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None of them have a toilet; four are yet to even get electricity, and their only sources of drinking water are seasonal wells and public taps that supply water for an hour a day. Life here is so difficult, nobody has been to college yet. |
“Many of us work as daily wage workers in nearby areas, for which we have to travel at least an hour’s distance. We can’t even cultivate anything in our hamlet as wild animals destroy the crops,” said Radha Harijan, a resident. All residents of the hamlet belong to a scheduled caste community. |
As the sun sets, not only are half the houses enveloped in darkness, there is no question of having streetlights, since there are no roads leading to the houses. |
Her husband Shrikant, who is unemployed, said that as they are living on forest land, they cannot claim benefits under any schemes like the central government’s housing scheme for the economically backward. “You have to provide your house license to claim benefit, and we dont have any documents,” he said. |
Forest officials said that the hardships the families are facing have already been conveyed by them to the authorities. |
Villagers said that the wells dug for them by the government dry up a couple of months after the monsoon. Besides, he says there are too many homes relying on a couple of wells. And water from public taps flow only for an hour a day, that too if they are lucky. |
The annual candlelight vigil sponsored by Alamance County Right to Life is Wednesday in Graham. |
Organizers said the event will begin at 6 p.m. at the Graham Courthouse / Court Square. State Rep. Dennis Riddell, R-Alamance, will be the featured speaker. |
�The purpose of the candlelight vigil is to remember and mourn the more than 55 million babies whose lives have been snuffed out since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court legalized abortion in this country,� organizers said in a press release. |
Anyone wishing to speak out against abortion is invited to attend. Candles will be provided. The rally is expected to last for about 30 minutes. |
For more information, contact Amy Huffman at 336-213-5085 or at abhuffman@gmail.com. |
A Palestinian official was quoted on Friday as saying that Egypt had been in contact with Hamas with regards to a cease-fire in Gaza. Reuters quoted the official as saying that the talks aimed to look into new ideas to bring about a new agreement between Israel and Hamas. Since the beginning of Operation Cast Lead last... |
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, or CAMERA, was founded in Washington, DC in 1982 by Winifred Meiselman, a teacher and social worker. Mrs. Meiselman formed CAMERA to respond to the Washington Post’s coverage of Israel’s Lebanon incursion, and to the paper’s general anti-Israel bias. Joini... |
Under Win’s leadership CAMERA created chapters in major cities, including New York, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and in 1988 a Boston chapter and office, founded and led by Andrea Levin. Ms. Levin had taught English in inner-city Philadelphia, and later served as associate ... |
CAMERA opens Boston chapter (click for full size). |
In 1989, CAMERA took a large step forward with a highly successful conference organized by the Boston chapter: “The Media, The Message and The Middle East.” The event galvanized public interest concerning the media’s power to sway public opinion on Middle East policy – and the potential harm of distorted coverage. Held... |
CAMERA’s 1989 Conference fills the Park Plaza Ballroom. |
After the conference the Boston chapter continued to grow rapidly, as the Executive Board was joined by noted professionals in law and medicine, as well as a number of Boston’s top business leaders, including the co-founders of such major firms as Timberland and Staples. |
CAMERA has long been active on college campuses. Here a circa 1990 letter to students signed by Charles Jacobs, the Boston Chapter’s Deputy Director (click for full size). |
A 1991 letter to CAMERA members signed by Ms. Levin and by Win Meiselman, CAMERA’s Founder (click for full size). |
Under Ms. Levin’s leadership CAMERA’s membership grew within a few years from 1000 to over 20,000, and now numbers over 65,000. In addition to the Boston headquarters the organization also has offices in Washington, DC, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Israel. |
Over the years CAMERA has focused major efforts on improving coverage of Israel and the Middle East by such major outlets as the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, PBS, and ABC News. |
While there have been major successes with most of these outlets, there is also a continuing need for monitoring and interaction. |
The CAMERA Fellows Program recruits student leaders across the US as well as from Spain, South Africa and Latin America who present educational programs on their campuses to inform fellow students about Middle East realities. The Fellows monitor their student newspapers, write Op-Eds and help counter distorted characte... |
Launched in early 2011 the CAMERA Campus Activist Project (CCAP) promotes creation of pro-Israel groups on campuses where there is little or no such activity. |
Revista de Medio Oriente, CAMERA’s Spanish language counter part, challenges misinformation in the Spanish language world, whether in Spain’s media or in Latin American coverage. |
The British Project addresses major media in Britain, such as the Guardian, the Independent, and the BBC, which have global reach and all too often have problematic Middle East coverage. |
The Christian Project focuses on distorted Middle East coverage in Christian publications and sponsors programs in the Christian community. |
