NEW DELHI: President Vladimir Putin on Monday, in a move that would make the Russian army the second largest in the world after China, ordered to increase the regular size of the army by 180,000 troops.The Russian leader issued a decree on the Kremlin’s website ordering the overall size of the armed forces to be…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs announced on Friday that it was in contact with approximately 50 Indians who want to be relieved from the Russian Army after Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed the matter with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his recent visit to Moscow.“Prime Minister Modi raised this matter with President Putin…
NEW DELHI: Bihar’s Hajipur is gaining recognition for producing safety shoes for the Russian army and designer shoes for European markets. Competence Exports, a private limited company based in Hajipur, has been manufacturing these shoes since 2018 with the primary goal of creating local employment opportunities.Last year, the company exported 1.5 million pairs of shoes,…
India has previously also raised this issue with Moscow urging it to release Indian men (Representative Image/Reuters) NEW DELHI: Two Indian nationals recruited recently by Russian army have died in Russia-Ukraine conflict, govt said in a statement on Tuesday. MEA and Indian embassy in Moscow have strongly taken up the matter with Russian ambassador Denis…
Berlin: The Russian army is expanding the role of women as it seeks to balance President Vladimir Putin‘s promotion of traditional family roles with the need for new recruits for the war in Ukraine.The military’s stepped-up appeal to women includes efforts to recruit female inmates in prisons, replicating on a much smaller scale a strategy…
KARNAL: Cousins Mukesh (21) and Sunny (24), from Haryana, have claimed that more than 200 men, mostly from South Asia, are trapped in camps set up by fraudulent immigration agents in a Russian forest on the border between Russia and Belarus. These agents then force them to join the Russian army, they claimed.The cousins said…
