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2022-05-31 19:01:23+00:00
📹A resident of the liberated Mariupol recalls how Ukrainian troops killed a disabled woman who couldn't escape with the rest of the residents.
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2022-05-31 19:00:39+00:00
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken to social media to extend his condolences:
"Saddened by the untimely demise of noted singer Krishnakumar Kunnath popularly known as KK. His songs reflected a wide range of emotions as struck a chord with people of all age groups. We will always remember him through his songs. Condolences to his family and fans."
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2022-05-31 18:59:29+00:00
The 53-year-old singer is said to have fallen down the stairs at the hotel he was staying after the concert in Kolkata's Nazrul Mancha auditorium held about 10 hours ago.
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2022-05-31 18:58:17+00:00
⚡️Singer KK dies after concert in Kolkata
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2022-05-31 17:00:58+00:00
📹The residents of Kherson talk about the Russian SIM cards they received after being left without mobile connection.
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2022-05-31 15:01:39+00:00
A Mariupol resident tells about everyday difficulties she used to face while living under Ukrainian rule, saying she is glad that the Russians liberated her city.
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2022-05-31 14:17:03+00:00
🇵🇰Pakistan may face a disruption in crude and oil products imports as foreign banks do not want to prolong financing against letters of credit.
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2022-05-31 13:45:14+00:00
A resident of Krasny Liman, a town in the DPR, recalls being shelled by the Ukrainian Army and thanks Russian soldiers for liberating the town.
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2022-05-31 13:02:12+00:00
🇱🇰The Sri Lankan government announced that it has decided to hike taxes to bring government revenue back to 2019 levels.
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2022-05-31 13:00:22+00:00
A former prisoner tells how he was tortured and then interrogated by the Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
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2022-05-31 12:55:09+00:00
#Sputnik_reminder
South Asia recalls one of its deadliest earthquakes.
🔸On this day in 1935, Quetta, Balochistan was shaken by one of the deadliest earthquakes in South Asian history. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.7 Mw and killed 30,000–60,000 people.
🔸Quetta and the neighbouring towns lie in the most seismically active region of Pakistan atop the Chaman and Chiltan faults. The movement of the Chaman fault caused the earthquake.
🔸The earthquake brought destruction in almost all the towns close to Quetta, and tremors were felt as far as Agra.
🔸The disaster ranks as the 23rd most deadly earthquake in the world to date. It is also among the four worst earthquakes in South Asia, along with the Kashmir earthquake of 2005, the Balochistan earthquake of 1945 and the Kangra earthquake of 1905.
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2022-05-31 12:12:35+00:00
🇮🇳India registers 8.7% GDP growth in financial year 2021-22
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2022-05-31 12:08:08+00:00
🇮🇳A bride from Madhya Pradesh found quite an original way to celebrate her wedding. Bharti Targe entered the mandap driving a decorated tractor and accompanied by her two brothers. She challenged traditional norms of maintaining a coy demeanour on the wedding day.
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2022-05-31 11:40:13+00:00
Thousands attended the last rites of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, who was shot dead near his ancestral village on Sunday.
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2022-05-31 11:32:03+00:00
🇱🇰📈Sri Lanka consumer inflation has jumped to a record 39.1% as food and fuel shortages persist. Food inflation surged 57.4%, while prices of non-food items jumped 30.6%.
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2022-05-31 11:12:05+00:00
🚫🌾After the Indian government banned wheat exports on 13 May, some local authorities were backdating the letters of credit (LCs) to before the day to make exports eligible. In the light of this, the government has introduced physical verification of LCs.
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2022-05-31 10:35:23+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺India's biggest gas transportation company GAIL is going to buy assets from Gazprom, now that Europe has cut ties with the majority state-owned Russian company. GAIL purchases 2.5 mln tonnes of liquefied nature gas (LNG) annually; it's planning to increase (LNG) supplies up to 2.85 mln tonnes in 2023.
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2022-05-31 10:12:06+00:00
🇱🇰The Colombo deep-sea container port will switch to pedal power after fuel shortages, unveiling a free bicycle service which will allow workers to navigate the facility without petrol-powered vehicles.
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2022-05-31 10:11:27+00:00
Kasmiri Hindus held protests in Srinagar, a city in Jammu and Kashmir UT after a female teacher was shot dead. They threatened mass migration in 24 hours if the Hindu minority community isn't relocated to a safer area. This is the 17th civillian killed by thew suspected militants this year and the second killing of a government employee belonging to Hindu community this month.
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2022-05-31 09:27:32+00:00
🇮🇳🇯🇵India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida have reached an agreement to help crisis-hit Sri Lanka.
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2022-05-31 09:07:51+00:00
Sidhu Moose Wala was hit by 24 bullets
The autopsy report of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala has revealed at least 24 bullet wounds on his body. He sustained maximum bullets on his chest and abdomen while two bullets on his right leg.
Moose Wala, was shot while travelling on Sunday evening. He was 28. Thousands of fans have gathered outside his village home to pay respects. He will be cremated later on Tuesday.
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2022-05-31 08:53:01+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺India has received a total of 34 mln barrels of Russian oil at a reduced price since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine. Russian supplies to India in May reached more than 24 mln bbl, in April and March they numbered 7.2 mln bbl and 3 mln bbl, respectively. The country is planning to increase imports of Russian oil to 28 mln bbl in June, Refinitiv Eikon, an analytical company, reports.
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2022-05-31 08:36:26+00:00
🇮🇳🇵🇰Indus water talks end on a positive note
The two-day Indus water talks between India and Pakistan, which are held annually under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), began on Monday; now they are entering their final round with both sides showing positive signs. According to this treaty, the two countries have to share the waters of the six rivers of the Indus basin. India has complete rights to three eastern rivers - the Sutlej, Beas and Ravi, while Pakistan has rights to the western rivers - Chenab, Jhelum and Indus.
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2022-05-31 07:32:58+00:00
🇮🇳🔄Major Indian recycling company will invest in US and EU
India's largest battery recycling company Attero Recycling Pvt is going to invest $5 bln over the next 5 years to built lithium-ion battery recycling plants in Europe, the US and Indonesia. This can appear highly profitable not only for the car manufacturing industry, which uses such metals as the cobalt, nickel, lithium, graphite and manganese extracted from recycled batteries but for the environment and social stability as well, Bloomberg reports.
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2022-05-31 07:01:37+00:00
🇮🇳🇱🇰India has delivered 40 thousand tonnes of diesel to Sri Lanka via a line of credit, the Indian Embassy in Colombo reports on its Twitter.
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2022-05-31 06:56:42+00:00
🇮🇳A female teacher was shot dead by militants in the Kulgam district of India's Jammu and Kashmir UT on Tuesday. The civilian death toll continues to rise in the region, according to police data.
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2022-05-31 06:30:52+00:00
Check out the main news stories in India this morning
🔸Sidhu Moose Wala's killer has been identified by the Punjab police; he uses the nickname Goldy Brar. On Monday, he murdered Moose Wala in Mansa, when he fired more than 30 bullets at the Indian rapper.
🔸India's foreign minister S. Jaishankar is leaving for Eastern Europe on Wednesday night to discuss the "knock-on effects" of the Ukrainian crisis and the security threat it poses to the Eastern European countries and the Baltic States. This visit comes after Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto met S. Jaishankar in Delhi on 27 May.
🔸All 22 bodies have been recovered from the Tara Air flight crash site in Nepal. The government of Nepal has formally declared all the passengers and crew members dead.
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2022-05-31 05:06:28+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India records 2,338 new Covid cases.
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2022-05-30 19:26:01+00:00
📹A DPR resident explains that she was glad to welcome Russian troops. She recalls the Ukrainian neo-Nazis killing her two acquaintances - a woman and this woman's mother.
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2022-05-30 17:01:44+00:00
📹An American who has lived in Ukraine for 8 years describes how the Ukrainian army deliberately fired at civilians in order to instil fear in the population.
He also noted that he understands the reason why President Putin started the military operation, saying that the Ukrainian Army isn’t controlled by Zelensky but from abroad.
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2022-05-30 15:02:13+00:00
📹A resident of Severodonetsk involved in the referendum on the independence of the LPR describes how Ukrainian neo-Nazis tortured local residents.
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2022-05-30 14:50:48+00:00
🌾India has been asked to supply more than 1.5 million tonnes of wheat by over a dozen countries. In recent months, many nations have faced grain shortages and an increase in wheat prices.
The bulk of the requests came from Bangladesh, a regular buyer of Indian wheat. Among the other countries asking for extra supply are Egypt, Jamaica and a few Asian states, as well as the United Nations, which requested grain to send to some African countries, the Economic Times reports.
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2022-05-30 14:30:49+00:00
⚡️Delhi police is questioning gangster Lawrence Bishnoi in Tihar jail over Moose Wala's murder. There are six people potentially connected with the murder.
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2022-05-30 14:00:14+00:00
❗️Nigeria records its first monkeypox death
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2022-05-30 12:54:17+00:00
🇱🇰✈️Sri Lankan authorities have asked airlines to carry extra fuel when flying to the island in order not to use Sri Lankan fuel, because there is a shortage of it amid the crisis, said Rayhan Wanniappa, a director of Sri Lanka’s Civil Aviation Authority.
At the same time, the island's flag carrier uses Chennai and Dubai to refill its fuel tanks for long-haul flights, Bloomberg reports.
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2022-05-30 11:57:32+00:00
An elderly resident of Popasnaya, a city in the LNR, tells how she spent 28 days in the basement without electricity as she couldn't leave a wounded woman.
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2022-05-30 11:56:31+00:00
India to buy 26 fighters from the US or France
The US or France can possibly become suppliers of 26 carrier-based fighters for Indian Navy’s new aircraft carrier Vikrant. The purchase of jets from one of these countries will be part of a larger agreement, as India plans to domestically manufacture engines for these aircraft in accordance with its Atmanirbhar Bharat plan.
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2022-05-30 11:52:50+00:00
#Sputnik_reminder
The Goa became the twenty-fifth state of India
After India gained independence in 1947, the Portuguese who owned Goa, Daman and Diu refused to transfer their enclaves to the Indian government. A military operation called Vijay was conducted in 1961 to liberate the territory.
The operation resulted in the accession of Goa, Daman and Diu as a single centrally administered Union Territory.
The area was finally split on May 30, 1987, forming the twenty-fifth state with Daman and Diu remaining a Union Territory.
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2022-05-30 11:49:52+00:00
Millions of people living in India's national capital Delhi and adjoining areas on Monday got relief from scorching heat as the city received a fresh spell of rainfall
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2022-05-30 10:06:38+00:00
🇮🇳🚙Tata Passenger Electric Mobility Ltd (TPEML), a subsidiary of Tata Motors Ltd, and Ford India Private Ltd (FIPL) , have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Gujarat for the potential acquisition of of FIPL’s Sanand vehicle manufacturing facility.
According to the MoU, FIPL will lease the land and buildings of the Powertrain unit from TPEML, which would invest in FIPL to make it ready to produce new vehicles.
🗣“This MoU is intended to catalyse a win-win for all the stakeholders and ensure a smooth transition. This effort reinforces Gujarat’s image as a progressive, investment-friendly state and its resolve to further strengthen the state as a leading automotive hub in the country,” the additional chief secretary, of the government of Gujarat said.
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2022-05-30 09:41:36+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺One of India's leading universities, Alliance University, will participate in an international economics conference that will take place in Moscow in March, 2023. The conference is dedicated to the importance of maintaining scientific cooperation and building new ties between the two countries.
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2022-05-30 08:30:10+00:00
🇮🇳🇺🇸🇨🇳The US has become India's leading trading partner of India; China ranks second and the ranks UAE third. The main exported items were polished diamonds, jewellery, oil and foodstuffs. US exports to India include liquefied natural gas, rough diamonds, gold and coal.
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2022-05-30 08:16:06+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lanka will have to pay $554 mln for oil imports, which are to come in June amid the country's worst-yet economic crisis, according to the Sri Lankan Newswire news aggregator.
According to the report, some $100 mln will be allocated by India. Additionally, the are ongoing talks between Colombo and New-Delhi on a new credit line worth $500 Mln.
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2022-05-30 07:59:07+00:00
🇱🇰The World Bank will give $ 700 mln to Sri Lanka within the next few months to help the country get over its worst-ever crisis, Sri the Lankan MFA reports.
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2022-05-30 07:51:09+00:00
🇮🇳💎The restrictions imposed by the West against Russian diamonds amid Moscow's special op in Ukraine have taken a devastating toll on workers in India's polishing industry, where unemployment, wage reductions, and suicide rates are now on the rise. These spiked following a decrease in the number of work places, the president of the Diamond Workers Union of Gujarat, Ramesh Zilariya, told Sputnik.
🗣"Western countries, including the United States, said that you must make sure the diamonds you are polishing are not of Russian origin. The outcome... has severely affected India's diamond industry, as part of which the Gujarat diamond industry has been forced to cut production," Zilariya said.
Earlier, the US and a number of European countries introduced sanctions against Russian giant rough diamond manufacturer Alrosa, which produces about a third of the world's diamonds.
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2022-05-30 07:27:19+00:00
Russia's MoD has published footage of sorties of an attack conducted by a Su-25 jet.
Russian fighter jets have conducted attacks at the Ukrainian military facilities destroying the machinery and fortifications.
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2022-05-30 06:33:49+00:00
🇮🇳India is going to buy 26 carrier-based fighters for India’s domestically-produced aircraft carrier on a government-to-government (G-2-G) basis. The Indian government is going to purchase fighters: the French Rafale-Marine and US F-18 super hornet. A test trial of the French fighter was conducted in January, and the trial of the American aircraft is slated to be carried out in June.
The carrier-based fighter deal is expected to be linked with a larger strategic arrangement aimed at inner aircraft engine manufacturing under the “Atmanirbhar Bharat” initiative, where private sector companies are going to participate.
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2022-05-30 05:59:01+00:00
🇳🇵🛩Nepal's army has recovered 14 bodies from the plane crash site in the mountainous nation's Mustang area.
There reportedly were 22 people aboard: 19 passengers, including 4 Indians, 3 Japanese, 10 nationals of Nepal, and 2 Germans, as well as three crew members. Nepal's newspaper reported that bodies have been "scattered over a 100 metre radius from the main impact point".
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2022-05-30 05:30:51+00:00
🇨🇳🇫🇯China and Fiji signed three agreements on Monday ahead of a meeting with Pacific nations over an umbrella security pact.
A signing ceremony took place as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama and several of his cabinet ministers.
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2022-05-30 05:12:51+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India records 2,706 new COVID-19 cases.
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2022-05-29 18:38:50+00:00
🔫 Punjabi singer and Congress Party leader Sidhu Moose Wala was shot dead after being attacked by unknown assailants in Jawaharke village of Punjab's Mansa district.
The brutal murder comes a day after Moose Wala's security cover was withdrawn by the Bhagwant Mann government. Two others travelling with the 28-year-old have also been injured in the attack.
Punjab police said that the attack appeared to be due to a gang war. Police also said that a Canada-based gangster has claimed responsibility.
🗣 "I am shocked and deeply saddened by the gruesome murder of Siddhu Moosewala. Nobody involved will be spared. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and his fans across the world. I appeal to everyone to stay calm," tweeted Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.
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2022-05-29 15:00:59+00:00
📍"This was very scary"
An elderly resident of Donetsk recalls how he became a victim of Ukrainian artillery shelling.
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2022-05-29 13:28:13+00:00
“We kept our mouths shut, it was not allowed to say something… Because they [Ukrainian soldiers] are crazy,” Nikolay, a resident from the city of Svetlodarsk in Donetsk region says
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2022-05-29 13:05:03+00:00
🚫🇳🇵The search and rescue operation for the missing aircraft has been called off due to snowfall at the possible air crash site
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2022-05-29 12:23:40+00:00
📍“They are just soulless robots”
Watch a Ukraine nationalist 'explain' why killing Russians is not a sin.
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2022-05-29 11:54:29+00:00
🌡🇮🇳 Heatwaves in South Asia have become 30 times more likely due to climate change
According to the scientists of the World Weather Attribution group, the heatwave that has baked India and Pakistan in recent months was a glimpse of the region’s future.
As explained by the researchers, long heatwaves that affect a massive geographical area normally occur only once a century. However, if global heating increases to 2 degrees Celsius more, and the signs for that are already appearing, then heatwaves could occur as often as once every five years, the scientists said.
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2022-05-29 11:20:08+00:00
🚫🇳🇵The crash site of the missing aircraft was found in Kowang, a village in the Mustang District of Nepal. A spokesperson for the Nepal Army, Narayan Silwal, said that according to information shared by locals, the aircraft crashed at the mouth of the Lamche River under the landslide of Manapathi Himal. “The Nepal Army is moving towards the site from the ground and air route,” Silwal said.
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2022-05-29 10:59:13+00:00
❗️Two people injured in explosion near Golaye Park in Kabul. A magnetic mine was installed on a bicycle, and the target of the attackers was a car of the Taliban.
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2022-05-29 10:48:13+00:00
🇱🇰 Watch Sri Lanka’s police clash with thousands of protesters in Colombo on the 50th day of demonstrations against the country’s government. Footage filmed on Saturday shows police firing water cannons and tear gas.
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2022-05-29 09:53:11+00:00
🚫 J-K police shoot down drone carrying bombs and grenades
A drone coming from the border with Pakistan was shot down by the Jammu and Kashmir Police. The police reported that seven magnetic bombs and seven rifle-fired grenades had been removed from the drone.
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2022-05-29 08:57:54+00:00
🇺🇸🇮🇳 The US surpasses China to become India's top trading partner
According to India’s commerce ministry, the bilateral trade between the countries reached $119.42 billion in 2021-22 fiscal year, against $80.51 billion in 2020-21. In comparison, India’s trade with China totalled $115.42 billion in 2021-22 versus $86.4 billion in 2020-21.
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2022-05-29 08:09:46+00:00
🇵🇰🇮🇳 Pakistani delegation to visit India next week for talks on the water dispute. The talks are set to take place in New Delhi from 30-31 May.
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2022-05-29 07:47:44+00:00
📍The Russian MoD has revealed footage showing the work of Malka self-propelled artillery units.
The Russian Armed Forces have destroyed the positions of Ukrainian troops in the forest, the ministry noted.
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2022-05-29 07:26:34+00:00
🚫🇳🇵Plane with 22 passengers on board vanishes over Nepal
A small passenger plane with 22 people on board, including four Indians and three Japanese nationals, went missing in the mountainous Mustang district. Two private helicopters have been deployed by the Nepalese government for a search and rescue operation.
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2022-05-29 06:58:16+00:00
🤬 India’s top Muslim groups have called upon police to arrest a spokesperson of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nupur Sharma, who was accused of using "derogatory" language against the Prophet Mohammed during a television debate.
😳 During a discussion broadcast on Times Now on 26 May, Nupur Sharma allegedly mocked the Quran for saying that the “Earth is flat”.
🗣 “Prophet Mohammad married a six-year-old girl and then had sex with her at the age of nine,” Sharma is also heard saying in the video. The video has been taken down by the channel.
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2022-05-29 06:56:29+00:00
🇮🇳🎞 Indian film wins top documentary award at Cannes 2022
‘All That Breathes’ is a documentary film tells the story of two brothers, Nadeem Shehzad and Mohammad Saud, who run a bird clinic in Wazirabad, Delhi, where they rehabilitate injured birds. Inspired by the brothers who dedicated their lives to saving birds, Shaunak Sen, the director, decided to make a film about them.
“I am drawn by the subject of the interconnectedness of an ecosystem — one that humans are a part of, not apart from,” Shaunak Sen said.
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2022-05-29 06:28:20+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺📈 The number of tourists from India in Moscow increased 18-fold in the first quarter of 2022 compared to 2021, the Committee on Tourism in Moscow said, adding that the total of 786,000 international trips have been made to Moscow - 2.5 times more than during the same period in 2021.
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2022-05-29 06:27:29+00:00
🇮🇳Check out some news you may have missed:
🔸India's first 390 MW wind and solar hybrid power generation plant was opened in the city of Jaisalmer on Saturday.
🔸India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Gujarat, where he attended several programmes in Rajkot and Gandhinagar; he inaugurated some facilities, including a new hospital, and addressed a public rally.
🔸Sri Lanka has asked for more financial assistance from India to sustain it until the International Monetary Fund (IMF) finalises an economic adjustment programme. Colombo has said that it expects another $500 million loan from the country.
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2022-05-29 06:10:02+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India records 2,685 new COVID-19 cases.
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2022-05-28 16:49:10+00:00
"You need two reports of being drunk on duty": Ex-Ukrainian serviceman reveals how he left contract military service several weeks before the beginning of Russia's special operation
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2022-05-28 10:21:31+00:00
📹 A resident of Svetlodarsk describes how Ukrainian nationalists, before leaving, tried to blow up the dam of the Uglegorskaya thermal power plant, which was built in Soviet times.
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2022-05-28 09:55:29+00:00
⚡️ 📹 Russia's MoD has revealed footage showing the launch of a Zircon missile from the frigate "Admiral Gorshkov".
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2022-05-28 09:21:30+00:00
⚡️ Russia's MoD issues its latest update on the special operation in Ukraine:
▪️ The Russian Armed Forces and People's Militia of the DPR completely liberated Krasny Liman from Ukrainian nationalists;
▪️ The Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed the forward command post of the 30th mechanised brigade of the AFU in Bakhmut and command post of the territorial defence brigade in Soledar using high-precision air-based missiles;
▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit six command posts, one communication centre, four ammunition depots, two Grad MLRS batteries, as well as 50 areas of concentrated manpower and Ukrainian military equipment;
▪️ Russian air defence units have shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter near Orekhovo, Zaporozhye Region;
▪️ Missile troops and artillery have hit 57 command posts, 618 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration, 42 Ukrainian artillery and mortar units at firing positions and two batteries of Grad multiple-launch rocket systems;
▪️ Since the beginning of the operation, 182 Ukrainian aircraft and 128 helicopters, 1,045 unmanned aerial vehicles, 324 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,297 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 444 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,714 field artillery and mortars, and 3,245 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
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2022-05-28 07:54:42+00:00
📹 The Russian MoD has published footage showing conduct of combat by a unit of the Airborne Forces during the special military operation.
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2022-05-28 06:51:37+00:00
🕚 Ahead of the assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah are set to begin their Gujarat tour. PM Modi will visit the poll-bound state for a day and Shah will stay there for two days.
🔸 PM Modi will address a meeting in Saurashtra district to persuade the largely farming, or Patidar, population to vote for him. He will kick off his tour by inaugurating a 200-bed multi-speciality hospital in Rajkot.
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2022-05-27 17:01:56+00:00
🎥 “Well, everyone needs food, but they seemed to think they were more hungry”
Watch a resident from Mariupol speak about Ukrainian soldiers who deprived civilians of food
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2022-05-27 16:11:54+00:00
✊🏼 The All Russian People's Front - with the help of war correspondents, bloggers, artists and athletes, as well as Russian citizens - organised the acquisition of things which were necessary for the power units of the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics
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2022-05-27 15:58:06+00:00
❗️Indian court’s recommendation sparks debate
A panel of judges at India’s apex court issued recommendations that identified prostitution as a profession in the country and issued guidelines on the rights of sex workers, living a life with dignity and equal protection under the law.
While the apex court has now ordered states to implement them, the central government and activists have objected to a few of the recommendations.
Ranjana Kumari, director of the Centre for Social Research, and chairwoman of Women Power Connect, tells Sputnik that calling sex work a profession is wrong and no one takes it up by choice.
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2022-05-27 15:45:08+00:00
📍The large-scale UP-4 project, carried out by the US Department of Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in Ukraine to study the possibility of spreading especially dangerous infections through migratory birds was published by Russia's Ministry of Defence. The documents show that for the period from November 2019 to January 2020, 991 biological samples were collected.
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2022-05-27 15:13:22+00:00
❓How are the Supreme Court’s guidelines on prostitution in India supposed to change the lives of sex workers
The Supreme Court has issued significant guidelines on sex work in India and called upon the Indian authorities to respond to these recommendations at the next hearing, scheduled for 27 July.
🔸The court recognised prostitution as a profession and ruled that sex workers should be entitled to equal protection of the law.
🔸The court said that if a sex worker is an adult and engaged in sexual activity with consent, then sex work should not be considered illegal.
🔸The court still considers running a brothel unlawful. However, sex workers should not be arrested during a raid on any brothel.
🔸A child of a sex worker should not be separated from the mother merely on the grounds that she is involved in prostitution.
🔸Police should not discriminate against sex workers who lodge a criminal complaint, especially in cases of sexual harassment.
🔸The court said media should avoid revealing sex workers’ identities during arrest, raid, or rescue operations.
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2022-05-27 14:58:29+00:00
📍🇮🇳India has witnessed a 40% increase in its oil imports compared with last year, and a 15.6% increase compared with February 2022. Iraq remains the main exporter of oil to India, while Russia ranks 11th after its exports to India increased by half compared with March 2021.
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2022-05-27 14:03:52+00:00
⚡️ There are at least 4 US biological laboratories in Nigeria from where monkeypox was spread, Russian Defence Ministry says, calling on the WHO to investigate the work of US-financed facilities in the country
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2022-05-27 13:49:09+00:00
🌾🚫 Wheat reserves will be exhausted in 10 weeks, what are the reasons for that?
In May, the price of a ton of wheat reached a record $438.25. According to UNICEF, if food prices rise by at least 16 percent, up to 10 million children worldwide will be undernourished.
🔸According to Sara Menker, chief executive of Gro Intelligence, the first signs of impending problems were detected even before the coronavirus pandemic, which just exposed the fragility of supply chains.
🔸Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted that the coronavirus pandemic and economic failures of western countries have contributed to the crisis. Western sanctions, such as the closure of ports to Russian vessels and the refusal to insure cargo, have exacerbated the situation as have restrictions on the supply of fertilisers.
🔸Nature has also played its part in sparse supplies. For example, India faced record high temperatures this spring which took its toll on wheat yields, resulting in the authorities having banned wheat exports since 14 May.
Thus, experts say, the reason there is a food crisis is not only because of military actions in Ukraine or large-scale sanctions against Russia, but a whole concatenation of events including the pandemic, disruption of supply chains, natural disasters, etc.
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2022-05-27 13:29:41+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺Russia's Deputy Defence Minister held a meeting with India's Ambassador to Russia Pavan Kapur during which they discussed bilateral cooperation in the defence sector.
India is one of the main importers of Russian weaponry. Russia's defence sector makes up about 60 percent of all weapons used by Indian army. The country buys 25 percent of the arms Russia exports making Russia one of India's biggest suppliers of military equipment. Furthermore, India hosts a number of joint projects such as developing the hypersonic missile BrahMos-II, producing T-90S tanks, Su-30MKI fighter planes and some other types of weaponry.
