs
  2. B.Defence, External Affairs and Home Affairs
  3. C.Defence, External Affairs and Commerce
  4. D.Home Affairs, External Affairs and Science and Technology
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Correct answer: B. Defence, External Affairs and Home Affairs

The release states that the five-day programme brought together senior officers from the three Services along with officials from the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Home Affairs, for deliberations on contemporary and emerging national security challenges.

Q4.NationalMedium

What is the theme of the 17th Kathakali Festival organised by the Kalakshetra Foundation?

  1. A.Nritya Sangama - Confluence of Dance
  2. B.Kadha Rasa Sangama - Confluence of Essence of Stories
  3. C.Natya Parampara - Tradition of Theatre
  4. D.Raga Rasa Yatra - Journey of Melody
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Correct answer: B. Kadha Rasa Sangama - Confluence of Essence of Stories

The Ministry of Culture describes the three-day festival as being held on this theme, bringing together three prominent Kathakali institutions, namely Sadanam Academy, Kerala Kalamandalam and Margi Theatre, each of which presents one distinctive production.

Q8.Summits & ConferencesMedium

Who delivered the valedictory address at the fifth ITEC capacity-building programme on human rights?

  1. A.The Union Home Minister
  2. B.Justice V. Ramasubramanian, Chairperson, NHRC India
  3. C.The Chief Justice of India
  4. D.The Union Minister of External Affairs
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Correct answer: B. Justice V. Ramasubramanian, Chairperson, NHRC India

His theme was cooperation between human rights institutions across the Global South, and his argument was that these bodies improve by sharing experience openly, naming the problems they run into and treating their own mistakes as something to learn from.

Q10.Summits & ConferencesMedium

The ITEC programme on human rights was organised by the NHRC in partnership with which ministry?

  1. A.Ministry of Home Affairs
  2. B.Ministry of External Affairs
  3. C.Ministry of Law and Justice
  4. D.Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
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Correct answer: B. Ministry of External Affairs

That pairing is not incidental: the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation programme is a foreign policy instrument, used to offer training and expertise to officials of other developing countries, so a course aimed at human rights institutions abroad naturally runs through External Affairs.

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