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TopicPresident Vladimir Putin

Topic: President Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin likely to visit India in 2025, says Kremlin. ‘Welcomed Modi twice this year’

The Russian president is expected to visit India sometime next year for the annual India-Russia summit as it is New Delhi’s turn to host.

In speech to mark 1,000 days of Russia-Ukraine war, Zelenskiy announces ‘resilience plan’

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Ukraine would produce at least 30,000 long-range drones next year, a weapons system that Kyiv has used to narrow gap in strike capabilities with Russia.

Russian ballet star Shklyarov’s ‘fall from balcony’ not 1st mysterious death amid Putin’s crackdown

Vladimir Shklyarov had expressed opposition to Ukraine war in 2022. This comes after Alexei Zimin, a Russian TV chef & outspoken critic of the war, was found dead in Belgrade last week.

Trump, Putin speak over phone, discuss ending war in Ukraine: report

The Washington Post reported the two men spoke about peace in Europe, while Trump expressed interest in follow-up conversations to discuss resolution of Ukraine war.

Modi speaks with Putin day after Biden chat, discusses Russia-Ukraine conflict

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday and exchanged perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine conflict and his insights...

Putin makes first trip to North Caucasus in 13 years, inspects troops readying to fight Ukraine

The surprise visit to Chechnya comes as Moscow battles to push Ukrainian forces out of its Kursk region, weeks after the largest invasion of Russia since World War II.

‘Don’t take relationship for granted,’ says US envoy to India days after Modi-Putin meet

Media reports suggest that senior US officials tried to see whether meeting between 2 leaders could be rescheduled as NATO was hosting 75th Founding Day celebrations in Washington DC.

Modi tells Putin that ‘heart bleeds’ when children are killed, day after lethal strike on children’s hospital in Kyiv

The pointed remark by the visiting leader was an implicit rebuke to Putin, after September 2022 when he told the Russian leader that 'today's era is not an era of war'.

Modi raises issue of Indians stuck in Ukraine war zone with Putin, plan for repatriation in ‘final stages’

On 3 July, Jaishankar raised the issue with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov and communicated ‘strong concern’ from the Indian side.

Modi-Putin summit an opportunity to iron out differences—prioritise 5 issues first

There’s never a dull moment in Eurasia. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be skipping the Shanghai Cooperation Summit, soon to be held in Kazakhstan, the long...

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No one should have to choose between a roof and two meals. But India’s migrants do, every day

India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India’s air defence system foiled 1,000 Pakistani drone attacks on 9 May—Modi tells Parliament

New Delhi: India’s air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 1,000 drones and missiles launched by Pakistan on 9 May during Op Sindoor, Prime Minister...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.