9 Stocks to watch, Feb 17: Reliance, Lupine, Delhivery, TCS, Cochin Shipyard, Alkem Lab, Texmaco Rail, REC

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Logistics operator Delhivery on Monday said it will deploy 150 high-performance electric vehicles (EVs) in collaboration with RIDEV across the North-East, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad over the next three months. Besides, a phased expansion is planned for major hubs, including Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, and Goa, aiming to eliminate tailpipe emissions and align with India’s PM E-DRIVE objectives for a cleaner transportation future, the company said.

Reliance Consumer Productsthe FMCG arm of Reliance Industrieshas signed a definitive agreement to form a majority-owned joint venture with Nigerian conglomerate Tropical General Investments Group. This partnership will expand RCPL’s global footprint by establishing its presence in one of Africa’s largest consumer markets, said a joint statement.

Drug firm Lupine on Monday said it has inked a license and supply agreement with Spektus Pharma to commercialize the novel antidepressant DeslaFlex in Canada. The strategic partnership combines the company’s strong commercial footprint in Canada and Spektus’s capabilities in developing differentiated, novel formulations to successfully introduce DeslaFlex and establish a robust platform for future launches.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and US-based AI computing provider AMD have expanded their strategic collaboration. TCS, through its subsidiary HyperVault AI Data Center Ltd (HyperVault), and AMD will co-develop a rack-scale AI infrastructure design based on the AMD “Helios” platform to support India’s national AI initiatives. As part of this strategic collaboration, both companies will offer an AI-ready data center blueprint supporting up to 200 MW of capacity and will work with hyperscalers and AI companies to accelerate data center build-outs in India.

Cochin Shipyard informed the exchanges that it has emerged as the lowest bidder for the ₹5,000-crore Navy vessel contract, in a tender floated by the Defense Ministry to build five Next Generation Survey Vessels (NGSVs) for the Indian Navy.

Enzene Biosciences, subsidiary of Alkem Laboratoriessaid the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has completed a Pre-Approval Inspection (PAI) of its manufacturing facility in Chakan, Pune, on February 13. It has issued a Form 483 with six procedural observations. Enzene has achieved zero observations related to data integrity, a critical validation of Enzene’s quality systems and the reliability of regulatory filings. Enzene is currently preparing its response to the USFDA and has initiated corrective and preventive actions to address the observations.

Texmaco Rail & Engineering won two new orders worth ₹247 crore on February 16, for signaling equipment in Mumbai and OHE maintenance. The two contracts, one for ₹219.18 crore from Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation for signaling equipment under MUTP-IIIA, and another for ₹27.67 crore from South Western Railway for OHE maintenance, highlights Texmaco Rail & Engineering’s active participation in expanding railway infrastructure.

REC has informed the stock exchanges about the incorporation of Vizag Power Transmission Ltd as a wholly-owned subsidiary of REC Power Development and Consultancy Ltd (RECPDCL), which itself is a wholly-owned subsidiary of REC Ltd. The company has been formed for developing the transmission system for proposed Green Hydrogen/ Green Ammonia projects in the Vizag area, Andhra Pradesh (Phase-I)

BLS E-Services Ltd announced it will acquire Atyati Technologies Pvt Ltd for ₹154 crore in an all-cash deal. The move aims to significantly expand BLS’s rural financial inclusion network to over 70,000 touchpoints.

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NSW police end restriction on protests now Israeli president has left the country | Australian police and policing

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The New South Wales police commissioner has ended a restriction on protests that effectively banned marches in designated areas now that Israeli president Isaac Herzog has left Australia.

On Tuesday, Mal Lanyon announced the restriction would cease, meaning protester organisers can once again use the form 1 system to facilitate marches with police, without the risk of being arrested in the CBD and the eastern suburbs.

Police were given the controversial power to restrict protests in 14 day increments for up to 90 days following a terror attack when the Minns government rushed laws through parliament last year in the wake of the Bondi beach terror attack. The power is currently facing a constitutional challenge and will go before the court on Thursday.

The police refused to facilitate Palestine Action Group’s planned march from Town Hall to state parliament last week on the basis of the restriction, alongside expanded powers handed to police under the major events act for the duration of Herzog’s visit. Widespread allegations of police brutality followed the rally.

