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Rajya Sabha Chairman accepts merger of 7 AAP MPs with BJP

New Delhi, Apr 27 (PTI) Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan on Monday officially accepted the merger of seven Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MPs with the BJP, reducing the strength of Arvind Kejriwal’s party in the Upper House to three. After this transition, the BJP’s strength in the Upper House has increased to 113. Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Sandeep Pathak, Vikramjit Sahney, Swati Maliwal, and Rajinder Gupta are the seven MPs who have merged. The Rajya Sabha website now shows that the seven MPs are part of the BJP list of members. The seven MPs had on Friday

Latest US military strike on alleged drug boat kills 3 in eastern Pacific

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2026 (AP) — The latest U.S. military strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed three people Sunday, according to a social media post by U.S. Southern Command. The Trump administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has gone on since early September and killed at least 186 people in total. Other strikes have taken place in the Caribbean Sea. The military has not provided evidence that any of the vessels were carrying drugs. After Sunday’s attack, Southern Command posted a video on X showing a

Paradox of video games: between glorification of violence, emergence of moral conscience

Bordeaux (France), Apr 27 (The Conversation) Since the first violent games of the 1970s, the debate on the impact of video games has been divisive: do they corrupt or educate? Our research shows that the key lies less in the violence itself than in the way that games, through their design and storytelling, evoke emotions in players – between indifference and moral awareness. On February 5, 2026, during an interview, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, expressed the fact that “  [T]he violence that is taking hold in society among the youngest […] is also linked to the fact

Stock markets bounce back after three days of decline

A screen displays an image of U.S. President Donald Trump at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai, India. (Photo: Reuters

Mumbai, Apr 27 (PTI) Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded in early trade on Monday after three days of decline, tracking a rally in Sun Pharma and a positive trend in global equity markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 546.64 points to 77,210.85 in early trade. The 50-share NSE Nifty climbed 169.55 points to 24,067.50. From the 30-Sensex firms, Sun Pharma climbed over 4 per cent after the company said it will acquire US-based Organon & Co in an all-cash deal at an enterprise valuation of USD 11.75 billion. Adani Ports, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Tata Steel and Mahindra & Mahindra

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