For now, China has pledged to maintain normal trade with both Russia and Ukraine despite a ratcheting up of sanctions by the US, Europe and other Western allies.
Tata Sons, which bought the airline from the Indian government last month, has begun talks with the planemakers for jets including Airbus A350-900s and Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners.
People’s Daily, Communist Party's mouthpiece, put the war on bottom of page 3 today, carrying a small piece on FM Wang Yi’s call with his Russian counterpart.
According to the US, Russia had built up a force around Ukraine numbering between 1,50,000 and 2,00,000 troops by the time Vladimir Putin gave the order to move early Thursday.
Futures in London jumped as much as 3.3% as Russia’s dramatic escalation of the Ukraine crisis sparked fears of a disruption to the region’s critical energy exports.
Putin is obsessed with what he perceives as the threat from Ukraine’s westward drift, and with turning back the clock to reset the post-Cold War world order.
In an interview, Princeton University professor Stephen Kotkin discusses Russian President Vladimir Putin’s designs on Ukraine, and the sanctions that might deter him.
Michael Patra's rebuttal follows several economists expressing doubts over RBI’s benign inflation forecast even though oil prices are surging and demand returns as pandemic curbs are eased.
Russia’s recognition of separatist-controlled areas in the Donbas region and its sustained military presence on the border with Ukraine have sparked a security crisis for the West.
The Jagan Reddy govt has been accused of scuppering various investment deals. Under Naidu, the govt, is trying to make AP a top investment destination, officials and industrialists say.
Air force chief says HAL needs to churn out 24 aircraft per year. It is important for IAF to have indigenous weapons systems to deal with any security challenges, he says.
How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?
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