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Newly-crowned World chess champion D Gukesh returned home to an enthusiastic reception as hundreds of eager fans, and officials from the Tamil Nadu government and the national federation lined up to receive him at the airport in Chennai on Monday.
The 18-year-old Grandmaster from Chennai made history last week by defeating China's Ding Liren in Singapore, to become the youngest-ever World Chess Champion. Gukesh surpassed Garry Kasparov's long-standing record -- the legendary Russian had clinched the World title at 22 way back in 1985.
Gukesh also joins an elite club with the great Viswanathan Anand -- India's five-time World champion, becoming only the second Indian to claim the coveted global title.
Gukesh thanked the fans for their support.
"It's amazing. Your support gave me a lot of energy. It's a great feeling to win the world championship," said Gukesh as media and fans jostled to get a closer view of the youngster.
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| 2024-12-16T06:18:42Z
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Iowa Preps has updated our list of the top football players within the Class of 2028 now!
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| 2024-12-16T06:18:43Z
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Besharam Is A Big Flop
The daily collection of Besharam has been in the range of Rs 5-7 Crore, taking its five-day-total to Rs 45 Crore.
The signs were clear from the second day itself. However nobody expected Ranbir Kapoor’s Besharam to crash at the box office in such a huge way.
After an impressive opening day figure of Rs 20 Crore (on a public Holiday), the negative word of mouth spread quickly, and Besharam was on a downward spiral all through the weekend.
What was even more shocking is that, considering the promotion and the presence of an A-list leading man, the film did not register noticeable jumps on Saturday and Sunday either. Keeping the opening day aside, the daily collection of Besharam has been in the range of Rs 5-7 Crore, taking its five-day-total to Rs 45 Crore.
This is a far cry from Ranbir’s last release Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, which had zoomed into the 100-crore-club in record time.
Besharam is now a confirmed washout, and has minimal chances of making it past the second week.
The crash of Besharam has indirectly benefited Lunchbox and Grand Masti, which continued to show healthy numbers.
Grand Masti has in fact crossed the 100-crore-mark at the box office, making it the first Adult comedy to join Bollywood’s favorite club.
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https://www.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/besharam-is-a-big-flop-earns-rs-45-crore-in-5-days-105403.html
| 2024-12-16T06:18:45Z
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Virgin Australia handles 19m pax in FY2024
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| 2024-12-16T06:18:48Z
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| 2024-12-16T06:18:50Z
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NEW STILLS: Deepika In Ram-Leela
Ram-Leela stars Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone in lead roles
Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Ram-Leela is fast emerging as one of the most awaited movies of 2013. Bhansali's return to the colourful days of Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, coupled with box-office queen Deepika Padukone's star power along with a post-Lootera Ranveer Singh, make for perfect elements to get the trade excited about this one.
The makers have released a new set of posters and stills from Ram-Leela, in the run up to the movie's November 15 release. Here's the latest poster of Ram-Leela, which is also the third in the series.
There is also a new song called Lahu Munh Lag Gaya which will be unveiled to fans on Tuesday. Here's a sneak peek of Deepika Padukone's look in the song.
Speaking on Deepika Padukone's role in the film, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali says,"Leela is like my mother beautiful,graceful,but teekhi! Shes delicate,but she cannot be taken lightly.She isnt a recluse.She lives life to the fullest and on her own terms.She is colour,she is what she is... I wanted Deepika to be that".
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https://www.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/new-stills-deepika-padukone-in-ramleela-105414.html
| 2024-12-16T06:18:52Z
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Virgin Australia procures 10,000 US gallons of SAF in 2024
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Virgin Australia collaborated with Qatar Airways on sustainability initiatives, focusing on sustainable aviation fuel and environmental management1. It also partnered with Pertamina Aviation to use sustainable aviation fuel during the Bali International Airshow2. Virgin Australia reported a second annual after-tax profit in FY2024, with revenue reaching AUD5.4 billion3. CEO Jayne Hrdlicka emphasised the necessity of decarbonisation while maintaining aviation affordability4.
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| 2024-12-16T06:18:54Z
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| 2024-12-16T06:18:57Z
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Photos: Alia Bhatt In Red-Hot Mini Dress
Looking fresh as daisy, Alia Bhatt makes love with the cameras in this hot shoot.
Looking fresh as daisy, Alia Bhatt makes love with the cameras in this hot shoot.
Alia Bhatt makes love with the cameras in this oh-so lovely photoshoot.
Fresh as daisy
Confidence and attitude - Alia's ultimate accessories.
The diva in the making
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| 2024-12-16T06:18:58Z
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Virgin Australia receives six new 737 MAX 8 aircraft in 2024
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| 2024-12-16T06:19:00Z
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| 2024-12-16T06:19:03Z
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Sarah Jane Dias Goes TOPLESS For FHM
Flaunting her signature curls, Sarah goes topless, and wears just a white skirt, for the cover.
The Kya Super Kool Hain Hum hottie, Sarah Jane Dias, dares to bare for FHM India magazine's October issue.
Flaunting her signature curls, the temptress goes topless, and wears just a white skirt, for the cover.
Go, grab your copy and treat your eyes on the sensational Sarah's drool-worthy hot-bod.
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https://www.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/sarah-jane-dias-goes-topless-for-fhm-105216.html
| 2024-12-16T06:19:04Z
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Virgin Australia to deploy 737 on Brisbane-Mackay service
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| 2024-12-16T06:19:07Z
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| 2024-12-16T06:19:10Z
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Shah Rukh Khan Guilty Of Plagiarism?
Shah Rukh Khan's recent speech at AIMA was allegedly inspired from many sources.
It is a known fact that Shah Rukh Khan is a great entertainer and a fabulous orator. The actor easily pulls off any speech with his trademark wit and knowledge.
But the latest piece of media information comes as a complete shocker. Apparently, SRK has recently made news for a wrong reason and how! The actor was invited to give a speech at All India Management Association (AIMA). And as the grapevine underlines, Khan's speech was hugely inspired from many sources.
Shah Rukh - who spoke on a range of topics, including education, success, failures, poverty - had allegedly used a major part of famous British author JK Rowling's Harvard 2008 speech. Not just that, it is said that his speech was also inspired from few other sources, and SRK didn't credit anyone for the words.
Watch out this space for more updates on the same.
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https://www.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/shah-rukh-khan-guilty-of-plagiarism-105349.html
| 2024-12-16T06:19:10Z
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Volgograd Gumrak Airport pax up 8% in 11M2024
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| 2024-12-16T06:19:13Z
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Crossing guard who died protecting kids remembered by Burlington community
Bruce Morlack died after he was hit by a car while helping two students cross the road. Now, he's being remembered as a hero.
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Sonakshi Turns Rowdy For Shahid Kapoor
The Rowdy Rathore actress will be bashing up villains in R...Rajkumar
Right from her debut film Dabangg, Sonakshi Sinha has been part of several action films. However in all those movies she has been providing the glam quotient or playing the damsel in distress.
But in PrabhuDheva’s forthcoming Shahid Kapoor starrer R…Rajkumar, Sonkahsi Sinha too will be kicking some butt and getting her share of the action.
For her introductory scene in the film, Sonakshi will be seen smashing a glass bottle on the head of one of the bad guys.
Speaking on her unique entry in R…Rajkumar, Sonkashi told the media,”When Prabhu Sir told me that I would be introduced in this film doing action, I was super thrilled! I told him, we have done ‘Rowdy Rathore’ together but you are finally giving me the chance to be rowdy in this film! I had a blast beating up the baddies."
The Shahid Kapoor starrer releases in cinemas this December.
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https://www.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/sonakshi-sinha-turns-rowdy-for-shahid-kapoor-105389.html
| 2024-12-16T06:19:17Z
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WestJet and Government of Alberta commemorate second anniversary of MoU
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WestJet continued to expand its operations in Alberta, launching new seasonal services from Calgary and Edmonton for summer 2025, including routes to the US and Canada1. The carrier increased capacity by 50% in Edmonton and 30% in Calgary, enhancing transborder and domestic connectivity2. In 2023, WestJet focused on growing transborder routes and boosting connectivity to the US from Edmonton, aiming for a 150% increase in transborder capacity3.
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Kristen Stewart Has Not Moved On Yet
Actress Kristen Stewart is still not over her ex-boyfriend, actor Robert Pattinson.
Actress Kristen Stewart is still not over her ex-boyfriend, actor Robert Pattinson.
The 23-year-old is convinced that no matter who Pattinson is dating, their love was so special that it could never, ever be replaced.
"Even though Rob is dating (someone else), Kristen is convinced that what she and Rob had was one of a kind, that their love for each other was one of a kind and can never, ever be replaced," hollywoodlife.com quoted a source as saying.
"Kristen still misses Rob, but finds comfort in knowing that what they shared was the best thing that ever happened to her," the source added.
Pattinson is currently rumoured to be dating Dylan Penn and Stewart doesn't want to compare herself with anyone linked to the actor.
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| 2024-12-16T06:19:23Z
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WestJet launches seasonal Toronto-Grenada service
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Britney Spears: I Always Sing Live
Singer Britney Spears says she always sings live during her concerts.
Singer Britney Spears says she always sings live during her concerts.
The 31-year-old's reaction came after certain reports claimed that the singer lip-sync on pre-recorded audio.
But she tries to give her best while performing in front of the audience, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
"I'm definitely going to be singing live. I always sing live. It doesn't sound so great all the time, but I do my best," Spears said in a radio interview.
Spears will soon perform in Las Vegas at the upcoming Las Vegas Residency.
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Wuhan Airport exceeds 30m pax for 2024
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Gaga's Aura in 'Machete Kills' Trailers
Pop star Lady Gaga's song "Aura" features in the latest trailer of Robert Rodriguez-directed movie "Machete Kills".
London: Pop star Lady Gaga's song "Aura" features in the latest trailer of Robert Rodriguez-directed movie "Machete Kills".
In the film, Gaga will be seen as 'the Chameleon'.
The trailer shows Gaga in a yellow gold wig and fur coat and the scenes feature Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Amber Heard, Charlie Sheen, Antonio Banderas, Jessica Alba, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Mel Gibson, reports aceshowbiz.com.
A special "Machete Kills" themed lyrics video featuring the complete song is set to come out Oct 8. IANS
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Wuxi Airport exceeds 10m pax for 2024
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Parirenyatwa Hospitals Performs 41 Heart Surgeries In 2024
Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals has reportedly performed 41 successful heart surgeries in 2024, the highest number of such operations conducted in a single year since 2016.
In an interview with The Sunday Mail, Terence Mautsi, the public relations officer for the hospital group, said that they aim to increase this number to between 100 and 150 in 2025. Said Mautsi:
Open-heart surgery has progressed this year. We have performed 41 surgeries in total. This is important, being the highest number performed per year in comparison to other years since 2016 and we are planning to double the number next year, resources permitting.
FeedbackThe aim is for the unit to become a fully fledged one, which is able to fulfil national obligations, including teaching specialists, and this can only be possible by increasing the number of procedures done at the hospital.
