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Devvrat asked the Kullu administration to take appropriate action. |
The issue came to his notice when a delegation of the Sri Ravidas Dharma Sabha, led by its President Karam Chand Bhaitia, apprised him about the incident. |
According to media reports, the family had to cremate an elderly woman by a rivulet as some upper caste people allegedly prevented them from using the village crematorium. The village comes under the Patlikuhal police station in the Kullu district. |
According to social experts, it's not a stray incident in Himachal Pradesh. The centuries old caste-based attitude continues in the state and the most marginalised communities, including Dalits, are often barred from public places, like temples and water taps, in villages. |
Lower caste students often face social discrimination in school activities, including partaking the midday meal. Even the cooks in 15,000-plus government schools are largely from the high castes. |
It's sad for the state that boasts 82.8 per cent literacy rate, they say. As per the 2011 Census, Dalits comprise one fourth of the Himachal Pradesh's over 6.8 million population. |
The Church of Latter-day Saints said in a statement that missionaries will respect the new law and its stringent rules on religious work. |
AP — Mormon missionaries will remain in Russia despite the country's new anti-terrorism law, which will put greater restrictions on religious work starting later this month. |
In a statement issued Friday, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said that missionaries will respect a measure that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law this week. |
"The church will honor, sustain and obey the law," the church said. "The church will further study and analyze the law and its impact as it goes into effect." |
Starting July 20, missionary workers will be working under more stringent rules. They include a requirement that missionary work be done by people affiliated with registered organizations. Missionaries and organizations caught praying and disseminating materials in private residences could be subject to fines. They ran... |
Furthermore, religious work can only be done in houses of worship and other related religious sites. Critics say this aspect is way too restrictive. It would mean no Mormons could share their faith online or in a home to which they have been invited. |
Julie Emmons, 20, came back to her Elk Grove, California, home two weeks ago after finishing her mission in the Mormon Church's Russia Moscow Mission. According to her, Russian Mormons regularly assist missionaries and have them over to their homes to teach people about the faith. |
While in Russia, she and other missionaries carried "a testimony" at all times. A testimony is paperwork that includes a copy of a passport and information about what the missionary is doing. |
More than 22,700 members of the Mormon church reside in Russia, according to the LDS' news website. Matt Martinich, an independent LDS researcher and project manager of The Cumorah Foundation, said Russia has historically put up obstacles for missionaries since the church gained recognition in 1991. They include making... |
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom condemned the law Friday, saying it is a way to enact "sweeping powers to curtail civil liberties." Groups in other religious communities such as Muslims and Jehovah's Witnesses also must register to do religious work. The law calls for heightened telephone and soc... |
This Wisconsin state legislature is considering a bill that would require all regular unleaded gasoline sold in the state to contain 10 percent ethanol. |
The Telegraph Herald of Dubuque, IA, reported that the bill is stirring up some controversy in the state, drawing strong opposition from lobbying groups such as Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce. |
The group claims that the law would mandate a product that “causes increased air pollution, and which will lead to more job-killing regulations on homegrown businesses,” the Telegraph Herald reported. |
Supporters of the bill claim that it will create new jobs and lower gas prices in the state. |
The bill includes some exemptions, such as small engines, boats, motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles that can’t burn ethanol. |
The bill passed the Assembly in December 2005, and is currently awaiting approval from the Senate Agriculture Committee before going to a final vote before the full Senate. |
Vivo Energy Kenya had earlier stated that Polycarp Igathe would stay at the company’s corner office until the August 8 General Election. |
There are no regulations that compel private sector workers to quit their jobs to join politics. |
