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Thursday, February 19, 2026
TopicMobile Phones

Topic: Mobile Phones

Doughnuts, alcohol, falling in love—how dopamine drives us to pursue pleasure

Dopamine is most known for its role in short-term pleasure. But it also assists with learning, maintaining focus and attention, and helps us store memories.

No mobile phones during duty hours for Haryana police constabulary. ‘Distraction, safety risk,’ says DGP

Phones will be collected, tracked during duty hours. Police personnel can communicate with family members only via the in-charge's phone, says directive issued by DGP Shatrujeet Kapur.

Police bust smuggling racket run by Delhi couple selling stolen phones in Nepal, four held

Couple among the four arrested, many stolen mobile phones recovered.

Those criticising mobile manufacturing in India don’t know what is manufacturing, says Vaishnaw

Inaugurating new smartphone manufacturing unit in Noida, Union Minister of Electronics & IT Ashwini Vaishnaw says govt’s PLI scheme led to incremental job creation of 5,00,000 in the industry.

Dixon Technologies partners with Xiaomi to make smartphones in India

Xiaomi India President Muralikrishnan B had told Reuters earlier that the company will open more stores & boost local procurement of mobile phone parts to reduce costs.

SubscriberWrites: Technology always has the potential of misuse. The solution is education, not removing access

For all its ills, mobile phones are proving to be indispensable in everyone’s lives, including that of children and their schooling, writes Reena Daruwalla.

‘Mobile phones will be among top 10 exports from India from 2024,’ says MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Stating Modi has laid out clear vision of India becoming significant player in global electronics supply chain, he added country will do $300 billion of electronic manufacturing by 2026.

Why 5G phones are still priced too high for most Indians — ‘Democratisation yet to happen’

Unaffordable 5G phones are a product of macroeconomic conditions and poor marketing choices by phone makers, and the main losers are the economically weaker sections, say analysts.

‘Will improve user safety’: 9 in 10 Indians want uniform mobile chargers, finds survey

Through its national survey across 303 districts, LocalCircles found that the majority of Indian consumers were unhappy that there were different charging cables for different devices.

India, Bangladesh and Pakistan have new opportunities — exporting online labour to the West

Asia has the highest mobile phone users globally; around two-thirds of people use mobile services, and there is still room for further expansion.

On Camera

India must govern AI with confidence. Use guardrails, not handcuffs

The good news is that India is not starting from zero. It knows how to innovate privately while also empowering innovation publicly.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

US military commander, envoy Sergio Gor visit Indian Army Western Command, Bengaluru next

At the Western Army Command, the American delegation was briefed on the capabilities of the formation, past operations and the path ahead.

The new Great Game—Trump’s playing for time, China for leverage & India for wiggle room

This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.