Morning Digest: Ahead of bypoll result, Congress suspends ex-Datia MLA; Glasgow bids farewell to CWG with handover to Ahmedabad, and more
This news digest covers the Commonwealth Games handover to Ahmedabad, political tensions in India involving the Congress party and MP Pappu Yadav, and a deadly suicide bombing in Pakistan. It also notes the upcoming press conference by deposed Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi.
Why it matters
The summary provides a snapshot of significant geopolitical and domestic political developments across South Asia.
A month before the expected visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman for the India-chaired BRICS summit, the country’s deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club in New Delhi on Wednesday (August 5, 2026), the second anniversary of her arrival in India following the monsoon uprising of 2024 in Dhaka.
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