Israeli troops destroy Hezbollah bases, lose 8 soldiers in south Lebanon
The troops began taking down Hezbollah positions and clearing the tunnels. Rockets and bombs lit up the sky even as artillery fire was heard in a number of villages close to the border. The IDF called its incursion 'Operation Northern Arrows.'
Israel said it was targeting Hezbollah military facilities, launch sites and buildings where weapons are stored. Bekaa Valley came under heavy air raids.
Hezbollah claimed that it destroyed three Israeli tanks
TEL AVIV, Oct 3: Eight Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes with Hezbollah
fighters on Wednesday after Israeli troops invaded southern Lebanon and launched
a ground attack on militant bases in a territorial escalation of the year-long
war with Hamas. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) released the names of the soldiers
killed.
The troops began taking out Hezbollah positions and clearing the tunnels. Rockets
and bombs lit up the sky even as artillery fire was heard in a number of villages
close to the border. The IDF called its incursion 'Operation Northern Arrows.'
Israel said it was targeting Hezbollah military facilities, launch sites and
buildings where weapons are stored. Bekaa Valley came under heavy air raids.
Hezbollah claimed that it destroyed three Israeli tanks as they advanced into
Lebanon.
Israeli troops entered Lebanon on Tuesday and launched the ground attack on
Hezbollah targets even as the air attacks on the militant strongholds in Beirut
continued. Convoys of army trucks, tanks, armored vehicles and bulldozers had
crossed the border with the Air Force supporting the ground forces. However,
Israeli military said it has launched only "limited, localised and targeted"
raids to facilitate return of displaced Israelis to their homes in the border
areas who had to evacuate in the face of Hezbollah raids. Hezbollah, stationed
in Lebanon and financed by Iran, had earlier joined the Hamas in the year-long
war with Israel.
Mass shooting in Tel Aviv
Meanwhile, the Hamas has claimed responsibility for the "terror" shooting in
Jaffa rail station in south Tel Aviv on Tuesday in which eight people were killed
and seven others injured. Two terrorists involved in the mass shooting were
neutralised, Israel said.
"The Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades takes responsibility for the heroic Jaffa
operation carried out by the fighters from the (occupied West Bank) city of
Hebron," Hamas said in a statement.
Iran's missile barrage
The Iranian misslile attack on Tuesday in response to the killing of Hezbollah
chief Hassan Nasrallah followed the Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon
and synchronised with the Tel Aviv shooting. Iran fired a barrage of 181 ballistic
missiles across Israel, each having a warhead payload of 700 to 1,000 kg, which
can destroy entire buildings. Almost all of them were intercepted by Israeli
defence and US forces like in an earlier attack. Alarms were sounded across
Israel and civilians rushed for shelter. There was only one casualty and that
was of a Palestinian in Gaza, Israel said. One missile dug up an open space
near the Mossad headquarters. Israel claims to possess the best defence system
in the world.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to retaliate the Iranian attack
while Iran said on Wednesday it was responding to the killing of Hezbollah chief
Hassan Nasrallah. Iran said its action "concluded" unless the Israelis invite
further retaliation.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran has warned the United States
to keep off the region.
Even as former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called for a decisive
strike to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities, US President Joe Biden said that
he will not support an Israeli attack on nuclear sites in Iran.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the situation is alarming and called for
restraint.
Meanwhile, British Foreign Minister David Lammy said on Wednesday, "The first
charter flight taking British nationals out of Lebanon has now departed." The
UK's Ministry of Defence said two Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets and a
Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker helped in downing Iran's volley of missiles.
The Gaza health ministry has reported that at least 41,638 people have been
killed and 96,359 wounded in Gaza since October 7 in the Israeli assault on
the besieged enclave.
COMMENT: A simple question but difficult to understand is why the people should be concerned about whether an NTA director is sacked for paper leakage or a DGP is removed for law and order breakdown. The people have nothing to do with the elite appointments nor their conduct. They are the cousin-brothers of the political dispensation. If not barred by fixation, kindly take a look at other countries!
