miss my conversation with comedian, sam joe. welcome to the show. i m mehdi hassan. three months ago, russia launched its war on ukraine and we all thought it might be over in a few days. u.s. intel predicted kyiv would fall quickly to russian paratroopers. that didn t happen, thankfully. not only have the ukrainians defend themselves over the last few months, with the help of the western world, but they ve gone on the offensive. ukrainian troops, this, week two we took land around the area of kharkiv, ruining russian plans for a blitzkrieg offensive. in fact, ukraine s defense ministry put out a video russian border, pushing russian invaders back on to their own turf. nbc news has not confirmed where or when that video was shot. according to the u k depends ministry, russia sacked two generals. one of who was responsible for kharkiv. meanwhile, the pipeline of the remains open, and more european nations are seeking to join the alliance itself. most recently, finl
all happened. that s ahead. thank you for being here. let s begin with the news on the economy. good news, bad news, something in between possibly. inflation in the u.s. easing slightly in april. consumer prices rose 8.3%. lower than theri we saw in march but still very clearly painfully close to the 40 year high. today s report marks the first time the inflation rate fell in 8 months but still not good out there. sky high prices in major sectors and every aspect of life. president biden this morning called inflation unacceptably high in a statement he issued and also says inflation is now his top domestic priority as the economy faces unprecedented challenges from the supply chain to the war in ukraine. let s begin at the white house this hour. cnn s john harwood is there. john, walk us through this. reporter: well, look. inflation is president biden s top domestic priority, his top domestic problem as well. as you indicated, kate, there s good news and bad news in this re
India reported 573 new Covid-19 cases, with two deaths due to the infection in the past 24 hours. The country has logged a total of 263 cases of the coronavirus sub-variant JN.1, so far. TheHealthSite.com
All these are sub-variants of the parent variant, the Omicron which rocked the nation in 2022. And by March of that year, India became endemic, which means the numbers were low and steady.
The COVID-19 cases in India have seen an upward trend in the past few days with the daily fresh infections ranging between 2,994 on April 1 to 3,824 on April 2 and 3,641 on April 3 and 3038 on April 4.