Air India, which is owned by the Tata Group, has halted its flight from Delhi to Moscow after international insurance underwriters informed the airline that its flights landing in Russia would not be covered by insurance due to the perceived threat there as a result of the war. “Air India Continue Reading
Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom (similar to India’s Finance Minister), was grilled on Thursday about Infosys, the major Indian software firm in which his wife, Akshata Murty, has a stake. A Sky News reporter asked Rishi Sunak, the son-in-law of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy, if his advice to businesses […]Continue Reading
India, along with 12 other UN Security Council members, voted no on a Russian-sponsored resolution on Ukraine’s humanitarian crisis. Syria, North Korea, and Belarus all signed on to Russia’s draught resolution. It failed to pass the Council on Wednesday because it lacked the necessary nine yes votes to pass. The resolution was supported by Russia […]Continue Reading
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says it has completely lost contact with the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the agency had not received any information from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant for the past week. Although not currently operational, Vera received security information a week […]Continue Reading
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday, expressing “deep concern” for the safety and security of Indian students still in Ukraine, and seeking their support for the safe and prompt evacuation of Indians from the city of Sumy in north-east Ukraine, according to official Continue Reading
A doctor from India is stranded in war-torn Ukraine, holed up in a basement with his two pet big cats, a panther, and a leopard. Dr. Girikumar Patil lives in a bunker beneath his home in Severodonetsk, Donbas. Separatists control the region, and the situation is rapidly deteriorating. Dr. Patil, on the other hand, is […]Continue Reading
An Indian man in Ukraine has refused to be returned under Operation Ganga after being told that his pregnant wife, who is not a citizen, cannot be evacuated from the war-torn country. Gagan, who fled the violence in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, told ANI that he couldn’t leave his family and his eight-month-pregnant wife in Ukraine. […]Continue Reading
The family of Harjot Singh, an Indian student who was shot in Ukraine, said they had contacted the Indian embassy two days ago after learning of their son’s shooting but had not received any help. The family said they were concerned about their son’s safety and would take steps to bring him back immediately. “Harjot […]Continue Reading
The Russian Embassy in India has announced that the Russian military is ready to take all necessary steps to safely evacuate Indian citizens from Ukraine. The embassy said in a tweet that it would repatriate them from Russia with its own military and transport planes or Indian planes, as proposed by India. Earlier, Indian Prime […]Continue Reading