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June 07, 2023 08:20 AM IST The unending Ukraine war has highlighted the key role air defences play against a superior enemy. Russia’s Geranium-2 drones, glide bombs and the 1B75 Penicillin counter-artillery systems keep troubling the Ukrainians, despite their air defences improving. Bottlenecks in Russia’s supply of the S-400 anti-missile defence system is a worry for India’s war-preparedness
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June 06, 2023 05:37 PM IST Are dams fair game in warfare? Nuclear power plants? It’s not as if Vladimir Putin would care
- June 03, 2023 12:13 PM IST
Polish documentary filmmaker Maciek Hamela's 'In the Rearview', a heartrending account of the cost of war, showed at a parallel selection of the recent 76th Cannes Film Festival.
- May 27, 2023 09:28 PM IST
Even as Putin refers to the fighting as distant “tragic events,” the war keeps hitting home — with growing fissures in the military leadership, unease among the Russian elite and worrying signs for the economy
- May 23, 2023 10:24 AM IST
After a bruising six-month siege, the invading army is left to wonder when the feared Ukrainian counteroffensive will materialise and whether the Russian military and political leadership will force the tattered Russian forces to attack well fortified towns like Slovyansk and Kramatorsk next
- May 22, 2023 12:59 PM IST
PM Modi held talks with his Papua New Guinea counterpart James Marape on May 22 took stock of their bilateral relations and discussed ways to further augment cooperation in areas like commerce, technology, healthcare and climate change.
- May 20, 2023 05:53 PM IST
In the meeting that took place on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, the prime minister said that the war in Ukraine is a "very big issue" for the whole world and that it has had many different impacts on the globe.
- May 14, 2023 09:34 PM IST
"PM Modi did what no other country was able to do," the senior BJP leader said while addressing the Veer Shiromani Maharana Pratap Maha Sammelan.
- May 11, 2023 04:22 PM IST
Discounted crude oil has constituted a large portion of India’s imports since last year. OPEC made up for as much as 90 per cent of all crude oil India imported at one point of time, but this has been sliding since Russian oil became available at a discount in the aftermath of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February last year.
- May 10, 2023 01:02 PM IST
The central banks' lack of understanding about the non-monetary components of inflation in times of war and crisis, driven by disruptions in supply chains is reflected in its policy to tackle inflation through a series of interest rate hikes
- May 06, 2023 09:08 AM IST
“This is a problem,” Lavrov told reporters in India’s western state of Goa on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting. “We need to use this money. But for this, these rupees must be transferred in another currency, and this is being discussed now.”
- May 05, 2023 12:35 PM IST
A fistfight broke out between Ukrainian and Russian delegates at an international conference in Turkey this week.
- May 04, 2023 04:30 PM IST
The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Putin for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, relating to the abduction of children.
- May 04, 2023 03:43 PM IST
This would be a major setback for Indian importers of cheap oil and coal from Russia who were awaiting a permanent rupee payment mechanism to help lower currency conversion costs.
- May 03, 2023 08:26 PM IST
Akshay Kumar Singh, MD and CEO, Petronet LNG said with the softening of LNG prices in the international market more cargoes on a spot basis are coming in the country.
- May 03, 2023 07:39 PM IST
Russia on May 3 alleged that there were attempts by Ukraine to assassinate President Putin, saying it was a “terrorist attack” while claiming it shot down drones over the president’s residence.
The Kremlin said two drones had been used in the alleged attack on Putin’s residence in the Kremlin citadel, but had been disabled by electronic defences.
It said Russia reserved the right to retaliate - a comment that suggested that Moscow might use the alleged incident to justify a further escalation in the 14-month-old war with Ukraine.
Watch to know more!
- May 03, 2023 06:48 AM IST
Saurab Mukherjea talks about top sectoral bets and market outlook. What all investors need to realize is that good companies always give conservative guidance. Whereas bad companies give aggressive guidance on results and then disappoint later on.
- May 02, 2023 04:15 PM IST
The year is set to be a challenging one for IT companies as pressure piles up on margins and clients demand pre-inflationary pricing
- May 02, 2023 04:37 PM IST
However, airline companies in India continue to face headwinds in the form of high cost of fuel (due to Russia-Ukraine war), shortage of engines and crew, and dollar-denominated lease costs rising on falling rupee.
- April 25, 2023 09:51 PM IST
By putting the prospect of $100 a barrel oil back in view after it had dropped to $70, the decrease in oil output has invited potentially ominous signs of global inflation, adding to worries that an aggressive monetary tightening by central banks could tip the world economy into recession.
- April 25, 2023 06:58 PM IST
"Two parties come to an agreement, make settlement payments, and no other country could step in and freeze such payments," Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said.
- April 21, 2023 11:01 PM IST
Documents that were among leaked classified military assessments of the war show that U.S. military planners believe that 253 tanks are needed for the coming counteroffensive.
- April 20, 2023 07:21 PM IST
During Akshaya Tritiya, 40 per cent of the business is done in the south, 25 per cent in the west, 20 per cent in the east and the remaining 15 per cent in the north, All India Gem and Jewellery Domestic Council (GJC) chairman Saiyam Mehra said.
- April 20, 2023 03:09 PM IST
Stoltenberg began his unannounced trip at a vital juncture in Russia's almost 14-month-old invasion which has killed thousands, uprooted millions, destroyed cities and devastated the Ukrainian economy.
- April 19, 2023 10:28 PM IST
The report released by Fitch Solutions forecasts the global shortfall at 8.7 million tonnes in 2022-23, which is the highest since the deficit of 18.6 million recorded in 2003-04.
