Month: February 2026

Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), the political party founded by Tamil cinema star Vijay, has announced that application forms will be available from February 6 for those interested in contesting the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections under the party’s banner.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Tuesday asserted that the people of the state would teach the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a fitting lesson in the upcoming elections, rejecting what he described as the party’s attempts to impose divisive politics on Tamil Nadu.

Emergency power outages struck several Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, Zhytomyr, and Kharkiv, as well as Moldova’s capital Chisinau, due to a technical malfunction affecting cross-border power lines, officials said.

A new round of US-brokered talks on ending Russia’s war on Ukraine is set to go ahead this week after a brief postponement, a senior Kremlin official said Monday, with negotiations taking place against a backdrop of continued front-line fighting and deadly long-range attacks on rear areas.

A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to 10 years in jail in two separate corruption cases related to alleged irregularities in allocations of land in a government housing project.

Pakistan captain Salman Ali Agha on Monday said the players will follow whatever instructions are given to them by the government or the cricket Board with regards to boycotting the marquee T20 World Cup match against India on February 15 in Colombo.

The Sports Ministry is keen to bring Formula 1 back to the Buddh International Circuit in the near future and has already initiated dialogues with the track authorities to revive the race last held in India in 2013.