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370 stories for “Current Affairs” · February 2026
Clear filtersIndia and the United States have reached a major trade understanding to lower tariffs and expand two-way commerce. The US will reduce duties on Indian goods from 50% to roughly 18%. In return, India will buy around 100 b...
Andhra Pradesh has launched Pilloo AI, an accounting and billing app for micro, small and medium enterprises that works through voice. Users can raise invoices and log sales, payments and expenses by speaking. Artificial...
India and the League of Arab States issued the 2026 Delhi Declaration at the second India-Arab Foreign Ministers' Meeting in New Delhi, held ten years after the first such meeting in Bahrain. The declaration backed the A...
The 16th Finance Commission recommended grants of ₹9.47 lakh crore over five years, only for local bodies and disaster management, ending revenue deficit, sector-specific and State-specific grants. Local bodies get ₹7,91...
Chennai will host the World Seafood Congress (WSC) 2026, the first time the event is being held in India. WSC is a global forum on fisheries and aquaculture that meets every two years. It is being organised by the Intern...
The Economic Survey 2025-26 named Tamil Nadu the fastest-growing State economy, with 11.19% real growth in 2024-25. Growth was led by the secondary sector (13.43%), with manufacturing at 14.74%, over three times the nati...
Wings India 2026, a large civil aviation conference and exhibition, was held in Hyderabad. It was organised jointly by the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the Federation of Indian Ch...
A World Economic Forum white paper placed India eighth among 11 countries for artificial intelligence investment measured as a share of GDP. Between 2010 and 2024, India put roughly 1.2% to 1.8% of its 2024 GDP into AI....
Sir Mark Tully, the former BBC journalist who headed its India bureau for 22 years, died in New Delhi. He reported on major events including the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, the Emergency of 1975 and Operation Blue St...
The Union Budget 2026-27 has a total outlay of ₹53.5 lakh crore and sets the fiscal deficit at 4.3% of GDP, down from 4.4% in 2025-26, with the revenue deficit at 1.5%. The debt-to-GDP ratio is projected to ease to 55.6%...
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced seven high-speed rail corridors in the Union Budget 2026-27: Mumbai-Pune, Pune-Hyderabad, Chennai-Bengaluru, Chennai-Hyderabad, Hyderabad-Bengaluru, Delhi-Varanasi and Varana...
The President approved Padma Awards 2026 for 13 people from Tamil Nadu: two Padma Bhushan and 11 Padma Shri. Padma Bhushan goes to S.K.M. Maeilanandhan, executive chairman of the Erode-based SKM Group, for social work, a...
