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Galaxy Leader, was hijacked on Sunday in the southern Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, reported AP. The vessel en route from Turkey to India is believed to be having 25 people on board. Houthi rebels, who control northern Yemen and its Red Sea coast, said the vessel was Israeli.

Agro Phos(up 4.12%), Paradeep Phosphates(up 2.48%), Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals(up 1.95%), ZUARIAGRO(up 0.88%), Coromandel International(up 0.62%), Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chem(up 0.58%), Sikko Industries(up 0.31%), Madras Fertlizers(up 0.26%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries(up 0.22%) and Deepak Fertilizers & Petrochemicals(up 0.14%) stood among the top gainers. Bohra Industries(down 4.96%), Krishana Phoschem(down 2.54%), Madhya Bharat Agro Products(down 1.50%), G S F C(down 1.04%), Fertilizers & Chemicals Tranvancore(down 0.99%), Aries Agro(down 0.58%), Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 0.53%), Rama Phosphates(down 0.38%), National Fertilizer(down 0.22%) and Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 0.12%) were among the top losers of the day.

On 19 November, the world celebrated the 10th Women's Entrepreneurship Day, an annual effort to bring to the fore the issues faced by women business leaders. In the last official economic census a decade ago, just 14% of all establishments in India were led by women. The share is estimated to have improved since then to over 20%, but the likes of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Vandana Luthra and Falguni Nayar remain rare examples in an arena flooded with male leaders.

State and federal wildlife agencies have developed a new weapon to slow down invasive carp across the Great Lakes region: traitor fish

SpaceX launched its mega rocket Starship but lost both the booster and the spacecraft in a pair of explosions minutes into a second test flight

South African abalone, a curious fist-sized sea snail, is a highly prized morsel in East Asia and the unwitting instigator of 30 years of trouble for fishing communities along Africa’s southern coast

BRICS leaders on Tuesday to discuss the Israel-Hamas conflict. The heads of state of six countries invited to join the group earlier this year — Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Argentina and the United Arab Emirates — will attend the talks, the presidency said in a statement on Monday. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will also participate in the virtual meeting, it said.

Bloomberg report. In the wake of Hamas’s long-planned and brutal October 7 assault on Israel, the Israeli security establishment is looking back on his words in a new light: as part of an effort to create the illusion that Hamas, considered a terrorist group by the US and European Union, was limiting its embrace of violence to focus on governance. Israeli officials now acknowledge that a sense of complacency had set in around Hamas.

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Israel’s war in Gaza, now in its seventh week. But the coffee-break chatter that followed was scathing. More than once Mr McGurk said that Gaza would receive a “massive surge of humanitarian relief" only once Hamas, a Palestinian militant group, released the roughly 240 Israeli and foreign hostages it abducted on October 7th.

Iran denied Israeli claims that it was involved in the seizure of a British-owned and Japanese-operated cargo ship in the southern Red Sea by Yemen's Houthis, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said on Monday at a press conference. On Sunday, Israel said the incident was an «Iranian act of terrorism» with consequences for international maritime security. The Houthis, an ally of Tehran, have been launching long-range missile and drone salvoes at Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian Hamas militants fighting in the Gaza Strip.

olive oil are now being sold for as much as 14.5 euros ($15.77) in some supermarkets. This has led retailers to place security tags on olive oil bottles, alongside items like spirits, cosmetics, and appliances to prevent shop-lilting and thefts, according to a Reuters report. The price of olive oil has risen by 150% over the past two years, mainly due to a scorching drought in south Europe, which is a major producer.

ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 final between India and Australia at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The person, identified as Wen Johnson, was supporting Palestine which has been under attack by Israel since October 7 when Hamas launched a surprise assault on southern Israel. "The accused described himself as a big fan of Virat Kohli and had come to watch the match and being a fan of Kohli, he crossed the railing and went into the ground," Ahmedabad Police said.

US First Lady Rosalynn Carter, whom President Jimmy Carter called "an extension of myself" primarily due to her leading role in his tenure even as she actively promoted the cause of mental health, died on Sunday at age 96, the Carter Center said, as per Reuters. Her willpower and outwardly shy demeanor, and a soft Southern accent, inspired Washington reporters to call her “the Steel Magnolia." According to a statement from the Carter Center, a nonprofit organization founded by the Carters, Rosalynn Carter, who recently entered hospice care at home in Plains, Georgia, died with her family by her side. Democrat Jimmy Carter was president from 1977 to 1981.

(Reuters) — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday demanded rapid changes in the operations of Ukraine's military and announced the dismissal of the commander of the military's medical forces.

