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Bipin Joshi watched the two grenades skid across the cement floor of the windowless room where he was hiding, shoulder-to-shoulder with 16 other student farmers from Nepal. Outside, the Hamas gunmen marauding through the orchards and dairy barn of Kibbutz Alumim were killing anyone they could find. The Nepalis had arrived in Israel just three weeks earlier, on a college program to tend orange and lemon groves.

MFI sector posts 21% growth in loan kitty "We are entering the NBFC sector for the Pidilite ecosystem. The Pidilite ecosystem consists of a set of large number of users and a large number of dealers. These users could be furniture contractors, plumbing contractors, masons, Kothi contractors, tile layers," he said.

Iraq may have helped keep America from being dragged deeper into a widening Middle East conflict. The drone, which was launched at the Erbil air base by an Iranian-backed militia before sunrise on Oct. 26, penetrated U.S. air defenses and crashed into the second floor of the barracks housing American troops at about 5 a.m, according to two U.S.

TOI report around 80 licenses for selling crackers have been revoked. Permission to sell and burn green crackers will only be given if air quality on AQI index is registered below'200' level which seems unlikely in the current situation when air quality is over 400 mark. Gurugram district administration on September 28 issued an order imposing a ban on production, sale and storage of all types of firecrackers.

By Kylie Madry

Read all our coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas Most of those displaced are sheltering in UN facilities, hospitals and other public buildings—all of them bursting at the seams. At a vocational-training centre in Khan Younis, the most crowded UN shelter, each resident has less than two square metres of personal space and each toilet is shared by at least 600 people. Before the war the average person in Gaza received 80 litres of water a day.

Top 10 polluted cities in India In view of the deteriorating air quality in Mumbai, several new initiatives have been taken by authorities to reduce air pollution. Maharashtra Minister Deepak Kesarkar said initiatives like, 'cleaning up the roads with water', ' sprinkling water on construction sites', and 'fogging guns are being used to clean air'. Beyond stubble burning: Why is dealing with other 'consistent' sources of Delhi air pollution important He appealed to citizens not to burst firecrackers during Diwali and extended cooperation in improving Mumbai's poor air quality index.

Recyclers across the U.S. are struggling, hurt by a shortage of workers and rising costs that too often make recycling uneconomic. They are hoping artificial intelligence can help turn things around and boost recycling rates.

Israel said on Tuesday its forces were pushing deep into Gaza City, where residents said tanks were positioned on the outskirts for a potential storming of Gaza's urban heartland. «For the first time in decades, IDF is fighting in the heart of Gaza City. At the heart of terrorism,» Major General Yaron Finkelman, commanding officer of the Southern Command of the Israeli Defence Forces, told reporters near the Gaza border. «Every day and every hour the forces are killing militants, exposing tunnels and destroying weapons and continuing onward to enemy centres.» Israel previously said it had surrounded Gaza City, home to around a third of the Gaza Strip's 2.3 million people, and would soon attack it to annihilate Hamas fighters who assaulted Israeli towns across the border one month ago. There was no indication on the ground that Israeli forces had thrust en masse further into the city, but a spokesperson for the military, Richard Hecht, suggested that the encircling troops could be making raids inside. Asked whether such raids had taken place, he said: «I'm not going to talk about how we are operationally acting from within our encirclement around Gaza City.

Bombay High Court issued permission to burst firecrackers on Diwali only for three hours, between 7 pm and 10 pm, to combat worsening air pollution in Mumbai. The financial capital's air quality has deteriorated in recent months, with AQI consistently remaining in the moderate to poor category (150-200). A central team is expected to visit the city soon to evaluate the dire situation and what steps the state government has taken to tackle the challenge that leaves a deep imprint on the environment, the health of citizens and the economy. However, banning crackers — as Delhi has done for several years — or restricting their use — as the court suggested in Mumbai — while very welcome, won't be enough.

