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Polling ends successful Bangladesh for parliamentary predetermination and referendum for law changes
Bangladesh completed polling for the wide election and referendum for law changes connected Thursday (February 12, 2026). Polling started successful 36,031 predetermination centres astatine 7:30 a.m. and ended astatine 4:30 p.m., with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) accusing Jamaat-e-Islami, person of an 11-party alliance, of intimidating voters successful assorted locations. In total, 2,028 candidates are successful the fray for the predetermination that volition pave the mode for the handover of powerfulness from the interim authorities to an elected administration. Credible aboriginal trends of the results are expected to trickle successful by aboriginal greeting connected Friday (February 13, 2026), enactment sources said.
MEA refuses to contradict U.S. claims connected India’s Russian lipid imports
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has once again refused to straight contradict claims by the United States authorities connected Russian lipid imports connected Thursday (February 12, 2026). This comes aft a elder U.S. authoritative said that India had reduced its purchases of Russian crude, arsenic the U.S. “wanted [India] to.” The authorities expressed restitution astatine the amendments made by the U.S. medication to its “fact sheet” connected the India-U.S. commercialized deal. “The amendments successful the U.S. information expanse bespeak the shared understandings contained successful the Joint Statement,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said. The associated connection does not incorporate immoderate notation of Russian lipid purchases.
Trump revokes ground of U.S. clime regularisation and ends conveyance emanation standards
The medication of President Donald Trump connected Thursday (February 12, 2026) announced the repeal of a technological uncovering that greenhouse state emissions endanger quality health, removing the ineligible ground for national clime regulations. It besides ended consequent national greenhouse state emanation standards for each vehicles and engines of exemplary years 2012 to 2027. The determination represents the astir sweeping clime alteration argumentation rollback by the medication to date, aft a drawstring of regulatory cuts and different moves intended to unfetter fossil substance improvement and stymie the rollout of cleanable energy.
No conclusions reached yet successful ongoing AI-171 clang probe, says probe assemblage
The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), which is probing the clang of the Air India Flight AI-171 successful Ahmedabad connected June 12, 2025, has said the probe remains underway and no last conclusions person been reached. In a connection connected Thursday (February 12, 2026), the AAIB categorically dismissed reports suggesting that the enquiry has been finalised, terming them “incorrect and speculative”. “The probe is inactive successful progress. No last conclusions person been reached,” the bureau said successful effect to a study successful the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, which claimed Indian investigators whitethorn reason successful their last study that the clang was caused by 1 of the pilots shutting disconnected the engines by moving the substance power switches.
PM Modi to inaugurate caller PMO astatine ‘Seva Teerth’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi volition connected Friday (February 13, 2026) inaugurate the caller Prime Minister’s Office ‘Seva Teerth’, and the Central Secretariat buildings, Kartavya Bhavan 1 and 2. The PM volition besides preside implicit the past gathering of the Union Cabinet astatine the South Block. An epoch volition extremity erstwhile the iconic North and South Blocks are vacated. The North and South Blocks initially housed the British government, and were taken implicit by the authorities of autarkic India successful 1947. They were designed by Herbert Baker, a modern of Edwin Lutyens, the designer of ‘Lutyen’s Delhi’.
Nationwide onslaught draws 30 crore participants, accidental commercialized unions
More than 30 crore workers, farmers, cultivation workers, and different groups of employees participated successful the wide onslaught connected Thursday (February 12, 2026) to protest against the 4 Labour Codes and the escaped commercialized deals being struck with the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, the cardinal commercialized unions said. The associated onslaught telephone was fixed by the CTUs and the workplace unions of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM). Their charter included demands to retreat the Draft Seeds Bill, the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Act, the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act and the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill.
Congress demands Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri’s resignation
The Congress connected Thursday (February 12, 2026) demanded the resignation of Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Puri aft his sanction came up successful the Epstein Files. Responding to Mr. Puri’s mentation that helium was successful interaction with the precocious Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who was charged with superior enactment offences, arsenic portion of his “professional exchanges,” Congress person Pawan Khera asked wherefore helium organised a sojourn for LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman erstwhile determination was a full-fledged Indian Embassy. “Hardeep Puri astatine that clip was a retired diplomat. In what capableness was helium organising Hoffman’s India visit?” Mr. Khera asked successful a video that helium posted connected his X handle.
Did Sonam Wangchuk spot videos cited arsenic impervious for detention nether NSA, Supreme Court asks Govt.
The Supreme Court connected Thursday (February 12, 2026) asked the Centre if clime activistic Sonam Wangchuk was capable to see, connected his part, four videos the authorities are citing, among different clips, to warrant his detention nether the National Security Act (NSA). Appearing earlier a Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and P.B. Varale, Additional Solicitor General K.M. Nataraj said the authorities banked connected 23 videos to bid detention, and everything was supplied to Mr. Wangchuk. However, the activist’s lawyers maintained 4 videos were not successful the pen thrust fixed to Mr. Wangchuk and that helium has repeatedly sought the videos from the authorities.
Not intimidated by Substantive Motion, says K.C. Venugopal
Dismissing BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s determination to initiate a “Substantive Motion” against Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, Congress wide caput K.C. Venugopal connected Thursday (February 12, 2026) said the enactment was not intimidated by specified steps. “We are not bothered astir immoderate Privilege oregon Substantive Motions. If you privation to bent us, we are acceptable for that also,” Mr. Venugopal told reporters successful the Parliament complex. His remarks came aft Mr. Dubey told reporters successful the Parliament analyzable that helium had submitted a announcement to initiate a Substantive Motion against Mr. Gandhi to cancel his rank of the House.
Udit Narayan’s archetypal woman alleges non-consensual uterus surgery, demands justice
Bollywood vocalist Udit Narayan Jha landed successful blistery h2o connected Thursday (February 12, 2026) aft his alleged archetypal wife, Ranjana Jha, recently filed a ailment astatine a women’s constabulary station successful the Supaul territory of northbound Bihar. She levelled charges that her uterus was removed without her consent during an cognition successful 1996 successful Delhi by her husband, Udit Narayan Jha, and his 2 brothers. Ranjana Jha, successful her ailment to the police, said that she was joined to Udit Narayan Jha connected December 7, 1984 nether Hindu rituals.
Quad ‘very important platform’: Top U.S. South Asia diplomat Paul Kapur
The U.S. views the Quad (Quadrilateral Strategic Dialogue comprising India, the U.S., Japan, and Australia) arsenic a “very important platform,” according to S. Paul Kapur, the apical Trump medication diplomat for the South and Central Asian region. “… The Quad is simply a precise important platform. It has done well,” Assistant Secretary Kapur told the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee connected South & Central Asia connected Wednesday (February 11, 2026), characterising India arsenic an “active” and “important” participant. The U.S. and India were looking to grow defence exercises and interoperability pursuing the signing of their latest ten-year defence practice model (October 2025), according to Mr. Kapur.
