In a significant first, India, Canada #Education sector development, Universities Canada will lead a nationwide delegation of 21 Canadian university presidents to India from Feb. 2 to 6, 2026. They will visit #Gift city as well.

#ForeignAffairs 🇮🇳🤝🇨🇦

First Indian company to potentially achieve domestically mfg solar-grade silicon wafers — BLR-based RSPL, Raana #Semiconductor has raised $3M to support R&D for indigenously designed Czochralski (CZ) monocrystalline ingot pullers (10–12 inch) solar-grade silicon ingots. Key upstream gap that currently drives +$500M/year in wafer imports from China.

RSPL targets commercial rollout within ~18 months, aiming to support ~5 GW capacity over 5 years, with plans to expand into semicon-grade wafers. Effort builds on their proven crystal-growth expertise, including Nd:YAG defence projects under MoD’s iDEX.

Without scaling domestic ingots/wafers/polysilicon, India’s solar import bill will hit $30 bn/year by 2030 as capacity additions outpace upstream localisation. #aatmarnirbharbharat #Energy

India plans to recognise language proficiency as a formal skill under Skill India, with 30 new centres and pilot training in English, Japanese and German. Aligned to global standards like CEFR, the move aims to boost overseas job mobility to markets such as Japan and Germany. #ForeignAffairs #Jobs

Madhya Pradesh Govt plans to increase the Ladli Behna Yojana payout to ₹3,000 per month for eligible women by the year 2028: CM Mohan Yadav

Indian Air Force to fly the Sindoor formation at the Republic Day parade, in which the fighter aircraft that took part in the #OpSindoor would be flying. The formation would include two each of Rafales, Su-30s, and MiG-29s, along with a single Jaguar fighter.

JUST IN: Finnish President Alexander Stubb:

"We can’t even use our F-35 fighter jets without America’s permission." #InternationalNews

Odisha implements complete ban on all tobacco products. #Health #Policy

We are down to Ecuadorian Jaguars being pulled out from storage after 25 yrs, just to keep our Jaguar fleet flying. #Defence #nationalsecurity

Bangladesh Govt has announced their team is Boycotting the World Cup.

Sports Adviser says Bangladesh wants to play but only and only in Sri Lanka.

ICC will likely make the Formal Announcement of Bangladesh Exit tommorow.

#IndianSubcontinent #Sports

Bangladesh out of the T20 World Cup

President of Bangladesh Cricket Board confirms:

ICC had denied us our request to shift our matches away from India. We are not sure about the status of world cricket. It's popularity is going down. They have locked away 200million people. Cricket is going to Olympics but if a country like us is not going there, it is ICC's failure. We will continue to communicate with the ICC. We want to play the world cup. But we won't play in India.

#Sports

OpenAI is rapidly losing money and is projected to lose $14 billion in 2026 alone.

If they can't get another round of funding, OpenAI could run out of money as soon as 2027. #AI

Donald Trump officially launches his Board of Peace(BoP) with 23 founding members.

•Albania
•Argentina
•Armenia
•Azerbaijan
•Belarus
•Egypt
•Hungary
•Indonesia
•Israel
•Jordan
•Kazakhstan
•Kosovo
•Kuwait
•Morocco
•Pakistan
•Paraguay
•Qatar
•Saudi Arabia
•Turkey
•UAE
•USA
•Uzbekistan
•Vietnam

#InternationalNews

Indian Embassy in Croatia vandalised Ahead of EU Delegation Visiting India for Historic India-EU Trade Deal.

American Terrorist ‘Pannu’ claims Responsibility.

Seems someone is not happy with the upcoming deal 👀. #InternationalNews

India issues a NOTAM for a likely missile test in the Bay of Bengal region, range is near 1,470-km

Date | 05-06 February 2026

𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 – 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐝 – 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 ||

India’s national power transmission network has crossed 5 lakh circuit kilometres, ckm, of transmission lines along with 1407 gigavolt amperes (GVA) of transformation capacity.

The Ministry of Power said that since 2014, the country’s transmission network has grown by 71.6 per cent with the addition of 2.09 lakh ckm of transmission lines, boosting transformation capacity by 876 GVA.

Min Of Power said the inter-regional power transfer capacity now stands at 1,20,340 MW. #Energy #Infra

CDS General Anil Chauhan releases Military #Quantum Mission Policy Framework.

The framework aims to harness four key pillars – Quantum Communication, Quantum Computing, Quantum Sensing and Metrology, and Quantum Materials and Devices across the Tri-Services to prepare for future battlefields and achieve technological dominance. #Defence

https://t.co/7BD0nQF8X9

UAE hands over the list of over 900 Indian nationals to Indian embassy in Abu Dhabi who will be released as part of a November order by UAE leadership 🇮🇳🤝🇦🇪 #ForeignAffairs

Rajasthan: Tourist footfalls up 10% in 2025 to 25.44 crores, despite a very high base (65% & 28.5% growth in prior years).

Heritage, weddings & MICE anchor tourism demand. The state plans to develop lesser-known circuits, capacity addition, experience upgrades to further drive inflows #Tourism