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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla started a helpline for for Indian students stranded in Ukraine. So far, more than 100 students from 15 states have contacted the helpline which was started at his residence office here and at camp office in his parliamentary constituency Kota-Bundi. Birla took...
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A head constable of the National Investigation Agency was arrested in southwest Delhi's Sarojini Nagar area for allegedly raping a woman, the police said on Friday. According to police, on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, a call regarding rape was received. The...
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The Indian government will evacuate all Indian nationals from Ukraine, India's ambassador said in Kyiv on Friday as he assured Indian students holed up in this country, a day after Russia launched a massive military operation against it. Indian Ambassador to Ukraine Partha Satpathy also...
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The chief judicial magistrate of Kamrup Metropolitan on Friday slapped a fine of Rs 2,000 on Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his wife Riniki Bhuyan Sarma while accepting their plea to defer appearance in a case related to alleged violation of model code of conduct during Lok Sabha...
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Ankara wants to be a mediator in the Ukraine crisis, Turkish Ambassador to the United States Murat Mercan said on Friday. In terms of Turkey's role in Ukraine, in this conflict we want to be be a mediator, Mercan said. We want to contribute to peace making. On Thursday, Turkish...
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A 57-year-old man, who had contested and lost the elections in the recently held local body polls, was found hanging at his house in Tirupur district on Friday, police said. Mani, a Makkal Needhi Maiam candidate, had lost in the just-concluded municipal corporation election in...
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The International Chess Federation (FIDE) Council has decided that the 44th Chess Olympiad, including the competition for players with disabilities and the FIDE Congress, will not take place in Russia. This is the latest in a string of international sporting events that have been cancelled in...
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The Bombay high court on Friday refused to grant any protection from arrest or coercive action to filmmaker Mahesh Manjrekar in a case related to showing obscene scenes involving minors in a Marathi movie. The Mumbai police had earlier this week lodged an FIR against Manjrekar and other...
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday said that Moscow is ready for talks at 'any moment' with Ukraine once the Ukrainian military respond positively to President Vladimir Putin's call, end their resistance and lay down their arms. Lavrov made the remarks following talks with...
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President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday inaugurated the year-long celebration of the 400th birth anniversary of Ahom General Lachit Borphukan at Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra in Guwahati. Paying his tributes to Lachit Borphukan, the President described him as one of the greatest sons of Mother...
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The country's foreign exchange reserves increased by $2.762 billion to $632.952 billion for the week ended February 18 on a healthy rise in the value of gold reserves and core currency assets, the Reserve Bank of India said on Friday. In the previous reporting week, the overall reserves had...
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The Indian Air Force has said on Friday that it is all prepared to evacuate Indian citizens from Ukraine if a requirement arises. The IAF is geared up for any requirements of the evacuation of Indian citizens from Ukraine,' said IAF spokesperson Wg Cdr Ashish Moghe. -- ANI
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested to Russian President Vladimir Putin that they sit down at the negotiation table amid escalating tensions over Russia's military actions in Ukraine. I would like to address the president of Russia once again ... Let us sit down at the...
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The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) is likely to meet again on Saturday amid the Russian offensive against Ukraine, sources in the government said.Prime Minister Narendra Modi had chaired a meeting of the CCS on Thursday night after Russia launched its attack on Ukraine.He also spoke with...
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Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday escaped unhurt when his vehicle met with a minor accident in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, officials said. According to them, Sinha's vehicle hit an iron pillar on the roadside. The left side of the vehicle was damaged and a tyre...
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A defaced Russian court of arms in Dublin
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday called on Europeans with combat experience to take up arms and defend Ukraine against invading Russian forces. He said the West was too slow to help his country.This comes as Russian forces are approaching the Ukrainian capital, with some units...
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West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday refused a request by the state chief secretary for a change in the time of summoning of the assembly from the odd hour of 2 am to 2 pm on March 7. Chief Secretary HK Dwivedi wrote to the governor on Thursday, stating that the state...
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Read the statement alongside...
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A group of around 40 Indian medical students of Daynlo Halytsky Medical University, Lviv walk towards the Ukraine-Poland border for evacuation. They were dropped around 8 km from the border point by a college bus.
