UPSC Current Affairs 17 February 2026 — The Hindu
Editorial
- India’s federalism is in need of a structural reset
- Can India overtake Bangladesh in EU textile exports?
- A separate classification for denotified tribes
- A budgetary signal as banks cannot bear it all
- Transitioning to green steel
- How district cooling can ease India’s climate and urban planning troubles
- letters to the editor
National
- Constitution Bench to hear pleas against DPDP Act
- SC dismisses pleas against Himanta’s ‘hate speech’, video
- EC suspends seven Bengal officials for ‘serious misconduct’
- India’s flagship AI summit opens to massive crowds; matter of pride, says Modi
- AI Summit important for cooperation to unlock potential: U.K.
- BJP ignoring injustice faced by gig workers, says Rahul Gandhi
- J&K plans to harness river waters as IWT is in abeyance
- U.S. trade deal ‘mortgages’ farmer interests, energy security, says Cong.
- ‘Advance of AI creating a governance responsibility’
- SC to take a fresh look at pleas on ex post facto eco clearance regime
- ED imposes ₹184 cr. fine on NewsClick, its founder
Business
- January trade deficit widens before U.S. tariff relief kicks in
- NCLT panel to assess progress of Jaypee Infratech projects
- ‘CIL spent ₹961 crore in ongoing fiscal year as capex on solar’
- NSE gets SEBI nod for natural gas futures
- Winter economy emerges poster child for China’s stimulus tilt to services
Foreign
- BNP’s Tarique Rahman to be sworn in as Bangladesh Prime Minister today
- Remittance-dependent Nepal ‘addicted’ to the trade in its own citizens abroad
- Nepal launches campaigns for first post-uprising parliamentary polls
- U.S. military sets new milestone with air transport of mini nuclear reactor