Vance meets Pakistan PM Sharif on sidelines ahead of ceasefire talks

U.S. Vice President JD Vance ‌held talks with Pakistani ⁠Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday (April 11, 2026), ‌the White House and ‌Mr. Sharif’s ‌office ⁠said, with ⁠special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s ‌son-in-law Jared Kushner also taking part. “Prime Minister expressed ‌the hope that these talks would serve ⁠as a stepping stone toward ‌durable peace in the region,” Mr. Sharif’s office said.

BJP will implement UCC, prevent Bengalis from becoming a ‘minority’: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (April 11, 2026) promised to implement the Uniform Civil Code in West Bengal to end what he called the “politics of appeasement”. He said the BJP will not let Bengalis become a “minority” in the State. Addressing a rally at Jangipur in the Muslim-majority Murshidabad district, Mr. Modi said the BJP’s election manifesto, released by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday, is a roadmap to end Trinamool Congress’s ‘maha jungleraj’ in West Bengal.

Nitish Kumar expected to resign as Bihar CM on April 13

Ahead of power transition in Bihar, senior leaders of ruling JD(U) met Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at his official residence 1, Anne Marg in Patna on Saturday (April 11, 2026). The meeting which lasted for about two hours, mostly revolved around the formation of the next government in the State, said party sources. Mr. Kumar has started shifting his belongings, mostly furniture, from his official CM residence to 7, Circular Road residence where he is expected to shift after resigning from his post.

LPG tanker Jag Vikram crosses Strait of Hormuz; first India-flagged vessel to transit after Iran-U.S. ceasefire

An India-flagged liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanker, Jag Vikram, has crossed the Strait of Hormuz, marking the first such transit by an Indian vessel since a temporary two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran was announced, according to ship-tracking data. The tanker moved through the strategic waterway between Friday night (April 10, 2026) and Saturday morning (April 11, 2026) and was located in the Gulf of Oman, east of the Strait on Saturday (April 11, 2026) afternoon, proceeding eastwards.

Reiterated demand for Hasina extradition with India: Bangladesh Foreign Minister Rahman

Bangladesh “reiterated” its demand for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s extradition during talks in Delhi, said Bangladesh Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman in Port Louis, Mauritius, on Friday (April 10, 2026), also outlooking a visit by newly sworn in Prime Minister Tarique Rahman to India. The request had been made by the previous caretaker government under the India-Bangladesh extradition treaty and Mr. Khalilur Rahman’s comments confirm the new BNP government intends to take the process forward. Mr. Rahman held talks with National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar during his visit to Delhi this week, before travelling to Mauritius to attend the 9th Indian Ocean Conference.

Pressure on Meghalaya council to prepare tribal-only poll rolls

Several pressure groups have petitioned the chief of a tribal council in Meghalaya to amend existing laws and create a separate electoral roll for the council elections, excluding non-tribal voters. The elections to the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC), scheduled for April 10, were postponed following violence related to nominations filed by non-tribal candidates, mostly Bengali-speaking Muslims. Two people were killed in March after the police opened fire on mobs that went on the rampage in the Chibinang area of the State’s West Garo Hills district.

BJP tried to invalidate my candidature in Bhabanipur: Mamata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday (April 11, 2026) claimed that the BJP tried to get her candidature from the Bhabanipur seat in south Kolkata cancelled by attempting to file two false cases against her, but the bid was foiled by Trinamool Congress workers and the public. Ms. Banerjee, while addressing an election rally at Keshiyari in Paschim Medinipur district, accused the BJP of “forcefully” deleting the names of 90 lakh voters from the electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).

Trump says empty tankers heading to U.S. to load up with oil and gas

 U.S. ​President Donald Trump said on Saturday (April 11, 2026) ‌that large numbers of completely ​empty oil tankers ⁠were heading to the United States to load up with oil and ‌gas. “Massive numbers of completely empty oil tankers, ‌some of the largest anywhere ‌in ⁠the World, are heading, ⁠right now, to the United States to load up with the best ​and “sweetest” oil and gas ‌anywhere in the World. We have more oil than the next two largest oil ‌economies combined - and higher quality,” Mr. ​Trump said in a Truth Social post.

Iran’s new Supreme Leader has severe and disfiguring wounds, sources say

Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is still recovering from severe facial and leg injuries suffered in the airstrike that killed his father at the beginning of the war, three people close to his inner circle told Reuters. Mr. Khamenei’s face was disfigured in the attack on the Supreme Leader’s compound in ​central Tehran and he suffered a significant injury to one or both legs, all three sources said.

U.S. official denies report Washington agreed to unfreeze Iran assets

A senior U.S. official denied on Saturday (April 11, 2026) a report saying Washington had agreed to release Iran’s frozen assets held in Qatar and other foreign banks. Iranian and U.S. delegations have arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan for talks aimed at ending the war in West Asia. Tehran earlier said any agreement on a permanent end to fighting must include the unfreezing of sanctioned Iranian assets and an end to Israel’s war on Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Energy, defence and trade on agenda as Misri heads to Europe amid West Asia crisis

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will undertake a three-day visit to Paris and Berlin beginning Sunday (April 12, 2026) for high-level talks on energy, trade, and defence — sectors that have become increasingly critical amid a fractured geopolitical landscape. Mr. Misri’s visit to France and Germany comes at the end of his trip to the U.S., where he met Secretary of State Marco Rubio and a number of other senior officials of the Trump administration.

Gap between rich and poor nations growing even wider: UN report

The gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider as actions agreed to by many countries last year, including overhauling the major global financial institutions, remain unfulfilled promises, a U.N. report concluded. The report assessing the blueprint adopted in Seville, Spain, last June to narrow the gap and achieve U.N. development goals for 2030 was issued ahead of next week’s spring meetings in Washington of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, the main global financial institutions promoting economic growth.

IPL 2026 PBKS vs SRH | Abhishek’s fifty carries SRH to 219/6 against PBKS

A rollicking 74 off 28 balls by Abhishek Sharma carried Sunrisers Hyderabad to a competitive 219 for six against Punjab Kings in an IPL match on Saturday (April 11, 2026). Abhishek, who hammered five fours and eight sixes, shared a 120-run alliance with opening partner Travis Head. Their stand came in just 8.1 overs, but the ouster of Abhishek and Head gave PBKS make a comeback into the match.