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Current Affairs for Week 36 of 2026

Gloria Steinem dies at 92
The American writer, journalist and feminist died at her home in New York on 2 September. An icon of the second-wave feminist movement, she co-founded Ms. magazine in 1972 and reframed abortion as “reproductive freedom”. She visited India from the age of 22 and had just completed a memoir.
Source: The Hindu
Climate scientist Krishna AchutaRao dies at 62
The professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT Delhi, died on 4 September. His work established the degree to which observed climatic change can be attributed to human activity, and demonstrated a detectable human influence on temperature changes across Indian sub-regions.
Source: The Hindu
Nagarmal Bajoria, who contested nearly 300 elections, dies at 97
The Bhagalpur businessman, known for contesting close to 300 elections across the country, died at a Patna hospital on 3 September. He had campaigned against former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi in Rae Bareli and Rajiv Gandhi in Amethi.
Source: The Hindu (Patna edition)