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Indian jailbirds will soon be the latest addition to the country's massive outsourcing industry. |
A new unit is to be opened in the Charlapally Central Jail, near Hyderabad, where up to 2,000 inmates will be put to work around the clock, processing and inputting data for private companies. |
"The idea is to ensure a good future for the educated convicts after they come out of jail," CN Gopinath Reddy, director general of prisons in Andhra Pradesh, spun to the BBC. |
Radiant Information Systems, the company behind the new initiative, said it had chosen the jail because nearly 40 per cent of its inmates were educated. |
The jail, which is home to 13,000 criminals, will pay the 2,000 convicts considered to be bright enough to do the work 100 rupees a day which is considerably better than the 13 rupees a day their less fortunate colleagues get for manual work. |
The unit will crunch data for banks and other big businesses, and could lead to prisoners getting better jobs on the outside. |
Manchester United's return to Champions League action against Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday has come at the perfect time, according to caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after a run of 10 wins and one draw since the Norwegian took charge. |
When the two sides were paired together in December's draw, PSG were strong favourites to make the last eight, with United mired in the final days of Jose Mourinho's troublesome tenure. |
However, the mood around Old Trafford is transformed two months on as Solskjaer has overturned an 11-point deficit to break into the top four of the Premier League and beaten Arsenal away to reach the fifth round of the FA Cup. |
"We've given ourselves the best possible opportunity with the way we've gone into this game because we are confident," said Solskjaer on Monday. |
It may also be the perfect time to run into an injury-ravaged PSG, with the world's most expensive player Neymar, Edinson Cavani and Thomas Meunier all sidelined by injury. |
"Of course any team that are missing players like Neymar, Cavani and Meunier will feel the effect," added Solskjaer, who is still wary of the pace of Kylian Mbappe. |
"It makes them maybe more unpredictable for us who they are going to play. |
"When you see that front three over the whole season you know what to expect. We are guessing a little bit how they will approach this game." |
Should United emerge victorious over the two legs it will be the first time in five years the three-time European champions have reached the quarter-finals. |
And Solskjaer admitted it has been too long since a memorable Champions League night at Old Trafford. |
"Yes, it has been (too long), said Solskjaer. "It's both the players and supporters who have been looking forward to some of these nights because they are special." |
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday observed that the ‘chowkidar chor hai’ comment made by Rahul Gandhi in the context of Rafale fighter jet issue had been wrongly attributed to it and demanded an explanation from the Congress President by April 22. |
The Supreme Court’s directive came on a contempt plea filed by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Meenakshi Lekhi against Gandhi, who had said over a week back that the top court had “accepted” that there was some form of corruption in the Rafale fighter jet deal and that “chowkidar chor hai”, a veiled reference to Prime Mi... |
Gandhi had made the comments after the Supreme Court agreed to hear afresh a case related to the Rafale deal, rejecting the government’s contention that the secret documents concerning the agreement had been stolen and published in some newspapers without authorization. |
It clarified that it’s recent order “had no occasion” which might have indicated to Rahul Gandhi to make any such comments. |
The apex court directed Gandhi to explain his comments ‘chowkidar chor hai’ and file his reply on or before April 22. |
After Gandhi’s comments, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had attacked him and said he was on the “verge” of contempt of court by claiming that the top court had said “chowkidar chor hai”. |
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Much of the success of the UConn women's basketball team was going to depend on point guard Renee Montgomery. That message was made clear since Day 1. |
While the freshman floundered at certain times in the season, Montgomery proved Tuesday that she could be the leader the Huskies need this season. |
Montgomery scored 11 of her career-high 26 points in the final 3:14 to lead the fourth-ranked UConn to a 75-68 win against Louisville. |
"I was taking it upon myself to make sure that I didn't turn over the ball and that I had control of the game," Montgomery said. "Whether it was like getting it to the right person or getting the open shot, I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't going to be the reason we lost and hopefully I was going to be one of th... |
The Cardinals were winners of their past 11 home games, eight of which came this season, but UConn (20-2, 9-0 Big East) was coming off snapping DePaul's 33-game winning streak at home. Montgomery made sure her team would snap another streak, coming up with every crucial play in the last minute and a half in front of 9,... |
"She made all the plays late and to her credit she's going to be a good one for them as she continues to play for them the way she played tonight," Louisville coach Tom Collen said. |
