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Kyiv: On Ukraine’s battlefields, the simple act of powering up a cellphone can beckon a rain of deathly skyfall. Artillery radar and remote controls for unmanned aerial vehicles may also invite fiery shrapnel showers. This is electronic warfare, a critical but largely invisible aspect of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Military commanders largely shun discussing it, […]
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By Alexander Gillespie There could be no better example of the United Nations’ failure to live up to its founding ideals than the recent visit by Secretary-General António Guterres to Russia. Attempting to calm the dangerous war in Ukraine, he obtained nothing of significance. No peace deal, no blue helmeted peacekeepers in the warzone keeping […]
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By B Yerram Raju Several economists, in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war and the rise in global inflation index, have been talking of recession. It is important to understand the meaning of recession. It occurs when there is a contraction of demand for goods and services consecutively for two quarters; employment falls precipitously; consumption […]
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Hyderabad: Current Affairs and General Knowledge play a very vital role in the preparation of all competitive exams. Simply collecting information about the various events happening around will not suffice. The bits and pieces of information gathered for the purpose of tackling the subject from the perspective of a competitive examination would require thorough analysis, […]
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Hyderabad: Notwithstanding the Centre’s regressive policies on agriculture, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao asked the authorities to take all measures to safeguard the interests of farmers in Telangana. He wanted them to encourage farmers to take up cultivation of alternative crops like cotton, chilli, red gram and water-melon as well as rationalise usage of fertilisers. […]
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By Dhananjay Tripathi The Russia-Ukraine war has stirred international politics, and we are slowly but surely entering into a new world order that will be multipolar where India’s role is critical. The recent visit of foreign dignitaries to New Delhi, including foreign ministers of China, Russia, and the UK, underlines the significance accorded to India […]
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Hyderabad: Industries Minister KT Rama Rao has accused the union Government of misleading the nation over rising fuel prices, citing Russia-Ukraine war, when the fact was that India imported less than one per cent crude oil from Russia. India imports majority of petroleum products from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, UAE and United States. While, there […]
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Mumbai: The Reserve Bank is likely to maintain status quo on interest rates in its forthcoming monetary policy review but may change the stance in view of retail inflation piercing its upper tolerance limit, global uncertainties created by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, and the urgency to protect and boost growth, feel experts. The RBI Governor-headed […]
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By Flavio Macau Russia’s first McDonald’s store in opened in 1990, just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was a potent symbol that the Cold War was ending and a great ideological wound healing. Now every McDonald’s in Russia is closed, as nations and corporations reduce, suspend or sever ties in response […]
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By Amitava Mukherjee While holding ‘Lenin and his associates’ responsible for the birth of Ukraine as a separate geographical identity, Vladimir Putin, the incumbent Russian President, has certainly failed to grasp the real message of history. Putin thinks that ‘Lenin and his associates did it in the sloppiest way in relation to Russia — by […]
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Accordingly, rising prices of crude oil along with other commodities triggered by the Russia-Ukraine war had kept a weak pressure on the rupee.
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Hyderabad: As many as 133 more Telugu students who were stranded in war-torn Ukraine returned home on Sunday. Of them, 105 students were from Telangana. They arrived in Delhi from various neighbouring countries of Ukraine. The students were brought to Telangana Bhavan in Delhi, where the state government officials made food and other arrangements […]
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Moscow: Russia has “practically” completed the “mission” of destroying Ukraine’s main military infrastructure, including weapon warehouses, ammunition depots, aviation and air defense systems, President Vladimir Putin said Saturday. “Russian forces will fulfill all their assigned tasks and the operation in Ukraine is proceeding in accordance with the plan and schedule,” Putin was quoted as saying […]
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New Delhi: The troubles of the students returning from Ukraine to India are not over yet. Most of the Indian students have returned to their homes safely, but their future now hangs in the balance. Among them, there are about 4,000 students who were in the final year of the MBBS course. There is no […]
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Kiev: In another video address to the nation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged the people of the country “to go on the offensive” as Russia has continued its war on Kiev. In the video posted on Facebook late Saturday night, the President said: “Every meter of our Ukrainian land won by protest and humiliation […]
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New Delhi: Since the beginning of Moscow’s war on Kiev, the Russian forces have lost more than 10,000 people, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has claimed. Also among the losses were 269 tanks, 945 armoured combat vehicles, 105 artillery systems, 50 MLRS, 19 air defense, 39 aircraft, 40 helicopters, UNIAN reported. […]
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Hyderabad: A total of 140 more Telangana students have returned from war-hit Ukraine on Thursday. These students have reached New Delhi by flights from Bucharest (Romania), Budapest (Hungary), Rzeszow (Poland), and Kosice (Slovakia). They had crossed over to these countries from the Ukrainian border to board the special flights to New Delhi. Later, they reached […]
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Hyderabad: Prices of cooking oil are on an upwards spiral and have gained up to Rs 25 more per litre. The trade segments attribute the increase in prices to the tightening supplies of sunflower and safflower oils, both called as sun oils, to the Russia-Ukraine war. Also, palm oil imports are getting costlier due to […]
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Russia’s war on Ukraine is now in its sixth day, with a miles-long convoy of Russian tanks and armored vehicles inching closer to the Ukrainian capital and fighting intensifying on the ground. Russia on Tuesday stepped up shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, pounding civilian targets there. Casualties mounted and reports emerged that more than […]
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Hyderabad: Amid the Russia-Ukraine war crisis, the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) has announced that it will be offering free bus services to the returning students from Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad to anywhere in the State. Ever since Ukraine shut its airspace after Russia’s aggression, scores of Indian students were stranded in […]