Polycarp Igathe has quit his position as CEO of Vivo Energy Kenya, operator of Shell outlets, after being named as running mate for Nairobi governor seat aspirant Mike Sonko. |
The announcement Wednesday by Mr Igathe appeared to have been an abrupt change of mind after the company had stated that he would stay at the company’s corner office until the August 8 General Election. |
“I have taken a leap of faith; I have left a job in the private sector to come into the political arena because I represent all small, medium and big business interests who clearly know this city is 60 per cent of the GDP of our country. It can no longer be left in the hands of people who have no clue,” said Mr Igathe ... |
Industrial Court judge Njagi Marete in February suspended a law that requires public officers to quit office six months to a General Election, saying they should only leave after party primaries. |
In a staff memo, Mr Igathe revealed he had spoken to Christian Chammas, group CEO of Vivo Energy about his political ambitions. |
“Christian has given me his full support and I am excited about the opportunity to move into a political career,” he told employees. |
Some of Mr Igathe’s roles will be undertaken by David Mureithi, executive vice president at Vivo, according to the leaked memo. Vivo Energy has 180 outlets in Kenya. |
Billionaire businessman Bundotich Kiprop, who is contesting to be Uasin Gishu governor as an independent, is still serving as group executive director at his logistics company Buzeki. |
Patrick Wainaina continues serving as CEO of Jungle Nuts, a macadamia nuts processor in Thika, despite running to be Thika Town MP. |
A dissident investor stepped up pressure on The New York Times Co. Friday, formally proposing its own slate of four directors and saying the company needs to take more drastic action to compete online. |
Harbinger Capital, an investment firm that now owns about 19 percent of the company, filed its own proxy statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission listing its nominees for directors to be elected at the Times' annual meeting April 22. |
The Times has already filed its own full slate of director nominees, but has said it was still considering whether to accept Harbinger's candidates. |
Did Goldman Sachs Have Something To Do With A New York Times Columnist's Departure? |
Is L.A. ready for another World Cup? |
The developer of a proposed NFL stadium in the City of Industry has just sweetened the pot: The venue will be World Cup soccer compatible! And the crowd (of three people) goes wild. |
Developer Ed Roski's Majestic Reality says the San Gabriel Valley stadium would be ready for FIFA World Cups in either 2018 or 2022. FIFA is still deciding where the show will go, so the announcement seems like another jab at getting support for the facility. |
"Since we are in the design stage, we are able to adapt and create a venue for soccer based on FIFA requirements while creating the ultimate venue for the NFL. Although the NFL is our top priority, playing host to soccer's greatest games would give the world a glimpse at the best outdoor venue in sports." |
Here's the thing. There's another proposed stadium in town. And its backers include some folks you might have heard of -- the people behind Staples Center. And this one would be downtown. |
So the SGV faction just upped the ante, appealing to that (very small) percentage of L.A.'s population that likes seeing a ball kicked around for 90 minutes for a score of 1 to 1. (Yay!). |
If the Staples crowd is going to stay in the game, we have two words that would surely blow Majestic Realty out of the water: Marijuana concessions. |
The 21-year-old Leclerc put in the fastest time and clocked a session-high 157 laps on the second day of Formula One pre-season testing on Tuesday. |
While that goal still looks lofty, the 21-year-old Leclerc impressed on Thursday when he set the fastest lap so far of this year's Formula One preseason testing in northeastern Spain. His effort of 1 minute, 16.231 seconds was only 0.05 seconds short of the record for the Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit set by Lewis Hamilt... |
Ferrari new boy Charles Leclerc secured his first pole position on Saturday when he set a new track record by topping a dramatic qualifying session for Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix. |
Ferrari protege and Formula One prospect Charles Leclerc clinched the Formula Two title with three races remaining on Saturday after winning at the Jerez circuit in southern Spain. |
Formula Two champion Charles Leclerc will graduate to Formula One with Sauber next season while Sweden's Marcus Ericcson stays in the lineup despite failing to score a point in 2017. |
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Along with voting on five open seats for Anchorage Assembly, and two spots on the Anchorage School Board, city voters are also deciding on several ballot proposals, but a few of them can be confusing. |