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2022-05-27 12:57:44+00:00
7 soldiers dead, 19 others badly injured in Ladakh after a vehicle skidded off the road and fell in the Shyok river to a depth of approx 50-60 feet
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2022-05-27 12:55:38+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺 Despite the Russophobia being spread by Western media, many people still support Russia. Listen to Ratish Nair, honorary consul of the Russian Federation and director of the Russian House in Trivandrum, and Rishabh Sethi, a student at Tver State University who joined the flash mob #StopHatingRussians and spoke out against Russophobia and falsehoods in media.
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2022-05-27 12:21:15+00:00
🇵🇰🚫 Widespread anger grips Pakistan over biggest ever hike in fuel prices after IMF’s advice
In a press release after talks between Federal Finance Minister Miftah Ismail and the IMF ended on 25 May, the latter complained about the previous Khan-led government’s decision to reduce fuel prices on 28 February, against its advice. The IMF, it said, has been calling upon Islamabad to end fuel subsidies in a step towards "liberalising" the economy further.
Reuters reported on Thursday that the IMF had agreed to release a $900Mln tranche under the EFF programme, on condition that Islamabad reverse the decision to cut fuel prices.
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2022-05-27 11:53:01+00:00
✊🏼 The Lugansk People's Republic is providing help with searching for and burying dead Ukrainian soldiers, even though nothing like has been attempted on the Ukrainian side.
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2022-05-27 11:27:01+00:00
🇮🇳India is prepared for monkeypox, no cases in country yet, Indian Council of Medical Research said
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2022-05-27 10:55:36+00:00
📹 Residents of Trudovskaya village near Donetsk have hardly any communication. They have difficulty calling ambulance or their relatives and friends as the connection is almost absent.
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2022-05-27 10:53:46+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lanka will buy Russian oil. A representative of the Ceylon Petroleum Corp oil plant said that they are going to receive the first supply of Siberian Light oil on 28 May, Bloomberg reports.
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2022-05-27 10:18:18+00:00
#Sputnik_reminder
On 27 May, India remembers the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Nehru was one of the main thought leaders of the Indian nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s. After India’s independence in 1947, he served as prime minister for 17 years. He died on 27 May 1964, at the age of 74, after a five-month illness. He will always remain one of the most remarkable figures in Indian history.
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2022-05-27 09:51:01+00:00
🇨🇳🇺🇸🚫 Beijing urges US not to hype 'Chinese threat'
The call came from Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's recent remark that China is the only nation in the world that has both the intent and the capability to reshape the existing international order.
"The US side said that China is the most serious long-term challenge to the world order, this is a distortion of the truth, China has always been, is and will be the defender of the international order", Wenbin said.
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2022-05-27 09:36:13+00:00
🇮🇳🇪🇺India is blamed for Europe's chicanery
Several big European countries have rebuked India for buying Russian oil and gas as the West is afraid of India and Russia forging sustainable commercial ties through a rouble-rupee arrangement.
However, although Europe has been so censorious it is in fact "exploiting deliberately vague sanction rules and buying hydrocarbons from Moscow by paying in roubles". For this purpose, there are two accounts available in Russia's Gazprombank, which have not been sanctioned by the EU - one in roubles and one in euros. Payments are made in euros and then converted into roubles which means rouble-euro trade has been ongoing, the Hindustan Times reports.
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2022-05-27 09:29:38+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳 The production of Russian Kalashnikov rifles in India is underway, Vladimir Lepin, the head of JSC Kalashnikov Concern, said. In 2021 it was announced that Russia and India had signed a $677Mln contract to produce more than 600,000 AK203 Kalashnikov Assault Rifles together. Russia is ready to provide full-scale production of the newest version of the rifle, which will equip India's security forces with modern small arms within two to three years.
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2022-05-27 08:35:25+00:00
🇮🇳India has no intention of curb its exports of rice as the country has sufficient reserves to sell it abroad. The price of rice this week fell to its lowest level in more than five years to between $350 and $354 per ton.
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2022-05-27 08:24:50+00:00
🇺🇸🇹🇼The US is planning to strengthen its economic ties with Taiwan, throwing down another challenge to Beijing. The countries will focus on building sustainable supply chains and enhancing economic cooperation, Bloomberg reports.
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2022-05-27 08:06:59+00:00
🇦🇫50 percent of Afghanis are suffering from malnutrition as the economic situation in the country worsens, said Russia's Secretary of the Security Council, NIkolay Patrushev.
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2022-05-27 08:05:52+00:00
🇮🇳🕹India is to become the world centre for the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the inauguration ceremony of Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022, India’s biggest Drone Festival. More than 70 exhibitors will present their machines and show how they could be used. Now India has more than 270 start-ups developing UAVs.
According to the prime minister, all the drones he saw at the exhibition were made in India. He also noticed that drones are can be used for a range of applications, including the defence and disaster management.
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2022-05-27 07:51:59+00:00
🇱🇰One of the biggest refineries in Sri Lanka, Sapugaskanda, will return to work for the first time since March. On Friday the plant will receive a supply of rock-tar and be ready to process it within 6 days, Newsfirst reports.
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2022-05-27 06:37:18+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India records 2,710 new COVID-19 cases.
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2022-05-26 18:06:05+00:00
❗India, the world's second largest rice producer after China, may consider limiting rice exports, media reports
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2022-05-26 18:02:14+00:00
📍DPR journalist Vittorio Nicola Rangeloni who works almost exclusively in Donbass' "hot spots" tells how Italian TV channels ask him to provide material and offer him a lot of money for his work. However, the TV channels want to reserve the right to supply commentary that does not correspond with reality at all.
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2022-05-26 17:08:16+00:00
🇷🇺✊🏼 Lavrov warns West over supplying Kiev with weapons capable of attacking Russian territory
"We warned the West in the most serious way that they are already, in fact, waging a proxy war with the Russian Federation with the hands, bodies, brains of Ukrainian neo-Nazis, but this will be a serious step towards an unacceptable escalation. I hope that sane minds in the West … they understand it," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
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2022-05-26 17:05:52+00:00
🎥 A resident of Volnovakha, a city in the southwest of the Donetsk People's Republic, describes how Ukrainian neo-Nazis shot civilians leaving their basements despite the fact they were surrendering to them
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2022-05-26 16:39:56+00:00
🚫 “As for the 450 fellows of mine who refused the orders, they were taken away in a car, nobody knows what happened to them,” a captured Ukrainian soldier said, speaking about his service.
"It's better to lay down your arms and go back to your families before it ends badly," he told his brothers-in-arms.
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2022-05-26 16:32:42+00:00
🇮🇳 Narendra Modi addressed residents of Chennai at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, saying that "it is always wonderful to be back in Tamil Nadu. The people, culture, language of the state is outstanding." He also added, that the government is committed to popularising the Tamil language and culture.
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2022-05-26 16:27:42+00:00
🇮🇳 PM Modi arrives Chennai and lays the foundation stones for 11 projects worth over Rs 31,500 crore
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2022-05-26 15:07:01+00:00
📍Hundreds of neo-Nazis used churches as their headquarters
A captured Ukrainian soldier reveals how Azov members were hiding in the basements of churches in Kharkov, using civilians as human shields.
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2022-05-26 14:34:12+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳Russia is going to redirect its oil and gas exports to the Far East and South Asia, mainly to China and India, as Europe refuses to buy it, Russia’s deputy prime minister said.
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2022-05-26 13:54:45+00:00
🦠🇺🇸 History repeats itself as US conducts biological research in Indonesia despite lab ban
As Russia launched a probe into US biological research in Ukraine, similar American activities in other parts of the world are now being looked into with extra scrutiny.
In April 2022, Indonesian news outlet Detik broke a story about American naval surgeons performed operations on 23 local patients on board hospital ship the USNS Mercy without coordination with Indonesia’s Ministry of Health.
The ship’s personnel may have secretly exported blood samples taken from dozens of Indonesian patients and transported three rabid dogs from the area in West Sumatra. Padang health officials also told Detik that the Americans wanted to obtain samples of the dengue fever virus from local mosquitoes.
These incidents reminded Indonesian reporters of the story of NAMRU-2 – a US Navy biological laboratory that existed in Jakarta from 1970 to 2009, when it was banned by the country’s Health Ministry for being “a threat to Indonesia’s sovereignty”.
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2022-05-26 13:24:01+00:00
📍A resident from a village near Popasnaya in the LPR has told how Ukrainian forces fired near people to frighten them and stop them from collecting water. He says that UAF soldiers kept him from extinguishing fire set by Ukrainian soldiers in his neighbour's house, and that they would have shot him dead if he had tried to bring water.
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2022-05-26 13:10:37+00:00
🇮🇳🇬🇧British oil and gas company Shell is in talks with a consortium of Indian energy companies, including GAIL and ONGC Videsh, to sell its 27.5% stake in Sakhalin-II, a major liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Russia.
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2022-05-26 12:37:53+00:00
🇷🇺 Putin pointed out the project that has the potential to reshape international civilisation
Russian President Vladimir Putin called for further development of the Greater Eurasian Partnership. According to Putin, the association, which is supported by the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), China, India and others, has the potential to shape international civilisation, changing the world's political and economic architecture.
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2022-05-26 12:12:28+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa said that bridging finance from Japan would help the island nation surmount its present economic crisis. He noticed that “Japan remains one of Sri Lanka’s key development partners", "The Hindu" reports.
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2022-05-26 12:03:57+00:00
❗️More than 300 people were buried in the trenches back in March in Mariupol, when the city was under Ukrainian neo-Nazi control. The remains of people are being unearthed so that their identities and the cause of their death can be established.
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2022-05-26 11:01:07+00:00
🚆🎉 Passengers in India perform ‘Garba’ to celebrate early arrival of train
Tens of passengers were seen performing ‘Garba’, a folk dance from Gujarat, in a video doing rounds on social media at the railway platform in Ratlam city of Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Several passengers at the railway station burst into celebrations after a train arrived before time.
The video was shared by Federal Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav.
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2022-05-26 10:56:33+00:00
📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing the launch of the R-500 cruise missile at a Ukrainian military facility.
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2022-05-26 10:42:32+00:00
🐶IAS officer's dog disrupts training at a prominent Delhi stadium
Over the past few months, sportsmen at the Delhi government-run Thyagraj Stadium have been complaining that they have to finish their training earlier than usually as a employee of the local authority needs to walk his dog. This is despite the fact that chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has instructed all state-run sports facilities in the city to stay open for sportsmen until 10pm, the Indian Express reported.
🗣"It's shameful that sportsmen have to vacate the stadium premises because an IAS officer wants to walk with his dog. The officer should apologise. This is a misuse of his authority," Union minister Kaushal Kishore said.
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2022-05-26 10:33:38+00:00
🇷🇺🇱🇰 Russia has received an appeal from Sri Lanka to help it overcome the energy crisis and certain measures are now being considered, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says
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2022-05-26 10:07:35+00:00
📹Footage shows Karachi riot police firing teargas, while protesters can be seen throwing objects at officers and vandalising a police vehicle after the rally in support of Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan.
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2022-05-26 10:06:19+00:00
🇵🇰🚫 Foreign investors perceive Pakistan as country with high debt default risk
The foreign exchange reserves by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) are down from USD 20 billion in August 2021 to USD 10.1 billion in nine months. According to ANI news, the upsurge in Pakistan's default risk (which means that it is unable to pay its debt) is also marred by the country's bad politics.
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2022-05-26 09:44:36+00:00
🇵🇰 Imran Khan stops protests after violence breaks out and warns they will keep recurring unless fresh elections are called
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2022-05-26 08:59:05+00:00
💴India's GDP growth is expected to be in the range of 8.2 to 8.5 per cent in the FY22, according to State Bank. Forecasters project an improvement of GDP of 1.7 per cent over pre-pandemic levels.
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2022-05-26 08:15:05+00:00
🚀EU can't ruin India-Russia space cooperation
Roskosmos is claiming that the European Space Agency (ESA) is trying to undermine India-Russia space cooperation. However, according to Roskosmos, the ESA will not be able to take Russia's place when it comes to launching manned spacecrafts.
There have already been several agreements between Moscow and Delhi regarding space cooperation. Roskosmos also observed that since Indian cosmonauts are trained in Russia, the India-Russia partnership is essential for manned space flights.
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2022-05-26 08:10:12+00:00
📹American Humvee was found at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. Mariupol was fully liberated from Ukranian neo-Nazis on May 20 after "Azovstal" plant was taken under control by Russian army.
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2022-05-26 07:49:05+00:00
Midnight raids were conducted at a series of venues, resulting in the arrest of these primarily young people.
🗣“Youths are again urged not to indulge in activities that could spoil their career and disrupt families,” the police said.
Police added that more people will be identified and arrested soon.
Besides Maisuma Srinagar, police claimed that all other areas remained peaceful, a day after the sentencing. A major clash erupted between the police and locals near Yasin Malik’s house, where protesters raised slogans supporting Pakistan.
On Wednesday, a court in Delhi awarded life imprisonment to terrorist Yasin Malik who was involved in killing Indian Air Force personnel and others in the early years of militancy in Kashmir. Since 1990, more than 15,000 people have been killed in Kashmir militancy.
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2022-05-26 07:18:31+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India records 2,628 new COVID-19 cases.
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2022-05-26 06:58:04+00:00
India's police arrest 10 Kashmiris involved in anti-India sloganeering and stone pelting after Yasin Malik's sentencing
🗣 "Others are being identified and will be arrested soon. The case has been registered under the Prevention of Unlawful Activities Act and the Indian Penal Code. The main instigators of this hooliganism will be booked under the Public Safety Act. Such anti-national activities and provocative behaviour will always be dealt with strictly and with the full force of law," Srinagar Police said
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2022-05-26 06:15:14+00:00
Indian Navy demonstrates low-flying kill capabilities in the Indian Ocean
The Indian Navy's Talwar (Krivak) class guided-missile frigate successfully engaged a low-flying target with its surface-to-air Shtil missile system which came from Russia.
Video - Indian Navy
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2022-05-25 17:13:38+00:00
❗️ India cancels leave of all armed police personnel in Kashmir Valley following violence reported over the life sentence of Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik
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2022-05-25 17:03:01+00:00
👏🏼 Children in Svetlodarsk, DPR greet their liberators
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2022-05-25 16:42:01+00:00
🐒 What is monkeypox and how is it transmitted?
An outbreak of monkeypox began in early May after cases were confirmed in two British citizens who had just returned from Nigeria. Soon, similar cases were reported in Europe and the US.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the monkeypox virus is transmitted mainly to people from wild animals such as rodents and primates. However, human-to-human transmission is also possible.
Initially, the virus was discovered in monkeys in a Danish laboratory in 1958. The first human case was reported in a child in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1970.
Learn about the symptoms, how monkeypox is different from smallpox, the incubation period, and more in our infographic.
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2022-05-25 16:31:17+00:00
A resident of Kharkov region told how humanitarian aid is regularly distributed among the locals. People receive food and basic necessities such as cereals, flour, condensed milk, sunflower oil, tinned meat and fish.
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2022-05-25 16:26:37+00:00
🇮🇳🌾 India has no immediate plans to lift its ban on wheat exports, although it will continue shipments to countries in need
"India will continue to allow wheat export for countries which are in serious need, are friendly and have the letter of credit. Currently there's instability in the world, if we were to do that (lift the ban), it would only help black marketeers, hoarders and speculators. Neither will it help the really vulnerable and needy countries," India’s Union Minister Piyush Goyal said.
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2022-05-25 16:10:31+00:00
🇮🇱🇮🇳 Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz to visit India on 1 June
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2022-05-25 15:51:06+00:00
🇵🇰🚫 Pakistan Armed Forces condemn life sentence given to Kashmiri separatist leader
According to the ISPR, media wing of the Pakistan Armed Forces, Pakistan strongly condemns the life sentence awarded to Yasin Malik on “fabricated charges”. “Such oppressive tactics cannot dampen the spirit of people of Kashmir in their just struggle," the ISPR said.
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2022-05-25 15:23:40+00:00
🇷🇺 The Kremlin has published footage from a hospital where President Vladimir Putin met Russian soldiers wounded in Ukraine.
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2022-05-25 14:32:07+00:00
📹The People's Militia of the LPR has raised the Victory Banner over the mayor's office in Svetlodarsk, a city located in the Donetsk People’s Republic. Local residents poured onto the streets to celebrate the liberation of the city and welcome Russian and LPR troops.
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2022-05-25 13:48:25+00:00
📹 A resident of Volnovakha, the city in the south-west of Donetsk region, talks about how the Ukrainian forces intentionally killed civilians in the city. She says she saw Ukrainian servicemen crazed with drink or drugs running through the streets with rifles.
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2022-05-25 13:47:32+00:00
🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳Russian MFA supports China's suggestion to include new states to BRICS.
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2022-05-25 13:45:00+00:00
🇮🇳 Captain Abhilasha Barak becomes first woman officer to join Indian army aviation corps
A young Indian aviator, Captain Abhilasha Barak, has become the first female officer in the Army Aviation Corps. Barak has been awarded the Coveted Wings along with 36 army pilots by Lieutenant-General Ajay Kumar Suri, Director General and Colonel Commandant Army Aviation. Barak will take part in operations at the Indian borders.
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2022-05-25 13:39:22+00:00
🚫 Protests erupt in Kashmir after militant commander turned politician Yasin Malik gets life imprisonment
Malik heads the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and is facing charges in an Indian court that including financing militancy and separatim in Kashmir region. Last week Malik was convicted in an Indian court in New Delhi after he plead guilty in the militant funding cases that is being probed by India's National Investigation Agency.
The day of judgment in Srinagar was marred with spontaneous shutdown prompting authorities to increase security presence in the region. In the evening the protests took a violent turn and clashes erupted between armed police and protectors. Situation in the area remains tense.
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2022-05-25 13:20:07+00:00
🥊 After becoming world champion, boxer aims to win Olympic Gold for India
Nikhat Zareen, who comes from Nizamabad city in India's Telangana state, is no longer an unknown quantity in boxing circles after her victory in the World Boxing Championships in Istanbul made her a star overnight.
When she took up boxing as a sport, people told her father to stop her as boxing was considered a man’s sport. But Zareen’s father didn't listen to them and instead told his daughter to redouble her efforts.
Check out Nikhat Zareen’s exclusive interview with Sputnik
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2022-05-25 13:09:06+00:00
🇮🇳⚡️Hindu Group in Jammu Celebrates Life Imprisonment of Yasin Malik.
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2022-05-25 12:51:14+00:00
🇮🇳⚡️Special NIA Court in Delhi sentences Kashmir's Yasin Malik with life imprisonment in the terror funding case.
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2022-05-25 12:09:49+00:00
🇮🇳Former Indian federal minister Kapil Sibal quits Congress party
Senior Congress politician Kapil Sibal has often criticised his party over the past two years. Sibal expressed the view that the Gandhis – Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi – should step aside from the leadership to make way for someone new.
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2022-05-25 12:04:32+00:00
❤️🇮🇳 Thieves leave ‘I love you’ note after robbing house
Unidentified persons broke into a bungalow in Margao town in South Goa, taking gold and silver ornaments worth ₹ 20 lakh and ₹1.5 lakh in cash with them. However, to the surprise of the bungalow’s owner and the Margao police, the thieves wrote "I love you" using a marker on the screen of the television.
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2022-05-25 11:52:06+00:00
‼️A Kharkov resident has found canned food that he got as humanitarian aid from Poland on supermarket shelves.
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2022-05-25 11:35:35+00:00
🇱🇰 Check out this graph depicting the foreign debt stock in Sri Lanka as of 2019.
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2022-05-25 11:12:04+00:00
🇨🇳Chinese journalists assume Quad can be a threat for Asian stability
Behind the statement that it is advocating "openness" and safeguarding "peace and stability" in the Asia-Pacific region, the US' ulterior motives in staging the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) summit are sowing seeds of confrontation and threaten peaceful development in Asia. The claims that Quad would create a "free and open Indo-Pacific" are nothing more than an attempt to create division and incite confrontation in China's neighborhood, Xinhua reports.
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2022-05-25 10:59:36+00:00
🇱🇰 Check out these graphs showing Sri Lanka’s rising inflation and the value of the Sri Lankan rupee, which is currently one of the worst-performing currencies against the US dollar.
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2022-05-25 10:45:14+00:00
📹Russia's armed forces delivered about 70 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the residents of Kharkov region. Fights between Ukranian neo-Nazis and Russian troops are still taking place in the area.
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2022-05-25 10:07:44+00:00
🤝India and Africa are going to combine efforts to build sustainable supply chains. PM Narendra Modi considers healthcare, digitisation and green growth to be the key points of cooperation, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told the 'Economic Times'.
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2022-05-25 10:03:28+00:00
🇮🇳🌾 IMF urges India to lift wheat export ban
International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Kristalina Georgieva has said that India’s decision could worsen the international food crisis.
"I do have an appreciation for the fact that India needs to feed nearly 1.35 billion people and I do have appreciation for the heatwave that has reduced agricultural productivity, but I would beg India to reconsider as soon as possible because the more countries step into export restrictions, the more others would be tempted to do so and we would end up as a global community less equipped to deal with the crisis," she said.
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2022-05-25 09:41:06+00:00
🎥🇵🇰 Watch Imran Khan’s supporters use jute bags to diffuse gas shells as they march towards Islamabad.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has directed Islamabad police to provide an alternative venue in the city for protests.
Video - PTI
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2022-05-25 09:40:45+00:00
🇵🇰🇮🇶Pakistan is going to buy 100MW of electricity from Iraq for the south Balochistan port city of Gwadar which is not connected to a power grid and faces energy shortages as well as a drought.
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2022-05-25 08:58:53+00:00
📹 Russian sappers demine Azov Sea coast in Mariupol. The city was fully liberated on May 20, acording to Russian MoD.
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2022-05-25 08:22:53+00:00
🇵🇰Pakistani authorities have blocked major roads into the capital Islamabad with dozens of shipping containers and trucks to stop the former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his supporters from a rally.
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2022-05-25 08:08:53+00:00
🇱🇰The World Bank will not give additional financial support to Sri Lanka until the state restores a sustainable economy, but it will redistribute resources which have already been provided to the country to help government buy imported drugs and support the poor.
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2022-05-25 08:07:55+00:00
🇨🇳Chinese armed forces conduct military exercises off Taiwan to "warn the United States"
According to the Eastern Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army of China, joint combat readiness patrols and military exercises in the sea and air space were organised around the island of Taiwan.
During his visit to Japan on Monday, US President Joe Biden said that Washington is ready to become involved militarily to defend Taiwan in the event of an invasion and unilateral attempts to change the status quo.
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2022-05-25 07:02:33+00:00
🇮🇳India is to limit sugar exports to 10 million tons in the current season to help maintain domestic availability and keep prices stable. The decision follows a similar measure for wheat and comes amid signs of tightening world supplies.
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2022-05-25 06:59:46+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India reports 2,124 new COVID infections
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2022-05-25 04:55:41+00:00
❗️ India's low-cost airline SpiceJet said to have faced ransomware attack; flights delayed
🗣 “Certain SpiceJet systems faced an attempted ransomware attack last night that impacted and slowed down morning flight departures today. Our IT team has contained and rectified the situation, and flights are operating normally now,” the airline said.
However, passengers are complaining of delays to their flights.
Video - Mudit
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2022-05-24 18:14:01+00:00
🎥“It wasn’t either the DPR militia nor the Russian forces, don’t slander them”
A resident of the territory where hostilities were fought, tells how Ukrainian troops shelled his house and fired at the settlement.
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2022-05-24 17:03:01+00:00
📍"When we leave Volnovakha, we will raze it to the ground"
A resident of Volnovakha recalls the moment when she heard the plans of Ukrainian militants to destroy the city.
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2022-05-24 16:42:33+00:00
❗️“They fired from the Ukrainian side. Everyone knows this,” Danil says about how shells from Ukrainian militants flew into his house and neighboring buildings.
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2022-05-24 16:19:45+00:00
🤝 BRICS culture ministers sign a plan of action for cooperation
On 24 May, the respective BRICS ministers for culture took part in a video meeting and agreed to develop cultural cooperation popularising their shared heritage and developing joint digital projects and creative industries, amongst other issues.
India’s Minister for External Affairs and Culture Meenakshi Lekhi, Russia’s Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova, South Africa’s Minister of Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa, Brazil’s Special Secretary of Culture Elio Ferraz de Oliveira and China’s Secretary of Ministry of Culture and Tourism Hu Heping all participated in the meeting.
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2022-05-24 14:54:04+00:00
Ghebreyesus re-elected to second term as WHO Director-General
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2022-05-24 14:24:01+00:00
🇷🇺 Caring residents of Russia, with the support of the People's Militia of the DPR, delivered humanitarian aid to the city hospital No. 20 in Donetsk.
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2022-05-24 13:37:44+00:00
🇮🇳🇯🇵 Japan PM comments on India’s stance over Russian military op
When asked about India’s position on Russia’s military operation and its impact on the Quad, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said: “On the international situation, each country has its own historical developments as well as geographical situation. Even amongst like-minded countries, the positions may not agree fully. That is only natural. But with that as a premise, to deepen mutual understanding and to spread the cooperation and collaboration would be crucial among the Quad members.”
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2022-05-24 13:19:42+00:00
🇮🇳🥇🥉🥉Federal sports minister felicitates Gold medal winner of World Boxing Championships Nikhat Zareen, Bronze medallists Monisha Moun and Parveen Hooda on Tuesday at Indira Gandhi Stadium, New Delhi
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2022-05-24 13:04:35+00:00
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russian Tupolev Tu-95MS (NATO reporting name: Bear) and Chinese Xian H-6 strategic bombers have successfully completed the 13-hour-long patrol during which the aircraft crossed over parts of the Sea of Japan (also known as East Sea) and the East China Sea. The Russian and Chinese bombers were covered along their path by Russia Air Force 4+ generation fighter jets Sukhoi Su-30SM (NATO reporting name: Flanker-H).
The Russian MoD stressed that the patrolling was not conducted against any specific state and was carried out in full accordance with international laws.
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2022-05-24 12:51:39+00:00
🇮🇳✊🏼 An Indian man gets ten years in jail for abetting his wife’s dowry death
The husband of a medical student who hung herself at her home in Kerala's Kollam district last year has been found guilty of abetting his wife’s suicide, dowry harassment, and taking and demanding dowry. The court also imposed a fine of ₹ 12.55 lakh, of which ₹ 2 lakh will be paid to the victim's parents.
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2022-05-24 12:19:36+00:00
Videos of boy chanting slogans against Hindus, Christians at Kerala rally lead to police probe
The Popular Front of India (PFI), which describes itself as a social Islamic movement in the country, organised the rally in southern Indian state of Kerala on 21 May. After videos of a boy raising provocative slogans against Hindus and Christians went viral on social media, the local police on Tuesday took one person into its custody.
