Days ahead of the April 25 polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced that it will not contest the mayoral election in Delhi. The party currently lacks the numbers in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) holds a majority.

“We have decided that we will not field an Aam Aadmi Party candidate in the Mayor’s elections this time. BJP should elect its own Mayor, BJP should form its own standing committee and should rule Delhi without any excuses,” AAP Delhi President Saurabh Bharadwaj said today.

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died, the Vatican announced in a video statement on Monday.

“At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the home of the Father. His entire life was dedicated to the service of the Lord and of his Church," said Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, in the official announcement.

Christopher Wood, global head of equity strategy at Jefferies has recommended investors ‘sell’ US stocks and hike exposure to India as the flip-flop of tariffs by US president Donald Trump has put the markets on the edge.

With US stocks still trading at 19.2x forward earnings, global investors, Wood wrote in his recent note to investors, GREED & fear, should continue to reduce positions in favour of Europe, China and India.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has claimed that the Election Commission of India was "compromised," alleging that there was "something very wrong with the system."

The Leader of Opposition (LoP), who is in the US on an official visit, was addressing the Indian diaspora in Boston on Sunday, April 20.

In yet another incident of violence against minorities in Bangladesh, a Hindu leader in Dinajpur's Biral upazila was kidnapped and brutally assaulted to death, as confirmed by the local police and family members. The man, Bhabesh Chandra, was a prominent leader of the Hindu community in the area who also acted as the Vice-President of the Biral unit of the Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad, local media reported.

A building collapsed in Mustafabad area of Delhi in the early hours of Saturday, with several people feared trapped under the debris, officials said.

Sandeep Lamba, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) North East District, told ANI that the incident took place at 3 am.

Local search engine Just Dial has reported a 61 per cent year-on-year increase in net profit in FY25 to Rs 584.2 crore.

For the January-March quarter of FY25, Just Dial logged a profit of Rs 157.6 crore.

Revenue for FY25 was Rs 1,141.9 crore, reflecting a 9.5 per cent growth over FY24.

United States President Donald Trump on Friday (local time) said that the US may "take a pass" on its efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine if either side makes negotiations too difficult, CNN reported.

"If, for some reason, one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we're just going to say, 'You're foolish, you're foolish. You're horrible people,' and we're just going to take a pass," Trump said.

A 23-year-old student from Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district, lost her life after a hit-and-run accident in Denton, Texas, just weeks before completing her master’s degree, reported The Times of India.

Vangavolu Deepthi, who was pursuing her MS in Computer and Information Science at the University of North Texas, had graduated from Narasaraopet Engineering College in Guntur in 2023.

The finance ministry on Friday issued a clarification rejecting rumours that it is considering levying GST on UPI transactions above ₹2,000, calling such claims "completely false, misleading and without any basis".

"Currently, there is no such proposal before the government," the finance ministry said.

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