The hospital is aiming at having a 10-bed cardiothoracic ICU (intensive care unit) and HDU (high dependency unit); this will allow smooth functioning and we are engaged with at least three cardiothoracic units to train percussionists.
Mautsi said they were unable to meet their target due to occasional shortages of essential consumables. He said:
The ideal number of patients to keep a single cardiothoracic surgeon competent, of 150 per year, has not been reached.
There are many factors which contributed to us not reaching the target. There are times when we ran out of consumables and it took a long to procure due to the process involved. We had instances where the resources were available but patients failed to turn up due to fear.
The patients need to be admitted into ICU after the procedure; unfortunately, we have one general ICU for the whole hospital.
We should have an independent ICU for cardiothoracic surgery; this will allow us to function more effectively.
Mautsi said that there are currently 200 patients on the Parirenyatwa waiting list, with the waiting period being six for those who agree to undergo surgery.
In addition to the 41 successful heart surgeries, two patients unfortunately lost their lives due to postoperative complications. He said:
One patient developed an infection and succumbed almost two weeks after surgery and the other patient was bleeding postoperatively and unfortunately we were unable to secure the relevant blood products due to shortages.
We aim to do at least 100 to 150 next year. We are engaging with the Ministry of Health and Child Care as our parent ministry, the hospital administration, sister hospitals, local industries and NGOs (non-governmental organisations) to reach our target.
Surgical camps allow us to do more patients; the last camp we did 10 patients in a week, so we are planning to do more camps. We are engaged with other units in Africa to get personal training as percussionists.
Mautsi added that 12 children underwent successful surgeries this year, with 11 of the patients diagnosed with congenital heart disease and one suffering from rheumatic heart disease.
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Sony Music has released a single audio track from Superstar Rajinikanth's 'Kochadaiiyaan'. The inspirational intro song for the Superstar has been composed by AR Rahman and sung by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam. Directed by Soundarya Rajinikanth, 'Kochadaiiyaan' also stars R. Sarathkumar, Aadhi, Deepika Padukone, Shobana, Rukmini Vijayakumar, Jackie Shroff and Nassar in lead roles and the film is scheduled to release on December 12, 2013.
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Xiamen Airlines commences Beijing-Vientiane service
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Post-release Marketing Important:Mysskin
Filmmaker Mysskin is doing all this to promote his recently released "Onayum Aatukuttiyum" as he feels post-release marketing is equally important for a movie's success.
Chennai: He is travelling from one city to another, sticking posters of his film himself and thanking viewers. Filmmaker Mysskin is doing all this to promote his recently released "Onayum Aatukuttiyum" as he feels post-release marketing is equally important for a movie's success.
Produced and directed by Mysskin, crime-thriller "Onayum Aatukuttiyum" released Sep 27 in Tamil Nadu.
Mysskin has toured cities like Madurai, Trichy and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.
"Some films, despite rave reviews, don't draw audiences to cinemas. This is because of the limited shows of that particular film in a theatre or the lack of aggressive promotions. Therefore, it's important for such films to continue promoting post-release," Mysskin told IANS.
Lack of funds didn't allow the filmmaker to market his film aggressively before its release.
"I couldn't find producers after the debacle of my last film ('Mugamoodi'). 'Onayum Aatukuttiyum' is a low-budget film and I didn't have more funds to promote it. The film opened to very good reviews, but unfortunately the shows in theatres were reduced to make way for another film," he said.
"I decided to promote on my own. I went to Madurai, Coimbatore and a few other places to thank fans who came to watch my film and create more buzz around it. I'm on the streets sticking posters of my film in the middle of the night because it saves me a lot of money and is impactful," he added.
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Yamato Transport USA launches US-Mexico service with bonded transfer between airports
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'Bigg Boss Should Have Less Politics'
Instead of feeding controversies, "Bigg Boss 7" house should provide adequate food for the inmates, feels Anita Advani, whose stint on the reality show has ended.
New Delhi: Instead of feeding controversies, "Bigg Boss 7" house should provide adequate food for the inmates, feels Anita Advani, whose stint on the reality show has ended.
After getting evicted Saturday, Advani is not sure whether she will want to go back in, if given a chance.
"The 'Bigg boss' house must have more food for its contestants rather than politics," Advani told IANS in a telephonic interview.
"Let's see if I will go back to the house or not, if given a chance," she added.
However, she feels that the house was much better than what Advani, who claims to be Rajesh Khanna's live-in partner, had imagined it to be.
"People in the house were more friendly than what I had imagined. My stay there was very nice and I enjoyed it... I did share a few things about my life with him (Rajesh Khanna) on the show," she said.
She feels that contestants good at mind-games will win the show.
"I feel that the one who has the ability to brainwash maximum number of people will win the show. There is a lot of groupism there," she said.
Advani, who was initially placed in the heaven section of the house, was seen to be the closest to actress Tanisha Mukherjee.
"I was closest to Tanisha. We have decided to keep in touch even after the show," she said.
Now the remaining contestants are VJ Andy, Gauhar Khan, Kushal Tandon, Apoorva Agnihotri and his wife Shilpa, Tanisha, Armaan Kohli, Asif Azim, Sangram Singh, Elli Avram, Ratan Rajput, Kamya Punjabi and Pratyusha Banerjee.
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Kangana On Comedy Nights With Kapil
After the fire accident, Kapil Sharma shoots his show on the sets of Bigg Boss 7.
After the fire accident, Kapil Sharma shoots his show on the sets of Bigg Boss 7.
Kangana Ranaut makes a dazzling appearance on the funny TV series, Comedy Nights With Kapil, to promote her upcoming film, Rajjo.
Courtesy: Telly Talk India
This is the comedy reality show's first episode after the fire accident happened on its Film City sets.
The episode has been shot on the sets of Salman Khan's Bigg Boss 7 in Lonawala, and will continue to be filmed there until its new set is created.
Reportedly, Bollywood biggies like Shah Rukh Khan and Lata Mangeshkar offered financial help to Kapil after he suffered a huge damage worth crores of rupees.
Clad in an off-white sexy top and long black skirt, Kangana looks simply dazzling.
Kangana Ranaut is at her candid best, thoroughly indulging in naughtiness with the show's hilarious characters, Gutthi and Palak.
Kangana Ranaut with the entire cast of Comedy Nights With Kapil.
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Cancer: Side Effects Of Cancer Treatment
Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy form a part of the standardised regimen for curing or palliating cancer symptoms. Chemotherapy and radioactive therapy also harms cells that divide rapidly under normal circumstances: cells in the bone marrow digestive tract and hair follicles. The most common side effects of chemotherapy: myelosuppression decreased production of blood cells and alopecia hair loss.
Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy form a part of the standardised regimen for curing or palliating cancer symptoms. Traditional chemotherapeutic agents act by killing cells that divide rapidly, one of the main properties of most cancer cells.
This means that chemo and radioactive therapy also harms cells that divide rapidly under normal circumstances: cells in the bone marrow, digestive tract, and hair follicles. Thus resulting in the most common side effects of chemotherapy: myelosuppression (decreased production of blood cells, hence also immunosuppressant), mucositis (inflammation of the lining of the digestive tract), and alopecia (hair loss).
Whereas, the other side effects take a longer time to wear off and return to normalcy, alopecia or hair loss tends to affect the self-esteem and confidence of cancer patients.
Commenting on the same, Mr. Rahul Bajpai, BNH HCG, Cancer Centre Head said, “Hair loss is caused by chemo and radioactive therapy. This change in appearance can drastically undermine the patient’s self-image and cause additional trauma. A “total care” approach should be used, by using a multi disciplinary approach to meet the physical and emotional needs of our patients to give them new options and renewed hope.”
Dr Kailash Mishra, Consultant Oncologist (Radiation) BNH HCG said, "Hair loss (scalp) is a common unwanted adverse effect of cancer treatment, caused by chemo and radiotherapy (skull). However, the transition phase wears off and a patient is cured and recovers his self -esteem."
*Image courtesy: © Thinkstock photos/ Getty Images
*Data Courtesy: The oncologist specialist team at BNH HCG Cancer Center, Mumbai.
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Switzerland joins geopolitical game in Djibouti
The strategic importance of the Gulf of Aden is growing. Switzerland has real interests there, but not much in the way of political influence. It is trying to gain some by being a good neighbour – such as helping with coral reefs.
Nowhere in the world are there such beautiful coral reefs as off the coast of Djibouti, a small state on the Horn of Africa, at the southern end of the Red Sea. Here on the Gulf of Tadjoura dark volcanic mountains rise into the air, and only the odd sailboat is to be seen out on the sea. But under water there is a wonderful world to be explored. The coral reefs in shimmering shapes and colours host an amazing wealth of natural life.
Two years ago this submarine world was the object of a scientific expedition in which Switzerland took part. Diving and taking samples of the unique vegetation has kept researchers from several countries busy. The samples are now being studied by the Transnational Red Sea CenterExternal link at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL).
Using DNA analysis, the researchers are seeking to understand the biological process of Djibouti’s coral reefs a bit better. They seem to be more resistant to the adverse effects of climate change than reefs in other parts of the world. This autumn, photos from the scientific expedition, which will continue on into 2025, could be seen at an openExternal link-air exhibition in Geneva.
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Science with a diplomatic purpose
For Switzerland, participation in the project is not just a matter of altruism. The Transnational Red Sea Center, which was launched in 2019 and is funded by the Swiss foreign ministry, has a further dimension. It involves a now well-established strategy in Swiss foreign policy: linking science and diplomacy so as to build bridges and make useful contacts in a fragile political environment. Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis explained this strategy in an article for SWI swissinfo.ch published in 2019.
For even apart from the coral reefs, the Red Sea region with its many tensions could have geopolitical strategic importance in the future, according to Ali Miganeh Hadi, a researcher in maritime and geopolitical issues at the University of Djibouti. In autumn he spoke to SWI swissinfo.ch at an international five-star hotel in the capital city of Djibouti from which the tall cranes in the port were visible.
Djibouti, which hosts the largest American military base on the African continent and further bases belonging to China, France, Italy and Japan, has been successful over two decades in positioning itself as a key player in the Red Sea area. “Compared to our neighbours, we are an anchor of stability in the region,” Hadi pointed out.
Only a few miles away, where the Red Sea’s waves meet the horizon, is the Bab el-Mandeb Strait – one of the world’s busiest sea lanes. Between Djibouti and Eritrea on one side and Yemen on the other, it links the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden. It is one of the most important trade routes between Europe and Asia. Nearly a quarter of the world’s shipping traffic – carrying billions of tonnes of goods – passes through this waterway every year.
Since last year there has been an ongoing crisis. The Houthi militia, supported by Iran, controls most of northwest Yemen, and since last November they have been targeting international freighters with their drones and rockets. These attacks are in retaliation for the Gaza war. They are intended to provide support for Palestinian militant group Hamas, regarded as terrorists by the US, the EU and numerous other states. The Houthis have aimed to discourage the Israeli military action in Gaza with their attacks.
Swiss business needs the Red Sea
This could become a big problem for European states, because the Houthi attacks have provoked an economic crisis. Since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, hundreds of cargo ships in international waters near Yemen have been hit by rockets, drones and missiles. Sailors have been killed, and many ships have been either hijacked, sunk or damaged.
