The Jaipur Literature Festival 2022 is back with a bang in the Pink City this year. The festival this year will host an array of diverse speakers covering different angles of various issues including climate change, the pandemic and international diplomacy.
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India should harness young skills to lift Make in India mission: PM Modi
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that the country needs to leverage young talent and skilled manpower to promote the ‘Make in India’ initiative.
Delhi liquor vendors move high court over government order to drop booze discounts to curb rush
Several liquor vendors in the Indian capital have filed suit in the High Court challenging the excise department of the government of NCT of Delhi’s February 28 order which prohibited the issuance or grant of discounts/ rebate/concessions by the retail licensees on alcohol brands
Indian Embassy issues urgent advisory urging Indians to evacuate Kharkiv
Ukraine Russia war: The Indian Embassy in Ukraine has sent an urgent advisory asking all citizens in Kharkiv to evacuate immediately, as Russian action intensified in Ukraine’s second largest city.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s son Zain has passed away
Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Nadella and his wife Anu lost their son Zain on Monday morning. He was 26 years old and had been born with cerebral palsy.
Former NSE executive lands in CBI net
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested National Stock Exchange’s (NSE) former Group Operating Officer (GOO) Anand Subramanian. CBI probe him into a co-location scam and in connection with mails cited by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
Ukraine reclaims Kharkiv from Russian occupiers, claims regional governor
“The situation is very fluid and the Ukrainian troops fight back fiercely” said Maria Avdeeva, the Kharkiv-based research director at the European Expert Association.
Dance Doyenne Santha Bhaskar, Aunty Bhaskar to all, passes on at 82
Santha Bhaskar, one of the leading torch bearers of Indian classical dance in Singapore and co-founder of Bhaskar Arts Academy, passed away last night at the age of 82.
India announces new evacuation plans for citizens in Ukraine
The Indian Embassies in Budapest and Warsaw today said the government is looking for plans to evacuate stranded Indian nationals in Ukraine from Romania, Poland and Hungary, after Russia launched a full-scale attack (war) in Kyiv.
Indian PM Modi urges Russian President Putin to end violence in Ukraine, return to diplomacy
PM Narendra Modi in a call with Russian president Vladimir Putin appealed for an immediate end to the violence in Ukraine. The conversation came hours after Ukraine’s urgent appeal to India for intervention.
