Around 350 people participated in the protest. Of these, 35 students from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan sat on a hunger strike from 10 am to 5 pm, Parents' Association of Ukraine Medical Students (PAUMS) president R B Gupta said.
While the retail inflation based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) moderated to 7.04 per cent in May from 7.8 per cent in April, it remained above the RBI's threshold of 6 per cent for the fifth month in a row.
Xi, who did not propose any solutions, was speaking at the opening of a virtual business forum of the “BRICS” countries- Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
Russian officials had announced a humanitarian corridor from the Azot plant a day earlier, but said they would take civilians to areas controlled by Russian, not Ukrainian, forces.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Moscow’s forces hold nearly all of Luhansk province. And it appears that Russia now occupies roughly half of Donetsk province, according to Ukrainian officials and military analysts.
Russian army is engaged in an intense battle for Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland, known as the Donbas. In a sign that Kremlin is trying to bolster its stretched military machine, Russian lawmakers agreed to scrap the age limit of 40 for those signing their first voluntary military contracts.
Ukrainian fighters who emerged from ruined Azovstal steelworks after being ordered by their military to abandon the last stronghold of resistance in now-flattened port city face an uncertain fate.
Ukraine’s airborne command released photos and video of what it said was a damaged Russian pontoon bridge over Siversky Donets River in Bilohorivka and at least 73 destroyed or damaged Russian military vehicles nearby.
During the interaction, Johnson also offered the UK's "continued economic and humanitarian support” to Ukraine, it said.
Russia had warned Finland, Sweden against NATO alliance saying that it will proceed with nuclear deployments in Europe.
The meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was confirmed by presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych in an interview on Ukrainian TV.
Zelenskyy in a news conference gave few details about the logistics of his upcoming encounter with Blinken and Austin but said he expected results- “not just presents or some kind of cakes, we are expecting specific things and specific weapons.”
Guterres has urged Russia to stop its attack since it began two months ago, in what he called “the saddest moment” in his five years in the UN’s top job.
Satellite images show apparent mass graves near Mariupol, where local officials accused Russia of burying up to 9,000 Ukrainian civilians to conceal slaughter taking place in the ruined port city that’s almost entirely under Russian control.
With the holdouts coming under punishing new bombing attacks, another attempt to evacuate civilians trapped in the pulverized port city failed because of continued fighting.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's remark came amid reports that the Kremlin might turn to tactical or other limited nuclear weapons if its invasion of Ukraine continues to struggle.
US has committed 1.7 bn dollars in security assistance to Ukraine since Russia began its "special military operation".
The biggest price increases were for vegetable oils. The vegetable oil price index rose 23.2%, driven by higher quotations for sunflower seed oil. Ukraine is the world's leading exporter of sunflower oil.
While the Human Rights Council is based in Geneva, its members are elected by the 193-nation General Assembly for three-year terms.
The development comes close on the heels of criticism directed at UK’s Finance Minister Rishi Sunak over his wife Akshata Murty’s shareholding in the Infosys.
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