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Indian Navy warship is reportedly moving towards the distressed merchant vessel and is expected to reach the merchant ship in the next few hours. -An Israel-linked merchant ship, MV Chem Pluto, carrying crude oil was going towards Mangalore from a port in Saudi Arabia -The merchant ship carrying a large crew fleet, including 20 Indians, caught fire when hit by a suspected drone strike -The merchant vessel was reported to be present at 217 nautical miles off Porbandar coast, defence officials said -The Indian Coast Guard Ship ICGS Vikram, deployed on patrol of the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone started moving towards the merchant vessel MV Chem Pluto in distress -The Indian Navy warships in the vicinity are also moving towards the distressed vessel with around 20 Indian crew members, who are all reported to be safe -Indian Coast Guard Dornier maritime surveillance aircraft has established communication with the distressed vessel MV Chem Pluto.

Deaflympics gold medallist Virender Singh Yadav, better known as Goonga Pehlwan, has now decided to return his Padma Shri to the government, showing solidarity with the country's top wrestlers who have objected to election of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh loyalist Sanjay Singh as WFI president. Throwing his weight behind Olympic bronze medallist grappler Sakshi Malik, who announced her retirement from the sport soon after Sanjay Singh's victory in the recent WFI polls, Virender said he would return the honour as a mark of protest against the election of Brij Bhushan's close aide. Bajrang Punia, one of the prominent faces of the protest against the former WFI chief, had returned his Padma Shri on Friday.

JERUSALEM — Fashion designer and Netflix reality star Julia Haart toured Israeli communities this week, joining a growing roster of celebrities who have visited to show their support in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. Haart, star of the Netflix series «My Unorthodox Life», said it was important to offer a clear sign of solidarity with Israel as its war with Hamas continues into its third month and incidents of antisemitism have risen across the world. A succession of celebrities, both Jewish and non-Jewish, including comedian Jerry Seinfeld and actors Michael Rapaport and Debra Messing, have been visiting Israel to show their backing following the most deadly attack on the country in its 75-year history. «I had to physically be here to show my support,» Haart told Reuters, following a visit to Kibbutz Be'eri, one of the communities worst hit by the Hamas assault, in which some 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 taken hostage. Since the attack, Israel has unleashed a relentless bombardment of Gaza to crush Hamas, with around 20,000 people killed and two thirds of the blockaded enclave's 2.3 million population forced to flee their homes. Amid growing international pressure to call a halt to the fighting, Haart said the plight of more than 100 hostages who remained in Gaza following a week-long truce and exchange last month remained paramount. «No one has seen them.

Samyukta Kisan Morcha will convene a countrywide convention in Punjab in January next year to deliberate on an action plan for their demands of legal guarantee of MSP for all crops, debt trap, and stopping privatisation of electricity, the collective said on Friday. The All-India Farmers Convention will discuss alternative policies to overcome the «agrarian crisis» and whether to intensify the ongoing farmers struggle, it said.

Europe has finally recognised the elephant in the room: immigration. This neglected pachyderm is one large reason for the hard-right gaining traction in EU countries as varied as Italy and the Netherlands, where outright anti-immigration parties engaged with, and then owned, this 'problem' bothering enough citizens to worry about their jobs and 'way of life'.

Awinter bloom of mauve wildflowers is not there in my childhood memories. On one of those very paths, she strode ahead, leading me. The dog pranced around, with the full river on the right and the dazzling brush on the left bordering the dense tree-line.

Manipur government has imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC for two months in Churachandpur district following fresh violence, according to an official order. Various parts of the northeastern state have been rocked by ethnic strife since May this year.

An explosion and inferno at Guinea’s main fuel depot in the capital of Conakry has left at least 13 people dead and 178 injured

halal meat and consume only 'jhatka', the flesh of animals slaughtered by a single blow of the blade. Singh, a senior BJP leader, made a plea to the effect in his Begusarai parliamentary constituency where he also made his supporters take the pledge that they will henceforth not spoil their 'dharma' by eating halal meat. Talking to reporters, he said, «I admire the Muslims who make it a point to consume only halal meat.

Manipur witnesses no respite in the unceasing ethnic strife, the opposition Congress has heaped pressures on all three MPs from the state to raise the issue in the ongoing Parliament session to ensure peace is restored in the state. A delegation of Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC), to this end, has submitted memoranda to the trio -Inner Manipur MP and Union MoS for education and external affairs, RK Ranjan, Outer Manipur MP Lorho S Pfoze and Rajya Sabha MP Leishemba Sanajaoba. Headed by MPCC vice president Hareshwar Goshwami, the Congress team on Monday called on MP Sanajaoba at his New Delhi official residence and submitted the memorandum to him. On Saturday, they called on Pfoze and Ranjan. While Ranjan and Sanajaoba are BJP MPs, Pfoze belongs to the Naga People’s Front (NPF), the coalition partner of the N Biren Singh government in the state. The memorandum categorically requested the MPs to take up the current boiling issues of Manipur for a proper decision during the ongoing Parliament session with special attention on immediate rehabilitation and restoration of all persons displaced by the strife with adequate security and urgent payment of suitable compensation. It called for taking immediate measures for the restoration of peace and normalcy in the state. Highlighting a brief genesis of the strife, the memorandum said “As we are all aware, there was a sudden eruption of violence on May 3, 2023, that started in Kangvai in Churachandpur district after a Tribal Solidarity March organized by the All Tribal Students Union Manipur (ATSUM).” Since then, Manipur has been scorching non-stop and more than 60,000 people are displaced and taking refuge in relief camps, around 200 people were either killed or

More than 1,100 unionized DHL Express workers walked off the job at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG), a critical logistics hub for the package delivery company, during the busiest time of the year

Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh while congratulating new Mizoram chief minister Lalduhoma wished his leadership would contribute to securing the future of Northeast. Singh and former Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga had a bitter relationship after large-scale violence broke out on May 3 and a large number of people from Manipur hills took shelter in Mizoram.

Hundreds of people have rallied in the Slovak capital against the new government’s plan to close the special prosecutors office that deals with major crimes, including high-profile murders, terrorism and graft

A conglomerate of unions in Norway says it will take action against Tesla in solidarity with its Swedish colleagues

Lt Gen Rana Pratap Kalita, the Eastern Army Commander, visited Manipur. Manipur is under the grip of several month-long ethnic strife.

The conflict against Tesla in Sweden is spreading to neighboring Denmark

Investing.com-- Microsoft will take a spot in OpenAI’s board of directors, returning CEO Sam Altman said on Thursday, as the artificial intelligence firm stabilizes after a major upheaval in its leadership earlier in November. 

Investing.com-- Microsoft will take a spot in OpenAI’s board of directors, returning CEO Sam Altman said on Thursday, as the artificial intelligence firm stabilizes after a major upheaval in its leadership earlier in November. 

United Nations on Wednesday called for the international community to move towards a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, saying Jerusalem should serve as the capital of both states. «It is long past time to move in a determined, irreversible way towards a two-state solution, on the basis of United Nations resolutions and international law,» said Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the U.N. office in Geneva, delivering a speech authored by U.N.

State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that there was «no sense of fatigue» among NATO allies when it came to helping Ukraine. «We must and we will continue to support Ukraine,» he said after a NATO-Ukraine meeting in Brussels, adding that NATO allies were unanimous on this position and that he was also hearing continued support for Ukraine in both chambers of the U.S. Congress. Kyiv has been concerned that the Israel-Hamas war could divert international attention away from its efforts to defeat Russia, which invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba urged the West earlier on Wednesday to ramp up arms production. The European Union has delivered about 300,000 of its promised 1 million artillery shells to Ukraine so far, he said. «We need to create a Euro-Atlantic common area of defence industries,» Kuleba said before meeting the NATO foreign ministers, adding this would ensure both Ukraine's security and that of NATO countries themselves. Kyiv has recently engaged in a concerted drive to entice leading global arms manufacturers to set up operations in Ukraine, part of a bid to diversify its reliance on weapons and ammunition given by its allies. «It is important that our solidarity with Ukraine is not only demonstrated in words but also in deeds,» NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, urging allies to do more.

were among several Meitei extremist organisations in Manipur banned by the Union home ministry earlier this month. The decision to declare many Meitei extremist organisation as “unlawfull" was taken in the wake of ongoing violence in the northeastern state. On Sunday, Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh said his government was holding talks with an Imphal Valley-based insurgent group.