Author: Nehal Sharma

British-Iranian national, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoush Ashoori boarded the flight for UK as Iran releases both the nationals after enduring years behind bars. Iran government has released the 2 British-Iranian nationals yesterday after a long imprisonment. Additionally, Iran has also released a 3rd prisoner, Morad Tahbaz who is a British-American-Iranian national along with them. Nazanin and Anoush were detained by Iran on the grounds of espionage. Nazanin was arrested at the Tehran airport in April 2016. Later, Iranian court sentenced her for planning to oust the government. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was a project manager at the Thomson Reuters Foundation since 2011. In…

Aam Aadmi Party’s Bhagwant Singh Mann took the oath as the new Chief Minister of Punjab yesterday in Khatkar Kalan. Bhagwant Singh Mann, the 48 year politician and a former comedian by profession assumed office as Punjab’s 18th Chief Minister at the state Civil Secretariat in Chandigarh. Mann swore-in for the post yesterday from the ancestral village of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Khatkar Kalan. Along with Mann, the party members and supporters of AAP attended the ceremony in ‘Basanti’ turbans and dupattas. Yellow turbans symbolise the colour of Freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. The ‘Pandal’ was set up in front of the…

India’s Petroleum Minister, Hardeep Singh Puri announced in the parliament that India is in dialogue with Moscow to increase the oil imports from India. The government of India, makes an effort to keep a check on the spiralling prices of oil in India. Further, the decision comes as India plans on maintaining the relationship with its long-time ally, Russia. India and Russia share good relations since the time China attacked India and Moscow helped New Delhi by supplying the arms it needed. Since then, Russia is the biggest supplier of weapons to India. Cabinet Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that…

US lawmakers refuse to back the Iran Nuclear Deal, but lack the majority to block all the agreements with Tehran sought by Joe Biden. The US senate has decided that they will not back another new Nuclear Deal between Iran and the World Powers. 49 of the total 50 republican members in the US senate, vote their disagreement regarding the attempts to revive the 2015 Nuclear Deal with Iran. The current president Joe Biden’s administration is striving since last 11 months in Vienna to restore the Iranian Nuclear Deal ruptured by the Trump’s government. These negotiations halted recently when Russia…

Day 18 of the Russian-Ukraine war witnessed a barbaric attack on a military training base in the western city of Yavoriv, Ukraine The following are the significant events that occurred during the Russian-Ukraine War up to Sunday, March 13.  Military base in Western Ukraine bombarded by the Russian forces US filmmaker shot dead by Russians in Irpin, Ukraine Zelenskyy’s warning to all the supporters of the invasion Russian approaching closer to Kyiv  Shortage of food supply in Mariupol and Kyiv (Video Source: Aljazeera) Also, the capital city Kyiv is surrounded by the Russian military where it is difficult…

Russian troops advancing in the entire Ukraine attack the cities of Dnipro, Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk for the first time since invasion. While Russia and Ukraine enter the 16th day of war, Russia is still trying to cut Ukraine’s capital Kyiv from the rest of the world. The continuous efforts of Russian army has destroyed major cities of Ukraine including Mariupol, Kharkiv, and Bucha. Ukraine’s 2nd largest city Kharkiv is ruined. Civilians are desperately trying to leave the country, but most importantly the war-struck areas. About 2.5 million people are stranded because of the attack. The estimate is supposedly higher. The…

All the major nations around the world and the EU are imposing new sanctions on Russia. Such severe sanctions have resulted in crippling the Russian economy. An international consortium of world leaders is continuously imposing huge sanctions on Russia. The major objective is to control the offenses of Russia on Ukraine. NATO, EU, and G7 leaders are striking sanctions on Crimea and Belarus along with Russia. All the nations are also summoning individuals, businesses, and officials from Russia. In retaliation, Russia has imposed a complete ban on food imports from Australia, Canada, Norway, Japan, United States, and the European Union.…

Former BJP minister, Swami Prasad Maurya, who allied with Samajwadi Party right before the election lost his seat to BJP’s Surendra Kumar Kushwaha in Fazilnagar assembly constituency in the Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party’s leader Swami Prasad Maurya, who is also a former Uttar Pradesh Minister in the Yogi Adityanath’s government has lost from the Fazilnagar constituency. It is interesting to note that Swami Prasad switched to the Samajwadi Party along with 4 other MLAs a month before the elections began in UP. Fazilnagar constituency contested polling in the last phase of elections on March 3. It is…

Aam Aadmi Party has won the Punjab Elections by a major landslide. AAP’s Bhagwant Singh Mann is chosen to be the next Chief Ministerial face for Punjab. In Punjab elections, Aam Aadmi Party has won by a massive strength on 92 seats. While INC won on merely 18 seats, Akali Dal on 3, and BJP on just 2 seats. Major powerful leaders of Punjab like Charanjit Singh Channi, Navjot Singh Siddhu, and Captain Amrinder Singh have lost from their strong held constituencies. All the ministers accepted their defeat and congratulated Mann. Congratulating his successor, Channi tweeted, “I humbly accept the…

Ukraine alleges Russia of violating the grounds of ceasefire to prevent hundreds and thousands of Ukrainians from evacuating. Russian military disrupted the evacuation processes from cities like Bucha, Mariupol and Gostomel.  Russia and Ukraine have entered the 14th day of war. Following a long human atrocity, both the countries agreed to halt the attack to evacuate the civilians and provide help and support to the needed. Moscow agreed for the Ukrainian government to use the Humanitarian Corridors to evacuate their citizens. However, Ukraine is repeatedly accusing Russia of violating the ceasefire norms accepted willingly by both nations.  On March 9,…