“What I want to do and what I will do is, you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically as part of your diploma (two-year programs or doctoral degrees) a green card to be able to stay in this country” permanently, the presidential candidate said. Asked if he would promise to allow the “best and the brightest around the world to (come to) America,” Trump firmly replied: “I do promise.”
COMMENT: Could Biden visualise a better immigration formula to build a still stronger America? Will Kamala Harris, in charge of migration, and struggling for ideas, take note?
Delhi has recorded the hottest night (35+ deg C), unheard of since the beginning of time! For 30 consecutive days the maximum temp is above 40 deg C and in the nights too the mercury stayed high as there is hardly any earth around to absorb and dissipate the day's heat. Add on to the nightmare the acute water shortage in the national Capital due to the power-hungry, low-grade politicians squabbling for one-upmanship. More than 200 people died in Delhi-NCR in the past two days. Most of them are poor people, labourers, the homeless, beggars.
An anatomy of NEET 2024: From the start till finish NEET will stay put as a conundrum jinxed as it is. What if it was thought angels would come down from the heaven to conduct the entrance exam if done at the Centre and if in the States, they would be conducted by the corrupt mortals. So NEET was born... It's 'guaranteed' that no party will ever be able to do what is required to be done in the country. Because of their genetics. Frauds will only multiply. Is there anything worse? Yes. Shoot the messenger!
A video shows the terrifying scene of the chopper swirling and dropping nose down mid-air around the helipad. In fact, the rear rotor had gone for a toss and the pilot was performing autorotation for a crash-landing. He pulled it off! Congrats!
True or false, Savitri claimed her husband had told her to throw Vinod into the canal as all that he does is eat. "How much torture can my son endure?" She picked him up when he was asleep.
Marking a decisive stage in the ongoing tussle between Governors and the Governments in some States, the Governor of Bengal has thrown down the gauntlet to the State police, asking the Raj Bhavan staff to refuse any enquiry from the cops in the sexual harassment case filed by a woman employee against him.
COMMENT: In many a case complaints can be frivolous, made under certain circumstances. So it is more in the interest of the accused that there is an investigation to clear his name. Denial may only mean acceptance of the guilt. Besides, quoting Constitutional immunity in sexual harassment cases is nothing short of a vulgarity of the feudal landlord. Nobody is above the law.
While the universal apprentice scheme will enable the educated youth to stand up (literally) in a country where the people are trampled by wretched politicians, and look about for avenues to earn a living confidently, the provision of student credit cards of up to Rs 10 lakh will ensure each and every student of this country receives equal opportunities to fulfil their aspirations of higher education irrespective of their financial conditions. It will be a game changer. These are on the lines of what US Vice-President Kamala Harris visualised to be happening to the Third World when she hailed Ajay Banga as a transformative World Bank President.
Peter Higgs is the father of the mysterious Higgs boson, otherwise called 'God Particle', which gives mass to all elementary particles, and created our universe. His contribution helped other scientists understand how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.8 billion years ago. The equations of particle physicists which did not have a leg to stand on till then, the 'God Particle' came as a Godsend. The theories so far to describe the universe did not hold water.
It was only by 2012, after 50 years of the boson discovery, that scientists at CERN could make the big announcement that they had finally found a Higgs boson using the Large Hadron Collider.
Higgs instantly broke into tears, tears of profound satisfaction, in the lecture hall where the announcement was made.
LEGAL REMEDIES: Last year, on the directive of the Supreme Court, the Governor granted assent to one Bill, and referred seven Bills to the President. The petition against the President also challenges the Governor's action of referring the Bills to her.
The unprecedented step by the State may also establish that it always upholds the Constitution and the rule of law in order to pre-empt any eventuality of getting dismissed on flimsy grounds invoking provisions of the Constitution later on; and, also provide a thrust to an emerging platform of regional forces pitted against the ongoing centralisation of every subject and activity in the country under one umbrella where the States will ultimately 'wither' away (for some time).