With the scored tied at 66-66, Montgomery drove the ball from the left wing for a layup to give UConn a 68-66 lead with 1:28 to play. After Jessica Huggins missed an open 3 on the other end, the Huskies called time out to set up the play. With the shot clock running out, Angel McCoughtry unintentionally fouled Montgome... |
Jazz Covington converted a layup on Louisville's ensuing possession to again get within two and Huggins fouled Ann Strother to stop the clock. Strother made her first but missed her second, but Montgomery was there for the rebound and was fouled immediately. |
"It's basically instinct - when you see the ball, you got get it," Montgomery said. |
Montgomery made both free throws with 12.2 seconds to play and then stole the ball from Helen Johnson at midcourt with seven seconds remaining. Johnson fouled Montgomery, who made two more free throws to seal the victory. |
"She's very, very good under pressure," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said of Montgomery. "She doesn't get bothered by anything. That's why she's kind of hard for me to coach because when I talk to her, she don't listen because she's not affected by anything. I knew she was going to make the free throws." |
Montgomery also made three 3-pointers in the first half to help the Huskies overcome an eight-point deficit early in the game. |
Louisville (13-6, 4-4) made seven of its first nine field goals to take a 19-11 lead with 13:56 remaining in the first half, but UConn's defense settled in the for the remaining time. The Cardinals made just three more field goals the rest of the half. |
Meanwhile, after opening the game making 5 of 11 field goals, the Huskies got into a better offensive flow, especially with Charde Houston in the game. Houston totaled 14 points, two rebounds, two blocks and one steal in eight minutes in the first half. |
"I wouldn't even call myself the hero the first half," said Houston, who finished with 18 points and six rebounds. "It's just seeing the open spots and taking advantage of that." |
UConn ended the first half on a 24-5 run to take a 44-30 lead at halftime, but the efficiency on offense failed to carry over at the start of the second half. |
After Strother opened the second half with a 3 from the top of the key, the Huskies failed to score on their next six possessions and missed seven consecutive shots. |
After shooting 56.7 percent in the first half, UConn connected on just 33.3 percent in the second half and the 17-point lead early in the second half dissipated. Even though the Cardinals eventually tied the game, Montgomery prevented them from taking the lead as she scored on six of the Huskies final 10 possessions. |
"We clearly left (Montgomery) unguarded on purpose at times because we were concentrating on the other kids," Collen said. "When you play against a team that's got like nine or 10 All-Americans and you don't feel like you can guard all of them straight up. You roll the dice and you take some chances and we rolled the d... |
Turner 4-10 3-4 11, Strother 3-11 2-4 9, Montgomery 7-11 8-8 26, Wolff 0-1 0-0 0, Thomas 2-6 0-0 6, Swanier 0-3 1-2 1, Crockett 2-3 0-0 4, Houston 9-15 0-0 18. Totals 27-60 14-18 75. |
Taylor 6-6 2-2 17, Covington 5-10 5-5 15, Huggins 3-7 1-1 9, Neal 1-6 0-0 3, Olson 2-3 2-2 6, Barlow 0-2 0-0 0, Tokova 0-3 1-2 1, Johnson 4-9 1-1 12, McCoughtry 2-7 1-2 5. Totals 23-53 13-15 68. |
Halftime-Connecticut 44-30. 3-Point Goals-Connecticut 7-22 (Montgomery 4-8, Thomas 2-4, Strother 1-6, Wolff 0-1, Swanier 0-1, Turner 0-2), Louisville 9-24 (Taylor 3-3, Johnson 3-6, Huggins 2-4, Neal 1-6, Tokova 0-2, Covington 0-3). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Connecticut 33 (Houston 6), Louisville 33 (McCoughtry 11). Ass... |
Weekly business rail, with tech gifts, BBB tips on leasing an office, and more. |
- Tablets and e-readers: Smaller and more portable than a laptop, the tablet has become the ultimate tool for anyone who wants the functionality of a computer on the go. It can serve any purpose, whether you need an easy alternative for a business presentation, a great tool to play games or a movie-player to keep your ... |
- Stocking stuffers: There are some fun tech items that make great stocking stuffers. These days everyone has multiple flash drives in their life, but they don't need to be those basic, boring black cubes. Now, drives come in fun shapes, colors and themes such as animals and even Looney Tunes characters. |
If your small business is starting to take up more room than your home office has to offer, it's time to think about moving your business out of your house. Taking the leap and leasing a commercial office space can be a frightening prospect, but if you ask the right questions and take the time to do your research, you'... |
- What are your needs? Before you start your search, spend some time thinking about what you need in an office space. Don't just consider how many employees you currently have; seriously consider your company's growth and estimate how many employees you'll gain over the course of a lease. The general rule for allotting... |
- Get professional help. Finding the right commercial office space isn't as easy as finding residential property. Chances are you'll need a realtor to navigate you through the process of finding that perfect office space. Before you select your Realtor, check out their free BBB Business Review at www.bbb.org. |
- Location, location, location. The perfect location can often depend on what kind of business you run. If you regularly expect clients in your office you'll need a convenient, safe, location. |
- Consider safety and accessibility. Look for parking, public transportation as well as the condition of the building and the neighborhood. Also ask if your employees with be able to easily get to work. |
