Three-time PM Robert Fico’s SMER-SD secured most votes in elections to Slovakia's National Council. Fico has promised to end military aid for Ukraine & block its bid to join NATO.
With an 'optimistic' outlook, the country's Army chief said that the division would initially have 80%-90% of the required personnel, and these plans have been agreed upon with NATO.
Over the next 2 days, NATO states will discuss various key issues, from regional defence deals and Sweden’s membership to strategising for the next phase of the Russia-Ukraine war.
According to preliminary information, Ukraine’s air defence systems shot down all the Iranian-made Shahed drones Russia launched before they reached their targets.
Ambassador Diana Mickevičienė talks about ‘Chinese economic coercion’, Lithuania's Indo-Pacific strategy & its keenness to develop 'high-tech partnership' with 'like-minded' India.
The US Department of State spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a separate statement that the two diplomats discussed also 'progress in Ukraine's counteroffensive'.
Report by Ministry of National Defence cited use of US reconnaissance planes and drones and said Washington was escalating tensions by sending a nuclear submarine near peninsula.
If faced with air & missile threats in wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, ESSI member states aim to leverage the already existing NATO cooperation framework and defend themselves.
While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
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