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Haryana government is giving special incentives to farmers for adopting crop diversification, said an official statement here on Sunday. This will not only enhance their income but will also ensure the protection of the environment.

Voltas has revived its plans to manufacture air-conditioner compressors in the country with a partner from either Japan or Korea after its earlier such joint venture proposal with China's Highly International was rejected by the government, a top executive has said. The Tata-owned home appliance manufacturer has lined up investments of over Rs 1,300 crore for manufacturing, which include components like compressors, expansion of capacity, and manufacturing of newer home appliances, its managing director and CEO Pradeep Bakshi said. «The compressor project is still on, and we are looking at other partnerships,» he said. «The company is on an investment spree on new factories apart from backward integration.» The compressor project will involve investment of over '350 crore.

medical aid and 32 tonnes of disaster relief materials have been sent to Palestine that will reach Gaza via Egypt, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to reiterate India's long-standing position on the Palestinian question. Taking to X, external affairs ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi wrote on Sunday, «An IAF C-17 flight carrying nearly 6.5 tonnes of medical aid and 32 tonnes of disaster relief material for the people of Palestine departs for El-Arish airport in Egypt.» The items will be sent to Palestine via the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza. Bagchi informed that the humanitarian aid includes «essential life-saving medicines, surgical items, tents, sleeping bags, tarpaulins, sanitary utilities, water purification tablets, among other necessary items». India's aid to Palestine comes three days after the PM spoke to Abbas. During their conversation on Thursday, Modi had said that India would keep sending humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians.

WASHINGTON—Big energy producers are sparring over billions of dollars in subsidies from last year’s climate law, a fight that pits the Biden administration’s goals for economic growth against its efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The battle is over subsidies to produce clean hydrogen, a potential alternative to oil and natural gas in industries such as steelmaking and trucking where renewable energy and batteries alone aren’t adequate.

war mushrooming into a wider Middle East conflict rose on Sunday with the U.S. sending more military assets to the region as Israel pummelled Gaza anew and deadly clashes along its border with Lebanon intensified. Gaza's Health Ministry said 266 Palestinians, including 117 children, had been killed by Israeli air strikes in the past 24 hours in the enclave, to which Israel laid «total siege» after a deadly mass infiltration into Israel by Hamas gunmen on Oct. 7. In neighbouring Syria — where Hamas's main regional backer Iran has a military presence — Israeli missiles hit Damascus and Aleppo international airports early on Sunday, putting both out of service and killing two workers, Syrian state media said. Along Israel's northern border with Lebanon, the Iran-backed Hezbollah group has clashed with Israeli forces in support of Hamas in the deadliest escalation of frontier violence since an Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006. Hezbollah said four fighters were killed in heavy exchanges of fire on Sunday and another died of wounds sustained earlier, raising to 24 the number of its members killed since Oct. 7.

Strip through the Rafah border crossing, on the second day of its opening, Times of Israel reported on Sunday. The convoy comes a day after 20 trucks carried medical aid, food and water into the Palestinian enclave. Notably, it was the second aid shipment into the Strip since the horrific Hamas attack on Israel on October 7. The aid entered the Strip ahead of Israel's looming ground offensive and as the IDF continued to carry out airstrikes on terror targets. The Rafah border crossing was opened for a short window on Saturday morning to let 20 aid trucks enter Gaza from Egypt. Though many have welcomed the brief reopening, rights groups have asserted that much more aid is needed. The United Nations has estimated about 100 trucks per day are needed to meet the needs of Gazans. The trucks carrying humanitarian aid to deliver to Gaza only carried food, water, and medical supplies but no fuel, CNN reported. Thirteen trucks were carrying medicine and medical supplies; five were loaded with food; and two were transporting water, said the Egyptian authorities at the Rafah crossing. Meanwhile, the number of confirmed hostages abducted and held in Gaza since the shock assault rose to 212. Earlier in the day, the Israel Defense Forces said that it carried out an airstrike against a Hezbollah position in southern Lebanon in response to anti-tank guided missile attacks on northern Israel earlier today, Times of Israel reported. Meanwhile, IDF spokesman Rear Adm.

