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The Russian Assault on Ukraine Poses Huge Risks for the Rest of Europe and the World

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Now that the Russian military operation in Ukraine has begun, there are looming fears about the risks that come with it for the rest of Europe and the world. Over the last several weeks, the U.S. and European allies have moved troops, naval ships and warplanes eastward on the continent, near where the Russian military is operating, to deter Putin from further aggression.

Ukraine is not a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), but it borders four nations that are—Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. Biden and other NATO allies have pledged to protect their eastern and central European members under the NATO treaty’s mutual defense commitments.

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Biden condemns ‘invasion’, threatens more sanctions on Putin

T Immediate consequences for Russia’s aggression against Ukraine include loss of a key natural gas pipeline and cutting off global financing to two Russian banks

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he US and its allies on Tuesday swiftly imposed Biden warned Putin that more sanctions would follow economic sanctions on Russia for what if the Russian leader did not withdraw his forces and President Biden denounced as the beginning engage in diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis. of an “invasion of Ukraine”, unveiling a set But that prospect remained dim by the end of the day, of coordinated punishments as Western officials as secretary of state Antony J. Blinken cancelled plans confirmed that Russian forces had begun crossing the to meet the Russian foreign minister on Thursday, Ukrainian border. Speaking from the White House, saying that it does not “make sense” to hold talks while Biden condemned President Vladimir V. Putin of Russian forces are on the move.

Russia and said the immediate consequences for his “To put it simply, Russia just announced that it is aggression against Ukraine included the loss of a key carving out a big chunk of Ukraine,” Biden said, adding, natural gas pipeline and cutting off global financing to “He’s setting up a rationale to take more territory by two Russian banks and a handful of the country’s elites. force.”

“Who in the Lord’s name does Putin think gives The global response began early on Tuesday, just hours him the right to declare new so-called countries on after Putin recognised the self-declared separatist states territory that belonged to his neighbours?” Biden said in eastern Ukraine and Russian forces started rolling on Tuesday afternoon, joining a cascade of criticism into their territory, according to Nato, EU and White from global leaders earlier in the day. “This is a flagrant House officials. It was the first major deployment of violation of international law and demands a firm Russian troops across the internationally recognised response from the international community.” border since the current crisis began.

‘Unjustified’ attack “Every Responsible Country...”: US Biden condemns Russia

Responds To Pak PM’s Russia Trip Imran Khan is the first foreign leader to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin after Russian troops entered the separatist regions of eastern Ukraine amid the escalating crisis between Russia and the West.

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US President says he will be monitoring the situation from White House and will continue to get regular updates The world will hold Russia accountable for the death and destruction due to the “unprovoked” and “unjustified” attack on Ukraine and the US and its allies will respond in a “united and decisive” way, President Joe Biden has warned, as his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday announced a special military operation in eastern Ukraine.

President Putin, in a televised address, announced a military operation in Ukraine, claiming it is intended to protect civilians.

Threatens more sanctions on Putin The US and its allies on Tuesday swiftly imposed economic sanctions on Russia for what President Biden denounced as the beginning of an “invasion of Ukraine”, unveiling a set of coordinated punishments as Western officials confirmed that Russian forces had begun crossing the Ukrainian border.

Oil prices jump as Russia launches attack on Ukraine Oil prices popped more than 5 percent on news that Russia was launching a military attack in Ukraine.

U.S. crude futures jumped by 5.23 percent to trade at $96.92 per barrel.

Brent crude futures were up 5.4 percent at $102.07 per barrel, crossing the $100 level for the first time since 2014.

Natural gas prices surged 5.39 percent. Spot gold, traditionally seen as a safe-haven asset, rose 1.82 percent and last traded at $1,942.21.

Washington: The United States reacted to Pakistan Pakistani Prime Minister left P rime Minister for Moscow on Wednesday to meet President Vladimir Imran Khan’s visit Putin (File) to Moscow by saying that it is the responsibility of every “responsible” country to voice objection to Russia’s actions in Ukraine.

The US has informed Pakistan about its position on the situation in Ukraine, the US State Department

spokesperson Ned Price said on Wednesday.

“We’ve communicated to Pakistan our position regarding Russia’s further renewed invasion of Ukraine and we have briefed them on our efforts to pursue diplomacy over war,” Price said during a press briefing when asked about Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s scheduled meeting with Russians President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

The United States views its partnership with Ukraine as critical to US interests, Price added.

Vaccines: Gates lauds India ‘While this pandemic isn’t yet over, we have begun to look beyond the emergency response’ HiIndia Newsdesk

Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has praised India for its vaccine-manufacturing prowess and applauded the efforts of the country’s manufacturers for supplying affordable vaccines across the world. Addressing a virtual roundtable on India-US Health Partnership organised by the Indian embassy on Tuesday, Gates noted that over the last year, India has delivered over 150 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to nearly 100 countries.

“At the same time, thanks to Indian vaccine manufacturers, almost every country in the world now is offering vaccines to protect children from diseases such Pneumonia and Rotavirus, which have been leading causes of child’s deaths for decades, Gates said.

Bill Gates The roundtable was organized to bring together key stakeholders in India and US for leveraging the bilateral partnership to make affordable vaccines available to the world. “While this pandemic isn’t yet over, we have begun to look beyond the emergency response. This means not only controlling Covid but also being ready to stop future outbreaks before they become pandemics and continuing to fight all the infectious diseases,” he explained. In his remarks, Gates said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has talked about deepening India’s commitment to global health by continuing to harness the country’s science and technology talent to advance scientific discovery and the creation of new products.

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Russian Forces Break Into North Of Kyiv, 18 Killed In Ukraine’s Odessa An AFP reporter in the northern part of Ukraine’s capital also saw several low-flying helicopters flying toward the city, amid reports that an airfield was under attack.

“Deeply Dissatisfied” With India Position: Ukraine Envoy As Russia Attacks HiIndia Newsdesk

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Kyiv: Russian forces broke through on Thursday into the north of the Kyiv region, Ukraine’s border guards said, staging an attack with Grad missiles on government positions.

An AFP reporter in the northern part of Ukraine’s capital also saw several low-flying helicopters flying toward the Russian forces broke through on Thursday into the north of the Kyiv city, amid reports that an airfield was under attack. region, border guards said

Russia-Ukraine Crisis: NATO Chief Says No Plans To Send Troops To Ukraine

Ukraine envoy Igor Polikha

“This Is Not A Meme”: Ukraine Tweets Hitler-Putin Cartoon Amid War HiIndia Newsdesk

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance had no intention to send forces. (File)

“We don’t have NATO troops in Ukraine, and we don’t have any plans to send NATO troops into Ukraine,” Stoltenberg told a media conference after an emergency meeting of the alliance’s ambassadors.

Brussels: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday that the alliance had no intention to send forces into Ukraine after Russia invaded its pro-Western neighbour.

We don’t have NATO troops in Ukraine, and we don’t have any plans to send NATO troops into Ukraine,” Stoltenberg told a media conference after an emergency meeting of the alliance’s ambassadors.

The war between Russia and Ukraine are being played out, not just in the battlefield but on social media as well. As Russian missile rained from the sky and tanks crossed its border, the official Twitter account of Ukraine posted a caricature which shows Nazi leader Adolf Hitler smiling down on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The cartoon on Ukraine crisis has been posted without any text, but just with the words “official website” stamped on it. Both Putin and Hitler are looking at each other affectionately, with the Nazi leader’s hand on Russian President’s cheek.

Many Twitter users called the illustration a political cartoon and a “meme” but the Ukraine handle posted a subsequent tweet in reply to the original post which said, “This is not a ‘meme’, but our and your reality right now.”

Go To Bomb Shelters, India Tells Its Citizens In Ukraine. Lists Locations HiIndia Newsdesk

New Delhi: As Russia invaded Ukraine, the Indian Embassy at 5 pm issued its third advisory since this morning on guidelines for Indians. “We are aware that certain places are hearing air sirens/bomb warnings. In case you are faced with such a situation, google maps has a list of nearby bomb shelters, many of which are located in underground metros,” the embassy said. For those in Kyiv, the official link “Since the air space in Ukraine has been from Kyiv city administration is here, closed, we have stopped the measures to bring back Indians via flights. We the embassy said. are planning alternative measures There are approximately 18,000 to bring back Indians. Ministry of Indians in Ukraine, many of them students. An Air India flight sent for External Affairs has decided to send more diplomats to this area to help the evacuation took off at 7:30 am but Indian embassy,” said V Muraleedharan, had to return after Ukraine closed its the junior Foreign Minister. airspace for commercial flights.

“I spoke to Malayali students in Ukraine

on phone. Indian students in the southern areas of Ukraine have told us that they are getting food, water and power. Students and parents should not panic. Our government has brought back Indians even from places like Iraq. The central government will be able to ensure the safety of Indians, there is no doubt about that.

The control room has been expanded, more telephone numbers have been given,” he said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is meeting this evening with the Finance Minister, Defence Minister and other senior colleagues to assess the fallout of the Ukraine crisis. Sources said the meeting will prioritise evacuation strategy for the Indians stranded in Ukraine.

New Delhi: Ukraine envoy Igor Polikha today “pleaded” for India’s intervention in the conflict with Russia that started this morning, saying a “strong voice” of India might make Russian President Vladimir Putin “think”. While the envoy heaped praise on PM Modi and the country’s position as a “strong global leader”. There were also words of strong criticism for the stance of the foreign ministry, which ended with him saying they are “deeply dissatisfied”.

“I’m following all the reports on the site of your ministry and the latest advisory to your citizens in Ukraine,” Mr Polikha told reporters in New Delhi today.

“The recommendations and statement of your Ministry of External affairs -- that was India is closely following the development of events. We are deeply dissatisfied with this position. What does this mean -- closely following?

Now, 50 people have been killed. When hundreds and thousands will be killed in this case, what will happen? Will follow more closely?” the Ukraine envoy said.“We are expecting a much more favourable attitude of the Indian government in this crisis situation. It is the moment of truth. The moment of destiny... We are waiting, asking pleading for the assistance of India,” he added.

‘Wiper’ discovered in latest cyber-attacks HiIndia Newsdesk

Ukraine has been hit by more cyberattacks, which its government says are “on a completely different level”.

Earlier on Wednesday, the websites of several Ukrainian banks and government departments became inaccessible. At the same time a new “wiper” attack, which destroys data on infected machines, was discovered being used against Ukrainian organisations. The incident represents the third wave of attacks against Ukraine this year, and the most sophisticated to date. The latest attack began on Wednesday afternoon when internet connectivity company NetBlocks tweeted about the outages, saying “the incident appears consistent with recent DDoS attacks”.

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are designed to knock a website offline by flooding it with huge amounts of requests until it crashes.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Vladimir Putin’s Long Obsession With Ukraine For Putin, a KGB officer based in East Germany at the time the Soviet Union was gradually collapsing -- between 1989 and 1991 -- this was a personal defeat.

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Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched an invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, has long been obsessed with returning the country to Moscow’s fold, in the name of Russia’s greatness.

For many Russians of his generation, who were raised on Soviet propaganda, the USSR disintegrating and its spheres of influences vanishing remains an open wound.

On Thursday, Vladimir Putin declared “I have made the For Putin, a KGB officer based in East decision of a military operation” Germany at the time the Soviet Union was in Ukraine gradually collapsing -- between 1989 and

Ukraine breaks diplomatic ties with Russia

1991 -- this was a personal defeat.

The Russian leader has said many times that he suffered the same misery as his compatriots when the Soviet empire crumbled, recently claiming he was forced to drive a taxi to make ends meet when he returned to his homeland.

For many Russians, the years after the Soviet collapse were marked by humiliation and poverty -- a stark contrast to the West’s triumphalism and prosperity at the time.

Belarus Army “Not Taking Part” In Ukraine Invasion: President

President Zelenskyy HiIndia Newsdesk

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday broke off Kyiv’s diplomatic relations with Moscow in response to Russia’s invasion of its Western-backed neighbour.

“We broke off diplomatic relations with Russia,” Zelensky said in a video message. It marked the first rupture in ties since Russia and Ukraine became independent countries after the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991.

Alexander Lukashenko HiIndia Newsdesk

Moscow, Russia: Belarus’s leader Alexander Lukashenko said Thursday that his military is not taking part in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as Kyiv said Moscow’s troops were entering the country from Belarusian territory.

