BJP has targeted Congress by spotlighting Mani Shankar Aiyar’s remarks about former PM Rajiv Gandhi’s academic failures and questioned his competency to lead. Aiyar, a former close aide to Rajiv, suggested his political career was impacted by his association with the Gandhi family.

Officials investigating the case said that the mastermind, Vinod Singh, had placed his people inside IVF clinics and hospitals to gather details of childless couples desperate for a baby. These couples were then approached discreetly and offered newborns illegally.

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (March 4) he received a letter from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in which the Ukrainian leader expressed willingness to come to the negotiating table over the Russia-Ukraine war.”Earlier today, I received an important letter from President Zelenskiy of Ukraine. The letter reads, ‘Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians,’ he said,” Trump said in his address to the U.S. Congress on Tuesday while quoting from that letter.Trump also said Ukraine was prepared to sign a rare earth minerals deal.Zelenskiy’s talks with Trump in the White House last Friday (February 28) broke down in acrimonious exchanges. On Monday (March 3), Trump paused all military aid to Ukraine. n18oc_world n18oc_crux