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Terrorists shot dead an independent panchayat member in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said in Srinagar. Mohammad Yaqub Dar was shot at and critically injured by the ultras at his residence in the Srandoo area of Kulgam, they said. The officials said...
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The car of former Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje met with a minor accident on Wednesday evening in the Vidyadhar Nagar area of Jaipur. Raje was sitting in her vehicle when the accident took place, the police said. No one, however, was injured in the incident, they said. Raje was not...
23:16
The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition seeking quashing of criminal proceedings against the admin of a WhatsApp group in which a morphed picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was allegedly posted. The petitioner's contention was that the message was not sent by him and...
23:10
India on Wednesday abstained on a UN General Assembly resolution that strongly deplored Russia's aggression against Ukraine, the third abstention in less than a week by the country in the world body on resolutions on the escalating crisis between Moscow and Kyiv. The 193-member General...
22:42
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to consider listing for an urgent hearing a plea seeking direction to register FIRs against political parties for allegedly inducing voters by offering freebies. A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana took note of the submissions of lawyer Barun...
22:26
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on the phone today with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two leaders reviewed the situation in Ukraine, especially in Kharkiv where many Indian students are stuck. They also discussed the safe evacuation of Indian nationals from the conflict...
22:21
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The National Disaster Response Force has sent relief material, including blankets and sleeping mats, to Ukraine facing an intense Russian military offensive. The move came following the government's decision to send humanitarian aid and medical supplies to Ukraine after Prime Minister...
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A total of 17,000 Indian nationals have left Ukraine since the advisories were issued and flights under Operation Ganga have been increased to facilitate the evacuation of remaining students stranded in Ukraine. he students who left Ukraine also included some Indians who had not registered...
21:12
The first part of acclaimed filmmaker Mani Ratnam's Tamil film franchise Ponniyin Selvan is set to arrive hit theatres on September 30, the makers announced on Wednesday. The historical-drama is based on Kalki Krishnamurthy's 1955 Tamil novel of the same name, which chronicles the story...
21:02
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a high-level meeting on Wednesday night on the Ukraine crisis as India steps up its efforts to evacuate its citizens, mostly students, from the country under attack from Russia. Modi has held a series of meetings since Sunday to spearhead India's...
20:18
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday left for Uttar Pradesh on a two-day visit to campaign for Samajwadi Party in Varanasi in the ongoing assembly polls in that state. Banerjee left for Varanasi in the evening after the result of the election to 108 municipal bodies were...
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The railway police in Maharashtra's Kalyan arrested an Army jawan wanted for allegedly molesting a foreign national on an express train three years ago, an official said on Wednesday. Based on a tip-off, Army jawan Sateesh T was arrested from a house in Kalyan town of Maharashtra's Thane...
19:21
A 22-year-old student from Punjab's Barnala district who had suffered an Ischemia stroke and was undergoing treatment for about a month died Wednesday in the war-hit Ukraine. Chandan Jindal was admitted at the Emergency Hospital Vinnytsia in Ukraine, official sources in Chandigarh said. His...
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A 51-year-old man was beaten up and his left leg and arm broken allegedly by some members of CPI-M youth wing DYFI at Karimannoor area of Idukki district in Kerala over an alleged derogatory post by him on Facebook against an area committee secretary of the party. According to police, the...
18:58
Amid the ongoing military operations in Ukraine, China restrained itself from putting sanctions against Russia, and will continue to maintain financial cooperation with all parties, media reported citing bank official on Wednesday. Guo Shuqing, the head of the China Banking and Insurance...
18:31
A total of 148 aircraft of the Indian Air Force will demonstrate their capabilities at exercise Vayu Shakti that will take place at Pokharan range in Jaisalmer on March 7, a senior official said on Wednesday. The Rafale aircraft will participate in this exercise for the first time and Prime...
18:03
403 seats in the running in phase VI
18:02
Naveen Gyanagoudar's father breaks down on the phone
It was a providential escape for 25-year-old medical student Assoiun Hussain who was just 50 metres away when his batchmate Naveen Shekarappa Gyanagoudar was killed in shelling in war-torn Ukraine's Kharkiv town.Hussain's family in Kerala are thankful he escaped but also know that many perils lie...