“Our armed forces are not taking part in this operation,” said Lukashenko, an

ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Moscow has stationed tens of thousands of troops in Belarus.

Ukraine’s border guards said Thursday their country was coming under artillery attack along its northern border with Russia and Belarus. Minsk said Putin called Lukashenko in the early hours of Thursday -- “at around 5:00 am (0200 GMT) -- to inform him that Moscow was launching a military operation on Ukraine. After meeting his army chiefs, Lukashenko said Putin had informed him about the “development” of the situation in the call.

He said the Russian leader told him the “aim” of the operation was to “stop the genocide of the people in the Donetsk and Lugansk republics.” He also said he had “personally suggested” to Putin for “a number of the Russian armed forces” to stay in the south of the country despite joint military drills coming to an end.

Canada’s Justin Trudeau Revokes Emergency As Truckers’ Protest Ends Canada has been in the international spotlight for weeks as thousands of protesters, led by truckers furious over COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

“The threat continues,” Trudeau said, but added it is no longer “acute.” “We are confident that existing laws and bylaws are sufficient to keep people safe.”

The rarely used powers had been invoked nine days earlier -- for only the second time ever in peacetime -- and their final approval was still being debated in the Senate when Trudeau lifted them.

HiIndia Newsdesk On Sunday, the last big rigs were towed out of the Canadian capital Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on after a two-day police crackdown that saw nearly 200 arrests and Wednesday revoked emergency powers used to dislodge dozens of vehicle seizures. trucker-led protests in Ottawa and blockades of border Several border crossings have also been reopened after being crossings to the United States, as he declared the crisis over. cleared of economically damaging blockades.

“Today, we’re ready to confirm that the situation is no longer For weeks, Canada had been in the international spotlight as an emergency,” the prime minister told a news conference. thousands of protesters, led by truck drivers furious over Covid-19 “Therefore, the federal government will be ending the use vaccination requirements for transporting freight across the of the emergencies act.” border with the United States, converged on Ottawa.

World News in Brief Pakistani-American Sentenced To Death For Beheading Girlfriend HiIndia Newsdesk

Islamabad, Pakistan: A Pakistan court sentenced the scion of a wealthy industrialist family to death Thursday, for raping and beheading his girlfriend in a murder that sparked an outcry over the brutalising of women in the deeply patriarchal nation.

Pakistani-American Zahir Jaffer, 30, attacked Noor Mukadam at his Islamabad home in July last year after she refused his marriage proposal -- torturing her with a knuckleduster and using a “sharp-edged weapon” to behead her.

The Ukraine crisis is a major challenge for China

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Hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in Eastern Ukraine, the US accused Moscow and Beijing of combining to create a “profoundly illiberal” world order.

Yet State Department Spokesman Ned Price also said that this was an opportunity for China to use its leverage with Russia to pull back Vladimir Putin given the new “no limits” pact he signed with China’s leader Xi Jinping on the same day as the Olympic opening ceremony.The evercloser diplomatic relationship between Russia and China could be seen at the Winter Games with Mr Putin coming to Beijing as one of only a handful of known world leaders to attend.

UK ready to escalate Russian sanctions, says Truss The UK is ready to escalate sanctions against Russia in the event of a full invasion of Ukraine, the foreign secretary has said. Liz Truss defended existing measures, describing them as the most severe the UK had ever placed on Russia.

She said it was important to keep further sanctions “in the locker”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops to be sent into two Ukrainian regions held by Russian-backed separatists. On Tuesday Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced sanctions against Russia in response, with five banks having their assets frozen, along with those of three Russian billionaires who will also be hit with UK travel bans.

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INDIA NEWS

Russian ground forces cross into Ukraine Vladimir Putin addressed the Ukrainian military, calling on soldiers to “lay down your arms”, before issuing an assurance that they could “leave the battlefield without hindrance”.

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ussia’s ground forces on Thursday crossed into reported no fatalities along its southern border with Crimea Ukraine from several directions, Ukraine’s border for some years. guard service said, hours after President Vladimir After holding a series of emergency calls with world leaders, Putin announced the launch of a major offensive. including US President Joe Biden, the Ukrainian leader Russian tanks and other heavy equipment crossed the frontier convened a meeting of the top military brass, his office said. in several northern regions, as well as from the Kremlin- “The armed forces of Ukraine are waging heavy combat,” annexed peninsula of Crimea in the south, the agency said. presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak said.

It said one of its servicemen died in a shelling attack along the “We have losses,” he added, without giving details.

Crimean border, the first officially confirmed military death “In several places, the Russian armed forces have been repelled.” of the Russian invasion.

Ukrainian officials said Russia was primarily targeting military Ukraine has suffered heavy casualties in its eight-year conflict infrastructure and silos, managing to push five kilometers with Russian-backed rebels in the separatist east, but has deep along the norther frontier.

China Calls For Restraint In Ukraine, Rejects The Term “Invasion” HiIndia Newsdesk

Beijing: China on Thursday called for restraint on all sides after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an attack on Ukraine, while saying the military operation should not be described as an “invasion”. China is closely watching the latest situation, and we call on all parties to maintain restraint and prevent the situation from getting out of control,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a regular press briefing where she was repeatedly asked if Beijing condemned the actions.

Hua on Thursday refused to call the military action an “invasion”, labelling the term “prejudiced”, and dodged questions on whether China was in contact with Russian and Ukrainian leaders.

If Modi ji Speaks To Putin, He’ll Respond”: Ukraine Envoy To India

Ukraine Envoy Igor Polikha HiIndia Newsdesk

New Delhi: Ukraine Envoy Igor Polikha sought India’s intervention as armed conflict with Russia started this morning. Remarking that the

situation may get out of control, Mr Polikha said, “Modi ji is one of the most powerful, respected world leaders. You have a privileged, strategic relation with Russia. If Modiji speaks to Putin we are hopeful he’ll respond”.

“India should be much more actively engaged, given the privileged relation India has with Russia. Not just for our safety, but of your own citizen’s safety too, we need intervention of India,” he said, adding, “We do not want protocol statements, it means nothing. We need support from the whole world”.

According to estimates, more than 15,000 Indians are currently living in Ukraine.

Sensex slips over 2,200 points, Nifty trades below 16,400-mark; Brent crude tops $100/barrel HiIndia Newsdesk

The topline equity indices on BSE and National Stock Exchange (NSE) were around 4 per cent lower during the late afternoon trade on Thursday tracking a fall in their global peers which fell after Russia announced military operations in eastern Ukraine.

The S&P BSE Sensex was down 2,237.73 points (3.91 per cent) at 54,994.33 while the Nifty 50 fell 686.10 points (4.02 per cent) to 16,377.15. Both the indices had

barometer has touched 16,363.00.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in Ukraine, and he warned other countries that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action would lead to “consequences they have never seen.”

As Putin spoke, big explosions were heard in Kyiv, Kharkiv and other areas opened around 3 per cent lower and of Ukraine and air sirens went off in slipped lower as the trade progressed. Kyiv, indicating that the capital city is So far, the BSE benchmark has fallen under attack. to a low of 54,950.60 while the NSE

UKRAINE CRISIS Summary • Russian forces have launched a major military assault on Ukraine, with reports of missile strikes and explosions in major cities • Russian President Vladimir Putin warns that Moscow’s response will be “instant” if anyone tries to take on Russia • He urges Ukrainian soldiers in eastern Ukraine to lay down weapons and return to their homes • Ukraine’s foreign minister accuses Russia of starting a full-scale war, and urges the UN “to do everything possible” to stop it • US President Joe Biden vows that the world will hold Russia accountable, predicting major loss of life • The EU says Putin has brought war back to Europe and is preparing a “massive” package of sanctions • Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg says the bloc stands with Ukraine at this terrible time, and will do all it takes to defend all allies • Ukraine’s president offers weapons to anyone who wants them. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has also said that he will issue weapons to everyone who wants them, according to state media.

• Ukraine cuts diplomatic ties with Russia •‘Darkest hours for Europe since World War Two’

India calls for immediate de-escalation

India called for an immediate de-escalation of tensions between Russia and Ukraine and cautioned that the situation is in danger of spiraling into a major crisis, just as Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his decision to launch a ‘military operation’ in eastern Ukraine. The 15-nation UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on Ukraine late Wednesday night, the second meeting this week and the fourth since January 31 as tensions escalated between Russia and Ukraine.

Indian American Sikh Student Wins $250K Prize in Quiz Contest HiIndia Newsdesk

A 22-year-old Sikh student, Jaskaran Singh, at the University of Texas at Austin beat 35 other students to win a premiere quiz tournament. At the National College Championship Jeopardy, he won a prize of $250,000.

The 35 students were selected from about 26,000 other students who competed for a chance to be in the tournament. Singh told the reporters that the quarter million dollars will go on to pay for his college fees and a lot more.

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DIASPORA NEWS

Skyrocketing flight prices forcing Indian students to stay put in Ukraine

Students from UP in Ukraine want to be vacated

After the Ministry of External Affairs put out an advisory for the Indians in Ukraine to leave country, many students are unwilling to return due to skyrocketing flight ticket prices.

Bareilly/Rampur (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 17: Around 20 medical students from Bareilly and Rampur district are stuck in Ukraine, following border tension with Russia. They want the government of India to evacuate them, according to family members. here are currently around 50 students from Bareilly studying in Ukraine.Subhan Ahmed from Rampur is pursuing his studies in medicine in Ukraine. His family belongs to Kheda Tanda under Azimnagar police station.

Subhan’s father, Jalees Ahmad, said, “My son is studying MBBS from National University in Uzhhorod.

The students there have been asked to stay indoors. Flight services are demanding a much higher fare, which is difficult for us to afford.

We had a word with Subhan over the phone.”

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After the Ministry of External Affairs put out an advisory for the Indians in Ukraine to leave country, many students are unwilling to return due to skyrocketing flight ticket prices.

The flight ticket prices have risen from Rs 50,000 to over Rs 70,000 and the students say it is this financial hurdle that is forcing them to stay put despite the advisor y by the Indian government. On normal days, the flight tickets would cost Rs 21,000-Rs 26,000. But now, due to the Russia-Ukraine tensions, the rates have jacked up.

“Travel agents are exploiting the situation to mint money.

We don’t have so much money. The news of this RussianUkraine conflict actually gave them an opportunity to push

flight ticket booking charges citing the troubled situation over here, what can we do? We cannot afford this,” said a medical student at Ukrainian capital Kyiv to the media.

The Indian embassy issued an advisory, telling us to leave the country (Ukraine) temporarily, but how? That’s the question and we have been not answered by them,” said another medical student.

A small but vibrant Indian community lives in Ukraine, comprising mostly business professionals and students. There are about 18,000 Indian students studying in Ukraine, mainly in the field of medicine.

Indian business professionals work predominantly in the fields of pharmaceuticals, IT, engineering, medicine, education, etc.

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Indian-origin Singaporean Canada lawmakers extend rapper likely to plead guilty emergency powers for truck protests HiIndia Newsdesk

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Subhas Nair

Indian-origin Singaporean rapper Subhas Nair was charged in court on Monday with four counts of attempting to promote feelings of ill will among different groups on grounds of religion and race.

The 28-year-old, whose full name was given as Subhas Govin Prabhakar Nair in chargesheets, is accused of making those attempts on four occasions

between July 2019 and March 2021, according to a Channel News Asia report.

The earliest alleged incident was on July 29, 2019, when Nair published a rap video online.

Chargesheets state that Nair attempted to promote feelings of ill will between the Chinese and other races. Nair was given a two-year conditional warning by the police on August 14, 2019, over this incident. The warning indicated that if he reoffended, he could be prosecuted for this incident on top of any fresh offences.

The second incident was purportedly on July 25, 2020, when Nair posted comments on a social media account in response to a video of Chinese Christians who made hateful comments against another community.

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Toronto: Canadian lawmakers voted on Monday night to extend the emergency powers that police can invoke to quell any potential restart of blockades by those opposed to Covid restrictions.