CAMERA continues to expand its programming and reach. Increased challenges have been met with increased innovation and effectiveness. |
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello told a federal oversight board Sunday that he would not agree to its demand for 10% pension benefit cuts and other labor reforms, and that he would be submitting his own fiscal reform plan before Thursday. |
In a letter Sunday to Jose B. Carrion III, chairman of the Financial Oversight and Management Board, Mr. Rossello said he opposes pension benefit cuts because they would represent a disproportionate burden on workers and retirees. He also said any pension benefit changes require legislative and executive action. |
"We insist that we will not give way to dismissals, reductions of pensions or a labor reform without increasing the minimum wage," Mr. Rossello said in a statement announcing the letter. |
Mr. Rossello also said in the letter that while the federal Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act empowers the board to certify a fiscal plan, "the same statute establishes that the board cannot usurp the legislative and operational powers of the government of Puerto Rico." |
On March 28, the board gave the governor's office until Thursday to submit a revised fiscal plan that includes 10% pension benefit cuts and other reforms. At the time, the board said it was on track to certify fiscal plans for the commonwealth and various agencies on or before April 20. |
For the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, which is the subject of bondholder lawsuits, the board called for the pension benefit reductions and other measures to be reflected in the financial projections, but warned that any fiscal plan "should not assume payment of outstanding pension obligations to address underfu... |
Oversight board documents call for freezing pension benefit accruals by July 1, 2019, and enrolling all employees in defined contribution plans. Benefits would be reduced progressively to an average cut of 10%, with no cuts for participants whose combined pension and Social Security benefits are below the poverty level... |
European shares dipped as HSBC disappointed investors and German gas group Linde’s proposed $87 billion tie-in with Praxair hit regulatory hurdles. |
Airline Ryanair was one of the most active stocks on a quiet day, closing 2.12 per cent up at €13.26 as investors digested the weekend’s news that a dispute with about one quarter of its Irish pilots was likely to go to mediation. The airline still faces strikes later this week, but its stock traded up as much as 2.5 p... |
Smurfit climbed 1.61 per cent to what dealers said was a new high of €36.60. “A lot of people are backing the story, and the dynamics are pointing to further upgrades,” said one trader. |
However, only around 285,000 of its shares changed hands in Dublin, 30 per cent of the 100-day average, leaving traders cautioning that Monday’s closing price may not be a fair reflection of how the market sees the stock. |
Hotel group Dalata was a little weaker as investors speculated that the Government would axe the special 9 per cent Vat rate for the hospitality sector in autumn’s budget. Dalata closed 0.15 per cent down at €6.82. Dealers said it was well down on mid-July highs. |
HSBC shares dipped 7.2 pence sterling or 1 per cent to 708.6p despite the bank boosting profits as it pushes ahead with a strategy put in place by new chief executive John Flint. |
The lender reported pre-tax profit of $10.7 billion for the half-year ended June 30th, up from $10.2 billion for the same period in 2017. However, adjusted pretax profits fell from $12.4 billion to $12.1 billion, which HSBC said was due to hiring more staff and expanding its digital network. |
Tesco shares nudged up after the supermarket giant said its strategic partnership with France’s Carrefour would become operational in October. |
Tesco said the relationship would cover global suppliers, and would allow for the joint purchasing of own-brand goods and store equipment such as trolleys, fixtures and cleaning supplies. Shares ended down 0.1 per cent at 259.4p. |
On the FTSE 250, Spire Healthcare shed over 21 per cent to end down 53.8p at 193.4p after the private hospitals operator warned over its full-year performance in the face of falling NHS spending. |
Irish-Swiss baker Aryzta crashed 8.82 per cent to 11.315 Swiss francs after Berenberg became the latest broker to warn that the maker of McDonald’s burger buns could have to ask shareholders for more cash to ease debt woes. |
The shares hit a one-year low of 10 francs in Zurich at one point on Monday following the assessment by Berenberg analyst Fintan Ryan that Aryzta would have to resort to a capital increase to alleviate chronic debt levels. |
Aryzta, led by chief executive Kevin Toland, may also face increased raw material costs if the exceptionally hot European summer results in a poor harvest. |
German industrial gas-maker Linde sank 8 per cent to €194.05 after saying regulators may ask it and its US rival Praxair to sell more assets in order to get anti-trust approval for their possible merger. |
Germany suffered the biggest drop in industrial orders in 1½ years, driving industrial giants Siemens and Thyssenkrupp down 0.4 per cent and 0.9 per cent. |
The S&P 500 edged higher on Monday, buoyed by strong results from Berkshire Hathaway and Tyson Foods, while the Nasdaq got a lift from gains in Facebook and PepsiCo. |
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway rose 3.7 per cent after the conglomerate reported a 67 per cent surge in quarterly operating profit. |
