Day: October 2, 2024

Controversial Islamic Preacher Zakir Naik Meets Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif

Islamabad: Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik Wednesday called on Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who praised his lectures and said they are "insightful and impactful". Naik, wanted in India for alleged money laundering and inciting extremism through hate speeches, left the country in 2016. He was granted permanent residency in Malaysia by the previous government led by Mahathir Mohamed. In a post on X, Naik wrote that he interacted with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. He also posted a picture of himself with Sharif. "Islam is a religion of peace, and you are doing an important duty by spreading the true message of Islam among people," Sharif told Naik. He said Naik's lectures are "highly insightful and impactful", and he has a significant following among young audiences, sta...

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India Deeply Concerned Over Escalating Tensions In West Asia, Calls For Dialogue, Diplomacy

New Delhi: India on Wednesday expressed deep concern over the escalation of the security situation in West Asia and said the conflict must not take a wider regional dimension even as it advised its nationals to avoid all non-essential travel to Iran. India's comments came a day after Iran fired around 200 missiles into Israel in response to Israel's killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and other commanders of the militant outfit. Following the Iranian action, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran will "pay" for it. In its reaction to the fresh hostilities in West Asia, New Delhi reiterated its call for addressing all issues through "dialogue and diplomacy". "We are deeply concerned at the escalation of the security situation in West Asia and reiterate our call for rest...

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60 Indian Nationals Rescued From Cambodia Scam Operations To Be Repatriated: Indian Embassy

Singapore: About 60 Indian nationals rescued from scam operations in Cambodia will be repatriated, the Indian Embassy in Phnom Penh said on Wednesday. "The Embassy of India in Phnom Penh is in touch with several Indian nationals who have reached out to us, and have been subsequently evacuated by Cambodian authorities from a place called Jinbei-4 on May 20," the embassy said in a statement on X. "The matter has been taken up with the Cambodian authorities at the highest level for immediate repatriation of these Indian nationals. Cambodian authorities have informed us that around 60 Indian nationals have been sent from SHV to Phnom Penh today so they can be sent back to India with the Embassy's assistance for travel documents," it said. #Press Release@indembcam, in collaboration with @...

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Video | Israel Iran War News: ईरान-इजरायल संघर्ष से चढ़ा पूरी दुनिया का पारा, क्या मोड़ लेगा ये युध्द?

पश्चिम एशिया में पिछले साल सात अक्टूबर को शुरू हुए इज़रायल हमास युद्ध की चिंगारियों की लपट में कुछ और देशों के आने की जो आशंका थी वो सही साबित हुई है. इस लड़ाई में ईरान समर्थित संगठन हिज़्बुल्लाह शामिल हुआ तो इज़रायल ने लेबनान में ताबड़तोड़ हमले कर उसकी टॉप लीडरशिप का ख़ात्मा कर दिया. ऐसे ही एक हमले में हिज़्बुल्लाह चीफ़ हसन नसरल्लाह की मौत हुई तो ईरान को खुलकर सामने आना पड़ा और मंगलवार को उसने इज़रायल पर क़रीब 200 मिसाइलों से हमला कर दिया. उसके बाद से लगातार ये डर बना हुआ है कि इज़रायल क्या करने जा रहा है. Source link...

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Video | Iran Israel War: भारत में इज़रायल के Ambassador Reuven Azar ने कहा ईरान को उसके किये की सज़ा मिलेगी

इज़रायल के राजदूत रेवन अज़ार से ईरान और इज़रायल के मौजूदा तनाव पर ख़ास बात की हमारे सहयोगियों उमाशंकर सिंह और कादंबिनी शर्मा नेSource link

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Video | Israel Iran War News: दुनिया के वो flash point जहां ज़रा सी चूक से हो सकता है तीसरा विश्व युध्द

Israel Iran War: पश्चिम एशिया में पिछले साल सात अक्टूबर को शुरू हुए इज़रायल हमास युद्ध की चिंगारियों की लपट में कुछ और देशों के आने की जो आशंका थी वो सही साबित हुई है. इस लड़ाई में ईरान समर्थित संगठन हिज़्बुल्लाह शामिल हुआ तो इज़रायल ने लेबनान में ताबड़तोड़ हमले कर उसकी टॉप लीडरशिप का ख़ात्मा कर दिया. ऐसे ही एक हमले में हिज़्बुल्लाह चीफ़ हसन नसरल्लाह की मौत हुई तो ईरान को खुलकर सामने आना पड़ा और मंगलवार को उसने इज़रायल पर क़रीब 200 मिसाइलों से हमला कर दिया.Source link...