17:47
Open sesame
The Maharashtra government eases Covid-19 restrictions. Restaurants, cinema halls and theatres to function at 100 per cent capacity in 14 districts including Mumbai. Swimming pools, religious places, entertainment parks allowed to function with 100 per cent capacity.
17:41
Union Minister VK Singh tweets: Met Indian students in Budomierz at the Poland Ukraine border. Interacted with them and distributed food supplies to them for their journey. The bunch was exhausted, but relieved that the Govt. of India is going all out to bring them back to their...
17:38
Kerala and Maharashtra retain the top two positions, but Mizoram is the surprise entrant in the third slot, replacing Tamil Nadu.
17:37
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Moscow is preparing for the second round of talks with Kyiv but the Ukrainian side is dragging its feet at the behest of Washington.We are ready for the second round of the negotiations, but the Ukrainian side is playing for time on the US'...
17:25
The Indian embassy in Ukraine has issued an advisory written in all caps for its citizens in Kharkiv. An urgent advisory to all Indian nationals in Kharkiv. For their safety and security they must leave Kharkiv immediately. Proceed to Pesochin, Babaye and Bezlyudovka as soon as...
17:24
The Indian stock markets benchmark index Sensex slumped 778 points and crude oil price soared to USD 113 a barrel on Wednesday as Russia intensified bombardments in Ukrainian cities.
17:23
Remember the five-state polls in India? Here's the demographic in Manipur.
16:55
The crisis in Ukraine has provided another plank for the Bharatiya Janata Party to seek votes in the Uttar Pradesh elections now underway. At elections rallies over the past few days, BJP leaders have made unverified claims that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is being consulted by world leaders...
16:52
Congress MP, Manish Tewari, on the Centre's PR photo-ops with Indians evacuated from Ukraine. Behaviour of some of these ministers is absolutely absurd and laughable... clamoring on to aircraft in order to do their own political public relations and propaganda. The government is not doing anybody...
16:41
The Ukranian national flag with its blue and yellow strips are a familiar sight world over now
The Ukrainian flag was removed from the flagpole of the Ukrainian embassy in Russia amid the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kyiv, state media reported on Wednesday. According to Sputnik News Agency, a sign, indicating that this is the building of a diplomatic mission, was also dismantled....
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Hundreds of Ukranians, mostly workers of a nuclear plant, have blocked an access road to a nuclear power plant near the town of Enerhodar, as Russian forces advance in the area. Videos posted to the Facebook page of the local authority showed a large crowd carrying Ukrainian...
16:02
Minister Smriti Irani welcomes evacuees
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday criticised union minister Pralhad Joshi's reported comments about Indians studying in Ukraine, and termed them as insensitive and atrocious. He also alleged that Joshi is trying to cover up for the government's failures. Shockingly insensitive...
15:55
Third World War would be nuclear and disastrous, says Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov says: Russian media Sputnik. On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin directed his defence minister and chief of the military's general staff to put nuclear deterrent forces in a special regime of combat...
15:43
A pram left behind at a border crossing at Poland. Pic: Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach
Roughly 660,000 people have fled Ukraine, and countless others have taken shelter underground. Refugees from Ukraine do not need to go through the asylum procedure, and will receive immediate protection for up to three years in the European Union, German Minister of the Interior, Building and...
15:29
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on repatriation of the body of Naveen Shekharappa, an MBBS student who died in shelling in Ukraine. Our MEA, PM working on it. Given the situation in Ukraine, there is no airstrip... even a plane can't land there.PM is reviewing the situation in Ukraine twice a day....
15:12
In a world short of heroes, Ukranian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stands tall. Zelenskyy poses after an interview with Reuters in Kyiv. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed concern that Russian attacks could threaten holy religious sites and said Russian troops are trying to erase...
14:54
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses Ukrainians:I admire each of you. The whole world admires you - from Hollywood stars to politicians.Today you, Ukrainians, are the symbol of invincibility. The symbol that people in any country can become the best people on earth at any moment.Think...
