🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS – 17 FEB 2026

🔆 BANKING & FINANCE

📍 UPI One World Wallet
✅ Launched by NPCI for foreign visitors at India–AI Impact Summit 2026
✅ Enables P2M UPI payments without Indian mobile/bank account

📍 Wholesale Inflation (WPI)
✅ January 2026: 1.81% (10-month high)
📍 Food inflation: 1.4%
📍 Core inflation: 3.2%
📍 Base year: 2011–12

🔆 INTERNATIONAL

📍 SING Submarine Cable
✅ UAE-based du partners Datawave Networks
📍 Connects: UAE–Oman–India–Malaysia–Singapore
📅 Ready for Service: 2030

🔆 NATIONAL

📍 India–AI Impact Summit 2026
🗓 16–20 Feb | 📍 Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi
🌍 First global AI summit in Global South
🎯 Theme: “Democratizing AI, Bridging the AI Divide”
📍 3 Sutras: People | Planet | Progress
📍 7 Chakras: Human Capital, Science, Resilience, Innovation, Inclusion, Growth, Safe AI
📍 Flagship Challenges:
➡ AI for ALL (₹2.5 cr)
➡ AI by HER (₹2.5 cr)
➡ YUVAi (₹85 lakh)

📍 Ol Chiki Script – 100 Years
✅ President Droupadi Murmu inaugurated centenary event
📍 Invented in 1925 by Raghunath Murmu
📍 Coin & Stamp released

📍 Health AI Initiatives
✅ SAHI – Strategy for AI in Healthcare
✅ BODH – AI benchmarking platform (IIT Kanpur + NHA)
📍 Under Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission

📍 Bharat-VISTAAR (AI for Farmers)
✅ AI-powered digital agriculture DPI
📍 Services: Weather, MSP, Pest alerts, Schemes
📍 Voice-first | Multi-language rollout

📍 ISB Ranking
✅ ISB ranked #12 globally (FT MBA 2026)
✅ #1 India | #2 Asia

📍 CBDC-based PDS (Gujarat)
✅ e₹ powered PDS pilot
📍 Digital token-based ration system
📍 Annapurti Grain ATM: 25 kg in 35 seconds

📍 Dam Safety Conference 2026
📍 Focus: Climate resilience, DRIP, Dam Safety Act 2021

🔆 DEFENCE

📍 Exercise MILAN 2026
🗓 15–25 Feb | 📍 Visakhapatnam
🎯 Theme: Camaraderie, Cooperation, Collaboration
📍 Includes IFR 2026 & IONS Conclave

📍 BEL Missile Integration Facility
✅ Inaugurated by Rajnath Singh
✅ Akash regiments flagged off
✅ AI CoE (Pune) launched

📍 HAMMER Missile MoU
✅ India–France JV (BEL + Safran, 50-50)
📍 Precision-guided stand-off weapon
📍 Accuracy: 1–10 metres

🔆 MoUs

📍 CSIR-SERC & InSolare Energy
✅ Renewable energy tech validation

📍 IIT Madras–Finland
✅ ‘VAYYU’ Aerosol-Meteorology Research Centre
📍 CryoSCOPE (~€10 mn) | CO-ENHANCIN (~₹5 cr)

🔆 STATES

📍 UP – Cow Culture Museum
✅ India’s first national cow culture museum
📍 Mathura

🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS
✅ 79th Raising Day of Delhi Police – 16 Feb
✅ International Childhood
Cancer Day – 15 Feb

🔆 APPOINTMENTS
✅ Rajan Bajaj – MD & CEO, Slice SFB

🔆 OBITUARIES
✅ Geeta Patnaik (Odia Singer)
✅ David J. Farber (“Grandfather of the Internet”)

🔆 SPORTS

📍 Winter Olympics 2026
✅ Lucas Pinheiro Braathen – Brazil’s first Winter Olympic medal

📍 FIDE Freestyle World Championship
✅ Magnus Carlsen crowned Champion (21st world title)

📍 Johannes Klaebo
✅ 9th Olympic gold (Cross-country skiing record)

📍 BWF Para World Championships
✅ Pramod Bhagat wins 4th consecutive SL3 gold
🏆 6th overall world title

#CurrentAffairs

🔆 Republic of Korea (South Korea) 🇰🇷
Capital: Seoul

📍 News Context
✅ India and South Korea held the 6th Foreign Policy and Security Dialogue (FPSD).
✅ Reaffirmed their Special Strategic Partnership.

