[04 - 06]/03/2022 - TOP 3 NEWS OF INDIA

 

04/03/2022

According to Putin, Indian students are being held captive in Kharkiv.

On Thursday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that a big number of Indian students "continue" to be held "hostage" in a train station in Kharkiv. The Russian president's remarks came only hours after India announced that its preparations to evacuate nationals from Kharkiv, Ukraine, had been thwarted because violence in the city had restarted after a brief break on Wednesday.

Leaders of the four countries meet to discuss the conflict in Ukraine.

On Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Joe Biden, and leaders of Australia and Japan met to address the Ukraine conflict. According to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the leaders agreed that what is happening in Ukraine should not be permitted to happen in the Indo-Pacific.

New animosity is preventing Indians from being rescued from Kharkiv, according to the government.

The administration announced on Thursday that its efforts to evacuate citizens from the conflict-torn Ukrainian city of Kharkiv had been thwarted as fighting resumed in the city following a brief pause on Wednesday. According to a Ministry of External Affairs official, a substantial number of Indian students who were earlier stranded in the city were able to reach neighbouring evacuation centres after receiving a "urgent advisory" from the Indian Embassy, but the rest of the students have yet to be relocated.

05/03/2022

As part of 'Operation Ganga,' almost 3,700 Indians will return on 17 aircraft.

After fleeing Ukraine and reaching neighbouring countries, around 3,700 Indians returned on Friday on 17 special planes. 14 commercial flights operated by Indian airlines and three C-17 planes operated by the Indian Air Force returned 3,142 persons from Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland as part of the government's 'Operation Ganga.'

Cong. urges EC to ensure free and fair elections in Manipur.

The Congress on Friday urged the Election Commission (EC) to ensure a free and fair election in Manipur, alleging that militant organisations are harassing voters to influence the ongoing Assembly elections. The Congress team, which met with the EC before of Saturday's second phase polling, raised the matter of the BJP-led State government transferring funding to terrorist groups under a suspension of operations arrangement, which is in violation of the current model code of conduct (MCC).

Following the attack on a Ukrainian power facility, members of the United Nations Security Council have raised concerns about nuclear threats.

At an emergency meeting on Friday, members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) expressed concern about the possibility of a nuclear incident in Ukraine. The meeting was called hours after a training building at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant caught fire as Russians moved in and took control of the facility. No reactors have been damaged, according to the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

06/03/2022

Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capable of putting the courts on a fast track?

Is it possible to employ artificial intelligence (AI) in court processes to speed up the resolution of cases? In response to this unstarred question in the Lok Sabha during the first part of Parliament's Budget session, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said that while implementing phase two of the eCourts projects, which have been in operation since 2015, a need was felt to adopt new, cutting-edge technologies such as Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve the efficiency of the justice delivery system.

PM Modi had asked us to assist students affected by the Ukraine crisis: Swaminarayan Sanstha 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has personally requested that the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha assist Indians caught up in the Ukraine situation, according to a press release from the organisation. When some students from Kerala and Tamil Nadu returned home, they claimed that the Indian authorities had treated them unfairly during their transit via Poland, where BAPS was in charge of giving humanitarian assistance.

Students stranded in Ukraine's Sumy are reassured by the government.

The Indian government said on Saturday that it was "deeply concerned" about the students trapped in Sumy, on the frontlines of Ukraine's war with Russia, and assured them that it was in talks with both countries to find a safe passage for them after they threatened to march to the border carrying the Indian flag despite heavy bombing of the city.