India cannot simply seek neutrality between the West and today’s Russia, given that the latter has a record of interpreting neutrality in the face of escalation as active support.
US President Biden unveiled sanctions targeting Russia’s sale of sovereign debt abroad and the country’s elites. He said penalties will increase if Russia 'continues its aggression'.
Pro-Russian separatist regions in Donetsk and Luhansk declared independence from Ukraine in 2014. No country had recognised the republics as sovereign states until now.
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.
Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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