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Love wins over war: Delhi lawyer to marry Ukrainian girlfriend who flees Kiev, flies to India
Love transcends borders even in the time of war. This may sound like a cliche out of a romantic film's promo, but it did happen in the case of a Delhi High Court lawyer, Anubhav Bhasin, 33, who proposed to his Ukrainian girlfriend, Anna Horodetska, 29, as soon as she landed here, taking an agonisingly circuitous route from her home city Kiev.
Ukraine sets up 7 humanitarian corridors
At a media briefing, Vereshchuk on Thursday said 45 buses are set to evacuate civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol in Donetsk, adding that the evacuation will continue in towns and villages in the southern Zaporizhzhia and the central Kiev regions, Xinhua news agency reported.
Birbhoom Horror: Trinamool block president Anarul Hossain arrested
Three hours after Banerjee ordered the arrest of Trinamool block president for Rampurhat-1, Anarul Hossain, on camera while on a visit to the site of the mayhem, Hossain was taken into custody. In her statement at the site, Banerjee said, "The kin of the victims said that they had telephoned Anirul and asked him to send police to Bagtui, but he didn't."
'Doctoral thesis can't reveal bent of mind': Court on dismissing Umar Khalid's bail plea
His counsel contended that Khalid is a 34-year-old scholar and researcher, is innocent, and has not committed any crime. It was stated that his bent of mind can be assessed from the fact that he had done his doctoral thesis on "Contesting claims and contingencies of the rule on Adivasis of Jharkhand" and has several academic writings like on "Changing Village Authority in an Adivasi Hinterland: State, Community, and Contingencies of Rule in Singhbhum, 1830-1897".
Risk of a coup against Putin growing every week
The whistleblower has told Vladimir Osechkin, who is on Russia's most-wanted list for his work in exposing abuse in prisons, in letters that chaos and discontent have engulfed the security services after the botched invasion of Ukraine. A source within Russia's security service, the FSB, has said that agents are increasingly frustrated with Putin's handling of the war.
Russia, Iran developing alternative to SWIFT
SWIFT is a messaging network that financial institutions use to securely transmit information and instructions through a standardised system of codes. Both countries are facing severe Western sanctions, making settlements in trade through SWIFT difficult or impossible. "We are making efforts in this direction," Jalali told reporters, as quoted by RIA Novosti news agency, RT reported.
UK sanctions Wagner Group known as Putin's private armywo
The organisation is a group of mercenaries that was first identified in 2014 when it was backing pro-Russian separatists in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Since then, it has been involved in other regions too, including Syria, Mozambique, Sudan, and the Central Asian Republic. The paramilitary group has been described as Vladimir Putin's private army.
Many of Russia's senior military officials disappeared from public eye
"Currently, they (Russian officials) are trying to find out who is to blame for Russia entering into this risky venture (the war in Ukraine) without having any information about our country. Their government structures are currently implicated in assigning blame (for Russia's military failure in Ukraine). The FSS, Russia's principal security agency and successor to the USSR's KGB are pointing their finger at the military.
Ukraine claims Russia is preparing chemical attacks
"Russian channels tell their audience daily about mythical laboratories that allegedly create chemical weapons in Ukraine." "This is how the enemy 'grooms' the population of the Russian Federation regarding the use of chemical weapons by 'nationalists against the civilian population'. We emphasise that there are no such laboratories in Ukraine," the Council said, Ukrayinska Pravda reported.
Russia's Rosatom continues building N-plant for India
According to Rosatom, its machine building division Petrozavodskmash has started manufacturing guide vanes for the housings of reactor coolant pump sets (RCPS) intended for the fifth unit at Kudankulam. India's atomic power plant operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) has two 1,000 MW plants (Units 1 and 2) at Kudankulam, while four more (Units 3, 4, 5 and 6) are under construction.
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