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India is under enormous pressure from both Washington and Moscow to vote with them on a UN Security Council resolution to censure Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Both sides have reached out to New Delhi to make their case and openly expressed hope that they will have India's support for a vote that is expected in the early hours of Saturday IST.
The first batch of Indian nationals from Ukraine reached Romania on Friday afternoon after crossing the Suceava border post, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said. Officials said more Indians in small groups are expected to reach Romania through the border crossing.
India will have to grapple with the renewed threat of US sanctions for weapon purchases from Russia as well as a more belligerent China along its northern borders as a fallout of the Ukraine crisis. Given its own strategic compulsions, India has so far walked the diplomatic tightrope between the US and Russia. “But India will now come under tremendous pressure from the US and its European allies to strongly oppose Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” a senior defence official said on Thursday.
With Russia having launched a military operation in Ukraine, India may find it difficult to hold on to its hands-off position for long. Hours before the "invasion" started, India's key European partner France, which currently also holds the EU Council presidency, said it wants India to speak up on the crisis.
In a hard-hitting affidavit criticising the SC’s impermissible forays into policy domain by obstinately insisting on implementation of its judgment that struck down the ordinance, the Centre said it was distressing that the apex court feels that “judicial independence” would be in peril if Parliament approved the government’s policy decision to reduce tenure of tribunal chairpersons and members to four years from the SC-suggested five years.
PM Modi called up President Putin on Thursday and appealed to him for “immediate cessation of violence and return to the path of diplomatic negotiations and dialogue”. Modi also “sensitised the Russian President about India’s concerns regarding the safety of Indian citizens in Ukraine, especially students, and conveyed that India attaches the highest priority to their safe exit and return to India,” the PMO said, even as the Centre scrambled to bring back 16,000 Indian nationals.
Around 60 per cent polling was recorded in 59 Assembly constituencies during the fourth of the seven-phase elections in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, according to the Election Commission. The poll panel's voter turnout app till 9.30pm showed 59.77 per cent voting. The app has updated the turnout trend percentage after an official announcement by the state poll panel at 5 pm. The State Election Commission releases the final voting percentage a day after the polling.
At least 20 people were injured on Monday and around 50 vehicles torched during the funeral procession of a Bajrang Dal worker who was murdered on Sunday. The police had to resort to lathicharge and fire teargas shells. Curfew was imposed in Shivamogga — about 270 km from Bengaluru. Harsha, 28, was stabbed by a group of men on Sunday night while he was on his way to have dinner at Bharathi Colony near New Thirthahalli Road here. He died during treatment.
The nation’s drug regulator has authorised vaccine-maker Biological E’s Corbevax for emergency use among children in the 12-17 age group, making a third shot available in the coronavirus inoculation drive for youngsters. The government has already placed its purchase order for 5 crore doses of Corbevax, which are likely to be available in the states by February-end.
Kashmir zone IGP Vijay Kumar said terrorist Abdul Qayoom Dar of Larow Kakapora in Pulwama, about 30km south of Srinagar, was shot dead in retaliatory fire by the combined team of Army and J&K police during the nightly operation on February 18 and 19.
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