February 10, 2026 – India Headlines

Story gist: Speaker Om Birla cautioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a Lok Sabha session after remarks including ‘Let’s see what we do to PM.’ Congress MPs wrote to the Speaker rejecting allegations of attempting to attack the PM.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlet (The News Minute) emphasizes Congress MPs’ letter rejecting allegations, framing opposition as defending against grave claims. Center outlet (Times of India) details Lok Sabha events and Speaker’s caution to PM Modi, providing explanatory context on chaos. Right-leaning coverage absent, omitting potential focus on opposition threats or disruption.

Story gist: The US and India are advancing a trade deal with unresolved details on oil imports, tariffs, and farming sectors. Negotiations continue without specifics announced.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets like The Hindu frame the deal negatively as a ‘blow to India’s strategic autonomy,’ emphasizing threats to India’s independence. Center outlets like BBC remain neutral, focusing on factual unknowns in oil, tariffs, and farming. Right-leaning outlets provide no coverage, omitting any pro-US economic benefits or trade victory perspective.

Story gist: Hotel rooms in Delhi sold out and reached prices up to Rs 30 lakh during an AI summit headlined by Google CEO Sundar Pichai and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Bias summary: Left-leaning NDTV uses sensational tone (‘Dizzyingly High’) to emphasize exorbitant price surge. Center Moneycontrol frames positively as ‘demand boom,’ focusing on economic surge and high-profile speakers. Right-leaning outlets absent, missing potential emphasis on market success, event prestige, or criticism of price gouging regulations.

Story gist: Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal stated that each minister handles his responsibility regarding a trade deal and Russian oil imports. Reports note Indian refiners avoiding Russian oil ahead of April deliveries amid US trade talks.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets like Telegraph India frame the story as Indian refiners actively shunning Russian oil due to US trade talks, emphasizing compliance. Center outlets like Times of India pose questions on potential import drops from Trump executive order while quoting India’s intent to maintain multiple suppliers. Right-leaning coverage absent, omitting defenses of Indian energy independence or critiques of US pressure.

Story gist: Four Indian students were attacked at a medical university in Ufa, Russia. The Indian Embassy in Moscow reported the incident.

Bias summary: Left-leaning Telegraph India highlights the knife attack and injuries directly. Center Times of India contextualizes it with MEA data showing Russia accounts for over 50% of complaints by Indian students abroad, emphasizing patterns. Right-leaning outlets offer no coverage, absenting any framing on the event, student safety, or India-Russia ties.