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Iran dismisses ‘misleading’ E3 statement on its missile program

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Iran’s IRGC unveiled the homegrown Fattah-2 hypersonic missile on November 19, 2023.

Iran has dismissed a “misleading, politically-motivated” statement issued by Britain, France, and Germany regarding the unveiling of Fattah-2 missile.

In a statement on Friday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kan’ani said claims by the European trio, also known as the E3, about the Iranian missile lack legal basis.

He said all UN Security Council restrictions on Iran’s missile program have been terminated as of October 18 under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Therefore, the E3 claims against Iran’s missile program are unacceptable and illegal, Kan’ani said.

In their statement on Thursday, the E3 condemned the unveiling of a new ballistic missile variant by Iran on November 19 and said Iran continues to develop its missile program despite repeated international calls to halt it.

The three European parties to the JCPOA also accused Iran of playing a “destabilizing” role in the region and the world and announced that they would take “every diplomatic step to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.”

Kan’ani said the development of Iran’s convenient missile capability pursues a deterrent goal in accordance with the country’s defense needs.

Baseless allegations, the Iranian diplomat said, would in no way influence Iran’s legitimate defense activities. Kana’ani advised the E3 to avoid leveling such allegations that would harm interaction between Tehran and Europe.

Iranian military experts and engineers have in recent years made remarkable breakthroughs in manufacturing a broad range of indigenous equipment, making the armed forces self-sufficient. Iranian officials have repeatedly underscored that the country will not hesitate to strengthen its military capabilities, including its missile power, which are entirely meant for defense.

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Follow the India vs Australia, 2023 live cricket score on Sports.NDTV.com. After 20.0 overs, Australia, chasing a target of 175, are 154/7. Get live score, ball by ball commentary and much more. Keep track of India vs Australia, 2023 today match between India and Australia. Everything related to India and Australia match will be available on Sports.NDTV.com. Stay updated with India vs Australia live score. Do check for India vs Australia scorecard. You can get scorecard updates, match related facts. Get quick live updates with ads, Sports.NDTV.com, which is the perfect destination for live cricket score.

19.3 overs (2 Runs) Almost a yorker at the stumps. Wade digs it towards extra cover and to the deep. Shreyas Iyer takes time to pluck the ball and the duo runs for a couple.

19.2 overs (0 Run) No run. Another dot ball and this should be it for India. Unless any extras. Full and around the off. The batter mistimes the slog towards long off and does not run.

19.1 overs (0 Run) No run. Low full-toss at the middle stump. Wade smacks across and mistimes it to deep mid-wicket. Wade avoids to cross over.

18.6 overs (1 Run) Was a chance of a run out but Wade survives. Full and outside the off. Wade dinks it towards mid off and hastens for a quick single. Direct hit would’ve been curtains!

18.5 overs (2 Runs) Fuller at the stumps. Wade miscues the slog towards mid on region and hurry for a couple by the time the deep fielder steams in.

18.4 overs (0 Run) No run. A yorker outside the off stump. Sliced it towards cover-point.

18.3 overs (1 Run) Full-toss around the fourth stump. Green miscues it towards long off for a single.

18.2 overs (1 Run) Slower, fuller outside the off. Wade toe-ends it towards long off for a single.

18.1 overs (4 Runs) FOUR!!! Full and near the fourth stump line. Wade leans forward and slashes it through the extra cover region for a four.

17.6 overs (0 Run) Full and wide outside the off. Green ends up steering it to backward point.

17.5 overs (1 Run) Full and outside the leg stick line. Wade walked down the pitch a bit and managed to flick it towards deep backward square leg for a single.

17.4 overs (1 Run) Fuller at the off peg. Green drives it with the line to long off for a single.

Chris Green is the new man in.

17.3 overs (0 Run) OUT! Knocked him over!! Fuller than a length, right on the money and the off-stump goes cartwheeling. Dwarshuis made quick room to launch an inside-out but ended up being nowehere around the line of the ball. Ben Dwarshuis walks out off the park in disappointment.

17.2 overs (1 Run) Almost a yorker outside the off. Wade drills it towards fine of long off for a single.

17.1 overs (4 Runs) FOUR! Short outside the off-stump line. Wade middles the pull towards deep mid wicket region for a boundary. Width on offer and Wade takes it gleefully.