LOS ANGELES, March 18, (Variety.com) - Disney-Marvel’s “Black Panther” has maintained its momentum at the domestic box office, winning its fifth consecutive weekend with $27 million from 3,834 locations. |
Alicia Vikander’s “Tomb Raider” finished second in its opening weekend in line with expectations with $23.5 million from 3,854 sites for Warner Bros. and MGM. Lionsgate-Roadside Attractions’ faith-based drama “I Can Only Imagine” outperformed forecasts with $17.1 million at 1,629 venues. |
Disney’s second weekend of time-travel adventure “A Wrinkle in Time” followed in fourth with $16.6 million at 3,980 locations, lifting its 10-day total to $61.1 million. Fox’s launch of gay teen comedy-drama “Love, Simon” took fifth with $11.5 million at 2,402 venues. |
The overall box office took in about $130 million, down 50 percent from the same weekend last year when Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” opened with $174.5 million. Thanks to “Black Panther,” the year-to-date box office is up 2 percent over the same period a year ago at $2.5 billion, according to comScore. |
NEW DELHI: Indian police said yesterday one man was killed and three injured in an attack by a mob while they were skinning a dead ox, in the latest case of so-called cow lynching. The animal is revered by Hindus and according to Human Rights Watch, 44 people died in cow-related violence between May 2015 and December l... |
The latest incident happened in the eastern state of Jharkhand late on Thursday when men from a local Christian community were skinning the carcass of an ox in a field. “The men were armed with iron rods and sticks and attacked the group of skinners brutally,” said M L Meena, a senior Jharkhand police official. The thr... |
It was unclear whether the accused were part of a Hindu vigilante group or acted on their own initiative, he added, saying the four men attacked were from a local tribal group and had been charged with illegal cow slaughter. Meena said the charges were based on a complaint by a Hindu villager who said he witnessed the ... |
Cow slaughter and the consumption of beef is illegal in mineral-rich Jharkhand – and in 19 other states – but restricted slaughter of other bovines like buffalo and ox is allowed. Modi, who is running for a second term in elections that began on Thursday and run until May 19, has condemned cow-related violence. |
Under his government, laws about cow slaughter are now applied more strictly and punishments have increased. In 2017 his government tried to ban the cattle trade for slaughter nationwide, only for it to be rejected by the Supreme Court. Aside from the violence, which is mostly directed at India’s minority Muslim commun... |
A statement released by President Ashraf Ghani's office said the two sides met on January 3 and discussed U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and U.S. support for an Afghan-led peace process with Taliban militants. |
Interior Minister Amrullah Saleh and Defense Minister Asadullah Khaled attended the meeting. |
General Scott Miller, the top NATO and U.S. commander in Afghanistan, was also present. |
The meeting came amid U.S. attempts to encourage negotiations between the Taliban and the Kabul government to end the 17-year war. |
U.S. special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has held at least three rounds of talks with Taliban officials in recent months, although the militants have refused to talk directly to the Afghan government. |
The peace efforts come amid reports of a possible drawdown in the estimated 14,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan currently leading a NATO effort to train and advise local troops. |
Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina rode President Barack Obama's coattails in 2008, winning a seat Republicans had held for nearly four decades. |
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK � Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina rode President Barack Obama's coattails in 2008, winning a seat Republicans had held for nearly four decades. |
Now Hagan faces a powerful Republican rebound as she seeks a second term in November 2014. Her saving grace in the race could be a crowded GOP primary that seems to be taking shape, with the potential to leave the eventual GOP nominee battered and broke. |
North Carolina's political balance is far different now than it was in 2008 when the state sent Obama to the White House and Hagan to the Senate in a remarkable year for Democrats. |
Today, the GOP controls the state's executive and legislative branches simultaneously for the first time since 1870. Republicans also hold nine of the state's 13 House seats, thanks in part to the party's efforts to redraw legislative boundaries to favor its candidates. And North Carolina, still recovering from the rec... |
"We've got a good record to build on," said state House Speaker Thom Tillis, who is running for the Republican nomination. |
Greg Brannon, a physician with tea party support, also is seeking the nod. No fewer than five other Republicans are considering bids, including state Senate leader Phil Berger, Reps. Renee Ellmers and Virginia Foxx, Southern Baptist leader the Rev. Mark Harris of Charlotte and former Ambassador Jim Cain of Raleigh. |
Republicans are emboldened both by their recent electoral fortunes and by controversies in Washington dogging Obama and his Democrats, including questions over the IRS' improper targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny and questions about the Obama administration's handling of the terror attack that killed f... |
