BJP, Congress locked in a close contest in Goa, shows Republic P-Marq exit polls. Pollsters for Republic TV have predicted a close contest between BJP and Congress.BJP: 13-17;Congress: 13-17 SP expected to make big gains in UP, but it won’t be enough, suggests NewsX Exit Poll: BJP is likely to come back to power in […]
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 […]
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, […]
US Secretary of State Blinken hears harrowing tales from refugees fleeing Ukraine. Ukrainian refugees near 1.5 million The number of Ukrainian refugees was expected to reach 1.5 million on Sunday as Russia continued its attack 11 days after invading Ukraine and Kyiv pressed for further Western action, including more sanctions and weapons. Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims […]
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 […]
Three IAF aircraft carrying 629 Indians from Ukraine’s neighbouring countries landed at the Hindon air base here on Saturday morning, the air force said. India has been evacuating its citizens from war-torn Ukraine’s neighbouring countries such as Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland as the Ukrainian airspace has been shut since February 24 due to the […]
Australia cricket legend and the greatest leg-spinner of all-time, Shane Warne, has died, aged 52.Warne’s management released a brief statement in the early hours of Saturday (AEDT), that he passed away in Koh Samui, Thailand, of a suspected heart attack.“Shane was found unresponsive in his villa and despite the best efforts of medical staff, he […]