EDINBURG (TEXAS) : Donald Trump returned to the US-Mexico border for a visit Sunday as he promotes a hard-line immigration agenda that would be far more expansive than the policies he pursued during his first term as president. Before making remarks in Edinburg, Texas, Trump served meals to Texas National Guard soldiers, troopers and others who will be stationed at the border over Thanksgiving. He was joined by Republican Gov.

India along its eastern neighbourhood, China's state-owned petroleum company has acquired control of several petrol pump and diesel stations in close proximity to the Myanmar-India border in recent times. PetroChina has so far acquired 119 retail fuel stations in Myanmar and may acquire another 53, sources indicated. Over 50 of these fuel stations were earlier owned by a Singapore-based firm. Most of the pumps acquired by PetroChina are in proximity to the India-Myanmar border or along the Trilateral Asia Highway, ET has learnt. Ever since Myanmar faced western sanctions after the coup, China has come to its rescue, including in the oil and gas sector.

Israel said on Sunday that Yemen's Houthis had seized a British-owned and Japanese-operated cargo ship in the southern Red Sea, describing the incident as an "Iranian act of terrorism" with consequences for international maritime security. The Houthis, an ally of Tehran, have been launching long-range missile and drone salvoes at Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian Hamas militants it has been battling in the Gaza Strip since Oct 7. Last week, the Houthi leader said his forces would make further attacks on Israel and they could target Israeli ships in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. There was no immediate comment from the Houthis on Sunday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said a ship — which it did not name — had been seized, and stressed that Israel was not involved in its ownership, operation or the make-up of its international crew. «There were no Israelis on the ship,» it said. «This is another Iranian act of terrorism that represents an escalation in Iran's belligerence against the citizens of the free world, with concomitant international ramifications vis-a-vis the security of global shipping routes.» The Israeli military said in an earlier statement the ship seizure took place in the Red Sea.

Gaza in recent days is unfathomable, the UN rights chief said Sunday, with attacks on schools harbouring displaced people and a hospital turned into a «death zone». «The horrendous events of the past 48 hours in Gaza beggar belief,» United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said in a statement. He spoke as the World Health Organization scrambled to evacuate the last remaining patients and staff from the Al-Shifa hospital, with UN officials describing the Palestinian territory's largest health facility, raided last week by Israeli troops, as a «death zone». Elsewhere in northern Gaza, a Hamas health official said more than 80 people were killed on Saturday in twin strikes on Jabalia refugee camp, including on a UN school sheltering displaced people. «The killing of so many people at schools turned shelters, hundreds fleeing for their lives from Al-Shifa Hospital, amid continuing displacement of hundreds of thousands in southern Gaza, are actions which fly in the face of the basic protections civilians must be afforded under international law,» Turk said. He described the images purportedly taken in the aftermath of the reported Israeli strike on the UN-run Al-Fakhura school as «horrifying», and «clearly showing large numbers of women, children and men severely wounded or killed». — 'May constitute war crimes' - The UN rights chief pointed out that in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the Israeli military «are dropping leaflets demanding residents go to unspecified „recognised shelters“, even as strikes take place across Gaza». «Irrespective of warnings, Israel is obliged to protect civilians wherever they are», he said, pointing to the principles under international law of distinction,

Hamas gunmen battled Israeli forces trying to push into Gaza's largest refugee camp on Sunday and at least 11 people were killed by an Israeli air strike on a house, medics said, as hopes rose of a deal to free some hostages from the enclave. The Washington Post said on Sunday that U.S. mediators were close to a deal between Israel and Hamas to free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza in exchange for a five-day pause in their war that would help boost emergency aid shipments to Gaza civilians, citing people familiar with the matter. The Post had reported on Saturday that a tentative deal had been reached, but this was denied by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S.

Thanksgiving 2023 travel season is likely to be affected by inclement weather. Weather forecasters have predicted that storms could severely impact flights and road trips ahead of the holiday period. Severe thunderstorms are forecasted to intensify in the Southern Plains during Sunday afternoon and evening, expanding eastward into the Southern United States by Monday's end and reaching the Southeast on Tuesday, as reported by weather experts to USA Today. AAA, which monitors holiday travel, anticipates that 55.4 million Americans will travel over 50 miles for Thanksgiving between November 22 and November 26. The majority, around 49.1 million, are expected to travel by road, according to AAA. Early travelers departing on Monday along the Eastern Seaboard and into the Great Lakes region may experience relatively lighter rain and thunderstorms, avoiding some of the heavier traffic and delays expected later in the week, noted weather experts. Ski resorts in the interior western states, such as Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, can expect favorable conditions with the potential for mountain snow on Thursday and Friday. The most impactful weather on Monday is predicted in the southern tier of the United States, affecting states like Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Tuesday night and Wednesday morning could see critical weather conditions in major hubs across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, with heavy rain anticipated from Washington, D.C., to Boston.