Asia Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Sat, 14 Feb 2026

• The Ministry of Women and Child Development held a National Conference on Safety of Women at Workplace (SHe-Box) at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 14 February 2026, where Union Minister Annpurna Devi launched the SHe-Box logo and a PoSH Voluntary Compliance Checklist.
• Union Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Dr Virendra Kumar inaugurated the 29th Divya Kala Mela, a fair of Divyang artisans and entrepreneurs, at the Exhibition Ground, Chandigarh, on 14 February 2026.
• The two-day Chintan Shivir of the Department of Financial Services (DFS), Ministry of Finance, held at Coorg, Karnataka, on 13–14 February 2026, concluded on 14 February.
• Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan paid homage on 14 February 2026 to the victims of the Coimbatore serial bomb blasts of 14 February 1998, calling them a dark and painful chapter in the nation's history.

Fri, 13 Feb 2026

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed his first files from Seva Teerth on 13 February 2026, approving the PM RAHAT scheme, doubling the Lakhpati Didi target to 6 crore, doubling the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund loan target to ₹2 lakh crore and approving Startup India Fund of Funds 2.0.
• The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the Urban Challenge Fund with Central Assistance of ₹1 lakh crore on 13 February 2026, expected to unlock ₹4 lakh crore of urban investment over five years.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the name and inaugurated Seva Teerth, the new complex housing the Prime Minister's Office, along with Kartavya Bhavan-1 & 2 in New Delhi on 13 February 2026.
• The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led by Tarique Rahman won a two-thirds majority in Bangladesh's parliamentary election, with results declared on 13 February 2026, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated him the same day.
• The Department of Posts released a set of eight commemorative postage stamps on 'Puppets of India' at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, on 13 February 2026.
• The Government of India approved the export of 25 lakh metric tonnes of wheat and an additional 5 LMT of wheat products on 13 February 2026, and allowed 5 LMT more sugar exports in the 2025-26 sugar season.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved three railway multitracking projects worth about ₹18,509 crore across Delhi, Haryana, Maharashtra and Karnataka on 13 February 2026, adding about 389 km to the network.
• Indian Coast Guard Director General Paramesh Sivamani inaugurated the Waterjet Production & Testing Facility of Marine Jet Power India in Goa on 13 February 2026, making India the third country after the US and South Korea to host such a facility.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved a ₹18,662 crore four-lane Gohpur–Numaligarh corridor in Assam, including a 15.79-km road-cum-rail tunnel under the Brahmaputra, on 13 February 2026.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved three national highway projects in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Telangana worth about ₹11,079 crore on 13 February 2026.
• World Radio Day was observed on 13 February 2026 on the theme 'Radio and Artificial Intelligence', and Prime Minister Narendra Modi called radio a trusted voice for people in remote villages and busy cities alike.
• Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla paid floral tributes to Sarojini Naidu in the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan on 13 February 2026, her birth anniversary.
• Union Minister Jitendra Singh announced the first national call of the ₹2,000 crore BIRAC–RDI Fund under the ₹1 lakh crore Research, Development and Innovation initiative in New Delhi on 13 February 2026.
• The Union Cabinet approved an 11.56-km extension of the Noida Metro from Sector 142 to Botanical Garden with eight elevated stations on 13 February 2026.

Thu, 12 Feb 2026

• The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released the first Consumer Price Index on the new base 2024=100 on 12 February 2026, showing retail inflation of 2.75% for January 2026.
• The Defence Acquisition Council chaired by Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh accorded Acceptance of Necessity to proposals worth about ₹3.60 lakh crore on 12 February 2026, including Multi Role Fighter Aircraft (Rafale) for the Indian Air Force.
• The Competition Commission of India imposed a penalty of ₹27.38 crore on Intel Corporation on 12 February 2026 for abusing its dominant position through an India-specific warranty policy on boxed microprocessors.
• The Union Government released over ₹3,324 crore as the second instalment of Fifteenth Finance Commission untied grants for 2025-26 to rural local bodies in Bihar, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal on 12 February 2026.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati on his birth anniversary on 12 February 2026, recalling his contributions to education, Indian culture and social reform.
• The National Productivity Council celebrated its 68th Foundation Day at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, on 12 February 2026, marking the start of National Productivity Week (12–18 February).
• The Indian Air Force concluded an in-situ air combat training exercise with the Royal Thai Air Force in the Indian Ocean Region on 12 February 2026, after four days of flying that began on 9 February.
• Union Coal and Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy launched the second tranche of Exploration Licence block auctions, covering 11 blocks of critical and deep-seated minerals in eight states, in New Delhi on 12 February 2026.
• The Ministry of Defence signed a ₹2,312 crore contract with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited's Transport Aircraft Division, Kanpur, for eight Dornier 228 aircraft for the Indian Coast Guard in New Delhi on 12 February 2026.
• An ICMR–National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis study, released by the Health Ministry on 12 February 2026, found that six-month all-oral BPaL and BPaLM regimens for drug-resistant TB are cost-effective in India.
• The Ministry of Earth Sciences and the Government of Puducherry signed an MoU on marine research, blue economy and coastal resilience in New Delhi on 12 February 2026.
• NITI Aayog's Frontier Tech Hub released a ten-year roadmap, 'Technology Services – Reimagination Ahead', on 12 February 2026, projecting that India's technology services sector can grow from about $265 billion to $750–850 billion by 2035.