Lanyon said the recent protests, during which officers used pepper spray and a controversial tactic known as kettling, played “very little” role in the decision to end the restriction on public assemblies. But he said the powers were in place during Herzog’s visit earlier this month because he had “significant concerns about the safety of the community” at the time.

Two weeks ago, Lanyon cited Herzog’s four-day visit to Australia, which ended last Thursday, as a “factor” in his decision to extend the public assembly restriction declaration (Pard). He was asked on Tuesday what those other factors were but did not cite anything other than Herzog’s visit.

“Certainly the visit of a head of state, there was significant animosity towards that head of state,” he said.

“There was a need for a police force to ensure that we provide protection to that head of state. There were also large events that were planned around the visit of that head of state. We did not want there to be conflict between protesters and the head of state.

“With Mr Herzog now leaving the country I’m satisfied the conditions have changed such that we can resume managing public assemblies under [the] summary act,” he said.

Last Saturday, the Minns government declared Herzog’s visit a “major event” under the state’s major event legislation. This handed the police sweeping powers, including additional move on and search powers in the same designated area covered by the Pard. The declaration hampers the ability for protesters to sue the state for alleged police brutality.

Herzog has been accused by a UN commission of inquiry, which does not speak on behalf of the UN, as having incited genocide against the Palestinian people when he said that all Gazans were responsible for the 7 October attacks against Israel. He has denied the accusation and says his words were taken out of context.

The Palestine Action Group challenged the major event declaration for Herzog’s visit in an urgent hearing held last Monday, arguing it was a “backdoor” way to curtail protests. They lost to the state, who had argued the powers were needed to secure the safety of the Israeli president and the community.

PAG is considering appealing the decision. Meanwhile, lawyer Peter O’Brien has vowed to challenge the designation again as part of his client Jann Alhafny’s case. Alhafny, 69, is suing the state for personal injury after she was allegedly pushed down “violently” by a police officer and broke her vertebra in four places.

On Friday the police watchdog announced it would launch an independent inquiry into how officers handled the protest.

The premier, Chris Minns, has defended the police’s actions, saying the protesters created an “impossible situation”

Meanwhile, a member of his own government, Stephen Lawrence, said after the protest the violence was “pretty much an inevitable consequence” of the Pard.

Lanyon was asked about the comments on Tuesday when he announced the Pard would cease. He said: “I don’t have an opinion on that … We tried everything we could to provide a route to the organisers that would have allowed a safe and peaceful protest.

“I think the Pard has worked very well, but I think this is about starting to get the community back to what is normal.”



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Bangladesh Election 2026: Tariq Rehman rigged? There were irregularities in 40 percent seats in Bangladesh elections, shocking claim in the report

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Bangladesh Election 2026: Tariq Rehman rigged? There were irregularities in 40 percent seats in Bangladesh elections, shocking claim in the report

The political atmosphere in Bangladesh has become heated after the results of the general elections held on 12 February. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) got a big victory in this election, while radical Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh secured second place by winning a record 68 seats. The head of the interim government, Muhammad Yunus, had described the elections as free and fair, but now serious questions are being raised on it.

The latest report of anti-corruption organization Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has claimed that some kind of irregularity was seen in about 40 percent of parliamentary seats. According to the report, candidates themselves lodged complaints of irregularities on 28.6 percent seats. This makes it clear that the allegations are not merely conjecture, but have been made directly by the election participants.

Questions raised on the role of Election Commission

The most serious allegations in the TIB report have been made regarding the functioning of the Election Commission. It has been said that such organizations and individuals, who have links with political parties, were recognized as election observers. This has raised doubts about the fairness of the election process. The report also mentions that an experienced institution did not get registration as an observer despite applying multiple times, while two institutions associated with advisors to the interim government were approved. Such decisions have increased concerns about transparency.

Criticism over payments to foreign observers

The report also said that the Election Commission paid foreign observers. Critics argue that taking payments from the same institution that is supposed to be monitored creates a conflict of interest. This may raise questions on electoral legitimacy.

