Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi has been detained after being removed from the protest site and taken away in a bus by police. He had earlier exited the bus carrying Opposition MPs and led the INDIA bloc’s march towards Jantar Mantar. The MPs are set to hold a sit-in on Wednesday (October 7, 2026), raising the issue of ‘vote chori’ and seeking the ouster of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, a day after the Opposition held an eight-hour dharna demanding a meeting with the Election Commissioners.

A large number of MPs of opposition parties got together for lunch at a restaurant at Janpath in central Delhi hosted by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, after which they boarded buses and headed towards Jantar Mantar, a designated protest site in central Delhi.

The front portion of a multistoreyed building in North East Delhi’s New Seemapuri collapsed around 3 p.m. on Wednesday (October 7, 2026). While two persons have been rescued, several others including the owners of the building are feared trapped.

Delhi Fire Service and local police have begun the rescue operation. Traffic police advised people to stay away from the site due to congested lanes and heavy traffic in the area. A DFS officer said that they received a call regarding the collapse at 3.30 p.m. and rushed fire tenders to the spot and some people might be trapped in the debris.

The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday (October 7, 2026) agreed to examine and take a call on hearing an application seeking a recall of a split verdict pronounced on September 23 in a case challenging the Election Commissioners’ appointments law.

The application, orally mentioned before Chief Justice of India Surya Kant by senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, questions why one of the judges on the apex court Bench, Justice Satish Chandra Sharma, did not reveal during multiple court proceedings that his son was a standing counsel for the Election Commission of India (ECI).

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday (October 7, 2026) raised the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 basis points to 5.50% and shifted its stance to calibrated tightening from neutral, signalling that rate cuts are off the table in the near term.

Consequently, the standing deposit facility (SDF) rate stands adjusted to 5.25%, and the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the bank rate to 5.75%. The policy repo rate, which was cut to 5.25% in December 2025, had been kept on hold at the next four MPC meetings. In the easing cycle, the MPC had cut the rate by 125 basis points in phases, from 6.50% to 5.25%, before increasing it on Wednesday (October 7). The previous, longer hold lasted 11 meetings, with the rate kept at 6.50% from April 2023 to December 2024.

Pakistani security forces have killed 18 terrorists in separate operations in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces, state media reported on Wednesday (October 7, 2026). According to Radio Pakistan, the security forces “killed 13 Fitna al-Khawarij terrorists” during an intelligence-based operation in North Waziristan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The federal government uses the term ‘Fitna al-Khawarij’ for terrorists belonging to the banned terror outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. Separately, five terrorists were killed in Balochistan’s Mastung district, according to state-run Pakistan Television. Weapons and ammunition were recovered from the slain terrorists, while clearance and search operations were under way in the area, the report said.

The Bombay High Court at Goa questioned the Election Commission of India (ECI) over the deletion of names during Special Intensive Revision (SIR). It said the electoral roll currently in force continues to remain valid until the draft roll is finalised under the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960.

A Division Bench comprising Justice Valmiki Menezes and Justice Amit Jamsandekar was hearing a petition filed by the Salgaonkar family, which said its names were dropped from the draft electoral roll despite having submitted Form 8 to change their address. The Bench told the ECI that the Supreme Court has held that the Commission has an obligation to ensure that citizens of India are included in the voter list.

A Liberia-flagged vessel carrying oil, with a crew of 23 Indian nationals, came under attack by drone boats off Russia’s Black Sea coast, Russian authorities said. “The crew has been saved and evacuated to shore,” a spokesman for the Russian Transport Ministry told the state-run TASS news agency. The Aframax Rio tanker came under attack on Tuesday (October 6, 2026) by unmanned surface vessels (USVs), and open fire is raging in the Black Sea waters, the Russian Transport Ministry said.

The Ministry said the vessel’s all Indian crew of 23 was saved and none was hurt according to preliminary data. The incident took place near Sochi, Russia’s popular resort city on the Black Sea coast. Russia’s Transport Minister Andrey Nikitin held a headquarters meeting on eliminating the consequences of the attack on the tanker Aframax Rio off the Black Sea coast. According to the report, the fire was so intense that firefighting could not begin initially.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (October 7, 2026) marked 25 years of his holding of public office by urging Indians to adopt a “We Will Do It” attitude with regard to hitting development goals by 2047.

He was addressing the “Viksit Bharat Sankalp Sabha” on his completion of 25 years in public office, first as Chief Minister of Gujarat (on October 7th, 2001) and later as Prime Minister of India in an unbroken sequence. “There is no reason for India to stop. A hundred years ago, there were less than 40 crore of us; today, we are more than 140 crore. The 140 crore citizens together will build a developed India by 2047, and we certainly will. We Will Do It’,” he said.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for the discovery of “non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis”, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday (October 7, 2026). The statement by the Academy said that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 recognises discoveries that have enabled chemists to drive chemical reactions that lead to homochirality.

“Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have provided a solution to a chemical mystery that is over a century old: how homochirality can emerge spontaneously. The chemical reactions they have developed are spectacular,” says Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. Mr. Kagan was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, and is associated with the Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France. Mr. Soai is from Hiroshima, Japan, and is affiliated with the Tokyo University of Science.

A day after his arrest following a heated confrontation with the police during polling in Rejinagar, AJUP chief and Nowda MLA Humayun Kabir on Wednesday (October 7, 2026) broke down in front of the media, hinted at quitting electoral politics and claimed that the BJP would win the Muslim-majority constituency in Murshidabad district.

Mr. Kabir, who has been at the centre of several controversies during the campaign, also said he would not attend the Assembly as long as Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari remained in office, and apologised to the people of Nowda for his decision. “If Suvendu Adhikari remains the chief minister, I will not go to the assembly. I will seek forgiveness from the people of Nowda,” Mr. Kabir said, fighting back tears.