📍 Political Features
✅ Location: East Asian country occupying the southern Korean Peninsula.
✅ Boundary: Shares land border with North Korea (north).
✅ 38° North Latitude (38th Parallel) separates the two Koreas.
✅ Maritime Boundaries:
✅ East Sea / Sea of Japan (East)
✅ East China Sea (South)
✅ Yellow Sea (West)
✅ Separated from Japan’s Tsushima Island by the Korea Strait (Southeast).

📍 Geographical Features
✅ Strait: Korean Strait (separates South Korea from Japan in the southeast).
✅ Highest Peak: Mount Halla (on Jeju Island).
✅ Major Rivers: Han, Geum, Nakdong.

📍 Strategic Significance
✅ Located in a geopolitically sensitive region of East Asia.
✅ Key player in Indo-Pacific security architecture.
✅ Important partner for India in defence, trade & technology cooperation.

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Rajasthan’s Coaching Centre Bill 2025
✅ Passed on 3 Sept 2025; regulates centres with 100+ students.
✅ Mandates registration, counselling systems, fee transparency, & 5-hour class limit.
✅ Penalty: ₹50,000 (1st offence), ₹2 lakh (2nd); Authority to oversee compliance.

Forum for India–Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC)
✅ Established in 2014 (PM’s visit to Fiji); includes 14 Pacific Island Nations.
✅ 3rd Summit held in Papua New Guinea (2023).
✅ Aim: Deepen ties in energy, health, technology, blue economy, & counter China’s Indo-Pacific influence.

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🔆 Revolutionary Activities (Phase: 1907–17)

📍 The Anushilan Samiti (1902) – Bengal
✅ Founded by Promotha Mitter; included Jatindranath Banerjee & Barindra Kumar Ghosh
✅ Published Yugantar & Sandhya Prakash
✅ Promoted Swadeshi dacoities, physical training & moral education

📍 Attempt on Sir Fuller’s Life (1907) – Bengal
✅ Attempt by Yugantar on Lt. Governor Fuller
✅ Fuller later resigned

📍 Muzaffarpur / Alipore Conspiracy Case (1908) – Bengal
✅ Prafulla Chaki & Khudiram Bose targeted Magistrate Kingsford
✅ Aurobindo Ghosh acquitted
✅ Khudiram Bose executed; Barindra Ghosh given life imprisonment

📍 Barrah Dacoity (1908) – Bengal
✅ Conducted by Dacca Anushilan under Pulin Das to fund revolution

📍 Delhi Conspiracy Case (1912) – Delhi
✅ Rash Behari Bose & Sachindra Sanyal attempted assassination of Viceroy Hardinge
✅ Bomb thrown at Viceroy’s procession

📍 German Plot / Zimmermann Plan (1916–17) – Bengal
✅ Led by Jatindranath Mukherjee (Bagha Jatin) & Yugantar
✅ Planned German arms import during WWI
✅ Used Swadeshi & boat dacoities for funds

📍 Ramosi Peasant Force (1879) – Maharashtra
✅ Organised by Vasudev Balwant Phadke against British rule

📍 Chapekar Brothers Case (1897) – Maharashtra
✅ Damodar & Balkrishna assassinated Plague Commissioner Rand & Lt. Ayerst

📍 Mitra Mela (1899) – Maharashtra
✅ Founded by V.D. Savarkar
✅ Later merged with Abhinav Bharat

📍 Killing of A.M.T. Jackson (1909) – Maharashtra
✅ Anant Laxman Kanhere assassinated Collector Jackson
✅ Led to Kanhere’s execution & Savarkar’s imprisonment

📍 Punjab Extremism – Punjab
✅ Initiated by Lala Lajpat Rai
✅ Leaders included Lala Hardayal & Bhai Parmanand
✅ Turned militant after British repression

📍 Assassination of Robert Ashe (1911) – Madras
✅ Vanchi Iyer killed District Collector Ashe

📍 Bharat Swashasan Samiti / Indian Home Rule Society (1905) – London
✅ Founded by Shyamji Krishnavarma
✅ Associated with Savarkar & Hardayal
✅ Published The Indian Sociologist

📍 Assassination of Curzon-Wyllie (1909) – London
✅ Madanlal Dhingra shot Curzon-Wyllie

📍 Ghadar Party (1913) – San Francisco
✅ Founded by Sohan Singh Bhakna, Lala Hardayal, Kartar Singh Sarabha
✅ Aimed at all-India uprising with German support in WWI
✅ Promoted anti-imperialist literature & armed rebellion