Displeasure of political parties and questions on affidavits

Various political parties of Bangladesh have also expressed dissatisfaction regarding the allocation of election symbols. TIB has also raised questions on the scrutiny process of the affidavits filed by the candidates. The report asked whether the sources of income and assets of the candidates were properly verified and whether they were legally acquired. After these allegations came to light, the debate regarding fairness of elections in Bangladesh has intensified. Although the government has not yet given a detailed response to the report, opposition parties are calling it a serious challenge to the democratic process.

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Australian PM Albanese says no help for ISIL relatives held in Syria camp | ISIL/ISIS News

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that his government will not repatriate Australian women and children from Syria who have been identified as relatives of suspected ISIL (ISIS) fighters.

“We have a very firm view that we won’t be providing assistance or repatriation,” Albanese told ABC News on Tuesday.

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Albanese said that while it is “unfortunate” that children have been affected, Australia is “not providing any support”.

“As my mother would say, you make your bed, you lie in it,” he said.

“We have no sympathy, frankly, for people who travelled overseas in order to participate in what was an attempt to establish a caliphate to undermine and destroy our way of life,” he added.

A spokesperson for Australian Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke also warned that those who return to Australia from Syria will face the law if they have committed crimes.

“People in this cohort need to know that if they have committed a crime and if they return to Australia, they will be met with the full force of the law,” the spokesperson said, according to the Reuters news agency.

A total of 34 women and children holding Australian citizenship were released on Monday from the Kurdish-controlled Roj detention camp in northern Syria.

The Australians, who are said to be relatives of ISIL fighters, were later returned to the camp due to what was described as “technical reasons”, the Reuters and AFP news agencies reported.

Roj detention camp director Hakmiyeh Ibrahim told Al Jazeera that the women and children from 11 families were handed over to relatives “who have come from Australia to collect them”.

The women and children were seen boarding minibuses to reach the Syrian capital, Damascus, from where they were to depart for Australia.

But halfway through the trip, Kurdish escorts were ordered to turn back, as the group did not have permission “to enter government-held territory”, according to Al Jazeera’s Heidi Pett, who is reporting from Aleppo.

Rashid Omar, an official at the Roj camp, later confirmed to AFP that the Australian nationals were forced to return to the detention facility. He said that representatives of the families were still working to resolve the issue with Syrian authorities.

‘Concern in the Australian population’

The humanitarian organisation Save the Children Australia filed a lawsuit in 2023 on behalf of 11 women and 20 children, seeking their repatriation, citing Australia’s “moral and legal responsibility” to its citizens. The Federal Court ruled against Save the Children, saying the Australian government did not control their detention in Syria.

A 17-year-old Australian boy died while under detention in Syria in 2022.

Rodger Shanahan, a Middle East security analyst, told Al Jazeera that the Australian government is facing more resistance to the return of its citizens from Syria following the deadly Bondi Beach attack in December, in which 15 people were killed, at a Jewish festival in Sydney.

“I think that there’s a concern in the Australian population that people might appear to have done away with their radical views, but they still retain them deep down,” Shanahan said.

While Kurdish-led forces still control the Roj camp, they withdrew from the larger al-Hol camp in January, when Syria’s central government’s security forces took control of the area.

At one point, the al-Hol camp housed some 24,000 people, mostly Syrians, but also Iraqis, and more than 6,000 women and children with foreign nationalities.

Governments around the world have been resisting the repatriation of their citizens from the camps in Syria.

The Roj camp also housed United Kingdom-born Shamima Begum, who was 15 when she and two other girls travelled from London in 2015 to marry ISIL fighters in Syria. In 2019, the UK government revoked Begum’s citizenship soon after she was discovered in a detention camp in Syria.

Since then, Begum has challenged the decision, which was turned down by an appeals court in February 2024.

Born in the UK to Bangladeshi parents, Begum does not hold Bangladeshi citizenship. She is reported to still be in the Roj camp.



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Gold slipped further below $5,000 an ounce in thin trading, with much of Asia closed for the Lunar New Year and after a US holiday on Monday.

Bullion fell as much as 1.4% on Tuesday, having lost 1% in the previous session. The metal had rallied briefly on Friday when modest US inflation data boosted the case for the Federal Reserve to trim interest rates. Lower borrowing costs are a tailwind for non-yielding precious metals.

A wave of speculative buying pushed a multiyear rally to breaking point in late January, with gold surging to a record above $5,595 an ounce. An abrupt, two-day rout at the turn of the month pulled the metal back to near $4,400, but it has since regained roughly half of its losses. Trading has been choppy since.