16.6 overs (1 Run) Full at the off stump. Wade drives it to long off for a single.

16.5 overs (1 Run) Short and outside the off. Dwarshuis looks to drive and gets the thickish inside edge towards fine leg for a single.

Ben Dwarshuis is the new batter in.

16.4 overs (0 Run) OUT! Short and slow from the bowler. Asks Short to hit him and the batter ends up executing it flat an into the hands of Yashasvi Jaiswal at deep mid-wicket. A big wicket for India and it’s Short who has to trudge off the field.

16.3 overs (1 Run) Short of a length at the stumps. Wade pushes and gets the inside half to fine of mid on for a single.

16.2 overs (1 Run) Good length at the leg stump and the batter scythes it to extra cover for a single.

16.1 overs (2 Runs) 2 runs Short of a length over the off stump. Short pulls and gets the top edge behind the keeper. The ball just lands at the safe area behind short third man and the pair scampers a couple.

15.6 overs (2 Runs) Full at the middle and leg stump. Wade flicks it towards deep square leg for a couple of runs.

15.5 overs (1 Run) Pitched up around the off stump. Short drives it towards long on for a single.

15.4 overs (1 Run) Fuller around the middle and leg stump. Wade clips it towards deep square leg for a single.

15.3 overs (0 Run) No run. A good smearing-in yorker at the toe and Wade fails to flick it. Gets a thud at the pad. Terrific delivery on a free-hit.

15.3 overs (7 Runs) SIX! Full at the middle and leg stump line. Wade shuffles across the line and scoops it over the fine leg region for a maximum..The bowler has overstepped on the landing area and therefore it is a no-ball.

15.2 overs (1 Run) Fulelr at the stumps. Short pushes it towards long off for a single.

15.2 overs (1 Run) Wide! Full and outside the off, past the tramline on the off stump.

15.1 overs (1 Run) back of a length delivery around the fourth stump line. Punches it towards left of mid on for a single.

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Teenager drowns while taking dip in irrigation tank in Mancherial

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A teenager drowned in a tank while he was bathing at Andugulapet village in Mandamarri mandal on Friday.

Published Date – 06:31 PM, Fri – 1 December 23


Teenager drowns while taking dip in irrigation tank in Mancherial


Mancherial: A teenager drowned in a tank while he was bathing at Andugulapet village in Mandamarri mandal on Friday.

Mandamarri Sub-Inspector P Chandrakumar said that Navanandula Praneeth, a school drop-out from Andugulapet was not a swimmer but ventured into water to take a bath.

His friends Akshay and Mahesh tried to rescue Praneeth, but he drowned. The two initially did not disclose his death fearing consequences, but told his parents when quizzed.

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Shrine Of Imam Reza In Iran's Mashhad, Once Visited By Guru Nanak

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Shrine Of Imam Reza In Iran's Mashhad, Once Visited By Guru Nanak

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The Shrine of Imam Reza in Iran’s Mashhad is one of the largest mosque complexes in the world – spoken of in the same breath as those in Mecca and Medina – and reportedly counted Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, as one among the millions who have visited it over the years.

It feeds over 10,000 devotees daily, hosts weddings, and its 2.5 lakh sq km contains a fully-equipped hospital, a library and a museum, as well as the mausoleum of Imam Reza, the eighth Imam, who is from the lineage of Hazrat Ali and Fatima Zahra – the daughter of the Prophet Mohammed

Around three crore people from all around the world, including India, visit his grave every year. According to Hussain Yazdinizad, a shrine committee member, this includes people from other faiths. “There are arrangements for those who do not know Persian… for them we have kept translators who speak different languages and can tell them about the mosque,” he said.

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An organisation called Astan-e-Quds Razavi manages the shrine; the committee is the oldest such Iran and counts around 20,000 volunteers from businessmen to college professors, who do everything from welcoming visitors and pick up their shoes to serve them tea.

The shrine also boasts a copy of the Dome of the Rock, made in memory of the Al Aqsa Mosque, which is in Jerusalem. Here, the people of Iran stand with those of Palestine – a significant fact given the current geopolitical tension in the Middle East.

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According to Shia history, there were 12 Imams after the Prophet. The first was Hazrat Ali and the eighth was Ali Reza. The 12th and final was Hazrat Mehdi, who tradition says is still alive and will come into the world just before the apocalypse.

