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Cities in eastern Ukraine remain areas of concern: MEA on stranded Indians

The eastern part of Ukraine has been witnessing intense fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troop

Oil prices surge to $110 a barrel as Russia's war continues against Ukraine

Oil prices kept surging on Wednesday and topped USD 110 per barrel as Russia's war continues against Ukraine, but stocks and other markets were showing less fear than a day earlier. The S&P 500 was 0.9 per cent higher in early trading, while Treasury yields jumped to recover a sliver of their steep losses from the past week. Gold receded, and a measure of nervousness among stock investors on Wall Street was holding relatively steady after swinging sharply in recent days. Markets have been spinning wildly as investors try, sometimes blindly, to gauge how large an impact two big forces will ultimately have. Most recently, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has caused prices to soar for oil and other commodities where the region is a major producer. On top of that are worries about what upcoming hikes in interest rates by the Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world will do to the economy and inflation. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said in testimony to Congress on Wednesday that

Crypto exchanges won't bar Russians, raising fears of sanctions backdoor

Some of the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges are staying put in Russia, breaking ranks with mainstream finance in a decision

'Russian forces are moving in': Mayor of Ukraine's Kyiv warns residents

The mayor of Kyiv has warned the residents that Russian forces are moving in on Ukraine's capital and has urged people to stay indoors and prepare to defend the city, BBC reported.

Naveen's death is reflection of NEET's 'shameless face': Kumaraswamy

Stating that dreaming of medical education has become a mirage for the poor and the middle class after introducing NEET, Kumaraswamy said, tutorials have mushroomed, fleecing students

Boxer Neeraj Goyat lends helping hand to students stuck in Ukraine

Goyat claims to have close friends in the country's professional boxing circuit and he says they are coming in handy in helping students stranded in Lviv

Indian student's parent says many Indians stuck at Kharkiv Railway station

'My son Amit along with his cousin Suman and others somehow managed to reach the Railway station but is stuck there,' Venkatesh Vaishyar told PTI

Nearly 17k Indians left Ukraine, 15 flights scheduled in next 24 hrs: MEA

The Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday said that nearly 17,000 Indian nationals have left Ukraine's border since the first travel advisory was issued by the Indian Embassy in Kyiv

China relieved as Ukraine crisis dominates Biden's first Union address

Biden said the US and China were engaged in a race to "win the economic competition of the 21st century, and vowed that the US was embarking on an infrastructure decade

Russia's Sakhalin 1 partners to decide on ops in next few weeks: ONGC

ONGC Videsh said it and its partners will decide on how to keep operating the Sakhalin 1 project over next few weeks, after Exxon Mobil's decision to exit Russia's oil and gas sector

Ukraine war raises spectre of Russia's first external debt default

Russia has never defaulted on sovereign hard currency debt, but reserve freeze, severed financial ties, politics pose risk ; Moscow has stopped payments on local sovereign bonds already

Ukraine crisis: IndiGo to send eight evacuation flights on Thursday

IndiGo said that while eight evacuation flights will depart from India on Thursday, its six repatriation flights will arrive in India on the same day

First IAF C-17 aircraft to return with Indian citizens from Ukraine today

The first Indian Air Force C-17, a heavy-lift transport aircraft that went to Romania to bring back Indian students from Ukraine, would be landing at the Hindan airbase at 11 pm on Wednesday

3rd World War will be 'nuclear and devastating', warns Russia's Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister said that Russia was ready for sanctions that were imposed against it but was surprised that the penalties affected athletes and journalists

Oil soars to $113 as Russian supply disruptions increase amid sanctions

Brent crude futures rose by more than $8, touching a peak of $113.02 a barrel, the highest since June 2014, before easing to $111.53, up by $6.56 or 6.3% by 0950 GMT

Stocks make small gains but Ukraine crisis keeps investors cautious

Oil prices surged, with Brent crude touching $113.02 - its highest since 2014 - and U.S. crude coming close to passing its 2013 peak

Ukraine crisis: Scindia says 6 flights to bring back 1,200 Indians on Wed

India has been evacuating its citizens through special flights from Ukraine's western neighbours such as Romania, Hungary and Poland as the Ukrainian airspace has been shut down

22-yr-old student from Punjab's Barnala dies of stroke in war-hit Ukraine

A 22-year-old student from Punjab's Barnala district who had suffered an Ischemia stroke and was undergoing treatment for about a month died Wednesday in the war-hit Ukraine. Chandan Jindal was admitted at the Emergency Hospital Vinnytsia in Ukraine, official sources here said. His family has requested the government to bring back his mortal remains. Jindal was studying at Vinnytsia National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsia. Jindal's uncle Krishan Gopal told reporters in Barnala that they had received information about his poor health on February 3 and the authorities in Ukraine had sought the family's approval for performing an operation. Gopal said he and Chandan's father Shishan Kumar went to Ukraine on February 7. Krishan later returned while Shishan remained in Ukraine with his son. Barnala Deputy Commissioner of Police wrote to the state's Principal Secretary, Home, for providing assistance to the distressed family. According to the letter, Chandan "fell ill

Vijayan urges PM to ask Russia to provide safe passage to Indian students

The CM stated that evacuation efforts have so far been focused on Kyiv and western Ukraine, but at the same time the war has intensified in the eastern part of that country

Leave Kharkiv immediately: Indian embassy in Ukraine to Indians

Naveen Shekarappa Gyanagoudar, a fourth-year medical student at the Kharkiv National Medical University, was killed in intense shelling in Kharkiv on Tuesday