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. KS Pratima was Deputy Director in the Mines and Geology Department of Karnataka who was stabbed to death on on November 4 in an act of revenge. She was an MSc degree holder from Shivamogga who had been working in Bengaluru for the past one-and-a-half years.

assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, polling teams reached all the polling stations within the Bastar district on Monday. The election for the 90-member state assembly is scheduled to take place in two phases, with voting on November 7 and November 17. In the first phase of voting, 20 constituencies, including 12 from the Bastar division, are participating.

Businessman John Kahlbetzer retained his competitive spirit and was still fit enough to play tennis just months before his death at the age of 92, according to his family.

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

Reuters. At the same conference, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said, "The international community's responsibility always is to seek the cessation of hostilities, not promote the continuance of violence." "I think we need to get our priorities straight," Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said. "Right now we have to make sure that this war stops," he added.

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.

The sixth season of Peaky Blinders delivered intense and dramatic moments, including the destruction of the Shelby family mansion, a gripping near-suicide incident involving Cillian Murphy's iconic character, Tommy Shelby, and the intriguing introduction of his son, Duke, into the family's criminal endeavors. Tragically, the season also marked the absence of Polly Gray, the matriarch of the Shelby family, following the real-life passing of the talented actress Helen McCrory, known for her role in the Harry Potter series. Her character's death was addressed in the Season 6 premiere. Now, the burning question remains – will the gripping saga of Peaky Blinders continue in a seventh season?

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.

Attack on Titan" has finally ended with its last episode delivering a conclusion that triggered further discussion. The fate of Eren Yeager, the series' protagonist, was one of the central questions that fans were eager to have answered. What was Eren Yeager’s fate? Eren Yeager, who began as the story's hero, faces his end in a dramatic and tragic twist.

said on Sunday. Around 4,800 children are among at least 9,770 Palestinians who have died in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip since October 7, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip was quoted by Reuters as saying. Follow Israel-Hamas War LIVE updates here In total, there are around 16,50,000 children in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian foreign ministry said.

Dawn quoted it as saying. “The residents of Gaza who agreed to transform the hospital into a terrorist den and benefit from Western morals, are those who caused their own annihilation, the liquidation of terrorism," the petition added, as per the report. Track the latest updates on Israel-Hamas war Muna Omari, who identified herself as a journalist on social media platform X, posted the petition's image, while stating that “100 doctors in Israel demand that the Israeli army bomb and blow up hospitals in Gaza as they are infrastructure for the Hamas movement".

U.S. and Israeli interests in the ongoing Middle East conflict are diverging in both the short and long term, muddying the path to ending Israel’s war against militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Above all, Israel views Hamas as an existential threat and sees eradicating it as a crucial goal; anything short of that is a failure.

NBC News, a senior US administration official reported that Hamas attempted to transport injured fighters, along with civilians, across the Rafah crossing into Egypt for medical treatment. However, the fighters were ultimately prevented from leaving Gaza. Also Read:Israel-Hamas war: Israeli airstrike hits ambulance near Gaza hospital, 15 dead; death toll likely to rise Based on the footage captured at the location, it revealed the presence of over twelve injured individuals covered in blood, lying on the ground in close proximity to an ambulance.

Gaza Strip early Sunday, killing at least 33 people and wounding dozens, health officials said. The strike came as Israel said it would press on with its offensive to crush the territory's Hamas rulers, despite US appeals for a pause to get aid to desperate civilians. The soaring death toll in Gaza has sparked growing international anger, with tens of thousands from Washington to Berlin taking to the streets Saturday to demand an immediate cease-fire. Israel has rejected the idea of halting its offensive, even for brief humanitarian pauses proposed by U.S.

Reuters reported. Police in countries around the world have reported a surge in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic offenses in the wake of Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7. The war between the two nations has entered its 30th day with Israel continues to batter Gaza with airstrikes.

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Associated Press (AP).Check all the Israel-Gaza war LIVE Updates here. The Israeli Foreign Ministry has criticised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his stance in the raging war between Israel and Hamas, following Turkey's announcement of the recall of its ambassador to Israel, The Times of Israel reported.The ministry accused Erdogan of aligning with the Gaza-based terror group, Hamas.In a statement, the Israeli Foreign Ministry defended Israel's military operations in Gaza as a "war of self-defence" and described Hamas as "the true enemy of the Palestinian people."Erdogan said Saturday that Turkey has "crossed out" Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and will strive to bring Israel before the International Criminal Court for its actions in Gaza, CNN reported, citing Turkish state media outlet Anadolu. (ANI)Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has vowed that the Israeli forces will get to Hamas Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar and eliminate him, Times of Israel reported on Saturday.He has said that the forces are prepared to fight until victory "as long as it takes".After touring the northern border and in the south in the past two days, Gallant said that he was told by reserve soldiers that they are prepared "to fight until victory" and for as long as it takes.

(Reuters) — Canada's police probe into the June murder of a Sikh separatist in British Columbia has been damaged by a high-level Canadian official's public statements, India's High Commissioner to Canada, Sanjay Kumar Verma, told the Globe and Mail in an interview published on Saturday.

anime fans worldwide perched on the edge of their seats, the eagerly anticipated final episode of Attack on Titan is set to premiere today, marking the conclusion of an era for enthusiasts of the genre. The penultimate episode left fans emotionally wrought, as the Scout Regiment found themselves facing an uphill battle against Eren Jaeger and the impending cataclysmic Rumbling, a threat poised to obliterate the remnants of humanity. People interested in this much-awaited grand finale will be able to stream it on Crunchyroll, which begins at 5 pm Pacific Time. It ensures that audiences in over 200 countries can partake in this ninety-minute epic.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress, has accused President Joe Biden of supporting a «genocide» against Palestinians and warned of repercussions in next year's election.