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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Artillery thudded nearby one recent evening as medics rushed a soldier with blast wounds into a new type of Ukrainian field hospital buried underground. In the relative safety of their bunker, which lies under 10 feet of sandbags, earth, steel and pine logs, surgeon Yevhen Antoniuk and his team got to work.

Russia moved to ratify a key defence pact with North Korea on Thursday, while South Korea warned it would not «sit idle» if Pyongyang deployed thousands of troops to help Moscow fight Ukraine. Seoul's spy agency says thousands of North Korean soldiers are currently training in Russia and are likely to deploy to the front lines in Ukraine soon, with thousands more to be sent by December. Lawmakers in Russia's lower house of parliament voted unanimously on Thursday to ratify a treaty with North Korea that provides for «mutual assistance» if either party faces aggression.

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Ben Powell, Chief Investment Strategist for APAC, BlackRock Investment Institute, says we are going to see more and more tie-ups between governments, in terms of legal framework, regulatory permissions, and societal buy-ins. A partnership between governments and private capital is important because many Western countries do not have so much fiscal firepower. Coming to India, Powell says the BRICS meeting is going on in Russia and we have seen Prime Minister Modi embracing President Putin. Modi will also be sitting down with President Xi later today., India seems to be in a amazing position where on the one hand it is a cherished partner of the BRICS with huge positives, obviously energy and other dimensions and on the other hand, India is an absolute cornerstone of US policy, most obviously through Quad. What is the future of finance going to look like and how can investors benefit out of it? Ben Powell: The need to mobilise capital and fund all of the aspirations is the practical reality.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India and China have announced that they have reached an agreement on patrolling their common border after more than four years of tension. Can this boost trade and investment flow between the two economic powers? Mint explains: It is a first step towards rebuilding their relationship which took a beating following the border clash at Galwan in June 2020.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is hosting China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other world leaders at a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, part of Kremlin efforts to challenge Western global clout

Xi Jinping said Wednesday that the ongoing BRICS summit here has decided to invite a number of nations to become partner countries and called on the grouping to actively respond to the requests of countries of the Global South to join the bloc. BRICS consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa has now expanded with five additional members — Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. In his speech addressing the 16th BRICS Summit, Xi said the summit has decided to invite a number of nations to become partner countries, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported. He hailed the decision as another important development in the course of BRICS development.

Both sides should take on their international responsibilities and set an example for the development of other emerging economies, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV cited Xi as saying in a meeting with Modi on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia's Kazan. PM Modi and Xi Jinping held their first bilateral talks in five years today, signalling that ties between the Asian giants damaged by a deadly military clash in 2020 had begun to recover.

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said there is evidence that North Korea has sent troops to Russia on Monday, and South Korea's spy chief told lawmakers that 3,000 North Korean troops are in the country receiving training on drones and other equipment before being deployed to battlefields in Ukraine. Austin told reporters Wednesday «What exactly they are doing? Left to be seen. These are things that we need to sort out,» according to a video posted by the Washington Post. If the troops join the war in Ukraine on Russia's side, it will be «a very, very serious issue,» Austin said, adding it would have an impact in Europe and in the Indo-Pacific region. South Korean intelligence first publicized reports that the Russian navy had taken 1,500 North Korean special warfare troops to Russia last week, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had earlier said his government had intelligence that 10,000 North Korea soldiers were being prepared to join the invading Russian forces.

Xi Jinping held their first formal talks in five years on Wednesday, signalling that ties between the Asian giants damaged by a deadly military clash in 2020 had begun to recover. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan, the Indian government and Chinese state media said, two days after New Delhi announced that it had reached a deal with Beijing to resolve the four-year military stand-off on their disputed Himalayan frontier. Relations between the world's two most populous nations — both nuclear powers — have been strained since a clash between their troops on the largely undemarcated frontier in the western Himalayas of Ladakh left 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers dead in 2020.