Alongside some more well-known proposals like Prop 9, which is the retail sales tax on alcohol, and Prop 1, aimed at improving school facilities, there are propsals, like Prop 8. |
Margaret McDonagh, President of the Anchorage League of Women Voters, explains that Prop 8 is a follow-up to the city's sale of ML&P to Chugach Electric. |
"ML&P already has some already established substations that are located on pre-existing parkland, and the Municipal Charter says that in order for Chugach to take over those substations, there has to be a separate vote that allows them to take over the lease of that land that is the easement that the substation is on b... |
Another one, Prop 11, has to do with the city's lease-purchase agreements. Voting "yes" on Prop 11 would essentially allow the city to make lease-to-own transactions, so the city ends up with an asset, instead of turning property back over to the owner when the lease is finished. It also calls for voter approval to mak... |
"So we're going to get rid of that million-dollar freebie if you will," said Eric Croft, Chair of the Anchorage Assembly. "The danger there is we could go out and get a whole bunch of $900,000 debt, and really get around that provision, so we don't want that. If we are incurring debt, we want you to vote on it through ... |
Other propositions include Prop 7, which would bring improvements and expansion to the police department's crime lab and evidence area, and Prop 4, which would put money toward construction, renovation, and upgrades of city roads and drainage systems. A full list of ballot propositions can be found on the city's websit... |
Ballots can be handed in or postmarked by April 2. |
Jeff Rubin is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and former chief economist and chief strategist at CIBC World Markets. His most recent CIGI paper is The Case for Divesting from Fossil Fuels in Canada. |
What should investors think of the mixed signals sent by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government about the oil sands? With the federally appointed National Energy Board conditionally approving Kinder Morgan's twinning of its Trans Mountain pipeline, and Monday's approval of a $1.3-billion gas pipeline expansion in A... |
New pipelines have long been championed as the oil sands' salvation, with producers arguing that tidewater access would unlock the much greater pricing power desperately needed to make their highly discounted fuel economic. Western Canadian Select, the benchmark price for bitumen from the oil sands that is mixed with d... |
But, of course, nowhere in the world does bitumen capture the price of conventional light oil. The oil sands crude is an inferior fuel requiring significantly more upgrading and refining before it can be converted into finished products like gasoline or diesel. And contrary to industry claims for desperately needed new... |
Comparable heavy-oil grades like Mexico's Maya crude typically fetch higher prices along the U.S. Gulf Coast than they do from overseas refineries. For example, between January, 2015, and March, 2016, Maya crude prices averaged more than $3 (U.S.) a barrel less in Europe than in the U.S. Gulf Coast and more than $8 a b... |
Neither TransCanada's proposed Energy East pipeline (which would allow bitumen to be shipped to refineries throughout the Atlantic basin) nor Kinder Morgan's proposed twinning of its Trans Mountain pipeline (which would serve as a conduit to Asian refineries) would likely bring any higher prices for oil sands fuel. Ins... |
Price differentials aside, the more fundamental issue facing the oil sands is that even if bitumen producers could capture the same world oil prices applicable to light conventional oil, those prices would still leave the bulk of their current production and virtually all planned increases in oil-sands production uneco... |
But a return to anywhere close to the triple-digit prices that spurred the development of the oil sands, as well as shale and other high-cost supply sources, seems less and less likely in a world increasingly governed by international commitments to reduce carbon emissions and limit the increase in average global tempe... |
Even under the International Energy Agency's 450 scenario, now seen as a bare minimum in view of the recent emission commitments made at COP21, global oil consumption peaks by the end of this decade and falls by nearly 25 per cent to 74 million barrels a day over the next two decades. And those projections are tied to ... |
Even if the oil sands incurred only a reduction in production proportional to the required shrinkage in global oil demand, it would imply shutting in more than 600,000 barrels a day of current output. But with costs anywhere from five to six times those of some OPEC producers, oil sands producers will be forced to shou... |
