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20 Mar

Russia reports it used hypersonic missiles in Ukraine for first time

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Russia used its most modern Kinzhal hypersonic missiles for the first time in Ukraine on Friday to break a weapons storage website in the country's west, the Defense Ministry said. Russia has in no way before admitted using the high-precision weapon in combat, and nation news agency RIA Novosti stated it was once the first use of the Kinzhal hypersonic weapons throughout the combat in pro-Western Ukraine. "The Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a giant underground warehouse containing missiles and aviation ammunition in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region," the Russian Defense Ministry said…

15 Mar

SRK’s video on ‘Futility of War’ goes viral in between the Russia-Ukraine crisis

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In the middle of destruction and horrors of the Russia-Ukraine war, an old video of Shah Rukh Khan is going viral on the internet in which he was seen talking about the futility of the war. It was an old video where he claims "War is not an alternative to peace and goodness" and how only the people who die see the end of it. View this post on Instagram A post shared by SRK 1000 FACES (@srk1000faces) Reacting to the video, many users appreciated SRK for his words and said that everyone should listen to him. One said, "One of…

12 Mar

Mosque in Mariupol city, lodging 80 individuals, bombarded by Russia: Ukraine Minister

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A mosque in Ukraine's Mariupol - which was once sheltering 80 civilians - has been bombed by means of Russian forces, Ukrainian officers stated Saturday. The war-torn japanese European country's foreign ministry tweeted 'the mosque of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his spouse Roxolana (Hurrem Sultan) in Mariupol was shelled by using Russian invaders'. "More than eighty adults and teens are hiding there from the shelling, along with residents of Turkey," the tweet said. Earlier these days a spokesperson for the Ukrainian embassy in Turkey, citing data from the Mariupol mayor, said 86 Turkish nationals, which includes 34 children, have…

11 Mar

Air India flight carrying students evacuated from Sumy lands in Delhi

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An Air India flight from Poland's Rzeszow carrying students evacuated from northeastern Ukrainian city Sumy landed in Delhi this Friday morning. The flight had taken off from Rzeszow around 11.30 pm on Thursday and landed in Delhi at 5.45 am on Friday. India has sent three flights to Poland to bring back 600 students evacuated from Sumy. According to the officials, another flight is expected to land in Delhi around 8.40 am. According to the details shared by the students, the first flight was for first, second, and third-year students. The second flight is for fourth and fifth-year students and…

10 Mar

Over 2 million from Ukraine applied for evacuation to Russia

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Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday claimed that over 2 million people from Ukraine had applied for evacuation to Russia. Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, alleged that US experts instructed Ukrainian specialists how to develop bioprograms, during a press conference on the country adding Russia is wondering if these biomaterials have fallen into the hands of nationalists. Maria Zakharova also said that Russia would prefer to ensure Ukraine's neutral status. Moscow's aims do not include overthrowing the Kyiv government and it hopes to achieve more progress in the next round of talks with Ukraine, Zakharova added that Russia's military operation…

09 Mar

Russia lodges appeal against FIFA, UEFA bans

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On Tuesday, the Russian soccer federation appealed to have its FIFA and UEFA bans frozen and other punishments. Russian teams were driven out from the competition on 28th February,until further notice following the country's invasion of Ukraine. FIFA and UEFA did not specify their legal reasons for this. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said it hoped to decide on the appeals in the future. Russia's men's national team was scheduled to play Poland on March 24 in a World Cup qualifying playoff. Poland has refused to play opponent Russia in the match. The winner of that match would have…

08 Mar

Operation Ganga: 694 Indian understudies moved out of Sumy in transports towards Poltava

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Nearly seven-hundred Indian students stranded in the northeastern Ukrainian metropolis of Sumy heaved a sigh of relief as their evacuation process began on Tuesday and hoped that they would be in a secure area soon. "The evacuation from Sumy has started. There was once in the end some top news on Tuesday. All Indian students will be evacuated from Sumy on Tuesday itself. They will be taken to a secure location from where they will be brought to India," said Anshad Ali, a student coordinator. A medical student at the Sumy university, who did not want to be identified, proven…

07 Mar

Russian oil companies are offer big discounts to India

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Once again the flagship crude of Russia was offered at deeper discount in Europe amid tensions over Ukraine. Vitol Group offered 1 lakh tons of the nation’s Urals oil for delivery to Rotterdam at $7.25 a barrel less than Europe’s benchmark for physical cargo transactions Dated Brent. There were no bids in a window organized by S&P Global Platts. The grade had already been sold in a tender at $6 below the same measure and offered at minus $6.30. It is the largest discount in 11 years at least. Before the escalations this week, Traders flagged that the discounting wasn’t…

05 Mar

Indian Student In Ukraine Allowed To Return With His Pet

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A student from Kerala stuck in Ukraine earned lots of praises for his struggle to return with his pet, who will finally land in India soon. It was a great challenge for the 21-year-old boy named Akhil Radhakrishnan to not only make sure that his life was safe from the war-hit Ukraine where he has been studying in Kharkiv National Medical University since last two years but also to ensure that his pet also reaches India safely. The pet was a cat, who was handed over to Akhil by his senior in college four months ago and since then the…

04 Mar

Sonu Sood and team steps forward in helping Indian students cross border to safe territory

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A Congress leader shared a video visualizing a woman from Madhya Pradesh who was a stuck in Ukraine singing the praises of Bollywood actor Sonu Sood for helping. Ajay Singh, a state Congress leader, tweeted this video. “Hello, I am Shrishti Singh. We boarded a train. Sonu Sood's team has helped us. It guided us at every moment. Look how many students are sitting around -- all are Indians," the woman said. "The train is packed with Indians. Sonu Sood is guiding us every moment. He worked day in and day out," the woman added. The woman's praise for the…