New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a high-level meeting on Wednesday night on the Ukraine crisis as India steps up its efforts to evacuate its citizens, mostly students, from the country under attack from Russia.

Kolkata: Ten months after its landslide victory in the West Bengal assembly polls, the ruling Trinamool Congress on Wednesday steamrolled the entire opposition in the civic elections, bagging 102 of the 108 municipalities in the state, an SEC official said.

New Delhi: A total of 148 aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will demonstrate their capabilities at Exercise Vayu Shakti that will take place at Pokharan range in Jaisalmer on March 7, a senior official said on Wednesday.

Ukraine: Indian Embassy on Wednesday evening called on all Indian citizens in Kharkiv to leave the city immediately for their safety. The embassy issued an advisory through its official Twitter handle as Russia intensified action in Ukraine’s second-largest city.

Nagpur: Former VHP chief Pravin Togadia on Wednesday said the BJP may find it tough to the win the Assembly polls underway in Uttar Pradesh as farmers there are distressed and angry.

Ukraine: Indian student in Ukraine has reportedly died while being treated in a hospital for an illness. The student was from Punjab’s Buranala.

New Delhi: International Affairs expert Gilbert Doctorow on Tuesday slammed Republic TV Chief Arnab Goswami and added that his language was not fit to carry an intellectual debate.

Of the estimated 20,000 Indians, including students, who were trapped in Ukraine at the start of the Russian offensive there, 60 per cent have crossed Ukrainian borders and are safe with efforts underway to rescue the remaining people, the Centre told the Kerala High Court on Wednesday.