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Palestinians in Gaza held the first Friday prayers of Ramadan outside the ruins of a mosque levelled in Israel's offensive, one of hundreds the Hamas-run authorities say have been damaged or destroyed in Israeli attacks since October. Scores of worshippers knelt in rows in the street by the wreckage of the al-Farouk mosque in Rafah, laying out their prayer mats in the shadow of a white minaret marking all that remains of the otherwise flattened building.

Congress stronghold, the Secunderabad seat has seen a recent shift to the Bharatiya Janata Party with incumbent G Kishan Reddy looking to keep his seat for a second term, while the saffron party looks to consolidate its hold in the southern state. One of 17 seats in Telangana, the Hyderabad constituency is set to see a battle between the BJP and the BRS, with the Congress looking less likely to bother either party. Secunderabad Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Dates In 2019, the elections for the Secunderabad seat were held on April 11. With the Election Commission set to announce dates for the general polls soon, there is a high level of anticipation within party workers and the local populace. The poll body is set to announce the dates on March 16.

Modi started his South push and adressed a rally each in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. It was followed by his road show in Telangana. The BJP sees more wins in the southern states as crucial to achieving its target of 370 seats in the Lok Sabha and ensuring a third term for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) at the Centre.

Kerala's Pathanamthitta constituency is set to vote in the Lok Sabha elections soon, with the Election Commission very close to announcing a date for the polls. This year's elections will likely see a tight contest in the Congress stronghold. Pathanamthitta is a newly formed constituency in the Central Travancore region of Kerala. In what is set to be only the fourth election in this specific constituency, the Communist Party of India, the Congress and the BJP are going to fight it out to place a member in the 18th Lok Sabha. Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Dates The scheduling of the Lok Sabha elections in Pathanamthitta is garnering significant interest with early reports placing likely poll dates between April-May. The eagerly awaited voting date for the Kerala constituency in the 2024 Lok Sabha election will pretty soon be disclosed by the Election Commission.

ALSO READ: Indian Navy commissions 'INS Jatayu' Admiral Ramdas, or Laxminarayan Ramdas, was born on September 5, 1933 in Matunga, Mumbai. After retirement, he settled in Bhaimala village in Alibag, Maharashtra, on a piece of land awarded to him by the Maharashtra government in recognition of his acts of gallantry in the 1971 war, PTI reported. He completed his early education in Delhi at Presentation Convent and Ramjas College.

Gujarat State Fertilizer & Chemicals Ltd.(up 5.92%), Sikko Industries Ltd.(up 4.95%), Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd.(up 4.60%), Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd.(up 3.79%), Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd.(up 1.92%), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(up 1.30%) and Madras Fertilizers Ltd.(up 0.55%) stood among the top gainers.

The first two flights last year lasted mere minutes before blowing up.

More passengers aboard an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 jet when part of its fuselage blew out in January are suing — including one who says his life was saved by a seat belt

₹22,000 per tonne to ₹26,500 per tonne over the past three months. This is attributed to the government's push on ethanol production to achieve the E20 target by 2025-26, amid declining sugar production. Consequently, chicken prices rose from ₹100-110 a month ago to ₹106-130 per kg across key farm gates in tier-1 cities, including Delhi, Bengaluru and Kolkata, according to spot traders.

DMK-Congress' INDIA bloc can never make Tamil Nadu a developed state as it has a «history of scams and corruption.» Addressing a rally in Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari, the Prime Minister said that today the wave that has emerged from India's southern shore, in Kanyakumari, will reach far-off places. «In 1991, I began 'Ekta Yatra' from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. This time, I travelled from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. The people of Jammu and Kashmir have rejected the people who want to divide India. I am certain that the people of Tamil Nadu will also do the same,» PM Modi said.

Narendra Modi is preparing for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections with the rallying cry of ‘Abki Baar 400 paar,’ as he is scheduled to conduct a roadshow in Telangana's Hyderabad and address a public gathering in southern Kerala on Friday. Additionally, Modi intends to visit Telangana and Tamil Nadu as part of his campaign efforts on Friday.

Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 jet when part of its fuselage blew out in January are suing — including one who says his life was saved by a seat belt. The latest lawsuit, representing seven passengers, was filed in Washington’s King County Superior Court Thursday against Boeing, Alaska Airlines, Spirit AeroSystems and 10 people listed as John Does. Cuong Tran, of Upland, California, was sitting in the row behind where the side of the aircraft tore away and left a door-sized hole on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Jan.

SpaceX nearly completed an hour-long test flight of its massive rocket, but the spacecraft was lost during its descent back to Earth on Thursday. As reported by AP, the company reported that contact was lost with the Starship as it approached its intended destination, a splashdown in the Indian Ocean. Additionally, the first-stage booster broke apart earlier in the flight over the Gulf of Mexico, following its launch from the southern tip of Texas near the Mexican border.

By Jonathan Stempel

Peak power demand in India touched 220.55 GW on March 13 as temperatures rose across the country, much higher than the 206.8 GW on the corresponding day last year. It also surpassed the 209-GW level recorded a year back in the same month. The peak demand so far in the month, is however, lower than that estimated by the power ministry at 231 GW for the ongoing month. «From next week, this demand will pick up,» a government official told ET. «March 18 onwards temperature is expected to rise which is when we expect higher peak demand,» the person said.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has reiterated his concerns about railroad safety and scolded the industry for not doing more to improve since last year's fiery Ohio derailment

The lure of the city has always been strong for the poor in Vietnam's Mekong Delta

Tata Motors and the Tamil Nadu Government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build a vehicle manufacturing facility with an investment of Rs 9,000 crore over the next five years, the company said in an exchange filing on Wednesday. The agreement further bolsters employment generation in the state with a dedicated 5,000 jobs. The announcement comes after Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast commenced building a factory in the southern state, marking the second automobile manufacturing investment within a span of just 2 months.

With no end to fighting in sight, Palestinians in Gaza have begun fasting for the holy month of Ramadan as hunger worsens across the strip and pressure grows on Israel over the growing humanitarian crisis

Disney is seeking approval from local officials to expand its California theme park offerings over the next four decades

The INDIA grouping took a fresh blow over the weekend as West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) left the Congress party in the cold on pre-poll seat sharing, announcing its own candidates for all 42 seats up for contest in the state in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. This amounts to fresh evidence of deep internal differences within the group that have all along clouded its prospects of putting up a credible joint front against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which rules the country at the Centre. Earlier, the opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had said it would go solo in Punjab, although it did strike a seat-sharing pact with the Congress in Delhi.