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2022-05-24 11:41:06+00:00
🇱🇰🇮🇳🛢The Sri Lankan Cabinet has approved seeking a 500 million dollar loan from the Exim Bank of India for the purchase of petroleum products
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2022-05-24 10:33:02+00:00
Hindu group stages protest against militant outfit TRF for threatening Holy Pilgrimage. The Resistance Front, an outfit of militant organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba, had issued a threat letter, saying blood would spill if the government pumped people of Hindu groups into the valley.
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2022-05-24 10:32:09+00:00
❗️ Russian Defence Minister Shoigu on the situation in Ukraine:
▪️ Russia slows down offensive in Ukraine to evacuate civilians
▪️West organised the supply of lethal weapons, fearing the defeat of Ukrainian troops
▪️ Russia will continue the special operation, despite the West’s support of Ukraine
▪️ NATO turned Ukraine into a pressure instrument against Russia
▪️ Shoigu warns of threat of Ukrainian nuclear weapons development
▪️ Collective security in the east of Europe has worsened because of the West
▪️ The release of criminals and the distribution of weapons in Ukraine led to rampant crime
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2022-05-24 10:10:32+00:00
🇵🇰Pakistani police detained more than 200 supporters of ousted prime minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party ahead of a major sit-in planned by the former leader. The former prime minister said he would stage a sit-in until the government dissolves parliament and sets a date for fresh elections.
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2022-05-24 10:06:57+00:00
A boy from the DPR tells how soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine forced children to conduct reconnaissance in their hunt for Russian troops; those who disagreed were threatened with death
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2022-05-24 09:19:48+00:00
Leaders of Japan, India, Australia and the United States warned against attempts to "change the status quo by force" as concerns grow about whether China could invade Taiwan. However, a joint statement by the so-called Quad bloc avoided any direct mention of China's growing military power in the region.
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2022-05-24 08:40:18+00:00
"Since 2015, the treatment of tuberculosis patients of all categories has been carried out exclusively through the supply of anti-tuberculosis drugs ... coming from humanitarian supplies through the ICRC. In 2022, there were no deliveries of anti-tuberculosis drugs," one of the letters to the Lugansk People's Republic health chief said.
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2022-05-24 08:16:16+00:00
⚡️ Donbas doctors say ICRC, WHO ceased to supply HIV, tuberculosis treatment
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2022-05-24 08:11:34+00:00
🇮🇳🇺🇸Modi and Biden agree to launch India-U.S. Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET). It will foster cooperation in areas such as AI, quantum computing, 5G/6G, biotech, space and semiconductors.
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2022-05-24 08:03:49+00:00
🇮🇳🇯🇵Navies of India and Japan conducted bilateral exercise in the Arabian Sea to strengthen defence cooperation
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2022-05-24 07:57:47+00:00
‘A new and complex phase’: Quad states pledge to boost ties in the Pacific amid China tensions
The leaders of the Quad grouping — Australia, India, Japan, and the US— have vowed to intensify cooperation in dealing with climate change as well as maritime domain awareness, with a particular focus on the Pacific Island nations.
The four countries also launched the ‘Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA)’, which the government say will “transform” the ability of smaller nations in Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) to “monitor” their waters.
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2022-05-24 07:21:11+00:00
Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, take part in Quad summit in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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2022-05-24 07:13:59+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India logs 1,675 new COVID cases
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2022-05-23 16:50:40+00:00
"Boys, what are your names? For whom should I pray?"
Russian soldiers evacuate a wounded elderly woman under fire.
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2022-05-23 16:30:18+00:00
🇮🇳🇯🇵 Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposed to hold a ‘Japanese week’ in India to celebrate Japanese contributions to the county’s development
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2022-05-23 15:52:01+00:00
❗️ A resident of Mariupol talks about her dialogue with Ukraine's “defenders”.
"You b***hes! You still haven't learned Ukrainian since 2014" - this is how a Ukrainian soldier expressed his attitude to civilians.
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2022-05-23 15:39:43+00:00
Addressing biosafety concerns, the minister noted that thanks to strong pharmaceutical production in India and China, joint efforts by BRICS countries “could change the world’s balance of power in developing innovative drugs and vaccines, [as well as] conducting joint research on existing threats to the health and lives of our citizens.”
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2022-05-23 15:34:51+00:00
📍Another US-led economic agreement has appeared in the world. US President Biden came up with the idea of forming the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) during a visit to Tokyo.
On the one hand, the initiative looks like an attempt to replace the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), from which the US withdrew under Trump’s presidency. On the other, the new alliance can be seen as an attempt to contain China’s influence in the Asia-Pacific region and exclude it from global supply chains that are important for the US economy.
Eleven of the thirteen IPEF members are part of the China-dominated Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Taiwan will not be initially included in the grouping, marking a red line that the US seems not ready to cross.
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2022-05-23 15:31:06+00:00
🤝 Russia’s Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov called on BRICS countries to develop joint oil and gas production without the participation of external "unreliable" partners during the meeting of BRICS industry ministers
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2022-05-23 14:20:48+00:00
🇺🇸President Joe Biden said that the U.S. would intervene militarily if China were to invade Taiwan
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2022-05-23 13:48:30+00:00
📍 Residents of the town of Rubezhnoye in the LPR have shown fragments of shells used by Ukrainian nationalists to destroy the civilian population.
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2022-05-23 13:31:10+00:00
🇮🇳 Narendra Modi has met with the Indian community in Tokyo. Spokesperson of India’s Ministry of External Affairs Arindam Bagchi called the 40,000-strong Indian diaspora “a crucial pillar of the vibrant India-Japan partnership."
Modi arrived to Japan with a two-day visit to participate in the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue summit with his counterparts from Japan, Australia and the United States.
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2022-05-23 13:18:53+00:00
🚫💰Indian court rules man guilty of abetting wife's dowry suicide
A Kerala court has convicted a man for abetting his wife to commit suicide in June 2021 over a dowry reproach. A 22-year-old woman hung herself last year after her husband physically assaulted and pressurised her to seek more dowry from her parents. Although the bride's family gave 1.25 acres of land, 100 sovereigns of gold and a Toyota Yaris car in dowry, costing them approximately INR 1.1 million ($14,190), the husband and his family were not satisfied with the amount. The young woman's death has sparked outrage in the Indian state of Kerala.
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2022-05-23 13:09:34+00:00
🇱🇰 Inflation in crisis-hit Sri Lanka broke a seventh consecutive record as the National Consumer Price Index rose 33.8% year-on-year in April, more than six times the 5.5% recorded a year earlier.
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2022-05-23 11:49:20+00:00
🇮🇶 A sandstorm has hit Iraq - nothing is visible within 100 metres, wind speeds have reached 40-50 km/h. All airports have halted operations, and state institutions have declared a day off.
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2022-05-23 11:10:55+00:00
🇮🇳🇺🇸India and US have signed investment incentive agreement. "The signing of IIA would lead to enhanced investment support provided by US International Development Finance Corporation in India, thereby encouraging investment in key sectors," Indian foreign ministry said.
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2022-05-23 11:01:12+00:00
⚡️The Ukrainian Armed Forces have shelled the north of the Donetsk People's Republic using large bombs.
In the video the LPR’s fighters show the consequences of a bomb weighing a tonne being dropped on the village of Yatskovka.
As a result, six civilians were killed.
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2022-05-23 10:43:37+00:00
📍Pre-monsoon deluges in India have killed at least 24 people in recent weeks
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2022-05-23 10:37:10+00:00
🇷🇺✊🏼"I support Russia" - an American blogger, former US Marine and police officer visited territories liberated from Ukrainian nationalists.
John Mark Dougan came to Kherson specifically to check out what is really going on and not to “rely on the Western media” to bring the facts to the people.
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2022-05-23 09:52:53+00:00
Indian PM Modi interacted with top executives & CEOs from over 30 Japanese companies. He apprised the Japanese business leaders of the recent reforms undertaken by India to improve ease of doing business, and invited them to ‘Make in India for the World’.
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2022-05-23 09:43:56+00:00
🇮🇳The Indian Navy will decommission its oldest frigate on 28 May. The INS Gomati (F21) has been in service for 34 years.
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2022-05-23 09:34:27+00:00
Japanese companies strongly support self-reliant India campaign
"The reforms of Prime Minister Modi are indescribable in the sense that he is bringing reforms which are changing all of India into a very model landscape and especially self-reliance theme of Prime Minister Modi is being supported very strongly by Japanese companies," Osamu Suzuki, Senior Advisor, Suzuki Motor Corporation, said after meeting Prime Minister Modi in Tokyo.
Suzuki Motor Corporation's arm Maruti Suzuki is India's largest carmaker. Suzuki Motor Corporation has shown commitment to further boost investments in India.
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2022-05-23 08:43:42+00:00
🇱🇰💊Sri Lanka is running out of about 180 kinds of medicine, including injections for dialysis patients, medicine for patients who have undergone transplants, and certain cancer drugs. India, Japan and various private donors have been helping to provide supplies, but it could take up to four months for items to arrive.
A shortage of medicine could soon lead to deaths, doctors said, as hospitals are forced to postpone life-saving procedures for their patients because they do not have the necessary drugs.
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2022-05-23 07:38:47+00:00
🇮🇳🇱🇰'India big brother to Sri Lanka': Namal Rajapaksa thanks India for the latest round of humanitarian aid and essential items sent to Sri Lanka worth Rs 2 Billion.
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2022-05-23 07:31:43+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India logs 2,022 new COVID cases
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2022-05-23 07:29:55+00:00
📹 The battery of self-propelled Giatsint-S guns destroyed the Ukrainian unit of American M-777 155-mm towed howitzers, Russia's MoD reports
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2022-05-23 07:21:29+00:00
🇮🇳🇯🇵India offers specific proposals to attract more investment from Japanese businesses
On first day of his two-day trip to Japan, PM Modi meets a series of business leaders in Tokyo including chiefs of Soft Bank, Suzuki and Uniqlo, discussing a range of investment proposals.
During meeting with chairman of NEC corporation, Modi talked about opportunities in areas such as digital learning, FinTech, infra and logistics networks.
Japan is one of the biggest investors in infra segment, building submarine cables, bullet trains and big hydro projects.
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2022-05-23 05:30:55+00:00
👏 After the World Health Organization Director General’s Global Health Leaders Awards recognised Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA), Indian healthcare workers, for their “crucial role in linking the community with the health system and ensuring that those living in rural poverty can access primary health care services”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday congratulated them and said that he is “delighted that the entire team of ASHA workers have been conferred the award”.
👍 Federal Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya also extended his warmest greetings to all the ASHA workers.
🔸 The awards were announced by WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Sunday. The ceremony was part of the opening session of the 75th World Health Assembly.
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2022-05-23 04:49:06+00:00
Stunt gone wrong...
In Karnataka's Chikkaballapura district, a young man attempted to climb up the face of the Srinivas Sagar dam. However, he slipped and fell to the ground.
The man suffered injuries and has been admitted to a hospital in Bengaluru for treatment.
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2022-05-21 15:53:07+00:00
⛽️ Petrol and diesel prices are set to decline as Centre reduces excise duty on both fuels.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Saturday that the government is reducing excise duty on petrol by ₹8 per litre and on diesel by ₹6 per litre.
🗣 "This will reduce the price of petrol by ₹ 9.5 per litre and of diesel by ₹ 7 per litre," she said. The reduction of excise duty will have a revenue implication of around ₹1 lakh crore per year for the government, Sitharaman tweeted.
Following the announcement, the finance minister asked state governments to follow suit and reduce value added tax on fuels.
🗣 Soon after the cuts were announced, Prime Minister Narendra Modi underlined that it is "always people first for us" and that the move will further the "ease of living".
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2022-05-21 13:33:25+00:00
📹 “We found narcotic substances on the prisoners. Using these drugs, they could go without sleeping and eating for several days; they did not feel tired.“
An officer of the People's Militia of the DPR explained drug use among the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine's Donbas national battalion.
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2022-05-21 12:24:01+00:00
🙏 Senior Telangana Congress leaders, on Saturday, appealed to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to not replace Mahatma Gandhi’s statue with a new one at MG Road in Secunderabad, a city in the Indian state of Telangana.
🔸 The statue of Mahatma Gandhi at MG Road is slated to be replaced with a new one and surrounded with gazebos, seating arrangements and greenery while the old one will be moved to a less prominent place.
🔸 The bronze statue of the freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi is a historic landmark that commemorates his first arrival in the state during India's independence in 1947. The statue was donated by the owner of Paradise theatre in the 1950s.
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2022-05-21 11:58:48+00:00
📹 Worse than fascists!
A resident of the city of Donetsk describes how Ukrainian artillery shelled her house.
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2022-05-21 10:11:01+00:00
👏 A gang of international smugglers has been apprehended by Indian agencies while allegedly trying to smuggle around 218 kg of heroin, worth over Rs 15 bln in the international market, off the Lakshadweep coast.
The operation was jointly carried out by the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and the Department of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) off the Agatti coast in Lakshadweep.
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2022-05-21 09:44:01+00:00
📹 Ukrainian radicals continue to fire at civilians in Donetsk. As a result of an artillery attack on the Oktyabrsky settlement, one civilian was killed and several residential buildings were damaged.
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2022-05-21 09:20:26+00:00
😬 After his remark, that the Congress alone can fight the BJP as regional parties neither have an ideology nor a centralised approach, upset many parties in the opposition; senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has now opted for a more nuanced position. He said his remarks in Udaipur were misconstrued and that he does not consider Congress “the big daddy”.
🔸 Gandhi said the Congress is in no way “superior” to the other opposition parties. He said all the parties are fighting the same battle but added that the “ideological battle that is taking place is between the national vision of the RSS and the national vision of the Congress”.
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2022-05-21 08:51:43+00:00
❗️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:
▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have destroyed a large batch of weapons and military equipment being delivered from the USA and European countries to a group of Ukrainian troops near the Malin railway station in Zhytomir Region using high-precision, long-range sea-based Kalibr missiles.
▪️ Air-based Russian missiles have destroyed fuel storage intended for the Ukrainian nationalists' armoured vehicles near Odessa.
▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 4 command posts, 47 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration, as well as 1 ammunition depot near Drobyshevo.
▪️ Russian air defence units have shot down another Ukrainian Air Force Su-25 aircraft near Novoaleksandrovka, Kherson Region.
▪️ Missile troops and artillery have hit 77 command posts and 602 areas of AFU troop and military equipment concentration, including 1 training camp for AFU special operations forces with personnel near Lake Sasik in Odessa Region, 43 artillery and mortar units at firing positions, 2 MLRS Grad batteries, 10 ammunition depots and 1 Buk-M1 anti-aircraft system launcher near Mayaki in Kharkov Region.
▪️ Some 174 Ukrainian aircraft and 125 helicopters, 966 unmanned aerial vehicles, 315 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,182 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 402 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,614 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,054 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.
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2022-05-21 08:39:01+00:00
📹 The All-Russia People's Front together with Russian Railways have sent 2.4 thousand tonnes of humanitarian aid to Donbass
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2022-05-21 05:27:52+00:00
😳 Over 500 families from two villages in Assam's Jamunamukh district which were inundated by rain have set up temporary shelters with tarpaulin sheets on railway tracks. The tracks were the only high ground in the area which were not affected by flooding.
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2022-05-20 18:25:09+00:00
Here's where the real fun begins!
▪"Volodymyr Zelensky" suggested that George W. Bush talk to "his fans": Vovan and Lexus then reveal their faces, posing as Ukrainian heroes and pilots who shot down many Russian planes.
▪The pranksters quoted "Brother 2", a classic Russian movie, asking Bush where real power lies: in truth or in money?
▪After Bush compared Zelensky to Winston Churchill, Vovan and Lexus responded by saying "he's like Monica Lewinsky", which caused Bush to burst into laughter
▪At the end of the conversation, one of the pranksters shouted "Slava Rossii" ("Glory to Russia")
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2022-05-20 18:15:18+00:00
☣️ George W. Bush confirmed that biological laboratories in Ukraine are a Pentagon project and were funded by the US. He also called on Georgia's ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili to fight against the Russians, because Zelensky gave him back Ukrainian citizenship: watch all of this in the fifth part of the prank call by Vovan and Lexus.
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2022-05-20 18:03:01+00:00
The fourth part of a video in which Russian jokers Vovan and Lexus play a prank on George W Bush, in which the former president thinks he is talking to the president of Ukraine: this time "Volodymyr Zelensky" asks Bush about the infamous Colin Powell speech in the UN, which became a part of the US campaign to start a war in Iraq.
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2022-05-20 17:59:01+00:00
#Shanakiya_Rasamanickam said that opposition in Sri Lanka wants the president of the country to fulfill four conditions.
Part 3
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2022-05-20 17:53:26+00:00
🎥 In the third part of a prank played on George W Bush by Russian jokers Vovan and Lexus, George Bush thinks he is speaking to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and they discuss NGOs and the information war
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2022-05-20 17:34:01+00:00
#Shanakiya_Rasamanickam lawmaker said that there are several conditions on which the opposition parties are going to support the Sri Lankan prime minister.
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2022-05-20 17:02:38+00:00
How did Sri Lanka end up in such an economic and political crisis? What were the main mistakes of the government?
#Shanakiya_Rasamanickam Member Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi opposition party and a lawmaker gave interview to Sputnik.
Part 1
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2022-05-20 16:34:57+00:00
📍The village of Verkhnetoretskoye was liberated from Ukrainian neo-Nazis but they continue to take revenge on civilians.
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2022-05-20 15:43:36+00:00
🇮🇳 India to ban more than 300 weapons from being imported
Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has compiled a list of 309 weapons that will not be purchased overseas. The minister noted that India, considered the world’s largest arms importer, has become one of the top 25 largest arms suppliers.
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2022-05-20 15:04:52+00:00
📍Residents of Stapnoye village in Volnovakha district, told how Ukrainian forces drove civilians out of bomb shelters
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2022-05-20 14:10:50+00:00
🇮🇳🇨🇳🚫 India accuses China of illegal construction in border area
India objected to China's construction of a second bridge across disputed Pangong Lake.
"We have never accepted such illegal occupation of our territory, nor have we accepted the unjustified Chinese claim or such construction activities,'' said Arindam Bagchi, spokesperson of India's External Affairs Ministry.
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2022-05-20 14:05:37+00:00
🇮🇳 PM Modi condemns the attempts to spark controversy over language
Last month, Union home minister Amit Shah claimed that the time had come to make Hindi an important part of the unity of the country and accept it as an alternative to English. The statement triggered public disapproval and debate.
In response to all those who blame the BJP for the country being inculcated with the Hindi language, Narendra Modi said on Friday: “The BJP sees a reflection of Indian culture in every regional language and considers them worth worshipping… It is a link to the country’s better future.”
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2022-05-20 13:29:14+00:00
🚫 Mykhailo Podolyak, Adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine wants the word "Russians" to be forgotten in the DPR and LPR regions
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2022-05-20 13:26:28+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lanka will implement laws banning anyone from holding foreign currency notes over 10,000 U.S. dollars
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2022-05-20 12:45:06+00:00
🛫🇮🇳 Air India plane made emergency landing after engine shuts down mid-air. An investigation into the incident is underway. There was no report of any injury to passengers.
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2022-05-20 12:01:06+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺🚁 Negotiations with India for the supply of Ka-31 helicopters are underway
Earlier, Indian media reported that India suspended talks with Russia on the acquisition of 10 Ka-31 helicopters. However, Russia’s agency for the exports/import of defence-related products, Rosoboronexport, denied this report and confirmed that Russia will still be supplying 10 helicopters worth $520Mln to India.
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2022-05-20 11:55:30+00:00
🇨🇳 Beijing begins military exercises in the South China Sea amid Biden's trip to Asia
China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, has been conducting a mission in the Sea of Japan since the beginning of the month, described by the Defence Ministry as "routine training". China also flew two long-range nuclear-capable H-6 bombers through the area.
The exercise would last until Monday. All non-military vessels are prohibited from entering the area where manoeuvres are taking place.
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2022-05-20 11:26:19+00:00
💥 In Agra a bride “announced her arrival” at her in-laws’ house as the groom helped her fire a country-made pistol.
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2022-05-20 11:13:34+00:00
🇱🇰 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) plans to complete technical negotiations on the Sri Lanka loan programme on 24 May. Former Sri Lankan Finance Minister Ali Sabry had previously said that the country is expected to receive $3-4Bln in economic assistance from the IMF by the end of the year. He was also optimistic about the possibility of financial support from China and India.
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2022-05-20 11:12:46+00:00
🇨🇳🇵🇭 The Philippines establish military outposts on islands disputed with China
The command posts were established by the country to provide maritime security, search and rescue operations as well as environmental protection.
China and countries belonging to the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN), namely the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Vietnam - are involved in a territorial dispute over the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.
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2022-05-20 11:11:38+00:00
🇮🇳The annual inflow of Foreign Direct Investments for India hit a historical high for the 2021-22 financial year, reaching $83.57Bln. FDI inflows have increased 20-fold in the past 20 years. The biggest equity inflows come from Singapore (27 percent), followed by the US (18 percent).
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2022-05-20 11:10:47+00:00
💰💸 British businessmen of Indian origin are the richest people in the United Kingdom
Evidence for this was given in the annual Rich List published by the Sunday Times in which Sri and Gopi Hinduja appeared in first place. Their fortune is estimated at £28.5 billion - up £11.5 billion over the year. The brothers, who are 86 and 82 years old, have been named the UK’s richest people for the fourth time, and the total amount of their assets was the highest recorded in the 34 years that the Rich List has been published.
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2022-05-20 10:36:59+00:00
Doctors remove 206 kidney stones from 56-year-old man (photo)
Dr Veeramalla Ramalakshmaiah, a senior doctor at Aware Gleneagles Global Hospital, who performed the surgery, said the patient had severe pain in the left side of his stomach for the past six months and was unable to perform his daily routine because of the agony which had been exacerbated by the rising temperatures as summer approaches.
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2022-05-20 10:27:45+00:00
🤝🇮🇳 BRICS-led New Development bank to open regional office in India
The Indian Regional Office will be set up in Gujarat for funding and monitoring infrastructure projects in the country and Bangladesh. By now, NDB has approved 21 Indian projects, involving funding of $7.1 billion.
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2022-05-20 10:17:32+00:00
🇵🇰🇨🇳Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to pay a two-day visit to China on 21-22 May as according to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Pakistan desires stronger partnership with China
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2022-05-20 10:03:01+00:00
🇺🇸🤡👏🏼 In the second part of a prank played by Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus on former American president George W Bush the former president talks about the West's war against Russia and what role the US has in it.
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2022-05-20 10:02:04+00:00
🇺🇸🤡👏🏼 All joking aside!
Russian prankers Vladimir “Vovan” Kuznetsov and Alexei “Lexus” Stolyarov have spent more than a decade trolling politicians, celebrities, and other public figures worldwide. This time they target former US President George W. Bush.
In the first part of a prank on George W. Bush by Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus the former president, who was sure he was talking to the president of Ukraine, commented on the US promise not to expand NATO.
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2022-05-20 09:53:30+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lanka appointed nine new ministers to an "all-party government" tasked with trying to steer the country out of its economic crisis, but the crucial finance minister post remains vacant.
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2022-05-20 09:50:08+00:00
🇱🇰 Protesters and police clashed in Sri Lanka's Colombo on Thursday as thousands of students took to the streets to participate in the anti-government rally.
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2022-05-20 09:43:11+00:00
❗️10 workers trapped after tunnel collapses in Kashmir. The tunnel in the southern Ramban district is part of a mountainous highway tunnel system that was under construction.
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2022-05-20 09:04:09+00:00
🇮🇳Sri Lankan PM warns of looming food shortages in the country. “United States has forecasted a world food shortage and identified Sri Lanka and Afghanistan as 2 countries to be badly affected”: Ranil Wickremesinghe posted in his Twitter.
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2022-05-20 08:29:01+00:00
India slams Pakistan foreign minister’s Kashmir remark at UNSC
"The Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh were, are and will always remain, an integral and inalienable part of India. This includes areas that are under the illegal occupation of Pakistan. No amount of rhetoric and propaganda from any country can change this fact. The only contribution Pakistan can make is to stop state-sponsored terrorism," Rajesh Parihar, India's diplomat at the UN, says.
Earlier, Pakistan FM Bilawal Zardari Bhutto alleged that India's actions, such as the abrogation of article 370, and the decision by the delimitation commission, were an ''assault'' against United Nations Security Council resolutions and the Geneva Convention.
Bhutto said ''such actions make it very difficult for us to enter into talks'' with India.
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2022-05-20 07:45:05+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lankan authorities closed schools and asked public officials not to come to work in a desperate move to prepare for an acute fuel shortage that is expected to last days amid the nation's worst economic crisis.
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2022-05-20 07:34:44+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India logs 2,259 new COVID cases
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2022-05-19 18:11:01+00:00
❗️"I was there when they shot a civilian dead for no reason, just shot him in the forehead," says a witness about a crime by the Azov neo-Nazi battalion.
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2022-05-19 17:31:14+00:00
🚫 Ukrainian servicemen in Mariupol looted all shops when they were in the city, leaving civilians with spoiled food, DPR resident Marina says.
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2022-05-19 17:01:32+00:00
📍Blinken says Western sanctions on Russia not causing global food insecurity
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2022-05-19 16:49:35+00:00
🤝 BRICS foreign ministers support the proposal to expand the grouping
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2022-05-19 16:43:23+00:00
❗️"Once again I saw for myself that the command was constantly lying to us," Roman Timofeenko, officer in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, says.
He refused to participate in hostilities and decided to wait with his family for the liberation of his native city.
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2022-05-19 16:19:11+00:00
🤝 BRICS foreign ministers oppose an arms race and militarisation of space, and call for strengthening arms control mechanisms as well as the nuclear non-proliferation regime
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2022-05-19 16:18:01+00:00
🇮🇳🎥 Bollywood movie ‘Rocketry’ based on ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan gets grand premiere at Cannes
The movie “Rocketry: The Nambi Effect” is based on the true story of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientist and genius Nambi Narayanan, who developed efficient liquid fuel engines, but became embroiled in a spy scandal.
The Indian Ministry of Culture selected the movie for its premiere at the Cannes Market as part of the celebration of India officially being announced as the "Country of Honour" this year. The 75th Cannes Film Festival coincides with 75 years of Indian independence.
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2022-05-19 16:11:30+00:00
⚡️BRICS foreign ministers express concern about humanitarian situation in Ukraine
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2022-05-19 16:03:29+00:00
🇨🇳 China proposed to start the BRICS expansion process, explore the criteria and procedures for the expansion, and gradually form a consensus
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2022-05-19 15:56:15+00:00
🇮🇳🤝 Read the key points made by Subrahmanyam Jaishankar during the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting:
🔸We must not only seek socio-economic recovery from the Covid pandemic, but also create resilient and reliable supply chains.
