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Song of the Year: "Wildflower" (Billie Eilish).
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Album of the Year: "Debí Tirar Más Fotos" (Bad Bunny).
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Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling: Dalai Lama for "Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama".
79th BAFTA Awards (2026):
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Best Film: "The Brutalist" (Paul Thomas Anderson).
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Best Leading Actor: Robert Aramayo .
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Best Leading Actress: Jessie Buckley .
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Best Children's & Family Film: Manipuri film "Boon" (directed by Lakshmipriya Devi).
Global Teacher Prize 2026: Indian teacher Roopal Nagi was awarded US$ 1 million at the World Government Summit in Dubai.
BBC Indian Sports Women of the Year 2025: Smriti Mandhana . Other winners: Divya Deshmukh (Emerging), Preeti Pal (Para Sports), Anjali Bhagwat (Lifetime Achievement).
Mothersree Award (50th): Awarded to Delhi CM Rekha Gupta .
EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2025 (India): Dipender Goyal .
FIPI Award (Oil & Gas Production Company of the Year): Oil India Limited .
Shunya Puraskar: India's first outcome-based environmental award, launched by Saket Burman and Ruchir Punjabi.
Sports News
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Australian Open 2026:
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Women's Singles: Elena Rybakina (def. Aryna Sabalenka).
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Men's Singles: Carlos Alcaraz (def. Novak Djokovic).
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Thailand Masters 2026 (Badminton): Women's Singles winner: Devika Sihag (India).
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Pro Wrestling League 2026: Winner: Haryana Thunder (def. Delhi Dangal Warriors).
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Women's Premier League (WPL) 2026: Winner: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) .
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Orange Cap: Smriti Mandhana .
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Purple Cap: Sophie Devine .
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Ranji Trophy: Paras Dogra (J&K captain) became only the second cricketer to score 10,000 runs in Ranji Trophy history.
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FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship 2026: Winner: Magnus Carlsen (def. Fabiano Caruana).
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Santosh Trophy (79th): Winner: Services (def. Kerala 1-0) in Assam.
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U-19 Women's SAFF Championship: Winner: India (def. Bangladesh 4-0) in Nepal.
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U-19 Men's Cricket World Cup 2026: Winner: India (def. England by 100 runs). Captain: Ayush Mhatre. Player of the Tournament: Vaibhav Suryavanshi.
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Asian Shooting Championship 2026: India topped the overall medal tally with 94 medals (51 Gold, 23 Silver, 20 Bronze).
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Winter Olympics 2026 (Milano Cortina): Norway topped the medal tally (41 medals).
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Women's Asia Cup Rising Stars 2026: Winner: India A (def. Bangladesh A).
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T20 World Cup Record: Jasprit Bumrah became the highest wicket-taker for India in T20 World Cups (33 wickets in 22 matches).
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T20 Cricket Milestone: Rashid Khan (Afghanistan) became the first bowler to take 700 wickets in T20 cricket.
Science, Technology & Defence
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India AI Impact Summit 2026:
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Held in New Delhi with the theme " Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah ".
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PM Modi presented the 'MANAV' (Moral & Ethical, Accountable, National Sovereign, Accessible & Valid) vision for AI.
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Parm 2.0 , a 17-billion-parameter multilingual AI model supporting 22 Indian languages, was launched.
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Switzerland announced it will host the 2027 AI Summit.
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Joint Military Exercises:
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Exercise Khanjar (13th): India & Kyrgyzstan in Masamari, Assam .
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Exercise Vajra Prahar (16th): India & USA in Bakloh, Himachal Pradesh .
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Exercise Dharma Guardian (7th): India & Japan in Chaubattia, Uttarakhand .
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Exercise Kharak Shakt i: Indian Army exercise in Rajasthan .
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Exercise Agni Varsha: Indian Army exercise in Pokhran, Rajasthan .
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NASA's Crew-12 Mission: Launched by a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida.
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Tirumala Temple Food Testing Lab: Will feature ' E-nose ' and ' E-tongue ' technology from France to test the quality of prasadam.
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Indigenously Developed Vaccine: Union Health Minister JP Nadda launched a Tetanus & Adult Diphtheria (Td) vaccine , developed by the Central Research Institute (CRI).
Important Days
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World Government Summit 2026: Held in Dubai . Theme: " Shaping Future Governments ".
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International Mother Language Day (Feb 21): Theme: " Youth Voices for Multilingual Education ".
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International Childhood Cancer Day (Feb 15): Theme: " Showing Impact, From Challenge to Change ".
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