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Daily Current Affairs: 27 February 2026

Current affairs of 27 February 2026: AI in Rural India: Tools, Policies and Platforms; Exercise DHARMA GUARDIAN 2026: 7th India–Japan Army Drill; South Central Railway Rail Parcel App for Freight Booking, and 22 more topics. Key facts for every exam, with a quiz.

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In this issue: 25 topics

National Affairs

  1. South Central Railway Rail Parcel App for Freight Booking
  2. Nidhi Chhibber Gets Additional Charge as NITI Aayog CEO
  3. Khelo India Winter Games 2026: Indian Army Wins Team Title
  4. Jatinder Mehra Dies at 86: Essar Metals Veteran and Ex-RINL CMD
  5. National Protein Day: 27 February Awareness Observance

Banking & Finance

  1. SEBI Mutual Fund Categories: Lifecycle Funds and Sectoral Debt Funds
  2. P2PM UPI Merchant Payments: RBI Clarifies No PA Licence Needed
  3. Sebi Revamps Mutual Fund Categories: Gold, Silver, Life Cycle Funds
  4. SEBI Gold and Silver Valuation: Domestic Spot Prices from April 2026
  5. RBI Prop Trading Curbs May Favour Foreign Firms
  6. NSE IX Global Access: Overseas Investing for Indians
  7. RBI Nod for SBI Mutual Fund: 9.99% Stake in Bandhan Bank

Economy

  1. New GDP Series: Base Year Moves to 2022-23
  2. 16th Finance Commission: Horizontal Devolution and State Finances
  3. RBI: Private Non-Financial Firms’ Sales Grow 10.1%
  4. Bengaluru Airport and Frankfurt Airport Sign Cargo MoU
  5. Meghalaya Budget FY27: Rs 32,023 Crore Presented

Agriculture & Rural

  1. Sebi Gets Reports on Agri Commodity Delivery Rules
  2. AgroTech 2026 Opens in Lucknow
  3. AgriStack: Digital Public Infrastructure for Farmers

Science & Technology

  1. AI in Rural India: Tools, Policies and Platforms

Environment & Ecology

  1. Germany-India €20 Million IKI Climate Project Launched

Defence & Security

  1. Exercise DHARMA GUARDIAN 2026: 7th India–Japan Army Drill

Awards & Persons

  1. Speaker of the Knesset Medal Awarded to PM Modi
  2. Mangaluru Airport Wins 2025 ASQ Best Airport at Arrivals Award

National Affairs

Banking & Finance

Economy

Agriculture & Rural

Science & Technology

Government Schemes

21. AI in Rural India: Tools, Policies and Platforms

  • The AI Impact Summit 2026 signals a shift from AI pilot projects to system-wide deployment, with AI treated as a public good.
  • National Strategy for AI (2018, NITI Aayog) is 'AI for All'; India AI Governance Guidelines (2025, MeitY) have seven Sutras and six pillars.
  • eGramSwaraj covers over 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats; AIKosh holds 7,500+ datasets and 273 AI models.
  • BHASHINI supports 36+ languages; BharatGen is a sovereign multilingual LLM supporting 22 languages.
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