✈ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. The India-AI Impact Summit 2026 is all set to get underway in New Delhi today. The five day Summit will be the first-ever global AI summit to be hosted in the Global South. World leaders from twenty nations are scheduled to attend the event.
2. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will represent India at the swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected government of Bangladesh led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairman Tarique Rahman in Dhaka on tuesday.
3. External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar held a conversation with Chairman of Munich Security Conference, Wolfgang Ischinger in Germany.
4. The 39th Surajkund International Self-Reliance Festival concluded yesterday with a grand and dignified ceremony in Surajkund, Faridabad. The festival, which began on the 31st of last month, celebrated India’s rich tradition of handicrafts, handlooms, and folk culture, drawing participants and visitors from across the country and abroad.
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🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
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1. The United States and Iran will hold a second round of talks over Tehran’s nuclear programme next week.
2. In Bangladesh, the Newly elected Members of Parliament and cabinet members are set to be sworn in on Tuesday, February 17, following the landslide victory of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in the 13th national election.
3. Indonesia’s military said up to 8,000 troops could be ready by the end of June for possible deployment to Gaza under U.S. President Donald Trump’s postwar reconstruction plan.
4. US military has boarded another oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean Sea.
