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 […]
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 […]
A final-year medical student from Karnataka’s Haveri was killed in intense shelling by advancing Russian forces in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, prompting New Delhi to call in envoys of Russia and Ukraine and demand safe passage for thousands of Indians trapped in Ukraine. Naveen Shekharappa Gyandagoudar from Haveri district 300km from Karnataka capital, […]
India on Tuesday confirmed the death of an Indian student in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which has been hit by intense shelling, and demanded that Russia and Ukraine provide safe passage to its nationals stranded in conflict zones. “With profound sorrow, we confirm that an Indian student lost his life in shelling in […]
Bhuban Badyakar, the voice behind the viral ‘Kacha Badam’ song suffered a minor injury on his chest when he met with an accident while trying to drive his newly purchased second hand car in his village — Kuraljuri in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on Monday night. According to police, Bhuban was trying to drive his […]
Ilker Ayci has turned down the Tata Group’s offer to be Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Air India. On February 14, Tata Sons had announced the appointment of Ayci, former chairman of Turkish Airlines, as the CEO and MD of Air India. The debt-laden airline was bought out by the Tatas in a […]
The Indian embassy in Ukraine has issued a fresh advisory to the Indian nationals, asking them to leave Kyiv urgently, preferably by available trains or any other means. In order to scale up the ongoing evacuation efforts under Operational Ganga, PM Modi has called for the Indian Air Force to join the evacuation efforts in […]