BBC News:- “There was water everywhere, but not a single drop to drink.” That is how Ronju Chowdhary described the scene outside her house on Saturday. She lives in Udiana, a remote village in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, which has been hit by severe floods. It had been raining incessantly, she remembers. The […]
Reuters: – The Kremlin on Monday called Lithuania’s decision to ban the transit of some goods to Russia’s Kaliningrad region “unprecedented” and vowed to respond. Lithuanian authorities banned the transit of goods which are sanctioned by the European Union across its territory, which includes the only rail route between mainland Russia and the Kaliningrad exclave […]
BBC News:- Footage from China’s state broadcaster, CCTV, has emerged showing a tornado striking the southern Chinese city of Foshan. Buildings, cars and local infrastructure has been damaged. Onlookers filmed the weather event as it ripped the roof off a building and tore through power cables.
India Today:- The Delhi-Gurugram Expressway on Monday saw heavy traffic jams following a call for Bharat Bandh against the military recruitment scheme- Agnipath- by some organisations. A massive jam was seen on the expressway near the Sarhaul border as Delhi Police checked vehicles. The organisations have demanded a rollback of the scheme. Opposition parties, including […]
India Today:- A day after the Patna-Delhi SpiceJet plane with around 185 passengers on board made an emergency landing in Patna after its wing caught fire, SpiceJet Chief of Flight Operations also known as the Head of Pilots appealed to all passengers to ‘be proud of its pilots and have faith in them’ as they […]
BBC News:- Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned Russia will intensify its attacks on his country in the coming days, as Kyiv awaits news on its bid to join the EU. Members of the bloc are expected to decide whether to award “candidate status” to Kyiv later this week. The move would begin the process […]
BBC News:- Russia has become China’s biggest supplier of oil as the country sold discounted crude to Beijing amid sanctions over the Ukraine war. This comes in the wake of a February meeting where the two countries said their friendship had “no limits”. Encouraged by lower prices, Chinese firms have ramped up purchases of Russian […]
BBC News:- At least 20 civilians have been killed in attacks blamed on jihadist fighters in northern Mali, a regional official there says. The violence on Saturday was near the city of Gao. The official told the French news agency that the situation was very worrying with many civilians fleeing as the Islamist militants carried […]
BBC News:- Many people have reportedly been killed in western Ethiopia following an outbreak of ethnic violence. Eyewitnesses in Gimbi district in the Oromia region say the rebel Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) attacked remote villages where ethnic Amharas live. They say homes were set ablaze during the violence on Saturday. The regional government also blames […]
ABC News:- The European Union’s executive arm recommended putting Ukraine on a path to membership Friday, a symbolic boost for a country fending off a Russian onslaught that is killing civilians, flattening cities and threatening its very survival. In another show of Western support, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in […]