This also affects Switzerland, which is an important centre for shipping lines. In March a container ship belonging to Mediterranean Shipping Co. (MSC), one of the world’s biggest shipping lines with its headquarters in Geneva, was targeted by Houthi forces on its journey from Singapore to Djibouti about 150 kilometres south of the Yemeni city of Aden. According to US military sources, Houthi fighters fired two rockets, one of which hit the vessel. Incidents like this are often hushed up. Shipping lines are worried about their reputation for reliability and about possible increases in their insurance premiums.
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To bypass this hazardous route from Asia to Europe, international freighters are increasingly using the longer route around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. This takes an extra two weeks and uses up about 30% more fuel. Following the attacks on shipping, traffic through the Red Sea has decreased almost 80% within a year.
In Switzerland not only shipping lines are affected, but also logistics firms. Logistics is another important Swiss industry sector, and in view of its global supply chains it too is vulnerable to international flashpoints.
Added to this complex situation is another factor: Djibouti is the central corridor for migration flowsExternal link from East Africa to the Arabian peninsula. Even the long-standing conflict in Yemen has not affected this.
A new approach to gain influence
For East Africa expert Tobias Hagmann of Swisspeace, an independent research organisation based in Basel, the Horn of Africa is likely to become more of a focus for European countries – including Switzerland. The civil war in Yemen has caused a rethinking of the situation, with the region being regarded as one large economic area, he said. The latest crisis involving the Houthis will only add to this.
“As soon as trade routes and sea lanes are endangered, alarm bells go off with those affected, which only increases concern with the political situation in the region,” he said. For Switzerland in particular, as an exporter nation, it is of decisive importance to secure its own supply chains, according to Hagmann.
Until now, he said, Switzerland has used its humanitarian aid and development cooperation activities in the Horn of Africa to try to play a constructive role in stabilising the region. This has included contributing to multilateral and multinational funding for building up a state structure in neighbouring Somalia, where pirates have been active and a threat to passing shipping.
Given the present crisis, states such as Djibouti, which is already mentioned in the Swiss foreign ministry’s Strategy for Sub-Saharan AfricaExternal link in connection with geopolitical developments in the Red Sea area, could receive more attention. The small coastal state has expressed its solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza, but it supports peaceful solutions and respects the sovereignty of both sides, Ali Miganeh Hadi explained.
Switzerland, since its neutrality prevents it from participating in any military intervention, could find new ways to strengthen its position in the region and make Switzerland more visible through science diplomacy and the Transnational Red Sea Center, he said.
However, the options fur using science diplomacy to advance foreign policy interests are limited, according to Jasmina Saric of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, which as part of its work carries out research on Swiss science diplomacy in Africa. “It cannot be expected of a scientific project that it is suddenly going to solve all tensions and challenges in a very complex region,” she said.
There are, nonetheless, positive examples from other regions of Africa, she said. In Kenya, Switzerland has been working successfully with the government in the areas of food security, natural resource management and biosecurity, Saric explained. “Where long-term scientific partnerships and projects are given a chance, there turns out to be room for common efforts or bilateral cooperation in other areas, even if the diplomatic channels are blocked.”
Edited by Giannis Mavris. Adapted from German by Terence MacNamee/gw
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Food Basics: Health Benefits Of Cardamom (Elaichi)
Cardamom is widely used in Indian cuisine for its amazing taste. This spice is a medicine for various treatment like mouth ulcers digestion etc Know more about this famous spice with Shilpa Mittal.
Cardamom, is one spice, which is widely used in Indian cuisine, for its amazing taste. Besides, adding taste to your recipe, this spice is a medicine for various treatment like mouth ulcers, digestion etc. Know more about this famous spice with Shilpa Mittal - Nutritionist, Diet Consultant and Founder of Nutrilife Health Management, Mumbai.
Health Benefits od Cardamom
Digestive disorders
This spice is great for boosting digestive health. It helps in stimulating the digestive system and reduces gas and bloating. It also helps in relieving acidity. Choose cardamom tea to treat headaches caused by indigestion.
Bad breath
If you are troubled with bad breadth, then chew some cardamom. It will work as a mouth freshener and help get rid of bad breath.
Depression
If you are one of the victims of depression or anxiety, then powder some cardamom and boil it in hot water to prepare cardamom tea. The pleasing aroma will help you ease your depression and other mental problems.
Expectorant action
Cardamom helps to improve circulation to the lungs, so it is recommended for people suffering from asthma and bronchitis.
Impotency
If your sex life is going down the drain, then use cardamom. Cardamom can be used to treat sexual dysfunctions like impotency and premature ejaculation.
Other benefits
Besides, the above benefits, cardamom also has a cooling effect; stimulates the appetite and eases stomach cramps.
Uses of Cardamom
- Cardamom can be used in garam masala, tea, coffee and paan.
- Cardamom can also be used in Indian desserts like phirni, gulab jamun etc. The use of cardamom gives a distinctive flavour to the food.
- The whole green cardamom can be used in pulavs, curries and hot dishes like biryanis, pulaos and kebabs.
*Image courtesy: © Thinkstock photos/ Getty Images
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Major review planned after teacher suspended over ‘serious misconduct’ with student able to secure new school job
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EVERGREEN: THE GRAND FINALE - Exposing Worldwide Secret Connections (PART 7)
You should know by now that I always save the best for last...
This may seem boring for a few minutes, but stick with it, it will be worth it in the end. It’s like one of those books where you don’t really know what you are reading or how it ties together until the very last page, then all of a sudden it all makes sense - so much sense that it changes how you view everything you thought you knew.
To tie this series together, we must go back to WWI, 1914-1918. During this time, to protect the public from dangerous inventions, the government was reviewing and blocking patents without authorization from Congress. But since the people needed to be protected and inventions can cause harm, it was for the greater good. The war ended in 1918, but it was still important to continue to review patents because who knows what awful creation could come to fruition without strict government oversight.
The year following the end of the war (1919), the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed by four companies. Those four entities were AT&T, Westinghouse, General Electric and United Fruit Co.
RCA didn’t just make records and home appliances, they were a military contractor tied to the CIA. Additionally, it was RCA who created the first nationwide American radio network, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). This means, this company called RCA, provided the media and also the electronics for people to consume the media on… all while working for the government. Fun Fact: People would later become concerned that NBC was a monopoly, so it split into two entities which was how ABC was formed (this was officially the first clone in history; one mockingbird became two - just kidding).
RCA was formed as a “patent pool” which meant that each of the owning-businesses would provide each other with access to technology only they had the rights to.
Now keep in mind what we just discussed; under the guise of safety, the defense sector was reviewing all patent submissions. Patents which they deemed dangerous would not be granted… and it just so happened that the government now had a large-scale contractor who operated as a patent pool. Those four companies that founded RCA had the means to manufacture a vast array of electronics, books, communication equipment, as well as the ability to broadcast, and RCA had contracts with the military as well as CIA affiliations. Don’t forget that United Fruit Co (Chiquita banana) basically performed a hostile takeover of Guatemala. Point being, these four companies were juggernauts, and when they combined their forces, they were whatever is above juggernaut on the scale of empires.
Only a month after RCA (patent pool) was founded, at the direction of President-and-Freemason Roosevelt it bought out the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America (*Roosevelt wasn’t President yet, at this time he was Undersecretary of the Navy-and-Freemason-Roosevelt). Patent-pool-RCA began using the technology to spy on telegraph communications. They were photographing them and delivering the photographs to the CIA and other government entities. After this, RCA began cranking out inventions at speeds that leave you wondering how it was possible for them to not only invent the technology, but also know how to produce it so fast. History tells us the scientists and engineers in their labs were just really, really smart.
About a decade after RCA formed, RCA Services Limited was created. RCA Services Limited was the UK branch of the US entity. And, as soon as the United Kingdom branch was launched, it began working with the British War Office. This means RCA, the patent pool operated by GE, Westinghouse, AT&T and United Fruit Co, were now deeply embedded in both US and UK government. (In effort to eliminate confusion, for the rest of this series, I will refer to RCA Services Limited as “RCA-UK” and I will refer to the United States arm of the company as RCA-US.)
In the US, the Invention Secrecy Act went into effect. Now the government, with authorization from Congress, could block patents. The patents being stopped were no longer what was deemed dangerous. Per the new Act, any patent that could disrupt society would be denied to its inventor.
Next, the DOJ and CIA were designated as defense agencies so they too could deny any inventor of the rights to his creation, or they could take it a step further and ban him from ever speaking of it, writing about it or so much as showing a drawing of it.
In America, RCA was now inventing like crazy; color television, the electron microscope, CMOS-based technology, heterojunction physics, optoelectronic emitting devices, liquid crystal displays (LCDs), videocassette recorders, direct broadcast television, direct broadcast satellite systems and high-definition television, to name a few… because they had the smartest-ever employees.
Come the 1960s, RCA was buying out existing companies. RCA purchased Hertz (the car rental company) as well as Random House publishing company. What does Random House do? They are the leading publisher of school textbooks. Yes, since the 1960s, our educational textbooks have been published by military-contractor-patent-pool-RCA.
Although it is strangely difficult to find an all-inclusive list of every pre-existing business ever bought by RCA-US and RCA-UK, based on what we know they owned, the patent-pool-people now had everything from manufacturing to media to travel and created the educational materials for children and colleges. It was a goliath that general public believed manufactured home appliances and dealt in music records.
Now here’s where things start getting important…
By the 1980s, RCA-UK was no longer just offering their services to the government, it had morphed into a management company. It was during this time that it was awarded the Ministry of Defense’s first outsourcing contract “to operate a big supply depot” for the Royal Air Force Quedgeley, located in Gloucestershire (UK).
RCA-UK would also manage multiple massive warehouses for the military, in fact, it even built the warehouses - and these were no ordinary warehouses. One housed the nation’s ballistic missile early warning system, and the other was home to a top secret radar at the UK’s atomic weapons research base. - “Who the hell would outsource this to a private company instead of having the military do it?”, you ask. I put two palms in the air and just stare with a blank expression.
While this was going on, RCA-US was bought out by one of its four owners, General Electric, but the name remained RCA. This buyout was the largest non-oil company merger in history (as of the time). Now get this, “it was revealed that GE's main motivation in purchasing RCA was to acquire the corporation's defense-related businesses and the NBC Television Network.”. So now, it was military-contractor GE who owned RCA who made the textbooks and so on.
Once GE got full control over RCA, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, which was home to RCA therefore known as the RCA Building, was renamed the GE Building. And, while the US public was distracted by the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster, IBM releasing the first laptop, Oprah airing her first television show and a huge stock market crash, and while the UK public was additionally given the Sumburgh Disaster (helicopter / airport crash resulting in mass death), the discovery of Mad Cow Disease, and the Hungerford Massacre (which lead to prohibiting civilian ownership of virtually all semi-automatic firearms), RCA-UK quietly underwent a massive change and arose a new company… an entity that would secretly take over the world. That entity was…
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The rest of this article has to be paywalled because I am going to finish exposing all of my research and researching this series has been a nightmare. Throughout investigating, I have suffered being debanked, content I was looking vanishing from the internet and, as of last night, getting locked out of my own email (thankfully my Gmail was just personal sh*t and not Truther stuff, but regardless, it was connected to a lot of accounts related to my real job, you know, the job that doesn’t involve writing mostly-free articles on the internet). If you have never been put in these situations, they are horrible. Anyway, putting something behind a paywall is a slightly safer option than publicly exposing people who have the power to further destroy or kill me. If you want truth with the evidence to back it up, meet me on the other side of this paywall where I will name names.
