Najaf Ali

Hindustan Unilever managing director Sanjiv Mehta said the country must ensure it does not get entrapped by stagflation and urged the government to accelerate front-loading the ₹7.5 lakh crore which the government had earmarked in the budget for the capital expenditure. “The ₹7.5 lakh-crore which the government had earmarked in the budget for the capital expenditure, they should … Read more

Qantas has announced it will begin operating non-stop flights from Sydney to London and New York from 2025. Australia’s national carrier said it had purchased a new fleet of Airbus A350-1000 jets capable of direct flights to any city in the world. The first Sydney-London flights will depart in late 2025 and take about 20 … Read more

Three people were killed and 8 others were injured in Russian shelling in the Kharkiv region on Sunday, according to Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Regional Military Administration. “The most active hostilities in the Kharkiv region continue to take place in the Izium area, where the Russians are trying to advance, but have suffered losses … Read more

The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced Sunday that a safe passage operation is underway in Ukraine, where civilians from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol are being evacuated to Zaporizhzhia, according to OCHA Spokesperson Saviano Abreu. The UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross are coordinating the safe passage of … Read more

“Our distinguished Congressional delegation came to Poland to send an unmistakable message to the world: that America stands firmly with our NATO allies in our support for Ukraine. “As the Russian invasion of Ukraine rages on, our delegation continues our meetings with U.S. senior officials to be further briefed on the humanitarian tragedy caused by … Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said during an address Sunday that for the first time today, the vital corridor to evacuate civilians from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol had started working. Zelensky said for the first time, there have been two days of “real ceasefire” and added more than 100 civilians have been evacuated from … Read more

Addressing a May Day rally organised by his party in Polonnaruwa, former Sri Lanka President and the chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday called for fresh elections in the country. Saying that politicians should take the side of the people at a time when the country is facing a … Read more

Ending days of relative calm in the Ukrainian capital, Russia on Thursday bombarded Kyiv — as the head of the United Nations visited and met with President Volodymyr Zelensky — while also ramping up attacks along the besieged country’s eastern front, Ukrainian officials said. The attacks came as President Biden announced he was seeking $33 … Read more

A deputy commander of the last remaining Ukrainian forces in Mariupol said Thursday that his troops are fighting on, even as Russian officials claimed victory in the strategic port city in the south. Svyatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of the Azov Regiment, a nationalist group that is part of Ukraine’s National Guard, said from Mariupol’s Azovstal Iron and … Read more

The Border Force has intercepted several groups of migrants in the English Channel. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) would not reveal the numbers involved until Monday, but people who count arrivals in Dover have told the BBC they believe it was more than 200. The MoD said the government is addressing the issue by “cracking … Read more

Labor has rejected a Conservative claim that deputy leader Angela Rayner told a Tory MP she crossed and uncrossed her legs in the Commons in an effort to distract Boris Johnson. The Conservative Party launched an internal inquiry after the Mail on Sunday reported the story last week. A senior party source told the BBC this … Read more

Ukrainian Ambassador to the US Oksana Markarova said Sunday the recent visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Kyiv was “symbolic” and that Ukraine looks forward to the approval by the US Congress of a $33 billion supplemental funding bill aimed at supporting Ukraine over the next several months. “We need all the assistance we can get in defensive … Read more

Two lions that were trapped at the zoo in Kharkiv as fighting raged in the region have begun a new life hundreds of miles away in the zoo at Odesa. The manager of Odesa zoo, Ihor Beliakov, said he and his deputy had driven to Kharkiv to collect the lions. They drove all night to … Read more

Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, expressed confidence on Sunday that a new aid package for Ukraine could pass in Congress relatively quickly. “I think time is of the essence,” he told ABC’s “This Week,” adding that he believes the next two to three weeks are going to be “very pivotal” … Read more

Hundreds of people who had fled their homes in Russian-occupied Kherson were seen evacuating in a convoy of vehicles Sunday afternoon driving north toward the city of Kryvyi Rih.  A CNN team on the ground in southern Ukraine counted at least 120 cars coming up through the town of Kochubeivka. Some vehicles had white cloths … Read more

Samantha Power, the administrator of the US Agency for International Development, said Sunday that the impacts of the war in Ukraine include global food shortages and prices, maintaining “our job is to look at it globally” when asked if the worldwide consequences are reflective of a brewing world war. “It is just another catastrophic effect … Read more

Social media video shows fires and columns of black smoke rising from a site near Belgorod in Russia not far from the Ukrainian border. Other video shows police in the area redirecting traffic away from the area and helicopters circling above the city. The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyascheslav Gladkov, said on Telegram that … Read more