Live: Brooklyn subway shooting suspect arrested after manhunt, say reports

Live news updates: Of the 29 people who were hospitalized in connection with the subway shooting, 10 remain hospitalized: CNN.com.

4:45 PM

Britain imposes new sanctions on 206 individuals linked to Russia

Britain said on Wednesday it was imposing new sanctions on 206 individuals in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including 178 who it said were involved in propping up Russian-backed breakaway regions of Ukraine. The government said the new sanctions also include those targeting oligarch family members, close associates, and employees.

4:34 PM

Pakistan investigates sale of necklace gifted to Imran Khan

Pakistan's has opened an investigation against Imran Khan over allegations that an expensive necklace he got as a gift during his tenure as former prime minister was sold for Rs 18 crore, said a media report Wednesday. The necklace was not sent to the tosha-khana (state gift repository), but given to former special assistant Zulfikar Bukhari, who sold it to a jeweller in Lahore, the Express Tribune newspaper reported.

4:25 PM

Covid cases and deaths fall for 3rd consecutive week: WHO

The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported to the World Health Organization fell for a third consecutive week, a trend likely helped by the dismantling of testing and surveillance programs. In its latest weekly report on the pandemic, issued late Tuesday, the U.N. health agency said the more than 7 million new cases reported represented a 24% decline from a week earlier. The weekly worldwide number of Covid-19 deaths, was down 18%, at over 22,000, the AP reported.

 

4:18 PM

Russia says over 1,000 Ukrainian marines surrender in Mariupol

Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday that 1,026 soldiers of Ukraine's 36th Marine Brigade, including 162 officers, had surrendered in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.

 

Mariupol, which has been encircled by Russian troops for weeks, has seen the fiercest fighting and the most comprehensive destruction since Russia invaded on Feb. 24.

 

The main Sea of Azov port is the biggest target in the eastern Donbas region that Moscow now calls the focus of its campaign, and if captured would be the first major city to fall since the war began. Its capture would help secure a land passage between separatist-held eastern areas and Crimea which Russia seized and annexed in 2014.

3:53 PM

BJP leaders stopped from visiting violence-hit Rajasthan town

Karnataka BJP MP Tejasvi Surya, Rajasthan BJP chief Satish Poonia and other party leaders were on Wednesday stopped by the police from visiting violence-hit Karauli town. The politicians wanted to meet victims of the April 2 violence that started when a bike rally to celebrate the Hindu new year was allegedly stoned.

3:44 PM

Russia can redirect energy exports away from West: Putin

Russia can redirect exports of its energy resources away from the West to countries that really need them while increasing domestic consumption of oil, gas and coal, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. Putin also said that "unfriendly countries" had destroyed supply chains in Russia's Arctic regions and some nations were not fulfilling their contractual obligations, Reuters reported.

3:40 PM

Zelenskyy offers to exchange Putin ally for captive Ukrainians

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed to swap a tycoon with close Kremlin ties who was detained by his country’s security service for prisoners of war. The offer came after Zelenskiy posted a picture on Facebook of Viktor Medvedchuk in handcuffs. Medvedchuk, a businessman and politician who is seen as one of President Vladimir Putin’s top allies in Ukraine, was placed under house arrest last year and local authorities said he went missing around the start of the Russian invasion, Bloomberg reported.

 

3:36 PM

Worldwide coronavirus cases cross 498.51 million,

More than 498.51 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 6,579,817 have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.

3:30 PM

Telangana court acquits AIMIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi in hate speech cases

A court in Hyderabad on Wednesday acquitted lawmaker Akbaruddin Owaisi in hate speech cases filed against him a decade ago. Owaisi, floor leader of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, was charged with abusing a community. He allegedly made hate speeches at Telangana's Nizamabad on December 8, 2012 and at Nirmal town on December 22, 2012. 

3:19 PM

ED attaches properties of Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Wednesday it has attached multiple assets of jailed Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik under the anti-money laundering law. The properties include agricultural land in Osmanabad district five flats in Mumbai, PTI reported quoting a press statement.

 

3:06 PM

Ghazipur landfill fire: HC asks civic body, Delhi govt to file status report

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Municipal corporation, Delhi Government and other respondents to file a status report and action taken report on the two recent's Ghazipur landfill fire matter. The bench of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Navin Chawla sought responses from all concerned authorities in the matter and posted the matter for May 4, 2022.

 

On the incident, Delhi Government had also ordered an inquiry into the fire. Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai had said, this type of incident has happened earlier too. The reason is negligence. However, a detailed report on the current incident has been asked from Delhi Pollution Control Committee on the fire incident that occurred on March 28, 2022.

3:00 PM

Seven killed, 22 wounded by shelling in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, says governor

At least seven people were killed and 22 wounded by shelling in Ukraine's northeastern region of Kharkiv over the past 24 hours, Governor Oleh Synegubov said on Wednesday.

 

In an online post, he said a 2-year-old boy was among those killed in the 53 artillery or rocket strikes he said Russian forces had carried out in the past day in the region.

 

Reuters could not independently verify the information. Russia denies targeting civilians.

2:19 PM

Exports up nearly 20% to $42 bn in March

The country's exports in March 2022 rose 19.76 per cent to USD 42.22 billion as compared to the year-ago period, according to a commerce ministry data released on Wednesday.

In March 2021, exports stood at USD 35.26 billion.

Last month, imports grew 24.21 per cent to USD 60.74 billion, it showed.

Trade deficit in the month under review widened to USD 18.51 billion as compared to USD 13.64 billion in March 2021.

2:12 PM

PE inflows in realty sector dips 32% to $4.3 bn in FY22: Report

Private equity (PE) investments in real estate sector fell 32 per cent to USD 4.3 billion in the last fiscal year mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to property consultant Anarock. PE investments in real estate stood at USD 6.3 billion in the 2020-21 financial year.

According to Anarock Capital's FY22 year-end edition of its FLUX report, PE inflows in real estate were USD 5.1 billion in FY'20, USD 5.6 billion in FY'19 and USD 5.4 billion in 2017-18 fiscal.

1:48 PM

Indian Air Force and IIT Madras signed an MoU for various developmental projects to support IAF

Indian Air Force and IIT Madras signed an MoU today, for various developmental projects to support the requirements of the IAF. The MoU was signed by Air Commodore S Bahuja, Command Engineering Officer (Systems), and others at Air Force Station, Tughlakabad, Delhi.