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Special report: The Breakup of Pakistan 1969-1971
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The haunting tell-tale image on the top is symbolic of the plight of those who had survived the trauma of the 1971 war, which had led to the dismemberment of Pakistan and the creation of Bangladesh. She was captured through the lens of acclaimed Indian photographer Raghu Rai who had accompanied the Indian forces to Dhaka during the war. Raghu Rai has gifted his photographs to Dawn for this Special Report.
#Elections and massacre
By S. Akbar Zaidi
IN her book, The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics, Ayesha Jalal writes about Gen Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, who imposed martial law after replacing Gen Ayub Khan in March 1969 as president of Pakistan when the latter was forced out by street protests, that Yahya was a “boisterous fellow and determined drunkard [and] had a penchant for cavorting with abandon”. Perhaps many would still remember Yahya for what Jalal calls his “nocturnal activities”, since they “were the talk of the nation”, and ‘General Rani’ became part of what she calls “elite gossip”.
However, it is more probable that today Yahya Khan is remembered for two extraordinary developments that took place under his watch: the elections of 1970, and the subsequent massacre in East Pakistan, leading to the separation of the latter and the creation of Bangladesh. He played a key role in both events. Of course, Yahya, even if indeed he was perpetually inebriated, was not the lone player in what happened in 1970-71. Two other actors, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, played critical roles as well.
It was the numerous contradictions which emerged from the Decade of Development’s capitalist logic under an authoritarian military state which gave rise to the regional, social, economic and political discontent of the late 1960s, forcing Ayub Khan’s resignation in Pakistan’s first popular uprising.
In West Pakistan, while it was Baloch and Pakhtun nationalists who were demanding the end of the One Unit, it was Bhutto who led students, the working classes and sections of the newly emerging middle classes against Ayub. While some scholars have read too much into the Bhutto agitation, stating that Pakistan was on the verge of a socialist revolution, his not being Punjabi and having already publicly parted ways with Ayub after Tashkent in 1966, saw Bhutto emerge as the dominant voice in West Pakistan opposing military authoritarianism of which he was once a part.
In East Pakistan, even though Maulana Bhashani spoke for the peasants of the province, it was Sheikh Mujib, who, after raising his Six-Point Programme in 1966 for democracy and greater provincial autonomy, and who was implicated (but later released) in the Agartala Conspiracy Case in 1968, was fast emerging as the main voice of East Pakistani/Bengali nationalism when Ayub was forced out.
It is important to state that while some Bengali voices were challenging the unity of Pakistan, Mujib, at this political juncture, was still in favour of a united, democratic, federal Pakistan, despite the growing realisation in the eastern wing that East Pakistan had by now become a mere colony of West Pakistan.
Under these circumstances, led by charismatic and populist leaders who had sat through 11 years of military rule, Yahya Khan announced elections for October 1970, doing away with the One Unit, giving the majority province on the basis of its population 162 seats in a parliament of 300.
Yahya had imposed martial law when he took over from Ayub, and the military and bureaucracy were busy influencing political parties and elements that were eager to test their popularity. Historians examining Yahya’s decision have argued that it was based on reports by military intelligence which stated that no single party would win a majority in parliament, and, with a hung parliament, real power would still reside with the military-bureaucracy oligarchy.
Due to monsoon rains in East Bengal, the government postponed the elections by two months. The polls were announced for Dec 7. However, a devastating cyclone in November 1970 in East Pakistan, which claimed the lives of close to 200,000 people, sealed the fate of the elections and, in retrospect it seems, of Pakistan. East Pakistanis were appalled at the response of the predominantly Punjabi-Muhajir military-bureaucratic administration in dealing with this crisis, and East Pakistani politicians, with just a few weeks to go for Pakistan’s first elections, were eager to point out how irrelevant Pakistani Bengalis had become to the ruling West Pakistan clique.
Academics studying the process of democratisation in Pakistan have argued that one of the many reasons why elections were never held in Pakistan was the fear of the Punjabi-Muhajir elites, and of their military-bureaucratic alliance, that with East Pakistan’s majority population universal franchise would always result in a majority of seats from East Pakistan.
The 1970 election results went further in confirming these fears. Sheikh Mujib’s Awami League won 160 of the 162 seats in East Pakistan, giving it a majority in united Pakistan’s parliament. Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party won 81 seats out of 138 in West Pakistan, becoming the majority party in West Pakistan, mainly from Sindh and Punjab. The critical outcome from the 1970 elections was that neither of the two largest parties won a single seat in the other wing. Electorally, Pakistan stood divided.
While the military’s Operation Searchlight in East Pakistan started in March 1971, the short period following the elections until the brutal military operations, clearly showed how the egos of a handful of West Pakistani politicians played out and were matched with the incompetence and unwillingness of the military leadership in understanding and addressing political issues.
United Pakistan just might have been saved in these few weeks had the Punjabi-Muhajir military-bureaucratic leadership allowed the results of the 1970 elections to be honoured. But this would have gone against their very own genius and their core material interests. Moreover, there was one particular popular democrat who refused to acknowledge the democratic mandate which did not entirely suit him.
Soon after the election results, there was talk of having two prime ministers for Pakistan, with Bhutto apparently having agreed. Yahya, on the other hand, on a visit to Dhaka, called Mujib the “future prime minister of Pakistan”. On his return to West Pakistan from Dhaka, Yahya flew to Larkana to meet Bhutto, who advised Yahya not to give control of the National Assembly, and, hence, of Pakistan, to Mujib. Bhutto flew to Dhaka to meet Mujib, but talks had clearly failed between the two.
Shuja Nawaz in his Crossed Swords writes that there were many senior generals who were willing to “back Bhutto”. Clearly, the electoral winner in West Pakistan and the generals were not willing to honour the election results and a major political and constitutional crisis was at hand.
Bhutto famously remarked that “a majority alone does not count” (ironically, words which would haunt his daughter in 1988), and further made one of his many famous statements, threatening to break the legs of any West Pakistani elected representative who proceeded to Dhaka — “tangain tore doon ga” — to participate in the National Assembly session called by Yahya on March 3, 1971. It was Bhutto, again, who later uttered words that led to one journalist coining the famed headline: ‘udhar tum, idhar hum’.
After repeated failed attempts to call the National Assembly meeting and with talks completely having broken down, Operation Searchlight was launched by the military on March 25, 1971, under Gen Tikka Khan, with both Yahya and Bhutto still in Dhaka.
There has been a great deal written by Pakistani military men and historians, as well as by Indian and Bangladeshi academics and scholars, on what happened in East Pakistan between March 25 and Dec 16, 1971. While versions may vary, as do number counts — of casualties, massacres and rapes — there is broad consensus, especially among Pakistani authors, that the scale and nature of atrocities conducted by the military was on a horrific scale.
A Pakistani journalist who worked for the Morning News in Karachi, Anthony Mascarenhas, wrote for the London Sunday Times on June 13, 1971, an article simply entitled ‘Genocide’, which revealed to the world the atrocities committed in East Pakistan.
Yet, while George Harrison of the Beatles organised a concert for Bangladesh, the US and other world powers, turned a blind eye to what was happening in East Pakistan. As the massacre took place in East Pakistan, Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon did “nothing, intentionally”, as documented in Gary Bass’ book, The Blood Telegram, based partly on a telegram sent by Archer Blood, the then US consul general in Dhaka, who warned of what was happening.
The Americans at the time were courting Mao’s China and Pakistan mattered to them, for it was the conduit for what later became known as ‘ping-pong’ diplomacy. China, too, kept out of Pakistan’s “internal affairs”.
Military action in East Pakistan continued from March to early December, with a Bangladesh government-in-exile based in Kolkata (Calcutta at the time). A pretty large number of non-Bengalis, mainly Biharis, were also killed by those who were part of the Mukti Bahini fighting their war of independence, and hundreds of thousands of East Pakistanis fled across the border into India.
Eventually, India launched a military attack on East Pakistan in November, with (West) Pakistan attacking Indian territory on Dec 3. Despite the fact that West Pakistanis were told as late as Dec 14 and 15 that they were winning the war, on Dec 16, 1971, Gen A.A.K. ‘Tiger’ Niazi, GOC, East Pakistan, surrendered to the Indian troops led by Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora in Dhaka. East Pakistan had now formally become Bangladesh. Not just had there been yet another partition in the Indian subcontinent, but Jinnah’s ‘two-nation theory’ had also come undone.
Shuja Nawaz writes that it was a corrupt military’s “wishful thinking”, a military which had become used to the “culture of entitlement”, “clouded by blissful ignorance and liberal doses of alcohol” which led to Pakistan’s debacle, but it is evident that there were at least three clear stages of events leading up to the eventuality of Dec 16, 1971.
By not acknowledging the wishes of the electorate, Bhutto and his backers in the military created a crisis which the military then dealt with in the only way it knew how. Elite interests in West Pakistan were unwilling to give democracy and the people their mandate. While West Pakistani politicians are responsible for the constitutional failure, it was only the military leadership which was responsible for the massacres that took place in East Pakistan.
Sadly though, not many West Pakistani intellectuals or political leaders protested and opposed military action in East Pakistan. Their silence makes them complicit in the killings. India helped East Pakistan become Bangladesh in the last few months of 1971, but was not responsible for the conditions between 1947 and 1970 which led to the breakup of Pakistan. External forces can only build on local fissures and take advantage of conditions created domestically, and India did just that.
Since 1971, one has heard of the great saneha of East Pakistan, yet perhaps lessons are still left unlearned. While the separation of East Pakistan brought about democracy in the truncated Pakistan which survived, events in 1972 and 1973, once again, and despite a democratic dispensation, brought to the fold issues of greater centralisation against so-called regionalism and provincialism, with little accountability and retribution of those who were responsible for the breakup of Pakistan.
The writer is a political economist based in Karachi. He has a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge, and teaches at Columbia University in New York and at the IBA in Karachi.
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MARTIAL LAW: CONSTITUTION ABROGATED
DAWN March 27, 1969 (Editorial)
Moving back from the brink
THE country has just witnessed a change of very great importance — a change which is capable of affecting the future course of the nation’s political evolution in a profound way. The departure from the political scene of Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan brings to a close a phase which lasted more than a decade. Pakistan finds itself at a critical turning point in its life as a sovereign country with the abrogation of the 1962 Constitution and the imposition of Martial Law. Field Marshal Ayub Khan’s reasons for taking the decision that he announced on Tuesday [March 25]are well elucidated in his valedictory message to the people as also in his letter calling upon the Army Chief, General Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan, to assume the responsibility of preserving the country’s security and restoring normal conditions. Field Marshal Ayub Khan has referred to the spread of agitation, violence and lawlessness, to the grave setback which the economy has suffered and to the state of helplessness to which constitutional authority and civil power have been reduced. It is indeed tragic that hopes of a peaceful transfer of power should have been dashed to the ground and the country should have been pushed to the brink of catastrophe. The Armed Forces have now been called upon to retrieve a situation that has come to be viewed by all patriotic elements with increasing trepidation. It is a very heavy responsibility which now rests on the Armed Forces and on their leader, Gen A. M. Yahya Khan, who assumes the office of the Chief Martial Law Administrator.
