September 2026
54 engineering and technology stories from September 2026, newest first, dated by their source.
- US AI companies sign a voluntary safety accord at the White House
- US approves construction of its first commercial small modular reactor
- Flaw in official MCP Python SDK could leak OAuth credentials
- Nepal's Diploma Engineering Council Bill tabled in the House
- SpaceX Starship reaches orbit and deploys 26 Starlink satellites
- Two Citrix NetScaler zero-days exploited before a patch existed
- Pokhara airport gets its first daily international service
- India expects 45 to 50 GWh of grid batteries within two years
- World Bank lends $110 million to rebuild Sri Lanka roads after cyclone
- Ransomware at a Nepali data centre halts share trading for a day
- Nepal's NEA rules out winter load-shedding, plans 1,154 MW of imports
- China's 2026-2030 battery plan targets solid-state cells by 2030
- Sweden's hydrogen steel plant wins Google deal, then needs more cash
- OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half the previous price
- Kathmandu University and Heidelberg's computing centre sign an MoU
- Mercedes gets first access to ProLogium's Gen4 solid-state cells
- Fehmarnbelt immersed tunnel nears its first kilometre
- IonQ says one ordinary CPU can decode quantum errors in real time
- Nepal's NEA studies a bypass line to free 176 MW stranded by a lost substation
- Five million industrial robots now work in factories worldwide
- Diamer-Bhasha dam starts moving pozzolan for its RCC main dam
- Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 at lower prices
- Kathmandu road division launches an app to report road damage
- 3GPP Madrid meeting sets 6G groundwork for Release 21
- Gujarat opens new Gambhira bridge a year after deadly collapse
- Nepali IT firms pitch to European buyers on UK and Swiss roadshow
- Nepal Rastra Bank sets out a five-year fintech strategy
- Vega-C launches ESA's FLEX plant-glow satellite and Sentinel-3C
- Bangladesh approves mostly underground Dhaka metro Line 5 South
- PrismML squeezes a 27-billion-parameter model to 5.9 GB for laptops
- Nepal's UTL telecom licence lapses with about Rs 31 billion unpaid
- Odisha silicon carbide chip plant cleared for Rs 3,406 crore
- Himalayan rail line breaks through 10.8 km escape tunnel
- India's chip mission grows to $13.5 billion as plants start output
- IT firms make up two-thirds of new foreign investment pledges in Nepal
- Proxima Fusion plans a superconducting tape factory in Germany
- Fortera and MLC plan US plant turning lime-kiln CO2 into cement
- Java 27 turns on post-quantum TLS and makes G1 the default collector
- Rebuilding Nepal's flood-hit power system put at Rs 390 billion
- Clean hydrogen investment passes $130 billion, Hydrogen Council says
- IIT Mandi maps 2,076 glacial lakes in Himachal, flags nine as risky
- Nepal begins rewriting its school curriculum, with AI on the agenda
- Nepal's roads department turns to Bailey bridges on the Trishuli corridor
- Tokamak Energy runs superconducting fusion magnets at 13.7 tesla
- Holcim opens Czech calcined clay line to cut cement clinker
- Attacker used AI agents to break into 395 organisations via PaperCut
- Ncell uses low-orbit satellite links in Nuwakot where fibre was cut
- Nepal Army uses cargo drones to reach flood-cut villages
- UN agency warns AI data centres are outpacing power grids
- Kathmandu-Terai fast track's longest tunnel breaks through its first tube
- ISRO's GSLV places EOS-05 imaging satellite in geosynchronous orbit
- Microsoft fixes 960-plus flaws in its largest Patch Tuesday yet
- Experts say Nepal's Trishuli hydropower rebuilds need new design rules
- Google ships Gemini 3.8 Flash and a security-tuned variant