Morning Digest | PM Modi, Egypt President sign strategic partnership pact; Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ conservative party clinch landslide Greece election win, and more

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‘What’s happening in India’, PM Modi asks BJP chief Nadda after returning from foreign visit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned to India in the early hours of June 26 after his six-day visit to the U.S. and Egypt during which several landmark agreements were signed.

“He asked Nadda ji how it is going here, and Nadda ji told him that party leaders were reaching out to people with the report card of the nine years of his government, and the country is happy,” BJP MP Manoj Tiwari told reporters when asked what the prime minister asked them after meeting them at the airport.

With Russia revolt over, mercenaries’ future and direction of Ukraine war remain uncertain

Russian government troops withdrew from the streets of Moscow on June 25 and the rebellious mercenary soldiers who had occupied other cities were gone, but the short-lived revolt has weakened President Vladimir Putin just as his forces are facing a fierce counteroffensive in Ukraine.

The aborted march on the capital by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner troops, some of the most effective fighters in Ukraine, also left their fate uncertain.

PM Modi, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi sign strategic partnership pact between India and Egypt