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Air India flight carrying students evacuated from Sumy lands in Delhi

Air India flight carrying students evacuated from Sumy lands in Delhi

An Air India flight from Poland's Rzeszow carrying students evacuated from northeastern Ukrainian city Sumy landed in Delhi this Friday morning. The flight had taken off from Rzeszow around 11.30 pm on Thursday and landed in Delhi at 5.45 am on Friday. India has sent three flights to Poland to bring back 600 students evacuated from Sumy. According to the officials, another flight is expected to land in Delhi around 8.40 am. According to the details shared by the students, the first flight was for first, second, and third-year students. The second flight is for fourth and fifth-year students and…
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Over 2 million from Ukraine applied for evacuation to Russia

Over 2 million from Ukraine applied for evacuation to Russia

Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday guaranteed that more than 2 million individuals from Ukraine had applied for clearing to Russia. Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, alleged that US experts instructed Ukrainian specialists how to develop bioprograms, during a press conference on the country adding  Russia is wondering if these biomaterials have fallen into the hands of nationalists.  Maria Zakharova likewise said that Russia would like to guarantee Ukraine's nonpartisan status. Moscow's aims do not include overthrowing the Kyiv government and it hopes to achieve more progress in the next round of talks with Ukraine, Zakharova added  that Russia's military operation…
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Lilly Singh’s “Vulnerable Post” on International Women’s Day

Lilly Singh’s “Vulnerable Post” on International Women’s Day

Lilly Singh, who was diagnosed with ovarian cysts, has shared a "vulnerable post." She wrote in her post: “Vulnerable post. Today was a day filled with a lot of overwhelming things. I announced my new show, my TED talk released, my new book is releasing in a month and I won’t lie, I’m on my period and my hormones are raging (lol). It may seem that on a day like today, filled with joyous news, I would be filled with positivity. But the truth is, days like this are the most spiritually challenging for me. Because I have to remember…
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On International Women’s Day President Ram Nath Kovind confers Nari Shakti Puraskars on 29 women

On International Women’s Day President Ram Nath Kovind confers Nari Shakti Puraskars on 29 women

On International Women's Day, President Ram Nath Kovind conferred the Nari Shakti Puraskars on 29 outstanding women for 2020 and 2021. Twenty-eight awards were given to the women in recognition of their exceptional work towards women empowerment, vulnerable and marginalised. The Nari Shakti Puraskar is a Women and Child Development Ministry initiative to acknowledge exceptional contributions made by individuals and institutions, and to celebrate women as game-changers and as a positive change in a society. Its recipients are from entrepreneurship, agriculture, innovation, social work, education and literature, linguistics, arts and crafts, science, technology, engineering and mathematics, disability rights, merchant navy…
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Alia is all set to make her big Hollywood debut with “Heart Of Stone”

Alia is all set to make her big Hollywood debut with “Heart Of Stone”

Alia is all set to make her big debut in a Hollywood film titled Heart Of Stone. The film stars Gal Gadot and Jamie Dornan too. The international spy thriller will be directed by Tom Harper and it will be backed by Netflix and Skydance. The big news was shared on the official Instagram handle of Netflix India with caption of: Starting our day by announcing (and SCREAMING!!!) that @aliaabhatt is going to be starring in Heart of Stone, an International spy thriller along with @gal_gadot and @jamiedornan Checkout the announcement here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca036CpPcPo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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Sonu Sood and team steps forward in helping Indian students cross border to safe territory

Sonu Sood and team steps forward in helping Indian students cross border to safe territory

A Congress leader shared a video visualizing  a woman from Madhya Pradesh who was a stuck in Ukraine singing the praises of Bollywood actor Sonu Sood for helping. Ajay Singh, a state Congress leader, tweeted this video. “Hello, I am Shrishti Singh. We boarded a train. Sonu Sood's team has helped us. It guided us at every moment. Look how many students are sitting around -- all are Indians," the woman said. "The train is packed with Indians. Sonu Sood is guiding us every moment. He worked day in and day out," the woman added. The woman's praise for the…
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Indian student shot in Kyiv in Ukraine while trying to run away

Indian student shot in Kyiv in Ukraine while trying to run away

An Indian student in Ukraine's capital Kyiv is hospitalised after being shot with a bullet. According to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) General VK Singh, the Indian student was in contact with the Indian Embassy and that they advised Indian nationals to leave the country immediately. VK Singh is in Poland currently to look after the evacuation of Indians stuck in war-hit Ukraine, said that the government is making efforts to ensure that the maximum number of students can come out of Ukraine with as less loss as possible. On March 1, an Indian student lost his life in Russian shelling…
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Wedding Throwback of Preity and Gene

Wedding Throwback of Preity and Gene

Preity Zinta and Gene Goodenough are celebrating their sixth wedding anniversary.  By sharing a post Preity wrote:  Happy Anniversary my Love ❤ I love you Thank you so much for loving all of me and for making me laugh all the time. You are my best friend & confidant & I love you more every day. From Boyfriend - girlfriend to husband - wife and now mom-dad, I’m loving every new phase of my life with you. Here’s to many more anniversaries and celebrations  #Mr&mrsgoodenough #happyanniversary #patiparmeshwar #leapyearanniversary #ting Checkout the Instagram post here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CakTdYvFGXZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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Russian army attacks Kyiv TV tower, 5 dead

Russian army attacks Kyiv TV tower, 5 dead

Russian forces on Tuesday  attacked the central square in Kyiv's main TV tower. The attack on the TV tower killed at least 5, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said. He also accused Moscow of a blatant campaign of terror and vowed: “Nobody will forgive. Nobody will forget.” The President tweeted, "To the world: what is the point of saying «never again for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar? At least 5 killed. History repeating…" A TV control room and a power substation were hit, and Ukrainian TV channels stopped…
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Facebook restricts several social media accounts in Ukraine

Facebook restricts several social media accounts in Ukraine

Access to several social media accounts in Ukraine has been blocked by Meta. The social networking giant also said it is reviewing other governments' requests to restrict access to the accounts in their countries. In a tweet, Nick Clegg, vice president of global affairs at Meta , on Monday wrote  that the company has been in contact with the Government of Ukraine. "At their request, we have also restricted access to several accounts in Ukraine, including those belonging to some Russian state media organization. We are also reviewing other government requests to restrict Russian state-controlled media," he said. The Ukrainians…
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