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Former Army General Naravane confirms Penguin’s assertion that memoir is arsenic yet unpublished
Amidst a increasing parliamentary tempest implicit his book, Four Stars of Destiny, erstwhile Army Chief Gen. M. M. Naravane connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026) confirmed his publisher’s contention that the memoir has not been officially published. Penguin Random House India said it holds the sole publishing rights to Four Stars of Destiny and asserted that the publication has not gone into publication. Sharing the connection by PRHI connected societal media, Gen. Naravane said, “This is the presumption of the book”. Gen. Naravane’s clarification follows remarks by Congress person Rahul Gandhi, who earlier successful the time cited a December 2023 societal media station by General Naravane stating that the publication was “available now”, to antagonistic the publisher’s assertion that the memoir has not yet been published.
Bangladesh plans to displacement from Indian to U.S. cotton
Bangladesh will regenerate Indian fabric with U.S.-produced cotton arsenic a effect of the U.S.-Bangladesh commercialized woody that was inked connected Monday (February 9, 2026), said a spokesperson for the interim authorities successful Dhaka. Speaking to The Hindu exclusively, Shafiqul Alam, accusation advisor to Chief Adviser Mohammed Yunus, said the commercialized woody is simply a “game changer” that tin supply Bangladesh with greater entree to the U.S. market. Leading economist Professor Selim Jehan of BRAC University successful Dhaka said the woody has made Bangladesh’s fabric marketplace “attractive” for the U.S. but cautioned that Bangladesh should guarantee that the U.S. fabric is of precocious quality.
Label each photorealistic AI contented online, says Centre
The Union Government has notified amendments requiring photorealistic AI-generated content to beryllium prominently labelled and importantly shortening timelines for the takedown of amerciable material, including non-consensual deepfakes. The changes, nether the Information Technology Act, 2021, volition travel into unit connected February 20. Under the amended rules, societal media platforms volition present person betwixt 2 and 3 hours to region definite categories of unlawful content, a crisp simplification from the earlier 24-36 hr window. Content deemed amerciable by a tribunal oregon an “appropriate government” volition person to beryllium taken down wrong 3 hours, portion delicate content, featuring non-consensual nudity and deepfakes, indispensable beryllium removed wrong 2 hours.
Bharatiya Kisan Union opposes woody with U.S., to pain effigies of Modi, Trump
The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) has announced a bid of protests, including the burning of the effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United States President Donald Trump astatine each villages against the India-U.S. bilateral agreement. BKU person Rakesh Tikait told reporters successful Delhi connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026) that the Union Government had mislaid the spot of farmers and the commercialized agreements with the U.S. and the European Union would person far-reaching adverse impacts connected farmers. Mr. Tikait said a bid of caller argumentation announcements, specified arsenic the Seeds Bill and the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, were targeted against farmers
MHA sidesteps query connected Agniveers’ vocation progression
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026) evaded a effect to a pointed question from Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi successful Lok Sabha connected wherefore it—and not the Ministry of Defence—has been assigned the work of coordinating the vocation progression of Agniveers, contempt their work successful the equipped forces. Mr. Gandhi sought to cognize whether the MHA had been tasked with coordinating the post-service vocation progression of Agniveers, and whether the authorities had assessed imaginable overlap oregon coordination challenges betwixt the MHA and the Defence Ministry successful managing the modulation of ex-Agniveers. He besides asked for details of the circumstantial activities and programmes that the MHA would oversee for them.
Supreme Court asks ECI to see writ petitioner’s suggestions against excessive canvass expenditure
The Supreme Court connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026) asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to see suggestions made successful a writ petition to framework a modular operating process to trim predetermination expenditure. A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said the suggestions made by petitioner Prabhakar Deshpande were “worth consideration”. Mr. Deshpande, an IIT postgraduate and chemic engineer, had sought directions for the canvass sheet to formulate a program of enactment against erring candidates and to re-examine the headdress connected predetermination expenses to guarantee antiauthoritarian credibility.
Election Commission extends deadline for Bengal SIR hearings to February 14
The Election Commission of India connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026) extended the deadline for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearings successful West Bengal to February 14, 2026. The day for work of the last elector lists has been moved to February 28. This came aft the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal sent a ceremonial petition to the ECI for an hold connected February 7, citing pending work. The Supreme Court connected Monday (February 9, 2026) asked the ECI to widen the SIR deadlines by astatine slightest 1 week.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Lutnick acknowledges meetings with Epstein that contradict erstwhile claims
Under questioning from Democrats connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026), Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledged that helium had met with Jeffrey Epstein twice aft his 2008 condemnation for soliciting prostitution from a child, reversing Mr. Lutnick’s erstwhile assertion that helium had chopped ties with the precocious financier aft 2005. Mr. Lutnick erstwhile again downplayed his narration with the disgraced financier who was erstwhile his neighbour successful New York City arsenic helium was questioned by Democrats during a subcommittee proceeding of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He described their interaction arsenic a fistful of emails and a brace of meetings that were years apart. “I did not person immoderate narration with him. I hardly had thing to bash with him,” Mr. Lutnick told lawmakers.
U.S. to scrap ineligible cornerstone of clime regulations this week
U.S. President Donald Trump is acceptable this week to scrap a landmark technological finding that greenhouse gases jeopardise nationalist wellness by driving clime alteration — the bedrock of U.S. regulations to curb planet-warming pollution. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) past summertime projected reversing the alleged “endangerment finding” of 2009, successful the administration’s latest boost to the fossil substance industry. “On Thursday, President Trump volition beryllium joined by (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin to formalise the rescission of the 2009 Obama-era endangerment finding,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told a quality briefing Tuesday (February 10, 2026).
Bangladesh elections 2026: Will manus implicit powerfulness to elected authorities fast, says Yunus
The February 12 predetermination is not conscionable a regular governmental lawsuit but a infinitesimal erstwhile the radical of Bangladesh volition find the people of their corporate destiny, Chief Adviser of the interim authorities Muhammad Yunus said connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026). Mr. Yunus called for citizens to ballot successful favour of the fashionable referendum connected the ‘July Charter’ that volition bring important changes to the Constitution. “The task of the interim authorities volition extremity with the predetermination of a caller government. We volition instrumentality to our respective professions aft handing implicit powerfulness with joyousness and pride to the recently elected government,” said Mr. Yunus.
Bangladesh Hindu businessman, 62, hacked to decease days earlier polls
A Hindu businessman was brutally killed successful Bangladesh’s Mymensingh district, days earlier the state heads to the polls, a section media study said connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026). The incidental has erstwhile again raised concerns implicit the information of minorities successful the neighbouring country. The 62-year-old victim, Susen Chandra Sarkar, was hacked to decease wrong his store precocious connected Monday nighttime (February 9, 2026) astatine Bogar Bazar in Trishal Upazila. A nonmigratory of Southkanda village, Mr. Sarkar was the proprietor of Bhai Bhai Enterprise.
