India

BENGALURU, India, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Finance chiefs of the world's largest economies strongly condemned Moscow for its war on Ukraine on Saturday, with only China and Russia itself declining to sign a joint statement.

India, which as chair of the Group of Twenty (G20) economies was hosting a meeting in the city of Bengaluru, was reluctant to raise the issue of the war but Western nations insisted they could not back any outcome that did not include a condemnation.

Kanpur: The Cantonment Board elections will be held in 8 Wards on April 30 this year after a gap of eight long years. As many as. 53,426 voters in all the eight wards will vote at nine places.

Candidates will be able to file their nominations from March 22.

The Board's PRO Amit Yadav said that all preparations have started in this regard.  Votes will be cast at the designated polling places on the scheduled date and time. All the information will be given to the contesting candidates in time.

NEW DELHI, Feb 24 (NNN-PTI) – At least 11 people were killed and 10 others injured, in a head-on collision between a goods truck and a pickup van, in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, police said today.

The accident took place last night, on a main road in Khamariya village, in Balodabazar-Bhatapara district, about 85 km north of Raipur, the capital city of Chhattisgarh.

BENGALURU, India (AP) — Tensions over Russia’s war on Ukraine flared Friday at meetings of financial chiefs of the Group of 20 leading economies, where geopolitics affected the atmosphere if not the agenda of the gathering in the Indian technology hub of Bengaluru.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen condemned the “illegal and unjustified war against Ukraine” at a session attended by Russian officials and reiterated calls for G-20 nations to do more to support Ukraine and hinder Moscow’s war effort.

NEW DELHI, February 22. /TASS/: The decision to suspend Russia’s participation in the New START treaty will not be reversed any time soon because of the continuing rapid deterioration of US-Russia ties, basically, the treaty is moribund, Indian international relations expert and former Indian Ambassador to Russia Kanwal Sibal told TASS.

BENGALURU, India (AP) — Top financial leaders from the Group of 20 leading economies are gathering in the south Indian technology hub of Bengaluru this week to tackle myriad challenges to global growth and stability, including stubbornly high inflation and surging debt.

India is hosting the G-20 financial conclave for the first time in 20 years. Later in the year it will convene its first summit of G-20 economies. The meetings offer the world’s second most populous country a chance to showcase its ascent as an economic power and its status as a champion of developing nations.

Kanpur: Short circuit caused fire in the road- ways bus engine going to Delhi from city's Kidwai Nagar bus depot here on Wednesday.

According the news, the bus developed problem in engine near Sector 21 C Noida. The engine got so much heated that it began to spit out flames of fire.

Sensing the gravity of the situation the driver anyhow successfully parked the bus on one side of the road. 

He helped the passengers get down safely. The fire tender was called to douse the fire.

NEW DELHI, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- India's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has announced a payment facility for in-bound foreign travelers by using mobile-based fast payment system "Unified Payments Interface (UPI)", with effect from Tuesday.

Two banks, namely the ICICI Bank and the IDFC First Bank, and two non-bank prepaid payment instrument issuers, namely the Pine Labs Private Limited and the Transcorp International Limited, have been engaged in issuing UPI-linked wallets for international travelers.

Kanpur: In a bizarre incident here, wives of two neighbours have accused each other's husbands of raping them.

An FIR has registered by a woman who has accused a man of raping her. The wife of the accused has also filed an FIR against the husband of the first complainant.

Thus, The two women filed complaints against each other's husbands, alleging rape, within 38 hours.

Notably, th second complainant's husband has been arrested, while the spouse of the first complainant has reportedly not yet arrested.

NEW DELHI, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Indian government announced on Saturday that a nuclear power plant will be set up in the northern Indian state of Haryana.

According to the government, the nuclear plant, the first in north India, will come up in Gorakhpur town of the Fatehabad district, about 150 km north of the Indian capital New Delhi.