Meet Pavel Stepchenko: Russia's youngest pensioner at 23 after just two years of service; find out howAt just 23, Pavel Stepchenko of Russia becomes the youngest-ever pensioner due to leveraging a legal loophole in the Russian pension law. B...
20 Mar, 2025, 04.38 PM IST
Can India’s Defence Budget 2025 bridge global ambitions and domestic realities?Defence Budget 2025 Expectations: India’s defence budget for FY25 is set at 2.4% of GDP, making it the fourth-largest globally, but it lags...
24 Jan, 2025, 04.08 PM IST
Russia's labour shortage spreads as defence sector poaches staffRussia is grappling with a severe labor shortage exacerbated by military recruitment and emigration following the Ukraine conflict. This sc...
28 Nov, 2024, 11.50 AM IST
With Ukraine losing ground, allies debate how to squeeze cash for Kyiv out of frozen Russian assetsUkraine's allies are debating how to use frozen Russian assets to support Kyiv's war effort amid Russia's territorial gains. The issue of $...
23 May, 2024, 05.33 PM IST
Russian passports become universal in Ukraine's occupied territories, through force and incentivesRussian soldiers force Ukrainians to take passports, denying healthcare without them. Families face pressure, coercion, and violence to com...
15 Mar, 2024, 03.45 PM IST
3 Russian investors register with Sebi to enter FPI listTwo Russian institutional entities and an individual, all based in Moscow, appear in the list of registered foreign portfolio investors (FP...
08 May, 2023, 05.43 AM IST
The Russian military commandant who oversaw reign of fear in Ukraine townRussian military commandant Lt. Col. Valery Sergeyevich Buslov administered and allowed unlawful detentions of civilians in Ukraine's Balak...
20 Apr, 2023, 03.37 PM IST
How crypto giant Binance became a hub for hackers, fraudsters and drug traffickersIn as little as nine minutes, using only encrypted email addresses as identification, the Lazarus hackers created Binance accounts and trad...
07 Jun, 2022, 08.18 PM IST
Prime Minister Modi seeks Danish investment for infrastructure and green industriesIn joint remarks following the summit, Modi said he and Frederiksen called for an immediate ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war, and that t...
04 May, 2022, 07.17 AM IST
Russia strikes Kyiv during UN chief's visit as Moscow presses offensiveThree months into an invasion that failed in its short-term aim of capturing Kyiv, Russia is now intensifying operations in the breakaway e...
29 Apr, 2022, 11.50 AM IST
Will Russia-Ukraine war make Europe's switch to clean energy even harder?Smoothly managing Europe's energy switch was always going to be difficult. Now, as economies stagger back from the second year of the pande...
23 Mar, 2022, 11.54 AM IST
What are the Minsk agreements on the Ukraine conflict?Ukraine and the Russian-backed separatists agreed a 12-point ceasefire deal in the capital of Belarus in September 2014.
06 Dec, 2021, 05.59 PM IST
Russian trust in Vladimir Putin plunges to 39 per centPutin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment to Vedomosti on the latest poll.
08 Oct, 2018, 08.33 PM IST
After record first half, M&A deals face election jittersOverall, Indian M&A activity — including outbound deals — stood at $68 billion in the first half, surging past $65 billion in entire 2017 a...
02 Jul, 2018, 12.01 PM IST
Ally of slain Russian politician takes on Kremlin in regional voteIlya Yashin, a prominent figure in the People's Freedom Party or PARNAS, was one of Nemtsov's closest friends and served as his campaign ma...
12 Sep, 2015, 01.34 PM IST
Russian doctor rebellion causes headache for president Vladimir PutinOn Sunday, many doctors are set to march against the reform as part of the first mass social protest in Russia in nearly a decade.
28 Nov, 2014, 02.07 PM IST
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California lawmakers are considering legislation that would force state pension funds to sell billions of dollars worth of shares in compan...
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