INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
India's Narendra Modi and finance minister to discuss ways to mitigate rising oil pricesNEW DELHI: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi
will meet finance minister and other officials on Thursday evening to discuss the economic impact of Russia-Ukraine crisis and ways to
mitigate the impact of rising crude oil prices, a government source told Reuters.Russian forces fired missiles at several cities in Ukraine
and landed troops on its coast on Thursday, officials and media said, after President Vladimir Putin authorised what he called a special
military operation.Earlier, the Indian embassy in Ukraine said that special flights arranged to head to Kyiv to pick up Indian nationals
were cancelled as the country's airspace was closed.