🔸We must not only seek socio-economic recovery from the Covid pandemic, but also create resilient and reliable supply chains.
🔸Knock-on effects of the Ukraine conflict have led to sharp increases in the costs of energy, food and commodities. This must be mitigated for the sake of the developing world.
🔸Together, we should press for credible commitment of resources by developed nations for climate action and climate justice.
🔸Sustainable Development Goals must be approached in a comprehensive manner.
🔸A globalised and digitised world will give due regard to trust and transparency.
🔸BRICS should unanimously and specifically support UN Security Council reform.
🔸BRICS must display zero tolerance for terrorism, especially cross border terrorism.
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2022-05-19 15:48:38+00:00
🇮🇳🤝 BRICS has repeatedly affirmed respect for sovereign equality, territorial integrity and international law. We must live up to these commitments - Jaishankar
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2022-05-19 15:38:05+00:00
🇨🇳 Highlights of Chinese foreign minister’s address during BRICS video meeting:
🔻Wang Yi called on NATO and the EU to start a comprehensive dialogue with Russia;
🔻He stressed that the supply of weapons to Ukraine will not bring peace to the country;
🔻According to Wang Yi, China stands for the continuation of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine;
🔻China strongly condemns attempts to isolate countries or force them to take sides.
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2022-05-19 15:08:26+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺 New Delhi is ready to increase trade with Russia within the North-South transport corridor
The International North–South Transport Corridor (INSTC) is a 7,200-km-long multi-mode network of ship, rail, and road routes for moving freight between Russia, India, Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan, and other countries.
According to Indian Ambassador to Moscow Pavan Kapoor, "the crisis in logistics, connected with the refusal of most ports to service Russian ships, strengthened the optimistic scenario of using this corridor as the fastest and most efficient way to transport cargo. This is very important for the continuation of trade between India and Russia."
The diplomat drew attention to the fact that the use of the North-South corridor will reduce the time and cost of cargo transportation between Russia and India by at least 30%.
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2022-05-19 15:00:51+00:00
🇺🇸Biden says his administration will submit to Congress report for Sweden, Finland's NATO accession today
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2022-05-19 14:58:01+00:00
"Do you want us to shoot you so that you won’t have to suffer?": Mariupol resident Sergei on how Azov neo-Nazis took his car when he was bringing water to his four children.
Mariupol was fully liberated form Ukrainian nationalist battalions. Recently about 1700 soldiers who were blocked on Azovstal plant surrendered to Russian army.
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2022-05-19 14:52:45+00:00
WATCH LIVE 👉 Press conference by US, Swedish and Finnish leaders after meeting in Washington
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2022-05-19 14:25:32+00:00
🇺🇸 Biden hosts the leaders of Finland and Sweden at the White House, a press conference is expected after the meeting
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2022-05-19 14:21:02+00:00
🇮🇳🐘 Punjab congress politician rides an elephant to protest against rising inflation and fuel price
India's wholesale inflation increased to 14.55 percent in April, which represents an eight-year high. In a bid to draw the central government's attention towards rising inflation, Congress politician Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday opted to ride an elephant, claiming that “prices are rising at a rate which is nearly as high as an elephant.”
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2022-05-19 14:17:26+00:00
❗️Mariupol City Council Deputy Konstantin Ivashchenko addressed soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
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2022-05-19 13:51:06+00:00
🇮🇳 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend Quad security dialogue summit in Tokyo on 24 May
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2022-05-19 13:42:44+00:00
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Check out the latest news stories in India
▪️India reported 2,364 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, along with 10 deaths over the past 24 hours.
▪️In order to draw the central government's attention towards rising inflation, Congress politician Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday opted to ride an elephant in Punjab's Patiala District while chanting slogans against the surging price of commodities.
▪️Kashmiri separatist Yasin Malik was convicted by a Delhi court in a terror funding case related to terrorist activities that disturbed the Kashmir Valley in 2017. Malik pleaded guilty to the allegations made against him, which may result in a maximum punishment of life imprisonment. Malik is currently imprisoned in Delhi's Tihar jail. The court will hear the arguments on the quantum of sentence on 25 May.
▪️Heavy rains continue in several parts of India. The authorities of Karnataka declared holidays in schools and are making special arrangements to serve food and other essential items to the flood-affected people. In Assam, schools will remain shut until 20 May, while 135 relief camps and 113 distribution centres, in which 48,304 flood-affected people are taking shelter, have been opened.
▪️Indian politician Navjot Singh Sidhu was sentenced to one year in jail for killing a man back in 1988. Earlier, Sidhu was let off with a fine of ₹1,000 by the top court. However, the decision was reconsidered as relatives of the victim sought stricter punishment.
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2022-05-19 13:42:11+00:00
🇮🇳💎India's huge diamond-polishing industry has fired around 250,000 of its roughly two million workers because of sanctions on Russia.
India cuts and polishes 90 percent of the world's diamonds, with Russian diamond miners such as Alrosa traditionally accounting for 30-40 percent of India's imported rough gems.
After Russia started its military operation in Ukraine Western countries like the United States and Europe stopped accepting Russian diamonds that have been polished in India.
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2022-05-19 12:36:52+00:00
Indian cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu was sentenced to one year in jail, nearly 35 years after he was accused of killing a man in a fit of rage.
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2022-05-19 12:32:09+00:00
Sri Lankan police fired teat gas and used water cannons to disperse the protesting Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF) members near the World Trade Centre at the Galle Face Green. Students have been demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
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2022-05-19 12:18:01+00:00
📍A resident of Orekhovo village told what her life was like under Ukrainian occupation
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2022-05-19 12:02:00+00:00
🇮🇳🚫 India slams West's criticism for wheat ban, reminds of COVID vaccines' 'discrimination'
India's Union Minister of State for External Affairs Vellamvelly Muraleedharan reminded the US and western allies of the contentious role they had played in stockpiling millions of doses of COVID vaccines last year when there was a crippling shortage of jabs in the developing nations of Asia and Africa. He emphasised that some measures regarding wheat exports have been announced to ensure it can "truly" respond to those most in need.
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2022-05-19 11:52:22+00:00
🇮🇩Indonesia lifted its ban on palm oil exports on 23 May citing a stabilising situation in the domestic cooking oil market. The country, which accounts for a third of global edible oil exports, had imposed a ban on palm oil exports on 28 April, triggering a massive surge in international prices of cooking oil.
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2022-05-19 11:42:31+00:00
Hindu group in Jammu celebrates conviction of Yasin Malik in terror funding case. They distribute sweets in the city, saying justice has been done.
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2022-05-19 11:19:01+00:00
🐯🚫 Two injured tiger cubs were rescued after villagers attack
A distressing video showing villagers from Seoni district in Madhya Pradesh throwing stones at two tiger cubs appeared in the Internet on 18 May. The injured cubs have been delivered to a veterinary hospital, where they have been given proper food and medicine and will remain under observation until their full recovery. Later, they will be shifted to a re-wilding centre at Ghorela to learn how to survive in the deep forest.
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2022-05-19 11:14:33+00:00
❗️ Ambulance services in Mariupol are now the real frontline of medicine in the devastated city. Mariupol paramedics and doctors manage to work without communication and with an acute shortage of fuel.
The medics have been working without salaries for three months now, surviving only on humanitarian aid.
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2022-05-19 10:53:29+00:00
🇮🇳 Former Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar joins BJP after his resignation last week from INC
He thanked the BJP’s leadership for having him as a party member, adding that it was not easy to leave his now-former party of 50 years, which, he explained, three generations of his family had served. His exit from the Congress was announced on 14 May, after weeks of open confrontation with the party’s leadership.
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2022-05-19 10:41:58+00:00
🇱🇰 It will take Sri Lanka at least six more months to start repaying its debts
According to Governor of Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Nandalal Weerasinghe, there will be no debt servicing until the country is able to restructure its $51-billion external debt. "We hope to be able to reach an agreement with our creditors in about six months", Weerasinghe said.
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2022-05-19 10:13:02+00:00
🚚🚫 3 workers killed, 11 injured as truck runs over them
The incident took place on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) expressway in Jhajjar’s Bahadurgarh area. 18 workers, employed for road repair works, were sleeping on the roadside when a truck loaded with coal ran over them. Three workers died on the spot, and 11 others were taken to hospital in Bahadurgarh.
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2022-05-19 09:42:35+00:00
⚡️Erdogan: Turkey cannot abandon relations with Russia or Russian gas, this is a strategic issue
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2022-05-19 09:18:18+00:00
⚡️Turkey tells NATO it will say no to Swedish, Finnish membership in bloc, president Erdogan says
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2022-05-19 08:55:52+00:00
🇱🇰🛢Sri Lanka does not have money to buy gasoline amid crisis, so it will be provided primarily to emergency services, Minister of Energy Kanchana Vijesekara said.
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2022-05-19 08:26:25+00:00
🇯🇵Japan will mobilise about 18,000 police officers in Tokyo next week during the visits of leaders from India, the United States, and Australia for a summit of the Quadripartite Security Dialogue (Quad), which will take place on 24 May.
"There are risks of attacks on leaders, interference with meetings, cyberattacks," a police official told the Kyodo news agency.
Quad is an informal strategic alliance of India, the United States, Japan, and Australia. It is mainly focused on maintaining global health, promoting high standards of infrastructure, combating climate change, ensuring a high level of education and people-to-people exchanges, partnerships on emerging technologies, space, and cybersecurity.
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2022-05-19 08:00:37+00:00
1,730 militants including 80 wounded have surrendered at Azovstal in Mariupol since Monday, Russian Ministry of defence says
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2022-05-19 07:41:20+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India records 2,364 new COVID-19 cases
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2022-05-19 07:39:38+00:00
Congress workers stage silent protests in Chennai against the release of AG Perarivalan, a convict in former PM Rajiv Gandhi's assassination case. The Supreme Court invoked extraordinary power to release Perarivalan, who spent 31 years of jail.
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2022-05-18 18:12:04+00:00
❌ Residents from the city of Yasinovataya in Donetsk region describe how their houses were shelled by the artillery of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
Sounds of bombing are still heard in civilian areas of the city as the Ukrainian armed forces continue their shelling.
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2022-05-18 17:31:53+00:00
🚫🇺🇦 While Ukrainian politicians are crossing their fingers for a successful evacuation of their soldiers from Azovstal and discussing the possibility of a prisoner exchange, Ukrainian nationalists are openly threating to execute Russian soldiers, which remains a common practice on the Ukrainian side.
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2022-05-18 16:51:52+00:00
🇮🇳🚫🇺🇸 India's wheat ban: why Washington & G7 bloc have zero moral right to lecture New Delhi
"First of all, the G7 has no reason to express its disappointment over India’s decision to impose an export ban," says Devinder Sharma, a food and agriculture policy analyst.
"India is a sovereign nation and it has the right to ensure that it is adequately taking care of the country’s food security. This is immensely important, given the fact that India has an estimated 800 million people who are nutritionally poor and they need to be supported with a food security programme, which is enshrined under the National Food Security Act," he said.
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2022-05-18 16:39:03+00:00
❗️🚫 Ukrainian prisoner of war tells about atrocities committed by neo-Nazi battalions:
"For them to deliver a machine gun burst at a crowd of people is the same thing that you and I look at each other... They raped women, sometimes they did worse."
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2022-05-18 16:03:04+00:00
👏🏼 "Many thanks to our colleagues who didn’t abandon us when in need": Doctors from Moscow and Donetsk have helped to reopen an outpatient clinic in Mariupol.
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2022-05-18 15:36:18+00:00
🚫 Incessant rains, floods affect more than 500,000 people in India's Assam
Incessant rains in Assam have triggered floods and caused one of the world’s largest rivers, Brahmaputra, to burst its banks over the past three days. According to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the downpour in the north-eastern state is due to continue for two more days.
More than 500,000 people have reportedly been affected in the state of Assam by heavy floods caused by torrential rains flooding more than 1,500 villages. At least eight people have died so far.
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2022-05-18 15:15:19+00:00
📍Providing medical assistance to Ukrainian soldiers from Azovstal is the highest priority, everything else will be decided later, Russian Foreign Ministry
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2022-05-18 14:47:23+00:00
🔥🚫 A forest fire caused landmine explosions along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district. The fire spread to the Indian side in the Mendhar sector, triggering the explosion of nearly half a dozen landmines that were part of the anti-infiltration obstacle system. No casualties have been reported.
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2022-05-18 14:15:40+00:00
🎥 Watch two witnesses describe Azov neo-Nazis’ practice of using people as human shields.
According to Vladislav, who described the inhumane behaviour of the Azov militants, they held 12 people hostage in a building where an airstrike hit. Everyone who was there was trapped under concrete slabs.
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2022-05-18 14:05:13+00:00
📍 According to Russia's estimates, there are over 400 American biological laboratories around the world - Deputy Secretary of Russia's Security Council
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2022-05-18 13:56:36+00:00
🏭💨 Pollution has killed more than 2.3 mln people in India
In March, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that air pollution had reduced life expectancy in India by 1.5 years. This is higher than the reduction in life expectancy from all forms of cancers (1.39 years).
The report also reads, that in 2009 pollution in India led to more than 2.3 million premature deaths - the highest among all countries.
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2022-05-18 13:41:05+00:00
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Check out the latest news stories in India
▪️India reported 1,829 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday along with 33 deaths over the past 24 hours.
▪️India's top court ordered the release of A.G. Perarivalan, who was imprisoned for supplying batteries used in a bomb that killed Rajiv Gandhi in Tamil Nadu on 21 May 1991. As the convict was found appropriate to release, it could pave the way for the release of other six convicts in the case, NDTV says.
▪️The Indian Navy successfully test-fired a locally developed anti-ship missile launched from a helicopter. The test firing took place at Balasore in Odisha.
▪️Night-long heavy rain in Bengaluru, Karnataka left several parts of the city flooded and killed two people. North-east India, as well as south-western Kerala also continue to struggle with the consequences of heavy rains.
▪️Punjab farmers ended their protest after the government accepted several of their demands. The farmers demanded government compensation for wheat crops as well as a change in the dates of paddy sowing from 10 to 18 June. Following the farmers' demands, C.M. Bhagwant Mann announced a fresh schedule for staggered paddy sowing on 14 June and 17 June.
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2022-05-18 13:21:58+00:00
❗Turkey blocks negotiations on Finland and Sweden's entry into NATO - FT
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2022-05-18 12:53:01+00:00
Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh Witnesses Naval Air Ops onboard the spy plane P8I
"Having experienced Long Range Maritime Surveillance & Anti-Submarine Warfare capabilities firsthand, I am certain that our maritime interests are in safe hands of a Combat Ready, Credible & Cohesive," he said.
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2022-05-18 12:45:16+00:00
🇮🇳Delhi lieutenant governor Anil Baijal resigns citing "personal reasons". Baijal took over as the Delhi LG in December 2016. He had been at loggerheads with Delhi state chief Arvind Kejriwal over several issues in the past.
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2022-05-18 12:36:15+00:00
❗️A man from Mariupol asked for his face not to be revealed as he is afraid nationalists might attack his relatives in Kiev. He said that Azov neo-Nazis took Mariupol residents hostage and thanked Russian forces for coming and helping.
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2022-05-18 12:16:05+00:00
🇮🇳 India to regulate cotton exports amid surging prices and lower crop output
Surging prices of cotton in India have led domestic industries to demand an outright ban on cotton exports from India. Subsequently, Indian Textiles and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has called for a “hassle-free supply” of cotton and yarn to domestic industry before the “surplus” is exported overseas.
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2022-05-18 11:54:39+00:00
❗️A wall collapsed in a salt packaging factory in western India on Wednesday, killing at least 12 workers and injuring another 13.
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2022-05-18 11:31:24+00:00
❗️“It was so scary that we sobbed prayers in the basement.”
Elena, a Mariupol resident, has told how Azov radicals mined the territory near residential buildings and civilians were consistently blown up.
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2022-05-18 11:25:25+00:00
🇷🇺🙏 Russians launch flashmob to thank foreigners for support of their fight against neo-nazism in Ukraine
Over the past three months, against the background of anti-Russian propaganda and expressions of Russophobia spread in many Western countries, activists from dozens of nations around the world have taken part in marches, meetings, and gatherings in support of Russia.
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2022-05-18 11:13:35+00:00
🇺🇦🇷🇺 959 militants from Azovstal have surrendered since Monday, including 80 injured, of which 51 who needed hospital treatment were delivered to a medical facility in Novoazovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic.
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2022-05-18 10:49:01+00:00
🎥🇱🇰 Watch Sri Lanka’s military units deployed in Colombo as the country's parliament met for the first time since its suspension on 6 May and protests took place in the city
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2022-05-18 10:38:35+00:00
Russian Ministry of Deffence published footage of surrendered mercenaries from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.
Mariupol, former headquarters of Ukraine's nationalist Azov battalion, has been at the epicenter of the fighting. The city residents could not be evacuated as the Azov militants were using them as human shields, shelling advancing Russian troops from residential buildings, according to the Russian defence ministry.
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2022-05-18 10:22:14+00:00
🤝 BRICS foreign ministers, namely the ministers of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will hold a videoconference meeting on 19 May to discuss peace and security issues. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will chair the meeting, which will also be attended by Russia's Sergey Lavrov, India's Subramanyam Jaishankar, Brazil's Carlos Franca and South Africa's Naledi Pandor.
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2022-05-18 10:13:49+00:00
🎥🇱🇰 Watch Sri Lankans stand in long queues at gas stations in Colombo as the country ran out of petrol.
According to the media, only 10 percent of petrol is being distributed nationwide.
Energy Minister Kanchan Wijesekera urged residents not to refill their fuel stocks for the next three days until 1,190 petrol stations across the country have been restocked with petrol.
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2022-05-18 09:47:01+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺India remains one of the main buyers of Russian weapons
Russia’s turnover for weapon exports is worth about $14 to 15 billion each year on average, and the total value of signed contracts is about $50 billion.
"The main buyers of our weapons are India, China, Egypt, Algeria, and other countries," Russia's Deputy Prime Minister, Yuri Borisov, said.
The United States take first place in the arms export market with 39 percent of the world share. In recent years, Russia has taken a steady 20 percent and France comes next by a large margin with a share of 11 percent.
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2022-05-18 09:40:35+00:00
🇮🇳 India intends to operate its S-400 missile defence system to fend off any threats from Pakistan and China. According to data received from the Pentagon and published by ‘Money Control’, by June 2022, India is going to deploy its S-400 missile defence system which it bought from Russia.
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2022-05-18 09:34:29+00:00
🇮🇳India successfully tested locally developed an anti-ship missile launched from a helicopter. It was the first air launch of this missile system developed for the Indian Navy.
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2022-05-18 09:00:04+00:00
A government official was killed and his two colleagues were injured in a firing on their vehicle in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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2022-05-18 07:34:54+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India reports 1,829 new COVID-19 cases
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2022-05-18 07:11:09+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lankan police arrested two ruling party lawmakers for allegedly instigating mob violence that plunged the country into days of unrest and left nine people dead last week.
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2022-05-18 06:40:25+00:00
First locally developed Naval Anti-Ship Missile test-fired from a Seaking 42B helicopter today at Balasore, Odisha.
🗣 "This firing is a significant step towards achieving self-reliance in niche missile technology and reaffirms the Indian Navy's commitment to self-sufficiency," the Indian Navy said.
Video: Courtesy of the Indian Navy
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2022-05-18 06:31:18+00:00
#Zoya_Mir explained what schools, parents or other social structures should do to help children suffering from long lockdowns, which the region of Kashmir has witnessed.
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2022-05-18 05:31:35+00:00
How much did the conflict in the region of Kashmir and several lockdowns affect children's mental health?
Clinical psychologist #Zoya_Mir said that children’s mental health suffered longer than in other parts of the world, because the region of Kashmir were subjected to lockdowns even before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2022-05-18 04:31:04+00:00
The Kashmir region witnessed three consecutive lockdowns from 2019 to 2021, two of which were because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the other enforced after regional autonomy was removed. As a result, children's education suffered despite school authorities holding online classes in 2020 and 2021.
Schools have started operating but mental health experts are noticing some worrying trends. Sputnik spoke to clinical psychologist #Zoya_Mir who has experience of working with adolescents and she is at present working on a paper that documents disquieting changes of behaviour in children, as witnessed by mental health experts.
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2022-05-17 18:49:01+00:00
📍"Do you want us to shoot you so that you won’t have to suffer?": Mariupol resident Sergei on how Azov neo-Nazis took his car when he was bringing water to his four children.
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2022-05-17 18:09:01+00:00
❗️Locals in Popasnaya in the Lugansk People's Republic on the difference between how the Ukrainians who "came from Lvov" and the Russians interact with civilians.
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2022-05-17 17:01:49+00:00
📹 Nina Ivanovna, a Mandrykino resident, is trying to rebuild her house after Ukrainian shelling. She said that five windows of her house were blown out and a fence fell down.
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2022-05-17 17:01:38+00:00
🇺🇸🇮🇳 US preparing military aid for India to reduce its dependence on Russian weapons
The package will include foreign military financing of $500 million, which would make India one of the largest recipients of such aid, behind Israel and Egypt.
The move is part of a much larger initiative by President Joe Biden’s administration to ensure India as a long-term security partner amid New Delhi’s unwillingness to condemn Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.
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2022-05-17 16:16:01+00:00
📍"They said they were suicide bombers and we must go with them": Natalia Alekseevna Senko told a reporter about how Azov neo-Nazis treated civilians.
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2022-05-17 15:43:59+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳 A Russian delegation of legal and technical experts is participating in a three-day meeting of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in New Delhi. The SCO includes Russia, India, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, and the organisation’s mission is to coordinate the fight against terrorism, extremism, and separatism.
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2022-05-17 15:32:30+00:00
🇮🇳🇨🇳 India, China and other rising powers won’t accept West-imposed status of ‘obedient mutes’, Lavrov says
Lavrov recalled that Western powers had worked to replace multipolarity with a system of hegemony under which all other countries were forced to work according to their rules, enforced by institutions like the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. However, “as soon as countries began to appear which function better in these areas, according to Western rules of the game, the very centres that will form a multipolar world – China, India and other major powers, the West immediately decided to rewrite the rules,” Lavrov said.
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2022-05-17 15:15:41+00:00
📍 Neo-Nazis, retreating from Rubezhnoe city, placed grenades under the bodies of the dead local residents while leaving the city
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2022-05-17 15:08:06+00:00
🇺🇸🇺🇦 US attracts Daesh members as mercenaries to participate in hostilities in Ukraine, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service says.
About 60 militants were released from prisons controlled by Syrian Kurds to be sent to Ukraine in April. Their main goal is sabotage against the Russian Armed Forces.
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2022-05-17 14:22:50+00:00
❗️Assange's wife to file representations with Priti Patel to block his extradition to US
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2022-05-17 14:01:32+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺 BRICS countries to expand cooperation on climate change
A virtual high-level meeting with delegations from the five BRICS partner countries - India, Russia, Brazil, China, and South Africa - took place on Tuesday. The participants confirmed their intention to strengthen and expand areas of cooperation in the field of climate change at the national and local levels.
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2022-05-17 13:55:34+00:00
🇸🇪🇫🇮Sweden and Finland announced their intention to join NATO after Russia began its military operation in Ukraine. Russian authorities have warned that the Nordic countries’ entry into NATO would constitute a “mistake with far-reaching consequences”.
What extra military capabilities does NATO obtain if Sweden and Finland join the Alliance?
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2022-05-17 13:50:36+00:00
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Check out the latest news stories in India
▪️India reported 1,569 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, along with 19 deaths over the past 24 hours.
▪️Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has inaugurated the launch of the domestically built “Surat” and “Udaygiri” warships in Mumbai. The Surat is the fourth guided missile destroyer of the P15B class, while the Udaygiri is the second stealth frigate of the P17A class.
▪️The Indian Embassy is set to reopen in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Tuesday. India’s Embassy was relocated from Kiev to Warsaw on 13 March in the wake of Russia's military operation in Ukraine.
▪️India announced some relaxation on its wheat export ban. New Delhi has said that it will allow wheat export shipments that have already been registered with customs.
▪️Heavy rains are expected over Kerala, coastal and south interior Karnataka, Assam, Meghalaya, and Arunachal Pradesh during next three days.
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2022-05-17 12:13:08+00:00
🇱🇰 "The next couple of months will be the most difficult ones of our lives. We must prepare ourselves to make some sacrifices and face the challenges of this period," Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said in an address to the nation.
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2022-05-17 12:12:59+00:00
❗️'Regards' from Ukraine
Watch a local resident from Rubezhnoe in Lugansk region speak about Ukrainian shelling of his neighbourhood
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2022-05-17 11:50:14+00:00
🇮🇳🇵🇰 India slams Pakistan for 'farcical resolution' condemning 'delimitation' exercise in Jammu & Kashmir
The Indian government on Tuesday hit out at Pakistan after it passed a parliamentary resolution against the “delimitation” exercise in Jammu and Kashmir which was concluded by New Delhi on 5 May.
Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that "Islamabad had no locus standi to comment or interfere in India’s internal matters".
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2022-05-17 11:24:28+00:00
📍Watch a Donetsk resident speak about how three Ukrainian shells hit the school
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2022-05-17 10:37:03+00:00
🇮🇳 India plans to reopen its embassy in Afghanistan
The Indian Embassy will be open with limited personnel for liaison purposes, without senior-level diplomats. The move does not mean a recognition by India of the Taliban government.
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2022-05-17 10:35:05+00:00
🇮🇳 India suspends negotiations with Russia on purchase of 10 Ka-31 helicopters. The decision was made due to uncertainty over the supply of arms against the background of Russia's operation in Ukraine.
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2022-05-17 10:20:29+00:00
Russia's Ministry of Defence has published a video of Kalibr cruise missiles striking arms shipments from the US and Europe to Ukraine in the Lvov region.
“Kalibrs” can fly distances up to 2500km, at a maximum speed about Mach 2.9.
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2022-05-17 10:09:24+00:00
🇮🇳🚫 At least 11 people have died in floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains in India
The fatalities occurred in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, where nearly 700 villages are reported to be underwater.
Nearly 200,000 people in Assam were cut off from the rest of the state as roads and bridges were either blocked by landslides or washed away. Several railway stations in the state have been closed. The army has deployed helicopters to help with the rescue efforts.
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2022-05-17 09:45:37+00:00
🚀🇨🇳 A new hypersonic missile developed by China will be able to hit a moving car
Chinese scientists are working on a heat-seeking hypersonic weapon that will be able to hit moving objects at five times the speed of sound.
As reported by the South China Morning Post, the team of scientists headed by Yang Xiaogang from the PLA Rocket Force at Xian's University of Engineering has made important progress to come up with solutions to pinpoint a moving target at extreme speed.
