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Rajnath Singh on Saturday said the country's growth cannot be imagined without the development of farmers and villages, and asserted that the Modi government was standing shoulder to shoulder with the cultivators. Addressing a mega farmers' rally at Government Science College ground in Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur, he also targeted the previous Congress dispensation in the state, accusing it of indulging in corruption and derailing its development. "...I am the son of a farmer and hail from a village. Farmers can yield gold from the soil with their efforts and hard work. My government is standing shoulder to shoulder with farmers. Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Centre has been taking several steps for the welfare of farmers," the minister said.

India's policy was 'Nation First' and the consumer was 'paramount', Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that the Centre was able to keep oil prices from shooting up despite global turbulence amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict and drone attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea. The Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas said 85 per cent of India's crude requirements are met by imports, with the price of crude in the international market being the benchmark. Addressing a press conference in the national capital on Saturday, Puri said, «If you accept that (global issues), you have to deal with the price of crude in the international market and the price at which it is made available. What happened in the last few years?»

Joe Biden over his State of Union address, his predecessor Donald Trump called his speech «terrible» and said that he suffers from «terminal case of Trump derangement syndrome,» Fox News reported. Reacting to Biden's address, the former President told Fox News Digital, «He was angry, mentally disturbed, and misrepresenting a lot of the facts concerning almost every subject he discussed.»

(Reuters) — S&P Global said on Friday it considers it a «virtual certainty» that Ukraine will default on its external commercial obligations and cut the country's long-term foreign currency (FC) credit rating deeper into junk territory.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose NATO-member country has sought to balance its close relations with both Ukraine and Russia, offered during a visit Friday from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to host a peace summit between the two countries. Erdogan, who has repeatedly discussed brokering a peace deal, said at a news conference in Istanbul following his meeting with Zelenskyy that he hoped Russia would be on board with Turkey’s offer.

Jaishankar on Friday stressed the need for global stability, suggesting that the last thing that the world needs to see is «any kind of disturbance», a statement that came amid increasing tensions in the Taiwan Strait in the wake of growing Chinese aggression, Jaishankar's remarks came in response to a question during an interaction at the Nikkei Forum in Japan. He was in Tokyo on a three-day visit. Explaining India's response to a Taiwan contingency as a partner of Japan, Jaishankar said, «Today, the state of the world is very disturbed. We are seeing conflicts. We saw Covid. There are very big economic issues which are below the surface. The last thing that the world needs to see is any kind of disturbance, you know, at this moment. How to strengthen the stability and the growth and development of the world should be a common objective.»

masur, tur (pigeon pea) and urad. In addition, the government will also procure unlimited amounts of cotton at MSP for the next five years, but this is not linked to the diversification plan. This initiative aims to encourage farmers to move away from harmful practices used for traditional crops that damage soil health.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Istanbul for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Russian army, said Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on Friday. «We have strongly taken up the matter for the early discharge of such Indian nationals. Strong action has been initiated against agents who recruited them on false pretexts,» said Jaiswal. «We remain committed to the early release of our nationals serving as support staff with the Russian army and then eventually return home,» he added.

petrostates in the Persian Gulf and the frackers in America, whose innovative drilling techniques gave rise to the shale revolution. In December 2014 The Economist put an image on its cover of both antagonists standing back to back, frowns on their faces and petrol pumps at the ready. It called the new economics of oil “Sheikhs v shale".

Russia-based agents involved in the human trafficking network that pushed Indians into the Ukraine war zone are under the CBI scanner, officials said on Friday. The agents allegedly confiscated the passports of Indians arriving in Russia and forced them to fight with the armed forces, officials said. The network was busted by the CBI on Thursday. Christina and Moinuddin Chippa, a resident of Rajasthan, are based in Russia and were facilitating the trafficking of Indian youth to Russia by offering them lucrative job opportunities there, officials said. The central probe agency's FIR has listed 17 other Visa consultancy companies, their owners and agents spread across India, they said.

U.S. embassy in Russia has warned U.S. citizens to avoid large gatherings in Moscow due to what it said were reports that extremists had imminent plans for an attack. The embassy, which has repeatedly urged all U.S. citizens to leave Russia immediately, gave no further details about the nature of the threat, but said people should avoid crowds and be aware of their surroundings.

Jaishankar has defended India's stance on Russia amidst ongoing Ukraine conflict, stating that people tend to «cherry-pick principles» when it suits them and ignore them when it doesn't. Jaishankar, who is currently on a visit to Japan while responding to a question at the Nikkei Forum on India-Japan Special Strategic Partnership, said that Indian territory has been occupied by another country but the world has maintained silence over the matter. The foreign minister was asked during the interaction whether India's decision to not criticise Russia and its territorial violation of Ukraine, should be taken to be «double-standards.»

Donald Trump surrounded by groups of Black people smiling and laughing seem nothing out of the ordinary, but a look closer is telling. Odd lighting and too-perfect details provide clues to the fact they were all generated using artificial intelligence. The photos, which have not been linked to the Trump campaign, emerged as Trump seeks to win over Black voters who polls show remain loyal to President Joe Biden. The fabricated images, highlighted in a recent BBC investigation, provide further evidence to support warnings that the use of AI-generated imagery will only increase as the November general election approaches. Experts said they highlight the danger that any group — Latinos, women, older male voters — could be targeted with lifelike images meant to mislead and confuse as well as demonstrate the need for regulation around the technology.

Also Read: 'I will not bow down': US President Joe Biden tells Russia's Vladimir Putin at State of the Union address 2024 Representative Mike Gallagher, the Republican chairman of the House select China committee, and Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, the panel's top Democrat, introduced legislation to address national security concerns posed by Chinese ownership of the app. The bill would give ByteDance 165 days to divest TikTok; if it did not, app stores operated by Apple, Google and others could not legally offer TikTok or provide web hosting services to ByteDance-controlled applications.

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₹15,000 crore. Under the plan, five prototypes of the AMCA will jointly be built by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) and state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) with support from private industries.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday that Congress' inaction in approving new U.S. aid to Ukraine is «nothing short of a gift» to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iran and other adversaries as Ukrainian forces run short of ammunition to fight Russia's invasion.

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has uncovered a significant human trafficking network that deceived Indians into traveling to the war zone between Russia and Ukraine under the guise of providing lucrative jobs abroad. The agency is currently conducting searches at more than 10 locations across seven cities as part of its investigation. FIR Registered Against Visa Consultancy Firms and Agents Officials have revealed that the CBI has filed a First Information Report (FIR) against various visa consultancy firms and agents involved in the trafficking scheme. During the searches, several individuals have been detained, and an amount of Rs 50 lakh has been seized.

The European Central Bank has left its key interest rate at a record high as it waits for more confirmation that toxic inflation is under control for good

Chelsea has announced pre-tax losses of 90.1 million pounds in its first year under U.S. owners Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital