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Norfolk Southern's first-quarter earnings report Wednesday gave the railroad the opportunity to publicly defend CEO Alan Shaw's strategy again before investors decide on May 9 whether to back him

Yoav Gallant said Wednesday without specifying whether ground troops had crossed the border. «Many forces are deployed on the border and IDF (army) forces are carrying out offensive action currently throughout southern Lebanon,» Gallant said in a statement, also claiming that «half of Hezbollah's commanders in southern Lebanon have been eliminated» in months of violence. «The other half are in hiding and abandoning the field to IDF operations,» he added without giving a specific number.

The US Securities & Exchange Commission wants to impose a $5.3 billion fine on Terraform Labs Pte. and its co-founder Do Kwon, the inventor of the failed TerraUSD stablecoin. 

Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd.(up 9.80%), Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd.(up 5.74%), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(up 5.71%), The Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd.(up 5.61%), Gujarat State Fertilizer & Chemicals Ltd.(up 4.70%), Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd.(up 3.39%), Paradeep Phosphates Ltd.(up 3.00%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd.(up 2.91%), National Fertilizers Ltd.(up 2.84%) and Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd.(up 2.51%) stood among the top gainers.

Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee says he thinks workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga made a mistake by voting to unionize under the United Auto Workers in a landslide election

Congress leader Sachin Pilot slammed BJP stating that the party won't be able to win a single seat in Kerala or any southern state and expressed strong confidence in the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the INDIA bloc predicting a clean sweep for the coalition in the state. «I think the response is fantastic. People have decided to vote for the UDF. In Kerala, all people across community religion and across caste have decided to fully support the INDIA alliance and UDF will get 20 0ut 0f 20 seats here. BJP will not be able to open their account in kerala or in any other southern states,» Pilot told ANI. Kerala sees a straight face-off between the Congress and the Left in most of the 20 seats with the BJP hoping to dent the tradition by putting up a good show.

Himachal Pradesh due to snowfall and rain on Saturday, according to the state emergency operation centre. As per the data released, 99 roads have been closed in Lahaul and Spiti, three roads have been blocked in Kullu, one in Chamba, and Kangra each. Himachal Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority further stated that a bridge has been washed away due to rain in Kangra. «The new bridge is likely to be constructed by this month,» an official statement read.

unionize under the United Auto Workers in a landslide election but acknowledged the choice was ultimately up to them. Ahead of the vote, Lee and five other Southern Republican governors spoke out publicly against the UAW's drive to organize workers at factories largely in the South, arguing that if autoworkers were to vote for union representation, it would jeopardize jobs. Instead, the union wound up pulling 73% of the vote at a facility whose workers had narrowly rejected the union in 2019 and 2014.

A crackdown on how California utilities spend customers' money has failed to pass the state Legislature

The United Auto Workers union is celebrating a huge win at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, where workers will now be represented by the union

Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency, one of the 17 Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament) constituencies in Telangana state in southern India, will see a tough fight between the BJP's Arvind Dharmapuri and Congress' Tatiparthi Jeevan Reddy in the upcoming Lok Sabha election. Currently, the incumbent Member of Parliament from the Nizamabad constituency is the BJP's Dharmapuri Arvind. Voting for all 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana, including Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency, will be held in the fourth phase of Lok Sabha polling on May 13; the results will be announced on June 4.

spacecraft resumed its function of sending usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems for the first time in nine months. For the first time since November, the US space agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is set to enable the spacecraft to yield science data again and resume operation. As per NASA's report, Voyager 1's last message was on November 14.

HindustanTimes has reported citing people familiar with matter. Given that the three have been in contact since their association with IS Al-Hind module in 2019–20, the investigating agency is allegedly suspecting a Pakistan link in the case. “We heard about the handler named Colonel after the Mangaluru autorickshaw blast in November 2022.

Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza's southernmost city killed at least nine people, six of them children, hospital authorities said Saturday, as Israel pursued its nearly seven-month offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory. Israel's war against the Islamic militant group Hamas has led to a dramatic escalation of tensions in an already volatile Middle East. The strike late Friday hit a residential building in the western Tel Sultan neighbourhood of the city of Rafah, according to Gaza's civil defence. The bodies of the six children, two women and a man were taken to Rafah's Abu Yousef al-Najjar hospital, the hospital's records showed. At the hospital, relatives cried and hugged the bodies of the children, wrapped in white shrouds, as others comforted them.

heat extremes could become an «emerging feature» of a warmer planet, according to a new study. The new research that reviewed the weather and climate of 2023 also said that many of the extreme events experienced last year are consistent with predictions previously made about a warmer world. Putting the events of the warmest year on record in perspective, researchers said that in a warmer future, more events involving record-breaking hot temperatures occurring earlier in the year, and cyclones exacerbating rainfall extremes are in order. Change in seasonality of extreme events too is another trend the researchers observed.

₹135.04 crore) and Radhe Shyam ( ₹151 crore), both starring Prabhas, Akshay Kumar’s Samrat Prithviraj ( ₹68.07 crore) and more recently Bade Miyan Chote Miyan ( ₹47.52 crore), Salman Khan’s Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan ( ₹101.44 crore), Ranveer Singh’s ’83 ( ₹103.68 crore) and Cirkus ( ₹35.79 crore) and Shroff’s Ganapath ( ₹11.09 crore) and Heropanti 2 ( ₹24.91 crore), among others, proved to be disasters at the box office despite much hype and anticipation. Trade experts said there is caution on the part of both stars and makers who want the project to first seem feasible on paper before making announcements.

accident overnight involving two Japanese military helicopters out to sea, officials said. A spokesman for Japan's Self-Defense Force (SDF) confirmed the late Saturday incident to AFP and said that one person was rescued but later confirmed dead.

UBS is wasting no time expanding its profile in the wealth space as it welcomes a West Coast-based advisory team. UBS Wealth Management USA announced the addition of Christopher Toregas and his team to its Century City office in Los Angeles as part of its strategic expansion.

Bengaluru rains: Light showers bring relief to city amid heat wave conditions “Thunderstorm with lightning accompanied by gusty winds with wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph likely at isolated places over the state on April 19 to April 21," the weather report added. And other cities of Karnataka may experience wet spells till April 23. However, despite the rainfall, there won't be a significant change in the maximum temperature.

The U.S. Border Patrol is asserting its authority to seize cannabis shipments amid complaints by licensed cannabis suppliers that shipments worth more than $300,000 have been confiscated in recent months at Border Patrol checkpoints in southern New Mexico

Iran activated 's air defenses across multiple locations after loud explosions were heard near an airport and military base in the city of Isfahan, according to Iranian state media reports. The blasts come just days after Iran allegedly launched over 300 drones and missiles at targets in Israel last Saturday, prompting the Israeli military to launch a bombing campaign against Gaza.