- Go ahead, kick the tires. Take a long hard look at the office space and assess the condition of the building. Ask the landlord about recent improvements and upgrades as well as the condition of the air conditioning and heating units. Also, discuss with your landlord how much remodeling needs to be done to the office ... |
- Review the lease carefully. Read all of the fine print of your lease. If you need help deciphering the legalese of your lease, an attorney who specializes in lease agreements can help negotiate the terms. Don't be shy about negotiating; this is a major investment and a big step for your company and you don't want to ... |
$1,210: Average cost of computers on Mondays, according to Extrabux, the day when computers are cheapest. On Fridays, computers costs $1,256. |
According to a survey by ChangeWave Research, 26 percent of people were holding off purchasing an iPad before the Kindle Fire came out. |
To take advantage of the feature, bank customers need to have Fidelity’s mobile app downloaded on their smartphone. Fidelity spokeswoman Katie Grover said the customers who had the app on their phone before Monday won’t need to re-download it. |
All of the bank’s 19 ATMs in Wichita now sport the smartphone feature. Grover said Fidelity is the first bank in Wichita to offer the service. |
No information from a customer’s debit card is stored on their mobile device, according to Fidelity. Instead, the act of scanning a quick response – or QR – code at the ATM gives the machine permission to release the customer’s requested funds. |
Follow the Tigris River in the Geo Quiz. It's one of the world's great rivers. It flows through Baghdad, then joins up with the Euphrates before emptying into the Persian Gulf. We're traveling upstream of Baghdad. The northern Iraqi city we're looking for is on the banks of the Tigris. It's in the province of Ninawa. T... |
Lawmakers Tuesday advanced bills from Gov. Scott Walker that could get more welfare recipients working at a cost to taxpayers of nearly $90 million a year. |
MADISON -Lawmakers Tuesday advanced bills from Gov. Scott Walker that could get more welfare recipients working at a cost to taxpayers of nearly $90 million a year. |
The Assembly Committee on Public Benefit Reform approved all the proposals Tuesday on party-line votes of 5-3, with all Republicans voting in favor and all Democrats against. |
A panel in the Senate Tuesday also approved two of the bills, with senators taking their votes by private ballot rather than in an open committee meeting. Republicans approved those two bills on party-line 3-2 votes. |
Walker and GOP lawmakers have said the bills will shift more welfare recipients into the workforce at a time when unemployment is at the historic low of 3%. Critics say the bills will be costly to implement and less effective than using the money for programs like training for workers or public transportation to get th... |
In addition to the ongoing costs, the bills would also require millions of dollars in startup costs. |
Walker is pushing for a series of welfare bills, including requiring able-bodied parents of children on food stamps to work or get training to receive more than three months of benefits and increasing the existing work requirement for all able-bodied adults from 20 hours a week to 30. |
This existing FoodShare requirement — proposed by Walker in 2013 and implemented in 2015 — has led so far to about 3.5 recipients losing benefits for every one who secured a job through the program. It's not known whether the recipients who lost benefits found jobs later. |
REMEMBERING: "Learning from 9/11’s first victim" by Marco Greenberg: "On September 11, 2001, Danny Lewin, 31, my best friend, was working away on his laptop in seat 9B aboard American Airlines Flight 11 when he saw the two men sitting right in front of him — they would later be identified as Mohammad Atta and Abdulaziz... |
KAFE KNESSET -- Neo-Nazis embrace Yair Netanyahu -- by Tal Shalev and JPost's Lahav Harkov: David Duke posted a tweet praising Yair, and The Daily Stormer was quite pleased with him. On Sunday, after Bibi’s statement to the press at the beginning of the weekly cabinet meeting, a reporter asked him about it, and the Pri... |
Demings returned from Israel last month along with a group of Congressional Democrats led by Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD). The lawmakers participated in a Shabbat dinner with an Israeli family, and Demings was particularly inspired by one of the children who currently serves in the military. “The commitment, dedication, and... |
HEARD YESTERDAY ON 60 MINUTES -- Charlie Rose: There’s now talk you may not try to undo the Iran nuclear deal. Steve Bannon: "Decertify? I wouldn’t bet on that." Rose: But there is talk about that. Bannon: "There’s definitely talk. The apparatus wants him to continue to certify. President Trump wants to get out of the ... |
Felix Salmon offers up a series of arguments against my arguments against nationalization, which at their core boil down to the proposition that the government is already so deeply involved in determining the flow of credit in the U.S., and in subsidizing the banks, that nationalization will not represent a meaningful ... |
Having said all that, I think Felix misses my point about the complicated nature of bank insolvency and the incentives for what I called “political mischief” that nationalization might create. My argument was that since bank insolvency is not usually a matter of banks being unable to pay their bills, but rather is a ma... |
