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Japan will double financial aid for Ukraine to $600 million: PM Kishida

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said his country will double its financial aid for Ukraine to $600 million in support of the country badly damaged by Russia's aggression.

Russia to send oil rejected by Europe to Asia, other regions: Dy PM Novak

The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled a 210 billion euro ($220 billion) plan for Europe to end its reliance on Russian fossil fuels by 2027

Red Cross registers hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of wars from Mariupol

The international Red Cross says it has registered hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of war who left the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.

'A brutal invasion of Iraq': Bush's Freudian slip while decrying Russia

The former US President George W Bush described Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as "the 21st century Churchill"

Chinese economy continues to face pressure due to Covid, Ukraine crisis

Investment management Morgan Stanley has forecast that global economic growth would be less than half of 2021 due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the surge of Covid-19 in China

Firms leaving Russia caving to public pressure, not making a difference

Many companies cut ties with Russia in response to the pressure to support Ukraine from governments, investors, consumers, competitors and the general public. Some even made hefty financial sacrifices

Need to build nation capable of establishing peace across globe: PM Modi

PM Modi was virtually addressing a youth conclave organised here in Gujarat by Shri Swaminarayan Temple, Kundaldham and Shree Swaminarayan Temple, Karelibaug, Vadodara

Global economy loses $1.6 trn as world struggles to avoid a new Cold War

Russia's invasion of Ukraine and China's Covid Zero lockdowns are disrupting supply chains, hammering growth and pushing inflation to forty-year highs.

Battle for Ukraine's Mariupol draws toward close after troops surrender

The battle that turned Mariupol into a worldwide symbol of defiance and suffering drew toward a close as Russia said nearly 1,000 last-ditch Ukrainian fighters

India assures food aid despite export controls to countries 'most in need'

Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan gave the assurance that despite restrictions on exports, India will provide food to nations that "are most in need" because of the Ukraine war

Food grains shouldn't be hoarded like vaccines: India on wheat exports

Open markets must not become an argument to perpetuate inequity and promote discrimination: Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan

Russian-Ukraine crisis: US reopens embassy in Kyiv after three months

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the Ukrainian people, with our security assistance, have defended their homeland in the face of Russia's unconscionable invasion

UN chief 'hopeful' of Ukraine grain deal to help food security crisis

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a ministerial meeting on the escalating food security crisis, which has been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, that there is still a long way to go

Interrogation, uncertainty for surrendering Mariupol troops in Ukraine war

While Ukraine said it hopes to get the soldiers back in a prisoner swap, Russia threatened to put some of them on trial for war crimes

Best of BS Opinion: Global supply crunch, India's urbanisation and more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Thursday

At $20 bn, RBI makes highest-ever dollar sales in spot markets in a month

The central bank has been intervening in all segments of the currency market, which has slowed the pace of rupee depreciation.

EU lays plan to end by 2027 bloc's reliance on Russian oil and gas

The EU got 22 per cent of its gross final energy consumption from renewable sources like wind, solar and biomass in 2020

Rupee slips to fresh all-time low in 3rd straight session, closes 77.58/$

Dealers said major gains for the dollar were capped as the Reserve Bank of India is believed to have protected the 77.50 levels

UK inflation rate hits 40-yr high as energy bill soars amid Ukraine war

Britain's Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 9.0 per cent in the 12 months to April 2022, the highest level since 1982, the British Office for National Statistics (ONS) said Wednesday.

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