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Joe Biden told a crowd of Democratic donors over the weekend about a decades-old photo he took with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an aside that seemed intended to illustrate his long support of Israel and track record of speaking bluntly with the conservative Israeli leader. Biden said he'd written on the photo of himself as a young senator and Netanyahu as an embassy hand, «Bibi, I love you.

Storm Babet, which has already claimed six lives, continues to unleash its fury across the nation. The Environment Agency (EA) has sounded the alarm, cautioning that flooding from major rivers may persist until Tuesday, as the storm poses a «risk to life» in some areas.

BEIJING/MANILA (Reuters) -China and the Philippines traded accusations over a collision in disputed waters of the South China Sea as Chinese vessels blocked Philippine boats supplying forces there on Sunday in the latest of a series of maritime confrontations.

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glacial lakes in the country through ground surveys and establish a monitoring system to disseminate information about potential glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), according to government sources. This decision follows the devastating floods caused by the Lhonak lake outburst in Sikkim due to heavy rains earlier this month. It resulted in at least 60 fatalities and extensive damage in Mangan, Gangtok, Pakyong, and Namchi districts.

Nucleus Software Exports stood as the top gainer during the week, with a gain of over 29%. The stock picked up steam on October 05 after the company said that Mahindra Rural Housing Finance, a subsidiary of Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Limited, implemented its software FinnOne Neo for their retail and mortgage lending operation. After this announcement, the stock experienced a one-way rally, hitting a new all-time high of ₹1,521 apiece in Friday's session and rallying 50% to date.

China and the Philippines traded accusations over a collision in disputed waters of the South China Sea as Chinese vessels blocked a Philippine boat supplying forces there on Sunday, the latest in a series of maritime confrontations. The two countries have had numerous run-ins in areas of the South China Sea in recent months, especially the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, part of the Spratly Islands. The Philippines has been sending supplies to troops stationed on a rusted World War Two-era transport ship used as an outpost on the shoal, prompting China's coast guard to repeatedly deploy vessels to block the resupply missions. In the incident on Sunday morning, China's coast guard said there had been a «slight collision» between one of its ships and the Philippine boat while the coast guard was «lawfully» blocking the boat from transporting «illegal construction materials» to the warship.

Gaza overnight and into Sunday, as well as two airports in Syria and a mosque in the occupied West Bank allegedly used by militants, as the two-week-old war with Hamas threatened to spiral into a broader conflict. Israel has traded fire with Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group on a near-daily basis since the war began, and tensions are soaring in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where Israeli forces have battled militants in refugee camps and carried out two airstrikes in recent days.

Sikkim, troops of the Indian Army, along with BRO (Border Road Organisation) and the assistance of civil administration and locals, are undertaking operations on a massive scale to reconnect North Sikkim. According to a press release from Defence, while BRO is trying to reconnect the main route Mangan-Tung-Chungthang, the Indian Army along with BRO and the assistance of locals and civil administration, is making efforts to open up the alternate route Mangan-Sanklang-Theng — Chungthang. This requires construction of two bailey bridges over the Teesta River at Mangan-Sanklang Crossing.

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Gaza Strip, with hospitals on the verge of collapsing. The Israeli embargo has put a burden on hospital facilities by cutting off vital supplies, power, and clean water. Doctors, nurses, and patients find themselves in a harrowing situation, grappling with scarce resources, ingenuity put to the test, and the overwhelming number of casualties. When Israeli bombings escalated following the border incursion by Hamas militants on October 7, the toll on civilians has been devastating.

IAF C-17 flight carrying nearly 6.5 tonnes of medical aid and 32 tonnes of disaster relief material for the people of Palestine departed for El-Arish airport in Egypt on Sunday from Ghaziabad's Hindon Air Base. The material includes essential life-saving medicines, surgical items, tents, sleeping bags, tarpaulins, sanitary utilities, water purification tablets among other necessary items. Ministry of External Affairs' Arindam Bagchi posted pictures of the IAF flight carrying the goods and informed about the mission on X.

Hyacinthus is one example, but there is also Cyparissus (cypress), Adonis (anemones), Mecon (poppy)and Crocus (saffron). The most obscure is Anethus, whose story isn’t even known, except that he became dill. Its scientific name is Anethum, from the myth. There is something dark about dill.