Om Birla to represent India, as PM Modi declines Yunus invite to swearing-in ceremony for Tarique Rahman
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will represent India at the swearing-in of Tarique Rahman as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, the Ministry of External Affairs announced on Sunday (February 15, 2026). An invitation to the February 17 ceremony was sent by Bangladesh’s interim advisor Muhammad Yunus to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, a day after Mr. Modi and Mr. Rahman, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief, spoke over the telephone. However, citing the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to Mumbai that day, and the Artificial Intelligence Summit in Delhi this week, Mr. Modi declined the invitation. Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and other officials are expected to accompany Mr. Birla.
Tamil Nadu SIR: Final electoral rolls to be published on February 23
The final electoral roll in Tamil Nadu will be published on February 23, following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), Chief Electoral Officer Archana Patnaik said on Sunday (February 15, 2026). Following an order of the Supreme Court of India, the Election Commission of India (ECI), on January 30 said that they had instructed that the list of the names of the persons figuring in the category of “logical discrepancies” shall be displayed at the gram panchayat bhawans, public places and Taluka/Sub-Division, including the w
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