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DEATH OF PAKISTAN’S FIRST PRESIDENT
DAWN November 14, 1969 (News Report)
Iskander Mirza dies
GENERAL Iskander Mirza, who was President of Pakistan until October 1958, died in London of a heart attack. His body will be flown to Teheran for burial in the Iranian capital. Mr Mirza took up residence in London after he fell out with former President Ayub Khan. A telegram sent from London to Syed Asad Ali, Mr Mirza’s son-in-law, in Karachi said that according to the wishes of the former President he would be buried in Teheran. The Royal Government of Iran will accord a State burial to his body.
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303 GAZETTED OFFICERS SUSPENDED
DAWN December 9, 1969 (Editorial)
Action against officials
THE President’s concern over the prevalence of corruption in the public administration has found expression in several public pronouncements, beginning with his first broadcast as the Chief Martial Law Administrator and including his latest, that of November 28. The action that he promised against public servants who were found guilty of corruption, abuse of power etc. has now been initiated. The Government has just released a list of 303 Class I gazetted officers who have been placed under suspension and who will be proceeded against under Martial Law Regulation 58. It is a formidable list not only in the number of officials it affects but also in its composition, which reveals a fairly high proportion of officials occupying superior and, in some cases, the highest positions in the administration. The list constitutes an emphatic refutation of the belief that was sought to be fostered by the last regime that the malady of corruption is largely confined to public servants at the lower rungs of the administrative ladder and that the upper echelons of the public services are, for the most part, unaffected. This was of course an utter absurdity, and it left most people unconvinced. For it has been the common observation everywhere that corruption assumes a virulent form and dangerous proportions only when it is rampant among those occupying the top positions. The reason why this happens is simple. When persons in superior positions resort to corruption and manage to go scot free, the malady advances at a galloping pace, leaving the honest administrators and the common people thoroughly demoralised and frustrated. In his endeavour to provide the country with a clean and efficient administration the President has clearly recognised the necessity of beginning the cleansing operation from the top.
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GUIDELINES FOR POLITICAL ACTIVITY
DAWN December 23, 1969 (Editorial)
Revival of political life
WITH the publication of the rules which will govern the conduct of political activities the stage has now been set for the full revival of political life as from January 1, 1970. Political parties and leaders of opinion will be given the opportunity to resume their work which was interrupted when Martial Law was imposed nine months ago. This opportunity has now been provided in terms of the President’s plan for a transfer of power to the people and of the code of political conduct which has just been made available in the form of Martial Law Regulation No. 60. The mess which the political leadership made of things over a greater part of the first decade of Pakistan’s independence was directly responsible for the denial of democratic rights and loss of liberty which the people experienced in the second decade. Unprincipled politics, an uninhibited scramble for positions of power and wealth, exploitation of and pandering to parochial sentiments, advocacy of methods of coercion against political rivals and disregard of democratic principles and traditions in the working of political parties and institutions – these were some of the factors that together militated against the development of a healthy democratic life, and created the chaotic conditions in which autocracy was born and the power of making vital policy decisions passed into the hands of the bureaucrats.
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YAHYA ISSUES LFO
DAWN March 30, 1970 (Editorial)
The legal framework
PRESIDENT A. M. Yahya Khan’s November 28 plan for a smooth transition to representative rule has taken final shape with the promulgation of the Legal Framework Order, 1970. The country now knows precisely how it is going to set about the task of providing itself with a constitution and of restoring democratic government. The scope of the Order extends to the enunciation of certain basic principles. These principles include a guarantee of the inviolability of the territorial integrity and the national solidarity of Pakistan, the preservation of the Islamic ideology which is the basis for the creation of the country, the independence of the judiciary and a guarantee of the enforcement of the Fundamental Rights of the citizens.
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OLD PROVINCES REBORN
DAWN July 1, 1970 (Editorial)
The wind of change
THIS day marks the emergence of new (or old) provinces in West Pakistan which is a gratifying development as it follows the wishes and aspirations of an overwhelming majority in the region. When President Yahya proclaimed his intent to dissolve One Unit in the November 28 broadcast last year he was only acknowledging in tangible terms the ascendancy of public opinion. He made the following significant observation on the subject: “I would like to remind you that when Pakistan was created it was not on the basis of One Unit but it was on the basis of various provinces in the Western Wing. The people of both East and West Pakistan are almost unanimous in demanding the break-up of One Unit. My decision is therefore based on popular wish”. Such remarkable responsiveness to democratic sentiment has been characteristic of the President’s pronouncements and actions ever since he assumed the responsibility to run the affairs and administration of the country.
It is by now no longer a secret that the 1955 scheme to integrate the then existing separate provinces into a single Unit was a superimposed arrangement and as such was doomed to failure. The seeds of discord started germinating at the very inception and continued to grow menacingly despite the studied efforts to show that all was well and blooming in the garden.
Hidden tensions, suppressed sense of grievance, masked anger and anguish at last erupted like molten lava to sweep away the monolithic structure. Now that a palpable wrong has been rectified and an administrative anomaly adjusted, let all those concerned rise above the lingering mood of bitterness and bickering to start afresh as brothers. After all the fate and future of millions inhabiting different areas of Pakistan is interlinked by the supreme cementing force of Islam.
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LAKHS OF PEOPLE PERISH AS CYCLONE HITS EAST PAKISTAN
DAWN November 20, 1970 (News Report)
National mourning
PRESIDENT Yahya Khan has declared Friday (Nov 20) as a Day of National Mourning for the victims of unprecedented cyclone and tidal bore in East Pakistan, which has taken a heavy toll of life. A Press note issued by the Ministry of Home and Kashmir Affairs said the President has further directed that the Pakistan Flag on all Government buildings will be flown at half-mast.
Special prayers will be offered in memory of the victims of the disaster. Over one lakh people lost their lives in six police stations in Bhola sub-division alone, official sources said in Dacca upon Governor Ahsan’s return to the capital. This is the latest estimate of loss of lives reported by the provincial Governor. Admiral Ahsan, who went to Bhola to continue his on-the-spot survey of the extent of damage and supervision of relief operations, was also informed that 65 per cent of the cattle had perished [in these areas].
About one lakh houses were destroyed completely and 25,000 partially. Innumerable boats were sunk and washed away and damage to crops was extensive, the Governor was further told. According to estimates, damage to properties in terms of money would be in the neighbourhood of Rs20 crores.
The Governor made a thorough enquiry about the organisation and progress of relief operation. Zonal relief centres have been set up under responsible officials and the entire operation is being directly controlled and supervised by the Commissioner, assisted by a host of senior officers deputed from outside.
Gruel kitchens have been started all over and the medical operation is being supervised by the Deputy Director of Health Services of the division.
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MET AUTHORITIES IGNORED WEATHER WARNINGS
DAWN November 20, 1970 (News Report)
An appalling disclosure that meteorological authorities in East Pakistan ignored repeated warnings from American weather satellite of gathering cyclone in Bay of Bengal was made tonight [November 19] in a BBC Television programme.
United States weather satellite first took pictures of the gathering cyclone on November 6 and a warning that it was of dangerous proportions was conveyed to Pakistani meteorological authorities on November 7. As the gathering cyclone became more menacing, the American weather administration repeated warnings to Pakistan on each of the successive days until November 12.
This astounding revelation on BBC Television programme ‘24 Hours’, coming as it does following Pakistan newspaper reports early this week about alterations in method of weather forecasts which confused people in cyclone-stricken areas, is a very serious reflection indeed on meteorological authorities concerned.
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FIRST-EVER DIRECT GENERAL ELECTION
DAWN December 9, 1970 (Editorial)
Historic achievement
THE way in which Monday’s [December 7] General Election was conducted has been one of the best things that has ever happened to this country. The people will rejoice in the fact that everything went off smoothly and in the manner it was meant to do. The polling took place in a tranquil, disciplined and relaxed atmosphere, and barring a few incidents here and there, perfectly peaceful conditions prevailed. For a popular consultation involving tens of millions of voters, many of whom gave their votes for the first time in their lives, the conduct of the general election could be easily considered exemplary in almost any country in the world.
The President not only kept faith with the people. He saw to it that the Government machinery kept itself aloof from electoral politics and carried on election proceedings stage by stage in a manner which was impartial and honest to the core. One must have the courage to acknowledge that this thing is new in our history. As a result of this and also for reasons of the all-round efficiency that was in evidence on the election day and of the nearly meticulous regard for detail shown in the organisational arrangements undertaken, the December 7 Election becomes the exemplar for the future. Whenever the nation goes to the polls again, and one hopes and prays this will be at regular intervals, it will always know what to demand of the powers that be. Democracy’s development depends very crucially on how those wishing to practise it manage their elections and on whether they develop a tradition of having every citizen give his vote peacefully and as a free agent. We must thank Almighty God that we have at least fulfilled this very vital condition. We heartily congratulate all concerned on this historic achievement – the Government, the Armed Forces, the Election Commission and all those who were seconded to election duty, including policemen, the candidates and the leaders and workers of all political parties. All these and the entire electorate at large deserve the credit for the excellent account the country gave of itself on the polling day. This is the verdict of the people in a free and fair election. Everybody, no matter what his political affiliations and persuasions may be, must gracefully acknowledge the fact that the people have given their verdict.
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STALWARTS LOSE TO UNKNOWN AWAMI LEAGUE WORKERS
DAWN December 9, 1970 (News Report)
AL emerges as single largest NA party
THE Awami League has emerged as the largest single party in the National Assembly. Of the 153 seats that it contested in East Pakistna in the general elections, the party has conceded only two seats to its opponents. Although unofficial counting had not been completed, by midnight the Awami League had won 133 seats. In West Pakistan, where unofficial counting has been completed in all the four provinces, the Pakistan People’s Party, with 81 victories to its credit, has emerged as the largest single party in this Wing which has 138 seats in the NA. The party has recorded the most remarkable victory in Punjab, capturing 62 of the 82 seats (75.5 per cent). It had put up 77 candidates in the province. In Sind, too, the party has bagged over 66 per cent of 27 seats. It had put up 25 candidates of whom 18 have won. None of the other 23 odd major and minor parties that took part in the elections come anywhere near the Awami League and the People’s Party. The Jamaat-i-Islami which had put up the largest number of candidates (79) in West Pakistan, won only four seats: none of its 69 candidates in East Pakistan could win. While the People’s Party candidates blasted the opposition lines in Punjab and Sind, Sheikh Mujib’s Awami League set aside all opposition in East Pakistan. In the wake of the characteristic victory of the AL candidates the only political survivor was the elderly statesman, Mr. Nurul Amin, head of the PDP – the only one of his party to earn title to sit in the National Assembly. The only other constituency where an Awami League candidate has lost was Chittagong Hill Tracts where the Chakma tribe chieftain, Major Raja Tridiv Roy, defeated him and another independent candidate who was a Provincial Minister in the Ayub regime.