17:53
Barring HUL and Nestle, all Sensex shares closed with gains -- with Tata Steel, IndusInd Bank, Bajaj Finance, NTPC and Tech Mahindra surging as much as 6.54 per cent.
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The first batch of Indian students have left Chernivtsi for the Ukraine-Romania border. The MEA Camp Offices are now operational in Lviv and Chernivtsi towns in western Ukraine. Additional Russian speaking officials are being sent to these Camp Offices. Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla...
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With Covid numbers dropping in Mumbai, Maharashtra Minister Aaditya Thackeray said he held a meeting for schools in Mumbai to resume from March.The schools will resume with pre-covid timings, attendance, curricular and extra-curricular activities, apart from certain essential covid...
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India's advisory for citizens who want to be evacuated from Ukraine via Poland. The other routes of evacuation are via Hungary and Romania. Air space above Ukraine is closed since yesterday. The Indian embassy in Ukraine on Friday said it is working to establish evacuation...
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Russia is ready for talks once Ukraine's Army stops fighting. He said the Russian operation is being carried out to free Ukrainians from oppression so they can determine their own future. He also said that Moscow did not want neo-Nazis to...
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A man walks past posters depicting Russian President Putin in Bulgaria.
The new round of sweeping Western sanctions on Russia after it launched an all-out military operation against Ukraine may hit the country's critical supply chains, head of one of Russia's biggest business groups has told President Vladimir Putin. The US and its allies have decided to block...
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Russian tanks in Ukraine. The war spooked the Sensex yesterday
A day after suffering their worst session in about two years, benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded up to 2.5 per cent on Friday, in line with higher global markets as the US and allies put up a united front to punish Russia with harsher sanctions over the Ukraine...
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When Rediff.com called some Indian students stuck in Ukraine after the Russian attack, this is what they had to say. We are not in a condition to talk... We are in a bunker.. Siren baj chuka hai...No words can describe the panic the youngers must be going through, so here's wishing...
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The UNSC is to meet today
Russia on Friday said it expects support from India at the UN Security Council when the global body takes up a crucial resolution on the Russian military operation in Ukraine.Russia's Charge d'affaires Roman Babushkin said India has a deep understanding of the reasons that led to the current...
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A few students who returned to India on Feb 23
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) writes to PM Modi over the evacuation on medical students stranded in Ukraine. The IMA urges the Center to establish a dedicated helpdesk for medical students and also help them financially. The Government of India today announced that it will arrange...
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The Ukraine military said Friday that a group of Russian spies and saboteurs was seen in a district of Kyiv about 5 kilometers north of the city center. Police told people not to exit a subway station in the city center because there was gunfire in the area. US Secretary of State Antony...
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Away from war and warfare, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu meets chess whiz and Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa in Chennai. Read more on this prodigy here: 'He may be a Grandmaster, but he is always my little boy'
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Government of India will arrange evacuation flights for Indian nationals in Ukraine, cost will be borne by the government.A number of explosions were heard in the capital city of Ukraine as the Russian special military operation entered the second day, local media reported on Friday.On Monday,...
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As Russia sends its troops into Ukraine, one is puzzled over why Russian President Vladmir Putin has chosen the path of conflict.Putin has taken on the Western powers unmindful of economic sanctions that he knows will surely follow and which will hit the Russian economy badly in the coming...
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The Supreme Court on Friday asked Central Government whether bitcoin is illegal in the country or not while hearing a matter relating to the GainBitcoin scam.The Court orally enquired Central government whether bitcoins are illegal or not. The court enquiry came while hearing the petition seeking...
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Page 1 of the Guardian today.Ukraine updates:Ukraine shot down two cruise missiles, one plane over Kyiv.Ukraine's nuclear agency said on Friday it was recording increased radiation levels from the site of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
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The Time magazine cover on the Ukraine crisis
-- A Russian military transport plane has crashed near border with Ukraine.-- Russia has banned British airlines from landing at its airports or crossing its airspace, its state civil aviation regulator said on Friday.-- Ukranian president Zelenskiy says after talking to Western leaders he felt:...
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The Govt of India and its embassy in Hungary is working to establish evacuation routes from Romania and Hungary. At present, teams are getting in place at Chop-Zahony at the Hungarian border near Uzhhorod and at Porubne-Siret at the Romanian Border near Chernivtsi. Indians have been asked to...