Ludhiana administration has issued an advisory allowing the bursting of firecrackers on the occasion of Diwali, Guruparva and Christmas. According to the orders issued by Ludhiana Deputy Commissioner Surabhi Malik, firecrackers can be lit from 8 to 10 pm on Diwali and from 11:55 pm to 12:30 am on Christmas. Similarly, on the day of Guruparva, firecrackers can be burnt for two hours between 4:00 am to 5:00 am in the morning and 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm at night. The decision is aimed at ensuring that the festivities are carried out in a safe and eco-friendly manner. As per the orders, there will be a ban on the burning of firecrackers before and after the above-mentioned time. Likewise, there will be a ban on the burning of firecrackers within 100 meters of hospitals, educational institutions, religious institutions and courts. Earlier, the Chhattisgarh government also issued an advisory allowing the bursting of firecrackers for two hours on the occasion of Diwali, Chhath, Guruparva, Christmas and New Year. Firecrackers are burst with great pomp and show during the festivals, especially Diwali, but in view of the increasing pollution in the environment, the Housing and Transport Department of Chhattisgarh issued guidelines regarding the burning of firecrackers. In September 2023, the Supreme Court of India rejected a petition by the Firecracker Manufacturers Association to include barium in green crackers. The court upheld the Delhi government's decision to ban all firecrackers ahead of Diwali.

The court further directed the state governments to take appropriate steps to control air/noise pollution. The bench of Justice A.S. Bopanna and Justice M.M.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra found herself in an amusing situation when a fellow party member presented her with a bouquet devoid of any actual flowers. This incident was captured on camera during a recent rally held by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra during an election rally in Madhya Pradesh, which goes to the polls on November 25. In the video which is doing the rounds on social media, a man appears on stage and hands over what appears to be bouquet to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra who also was seen bursting into laugher upon realizing the flowers were conspicuously absent. She also gestures to the empty wrapper, seemingly inquiring about the whereabouts of the missing flowers.

Also Read: Mumbai news: Bombay HC allows bursting of firecrackers for 3 hours on Diwali; all constructions halted As per the Drik Panchang, the muhurat for the festival is set to commence on November 14 and will continue through November 15. The Bhai Dooj Aparahna Time is scheduled to begin at 01:10 PM and come to a close at 03:19 PM. Also Read: 32% of families in Delhi-NCR planning to burst firecrackers this Diwali, says survey On November 14, 2023, the Dwitiya Tithi will commence at 02:36 PM and wrap up at 01:47 PM on November 15.

firecrackers for 3 hours, between 7 pm to 10 pm, on Diwali. The High Court also instructed all constructions in the Maharashtra's capital city be halted till Diwali, in order to combat worsening air pollution. A division bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Girish Kulkarni issued a slew of directions to immediately address the air quality index in a Suo Motu Public Interest Litigation regarding the deteriorating air quality in Mumbai.

interest rates elevated. What does higher for longer mean? Over the past year, various central bankers including Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das and US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell have said that tackling high inflation may need interest rates being kept higher for longer. Financial markets, however, had predicted that central banks would start cutting rates by the end of 2022, less than a year after the hiking cycle commenced. Indeed, data shows that the Fed started cutting rates only eight months after its previous hiking cycle ended in December 2018.

By Tetsushi Kajimoto

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.

By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Simon Lewis, Suleiman and Al-Khalidi

Antony Blinken on Saturday to secure an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, hours after Palestinians said an Israeli air strike killed at least 15 people in a U.N.-run school being used as a shelter. In a rare open display of disagreement, the top U.S. diplomat pushed back as he stood next to his Jordanian and Egyptian counterparts at a news conference, saying a ceasefire would only let Hamas regroup and launch more attacks on Israel. Blinken met the Saudi, Qatari, Emirati, Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers in Amman four weeks after Hamas fighters burst over the border into Israel, killing 1,400 people and taking more than 240 people hostage. Israel has since struck Gaza from the air, imposed a siege and launched a ground assault, stirring global alarm at humanitarian conditions in the enclave and, Gaza health officials said on Saturday, killing more than 9,488 Palestinians. «Right now we have to make sure that this war stops,» Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told the news conference. Blinken said all were agreed on the need for peace and that the current status quo in Gaza cold not hold, but he acknowledged there were differences between Washington, which has called only for pauses to led aid into Gaza, and its allies. «A ceasefire now would simply leave Hamas in place, able to regroup and repeat what it did on Oct.