The graves of 10 of the Imams are either in Iraq or Saudi Arabia; that of Ali Reza is the only one in Iran. The shrine of his sister, Fatima Masooma-e-Qum, is also in Iran, in Qum.

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Man stabbed in Balanagar

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The man was immediately shifted to hospital, where his condition was stated to be stable

Published Date – 10:32 PM, Fri – 1 December 23


Man stabbed in Balanagar

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Hyderabad: A man, who was returning after casting his vote, was stabbed by a youth at Narsapur ‘x’ road in Balanagar on Thursday evening.

Police said the victim Venkatram Reddy, was allegedly attacked by Arjun, who bore a grudge for intervening in his personal matter. Venkatram Reddy was immediately shifted to hospital, where his condition was stated to be stable.

Balanagar police are investigating.

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UN deplores ‘catastrophic’ resumption of Israel’s war on Gaza

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The United Nations has deplored the “catastrophic” resumption of Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The UN humanitarian office in Geneva said on Friday the resumption of Israeli attacks on the defenseless Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip meant “hell on Earth has returned to Gaza.”

Israeli warplanes restarted nonstop airstrikes on Gaza as an extended week-long ceasefire between the regime and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas expired on Friday.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday he regretted that military operations had resumed in Gaza after the collapse of the truce.

“I deeply regret that military operations have started again in Gaza,” Guterres wrote on the X social media platform.

Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the “resumption of hostilities in Gaza is catastrophic.”

“I urge all parties and states with influence over them to redouble efforts, immediately, to ensure a ceasefire – on humanitarian and human rights grounds.”

Jens Laerke, the spokesperson for the United Nations humanitarian office in Geneva, said the truce had seen significantly larger humanitarian convoys entering Gaza, even reaching north of Wadi Gaza, which prior to the pause had received almost no supplies. “With the resumption of war, we fear that the continuation of this (aid) is now in doubt.”

“The Rafah crossing is closed as of now. We need a resumption of a humanitarian pause, not a return to war.”

Appealing for a lasting ceasefire, UNICEF has said inaction on Gaza amounts to “an approval of the killing of children.”

“A lasting ceasefire must be implemented,” James Elder, spokesperson for UNICEF, told reporters via video link from Gaza.

“Inaction at its core is an approval of the killing of children…. It is reckless to think more attacks on the people of Gaza will lead to anything other than carnage.”

 

The World Health Organization has also sounded the alarm, warning about the grave situation of medical and relief operation in the Palestinian territory.

“We are extremely concerned about the resumption of violence,” the WHO representative in the Palestinian territories Richard Peeperkorn told reporters in Geneva via video-link from Gaza.

As the Israelis have resumed airstrikes, hospitals are expected to be witnessing the most horrific scenes as Palestinian casualties turn up at relatively small hospitals “in their tens if not hundreds,” the senior WHO emergency officer Rob Holden told reporters in Geneva via video-link from Gaza.

Holden said Gaza’s “healthcare service is on its knees.”

Since October 7, Israel killed more than 15,000 people, mostly women and children, in Gaza.

 

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Telangana Cabinet Meet To Be Held Day After Assembly Poll Counting

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Telangana Cabinet Meet To Be Held Day After Assembly Poll Counting

Election for the 119-seat assembly in Telangana was held on November 30. (File)

The Telangana cabinet meeting is scheduled to be held on December 4, a day after the votes of the assembly elections are counted.

Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will chair the meeting at 2 pm, an official release from KCR’s office said without disclosing the agenda.

Election for the 119-seat assembly was held on November 30.

KCR contested from two segments-Gajwel and Kamareddy.

In a post on X, BRS working president K T Rama Rao said, “After a long time had a peaceful sleep. Exit polls can take a hike. Exact polls will give us good news.” Dismissing some exit-poll surveys that suggested that the ruling BRS will fall short of a majority in the Assembly polls, Rama Rao had said the Chandrasekhar Rao-led dispensation will return to power with over 70 seats. 

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Hyderabad: Three held for attempting bogus voting

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Police said the trio had plotted to carry out bogus voting on the polling day and were waiting at a place of worship for a right oppurtunity, when they were nabbed

Published Date – 10:15 PM, Fri – 1 December 23


Hyderabad: Three held for attempting bogus voting

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Hyderabad: The Habeebnagar police along with the Task Force on Friday nabbed three persons on charges of attempting bogus voting during the assembly polls.