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Kim Jong Un has visited missile bases to examine their readiness to undertake actions of «strategic deterrence», while calling U.S. nuclear capabilities a growing threat to the country, state media reported on Wednesday. The U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal poses an «ever-increasing threat» to North Korea's security environment, which demands that Pyongyang maintain a strict counteraction posture of its nuclear forces, he was quoted as saying by KCNA. North Korea has been stepping up its development of ballistic missiles and a nuclear arsenal, drawing international sanctions, and forming close military relations with Russia.

Indian nationals in the Russian Army during his bilateral meeting on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan. Addressing a media briefing, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said the two leaders also shared perspectives on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Prime Minister reiterated that dialogue and diplomacy was the way forward to achieve resolution of the conflict. He briefed President Putin about his engagements with the Ukrainian leadership and noted that India stood ready to contribute in bringing peace to the region. «An important issue that came up was the issue of early discharge of the remaining Indian nationals in the Russian army. This figured from both sides in the discussion and with the support of the Russian side, a number of Indian nationals have, in recent months, been able to return to India. We understand that currently the embassy is pursuing around 20 cases with the Russian side and we very much hope that all of these individuals can be released at an early date and be repatriated to India very soon,» he said.

Kazan [Russia], October 23 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan on Tuesday. PM Modi invited Putin to visit India next year for 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit. The two leaders reviewed bilateral cooperation in various sectors, including political, economic, defence, energy, and people-to-people ties, Prime Minister's Office said in a press release. This was their second meeting this year as the two leaders had earlier met in Moscow for the 22nd India-Russia Annual Summit in July 2024.

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refugees leaving, collapsing fertility and war deaths, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Speaking at a Geneva news conference, Florence Bauer, Eastern Europe head at the U.N. Population Fund, said the invasion in February 2022 had turned an already difficult demographic situation into something more severe. «The birth rate plummeted and is currently at around one child per woman, which is one of the lowest in the world,» she said. It takes a fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman to maintain a stable population.

Narendra Modi on Tuesday, during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Kazan, said that India has been in touch with all sides on ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict through dialogue and that «India is always ready to help bring peace». In his opening remarks at the meeting with Putin on the eve of the BRICS summit, Modi said, «We have been in touch with all sides in the Russia-Ukraine problem. It has always been our position that all conflicts can be solved with dialogue. We believe there should be peaceful solutions to conflicts. India is always ready to help bring peace.» These remarks must be viewed in the context of Modi's earlier conversation with Putin on the Ukraine conflict and his two meetings with the Ukrainian President since August. Following his visit to Kyiv, Modi telephoned Putin to share his thoughts and later NSA also met Putin and apprised him about the PM's trip. While India has not created a peace formula like Brazil and China, New Delhi has been in touch with all stakeholders to end the conflict through negotiations and pitched for Russia's presence in peace summits for durable peace.

INS Tushil, the first of two stealth frigates being built in Russia, is likely to be commissioned in December, sources said on Tuesday. India and Russia signed an agreement in 2016 to build four stealth frigates, two of which were to be constructed at a Russian shipyard, while the remaining two frigates were to be built in India by the Goa Shipyard Limited. 'Tushil' is the first of the two Russian-made ships and this will be followed by 'Tamal', the sources said. The first of the two stealth frigates being built in Russia, 'Tushil', is likely to be commissioned in December this year, a source in the defence establishment said.

“This price rise will impact the demand for silver during the Dhanteras-Diwali period and volume-wise it may drop by 15-20 per cent,” said Surendra Mehta, national secretary of India Bullion & Jewellery Association (IBJA).

BRICS Summit 2024 at Kazan in Russia will be watched keenly by the United States. The BRIC grouping, including Brazil, Russia, India, and China, was formally started in 2006. In 2009, the first BRIC Summit was held in Russia.

Kamala Harris and Republican candidate Donald Trump are fighting the US election 2024. «We are consulting with our allies and partners on the implications of such a dramatic move,» deputy U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Robert Wood told the 15-member United Nations Security Council. Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine in February 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has accused Pyongyang of preparing to send 10,000 soldiers to Russia. Ukraine's U.N. Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya told the Security Council on Monday: «These troops are expected to be ready for war against Ukraine by November 1.»