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UPSC daily PIB summary — 13 September 2026

India hosted the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, adopting the New Delhi Declaration while advancing indigenous steel slag infrastructure technologies and Digital Public Infrastructure for multi-lingual AI.

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1 science_technology Steel Slag Road Technology CSIR CRRI CSIR-Central Road Research Institute (CSIR-CRRI) and Jindal Steel earned a Guinness World Record for the longest road built with processed steel slag aggregates (1.85 km) in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh. GS3

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2 science_technology Digital India BHASHINI Shrutlekh MeitY CEO of Digital India BHASHINI Division highlighted language technology as Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) at IIM Calcutta's Lattice 2026. GS2 GS3

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3 polity BOCW Act Welfare Boards Construction Workers Ministry of Labour & Employment organized the National Conference on Building and Other Construction Workers (BOCW) in Mumbai. GS2

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