✔ Agricultural exports
✔ Sugar sector economics
🔶 Sports & Global Achievements
✔ Magnus Carlsen → FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship
✔ Rashid Khan → First bowler with 700 T20 wickets
Prelims Tip:
Sports milestones are frequently tested as factual MCQs.
🔶 Banking, Finance & Regulation
Default Loss Guarantees (DLGs) Restored – RBI
Core Significance:
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Eases fintech–NBFC partnerships
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Reflects regulatory recalibration
Exam Angle:
✔ Credit risk-sharing mechanisms
✔ Digital lending ecosystem
NCDC Loans Classified as PSL
Why Important:
✔ Strengthens cooperative credit flow
✔ Expands Priority Sector Lending scope
RBI Penalties – ₹1.35 Crore
Relevance:
✔ Regulatory enforcement
✔ Supervisory discipline
CBDC-Based Digital Food Currency Pilot (PDS)
Historic Development:
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First CBDC-linked welfare distribution model
Exam Relevance:
✔ Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
✔ Welfare digitisation
✔ Financial innovation in governance
🔶 Technology, Telecom & Digital Economy
TRAI Revamped Apps
✔ TRAI DND → Spam control
✔ TRAI MySpeed → Telecom quality assessment
Exam Focus:
✔ Consumer protection in telecom
✔ Digital regulatory tools
SING Submarine Cable System
Why Important:
✔ Digital connectivity infrastructure
✔ Data traffic & global internet backbone
🔶 Defence, Strategic Affairs & Security
AUKUS Nuclear Submarine Facility – Australia
Strategic Importance:
✔ Indo-Pacific security dynamics
✔ Defence industrial capacity
US Micro Nuclear Reactor Air Transport
Exam Angle:
✔ Tactical nuclear deployment concepts
✔ Strategic technology demonstration
🔶 Space, Innovation & Research
GalaxEye – NSIL Partnership
Significance:
✔ Private space sector integration
✔ Commercialisation of satellite data
JNCASR Heat Transport Discovery
Why Important:
✔ Advances material science
✔ Fundamental physics research
🔶 Environment & Disaster Geography
Month: Current Affairs - February 18, 2026
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