Answer questions, don't hide behind police: 'Untraceable' Pawan Khera tells Assam CM

IANS | April 8, 2026 8:02 PM

New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) As the Assam Police intensifies search operation for Congress leader Pawan Khera over "defamatory and malicious" charges against Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's wife Riniki Bhuyan Sarma, the Congress leader came out of hiding on Wednesday and demanded that the Chief Minister replies to grave charges against him and his wife, rather than muscle-flexing and "hiding behind the state police".

Awami League slams Yunus for pushing Bangladesh to 'brink of disaster'

IANS | April 8, 2026 5:05 PM

Dhaka, April 8 (IANS) With Bangladesh's measles outbreak having claimed over 128 lives already since March 15, including mostly children, Awami League leader Mohammad Ali Arafat on Wednesday accused the former Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of cancelling several public welfare initiatives introduced by the Sheikh Hasina-led government, including the national immunisation programme.