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Israeli strikes on Sunday put out of service war-torn Syria's two main airports, state media reported citing a military source, with the transport ministry saying flights were re-routed to Latakia. While Israeli strikes have repeatedly caused the grounding of flights at the government-controlled airports in the capital Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo, it is the second time simultaneous strikes have hit the facilities since this month's conflict between Israel and Hamas began. «At around 5:25 am (0225 GMT), the Israeli enemy carried out… an air attack… targeting Damascus and Aleppo international airports, leading to the death of a civilian worker at Damascus airport and wounding another,» the military source said in the statement carried by state news agency SANA. «Material damage to the airports' runways put them out of service,» the statement added.

Indusind Bank shows strong potential for a breakout, with both daily and weekly charts indicating upward momentum. The stock rebounded from a support level with high trading volume and closed above a critical moving average. Additionally, RSI suggests increasing momentum.

IIT), Madras has established a first-of-its kind Centre of Excellence that is undertaking research to develop biomarkers for early detection of pancreatic cancer, according to officials. The sequence data from the «Centre of Excellence on Cancer Genomics and Molecular Therapeutics» will help develop an India-specific cancer genome database, which is critical to identify and develop biomarkers for early detection and understanding the drug response. The data developed could also help to identify drug targets for novel therapeutics, they said.

ICICI Bank's net profit rose 36% to ₹10,261 crore in the second quarter amid continued loan growth and a rise in fee income as asset quality remained stable. Total advances in the July-September period rose 18% from the year earlier, led by a 21% growth in retail loans, which comprised 54% of the total loan portfolio at India's second biggest private sector lender.

war of words has erupted between Lok Sabha MPs Nishikant Dubey and Mahua Moitra over the ongoing cash-for-query controversy involving the TMC lawmaker. Dubey alleged that Moitra's parliamentary ID was used in Dubai while she was in India, claiming that the National Informatics Centre (NIC) had disclosed this information to probe agencies. He accused Moitra of compromising the country's security for money and accepting bribes to target the Adani Group and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Israel said its aircraft struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Saturday and that one of its soldiers was hit by an anti-tank missile, in cross-border fighting that the Iran-backed group said killed six of its fighters. With the frontier region seeing its worst violence in years as Israel wages war against Gaza's Hamas militants, the Israeli military said it traded fire with Hezbollah in at least four different areas along the Lebanese border. The hostilities have forced residents on both sides to flee their homes. Israel's military says seven soldiers have been killed since Oct.

Israel said Sunday it had killed «terror operatives» from Hamas and Islamic Jihad in an air strike on a mosque in the West Bank's Jenin. The strike hit the Al-Ansar mosque, which the Israeli military said «was used by the terrorists as a command centre to plan the attacks and as a base for their execution». The Israeli military said those targeted had already carried out «several terror attacks over the last months, and were organising an additional imminent terror attack». It said they were «neutralised», without giving details on the number killed in the strike or their identities. The director of the Red Crescent in Jenin, Mahmoud Al-Saadi, was quoted by the Palestinian news agency Wafa saying one person was killed and three others injured in the strike.

Israel-Hamas War: ‘We’re here for you', Justin Trudeau assures support to Palestinian, Arab, Black Muslims 3. Qatar, which was key to the release of two US citizens abducted by Hamas, is optimistic that talks with the group will “very soon" result in the release of all civilian hostages 4. As many as 100,000 people marched through central London to demand a cease-fire in Israel’s war with Hamas and in support of the Palestinian cause.

Elon Musk had a drastic response to the United States Securities and Exchange Commissions' (US SEC) new regulations regarding financial services firms, terming it a “slow strangulation of civilization". “Our civilization is being slowly strangled to death one regulation at a time," Musk posted on his social media site X, formerly known as Twitter. He was quoting a post by Robinhood App CEO and co-founder Vladimir Tenev, who detailed the repercussions of the US SEC's move on fintech companies and customers.

India: Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj New Zealand: Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham, Trent Boult, Mitchell Santner. India (IND): Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammad Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj New Zealand (NZ): Devon Conway, Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham (c & wk), Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Mitchell Santner, Matt Henry, Lockie Ferguson, Trent Boult HPCA Stadium in Dharamshala is preferable to the bowlers, especially the pacers.

Chris Ellison’s Mineral Resources has turned its attention to a new lithium target with links to the company’s chairman, located near the prolific Wodgina lithium mine jointly owned by MinRes and Albemarle.