Lawmakers in the House of Commons voted 185 to 151 to affirm the powers.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said earlier that the powers were still needed despite police ending the occupation of the nation’s capital by truckers over

the weekend and police ending border blockades before that. Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair said the protesters were going for the “lifeblood of this nation, which is trade with the United States”. Trudeau noted there were some truckers just outside Ottawa who might be planning further blockades or occupations. His public safety minister said there was an attempt to block a border crossing in British Columbia over the weekend.

The emergencies act allows authorities to declare certain areas as no-go zones.

It also allows police to freeze truckers’ personal and corporate bank accounts and compel tow truck companies to haul away vehicles. The trucker protest grew until it closed a handful of CanadaUS border posts and shut down key parts of the capital for more than three weeks.

America’s Doctor, Family Get Safeguards despite COVID-19 HiIndia Newsdesk

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WASHINGTON — Surgeon General Vivek Murthy announced Friday that he and his young family have COVID-19 despite their best efforts to avoid infection by getting vaccinated and taking other precautions.

Writing on Twitter, America’s doctor said, “When you’ve been as safe as you can, getting COVID-19 can be frustrating and disappointing. I’ve felt that. It can also be a source of shame. Many people assume you must have been careless to get sick. Our safety measures reduce risk but they can’t eliminate risk. Nothing can.”

As new cases and hospitalizations plummet, and deaths have finally started to decline, the Murthy family’s bout with COVID calls attention to the lingering risks of a virus that many people have started assuming is finally on the way out.

Murthy, a regular participant at White House COVID task force briefings, said he and his wife, physician and political activist Dr. Alice Chen, have mild symptoms.

She has a headache and fatigue, and he said he was dealing with muscle aches, chills, and a sore throat.

Murthy served on President Joe Biden’s transition team as co-chair of the coronavirus advisory board, and is said to enjoy a close personal relationship with Biden. His trademark is a soft-spoken, empathetic style of public speaking. Even before the pandemic, he was warning about the toll of loneliness in America. Murthy’s family roots are in India, but as a youngster he lived in Miami.

His father had a medical clinic, where both parents worked. The son spent weekends helping out and says that’s where he discovered the art of healing.

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State assures no untoward action on hijab: Karnataka AG

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Under fire over pay protests, Andhra DGP replaced

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THE KARNATAKA Advocate General on Monday told the High Court that efforts have been initiated by the state to ensure that officials of its Education department do not act in an “untoward” manner with Muslim girl students while implementing the court’s interim order that barred religious symbols in colleges where dress codes have been prescribed until the matter is decided.

Advocate General Prabhuling Navadgi was reacting to a memorandum presented by Mohammed Tahir, an advocate for petitioners against the hijab ban in a few government colleges in Udupi, that Muslim girls were being denied entry by authorities in several colleges.

Although the High Court’s interim order of February 10 said that dress codes can be enforced only in colleges where they

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have been prescribed, it has been interpreted by Education and state authorities as a general ban on wearing religious attire to colleges.

“I have addressed a letter to the Chief Secretary and asked him to convene a meeting of all concerned. I have communicated with the principal secretary of the Education department and they have assured us that nothing untoward will be done. All action taken will be reported to the court,” the advocate general told the full bench of the High Court.

The full bench of Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna M Dixit and Justice Jaibunnisa M Khazi is hearing the batch of petitions against the hijab ban that led to protests on campuses across the state.

Andhra Pradesh Industries Minister Mekapati Goutham Reddy passes away

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Guntur: The separate railway zone for Visakhapatnam-South Coast Railway– will be approved by the Centre shortly, according to BJP Rajya Sabha member GVL Narasimha Rao. Talking to reporters here on Friday, he said that most of the assurances in the bifurcation Act were already implemented and the remaining would take shape soon. Alleging that the YSR Congress Party government was using its stickers for the Central schemes, he said that the BJP would launch a struggle if the houses constructed by TIDCO were not handed over to the beneficiaries. He stated that the buildings constructed by the state government under Nadu-Nedu programme were all taken up with the employment guarantee scheme of the Centre. Claiming that the development recorded in AP so far was made possible only with Central assistance and partnership, the MP wanted the YSRCP government to make use of its loans to achieve some visible development.

Reddy, 50, was a two-time MLA from the Atmakur Assembly constituency in the Nellore district.

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The Andhra Pradesh government on Tuesday replaced Director General of Police (DGP) Damodar Goutam Sawang and appointed Director of Intelligence Kasi Reddy V R Reddy as the additional charge of DGP. Sawang, the 1986 batch IPS officer, has been asked to report to the General Administration Department (GAD) for now.

Jeedimetla teen’s death: Police probe ‘love’ angle HiIndia Newsdesk

Hyderabad: The Jeedimetla police investigating the suspicious death of the teenaged girl have found that she was moving closely with a teenage boy. Even a few hours before she was found dead, she had an argument with her parents over the same issue.Police said when the victim’s family was staying at Rodamistry Nagar, she became friends with a 19-year-old boy from the neighbourhood. They were both seen often together.

Her parents, who learnt about their intimacy, warned him and the family shifted from there to Subhash Nagar in Jeedimetla.

It is learnt that on the night of February 14, before she went missing, the girl had an argument with her parents over the same issue following which she left the house. She was found dead at a construction site 300 metres away three hours later.

The police team which searched the premises has found a woman’s hair on the fourth floor, suspected to be of the girl.

Andhra Pradesh Industries Minister Mekapati Goutham Reddy passed away Monday morning from a heart attack.

He was admitted to the Apollo Hospital at Hyderabad early morning after a complaint of pain in the chest.

Reddy, 50, was a two-time MLA from the Atmakur Assembly constituency in the Nellore district. He also held the

Information Technology portfolio. He is the son of former MP Rajamohan Reddy.

Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy expressed deep shock and profound grief over the untimely demise of Gowtham Reddy. Terming him as a young promising leader who was known to him since the early days, the Chief Minister expressed anguish over the tragic incident and said that words fail to describe the loss of his young cabinet colleague.

He conveyed his heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members with a heavy heart.

Goutham Reddy had returned last week after spending a week in Dubai for the Expo 2022. Doctors suspect that he was suffering from post-Covid complications after he tested positive last April.

7 held in fake certificate racket in Hyderabad

Telangana: Realty firms go extra mile to woo buyers

GVMC budgets reduced to farce: CPM

Hyderabad: Seven persons including six who purchased educational certificates of a university in Bhopal illegally were caught by the Hyderabad Commissioner’s Task Force (East) on Monday.

Those caught were identified as PK Veeranna Swamy (62) who runs VS Global Educational Services at Chaderghat; K Sai Gowtham, Tummala Sai Teja and Bachu Venkata Sai Suman Rohit, all three students; C Ritesh Reddy, Manna Wilfred and Kosimetti Surya Teja. “Veeranna Swamy with the help of a few professors of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan University in Bhopal arranged backdated degree certificates of various courses to students.

Hyderabad: With Telangana emerging as a hot destination for real estate investment not only for people from within the State but also for investors from other States, realtors, projecting the Outer Ring Road as a success story, are wooing prospective customers to invest in lands in areas beyond Pragnyapur, Jagdevpur, Zaheerabad, Shadnagar and other peripheral areas. The firms make arrangements for a car ride from the customers’ house to the venture sites besides offering EMI schemes upto 100 months to the customers. “We are developing a big venture. One part of it has the layout sanctioned. In three months, we got more than 1,000 bookings,” said a representative of the company.

Visakhapatnam: The budgets presented by the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation year after year, were reduced to a farce, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) corporator and party floor leader in the GVMC, Dr. B. Gangarao, has observed. Talking to media persons here on Friday, he referred to the Rs.4061.9 crore budget proposed for the year 202223 and revenue estimates of Rs.3885.18 crore aiming to achieve a surplus of Rs.258.08 crore and said it was nothing but a jugglery of figures. The GVMC was presenting figures double its actual revenue and cheated the public, he alleged, and added that it diverted the funds earmarked for SC and ST development to other activities.

Mekapati Goutham Reddy at the Expo 2022 in Dubai. (Photo: Twitter) HiIndia Newsdesk

City Brief News Telangana for hassle-free healthcare

Hyderabad: To ensure patients have uninterrupted access to vital therapeutic and diagnostic medical equipment in all government hospitals, Telangana government here on Monday announced a series of key interventions including centralised software for repair and maintenance of medical equipment, an exclusive unit of biomedical engineers to provide technical support and release of Rs 17.47 crore additional funds to TSMSIDC

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“Baseless, Unwarranted”: India After UN Tweet On Journalist Rana Ayyub

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Rana Ayyub has been subjected to legal harassment by the Indian authorities in relation to her reporting for a number of years, the UN experts have said.

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ndia today said allegations of judicial harassment of the country, her criticism of the Government for its handling journalist Rana Ayyub are “baseless and unwarranted” of the pandemic and her comments on the recent ban on after experts from the United Nations called for hijabs in schools and colleges in Karnataka”. an investigation into what they called “relentless Citing anonymous death and rape threats, the UN said, misogynistic and sectarian attacks online” on her.

“The lack of condemnation and proper investigation by the “Allegations of so-called judicial harassment are baseless & government, coupled with the legal harassment it has itself unwarranted. India upholds the rule of law, but is equally clear inflicted on Ms Ayyub, has only served to falsely legitimise that no one is above the law. We expect SRs to be objective & the attacks and attackers and further endangered her safety”. accurately informed. Advancing a misleading narrative only Ms Ayyub has been subjected to legal harassment by the tarnishes @UNGeneva’s reputation,” read a tweet from the Indian authorities in relation to her reporting for a number of handle of India at UN, Geneva, responding to the UN tweet years, the UN experts have said, citing the freezing of her bank on the opinion of the experts, published on the website of the account and other assets “in response to seemingly baseless UN Human Rights. allegations of money laundering and tax fraud, related to UN human rights experts Irene Khan, Special Rapporteur her crowd-funding campaigns to provide assistance to those on the right to freedom of opinion and expression and Mary affected by the pandemic”.

Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights The false allegations, they added, can be traced back to a fardefenders, have said that Rana Ayyub continues to be the right social media group. victim of intense attacks online by right wing groups.

The money laundering case against Ms Ayyub is based on a The Special Rapporteurs and Independent Experts are part of First Information Report, filed by the Uttar Pradesh police in what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights response to a complaint by Vikas Sankrityayan - the founder of Council. The largest body of independent experts in the UN an NGO called “Hindu IT Cell” and a resident of Indirapuram Human Rights system, they are part of Council’s independent in Ghaziabad. According to a document attributed to “ED fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms. sources”, the agency found the journalist had raised over Rs The experts, the UN said, “pointed to the attacks as being a 2.69 crore through an online crowdfunding platform called result of her reporting on issues affecting minority Muslims in Ketto for charitable purposes between 2020 and 2021.

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Washington Post shows support for Rana Ayyub, calls her ‘target of prejudiced investigations’ Full page support statement issued Sunday comes after Enforcement Directorate attached attached funds worth Rs 1.77 crore in Ayyub’s name, in alleged money laundering case.

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by Vikas Sankrityayan — founder of an organisation support of Indian journalist Rana Ayyub, after called the ‘Hindu IT cell’ — who accused her of the Enforcement Directorate on 10 February illegally acquiring public money through campaigns attached funds worth Rs 1.77 crore in her on Ketto in the name of charity, during the first and name, in connection with an ongoing probe in an second Covid waves in the country. alleged money laundering case against the journalist. Ayyub has called the allegations “baseless, malafide The Washington Post, along with the Coalition and fanciful”. “Smear campaigns against journalists Against Online Violence (Online Violence Response are a popular tool used by dictators all over the world.

Hub), under the banner of The Washington Post It is all the more isolating when your own media, in Press Freedom Partnership, published a full page my case, the Indian media, choses to sit on the fence, support statement in the newspaper Sunday. “Almost propagates fake news and allows a virtual lynching every day Rana Ayyub faces threats of violence of a journalist with half-hearted solidarity,” Ayyub and death. She has been the target of told ThePrint. prejudiced investigations and online Money laundering allegations harassment. Her bank account was frozen The FIR against Ayyub was registered under Indian over charitable work. Journalists should not fear prosecution and smear campaigns,” Penal Code (IPC) sections 403 (misappropriation of property), 406 (criminal breach of trust), 418 it said. (cheating), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing Ayyub is an independent journalist, who also writes for The Washington Post. delivery of property), section 66D (cheating by personation by using computer resource) of the IT Act, Last month, Ayyub had filed a written and section 4 of the Prevention of Money Laundering complaint with the Mumbai Police, citing “targeted harassment” and “fake news” Act, 2002.

