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Bhubaneswar: Shares of Infosys rose sharply on February 17, 2026, after the company announced a strategic collaboration with US-based artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, lifting sentiment across the technology sector. Infosys stock gained around 3%, trading near ₹1,407 per share, as investors welcomed the move to strengthen the company's artificial intelligence offerings. The rally helped push the Nifty IT index up by over 2%, with several frontline IT stocks trading higher. Under the part ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Women make up just 30 per cent of artificial intelligence professionals globally and hold only 16 per cent of AI research roles, UN Women said on Tuesday, warning that the gender gap in AI development is hardwiring bias into one of the world's most transformative technologies. Speaking after the launch of the AI Casebook on Gender and Agriculture as part of the AI Summit, UN Women Regional Director for Asia Pacific Christine Arab said the underrepresentation of women in AI is creatin ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 17 (PTI) Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' participation in the world's biggest AI summit became a topic of speculation on Tuesday, following conflicting reports. Government sources initially stated he would not attend, but a spokesperson for the Gates Foundation quickly contradicted to say he is indeed participating. Gates featured among the tech moguls, industry leaders, policymakers, founders, and technologists participating as speakers on the official website of the AI Impact ...Read More >
VMPL New Delhi [India], February 17: With Dubai actively building its strengths in the global context of its designation as one of the most dynamic business and investment destinations in the world, 2026 appears to be a pivotal year for entrepreneurs, corporate investors, and property purchasers. As government services are digitised through progressive regulatory changes, corporate tax systems are implemented, and the property business continues to grow, strategic planning is essential in recen ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], February 17 (ANI): The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) at the AI Impact Summit 2026 highlighted India's potential to become a central hub for global technological advancements. Speaking to ANI on the sidelines of the event, Anirban Mukherji, the Founder and CEO of miniOrange, a cybersecurity company, shared insights into the significance of the ongoing summit. He asserted that India is uniquely positioned to lead in this space due to its massive talent pool. Mukherji ...Read More >
MUMBAI, Feb 17: India is engaging with international partners more intensively and from a "position of strength", External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday, citing a string of recent trade agreements as evidence of the country's growing economic clout. In an address at the Global Economic Cooperation conference, Jaishankar highlighted the successful negotiation of several high-profile deals, including a significant trade pact with the United States. The Global Economic Cooperation ...Read More >
Jaipur: Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday launched Bharat-Vistaar app, saying that it marks the beginning of a digital revolution in agriculture. Through this AI-powered platform, farmers will gain timely and accurate access to a wide range of farming-related information, said Chouhan, the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. Launched nationally from the Pink City of Jaipur, Bharat-Vistaar will deliver comprehensive agricultural services to farmers through a unified ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 17 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday held wide-ranging talks with French President Emmanuel Macron to boost ties in key sectors such as trade, defence, energy and critical technologies. Macron landed in Mumbai early this morning on a three-day visit to attend the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi and meet PM Modi. After the talks with Modi, Macron will attend a ceremony to launch the India-France Year of Innovation. His visit comes days after India cleared a long-pendin ...Read More >
Delhi/Hyderabad, Feb 17 (Maxim News): Meerut Metro will be launched soon. It has been designed as the fastest metro line in the country. Now, you can travel from Meerut to Delhi in just 55 minutes. The train in the Meerut Metro corridor, which is being developed as the fastest metro service, will run at a speed of about 120 kilometers per hour. The 21-kilometer corridor will be opened by Prime Minister Modi on February 22. The train will run from Meerut South to Modipuram. There are a total of 1 ...Read More >
Kokrajhar (Assam) [India], February 17 (ANI): A massive fire broke out on Tuesday in an oil tanker on NH-27 in the Gossaigaon area of Assam's Kokrajhar district. Fire tenders arrived at the site of the incident and all efforts are being made to douse the fire. A thick plume of smoke is emerging from the site of the incident. Further details are awaited. On Monday, at least seven people were burned to death in a fire that broke out in a chemical factory in the Bhiwadi area of Rajasthan's Khairt ...Read More >