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2022-05-17 09:34:55+00:00
🇮🇳🌾 India announces some relaxation in wheat export ban
New Delhi has said that it will honour all wheat consignment which have already been registered with customs. The delivery of wheat, which was already being loaded at Kandla port, was also authorised by the Government.
The decision came after the G7 group took issue with New Delhi for its ban on wheat exports, and said that it will be discussed with PM Narendra Modi when he attends the G7 meeting in June.
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2022-05-17 09:25:53+00:00
❗️Ukrainian negotiators guided by London, Washington - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov
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2022-05-17 08:28:24+00:00
🇺🇸🇮🇳🌾US wants India to reconsider its wheat export restrictions
“We are encouraging countries not to restrict exports because we think that any restriction on exports will exacerbate the food shortages,” the US Ambassador to the United Nations said.
The criticism of the India’s wheat export restrictions by the US comes days after the G7 grouping also slammed the Indian government’s decision.
New Delhi has argued that the decision to “regulate” wheat exports would not only help with its “food security” and check inflation, but also prevent hoarding by private players.
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2022-05-17 07:56:31+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India records 1,569 new COVID-19 cases
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2022-05-17 06:30:50+00:00
Part 4
🍏🇮🇳 Watch Mr. #Ahmed_Bashir, a professional fruit grower and the president of Kashmir's largest fruit and vegetable market, speak about the impact of climate change on the apple trade.
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2022-05-17 05:56:43+00:00
This video went viral in Indonesia recently: locals celebrating Eid al-Fitr with Russian flag colors and a Russian war cry “ura” written on their firework cannons. Russia’s Ambassador to the country Lyudmila Vorobieva says it’s a part of a bigger trend in Indonesian culture: “Indonesians – they say “ura”, which means they support Russia and even in the street sometimes when they ask “where are you from?” and they hear that I’m from Russia – they say “ura”. So, the attitude of Indonesian people is very positive.”
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2022-05-17 05:37:29+00:00
Indonesia, which is hosting the Group of Twenty this year, is currently under a lot of pressure from the West to exclude Russia from G20 meetings over the situation in Ukraine. Jakarta seems to withstand the stress quite well, saying that it has a free and active foreign policy. While being against military conflict in Ukraine, the Southeast Asian nation refuses to hit Moscow with economic sanctions, seemingly sending signals to Russian businesses to consider entering local market.
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2022-05-17 05:30:23+00:00
Part 3
🇮🇳🍎 Watch Mr. #Ahmed_Bashir, a professional fruit grower and the president of Kashmir's largest fruit and vegetable market, speak about the challenges he sees as major concerns to the trade, especially inflation.
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2022-05-17 05:02:08+00:00
Part 2
🍏🇮🇳 Mr. #Ahmed_Bashir, a professional fruit grower and the president of Kashmir's largest fruit and vegetable open market, told Sputnik about the issues fruit growers face because of conflicts and political instability.
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2022-05-17 04:31:09+00:00
Part 1
🍎🇮🇳🍏 The apple trade, which provides livelihood to more than 3 million people, is suffering massive setbacks due to a variety of factors including inflation, political instability and climate change.
Mr. #Ahmed_Bashir, a professional fruit grower and the president of Kashmir's largest fruit and vegetable market, spoke to Sputnik about the importance of Kashmiri apple trade for India.
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2022-05-16 19:05:57+00:00
⚡️🎥 "Thank God it is all over: the shelling, the bombing stopped," A resident of DPR's Volnovakha recalls the day when she heard the news that the city had been liberated from the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
For her and other city residents, it was like a holiday.
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2022-05-16 18:11:01+00:00
⚡️🎥 "They shot him, shot him in the head": a resident of the Kamensky settlement recalls how Azov nationalists shot a resident of his house dead after he asked them not to take a position in their house.
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2022-05-16 17:08:01+00:00
❗️📹 Watch a resident of the city of Rubezhnoe in LPR describe the tactics Ukrainian nationalists used to kill locals using mortars. They hid a small mortar in car and drove around the neighbourhood firing shells. It was impossible for civilians to even bury their loved ones due to the constant shelling.
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2022-05-16 16:24:34+00:00
⚡️ Toxic сloud moving towards the city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region after Ukraine's Special Forces provocation, Russia's Defence Ministry says
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2022-05-16 16:18:22+00:00
☄️ Huge metal balls plummet from Indian sky
Netizens have been left baffled after locals observed mysterious metal balls falling from the sky in India's Gujarat state over the past three to four days. Some have speculated that they could be extra-terrestrial objects.
The Physical Research Laboratory, an institute run by the government’s Department of Space, stepped in to investigate the occurrence. It later suggested that the strange metal balls were satellite debris, a source told India Today media outlet.
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2022-05-16 16:05:58+00:00
❗️Three killed, 57,000 affected as floods and landslides hit Indian state of Assam
India's three northeastern states — Assam, Meghalaya, and Arunachal Pradesh -- have seen incessant rainfall since Saturday. The Regional Meteorological Centre has issued an Orange Alert (be prepared) for the three states until 17 May.
At least three people have died and around 57,000 others been affected in several districts of India's Assam because of the flash floods and landslides caused by rain, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said.
All three of the deaths were reported in Cachar, the worst affected district. The others are Dhemaji, Hojai, Karbi Anglong West, Kamrup (M), Nagaon, and Nalbari.
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2022-05-16 15:26:01+00:00
❗️🎥 A 13-year-old boy was shot by a Ukrainian sniper who impeded people from being evacuated from Mariupol. The boy survived, and now hopes to see his dad, return to school and play football.
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2022-05-16 15:12:25+00:00
❗️Russian and Ukrainian troops agree to pull out injured from Azovstal plant
"On 16 May, after negotiations with Ukrainian military personnel blocked in the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, an agreement was reached to pull out the wounded [Ukrainian soldiers]," the Russian Defence Ministry said.
Those removed from the besieged plant are to be transported to a hospital in Novoazovsk, DPR, where they will receive medical treatment.
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2022-05-16 14:54:45+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lanka proposes privatising national airline amid crisis
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2022-05-16 14:21:50+00:00
🇮🇳☀️Air temperature in New Delhi soars to record 50 degrees Celsius
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2022-05-16 13:37:42+00:00
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Check out the latest news stories in India
▪️India reported 2,202 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, along with 27 deaths over the past 24 hours.
▪️National Dengue Day is commemorated in India today. As dengue remains a serious health concern, Dengue Day is observed annually in order to increase awareness about the mosquito-transmitted disease and intensify preventive measures.
▪️Tesla has decided to halt plans to sell its cars in India. The move comes after days of talks with government representatives who want Tesla to manufacture electric vehicles locally, rather than import them from production hubs in China and the US.
▪️Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Lumbini, Nepal this morning on an official visit. Modi participated in a ceremony to lay the foundation stone for the India International Centre for Buddhist Culture & Heritage and held bilateral talks with Nepalese PM Deuba. The parties discussed the full range of relations between India and Nepal, and also signed memorandums of understanding which will diversify and deepen cooperation between the two countries.
▪️India’s wheat export ban has caused 1.8 million tonnes of grain to be trapped at ports. New Delhi banned wheat exports on Saturday, as a heat wave curtailed output and domestic prices reached a record high.
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2022-05-16 13:34:24+00:00
🇱🇰⚡️Crisis-hit Sri Lanka has run out of petrol as it is unable to find dollars to finance essential imports, the new prime minister said Monday in an address to the nation.
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2022-05-16 13:29:09+00:00
❗️🎥 Watch a little boy from Mariupol who has lost his father speak about Ukrainian strikes on civilians. He also described his mother’s condition: according to medics, she has 40% burns.
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2022-05-16 12:51:14+00:00
China is a huge investor in Sri Lanka’s infrastructure projects. Former head of Intelligence of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka Colonel Ramani Hariharan explained what are the options for China amid the current situation of rising instability on the Island. He also commented on the possibility of an India-China rivalry playing out in Sri Lanka.
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2022-05-16 12:37:01+00:00
🇷🇺 President Putin addresses the situation in Ukraine, Nazism and NATO policies:
❗️ Nowhere is Nazism being encouraged at a state level, except for Ukraine
❗️ NATO is being aggressively used as a US foreign policy instrument
❗️ Monuments are demolished in Europe, history is cynically rewritten. The feats of those who helped bring victory in WW2 are destroyed
❗️ The West condones blatant Russophobia
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2022-05-16 12:24:15+00:00
🇮🇳🇦🇪 New Delhi and Abu Dhabi set to strengthen cooperation after UAE president's death
“Called UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan to express my personal condolences on the passing away of late President HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. We agreed that taking forward our strategic partnership would be the best tribute to him,” Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said.
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2022-05-16 11:59:26+00:00
🇷🇺 Putin on Finland and Sweden joining NATO: "Russia has no problem with these states. Their accession bids do not pose any threat. But the expansion of military infrastructure into this region will trigger a response. We will decide what it will be depending on the basis of what threats may be posed to us."
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2022-05-16 11:45:39+00:00
🇮🇳🚁 Indian PM skips opening of Nepal's Chinese-built airport
Nepal on Monday opened a Chinese-built airport intended to capitalise on Buddhist tourism.
However, Narendra Modi flew by helicopter directly from a nearby Indian airport to the Buddha's birthplace at Lumbini, bypassing the new facility as his Nepali counterpart Sher Bahadur Deuba inaugurated it.
On Friday, India's foreign secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra said he could not comment on the prime minister's travel logistics and that they "involve many parameters, including security", when asked about the plans to directly fly to Lumbini, skipping the airport inauguration.
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2022-05-16 11:19:28+00:00
📍 Mariupol residents have been left without electricity since the middle of March. With the help of Russian forces, the power and the water supply have been restored.
People say that they've “come back to life” and are very thankful for the help.
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2022-05-16 11:03:44+00:00
🇮🇳🇳🇵Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was received by Nepalese PM Sher Bahadur Deuba as he arrived in Lumbini, Nepal.
Modi is set to participate in a ceremony to lay the foundation stone for the India International Centre for Buddhist Culture & Heritage. He will hold bilateral talks with PM Deuba.
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2022-05-16 10:44:19+00:00
☸️︎ Thoughts of Lord Buddha can make the planet more peaceful, harmonious, and sustainable
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said it while greeting the country on the occasion of the 'Buddha Purnima' or 'Buddha Jayanti' festival, which is held to mark the birthday of Gautam Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. Meanwhile, Modi is also visiting Lumbini, Nepal the birthplace of Buddhism's founder, to mark the day.
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2022-05-16 10:33:38+00:00
❗️The latest updates on the Ukraine op from the Russian Defence Ministry:
▪️ Russian air defence has shot down two Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jets in the Nikolaev and Kharkov regions;
▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation hit three Ukrainian command posts, and 104 areas where Ukraine's troops and military equipment were concentrated;
▪️ Russian air defence has shot down one Ukrainian Su-24 near Snake Island;
▪️ High-precision air-based missiles hit the command post of the 72nd mechanised brigade near Kharkov region.
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2022-05-16 10:12:19+00:00
🇷🇺Russia is concerned about the decision of Finland and Sweden to join NATO and will conduct an in-depth analysis of the consequences, Kremlin Press Secretary Peskov said.
Finland and Sweden have been considering joining NATO since Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. Both countries announced their official decisions to abandon neutrality on Sunday, several hours apart. The Finnish parliament will vote on the decision on Tuesday.
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2022-05-16 10:10:45+00:00
🇮🇳🌾 Indian wheat prices reported record 6 per cent growth after export ban
The price, which was already high in the wake of Russia's military operation in Ukraine, jumped to $453 per tonne, while futures traded in Chicago rose as much as 5.9 per cent to $12.47 a bushel, their highest level in two months.
As a result, wheat prices have increased by more than 60 per cent this year.
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2022-05-16 09:58:15+00:00
🇮🇳💰Cryptocurrencies may cause 'dollarisation' of India’s economy
"Almost all cryptocurrencies are dollar-denominated and issued by foreign private entities, it may eventually lead to dollarisation of a part of our [India’s] economy which will be against the country's sovereign interest,” top officials of India's Central Bank (RBI) told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, reiterating their institutional view that cryptocurrencies should be banned.
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2022-05-16 09:51:05+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lankan government will impose a curfew from 8 pm on Monday till 5 am Tuesday.
This comes a day after Sri Lankan announced that more than 200 people were arrested on various charges, including violation of curfew, attacking the public and causing damages to public and private properties.
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2022-05-16 08:33:06+00:00
⚡️⚡️ Russia plans to launch UN investigation into violation of biological weapons convention in Ukraine
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2022-05-16 08:13:05+00:00
⚡️🇨🇳Beijing has urged the G7 to focus on peace, stop imposing illegal sanctions and provoking the so-called color revolutions in other countries
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2022-05-16 07:52:01+00:00
Russian sappers remove mines near a thermal power plant in the Lugansk People's Republic. During their retreat, the Ukrainian soldiers left a large number of mines.
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2022-05-16 07:35:46+00:00
🇮🇳🌾India will keep a window open to export wheat to food-deficit countries despite restrictions announced two days earlier.
A key aim of restrictions on exports is to control rising domestic prices. Global wheat prices have risen by more than 40% since the beginning of the year.
India mainly exports wheat to neighbouring countries like Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Some of them could face a food shortage.
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2022-05-16 07:15:42+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India records 2,202 new COVID-19 cases
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2022-05-15 16:24:29+00:00
❗️🎥 "I demand he be put on trial, because all of this is just inhumane"
Mariupol resident reveals that Mayor Vadim Boychenko abandoned the city, and did not organise an evacuation.
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2022-05-15 15:26:40+00:00
❗️🎥 "They used civilians as human shields": DPR militia officer speaks about the Ukraine Armed Forces' tactics during the liberation of the village of Verkhnetoretskoye.
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2022-05-15 14:59:01+00:00
⚡️🎥 Pulmonologist of the Mariupol intensive care hospital reveals that Mariupol doctors continued with their duties despite the shelling of the Ukraine Armed Forces, without water or light.
🗣 " Everyone was on duty. It was a team effort," the woman recalls.
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2022-05-15 13:22:01+00:00
🙏 Expressing deep grief over the "dastardly killing" of two members of the Sikh community in Pakistan, Hardeep Singh Puri, a BJP politician, on Sunday called for the protection of religious minorities in neighbouring countries.
🔸 "Acts like these clearly amplify the dangers that religious minorities face in our volatile neighbourhood & the necessity for humane measures like Citizenship Amendment Act," Puri said.
🔸 The incident took place in Peshawar City, which is home to only about 15,000 Sikhs, on Sunday morning. Unidentified assailants opened fire at grocery shop workers Ranjeet Singh, 38, and Saljeet Singh, 42.
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2022-05-15 12:58:30+00:00
⚡️ 📹 "Don't you dare run or you'll be shot"
A resident of Popasna tells about the shooting of civilians by Ukrainian snipers.
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2022-05-15 12:58:01+00:00
🗣 Rahul Gandhi, speaking at Congress's Chintan Shivir in Rajasthan's Udaipur, said the fight against the RSS and BJP is a fight for India's future and Congress's role is to reclaim and protect the institutions of this country.
"We are not fighting a national party. We are fighting against every institution. We are fighting against crony capitalists. I want to tell all our workers and leaders, there is no need to fear. This country recognises the truth. I will stand with you in this fight [against the BJP and RSS]."
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2022-05-15 12:33:01+00:00
🤔 After facing flak from G7 countries, India clarified that restriction on wheat exports would not affect its "prior commitment," underscoring that the decision is aimed at supporting neighbouring and vulnerable countries adversely affected by the sudden changes in the global market.
💬 "This restriction would not apply in cases where prior commitments have been made by private trade as well as in situations where permission is granted by the Government of India to other countries to meet their food security needs and on the requests of their governments," a statement issued by the Indian embassy in Berlin read.
🙅♂️ On Saturday, the Indian government announced an amendment in India's export policy for wheat following low production owing to an unprecedented heatwave that swept the country since March.
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2022-05-15 12:28:21+00:00
❗️ 📹 A Mariupol resident recalls how the Ukrainian national battalions fired at the peaceful quarters of the city.
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2022-05-15 11:59:01+00:00
✝️ Devasahayam Pillai, who embraced Christianity in the 18th century, was on Sunday declared a saint by Pope Francis at the Vatican, becoming the first Indian layman to be canonised.
✔️ Devasahayam was recommended for the process of Beatification by the Vatican in 2004, at the request of the Kottar diocese, Tamil Nadu Bishops' Council and the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India.
🇻🇦 Pope Francis canonised Devasahayam Pillai along with nine others during a Canonisation Mass in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.
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2022-05-15 11:25:23+00:00
⚡️ 📸 At the Azov battalion’s base in Mariupol, RIA Novosti correspondents have discovered a manual on tactical medicine based on the American CLS programme - Combat Lifesaver - a course officially established for field medicine use in the US Army.
In addition, the results of the “assessment of the practical skills of the TCCC Combat Lifesaver course” of Azov militants have been found there.
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2022-05-15 10:44:01+00:00
😞 Bengali actress Pallavi Dey was found dead at her flat in the Garfa area of Kolkata. Her body was recovered from her house on Sunday morning.
🔸 “After a preliminary investigation, it seems to be a case of suicide,” said the police. Pallavi’s body was found hanging from a ceiling fan. The body has been sent for a post-mortem examination.
🔸 The Bengal Police have started an investigation by filing a case of unnatural death.
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2022-05-15 10:41:53+00:00
❗️ 📹 An employee of an Orthodox church in Mariupol describes how Ukrainian troops purposefully fired at the church from a tank and shot through the domes.
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2022-05-15 10:24:27+00:00
♨️ A horrible heat wave hit Delhi and nearby regions with temperatures close to 49 degrees Celsius
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2022-05-15 10:18:56+00:00
👏 PM Modi congratulates the Indian Badminton Team on their Thomas Cup win
"The Indian badminton team has scripted history! The entire nation is elated by India winning the Thomas Cup! Congratulations to our accomplished team and best wishes to them for their future endeavours. This win will motivate so many upcoming sportspersons"
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2022-05-15 10:05:08+00:00
⚡️ ⚡️ Indian Badminton Team creates history and wins Thomas Cup for the first time beating 14th time champions Indonesia
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2022-05-15 09:45:21+00:00
🥺 KGF producer Karthik Gowda took to social media to announce that they don't plan to start KGF: Chapter 3 'anytime soon. Earlier, there were reports that the makers have started working on in the third instalment of the Yash-starrer.
🔸 KGF: Chapter 2 has taken the box office by storm. The Yash-starrer is inching closer to the Rs 12 bln mark. There were speculations that after the roaring success of KGF 2, makers have started working on Chapter. However, on May 14, KGF executive producer Karthik Gowda, in a statement on social media on behalf of the production house Hombale Films, quashed the rumours.
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2022-05-15 09:14:54+00:00
⚡️ 📹 "For three or four days, we had no water at all"
Residents of Popasnaya describe how the Ukrainian nationalists shot at houses with civilians and kept them in the basements, not letting people out of the city.
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2022-05-15 08:19:48+00:00
❗️ The Russian MoD's latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:
▪️ The Russian Aerospace Forces have hit 2 command posts, 11 company strongpoints and 4 AFU ammunition depots near Zaporozhye, Paraskovievka, Kostantinovka and Novomikhailovka of the DPR using high-precision air-based missiles.
▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 32 areas where AFU troops and military equipment were concentrated.
▪️ Missile troops and artillery have hit 6 command posts, 123 troop and military equipment concentration points, and 13 AFU artillery batteries at firing positions.
▪️ Russian air defence units shot down 15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Novotroitskoe, Vladimirovka, Petrovskoe, Luganskoe of the DPR, Yepifanovka, Kudryashovka, Verkhnyaya Duvanka of the LPR, Chkalovskoe, Velykie Prokhody, Vyshee Solenoe in Kharkov Region and over Snake Island overnight.
▪️ A Tochka-U tactical missile was intercepted near Stepnoe, Kherson Region, and 11 Smerch multiple-launch rockets were intercepted near Kamenka, Malaya Kamyshevakha, Brazhkovka, Kharkov Region, and Chernobayevka, Kherson Region.
▪️ Some 165 Ukrainian aircraft and 125 helicopters, 879 unmanned aerial vehicles, 306 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,098 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 381 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,525 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,934 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.
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2022-05-15 08:13:44+00:00
⚡️ 📹 Russian servicemen delivered humanitarian aid to one of the settlements in the liberated territory of the LPR.
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2022-05-15 07:29:01+00:00
⚡️ 📹 A resident of Mariupol tells how his entire family came under sniper fire from Ukrainian nationalists during the evacuation.
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2022-05-15 06:21:43+00:00
👏 Manik Saha takes the oath as new Tripura Chief Minister on Sunday, 15 May, ahead of the state assembly election to be held early next year.
🔸 Saha was named Chief Minister after Biplab Kumar Deb called it quits on Saturday. Deb is now likely to take over as the BJP Tripura chief.
🔸 After he was declared CM, Manik Saha tweeted that he'd met the state governor with a letter of support from MLAs.
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2022-05-14 16:44:01+00:00
⚡️🎥 A Mariupol family speaks about its evacuation through the "green corridor" declared by Ukraine.
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2022-05-14 16:21:30+00:00
❗️🎥 An Azovstal employee tells how he and his family were hiding for almost two months in a bomb shelter at the plant occupied by the Ukrainian military.
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2022-05-14 16:11:50+00:00
Manik Saha is elected as the new Tripura Chief Minister hours after Biplab Kumar Deb's resignation just a year before regional assembly elections.
🗣 "I was a common worker of the party and will continue to be so," Mr Saha told reporters.
Earlier on Saturday, Biplab Kumar Deb announced his resignation, adding that the party wants him to "work to strengthen the organisation".
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2022-05-14 15:02:15+00:00
⚡️🎥 А Mariupol resident recalls how Ukrainian militants were bombing the local place of worship.
🗣 "A tank was shelling the church for one hour," the woman said.
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2022-05-14 14:05:25+00:00
⚡️🎥 "They were just shooting where they wanted to": Mariupol resident reveals that there were no Russian or DPR troops or military equipment in their area, and Azov fighters just fired at civilians.
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2022-05-14 12:33:01+00:00
😶 After being stripped of all party posts, former Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar quit the party in a theatrical fashion on Saturday. In a Facebook Live stream titled 'Mann ki Baat', he bid adieu to the party thus: “Goodbye and Goodluck Congress”.
🔸 A three-time MLA and one-time MP, Jakhar removed all party references from his social media handles. He removed the Congress from his Twitter bio, and replaced the party flag as the background image of his Twitter account with India's Tricolour.
🔸 Jakhar said he was heartbroken at being removed from all party posts by the Congress disciplinary committee following allegations of anti-party activities against him by certain Punjab unit leaders.
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2022-05-14 12:21:13+00:00
📹 ⚡️ A DPR resident tells how she witnessed the shelling of the centre of Donetsk by militants from the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the May holidays.
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2022-05-14 12:09:08+00:00
❗️ Key points from the conversation between Russian President Putin and his Finnish counterpart on Helsinki's announced intention to apply for NATO membership:
▪️ Finland's rejection of the traditional policy of military neutrality would be a mistake.
▪️ There are no threats to the security of Finland.
▪️ Changes in Finland's foreign policy may have a negative impact on relations with Russia.
▪️ Putin also shared his assessments of the state of the negotiation process on Ukraine, which was actually suspended by Kiev.
▪️ It was noted that Kiev hasn't shown interest in a serious and constructive dialogue.
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2022-05-14 11:55:39+00:00
🔥 📹 "They completely plundered all the apartments, destroyed furniture and things and let strangers into our apartment", a resident of Mariupol told the military investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee about thefts and looting by Ukrainian militants.
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2022-05-14 11:17:01+00:00
❗️ 📹 Refugees from Severodonetsk in the LPR tell how Ukrainian troops used residential areas in the city as coverage, digging trenches right in front of the houses where locals lived.
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2022-05-14 11:11:25+00:00
❗️🎥 Plans to encircle and take over the city of Novoazovsk in the DPR have been discovered at one of the bases of the Ukrainian Azov battalion, the LPR military source told Sputnik
After the capture, nationalists planned to reach the Russian border.
According to the marks on the map, the offensive was due to begin on 8 March.
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2022-05-14 11:00:48+00:00
⚡️ Tripura state chief Biplab Kumar Deb says he has submitted resignation to the governor, according to media reports.
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2022-05-14 10:59:01+00:00
🔥 🥺 Twenty-seven people died and 70 others were injured in Delhi after a major fire broke out in a commercial building near the city's Mundka metro station on Friday afternoon.
Satpal Bharadwaj, who was in charge of the Delhi fire service operations, confirmed the numbers to reporters, adding that the rescue operation is still going on (Saturday, 11 am).
Bharadwaj said about 100 people were in the building when the blaze erupted.
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2022-05-14 10:50:57+00:00
❗️ 📹 Before the beginning of the Russian special op in Ukraine, Victoria was a paramedic in the military hospital of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Already during the special operation, she ended up at the Azovstal plant, where she also acted as a doctor and provided medical assistance to Ukrainian nationalists.
In the video, Victoria says that after she left the territory of the Azovstal plant, she found herself in Donetsk. According to her, she is being treated well in the DPR and refuted Ukrainian propaganda, which convinces the population that only horrors await Ukrainian servicemen who surrender to the DPR’s forces.
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2022-05-14 09:03:24+00:00
⚡️ Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed elected new president of UAE
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2022-05-14 08:52:19+00:00
⚡️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:
▪️ The Russian Aerospace Forces have hit 5 command posts and 2 ammunition depots near Spornoe and Berestovoe in the DPR using high-precision air-based missiles.
▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 43 Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) troop and military equipment concentration areas.
▪️ Missile troops and artillery have hit 18 command posts, 543 areas of troop and military equipment concentration, one ammunition depot near Lubomirovka, Kherson Region, as well as 23 AFU artillery units at firing positions near Verkhnekamenskoe, Krasnyi Liman, Drobyshevo, Yarovaya, Korobochkino and Gusarovka overnight.
▪️ Russian air defence units have shot down 13 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Chkalovskoe, Demetievka, Klinsk, Glubokoe, Balakleya, Goptovka in Kharkov Region, Staromikhailovka, Spartak, Elenovka in the DPR, Petrovenki and Severodonetsk in the LPR, including one Bayraktar-TB2 over Mankovka in Kharkov Region overnight.
▪️ Some 165 Ukrainian aircraft and 125 helicopters, 858 unmanned aerial vehicles, 304 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,051 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 372 multiple-launch rocket systems, 1,507 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,898 special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning the operation.