In a statement released later, Ayyub had claimed spread against her by a website called that she had raised a total of Rs 2.69 crore from The Scoop Beats, which has allegedly led three fundraising campaigns, of which she utilised to a barrage of abuse and threats. The journalist’s primary point of contention “Rs 1 crore 14 lakh and 50 thousand for relief work, was a video posted The Scoop Beats’ out of which Rs 74.50 lakh was donated to the PM Cares Fund and the CM Cares fund of Maharashtra”, YouTube channel and social media, titled and “Rs 1.05 crore was paid as tax to the income tax ‘Saudi Arabia Banned Rana Ayyub’, which department”. she said contains photoshopped tweets of The remaining amount, she had said, was turned into her expressing hate for India. a fixed deposit of Rs 50 lakh for a field hospital, adding Meanwhile, the ED probe against Ayyub that her bank statements had been “deliberately began after an FIR was filed by the misread”.

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Ukraine crisis: Russia ‘hopes’ sanctions don’t impact S-400 & other defence projects with India and Technical Cooperation for a period of 10 years, from 2021-2031.

India is procuring the Russian S-400 missile systems under a $5.43 billion deal, notwithstanding the threat of US sanctions under the Countering America’s Adversaries Throug h Sanctions Act (CAATSA). India has said the S-400 missile systems, the deliveries HiIndia Newsdesk of which have begun, are needed for its Tuesday, the Russian Charge d’Affaires He added, “We will continue our work national security interests. to India, Roman Babushkin, said with our Indian partners in defence “The sanctions will not only negatively affect the Russian economy and Russian sanctions have become a foreign policy areas. We have big plans and we hope banking sector, but it will bring more tool for the US. that our partnership will continue at the He also said India’s position on the same level which we are enjoying today.” instability to the global economy because of the fear of sanctions,” said Ukraine crisis was “independent and Referring to the India-Russia Summit File photo of Russian Charge d’Affaires to Babushkin. balanced”. that took place in December, Babushkin India, Roman Babushkin “With India, we have very strong, long said, without explicitly mentioning the “Of course we have learned to live under the sanctions… Sometimes, it and trusted cooperation (in defence).

S-400 deal, “We have a lot of big projects ussia Tuesday said Moscow in the pipeline and we are confident is even beneficial to Russia, because “hopes” the slew of economic Russia is the only country which is sharing sophisticated technologies with that all our plans will be successful if we have learned not to rely on western sanctions slapped on the technologies and western financial India and defence cooperation between implemented. ” countr y amid escalating resources.

There are many independent us is a strong factor for international He also stressed the fact that both Russia tensions with Ukraine will not impact states in the world with whom we have and India had last December signed a its ongoing military projects with India. peace and stability,” Babushkin told reporters. new Long-Term Program for Military mutual cooperation,” he added.

Addressing a press conference here

Russian Charge d’Affaires to India Roman Babushkin says India’s stand on Ukraine crisis is ‘independent and balanced’, and ‘reflects’ India’s status as a ‘global power’.

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Did China help Pakistan build bridges to Russia?

Imran Khan nods yes & then slams Modi’s India

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id China play a “subtle but very significant role” in facilitating diplomatic convers at ions b etwe en Pakistan and Russia? Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan nodded vigorously in the affirmative when asked this during an interview with Russia’s stateowned media outlet Russia Today (RT) Tuesday, ahead of his maiden two-day visit to Moscow amid its tensions with Ukraine.

He also nodded in corroboration when asked about his own suggestion (made while in Beijing) that Islamabad can act as a “mediator between Beijing and Washington”.

On whether China would agree to such a possibility, he said that cooperation between China, the US and Russia “will benefit mankind much more than a conflict”.

“The America I know is very diverse…

Surely there are sensible voices in the US who believe that conflict is not the way, there is another way, where it could be win-win for everyone. I certainly believe that cooperation between China and the United States and even for that matter Russia, would benefit mankind much more than a conflict,” said Khan.

During the interview, he also spoke at length about India, and alleged that the country has been taken over by “Nazi” ideology, adding that it is “no longer the India of Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi”.

‘Not the India of Nehru and Gandhi’

Calling it “extreme nationalism”, Khan told RT that India “is no longer the country of Jawaharlal Nehru and

‘Would love to debate Modi on TV’

Asked about navigating the Kashmir issue with India, Khan remarked: “I would love to debate with Narendra Modi on TV.” Earlier this month, Pakistan National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf had said that Kashmir remains an “integral” issue to Pakistan, adding that it is not wise to “basically give up on your cardinal national interests”.Asked whether he will leave the Kashmir issue with India to his successors or try to resolve it during his tenure, the Pakistan PM claimed that he had wanted to actively engage with India upon entering office in 2018.

“Do you know, when my party came into power in 2018, the first thing I did was to reach out to India and I told them you know our only issue is Kashmir.

Let’s sit down on the table and resolve it, let’s have a roadmap. But I didn’t realise, and remember I’m the one who knows India better than anyone because cricket is a passion…in the subcontinent and because…me being captain of cricket here and sort of playing lots over 10 years against India, I know India better than most people, so I immediately reached out,” he said.

Khan added that he then discovered, to his “horror”, that “this is not the India I used to know because it’s been taken over by this mad ideology”.

“It’s a racist ideology, which was inspired by the Nazis. The founding fathers were inspired by the Nazis… You see there is negative nationalism and positive nationalism. You must distinguish between the two,” he added.

In an interview with state-owned media outlet Russia Today, the Pakistan PM alleged that India has been taken over by ‘Nazi’ ideology & is ‘no longer the India of Nehru and Gandhi’.

Mahatma Gandhi”.

“What is happening in India is not what Indians are like. This is not the India of Nehru and Gandhi, this is the India of Narendra Modi. A tiny, highly organised elite has taken over India just like the Nazis took over Germany,” he claimed. Khan accused the Modi government of focusing on Hindu politics instead of bringing development to the people of India.

“Indian leadership — I wish they would concentrate on raising people out of poverty rather than proving to the world that the Hindus are the most superior race,” he said. Islamabad has not yet commented on Putin’s decision to recognise two separatist territories in eastern Ukraine — a move that prompted sanctions from the US and European Union (EU) countries to agree to an initial sanctions package.

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Nawab Malik Arrested Recently, the ED had carried out multiple raids and also took custody of Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Iqbal Kaskar in the same case.

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BharatPe Sacks Founder’s Wife, Used Company Cash For Beauty Regime

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Mumbai: Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik was today arrested after questioning by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money laundering case linked to the activities of the Mumbai underworld, fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides.

Defiantly waving his fist in the air to the waiting media persons, Mr Malik said he won’t bow down. “We will fight and win, and expose everyone,” he said as he stepped out of the probe agency’s office. He was then taken by ED officials in a vehicle for a medical check-up.

According to sources, Mr Malik was grilled over alleged transactions with gangster Dawood’s associates and land deals with them. He was evasive and didn’t cooperate with the Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik Arrested In Money investigation, the ED said.

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UK punishes five Russian banks

Economic Advisor Daleep Singh leading efforts to put Sanctions on Russia HiIndia Newsdesk

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Boris Johnson came to the Commons just after noon on Tuesday after holding a 6.30am (local time) emergency cabinet meeting to inform MPs that the UK was imposing sanctions against five Russian banks and three wealthy Russians considered close to the Kremlin. This was the British Prime Minister’s response to President Vladimir Putin’s decision to recognise the independence of Luhansk and Donetsk in eastern independence.

Washington: IndianMoscow’s invasion American economic of Ukraine. He also advisor Daleep ord e re d Ru s s i a n Singh is leading the troops into eastern efforts of the Biden Uk raine in w hat administration to the Kremlin called i mp o s e pu n it ive a “p e a c eke e pi ng” sanctions on Russia mission in the Daleep Singh said that a full ov e r it s a c t i on s block means these banks Moscow-backed against Ukraine. can no longer make any regions.

Russian President transactions with US. Singh, who is Deputy Vladimir Putin on National Security Monday signed decrees to recognise Advisor for international economics Ukraine’s regions of “Donetsk and and Deputy Director of the National Luhansk People’s Republics” as Economic Council, made his second “independent”, escalating the tension appearance in the White House in the region and increasing fears of Press Room in a matter of days.

“Yogi Adityanath Flying To...”: “Omicron Silent Killer... Been Akhilesh Yadav’s Retort On 25 Days, Still Suffering”: London Jibes Chief Justice HiIndia Newsdesk

The plane ride jibes began a while ago between the rivals. Now the screenshot of a plane ticket has gone viral.

New Delhi: Yogi Adityanath has “booked a plane ticket from Lucknow to Gorakhpur” for March 11, Akhilesh Yadav jibed today on the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, as BJP leaders put out multiple posts alleging that the Samajwadi Party chief is flying to London after the UP election result.

“The polling results will be out on March 10 but our Baba Mukhya Mantri has booked a plane ticket from Lucknow to Gorakhpur for March 11. Imagine how scared are BJP leaders.

Are they scared or not? (the crowd says yes) They don’t know that there is a 440-volt current running among the people against the BJP,” the Samajwadi Party leader said, addressing a rally in Bahraich.

The plane ride jibes began a while ago between the rivals. Now the screenshot of a plane ticket has gone viral. The so-called ticket, for an economy passenger from New Delhi to London with a stopover at Abu Dhabi, names “Mr Akhilesh Yadav” with “two pieces of baggage”.

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The Chief Justice pointed out that there was a “jump of 15,000 cases n ow”.

Delhi: On a request for a return to full physical hearings in the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Of India NV Ramana today called Omicron a “silent killer” and said he was still suffering after catching the virus nearly a month ago.

“Omicron is a silent killer, you know. I suffered in the first wave but recovered in four days, but now, in this wave, it has been 25 days and I am still suffering,” Chief Justice Ramana said.

His remarks came after senior lawyer Vikas Singh, who heads the Supreme Court Bar Association, requested the Supreme Court to revert to full physical hearings, with cases dipping.

Currently, hearings are taking place in a hybrid style, with physical hearings twice a week and the rest online.

The Chief Justice pointed out that there was a “jump of 15,000 cases now”. “It is Omicron, it is much milder,” Mr Singh replied.

When the Chief Justice then talked about still suffering the after-effects, the lawyer said: “Your Lordship has been unlucky in that regard. But people are recovering.”

BharatPe has sacked Madhuri Jain Grover, wife of company’s co-founder Ashneer Grover HiIndia Newsdesk

New Delhi: Fintech firm BharatPe has sacked Madhuri Jain Grover, the wife of its managing director Ashneer Grover, over alleged financial irregularities and cancelled the stock options she had. The move follows an external audit ordered by the BharatPe board. “We can confirm that services of Madhuri Jain Grover have been terminated in accordance with the terms of her employment agreement,” the spokesperson of BharatPe said today, confirming the termination.

Biden Announces New Sanctions

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Washington: US President Joe Biden on Tuesday (local time) announced new sanctions against Russia and called President Vladimir Putin’s moves in eastern Ukraine the “beginning of a Russian invasion”.

“We are implementing full blocking sanctions on two large Russian financial institutions: VEB and their military bank,” Biden said adding, “We are implementing comprehensive sanctions on Russia’s sovereign debt.

That means we have cut off Russia’s government from Western financing.

It can no longer raise money from the West and can not trade in its new debt on our markets or European markets either.” “Who in the Lord’s name does Putin think gives him the right to declare new so-called countries on territory that belongs to his neighbours?” Biden asserted from the White House podium. The US strongly condemned Putin’s decision to recognize the “so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics” as “independent.”

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Air India special flight leaves for Ukraine to bring back Indians

Pakistan PM Imran Khan To Visit Russia

It will take off from Boryspil International Airport and bookings are open through booking offices, website, call center, and authorised travel agents HiIndia Newsdesk

Air India’s special ferry flight has left for Ukraine from India today morning to bring back the Indian nationals, news agency ANI tweeted. The Dreamliner B-787 aircraft deployed for the special operation with a capacity of over 200 seats. The special flight from Ukraine will land in Delhi tonight.