While scoring the most thumping victory ever, the Awami League chief, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, set an all time record by polling a total of over 184,000 votes against the East Pakistan CML chief, Khwaja Khairuddin. On the other hand, the PPP chief, Mr Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, also created a record by winning by big margins in five of the six seats that he contested – three from Sind, two from Punjab. He won all the three seats in Sind and in two in Punjab. But he lost to Jamiat Hazarvi group General-Secretary Mufti Mahmud in D.I. Khan of NWFP. Two prestigious victories won by Mr Bhutto were in Larkana where he trounced the veteran Mr Ayub Khuhro, and in Lahore where he defeated CML’s Dr Javed Iqbal and PDP’s Maj-Gen (Rtd) Sarfaraz Khan.
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HIJACKED PLANE BLOWN UP
DAWN February 5, 1971 (News Report)
India bans Pakistani overflights
INDIA today [February 4] banned all Pakistani flights over its territory as thousands of students attacked the Pakistan High Commission [in New Delhi] for the second day running, in protest against the blowing up of a hijacked Indian airliner. The government told Pakistan that the ban would continue until Islamabad settled compensation for the plane, its cargo, passenger baggage and mail. India had already banned over-flights by Pakistani military planes of the 1,000 miles which separate Pakistan’s two wings in protest against the blowing up of the hijacked Fokker Friendship at Lahore airport on Tuesday night. A Note announcing the ban was handed over to the Pakistan High Commission here as about 4,000 Indian students attacked the building.
Police fired dozens of teargas shells as demonstrators hurled stones, bricks and bottles inside the High Commission grounds. Unconfirmed reports said police fired twice in the air to disperse the students. Groups of students broke into the walled grounds at thinly-policed sections on at least two occasions and smashed windows of buildings behind the Chancery. They set fire to grass and shrubs outside the walls at the back of the building which stands between the Yugoslav and Australian missions in the city’s diplomatic enclave. Over 600 riot police, some of them mounted, were guarding the High Commission.
A Pakistan High Commission spokesman said the Indian Government had been warned that if demonstrators continued, there could be a chain reaction. If the Government did not put down the demonstrations firmly, “public opinion in Pakistan is likely to be inflamed”, he said. An Indian Note to Pakistan said the Government was “deeply disturbed by the instigation, abetment and encouragement given on Pakistan territory to unlawful and subversive activities in India”, which had resulted in the hijacking.
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AWAMI LEAGUE DEMAND
DAWN February 16, 1971 (News Report)
Constitution will be based on Six Points
THE Awami League Chief Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today [February 15] reiterated that the country’s constitution would certainly be framed on the basis of his party’s Six Point programme and the Student Action Committee’s Eleven Point programme. No power could stop it, he said. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman advised the West Pakistan leaders to accept the Six Point programme in toto. If it was accepted then “we can live together”, the Awami League chief said. He asked the leaders of that Wing not to create confusion and misunderstanding and to accept the Six Points. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman assured them that the Six Points were not against the ordinary people of West Pakistan but against the exploiters of West and East Pakistan. Addressing the West Pakistani leaders of his party who were sitting with him on the dais, the Awami League chief smilingly said: “Unfortunately you have produced more (exploiters)”.
The Awami League chief said the Six Points could not be changed. When he first presented it after the war in 1965, it was his property. When the Awami League accepted it, it was the party’s property, but now after the elections it had become the property of the people and nobody had the power to change it, he said.
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DISPUTE OVER CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES
DAWN February 16, 1971 (News Report)
PPP not to attend NA session if AL not flexible
MR Z. A. Bhutto, Chairman of Pakistan People’s Party, today [February 15] declared that his party will not attend the National Assembly session starting on March 3 at Dacca unless it was made clear to him and his partymen that there would be some amount of reciprocity from the majority party, either publicly or privately. Addressing a crowded Press conference he did not term his decision as boycott of the Assembly but said: “We can’t go there only to endorse the constitution already prepared by a party and to return humiliated. If we are not heard and even reasonable proposals put by us are not considered, I don’t see the purpose to go there”.
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CONSTITUTION-MAKING — NO CONSENSUS
DAWN March 2, 1971 (News Report)
National Assembly session postponed
PRESIDENT Yahya Khan yesterday [March 1] announced his decision to postpone the National assembly session scheduled to start in Dacca from March 3 to a later date in view of the grave political situation in the country. The President’s decision was announced in a statement specially broadcast over Radio Pakistan. At the same time President Yahya made a solemn promise that as soon as the situation improved he would not hesitate in calling the session of the National Assembly.
The President also said that he will do everything possible to help political leaders in achieving an understanding. He appealed to the political leaders and the countrymen to exercise restraint at this “grave hour of our life”.
Saying that he was taking the decision “with a heavy heart”, he explained that if the National Assembly session was held without the participation of political leaders from West Pakistan it would have led to the disintegration of the Assembly itself and thus his entire effort to transfer power to the people would have been wasted.
He said it was, therefore, imperative to give more time to the political leaders to arrive at a reasonable understanding and he hoped that they would rise to the occasion.
The President said that the decision has been taken because a major party of West Pakistan, namely the Pakistan People’s Party, as well as certain other political parties have declared their intention not to attend the National Assembly session on March 3.
In addition, the President said, the general situation of tension created by India has further complicated the whole position.
He said he had repeatedly stated that constitution was not an ordinary piece of legislation but it was an arrangement to live together. For a healthy and viable constitution, therefore, it is necessary that both East and West Pakistan had adequate sense of participation in the process of constitution-making.
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EAST PAKISTAN ON THE BOIL
DAWN March 5, 1971 (Editorial)
On the brink
THE situation as it now stands after President Yahya Khan proposed a meeting of 12 leaders of Parliamentary groups to solve the constitutional crisis and Sherth Mujibur Rahman expressed his inability to attend it is one which will fill all patriots with deep anxiety. Never in its history has the country faced a moment of danger like the one it does now and the sense of peril is made more acute by the fact that primarily the threat has its origins within the country and cannot be conveniently ascribed to an external enemy. The postponement of the National Assembly session without the fixation of a new date has created a grave crisis of confidence in the Eastern Wing of the country. Rightly or wrongly the people in East Pakistan have interpreted the move as an attempt to prevent them from asserting their democratic rights as citizens of Pakistan and from securing a constitutional dispensation that satisfies their aspirations. An acute sense of desperation has led to a widespread movement of protest and defiance. How far the Awami League will be able to exercise control over the movement remains to be seen. There is no doubt that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is under mounting pressure from those who lack patience and those who are too inexperienced to realise what the stakes are.
The very first task is to prevent the crisis from getting worse and to create a climate of opinion in which a meaningful attempt can be made to produce a constitution which will satisfy a majority of the people and attract the commitment of the federating unites. And such a consulitution has to embody the essence of the Six-Point formula. We are firmly convinced that no initiative in this direction will have any chance of bearing fruit in today’s context without an immediate announcement setting a very early date for summoning the National Assembly.
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TROUBLE ON PAKISTAN DAY
DAWN March 25, 1971 (News Report)
‘Resistance Day’ parade
MARCH 23 was heralded here [Dacca] with the observance of the programme announced by the Students Central Action Committee, which declared it as a Resistance Day. The Bangla Desh flag fluttered atop all buildings, both Government and non-Government, including the Dacca High Court and the Secretariat buildings. Private houses and residences throughout the city, including the Dhanmondi residence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, were seen flying the flag, which was designed by and flown for the first time on March 2 at the Dacca University Arts Faculty campus at a mass students rally by the Students Action Committee. The tricolour flag is bottle-green with a red sun and gold coloured map of Bangla Desh.
Buses, trucks, rickshaws, cars and carts all alike flew the flag of Bangla Desh and the black flag together. The black flag symbolised the mourning for the people killed during the mass movement in the last weeks, which came after the postponement of the National Assembly session scheduled on March 3.
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POLITICAL ACTIVITY BANNED
DAWN March 27, 1971 (News Report)
Awami League is outlawed
THE President, Gen. Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan, today [March 26] banned all political activities and imposed complete press censorship throughout Pakistan. In a broadcast to the nation, the President said: “As for the Awami League, it is completely banned as a political party.” The President said that Martial Law Regulations will very shortly be issued in pursuance of these decisions. The President told the nation that he had taken these decisions “in view of the grave situation that exists in the country today.” The President said: “Let me assure you that my main aim remains the same, namely, transfer of power to the elected representatives of the people”.
“As soon as the situation permits I will take fresh steps towards the achievement of this objective”, the President added. He said Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s action of non-cooperation movement “is an act of treason”. President Yahya said: “They have insulted Pakistan’s flag and defiled the photograph of the Father of the Nation. They have tried to run a parallel government. They have created turmoil terror and insecurity”. He said that a number of murders had been committed in the name of the movement. “Millions of our Bengali brethren and those who have settled in East Pakistan are living in a state of panic and a very large number had to leave that Wing out of fear for their lives”.
He added that the armed forces, located in East Pakistan have been subjected to taunts and insults of all kinds.
###***
AWAMI LEAGUE PLAN EXPOSED
DAWN May 7, 1971 (News Report)
Army action saved Pakistan
THE outlawed Awami League had set the small hours of March 26 as the zero hour for an armed uprising and the formal launching of “the Independent Republic of Bangla Desh”, an official spokesman of the Pakistan Government revealed here [Rawalpindi] today [May 6].
In a detailed statement on the East Pakistan situation, the spokesman said that the plan was to seize Dacca and Chittagong, lying astride the Army’s Air/Sea lifelines to West Pakistan. But, he said, the Army moved barely a few hours before the Awami League zero hour and made a series of pre-emptive strikes around midnight of March 25-26, seized the initiative and saved the country.
He said the Army at that time consisted of a division of 18 battalions, including 12 from West Pakistan, spread thinly over cantonment in the interior and deployed along the border with India. Arrayed against them were infiltrators from India and deserters from the East Pakistan Rifles, the East Bengal Regiment and other auxiliary forces, equipped with mortars, recoilless rifles and heavy and light machine guns liberally supplied from across the border.
The spokesman also gave a resume of Sheikh Mujib’s continual shifting of stand from his pre-election interpretation of Six Points as the demand for largest measure for autonomy within the framework of a single country (for which he got the mandate), to the demand of confederation and his attempts to achieve it through conspiracy and force using “Nazi-style tactics”.
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OFFENSIVE AGAINST EAST PAKISTAN
DAWN November 23, 1971 (News Report)
All-out Indian attack
INDIA, without a formal declaration of war, has launched an all-out offensive against East Pakistan. The offensive has followed months of pin-prick attacks, minor and major skirmishes and an arduous build-up of over 12 Indian infantry divisions all around East Pakistan. The Indians have been able to make some dents across international borders into our territory, because no one expected that they would throw all international conventions to the winds and would stoop down to launching an all-out offensive.
