The Taliban movement, which rules Afghanistan, is buying weapons and drones from Belarus with Russia’s consent, while India is acting as an intermediary in the deals, Afghanistan International reports, citing five former senior Afghan officials. According to them, contacts between Minsk and the Taliban intensified after the visit to Moscow by the movement’s defense minister Mohammad Yaqoob in late May and early June, when an agreement on military-technical cooperation was signed.

#Afghanistan #Belarus #India #Pakistan #Russia #Taliban

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Indian pilot Smith Machchar told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he opened the Flydubai aircraft cockpit door to let passengers in and stop the rapid descent. According to him, he did this while lying injured on the floor and still being attacked by the co-pilot.

#Flydubai #India #NarendraModi #uae #flightFZ1073 #SaudovskajaAravia

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Protests took place on university campuses in Delhi this week after a series of rapes in India’s capital. March participants are demanding justice and say that 14 years after the Nirbhaya case, nothing has changed for them.

#SupremeCourtofIndia #Delhi #DelhiUniversity #rape #India #Nirbhaya

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SETE CEO Patrick Branco Ruvo will step down at the end of the year after an internal review of the decision to bar female Eiffel Tower staff from serving a delegation of the Indian religious organization BAPS on September 5. This was reported by Associated Press, citing a company statement.

#Genderissues #India #Hinduism #Lifestyle #Paris #ReligionandPeace #scandals #France #TheEiffelTower

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The Ministry of Internal Affairs proposed allowing Russian companies to hire workers from visa-required countries outside the quota system, including programmers, doctors, welders, tractor drivers, and nurses. The draft order was published on September 28 on the portal for draft regulatory legal acts; the list includes 186 professions and positions.

#employment #India #MinistryofInternalAffairsoftheRussianFederation #labormigration #Economy

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In the week to September 13, Russia shipped $2.42 billion worth of oil for export — the highest since late May, according to Bloomberg calculations based on tanker-tracking data. A week earlier, the amount was about $620 million lower.

#WarinUkraine #India #Kazakhstan #China #oil #Russia #Economy

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Two women of Indian origin who grew up in the Netherlands in foster families met in August after a DNA test and learned that they were biological sisters. They are 43-year-old Meena Gelthink and 44-year-old Minal Tijssen.

#Facebook #DNAtest #India #Mumbai #Netherlands #adoption

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Vladimir Putin arrived in India on September 11 for a working visit. In New Delhi, he will take part in the BRICS summit; the trip is scheduled for three days — from September 11 to 13.

#brix #VladimirPutin #India #NarendraModi #NewDevelopmentBank #NewDelhi

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced the successful launch of the country’s first imaging satellite, designed to operate in geosynchronous orbit. The GSLV F-17 launch vehicle placed the EOS-05 into its planned orbit.

#India #Space #NarendraModi #Thescience

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Rosneft has made significant investments in India and does not want to lose them. ExxonMobil has invested just as heavily in Sakhalin-1 and is equally unwilling to lose its stake. India has stakes in Sakhalin-1 and also earns good profits from Rosneft’s investments in the country, and it too is reluctant to lose all this. The only ones spoiling the situation are two people: Trump, who wants to end the war by any means, and Putin, who does not want to stop it. And who better than Sechin to try to solve this puzzle?

#Exxon #Analytics #VladimirPutin #DonaldTrump #IgorSechin #India #NarendraModi #NarendraMori #oil #Russia #sanctions #USA

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So, the meeting between Donald Trump and turned out to be brief, meaningless, and strange. There will be no ceasefire on the Russian-Ukrainian front; the war will continue. Until a peace agreement is reached or indefinitely – it’s anyone’s guess. But even if Russia has enough soldiers and weapons to keep fighting, will it have enough resources to maintain economic stability for as long?

#Alaska #WarinUkraine #militaryindustrialcomplex #India #China #Taxation #oil #Putin #Russia #sanctions #USA #shadowfleet #Trump #finance

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This coming Saturday, Russia may wake up to a new reality. Or not, if Trump, contrary to his promise, does not impose sanctions on countries buying Russian oil, gas, and uranium.

#Analytics #VladimirPutin #gas #DonaldTrump #India #Iran #China #oil #duties #Rosneft #ruble #sanctions #Surgutneftegas #Taiwan #Uranus

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