New Delhi
At least 16 people have been injured, 10 shot and 5 are in critical but stable condition after Tuesday's morning shooting at Brooklyn subway station during peak commuting hours when employees, students were heading towards work.
The area has been cordoned off and police teams are monitoring the situation. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has said that President Joe Biden has been briefed about the incident.
A gunman filled a rush-hour subway train with smoke and shot multiple people on Tuesday, April 12, leaving wounded commuters bleeding on a Brooklyn platform.
Officials said the gunfire wounded at least eight people, and at least 16 in all were injured in some way in the attack at the 36th Street station in the borough’s Sunset Park neighborhood.
A train rider’s video shows smoke and people pouring out of a subway car.
Wails erupt as passengers run for an exit as a few others limp off the train.
One falls to the platform, and a person hollers, “Someone call 911!”
In other video and photos from the scene, people tend to bloodied passengers lying on the platform, some amid what appear to be small puddles of blood, and another person is on the floor of a subway car.
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) officials, who are investigating the incident, said that during preliminary searches, no active explosive devices were found at the scene of Brooklyn subway incident.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland has received preliminary briefing and is monitoring the situation, reports say.
"If looking at energy purchase, focus on Europe," Jaishankar does candid talk
New Delhi
“If you are looking at energy purchases from Russia, I would suggest that your attention should be focused on Europe…," that's candid way of putting things calling spade a spade by External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar.
He made the remarks emerging out of 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue with US counterpart Antony Blinken and in presence of two Defence ministers Rajnath Singh and Lloyd Austin.
Fielding questions, he was at his diplomatic form, "First of all, thank you for the advice and suggestions
in your question. I prefer to do it my way and articulate it my way".
Then he said: "We do buy some energy which is necessary for our energy security. But I suspect,
looking at the figures, probably our total purchases for the month would be less than what
Europe does in an afternoon. So you might want to think about that.”
This was not exposing a friend, but it was definitely exposing the practitioners of holier than thou -
the European lobby in the entire oil business from Russia after Vladimir Putin ordered military invasion
of Ukraine.
Of course US Secretary of State Blinken said both US and India shared values and international rules-based
order to call upon all nations to “condemn Moscow’s increasingly brutal actions” in Ukraine.
He urged all partners “not to increase their purchases of Russian energy”.
This was the 'advice' referred to by Jaishankar in his response.
It goes without stating that ever since the start of the Ukraine crisis, New Delhi has maintained a
diplomatic balance between the two sides — Russia on one side and the US-led West on the other.
Notably, both Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh did not condemn Russia in their public statements.
while Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin named Russia clearly.
Jaishankar has tried to flag off European purchase of oil from Russia for the second time in recent times.
He had spoken on the same line in the presence of British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss in Delhi in March.
Clearly, there is much pressure from the West on India to stop buying Russian oil which India insists is
minimum and much less against what European nations are doing.
Therefore the relevance of Jaishankar's remarks -- "....attention should be focused on Europe".
However, a suave former diplomat Jaishankar was not bitter and pointed out to his guests that
the 'world is changing'.
"So the world is changing. The world will keep changing. What we have to do in our profession is to watch it
and see how your interests are best advanced in that,” he said, underlining on convergences of ideas and principles
between India and the US.
“Watch what’s happening in the world, like any country does, and we draw our conclusions and make our
assessments. And believe me, we have a decent sense of what is in our interest and know how to protect
it and advance it. So I think part of what has changed is we have more options than we did before," Jaishankar
pointed out.
He further said: “Have a look at us today. We are standing here for a 2+2 with a substantial defence
collaboration which has happened in the last decade, which we have been discussing how to take forward.
And this wasn’t an option which was there for 40 years before that".
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