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It is not easy to write about movies or books which bare one’s bottled-up horrors and agony. But then, that is the strength of Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s ‘The Kashmir Files’. It has made me, a displaced Kashmiri Pandit (Hindu), to own it, to call it my story. And that is no small feat.  For the […]

NEW DELHI: About 3,000 Indians were airlifted on Saturday by 15 special flight from Ukraine’s neighbouring countries under India’s evacuation drive Operation Ganga,  according to the press release issued by the Ministry of Civil Aviation. These 15 special flights included 12 special civilian and 3 Indian Air Force flights. Under Operation Ganga, over 13,700 Indians […]

Satellite imagery released by Planet Labs PBC via Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab showed plumes of smoke in Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv after Russia launched a rocket from Belgorod Oblast on February 27. Satellite images captured by the American public Earth imaging company displayed the indiscriminate Russian shelling on . The Atlantic Council’s […]

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s much hyped four day visit last month to Beijing on the sidelines of winter Olympics, turned out to be a complete disaster for the Pakistani establishment. At a time when the Pakistani economy is in complete doldrums and is desperately seeking a $3 billion bailout from China to keep its […]

NEW DELHI: The 193-member United Nations General Assembly went to a poll on Wednesday, demanding Russia to immediately stop its military operation in Ukraine. India and 34 other states abstained from voting. Five states however voted in favour of Russia. The vote also saw a sharp division among the neighbours of India to vote. Bangladesh, […]

NEW DELHI: Teradata, the US-based connected multi-cloud data platform for enterprise analytics, on Thursday announced its collaboration with Conneqt, India’s Digital IT and Business Process Management provider, to help companies accelerate their path towards digital transformation with advanced data management technology and analytics. Digital transformation enables organizations to rapidly innovate in an increasingly connected and […]

NEW DELHI: India, in coordination with the neighbouring states of war-torn Ukraine, has arranged 46 flights to ensure safe and quick evacuation of stranded Indians from Western Ukraine & neighbouring states. All the flights are scheduled till March 8. From the centre it is known 29 flights are scheduled from Bucharest, 10 flights from Budapest, […]

NEW DELHI: As Russia is thickening the columns of troops in besieged Ukraine, a slew of anxieties are emerging for India and other states across the world. Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday held a telephonic conversation with three concerned world leaders from Europe. Andrzej Duda, President of Poland; Emmanuel Macron, President of France and Charles […]

NEW DELHI: Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla today said no Indian is in Kyiv, the capital of besieged state Ukraine. So far the Indian government is concerned, all the Indian nationals have left Kyiv by now. But a huge crowd is said to be waiting in the western part of Ukraine. Indian authorities earlier […]

NEW DELHI: A 22-year-old Indian student lost his life in shelling in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, the Ministry of External Affairs confirmed today. The student, Naveen Shekharappa belonged to Chalageri (Haveri) in Karnataka. He had reportedly stepped out to buy foods when he got caught in the shelling. In a tweet MEA Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted, “with […]