The arrested persons are Mohd.Zakir (40), a car dealer, Mohd.Shabuddin (28), a student, and Ritesh Gupta (38), a trader, all three from Nampally.

Police said the trio had plotted to carry out bogus voting on the polling day and were waiting at a place of worship for a right oppurtunity, when they were nabbed.

The suspects collected the voter list and had identified voters who had vacated their homes and fraudulently used their voter identity numbers to print information slips for conducting bogus polling.

Police seized voter lists, duplicate voter ID cards, unused cotton, a chemical bottle, a mini slip printing machine, and paper rolls from the accused individuals.

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Palestinian, Lebanese resistance hit back as Israel resumes bombing Gaza

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The Al-Qassam Brigades has fired barrages of missiles at Tel Aviv and other cities in the Israeli-occupied territories in response to the Israeli bombing of civilians in Gaza, as its fighters engaged in fierce clashes with Israeli troops inside the strip.

Al-Qassam, the armed wing of the Hamas resistance movement, said in separate statements on Friday that it fired rockets at the cities of Asqalan, Ashdod, Sderot, Netivot, and Beersheba, as well as the Ra’im military base.

It also said its fighters attacked Israeli forces in northern Gaza, including an Israeli tank and a troop carrier.

They attacked a group of Israeli soldiers stationed inside a building in Beit Hanoun using four anti-personnel and anti-fortification shells, a statement said.

Separately, the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, said it attacked several towns in response to Israeli bombings. It said it targeted the Kissufim kibbutz with 107 missiles.

The movement said its fighters had engaged in fierce clashes with Israeli soldiers near Al-Rantisi Hospital in the Al-Nasr neighborhood in Gaza City.

The Al-Quds brigades also said its fighters shot down an Israeli Skylark drone in central Gaza.

Hezbollah resumes attacks

The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah also resumed its anti-Israel operations in support of the resistance in Gaza, which were on a pause throughout the seven-day truce.

The movement said it targeted groups of Israeli soldiers at Jal al-Alam, Al-Marj, and Ramya military positions, as well as the Ramim barracks.

Israeli occupation’s artillery attacked several areas in southern Lebanon, killing a mother and her son in the Lebanese town of Houla.

Hezbollah has vowed the Lebanon-Palestine border would remain an active front line as long as Israel’s aggression against Gaza continues.

Gaza’s Ministry of Health says at least 109 people have been killed and hundreds more have been injured as the Israeli regime resumed military operations and targeted residential areas and refugee camps across the densely-populated areas since Friday morning when a week-long truce expired. 

The truce, which was extended twice, began on November 24. It had paused brutal Israeli strikes on Gaza that began in early October and killed more than 15,000 Palestinians. 

International bodies have called for more time to get medical supplies, food and fuel into Gaza, where an estimated 1.7 million people have been forced from their homes.

The fighting resumed after US top diplomat Antony Blinken visited the region and held talks with Israeli leaders. Other world leaders, and aid groups, had sought an extended pause.

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Mumbai Civic Body Plans Cloud Seeding To Curb Air Pollution, Invites Bids

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Mumbai Civic Body Plans Cloud Seeding To Curb Air Pollution, Invites Bids

The air quality in Mumbai deteriorated sharply in the last two months. (File)

Mumbai:

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday invited Global Expression of Interest (GEOI) for initiating a cloud seeding program for artificial rain to combat air pollution in Mumbai.

The deputy chief engineer (civil) of the BMC’s environment department invited GEOI for running a cloud seeding program.

Reputed firms which have experience of undertaking cloud seeding in the last three years can submit their bids before December 14, the BMC said in a newspaper advertisement.

Cloud seeding is a technique aimed at enhancing the probability of rain.

A civic official told PTI that the selected firm will be appointed for three years. It will undertake cloud seeding whenever air pollution spikes in the city and the situation is favourable for such an attempt.

After receiving expressions of interest, the BMC will call for financial offers from the interested firms.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde had recently directed the civic body to give the artificial rain technique a shot as a way of mitigating air pollution in the country’s financial capital. The air quality in the city deteriorated sharply in the last two months.

Eknath Shinde had then said that the civic body had already approached a Dubai-based company.

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