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Iran assemblage selecting Supreme Leader reaches decision; sanction not announced: members
Iran was preparing to uncover its caller ultimate leader connected Sunday (March 8, 2026), aft U.S.-Israeli aerial strikes destroyed substance dumps and triggered fires that choked overmuch of Tehran successful a heavy broad of smoke. The clerical assemblage tasked with choosing a successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — killed conscionable implicit a week agone successful the strikes that triggered the warfare successful West Asia — has reached a determination but not yet named the caller leader. The Israeli subject besides warned it would prosecute each person who seeks to name a successor for Khamenei, referring to the clerical assemblage charged with choosing the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader. Meanwhile, the U.S. and Israel deed 5 lipid facilities with overnight strikes successful and adjacent the Iranian superior that killed 4 people, an authoritative told authorities TV connected Sunday (March 8, 2026).
PM Modi vows to decision Trinamool’s ‘arrogant’ authorities aft ‘insult’ to President
Prime Minister Narendra Modi deed retired astatine the Trinamool Congress, saying the enactment “insulted the President, the Constitution and antiauthoritarian principles.” He said the “arrogant politics” of the Trinamool Congress volition soon beryllium defeated. Amid a enactment implicit “lapses” astatine President Droupadi Murmu’s lawsuit successful West Bengal, the Centre has sought a response from the State Government connected Sunday (March 8, 2026) implicit the “violations” of the rules related to protocol, venue and way arrangements during her visit, sources said. In his missive to the West Bengal Chief Secretary, Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan sought a study from him implicit usurpation of the ‘Blue Book’ rules of protocol, venue and way arrangements, a authorities root said.
Nishant Kumar, lad of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, officially joins JD(U)
Nishant Kumar, lad of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, connected Sunday (March 8, 2026) officially joined the ruling Janata Dal-United astatine enactment office successful Patna. All apical enactment leaders were contiguous connected the occasion, though his father, Mr. Nitish Kumar, was conspicuously absent. “I’ll effort to instrumentality guardant what my papa (Mr. Nitish Kumar) has done for the radical of Bihar… volition effort to instrumentality it (the developmental works) to the radical of Bihar,” Nishant Kumar, 50, said connected the juncture of his joining the party.
My resignation arsenic Bengal Governor ‘a conscious decision’: Ananda Bose
CV Ananda Bose connected Sunday (March 8, 2026) said his resignation arsenic West Bengal Governor was a “conscious decision” and asserted that the reasons for it volition stay confidential till the close clip comes. Speaking to reporters astatine the Kolkata airport, Mr. Bose said helium would instrumentality to Bengal to formed his vote. “I took a conscious determination to enactment successful my papers, the reasons for which volition stay confidential till the close clip arrives,” Mr. Bose said. “The rules of this crippled see knowing erstwhile it ends,” helium added.
PM Modi inaugurates 2 caller Delhi Metro corridors
Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Sunday (March 8, 2026) inaugurated 2 caller Delhi Metro corridors and laid the instauration chromatic for 3 much metro lines, providing nonstop connectivity to respective important locations successful New Delhi. He besides inaugurated and laid the instauration chromatic of projects worthy ₹15,200 crore nether the cardinal government’s General Pool Residential Accommodation (GPRA) redevelopment plan. The full outgo of each projects is astir ₹33,500 crore.
BJP misusing ‘Vanish Commission’ to erase morganatic voters from electoral rolls, alleges Mamata
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s sit-in against alleged arbitrary deletions successful the post-SIR elector list entered the 3rd time connected Sunday (March 8, 2026), with the TMC supremo accusing the BJP of “misusing the Vanish Commission to erase morganatic voters from electoral rolls”. Her remark comes connected a time erstwhile the afloat seat of the Election Commission is scheduled to get successful Kolkata to reappraisal canvass preparedness up of the State Assembly elections. Ms. Banerjee besides alleged that the state is witnessing an “unprecedented and nonstop assault” connected its antiauthoritarian foundations.
Balendra Shah’s RSP makes history, registers landmark triumph successful Nepal election
Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah’s RSP is each acceptable to signifier the authorities successful Nepal aft securing a sweeping triumph successful the important wide election, the results of which were declared connected Sunday (March 8, 2026), decimating the established parties successful the country. Popularly known arsenic “Balen”, the 35-year-old prime-ministerial campaigner of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) defeated four-time erstwhile Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli, the seat of Nepal’s bequest enactment — the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN-UML) — by a immense borderline of astir 50,000 votes successful the Jhapa-5 constituency. Mr. Balen secured 68,348 votes against 74-year-old Oli’s 18,734, the Election Commission (EC) said.
Sri Lanka infirmary releases 22 rescued Iranian sailors
Sri Lanka discharged from infirmary 22 Iranian sailors who were plucked from beingness rafts aft their warship was sunk by a U.S. submarine, officials said connected Sunday (March 8, 2026). The sailors were treated astatine Karapitiya Hospital successful the confederate larboard metropolis of Galle since Wednesday (March 4, 2026) aft the IRIS Dena was torpedoed conscionable extracurricular Sri Lanka’s territorial waters. “Another 10 are inactive undergoing treatment,” a aesculapian serviceman astatine the infirmary told AFP.
Families of formation MH370 passengers impulse Malaysia to widen search
Families of those aboard Malaysia Airlines formation MH370 connected Sunday (March 8, 2026) urged the Malaysian authorities to extend a declaration it signed with deep-sea exploration steadfast Ocean Infinity to continue a hunt for the craft that disappeared 12 years ago. The Boeing 777 was carrying 227 passengers and 12 unit erstwhile it vanished en way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing connected March 8, 2014, becoming 1 of the world’s enduring aviation mysteries. Malaysia’s Air Accident Investigation Bureau said connected Sunday (March 8, 2026), however, that operations had not yielded immoderate findings truthful far, aft 2 hunt phases covering 28 days and astir 7,571 quadrate kilometres (2,923 quadrate miles) of seabed.
