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A former German ambassador for Russia said Russian President Vladimir Putin is deliberately trying to cause a famine and refugee crisis, DW reported.

Rüdiger von Fritsch told a German outlet that Putin wants to cause a famine in the Middle East and Africa so it would cause refugees to migrate to Europe, which would destabilize the region.

"Putin's calculation is that after grain supplies collapse, starving people from these regions will flee and try to come to Europe — like previously the millions of Syrians fleeing the horrors of war," he said.

The Shark Tank India fame Ashneer Grover has made headlines for all the reasons. However, this time Grover is making headlines for his social media post where he is posing with his Mercedes-Maybach S650. Grover is known for his fancy car collection of cars at his Delhi bungalow. According to the reports, he has a Mercedes Benz GLS 350, a Porsche Cayman, an Audi A6, and a Mercedes Maybach S650 parked in his garage.

In a relief to households that are reeling from high inflation including record cooking gas prices, the government has announced to provide LPG subsidy to the poor on 12 cylinders in a year. The announcement was accompanied by another decision to cut taxes on petrol and diesel prices. Here’re details about who will get LPG subsidy and how much:The LPG Subsidy Announcement: The Latest Price Of A Cylinder

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in a tweet on Saturday said, “We will give a subsidy of Rs 200 per gas cylinder (up to 12 cylinders) to over nine crore beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana. This will help our mothers and sisters. This will have a revenue implication of around Rs 6,100 crore a year.”

Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath on Friday told Congress workers to take a leaf out of their BJP counterparts' notebooks on how to fight elections and take the initiative when it comes to doing party work.

Addressing the state unit's Panchayati Raj Institution Cell at the party office in Bhopal on Friday, Nath said the only reason the Congress loses elections is because its workers have to be asked to work, which is not the case with the saffron party.

"You have to work yourself. In the BJP, no one goes to tell the people on the ground that they have to go here or there and do so-and-so work. BJP workers do it on their own, whereas the only drawback in the Congress is that people keep waiting for someone to tell them what to do," he said.

The Supreme Court on Friday issued a stay on the Odisha Universities (Amendment) Act, 2020 through which the state government had sought to control appointment to important academic and administrative posts in state universities, including the recruitment of teaching staff.

A division bench of SC judges comprising Justice SA Nazeer and Justice Krishan Murari stayed the Act for the next three months after hearing a petition filed against the Act by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and retired professor of JNU Ajit Kumar Mohanty. The court sought a reply from the Odisha government and set the date for the next hearing on the matter after two months.