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BJP leadership meets Sikh delegation to strategize for 2025 Delhi assembly elections: Sources

New Delhi [India], October 2 (ANI): A delegation of Sikh community leaders met with BJP President Jagat Prakash Nadda and other key party leaders at his residence on Wednesday to discuss various issues, including the challenges faced by the Sikh community and how to address them.According to a source, the meeting was held in preparation for the 2025 Delhi Assembly elections. Show Full Article The meeting lasted about one and a half hours and included several key leaders, such as National General Secretary Sunil Bansal, State General Secretary Pawan Rana, State President Virendra Sachdeva, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, BJP leaders Iqbal Singh Lalpura, RP Singh, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, and others. Speaking to ANI, a source said, the meeting focused on stra...

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Entertainment

Govinda is expected to be discharged tomorrow evening; manager says doctor advised no pressure on injured leg for six weeks – Exclusive | Hindi Movie News – Times of India

Govinda, who is currently recovering in the hospital after accidentally shooting himself in the foot with his revolver, is likely to be discharged tomorrow evening. His manager Shashi Sinha confirmed to ETimes saying, “He is likely to be discharged tomorrow,” adding, “He is first class and doing very well.” However, Sinha stressed that Govinda needs to be cautious, as doctors have advised him not to put pressure on the injured leg for at least six weeks."He has to be careful and doctor has asked not to put pressure on the injured leg for at least six weeks. There is nothing to worry. With physiotherapy, the dancing star will be back in action," he informed. The injury happened when Govinda accidentally shot himself while cleaning his closet early Tuesday morning. He reportedly misfired his...

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Himachal Girl Complains Of Reckless Driving By Tourists: ‘They Think It’s Their GT Road’

While the tourism in the Himalayan states is on a rise in the recent years, the surging footfall of travellers and their reckless behaviour have raised eyebrows among the local residents. There have been several incidents in the past where the reckless driving on dangerous terrain, risking the lives of other people, have received criticism. However, the reckless behaviour of tourists, especially those coming from metro cities and neighbouring the Himalayan states have apalled the locals. A video has emerged where a young girl from Himachal narrates how the visitors from Delhi, Punjab and Haryana are very annoying and engage in rash driving while playing loud music in the 'noisy' bikes. The video, which has gone viral on social media platform X, the girl, who is currently living in ...

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Video | Israel Iran War: NDTV के War Monitoring Room से समझिए ईरान की वो मिसाइलें जो इज़रायल पर गिरीं

ईरान ने मंगलवार को रात में इजरायल पर हमले में किस तरह के हथियारों का इस्तेमाल किया? ईरान के शस्त्रागार (Arsenal) में बैलिस्टिक मियाइल, क्रूज मिसाइल और ड्रोन हैं, जिनका इस्तेमाल उसने हाल ही में इजरायल को निशाना बनाने के लिए किया. ऐसा माना जाता है कि मंगलवार को रात में ईरान ने करीब 200 बैलिस्टिक मिसाइलें दागी थीं. Source link...

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Video | Iran Strikes Israel: All-Out War Clouds Over West Asia?

The world is well and truly on edge as Israel gets set to respond to Iran's massive ballistic missile strikes late last night on Tel Aviv. Those strikes with 180 plus missiles while broadly unsuccessful, put the onus on Tel Aviv to act and they say that they will. On Left Right & Centre, a deep dive into the missile attacks last night by Iran and how Israel defended itself with experts.Source link

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‘F you CBS – how DARE YOU!’: Trump and allies slam moderators for fact-checking and cutting mics during Vance-Walz debate – Times of India

CBS moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan faced a pivotal decision ahead of Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate: whether to fact-check the candidates in real time or adopt a hands-off approach. Ultimately, they opted for a middle ground, allowing candidates to challenge each other while occasionally intervening with factual corrections, according to CNN News.At the outset of the debate, O'Donnell and Brennan stated their role was to provide opportunities for candidates to fact-check each other's claims.However, they sometimes stepped in to share facts that didn’t directly relate to what the candidates were saying. This approach culminated in the moderators cutting off the microphones of Republican Senator JD Vance and Democratic Governor Tim Walz during a heated exchange about Hai...