"The things that are happening at a national level make North Carolina and the North Carolina Senate race that much more of an attraction for conservative candidates," said Berger, a lawyer from small-town Eden who plans to make a decision later this summer about whether to run. He said Hagan "remains vulnerable to a c... |
Republicans argue that Hagan should be replaced because she's too closely aligned with Obama and voted for his federal health care overhaul � a preview of the playbook the eventual Republican nominee is all but certain to use next fall. Republicans are using a similar pitch in the three other states where Democratic se... |
Hagan's other potential vulnerabilities include her support for legalizing gay marriage after a constitutional amendment banning it in North Carolina passed easily in 2012, as well as her vote for expanding background checks on gun purchases. |
She's clearly mindful of Obama's divisiveness in the state, and she wasn't on hand for the president's recent visit to North Carolina. Her office said she was busy on the Senate floor with farm and student loan legislation. |
Hagan is downplaying her Democratic alliances in hopes of attracting support from centrists as well as Republicans. She described herself earlier this year as a "commonsense, middle of the road, independent thinker" and has been courting farmers and veterans, two key voting blocs historically likely to vote Republican ... |
"People in North Carolina are worried about jobs and the economy, and that's what I am focused on," the former banker from Greensboro said after speaking at the recent grand opening of a high-tech greenhouse in the technology-rich Research Triangle Park. |
Unemployment in North Carolina is well above the national average. In April, the jobless rate was 7.5 percent nationally and 8.9 percent in the state. |
"I am hoping that we can work together as Democrats and Republicans to really help change that," said Hagan, who is fashioning herself as someone on the front lines of ending partisan gridlock in the Senate. She also has promoted her efforts to press the Obama administration to relieve a backlog in processing veterans'... |
To get a second term, she'll need to win over Democrats like Scott Whitford of Pamlico County, who farms 2,500 acres. "I don't agree with her on every issue, but on most agriculture issues she has been supportive of farmers," he said. A registered Democrat, Whitford said he's voted more for Republicans over the past 15... |
After the farm bill passed the Senate recently, Hagan's office sent out a news release claiming she "secured major victories for North Carolina farmers," particularly tobacco growers. |
Hagan raised a respectable $1.6 million during the first fundraising quarter of the year for a race that could cost the victor upwards of $10 million � not counting millions more from outside groups. |
She has visited all 100 counties and held a town hall meeting in each during her first term. It serves as a contrast to Hagan's predecessor, GOP Sen. Elizabeth Dole, who was criticized for her prolonged absence from North Carolina after decades in Washington. Hagan beat Dole in 2008, and conservative icon Jesse Helms h... |
Democrats seem to be most worried about Tillis, a suburban Charlotte corporate consultant, prodigious fundraiser and one of the architects of the Republican surge in Raleigh. They're spending most of their time so far criticizing his House record and links to big donors. Democrats and civil rights groups have held a se... |
Chloe Kohanski is ready to get to work. |
Less than 24 hours after being named the winner of The Voice season 13, Kohanski opens up to ET about her post-show plans and whether she and coach Blake Shelton have any collaborations in the works. |
"He knows pretty clear that I would want to work with him," she says of Shelton. "I think even just as someone that I can call and have as an adviser or in the room if I'm working on a record and just needing someone to kinda give it to me straight and keep the mood light. He's just a great person to be around." |
Kohanski was stolen for Team Blake after her first coach, Miley Cyrus, opted to cut her during the knockout round. |
"It was awesome working with Miley. She's a visionary and she's a creator and has a lot of ideas," Kohanski recalls. "I think that if I would have stayed on Team Miley, it still could have been very special -- it would have looked entirely different -- but I think it was so important working with Blake because he kinda... |
Moments after host Carson Daly called her name on Tuesday night's finale, Kohanski says she and Shelton shared a sweet moment backstage. |
"He was like, 'I'm so proud of you and I really mean it when I say that I believe we're gonna keep working together,'" she reveals. "I think that we have a true friendship going on here. It's kinda weird, on paper it doesn't make sense, but his vibe and my vibe work really well together." |
Kohanski says she would "love" to collaborate in the studio. "That's definitely on my radar," she says. "Blake said last night that he would love to keep in contact and continue to work together." |
We're live with The Voice Season 13 winner, Chloe Kohanski! |
And while Kohanski vibes with Shelton, she admits to being totally starstruck by his girlfriend, Gwen Stefani. |
"I only met her one time," Kohanski says. "She came to our rehearsal when we were practicing our duet together. She walked in and literally I was starstruck. Not that Blake isn't a star, 'cause he is, but I was more starstruck for Gwen because that's someone that growing up, I've looked up to and she is so sick, just g... |
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