File picture of UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin, right, shaking hands with Russian member of executive committee Alexander Dyukov during the 48th UEFA congress | Photo Credit: AP Russia will no longer have a seat on the influential UEFA executive committee after the European football body’s elections in six weeks. Also, Norwegian official Lise Klaveness is…
Representational image of oil pump jacks outside Almetyevsk in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia June 4, 2023. REUTERS/Alexander Manzyuk/File Photo | Photo Credit: Reuters India, the world’s third largest oil consuming and importing nation, bought crude oil worth €49 billion from Russia in the third year of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, a global think tank…
File picture of French President Emmanuel Macron with U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Elysee Palace in Paris | Photo Credit: Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday (February 20, 2025) he will travel to Washington to try to convince President Donald Trump that his interests were in line…
File picture of United States Vice-President J.D. Vance, second right, meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, third left, during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany | Photo Credit: AP After Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said U.S. President Donald Trump was living in a Russian-made “disinformation space”, Vice…
Velyka Novosilka is close to the southern front line in Ukraine — which has remained largely static but where fears of a fresh Russian offensive have risen for weeks. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia on Sunday (January 26, 2025) said its forces had captured the east Ukrainian town of Velyka Novosilka in the embattled…
Both sides in the Ukraine conflict have turned cheap commercial drones into deadly weapons and also increased their production. File | Photo Credit: Reuters “Ukraine launched drone attacks across several regions of Russia, striking two residential houses in the Tambov region and injuring at least three people,” Russia said on Saturday (January 11, 2025). The…
The Economic Survey that preceded this year’s Union Budget presentation makes a suggestion which has implications for inflation control. It is that the price of food be taken out of the inflation target that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is mandated with. In technical jargon, this would amount to targeting ‘core’ instead of ‘headline’…
Innocuous news from China shouldn’t make anyone sit up, but any technological edge it gains over the West in the Cold War II that’s underway should. On Sunday, China test-flew a large unmanned aircraft—or drone— with a payload capacity of 2 tonnes. It’s just a cargo carrier, developed by the state-funded Sichuan Tengden Sci-Tech Innovation…
In an era of wars, weapons proliferation and nuclear threats, missile defence is back in political fashion more than at any time since Ronald Reagan’s pursuit of space-based systems in the 1980s. It is not just MAGA politicians who are keen. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, recently promised “a European…
Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar with Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi during a meeting on the sidelines of ASEAN meetings, in Vientiane, on July 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Jaishankar meets Chinese FM Wang in Laos, pushes for urgency in resolving LAC standoff For the second time this month, External Affairs Minister…