Many banks — including BNP Paribas SA, Deutsche Bank AG and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. — have forecast that prices will resume their upward trend, with the factors that underpinned gold’s steady ascent set to persist. These include heightened geopolitical tensions, questions over the Fed’s independence and a wider shift away from currencies and sovereign bonds.

“We continue to see two main supportive macro factors for gold: inflation and dollar debasement,” analysts at Jefferies including Fahad Tariq wrote in a note, raising their 2026 price forecast to $5,000 an ounce from $4,200. Investors and central banks concerned about these factors “have only really one option: hard assets,” they said.

In the near term, however, downside risk will increase the longer that bullion remains below $5,000, as this “would discourage bullish traders further in light of the recent volatility,” Fawad Razaqzada, an analyst at City Index, said in a note.

Spot gold fell 0.5% to $4,967.82 an ounce as of 10:25 am in Singapore. Silver slipped 0.4% to $76.30 an ounce. Platinum was little changed, while palladium fell 1.1%. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index, a gauge of the US currency, was flat after ending the previous session 0.1% higher.

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Published on February 17, 2026

Gautam Gambhir set for IPL return? Rajasthan Royals offered Gautam Gambhir to join the team – report

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Indian team head coach Gautam Gambhir may return in the Indian Premier League. According to a report, one of the three new shareholders of the Rajasthan franchise has sent Gambhir a proposal for the role of “partner, mentor and CEO”. However, to take up this post, Gambhir will have to leave the Indian team.

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New Delhi. Indian cricket team coach Gautam Gambhir last mentored Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the Indian Premier League (IPL). When the team won the title in the year 2024, he played the role of mentor. Now the news is that he is going to get a chance to return to IPL again. According to the report of Dainik Jagran, one of the new owners of Rajasthan Royals has offered Gambhir not one, but three big roles.

According to the report, one of the three new shareholders of the Rajasthan franchise has sent Gambhir a proposal for the role of “partner, mentor and CEO”. The report said, “Most of the shareholders of Rajasthan Royals are selling their stake to the new owners. The deal is currently in the transfer stage. One of the new management of RR, the owner, has offered Gambhir a two to three percent stake along with the role of CEO and mentor.”

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Gambhir cannot accept this offer as long as he remains the head coach of the Indian team. According to a Supreme Court decision, which is based on the recommendations of the Lodha Committee, a person cannot simultaneously hold a position in an IPL franchise and the Indian team, as this creates a conflict of interest.

If Gambhir accepts Rajasthan’s offer, he will have to resign from the post of India’s head coach. Sources close to the former Indian batsman did not comment on this, but indicated that he is committed to his current role. However, his contract as India’s head coach will end after the ODI World Cup to be held in South Africa in 2027.

Which IPL teams did Gambhir work with?

After retiring as a player, Gambhir has been associated with two IPL franchises. He worked as the mentor of Lucknow Super Giants from 2022 to 2023 and took the team to the playoffs in both the seasons. After this, he joined KKR in the same role in 2024 and then in July 2024, he became the head coach of India in place of Rahul Dravid. Gambhir is currently overseeing India’s T20 World Cup campaign. The current champion team has made it to the Super 8 by winning all three matches against America, Namibia and Pakistan in the group stage. This week they have one more group match against Netherlands.

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Delhi Accident: Minor ran Scorpio to make a reel, took life of bike rider, mother pleaded for justice – One Person Died In A Collision Between A Car And A Motorcycle In Dwarka Area

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23-year-old youth Sahil Dhaneshra died in a road accident on February 3 in Dwarka, Delhi. A speeding Scorpio car hits Sahil’s bike hard. The collision was so severe that the Scorpio went out of control and collided with a taxi parked on the roadside, due to which Sahil died and the taxi driver was seriously injured.

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On 3 February 2026, a horrific road accident took place in Dwarka South police station area of ​​Delhi, in which a young man died. The accident happened in Dwarka area. Where 23-year-old bike rider Sahil Dhaneshra died in a collision between two cars and a bike, while another person was injured.

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Couple bought second hand house, magazine was found hidden in the wall, there were many bags with it, when it was opened, health deteriorated!

