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Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh may get to change the name of another city Aligarh, after successfully changing Mughal Sarai as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayay Nagar, Allahabad as Prayagraj and Faizabad district as Ayodhya district, reported NDTV on 7 November. According to the report, the Aligarh Municipal Corporation has unanimously passed a proposal to change Aligarh's name to Harigarh. Mayor Prashant Singhal in a meeting on 6 November presented the proposal and it was supported by all councillors.

Narendra Modi had a telephonic conversation with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on 6 November, regarding the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, reports have arrived that Raisi requested India to use 'all its capacities' to end the Israeli actions in Gaza. Raisi recalled India's struggles against Western colonialism and its position as one of the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement in the world, news agency ANI quoted in the Iranian readout.

Gaza has murdered thousands of Palestinians. On Tuesday, Netanyahu said that Israel will have “overall security responsibility" in Gaza for an indefinite period after its war with Hamas.

reported. This initiative arises as a countermeasure to the displacement of 90,000 Palestinian workers due to the revocation of their work permits subsequent to the hostilities. Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier reached out to his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, advocating a joint stand against terrorism and affirming India’s steadfast support to Israel amidst the crisis.

Angelina Jolie's allegations that Israel has committed war crimes against Palestine. As reported by Sky News, Isaac Herzog said, “I totally reject her claims. I think she’s never been in Gaza….

Gaza Strip for an indefinite period after its war with Hamas, AFP reported. Here are the top ten updates about the situation. 1.

The Florida Legislature will return to the Capitol for a special session that will allow lawmakers to express their support for Israel and give Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis more talking points as he campaigns for president

ICDS programme to improve the nutritional and health status of children in the age group 0-6 years, laying the foundation for proper psychological, physical and social development of the child. India is also leveraging technology under an ambitious Poshan Tracker for dynamic identification of underweight children, as also of stunting and wasting among them, and for last-mile tracking of nutrition service delivery. Even as India is making rapid progress on health, paradoxically the Global Hunger Index (GHI) has placed India among the bottom 15 ranks, at No.

step back from immediate escalation. Yet amid the bloody struggle in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, a broader and potentially more dangerous rivalry with Iran is growing. Having abandoned the Trump-era approach of “maximum pressure" on Iran, in recent months the Biden administration had sought quietly to reduce tensions.

WhatsApp, the popular messaging platform owned by Meta, is under fire for its new AI-powered stickers, which have ignited a massive controversy. The upgrade, designed to transform text prompts into stickers, has drawn outrage for generating images of children holding guns when prompted with words like 'Palestinian,' 'Palestine,' or 'Muslim boy Palestinian,' as per a report in the Guardian. In contrast, prompts related to Israel, such as 'Israeli boy,' resulted in innocent imagery of children playing and dancing, devoid of any violence. The issue came to light when users noticed the stark contrast in the generated stickers, prompting widespread condemnation on social media.

Israel on Monday pounded Gaza with «significant» strikes as soldiers battled Hamas forces in the besieged territory, ignoring ceasefire calls by UN aid agencies who condemned surging civilian deaths in the month-long conflict. Israeli troops and Hamas fighters engaged in house-to-house combat in densely populated Gaza, where the war has sent 1.5 million people fleeing to other parts of the territory in a desperate search for cover. «We will take the fight to Hamas wherever they are, underground, above ground», Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus said at a briefing Monday, repeating calls for civilians to leave the urban war zone in the north of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. «We will be able to dismantle Hamas, stronghold after stronghold, battalion after battalion, until we achieve the ultimate goal, which is to rid the Gaza Strip — the entire Gaza Strip — of Hamas.» Conricus again accused Hamas of building tunnels underneath hospitals, schools and places of worship in Gaza to hide fighters, plan attacks and store ammunition — a charge the militant group has repeatedly denied. «This strike is like an earthquake,» Gaza City resident Alaa Abu Hasera said, in a devastated area where entire blocks were reduced to rubble. Israel launched a massive bombing campaign after the Palestinian militants staged the worst attack in the country's history. In their October 7 attack, Hamas gunmen killed more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and took more than 240 others hostage. The health ministry in Gaza, which is run by Hamas, says more than 9,770 people, many of them women and children, have been killed in Israeli strikes and the intensifying ground campaign since the war began. Israel has resisted calls for a halt in

A prominent cardiologist, Dr. Eva Lonn, at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. is under review by the university for comments made on social media about pro-Palestinian protests, calling for rallygoers to be deported.

