Live: Russia hits Ukraine's Kyiv, Lviv after sinking of Black Sea flagship

Live: Russia retaliates against UK sanctions on its top officials with entry bans on Prime Minister Boris Johnson and much of his cabinet.

10:31 PM

Head of Russian navy meets crew of sunken missile cruiser: Report

The head of the Russian navy, Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov, has met with crew members from the sunken missile cruiser Moskva and said they would continue to serve in the navy, Tass news agency said on Saturday. Russia said on Thursday the Moskva had sunk after an ammunition explosion. Ukraine said it hit the vessel, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet, with a missile.

 

10:16 PM

Ukrainian military says Russian jets attacked Lviv region

The Ukrainian military said on Saturday Russian warplanes that took off from Belarus had fired missiles at the Lviv region near the Polish border and four cruise missiles were shot down by Ukrainian air defences.

9:24 PM

Amit Shah speaks to Delhi Police officers about violence

Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday asked the two top officers of the Delhi Police to ensure peace in the city's Jahangirpuri where a procession for Hanuman Jayanti was allegedly attacked with stones. PTI reports the Delhi Police increased security in the place. Shah spoke to the Commissioner of Police and Special Commissioner (law and order).

8:36 PM

Delhi’s Covid-19 positivity rate, cases rise

Delhi’s Covid-19 positivity rate was 5.33 per cent on Saturday, up 26 per cent up from yesterday. The city recorded 461 new cases of Covid and 2 deaths from the disease in 24 hours.

7:19 PM

Ukraine will service foreign debt: Minister

More than 80 per cent of the debt Ukraine has to repay this year is domestic, “which we can easily cover” or refinance, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said in a television interview. He said the repayment schedule for foreign debt is “quite moderate and simple,” with a peak in September when Kyiv is due to pay interest on $500 million in Eurobonds, Bloomberg.

 

6:26 PM

PM Modi silent on communal violence: Opposition parties

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s "silence" on communal violence "is an eloquent testimony to the fact that such private armed mobs enjoy the luxury of official patronage," say 13 Opposition parties in joint statement.

5:40 PM

PM Modi on 3-day Gujarat visit from Monday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on April 18 go on a three-day visit to his home state Gujarat. His office said Modi will visit the command and control centre for schools in Gandhinagar on April 18 and, the next day, he will dedicate to the nation and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects at Banas Dairy Sankul in Diyodar in Banaskantha.

5:17 PM

More Chinese cities tighten curbs as Shanghai Covid cases rise

Shanghai reported a record number of symptomatic Covid-19 cases on Saturday and other areas across China tightened controls as the country kept up its "dynamic clearance" approach that aims to stamp out the highly transmissible Omicron variant, Reuters reported. The Zhengzhou Airport Economic Zone, a central Chinese manufacturing area that includes Apple Inc supplier Foxconn, announced a 14-day lockdown on Friday "to be adjusted according to the epidemic situation".

4:36 PM

Russia has captured over 1,000 civilians: Ukraine official

Over half the civilians taken by Moscow’s forces are women, said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, who demanded in a televised briefing that they be released immediately. “We won’t swap military people for civilians. It would violate the Geneva Conventions,” she said. 

 

4:28 PM

Babul Supriyo wins Ballygunge assembly by-poll for TMC

Trinamool Congress leader Babul Supriyo won the Ballygunge assembly by-poll on Saturday, defeating Saira Shah Halim of the CPI(M) by 20,228 votes. Supriyo won 51,199 votes against Halim's 30,971 votes, PTI reported.