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In a grand ceremony led by President Vladimir Putin, Russia annexed four regions of Ukraine, after the results of the referendums showed overwhelming support in four provinces for joining Russia.

Kyiv: The Kremlin paved the way Tuesday to annex more of Ukraine and escalate the war by claiming that residents of a large swath overwhelmingly supported joining with Russia in stage-managed referendums the US and its Western allies have dismissed as illegitimate.

“Ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned”: With Sikhs practically extinct in Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, India’s case as a natural homeland deserves a revisit as batch of 55 Sikh reached India

As 55 Hindus and Sikhs landed in New Delhi on a special flight from Afghanistan this week, the plight of persecuted minorities in India’s neighborhood once again came to the fore. These Hindus and Sikhs are one of the very last persecuted minorities who have been provided with visa assistance from the Indian government to help them escape from the torture in the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan.

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar concluded his New York leg of the 10-day visit to the United States, where he held more than 50 meetings, of which 40 were one-to-one, apart from bilateral, trilateral and group meeting.

If social media is to be believed, there’s a coup in China and President Xi Jinping has been ousted. The internet has been abuzz with rumors after the president has not been seen in public after his return from the high-level Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Uzbekistan, his first official foreign visit since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.