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117 stories for “Current” · February 2026
Clear filtersA total of 64 Parliamentary Friendship Groups have been set up in the 18th Lok Sabha to deepen ties with other countries. Three-term MP Shrikant Eknath Shinde became the youngest MP nominated to head a group, the India-I...
The Union Cabinet cleared the proposal to rename Kerala as 'Keralam', following a unanimous resolution of the Kerala Legislative Assembly. The President will send the Kerala (Alteration of Name) Bill, 2026, to the State...
B.V.R. Subrahmanyam finished his three-year term as Chief Executive Officer of NITI Aayog on 24 February 2026, and Nidhi Chhibber has taken additional charge of the post. NITI Aayog serves as the government's top policy...
To monitor the quality of National Highway projects, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has rolled out Mobile Quality Control Vans. They are being tried out first in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Karnataka and Odi...
The 16th edition of Vajra Prahar, a joint special forces exercise between the Indian Army and the US Army, is being held at Bakloh in Himachal Pradesh from 23 February to 15 March 2026. The exercise aims to improve inter...
A multilingual Hoysala inscription from the 12th century, during the reign of Narasimha I, was found at the Sri Mahalakshmi Temple in K. Bettahalli village, Pandavapura taluk, Mandya district, Karnataka. Carved in nine l...
Saundala village in Maharashtra passed a Gram Sabha resolution on 5 February 2026 declaring itself caste-free. Adopting the motto 'Aamchi jaat... manav' (My caste is humanity), the village guarantees equal access for all...
The Prime Minister announced that the statue of Edwin Lutyens, the British architect of Rashtrapati Bhavan, will be replaced by one of C. Rajagopalachari. Rajaji, born on 10 December 1878 in Salem, was the first and last...
India's leading cue sports player Pankaj Advani won the Liber Win Champions Cup 2026 and was appointed the Indian brand ambassador for Liber Win. Advani is a multiple world champion in billiards and snooker. The 100th Wo...
The Indian Navy launched 'Krishna', its first Cadet Training Ship designed and built in India, at the L&T Shipyard in Kattupalli near Chennai. The vessel will be used to train officer cadets at sea. Its construction in T...
The Ministry of Home Affairs released PRAHAAR, India's first national anti-terrorism policy. It identifies threats across water, land, air and cyberspace, including cross-border terrorism, global outfits such as Al-Qaeda...
The Prime Minister inaugurated India's first Namo Bharat Regional Rapid Transit System on the Delhi-Meerut corridor linking Delhi with Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. For the first time in the country, Namo Bharat and Metro tra...
