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Red Sea and launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Saturday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said. «These attacks represent the 14th and 15th attacks on commercial shipping by Houthi militants since Oct.

Gaza officials said Saturday, and Israel announced the death of five soldiers after the UN failed to call for a ceasefire. Eleven weeks into the Israel-Hamas war, Israeli forces pressed on with their offensive, a day after the UN Security Council adopted a resolution for more aid to flow into the besieged Gaza Strip.

New Year's Eve and in the wake of government warnings in recent weeks about the rising threat of Islamist violence. The police said in a statement they would use tracker dogs to check the cathedral after evening mass and then close it off. On Sunday, Christmas Eve, they would carry out a security check on all visitors, and recommended they get to services early.

BERLIN (Reuters) -German police said on Saturday they were heightening security at Cologne Cathedral following indications of an attack planned for New Year's Eve and in the wake of government warnings in recent weeks about the rising threat of Islamist violence.

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New Delhi: States with relatively high revenue deficits such as Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh must take a leaf out of their healthy counterparts' book, Krishnamurthy V Subramanian has told ET, adding that the fiscal position in those states is a matter of concern even as the overall situation seems to have improved from the peak of the pandemic. Likening their fiscal situation to «aamdani atthanni kharcha rupaiya» (spend twice than you earn), Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said «there is no option for these states but to implement some necessary, though not popular, decisions to tighten their fiscal belts by reducing unproductive expenditures.» The fiscal situation of these states is like a leaky boat that can have only one outcome — «sink», he added. «These states should look to learn from Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, which together accounted for more than 40% of the combined capital outlay undertaken by all states during the last five years,» Subramanian said in an interview over phone and email from Washington. «The states can also look to emulate Gujarat's Atmanirbhar Gujarat Policy for assistance to mega industries in sectors such as green energy ecosystem, mobility, capital equipment, metal and minerals, and gems and jewellery,» he added. Subramanian, who had earlier served as India's Chief Economic Advisor, further said the states with large revenue deficits will find it tough to get out of debt as these are also the states where the growth rate of state GDP is not so high. Conceptually, a revenue deficit implies that the revenue receipts of a state are not sufficient to meet its revenue expenditure,

economic conflicts, such as worker strikes, have been on the wane, the vicious circle of low employability, leading to few jobs, mass unemployment and frustration, is now showing up in new forms of social conflict,” former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan and economist Rohit Lamba write in their new book Breaking The Mould. They cite the conflict over reservations in Manipur and the substance abuse problem among Punjab’s youth as examples of how these frustrations are being channelled.

vessel transporting crude oil to India from Saudi Arabia caught fire off the Porbandar coast on Saturday, with a drone attack being suspected behind the incident. Indian Coast Guard and Navy assets have responded to the stricken vessel, which has reported that the fire has been put out but has caused unspecified damage that has impacted its functioning. Citing British maritime security firm Ambrey, an agency report said the vessel was affiliated with Israel and was struck by an uncrewed aerial vehicle. Officials said that Merchant Vessel (MV) Chem Pluto that was on its way to Mangalore from Jubail in Saudi Arabia when the incident took place.

Christmas will have a celestial gift in form of full moon on Boxing Day which is December 26. The year's final full moon will be known as full Cold Moon, according to reports. The moon will be the brightest at 7.33 pm (ET) on December 26 and it will be Long Nights Moon. In 2023, there were a total of 13 full moons, a result of the approximately 29.5-day lunar cycle aligning with the 365 days it takes for the Earth to complete one orbit around the Sun. Among these lunar events was the occurrence of a blue moon on August 30, signifying the second full moon within a single month.

Indian Express report, Somanath said on Friday that it is targeting to launch the first module for the space station, called 'Bharatiya Space Station', by 2028. "By 2028, we will launch the first module, that is the target. In another seven years, that is by 2035, we will build further modules and make the space station fully operational," the ISRO chief said.

Sanjay Singh on Saturday lashed out at the protesting grapplers for «engaging in politics» and asserted that he is not a dummy candidate of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. Sanjay Singh, who was elected as the president of the WFI on Thursday, is known to be a close confidante of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who had been accused of sexual harassment by the country's top wrestlers such as Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia. Sanjay Singh won most of the votes in the delayed polls, as outgoing chief Brij Bhushan gained indirect control over the national federation. «Those who are athletes have already started preparing and those who want to engage in politics can do that. It is their personal matter, I will not speak about this. »I have been in the federation for 12 years.

Embassy consular staff stationed there. Thank French authorities for working on this through the long holiday weekend," the Indian Embassy in France said in a post on X. The French authorities on Friday grounded an Airbus A340-300 with 303 Indians onboard after they received a tip-off that the passengers traveling in the plan were likely to be victims of human trafficking.

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Hardik Pandya missing the upcoming IPL 2024 season, sources told ET Online on Saturday that there is no official confirmation of his exclusion from the tournament. The sources said the all-rounder is training and it is too soon to say anything as there is still time for the tournament. Pandya left the recently concluded ICC ODI Men's World Cup midway due to an ankle injury and reports have suggested that he would not participate in the upcoming T20I series against Afghanistan. Pandya, 30, made a comeback to the Mumbai Indians squad recently following a two-year stint at Gujarat Titans and was named skipper of the five-time champions. In his two-season stint at Titans, Hardik scored 833 runs in 30 innings, with an average of 41.65 and strike rate of 133.49.

ANI. On being alleged that he is close to former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Singh, Sanjay said he is not a 'dummy candidate' and it is not a crime if I am close to him. "Those who are athletes have already started preparing and those who want to engage in politics can do that.

Centre is not ready to do that," Saurabh Bhardwaj said. Earlier today, Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena ordered a CBI inquiry into "Not of standard quality" drugs being supplied to hospitals in Delhi. The L-G also wrote a letter to Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar and directed him to conduct an investigation.

ALSO READ: Indian Army averts major 3-cylinder IED attack on Srinagar-Kupwara Highway "Suspected move of four terrorists seen through own surveillance devices on the night of 22/23 Dec 23. Effective fire brought down. Terrorists are seen dragging one body back across the IB," the White Knight Corps said.

Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec, two paramedics, were convicted on Friday of criminally negligent homicide in the case of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after being subdued by police and injected with ketamine in Aurora, Colorado, in August 2019. Despite pleading not guilty to the felony charges, Cichuniec was also found guilty of second-degree unlawful administration of drugs assault, while being acquitted of second-degree assault resulting in bodily injury. Cichuniec was quickly taken into custody, whereas Cooper was cleared of those specific charges.