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- After the India AI Impact Summit 2026, plans were announced for the next global AI summits in Geneva (2027) and the UAE in 2028.
- Rob Jetten became the youngest Prime Minister of the Netherlands at the age of 38.
- Nidhi Chhibber has taken additional charge as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NITI Aayog after BVR Subrahmanyam completed his three-year tenure on February 24, 2026.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi became the first Indian Prime Minister to address the Knesset Plenum (Parliament of Israel) during his two-day visit to Israel.
- Amaravati in Andhra Pradesh will host India’s first Quantum Valley under the National Quantum Mission.
- Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan has released the updated Tamil and Gujarati editions of the Constitution of India at Uprashtrapati Bhavan.
- The Indian Army and the United States Army are conducting the 16th edition of Exercise Vajra Prahar from 23 February to 15 March 2026 at Bakloh in Himachal Pradesh.
- The Government of India has launched the Access Pass for Fishing in India’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ – Exclusive Economic Zone) at Veraval, Gujarat.
- NPCI extended the ‘UPI One World’ wallet service to visitors from over 40 countries attending the India AI Impact Summit 2026.
- The facility allows foreign travellers to make Person-to-Merchant (P2M – Person to Merchant) payments using UPI without an Indian bank account.
- China is the largest producer of bell pepper (capsicum) in the world.
- In India, Karnataka is one of the largest producers, especially in Kolar and Bengaluru Rural districts, and other major producing states in India include Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh.
- The World Health Organization has prequalified an additional Novel Oral Polio Vaccine Type 2 (nOPV2) to combat circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2).
- The Government of Tamil Nadu has appointed retired IAS officer Atulya Misra and retired IPS officer Abhay Kumar Singh as State Information Commissioners in the Tamil Nadu Information Commission.
- The State government had increased the number of State Information Commissioners from six to eight in December last year.
- The Chief Minister inaugurated the statue of freedom fighter and Congress leader Ponnappa Nadar in Nagercoil.
- The statue recognises his role, along with Marshall Nesamani, in the merger of Kanniyakumari district with Tamil Nadu.
- World Peace and Understanding Day is celebrated every year on 23 February to promote global peace, ethical leadership, and international cooperation, and it marks the first meeting of Rotary International held in Chicago in 1905.
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