Explosion kills two in Poland near Ukraine border

Explosion kills two in Poland near Ukraine border

Russia pounded Ukraine’s energy facilities on November 15 with its biggest barrage of missiles yet, striking targets across the country and causing widespread blackouts. A senior U.S. intelligence official said missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, where two people were killed. A second person confirmed to AP that apparent Russian missiles struck a site in […]

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Russia ready to welcome Indian medical students who left Ukraine: Official

Russia ready to welcome Indian medical students who left Ukraine: Official

Indian students who returned from Ukraine mid-degree can now complete their education in Russia instead, Russian Consul General Oleg Avdeev said today. Thousands of students who were pursuing medical courses in Ukraine had to defer their medical education and return to India when the Russia-Ukraine war started early this year. While some returned to Ukraine […]

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Ukraine-returned medical students: ‘It’s ok, not all dreams come true’

Ukraine-returned medical students: ‘It’s ok, not all dreams come true’

They wanted to become doctors, surgeons and super-specialists. They had dreamt of saving lives, of sitting in air-conditioned cabins with their degrees hanging on the wall. There’s very little left of these dreams and hopes now. The war in Ukraine, now in its eighth month, not only forced Indian students studying medicine there to return […]

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No provision in law to accommodate Ukraine-returned medical students for practical training: Health Ministry

No provision in law to accommodate Ukraine-returned medical students for practical training: Health Ministry

Two months after the Mamta government allocated seats for practical training to 412 medical students who had returned from Ukraine to West Bengal, the union minister of state for health and family welfare Dr Bharti Pravin Pawar said in a Lok Sabha answer said that there were no provisions in the acts governing medical education […]

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Russia-Ukraine live updates | Human cost of Severodonetsk fight ‘terrifying’, says Zelensky

Russia-Ukraine live updates | Human cost of Severodonetsk fight ‘terrifying’, says Zelensky

Ukraine said on June 13 that its forces had been pushed back from the centre of key industrial city Severodonetsk, where President Volodymyr Zelensky described a fight for “literally every metre”. The cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, which are separated by a river, have been targeted for weeks as the last areas still under Ukrainian […]

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Morning Digest | PM Modi to visit Tokyo for Quad summit next week; China’s Pangong bridge construction is in occupied territory, says India, and more

Morning Digest | PM Modi to visit Tokyo for Quad summit next week; China’s Pangong bridge construction is in occupied territory, says India, and more

PM Modi to fly to Japan for Quad summit next week Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Tokyo for his second in-person Quad summit on Tuesday, where he will also hold bilateral talks with U.S. President Joseph Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, the Ministry of External Affairs […]

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