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Air India to enhance services on key international routes

Financial Express Mumbai

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February 17, 2026

AIR INDIA ON Monday announced frequency enhancement as well as deployment of aircraft with retrofitted or upgraded cabin interiors on additional key international routes as part of 2026 Northern Summer Schedule.

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The airline said it will increase frequency on Delhi-Toronto routes from 7 times per week to 10 times, starting March 1,while from March 29 onwards, Delhi-Seoul (Incheon) frequency will be increases from five times a week to six times, and the newly launched Delhi-Shanghai flights services will be increased to five times a week from four times, thereby adding 2,048 seats on each of the routes every month, it said.

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Banks prepare €4-billion debt sale for BASF coatings buyout

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Bring urea under nutrient-based subsidy, urges fertiliser industry

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February 17, 2026

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Motilal Oswal Alternates closes ₹8,500-cr fund

MOTILAL OSWALALTERNATE on Monday announced raising ₹8,500 crore from private equity investors, and the fund will be deployed as growth capital across companies.

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SEAT AT FRONTIER TECH’S HIGH TABLE

AI adoption, job creation must go together: CEA

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February 17, 2026

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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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India a huge playground, says Anthropic CEO

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February 17, 2026

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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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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 Mumbai

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

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