The Indian Army has concentrated all its might on the Jessore sector, where the attack has been launched by the 9th Indian Infantry division, the 4th Indian Mountain division and two Indian tank regiments.
Fierce fighting continued in Jessore throughout the night and the early hours of the morning. The Indian Army suffered heavy causalities but due to intense and heavy shelling, it was able to retrieve the wounded and most of the dead bodies.
###***
WEST PAKISTAN ATTACKED AT SEVEN POINTS
DAWN December 4, 1971 (News Report)
It’s now all-out war
THE Indians have escalated war and extended their aggression to the whole of Pakistan. At a hurriedly called press briefing at about midnight today [December 3], a Defence Services spokesman told newsmen that, not satisfied with their aggression against East Pakistan, the Indians have now attacked West Pakistan at seven points at about noon. Regular Indian troops moved towards our border posts, manned by Rangers. On being challenged, they opened up with small arms fire, wounding some of our men. The Rangers fired back in self-defence. The Indians subsequently opened up with their artillery. The spokesman said the Indians have attacked almost simultaneously in Shakargarh salient, Kasur border, Huseiniwala headworks, Chamb and Rahim Yar Khan, opposite Rajasthan, well inside Punjab.
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SITUATION IS CRITICAL
DAWN December 16, 1971 (News Report)
Enemy closes in on Dacca
THE situation in East Pakistan has become very critical, according to the latest reports received here tonight [December 15]. Earlier, a military spokesman said Pakistan troops were defending Dacca from reorganised defences, butt the enemy continused to close in on Dacca during the past 24 hours.
Pakistani troops are fighting with superior will and determination against superior firepower and numbers, he said.
The spokesman said the enemy had approached Dacca from different directions but Pakistan forces resisted valiantly and determinedly. He said fighting had also been reported from other places, including Sylhet, Comilla and Khulna area. At all places in East Pakistan from where fighting is reported “it is the same story,” he said.
Asked whether there was any direction from which the enemy had not approached, the spokesman replied that they came from all directions. He said the situation in East Pakistan continued to be grim. On the Western front, the spokesman said fighting had been reported from various sectors and Pakistani troops inflicted heavy causalities on the enemy.
###***
AGGRESSION AT THE SECURITY COUNCIL
DAWN December 16, 1971 (News Report)
UN a farce, says Bhutto — walks out
PAKISTANI Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister-designate, Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, walked out of the Security Council debate on the Indo-Pakistani war today [December 15]. Tearing a Security Council document to shreds he strode from the horseshoe table of the 15-nation-body and paused only at the entrance of the UN headquarters to tell newsmen that his Ambassador, Agha Shahi, could represent Pakistan, if necessary.
“Why should I waste my time here?” he asked the Council. “I will go back to my country and fight.” He said he would remain in New York for two or three days to “tell the American people of the great stand of their government” against Soviet support of India in the Security Council. Mr Bhutto said he “implored” Council members to act this morning, informing them that there was hand-to-hand fighting in Dacca, the beleaguered capital of East Pakistan.
“Thousands were being killed while the Council was deliberating whether to postpone its meeting for three hours or two hours,” he said. Declaring he would not agree to surrender to India, Bhutto said: “I have only reflected the feeling of my country. Rather than being asked to bite the dust here, we have been asked to rub our noses into the ground. I have to return to Pakistan. I am the leader of the people there.”
Mr Bhutto declared that he would not be party to a “shameful capitulation” of Pakistan. His voice choked with emotion, Mr. Bhutto charged that the Security Council had done nothing to protect Pakistan. Before he left, Mr. Bhutto said his speech could be the last he would ever make to the Security Council. It was a bitter address is which he fiercely attacked the United Nations. The world body did not need a Secretary-General, it needed a chief executioner, he said. He said he would never be a party to the capitulation and dismemberment of Pakistan. He charged that the UN had procrastinated for four days “with one object—to permit the fall of Dacca.”
###***
DACCA FALLS
DAWN December 17, 1971 (News Report)
Fighting ends in East Wing
LATEST reports indicate that following an arrangement between the local commanders of India and Pakistan in the Eastern theatre, fighting has ceased in East Pakistan and Indian troops have entered Dacca.
###***
STEP IN THE INTEREST OF PEACE
DAWN December 18, 1971 (News Report)
Yahya orders ceasefire
PRESIDENT Yahya Khan this afternoon [December 17] ordered the Pakistan forces to cease fire with effect from 1430GMT. Which corresponds to 7.30 p.m. West Pakistan time. In a statement, the President said, “if India is sincere in its pronouncement of the ceasefire, then she should proceed through the United Nations to formalise it”.
The President said he gave the order for ceasefire “in the interest of peace” and in pursuance of the resolution of the UN General Assembly.
The President’s statement said: “I have always maintained that war solves no problem and that there should be negotitations between India and Pakistan to resolve all outstanding disputes.
“In pursuance of this stand, Pakistan has accepted several proposals made by the Secretary-General of the United Nations and by friendly countries which could have averted the present tragic situation between India and Pakistan.
“Pakistan has also accepted three resolutions of the Security Council as well as the General Assembly Resolution calling for cease-fire, withdrawal of armed forces to their respective borders and a political solution of the problem facing Pakistan”.
###***
BHUTTO TAKES OVER
DAWN December 21, 1971 (News Report)
Yahya hands over power
THE People’s Party Chairman, Mr. Z. A. Bhutto, was today [December 20] handed over power by General Yahya Khan and was formally sworn in as the President and Chief Martial Law Administrator. The four-line official announcement came as a surprise as no one here was expecting Mr. Bhutto to assume the office of Chief Martial Law Administrator. The swearing-in took place at the President’s House where the outgoing and incoming Presidents talked for nearly two hours before affixing their signatures on the formal document. The two shook hands after signing the paper, said to have been presented by the Cabinet Secretary, Mr. Ghulam Ishaq Khan. The new President also shook hands with his Party colleagues, Mr. J. A. Rahim and Mr Ghulam Mustafa Khar — who were also present. Mr. Bhutto landed at the airport at about 10.45 in the morning and drove straight to the President’s House in a sky-blue Mercedes driven by Mr. Khar. He waved to the large crowds gathered all around the airport and declined to answer questions.
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#Dawn Delhi IV: The making of Pakistan
By Roger D. Long
IT was on August 21, 1945, when the Viceroy announced that elections would be held in the cold weather at the end of the year. Aligarh Muslim University played a major role in League plans for the elections as did colleges in the Punjab. The League set up a training camp on campus at Aligarh at the end of 1945 with some 650 students attending the camp. Of the 11 topics covered in the course offered at the camp, one was on ‘Islamic history’ and another was on the ‘The religious background of the Muslim League and Pakistan’.
The following month an election office was set up at Islamia College, Lahore, and 200 students were deputed to tour 20 constituencies covering 400 villages. In the course of the campaign it claimed that 60,000 villages were visited by these student campaigners. Aligarh students clad in black sherwanis and Turkish caps created a very favourable impression when, like other students and League representatives, they spoke in mosques. The students were carefully coached to express their messages in religious terms and to equate the Muslim League with Islam. Dawn recorded their names and activities.
In the Punjab, the religious leadership based on the numerous shrines in the rural areas also played a large part in the League’s campaign. These shrines were the tombs of sufi saints who propagated Islam in the Punjab, especially western Punjab when it was an outpost of Islam. The religious leader of these shrines, the sajjada nashin, was normally a descendent of the original saint; he was a teacher, a pir and he had disciples, murid, who would make payments in one form or another. Over time these sajjada nashins became intimately involved in rural society, exerting not only religious leadership but political and social influence as well, much like the mullahs in the mosques, both urban and rural.
###VOLUNTEERS IN THE ELECTION
When the pir became vociferously involved in local politics he wielded a great deal of influence. By the time of the 1945-46 general elections five of the important sajjada nashins had come over to the League. Many of them were revivalists and interpreted the Pakistan Movement as the establishment of a religious state. In addition, as one Unionist worker complained in December 1945, a pir was issuing fatwas that the Muslim League was the only Islamic community and all the rest were kafirs.
Dawn followed the events in the Punjab, as it did in every other of the crucial provinces for the Pakistan Movement, and reported widely on tours of League workers and meetings held throughout the provinces. On October 13, 1945, it ran a front-page story titled ‘Muslim Interests Mean Nothing to Unionists’ and that the Unionists were ‘Pawns in Non-Muslim Hands’. The article that followed was an insinuation that the Muslim members of the Unionists were not good Muslims. These were the kinds of lines that League workers would use during the election campaign. Dawn on October 24, 1945, reported that the Punjab Muslim Students’ Federation had established an Election Board to propagate the League’s message all over the state. It reported that “over 200 Muslim students of the various local colleges have been enlisted to work as volunteers in the election campaign”. They undertook a short training course and then were sent in batches to various parts of the province.
League planning for the election began at Liaquat’s house in Delhi when Dawn announced in its October 1, 1945, issue that a meeting of the Central Parliamentary Board would be held later that day and the Committee of Action would meet over two days on October 9 and 10. What was important for the League was the choice of candidates for League tickets, the organisation of meetings, the provision of student workers to campaign in critical constituencies, and, very importantly, the creation of literature that would be distributed during the campaign.
In ‘League News from Provinces’ on October 2, 1945, Dawn reported that the Muslim Writers’ Association met at Aligarh on September 27 and that “separate Committees were formed to carry on the League propaganda work in different languages and to translate the original works for free distribution among the Muslim masses”. It had created an English Publication Committee, an Urdu Publication Committee and a Committee for Translations. A Study Circle trained workers and sent them to different parts of the country and the Committee also cooperated with provincial parties to use the literature it had created. These and dozens of other activities were all preliminary to the campaign itself which was launched the same month.
###A QUESTION OF LIFE AND DEATH
The success of all these League activities can be gauged by the number of people who now wanted to run on the League ticket. Dawn reported on October 8, 1945, that in the United Provinces, for example, some 20 people applied for the League ticket for the six Muslim seats for the Central Legislative Assembly. Another was the report in Dawn on October 12, 1945, that in the Punjab ‘17 Congress Stalwarts Join Muslim League’ and the Central Parliamentary Board had met for three days to come up with the list of 21 candidates for the 30 Muslim seats for the Central Legislative Assembly; the rest of the names would be announced later.
On Thursday, November 1, 1945, Jinnah officially kicked off the League campaign with Dawn reporting the event the following day with the headlines of ‘It Is My Duty To Serve Muslims’, ‘Mr. Jinnah Inaugurates Campaign’, ‘Even If You Don’t Vote For Me I Shall Work For You’ and ‘Grave Issue Confronts Indian Mussalmans’. The article reported Jinnah’s speech in Bombay to a large audience of Muslims inaugurating the first League election campaign meeting where he claimed that the Muslims were “today politically more conscious than the Hindus”. The election, he went on, would decide the future of India. It was not a question of voting for this or that candidate but it was the question of a hundred million Muslims. “The elections will give a clear verdict on the issue of whether the Muslims of India stand for Pakistan or for Akhand Hindustan. It is therefore a question of life and death with Muslims of India.”
