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Narendra Modi will visit some significant temples in Tamil Nadu on January 20 and 21, his office said on Thursday. The visit to various temples by the prime minister comes ahead of the Ram temple 'Pran Pratishtha' ceremony in Ayodhya on January 22 which will be attended by him and a host of other dignitaries. On January 20, Prime Minister Modi will participate in a programme at Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, at around 11 AM.

Medicine is en route to Gaza after Qatar and France worked out a deal between Israel and Hamas

freezing day as the minimum temperature dropped to 4 degrees Celsius. Several flights departing from the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport were delayed. «My flight is more than two hours late due to the bad weather.

Delhi residents woke up to thick fog and freezing temperatures on Sunday morning, and it has led to widespread disruptions in daily routines and transportation on a chilly Sunday morning. The RK Puram Area witnessed the mercury drop to a frigid 7 degrees Celsius in the early hours of Sunday. Responding to the harsh weather, individuals on the streets and the homeless sought refuge at government-operated night shelters spread across Delhi.

Hamas have been waging war for 100 days since gunmen from the Palestinian militant group went on the rampage in southern Israel, triggering an Israeli military campaign in which nearly 24,000 Palestinians have been killed. The war between Israel and Hamas that has raged since October is the latest in a conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that has rumbled on for seven decades and destabilised the Middle East.

Myanmar's armed ethnic groups and the government forces, said Army Chief General Manoj Pande on Thursday, adding the Indian military is «closely watching» the unfolding developments. At a press conference ahead of the Army Day, General Pande described the situation near the Indo-Myanmar border as «concerning» and some of the insurgent groups are feeling the pressure in the frontier region of that country and are attempting to enter Manipur. «The situation across the Indo-Myanmar border is something that we are closely watching,» he said.

Indian Express report, Singh said Tuesday: “They were included in the list, but how it was included has to be reexamined. So before giving any comment, we have to form a committee consisting of all tribes, then only will we be able to send a complete proposal for deletion or inclusion… Anything might be… but after the committee is formed." The statement comes in the wake of the letter forwarded by the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs seeking the state government’s views on the demand for deletion of the "nomadic Chin Kuki" community from Manipur’s ST list.

asylum in Germany last year rose to 3,51,915, an increase of 51.1 per cent compared with the year before. The largest number of asylum-seekers came from Syria, with 1,04,561 applications, followed by Turkish citizens with 62,624 asylum pleas and 53,582 Afghans, Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees said Monday. Migration has become a huge political problem for the government and a hot-button topic in Germany as local communities are struggling to house the many newcomers.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has said the Election Commission has yet again failed to provide a «substantive response» to INDIA parties' genuine concerns over EVMs and asserted that instead, the poll watchdog has been repeatedly directing them to «generic FAQS» as the answer book for all queries. Ramesh has written to Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar over the Election Commission's response to his earlier letter in which the poll watchdog had dismissed the Congress leader's concerns on VVPATs.

Free Movement Regime (FMR) and install a border fence along the Indo Myanmar border, thereby dividing the Zofate (Zo people) residing in India and Myanmar. The body added that this proposed action would necessitate passports and visas for their interactions and contacts. ZORO urged the Government of India to reconsider its decision to terminate the connections of Zo people living in the international border areas of India and Myanmar. “It is crucial to note that the Government of India is a signatory to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007 (UNDRIP).

America’s president, in one of his many public statements about the nearly month-long war in Gaza. Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister, has made similar comments; so has Emmanuel Macron, the French president. An emergency meeting of the Arab League last month ended with a call for “serious negotiations" towards a two-state solution.

Lalduhoma met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to apprise them of the concerns of the Mizos and the issue of Myanmarese refugees, especially with the present proposal by India to fence the border with Myanmar. He also pushed for a Greater Mizoram as part of Akhand Bharat. During his first official visit after taking over as chief minister after winning the assembly polls on December last year, the Mizoram CM apprised the PM that the current border with Myanmar was forced upon the two ethnic groups without their prior consent.

The dead included nine children, an official told Reuters.

₹1 crore, then the maximum loan amount is capped at ₹80 lakh. It is important to note that the loan amount will be disbursed as monthly payments. In case of a medical emergency or other such cases, most banks offer lump sum payments of up to 50% (capped at ₹15 lakh) of the total loan amount.

Israeli strike killed the deputy leader of Palestinian militant group Hamas. The day after loud blasts ripped through the district from the drone attack that killed Saleh al-Aruri, armed men of Hezbollah were standing guard in the mainly Shiite Muslim area that is their stronghold. Local residents said they were surprised to learn that their busy street housed the secretive Hamas bureau in a non-descript three-storey building nestled next to a pharmacy and a sweets shop. Israel has not claimed the deadly attack but Hamas, the group behind the October 7 attack that sparked the Gaza war, and Lebanese officials have no doubt it was Israel who killed Aruri and six Hamas operatives. Beirut's southern suburbs have long been a stronghold of the Iran-backed Hezbollah armed group, but it is also an overcrowded residential area packed with civilians, shops and restaurants. «No one knew that there was a Hamas office here,» said Ahmed, 40, who works in the nearby sweets shop.

Russian cruise missiles rained down on cities across Ukraine on Tuesday, with the country waking up to the wailing of air raid sirens for a second day.

Hundreds of migrants, rescued in the Mediterranean by a German humanitarian organisation, have arrived a the port of Taranto in southern Italy. 

Around two-thirds of refugees from Ukraine expect to stay in their host countries until hostilities subside and the security situation improves after Russia's invasion, a survey by the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has found. The survey was conducted between mid-May and mid-June.

When Lia and Alex woke up in Mariupol to the loud booms of explosions and shrieks of car alarms on 24 February, the young Ukrainian couple did not expect they would soon have to bury their loved ones in their own garden and fend off cold and starvation as Russian troops pounded the southern port city into dust.

When Lia and Alex woke up in Mariupol to the loud booms of explosions and shrieks of car alarms on 24 February, the young Ukrainian couple did not expect they would soon have to bury their loved ones in their own garden and fend off cold and starvation as Russian troops pounded the southern port city into dust.

The governor of Donetsk, the last remaining eastern province of Ukraine partially under Kyiv control, has urged more than 350,000 residents to flee.