The other two flights of Air India are scheduled for February 24 and 26.

The flights will take off from Boryspil International Airport and bookings are

open through Air India booking offices, website, call center, and authorised travel agents. As tensions escalated between the NATO countries and Russia over the Ukraine crisis, the Indian embassy

in Kyiv issued a fresh advisory in which it also asked all the Indian students to leave that country temporarily. “In view of the continued high levels of tensions and uncertainties with respect to the situation in Ukraine, all Indian nationals whose stay is not deemed essential and all Indian students are advised to leave Ukraine temporarily,” the embassy said.

It said available commercial flights and charter flights may be availed for travel, for “orderly and timely departure” from Ukraine.

IDFC Bank CEO Gifts $500,000 Of Shares To Chauffeur, Maths Tutor HiIndia Newsdesk

The chief executive officer of IDFC First Bank Ltd. gifted $530,000 worth of the shares he owns to his driver, trainer, and helpers at home and office in an unusual gesture of philanthropy in India. V. Vaidyanathan gave 900,000 shares or 3.7% of his holding in the private sector lender. The recipients will use the funds to buy homes, according to an exchange filing. The value of the holding is based on Monday’s closing price.

Filings show that Mr Vaidyanathan, 54, has gifted roughly 38% of his stake since January 2018, when he was head

Donald Trump may run for re-election in 2024: Kash Patel

V. Vaidyanathan gave 900,000 shares or 3.7% of his holding in the private sector lender.

of shadow lender Capital First that was later merged with listed IDFC Bank to create IDFC First Bank. That includes

Pakistan’s Imran Khan Offers A TV Debate With PM Modi

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan wants to have a TV debate with PM Narendra Modi. (File) HiIndia Newsdesk

Indian American Kash Patel, who served under the Trump administration as the chief of staff to the acting US Secretary of Defence during the last few weeks has claimed that US-India relationship has weakened under President Biden.

During an interview to PTI, Patel said that there is a good possibility of former president Donald Trump running for re-election in 2024.

Patel had attended both the Houston and Ahmedabad rallies of Trump and Indian PM Narendra Modi. He said, “President Trump and PM Modi had an extraordinary relationship with respect. And they were working together to counteract things like Chinese aggression not just on the Indian border but on the global stage.”

a 2020 gift to his former mathematics teacher, who had lent Mr Vaidyanathan 500 rupees when the now-CEO was a broke student who had won admission into a premier school but didn’t have the cash to travel to the institute.

Another 200,000 shares were sold by a welfare trust to fund its social activities, Monday’s filing shows.

Shares in IDFC First Bank have risen about 5% since Dec. 18, 2018, when the bank was created.It has also recovered from a 2020 slump amid the pandemic and Mr Vaidyanathan was re-appointed for another term that ends in 2024.

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Islamabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said today that he would

like to have a televised debate with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to resolve differences between the two nations. India and Pakistan have shared strained relations since gaining independence 75 years ago and fighting three wars since. “I would love to debate with Narendra Modi on TV,” Imran Khan told Russia Today in an interview, adding that it would be beneficial for the billion-plus people in the Indian subcontinent if differences could be resolved through debate.

Russia Destroyed Peace Efforts But We Won’t Give Up Our Land: Ukraine HiIndia Newsdesk

Kyiv : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia of wrecking Volodymyr peace talks and Zelenskiy ruled out making any territorial concessions in an address to the nation in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Zelenskiy said Ukraine was committed to peace and diplomacy after Russia formally recognized two Russianbacked separatist regions as independent on Monday evening.

The president said Ukraine was expecting “clear and effective” steps from its allies to act against Russia and called for an emergency summit of the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France.

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Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit Russia on February 23-24, the official Russian media has reported, signalling the first visit by a Pakistani premier to Moscow in 23 years. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that preparations for the visit of the Prime Minister Khan were underway, the state-run TASS news agency reported on Sunday.

“The visit will take place on February 23-24,” it quoted a source in diplomatic circles as saying.

Khan’s visit has not been officially announced by Pakistan and Russia.

US Orders Sanctions On Russia-Backed Ukraine Regions

Russia-Ukraine Crisis: President Joe Biden imposed sanctions on areas in eastern Ukraine.

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Washington: The United States took a wait-and-see attitude Monday to President Vladimir Putin’s order for Russian troops to deploy in separatist areas of Ukraine, saying that talks remain possible “until the tanks roll.” President Joe Biden imposed sanctions on the two Russian-backed areas in eastern Ukraine’s Donbass region.

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Amid the ongoing tensions between Ukraine and Russia, Air India will be operating three flights on the India-Ukraine route, starting Tuesday. The other two flights are scheduled for Thursday and Saturday. Air India will operate 3 flights between India-Ukraine (Boryspil International Airport) India on 22nd, 24th & 26th FEB 2022 Booking open through Air India Booking offices, Website, Call Centre and Authorised Travel Agents,” the Tata Group-run airline said in a tweet on Friday.

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Cinema is not just about heroism: Bobby Deol Citing the example of his recent outings like Class of 83 and his upcoming Love Hostel, Bobby Deol said the attempt is to break his onscreen image and look for varied roles.

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ollywood actor Bobby Deol, who will be they are very impactful,” Deol, known for films such as Gupt, seen in a villainous role in his upcoming Soldier, Ajnabee, Humraaz, told PTI in an interview. film Love Hostel, said he is scouting “I am trying to break my image and try to do different roles. to play characters that are unusual The audience has changed so much they are ready to accept and impactful. Written and directed by Shanker an actor with different avatars, characters. I am glad I got Raman, who helmed the acclaimed Pankaj Tripathi- the opportunity to play this role,” he said. starrer Gurgaon, the crime-thriller is set against The 53-year-old actor said he is looking to play strong and the backdrop of rustic North India and traces the challenging characters, that people would not envision volatile journey of a young couple (Vikrant Massey him, like the web-series Aashram, in which he was seen as and Sanya Malhotra) being hunted by a ruthless a self-styled godman. mercenary (Deol).

“I want to play characters that stand out whether in a film Citing the example of his recent outings like Class or a web-series, no matter how much the length of the of 83 and his upcoming Love Hostel, Deol said the character is, it is about how much people enjoy them after attempt is to break his onscreen image and look for watching the project and how the character has stayed in varied roles. He also said he is not restricting himself their mind,” he said. to playing the main lead. “When I did Class of 83 I “Even with cinema and I am working on a film, I want to was not the main lead, I was one of the characters look for characters that are interesting and have substance which is important to the story. Ditto with Love and are not just frivolous,” he added. Deol pointed out it is Hostel, I am playing a character in it, I am not the not just on OTT that he is getting an opportunity to play main lead. I enjoy doing these characters because a diverse role.

‘Don’t want my existence to be dependent on my male counterparts’

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ami Gautam says her constant endeavour is to make a place for herself in the industry, where her existence is not dependent on who she’s working with or her male counterparts. “If I’m getting work, it should be because they want to work with me and feel I have the potential to perform that character.

I don’t want to have a holding in a film by working with certain actors only,” Yami told.

Yami wants people to organically like her work, instead of her coercing them to watch and react to it. In her latest movie A Thursday, she plays a playschool teacher who takes 16 kids as hostages to get her demands met. Though Yami said playing Naina was emotionally overwhelming, she refused to call her a negative character. “Negative is subjective. I’ll say don’t judge the book by its cover. There are several layers to her.”

Ever since A Thursday’s trailer released, many are calling it a ‘spiritual sequel’ of Naseeruddin Shah starrer A Wednesday. But Yami disagrees. “Maybe the connection is there because Ronnie Screwvala has produced both, and because of the title or the structure.

Why would someone make two similar films when you know the audience is so aware in 2022? I’d request you to watch it as a new independent film,” she said.

Alia Bhatt auditioned for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Black at the age of 9: ‘He saw that fire in my eyes’

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ctor Alia Bhatt has finally become a Sanjay Leela Bhansali heroine with his upcoming film Gangubai Kathiawadi. But did you know that Alia wanted to star in a SLB film since the age of 9? At Berlin International Film Festival, the actor opened up about the moment when she decided she will work with Bhansali one day.

“My biggest inspiration before I began the film and through my film was my director sitting right here. I wanted to be directed by him ever since I was 9-years-old. That’s when I first walked into his house to audition for another film he was making at that time. I auditioned for Black, and I was terrible, which is why I did not get the part. But he looked at me, and he narrates that story even now, he looked into my eyes and said to himself that ‘she is going to be a heroine, a big actor someday,'” Alia Bhatt said, adding that the filmmaker saw “fire in my eyes when I was 9.”

Bhatt called Bhansali her biggest inspiration and revealed that she had auditioned for his 2005 directorial Black.

Former actor Zaira Wasim reacts to ongoing Hijab ban

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'Dangal' actor Zaira Wasim, on Saturday, reacted to the ongoing Hijab state of Karnataka.

Former actor Zaira Wasim is the latest to use her social media power to react on the same.

Taking to her Twitter handle Zaira posted a long note in which she spoke about "the inherited notion of hijab being a choice is an ill-informed one."

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Huma Qureshi on Double XL

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Double XL explores the journey of two plus-size women -- Rajshree Trivedi (Huma Qureshi) from Meerut and Saira Khanna (Sonakshi Sinha) from New Delhi as they navigate society's beauty standards.

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c t o r H u m a — Rajshree Trivedi (Qureshi) from Q ureshi s ays Meerut and Saira Khanna (Sinha) from she decided to New Delhi as they navigate society’s do Double XL, a beauty standards. film about body shaming, “It is a very important, fun and as she believes a “fun entertaining film. I can’t wait to share family entertainer” like it with everyone. I really believe that the upcoming project can social change happens through fun, play an important role in commercial, and family entertainer bringing about a change films,” Qureshi, who currently stars in in society. the ZEE5 series Mithya, told. But not Billed as a “slice-of-life every social responsibility should fall comedy” that revolves on filmmakers, she pointed out. “We around body weight have to be responsible when we are stereotypes, the film is making the film. It is a situation where directed by Helmet fame you have to monitor your own choices Satramm Ramani and and why you are doing it,” the 35-yearalso stars Sonakshi old actor added. Produced by T-Series, Sinha. Double Wakaoo Films and Mudassar Aziz, XL explores Double XL is scheduled to be released the journey in 2022. Besides this film, Qureshi is of two plus- awaiting the release of her Tamil movie size women Valimai, co-starring Ajith.

Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Kapoor recreate their 'Raja' chemistry on 'The Kapil Sharma Show'

Actor Ranveer Singh shared a photo with ace basketball player, LeBron James, and called it a ‘precious moment’, from the recent NBA AllStar game that was held in Cleveland.

In the picture shared on Instagram, Ranveer is seen holding hands with LeBron James. Ranveer captioned the post, “The King and i !!! @kingjames.

What a precious moment I’m shook!”

Ranveer is the current ambassador for NBA India and was announced as part of the Team Walton roster. The All-Star Celebrity Game, featuring actors, comedians, singers, rappers, athletes and more was played on Friday, February 18, Wolstein Center in Cleveland. Ranveer had previously attended an NBA All-Star Weekend in Toronto in 2016.

‘I tell myself — that’s not the only thing’ Sonali Bendre on feeling insecure about how she looks after cancer battle

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n conversation host Kapil Sharma, Sanjay shared how he came to the show after practicing the dance steps for the songs. As he thought he might have forgotten the choreography, but Madhuri will remember each dance move.

Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit along with actor Sanjay Kapoor will be seen together recreating the iconic steps of the song 'Akhiyaan Milaoon' and 'Nazrein Mili Dil Dhadka' from their film 'Raja' on 'The Kapil Sharma Show'.

They are appearing as celebrity guests to promote their web series 'The Fame Game'.

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onali Bendre is all set to judge Dance India Dance L’il Masters season 5. She will be seen sharing the stage with choreographerfilmmaker Remo D’souza and TV actor Mouni Roy. This is her first project after she was diagnosed with cancer and underwent treatment. For the actor, while it was “not planned” to make a comeback with a reality show, she intends to live the experience to the fullest because she has understood the importance of living in the moment, especially after her “so near death” experience.

Sonali Bendre said that after all the physical changes her body has gone through, her intention is to “have more fun on the show than I ever did.” She added that this time, she will “focus more on the process and enjoy every minute of the shooting”. “I have understood that you have to be in the moment and enjoy it, especially when you’ve been so near death,” she said.