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2022-05-14 07:11:01+00:00
🤔 Over 30 years after P. V. Narasimha Rao opened up the Indian economy and ushered in groundbreaking liberalisation, the Congress Party Saturday called for a “reset” of the “economic policies”, taking into account global and domestic developments. The party also lashed out at the BJP government’s management of the economy.
💬 “A Congress-led government ushered in a new era of liberalisation in 1991. The country has reaped enormous benefits in terms of wealth creation, new businesses and new entrepreneurs, a huge middle class, millions of jobs, exports and lifting 270 million people out of poverty during a 10-year period. After 30 years, it is felt that taking into account global and domestic developments, it may be necessary to contemplate a reset of the economic policies,” said former finance minister P. Chidambaram, the convenor of the Congress panel deliberating economic issues at the Chintan Shivir in Udaipur.
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2022-05-14 05:58:16+00:00
😳 A 20-year-old model-turned-actress was found dead at her residence near Kozhikode, a city in the Indian state of Kerala. According to police, Shahana was found hanging at her home on Thursday night. Shahana’s husband, Sajjad, has been taken into custody for questioning.
Shahana was found hanging on the window railing at her residence in Parambil Bazar, located 14 km from Kozhikode.
The mysterious circumstances surrounding the young model’s death have raised suspicion.
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2022-05-14 05:26:58+00:00
🇮🇳 🛑 India has banned wheat exports with immediate effect as part of measures to control rising domestic prices, according to an official notification.
The government said it would still allow exports for letters of credit that have already been issued and if so requested by countries that are trying "to meet their food security needs".
India is one of the largest producers of wheat in the world, but most of the production is directed to the domestic market.
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2022-05-13 17:51:43+00:00
❗️🔥 Indian emergency services: 27 dead in Delhi fire
The incident took place in a godown of CCTV equipment.
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2022-05-13 15:15:31+00:00
📹“Thanks to Russian soldiers for not forgetting about us”: Mariupol residents told journalists about survival in the ruined city.
There is no water and electricity in Mariupol, so people have to cook food on fires. Russian soldiers provide them with humanitarian aid.
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2022-05-13 14:55:32+00:00
Latest updates on the Russian military operation in Ukraine
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2022-05-13 14:38:06+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lanka's stock market gained on Friday following the appointment of United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country's new prime minister on Thursday.
The All Share Price Index rose 4.43 percent to close at 8,098.41 points and the S&P SL20 rallied 5.22 percent to 2,662.31 at the close.
The Colombo Stock Exchange has been adversely affected by the economic woes in the South Asian country, and the index has fallen 26 percent by the end of March compared to the end of 2021.
Wickremesinghe is expected to form a new government that could stabilize economy and manage the discussions with the International Monetary Fund to seek financial aid.
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2022-05-13 14:32:40+00:00
🇱🇰🇨🇳Sri Lanka's new PM pledges to promote friendly cooperation with China
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2022-05-13 14:31:01+00:00
How does political instability in Sri Lanka pose a threat to India?
As Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has crippled everyday life due to shortages of fuel, food and other emergency items, New Delhi has responded generously to Colombo’s appeals for help. India’s economic assistance package to Sri Lanka has amounted to $3.5 billion, more than any other nation.
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2022-05-13 13:57:01+00:00
📹 Residents of the Lugansk People's Republic said that the Ukrainian armed forces had deployed military equipment on the roofs of residential buildings which had civilians inside.
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2022-05-13 13:40:22+00:00
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India logged 2,841 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. The country’s daily tally of COVID cases remains below the 3,000-mark for the fourth consecutive day.
Three terrorists died in an encounter that broke out between security forces and militants in the Brar Aragam area of Bandipora in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday. Two of the three were involved in the attack on Kashmiri Pandit Rahul Bhat on Thursday.
At least four people died and 22 others were injured after a local bus from Katra to Jammu caught fire. As per preliminary details, the fire broke out in the engine area, and soon engulfed the whole bus.
In the midst of the scorching heat in the country, the Meteorological Department of India reported the good news that this year the monsoon will come soon. The southwest monsoon will bring the first seasonal rains over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on 15 May, according to the Meteorological Department (IMD).
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2022-05-13 13:12:34+00:00
🇮🇳🇺🇦The Indian embassy in Ukraine will reopen in Kiev on May 17
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2022-05-13 11:54:33+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳Russian importers are seeking cooperation with India's small and medium-sized enterprises in the sphere of food-producing, auto parts, medical equipment and other key products.
The deepening of cooperation will allow India to increase exports to Russia in three months by more than $500 million. Private companies in Russia are opening accounts in Indian banks to pay for deliveries in rubles and rupees, says The Economic Times.
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2022-05-13 10:57:01+00:00
📹 "Let them burn in hell"
A Donetsk resident curses President Zelensky and Ukrainian nationalists. She said that UAF troops had shelled civilians in the DPR without any remorse.
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2022-05-13 10:50:50+00:00
🇮🇳🇪🇸Spanish Prime Minister, Foreign Minister planning to visit India
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2022-05-13 10:29:17+00:00
⚡️Police fired tear gas and used batons Friday in Kashmir to break up a protest against the killing of a government employee by suspected separatist rebels.
On Thursday two gunmen shot and killed Rahul Bhat inside an office complex in Budgam where he worked, said police, who blamed rebels fighting Indian rule in Kashmir.
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2022-05-13 10:21:00+00:00
⚡️UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has died at the age of 73
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2022-05-13 10:20:26+00:00
❗️ Elon Musk says deal with Twitter 'temporarily' on hold
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2022-05-13 10:00:12+00:00
⚡️The European Union has turned in an aggressive player in the international arena, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
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2022-05-13 09:44:50+00:00
🇱🇰Ranil Wickremesinghe, newly appointed Sri Lanka's Prime Minister on Thursday has given his assurance to the people of Sri Lanka that he will ensure the supply of petrol, diesel and electricity to the island country. He expressed his wish to overcome the ongoing economic crisis.
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2022-05-13 08:51:35+00:00
🇱🇰🇮🇳New Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe thanked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing financial assistance to Sri Lanka in an economic crisis situation.
"The relations with India will be much better, I want to thank India and the Prime Minister for helping Sri Lanka," Wickremesinghe during a temple visit after the oath in Colombo on Thursday.
The new Prime Minister on Friday met Indian Ambassador to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay after assuming the office and discusses democratic relations as well as cooperation between the two countries.
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2022-05-13 08:49:24+00:00
⚡️4.2 magnitude earthquake hits Arunachal Pradesh's Changlang
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2022-05-13 07:47:21+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lankan authorities have noted a significant decrease in unrest throughout the country, said the chief of the defence staff and commander of the Lankan Army Shavendra Silva.
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2022-05-13 07:42:26+00:00
🇮🇳🐥Koo's Co-Founder and CEO, Aprameya Radhakrishna has been recognized amongst the top 100 most influential tech leaders by the international non-profit journalism organization Rest of World
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2022-05-13 07:37:18+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India records 2,841 new COVID-19 cases
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2022-05-12 16:21:01+00:00
A Mariupol resident told how soldiers of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov battalion demanded civilians to leave their houses quickly and killed those who refused to do so or just didn’t move out on time.
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2022-05-12 15:01:01+00:00
'Tomorrow you will want to visit judges' chambers: court trashes plea to open Taj Mahal's rooms
The Allahabad High Court of India on Thursday dismissed a petition requesting it to open 22 rooms in the world-famous, 17th-century monument, the Taj Mahal, to ascertain if there were some Hindu deities' idols kept inside.
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2022-05-12 14:36:28+00:00
🇮🇳India has successfully test-fired an extended-range version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in the Bay of Bengal. This was the first launch of the new version of the missile from an Su-30MKI aircraft.
The range of the advanced version of the missile has been extended to around 350 km from the original 290 km.
BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd, a joint India-Russia venture, produces supersonic cruise missiles that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft, and land platforms. Missiles can fly at a speed of 2.8 Mach, or almost three times the speed of sound.
Russia remains India’s main arms supplier. Almost half of the foreign weaponry purchased by India today is Russian in origin.
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2022-05-12 14:13:01+00:00
Russian forces have found documents confirming that Ukrainian militants were trained according to NATO standards by Western specialists. The documents were seized from a military base in the Kherson region.
Authorities of the Kherson region yesterday announced plans to appeal to the Russian president and ask for the region to join Russia.
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2022-05-12 13:23:24+00:00
🇱🇰⚡️Wickremesinghe chosen Sri Lanka PM in effort to end crisis
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2022-05-12 13:10:32+00:00
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▪️India's COVID tally remains below the 3,000-mark for the third consecutive day, as the country reported 2,827 new COVID-19 cases.
▪️An Indian court is set to hear a plea seeking direction for the Archaeological Survey of India to open 20 sealed doors of the Taj Mahal to resolve the controversy around its origins. The plea contends that the Taj Mahal was a Shiva temple, known as Tejo Mahalaya, and has asked for the government to constitute a fact-finding committee to publish the “real history” of the monument.
▪️Air India, the country’s flag carrier airline, has appointed its first foreign CEO. The new boss will be New Zealander Campbell Wilson, the former head of Singapore Airlines' low-cost subsidiary Scoot. After buying back Air India from the government after 69 years of state ownership, Tata in February selected former Turkish Airlines boss Ilker Ayci to help turn around the loss-making airline.
▪️Rajiv Kumar on Thursday was appointed as the new chief election commissioner (CEC). He will replace Sushil Chandra, who will demit office on 14 May.
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2022-05-12 12:11:07+00:00
A resident of Mariupol, which was recently liberated by Russian forces, describes how Ukrainian troops held civilians hostage and intimidated them. She added that some Ukrainian soldiers seemed to be under the influence of drugs.
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2022-05-12 11:39:04+00:00
Ranil Wickremesinghe tipped to be Sri Lanka's next pm, but leader of opposition also stakes claim
Wickremesinghe is the leader of the United National Party (UNP). In the 2020 parliamentary elections, the UNP suffered a landslide defeat at the hands of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), led by Mahinda Rajapaksa. At present, the UNP has just a single seat in the Sri Lankan parliament.
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2022-05-12 11:22:39+00:00
🇰🇵North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un appeared on screen wearing a mask for the first time as the secretive country acknowledged for the first time that there had been an outbreak of COVID-19.
North Korea imposed a nationwide lockdown on Thursday.
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2022-05-12 10:58:33+00:00
A Ukrainian artilleryman testified to Russia's Investigative Committee about attacks on civilians and told how the Ukrainian command abandoned soldiers in Mariupol without ammo and food.
The city of Mariupol has almost been fully liberated by Russian troops. The only place controlled by Ukrainian nationalists is the Azovstal plant.
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2022-05-12 10:34:01+00:00
🇵🇰Pakistan condemns killing of Al-Jazeera journalist in West Bank
"Strongly condemn the assassination of respected Al-Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, at the hands of Israeli forces," the country's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said in a tweet on Thursday.
The Al Jazeera journalist was tragically gunned down on Wednesday. While Akleh was killed, another journalist Ali Al Samudi who was present with Akleh was also shot, reported CNN.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that it had conducted an operation early Wednesday in Jenin refugee camp, a stronghold of armed Palestinian groups in the northern West Bank.
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2022-05-12 10:22:33+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺🛢Indian refiners have taken advantage of discounts on Russian Urals oil, ESPO, and Sokol and purchased about 25-30 million barrels, the International Energy Agency (IEA) states. Indian companies have also started negotiating long-term contracts.
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2022-05-12 09:39:01+00:00
Residents wait to fill up water tanks in Karachi amid heat wave
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2022-05-12 09:35:24+00:00
Eleven-year-old boy 'confined' for more than two years with 22 stray dogs found in India
The boy had been left with the dogs for more than two years, greatly affecting his mental health and behavioural development. The NGO that rescued the child says that he is "behaving just as dogs do".
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2022-05-12 09:11:18+00:00
🇮🇳Honey-trapped Indian sergeant arrested for leaking Info
Delhi Police have arrested a sergeant of the Indian Air Force (IAF) for allegedly leaking sensitive information about defence installations.
According to police, the official was honey-trapped by a woman and allegedly ended up sharing information with her. The arrested Sergeant has been identified as Devendra Kumar Sharma, who belongs to Kanpur and was working as an Administrative Assistant (GD) at the Air Force Record Office at Suboroto Park, New Delhi.
The police said that there is a suspicion that Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI had a hand in this work.
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2022-05-12 08:34:18+00:00
🇱🇰A Sri Lankan court on Thursday banned former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, his politician son Namal and 15 allies from leaving the country over acts of violence against anti-government demonstrators.
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2022-05-12 08:19:58+00:00
🇱🇰Leader of oppositional United National Party (UNP) Ranil Wickremesinghe is tipped to be sworn in as the new prime minister of Sri Lanka.
According to sources, the topic of premiership was taken up for discussion during the meeting between Gotabaya Rajapaksa president and the UNP leader which lasted nearly two hours at the President’s House in Colombo, said Ada Derana.
Reportedly, the majority of parliamentarians have agreed to support MP Wickremesinghe as the frontrunner for the premiership.
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2022-05-12 07:48:39+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lankan Defense Ministry denies military coup allegations
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2022-05-12 07:35:51+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India reports 2,827 new COVID-19 cases
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2022-05-11 17:25:34+00:00
A veteran of the World War II says that she cannot understand why Ukraine tried to kill her since 2014. The pensioner painfully recalled the death of her son-in-law, who was killed during shelling by the UAF.
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2022-05-11 16:25:35+00:00
Resident of Ukrainian city Mariupol said that snipers of UAF didn't let people out of the house, not even as fire broke out.
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2022-05-11 16:16:52+00:00
A Mariupol resident spoke about who fired at civilians’ houses and how
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2022-05-11 15:11:01+00:00
"I am fake": Donbass people suffered from aggression by Ukrainian army say that Western countries turned blind eye to atrocities that started in 2014 a long time before Russian military operation.
According to the UN, more than 13,000 people have been killed during the conflict in Donbass, including over 100 children. But neither this death toll nor all the other horrors suffered by the people of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics because of UAF shelling during eight years of hostilities has attracted any interest from the world's media.
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2022-05-11 15:02:01+00:00
Pakistani zookeepers bathed elephants on Karachi during a record-breaking heatwave hitting the country
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2022-05-11 14:56:47+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lanka Police says 59 social media groups used to gather people for violent incidents since May 09 have been identified and that investigations are underway to initiate legal action against the admins of these groups
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2022-05-11 14:17:21+00:00
15 killed, 10 injured in van-truck collision in southern Pakistan
The van carrying over 25 passengers was hit by the truck coming from the opposite direction at the Indus Highway in the Manjhand area in Jamshoro district of the province.
Police said that the cause of the accident is not yet known and a full-fledged investigation has been launched into the matter.
Hospital officials feared that the death toll might further rise as several of the injured were in critical condition with major fractures and head injuries.
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2022-05-11 13:58:01+00:00
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Check out the latest news stories in India
▪️India logged 2,897 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours. This is slightly higher than the number registered during the previous day (2,288 new cases).
▪️India's top court has suspended a British-era sedition law. The law is on hold while the government reviews it, and those in jail can approach courts for bail. This is the first time in 162 years that the provision of Section 124A (dealing with sedition) has been suspended.
▪️The Delhi High Court has issued a split judgment on the widely-debated question of criminalising marital rape. The case will now go to the Supreme Court. Two judges failed to agree on their verdict on a batch of petitions seeking to make marital rape a crime.
▪️The Indian government suspects that pharma companies who were not allowed to enter the country’s COVID vaccine market might have influenced the WHO's report that India's actual pandemic death count was close to 47 lakh and not the reported 4.8 lakh.
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2022-05-11 13:35:27+00:00
India dismisses reports claiming troops being deployed to control violent protests in Sri Lanka
Month-long peaceful protests against the Mahinda Rajapaksa government turned violent on Monday, killing at least seven people and injuring over 230. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's resignation did not calm the protesters' anger, as they are adamant about removing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa from power as well.
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2022-05-11 12:34:30+00:00
😳Woman suffered a panic attack and was seen lying on the floor near the boarding gate inside Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport, after the Air India airlines' staff allegedly 'denied' their request to board the flight claiming that she was late.
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2022-05-11 11:47:01+00:00
Survivor from Mariupol witnessed atrocities by Ukrainian troops and told journalists about how UAF snipers burned down houses and killed civilians as they were leaving the city
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2022-05-11 11:42:18+00:00
🇱🇰⚡️Sri Lanka's economy will "collapse beyond redemption" unless a new government is appointed within two days to restore political stability, the central bank chief said.
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2022-05-11 10:51:20+00:00
🇮🇳✈️India's civil aviation watchdog suspends 9 pilots, 32 cabin crew over alcohol tests conducted between Jan. 1 and April 30.
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2022-05-11 10:04:34+00:00
Armoured vehicles have been deployed in the streets of Colombo following violent protests that killed 9 and injured over 230 across Sri Lanka
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2022-05-11 09:56:58+00:00
⚡⚡Authorities of Kherson region will appeal to Russian president, asking for joining region to Russia - local administration
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2022-05-11 09:50:01+00:00
Thousands of troops and police have been deployed in Sri Lanka to enforce a nationwide curfew after weeks of violent protests over the ongoing economic crisis, as images filmed in Colombo on Tuesday show.
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2022-05-11 09:30:04+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lanka's former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was airlifted to Trincomalee naval base for security reasons. He will stay there until the situation in the country returns to normal. The military will provide security to Rajapaksa for as long as is necessary because as a former president (from 2005 to 2015) he is entitled to a security detail for life.
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2022-05-11 09:04:19+00:00
🇮🇳India has relaxed environmental compliance rules for coal mines seeking to ramp up production as power outages exacerbate a sweltering heatwave.
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2022-05-11 08:09:34+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lankan authorities deployed armored vehicles and troops on the streets of the capital Wednesday, a day after pro-government mobs attacked peaceful protesters, triggering a wave of violence across the country
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2022-05-11 08:01:22+00:00
US raises concerns over troop deployment in Sri Lanka
The United States said it was concerned by the deployment of the military in Sri Lanka, hours after that country's Defence Ministry ordered its forces to “open fire” on people found looting public property or causing harm to others.
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2022-05-11 07:56:34+00:00
🇮🇳🇱🇰India 'categorically' denies reports of sending troops to Sri Lanka
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2022-05-11 07:55:33+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺India's imports from Russia have risen threefold since Ukraine conflict
Despite pressure from western nations, India's imports from Russia witnessed a jump of more than 300 percent since the beginning of the Ukraine special operation.
Between 24 February and 8 May, India's purchases of crude oil from Russia jumped 393 percent to $1.86Bln and those of petroleum products surged 175 percent to $560Mln.
"Similarly, imports of coal, coke and briquettes, etc climbed 277 percent to $630Mln, and fertilizer purchases saw almost a tenfold jump to $376Mln from $43Mln," Chines news agency Xinhua reported.
The surge in imports from Moscow is seen as New Delhi's commitment to chart its own path despite mounting western pressure to shun Russian oil. India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman earlier defended the move, saying: "I will put my country's interests and energy security first. If oil is available and at a discount, why shouldn't I buy it?"
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2022-05-11 07:44:20+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India logs 2,897 new COVID-19 cases
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2022-05-10 14:39:57+00:00
⚡Sri Lankan president urges protesters to stop violence in country
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2022-05-10 14:00:47+00:00
❗️ Sri Lanka’s Defence Ministry says the armed forces have been ordered to open fire at anyone looting public property or causing harm to others
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2022-05-10 13:31:15+00:00
Shivkumar Sharma, an Indian composer and santoor player from Jammu, has passed away at the age of 84. He composed music for many Hindi films such as Faasle, Chandni, Lamhe, and Darr
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2022-05-10 10:54:11+00:00
🎞 📹 A Mariupol resident tells a shocking story of how a sniper killed an innocent civilian right in front of his family
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2022-05-10 08:13:04+00:00
Sri Lanka: Locals protest outside the Eastern Command Naval Base in Trincomalee and demand that the Navy hand over Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family after claims that the former prime minister was given asylum at the Base
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2022-05-10 06:40:17+00:00
Elon Musk has shared his memories about his visit to the Taj Mahal in 2007, calling it "a wonder of the world"
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2022-05-10 04:30:39+00:00
⚡️ Seven killed, more than 230 wounded in Sri Lanka clashes
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2022-05-09 17:18:47+00:00
❗Shots fired from Sri Lanka PM's home: AFP reporter
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2022-05-09 15:37:04+00:00
"It's just super": Mariupol residents hold their first victory parade in eight years
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2022-05-09 14:11:56+00:00
Immortal Regiment marches in Moscow
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2022-05-09 14:04:30+00:00
Volodymyr Zelensky posted a message on his Telegram channel on 9 May including a picture of a Ukrainian soldier who has a Nazi patch on his uniform (the patch refers to the 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf", an elite division of Nazi Germany during the Second World War).
The photo was later removed, but it's still present on the tweet by the official page of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on Twitter. What an awkward moment.
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2022-05-09 13:13:09+00:00
Former Minister Sanath Nishantha house set alight by protesters
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2022-05-09 12:55:43+00:00
🎞 📹 Mariupol residents have been waiting for so long to celebrate this important holiday and to wear St George's ribbons which were forbidden. A woman said that people never accepted the so-called Day of Mourning, which has now regained its original name - Victory Day
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2022-05-09 12:20:27+00:00
Vladimir Putin marches with Immortal Regiment in Moscow
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2022-05-09 12:18:17+00:00
⚡️ Two killed, 139 wounded in Sri Lanka clashes, officials say
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2022-05-09 11:30:13+00:00
❗Ruling-party MP killed in Sri Lanka clashes: police
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2022-05-09 10:25:25+00:00
⚡️⚡️Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned - reports
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2022-05-09 10:07:48+00:00
❗️At least 78 wounded in Sri Lanka clashes - hospital
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2022-05-09 09:37:04+00:00
🇱🇰Clashes between pro and anti-government demonstrators have taken place next to the president’s residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka as the country is in the grip of an economic crisis. A curfew has been imposed and army troops have been deployed in the capital
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2022-05-09 09:34:40+00:00
🎞📹 A Mariupol resident describes how Ukrainian soldiers fatally shot a woman who was then buried in the flower bed during the night
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2022-05-09 09:18:55+00:00
Russia's Ambassador to New Delhi Denis Alipov, recalled the role India played in defeating Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
🗣 "Brave Indian contingents were engaged in providing supplies to the Red Army through Persia. In 1944, two sons of India were decorated with the highest military award of the Soviet Union - the Order of the Red Star," Alipov said.
He also called on all countries to stay united against double standards, hypocrisy in international relations and hidden geopolitical agendas
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2022-05-09 09:17:48+00:00
⚡️Sri Lanka deploys troops in Colombo after violent clashes between government supporters and protesters outside president's office
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2022-05-09 08:41:25+00:00
The Russian House in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the state of Kerala, celebrated the 77th anniversary of victory in the Second World War.
For the first time in India, a 50-metre St George's Ribbon was displayed in honour of the Russian soldiers who fought the Nazis during the war
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2022-05-09 07:46:38+00:00
⚡️⚡️Putin reiterates that NATO completely ignored Russia's concerns and security guarantee proposals presented to the bloc in December 2021.
"NATO nations did not want to hear us, which means that in fact they had completely different plans, and we saw it. Preparations were underway for another punitive operation in Donbass, an invasion of our historical lands, including Crimea," the Russian president said.
Putin reminded that Kiev had made statements about possibly acquiring nuclear weapons.
“We saw how the military infrastructure was being deployed, how hundreds of foreign advisers started to work, there were regular deliveries of the most advanced weapons from NATO countries. The threat was increasing every day. Russia preemptively deterred the aggression - this was a forced, timely and the only right decision, a decision of a sovereign, strong and independent country."
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2022-05-09 07:45:52+00:00
Russia will never stop respecting all the peoples and cultures, while the West has chosen to cancel it, Putin says
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2022-05-09 07:45:42+00:00
⚡️"NATO has created an unacceptable threat," Putin says, as he emphasises that the special military operation in Ukraine was "the only right thing" to do
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2022-05-09 07:45:12+00:00
Putin meets veterans before the Victory Day Parade
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2022-05-09 06:53:28+00:00
⭐️ Victory Day Parade Takes Place in Moscow
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2022-05-09 06:10:30+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India reports 3,207 new COVID-19 cases
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2022-05-09 04:47:17+00:00
Severe cyclonic storm Asani has moved with a speed of 25 kilometres per hour over the past six hours. It's likely to spread northwestwards until 10 May and reach west-central and the adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal off the coast of North Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, according to the Indian Meteorological Department
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2022-05-08 12:12:19+00:00
🇷🇺 🇮🇳 In ongoing negotiations for an Indian deal to buy 12 Su-30MKI fighter jets from Russia, the government has asked the stakeholders to include more made in India parts and content in the aircraft.
The need for adding more Indian content in the India-Russia deal comes at a time when the Narendra Modi government is working towards promoting more domestic production over imports and increasing exports to foreign countries.
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2022-05-08 11:38:26+00:00
❗️ 📹 The Russian MoD has published video showing how the crew of the Bastion coastal missile system launched an Onyx high-precision missile from the Black Sea coast at military facilities in Ukraine.
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2022-05-08 11:08:24+00:00
⚡️ 📹 The Russian MoD has revealed footage showing a rocket strike on a pontoon crossing built by Ukrainian troops to transfer reserve armored vehicles and personnel.
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2022-05-08 11:02:56+00:00
💊 The Indian anti-drugs agency on Sunday announced it had exposed an illegal internet pharmacy that shipped drugs to the US and other countries. It has also arrested the main suspect.
🔸 The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) said in a statement that a man based out of Hyderabad, capital city of the Indian state of Telangana, has been arrested and INR 37.1 million ($ 482,100) cash has been seized from the pharmacy, located in the Domalguda area of the capital city.
🔸 The pharmacy has been identified as JR Infinity Pvt. Ltd.
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2022-05-08 10:11:54+00:00
⚡️ 📹 A refugee from the Kherson region tells how he was convinced from his own experience of the falsity of Ukrainian propaganda.
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2022-05-08 08:52:28+00:00
⚡️ 📹 A refugee from Kherson shares his impressions of being in Crimea.
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2022-05-08 08:21:32+00:00
❗️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:
▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have destroyed the command post of a mechanized brigade near Pyatikhatka, Kharkov Region, and the communication hub of the Chervonoglinskoe military airfield near Artsyz overnight using high-precision air-based missiles.
▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 130 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
▪️ Russian air defence units have destroyed two more Ukrainian Su-24 bombers and 1 Mi-24 Ukrainian Air Force helicopter over Snake Island, and also shot down 1 Bayraktar-TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle near Odessa overnight.
▪️ Missile troops and artillery have hit 56 command posts, 32 artillery firing positions, 415 areas where AFU troops and military equipment were concentrated, as well as 2 launchers of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems near Korotych in Kharkov Region.