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‘Fire In Middle East Becoming An Inferno’: Guterres As Israel Refuses Temporary Ceasefire

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah militants, as Israel launched a “limited” ground incursion into Southern Lebanon. The Secretary-General, during an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, said that the raging fire in the Middle East is becoming an inferno. The meeting comes after France and Israel called an emergency mett following Iran's decision to launch close to 200 ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday and the Israeli forces launching "limited" incursions into southern Lebanon. ALSO READ | 'We Were In Bomb Shelter, Getting News On TV': Former Israeli Envoy Narrates Iranian Missile Attack In Tel Aviv He said that since the last week, things have "gone from bad, t...

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Residents in Kasavanahalli and Sarjapur Road areas spend over 7 hours without electricity

Residents in Kasavanahalli and Sarjapur Road areas spend over 7 hours without electricity. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The residents in Kasavanahalli and Sarjapur Road areas woke up to a power outage and spent about seven hours without electricity on Wednesday, October 2. Thanks to the faulty work of a telecom company which is laying Optical Fibre Cable (OFC). A telecom company that carried out overnight work damaged the underground high-tension cable of the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (Bescom). The company workers dug the ground to lay the OFC and during the course of this work, a HT cable was cut resulting in power outage. Vishnu Prasad, a resident talking to The Hindu said the power went off at around 4 a.m. and resumed at around 11 a.m. “The residents in the ar...

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Top 10 Horror Films Of 2024, According To Letterboxd. Mammootty’s Bramayugam Ranks Second

1. The Substance: The film starring Margaret Qualley, Demi Moore and Dennis Quaid is directed by Coralie Fargeat.2. Bramayugam: Directed by Rahul Sadasivan, this period folk horror film features Mammootty in the lead role.3. Chime: Written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the Japanese film stars Mutsuo Yoshioka, Seiichi Kohinata, Hana Amano.4. Dead Talents Society: Starring Bo-lin Chen, Sandrine Pinna, Gingle Wang, this Chinese film is directed by John Hsu.5. Your Monster: Written and directed by Caroline Lindy, the film stars Meghann Fahy, Melissa Barrera and Tommy Dewey.6. Alien: Romulus: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux starrer is directed by Fede Alvarez.7. The Girl with the Needle: Directed by Magnus von Horn, the film stars Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri.8....

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Vinesh Phogat says refused to take Modi’s call in Paris. ‘They wanted to record it for social media’

Gurugram: Ahead of the Haryana assembly elections, Congress candidate from Julana constituency and former wrestler Vinesh Phogat claimed that after being disqualified from the 2024 Paris Olympics for being overweight by 100 grams, she refused to take a call from Prime Minister Narendra Modi because of certain conditions set by Indian officials. In an interview to news outlet The Lallantop, Phogat claimed that the officials wanted to post her conversation with the Prime Minister in the form of a video on social media and hence, she refused to take the call. Supriya Shrinate, chairperson of Congress’s social media and digital platforms, posted the interview Wednesday on X with the caption: “Vinesh Phogat’s honour has grown a little more today. She refused to talk to Narendra Modi over the ph...

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‘We Were In Bomb Shelter, Getting News On TV’: Ex-Israeli Envoy Narrates Iranian Missile Attack

Iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel in an unprecedented strike in revenge for the recent killings of the Hezbollah and Hamas leaders. Daniel Carmon, Former Israeli Ambassador to India, who was in Tel Aviv during the bombing said that he was in a bomb shelter and getting the news on TV. Iran launched over 200 ballistic missiles towards Israel on Tuesday night. The Israeli military said most of the missiles were intercepted, but a small number struck central and southern part of the country. The only person reported to have been killed was a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank. ALSO READ | Pager Attack To Iran Firing Ballistic Missiles: A 14-Day Timeline Of Israel-Hezbollah Conflict Narrating the events that unfolded on Tuesday night, the former envoy told ANI, "For...

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Mohammed Shami rehab on track, likely to return for New Zealand Tests | Cricket News – Times of India

Mohammed Shami. (Pic Credit - X) Shami has been away from action since the World Cup final last year but is likely to return to action in the home Tests vs New ZealandNEW DELHI: Mohammed Shami has been sweating it out at the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) newly inaugurated Centre of Excellence (CoE) and the seamer is likely to return to action very soon. There were efforts to have him match ready for the Bangladesh series, which India won 2-0, but once that wasn’t possible, all stakeholders have set New Zealand series as a target.“Shami’s rehab is very much on track. New Zealand Tests are being kept as a realistic target. He is under watchful eyes of BCCI specialists and making very good progress,” said a senior BCCI official aware of developments.The crafty seamer is still...

