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26 Feb

“Space Station Can Drop On India…”: Russian Space Chief Slams US

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Hours after US President Joe Biden announced sanctions in opposition to Russia for invading Ukraine in a huge army offensive and said that the Russian space program will degrade underneath new restrictions, Moscow has hit back. The Russian space agency, Roscomos, chief Dimitry Rogozin warned that if Washington blocks cooperation, "Who will shop the house station from an uncontrolled deorbit?" "If you block cooperation with us, who will shop the ISS from uncontrolled deorbiting and falling into the United States or Europe?" Rogozin stated in a sequence of tweets, adding that there is additionally the choice of dropping a 500-ton…

26 Feb

Russian Forces Capture Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Says Ukrainian PM

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The Chernobyl nuclear energy plant has been captured by means of Russian forces, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office, Mykhailo Podolyak, stated on Thursday. "It is impossible to say the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is protected after a totally pointless assault by using the Russians," he said. "This is one of the most serious threats in Europe today," Podolyak said.This comes hours after Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces had been making an attempt to catch the Chernobyl nuclear plant. “Our defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated,” Zelenskyy stated…

25 Feb

Russia says prepared for talks if Ukraine ‘sets down arms’

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday Moscow was prepared for talks if Ukraine's army surrendered, as he insisted that invading forces had been looking to free the U.S.A from "oppression". Russian President Vladimir Putin "took the selection to conduct a exceptional navy operation to demilitarise and de-Nazify Ukraine so that, freed from oppression, Ukrainians themselves may want to freely determine their future", Lavrov stated at a press conference in Moscow. The comment recommended that Moscow intends to overthrow the Ukrainian authorities with its invasion. Lavrov said Moscow was geared up for talks with Kyiv if the Ukrainian military surrenders.…

25 Feb

’30 Hours In Metro Station, Bombs Falling’: Indian Student In Ukraine

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Videos of Indian college students in Ukraine amid the Russian invasion show them asking for help to return home. Some students have no longer left their apartments, while others have moved to underground metro rail stations that ought to serve as bomb shelters. Some 16,000 Indians are in Ukraine, most of them students.In one such video, an Indian student is heard soliciting for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to make swift arrangements to evacuate Indians. The student, Manish Jaiswal, is reading medication in Ukraine and is from UP's Ballia. "We sense helpless. Three-four bombs…

22 Feb

Sri Lanka returns no less than 3,000 tons of trash to United Kingdom.

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Sri Lanka delivered out to Britain on Monday the remainder of a few hundred compartments loaded up with huge number of huge loads of illicitly imported waste, authorities said. A few Asian nations have lately been standing up against an assault of deny from more affluent countries and have begun turning around undesirable shipments. The loss from Britain showed up in Sri Lanka somewhere in the range of 2017 and 2019 and was recorded as "utilized sleeping cushions, floor coverings and mats". Yet, in actuality it additionally contained biowaste from medical clinics, including body parts from funeral homes, as indicated…

19 Feb

India, UAE sign free trade deal expected to double trade to $100 billion in 5yrs

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India and the UAE on Friday inked a landmark Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and unveiled a roadmap for expansion of overall ties at a virtual summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. In his remarks, Modi delved into various facets of ties between India-and United Arab Emirates and said both the nations will stand "shoulder-to-shoulder" against terrorism while referring to the recent terrorist attacks in the Gulf country. On CEPA, Modi noted that both sides could conclude the negotiations on such an important agreement in less than three…

18 Feb

Satellite images show new military bridge near Ukraine amid Russian buildup

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The Russian Army has begun building a tactical bridge and a new road across the important Pripyat River in southern Belarus. Commercial satellite images uploaded on social media on February 16 claimed to show a military-style pontoon bridge at the Pripyat River, just 4 miles from the Ukrainian border and 14 miles northwest of the number 4 nuclear reactor, which notoriously melted down in the 1986 Chernobyl accident. "There's what Russia says. And then there's what Russia does. And we haven't seen any pullback of its forces," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview. "We continue to…

18 Feb

‘Uncalled for’: India objects to Singapore PM’s remarks on democracy

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Discussing how a democracy should work in Singapore, the country's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, on Tuesday, 15 February, during a Parliamentary session, invoked Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. Starting with what actions the parliament should debate on, having received the report of the Committee of Privileges (CoP) on complaints about untruths spoken by the previous lawmaker of the Workers' Party Raeesah Khan, he put forth three fundamental questions to discuss. Delivering a speech in Singapore’s Parliament on February 15 on a report by the Committee of Privileges, which was looking into charges of lying by members of the…

17 Feb

Hundreds of Indians including Indian Students in Ukraine are in crisis

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20,000+ Indians are presently in Ukraine out of which 18,000 are students. The latest updates are as following:- According to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 24% of overseas students in Ukraine are from India.Around 25 students from Indore, Madhya Pradesh are stuck in Ukraine. The MP of Indore's Lok Sabha Shankar Lalwani said, “He has written a letter to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.”Around 1,000 students from Rajasthan are in Ukraine out of which 40 students are from Kota. Bundi's Congress leader Charmnesh Sharma said, “Many Indian students are in distresses who are studying at Zaporizhzhia State…

15 Feb

Russia shows signs of de-escalation, to pull back some troops from Ukraine border

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Moscow is starting to return some troops at the Ukrainian border to their bases, the Russian government announced Tuesday — but Ukraine's president and Western officials have urged caution over taking Russia's claims at face value. In a statement early Tuesday, Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, said troops that had recently been posted to Russia's southern and western military districts — which share a border with Ukraine — had completed their military drills and "have already begun loading onto rail and road transport and will begin moving to their military garrisons today." It came amid…