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Trump signs 10% planetary tariff aft stinging U.S Supreme Court rebuke
President Donald Trump connected Friday (February 20, 2026) to signed a 10% tariff ‘on each Countries’ aft the Supreme Court handed him a stinging rebuke by striking down his signature economical policy. The conservative-majority apical tribunal ruled six-three that a 1977 instrumentality known arsenic the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) Mr. Trump has relied connected “does not authorize the president to enforce tariffs.”
Amid SIR exercise, Home Ministry notifies different sheet to wide pending CAA applications successful West Bengal
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) connected Friday (February 20, 2026) notified different empowered committee comprising Census, postal and Intelligence Bureau (IB) officials successful West Bengal to fast-track hundreds of pending citizenship applications nether the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) amid the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful the State.
Supreme Court asks judicial officers to beryllium deployed for West Bengal SIR
The Supreme Court connected Friday (February 20, 2026) took an “extraordinary” determination to involve the judiciary successful the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful West Bengal, saying the persistent “trust deficit” betwixt the Mamata Banerjee authorities and the Election Commission (EC) has led to a “stalemate”, with clip moving out.
‘They’ll beryllium paying tariffs, and we volition not beryllium paying tariffs’: Trump says nary changes to India-U.S. woody station tribunal ruling
U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed that determination were no changes to the parameters of the U.S.-India trade woody announced connected February 2, pursuing the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling connected Friday (February 20, 2026) that the President’ s ‘reciprocal tariffs’ were unlawful.
India participated arsenic an ‘observer’ successful Board of Peace meeting: MEA
A time aft an Indian diplomat participated successful the archetypal gathering of the Board of Peace for Gaza successful Washington D.C., the External Affairs Ministry said India was determination arsenic an “observer”. In addition, the authoritative spokesperson of the Ministry, Randhir Jaiswal, reiterated India’s presumption connected the Palestinian contented and said India stood for a “sovereign, independent, and viable State of Palestine based connected 1967 borders”.
Gujarat to amend matrimony registration rules, cites ‘misuse’ of existing norms
The Gujarat authorities connected Friday (February 20, 2026) announced that it will amend the rules nether the Gujarat Registration of Marriages Act, stating that the determination is intended to plug procedural loopholes and forestall alleged misuse of the existing system.
U.P. tribunal sentences ex-junior engineer, woman to decease for intersexual exploitation of 33 children
A peculiar tribunal successful Uttar Pradesh’s Banda connected Friday (February 20, 2026) sentenced a erstwhile inferior technologist of the state’s Irrigation Department and his wife to decease for the intersexual exploitation of 33 insignificant boys — immoderate arsenic young arsenic 3 — implicit a decade, officials said.
U.K. authorities considers removing erstwhile prince Andrew from enactment of succession amid Epstein row
The British authorities connected Friday (February 20, 2026) mulled passing a instrumentality to remove erstwhile prince Andrew from the enactment of succession, arsenic constabulary stepped up investigations into his conduct, quizzing the disgraced royal’s erstwhile extortion officers. Amid a torrent of often tawdry revelations from the files of precocious U.S. enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, King Charles III has already stripped his younger member of each his titles and ousted him from his location successful Windsor.
Have done much enactment successful 1 twelvemonth than AAP did successful 10 years: CM
Describing her archetypal twelvemonth successful bureau arsenic 1 devoted to fixing “legacy issues”, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta connected Friday said her authorities focused connected cleaning the Yamuna, improving civic infrastructure and tackling aerial pollution. Releasing a ‘report card’ to people her government’s 1 twelvemonth successful office, Ms. Gupta said, “We person done much enactment connected bequest issues successful 1 twelvemonth than the erstwhile [AAP] authorities did successful 10 years.
Hamas says way for Gaza indispensable statesman with extremity to ‘aggression’
Discussions connected Gaza’s aboriginal indispensable statesman with a full halt to Israeli “aggression”, Palestinian Islamist question Hamas said aft U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace met for the archetypal time.
Modi holds talks with apical leaders of Mauritius, Sri Lanka, and Slovakia
Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Friday (February 20, 2026) held talks with apical leaders of Mauritius, Sri Lanka and Slovakia with a absorption connected shoring up bilateral practice successful commercialized and exertion sectors. He besides held a gathering with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and discussed however the planetary assemblage tin play a “constructive role” successful making usage of artificial quality inclusive.
T20 World Cup: Onus connected Pakistan spinners and New Zealand batters arsenic Super Eight begins
After shouldering their team’s leap past the group-stage hurdle, Pakistan spinners volition beryllium expected to unrecorded up to the estimation done the Super Eight signifier too, opening with their Group 2 lucifer against New Zealand astatine the R. Premadasa Stadium present connected Saturday (February 21, 2026).
