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- Former Devaswom Board president N. Vasu was released from the Thiruvananthapuram Special Sub-Jail on statutory bail in connection with the Sabarimala gold theft case.
- Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri on Wednesday rejected the notion that users could be clinically addicted to social media, as he testified in a landmark California trial over whether his company knowingly hooked children on its platform for profit.
- Ukraine will only hold elections once it has security guarantees in place and a ceasefire with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday, pushing back at suggestions he was planning to stage fresh ballots under US pressure.
- Canadian police on Wednesday said an 18-year-old local resident carried out what Prime Minister Mark Carney called an act of "unheard-of cruelty" in murdering eight people and wounding dozens more in a remote mining town.
- James Van Der Beek, a heartthrob who starred in coming-of-age dramas at the dawn of the new millennium, shooting to fame playing the titular character in "Dawson's Creek" and in later years mocking his own hunky persona, has died. He was 48.
- Newly anointed Mumbai Mayor Ritu Tawde on Wednesday said removing illegal Bangladeshi hawkers who have encroached upon footpaths, strengthening healthcare, and improving solid waste management will be her key focus areas.
- A 17-year-old student in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol missed his Class 12 English board exam on Tuesday after being jailed as an adult. Satyam Prajapati, a Congress worker, claims he was released only hours before the test began.
- US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a meeting at the White House that nuclear talks with Iran must continue.
- Police here have recovered a mobile phone that the father of the three sisters, who died by suicide in Ghaziabad, sold to a shopkeeper a fortnight before the horrific incident and sent it for forensic examination, an official said on Wednesday.
- Ahead of the India AI-Impact Summit 2026, the MCD has removed nearly 380 unauthorised banners, hoardings and pole kiosks from several locations as part of an ongoing drive of the corporation to clear public spaces of illegal advertisements
- The Enforcement Directorate has summoned former Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh and his son Raninder Singh for questioning in connection with a Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) violation case.
- A man allegedly stabbed his parents to death at their home in Vignan Nagar on Tuesday morning.
- Asserting that access to safe and trustworthy artificial intelligence is a fundamental right for the first generation coming of age in the "Intelligence Age", OpenAI on Wednesday unveiled a dedicated safety blueprint for Indian teenagers.
- Things escalated sharply from there, with the SUV driver trying to run the man over and then driving off at high speed with him on the bonnet.
- Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched a blistering attack on Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi today over his "sold Bharat Mata" remark.
- Mohan, the alleged designated driver of the luxury sports car, said he lost control of the vehicle when Shivam, who was on the adjacent seat, suffered a sudden seizure.
- Mexico's president said Wednesday that her government was investigating the US shutdown of a border airport, which US officials linked to a Mexican cartel drone breach of US airspace.
- Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said a crucial probe by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation is underway into the plane crash that killed Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, and urged that conclusions be drawn only after the investigation ends.
- A police constable in Maharashtra's Navi Mumbai has been accused of murdering his wife's lover and driving 191 Kilometres with the body to dispose of it.
- Taking the law into their own hands yet again, workers from the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) assaulted a staff member of a popular coaching centre in Nashik for allegedly insulting students who were speaking in Marathi.
- Feb 11 – A deadly school shooting in a remote mountain community in British Columbia left nine people dead on Tuesday, including the shooter, in one of the worst mass killings in Canada's history. Police identified the person who carried out the shooting as an 18-year-old woman with mental health issues but did not give a motive for the attack.
- Feb 11 – Colombian presidential hopeful and self-described \"outsider\" Abelardo De La Espriella would launch a military offensive to restore security and boost the economy, he told Reuters on Wednesday.
- CHISINAU, Feb 11 – Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu said on Wednesday that all Moldovans had to obey the law, including parishioners facing public order offences for barging into a church handed by the country's court system to a rival branch of the Orthodox faith.
- MEXICO CITY, Feb 11 – Mexico's Senate on Wednesday approved a presidential proposal to reduce the legal workweek to 40 hours from 48, overriding resistance from both unions and the opposition with a revamped version of a previously proposed reform.
- Half of that went to just 4 schools: Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, Stanford and Harvard.
- PRISTINA, Feb 11 – Kosovo’s parliament voted in a new cabinet on Wednesday led by nationalist Prime Minister Albin Kurti, after more than a year of political deadlock in Europe's youngest state, officials from Kurti’s party said.
- It's the first signal of what could be a major shift in security strategy under Venezuela’s new leader.
- WASHINGTON, Feb 11 – A lawyer leading efforts to bolster U.S. President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 presidential election was \"stolen\" pushed a U.S. intelligence contractor to search for evidence of voter fraud in that race, two people familiar with the events said.
- More than 1,100 people have been held at the former US Army base since at least early 2025.
- They had been deployed as part of the international coalition against the Islamic State group.
- Mr Ratcliffe said Britain had been “colonised by immigrants”.
- While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Feb 12, 2026.
- The foundation said it “regrets having any employees interact with Epstein in any way”.
- MOGADISHU, Feb 11 – A 70-year-old passenger on a plane that crashed on the seashore in Somalia's capital described horror and panic on board before the aircraft made a dramatic landing in knee-deep water, with all crew and travellers unharmed.
- Elections in Ukraine have been effectively suspended since Russia invaded in 2022, due to martial law.
- Some said they were considering legal action in response.
- Police revise the death toll down to nine from the initially reported 10.
- Mr Netanyahu's visit to the White House was more muted than usual and closed to the press.
- Prosecutors in Paris will decide whether to open a criminal investigation.
- A down payment from Washington to the UN would come within weeks.
- Mr Lee led the amalgamation of three banks to form OCBC Bank in 1932.
- White-collar workers who are at risk could spend more time on side hustles.
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 70.56 points, or 0.14 per cent, to 50,117.58, preliminary data showed.
- Non-farm payrolls increased by 130,000 jobs in January after a downwardly revised 48,000 rise in December.
- Across the broader market, gainers edged out losers 374 to 230.
- The cuts come amid what the world's second-biggest brewer called "challenging market conditions".
- The work would mark a milestone for ByteDance, which has long sought to develop chips to support its AI workloads
- The silver market’s sell-off since the end of Jan has erased most of the gains made in the first weeks of 2026.
- After a strong 2025, the supermarket chain’s valuations look demanding, said the OCBC report.
- Businesses ask, associations collate industry’s needs, apex trade chambers focus on the economy.
- The danger now is whether President Donald Trump’s unpredictable policies alienate US allies further.
- Investors are trying to avoid getting caught owning any company with the slightest risk of being displaced.
- The announcement came even as the group’s China portfolio was hit by revaluation losses.
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 43.15 points, or 0.08 per cent, to 50,179.02.
- One of the key challenges that SMEs face is expanding into overseas markets, said panellists.
- The app’s co-founder reveals the difficulties and struggles he experienced in a newly-released podcast titled Inside Grab.
- TADM has received 28 claims lodged against OTSAW Digital and OTSAW Swisslog Healthcare Robotics.
- Its beverages revenue fell 5 per cent, due to the timing of Chinese New Year, the company said.
- Across the broader market, gainers edged out losers 379 to 222.
- An increase in worker renumeration was offset by labour productivity gains.