The BCCI won’t be allowing any spectators for the upcoming first Test between India and Sri Lanka starting here March 4, which is incidentally legendary Virat Kohli’s landmark 100th Test, a Punjab Cricket Association official stated. The decision has been taken in the wake of the COVID-19 cases in and around Mohali while also taking […]
The UT Administration has decided to use the Helpline number 112 to collect information of students and other persons of Chandigarh stranded in Ukraine, so that the information of such persons can be forwarded to the concerned authorities. Deputy Commissioner Sh. Vinay Partap Singh said that the family members of persons of U.T. Chandigarh who […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held talks with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In a tweet, Zelenskyy said: “Spoke with Indian Prime Minister @narendramodi. Informed of the course of repulsing Russian aggression. More than 100,000 invaders are on our land. They insidiously fire on residential buildings. Urged India to give us political support in the UN […]
Russian forces have continued their march towards Kyiv. The bulk of troops are now 30km from the city’s centre. Russia is yet to establish control of Ukraine’s airspace, which Kyiv ordered shut following Putin’s orders to invade. This has led to a ‘great reduction’ in the effectiveness of the Russian Air Force. As the Ukrainian […]
India’s relationship with Russia is distinct from that the US shares with the latter and that is okay, the Biden administration said, underlining that Washington has asked every country that has leverage with Moscow to use it to protect rules-based international order. State Department spokesperson Ned Price noted that the US shares important interests and […]
A special Air India flight landed in Romania on Saturday morning amid India’s efforts to bring back citizens stuck in Ukraine via alternative routes. The flight – AI-1943 – left from Mumbai at 3:25 am. The flight is expected to return to Mumbai at 4 pm on Saturday. Union Minister Piyush Goyal will be at […]
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday the nation’s military had halted Russian forces’ bid to capture capital Kyiv and oust him. Zelensky further urged Russians to plead with their leader Vladimir Putin to stop the invasion. Russian forces captured the southeastern Ukrainian city of Melitopol on Saturday, reports Reuters citing local news agency, as […]
Indian Air Force will not deploy its aircraft for multi-nation exercise in UK amid escalating Russia-Ukraine conflict. The Indian Air Force (IAF) was to participate in a three-week multilateral air exercise at Waddington in the UK from March 6 with a fleet of five Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA).The IAF had said that ‘Cobra Warrior […]
India abstained on a US-sponsored UN Security Council resolution that condemned Russia’s “aggression” against Ukraine and demanded “immediate, complete and unconditional” withdrawal of Russian forces from the neighbouring country. The UN Security Council voted on the draft resolution sponsored by the US and Albania and supported by several other nations including Poland, Italy, Germany, Estonia, […]
Life comes up with strange challenges to break your spirit but those are the real heroes who refused to get bogged down and take the obstacles on their chin.Cricketer Vishnu Solanki’s world came crashing down as he lost his new born daughter just after birth. The utterly painful incident broke him down but he managed […]