Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed a Russian non-nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile strike, calling it a strategic message to Ukraine, NATO, and the US. He claimed that Putin views Ukraine as a training ground and fears normalcy and dignity. Zelenskyy accused Putin of disregarding human dignity, freedom, and life, while seeking weapons in Iran and North … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File image. | Photo Credit: Reuters Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive Moscow on July 8 to a particularly warm and special welcome at a private dinner hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin at his Dacha or estate in the Moscow suburb of Novo-Ogaryovo. The meeting … Read more
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, shakes hand with Chinese Premier Li Qiang upon his arrival at Bharat Mandapam convention centre for the G20 Summit in New Delhi, India, on Sept. 9, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP G-20 Summit | China backs New Delhi Declaration’s focus away from ‘geopolitics’ China, which had strongly opposed in … Read more
Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Russian private mercenary group Wagner. | Photo Credit: Reuters With moon now in India’s orbit, focus shifts to Pragyan rover With Vikram, the lander module of Chandrayaan-3, successfully landing on the surface of moon on Wednesday, the focus has now moved to the rover in its belly, Pragyan. Years of … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin greets 8-year-old Raisat Akipova, from Derbent, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on July 4, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted an eight-year-old girl in the Kremlin on July 4 and got her to join him in a bizarre phone call to his Finance Minister to ask … Read more
New Delhi: Cybersecurity company CloudSEK’s AI digital-risk platform XVigil on Wednesday detected a Russian-origin threat-actor group that claimed to have targeted the Indian health ministry’s health-management information system. Access to the personnel directory and chief physicians of every Indian hospital is likely to have been jeopardised. This raises the prospect of exfiltration of licence documents … Read more
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Ukraine imposed sanctions against 182 Russian and Belarusian companies, and three individuals, in the latest of a series of steps by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to block Moscow’s and Minsk’s connections to his country. “Their assets in Ukraine are blocked, their properties will be used for our … Read more
Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile launching system. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: AFP In what could possibly have an impact on Russian arms supplies to India as the war in Ukraine drags on, Western sanctions on Moscow are impacting payments to Russian defence companies as well as reducing their access to semiconductors, according to the … Read more
March 23, 2022 — The numbers can be daunting: 3.5 million Ukrainians have fled to other countries since the war with Russia began a month ago. Another 6 million have had to flee their homes, according to figures from the International Organization for Migration. That is in addition to the 12 million Ukrainians now living … Read more
March 16, 2022 — As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth week, the World Health Organization reports that 43 hospitals, clinics, and ambulances have been bombed inside the country thus far. “We have never seen globally this rate of attacks on health care. Health is becoming a target in these situations. It’s … Read more