Sonali said her body has changed a lot after cancer. And while she has accepted and learnt that “there is beauty in imperfection too,” sometimes she battles with the insecurity about her looks. She said there were moments when she ends up feeling insecure about her looks, but she has a process where she tells herself that it is not the only thing.

Bhu m i Pe d nek ar Warrior, which aims at raising awareness towards protecting nature. is not only being a Now, the actor is extending her step towards the cause. She is all responsible actor set to speak at the prestigious Harvard University wherein she will by choosing scripts highlight the impact of the youth in climate change. that voice important “Ever since I started Climate Warrior, my intent was to create as issues but is also much awareness as possible around sustainability as a way of life being a responsible and how climate change is going to impact all our lives,” the actor citizen by speaking said in a statement. She added that through her initiative she up on climate change. wants to reach out to as many people as possible in the country as The actor has been well as across the globe. “It is heartening for me to see that people receiving accolades are paying attention to what can happen if we don’t address the for her social media issue of climate change and making small changes in their lives to initiative Climate conserve,” Bhumi Pednekar said.

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CURRENT AFFAIRS

Centre Invokes IT Rule to Ban Punjab Politics TV’s Apps, Site, Social Media Accounts The I&B ministry claimed it had intelligence input that the channel was connected to the SFJ and wanted to disturb public order during the assembly elections.

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he Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Tuesday, February 22, said it has blocked the apps, website and social media accounts of the foreignbased ‘Punjab Politics TV’. The government has claimed the outlet is linked to the banned Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) organisation and said it had intelligence input that it was attempting to use the online platforms to disturb public order during the assembly elections.

The Union government, by a July 10, 2019 notification had declared SFJ an unlawful association under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, and banned it for five Information and broadcasting minister years, saying the group’s primary objective was to establish an Anurag Thakur. “independent and sovereign country” in Punjab and claiming The government has claimed the that it openly espouses the cause of Khalistan. outlet is linked to the banned Sikhs The Union government on February 18 invoked its emergency For Justice (SFJ) organisation and powers under the new and controversial Information said it had intelligence input that it Technology Rules to block the channel’s digital media resources. This ‘emergency power’ within the IT Rules, is was attempting to use the online reserved with the Secretary of the I&B ministry, who can pass platforms to disturb public order interim orders blocking any content without even giving an during the assembly elections. opportunity of hearing. Concerns have been voiced on the

legality of such emergency powers.

In an analysis, The Wire – which is one of several media outlets that have moved court against provisions in the new IT Rules – notes that publishers of news and current affairs content were to be subjected to an adjudicatory mechanism parallel to courts of law, on a range of grounds which are not even offences under the parent IT Act. In the case of Punjab Politics TV, the ministry said that the content of the blocked apps, websites and social media accounts had had the potential to incite communal disharmony, separatism and were found to be detrimental to the sovereignty and integrity of India, security of the state, and public order.

It was also claimed that the launch of new apps and social media accounts was “timed to gain traction” during the ongoing elections. “Government of India remains vigilant and committed to secure the overall information environment in India and thwart any actions having the potential to undermine India’s sovereignty and integrity,” the ministry said.

Assembly polls were held in Punjab on February 20 and the results will be declared on March 10.

Why Was Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik Arrested?

Sources say Nawab Malik was grilled over alleged transactions with Dawood Ibrahim’s associates and land deals.

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awab Malik, the second Maharashtra Minister to be arrested by a central probe agency in four months, faces charges related to a land deal involving terrorist Dawood Ibrahim. The Enforcement Directorate is investigating money-laundering linked to the underworld and had recently carried out multiple raids besides filing cases against the underworld.

Iqbal Kaskar, Dawood Ibrahim’s brother, was arrested in the case last week.

Some evidence showed transactions between Nawab Malik and associates of Dawood Ibrahim, said Enforcement Directorate sources. The agency first searched Nawab Malik briefly before taking him to its south Mumbai office. The minister was arrested after five hours of questioning. “He gave evasive replies and did not cooperate with us,” said an official. Sources also said Nawab Malik was grilled over alleged transactions with Dawood Ibrahim’s associates and land deals.

Some evidence related to the property bought by Nawab Malik surfaced during the investigation, officials said. Nawab Malik, a five-time MLA, is the national spokesperson of Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), which is a part of Maharashtra’s Shiv Sena-led government. He is the minister in charge of minority affairs. He is among the most vocal critics of the BJP and in recent months, became the face of the opposition’s allegations at the Centre over the drugs arrest of megastar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan by the Narcotics Control Bureau.

Reacting to the Enforcement Directorate’s move, Sharad Pawar said, “Which case have they dug up? It is simple. They take the name of Dawood, especially if there is a Muslim activist (against whom a case is dug up)...There is no relation (between the activist concerned and underworld), but it is done.”

Last week, the Enforcement Directorate had conducted raids at the home of Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Haseena Parkar in Mumbai in the money laundering case. The agency had also questioned Dawood’s nephew and Parkar’s son Alishah Parkar and Chota Shakeel’s henchman, Salim Qureshi, also Salim Fruits.

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SPORTS

When you go to Australia, you need those kinds of shot-making abilities: Rohit Sharma

Sports Brief News “Shocking”: Ravi Shastri Asks Sourav Ganguly To Step In

Sanju Samson has been drafted into the squad and it would be interesting to see whether the management gives him a go in the playing XI.

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ndian captain Rohit Sharma on Wednesday praised Sanju Samson, saying that the righthanded wicketkeeper-batter is extremely talented. Sanju Samson has been drafted into the squad and it would be interesting to see whether the management gives him a go in the playing XI. “Speaking of Samson, I think you know that guy has got talent man. Whenever we have seen him bat in IPL and all of that, he has just produced an innings where everyone goes over the moon

India should exploit Danish players’ weakness on grass in Davis Cup tie: Anand

watching that inning,” Rohit said on the eve of the first T20I against Sri Lanka in Lucknow. “He has got the skill-set to succeed. Now that is the whole point about this sport, a lot of people have skill-set, have talent, but it is how you utilise them is the most critical part and I think, it is up to Sanju to understand how he want to utilise the talent and how he can maximise it. “Because as a team, as a team management, we see lot of potential, we see lot of talent and we see lot of match-winning abilities in that individual,” elaborated the skipper.

“Brotherhood Continues”: Suryakumar Yadav

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Former national team captain Anand Amritraj feels Indian players should exploit their Danish opponents’ weakness on grass to prevail over the visitors in their Davis Cup World Group I playoff tie on March 4 and 5 here. “The fact that we got the opportunity to hold matches on grass will be a massive advantage. Danish players will be used to slow hard courts or clay surfaces, and they will not prefer the faster grass courts one bit,” Amritraj said.

“India needs to capitalise on this and prove they are superior grass players. However, it will not be a straightforward task. But I really reckon that we are firm favourites,” the 70-year-old two-time US Open quarterfinalist in doubles said in a release.

The post, which had two photos of Suryakumar hugging Pollard, was captioned, “& the brotherhood continues”. Both Suryakumar and Pollard have been teammates in the Indian Premier League (IPL) for several years now, even before Suryakumar made his international debut. The two players share a great bond and will continue to play with each other after Mumbai Indians decided to retain both players ahead of the IPL mega auction. The photo shared by the Indian middle-order batter just goes to show the bond that modern day cricketers share, despite representing their national teams against each other.

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Wriddhiman Saha has received support from all quarters after he shared a screenshot of messages from a “journalist”.

Virender Sehwag was among the first to come out in support of Saha, and now former India coach Ravi Shastri too has reacted to the controversy. Shastri said it was “shocking a player being threatened by a journo” and asked BCCI president Sourav Ganguly to look into the matter.

“Shocking a player being threatened by a journo. Blatant position abuse. Something that’s happening too frequently with #TeamIndia. Time for the BCCI PREZ to dive in. Find out who the person is in the interest of every cricketer. This is serious coming from ultimate team man WS,” Shastri tweeted on Sunday night.

“Got Everything We Wanted From West Indies Series, Good Sign Moving Forward As Group”: Rohit Sharma

R Praggnanandhaa, 16, Stuns World No.1 Magnus Carlsen In Airthings Masters Chess Young Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa stunned World No.1 Magnus Carlsen in the eighth round of the Airthings Masters, an online rapid chess tournament.

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Young Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa stunned World No.1 Magnus Carlsen in the eighth round of the Airthings Masters, an online rapid chess tournament.

Praggnanandhaa won with black pieces in 39 moves in a Tarrasch variation game early on Monday to halt Carlsen’s run of three straight wins. The Indian GM lies in joint 12th spot after eight rounds with eight points. His spectacular win over Carlsen comes after a moderate run in the earlier rounds, which included a solitary victory over Lev Aronian, two draws and four defeats.

He drew against Anish Giri and Quang Liem Le and lost to Eric Hansen, Ding Liren, Jan-Kryzstof Duda and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov.

Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi, who lost the world championship match a few months ago to the Norwegian world no 1 Carlsen, is on top of the standings with 19 points followed by Ding Liren and Hansen (both on 15 points).

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India skipper Rohit Sharma on Sunday said that his side managed to achieve everything they wanted in the series against West Indies.

Suryakumar Yadav’s 65-run knock was backed up by a spirited bowling performance as India defeated West Indies by runs in the third and final T20I here at the Eden Gardens on Sunday. Harshal Patel returned with three wickets while Venkatesh Iyer also got two wickets. “The team that used to chase, there are not many people from that squad. We wanted to bat first and chase as well in this series. Because our middle order is fairly new. Happy with the series. Pretty much got everything we wanted.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Indian High Commission Issues Advisory For Students Coming To Canada HiIndia Newsdesk

O T TAWA , C A N A D A – T h e Indian high commission here has cautioned Indian students coming to Canada to make thorough checks of the credentials and standing of the institution before making any payments. “Please demand certificate of recognition by Canadian/ provincial government from the institutions and verify that the institution selected is included in the list of designated learning institutions published on the Government of Canada website,” it said.

It comes in the wake of 2,000 Indian students stranded by the abrupt closure of three colleges, M College in Montreal, CED College in Sherbrooke and CCSQ College in Longueil, all run

by Rising Phoenix International Inc. The high commission has been flooded with pleas for help by the students.

The high commission said it has been in close contact with Canada’s federal government, the provincial

“Please demand certificate of recognition

by Canadian/ provincial government from the institutions and verify that the institution selected is included in the list of designated learning institutions published on the Government of Canada website,

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government of Quebec, and members of the Indian Canadian community to provide support to the affected students.

The students meanwhile have been asked by the Quebec government to

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directly contact the institutions where they are enrolled. In case the students face any difficulty in reimbursement of their fees or transfer of fees, the high commission said, they should file a

complaint with the ministry of higher education of Quebec province.

The authorities are providing a grace period to enrolled students who are already present in Canada to seek admission in an alternative institution.

Jesse White Extends Driver’s License And ID Card Expiration

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CHICAGO, IL- Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White announced that expiration dates for driver’s licenses Pt Anil Joshi Ji and Pt Radhakrishna Ji performing Abhishekam and ID cards have been extended an additional three months – from Jan. 1, HiIndia Newsdesk 2022, to March 31, 2022. This extension does not apply to commercial driver’s GRAYSLAKE, IL- Hindu Mandir of devotees attended this program, as it is licenses (CDL) and CDL learner’s Lake County, Grayslake, IL celebrated believed that the union of Lord Shiva permits.

White noted this will be the ‘Shiva-Parvati Kalyanam’ the marriage and Ma Shakti brings peace, prosperity, final extension. ceremony of divine couple, Lord Siva and success in all aspects of life and “During the pandemic, my office has and HIS consort Goddess Parvati promotes spiritual enlightenment. continued to serve the public, including The program was started by the face-to-face transactions, in a safe and Sankalpam of 24 sponsors and followed responsible manner,” said White. “This by the Pradosha Abhishekam of Lord Ganesh, Lord Shiva and Ma Parvati by Pt. extension is necessary as my office continues to address the heavy customer Anil Joshi Ji and Pt. Radhakrishna Ji since volume caused by the COVID-19 it was a Pradosham day. All Vedic rituals pandemic through expanded online of Hindu marriage were performed with services and the introduction of chanting of Vedic mantras especially appointments at select Driver Services Punya Vachanam, offering of Mangala facilities. ” Sutram, Vastradanam to Lord Shiva and Paravati and jayamala. Later Lalita Public Act 102-678 authorizes the Trishati Archana was also performed by Secretary of State’s office to extend chanting 300 holy names of the mother driver’s license and ID card expiration dates to March 31, 2022.