14:47
Journalist @alessabocchi tweets, Italy's main University in Milan just banned teaching Fyodor Dostoevsky because he's a Russian writer. Dostoevsky was sent to a Siberian labour camp for reading banned books in Tsarist Russia. We are reaching levels of hatred and stupidity that I...
14:41
Latest waiting time at borders according to Nitesh Singh who heads TeamSOSIndia which has been doing stellar work giving out information for evacuation.Poland: Budomierz -- very quick Romania: Siret -- 5 to 6 hours Slovakia: Nemecke -- 3hrs Hungary: Zohany -- over 10 hours
14:26
PM Modi at a rally in Robertsganj, UP: It is due to India's rising strength that we are able to safely evacuate our nationals stuck in Ukraine, for which we are running Operation Ganga. We're making all efforts to evacuate people stuck in Ukraine under Operation Ganga. Thousands of citizens have...
14:11
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says almost 6000 Russians killed in 6 days of war. Alongside is Russia's losses as of March 2, according to the indicative estimates by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Courtesy: @KyivIndependent.
13:52
Naveen Gyanagouda died in Russian shelling in Kharkiv
Ukraine updates: Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai: Naveen's friends have sent a photo of his body, sending it to MEA to confirm the same...We're in touch with the Indian embassy so that at least the body is secured. Trying everything possible to bring back the body. Family will be...
13:19
Vice Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Sandeep Singh
The Indian Air Force (IAF) will not be significantly impacted by the US's sanctions on Russia and India's relations with both the countries are strong, Vice Chief Air Marshal Sandeep Singh said on Wednesday. We know the geopolitical situation is difficult (currently). Our relations...
13:14
An evacuation flight from Bucharest
Of the 20,000 Indians who were stranded in war-torn Ukraine, 6,000 have been brought back to the country so far and the Centre is making all efforts for the safe return of the remaining ones, Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said on Wednesday. He was...
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
In poll-going West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress on Wednesday steamrolled the entire opposition in the civic elections, bagging 93 of 107 municipalities, an SEC official said.The TMC bagged Kanthi Municipality, the bastion of Leader of Opposition and Nandigram's BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari,...
12:42
Sagarika Ghose makes a point: The great Kuwait Airlift of 1990. When India evacuated over 170,000 from Kuwait, in an operation without a codename or noisy fanfare, but with quiet efficiency.The Modi government has been ensuring there is a face to its evacuation efforts from Ukraine -- every...
12:36
Indians going to Romania via Moldova
At least 31 evacuation flights will be operated to neighbouring countries of crisis-hit Ukraine and will bring back more than 6,300 Indians stranded in the eastern European nation, according to official sources. Under 'Operation Ganga', the flights will be operated by Air India, Air...
12:29
Fintech firm BharatPe on Wednesday said it has removed Co-Founder Ashneer Grover from all positions at the company. BharatPe has also found the involvement of the Grover family and relatives in extensive misappropriation of the company's funds. The board will not allow the...
12:24
From the Kyiv Independent: A Russian rocket has hit police headquarters in Kharkiv. The building is nearly destroyed and firefighters are still working to put out the fire.Russian shelling in Sumy and currently street fights in the city. Ukraine's military administration has advised...
12:09
Sounds of powerful explosions in Kharkiv, Ukraine, says The Kyiv Independent
12:05
It's time to go back to our motherland, our home... It's time to meet your families, says the pilot of a special SpiceJet flight carrying Indians stranded in Ukraine. The flight will take nine hours to reach Delhi from Budapest. Private carriers such as SpiceJet, IndiGo and Air India Express,...
11:59
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday urged Malayalis stranded in war-torn Ukraine, who are yet to enlist with the government's Non-Resident Keralites welfare agency Norka Roots, to get registered at the earliest. He said the state government was ensuring that all...
11:52
China is deeply grieved to see the outbreak of conflict between Ukraine and Russia and extremely concerned over the damage done to civilians, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba.China also called on Kyiv and Moscow to resolve the raging crisis through...
