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India’s textile sector has been steadily losing ground in global export markets. In contrast, Bangladesh has woven together a remarkable export success. Given the recently signed India-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA), and with Bangladesh poised to lose its Least Developed Country (LDC) status, this is an opportune moment for India’s textile industry.Within the textile value chain, India’s exports to the EU remain concentrated in intermediate products — particularly yarns and fabrics — rather than in finished garments such as T-shirts, shirts, and trousers. Bangladesh’s exports far exceed India’s in two readymade garment categories in particular — knitted or crocheted garments…

Reserve Bank of India. File Picture | Photo Credit: Reuters Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has deferred the implementation of Unique Transaction Identifier (UTI) for all over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives to obtain a comprehensive view of the market to January 2027, the banking regulator said in a statement.“At present, all transactions in OTC markets for Rupee interest rate derivatives, forward contracts in Government securities, foreign currency derivatives, foreign currency interest rate derivatives, and credit derivatives are reported to the Trade Repository managed by Clearing Corporation of India Limited (CCIL-TR). It has now been decided to mandate UTI for all such transactions….The…

Passive human structures like roads and settlements sometimes reduced animal vigilance, an Indian Institute of Science release said. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Humans have climbed to the top of the food chain by skillfully hunting, trapping, and fishing for other animals at scales that far exceed other predators, altering how the animals behave and earning the tag of a “super-predator”. But a new study led by the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), suggests that there is a bit more nuance to this idea. While animals clearly respond with fear to humans who hunt or…

Amit Kore. | Photo Credit: File photo Amit Kore has been elected as the new chairman of the board of directors of Karnataka Lingayat Educational (KLE) Society. The 46-year-old industrialist is the son of Prabhakar Kore, who retired from the post of chairman after serving the society for nearly 42 years, in various capacities. Amit’s name was announced in a meeting of directors in Belagavi on February 20, after it was unanimously decided upon by them. Prabhakar was named the honorary executive president.“Amit has been serving as a member of the board of management of KLE Society since 2010. He…

Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy at a critical minerals summit of the industry body Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI). Photo: X/@kishanreddybjp India will commence production of rare-earth permanent magnet within this year, Union Minister for Mines G. Kishan Reddy stated Thursday (February 19, 2026). Rare-earth permanent magnets are among the strongest variant of magnets and utilised in electric vehicles, renewable energy installations, electronics, aerospace and defence. Essential to also note for context, the Union Cabinet had given its nod to a scheme for rare-earth permanent magnet manufacturing, worth 6,000 metric tons per annum, in November last…

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Sights from the Akkulam Glass bridge | Photo Credit: Nainu Oommen As I stood on the glass bridge at the Akkulam Tourist Village in Thiruvananthapuram, it felt like I was suspended in air with the Akkulam lake flowing 54 feet below me. While the structure boasts three 12-millimetre-thick laminated glass panels, an eerie feeling slowly crept within me as I listened to the gushing winds combined with the babbling reservoir.It is quite a climb to the glass bridge, scaling a spiral stairwell and passing through almost all the attractions inside the Village — from play areas to 12 D theatres.…

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay), have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that enables machines to interpret satellite and drone images using everyday language prompts, potentially transforming applications in disaster response, surveillance, urban planning, and agriculture. The model, called Adaptive Modality-guided Visual Grounding (AMVG), has been designed by a team led by Professor Biplab Banerjee from IIT Bombay’s Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering. Spotting a cat in a living room might be easy for artificial intelligence, but decoding complex, high-resolution satellite imagery based on natural language instructions has long been a challenge, said Shabnam Choudhury, lead…

India should never allow Donald Trump the illusion that he is in the driver’s seatOn February 2, 2026, US President Donald Trump suddenly announced that, after nearly a year of conflict with India, he had struck a deal with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “Our amazing relationship with India will be even stronger going forward. Prime Minister Modi and I are two people that GET THINGS DONE,” he wrote.Trump announced that he would lower tariffs on India from 25 to 18 per cent and bragged that not only did Modi reduce tariffs and other barriers against US products to zero, but…

In 1974, Antony Hewish won the physics Nobel Prize for discovering pulsars. His graduate student, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, had actually spotted the first one in the data; she’d also built parts of the telescope herself, analysed the charts, noticed the anomaly, and helped confirm that it was real. But she didn’t win the prize. At the time, the Nobel committees argued that Hewish had designed the telescope and directed the research programme. The fact that Bell Burnell’s eyes and judgment were the ones that caught the signal didn’t register as the decisive contribution. In fact, in the committee’s apparent view,…