OPINION: Made to happen as it does just weeks ahead of the general elections, the arrest may signal, if not the cause of, far-reaching consequences in the course of Indian politics. The Opposition charges that the ruling party at the Centre has unleashed the police to catch a leader every other day for corruption allegedly indulged in in the present or the remote past in order to incapacitate any concerted opposition to the ruling dispensation.
The “My way or the highway" man, Trump has predicted 'apocalypse' for Americans if he is not elected the President in the upcoming election. He sounds “extremism, affection for violence." As always, he is also seeing what others don't, and repetitively using words like "(2020) election was stolen"! And that's a symptom! Delivering a no-holds-barred speech at a rally in Ohio, he also predicted the US won't see another election if he did not win the November battle against the incumbent President. With his savage push against the God-fearing Catholic, and the heap of criminal cases pending in the courts, the unpredictable Trump's nomination exposes a season of drought of leadership of calibre in the United States.
The much-touted 'one-nation, one-election' argument was purportedly to prevent wasteful expenditure of the people's money, manpower and deceleration of development, but the committee report when implemented will end up paving the way for holding more elections than currently being held. Because of the logistics and democratic limitations involved, the committee was not expected by commonsense to be out of a loose end either! Those who are alive at that time, and further for ten more years thereafter, can count the rounds and compare with the present numbers. Therefore, either the agenda is different or the 8-volume presentation is faulty/made-up!!!
The manager has defended himself saying that dry ice got mixed with mouth freshener by the negligence of the staff...After taking the mouth freshener the customers felt a burning sensation and started vomiting blood. Five of them were hospitalised. Two are in critical condition.
Harmful effects of dry ice: Ingested, dry ice can burn your mouth, esophagus and stomach as it sublimates on contact with the moisture of the organs and turns into CO2, apart from other damaging physical and chemical changes it induces. The pressure building up in the stomach due to sublimation can also rupture the stomach muscles. It turns lethal. In normal direct handling it leads to frostbite due to the cold temperature.
One of them is seen in CCTV being shot at close range. The motive is suspected to be personal enmity.
TAILPIECE: Almost every other day we hear of shootings in one place or other in the country. India will very soon replace the US as the world's No 1 in the incidence of mass shooting. It will eclipse terrorism as a source of concern. Who can help? At least, has it occurred to anyone's mind?
'This Moment' of Shakti fusion won the Best Global Music Album at the Grammys. Zakir Hussain has won two other awards too. In a great victory for Indians, five of them have won the Grammys this time. In other sections, Taylor Swift got her fourth Album of the Year award and Miley Cyrus got an award for the first time.
The Government scheme provides ₹ 51,000 per wedding of which ₹ 35,000 goes to the girl, ₹ 10,000 for wedding materials and ₹ 6,000 towards expenses for the ceremony.
“Two activists from the environmental movement ‘Riposte Alimentaire’ sprayed pumpkin soup on the armoured glass protecting the Mona Lisa, this Sunday, January 28, 2024, around 10 am (4aET),” a statement from the museum said.
It is not understood how undesirable elements are allowed to get so close to her
and play havoc with the artwork. Several times over this has happened in the
past, deranged minds masquerading as tourists and cultists venting their frustration.
A Spicejet passenger had a harrowing experience inside a tiny claustrophobic lavatory aboard a Mumbai-Bengaluru flight when he found to his bewilderment that the door was not opening.
Two days earlier, in a similar incident in the area, a domestic help was bitten by a pet dog in the lift when she was going for work.
Tailpiece: Sometimes appearing to outnumnber men and women on the streets, the stray dogs are turning more and more daring with sections of anti-social elements out there to feed and protect them in order to find a window for their unfulfilled love! There is an all-pervading feeling of lack of authority.