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By Duncan Miriri

Chhath Puja begins with Nahay Khay, marking the onset of the four-day festival. This first ritual sets the tone for the challenging 36-hour fasting period that follows. Here is all you need to know about Chhath Puja 2023.

Gaza's biggest hospital. Reuters could not immediately verify the video that showed a deep hole in the ground, littered with and surrounded by concrete and wood rubble and sand. The army said its troops also found a vehicle in the hospital containing a large number of weapons, according to a report published by Reuters. 1) Hamas on Thursday said claims by the Pentagon and US State Department that the group uses Al Shifa for military purposes "is a repetition of a blatantly false narrative, demonstrated by the weak and ridiculous performances of the occupation army spokesman." 2) White House spokesperson John Kirby said the United States is confident in an assessment from its own intelligence agencies on Hamas activities in Al Shifa hospital and will neither share nor elaborate on it.

Israel and Hamas. "With winter fast approaching, unsafe and overcrowded shelters, and the lack of clean water, civilians are facing the immediate possibility of starvation," Cindy McCain, executive director of the Rome-based WFP, said in a statement. The WFP has been warning of increasing hunger for weeks in Gaza.

Scotland. While Scots prepare for wintry conditions, the rest of Britain is on alert for heavy rain and potential flooding, marked by yellow weather warnings.

Aquaculture has been the fastest growing food sector in the world for decades, and people now eat more farmed fish than wild fish

Like much of the rest of the world, Singapore is racing to feed a growing population with limited natural resources. But with almost no land for agriculture this small, wealthy, fast-paced and densely-packed nation is doing so by embracing and encouraging new food technologies that may someday help feed us all.

One of the thorniest problems of the 21st century is how to get people to eat less meat

For generations, beef has been the most quintessential of American main courses, and a premium protein around the world

ABB India Ltd’s September quarter earnings were better than expected on several counts. Thanks to a more favourable mix of products and revenues, improved utilization levels and price realization, and better priced older orders, operating margin expanded 580 basis points (bps) year-on-year (y-o-y) to a multi-quarter high of 15.8%, while gross margin was up 190 bps at 36.7%. The company follows a January to December financial year.

Lubna Nazir Shaboo, an Indian national from Jammu & Kashmir living in Gaza, and her daughter Karima, crossed the Rafah border (between Gaza and Egypt) on Monday evening, with the help of Indian diplomatic missions in the region and reached the Egyptian capital the next day, the report said. “I safely crossed over from Gaza at the Rafah border and am now awaiting my return to Kashmir," PTI quoted Shabooas saying from Cairo. The return journey plan was in the works, she added.

Once again, India seems to be in a sweet spot. We have just hosted the G-20, the World Cup is in full swing with India coming in strong with back-to-back victories, China seems to be committing eco-political hara-kiri, and most importantly India’s economy and stock market are scaling new heights.

SINGAPORE — Morgan Stanley Chairman and CEO James Gorman said his firm will be able to cope with «any form» that new banking regulations end up taking, but added he expects some watering down before the final rules are confirmed.

Chhath Puja rituals involving the participation of deities across the Yamuna River, AAP leader Atishi on Thursday said that the ongoing effort to remove the toxic foam from the Yamuna includes the use of food-grade chemicals. She further claimed that the toxic foam will vanish in the next two days.

New York state has sued PepsiCo in an effort to hold the soda-and-snack food giant partly responsible for litter that winds up in bodies of water that supply the city of Buffalo with drinking water

By Clark Mindock and Jonathan Stempel

₹166 crore) this year. Blockbusters like Pathaan, Oppenheimer, and Jawan have contributed to these figures, accompanied by an expanded screen count, despite a few local titles, including Ponniyin Selvan: 2, falling short of expectations. In 2022, the company had earned $18.8 million from the Indian box office.

The European Union’s executive has proposed to the member states a new package of sanctions targeting Russia

David Schwimmer in the popular sitcom 'Friends' has paid tribute to Matthew Perry' after Matt Leblanc, Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston. Taking to Instagram, Schwimmer said «I will never forget your impeccable comic timing and delivery. You could take a straight line of dialogue and bend it to your will, resulting in something so entirely original and unexpectedly funny it still astonishes.» The two actors shared the screen for nearly a decade.

By David Morgan and Katharine Jackson

Loose rocks have been falling into a tunnel that rescuers are trying to create and this is the main challenge facing the operation at the moment, said a top official in Uttarakhand state, where the disaster occurred. The men are trapped in an area of about 50 metres and are safe, officials said, with food, water and oxygen being supplied through a pipe since the collapse early on Sunday, and frequent contact is being made with them through walkie-talkies. «The plan is to drill through the debris, put mild steel pipes in it and make a path for the labourers to move,» Ranjit Sinha, the top disaster management officer in Uttarakhand, told Reuters by phone. «The only challenge is to remove the debris as it is very loose and it keeps coming back.» India's Himalayas are prone to landslides, earthquakes and floods. The tunnel collapse follows incidents of land subsidence that have been blamed on rapid construction in the mountains. A high-powered auger drilling machine is being set up at the site to cut through the debris at 2.5 metres an hour as opposed to one metre by the previous machine that suffered a glitch, Sinha said. An estimated 50 metres remains to be drilled through before the trapped workers are reached, said Anshu Manish Khalkho, an official of the state-run highway management company NHIDCL. CRITICISM There were up to 60 men on the night shift in the 4.5-km (3-mile) tunnel when it caved in before dawn.