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Ananda Tandava Dance performed by Santosha and Shaila Pochiraji sisiters After Shiva-Parvati Kalyanam Poojan, Throughout the pandemic, White’s office has launched a diversified effort Pt. Joshi Ji along with all the devotees with utmost pomp and gaiety on to address the heavy customer demand blessed and wished a happy birthday Monday, February1 3, 2022. However, to Surendrabushan Jhingan, one of at facilities caused by the ongoing all the devotees followed the COVID the oldest devotees of the temple who pandemic by requiring appointments guidelines and social distancing at select facilities and expanding online turned 95 on the same day. measures. More than two hundred services. These efforts include:

Urging the public to consider using online services at ilsos.gov instead of visiting a facility for transactions such as purchasing license plate stickers, obtaining a duplicate driver’s license or ID card, and renewing driver’s licenses and ID cards, including REAL IDs, for those who are eligible.

(3 bullet points) Requiring appointments at select Driver Services facilities for behind-the-wheel road tests, REAL IDs, standard driver’s licenses and ID cards. Customers may visit ilsos.gov for a list of participating facilities, as well as to schedule an appointment. New appointment slots will be available each day at ilsos.gov.

Expanding remote renewal for driver’s license and ID card holders. Since fall, the office has been mailing letters to eligible customers with expired driver’s licenses and ID cards requiring them to renew online, by phone or by mail. The office estimates that this will eliminate the need for approximately 1 million people to visit a facility.

Urging the public to consider using online services at ilsos.gov instead of visiting a facility for transactions such as purchasing license plate stickers, obtaining a duplicate driver’s license or ID card, and renewing driver’s licenses and ID cards, including REAL IDs, for those who are eligible.

As a reminder, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has extended the federal REAL ID deadline to May 3, 2023.

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Rajeev Aluru Is New President For Ekal’s Houston Chapter HiIndia Newsdesk

HOUSTON, TX-Rajeev Aluru is all set to lead Ekal Vidyalaya’s educational initiatives as its Houston Chapter President.

Ekal’s youngest president is clearly energized about his new role which he describes as “a divine opportunity that knocked on my door.”

A relatively new Houstonian Rajeev, 41, outlined his vision for Ekal with the leadership in Rajeev Aluru Houston. Rajeev’s journey with Ekal began in 2014 in North Carolina when he accepted an invitation to a fundraiser dinner from a colleague.

Rajeev became an active volunteer and developed a keen understanding of the foundational impact Ekal was making in rural India’s education. Today the Ekal movement, started in 1989 with one village and one school, has the distinction of overseeing over one lakh schools offering free schooling, vocational training, digital competence, agricultural education and much more.

After his engineering degree in India, Rajeev enrolled in Auburn University, Alabama. As we face a post Covid world, Rajeev realizes the need to rewrite Ekal’s outreach strategies. His team is drafting a model to facilitate entrepreneurship, jobs, avenues to profits and an approach that will empower villages to a point where “they don’t need us anymore.” He intends to create a program to encourage donors to visit Ekal schools in India to witness first hand how their contributions are benefiting millions of underprivileged children.

The organization will also leverage digital marketing to augment Ekal’s presence beyond the traditional fundraising events. The new president has an ambitious one million dollar benchmark for this year’s fundraising.

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Chicago Police Warning To North Side Business Owners HiIndia Newsdesk

Police say a group of offenders broke windows using a brick or by kicking the glass to enter the business. They then headed straight for the cash register, broke it open and stole the money from within.

CHICAGO, IL – Chicago police are warning North Side business owners of recent burglaries that have occurred overnight. In each incident, police say a group of offenders broke windows using a brick or by kicking the glass to enter the business. They then headed straight for the cash register, broke it open and stole the money from within.

The cr imes to ok place in t he Uptown neighborhood at the following times and locations.

North Broadway, February 21, 2022 at 1:30 a.m.,

North Sheridan, February 18, 2022 at 3:30 a.m., 4800 block of North Sheridan, February 18, 2022 at 9:30 p.m. -11:00 a.m., West Argyle, February 18, 2022 at 9:00 p.m. -9:30 a.m., 1000 block of West Argyle, February 13, 2022 at 6:45 p.m. -7:55 a.m.

Police were not able to provide any description of the offenders. They also encourage businesses to install quality video surveillance cameras and alarms to deter these crimes.

Anyone with information on these crimes is asked to contact Area Three Detectives at 312-744-8263.

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Indian Origin Florida Man Charged With Almost $20 Million In Fraud HiIndia Newsdesk

Orlando, FL –United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Nikesh Ajay Patel (38, formerly from Orlando) has been arraigned on charges related to almost $20 million in fraud that he perpetrated while on federal pretrial release. Patel has been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, three counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, and eight counts of money laundering.

Patel faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison for each count of conspiracy and wire fraud and up to 20 years in federal prison for each count of money laundering. His trial is currently scheduled for the April 2022 trial term.

According to court documents, in 2014, Patel, a Central Florida resident, was

charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois for a $179 million fraud scheme. He was arrested and released on bond. For the next several years, Patel claimed that he was cooperating with authorities and using his business skills to get funds to repay some of what he owed. In fact, Patel had devised a new scheme that netted him almost $20 million.

Patel’s new fraud scheme involved three parts. First, Patel fabricated fraudulent loan documents that falsely represented

Patel was arrested at the airport in Kissimmee. Patel had chartered a flight to Ecuador where he was going to request political asylum and live off the proceeds that he obtained from his new scheme.

that a bank in Miami had authorized loans to be made to convert hotels in rural areas into assisted living facilities.

Although the bank in Miami exists, it had never made any of the loans. The person who was listed as signing the loans (“Ron Elias”) does not exist, but was a fictitious identity used by Patel to perpetrate his conspiracy and scheme.

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Patel’s indictment in the Middle District of Florida relates to the conspiracy and fraud scheme that he executed while on he was pretrial release.An indictment is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed one or more violations of federal criminal law, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless, and until, proven guilty.

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NEW YORK , NY- Police in New York City were investigating several violent attacks over the weekend in the subway system.

This latest spurt of mayhem came as Mayor Eric Adams is set to roll out his new subway safety plan in an effort to cut down on crime on the subway system. The plan calls for more cops

on top of the surge that has been underway. But now they will be joined by homeless and mental health outreach workers at major transit hubs and end-of-the-line stations like 168th Street and Broadway, the end of the C train line.

Early Monday morning, there was trouble on the No. 4 train near the 167th Street Station in the Bronx. A disturbed man who appeared homeless erupted into an unprovoked violent rage, then swung a pipe and hit a 30-year-old woman in the head. And that followed a weekend of violence on the city’s subway platforms and trains in which at least six people were stabbed. Adams’ plan, announced Friday, involves sending more police, mental health clinicians and social service outreach workers into the subways. Adams spokesperson Fabien Levy said Monday that a “phased-in” implementation was beginning.

CHICAGO, IL- The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers to be on the lookout for a new scam where con artists send text messages that look like they’re from your boss.

The BBB of Chicago & Northern Illinois on Tuesday said scammers are sending texts claiming to be the receivers boss, and using their real-life name in the messages.

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Dozens of cameras are taking millions Houston,” Schultz said.

Bernas said con artists even attempted of pictures of driver’s license plates each The automated license plate readers, to scam the BBB, but the company month. One local police chief said the also known as ALPRs, were put into had processes in place to prevent the technology helped catch 25 times as service across the Memorial Villages scammer from being successful. many suspects in wanted vehicles as last year. “Notice automatically goes to Bernas advised consumers to always the year before. Each time a vehicle our dispatch center and our officers in double-check before sending money, passes one of the automatic license the field,” Schultz said. gift cards or information, no matter plate reading cameras in the Memorial The Memorial Villages’ network of 30 how believable the reason sounds.

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Keep yourself hydrated throughout the day Water is the elixir of life. Human beings need water to survive as it “directly affects the body’s blood circulation, body temperature, digestion, transfer of nutrients and several biochemical reactions” Carry a water bottle Carry a portable water bottle wherever you go — preferably not a singleuse, plastic one. Keeping a water bottle with you at all times will ensure that you don’t get caught in a situation with no access to drinking water.

Doing so will also help you keep track of your daily water consumption. A reusable water bottle is always a sustainable option.

Use a hydration app on your phone If you can’t keep track of your water consumption on the regular, consider installing a hydration app on your phone that will calculate how much water you need. It’s ingenious for people with highly engrossing work that keeps them at their desk for long hours — just keep an ear out for the alarm and drink away.

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Opt for fresh fruit juices, smoothies and soups Having water is not the only way you can hydrate yourself! If you don’t like sipping on plain water, there are a ton of options out there for you. Choose fresh fruit and vegetable juices, tender coconut water, smoothies and hearty soups to keep yourself full and hydrated.

Differentiate between hunger and thirst Do you often get hunger pangs throughout the day even though you’ve had meals? It might be a cause of dehydration– your body’s way of telling you to replenish.

If you’ve been wanting to eat too many snacks lately, consider having a glass of water each time and notice the difference.

Two glasses of wine enough to hit daily sugar limit Analysis of more than 30 bottles of wine has found two glasses could be enough to reach the recommended daily sugar limit for adults.

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sliced fruits and vegetables, herbs, makes for a refreshing beverage. Choose seasonal produce to keep bringing variation to your detox water recipes. “Citrus fruits, berries and herbs such as ginger will make your beverages delicious”, suggested Dr Kumar.

Plain water, which is then fortified with

esearch by Alcohol t also found lower-strength wines were among Health Alliance UK those containing the most sugar, meaning they found some bottles were not necessarily a healthy choice, despite had up to 59g of their lower alcohol content. sugar - more than a glazed In the UK, alcoholic drinks are required to doughnut. An independent display volume and strength in units of alcohol laboratory analysed bottles of red, by volume (ABV). Labelling must also identify white, rosé, fruit and sparkling wine any common allergens, but there are no from popular UK brands. None of the requirements for ingredients, health warnings bottles featured nutritional information on or nutritional value as found on many other labels as this is currently not required by law. food and drink food products.

Calorie content was only displayed on a fifth A YouGov survey of more than 12,000 people of the bottles analysed by the lab. Campaigners last year found that 61% wanted calorie are calling for change, to better inform wine information on wine labels - and more than drinkers about how many calories and how 50% of those surveyed wanted the amount of much sugar they are consuming. The NHS sugar listed. recommends adults consume a maximum of In 2020, the UK government held a 30g of “free sugars” per day, which includes consultation on whether calories should be sugar in fruit juices and smoothies, or sugar listed on alcoholic drinks - but there was no added to food or drink. Analysis shows consultation on whether sugar content should that it’s possible to reach an adult’s be listed. Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, chair of the daily sugar limit by drinking Alcohol Health Alliance UK, called the current two medium-sized glasses of rules “absurd”. some wines.

“Shoppers who buy milk or orange juice have

US government plans to make high-quality masks available for kids

High-quality masks for children soon might be easier to find in the United States, if government plans come to fruition.

The US government plans to make high-quality face masks available for children, and “that process is underway,” Dr. Tom Inglesby, senior adviser to the White House Covid-19 Response Team, told on Wednesday. The forthcoming plan appears to be an extension of the White House’s ongoing effort to distribute 400 million free N95 masks from the Strategic National Stockpile for the public to access at pharmacies and community health centers nationwide.

“Already, 230 million masks have been delivered to pharmacies and community health centers as part of the administration’s efforts to deliver high-quality masks around the country, and that process will continue,” Inglesby said during a virtual White House briefing Wednesday.

“We are now in the process of planning for the distribution of masks for children, and we’ll have more to say about that in the days ahead,” he added. “But there is a commitment to do that.”

Labelling must also identify any common allergens, but there are no requirements for ingredients, health warnings or nutritional value as found on many other food and drink food products. sugar content and nutritional information right at their fingertips,” he said.

