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Published – April 26, 2026 06:53 pm IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during a public meeting for West Bengal Assembly elections, at Bongaon in North 24 Parganas. Screengrab: YouTube/@NarendraModi via PTI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (April 26, 2026) accused the Trinamool Congress of “sheltering goons who torture women”, and said the BJP was giving poll tickets to Sandeshkhali’s Rekha Patra, and the mother of the RG Kar victim is proof of the party’s commitment to ensuring women’s security.
Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh on Sunday (April 26, 2026) submitted a petition to Rajya Sabha Chairman C.P. Radhakrishnan seeking the disqualification of seven party MPs in the Upper House who recently quit the AAP and announced their merger with the BJP. Addressing a press conference, Mr Singh claimed the move by the seven Rajya Sabha MPs amounted to defection as it was against the provisions of the anti-defection law.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday (April 26, 2026) said the BJP will end “goonda raj” and “syndicate raj” in West Bengal if the party comes to power in the State. Addressing a public rally at Tehatta in Nadia district, Mr. Shah also claimed that voters “wiped out” the Mamata Banerjee government in the first phase of the Assembly polls itself. “The BJP has already won 110 seats in the first phase of polls held on April 23,” he said.
A man armed with guns and knives stormed the lobby outside a high-profile journalists’ dinner attended by President Donald Trump and multiple senior U.S. leaders on Saturday (April 25, 2026) night, rushing toward the ballroom before Secret Service agents swarmed him and took him into custody. The President was uninjured and was hustled away. Guests went diving under tables as the scene unfolded, and some reported hearing shots outside the vast subterranean ballroom in the Washington Hilton where the event was being held.
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Saturday (April 25, 2026) called for the creation of a structured national framework to utilise the experience of retired judges in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), saying their continued engagement should be treated as institutional service with accountability and support.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, along with his family and Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, cast their vote on Sunday (April 26, 2026) in the ongoing local body elections across the State. While Mr. Shah voted at a polling booth in Naranpura, Mr. Patel cast his vote at a polling booth set up in a primary school in Shela area for the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation elections. Mr. Patel too was accompanied by his family members during the voting.
India and New Zealand will on Monday (April 27, 2026) sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that will remove tariffs on 100% of India’s exports to New Zealand, and either sharply reduce or remove tariffs on 95% of current imports from New Zealand. Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday (April 25, 2026) took to social media to welcome Todd McClay, New Zealand’s Minister for Trade & Investment to New Delhi ahead of the signing of the agreement.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday (April 26, 2026) strongly condemned the killing of party worker Debdeep Chatterjee allegedly by TMC goons, and said his party will not bow before this politics that stains India’s non-violent tradition. Chatterjee was brutally murdered in Asansol during post-poll violence. He was closely associated with Asansol North Congress candidate Prasenjit Puitandi, the party claimed.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (April 26, 2026) hailed the achievement of criticality in the nuclear fast breeder reactor in Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, as a “historic milestone in India’s nuclear energy journey”. During his monthly ‘Mann ki Baat’ address, the Prime Minister focused on India’s nuclear and renewable energy efforts, as well as on various nature conservation initiatives being undertaken across the country.
An explosive device killed 13 people travelling on a bus in southwestern Colombia on Saturday (April 25, 2026), an attack the country’s army chief described as a “terrorist act” that also left at least 38 injured as violence linked to drug trafficking in the region escalates. Octavio Guzman, the Governor of the Cauca region, said on X that the device was detonated while the bus was travelling along the Pan-American Highway in the municipality of Cajibio.
Published – April 26, 2026 06:53 pm IST
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