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Iran’s supreme leader vowed in a rare address on Friday that his allies around the region would keep fighting Israel, as he defended his country’s missile strike on its arch-foe. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s address in Tehran was the first since Iran launched its second-ever attack on Israel, and also the first since exchanges of fire pitting Hezbollah fighters against Israeli troops escalated into full-blown war in Lebanon. Nearly a year after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched the deadliest attack on Israel in its history on October 7, Israel announced it was shifting its focus to securing its border with Lebanon. Israel says its objective is to allow 60,000 Israelis displaced by a year of… Read More »Our Allies In The Region Would Keep Fighting Israel: Iran’s Supreme Leader

India on Friday announced that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will travel to Pakistan to attend a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in mid-October. The announcement was made by external affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal. The last Indian external affairs minister to visit Pakistan was Sushma Swaraj. She had travelled to Islamabad in December 2015 to attend a conference on Afghanistan. Pakistan is hosting the SCO Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting on October 15 and 16. “The external affairs minister will lead our delegation to Pakistan to participate in the SCO summit which will be held in Islamabad on October 15 and 16,” Mr Jaiswal said at his weekly media briefing.… Read More »S Jaishankar To Travel To Pak, Last Foreign Minister Visit Was In 2015

Haryana will vote on October 5 for its 90 assembly seats, with results to be declared on October 8. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)  aims to create a record by winning a third consecutive term, while the Congress seeks to make a comeback, leveraging a decade of anti-incumbency sentiments and protests from farmers, wrestlers, and youth regarding the Agniveer scheme. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress-Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) alliance led in 46 assembly segments, and the Congress, though fighting alone this time, hopes to replicate that success in the assembly polls, buoyed by support from the influential Jat community. The Candidate Pool A total of 1,031 candidates are contesting: 89 are from… Read More »Opinion: Opinion | Haryana Polls: BJP Aims For Record, Congress Seeks Comeback

A dating profile of a man claiming to be an executioner in Saudi Arabia is going viral online, sparking shock and amusement among users. Taking to X, user Mindy shared a screenshot of the dating profile of the man who currently resides in New York City. In his profile, the man introduced himself as an entrepreneur and as an “executioner in Saudi Arabia”. He noted that this role may be unsettling to some, however, he insisted that it is now more of a “hobby” than a profession, as he no longer resides in Saudi Arabia.  “Hello everybody, hoping to meet interesting women,” the man wrote in his “About Me” section. “I’m an entrepreneur and also… Read More »US-Based Man Lists “Executioner In Saudi Arabia” As Hobby On Dating App, Internet Reacts

In a concerning development, the Karnataka Food Safety and Quality Department has issued a warning that cancer-causing ingredients may be present in cakes sold by some bakeries in the state. The revelation comes just two months after the food safety department had raised similar concerns over the presence of the ingredients, known as carcinogens, in some street food samples in the state, including those of kebabs, manchurian and pani puri.   The department said it had analysed 235 cake samples in August of which 223 were found safe but 12 contained dangerous levels of artificial colouring. It pointed out that artificial colours used in cakes, such as Allura Red, Sunset Yellow FCF, Ponceau 4R (strawberry… Read More »Cancer-Causing Ingredients Found In Some Cakes, Karnataka Issues Warning