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October 9, 2024 11:48 AM

RBI keeps repo rate at 6.5%, shifts stance to neutral for inflation-growth balance

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday kept the policy repo rate steady at 6.5% for the tenth time in a row. Following the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das announced that the decision was supported by five o...

October 8, 2024 3:52 PM

Israel begins ground operations in southwest Lebanon as Iran sends warning

Israel's military said on Tuesday it had begun ground operations in southwest Lebanon, expanding its incursions to a new zone a year after exchanges of fire began with armed group Hezbollah and amid pleas by the U.N. for a diplomatic solution. The r...

October 8, 2024 10:29 AM

Israel-Hezbollah fighting intensifies, Hamas vows to rise again

Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel's third-largest city of Haifa and Hamas vowed to rise again as Israel looked poised to expand its offensive into Lebanon, a year after the devastating Hamas attack that sparked the Gaza war. Israelis held ceremon...

October 7, 2024 5:27 PM

How the world is marking Oct. 7 attack on Israel, start of Gaza war

People around the world were holding vigils, ceremonies and protests to mark the first anniversary of the Hamas-led attack on Israel that triggered the war in Gaza, as fighting raged on in the enclave on Monday. The militants killed some 1,200 peop...

October 7, 2024 10:55 AM

In one year of war, Israel strikes 40,000 Hamas targets in Gaza

In the past year in the Gaza Strip, Israel has bombed more than 40,000 targets, found 4,700 tunnel shafts and destroyed 1,000 rocket launcher sites, the military said on Monday's one-year anniversary of the Hamas-led militant attacks that trigger...

October 7, 2024 12:13 PM

Israel marks Oct. 7 anniversary under shadow of escalating war

Israelis on Monday marked the first anniversary of the devastating Hamas attack that triggered a war which has sparked protest worldwide and risks igniting a far wider conflict in the Middle East. Ceremonies and protests in Jerusalem and Israel's so...

October 6, 2024 11:50 AM

Trump appears before large crowd at site of assassination attempt in Pennsylvania

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday returned to the rural Pennsylvania site where he was nearly assassinated, rallying a large crowd in the critical battleground state one month before the Nov. 5 election. "As I was saying," T...

October 5, 2024 5:43 PM

US officials struggle to quash Hurricane Helene conspiracy theories

In the wake of the devastation of Hurricane Helene in the United States this week, a new storm emerged on social media - false rumors about how disaster funds have been used, and even claims that officials control the weather. Local and national gov...

October 4, 2024 2:29 PM

Israel blocks Lebanon’s main crossing to Syria, targets Hezbollah in Beirut

Israeli strikes sealed off Lebanon's main border crossing with Syria early on Friday, hours after an intense Israeli attack on Beirut's southern suburbs that is thought to have targeted the heir apparent to Hezbollah's slain secretary general. The s...

October 4, 2024 9:44 AM

Centre declares Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese, and Bengali as classical languages

The Union Cabinet on Thursday officially granted classical language status to Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese, and Bengali, recognizing their historical and cultural significance. This decision marks a significant addition to India's classical lang...

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