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26 Feb

Chernobyl, Where The Worst Nuclear Disaster In History Took Place Is Now In Russian Control

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The Chernobyl nuclear energy plant has been captured by means of Russian forces, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office, Mykhailo Podolyak, stated on Thursday. "It is impossible to say the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is protected after a totally pointless assault by using the Russians," he said. "This is one of the most serious threats in Europe today," Podolyak said.This comes hours after Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces had been making an attempt to catch the Chernobyl nuclear plant. “Our defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated,” Zelenskyy stated…

25 Feb

Russia-Ukraine emergency: Russia prepared to talk if Ukraine armed force ‘sets down arms’

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday Moscow was prepared for talks if Ukraine's army surrendered, as he insisted that invading forces had been looking to free the U.S.A from "oppression". Russian President Vladimir Putin "took the selection to conduct a exceptional navy operation to demilitarise and de-Nazify Ukraine so that, freed from oppression, Ukrainians themselves may want to freely determine their future", Lavrov stated at a press conference in Moscow. The comment recommended that Moscow intends to overthrow the Ukrainian authorities with its invasion. Lavrov said Moscow was geared up for talks with Kyiv if the Ukrainian military surrenders.…

25 Feb

’30 Hours In Metro Station, Bombs Falling’: Indian Student In Ukraine

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Videos of Indian college students in Ukraine amid the Russian invasion show them asking for help to return home. Some students have no longer left their apartments, while others have moved to underground metro rail stations that ought to serve as bomb shelters. Some 16,000 Indians are in Ukraine, most of them students.In one such video, an Indian student is heard soliciting for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to make swift arrangements to evacuate Indians. The student, Manish Jaiswal, is reading medication in Ukraine and is from UP's Ballia. "We sense helpless. Three-four bombs…

22 Feb

Biowaste, body parts from funeral homes: Sri Lanka returns 3,000 tons of trash to UK.

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Sri Lanka delivered out to Britain on Monday the remainder of a few hundred compartments loaded up with huge number of huge loads of illicitly imported waste, authorities said. A few Asian nations have lately been standing up against an assault of deny from more affluent countries and have begun turning around undesirable shipments. The loss from Britain showed up in Sri Lanka somewhere in the range of 2017 and 2019 and was recorded as "utilized sleeping cushions, floor coverings and mats". Yet, in actuality it additionally contained biowaste from medical clinics, including body parts from funeral homes, as indicated…

19 Feb

India signs free trade agreement with UAE

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India and the UAE on Friday inked a milestone Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and uncovered a guide for extension of by and large ties at a virtual summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheik Mohammed canister Zayed Al Nahyan. In his comments, Modi dove into different features of ties among India and the United Arab Emirates and said both the countries will stand "side by side" against psychological warfare while alluding to the new fear-monger assaults in the Gulf country. On CEPA, Modi noticed that the two sides could close the arrangements on…

18 Feb

Singapore PM invokes Jawaharlal Nehru in Parliament to argue how democracy should work

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Discussing how a democracy should work in Singapore, the country's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, on Tuesday, 15 February, during a Parliamentary session, invoked Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. Starting with what actions the parliament should debate on, having received the report of the Committee of Privileges (CoP) on complaints about untruths spoken by the previous lawmaker of the Workers' Party Raeesah Khan, he put forth three fundamental questions to discuss. Delivering a speech in Singapore’s Parliament on February 15 on a report by the Committee of Privileges, which was looking into charges of lying by members of the…

18 Feb

Russia’s military builds bridge in Belarus near Ukraine border, satellite images reveal

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The Russian Army has begun building a tactical bridge and a new road across the important Pripyat River in southern Belarus. Commercial satellite images uploaded on social media on February 16 claimed to show a military-style pontoon bridge at the Pripyat River, just 4 miles from the Ukrainian border and 14 miles northwest of the number 4 nuclear reactor, which notoriously melted down in the 1986 Chernobyl accident. "There's what Russia says. And then there's what Russia does. And we haven't seen any pullback of its forces," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview. "We continue to…

17 Feb

Hundreds of Indian Students in crisis-hit Ukraine

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20,000+ Indians are presently in Ukraine out of which 18,000 are students. Ukraine to India flights have become costlier and are only available after 20th February. The latest updates are as following:- According to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 24% of overseas students in Ukraine are from India.Around 25 students from Indore, Madhya Pradesh are stuck in Ukraine. The MP of Indore's Lok Sabha Shankar Lalwani said, “He has written a letter to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.”Around 1,000 students from Rajasthan are in Ukraine out of which 40 students are from Kota. Bundi's Congress leader Charmnesh…

16 Feb

Volkswagen’s mid-size sedan will have its global unveil on March 8, 2022

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Volkswagen announced that its upcoming mid-size sedan will have its global premiere on 8th March for the Indian car market. There is much action that is happening in the mid-size sedan space with the Volkswagen offering, likely to be called Virtus, closely following on the heels of the Skoda Slavia that will also launched in March. In the past several months it is spotted on test runs across the country. The Volkswagen sedan is based on the MQB A0 IN platform which also underpins the Taigun SUV that was launched in the previous year. After the launched the sedan will…

15 Feb

Russia says some troops pulling back from Ukraine border

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Moscow is starting to return some troops at the Ukrainian border to their bases, the Russian government announced Tuesday — but Ukraine's president and Western officials have urged caution over taking Russia's claims at face value. In a statement early Tuesday, Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, said troops that had recently been posted to Russia's southern and western military districts — which share a border with Ukraine — had completed their military drills and "have already begun loading onto rail and road transport and will begin moving to their military garrisons today." It came amid…