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01 Mar

Russia Bans Residents From Transferring Cash Abroad As Currency Crashes

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Russia on Monday banned all its residents from transferring cash abroad, the Kremlin was once noted as pronouncing by means of information corporation AFP. The measure is seen as part of an attempt to prop up the Russian economic system after the cost of the ruble plummeted due to sanctions imposed through a number of Western countries over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In a decree signed by using Putin, the exporters would be required to preserve at least 80 per cent of income in rubles, AFP reported. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated Russia plans to ride out sanctions imposed by…

28 Feb

India abstains from UNSC procedural vote to name for General Assembly session on Ukraine crisis

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India abstained from a procedural vote taken in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to name for a rare distinctive emergency session of the UN General Assembly on Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine, even as New Delhi welcomed Moscow and Kyiv’s selection to keep talks at the Belarus border. The resolution was once adopted with 11 votes in favour, paving the way for the General Assembly to meet on the crisis as quickly as Monday night (India time) or Tuesday morning. India, China and the UAE abstained, while Russia voted in opposition to the resolution. This will be only the 11th…

26 Feb

Soaring PM 2.5 pollution in Bangladesh a concern for Kolkata

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The PM 2.5 pollution in Bangladesh has reached disturbing tiers in the course of the pandemic, amid fears that the air pleasant in the neighbouring united states of america is worsening the air pleasant in Bengal. The degree of PM 2.5, the most poisonous ultrafine particulate, in Bangladesh is nearly seven times the restrict authorised by means of WHO, according to a latest survey carried out by using the Centre for Atmospheric Pollution Studies (CAPS), a unit of Stamford University Bangladesh. The PM 2.5 pollution degree was once observed to be maximum in Dhaka and neighbouring cities like Gazipur and…

26 Feb

Will 500-ton area station plummet over India? Russian area business enterprise chief pooh-poohs US sanctions

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Hours after US President Joe Biden announced sanctions in opposition to Russia for invading Ukraine in a huge army offensive and said that the Russian space program will degrade underneath new restrictions, Moscow has hit back. The Russian space agency, Roscomos, chief Dimitry Rogozin warned that if Washington blocks cooperation, "Who will shop the house station from an uncontrolled deorbit?" "If you block cooperation with us, who will shop the ISS from uncontrolled deorbiting and falling into the United States or Europe?" Rogozin stated in a sequence of tweets, adding that there is additionally the choice of dropping a 500-ton…

26 Feb

Chernobyl, site of world’s worst nuclear disaster, falls to Russian forces

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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 prepared to talk if Ukraine armed force ‘sets down arms’, says Lavrov

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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…

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

Sri Lanka finishes return of illicitly imported waste 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, UAE sign comprehensive trade pact

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India and the UAE on Friday inked a landmark Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and unveiled a roadmap for expansion of overall ties at a virtual summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. In his remarks, Modi delved into various facets of ties between India-and United Arab Emirates and said both the nations will stand "shoulder-to-shoulder" against terrorism while referring to the recent terrorist attacks in the Gulf country. On CEPA, Modi noted that both sides could conclude the negotiations on such an important agreement in less than three…

18 Feb

Satellite Pics Show New Military Bridge, Heavy Russian Troops Near Ukraine

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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…