US President Donald Trump on Friday noted that progress was being made toward ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict, while acknowledging that strained relations between Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin continue to make peace efforts “difficult”.

Clearing mines from the sea is a perilous operation and doing so in an active conflict is even more dangerous. 

​Clearing mines from the sea is a perilous operation and doing so in an active conflict is even more dangerous.  

Confident Group chairman C J Roy, 57, was found dead from a gunshot wound at his Bengaluru office on Friday. The incident occurred shortly after Income Tax officials, who had been conducting searches for three days, asked him to stay to review documents. Roy reportedly went into his cabin and a gunshot was heard minutes later.