▪️ Some 156 aircraft and 116 helicopters, 765 unmanned aerial vehicles, 297 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,927 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 335 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,393 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,746 special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.
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2022-05-08 06:56:55+00:00
😳 At least two people were injured in an incident where a gun was fired in Delhi's Subhash Nagar on Saturday night. The police said that nearly 10 to 15 rounds were fired.
According to the police, the former chairman of Keshopur Sabji Mandi Union, Ajay Chaudhary and his brother Jaswant, were in a car when they were fired upon by assailants. DCP West district, Ghanshyam Bansal said both were injured and are undergoing treatment in a private hospital.
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2022-05-07 18:09:58+00:00
⚡️ The Russian Defense Ministry's latest statement on the Ukraine op:
▪️ During the day, Ukrainian aircrafts, including drones, were destroyed by high-precision weapons at military airfields in the Odessa region
▪️ Western weapons and military equipment were taken out by the Iskander missiles at the two railway stations in the Kharkov region
▪️ Russian Aerospace Forces's high-precision missiles hit 42 areas of concentration of Ukrainian forces and military equipment, as well as two ammunition depots
▪️ Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed 26 Ukrainian military facilities, as well as downing up to 210 nationalists
▪️ Missile troops and artillery hit 31 Ukrainian command posts and 245 strongholds
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2022-05-07 15:33:49+00:00
🚓 Six Tamil Nadu police officials were arrested on murder charges on Saturday after a death of a 25-year-old Chennai man named Vignesh in custody.
Vignesh died a day after he was detained for allegedly carrying cannabis and trying to attack a policeman last month. The six police arrests this week were made after the autopsy report found 13 injuries on Vignesh's body.
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2022-05-07 13:35:31+00:00
❗️ 📹 Ukrainian troops fired a "Tochka-U" at the city of Hola Prystan near Kherson. As a result, four people were injured and 10 houses were damaged, our Sputnik correspondent reports.
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2022-05-07 13:15:08+00:00
⚡️ 📹 Residents of Mariupol recall mass abuse by Ukrainian nationalist fighters.
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2022-05-07 12:52:38+00:00
❗️ Indian police together with Israeli forces reportedly increased security around the Israeli embassy in Delhi following "a serious Iranian threat"
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2022-05-07 12:08:05+00:00
🤔 The Enforcement Directorate responded to Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi's allegations that its top executives had faced threats of "physical violence" and coercion during questioning in connection with forex violations. Calling it “untrue and baseless”, ED said that the “allegation now made after passage of substantial time is an afterthought”.
🔸 The ED had initiated an investigation against Xiaomi India under the provisions of Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) of 1999 in connection with the illegal remittances made by the company in February this year.
🔸 Xiaomi had denied any wrongdoing and claimed that all their operations are firmly compliant with local laws and regulations.
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2022-05-07 11:19:24+00:00
🇨🇳 Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has accused India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) of threatening its employees with “physical violence” during an ongoing investigation by Indian investigators into the company’s remittances, Reuters reported on Saturday.
According to remarks made by Xiaomi Corp in court on 4 May, the company’s former Managing Director of India, Manu Jain, as well as Chief Financial Officer B. S. Rao were threatened with “dire consequences” if they didn’t make the statement desired by the Indian investigative agency.
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2022-05-07 11:18:06+00:00
⚡️🎥 Kharkov residents tell how they were left without medicine after Ukraine authorities abandoned them.
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2022-05-07 10:48:25+00:00
⚡️🎥 Watch a Mariupol resident share how Ukrainian Nazis were killing civilians and attacking residential buildings.
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2022-05-07 08:43:14+00:00
⚡️ 📹 Civilians and soldiers in Kharkov beat a prisoner from the LPR Army who is lying on the ground with his hands tied, while they shout “this is Ukraine”.
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2022-05-07 08:04:00+00:00
⚡️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:
▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have hit five areas where troops and military equipment were concentrated, as well as one ammunition depot near Bakhmut, DPR using high-precision air-based missiles
▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 18 military assets of Ukraine.
▪️ Missile troops and artillery have hit 44 command posts and 196 strongholds where Ukrainian troops and military equipment were concentrated overnight.
▪️ Russian air defence units shot down 13 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles overnight near Berezovka in Nikolaev Region, Signalnoe, Luganskoe, Krasnogorovka, Yasinovatoe and Zugres in the DPR, Olgino in Kherson Region, and Cherneshchina in Kharkov Region.
▪️ Some 152 aircraft and 112 helicopters, 762 unmanned aerial vehicles, 295 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,895 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 333 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,364 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,716 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.
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2022-05-07 07:30:41+00:00
🕯 Telangana BJP workers carried out a candle-lit march and protested in Telangana's Mahabubnagar district against the killing of Hindu Dalit youth Nagaraju, who was attacked with an iron rod and stabbed to death in Hyderabad.
Protesters gathered in a large crowd, holding candles and a 'justice for Nagaraju' poster.
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2022-05-07 06:29:59+00:00
👨🌾 A leading Indian farmers’ group has called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to impose some "checks and balances" on the export of wheat from the country in the coming months.
Deepak Lamba, the vice-president of Jai Kisan Andolan (Hail the Farmers’ Movement), has told Sputnik that the lower productivity of the wheat crop due to record summer heat in March and April and a focus on exporting grains to foreign countries will have “domestic blowbacks” for the Indian consumer.
According to Lamba, the “blowbacks” include potential shortage of wheat for domestic consumers which may lead to increased cost of the food grain. "The country's poor, which rely on wheat subsidy by the federal government, will be the worst impacted as the availability of wheat on the market will be hit," he states.
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2022-05-07 05:45:04+00:00
⚡️ 📹 Elena lived in Mariupol until Ukrainian radicals evicted her from her home and turned people's flats into firing points in two nine-storey buildings.
Now that Elena is safe, she is describing the atrocities committed by Ukrainian nationalists.
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2022-05-07 04:40:10+00:00
😱 📸 Soon after being released by the Punjab Police and returning home to Delhi, BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga issued a challenge to AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, saying he was prepared to fight the legal battle ahead.
“I challenge Kejriwal if he thinks that we will stop asking questions and stop raising our voices. I will fight this battle. I will not stop. I will keep asking questions of Arvind Kejriwal,” Bagga said, after returning to his Janakpuri home in the wee hours of Saturday, accompanied by friends and supporters.
Denying the Punjab Police’s claim that he had been asked to join the investigation multiple times but refused to comply, the BJP leader said, “I have already replied to all the summons that have been issued.”
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2022-05-06 19:52:01+00:00
❗️“They looted everything”
A resident of the village of Novotroitskoye in Donetsk region describes how paramilitary thugs from the Aidar battalion behaved toward civilians, evicting them from their homes and stealing their property.
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2022-05-06 19:19:01+00:00
🎥 "I was almost killed"
A resident of the Yelenovka settlement near Donetsk reveals how Ukrainian Nazi battalions treated Donbas residents back in 2014.
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2022-05-06 19:06:37+00:00
🎥 "A wild feeling of fear"
Watch a resident recalls the night shelling of Donetsk City by Ukrainian Nazis.
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2022-05-06 18:31:42+00:00
🎥 “They were shooting at our backs"
Watch a Mariupol resident speak about the Azov Battalion's atrocities.
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2022-05-06 18:31:42+00:00
❗️A woman evacuated from Azovstal said that soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces and the Azov paramilitaries promised to shoot dead anyone who decided to leave the industrial zone without prior notice.
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2022-05-06 17:59:01+00:00
🎥 The international volunteer group "Moscow-Donbass" delivered another batch of humanitarian aid to Kirovsk.
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2022-05-06 16:52:01+00:00
⚡️❗️A Georgian mercenary in Ukraine taunts two Russian prisoners, forcing one of them to repeat Ukrainian nationalist slogans and insults against President Putin.
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2022-05-06 16:44:01+00:00
🇺🇸📉 US crude exports to India decline as New Delhi goes for Russian oil
Overall American crude exports to India registered a decline in March this year as compared to the months of January and February, American financial intelligence firm Standard and Poor’s (S&P) stated on Friday, citing the latest official data released by Washington’s Census Bureau.
While the crude exports from the US to India averaged around 476,000 barrels a day in January and February, they dropped to 229,000 barrels a day in March.
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2022-05-06 16:25:39+00:00
📍 A bus with civilians from Azovstal has left the plant. There are 12 people in it, including 4 children, Sputnik's correspondent reports.
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2022-05-06 16:12:01+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇳🚫 Russian UN diplomat accuses Western media of censorship, Ukraine coverage manipulation
“Instead of promoting journalism, freedom of speech and access to information, you choose the path of becoming soldiers in the information war against Russia,” Moscow’s Deputy Envoy to the United Nations Dmitry Polyanskiy said during a UN Security Council Arria-Formula meeting.
Polyanskiy gave several examples of lies spread by Western media and added that its shameless manipulation is hard to comment on.
"How will Western viewers learn the truth, especially when Russian TV channels, as we all know, are being banned from Western countries?” Polyanskiy asked. “Who is spreading propaganda here? Make a judgment yourself."
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2022-05-06 16:02:03+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺 Traders breathe sigh of relief as Russia’s Aeroflot resumes flights to India
The airline expects to see a big jump in passengers upon reactivating the route, with many Russian tourists looking to India to avoid the West’s severe financial sanctions applied after the special military operation in Ukraine.
The firm also expects a large increase in bilateral trade between the two countries. Indian traders expect a $15 billion boost in exports upon resumption.
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2022-05-06 15:48:02+00:00
❗️🇮🇳 Some 200 terrorists are preparing to be sent into the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir across the border.
"The number of terrorists staged across the Indo-Pak border is approximately 200. They are waiting across [the Line of Control] to be launched to this side," Dwivedi said, replying to a question about the security situation along the Jammu and Kashmir border.
According to the lieutenant, the aim of India’s forces is to identify the terrorists attempting to cross the border and neutralise them at the earliest possible opportunity.
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2022-05-06 15:34:32+00:00
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Joe Biden will meet virtually with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky during a virtual G7 meeting on Sunday
The G7 leaders will discuss the latest developments in Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, the operation's global impact and the efforts to support Ukraine by imposing severe costs on Russia.
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2022-05-06 15:16:01+00:00
❗️📹 Another lynching in Ukraine: a man is tied to a pole with a sign on his back saying "marauder". Recently, this way of punishing people has become widespread in Ukraine.
Lynching is usually carried out against people suspected of committing a crime, but no evidence or courts decisions are involved.
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2022-05-06 15:13:00+00:00
❗️🇮🇳 India invokes emergency law to boost coal imports as power crisis worsens
India has rolled out an emergency law ordering states to immediately import coal stocks. The move looks to counter input shortages at the thermal plants.
With energy demand increasing by almost 20% this summer, domestic coal miners have struggled to supply local power plants, which produce around 75% of all electricity in the country, according to the Power Ministry.
India's Minister of Power R.K. Singh reviewed the power and coal situation with officials on Friday, asking states and energy companies to place coal import orders for at least 10% of their blending coal stocks. The move looks to supply additional coal to the power plants during May.
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2022-05-06 15:03:13+00:00
🎞 Shah Rukh Khan hosts diplomats, turns perfect host
Shah Rukh Khan hosted the consul general of several countries, including France, Canada, and Quebec, among others, at his Mumbai home, Mannat, to discuss prospects for strengthening India’s global cinematic ties.
According to the consuls, Shah Rukh Khan gave them a warm welcome. After the meeting, many of them shared pictures and their impressions of the King of Bollywood, who seems to win many hearts with his hospitality. Canada’s Consul General Diedrah Kelly even said that she understands the charm that King Khan has on audiences across the world.
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2022-05-06 14:05:12+00:00
⚡️ Watch Ukrainian Nazis declare on camera that they will not take prisoners when dealing with Russian soldiers, underscoring that the ultimate aim of Nazis is the elimination of the Russian nation in general.
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2022-05-06 13:39:26+00:00
🚀👨🚀 Indian-American astronaut Raja Chari along with 3 other members of ‘Crew-3’ team splash down to Earth after spending six months aboard the International Space Station.
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2022-05-06 13:36:00+00:00
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▪️India reported 3,545 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, along with 27 deaths in the preceding 24 hours.
▪️Arjun Chourasiya, a young BJP worker, was found hanged in an abandoned building in Kolkata, ahead of a bike rally to welcome Union Home Minister Amit Shah in West Bengal, which the young man had been slated to lead. Chourasiya was an active member and the vice-president of BJP’s youth wing in Kolkata. The matter is being investigated.
▪️Three unidentified militants were killed in a gunfight in the Srichand Top forest area of Pahalgam in south Kashmir's Anantnag district. The gunfight broke out this morning after security forces were tipped off about the presence of militants in the forest area.
▪️India is planning to reopen more than 100 coal mines previously considered financially unsustainable amid the power crisis. India expects additional output of 75-100 million tonnes of the fuel in the next two-three years from the reopened mines, Jain added.
▪️Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated JITO Connect 2022, a three-day global summit, attended by business owners, entrepreneurs and tech-savvy individuals from all over the world. Addressing the summit, the prime minister emphasised the high role of India in international trade and technological solutions.
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2022-05-06 13:21:01+00:00
India might challenge WHO's COVID-19 'excess deaths report'
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday said as many as 4.74 million people had succumbed to COVID in India in 2020 and 2021. The WHO's figure was disputed by the Indian government as the number appeared to be almost ten times higher than the country's official COVID death toll at the end of 2021.
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2022-05-06 13:16:00+00:00
📹A resident of the Ukranian city of Mariupol tells how the Russian soldiers from Chechnya helped them while the Ukrainian troops were just shelling their homes.
The city of Mariupol has been almost fully liberated by Russian troops. The only place still controlled by Ukrainian nationalists is the Azovstal plant.
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2022-05-06 12:57:22+00:00
🇮🇳India to reopen abandoned coal mines as heatwave hits supply
The government plans to lease more than 100 abandoned state-owned coal mines to private miners in an effort to ramp up production as power outages exacerbate a sweltering heatwave.
Soaring temperatures have prompted higher energy demand in recent weeks and left India facing a 25 million tonne shortfall; spot prices for coal have skyrocketed since the start of the year.
India needs a billion tonnes of coal to meet domestic demand each year.
The government says it plans to increase domestic coal production to 1.2 billion tonnes in the next two years to support the country's post-pandemic economic recovery.
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2022-05-06 11:51:16+00:00
🇪🇺🚫🇷🇺 EU needs 10-15 years to replace Russian gas with African hydrocarbons, energy experts say
Having introduced sweeping sanctions against Russian energy suppliers, the European Union is trying to curry favour with African hydrocarbon producers to reduce its dependence on Moscow by almost two-thirds this year.
However, according to Dr Mamdouh G. Salameh, an international oil economist and visiting professor of energy economics at the ESCP Europe Business School in London, "[the bloc's] efforts to diversify its gas needs away from Russia is a painstaking job that will take years to accomplish if ever."
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2022-05-06 11:31:11+00:00
"Everyone is in need now"
Russia's military delivered 40 tonnes of humanitarian aid to elevate the plight of the residents of the Kharkov region
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2022-05-06 11:17:14+00:00
India, Italy Vow to Deepen Ties in Defence, Space
Italy's Foreign Minister held bilateral talks with his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar on Friday, where they reviewed the full spectrum of bilateral relations including the progress in implementation of the 2020-2024 Action Plan adopted at the Virtual Summit in November, 2020.
Ministers noted the potential for a closer industrial collaboration, including in the field of defence and space.
"On Ukraine, the two Ministers expressed their concern on the ongoing humanitarian crisis and called for an immediate cessation of hostilities. They also underlined the importance to safeguard the international order based on the UN Charter, with special regard to the respect of sovereignty and territorial integrity," a joint-press release issued after the meeting read.
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2022-05-06 11:06:54+00:00
🚫🇪🇺 EU ambassadors will be given time until the end of this week to agree on the bloc's embargo on Russian oil, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Friday.
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2022-05-06 10:50:17+00:00
🇮🇳🇮🇹 Italy's Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio will meet his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar on Friday to discuss the Ukraine crisis, among other things. He will also meet Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal.
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2022-05-06 10:48:18+00:00
🇮🇳✊🏼 India knows what to do, does not need educators - UN Ambassador
T. S. Tirumurti, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, gave a stern response on Friday to Karel van Oosterom, the Netherlands' ambassador to the United Kingdom, over his comments on India's stance regarding the Ukraine conflict. Tirumurti posted a video of his speech at the UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine on his Twitter page. Karel van Oosterom left his comment under the video, writing “you should not have abstained in the GA. Respect the UN Charter.”
In response to this, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN said, “kindly don't patronise us. We know what to do.”
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2022-05-06 10:31:32+00:00
📹Protestors have lined up wearing underwear and panties near the Sri Lankan Parliament, saying this is all they've been left with. They said that they would stay at the site till Prime Minister Rajapaksa announces his resignation.
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2022-05-06 10:14:10+00:00
📍Aam Aadmi Party leaders supported the arrest, saying that the move was taken after Mr. Bagga refused to cooperate with the investigation after he was booked for his statements. AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj has added, that the language Mr. Bagga uses on social media is "obscene, toxic and hateful".
🔸However, BJP leaders have protested against the arrest, claiming that the police is violating freedom of speech.
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2022-05-06 10:06:09+00:00
🇮🇳👮 Mix-up with BJP leader’s arrest, what happened?
Punjab police today arrested BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga at his Delhi residence.
However, the arrest was stopped by Haryana cops after the Delhi police registered a kidnapping case based on a complaint by Mr. Bagga's father. After that, Mr. Bagga along with the Punjab police team was taken to Haryana police station and then brought to Thanesar police station, Kurukshetra.
The charges against Mr. Bagga, which came after his tweet against Mr Kejriwal over 'The Kashmir Files' movie, include making provocative statements, promoting religious enmity, and criminal intimidation.
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2022-05-06 09:50:44+00:00
📹Police fire tear gas, water cannons at anti-govt protest in Sri Lanka
Thousands of shops, schools and businesses closed on Friday as public and private sector workers in Sri Lanka went on strike, demanding the president and the government step down for their mishandling of the island's worst financial crisis in decades.
Meanwhile, the value of the national currency plummeted to 375 per dollar due to the persisting crisis.
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2022-05-06 08:53:57+00:00
Indian climber dies on Himalayan peak
Narayanan Iyer, 52, died at an altitude of 8,200 metres, near the top of world's third-highest peak, Mount Kanchenjunga. It was the third fatality of this year's busy Himalayan spring climbing season.
Nepal has issued 68 permits to foreign climbers for the 8,586-metre Kanchenjunga this season and several made it to the summit on Thursday.
Last month, a Greek climber died on 8,167-metre Dhaulagiri after he fell ill while descending.
Days later, a Nepali climber who was carrying equipment uphill was found dead on Mount Everest.
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2022-05-06 08:51:48+00:00
Latest updates on the Russian military operation in Ukraine
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2022-05-06 08:35:16+00:00
Mali official: French army trying to conceal mass graves
In April, the Malian army reportedly discovered bodies buried near the former French military base in Gossi. The French Army is trying to hide the mass graves in Mali, for which it is responsible, Abubakar Sidiki Fomba, a member of the National Transitional Council of Mali, told Sputnik.
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2022-05-06 08:21:37+00:00
Asian Games 2022 postponed due to latest COVID-19 outbreak in China. The Games were supposed to be held in China's Hangzhou City from 10-25 September. The host city Hangzhou is close to Shanghai, which has been under lockdown for several weeks. New date will be announced soon.
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2022-05-06 08:15:42+00:00
🇮🇳🚀India is planning to launch a space mission to Venus orbit, said S. Somanath, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation.
He noted that the space agency is considering launching the spacecraft in December 2024, when the Earth and Venus are close enough that the spacecraft can be launched into the orbit of a neighbouring planet using a minimum amount of fuel.
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2022-05-06 07:36:54+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lanka's bus and train networks ground to a halt while offices and factories were empty Friday in a nationwide strike demanding the government's resignation over the island's worsening economic crisis.
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2022-05-06 06:53:38+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India reports 3,545 new COVID-19 cases
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2022-05-05 20:55:24+00:00
🚫 A resident of one DPR settlement reveals the terrible conditions under which children live due to constant shelling.
Children have no access to education, and many have to sleep in basements or under their beds.
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2022-05-05 20:10:32+00:00
A rescued Mariupol resident Lyubov Nyrkova recalls how she had to hide in the basement of a school near the Azovstal steel plant after her apartment was bombed by Ukrainian armed forces.
All of her possessions and money were destroyed in the fire, while she suffered several burns.
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2022-05-05 19:31:52+00:00
"We crawled away under fire": Watch a man tell how Ukrainian militants shot at refugees escaping in a column of 34 cars between Volchansk and Kharkov.
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2022-05-05 18:06:57+00:00
⚡️ Mali official: French army trying to conceal mass graves
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2022-05-05 17:07:31+00:00
🇮🇳 Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting on Thursday to begin preparations for heatwave management and upcoming monsoons.
PM Modi said that all measures needed to be taken to avoid heatwave-related deaths or fire incidents, adding that the response time towards any such incidents should be minimal.
He also highlighted that in view of the upcoming monsoons, arrangements for monitoring the quality of drinking water need to be ensured to avoid contamination and any resultant spread of water-borne diseases.
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2022-05-05 17:03:01+00:00
❗️ A resident of Mariupol tells how Ukrainian tanks fired at residential buildings in the city.
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2022-05-05 16:39:46+00:00
“The situation in Mariupol is generally improving”, a volunteer who delivers humanitarian aid to local residents said, describing how the liberated city is slowly coming back to life.
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2022-05-05 15:24:14+00:00
🇮🇳🇱🇰 India’s Tamil Nadu DMK lawmakers donate wages to crisis-hit Sri Lanka
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (DMK) 125 parliamentarians in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu announced on Thursday that they will donate one month’s wages to the fund for crisis-hit Sri Lanka.
Indian lawmakers’ salaries are INR 330,000 (US$4,300) per month, excluding allowances.
India has provided $2.5 billion so far in assistance, as well as petrol and diesel, to help Sri Lanka fight its on-going economic crisis and overcome fuel shortages.
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2022-05-05 15:11:44+00:00
🇮🇳🇬🇧 UK, Indian Diplomats Agree on Close Cooperation Ahead of Commonwealth Summit
Senior Indian Foreign Ministry official Prakash Gupta welcomed UK Commonwealth envoy Jo Lomas to New Delhi on Thursday and agreed on closer cooperation between the two countries ahead of this June's meeting of Commonwealth heads of government.
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2022-05-05 15:01:01+00:00
“Those who tried to leave were killed by snippers, who just giggled”
Watch an eyewitness from Mariupol speak about the horrific atrocities perpetrated by Ukrainian Nazis.
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2022-05-05 14:53:00+00:00
🇱🇰⚡️Sri Lanka police tear gas student protesters attempting to storm parliament
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2022-05-05 14:52:01+00:00
India's top court asks federal gov't to file responses in challenge to sedition law by Monday
The colonial British government had imposed the sedition law to suppress the writings and speeches of Indian freedom fighters like Mahatma Gandhi, Lokmanya Tilak and others. The law was included in Section 124 A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in 1870.
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2022-05-05 14:40:26+00:00
📍🇮🇳 According to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report, the number of Covid-19 deaths in India is nearly 10 times higher than official numbers suggest. India's government has challenged the figure, claiming erroneous methodologies were used.
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2022-05-05 14:05:13+00:00
French media trying to cover up military crimes in Mali, human rights activist says
The information campaign launched by several French media outlets in connection with the situation in Mali is based on gross falsification and is designed to hide the crimes of the French military, Mira Terada, head of the Russian non-profit organisation Foundation to Battle Injustice, said on Thursday.
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2022-05-05 14:01:48+00:00
📍The West supplied the Ukrainian army with “overpraised” Javelin and NLAW anti-armour missiles, which had expired shelf lives and often misfired, a Ukrainian POW told Sputnik.
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2022-05-05 13:49:01+00:00
The Russian Ministry of Defence showed pictures of Malka heavy artillery firing at Ukrainian nationalist troops
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2022-05-05 13:28:26+00:00
🍅 Price of tomatoes and lemons jumps threefold in Indian states amid inflation and heatwave
There has been a 100 percent increase in consumer food prices between March 2021 and March 2022, according to the All India Consumer Price Index (CPI), that has impacted the cost of oils and fats, vegetables, meat and fish.
The general household in India is now experiencing the sharp effect of rising prices in the kitchen.
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2022-05-05 13:02:24+00:00
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka's government won Parliament vote amid protests, as a ruling coalition-backed candidate was elected deputy speaker.
The vote was seen as crucial to demonstrate that the government still has majority support in the 225-member Parliament after 40 governing coalition lawmakers said last month they would no longer vote according to coalition instructions. It was feared that their move would significantly weaken the government and that it might also lose a majority.
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2022-05-05 12:39:03+00:00
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▪️India reported 3,275 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, along with 55 deaths in the preceding 24 hours.
▪️The Central Bank of India is going to reduce the number of its branches by 13%, closing 600 loss-making branches by the end of March 2023 in order to improve its financial health. Currently, the bank has a network of 4,594 branches.
▪️The Border Security Force detected a 150-metre-long cross-border tunnel along the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district. It’s alleged that if left undetected, the illegal passage way could have been used by Pakistan-based terrorists to disrupt the upcoming Amarnath Yatra. The tunnel is believed to have been used by two terrorists killed in the Sunjwan area nearly two weeks ago.
▪️Four suspected Khalistani Pakistan-linked terrorists were arrested in Karnal, Haryana today, a large cache of arms, ammunition and explosives have been recovered by the police.
▪️The coal ministry will hold a high-level Investors’ Meet on Friday in Mumbai in order to attract investments from the private sector. The meeting is going to focus on the opportunities in the launch of closed/discontinued coal mines amid India's coal crisis.
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2022-05-05 12:24:01+00:00
People suffering from the actions of Ukrainian nationalists write on the fences of their houses what they need to receive as humanitarian aid.
“People live here. Bring some bread” says the sign.
An elderly woman living in the house said that at first she wanted to write a “Z” symbol on the wall. But she was afraid that nationalists would shoot up the house if saw it.
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2022-05-05 12:07:10+00:00
🇫🇷🇲🇱 Paris, which is losing influence and control in Africa, continues to blame Russia for its own follies, experts say
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2022-05-05 11:34:27+00:00
🇮🇳☀️India Meteorological Department warns of fresh spell of heatwave in Northwest India, Central India
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2022-05-05 11:20:01+00:00
Taiwan cancels deal to buy American anti-submarine helicopters because they are too expensive
The island was planning to buy up to 12 Seahawk choppers, but the deal has been scrapped as Taipei prioritises lower costs and more mobile weaponry to counter any threat from China.