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Jaya Bachchan in Sirathu, UP: I was born in a Bengali family in MP, married into UP. My daughter married a Punjabi and son married a South Indian. Nothing like casteism or regionalism in our family. 'Ganga kinare ka chhora' will always be Ganga's. He won't become one of Mumbai's sea.
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So, even the Taliban government in Afghanistan has got on to the detente bandwagon. It sent out a statement saying the Islamic Emirate is calling for restraint on both sides in the Ukranian crisis. Image: Uniformed people throw items into a fire outside an intelligence building....
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Russian military vehicles are now driving through parts of Kyiv's northern districts, say reports.
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Thirteen Ukrainian soldiers, who were asked to surrender by a Russian warship, were killed after they refused. When asked to surrender, the Ukranian soldiers turned up the volume on the audio message and said, go f### yourself'.The audio clip of the incident has surfaced on social media during...
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TN CM MK Stalin
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin has announced that the state government will bear all the expenses related to the return of students from the state stranded in Ukraine, which is facing a Russian onslaught since February 24. According to an official release on Friday, 916 students...
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Doctor Anwesh Upadhyaya (left)
Alone in his apartment and every bit scared, former Indian national rapid chess champion Anwesh Upadhyaya is one among the several of his compatriots stuck in Ukraine amid a Russian invasion and is desperately hoping to be evacuated from the country which has been his home since 2012. The...
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And the war at home: Delhi lifts all Covid-19 restrictions, subject to positivity remaining below 1%. Night curfew to be lifted from Monday. Stress on Covid appropriate behaviour, masking, surveillance, testing and vaccination. Schools to do away with hybrid mode of classes from April 1.
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Shelling at a Ukrainian State Border Guard Service site
Ukraine Army says it is fighting Russian forces outside capital Kyiv. Ukraine's deputy defence minister says Russian troops wearing Ukrainian uniforms were able to seize Ukrainian military vehicles, which are now heading towards Kyiv.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed on Friday to stay...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that continued Russian aggression against his country showed that sanctions imposed on Moscow by the West were not enough. Zelenskiy said the world was continuing to observe what was going on in Ukraine after its capital Kyiv and other...
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More than 1.9 million children in India lost a parent or caregiver due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a modelling study of 20 countries published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal. Globally, the number of children estimated to have experienced the death of a...
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Payal Mulani
Payal Mulani, an Indian student in Ukraine, asks the Indian government to help her return to India. Tagging EAM Dr S Jaishankar, Mulani tweets: @DrSJaishankar Sir, I, an Indian citizen am stuck in Mykolaiv in Ukraine at the moment. The whole city is blacked out and we are now under military...
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Denmark will accept refugees fleeing from Ukraine, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told journalists on Thursday. Frederiksen also pledged humanitarian assistance to Ukraine and its neighbors. There will be internally displaced refugees. There will, of course, also be a lot...
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Amid BJP's demand to sack Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik following his arrest, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said it is the prerogative of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray whether to accept or reject the resignation of his cabinet colleagues. Malik, who is state Minority...
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Another image of the damaged residential building in Kyiv. A Russian fighter plane was downed by Ukraine this morning. The plane then crashed into this building causing severe damages and setting portions of it on fire.
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This residential building caught fire when the plane crashed into it
Ukrainian forces downed an enemy aircraft over Kyiv in the early hours on Friday. The plane then crashed into a residential building and set it on fire. The Ukrainian Defence Ministry has said its armed forces have inflicted some 800 casualties on Russian forces since the military operations...
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US soldiers near the Ukraine border
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spoke with 15 of his NATO allies and European counterparts regarding Russia's military operations in Ukraine, Pentagon informed on Friday.Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said that Austin the Secretary spoke individually with Defense Ministers from Canada...
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Meanwhile, Enforcement Directorate officials take NCP leader and Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik from the ED office for a medical examination. Nawab Malik has been remanded to ED custody till March 3, in connection with Dawood Ibrahim money laundering case.
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The UN Security Council will vote on a draft resolution on Friday tabled by the US and Albania that will condemn in the strongest terms possible Russia's aggression, invasion and violation of Ukraine's sovereignty.The move seeks to isolate permanent and veto-wielding member Moscow on the global...
