Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Cold War

Indian stock markets plunge down on fear of new ‘Cold War’

Indian stock markets closed in red on Wednesday, with the Sensex of the BSE going down by 927.74 points and the Nifty of the NSE by 272.40 points. The markets reacted adversely following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statements and...

Cold War weapon wrecking Russian tanks in Ukraine

Though the Russian Army was once vaunted as the second-best military in the modern world, the greatly underestimated Ukrainian military has showed it up again and again, seemingly with only national pluck and a hodgepodge of donated weapons from...

CBSE drops chapters on Islamic empires, Cold War, verses of Faiz from syllabus

The CBSE has dropped chapters about the Non-Aligned Movement, the Cold War era, the rise of Islamic empires in Afro-Asian territories, the chronicles of Mughal courts and the industrial revolution from the history and political science syllabi of classes...

S. Korea voices concern about ‘new Cold War’

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday expressed his concern about a “new Cold War” and nationalism seeking to gain hegemony by force, as Russia pressed ahead with its invasion of Ukraine despite global condemnation and sanctions.In a speech...

Fears of Ukraine war remain

The US and Russian presidents tentatively agreed to meet in a last-ditch effort to stave off a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, even as sustained shelling continued on Monday in a conflict in eastern Ukraine that Western powers fear...

Invasion of Ukraine will be ‘horrific’, warns US

Top US General Mark Milley has said that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would be “horrific” and would lead to a significant number of casualties.Gen Milley described the build-up of 100,000 Russian troops near Ukraine’s border as the largest...