Far from needing new pipelines, the oil sands industry will soon have problems filling the capacity of existing ones in tomorrow's emission-constrained world. |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Every night, at its World Hub here, FedEx sorts up to 1.5 million packages that come in from all over the glove. The packages arrive on about 140 planes and are sorted, and then sent on to their final destinations. |
As part of CNET Road Trip 2014, I traveled to the World Hub to see just how the shipping giant handles the literal flood of packages. |
Click here for my full story on the World Hub. |
Every night, FedEx sends 140 planes to Memphis, and then sends 140 planes back out. Every one of the 1.5 million packages that comes through the World Hub will be sent back out toward its final destination. |
FedEx operates numerous types of planes, including this McDonnell Douglas MD-11. It also flies Boeing 777s, 767s, and 757s; Airbus 300s and 310s; and McDonnell Douglas MD-10s. |
A FedEx crew works feverishly in the rain to unload thousands of packages from an MD-11. |
Workers check out containers full of thousands of packages that have just been unloaded from a FedEx MD-11 at its Memphis World Hub. |
After packages are unloaded from planes at FedEx's Memphis World Hub, they're brought to one of nine Input areas: five for domestic packages and four that handle international, heavyweight, and dangerous-goods packages. |
One container's worth of packages -- about 235 -- floods into the Matrix. From there, FedEx workers take them and send them out on conveyors, where they're scanned and sorted for placement on planes that will take them to their final destination. |
Workers at the Matrix process thousands of packages an hour. |
After going through the Matrix, packages pass through a scanner, which reads their label -- complete with a bar code -- and sends them on their way to be sorted onto the plane that will take them to their eventual destination. |
A look down at row after row of conveyor belts moving packages through FedEx's World Hub in Memphis, Tenn. |
A package is pushed off a conveyor belt at a diverter, which sends the parcel on its way toward its eventual destination. |
A Boeing 777 being loaded with packages on the ramp at FedEx's Memphis World Hub at night. |
A computer monitor in FedEx's Hub Operations Command Center shows all the company's planes heading toward Memphis. |
Workers monitor cameras located throughout the World Hub to make sure the sort is going smoothly. |
At FedEx's Global Operations Center, the company can see precisely where any of its planes are at any time. This board displays the status of dozens of flights being operated by the company over a number of days. |
A worker at FedEx's World Hub processes packages at the company's Small Packages Sorting System, which handles hundreds of thousands of letters and other documents every night. |
At the SPSS, workers sort packages onto one of three belts. The packages are eventually sorted into bags that are designated for specific geographic destinations. |
Looking down at the SPSS system from above, it's possible to see how the small documents are sent along a conveyor belt and routed into specific chutes, and eventually into bags. |
The bags at the bottom of the picture are used to collect small packages for specific destinations. Each bag will be routed to a final destination. |
A series of chutes used to move packages at the SPSS. |
Row after row of conveyor belts moving small packages at FedEx' SPSS. |
Bags full of small packages make their way to planes that will take them to their eventual destinations at FedEx' SPSS at its World Hub in Memphis, Tenn. |
A cart packed tightly with bags full of small packages at FedEx's World Hub. |
The blue lights flashing meant everything at the FedEx World Hub had to come to a halt due to lightning within three miles. |
At FedEx's Ground Hub in Olive Branch, a six-sided scanner makes it possible for the company to send packages down a conveyor regardless of which side the label with the bar code is on. At its World Hub, workers have to ensure that the label is not facing down, because scanners can only see five sides of a package. |
The six-sided scanner scans a package at FedEx's Ground Hub in Olive Branch, Miss. |
Scenes from the end of year Illawarra Connection dinner at the Novotel. Pictures: Greg Ellis. |
Illawarra’s peak networking body ended the year with a 25th anniversary poem written and read at Tuesday’s black-tie dinner at the Novotel Wollongong Northbeach. |
Graham Lancaster read out the poem at the end of The Illawarra Connection president’s address which included him reflecting on the year that included a 25th anniversary dinner with special guest Mark Bouris. |
Or high, depending on the vocabulary. |
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