11:45
Ministerial photo-ops with Indians evacuated from Ukraine continues. Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar says, It is satisfying to welcome our nationals back home. It's a complex operation in the background of a conflict. Our mission is to bring Indians back home safely. Thankful to IAF and...
11:42
Civilians in Zhytomyr, Ukraine train to throw Molotov cocktails to defend the city, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues. Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters.A Molotov cocktail, also known as a petrol bomb, gasoline bomb, bottle bomb, poor man's grenade, fire bomb (not to be confused with an...
11:31
US President Joe Biden has reiterated that his country will not deploy troops in Ukraine against the Russian forces.Biden's remarks came during the first State of Union address delivered by him to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol on Tuesday (local time). Condemning Russia's premeditated...
11:24
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he tested positive for COVID-19 but will continue his official duties while isolating. I am experiencing flu-like symptoms and will be recovering over the next week, Morrison said in a statement. He said he would continue working as prime...
11:12
The Ukrainian capital came under rocket fire on Tuesday, with a Holocaust memorial and a maternity clinic hit hours after the Russian military warned of high-precision strikes and told civilians nearby to flee. Rockets also took out broadcasting hardware, raising fears that Russia is...
11:09
Inside the C-17
The Indian Air Force's military transport aircraft C-17 Globemaster left for Romania at 4 am Wednesday to bring back Indian citizens from Ukraine under the Centre's Operation Ganga programme. The American C-17 Globemaster is one of the most capable aircraft for flying long distances...
11:07
If you still believe that Russia president Vladimir Putin will spare civilians and the number of civilian deaths will remain low, think again. Bruno Stevens, Belgian photojournalist tweets this image, writing, I was one of very few journos inside Chechnya during the Dec.'99 war. Putin was...
10:56
Chapati, a rescued dog from the streets of Kochi, now lives with his parents in Kyiv. He has travelled to 40 countries and has his own Instagram handle, travelingchapati. His handle is replete with loved up pictures with his human parents doing ordinary things and not so ordinary ones well. Check...
10:49
The IAF planes will fly to Poland, Hungary and Romania
Three more Indian Air Force aircraft are scheduled to fly to Poland, Hungary and Romania today to ramp up the Centre's efforts to evacuate Indian nationals stranded in Ukraine, informed IAF officials.The Indian Air Force aircraft are carrying tents, blankets and other humanitarian aid and are to...
10:33
India's national tricolour came to the rescue of not only stranded Indians but also those hailing from Pakistan and Turkey to cross into the neighbouring countries of Ukraine.The Indian students who arrived in the city of Bucharest in Romania from Ukraine said that the national flag helped them...
10:19
Union Minister Smriti Irani welcomes Indians back home by speaking in regional languages on their return from war-torn Ukraine. Several union ministers including Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Piyush Goyal have grabbed their moment in the sun with evacuated Indians.
10:14
The United States of America stands with the Ukrainian people, literally. That's the standing ovation for Ukraine during the US President Biden's state of the union speech.
10:13
US President Joe Biden while calling for supporting Ukraine against a Russian invasion had a slip-of-the-tongue moment when he mistakenly referred to the Ukrainians as Iranian people.Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he'll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people, Biden said in...
10:06
Equity benchmark Sensex tumbled over 900 points in the opening session on Wednesday following a selloff in global equity markets amid escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Besides, surging international crude prices and unabated foreign capital outflows weighed on investor...
09:52
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said that six flights carrying 1,377 Indian nationals stranded in Ukraine have departed for India in the last 24 hours under 'Operation Ganga'.'Operation Ganga developments. Six flights have now departed for India in the last 24 hours. Includes...
09:08
India on Tuesday sent the first tranche of humanitarian assistance comprising medicines and other relief materials to Ukraine via Poland.At a media briefing, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said another flight will carry the second consignment of aid to the east European country on...
08:47
One student from Karnataka was injured in shelling in Kharkiv in Ukraine, that left a medical student from the state dead, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Tuesday.He had accompanied Naveen Shekarappa Gyanagoudar, who died in the shelling.Two more students from Chalageri village in...
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