Ukrainian National guard soldiers guard the mobile checkpoint toghether with the Ukrainian Security Service agents and police officers during a joint operation in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022.
Live news updates: US President Joe Biden said on Thursday there was now every indication Russia was planning to invade Ukraine in the next few days and was preparing a pretext to justify it, after Ukrainian forces and pro-Moscow rebels traded fire in eastern Ukraine.
The Kremlin accused Biden of stoking tension and released a strongly worded letter which said Washington was ignoring its security demands and threatened unspecified “military-technical measures”. Moscow also ejected the number two official from the US embassy.
The Income Tax Department on Thursday searched places in Mumbai linked to Chitra Ramkrishna and Anand Subramanian, former senior executives of the National Stock Exchange, as it investigates them for suspected tax evasion. Ramkrishna, during her stint a MD &CEO, Subramanian, as her advisor and group operating officer, ran a money-making scheme at the NSE, India’s market regulator has alleged.
India reported 25,920 new cases of Covid-19 and 492 deaths from the disease in the last 24 hours, said the health ministry on Friday. Total cases increased 42.78 million and pandemic deaths to 510,905.
