Find today's news in pics from India and around the world for April 08, 2026
Pro-government demonstrators chant slogans as they hold Iranian flags and a poster of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in a gathering after announcement of a two-week ceasefire in the war with the United States and Israel, at the Enqelab-e-Eslami, or Islamic Revolution, Square, in Tehran, Iran. | Photo: AP/Vahid Salemi
Activists protest near the White House in Washington. | Photo: AP/Jose Luis Magana
Polling officials check election materials on the eve of voting in the Kerala Assembly elections, at Ernakulam in Kochi. | Photo: PTi
In this image posted on April 8, 2026, West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC candidate from Bhabanipur constituency, Mamata Banerjee, files her nomination in the state Assembly elections, in Kolkata. | Photo: @AITCofficial/X via PTI
People wait to submit their petitions before the Special Tribunal after their names were deleted from the Special Intensive Revision final voter list ahead of West Bengal Assembly Election, at Ranaghat, in Nadia district. | Photo: PTI
Polling officials carry Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) and other election material as they depart for their respective polling booths on the eve of Assam Assembly Election, at a distribution centre, Tezpur, in Sonitpur. | Photo: PTI
North Tripura: Polling officials carrying election materials depart from a distribution centre, to polling booths on the eve of Bye-election for the 56-AC Dharmanagar assembly seat, in North Tripura district. | Photo: PTI
Indian Youth Congress members stage a protest against the use of "derogatory language" against party chief Mallikarjun Kharge by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI/Karma Bhutia
People raise slogans and hold portraits of late Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in view of the two-week ceasefire agreement between Iran, the United States and Israel, in Jammu. | Photo: PTI
Security beefed up in the aftermath of violence that broke out following a bomb attack in Bishnupur on Tuesday, leaving two children dead, in Imphal, Manipur. | Photo: PTI
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK candidate from Kolathur constituency, MK Stalin, interacts with a vegetable vendor during a voter outreach ahead of the state Assembly elections, in Tiruvannamalai. | Photo: PTI
Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait speaks to PTI, during a visit, in Prayagraj. | Photo: PTI
Workers make sashes depicting Bharatiya Janata Party’s logo, in Surat. | Photo: PTI
A worker arranges LPG cylinders at a gas agency amid the ongoing supply crunch, in Malda district, West Bengal. | Photo: PTI
In this image posted on April 8, 2026, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar with Election Commissioners S S Sandhu and Vivek Joshi during a meeting with Trinamool Congress delegation members. | Photo: @ECISVEEP/X via PTI
Police stop Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members as they stage a protest demanding the removal of liquor shops located near educational institutions, in Bhopal. | Photo: PTI
Congress candidate from Berhampore constituency, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, campaigns ahead of the West Bengal Assembly Election, in Murshidabad district. | Photo: PTI