Month: March 2022

Ukraine to seek humanitarian corridors in talks with Russia

Summary Companies Russian troops’ advance stalled outside Kyiv Ukraine president says defence lines holding Moscow says it has seized Kherson, mayor says troops in streets UN votes overwhelmingly to censure Russia’s invasion Refugee total exceeds 1 million – UNHCR BORODYANKA, Ukraine, March 3 (Reuters) – Ukraine said it […]

Neutral Finland, Sweden warm to idea of NATO membership

HELSINKI — Through the Cold War and the decades since, nothing could persuade Finns and Swedes that they would be better off joining NATO — until now. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has profoundly changed Europe’s security outlook, including for Nordic neutrals Finland and Sweden, where support for joining NATO has […]

Russia’s war spurs corporate exodus, exposes business risks

LONDON — Car factories idled, beer stopped flowing, furniture and fashion orders ceased, and energy companies cut their pipelines. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has thrown business plans into disarray and forced a growing number of the world’s best known brands — from Apple to Mercedes-Benz and BP — to pull […]

Live updates: Russian forces take first major Ukrainian city

The latest developments on the Russia-Ukraine war: KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces have taken a strategic Ukrainian seaport and set siege to another as Moscow tries to cut its neighbor off from the Black Sea. The Russian military said Thursday it had control of Kherson, which has a population […]

Experts discuss ways to transform India through Geospatial knowledge & infrastructure

DELHI, MARCH 3: Experts discussed ways for transforming India through geospatial knowledge and infrastructure with the help of national geospatial policy that can facilitate the accessibility of data, create effective human resources, encourage collaboration between government, industry, and academia as knowledge partners and increase the usability of the […]

ACS H&ME inaugurates workshop on “GeM Procurement and Supply Chain Management”

JAMMU, MARCH 3: Jammu and Kashmir Medical Supplies Corporation Limited today organized a workshop on “GeM Procurement and Supply Chain Management (DVDMS)” at Udhyog Bhawan here. Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Health and Medical Education (H&ME), Vivek Bharadwaj, inaugurated the workshop which was participated by Chief Medical Officers, Block […]

Several deputations, individuals call on Advisor Khan at Jammu

JAMMU, MARCH 03: A number of deputations and individuals from different areas of the Union Territory today called on Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Farooq Khan here at Civil Secretariat and projected their demands and grievances. Among others, a deputation of recently appointed Accounts Assistant (Panchayat) met the Advisor […]

PM addresses DPIIT webinar on ‘Make in India for the World’

“Budget has many significant provisions for Aatmnirbhar Bharat and Make in India” “Positive factors like demographic dividend of young and talented population, democratic set up, natural resources should encourage us to move towards Make in India with determination” “Aatmnirbharta is all the more important if we see from […]

COVID-19 UPDATE

DELHI, MARCH 3: 178.02 cr vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive India’s Active caseload currently stands at 77,152 Active cases stand at 0.18% Recovery Rate currently at 98.62% 14,947 recoveries in the last 24 hours increases Total Recoveries to 4,23,53,620 6,561 new cases recorded […]

Dramatic call with Ukraine leader prompted historic EU move to provide arms

BRUSSELS, March 2 – Early on Saturday morning, some 48 hours after Russian military forces had pushed into his country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy put in a call from Kyiv to Brussels with a plea for military assistance. During the Feb. 26 phone call with the head of […]

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