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Financial Express Kochi
RIL arm inks deal with Nigerian group
RELIANCE CONSUMER PRODUCTS (RCPL), the FMCG arm of Reliance Industries, on Monday said it has signed a definitive agreement to form a majority-owned joint venture with Nigerian conglomerate Tropical General Investments Group.
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
US to cut reciprocal tariff this week: Commerce secy
INDIA’S CHIEF NEGOTIATOR TO VISIT THE US NEXT WEEK
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Exports of marine items increase 15% in Apr-Jan
DESPITE BEING HIT by the high US tariffs, India’ marine products exports increased by over 15% to $7.17 billion in April-January 2025-26, due to a huge surge in shipments to several new markets such as Vietnam and the European Union (EU), according to commerce ministry officials.
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
JSW MG lines up ₹4,000 cr to triple its India capacity
FIRM TO FUND INITIAL PHASE OF EXPANSION VIA INTERNAL ACCRUALS
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Akash Ambani showcases Jio's tech platforms
PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA Modi visited the Jio Intelligence Pavilion at the India AI Impact Summit 2026,where he reviewed a range of Al-powered models and solutions.
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Eurozone finance chiefs seek bigger role of euro
BENEFITS OF SINGLE CURRENCY
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Unesco flags governance, inclusion gaps in AI readiness
WHILE INDIA'S
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February 17, 2026
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Youth unemployment rate rises to 14.7% in January
Joblessness in urban areas at 7%
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
'Al is now driving early disease detection'
ANKIT MODI, FOUNDING MEMBER & CHIEF PRODUCTS OFFICER, QURE.AI
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Desi AI: A blueprint for leadership
ANTHROPIC'S RELEASE OF Claude Cowork and Claude Code triggered a sharp dip in Indian IT stocks, signalling a vastly changed technology ecosystem. India’s manpower-intensive services companies are clearly under threat from artificial intelligence (AI), anda transition to an intellectual property-driven future leveraging Alis now an existential necessity. When confronted in Davos recently with the label “second-tier AI power”, Union Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw gave a thoughtful riposte, laying out a layered AI taxonomy and arguing that leadership in many of the layers makes India decidedly not second tier. While this assertion is sound, the underlying anxiety is real—Indians aspire to a indigenous or desi AI that is an unequivocal global leader. The key question about realising this aspiration is not if the government should be involved, but how. We answer this through a careful examination of historical successes and failures in governance of technology development—from Tokyo to Washington, and from Centre For Development Of Telematics (C-DoT) to United Payments Interface (UPI).
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
‘Impact, not scale, will determine success in the AI era’
HARI SHETTY, CHIEF STRATEGIST & TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, WIPRO
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Govt to launch multilingual AI tool for farmers
THE GOVERNMENT WILL launch Bharat-VISTAAR (Virtually Integrated System to Access Agricultural Resources) on Tuesday, a multilingual AI tool to help farmers gain access toa virtual classroom to learn best agricultural practices including crop planning, pests advisory, weather forecast, mandi prices and about various schemes.
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Retailers expand but profit eludes many
STARK REALITY OF RETAIL
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Fractal Analytics shares decline 7% on debut
SHARES OF ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) solutions provider Fractal Analytics on Monday made a muted debut, closing with a discount of 7% against the issue price of $900.
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
TCS-AMD to take on Nvidia
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MAJOR Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and US-based chip-maker AMD will co-develop a rack-scale AI infrastructure design, based on the latter’s Helios platform, to support India’s national artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, the two companies announced on Monday.
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
IIFL Finance aims to hike overseas borrowing
IIFL FINANCE IS planning to increase its share of external commercial borrowings (ECBs) as part of diversification of funding sources.
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Retail mkt to more than double by 2035: BCG
ANEW REPORT by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) projects that the Indian retail market is set to more than double to ₹210-215 lakh crore by 2035.
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Musk is beating China's 203,000 paper satellites
IF ORBITAL SPACE is the 21st century’s high seas, China looks to be preparing an armada.
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Glittering growth for Titan
THE COMPANY IS FOCUSING ON LIGHTWEIGHT JEWELLERY
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Wholesale inflation rises to 10-mth high of 1.81% in Jan
INDIA'S WHOLESALE PRICE inflation rose to a 10-month high of 1.81% year-on-year in January, up from 0.83% in December, primarily due to increases in prices of basic metals, other manufactured goods, nonfood and food articles and textiles, according to data released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry on Monday.
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
‘Shared costs, targeted sops key to UPI, RuPay expansion’
THE LONG-TERM SUCCESS of UPI and RuPay cards depends on building a balanced ecosystem that supports all stakeholders and shares infrastructure costs to expand adoption and ensure inclusive, sustainable growth in digital payments, according to a study backed by the Department of Financial Services.
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Torrent to buy Nabha Power from L&T arm for ₹3,661 cr
NPL's divestment aligns with L&T’s strategic objective of unlocking value to strengthen our core biz
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Macro tailwinds lift HUL growth
THE FMCG MAJOR SEES STRONGER 2HFY26; FY27 GAIN TO ACCELERATE
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
AC-led surge to drive more than 20% of electricity growth by 2030
INDIA'S ELECTRICITY DEMAND story is increasingly being written by a simple household appliance—the air conditioner.
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
BharatGen all set to unveil foundation multilingual model
e@%1,235-crore model covers 22 Indian languages
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Why India-US deal on digital services tax remains elusive
As digital commerce reshapes the global economy, taxation has emerged as a thorny issue. The India-US bilateral trade negotiations signal not the end of digital taxation debates, but their transition into a more structured, negotiated and rule-based phase, writes Bipin Sapra
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Focus on fiscal stability
IT HAS NOT ADDRESSED HOW TO PREPARE INDUSTRY TO MAKE THE MOST OUT OF THE FTAs
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Brokerage stocks take a knock as RBI tightens lending norms
UNDER PRESSURE
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Germany gears up to ban social media for those under 16
GERMANY LOOKS POISED to introduce age restrictions on social media in a move likely to increase tensions with US President Donald Trump.
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February 17, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
IndiGo hired 71 pilots after disruptions till Feb 10: RTI
INDIGO HIRED 71 Airbus-certified pilots, including 31 captains and 40 first officers, between December 5, 2025, and February 10, 2026, after the airline came under regulatory scrutiny over widespread flight disruptions in December 2025.
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