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Kaija Bretzius and her husband Brian bought a second-hand house in Pennsylvania. But behind the walls of the house they found something which they did not even expect.

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When people do not have money to buy new houses, they often buy old houses. But in doing so, they find many unique and surprising things in old houses. Same thing happened with an American couple also. He bought a house because it was priced low and did not need much repair. But later he decided to improve the insulation of the walls of the house. For this, when he removed some upper parts of the wall, behind him he saw magazines for adults, old glass bottles and sacks. When he opened the sacks, what was inside made him feel ill.

According to the report of Daily Star News website, Kaija Bretzius and her husband Brian bought a second hand house in Pennsylvania. The condition of the house was good, hence he decided to buy it as it would not require any repairs. But later he thought that the insulation of the walls of the house should be improved. Brian started opening parts of the wall. Then they saw very strange things behind the wall.

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First of all he saw old glass bottles in the wall. This was not a shocking thing, so he looked away. Then he found some magazines from the 1980s which were for adults. This was quite a shocking thing for him. Then he tried to search deeper inside the wall. When searched with flash light, they found old sacks. Kaija was very scared to see this, she thought that maybe someone had buried the dead bodies of children in it, because there was a bad smell coming from it. But when they opened it, there were dead chickens wrapped in paper. They found the bones of about 20 dead chickens and other small creatures in the sack. Some bones were wrapped in newspapers from 1920 to 1930.

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When the couple was removing the bones, they started falling ill. He had fever for several days. Kaija feels that bacteria from the bones might have entered his body while breathing, due to which he might have fallen ill. They believe that these animals may have been used in an ancient folk magic ritual called pow-pow, which is Dutch magic. Before buying the house, he had done a safety check of the house and done radon testing, but he did not find anything. They did not think that they would find dead animals in the wall. Due to this damage and health risk, he had to rebuild the walls. His insurance did not cover it. For this reason, till now he has invested 20 thousand dollars (18 lakh rupees). But the repair is still not complete.

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Haryana: Jyoti Sharma becomes chairperson of Panipat Zilla Parishad, decision taken by slip after getting equal number of votes.

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Haryana: Jyoti Sharma becomes chairperson of Panipat Zilla Parishad, decision taken by slip after getting equal number of votes.

This time the election for the post of Chairperson of Panipat Zilla Parishad was completely full of excitement. The competition was so tough that in the end the decision had to be taken by slip. After the tie vote, a slip of paper changed the political picture and Jyoti Sharma again sat on the chairperson’s chair.

Suspense increased due to 8-8 votes

Election officer Vivek Chaudhary said that all the members were present in the elections and voting was conducted through EVMs. A total of 16 valid votes were cast. Jyoti Sharma got 8 votes and 8 votes went in favor of Sudesh Rani.

As soon as the result was tied, there was silence in the House. No one could understand what would happen next. According to the rules, when votes are equal, the decision is taken by slip. Therefore, according to the guidelines of the State Election Commission dated December 7, 2022, the further process was started.

Final decision taken by slip

The ballots were cast in the presence of both the candidates and all the councillors. The entire process was done in a transparent manner. An impartial person took out the slip and Jyoti Sharma’s name appeared in it. After this he was officially declared the winner. The election officer said that the entire process was fair and all the councilors expressed their satisfaction in writing.

Jyoti Sharma became emotional after the victory

Jyoti Sharma looked very emotional after the victory. She said, “I consider it not my own but God’s victory. This is also a victory for the eight members who stood firmly with us. This is a victory for the entire Zilla Parishad and the government.”

He also said that when the competition becomes equal then the decision is in the hands of God. The situation was completely uncertain at the time of the results, so emotions were also natural.

It is noteworthy that Jyoti Sharma became the chairperson on 27 December 2022 with the support of BJP. But on March 6, 2024, he had to step down due to protests. At that time 13 out of 17 councilors had turned against him.

After this, on June 14, 2024, Kajal Deshwal unanimously became the chairperson, but her tenure also did not last long. Now the return of Jyoti Sharma for the second time in three years has again brought the politics of Zilla Parishad into discussion.

Jyoti Sharma said that now her entire focus will be on the development of the district. He talked about taking forward the stalled works with the mantra of “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Prayas”.

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