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Russia-Ukraine Crisis : The Death Toll of Civilians continues To Rise

Our CorrespondentFebruary 28, 20220

There are no formal diplomatic relations between Russia and Ukraine since 24 February 2022. The Russian Federation and Ukraine are currently at war. The Russo-Ukrainian War began in 2014 after the Russian annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine on a broad front. Thousands of Ukrainians have fled the country since Russia's attack on Thursday. The United Nations has warned that violence could spark a wave of 5 million refugees fleeing to neighboring countries. Videos and photos on social media show an increase in pedestrian numbers near the southern and western borders, along lines of cars heading west and out of cities.     1.5 million Ukrainians were living in Poland even before the Russian invasion. People across the country...

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Ukraine Agrees To Talk Peace With Russia At Belarus Border Amid “Deterrence Forces” Alert

Sonia SolankiFebruary 28, 20220

Amid the Russia-Ukraine war, Ukraine nodded to a talk with Russia at Belarus Border. The news poured in just after the telephonic conversation took place between the Presidents of Ukraine and Russia Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin. Russian President Putin announced, "I order the defence minister and the chief of the general staff of the Russian Armed Forces to put the deterrence forces of the Russian army into a special mode of combat service." Before this, Ukraine denied any possible talks with Russia in Belarus. The country was looking forward to holding a meeting in Bratislava, Budapest, Istanbul and Baku locations instead. Ukraine-Russia Talk For Peace Is Need Of Hour There are no two ways about the fact that an exchange of serious dialogue can help in reaching a dec...

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No Democracy: Myanmar Military Aims Solely At Ethnic Cleansing

Monomita NagFebruary 28, 20220

The military coup in February 2021 shattered the hopes for democracy and again brought Myanmar under military rule. Throughout its prolonged independence, the country never had any type of democratic reform. On the contrary, the country had to face military rule, civil war and acute poverty. Good governance could not be the priority of whoever ruled the country. In the wake of military's proxy party suffering a huge blow in the 2020 election it staged a coup in Feb 2021. The military took into custody the civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. This resulted in widespread protests. People took to the street. People from all walks of life started staging massive protests peacefully, demanding the release of their elected leader and allowing her to come to power. But brutal military crackdown f...

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China Aims At Annexing Taiwan Taking Cue From Russia

Monomita NagFebruary 28, 20220

China has called Taiwan a renegade province. The island is separated from China by the Taiwan Strait. It has a population of around 23 million with its democratically elected govt. Since the election of Tsai Ing-wen in 2016 as the President of Taiwan, tension with mainland China has escalated. However, Tsai has outrightly rejected any increased tie with China as it was formulated by her predecessor Ma Ying-jeou. But China considers Taiwan as a part of the mainland and therefore refuses to accept it as an independent country. Of late, China has become aggressive towards the country. Experts fear that it may take steps to unify the island by means of military action, thus drawing the US into war with China. China asserts in one-China principle and does not believe in the existen...

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Crippling Impact Of Russian Invasion To Be Felt In India; Check Out Reasons

Monomita NagFebruary 28, 20220

The Russia-Ukraine crisis will dent India's household budget. The first day of the conflict has already skyrocketed the fuel price. It will come as a setback to Indian consumers as Putin's military action will end the short respite in local fuel prices. It needs to be mentioned here that there has not been any hike in fuel prices since November.4 World diplomacy has failed to deter Putin from his plan of invading Ukraine. This will naturally soar up oil and gas prices putting pressure on India's oil-importing budget. Finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman warned that the global crude oil price hike will negatively affect India's financial stability. After attending the FSDC meeting she warned that the Centre was considering certain options to deal with the emerging situation. As ...

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Imran’s Visit To Russia: A Big Fiasco

Monomita NagFebruary 28, 20220

Opposition in Pakistan criticized Imran's visit to Russia amid the military operation in Eastern Ukraine. They avered that possibly no purpose was served by this visit. However, Pakitan's foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi rejected the criticism and said that the visit was of bilateral nature and had, in fact, been planned well in advance, much ahead of the crisis. Qureshi, who was part of the delegation, said that before undertaking the visit, the pros and cons of it were considered and then it was decided to go ahead. He defended the visit by saying that Imran Khan's maiden visit has improved the diplomatic space of Pakistan. He said that they had an extensive talk about their need for gas, and Moscow was interested to build Pakistan Stream Gas Pipe Line. Stating that Pakist...

