MUMBAI: Indian driver Jehan Daruvala has set the second-fastest overall time at the Formula 2 pre-season test session in Bahrain. Driving for reigning champions Prema this year, the 23-year-old’s best time over the three days was one minute 42.074 seconds, which put him at the top of the time sheets on the opening day of […]
United Nations:Russia has informed the UN Security Council that Russian buses are ready at crossing points to go to the eastern Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv and Sumy to evacuate Indian students and other foreign nationals who are stranded there, amidst the raging conflict in the East European country. The 15-nation Council held an emergency session […]
New Delhi: envoy to Ukraine Partha Satpathy on Saturday said no stone will be left unturned for the safe evacuation of Indian students from the conflict-stricken eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy as he hailed the unparalleled strength and fortitude displayed by the young citizens in dealing with the adversities. Satpathy made the remarks in a […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi called another high-level meeting on Saturday evening to discuss the situation in war-hit Ukraine and India’s evacuation efforts to bring back its citizens, official sources said. Since Sunday, Modi has chaired a number of such meetings, as his government works to bring back Indian students who have been scrambling […]
New Delhi: India on Saturday said its main focus now is on the evacuation of around 700 Indian students stranded in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy which has been witnessing bombings and airstrikes. At a media briefing, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said India hopes to evacuate its citizens from Kharkiv and Pisochyn […]
Lviv (Ukraine): President Vladimir Putin warned Saturday that Russia would consider any third-party declaration of a no-fly zone over Ukraine as participation in the war there, while Ukrainian officials blamed Russian shelling for breaching a cease-fire arranged in two cities to evacuate civilians. The struggle to enforce the cease-fire in Mariupol, a strategic port in […]
Jammu: With a large number of Indian students getting caught in the war in Ukraine, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday called for reversing the trend of the youth going abroad for medical education by encouraging private players to provide affordable education within the country. Addressing an annual conference of the Indian Society of Nephrology […]
Jammu: The Border Security Force (BSF) opened fire at a suspected Pakistani drone along the International Border (IB) here on Saturday, officials said as a massive search operation was launched to ensure no weapons or narcotics were dropped by it. A BSF spokesperson said alert troops of the force fired at the suspected flying object […]
Srinagar: A box that inadvertently fell from a cyclist created a panic in a locality of downtown here on Saturday when people noticed it lying unattended on the road, triggering a scare among the general public, officials said here. Police team rushed to the spot and without wasting any time requisitioned a bomb disposal squad […]
Srinagar: A 27-year-old man, who had suffered severe burn injuries last month as he set himself on fire to stop an anti-encroachment drive by the irrigation and flood control department in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir, succumbed to injuries at a hospital here on Saturday, officials said. Amir Hamid Shah breathed his last at […]