Indian photographer Saurabh Narang documents Ukrainian refugees in Germany and here’s what he learnt

Indian photographer Saurabh Narang documents Ukrainian refugees in Germany and here’s what he learnt

Ina and Anastasiia Reshetnyk (mother and daughter) fled the war in Kyiv. Ina is a doctor who was running her own practice with her husband in Kyiv, Ukraine. Anastasiia is a journalism student and is continuing her studies remotely. | Photo Credit: Saurabh Narang Portraits of Ukrainian refugees photographed by Germany-based Indian photographer Saurabh Narang […]

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Data | Parsing the inflation story of the past year

Data | Parsing the inflation story of the past year

Inflation: Pulses put on display for sale at wholesale grocery market Khari Baoli, Delhi | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The latest annual report released by the RBI highlights the factors and disruptors that heightened inflation levels worldwide. It also identifies the specific commodities that affected inflation across different components, like food, fuel and core […]

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Vladimir Putin says Russia will station tactical nukes in Belarus

Vladimir Putin says Russia will station tactical nukes in Belarus

Russian President Vladimir Putin. File | Photo Credit: AP Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans on March 25 to station tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, a warning to the West as it steps up military support for Ukraine. Mr. Putin said the move was triggered by Britain’s decision this past week to provide Ukraine […]

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Ukraine pushes for continued Russian Olympic exclusion

Ukraine pushes for continued Russian Olympic exclusion

Ukrainian refugees protest against any participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games before the visit of Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), to the Ruhr political forum in Essen, Germany, on March 22, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Ukraine renewed its push to keep Russian athletes out […]

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Russian missiles target cities across Ukraine, officials say

Russian missiles target cities across Ukraine, officials say

Rescuers work at a site of a residential building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike on March 4, 2023 in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia unleashed a massive missile barrage on cities across Ukraine early on Thursday, targeting energy infrastructure facilities, Ukrainian officials and media said. Air raid sirens wailed all […]

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Wagner chief says Ukraine’s Bakhmut ‘practically surrounded’

Wagner chief says Ukraine’s Bakhmut ‘practically surrounded’

This file video grab taken from a shooting by AFPTV shows an aerial view of smoke and destructions during fighting in the city of Bakhmut | File Photo | Photo Credit: AFP The head of Russian mercenary group Wagner said Friday the group had “practically encircled” Bakhmut, an industrial city in eastern Ukraine that has seen […]

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Kremlin, on China plan, says no conditions for peace ‘at the moment’ in Ukraine

Kremlin, on China plan, says no conditions for peace ‘at the moment’ in Ukraine

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov | File Photo | Photo Credit: AP The Kremlin on Monday acknowledged China’s proposal for a political solution in Ukraine but said the conditions for a peaceful resolution of the conflict were not in place “at the moment”. “We paid a lot of attention to our Chinese friends’ plan,” Kremlin spokesman […]

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Two dead in Russian drone attack in west Ukraine

Two dead in Russian drone attack in west Ukraine

Ukrainian servicemen use a searchlight as they search for drones in the sky over the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine February 27, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Russian attack with Iran-made drones early on Monday left two people dead and three more wounded in the western Ukraine city of Khmelnytskyi, the Mayor said. […]

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Morning Digest | EU approves 10th package of Russia sanctions; NDA has changed fate of northeast in past nine years, says PM Modi, and more 

Morning Digest | EU approves 10th package of Russia sanctions; NDA has changed fate of northeast in past nine years, says PM Modi, and more 

European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters, in Brussels, Belgium | Photo Credit: Reuters EU approves 10th package of Russia sanctions on anniversary of invasion The European Union, after hectic last-minute haggling, has approved a tenth package of Russia sanctions on the anniversary of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the Swedish EU Presidency said late on Friday. […]

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Language on Russia’s war in Ukraine splits G20

Language on Russia’s war in Ukraine splits G20

Finance heads of the world’s most powerful economies were split over language on Russia’s war in Ukraine with some western powers hardening their position on isolating Moscow while host India looked for more neutral terms to describe the conflict. The two-day meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors got underway here on Friday […]

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