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India among top 3 AI superpowers: PM sets the target
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REPRESENTS atransformative opportunity in India’s journey towards Viksit Bharat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said as the country is organising the AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi.
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February 18, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
India-US trade deal protects farmer interest: Chouhan
THE INDIA-US TRADE deal was finalised after careful consideration, and the government ensured it would not harm the farming community, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Tuesday.
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February 18, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
NBFCs favour ceiling on gold loans for businesses
NON-BANKING FINANCIAL COMPANIES (NBFCs) have approached the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to consider capping the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio of gold loans being offered to businesses.
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February 18, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Taking regional stories global
THIS IS THE age when stories are traveling faster than ever, and regional cinema has finally found its moment to shine on the world stage.
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February 18, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Infy, Anthropic join forces to build custom AI agents
TIE-UP LOOKS TO UPGRADE ENTERPRISE OPERATING MODELS
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February 18, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Indices gain on rise in IT, bank stocks
THE EQUITY INDICES closed higher for the second straight session on Tuesday, driven by gains in bank, IT and capital goods shares.
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February 18, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
EPFO meet on March 2 to decide FY26 interest rates
THE EMPLOYEES' PROVIDENT Fund Organisation (EPFO) is holding a crucial meeting on March 2 to finalise the interest rate on Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) deposits for FY26.
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February 18, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Adani plans $100-bn AI data centres
ADANI GROUP ON Tuesday announced a $100-billion investment to build renewable energy-powered, artificial intelligence-ready data centres by 2035, a move aimed at positioning India as a global AI hub.
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February 18, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson dies at 84
CHARISMATIC US CIVIL rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died at age 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday.
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February 18, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Iran says progress made in nuclear talks with US
TEHRAN TO OFFER DETAILED PROPOSALS WITHIN TWO WEEKS
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February 18, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
14 FORMER CAPTAINS MAKE WRITTEN APPEAL TO PAKISTAN GOVT Gavaskar, Kapil join cricket legends, seek justice for imprisoned Imran
INDIAN CRICKET GREATS Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev have joined 12 other former captains to express “deep concern’ about jailed cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan’s deteriorating health, urging the Pakistan government to provide him adequate medical attention and dignified conditions in line with international standards.
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February 18, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Consumer firms gear up for summer, stay cautious
IMD PREDICTS EARLY SUMMER HEAT FOR NORTH & WEST INDIA
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February 18, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
‘Exponential growth reason behind IPO’
CleanMax Enviro Energy Solutions, whose three-day initial public offering (IPO) opens for subscription next week, plans to utilise 75% of fresh issue proceeds for debt repayment.
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February 18, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Scoot boosts India capacity by 5% with larger aircraft
INDIA ACCOUNTED FOR a year-on-year capacity increase of about 5% for Scoot, as the Singapore Airlines Group’s low-cost carrier added seats on existing routes rather than launching new destinations.
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February 18, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Old meets new in FMCG as brands chase growth
Legacy firms work in tandem with D2C startups as consumer preferences shift
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February 18, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Toymaker Lego ramps up India footprint, plans 50 stores by '30
DANISH TOYMAKER LEGO plans to open 50 stores in India by 2030, ramping up investment in one of its fastest-growing Asian markets, as rising incomes and demand for screen-free play power growth, a senior executive said.
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February 18, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Hope to draw $200 bn in data centre investments: Vaishnaw
INDIA IS HOPING to attract as much as $200 billion in investments for data centres over the next few years as it aims to become a hub for artificial intelligence, Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday.
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February 18, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Iran is pursuing nuclear deal with US, says official
IRAN IS PURSUING a nuclear agreement with the US that delivers economic benefits for both sides, an Iranian diplomat was reported as saying on Sunday, days before a second round of talks between Tehran and Washington.
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February 16, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Rubio visits central Europe to bolster ties
ENERGY & DEFENCE COOPERATION DISCUSSED
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February 16, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Equity mutual funds deploy ₹13,706-cr cash in January
WITHTHE EQUITY indices logging a second consecutive month of fall and fewer new fund offer being launched in January, equity mutual fund schemes deployed ₹13,705.87 crore of their cash holdings, taking the total to ₹1.35 lakh crore, according to Prime Database monthly mutual fund tracker.
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February 16, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Close to the real thing
THERE IS NO DISTORTION EVEN AT HIGH VOLUME
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February 16, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Blackstone to invest $1.2 bn in AI cloud startup Neysa
DEAL TO COMPRISE $600 MILLION IN EQUITY
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February 16, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Making sovereign AI projects fail-proof
WITH NUMEROUS NATIONS scrambling to establish their own sovereign AI ecosystems, investing billions in infrastructure and cutting-edge models, one critical question surfaces—why do so many of these mega projects never reach production? Ruchir Puri, chief scientist and vice-president, IBM Research, shares three fundamental issues that most governments underestimate.
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February 16, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
'Summit will position AI as a development tool'
WHEN THE FOURTH edition of the AI Impact Summit opens at Bharat Mandapam on Monday — its first outing in the Global South — it will do so against a backdrop that is anything but placid.
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February 16, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
When AI and humans work in tandem
FORMER GITHUB CEO Thomas Dohmke has raised $60 million for a company that makes developer tools aiming to better merge the efforts of human programmers and AI coding applications.
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February 16, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Look at NHAT’s InvIT IPO for regular income flow
AS LONG-TERM INVESTMENT VEHICLES, INvITs TYPICALLY OFFER 9-12% RETURNS
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February 16, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Religare announces demerger to unlock shareholder value
BURMAN FAMILY-BACKED RELIGARE Enterprises (REL) has approved a plan to demerge its financial services and insurance businesses into two separately listed entities, in a move aimed at unlocking shareholder value and sharpening strategic focus.
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February 16, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Turning capability into impact
HOW INDIA CAN DO FOR AI ADOPTION WHAT UPI DID FOR PAYMENTS
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February 16, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Critical illness rider: In sickness and in health
BATTLING A TERMINAL illness or a chronic disease is a traumatic experience for patients and the people closely associated to them.
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February 16, 2026
Financial Express Bengaluru
Budget push to carbon capture despite limited global headway
INDIA'S PUSH TO back carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) in the latest Union Budget has reignited a long-running global debate: can a technology that has struggled for over three decades finally deliver on its promise—or is it once again being asked to do more on paper than it has ever managed in reality?
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