New Delhi, Oct 4 (PTI) Reliance Industries' Chairman Mukesh Ambani has emerged as the richest Indian for the 11th consecutive year with a net worth of USD 47.3 billion, according to Forbes magazine.

Ambani is also the year's biggest gainer, adding USD 9.3 billion to his wealth amid the continuing success of his Reliance Jio broadband telco service.

ANKARA, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Seven Turkish soldiers were killed, two others injured in a terror attack in the southeastern province of Batman on Thursday.

A road bomb, installed by the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) members, blasted when an armored military vehicle passed by in the rural area of Gercus district, the Batman Governor's Office said in a statement.

Local security forces launched a raid to nab the PKK militia following the attack.

The PKK is seen as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

KANPUR: Ayushman Bharat Yojna has been launched for the poor’s free medical facility up to rupees five lakhs.

Surprisingly, Kanpur city’s eminent and rich political leaders have been included in the list of scheme  beneficiaries.

Leaders whose names were found in the list are; Satish Mahana, Devendra Singh Bhole’s brother, Salil Bishnoi and Ajay Kapoor.

BEIRUT, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Israeli warplanes violated Lebanon's airspace Thursday above Shebaa farms, while conducting surveillance above Hasbaya, Rashaya Al Wadi and West Bekaa, in south of the country, local media reported.

Another Israeli warplane also acted against Lebanon's airspace in the same areas on Wednesday, said a report by Elnashra, an online independent newspaper.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said earlier this week that Israel has violated Lebanon's airspace, land and sea over 1,500 times in the past eight months.

Kolkata, October 3; GANASHAKTI: CPI(M) West Bengal State Secretary Suryakanta  Mishra  today, addressing Jatha participants in Kolkata, has said that people will break any Charriot taken out to harm the unity of people in State.

He said that We are hearing three Ratha yatra  are being planned by BJP to be taken out.

People will break the chariot if any of these cause riots or communal strife in the state.

We still remember the way through out the country riots were caused by the taking out chariots by the BJP.

New Delhi, Oct 3 (PTI) In a major setback to Opposition unity ahead of Lok Sabha elections due next year, BSP supremo Mayawati Wednesday announced that her party will contest assembly elections in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh either on its own or in alliance with regional parties but not with the Congress.

She accused the Congress of trying to "finish" the BSP, saying the grand old party is more interested in ending destroying her party than dislodging the BJP.

New Delhi, Oct 3 (PTI) To promote and enthuse participation of sharpest technical minds and tap innovative potential in emerging technological domain, the Indian Air Force is launching a competition to develop and design drones, Air Force Chief B S Dhanoa said Wednesday.

"The Indian Air Force is launching a competition to develop and design drones," the Air Force Chief said in press conference.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates; 3 Oct 2018; (AP) — President Donald Trump says Saudi Arabia’s king “might not be there for two weeks” without U.S. military support, further increasing his pressure on one of America’s closest Mideast allies over rising oil prices.

Vienna, Oct 2 (AFP) The UN's nuclear watchdog Tuesday refused to "take at face value" Israel's claims that Iran is harbouring a secret atomic warehouse, fending off pressure to inspect the allegedly suspect site.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the claim in front of the UN General Assembly last week.

Without explicitly referring to Netanyahu's claim, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano insisted that the agency's independence was "of paramount importance" for its work.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands; 3 Oct 2018; (AP) — The United Nations’ highest court on Wednesday ordered the United States to lift sanctions on Iran that affect imports of humanitarian goods and products and services linked to the safety of civil aviation.

The ruling by the International Court of Justice is legally binding, but it remains to be seen if the administration of President Donald Trump will comply.

MOSCOW, October 2. /TASS/. It will take three months to train Syrian specialists to use Russian S-300 air defense systems, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday at a Russian Security Council meeting chaired by President Vladimir Putin.

"We have finished personnel recruitment and have begun to train them," he said.

So far, Russia has supplied Syria with 49 equipment pieces as part of delivery of the S-300 air defense system, Shoigu said.

WASHINGTON, October 3. /TASS/. The United States would view the deployment of Russia’s S-300 surface-to-air missile systems as an escalation, but it is yet to receive the official confirmation of the delivery, US Department of State Spokesperson Heather Nauert told reporters on Tuesday.

"That would be a - I think sort of a serious escalation in concerns and issues going on in Syria, but I just can’t confirm it, so I don’t have anything more for you on that right now," she said.