Top news of the day | February 8, 2026

PM Modi in Malaysia highlights: India, Malaysia renew pledges to boost trade, collaboration

India and Malaysia on Sunday (February 8, 2026) unveiled several initiatives to further shore up cooperation in areas of defence and security, semiconductor and trade after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held wide-ranging talks with his Malaysian counterpart Anwar Ibrahim.

T20 World Cup: BCB chief in Lahore as ICC, PCB hold talks over India match boycott

Bangladesh Cricket Board president Amin ul Islam has arrived in Lahore ahead of a virtual meeting involving the PCB and ICC, amid efforts to resolve the standoff over Pakistan’s proposed boycott of its T20 World Cup match against India.

India today negotiating trade deals from a position of strength, confidence: Piyush Goyal

The India of today is negotiating trade deals from a position of strength and confidence that it can offer a future market of $35 trillion, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Sunday (February 8, 2026).“That’s what our negotiating strength is,” Mr. Goyal told PTI Videos in an interview. His first step after India-U.S. reached an agreement on tariffs, seen as a first step toward finalising a Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA).

Assam BJP deletes ‘point-blank shot’ video; Congress calls it incitement, seeks action

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Assam unit has deleted a video posted on social media that showed Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma appearing to shoot at framed photographs of Muslims on a wall bearing the words “No mercy.” One of the people shown in the video appeared to be Gaurav Gogoi, the Assam Congress president and Jorhat MP, depicted wearing a white skullcap.

Supreme Court seeks Centre, T.N. responses to depositors’ plea that CBI must probe multi-State Ponzi scheme

The Supreme Court has sought a response from the Governments of India and the State of Tamil Nadu in a plea by depositors from T.N. for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into an alleged Ponzi scheme run by the Universal Trading Solutions Private Limited, a Coimbatore-based company.

Ready to make available 8,505 Group B officers for SIR: West Bengal to Election Commission

The West Bengal government has informed the Election Commission that it is ready to make available 8,505 Group B officers of the state or its instrumentalities for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the State, sources said. This assumes significance as the counsel appearing for the poll panel had argued in the Supreme Court on February 4, 2026, that the West Bengal government provided the services of only 80 Grade 2 officers for overseeing the SIR exercise.

Exit poll shows Japan PM Takaichi’s ruling bloc on path to win majority in lower house vote

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing coalition is almost certain to win a single-party majority in a key parliamentary election on Sunday (February 8, 2026), NHK public television and other major networks say, citing their exit poll results.

Bangladesh seeks U.N. help to probe killing of uprising leader

The Bangladeshi mission in Geneva had sent a diplomatic note requesting the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to support a “fair, impartial and expeditious” probe into the killing, the interim government’s press wing said.

T20 World Cup 2026 | Seifert, Phillips counterattack in style to take New Zealand home

When Mujeeb Ur Rahman castled Finn Allen and Rachin Ravindra off successive deliveries in the second over of New Zealand’s chase, Afghanistan would have believed it had a chance to recreate its feat against the same opponent from two years ago.

T20 World Cup 2026 | Bethell, Brooks fifties power England to 184/7 against Nepal

Jacob Bethell (55) and skipper Harry Brook (53) peeled off attacking fifties to power England to a formidable 184 for seven in their T20 World Cup Group C opener against Nepal on Sunday (February 8, 2026).