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- India is hosting the inaugural United Nations Fellowship Training Programme on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) Control for the Asia-Pacific region in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, for the first time in Asia.
- Prime Minister inaugurated the world’s first commercial-scale Second-Generation (2G) bioethanol plant that uses bamboo as feedstock at Golaghat in Assam.
- The Bihar state cabinet approved the construction of a new international airport at Sonepur in Saran district.
- The 475-year-old Our Lady of Grace Cathedral in Vasai, Maharashtra, has won the Award of Merit at the 2025 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation.
- Japan’s lower house reappointed Sanae Takaichi as Prime Minister, making her Japan’s first woman PM after her landslide election win.
- Eight-year-old Ranvir Sachdeva became the youngest speaker at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.
- India’s Tata Group has partnered with OpenAI to build the country’s first large-scale AI data centre.
- The Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) under NITI Aayog launched AI-Preneurs of India, a coffee table book documenting 45 AI startups across 30+ sectors supported by Atal Incubation Centres.
- Losar Festival 2026 is celebrated from 18–20 February in McLeod Ganj, Himachal Pradesh, marking the Tibetan New Year and the start of the Fire Horse Year.
- Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister released the fourth volume of the comparative etymological dictionary of Tamil and Indo-European languages in Chennai.
- The fourth volume traces the historical development of words in Western Indo-European languages like Latin, Greek, German, French, English and Eastern languages like Sanskrit, Pali, and Sinhala from 19 Tamil root words.
- The Global AI Brain Race Report 2026 ranks the United States 1st in artificial intelligence (AI), followed by China (2nd) and Singapore (3rd).
- India ranks 6th, scoring 32/100, strong in talent readiness but weak in infrastructure and governance.
- Zomi National Day was celebrated on 20 February 2026 in the Churachandpur district of Manipur, marking its 78th celebration.
- The day aims to promote the unity and cultural identity of the Zomi community and was first observed in 1948 to mark the formation of the Zomi National Organization.
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