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Estonia's defense officials say the U.S. Congress has passed a bill that involves a total of $228 million in military and defense aid to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this year under the Baltic Security Initiative

massive fire broke out in a factory in Delhi's Alipur on Monday morning, officials said. According to the Delhi Fire Service department, a total of 34 fire engines were rushed to the spot to douse the leaping flames. «A fire broke out at a factory in Alipur. 34 fire tenders at the spot,» the Fire Services Department informed. Efforts to bring the fire under control were underway, officials said, adding that no casualties or injuries were reported in the incident.

Also Read: Holi 2024 weather update: Will it rain on 25 March? What IMD predicts Heavy rainfall or snowfall is predicted over Arunachal Pradesh on March 26th. The Meteorological Department has forecast light to moderate rain accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning in the sub-Himalayan districts of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, and Alipurduar for the next five days.

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Are most revolutions doomed to become the very thing they sought to overthrow? In the world of business, this question arises in the case of Apple, widely seen as the world’s top brand. It began with a mission to bust the paradigm of centralized big-frame computing by empowering “the rest of us" with personal computers of our own. This was the story captured by 1984, a TV commercial it aired that year which showed it taking on Big Brother of George Orwell’s novel by that name.

It was a pivotal week for Central Banks around the world, with several important rates decisions shaking the investing landscape for the year ahead.

terror attack in the Moscow region, evidence of radicalised Central Asian youth penetrating Russia is emerging as a threat. ET has learnt that the Russian security agency FSB had eliminated two terror groups comprising youth from Central Asia between February and early March before the third group struck at Crocus City Hall last week, killing more than 100 people. The Indian security establishment is closely monitoring the situation and the emerging pattern of terror threat in Russia and Central Asia. On Sunday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar spoke with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and conveyed condolences over the terrorist attack. Russian national security advisor Nikolai Patrushev has called for wider partnership to counter the terror threat and radical cells. On the morning of March 7, the FSB conducted a special operation in the village of Koryakovo, Kaluga region of Russia. Two terrorists from Central Asia were killed in the operation, according to security analysts. FSB was assisted by Kazakh security officials in the operation.

Allahabad HC declared the UP Madrasa Education Act «unconstitutional», the Madrasa teachers associations have decided to challenge the ruling in the Supreme Court following CM Yogi Adityanath's statement that the state government will comply with the court's order. The teacher associations have also urged an amendment in the act to suit it to the HC's observations regarding the quality of education, etc, instead of doing away with it completely. It has also suggested transfer of madrasas from the minority welfare department to the education department, as was the norm before 1996. The HC's order has cast a shadow of uncertainty over about 26 lakh students enrolled across various recognised and unrecognised madrasas in the state. The court's order also adds to another recommendation made by a Special Investigation Team to shut down over 8,400 unrecognised madrasas in the state. The UP board recognises 16,513 madrasas out of which 560 receive grants used to give salaries to teachers.

(Reuters) — A mountain lion killed a 21-year-old man and gravely wounded his younger brother in California's El Dorado County, northwest of Sacramento on Saturday, local authorities said.

Mint had reported in January that the department of promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT) had asked for details of its shareholding patterns. The company is learnt to have cited US regulations for not providing the details of complete disclosure of ownership, as required by the commerce ministry, in this case.

Indian Metereological Department has predicted spells of light rainfall with gusty winds over Delhi and NCR regions in the next two-three hours. The weather forecasting agency has also predicted that adjoining areas like Noida, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, etc are likely to witness cloudy weather during the rest of the day on Sunday. Also Read: Weather update today: IMD predicts rain in Punjab, Haryana, THESE states; heat wave conditions in Saurashtra, Kutch “Clouds are entering Delhi from the West and are likely to move across Delhi towards Noida, Faridabad, Ghaziabad and adjoining areas of NCR during the next 2-3 hours.

Rajnath Singh, who was to celebrate Holi with the armed forces personnel in Siachen, the world's highest battleground, on Sunday, will mark the festival of colours in Leh instead, his office informed on Sunday. Raksha Mantri Karyalaye informed through a post on its official X handle that owing to the prevailing weather conditions in the world's highest battleground, Singh will celebrate Holi with the armed forces in Leh. «Due to inclement weather conditions in Siachen, there is a change in Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh's tour programme. He will now celebrate Holi with Armed Forces Personnel in Leh,» the statement read.

Hyderabad Police in connection with the case of phone tapping and destroying certain computer systems and official data. During investigation, Additional DCP Thirupathanna and Additional Superintendent of Police N Bhujanga Rao, were arrested, an official release from Hyderabad police late on Saturday night said. The two police officials had earlier worked as Additional Superintendents of Police in the Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) and Intelligence Department, respectively. They were accused of colluding with suspended DSP of the SIB, D Praneeth Rao, who was earlier arrested by Hyderabad police for allegedly erasing the intelligence information from various electronic gadgets as well as for alleged phone tapping during the previous BRS regime. «During the questioning, the two police officials have confessed about their involvement in the reported crimes including conspiracy to monitor private persons illegally by developing their profiles abusing their official positions; to cause disappearance of evidence by destroying the public property to conceal their involvement in collusion with the already arrested D Praneeth Kumar alias Praneeth Rao, DSP (under suspension) and some other persons», the release said. Further investigation is under progress, they said.

gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, where displays are overstocked with eye-catching seed packs and benches are filled with potted annuals and perennials. But some plants that once thrived in your yard may not flourish there now. To understand why, look to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's recent update of its plant hardiness zone map, which has long helped gardeners and growers figure out which plants are most likely to thrive in a given location. Comparing the 2023 map to the previous version from 2012 clearly shows that as climate change warms the Earth, plant hardiness zones are shifting northward. On average, the coldest days of winter in our current climate, based on temperature records from 1991 through 2020, are 5 degrees Fahrenheit (2.8 Celsius) warmer than they were between 1976 and 2005.

light rainfall/snowfall over Western Himalayan Region on 23rd & 24th March over Jammu-Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad. On Saturday, over 300 people who were stranded at various places in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh due to heavy snowfall were airlifted by the Indian Air Force, an official said as reported by PTI. Heavy snowfall led to closure of the 434-km Srinagar-Leh National Highway.

NEW DELHI : India’s purportedly dormant postal department has been alive and kicking successfully in an unexpected quarter—life insurance. The Postal Life Insurance scheme, a policy first introduced in 1884, has grown at 14.5% year-on-year so far this financial year—in terms of premium income between April and February. It’s grown in double digits for the first time since FY21, far outpacing the rest of the industry.

spending bills after Congress had passed the long overdue legislation just hours earlier, ending the threat of a partial government shutdown. «This agreement represents a compromise, which means neither side got everything it wanted,» Biden said in a statement. «But it rejects extreme cuts from House Republicans and expands access to child care, invests in cancer research, funds mental health and substance use care, advances American leadership abroad, and provides resources to secure the border.… That's good news for the American people.»

lignite production in India crossed 1 billion tonnes in 2023-24, as of March 22, in line with the government's target for this financial year. The output was 6.7% higher year-on-year. The government's mission for 1-billion-tonne output was a milestone set a few years ago, considering the increasing electricity requirements. Surpassing the 1-billion-tonne mark in coal and lignite production reduces the dependence on imports, the government said.

₹2,471 crore to the BJP under the SBI electoral bonds scheme are facing probe by the CBI, ED and IT department. Moreover, most of the amount, nearly ₹1,698 crore was donated to the BJP after raids by these agencies, claimed civil society activists who challenged the poll funding scheme in the Supreme Court claimed on Friday.