Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday sought Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s support for evacuating hundreds of Indian nationals stranded in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy amid intense fighting in the region. The main focus of India’s evacuation efforts in Ukraine over the past few days has been the safe and secure exit of some […]
India’s efforts to evacuate all citizens from Ukraine entered a crucial stage on the eleventh day of Operation Ganga with the focus solely on the estimated 600-800 students trapped in the city of Sumy. A team of Indian diplomats is stationed in the Central part of Ukraine and buses have been requisitioned. The Ukrainians have […]
India has recorded its lowest daily Covid cases since May 17, 2020, at 4,362, which took the total tally to 4,29,67,315, according to Union health ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll has climbed to 5,15,102 with 66 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.The country on May 17, 2020, had recorded […]
PM Modi to speak with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy.Modi’s expected talk with Zelenskyy comes amid India’s all-out efforts to evacuate its nationals, mostly students, from the country facing attack from Russia.This is the second time Modi will speak to Zelenskyy since the war began.The prime minister has also spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin after he […]
Melting snow to slake their thirst and fast running out of supplies, hundreds of Indian students trapped in Ukraine’s Sumy stand on roads every morning hoping “today is the day” when they will be rescued from the savagery of the war that has engulfed the nation. The wait, however, has got longer as fierce fighting […]
A trooper of the Border Security Force fatally shot four of his colleagues at a camp here, officials said on Sunday. The fratricide was reported at the camp of the 114 Battalion (Bn) at the BSF Khasa headquarters, which is located close to the Attari-Wagah border.An official statement on the incident is still awaited. Sources, […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday urged citizens to refuel their cars as the Narendra Modi-led central government would raise petrol prices soon after Assembly elections in five states come to an end. Taking to Twitter, the Congress MP wrote, “Quickly get your petrol tanks full. The ‘Election’ offer of the Modi government is going […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held another high-level meeting on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion that entered its second week on Saturday and the evacuation of Indians from the war-hit east European nation. Among those present at the meeting were external affairs minister S Jaishankar and his cabinet colleague Piyush Goyal, besides foreign […]
The Government is hoping for a local ceasefire to extricate about 700 Indian students trapped in the Ukrainian city of Sumy while there is no Indian left in Kharkiv City, said the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi. In the city of Pesochin, evacuation is going on and the Government expects all students […]