The decrees signed by Putin included an order to send what he called 'peacekeeping forces' to breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in a dramatic escalation in standoff with the West.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is in Paris to attend Ministerial Forum for Cooperation in Indo-Pacific. Foreign ministers from EU & 30 other countries are attending.
Moscow continues to deny it plans to invade Ukraine and says it is already pulling troops back from areas near the border, though the US has disputed that claim.
Indian embassy in Ukraine issued a fresh advisory that says commercial and charter flights may be availed for timely departure in view of continued 'high levels of uncertainties'.
It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
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