Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday made a strong pitch for self-reliance in technology-related sectors, which play a key role in last-mile delivery of services and have immense potential for job creation. Addressing a webinar on ‘Technology-enabled Development’, the prime minister said science and technology is not an isolated sector as it is closely connected […]
United Airlines on Wednesday said that it had stopped using Russian airspace for flights between the US and Mumbai and Delhi in India. An airline spokesperson called the move “temporary”, but gave no further details.American Airlines has avoided Russian airspace for flights between Delhi and New York by flying south of Russia.
A C-17 Globemaster aircraft of the Indian Air Force left for Romania on Wednesday morning carrying humanitarian aid to Ukraine. The aircraft is expected to bring back Indians from Romania, who exited war-hit Ukraine through its border crossings.Officials said the aircraft left for Romania early in the morning.India on Tuesday sent the first tranche of […]
Six flights under India’s evacuation mission ‘Operation Ganga’ have departed for India in the last 24 hours, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday. India launched the evacuation mission under which the Indians from Hungary, Romania, Poland and Slovakia are being brought back home after they exited Ukraine through its land border crossings.Jaishankar said […]
Hunter’s House’ ready to host 2nd round of talks between Russia and Ukraine: Belarus foreign ministry. Indian student dies of illness in Ukrain Chandan Jindal (22) was studying at Vinnytsia National Pyrogov, Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsia Ukraine. He fell ill and was admitted in Emergency Hospital in Vinnytsia . He was admitted to ICU after […]
US President Joe Biden said that America will be joining Canada and European Union in banning Russian aircraft from its airspace for war in Ukraine. Biden opened his first State of the Union address by directly calling out Vladimir Putin, saying the Russia President “badly miscalculated” in thinking that he could bend the “foundations of […]
At least five persons died on Tuesday after Russian troops attacked the main television tower in the heart of the Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv. The attack potentially disrupted the tower’s signal, said Ukrainian interior ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko. A blast was heard around Kyiv and smoke was seen rising in Babi Yar district, the interior […]
Ukraine’s ambassador to India Igor Polikha on Tuesday compared Russia’s military campaign against his country to the “massacre arranged by the Mughals against Rajputs”. Polikha, who paid a visit to the ministry of external affairs (MEA) following the death of an Indian student in Russian shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, said his country was […]
At least eight people died and six others were wounded in a residential block in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in a Russian airstrike on Tuesday. As a result of an air strike… eight people were killed and six injured in Kharkiv,” Ukraine’s emergency service was quoted as saying by news agency AFP. Earlier in the […]
The Board of Control for Cricket in India will allow spectators up to 50 per cent capacity of the IS Bindra PCA Stadium ahead of India-Sri Lanka first Test Match here. Tickets go up on sale starting Wednesday. As per BCCI instructions and in line with the COVID-19 restrictions Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) will now […]