PM Modi chairs meeting on Ukraine crisis
The Hindu
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday chaired a meeting to review the Ukraine crisis amid the ongoing exercise to evacuate Indian nationals, mostly students, from the country facing attack from Russia.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Union Minister Piyush Goyal were part of the meeting besides top officials, including NSA Ajit Doval. The government has launched “Operation Ganga” to evacuate its citizens and sent four Union Ministers as Mr. Modi’s special envoys to Ukraine’s neighbouring countries to coordinate the exercise.
The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.