February 13, 2026 10:50 AM

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HM Amit Shah to be on two day visit to Tamil Nadu from today

  Senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be on a two-day visit to Tamil Nadu from this evening. He will be participating in discussions related to seat allocations of the NDA alliance at Tiruchi.   The Home Minister is also expected to address BJP workers at a meeting at Karaikal t...

February 13, 2026 10:37 AM

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Agriculture sector welcomes Interim Trade Agreement between India & US

The agriculture sector has welcomed the Interim Trade Agreement between India and the United States. Talking exclusively to Akashvani News, Managing Director of National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX), Dr Arun Raste, said that agricultural items like wheat, rice, dairy, and poult...

February 13, 2026 10:21 AM

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Snow Marathon – Run for Martyrs to be held on February 16 in J&K

In Jammu and Kashmir, the Doda district administration in collaboration with the 4 Rastriya Rifles regiment of the army and Bhaderwah Development Authority (BDA) will be organising "Snow Marathon - Run for Martyrs" on February 16.    Akashvani Jammu Correspondent reports that the Snow Marathon aims ...

February 13, 2026 10:06 AM

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NSF announces AI-ENGAGE Awards to modernise Agriculture

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the first awards under a Quad-backed initiative to use artificial intelligence (AI) to modernise agriculture across the United States and the Indo-Pacific. The programme, called Advancing Innovations for Empowering NextGen Agriculture, or AI-ENG...

February 13, 2026 9:34 AM

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Trump administration reaches trade deal to lower Taiwan’s tariff barriers

The Trump administration has reached a trade deal with Taiwan, with Taiwan agreeing to remove or reduce 99 per cent of its tariff barriers. The office of the US Trade Representative yesterday informed that US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Taiwan's Vice Premier Li-chiun Cheng signed the rec...

February 13, 2026 9:02 AM

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UNICEF warns that child recruitment by armed groups in Haiti tripled last year

A new UNICEF report released yesterday says the recruitment of children by armed groups in Haiti tripled last year as poverty and violence deepened across the troubled Caribbean country. The surge comes as gang violence displaces a record 1.4 million people across Haiti, more than half of them child...