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The sanction hit country, Russia, is offering India steep discounts on the direct sale of oil as mounting international pressure lowers the appetite for its barrels elsewhere following the invasion of Ukraine, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The sanctions-hit nation is offering its flagship Urals grade to
Kyiv: Russia escalated its bombardment of the Ukrainian capital and launched new assaults on the port city of Mariupol, making bloody advances on the ground as Ukraine’s president prepared Wednesday to make a direct appeal for more help in a rare speech by a foreign leader to the US Congress.
New Delhi: Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri returned from Hungary on Monday along with the last batch of 6711 stranded Indian students from Budapest after overseeing the ‘Operation Ganga’ launched by the government to bring back people from war-torn Ukraine. Puri reached Delhi on Monday along with the last batch
Paris: Thousands of internet users across Europe have been facing a massive internet outage, after what was likely a cyberattack at the beginning of Russia’s offensive in Ukraine, news agency reported. As per telecommunications operator Orange, nearly 9,000 subscribers of a satellite internet service provided by its subsidiary Nordnet in
New Delhi: IndiGo said it will operate 12 evacuation flights with over 2,600 Indians from war-torn Ukraine’s neighbouring countries between Friday and Sunday. India has been evacuating its citizens through special flights from Ukraine’s western neighbours such as Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland as the Ukrainian airspace has been shut
Moscow: Facebook and multiple media websites were partially inaccessible in Russia on Friday, as authorities crack down on critical voices and fighting rages in Ukraine. AFP journalists in Moscow were not able to access Facebook, as well as the sites of media outlets Meduza, Deutsche Welle, RFE-RL and the BBC’s
Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Thursday has passed a resolution calling on Russia to ‘immediately cease actions’ at Ukraine nuclear sites. The resolution at the board of the governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also “deplores the Russian Federation’s actions in Ukraine, including forcefully seizing control
New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) has avoided the Pakistan airspace to bring back stranded Indian nationals from countries bordering Ukraine under ‘operation Ganga’ while the war entered eighth day. The IAF till Thursday brought 798 citizens from Hungary, Poland and Romania. The force had sent four C-17 transport
New Delhi: Hours after Russia claimed that the Indian students have been taken hostage by Ukrainian security forces, the Indian government on Thursday denied reports of Indian students being held as “hostages” in Ukraine, stating that it was in constant touch with Indian nationals in the war-torn country. “Our Embassy
New Delhi: Amid the ongoing evacuation process of Indians stuck in Ukraine, the Russian Defence Ministry claimed that its neighbouring country has kept a large group of Indian students as ‘hostages’ in Kharkiv. The claim comes soon after PM Modi spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin and discussed the ongoing
