Author: Atreyee Chakraborty

The student was shot while trying to escape Kyiv, Union Minister VK Singh informed new agency ANI  In the same week of an Indian student’s death in the midst of Russian shelling in Kharkiv in war-torn Ukraine, Union Minister VK Singh reports the death of an Indian student in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. The student was attempting to escape Kyiv. It was then that he was wounded, reported Singh. He is reported to have been taken back into Kyiv to be treated in a hospital.  General (Retd.) VK Singh informed reporters at ANI at the Rzeszow airport in Poland, “We have…

The phone call made between Foreign Ministers of both countries was the first high-level contact between Ukraine and China  China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba that China was “highly concerned” about civilian casualties in war-torn Ukraine. That China expresses deep concern This phone call was the first high-level contact between the nations ever since Russia invaded Ukraine. Until now, China had neither called the Russian attack an invasion nor condemned Russia’s actions. This phone call thus marks the most strong reaction from Beijing on the Russia-Ukraine crisis.  Both China and India had abstained from UN…

The four Union Ministers will leave for Kyiv tonight to assist in evacuation efforts in countries bordering Ukraine  India has responded to Ukraine’s request to send humanitarian aid, including medical supplies, to war-torn Ukraine. The government lays out the plan for determining the quantity of support to be sent. Teams from the Indian embassy are also set to leave for Kyiv tonight to help in the evacuation efforts of Ukrainian countries. The decision to send humanitarian aid to Ukraine was taken yesterday evening at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Four Union ministers, Hardeep Singh Puri, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kiren…

As of now, almost 2000 Indian students have been brought back by the Indian government to India from war-torn Ukraine  As thousands of Indian students remain stuck in war-torn Ukraine, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter to urge the Indian government to “share a detailed evacuation plan with those stranded and their families.” In the tweet, he wrote, “My heart goes out to the Indian students suffering such violence and their family watching these videos. No parent should go through this. GOI must urgently share the detailed evacuation plan with those stranded and their families. We can’t abandon our…

Russian missiles also blew up a gas pipeline in Kharkiv, Ukraine second-largest city As Ukraine and Russia entered their third day of conflict, the United Nations announced 240 casualties. CNN reported that Russia dropped two bombs on Ukraine on Sunday morning. As one detonation has been reported from an average of 20 kilometres from the city centre of Kyiv, the second detonation occurred in the southwestern part of Kyiv a little before 1 a.m.   Russian missile struck an oil terminal, setting it on fire in Vasylkiv, located southwest of Kyiv. The Kyiv Post tweeted pictures of huge flames rising from…

Ukraine is already in a state of emergency  President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky issued a nationwide martial law alleging Russia to be targeting the military infrastructure of Ukraine. In his brief video address on Facebook, Zelensky asked citizens to stay home and not panic.   In the video address, he informed the nation that Russia had launched a military operation against the state of Ukraine. He further said that Russia had deployed the special military operation in the Donbas region. Airstrikes are being conducted on the military infrastructure and border guards of Ukraine.   In a separate message posted on the president’s…

The Ukrainian envoy asks for help from Prime Minister Narendra Modi after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a military operation in Ukraine  Ukraine’s envoy contacted the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, urging the government of India to open a high-level dialogue between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the leaders of Ukraine (Ukrainian) and Russia to end the Ukraine-Russia crisis.  The Ukrainian envoy issued the request only minutes after a special military operation was deployed by Russian President Vladimir Putin into eastern Ukraine, with Donbas as its target. Russia has already made multiple airstrikes in multiple cities in Ukraine. The capital…

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been given Z-plus security during his release period  Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh gets his 21-day release on furlough from the Sunaria jail in Haryana’s Rohtak district. He has been serving his 20-year jail sentence here for raping two women who were his disciples at his ashram headquarters based in Sirsa.   A special CBI court in Panchkula had convicted him in August 2017. Last year, he was also convicted with four other people for being complicit in a conspiracy to kill Ranjit Singh, a manager at Dera, in 2002. Besides these charges, he was also convicted…

Cases have been registered after both candidates of BJP and Congress entered polling booths in the Ferozepur Urban constituency during polling hours  BJP candidate from the Ferozepur Urban constituency, Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi, was charged with two counts of poll violation, and his rival from the Congress fold, Parminder Singh Pinki, was charged with a single count of poll violation in his constituency.  Both candidates were charged for violating Section 188 (causing disorder on purpose, thereby inciting the danger of a riot) and Section 171-F of the IPC (Indian Penal Code) as they entered a polling booth surrounded by guards…

Voters predict the final electoral battle to play out between Channi and AAP’s Charanjit Singh Many voters of the Chamkaur Sahib constituency in Punjab express their expectations for a clear victory for Chief Minister hailing from the Congress party, Charanjit Singh Channi.   Surinder Singh, a farmer from Bela Garhi village, Expressed a conviction that Channi will win as he came out of the polling booth yesterday. Surinder Singh pointed out that this election will be a difficult one to predict since, according to him, “four members of the family do not know about each other’s vote.” Surinder Singh further pointed…