Kokrajhar (Assam) [India], February 17 (ANI): A massive fire broke out on Tuesday in an oil tanker on NH-27 in the Gossaigaon area of Assam's Kokrajhar district. Fire tenders arrived at the site of the incident and all efforts are being made to douse the fire. A thick plume of smoke is emerging from the site of the incident. Further details are awaited. Also Read | Maruti Suzuki e Vitara Launched: Check Price, Specifications, Features and Battery Rental Plan. On Monday, at least seven people ...Read More >
New Delhi, 17 February 2026: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, today convened policymakers, industry leaders, investors and innovators at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, reinforcing India's commitment to responsible, scalable and globally competitive artificial intelligence. As part of the Summit's programme, the Impact AI PitchFest -- supported by the Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association (IVCA) -- brought together AI ...Read More >
Guwahati, Feb 17 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said the state cabinet has approved the vote-on-account placed in the legislative Assembly for the initial months of the financial year 2026-27. The Cabinet also approved the release of entrepreneurship fund (seed capital) to an additional 1,07,532 eligible beneficiaries (SHG members) under the Mukhyamantri Mahila Udyamita Abhiyaan scheme, implemented by the Assam State Rural Livelihoods Mission Society, Sarma told repor ...Read More >
Celina Jaitly with her brother, Major (Retd.) Vikrant Kumar Jaitly File picture The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted time to the Centre and the Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi to apply diplomatic efforts with UAE authorities to free Major Vikrant Jaitly (retd), brother of actress Celina Jaitly. As per PTI, appearing before Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav, the Centre's counsel said the Indian Embassy had requested consular access to Vikrant Jaitly on February 13, but the request was denied. Th ...Read More >
Kolar: Gold mine district Kolar is set to witness a historic milestone with the inauguration of India's first Tata-Airbus mini helicopter Final Assembly Line (FAL) at Vemagal Industrial Area in Kolar taluk. The facility will be officially launched today at 4.20 pm by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron through a virtual ceremony. The event will also be attended in person by Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and French Defence Minister Catherine Vautrin at the Ve ...Read More >
Mumbai: Relatives of Ramdhani Yadav, who was killed after a portion of a parapet at a Metro rail construction site in Mulund collapsed on Saturday, collected his body from Rajawadi Hospital on Monday after accepting a compensation package of Rs. 39.5 lakh. The total compensation included Rs. 15 lakh from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and Rs. 24.5 lakh from Milan Road Buildtech, the subcontractor at the site engaged by the main contractor, Reliance-Astaldi, reporte ...Read More >
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], February 17 (ANI): Terming the visit of Bill Gates, Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as a significant moment for Andhra Pradesh, TDP MP Kesineni Sivanath (Chinni) on Tuesday said the engagement would give a major boost to the state's development initiatives. Speaking to reporters in Vijayawada, Sivanath said that Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and the Andhra Pradesh government are working in close coordination to promote g ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Almost 16 per cent of the world's AI talent is of Indian origin, giving India an edge in the global AI capability talent, a white paper showed on Tuesday, adding that India is projected to contribute nearly 20 per cent of incremental global GDP growth over the next 15 years. The white paper, launched at the 'India AI Impact Summit 2026' here, marks a strategic effort to shift the national AI narrative from a narrow focus on automation and displacement to one c ...Read More >
MUMBAI, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Global private equity investors such as KKR and Blackstone have a new investment hotspot in India: cricket. The Indian Premier League, the world's richest cricket league, counts Bollywood stars, Indian tycoons and spirits maker Diageo among its backers, but is now attracting major private equity firms with the prospect of rapidly rising revenues and profits and a large global viewership. The enterprise value of the league, colloquially known as the IPL, rose to a rec ...Read More >
MUMBAI: KRBL isn't just cooking rice, it's serving up a hearty profit platter even as some costs bubble over. The Delhi-based basmati giant reported consolidated profit after tax of Rs 169.97 crore for the quarter ended 31 December 2025, down slightly from Rs 172.11 crore a year earlier, despite a revenue dip. Revenue from operations stood at Rs 1,476.93 crore (down from Rs 1,681.90 crore), with other income Rs 24.62 crore, pushing total income to Rs 1,501.55 crore. Expenses totalled Rs 1,272.8 ...Read More >
