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UPSC daily PIB summary — 09 September 2026

India is strengthening its mineral resource security through deep-sea exploration in the Central Indian Ocean Basin and expanding cooperative refund mechanisms.

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1 geography Deep Sea Mining India Critical Minerals Ministry of Earth Sciences and NIOT hosted an outreach workshop on deep-sea mining to secure India's supply of critical minerals. GS1 GS3

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2 polity CRCS Sahara Refund Portal Ministry of Cooperation restored the CRCS-Sahara Refund Portal to resume processing pending claims of cooperative depositors. GS2

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