Washington: There is a glaring carve-out in President Joe Biden’s sanctions against Russia: Oil and natural gas from that country will continue to flow freely to the rest of the world and money will keep flowing into Russia. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Biden defended his decision to preserve access to Russian energy in […]
New Delhi: By abstaining from a UN Security Council resolution on the Russian attack on Ukraine, India retained the option of reaching out to all relevant parties to find a middle ground and foster dialogue and diplomacy to defuse the crisis, official sources said on Saturday. Though India abstained from voting on the resolution, it […]
Beijing: China is the only friend that might help Russia blunt the impact of economic sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, but President Xi Jinping’s government is giving no sign it might be willing to risk its own access to US and European markets by doing too much. Even if Beijing wanted to, its ability […]
Kyiv: Russian troops pressed toward Ukraine’s capital Saturday after a night of explosions and street fighting sent Kyiv residents seeking shelter underground. The country’s leader refused an American offer to evacuate, insisting he would stay. The fight is here, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Ukrainian officials reported some success in fending off assaults. Skirmishes reported on […]
Banihal/Jammu: Fresh snowfall and multiple landslides at different places on Saturday forced the closure of the 270 km Jammu-Srinagar national highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, officials said. The Banihal-Qazigund sector of the highway experienced overnight snowfall while landslides and shooting of stones from the hillocks were triggered […]
Jammu: Around 500 officers were trained in special investigation skills during capacity-building programmes, Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh has said, asserting that the training would help in dealing with militancy cases and those of special nature. He was speaking at the three-day capacity-building training programme of the Jammu and Kashmir Police […]
Jammu: A large quantity of heroin was recovered on Saturday near the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district, officials said. The recovery was made by a joint party of police and Army from a forward village in Balakote sector, the officials said. They said the heroin was found packed in over a dozen polythene […]
NEW DELHI: With 11,499 people testing positive for coronavirus infection in a day, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,29,05,844, while the active cases further declined to 1,21,881, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The death toll climbed to 5,13,481 with 255 daily fatalities, the data updated at 8 […]
AHMEDABAD: Chief of Army Staff General M M Naravane on Saturday said as far as design and innovation in the fields of defence and aerospace is concerned, the future is “electric” and “miniaturisation. ” He said that in order to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels there is a need to use “electric-based things”, and […]
NEW DELHI: A candidate cannot be permitted to approach for the redressal of his grievance at any stage of time during a recruitment process, the Supreme Court has said. A bench of justices S K Kaul and M M Sundresh said there has to be a closure to the process of recruitment and that it […]