Chennai, Feb 17 (PTI) Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Thangam Thenarasu on Tuesday presented a Rs 2.55 lakh crore interim budget (2026-27) for the poll-bound state that saw Rs 4,000 crore allocation for the DMK's flagship scheme of free bus travel for women. Out of the Rs 2,55,391 crore of sectoral allocations, a maximum of Rs 57,039 crore was earmarked for education and Rs 35,773 crore for urban development and Rs 22,090 crore for the health department. In the Interim Budget 2026-27, the governme ...Read More >
Gates is scheduled to reach the state secretariat in Amaravati in the morning. He will briefly meet IT Minister Nara Lokesh and Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan, along with the Chief Minister, news agency PTI reported. "Gates will visit Amaravati and hold discussions with Naidu on expanding cooperation in health and artificial intelligence initiatives," state Municipal Minister P. Narayana said on Sunday. Also read| TDP-led coalition rebuilding Andhra economy: CM Naidu Reportedly, the Chief ...Read More >
Sambalpur: In a major boost to youth employment and regional development, Sambalpur MP and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated a CII Model Career Centre (MCC) today. The centre aims to provide career guidance tailored to students' education and interests, along with modern skill training through various partners of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Addressing the gathering, Pradhan emphasised industrial collaboration and urged established companies like Bajaj and J ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 16 (PTI) National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on Monday said that 'UPI One World' wallet services will be available for international visitors attending the ongoing five-day India AI Impact Summit. Through this pilot initiative, inbound foreign travellers will be able to make secure and real-time Person-to-Merchant (P2M) UPI payments during their visit to India. Visitors can use the wallet service without an Indian mobile number or bank account. "The 'UPI One World' wa ...Read More >
Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala on Monday criticised the interim trade deal agreement between the United States and India alleging that the pact compromises India's farmers, energy security and national sovereignty. Surjewala's comments came after the US and India announced a framework for an Interim Agreement on reciprocal, mutually beneficial trade. Addressing a press briefing, Surjewala said, "Country's interest cannot be mortgaged for trade agreements," adding, "India's energy secu ...Read More >
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Bin Salman's pivot away from the West and towards the Qatar-Turkey-Pakistan 'Axis of Ikhwan' now obstructs IMEC quite seriously. Image: Reuters When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the India-Middle East Economic Corridor (IMEC) at the September 2023 G20 Summit in New Delhi, there was broad excitement for the new scheme's potential. India is the world's most populous state and fourth-largest economy and will likely overtake Germany to move up a notch before the end of the decade. The corr ...Read More >
Anthropic PBC is embedding its Agentic AI tools into Air India Ltd. amid a bevy of other Indian companies, as part of its push to tap into the world's largest internet population. That's a fresh challenge for the likes of Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. to Infosys Ltd. The airline, controlled by TCS owner Tata Group, is using Claude Code to create custom software faster and cheaper, as part of a broader push to use Agentic AI across its operations. "Our partnership with Anthropic PBC is pivotal ...Read More >
The project is expected to be launched during the latter part of 2026. Shriram Properties Ltd has bought a 4-acre land in Bengaluru to develop a housing project with an expected revenue of about Rs 600 crore. In a regulatory filing on Monday, the company informed that it has acquired a land parcel of about 4 acre on Sarjapur Main Road, South-East Bengaluru, through an outright purchase transaction. It would develop a premium high-rise residential project on the land parcel. "The proposed dev ...Read More >
Mumbai, Feb 13 (PTI) The rupee depreciated 8 paise to 90.69 against the US dollar in early trade on Friday, pressured by the strengthening of the American currency and a negative trend in domestic equities. Forex traders said a firm dollar limited the upside for emerging-market currencies including the rupee. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened at 90.69 against the US dollar, registering a fall of 8 paise over its previous close. On Thursday, the rupee appreciated 17 pa ...Read More >
Rajasthan Congress President Govind Singh Dotasra urged the government and the administration to take immediate action on the matter, where he also pointed to an earlier similar accident in Ajmer, where 16 people were killed after a chemical tanker overturned. At least seven people were charred to death in a fire that broke out in a chemical factory in the Bhiwadi area of Rajasthan's Khairthal-Tijara district on Monday, according to news agency ANI. Rajasthan Congress President Govind Singh Do ...Read More >
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