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Israeli airstrike targets residential building in Syria’s capital Damascus, two killed – Times of India

Israel conducted an attack on a residential building located in the Mezzah suburb, situated in the western part of Syria's capital Damascus. The strike, targeted at a residential building, resulted in two casualties and several injuries, according war monitor reports.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in Britain, said in a statement, "An Israeli air strike targeted a residential building in the Mazzeh neighbourhood frequented by Hezbollah leaders and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards." The identities of the two casualties have not been disclosed yet.The attack, which occurred in the Mazzeh neighbourhood, marked the second strike in the area within two days. Mazzeh is known for housing various security headquarters and embassies.Israel has intensified its military operations targ...

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Science

Nasa switches off instrument on Voyager 2 spacecraft to save power – Times of India

This photo provided by NASA shows the "Sounds of Earth" record being mounted on the Voyager 2 spacecraft in the Safe-1 Building at the Kennedy Space Center (Pic credit: AP) To save power, Nasa has switched off another scientific instrument on its long-running Voyager 2 spacecraft. The space agency said Tuesday that Voyager 2's plasma science instrument - designed to measure the flow of charged atoms - was powered down in late September so the spacecraft can keep exploring for as long as possible, expected into the 2030s. Nasa turned off a suite of instruments on Voyager 2 and its twin Voyager 1 after they explored the gas giant planets in the 1980s. Both are currently in interstellar space, or the space between stars. The plasma instrument on Voyager 1 stopped working long ago and was fi...

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Solar eclipse to create rare ‘ring of fire’ over South America – Times of India

Representative AI image (Pic credit: Lexica) An annular solar eclipse will create a rare "ring of fire" phenomenon visible in parts of South America on Wednesday.A "ring of fire" occurs when the Moon lines up between the Sun and the Earth to create a solar eclipse, but does not block out the Sun's light entirely, Diego Hernandez with the Buenos Aires Planetarium told AFP.On Wednesday, the Moon "will be a little farther from the Earth than usual, which happens about once a month," he said, meaning it will not be able to completely cover the Sun.A "crescent sun" will be visible before and after the ring, as the Moon passes in front of the Sun, he added.The solar eclipse's path will begin in the North Pacific, pass over the Andes and Patagonia regions of Latin America, and finish in the Atlan...

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Sports

Betrayal at Lord’s: When world cricket was rocked by spot-fixing scandal in 2010 | Cricket News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The 2010 Pakistan spot-fixing scandal was one of the most infamous episodes in cricket history, deeply shaking the sport's integrity. It occurred during Pakistan’s tour of England, specifically during the fourth Test match at Lord's. The scandal revolved around allegations that several Pakistani players conspired to deliberately bowl no-balls at specific moments in exchange for money. These no-balls were not accidental mistakes but were part of a pre-arranged betting fix orchestrated by a bookmaker.The key players involved were Pakistan’s then-captain Salman Butt, fast bowler Mohammad Asif, and the young prodigious pacer Mohammad Amir. The players were exposed in an undercover sting operation by the News of the World, a British tabloid. The tabloid's investigative reporters had ...

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‘Every day is a learning day’: India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur ahead of Women’s T20 World Cup | Cricket News – Times of India

Harmanpreet Kaur (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India women’s cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur on Wednesday shared valuable insights into the mindset of her team as they prepare for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 during the Captains’ Day event at the Dubai International Stadium. Emphasizing the importance of continuous learning in the game, Kaur remarked, “I think that is something we keep learning every day.When you win, you might feel that you’ve achieved something significant. However, the next day could present new challenges and small mistakes. That’s part of the game.”She also underscored the team's commitment to growth and improvement, acknowledging that learning is a never-ending process. “And I think learning is something which is never going to stop, every day is a learning day....

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Himanshi Khurana To Abhinav Shukla: Bigg Boss Contestants Who Felt Paranormal Activities In The

'Bigg Boss 18' is all set to premiere on October 6 with Salman Khan as its host. Contestants who are likely to be a part of the show this season are Shoaib Ibrahim, Nia Sharma, and Padmini Kolhapure. While every season there are different contestants, formats and tasks, except for Salman Khan, there is one more thing that has been common across all seasons – ghost stories. Many contestants have experienced paranormal activities in the house. Recently 'Bigg Boss 15' contestant Rajiv Adatia, in a podcast with 'Bigg Boss 13' contestant Paras Chhabra, shared his encounter with “ghosts” in the house. Paras, in turn, also revealed that Himanshi Khurana too had a paranormal experience in the house. Here are all the Bigg Boss contestants who felt that there was a ghost in the Bigg Boss house: R...

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