WhatsApp's AI sticker generator, which allows users to turn their text prompts into stickers in seconds, created images of guns or a boy holding an AK 47 rifle when asked to create stickers with the prompts 'Palestinian', 'Palestine' or 'Muslim boy Palestinian'. In stark contrast, the WhatsApp AI sticker generator produced images of children smiling or playing football when prompted with "Israeli boy".

United States and its Arab allies appeared divided over Israel's military offensive in Gaza to defeat Hamas, as Washington, alongside Israel, resisted pressure for an immediate ceasefire despite the rising death toll among Palestinian civilians. In a rare display of a public split, Arab foreign ministers at a press conference pushed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to persuade Israel to agree to a ceasefire.

William J Burns, arrived in Israel on Sunday to hold discussions with leaders and intelligence officials, the first stop in a multi-country trip in the region, New York Times reported citing US officials. The visit comes as the US is trying to prod Israel to pursue a more targeted approach to attacking Hamas, allow pauses in the fighting for aid to enter Gaza and do more to avoid civilian casualties, according to NYT. Washington is also looking to expand its intelligence sharing with Tel Aviv, providing information that could be useful about hostage locations or any follow-on attacks by Hamas. A US official briefed on Burns' trip said that he planned to reinforce the American commitment to intelligence cooperation with partners in the region. Burns will travel to several Middle Eastern countries for discussions about the situation in Gaza, ongoing hostage negotiations and the importance of deterring the war with Hamas from widening to a broader context, NYT reported citing the US official. US officials have been visiting Israel at a regular cadence since war broke out after Hamas fighters attacked Israeli towns on October 7 and killed more than 1,400 people. Israel has retaliated with a massive counteroffensive including air campaign and ground invasion into Gaza, where Hamas is in control. More than 9,000 Palestinians have been killed in airstrikes since Israel began retaliating, according to Gaza's health ministry.

Read all the latest updates on the Israel-Hamas war hereThe Israeli military has discovered an extensive stash of weapons in a home in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip as it searched the area. It found rifles, grenades, explosives, suicide drones and missiles in the residence, bringing some of the weapons back to Israel to inspect them.

Amichai Eliyahu suggested that dropping nuclear weapons on Gaza is «one of the options» and no aid should be transferred to Gaza, Times of Israel reported. His remarks drew condemnation including from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who suspended him «indefinitely». On being asked in an interview with Radio Kol Berama whether he was suggesting that some kind of nuclear bomb might be dropped on the enclave, Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said «That's one way.» Eliyahu voiced his objection against any humanitarian aid into Gaza, saying «We wouldn't hand the Nazis humanitarian aid,» and charging that «there is no such thing as uninvolved civilians in Gaza,» Times of Israel reported. He further backed retaking the territory of the Gaza Strip and restoring the settlements there. On being asked about the fate of the Palestinian population, he said, «They can go to Ireland or deserts, the monsters in Gaza should find a solution by themselves.» The Israeli Minister asserted that the northern Strip has «no right to exist», adding that anyone waving a Palestinian or Hamas flag «shouldn't continue living on the face of the earth,» Times of Israel reported. The remarks were immediately denounced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said that Eliyahu's words are «detached from reality». «Israel and the IDF are acting in accordance with the highest standards of international law in order to prevent harm to uninvolved people, and we will continue to do that all the way to victory,» Netanyahu says in a statement. The premiere's office also announced that Eliyahu has been suspended from government meetings indefinitely, Times of Israel reported. However, the government ministers raised objections to Eliyahu's sacking

Al Jazeera, Hagari said, “There are now widespread strikes on terror infrastructure - below ground and above it," Al Jazeera quoted Hagari as saying. Army spokesperson said that the Israeli forces have encircled Gaza City and “now there exists a south Gaza and a north Gaza". Also Read: From Jordan to Turkey - Which countries have recalled ambassadors from Israel amid war? “Troops reached the coastline and are holding it," he added.

military action that became inevitable given the remorseless logic created by the October 7 attacks by Hamas that killed some 1,400 Israelis. Given the magnitude of that move, Israel had no option but to attack Gaza with stated maximalist aims: the elimination of Hamas. Considering the militant organisation runs the densely populated territory — it's more Taliban than the Islamic State, in this respect — civilian casualties are sadly inevitable as Israel follows its goal of uprooting it.

S Jaishankar on Sunday spoke with his Iranian counterpart and discussed the grave situation in West Asia and the concern of the international community. “Spoke today with Iranian Foreign Minister @Amirabdolahian.

By Doina Chiacu