Russia

Tanker's impossible voyage signals new sanction evasion ploy

Oil prices at 17-year lows as virus ravages world

3:30 pm March 30, 2020

Singapore: Oil prices extended losses in Asian trade Monday and languished at 17-year lows, with the coronavirus crisis escalating around the world and no end in sight to a vicious price war. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate fell 5.3 percent to trade at 20 a barrel, while international benchmark Brent crude was off 6.5 percent […]

Coronavirus: Goa flights come down to 18 per day from 77

8:36 pm March 22, 2020

Panaji: The number of flights from Goa airport has been reduced to 18 from the regular schedule of 77 in view of the novel coronavirus outbreak, said Airport Director Gagan Malik on Sunday. He informed that 1,000 people left from here for Russia and the United Kingdom on Sunday on three chartered flights.

44-yr-old Coronavirus: NDA suspends large gatherings, expeditionsgaon resident tests positive of coronavirus

Maharashtra: Woman tests positive for coronavirus in Aurangabad

4:03 pm March 15, 2020

Mumbai: A 59-year-old woman tested positive for coronavirus in Aurangabad city of Maharashtra on Sunday, a state health official said. With this, the number of coronavirus positive cases has gone up to 32 in the state. “The woman has tested positive for coronavirus infection. She had travelled to Russia and Kazakhstan. She has been quarantined […]

Rupee dives 54 paise to 73.87 against USD

11:44 pm March 6, 2020

Mumbai: The Indian rupee resumed its downward journey after a day’s hiatus on Friday, plummeting by 54 paise to 73.87 against the US dollar as coronavirus-panicked investors assessed deteriorating financial markets. At the interbank foreign exchange, the domestic currency started the session with a massive plunge at 73.94 to the US dollar. It went on […]

Uttarakhand flood:French President Macron expresses solidarity with India

Russia will ‘keep trying to destabilise’ Western democracies: Macron

7:03 pm February 15, 2020

Munich: French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday warned that Russia would continue to try to “destabilise” Western democracies through election interference, social media manipulation and other acts of cyber warfare. “I think that Russia will keep trying to destabilise, either through private actors, directly through its agencies, or through proxies,” Macron said at the Munich […]