Taiwan has shifted to a "porcupine" strategy that seeks to equip the island to repel a potential attack from a far larger Chinese military.
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2022-05-05 10:38:58+00:00
🇮🇳 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a meeting on preparations to deal with the heatwave affecting parts of India as well as with the upcoming monsoon, it was announced today, as the prime minister returned to Delhi from a three-nation Europe trip
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2022-05-05 10:25:33+00:00
In the Luhansk People's Republic, Father Parthenius, rector of the local church, was killed as a result of shelling by Ukrainian forces in the village of Mikhailovka.
❗️In an interview shortly before his death, Father Parthenius said that the Ukrainian army was deliberately destroying towns and cities.
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2022-05-05 10:08:24+00:00
🇵🇰🇦🇫Pakistan-Afghanistan tensions along the border in Afghanistan's western Nimroz Province remain high despite efforts by both sides to defuse the situation.
The local Taliban commander reportedly rejected the Google maps put forward by Pakistani Army officials to assert their claim to the area. Afghans also continued to object to the construction of border fencing and the creation of a new post.
The Pakistani officials maintained that the fence and post were necessary to tackle increasing terrorist attacks in the area. Incidentally, the Pakistani Army was learnt to have cancelled the leave of all its troops deployed along the Pak-Afghan border in view of the continued armed clash with Afghan forces.
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2022-05-05 10:06:06+00:00
🚫 Four suspected Khalistani terrorists were arrested in Karnal, Haryana
The accused were reported to be in touch with Pakistan-based Khalistani terrorist Harvinder Singh ‘Rinda’ who air-dropped arms and ammunition from Ferozepur district in Pakistan using a drone.
According to a Karnal official, the police have recovered a large quantity of arms, ammunition and explosives.
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2022-05-05 09:04:27+00:00
India, France to strengthen ties as Macron warns about 'consequences' of Ukraine conflict in Asia
India’s neutral stance on Ukraine served as a major focus of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-nation trip, which involved visits to Germany, Denmark and France. In spite of repeated efforts by Europe's leaders to draw India into their camp vis-à-vis Russia, the longstanding strategic ties between Moscow and Delhi remain unaffected.
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2022-05-05 08:52:09+00:00
🇮🇳🌾Wheat in surplus for entire year in India, farmers getting good prices
India currently has more than the required quantity of wheat in stocks to sustain for a year, informed Sudhanshu Pandey, Secretary, Department of Food and Public Distribution (DFPD).
Pandey added that due to higher market prices, a large quantity of wheat was being bought by traders at a higher rate than MSP (Minimum Support Price), which was good for the farmers.
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2022-05-05 08:25:43+00:00
The Russian Ministry of Defence published footage of a Ka-52 Alligator helicopter operating at night. Helicopters fired at the Ukrainian army’s command posts.
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2022-05-05 07:38:46+00:00
🚓Indian policeman accused of raping alleged child gang-rape victim
An Indian police officer has been arrested after being accused of raping a 13-year-old girl who went to his station to report she had been gang-raped.
According to her father, she was gang-raped by four men last month over several days.
But when she attempted to file a complaint last week, the station house officer in charge raped her, according to an NGO now providing her with counselling.
Police said the officer was arrested on Wednesday along with four other people and the girl's aunt, who was reportedly inside the station house room when she was attacked.
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2022-05-05 07:13:01+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India logs 3,275 new COVID cases
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2022-05-04 18:54:01+00:00
📹 “If you want to live, go down to the basements”
A resident of Mariupol has described the methods of the Azov Battalion and the UAF.
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2022-05-04 18:20:41+00:00
"Okay, this is a forced evacuation": A resident of Rubezhnoye in the Lugansk region has explained how civilians were forced out of a bomb shelter at a bread-baking plant
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2022-05-04 17:47:01+00:00
📍"They were just human wrecks, just scumbags"
Watch a woman from Mariupol recall through her tears how Azov neo-Nazis didn't even allow people to eat, and fired machine guns into the air forcing them to kneel when they distributed food
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2022-05-04 17:21:53+00:00
Not a day goes by without a gaffe by Joe Biden: While posing for a photo with members of the US Olympic team, among whom were wheelchair basketball players and a visually impaired girl, the US president shouted “don’t jump” and then asked the athletes to look at the photographer. After his remarks, the broadcast’s sound was suddenly interrupted 😬
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2022-05-04 17:20:57+00:00
📹 "I grabbed my head, and then I thought, no, I am alive"
A man from Yasinovataya, in the Donetsk region, believes that God saved him from death by Ukrainian shelling
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2022-05-04 17:01:13+00:00
🇳🇱The Netherlands' Nijmegen war cemetery has been vandalised: anti-Russian slogans, "Glory to Ukraine", "Azov", swastikas, and Ukrainian flags have appeared on gravestones. The mayor of the city called the incident "disgusting"
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2022-05-04 16:58:06+00:00
🇫🇷🇮🇳 French President Emmanuel Macron will host Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Paris for talks and a "working dinner" on Wednesday evening, hoping to pull New Delhi away from Russia over its operation in Ukraine.
France wants to "help the Indians diversify their supply" away from Russian arms and energy, Macron's Elysee Palace office said.
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2022-05-04 16:32:06+00:00
🇲🇱 The landlocked West African nation of Mali renounced its military cooperation agreement with France on Monday, with ties between the two countries on the brink over a mass grave discovered by Malian troops near a vacated French base which Paris claims were planted there by Russian mercenaries.
Check out a list of possible criminal activity by French forces in Mali over the last 9 years amid Paris’ claims of Russian ‘smear campaign’.
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2022-05-04 16:15:51+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳🛫 Aeroflot – Russian airline resumes flights to India from 5 May, a company statement read. The flag carrier will fly routes to Delhi twice a week.
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2022-05-04 16:13:41+00:00
📍India-Nordic summit discusses Ukraine crisis
A joint statement issued after the India-Nordic summit said the gathered prime ministers expressed their serious concern about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
"They unequivocally condemned civilian deaths in Ukraine. They reiterated the need for an immediate cessation of hostilities," the statement read.
It also said that India and the Nordic countries affirmed their support for a rules-based international order and for multilateral institutions and their commitment to work towards making them more inclusive, transparent, and accountable with the aim of addressing global challenges more effectively.
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2022-05-04 16:04:55+00:00
🇮🇳🇩🇰 Denmark visit has been excellently productive, PM Modi says
“The programmes covered different spheres ranging from diplomatic meetings, boosting cultural and commercial linkages and engagement with the Indian community. I thank PM Frederiksen, the Government and people of Denmark. The India-Nordic Summit gave a great platform to discuss ways to boost ties with the Nordic nations. The bilateral meetings with Nordic leaders were also productive. I look forward to working with them in various sectors aimed at furthering prosperity,” the prime minister tweeted.
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2022-05-04 15:57:50+00:00
⚡️🇮🇳 Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Paris, France
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2022-05-04 15:16:37+00:00
🇮🇳 Prime Minister Narendra Modi left Denmark for France after his productive visit, the Prime Minister's Office said
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2022-05-04 14:59:01+00:00
What gifts did leaders of Nordic countries receive from PM Modi?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has attended the second India-Nordic summit in Denmark. During his visit, the PM met with the leaders of Nordic countries and with some members of royal families. Everyone received a gift. Let’s have a look at them.
🎁Crown Prince Fredrik of Denmark received a Dokra boat from Chattisgarh
🎁Queen Margrethe II of Denmark received a Rogan painting from Gujarat
🎁A Silver Meenakari Bird figure from Varanasi was given to Crown Princess Mary of Denmark
🎁A Brass Tree of Life from Rajasthan was presented to Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin
🎁Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Støre was gifted a Dhaal with Koftgiri art from Rajasthan
🎁A wall hanging with Kutch embroidery was given to Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen
🎁A Pashmina stole in a papier mache box from Jammu and Kashmir was gifted to Prime Minister of Sweden Magdalena Andersson
(Image: Twitter/ANI)
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2022-05-04 14:50:22+00:00
🚫🛢 India’s legitimate energy transactions cannot be politicised, says oil ministry
India’s ministry of petroleum and gas accused media outlets of speculation and sensationalising routine purchases of crude oil by Indian Oil Companies from Russia with concocted “source-based” stories.
“Such blatant misuse of the freedom of the Press could be disregarded but cannot, in this case, because this is a part of a pre-meditated attempt to further destabilise an already fragile global oil market,” the ministry said in a press release.
“India’s energy needs are enormous with daily consumption of around 5 million barrels. Indian Energy companies have been sourcing energy supplies from Russia, on a sustained basis, over past several years. Despite attempts to portray it otherwise, energy purchases from Russia remain miniscule in comparison to India’s total consumption,” the statement read.
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2022-05-04 14:21:32+00:00
🇨🇳🦠Beijing shuts 10% of subway stations to stem COVID-19 spread
Forty stations were closed from the morning, and 20 more were added in the afternoon.
Beijing has been on high alert for the spread of COVID-19, with restaurants and bars limited to takeout, gyms closed and classes suspended indefinitely. Major tourist sites in the city, including the Forbidden City and the Beijing Zoo, have closed their indoor exhibition halls and are operating at only partial capacity.
Beijing on Wednesday recorded just 51 new cases, five of them asymptomatic.
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2022-05-04 13:37:01+00:00
🎥 A resident of DPR's Elenovka village told how neo-Nazis looted residents’ houses, demanded clothes they could use as disguises and documents so they could flee pretending to be civilians.
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2022-05-04 13:32:55+00:00
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Check out the latest news stories in India
▪️India reported 3,205 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, along with 31 deaths in the preceding 24 hours.
▪️According to preliminary calculations, total coal production in India in 2021-22 fiscal year amounted to 777.02 million tons, rising by 8.55 per cent, India’s Ministry of Coal reported. Coal consumption in India has increased due to the heatwave the country is suffering.
▪️Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in a second India-Nordic Summit in Copenhagen. The prime minister has also held bilateral meetings with his counterparts from the Nordic countries on the sidelines of the summit.
▪️A 13-year-old rape survivor from Uttar Pradesh went to a police station to report the crime and was raped again by a police officer. All officers present at the police station when the incident took place, have been removed from duty. The case is being investigated.
▪️The states located in the north, north-west, and central India will feel relief from the intense heatwave, as maximum temperatures in the country have fallen by two to four degrees Celsius, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) says.
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2022-05-04 12:47:02+00:00
🇮🇳India's services exports rise to record $254.4 billion in 2021-22
The new record achieved in financial year 2021-22 beats the previous high of $213.2 billion achieved in 2019-20, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said on Wednesday.
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2022-05-04 12:13:01+00:00
📍Civilians have revealed how they lived in the cellars of Azovstal, while being kept in the dark by Ukrainian militants
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2022-05-04 12:03:03+00:00
🇮🇳🇫🇷France-based defence contractor Naval Group has announced it is withdrawing from India's P-75I submarine project
The announcement comes on the eve of PM Narendra Modi’s visit to Paris, where he is expected to meet French President Emmanuel Macron.
The contract involves the construction of six diesel-electric P-75I submarines for the Indian Navy. The contractor said that it has withdrawn from the project because of conditions mentioned in the request for proposal (RFP) related to an air independent propulsion (AIP) system.
"The present RFP requires that the fuel cell AIP be seaworthy, which is not the case for us yet since the French Navy does not use such a propulsion system," the contractor said.
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2022-05-04 11:53:23+00:00
⚡️🇮🇳 Prime Minister Narendra Modi participates in India-Nordic Summit at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen
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2022-05-04 11:51:10+00:00
📍Pro-Russian residents near Kharkov were taken to unknown locations by Ukrainian forces
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) units entered the village of Stary Saltov in the Kharkov region and took away all those accused of sympathy with the Russian side, a source in the military-civilian administration of the liberated territories told Sputnik on Wednesday.
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2022-05-04 11:48:23+00:00
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka's main opposition party Samagi Jana Balawegaya has submitted to the speaker of the parliament two motions of no confidence against the government and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa
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2022-05-04 11:23:05+00:00
🇨🇳🇮🇳 China ramps up its infrastructure along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India
As satellite images published by The Print show, China has completed the construction of a strategic bridge over Pangong Tso on territory it holds in Khurnak. Now, China has proceeded to building a road to connect the bridge to one of its biggest military garrisons in the region.
Infrastructure build-ups along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) have been carried out by India as well. New roads, tunnels, underground ammunition depots, and emplacements for new warfighting equipment have been constructed.
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2022-05-04 11:02:30+00:00
❗️“Shame on Ukraine!”
Ukrainian armed forces robbed people and carried sacks of loot under cover of darkness so that no one would see them, Lyudmila Matviyenko, a resident of Volnovakha, DPR, said. According to her, the UAF soldiers have been stealing and robbing in Volnovakha for eight years.
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2022-05-04 10:47:04+00:00
🇮🇳🇫🇮 PM Modi and Finnish PM Sanna Marin discussed ways to further cement bilateral ties
"Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Marin Sanna met in Copenhagen. The developmental partnership between India and Finland is rapidly growing. Both leaders discussed ways to further cement this partnership in trade, investment, technology and other such sectors,” Prime Minister's Office says.
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2022-05-04 10:39:37+00:00
🇮🇳🇮🇸 Indian PM Modi met his Icelandic counterpart Katrín Jakobsdóttir
According to sources, the ministers discussed boosting ties in areas such as trade, energy and fisheries.
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2022-05-04 10:33:07+00:00
🇮🇳🇸🇪 Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with Swedish PM Magdalena Andersson on the sidelines of the India-Nordic summit
"In today’s meeting, the two leaders reviewed the progress made in our bilateral partnership. They also expressed satisfaction at the progress made by the Lead IT initiative. This was a India-Sweden joint global initiative to set up a Leadership Group on Industry Transition (LeadIT) in September 2019 at the UN Climate Action Summit to help guide the world’s heaviest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting industries towards the low-carbon economy," a statement released by India’s Ministry of External Affairs read.
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2022-05-04 10:32:57+00:00
📹 'Azov' members beat up people for nothing
Mariupol children have shared their horrible experiences of the Azov Battalion neo-Nazis. If residents so much as lit a flashlight or candle in their houses, Azov members would start shooting at windows saying “we will kill you if you try to leave the building”.
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2022-05-04 10:31:23+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lanka foreign reserves at record low
Sri Lanka's economy is in dire straits with its usable foreign reserves down to less than $50 million, the country's finance minister said.
Ali Sabry was speaking to Parliament after returning to Sri Lanka from talks with the International Monetary Fund. He said any IMF rescue program, including a rapid financing instrument needed to urgently resolve shortages of essential goods, would depend on negotiations on debt restructuring with creditors and would take six months to implement.
The country is due to repay $7 billion this year of the $25 billion in foreign loans it is scheduled to pay by 2026.
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2022-05-04 10:15:06+00:00
🇮🇳🇳🇴 Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre
"Both leaders discussed the potential for deepening engagement in areas like Blue Economy, renewable energy, green hydrogen, solar and wind projects, green shipping, fisheries, water management, rainwater harvesting, space cooperation, long term Infrastructure investment, health and culture," India's Ministry of External Affairs said in a press release.
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2022-05-04 09:46:38+00:00
🇮🇳🇩🇰 Modi also met the Danish Queen Margrethe II at her palace earlier in the day
"The prime minister briefed her on the increasing momentum in India-Denmark ties in recent years, particularly the Green Strategic Partnership. He also lauded the role of the Danish Royal Family in furthering social causes," a statement released by India’s Ministry of External Affairs read. Modi also thanked the Danish Queen for her warm reception and hospitality.
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2022-05-04 09:45:32+00:00
🇮🇳🇩🇰 Indian PM Modi met his Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen
On Tuesday, Narendra Modi arrived in Copenhagen and met Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. Among other international and bilateral issues between the two countries, the ministers discussed Russia’s military operation.
Several agreements between India and Denmark have also been announced.
"We share many values. We are two democratic nations, we both believe in a rule-based international system. In times such as these, we need to build an even stronger bridge between us," Frederiksen said.
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2022-05-04 09:08:01+00:00
The Russian Defence Ministry has published footage showing Malka self-propelled 203mm heavy artillery firing at Ukrainian troops' positions. Malka can hit targets at a distance up to 47km.
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2022-05-04 09:02:24+00:00
🇮🇳India central bank announces surprise 0.4% rate hike
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2022-05-04 08:36:00+00:00
Congress, BJP in war of words after communal clashes in India's Jodhpur
Clashes broke out between Hindu and Muslim communities in the Jodhpur district of Rajasthan state on Monday night because a religious flag was hoist in the Jalori Gate area. A mob also took down loudspeakers installed in the area for Eid prayers.
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2022-05-04 07:44:25+00:00
🇮🇳PM Modi to attend India-Nordic summit, visit France today
The second India-Nordic summit will see the participation of the Prime Ministers of Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Sweden and Norway. The Summit will focus on subjects like post-pandemic economic recovery, climate change, innovation and technology, renewable energy, the evolving global security scenario and India-Nordic cooperation in the Arctic region.
Following the summit, the Prime Minister is scheduled to make a brief stopover in Paris for a meeting with Emmanuel Macron, the newly re-elected President of France.
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2022-05-04 07:40:25+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lanka tea exports lowest in 23 years
Crisis-struck Sri Lanka's vital tea exports have dropped to their lowest level in 23 years, official figures showed Wednesday, hit by a fertiliser ban and the Ukrainian crisis.
Tea is the island nation's biggest export commodity, bringing in about $1.3 billion annually before the current economic downturn, the worst since independence in 1948.
Ban on fertiliser imports (introduced in a doomed effort to save foreign currency and avoid a debt default) hit growers hard, with production falling 18 per cent.
Industry officials added that about 10 percent of Sri Lanka's tea exports had also been affected by the Ukrainian crisis. Russia and Ukraine are top buyers of the island's aromatic black tea.
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2022-05-04 06:12:46+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India recorded 3,205 new COVID-19 in the last 24 hours
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2022-05-03 17:15:49+00:00
A resident of Mariupol has described how Azov neo-Nazis looted stores and took the stolen goods to the Azovstal plant
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2022-05-03 16:36:51+00:00
A resident of Donetsk shows her destroyed house in detail: she and her husband are lucky that they were not inside at the time of the shelling
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2022-05-03 15:23:47+00:00
"People were hiding in the basement and it was set on fire", a woman from Mariupol says
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2022-05-03 12:55:23+00:00
“Neither DPR nor Russia was here at that time”: A man from Mariupol on shellings from tanks at civilians’ apartments
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2022-05-03 11:32:34+00:00
Russia's Ministry of Defence has published a video showing the launch of a Russian high-precision Onyx missile which destroyed a hangar at a military airfield near Odessa with weapons supplied to the Ukrainian forces by western countries
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2022-05-03 05:39:23+00:00
🎉 Narendra Modi greets people on the festival of Akshaya Tritiya, which marks the birthday of Lord Parshuram
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2022-05-03 04:55:18+00:00
🦠 India has confirmed 2,568 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours
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2022-05-02 17:39:57+00:00
⚡️ 📹 A local resident from Mariupol shows the remains of buildings destroyed by Ukrainian nationalists.
Many of the destroyed houses were of historical importance, having survived the Second World War.
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2022-05-02 16:44:23+00:00
❗️ Russian MoD’s latest statement on the Ukraine crisis:
▪️ A warehouse with rockets, artillery, and ammunition has been destroyed near the settlement of Pokrovskoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
▪️ Up to 170 nationalists, as well as 36 weapons and Ukrainian military equipment, have been destroyed by the Russian Armed Forces.
▪️ Russian operational-tactical and Army aviation hit 13 strongholds and concentrations of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
▪️ Four S-300 air defence system launchers as well as a reconnaissance and guidance radar station have been destroyed in the area of the settlement Mezhevaya in Ukraine.
▪️ High-precision air-launched missiles have hit 36 Ukrainian military facilities over the past day.
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2022-05-02 16:11:58+00:00
⚡️ 📹 A resident of liberated Mariupol accuses the Ukrainian Army of destroying the city where she lived.
In the video, the woman emphasises that she saw with her own eyes how Ukrainian soldiers, including from the Azov Battalion, destroyed Mariupol.
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2022-05-02 15:56:09+00:00
⚡️ 📹 One of the civilians released from the Azovstal plant describes how they were forced to dig trenches by Ukrainian nationalists.
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2022-05-02 15:00:07+00:00
⚡️ Hours after taking charge, newly appointed Indian Army Chief, General Manoj Pande, said that the South Asian nation's military has realigned its troop positions on the northern border to prevent any trespass by the China's People Liberation Army (PLA).
🔸 "Our troops are holding important physical positions. We are very clear that we will not permit any change in the status quo and any loss of territory. We have realigned our troops after carrying out threat assessments," General Pande told local media.
🔸 "The process of talks is continuing as that is the only answer to the ongoing issues. We have moved extra equipment and troops to the area and our aim is to deflate tensions along the LAC," he added.
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2022-05-02 14:49:44+00:00
⚡️ 📹 A Sputnik correspondent has published footage from this morning of a bus convoy heading along the road to Bezymenny, which more than 200 people were evacuated to from Mariupol in the afternoon.
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2022-05-02 14:37:28+00:00
⚡️ 📹 A refugee from Mariupol describes the horrible conditions she had to live in and how she fled the city.
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2022-05-02 14:25:00+00:00
⚡️📹 One of the civilians released from the Azovstal plant describes how he survived there.
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2022-05-02 14:11:40+00:00
⚡️ 📹 Ukrainian Armed Forces prevented people from driving through checkpoints in Mariupol, keeping them in the city and using them as human shields.
🗣 “Nobody provided us with a corridor, it was thanks only to Russian troops setting up a checkpoint that we got out at all - we just took advantage of it to escape from Mariupol.”
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2022-05-02 14:01:33+00:00
⚡️ 📹 A resident of Pionerskoye village in the Donetsk region tells of the crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists
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2022-05-02 12:14:21+00:00
⚡️ 📹 A resident of Mariupol describes how she came under fire by the Armed Forces of Ukraine as she was trying to check up on her grandmother.
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2022-05-02 11:57:20+00:00
⚡️ 📹 The Russian MoD has published footage showing the evacuation of civilians from the grounds of Azovstal.
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2022-05-02 11:55:33+00:00
⚡️ Protests broke out in Hyderabad's Osmania University on Monday after the university allegedly denied entry to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
🔸 Congress alleges that the state's ruling party, Telangana Rashtra Samithi - led by Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao - was behind preventing Rahul Gandhi from meeting with students at the university in the state's capital.
🔸 Police have arrested at least 18 National Students' Union of India (NSUI) workers, including president B Venkat, who were at the campus demanding permission for the meeting. It is alleged that NSUI workers pelted stones after the university refused permission.
🔸 However, the university's vice-chancellor said that no permission had been denial but political meetings are not allowed on campus.
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2022-05-02 11:30:30+00:00
❗️ Prominent election strategist Prashant Kishor on Monday started a buzz in Indian political circles about his next move after posting a cryptic tweet that suggests he is likely to start his political journey from Bihar.
Days after refusing an offer to join India's main opposition party Congress, Kishor said in a tweet that it is time to approach the public to better understand the route leading to "Peoples Good Governance”.
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2022-05-02 10:18:22+00:00
📹 ⚡️ Women who were able to get out of Azovstal described what is happening in the grounds of the plant.
According to them, people have no way out, they are intimidated by Ukrainian militants and are afraid to go out.
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2022-05-02 08:49:27+00:00
The Indian government has taken a grave view of the Connecticut State Legislature which has passed a resolution entitled the “Anniversary of the Declaration of Sikh Independence”.
🗣 “This is an attempt by some mischievous elements to use the name of Assembly for their nefarious purposes. These vested interests seek to divide communities and promote bigotry and hatred,” India's Consulate-General in New York said in a statement.
Why did they do that? Read in the full article
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2022-05-02 08:10:54+00:00
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban's name has been added to Myrotvorets ("Peacekeeper"), a notorious Ukrainian website publishing personal information about supposed "enemies of Ukraine" curated by the Security Service of Ukraine and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
He's listed there as an "accomplice to Russian authorities' crimes against Ukraine and its citizens".
Orban has yet to react to the listing, but former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev remarked that Kiev has started adding European leaders to the infamous database simply because they refuse to bow to pressure and cough up cash Ukraine wants so desperately.
A number of people, whose names once appeared on the site, were killed. Oles Buzina, a prominent Ukrainian journalist, and former Rada lawmaker Oleg Kalashnikov were among them. Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli, who was blacklisted too, was killed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the Donbass war in 2014
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2022-05-01 12:39:36+00:00
❌ India's Army Chief, General Manoj Pande, suggested on Sunday that despite the threat of terrorism and drug trafficking from Pakistan via Jammu and Kashmir, the army is ready to respond.
The new army chief maintained that conditions for the civilian population along the Line of Control have improved, even though there has been a rise in the number of terrorists operating in the region.
However, he emphasised: "We are clear that if we see any act of terror or any hybrid threat in terms of infiltration or radicalisation through social media, then we are determined to quash these threats and we are sure that we will succeed."
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2022-05-01 10:41:01+00:00
🎥 A video shows the launch of a Russian high-precision Onyx missile, which destroyed a hangar at a military airfield near Odessa with weapons supplied to the Ukrainian forces by western countries, according to Russia's MoD.
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2022-05-01 10:19:34+00:00
⚡️🎥 "Soldiers were risking their life": a 74-year-old Mariupol resident tells how Russian servicemen saved children while Ukrainian forces were shooting.
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2022-05-01 10:14:21+00:00
⚡️🎥 A Mariupol resident speaks about how he lost his arm and how Ukrainian militants killed civilians who went to get water at a local reservoir.
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2022-05-01 09:54:00+00:00
🗣 PM Narendra Modi has said about his trip to Germany, Denmark and France: "My visit to Europe comes at a time when the region faces many challenges and choices."
In a statement, the Indian prime minister said he intends to strengthen the spirit of cooperation with India's European partners, "who are important companions in India's quest for peace and prosperity".
PM Modi is due to visit Berlin on 2 May, Copenhagen on 3 to 4 May, and Paris on his return to India
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2022-05-01 07:10:54+00:00
🎉 Vinay Mohan Kwatra has officially taken over as India's new foreign secretary. Kwatra is a diplomat with 32 years' experience and at present is India's Ambassador to Nepal. Previously he served in many of his country's missions at home and abroad.
Kwatra is stepping into the post vacated by Harsh Vardhan Shringla, who has been serving as Foreign Secretary for the past two years
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2022-05-01 05:53:22+00:00
💉 India’s National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation highly recommends getting Russia's single-dose Sputnik Light coronavirus vaccine shot as a precaution dose. This vaccine contains the same component of Sputnik V's first dose.
In February, India's Drugs Controller General approved Sputnik Light for adults
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2022-05-01 05:02:04+00:00
🦠 India has confirmed 3,324 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours