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Tuesday, May 30, 2023 | Last Update : 09:37 AM IST

Smoke billows from the frontline city of Bakhmut, Donetsk region on May 3, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo:AFP)

AA Edit | Kremlin strikes hard, but this war has no winners

When will this madness end is the question that has been exercising the minds of all right-thinking people

05 May 2023 12:05 AM

File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and others pose for photographs during Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. (PTI)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Strategic stock-taking will mark SCO FMs’ Goa meet

The visit of Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is being treated with a hot and cold attitude by the Indian media

04 May 2023 12:05 AM

In this file photo taken on April 12, 2023 A "No Drone Zone" sign is pictured in front of the Russian national flag atop the Federation Council building, the upper chamber of Russia's parliament, in central Moscow. - The Kremlin said on May 3, 2023 it shot down two drones launched by Ukraine and accused Kyiv of attempting to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo: AFP)

Kremlin says Kyiv attempted an assassination of Putin

The Kremlin called it a planned terrorist act and an attempt on the life of the President of the Russian Federation

03 May 2023 6:10 PM

The chain of events was clear in its suggestion that there has been no progress in Mr Xi’s well-intentioned political and diplomatic plan to find an end to the war. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Amid superpower games, Ukraine becomes a pawn

It is becoming increasingly apparent that Ukraine is a mere pawn in the games the superpowers are playing

24 Mar 2023 12:10 AM

Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping make a toast during a reception following their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 21, 2023. (Photo: AFP)

K.C. Singh | Xi talks peace, extends China’s hold on Russia

The overall signal is of both sides agreeing to an enduring economic partnership

23 Mar 2023 12:05 AM

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo: AFP)

International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Putin over Ukraine war crimes

The ICC said that its pre-trial chamber found there were reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect bears responsibility for war crime

17 Mar 2023 9:15 PM

AA Edit | Global uncertainty grows as Putin and Biden tussle

Mr Putin’s caveats to Russia’s treaty suspension may have dialled down more ominous sounding recent threats to use strategic nuclear weapons

23 Feb 2023 12:20 AM

Ukrainian soldiers rest near their position in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine. (AP File Photo)

AA Edit | Ukraine war to rage on for now

The world has suffered, but none more than the Ukrainians as their country has been pummelled by missiles of modern warfare

22 Feb 2023 12:29 AM

A large part but not all of the book details Putin’s wars, including the ones in Chechnya, Georgia, Crimea and now Ukraine. (Photo By Arranegement)

Book Review | Putin, America and the war on truth in Ukraine

Coming from a military historian such a view is astonishing given that all wars are brutal, including today’s faceless ones

04 Feb 2023 11:30 PM

People watch the screening of the BBC documentary 'India: The Modi Question', in Thiruvananthapuram. (PTI)

Farrukh Dhondy | Allegations in a democracy: It’s best to debate, not ban things…

In healthy democracies, allegations will be argued over. They shouldn’t be subject to a total niqab being drawn over them

28 Jan 2023 12:05 AM

Ukrainian servicemen take part in Orthodox Christmas Eve celebrations in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on January 6, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Ukraine: Give peace a chance

The ceasefire as well aa Putin renewing his call for peace talks might suggest that 11 months of the war is telling on the aggressor Russia

07 Jan 2023 12:15 AM

File photo of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Food or warmth? Tough choices on Hedgie’s watch as Christmas nears

The inflation crisis is called the cost-of-living (CoL) crisis as the price of everything is going up by leaps and bounds

24 Dec 2022 12:00 AM

The Prime Minister’s Office also said Mr Modi “briefed” the Russian President about India’s current presidency of G-20, of which Russia is also a member. (Photo: PTI)

Dialogue and diplomacy only way forward to resolve Ukraine crisis: PM Modi to Putin

Russia said that “at the request of PM Modi, President Putin gave a fundamental assessments of Russia’s line on the Ukrainian direction”

16 Dec 2022 9:39 PM

That Russian President Vladimir Putin did not attend the Bali summit, despite Indonesia strongly resisting Western demands that he be disinvited, spelled the geopolitical cracks dogging a global consensus to combat the challenges. — AFP

K C Singh | Will G-20 presidency be India’s crown of thorns?

Trump was the chief culprit in retarding global climate change agenda by withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change

18 Nov 2022 11:39 AM

India’s willingness to do whatever it can to help the peace process, has been stated but then, as common knowledge has it, Mr Putin is the one who must relent. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Can India do more to help end Ukraine war?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi did convey forcefully enough, to Vladimir Putin in Samarkand that “this is not an era of war”

10 Nov 2022 12:10 AM

K.C. Singh | As world is realigning, India sits on the fence

The world has entered a phase of partial or floating alignments, popularly described as a multi-polar world

01 Nov 2022 12:00 AM

The real problem is Mr Putin may be running out of time as his war machine has been weakening after eight months of engaging with feisty Ukrainians defending their homeland. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Will Putin see reason, stop war in Ukraine?

As Mr Putin hits out from his Kremlin corner, he is fast losing friends

12 Oct 2022 7:55 PM

Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 9 blamed Ukrainian secret services for the huge blast a day earlier that ripped through Russia's Crimea bridge, which he described as a "terrorist act". (Photo: AFP)

Putin vows more 'severe' attacks after Russian missiles batter Ukraine

The biggest wave of strikes across Ukraine in months killed at least 11 people nationwide

10 Oct 2022 6:50 PM

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his September 30 address, threatened Nato with, among other things, his nuclear arsenal. (Photo: AP)

K.C. Singh | Russia, Iran, China, Brazil: Realpolitik in global churn

During this testy phase of international relations, all nations, big or small or intermediate, are practising realpolitik

05 Oct 2022 12:00 AM

The Moscow-appointed heads of Kherson region Vladimir Saldo and Zaporizhzhia region Yevgeny Balitsky, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin and Lugansk separatist leader Leonid Pasechnik react after signing treaties formally annexing four regions of Ukraine Russian troops occupy, at the Kremlin in Moscow on September 30, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

Putin signs treaties annexing Ukrainian regions

The ceremony came 3 days after completion of Kremlin-orchestrated referendums on joining Russia that were dismissed by Kyiv and the West

30 Sep 2022 7:14 PM

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