1. In a significant show of global consensus on artificial intelligence, 88 countries and international organisations have adopted the New Delhi Declaration on AI Impact, committing to ensure that benefits of AI are “equitably shared across humanity”.

2.The foundation of developed India will be laid on the basis of self-reliance for which having chips made in India is very important, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday.

3.The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has been completed across six states and Union Territories across India . Among all regions, Gujarat recorded the highest net deletion, with 68,12,711 electors removed.

4.Fresh figures placed before the Odisha Assembly reveal that 12 districts in the state report child marriage rates above the national average.

5. Five staff members of a private English-medium school in Rajkanika, including four teachers and a peon, have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the gangrape of a Class VII girl student over the past two months.

6.The High-Level Clearance Authority (HLCA) approved 10 major industrial projects with a total investment of Rs 44,241.97 crore, having the potential to generate 8,765 employment opportunities across eight districts of the state.

7.India and Brazil Saturday set an annual bilateral trade target of USD 30 billion by 2030 even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva discussed implications of the US Supreme Court striking down Trump administration’s reciprocal tariffs.

8.A day after US President Donald Trump imposed 10 per cent tariffs on all the countries, including India effective February 24 for 150 days, the POTUS, who lambasted the Supreme Court for delivering a verdict against his sweeping tariffs, announced an additional 5 per cent hike in the global tariffs, Saturday.

9.The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls will begin across Odisha April 1, Chief Electoral Offi cer (CEO) RS Gopalan said Saturday.

10.Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh Tripathi on Saturday called for greater unity among Indian Ocean Region (IOR) nations to address evolving maritime threats, including piracy, irregular migration and drug trafficking.

11.The ECI Saturday published the fi nal electoral roll in Kerala after the SIR exercise, with around nine lakh names removed from the list.

12.Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Saturday appeared before a court at Bhiwandi in the district in a defamation case filed by an RSS activist, and presented his party’s Maharashtra unit chief Harshwardhan Sapkal as his new 'surety' or guarantor for bail.

13.Former bureaucrat Shantmanu, who was Saturday sworn in as the State Election Commissioner of Jammu and Kashmir for a five-year term, underscored the importance of holding the long-pending panchayat and urban local body elections in the Union Territory.

14.A special POCSO court here Saturday ordered the Jhunsi Police Station SHO to register an FIR against Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati to investigate allegations of sexual abuse of boys.

15.Gadag (Karnataka) Lokayukta police Saturday said they caught BJP MLA Chandru Lamani allegedly accepting a Rs 5 lakh bribe.

16.Technology giant Microsoft has named Indian-origin Asha Sharma as Executive Vice President and CEO of Microsoft Gaming, joining a long and growing list of Indian-descent leaders at the helm of global companies.

17.Artificial intelligence will not replace human beings entirely but will act as an efficiency enhancer, enabling fewer people to deliver higher output, Karan Adani, Managing Director of Adani Ports and SEZ Limited, said on Saturday.

18.The commerce ministry Saturday said the country's pharma exports grew 9.4 per cent in 2024-25 to $30.47 billion and the industry is aiming for a double-digit expansion in 2026-27.

19.A section of the powerful Buddhist clergy in Sri Lanka has criticised the government over what they termed an “organised campaign being run by vested interests to sully Buddhism”, the majority religion, and monks.

20.The Indian athletics team won four medals, including an individual silver in men's 10km at the Asian Cross-Country Championships held Saturday (February 21) in Fukuoka, Japan.