City shocked fans with two successive defeats before the international break in the 2023/24 season. It was a surprising turn of events for the team that started the season with six consecutive victories. The back-to-back defeats were a rarity, marking the first time Manchester City took no points from two consecutive league games since late 2018. City’s Defeats The unexpected downturn for Manchester City began with a 2-1 loss to Wolverhampton Wanderers on September 30. Wolves, who had previously won just one of their first seven games, managed to defeat the reigning champions. Gabriel Martinelli scored the only goal of the game in City's defeat to Arsenal on October 8, where they shot only once on target. Has Pep Guardiola ever experienced three consecutive Premier League defeats as City's manager? Since Guardiola took the reins at the start of the 2016/17 season, the team has never lost three consecutive Premier League matches. However, this streak could be broken if City loses to Brighton & Hove Albion on October 21. Guardiola did face a spell of three consecutive defeats twice during his tenure in all competitions—once during the 2017/18 season and again in the 2021/22 season. The latter period was notable as City's losing streak extended into the start of the 2021/22 season after their defeat to Chelsea in the Champions League final. Here's a look at the details of those three-match losing streaks, including the dates and opponents: 2017/18 Season:

PCs) or working with third-party retail partners to cast a wider net to acquire customers who could not afford a PC. Industry executives and market trackers said the initiative will help boost the total addressable market for IT hardware brands, at a time when shipments have been declining in India on account of poor demand, and brands being pushed by the government to take up local assembly of products. “With the increase in the number of individuals opting for refurbished laptops in the city, we wanted to build an avenue that extends products that have undergone robust checks to ensure that they can access premium quality laptops and PCs,” said Arnold Su, vice president, consumer and gaming PCs at Asus.

Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh: Security forces in Bastar will be deploying drones, surveillance cameras, satellite phones, choppers, anti-landmine and bulletproof vehicles to thwart any bid by Maoists to disrupt the forthcoming assembly elections to be held on November 7, Bastar Police chief P Sundarraj told ET. The forces have been put on high alert in all 12 assembly seats of Bastar in South Chhattisgarh in the backdrop of the banned CPI (Maoist) circulating videos through WhatsApp and pasting posters on trees, calling for a boycott of the poll. «For the smooth conduct of the election, we will be using all tech resources under our disposal. I won't be able to disclose their total numbers for security reasons,» said Sundarraj who is Inspector General of Police of the Bastar range, a 39,000 sq.

Eyes partner Canada in urging India not to insist on a reduction in Canada's diplomatic presence and have expressed concern over Ottawa's withdrawal of 41 diplomats amid the dispute over the murder of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. «We are concerned by the departure of Canadian diplomats from India, in response to the Indian government's demand of Canada to significantly reduce its diplomatic presence in India,» US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Friday. In a near simultaneous statement, a spokesperson for Britain's Foreign Office said, «We do not agree with the decisions taken by the Indian government that have resulted in a number of Canadian diplomats departing India.» Washington has said it took Canada's allegations seriously and, along with London, urged India to cooperate with Ottawa in the murder probe even as Western powers have been reluctant to openly condemn India given their growing strategic ties with New Delhi. However, Friday's statements from the US State Department and Britain's Foreign Office have been the most direct criticism by Washington and London of New Delhi thus far in this case. «Resolving differences requires diplomats on the ground.

GRAP II, the government takes steps like increasing the parking fees to discourage the use of personal vehicles and increasing the frequency of CNG/Electric buses and metros. 1. People to use public transport and minimize the use of personal vehicles.

ICC World Cup: South African batter Heinrich Klaasen played a wonderful innings of 109 runs to set a massive target of 400 against defending champions England. Heinrich Klaasen slammed 12 fours and 4 sixes to completely destroy England's bowling and slam century on just 61 balls. But, he is not the first South African to smash a fast century in the ICC World Cup 2023.

BSE Sensex ended October's third week with a sharp loss of one per cent after five days of volatile sessions over geopolitical concerns arising on the Israel-Hamas-Gaza conflict. Domestic equity benchmarks Nifty 50 and Sensex ended in negative territory for the third consecutive session on Friday, October 20, as concerns about potential interest rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve, and the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas kept investors on edge.

Malik, termed a tribal elder, was shot dead by unknown assailants in Pakistan's North Waziristan. Police said that it was a targeted attack carried out by unknown masked men in Mirali area of the North Waziristan tribal district on Friday morning. Malik was targeted by masked men at a private clinic and the assailants managed to escape after the attack. Malik is said to be the founder of Lashkar-e-Jabbar and also a close aide of one of India's most wanted terrorists Azhar. The fresh incident raises questions of a war among the terrorist organisations that are functional in Pakistan. In last few weeks, several terrorists wanted in India have been gunned down in Pakistan by unknown gunmen. On October 11, Shahid Latif, one of India's most wanted terrorists and also a key conspirator in the 2016 Pathankot terror attack case was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Pakistan's Sialkot.

Trinamool Congress has decided to maintain distance from the controversy surrounding its MP Mahua Moitra, who has been facing allegations of taking bribes for raising questions in Parliament. Darshan Hiranandani, the CEO of real estate-to-energy group Hiranandani, who allegedly paid Moitra to raise questions in Parliament about Adani Group, recently claimed in a signed affidavit that she targeted Gautam Adani to «malign and embarrass» Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose «impeccable reputation» gave opposition no opportunity to attack him. A copy of the affidavit was reviewed by PTI.