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An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, police said. Acting on specific input about the presence of terrorists in Amshipora area of Shopian in south Kashmir, security forces launched a cordon and search operation there,...
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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's Russia visit is facing heavy backlash from Pakistani media who noted that the visit is to soothe his hurt ego, a media report said.The Pakistani media commented that the invitation to visit Moscow was not extended by President Vladimir Putin but was sought by...
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Investors' wealth surged by more than Rs 7 lakh crore in the first hour of trading on Friday as the broader market clawed back some of its lost ground, a day after Russia's attack on Ukraine roiled investor sentiments.Starting off on a strong footing, the 30-share BSE Sensex soared over 1,240...
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People wait at a bus station in Kyiv. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Fearing a Russian attack, many of Kyiv's residents took shelter deep underground in metro stations. People brought sleeping bags and blankets, dogs and crossword puzzles to pass an uneasy night in the makeshift bomb shelters. In the early hours of today, several explosions were heard in...
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The Ukrainian Defence Ministry has said its armed forces have inflicted some 800 casualties on Russian forces since the military operations began on Thursday.The ministry said more than 30 Russian tanks had been destroyed, along with seven Russian aircraft and six helicopters. This comes...
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Dawn at Kharkiv in Kyiv today
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday night held separate telephonic conversations with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, insisting that dialogue and diplomacy are the best way forward to defuse the Ukraine crisis. As Russia's...
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The World Bank, in its statement on Thursday, said that it is ready to provide immediate financial support to Ukraine amid the present political and military crisis.We stand ready to provide immediate support to Ukraine and are preparing options for such support, including fast-disbursing...
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Domestic equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty rebounded over 2 per cent in opening trade on Friday in line with higher Asian bourses as investors assessed long-term risks of the Ukraine conflict. The BSE Sensex climbed 1,140.58 points or 2.09 per cent to trade at 55,670.49 in opening deals,...
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A three-year-old boy, who had fallen into an over 200-feet deep borewell at a village in Madhya Pradesh's Umaria district, was pulled out after more than 16 hours of efforts, but was declared dead by doctors, an official said on Friday. The child, Gaurav Dubey, was brought out of the...
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India logged 13,166 new coronavirus infections, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,28,94,345, while the active cases declined to 1,34,235, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll climbed to 5,13,226 with 302 fresh fatalities, the...
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Mumbai City Collector Rajiv Nivatkar has appealed to the residents of the island city, who are currently stranded in Ukraine, to contact the designated number and e-mail address for assistance. Russia on Thursday launched a military operation against...
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The Income Tax department on Friday conducted searches at the premises of Shiv Sena corporator Yashwant Jadhav in Mumbai on charges of tax evasion, officials said. A team of tax department officials is undertaking the raids against Jadhav, also the chairman of the BMC standing committee,...
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Explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early Friday as Russian forces pressed on with a full-scale invasion.After using airstrikes on cities and military bases, Russian military units moved swiftly to take on Ukraine's seat of government.Russian troops launched their anticipated...
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United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a telephonic conversation with India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and stressed the importance of a strong collective response to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, an official spokesperson said.Blinken spoke with Jaishankar to...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 137 civilians and military personnel have been killed so far in the Russian invasion of his country. Zelenskyy says that despite Russia's claim it is attacking only military targets, civilian sites also have been struck. Zelenskyy also signed...
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Former National Stock Exchange group operating officer Anand Subramanian was arrested by the Central Bureua of Investigation in connection with the ongoing probe into alleged irregularities by a stock broker.
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United States President Joe Biden on Thursday said that the United States will have consultations with India on the crisis in Ukraine following a military operation from Russia. In a televised address on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his move to launch a military operation...
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Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates on Thursday said the world may see another pandemic, likely a respiratory virus, even as he emphasised on strengthening diagnostics, therapeutics, vaccines and R &D. The last gigantic pandemic was almost 100 years ago but it won't be...
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The Mumbai police on Thursday prohibited the gathering of more than five persons for participation in rallies, demonstrations and protest marches till March 8. The prohibitory orders issued under section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure by deputy commissioner of police (operations) did...
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US President Joe Biden convened a meeting of the National Security Council in the White House Situation Room early on Thursday morning to discuss the unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine.
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The advancing Russian forces in Ukraine have captured Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Thursday, reports ANI. Details soon.
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