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Delhi airport's Eastern Cross Taxiways that help reduce taxiing time as well as fuel consumption by aircraft, according to a top official. The Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in the national capital, operated by DIAL (Delhi International Airport Ltd), handles up to 1,500 aircraft movements daily. In a recent interview, DIAL CEO Videh Kumar Jaipuriar said assuming 10-15 per cent of aircraft use the Eastern Cross Taxiways (ECT), it is expected that there would be saving of around 55,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

Israel's military pushed ahead with its punishing air and ground offensive in Gaza on Saturday, bolstered by a U.S. veto derailing U.N. Security Council efforts to end the war and word that an emergency sale of $106 million worth of tank ammunition had been approved by Washington. Unable to leave Gaza, a territory 25 miles (40 kilometers) long by about 7 miles (11 kilometers) wide, more than 2 million Palestinians faced more bombardment Saturday, even in areas that Israel had described as safe zones.

Kerala and address a programme of the BJP-NDA in January, BJP state chief K Surendran said here on Saturday. Besides Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, party national president J P Nadda and other senior leaders would also take part in various campaign programmes of the NDA in the southern state in the coming months ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, he said.

Israel to do more to protect Palestinian civilians during a fierce offensive against Hamas militants across Gaza, even as Washington vetoed a U.N. Security Council demand for an immediate ceasefire. Fighting escalated and the Palestinian death toll rose on Friday, with Israel pounding the enclave from north to south in an expanded phase of the two-month-old war against the Islamist group Hamas.

Mint. According to a report by the Confederation of Indian Alcoholic Beverage Companies (CIABC), the FTAs, particularly with the UK, will impact premium whisky companies in India. It said annual scotch whisky volumes has grown 40% in India from the previous year to eight million cases during January-June 2023.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) — The Israeli military, responding on Friday to a Reuters investigation that determined its forces killed a Reuters journalist in southern Lebanon on Oct. 13, said the incident took place in an active combat zone and was under review.

A union representing Germany’s train drivers began a 24-hour strike Thursday night, causing widespread rail cancellations and travel disruptions across the country

Cyclone Michaung which made landfall on the Andhra Pradesh coast near Bapatla on Tuesday afternoon, accompanied by intense rain and wind speeds up to 100 kmph, caused widespread devastation and affecting more than two crore people. The storm also claimed over a dozen lives. Thousands of ground-floor homes and vehicles remained submerged.

Nvidia is in advanced talks with Malaysian power-to-property conglomerate YTL on a data centre deal, three sources familiar with the matter said. The potential tie-up would include collaborating on cloud infrastructure, and is likely to be anchored at YTL's data centre complex in the southern Malaysian state of Johor, bordering Singapore, one of the people said.

Israel-Hamas War Day 63: Joe Biden holds talks with PM Netanyahu It was a solemn moment for all of Israel and not only for families of the 138 Israelis still held hostage. For some Israelis, the feeling is of a country shrinking. Some 200,000 Israelis have been uprooted from both the south of Israel where Hamas infiltrated and the north of Israel where Hezbollah attacked from Lebanon.

Hamas including through corridors that allow people to move safely from defined areas of hostilities." "President Biden reiterated his concern about extremist violence committed against Palestinians and the need to increase stability in the West Bank," it added. Here are top 10 updates on Israel-Hamas war, 1) Residents informed that the Israeli military hit Rafah in southern Gaza twice overnight as United Nations officials warned there are no safe places left in the besieged territory, as per AP reports.

The Southern Railway has cancelled nine trains for December 8. It announced the cancellations of the trains in a bulletin and has tweeted the list of cancelled trains to inform the passengers in advance so that they can make their plans accordingly. As per the list tweeted by the Southern Railways, the trains which have been cancelled for December 8 include: 1. Train No.

Gal Meir Eisenkot, the son of Israeli Minister Gadi Eisenkot, and Sgt. Major (res.) Jonathan David Deitch of the 55th Brigade's 6623rd Reconnaissance Battalion have been killed in the Gaza Strip, the Times of Israel reported quoting the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). The IDF informed that Eisenkot (25), of the 551st Brigade's 699th Battalion from Herzliya, was killed in northern Gaza. It added that three other troopers were seriously injured and shifted to hospitals for treatment.

One of the largest labor organizations in the United States wants the federal government to wrest workplace safety oversight from South Carolina regulators

Cyclone Michaung. The city has been witnessing “major flood" situations, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said. Earlier in the day, Tamil Nadu chief secretary Shiv Das Meena briefed about the restoration work that is underway in Chennai after cyclone Michaung hit the city.

Ramaswamy’s "smartass mouth". Meanwhile, Florida governor Ron DeSantis said Haley "caves every time the left comes after her". Haley shot back: "I love the attention, fellas.

Israel-Hamas War: As the death toll in Israeli bombardments on Gaza crosses 16,000, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has decided to invoke Article 99 of the UN Charter and urged the UN Security Council to act on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The development comes as Israel increased the intensity of its operations, especially in the areas of southern Gaza with Israel's defence leadership claiming that “half of Hamas’ battalion commanders" are killed.

Israel and the occupied West Bank this week to expedite humanitarian aid to Gaza, aiming to discuss direct aid delivery by sea during talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, CNN reported on Thursday. Shapps emphasised the search for the quickest and most direct routes, including options by land, sea, and air. Additionally, four Royal Air Force flights carrying over 74 metric tons of aid for Palestinians have landed in Egypt.

“Prime Video was already big on acquiring big tentpole film and Netflix has caught on. Budget allocation to big Hindi and southern movie titles will only increase," Andhare said. According to the Ormax report, Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Jawan that dropped on Netflix in November, recorded a launch week buzz of 53%, the highest any property has managed on OTT, since the second season of The Family Man in June 2021.

Nakba? As the ground offensive by Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel intensifies, this time on Southern Gaza, Palestinians ask ‘is anywhere safe?' Israel's Defense Forces have intensified their attack on Southern Gaza after peace talks fell through with Hamas fighters. Palestinians have questioned the Israeli decision to step up bombing in the besieged enclave’s south, which was declared a safe zone when the war began about two months ago. Israel promised vengeance after the Hamas armed group carried out a surprise attack on October 7 inside Israel, killing up to 1,200 people.

India is planning to discourage the diversion of sugar for ethanol production as part of efforts to ensure sufficient supplies of the sweetener in the local market, government and trade sources said on Wednesday. Lower diversion for ethanol will help the world's second biggest sugar producer in increasing output of the sweetener, which is expected to fall because of below normal rainfall in key growing states. The government could ask mills not to use sugar cane juice and B-heavy molasses — a byproduct with higher sucrose levels — to produce ethanol, they said. India's fuel retailers buy ethanol from sugar mills to blend with gasoline and they were paying higher price for ethanol produced from juice and B-heavy molasses. «After assessing the demand-supply situation, the committee of ministers decided to focus on sugar production this year,» said one of the government sources who declined to be named according to official rules. The government would allow mills to produce ethanol only from C-heavy molasses, a cane by-product that has hardly any sugar content left in it, the second government official said. The new guidelines for ethanol procurement in the 2023/24 marketing year, which commenced on November 1, will be finalised soon and oil marketing companies are likely to honour contracts already awarded, the first source said. The government's move is a setback for the industry, which has invested billions of dollars in the last five years to increase ethanol production capacity, said a senior industry official who declined to be named. «Hopefully, this setback will be short-term, and the government will shift its focus back to ethanol once sugar cane supplies improve,» the official said.