Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: In Russia negotiations, Ukraine demands ‘immediate ceasefire, direct talks with Putin’; In Goa, no rift but uneasy peace between Russians, Ukrainians

Cheap Russian oil: India is considering taking up a Russian offer to buy its crude oil and other commodities at discounted prices with payment via a rupee-rouble transaction 

Inflation: India’s retail inflation spikes to 6.07% in February; India’s WPI inflation spikes to 13.11%

The case against Umar Khalid: Two years after the Delhi police said that political activist Umar Khalid — in jail without trial or bail for 547 days — was the mastermind behind the Delhi riots in February 2020, eight months of bail hearings and chargesheets reveals that the prosecution’s case against Khalid stands on a handful of WhatsApp messages that he neither wrote nor were sent to him