That’s certainly true of the F.D.I.C. But the F.D.I.C., for the most part, does not take over banks and run them with an eye toward turning a profit for the government. Instead, it tries to clean up the banks’ balance sheets and re-sell them, or their assets, as quickly as possible. But if the government were to nation... |
Now, normally this isn’t something we would worry about, both because regulators are likely to be, if anything, too deferential to the banks they regulate and because being too aggressive about taking over banks is a good way to wreck your economy by scaring away investors. But once you’ve nationalized a few big banks,... |
Now, it may be that in fact all of the banks really are insolvent, and so this is not something to worry about. But, generally speaking, you don’t want to make it too easy for the government to seize people’s property, and giving the government a financial incentive to declare banks insolvent may do just that. |
Guam's under-15 national football team are in China to compete in the East Asian Football Federation U15 boys tournament. |
DPR Korea on July 28 at 1:30 p.m. |
Guam will be represented by 20 players and five staff members: Head Coach Dominic Gadia; Coach Karl Dodd; team manager Julius R. Campos; team Dr.Cynthia Evans; and athletic trainer Hannah Hallor. |
Parents of the boys couldn't contain their support for the Guam U15 national football program as they sent off the team to China for the tournament. |
"This is a godsend – this is how I see Guam Football Association and the national program for my son... Here at GFA, if you are in the national program, there is no cost – my son is in a professional environment with professional coaches, again at no extra cost to me," said Miriam Capistrano, whose son Morgan McKenna t... |
Capistrano also noted McKenna's improvement in the sport since joining the program. |
“I’ve noticed he increased his speed on the field and made other improvements, and the new level of discipline and respect he’s developed by being in the program also translates into the home and school." |
However, other parents also shared their concerns about the program. |
Marvin Iseke, father of three boys in a national program, said the program had "great intentions" but had issues with inconsistency at the beginning. |
"From the inception of the national program structure when my sons first started, there was a lot of great intentions, great goodwill and a structure that was put in place, but the challenge we had as parents was the inconsistency of the program at that time," Iseke said. |
Now the program is "a pathway that will have great benefits in the long run – both athletic and personal development benefits," according to Iseke. |
Information was provided in a press release. |
With new graduation standards requiring all high school students to pass a rigorous English examination, state education officials are now proposing longer, more intensive English classes for students with limited English skills. |
The proposal, released yesterday by the state's Education Commissioner, Richard P. Mills, would require those students, from kindergarten through high school, to spend two or three of their eight school periods in English. Currently, the 225,000 students in the state with limited English skills are required to spend on... |
The measure, which requires the approval of the State Board of Regents, is intended to address two problems: helping bilingual students meet the higher graduation standards and improving the way bilingual education is carried out. |
Bilingual programs are one of the most contentious matters of educational policy, and they have come under renewed focus in recent months because of California's overwhelming public vote to end such classes and immerse students in a year of intensive English. |
But where critics of California's bilingual programs cited study after study attacking bilingual education as trapping students in a language nether world where they master neither English nor their other subjects, Mr. Mills, in his proposal, cited evidence showing how students' mastery of their native language actuall... |
Under Mr. Mills's proposal, students would have to take additional hours of English, so they could be integrated into mainstream English classes within three years. In New York City, home to a majority of the state's students with limited English, that does not always happen: Currently, a third of the city's bilingual ... |
Bilingual education advocates yesterday expressed cautious support for the proposal, saying that they applauded the goal of teaching English more thoroughly but worried that students would get short shrift in other academic subjects. |
''That clearly would be a problem -- where content learning is subordinated to do massive English language development,'' said James J. Lyons, the executive director of the National Association for Bilingual Education. He added that instead of merely extending the hours spent in English class, educators should also loo... |
The proposed measure comes as the state is raising the bar for a high school diploma and phasing out a two-tiered graduation system -- the college-prep Regents diploma earned by passing a set of Regents examinations and a local diploma requiring much simpler basic skills tests. Now, in order to earn a diploma issued by... |
Mr. Mills's English proposal would require high school students new to the language to initially receive three periods of intensive English class every day. Two periods of English would be required of students in other grades. |
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