✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. 4th day of evacuation: Three evacuation flights by IndiGo, Air India Express bring back 616 Indians
2. 9th Operation Ganga flight has reached New Delhi from Bucharest, Romania. It was carrying 218 Indian nationals.
3. Seventh flight carrying 182 Indian nationals landed in Mumbai this morning. Union Minister Narayan Rane received them at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. More than 1,400 students have already been evacuated from war-hit Ukraine under Operation Ganga.
4. Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla informed on Tuesday that all Indians have been evacuated from Kyiv, the capital of war-hit Ukraine. He said the government estimated that 20,000 Indians are in Ukraine and of them, 12,000 have been evacuated. Of the remaining 40%, most are in Kharkiv. India will operate 26 flights over next three days for evacuation
5. An Indian student Naveen Shekharappa has lost his life in shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine on Tuesday morning. In a series of tweets, the External Affairs Ministry & PM Modi conveyed deepest condolences to the family.
6. Indian Embassy assures students evacuated from Ukraine that no visa required to exit Romania.
7. Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation General (Retd) VK Singh has reached Poland to oversee the evacuation efforts of Indian nationals stranded in Ukraine. After reaching there, he met a group of Indian students staying at a Gurudwara at Warsaw in Poland.
8. Pak senators demand provincial status for Gilgit Baltistan: India has clearly conveyed to Pakistan that the entire union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, including the areas of Gilgit and Baltistan, are an integral part of the country by virtue of its fully legal and irrevocable accession.
9. Pakistan has raised objections to the design of India’s Kiru hydroelectric plant, which is a mega 624 MW project over the Chenab in Jammu and Kashmir.
*Indus Waters Treaty Between India & Pakistan* :India and Pakistan signed the accord in 1960 brokered by the World Bank. The Treaty pertains to all the waters of the eastern Rivers – Sutlej, Beas, and Ravi, which amounts to around 33 million acre-feet (MAF) annually, being allocated to India for unimpeded usage. The waters of western Rivers – Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab, which amounts to 135 MAF annually, has been assigned largely to Pakistan.
According to the IWT, India is granted the right to generate hydroelectricity through run-of-the-river projects on the western rivers subject to criteria for design and operation. Indus Treaty grants Pakistan the right to raise objections on Indian design within 3 months of the receipt of the information. India supplied the information on this project to Pakistan in June last year.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Ukrainian authorities said on Tuesday that more than 70 Ukrainian servicemen were killed by a Russian rocket attack and dozens of civilians have died in “barbaric” shelling, as a huge Russian military convoy approached the capital Kyiv.
2. France will offer €100 million in financial aid to Ukraine amid ongoing Russian military offensive, French Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. The aid, which comes in response to request by Ukraine, aims to relieve humanitarian crisis in country, ministry added. First shipment of 33 tonnes of aid, including sleeping bags and hygiene kits, was handed over to Ukraine on Monday.
3. The Russian forces on Tuesday attacked the main TV tower in Ukraine’s Kyiv, potentially disrupting its signal, said Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko. The attack reportedly claimed the lives of five people
4. China on Tuesday warned the United States that it will pay a ‘heavy price’ for its attempts to show support to Taiwan’s independence as a delegation of ex-American defence officials dispatched by President Joe Biden landed in Taipei amid apprehensions that Beijing may attempt action against the self-ruled island akin to Russia’s military assault in Ukraine.
5. Govt of Bangladesh signed two separate agreements with Asian Development Bank (ADB) for loans worth USD 292 million on Tuesday. The agreements were signed in Dhaka between Fatima Yasmin, Secretary, Economic Relations Division, and Edimon Ginting, Country Director, ADB.
6. Nepalese Parliament approved a $500 million U.S. government aid program Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) overcoming domestic political divisions and objections from China.
7. A Ship with 4,000 cars including Porsches sinks 2 weeks after catching fire mid-ocean. A burnt-out cargo ship carrying around 4,000 cars made by Volkswagen Group, including Lamborghinis, Porsches, Bentleys and Audis, sank on Tuesday off the Portuguese Azores archipelago. The ship sank nearly two weeks after it caught fire mid-ocean. “When the towing started…water started to come in…The ship lost its stability and sank,” the captain of the nearest port said.
8. Norway bans Russian alcohol from shops over invasion of Ukraine.
9. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has asked his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to use China’s ties with Russia to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. China is ready to make every effort to help end the war through diplomacy, Wang told Kuleba. China has strong trade links with Ukraine, according to Reuters.
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