📍 Berlin Committee (1915) – Germany
✅ Led by Virendranath Chattopadhyaya & others under Zimmermann Plan
✅ Planned rebellion & foreign invasion of British India

📍 Missions to Kabul, Persia, Turkey
✅ Led by Raja Mahendra Pratap, Barkatullah & Obeidullah Sindhi
✅ Tried forming Provisional Government of India in Kabul

📍 Singapore Mutiny (15 Feb 1915) – Singapore
✅ Led by Jamadar Chisti Khan & others (5th Light Infantry)
✅ Suppressed; resulted in executions & life sentences

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🔆 Key Technologies for Platform Sharing

📍 Network Slicing
✅ Enables Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to create multiple virtual networks over a shared physical infrastructure
✅ Provides customized services for different user segments
✅ Enhances efficiency and optimized resource utilization

📍 Shared Spectrum
✅ Allows MNOs to share spectrum resources
✅ Improves network capacity
✅ Reduces operational and infrastructure costs

📍 O-RAN (Open Radio Access Network)
✅ Open and modular network architecture
✅ Ensures interoperability and vendor flexibility
✅ Supports platform sharing by separating hardware and software components

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#science_and_technology

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🔆 Rogue Planet

✅ Definition: A planetary body ejected from its original system, drifting freely in interstellar space without orbiting a star.
✅ Origin: Usually expelled during the early chaotic stages of planetary system formation or later due to orbital instabilities.
✅ Orbit: No parent star — moves independently through space.
✅ Significance: Offers insights into planet formation, system dynamics, and interstellar matter interactions.

#Science_and_Technology #cse

🔆 Suicide in India – Key Highlights (NCRB Report)

📍 Trends & Statistics
✅ Overall Increase: Reported suicides rose by 0.3% in 2023 (vs 2022), though rate declined by 0.8%.
✅ Highest Suicide Rate: Andaman & Nicobar Islands > Sikkim > Kerala.
✅ High Suicide States (by share): Maharashtra > Tamil Nadu > Madhya Pradesh > Karnataka > West Bengal.
✅ Urban vs Rural: Cities record higher suicide rates than the national average.
✅ Gender Ratio: Male : Female = 72.8 : 27.2.

📍 Farmer Suicides
✅ 10,786 deaths (6.3% of total suicides).
✅ Zero reported in: West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa.

📍 Government Initiatives
✅ National Suicide Prevention Strategy (2022): Reduce suicides by 10% by 2030.
✅ Tele-MANAS: 24×7 free tele-mental health helpline.
✅ National Mental Health Programme (NMHP): Decentralized mental healthcare.
✅ Manodarpan (MoE): Psychosocial support for students, teachers & families.

#social_issue #society #mains

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🔆 Malwa School of Painting – Key Manuscripts

📍 Nimat Nama Manuscript (Cookery Book)
✅ Reflects a new trend of painting in Malwa.
✅ Started during the reign of Ghiyasuddin Khilji of Malwa (1469–1500 AD).
✅ Known for courtly life depictions with Persian influence.

📍 “Kulhadar Group” (Early 16th Century)
✅ Includes illustrations of texts like:
✅ Chaurapanchashika
✅ Gita Govinda
✅ Bhagavata Purana
✅ Ragamala
✅ Represents early regional manuscript painting traditions.

📍 Laur Chanda Manuscripts (1530–1540 AD)
✅ Avadhi romance written by Mulla Daud.
✅ Two illustrated manuscripts survive.
✅ Show a blend of Persian and Indian artistic

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🔆 Vibrant Village Programme (VVP)

📍 Recent Update
✅ Phase-II to be launched on 20 February 2025 from Cachar district, Assam by the Union Home Minister.

📍 Aim
✅ Saturate villages in identified border blocks across 4 thematic areas:
✅ All-weather road connectivity
✅ Telecom connectivity
✅ Television connectivity
✅ Electrification (through scheme convergence)

📍 Phases of VVP

✅ VVP-I (2023)
📌 Centrally Sponsored Scheme
📌 Covered select villages adjoining the northern border

✅ VVP-II (2025)
📌 Central Sector Scheme
📌 Covers villages along international land borders of 15 States and 2 UTs
📌 Excludes northern border areas already covered under VVP-I

📍 Core Objective
✅ Ensure prosperous & secure borders
✅ Control trans-border crime
✅ Integrate border population with the nation
✅ Enable residents to act as the “eyes and ears” of border guarding forces
✅ Strengthen internal security

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