“But this information is not required when it comes to alcohol - a product not just fuelling obesity, but with widespread health harms and linked to seven types of cancer.”

Miles Beale, who heads up the Wine and Spirit Trade Association, says members of the group want people to have access to nutritional information for all alcoholic drinks, but suggested the information should be carried online. “[We] have been pushing for greater information to be provided online,” said Mr Beale. “The alcohol industry can provide consumers with a far greater variety of information that is more relevant to consumers and which would not fit on a label,” he added.

“There is significant variation in the number of calories in different alcoholic drinks and in different servings of drinks. Online is the best way to provide the volume and variety of information that consumers need to make quick and easy informed decisions.

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Inside Sobhita Dhulipala’s sari wardrobe Actor Sobhita Dhulipala made her marquee debut in 2016, but it was her turn as wedding planner Tara Khanna in web series Made in Heaven (2019) that really catapulted her into the limelight. Her poignant performance won her acclaim, while her carefully curated costumes singled her out as a rising fashion star.

The star of her wardrobe in the show? A versatile edit of saris —be it contemporary scene-stealers from 431-88

by Shweta Kapur or thoroughly classic drapes from Raw Mango, Galang Gabaan and Ekaya among others; both of which the actor carried with equal ease.

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However, as much as you may like it, it’s not always possible to take out the time for it or pay an exorbitant price for an expensive treatment every week. Therefore, having a hand-held face massager at home can be a blessing. By incorporating a quick DIY massage routine into your daily skin care, you can take years off your skin and brighten up your complexion.

For a radiant skin

Ever since, it has become apparent that when it comes to her style (both onscreen and off it too), Dhulipala doesn’t believe in boxing herself into the confines of just one particular sartorial sensibility. The style chameleon can pull off streetwear from Huemn as easily as she can heritage weaves from Raw Mango.

‘Never imagined such fame’: Mammikka, the daily wage labourer

A 60 year old daily wage labourer — Mammikka — from Kerala’s Calicut found instant internet fame as his photoshoot for a wedding suit company went viral on social media.

The aesthetically shot pictures by photographer, videographer and

graphic designer Shareek Vayalil Shk, who is also the founder of SHK Digital Wedding Studio, were initially shared on Instagram.

“Mammikka is my neighbour; he has a special photography look, and was hence a natural choice,” Shareek told

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oha, a dish cooked from flattened rice, is a popular breakfast meal in many Indian households. You can cook it with peanuts and curry leaves, or with vegetables.

Besides being easy to prepare, poha has numerous health benefits too. It is widely considered as a probiotic food. It also aids digestion, contains carbohydrates and proteins and is healthy for your gut.

Poha as a health fix Poha has a high carbohydrate content; its fat content, on the other hand, is way less. The combination keeps the body fit, flexible and provides a steady dose of energy to last you through the day.

The low calorie count of poha is complemented well by its high iron content. The benefits increase when cooked with curry leaves, which are rich in antioxidants.

Poha is also rich in fibre, which helps control blood sugar levels. It is also easily digestible, does not cause bloating and is gluten-free.

How to serve poha Top your poha with a little sev or bhujia and serve it with home-made mint chutney. You could also squeeze a bit of lemon juice if you want to make it tangy.

Erratic sleeping and eating patterns and poor lifestyle habits such as sitting in an air-conditioned room for long hours, combined with external factors such as exposure to air pollution and smoke, can take a massive toll on your skin— making it dull, lifeless, puffy and pale. A simple DIY facial massage with a manual roller or an electric massager can do you tonnes of good.

It not only helps improve the blood and oxygen flow in your skin but also deep cleanses it. The circular motion of the roller or the brush is also great for opening blocked pores and removing dead skin, excess oil and blackheads.

The right way to do it

How to go about it, you may ask.

In an Elle article, Julia Baba, an aesthetician with The Spa at the Four Seasons Hotel Toronto, suggests you “start upward. Massage the neck and décolletage area, gently working toward the forehead and tending to the pressure points along the way. Be sure to concentrate on the delicate skin around the eye area with gentle circular motions.” If you are stepping out of a hot shower, Baba suggests, you splash some cold water on your skin because the contrast “helps to stimulate blood circulation”.

Helps relieve stress

We all lead high-pressure lives, trying to manage too many things simultaneously which can be very stressful. With hectic work hours and so much anxiety, our facial muscles constantly feel tense and tight. Just the way a facial at a salon or spa helps release stress and tension, the same way, a handheld face massager can help roll the blues away. By focusing on the pressure points on your face with the massager, you can relieve muscle tension and stress in a few minutes.

Aids absorption

Besides tightening your skin, brightening your complexion and helping you release stress, face massager also aids better absorption of skincare products like serums and creams, making them more effective.

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People of all faiths should accept school dress code, says Amit Shah HiIndia Newsdesk

With the controversy over the ban on hijab in education institutions simmering in Karnataka, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that people of all religions should accept the school’s dress code. At the same time, he added that the decision by the (Karnataka high) court, which is hearing the matter, will be followed by all.

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Bengaluru: Vehicles were set on fire and isolated incidents of stone-pelting were reported as tension spread in Karnataka’s Shivamogga town over the murder of a member of right-wing outfit Bajrang Dal. Harsha, a 26-year-old Bajrang Dal member who worked as a tailor, was stabbed by

unidentified persons around 9 pm last night. He was rushed to hospital but could not survive. Police have arrested three people in connection with the murder case.

After the attack, several vehicles in the area were set on fire and police deployed heavy force to prevent a flare-up.

Pakistani Man Sentenced For Health Care Fraud And Money Laundering Conspiracy

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An Indian American engineer, Sanjay Ramabhadran has been appointed as the next chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County. With this new role he became the first man from the Indian American community to lead the public transportation agency in Texas. Ramabhadran has been a longtime community leader and was the president of the Indo-American Chamber of Greater Houston.

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CHICAGO, IL – A Pakistani man was sentenced today in the Northern District of Illinois for a health care fraud scheme and money laundering conspiracy. Muhammad Ateeq, 33, of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, was sentenced to 12 years in prison and ordered to pay approximately $48 million in restitution.

In addition, Indian American Judge Manish Shah ordered the forfeiture of a $2.4 million cashier’s check and over $1

Russia Says “Premature” To Organise Biden- Putin Summit On Ukraine HiIndia Newsdesk

Moscow: The Kremlin said Monday it was too early to discuss organising a summit between the Russian and American presidents, after Paris announced the possibility of a meeting to calm tensions over Ukraine. The French presidency announced early Monday that an agreement had been reached in principle for US President Joe Biden to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, so long as Moscow holds back from sending troops into Ukraine.“It’s premature to talk about any specific plans for organising any kind of summits,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

million in cash.

According to court documents, Ateeq worked in the Islamabad office of Home Health Care Consulting, an entity that controlled Medicare billing and maintenance of electronic medical records for over 20 home health agencies located in Illinois, Indiana, Nevada and Texas. While working at Home Health Care Consulting, Ateeq used a variety of fake identities, including “Nilesh Patel,” “Sanjay Kapoor” and “Rajesh Desai,” to acquire and manage home health agencies in the United States. Once the agencies were under Ateeq’s control, Ateeq caused the agencies to submit fraudulent claims to Medicare for home health services, resulting in over $40 million in payments for services that were never rendered. he FBI Chicago Field Office and HHS-OIG investigated the case. Trial Attorney Sarah Wilson Rocha of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jeremy Daniel and Patrick Mott of the Northern District of Illinois prosecuted the case.

Lalu Yadav Gets 5 Years In Jail In Fodder Scam Case, Fined Rs. 60 Lakh HiIndia Newsdesk

Patna: Lalu Yadav was sentenced today to five years in jail and fined Rs. 60 lakh in a fifth case linked to the fodder scam.

The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader was convicted in the case last week. The case involves the illegal withdrawal of Rs. 139.5 crore from the Doranda treasury, as part of the fodder scam that took place in the 1990s, when Lalu Yadav was Chief Minister of Bihar.

The three-time Chief Minister was found guilty along with 39 others.

Lalu Yadav, who is out on bail and is unwell, joined the court hearing through video conferencing.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meanwhile, said Russia is planning “the biggest war in Europe since 1945”.

Moscow: Moscow today said shell fired from Ukraine destroyed a Russian border facility.

Western countries fear a build-up of Russian troops near Ukraine in recent weeks is a prelude to an invasion and say this would trigger “massive” sanctions against Moscow. Russia denies any plans to invade but wants sweeping security guarantees.

Tensions between Moscow and the West have been growing for weeks over a feared Russian attack on Ukraine and a large build-up of Moscow’s troops around Ukrainian borders. Western intelligence agencies claim that around 1.6 lakh Russian troops are ready to attack Ukraine.

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2008 Ahmedabad Blasts Case Death Sentence To 38 Out Of 49 Convicts On February 8, a Gujarat court convicted 49 accused and acquitted 28 others in the case. The court had ended the trial in the more than 13-year-old case in September last year.

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special court designated for the speedy trial of the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts case sentenced 38 of the 49 convicts to death under provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. The 11 others were sentenced to life in jail till death.

Pronouncing the judgment, Special Judge AR Patel

awarded a compensation of Rs 1 lakh to those who had died in the blasts. He also awarded a compensation of Rs 50,000 for victims with serious injuries and Rs 25,000 for those with minor ones.

Usman Agarbattiwala, the only one convicted under the Arms Act and among those sentenced to death, has been additionally awarded a year of imprisonment for conviction under the Arms Act.

Sentences awarded to each of the 49 convicts under each section of the IPC, UAPA, Explosive Substances Act and Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, will run concurrently. Additionally, the court has imposed a fine of Rs 2.85 lakh each on 48 convicts.

Agarbattiwala, with his additional sentence under Arms Act, has been imposed with a Rs 2.88 lakh-fine.

Ex NSE Chief, Accused Of Sharing Info With Himalayan Yogi, Interrogated

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New Delhi: Chitra Ramkrishna, the former head of the country’s largest stock exchange, is being questioned by the CBI over the infamous ‘tick by tick’ market manipulation case, agency sources told on Friday. An FIR, or first information report, was registered in the case earlier but new facts have come to light since, which is why Ms Ramkrishna Yesterday tax officials is being questioned, the sources said. raided Chitra Ramkrishna in The central agency has also posted notices connection with allegations against Ms Ramkrishna, former COO she shared NSE financial Anand Subramaniam, and her predecessor data with a spiritual guru Ravi Narayan, to stop them from leaving living in the Himalayas the country.

BJP’s Varun Gandhi’s New Dig At Centre HiIndia Newsdesk

New Delhi: BJP MP Varun Gandhi, who has been in news of late for consistently targeting his party and its government at the centre, is in attack mode again, this time over massive bank frauds and the economic offenders behind them. Listing names of economic offenders Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Rishi Agarwal - former chairman of ABG Shipyard currently under the scanner for a massive fraud - Mr Gandhi took a swipe at the centre, saying a “strong government” is expected to take “strong action” against such corruption. The BJP MP then went on to say that such people are living at the peak of prosperity at a time when 14 people are dying by suicide every day in a debt-ridden country.

Ms Ramkrishna, who was CEO and Managing Director of the National Stock Exchange from 2013 to 2016 before she quit for “personal reasons”, is also under investigation for an alleged “glaring breach” of regulations - sharing confidential financial data with a ‘yogi’ living in the Himalayas. The ‘tick by tick’ case was registered against OPG Securities; its Managing Director, Sanjay Gupta; Ajay Shah, who helped develop the software; and unknown officials from the NSE and regulatory body SEBI for alleged stock market manipulation from 2010 to 2014.

Indian American Muslims Protest Against Karnataka Hijab Ban HiIndia Newsdesk

The Hijab row that has been brewing in India has been gaining international attention. In Houston, Texas, hundreds of Indian American Muslims came together in a protest to voice their dissatisfaction against the Karnataka High Court’s ban on students wearing hijab in schools. The protest saw women taking the lead and demanded that the

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The Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) college in the district headquarters town of Udupi in coastal Karnataka, which witnessed chaotic scenes last week with student groups facing each other shouting slogans against hijabs and saffron shawls, reopened Friday after a 10-day break. The college reopened as practical examinations are scheduled to be held for preuniversity (PU) students.

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