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ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 Captures Massive Solar Proton Events; Missed By Most Global Satellites

Sonia SolankiFebruary 28, 20220

ISRO's Chandrayaan-2 has recently been able to detect massive solar events that were missed by most of the global satellites. Even NASA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) could not detect the event. The reason is GOES orbit around the earth and cannot detect the event due to the its magnetic force. As the earth's magnetic field works in protecting the planet from harmful solar events. But Chandrayaan-2 is orbiting around the Moon because for this reason the event was captured successfully by it. Chandrayaan-2 orbiters detected two M class solar flares - M5.5 and M 1.5. Solar Proton Event: Details Solar proton events are one of the dynamic movements happening in the Sun's atmosphere. At present, multiple global programmes are going on in space to study the Sun'...

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NATO Activates 40,000 Troops As Response Force Amid Russian Threat

Pooja YadavFebruary 28, 20220

NATO has positioned its Response Force on standby in a bid to reassure allies neighbouring Ukraine and Russia that their protection is assured. This, however, does no longer imply that the troops will move into Ukraine, which isn't a member.   As Russia presses in advance with its onslaught in Ukraine, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has activated its Response Force as a shielding measure. NATO leader Jens Stoltenberg stated Friday the bloc had activated defence plans and "as a result...are deploying factors of the NATO Response Force on land, at sea and withinside the air." This consists of a multinational pressure which includes lots of extra troops and over a hundred jets placed on excessive alert in 30 places that may installation fast in assist of a...

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Tirumala Temple To Display Replica Of Sri Venkateswara Swamy In Its Craft Expo

Pooja YadavFebruary 28, 20220

The Tirumala Temple trust has determined to show the craft in the expo gallery in the course of the following Brahmotsavams at Tirumala this year. The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), the unbiased trust which manages the hill temples of Lord Venkateswara atop Tirumala hills in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, preferred the inventive expertise of a junior college scholar for his extra-curricular talent of creating artwork out of waste. M Omkar, son of M Madhusudhan, from Kadiri of Anantapur district, has had a ardour for drawing and crafts on account that his childhood. After his university hours, he used to make crafts out of antique newspapers and mastered this artwork on his own. He currently finished making a reproduction of Sri Venkateswara Swamy with waste paper and gave it a stu...

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Women Pilot Trainee Killed In Telangana Plane Crash; Probe Underway

Pooja YadavFebruary 28, 20220

A woman trainee pilot died after her two-seater Cessna-152 crashed into a field in Nalgonda district in Telangana. According to locals, the aircraft broke into pieces after it nosedived into the field. The district superintendent of police Rema Rajeshwari said the trainee pilot took off her Cessna 152 aeroplane at around 10.30 a.m. from the Academy’s operations institute placed at the proper financial institution facet of Nagarjunasagar reservoir, bordering Nalgonda, in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. Preliminary reviews and eyewitness accounts, she stated, confirmed that the two-seater plane which she was driving alone, crashed withinside the barren lands close to Thungathurthy village at around 10.50 a.m. The motives for the crash aren't recognised yet. Eyewitnesses, which inclu

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Russia Halts Launches From French Guiana Amid European Sanctions

Pooja YadavFebruary 28, 20220

In reaction to the European Union's sanctions on Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has now halted area launches from French Guiana. Dmitry Rogozin, director-preferred of Russian area employer Roscosmos tweeted, "In reaction to EU sanctions towards our enterprises, Roskosmos is postponing cooperation with European companions in organizing area launches from the Kourou cosmodrome and chickening out its technical personnel, consisting of the consolidated release crew, from French Guiana." On Friday, EU states agreed to freeze any European belongings of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his overseas minister as Ukraine's chief pleaded for quicker and greater forceful sanctions to punish Russia's invasion of his country. The pass towards Putin and his pinn...

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Wearing Masks Inside 4-Wheelers No Longer Compulsory: Delhi Disaster Management Authority

Pooja YadavFebruary 28, 20220

Wearing masks will now no longer be obligatory for people in Delhi touring in personal four-wheelers, the Delhi authorities notified on Saturday. This new rule has been in the works from Monday while all Covid curbs may be lifted. DDMA has removed the penal provision after analyzing all of the applicable statistics associated with the problem of wearing a mask inside a personal four-wheeler. "This provision will now no longer be relevant to men and women touring collectively in personal four-wheeler car from 28.02.2022," the order stated. During the height of the pandemic, the authorities had made the wearing of masks obligatory for passengers in a personal automobiles as they come beneath the definition of a public vicinity. The restriction has been calmed down early this mo...

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