The editorial that day had the title of ‘Never Again’ and regurgitated the story of the “terrible suffering to which Muslim minorities in Hindu-majority provinces were subjected during 1937-39”. Alongside it was another story on the misdeeds of the Congress when the ‘Tragic Story Of 1937-39 Re-Told’. It was the first of many articles spread over several days in the ‘It Shall Never Happen Again’ series. By December 20, 1945, Dawn had published version 31 in the series. In addition to the column ‘League News from Provinces’ there were hundreds of stories, large and small, mostly small, about League activities. League workers would faithfully repeat these campaign messages in the days to come in many parts of northern India.
The history of the League campaign in the 1946 elections and the remarkable victory it achieved has yet to be written but it was celebrated as the glorious victory it was in the pages of Dawn which announced the wins as they came in and culminated the month-long saga with stories galore about the mammoth meeting of some 450 League legislators organised in New Delhi to celebrate the League success in the elections.
###A GREAT TRIUMPH
The meeting was ‘The Muslim League Legislators’ Convention’ held between April 7 and 9 on the Quadrangle of the Anglo-Arabic College. League legislators of the central and provincial legislatures from all over India journeyed in triumph to Delhi to take part in its proceedings held in a boisterous mood with the final session not ending until 2am. It was a Who’s Who of Muslim League India with Sir Feroze Khan and the Nawab of Mamdot of the Punjab, H.S. Suhrawardy of Bengal, Chaudhury Khaliquzzaman of the United Provinces, Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah, Premier of Sindh, Sir Mohamad Saadullah of Assam and Abdul Qayum Khan of the North-West Frontier Province were some of the notables in Delhi to celebrate this great triumph.
The highlight of the meeting was Jinnah’s speech on April 8 which was reported at great length in Dawn the next day and in numerous articles in the days and weeks that followed. Inter alia Jinnah said that for Muslim India the conception of a United India was impossible and if the Government attempted to impose a unitary constitution-making body, then Muslim India would “resist it by all means and at all costs”.
To cheers he told the mass audience that he informed the Cabinet Mission that there could be no compromise on the fundamentals of Pakistan and its full sovereignty. With regard to the election results, he said to appreciative ears that by winning about 90 per cent of the Muslim seats “we have achieved a victory for which there is no parallel in the world”.
Jinnah then turned to the recent comments of Patel and Nehru that they would not accept two states in South Asia and especially Nehru’s comment that independence should come first and then a constitution-making body would be formed to write the constitution. For Jinnah and the League this meant putting the minority at the mercy of the majority with the certainty that the Congress should dismiss totally the demand for Pakistan. Jinnah called this a “Fascist Grand Council”. He concluded his lengthy speech with the words: “God is with us because our cause is just and our demand is just both to Hindus and Muslims inhabiting this vast sub-continent. And so we have nothing to fear and let us march forward with complete unity as disciplined soldiers of Pakistan.”
With the great election victory, the League could claim that the Muslims of India had voted for Pakistan and this was a claim that the League would make until Pakistan was actually created on August 14, 1947. Later on in the year, in August, the League would unleash its own civil disobedience movement to convince the British that they should not ignore the League and hand over India to the Congress and allow the party to write a new constitution as Nehru and others had been demanding.
###TWISTS AND TURNS
Dawn would continue to play a major role in all the twists and turns of the negotiations and political manoeuvres of the end-game of the British raj. This involved the Cabinet Mission, League participation in the Interim Government, the second Simla Conference, the negotiations with the British Government in London and the negotiations with Mountbatten that finally led to the establishment of Pakistan. Dawn played a major role in helping to shape public opinion, especially Muslim public opinion, and to ‘spin’ the League message as it twisted and turned to counter Congress and British efforts to prevent the creation of Pakistan. This included explaining at length the League’s rejection of participation in the Interim Government and then its acceptance; its acceptance of the Cabinet Mission Plan and then its rejection.
Throughout, Muslims of India looked to Dawn for the attitude of the League toward the latest turn in events, and the British carefully scrutinised its pages for an insight into League thinking and to plan its own moves. A variety of factors led to the creation of Pakistan in 1947. The first was the creation of a democratic system that would establish the legitimacy of national spokesmen and the legitimacy of the causes they espoused. It was this democratic system that gave credence to the claims of national spokesmen made important by their electoral success (although Gandhi was the exception to the rule).
The second great factor in the creation of Pakistan was the outbreak of the Second World War and the political blunders perpetuated by the Congress such as resigning from their government positions in 1939 in protest over India’s declaration of war without proper consultation with the Congress, and their Quit India Movement in 1942 which led to Congress leaders’ imprisonment for the major part of the War, leading to a vacuum of power which the League happily filled and of which it took enormous advantage.
The third factor was a recognised single League leader around which the League rallied. That was Jinnah, the Quaid-i-Azam, the ‘Great Leader’, a remarkable man in many senses whose political strategy, unlike the Congress’, was superb. His ascendency to the apex of Muslim leadership in India was facilitated by the premature death in the Punjab of Fazl-i-Husain and Sikandar Hayat. It was to the great good fortune of proponents of Pakistan that his own health held out until Pakistan had been created.
###AN IMPORTANT FACTOR
Political fatigue by the British and the aspiration to leave India sooner rather than later amid the usual propensity of an imperial power to turn its back on colonies when the time comes to depart, no matter what the deadly consequences for the citizens they leave behind, as they demonstrated so fatally in India and would do so a few months later in Palestine, played a large role.
Finally, the last Viceroy’s love of speed in everything he did, including the demission of power in India, meant that independence would be pushed through within weeks; if the creation of Pakistan meant facilitating speed, then Pakistan it would be no matter what the consequence of a hasty retreat of the forces of law and order in the land might mean.
The elimination of any of these factors would have changed the political situation in the years leading to Partition. Above all, however, the creation of Pakistan is a testament to a remarkable decade-long political story. It is a testament to the sure-handed political leadership of Jinnah and his creation as a charismatic leader. It is a testament to the work and devotion of a large cadre of League supporters and workers in many parts of India, especially in the United Provinces, Bengal and the Punjab.
The creation of Jinnah as the ‘sole spokesman’, the organisation of the League, the mobilisation of Muslims behind the League, and the message that in the pre-television age the League needed to transmit to the people of India and the British, were all facilitated and in many ways made possible at all, was through its own creation, that is, through the pages of Dawn: Dawn, too, therefore, was a factor, an important factor, in the creation of Pakistan.
This concludes a four-part series of articles on Dawn Delhi. Also read the first, second and the third part.
Excerpted from ‘Dawn & the Creation of Pakistan’, Media History 2009, SOAS, London.
The writer is Professor of History, Eastern Michigan University, USA
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###Commentary on the 1971 war
###General Yahya Khan’s speech on Radio Pakistan on March 25, 1969
Iskander Mirza’s funeral in November 1969
###Sarmila Bose on Yahya Khan’s initiative to hold elections and an interview with Yahya Khan in November 1970
###Sheikh Mujibur Rehman’s interview by David Frost on January 18, 1972
###Reading from Sultan Mohammad Khan’s memoirs
###President Yahya Khan’s interview on July 31, 1971
###Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s interview on December 16, 1971
###President Yahya Khan’s address on December 20, 1971
###Reading from AR Siddiqi’s forthcoming book East Pakistan – The Endgame: An onlooker’s journal 1969-1971
###AR Siddiqi’s interview on the last days of Dawn Delhi
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Skincare Tips: Best Skin Care Routine For Sensitive Skin
Sensitive skin is a condition that many people suffer from. However, for those of us living in India, our skin is especially sensitive. This is because of all the pollution and hot weather conditions. To battle this sensitivity, read our dermatologist-approved skin care routine! HMU expert and dermatologist Dr. Kiran Lohia, MD shares some skincare tips to battle sensitive skin.
Sensitive skin is a condition that many people suffer from. However, for those of us living in India, our skin is especially sensitive. This is because of all the pollution and hot weather conditions. To battle this sensitivity, read our dermatologist-approved skin care routine! HMU expert and dermatologist Dr. Kiran Lohia, MD shares some skincare tips to battle sensitive skin.
*Images courtesy: © Thinkstock photos/ Getty Images
Skincare Tips: Best Skin Care Routine for Sensitive Skin
Avoid Foam
When you use soap or face or body wash, we usually want foam because it makes us feel like it is making us clean. In fact, foam is not required at all for proper cleansing. And, typically, when foam is present, that can mean that strong surfactants such as sulfates are in present in your soap. While these surfactants give you a great foaming experience and help in cleansing, they can also cause skin sensitivity and dryness if the pH of the wash is not modified. This is because the pH of these strong surfactants are 8 and above, while our skin has a pH level of 5.5, causing dryness, skin barrier breakdown and irritation, especially for sensitive skin. So, look for non-foaming cleansers to get a gentle wash, without the risks.
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Skincare Tips: Best Skin Care Routine for Sensitive Skin
Avoid Parabens
First of all, what are parabens? Well, parabens are preservative agents that help ensure that bacteria or fungus do not grow in your skin care products. Now, while they are highly effective, they also have a risk of allergy. In already sensitive skin, your risk of skin allergy is higher than regular skin, so avoiding common allergens like parabens are important! So, look only for skin care that is paraben-free to reduce your risk of rashes.
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Skincare Tips: Best Skin Care Routine for Sensitive Skin
Avoid Artificial Fragrance
Fragrance is essentially ubiquitous in all skin care products and is a hard thing to avoid. However, fragrances contain thousands of unknown chemicals, all of which bear a small risk of an allergic reaction. Now, while your average person can wear fragrance their whole life without any problems, a person with sensitive skin has a much higher risk of getting rashes. So, if you can, look for products that say that there are no artificial fragrances or are certified natural. And, if you want a perfume, look into using essential oils, which are fragrant as well as effective.
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Skincare Tips: Best Skin Care Routine for Sensitive Skin
Wear Sunscreen
The sun is a very common cause of allergy, even in India. In sensitive skin, your skin is more open to developing allergies, to products and to the sun. So, using a good sunscreen is vital to protecting your skin from this harmful effect. Look for a sunscreen with broad-spectrum sunblock that includes anti-UVA and anti-UVB effect. So you should be looking at SPF30++, or more. And, remember to reapply every 4 hours, and at least 30 minutes before leaving the house.
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Skincare Tips: Best Skin Care Routine for Sensitive Skin
Stop Your Facials!
Sensitive skin tends to be redder and more reactive to manipulation or pressure. Facials, in addition to utilising 10 or more unknown skin care products within a single treatment; also tend to involve extensive extractions or harsh procedures. This can cause redness, pimples, marks, rashes and more. Stopping your facials will go a long way in protecting your skin from any untoward side effects.
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LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif on Sunday invited Chinese technology, other firms to launch operations in Punjab, with representatives of several companies expressing keen interest in investment opportunities in Punjab.
Presiding over an investment conference in Guangzhou on the sixth day of her visit to China, Ms Nawaz announced plans to facilitate Chinese companies through a one-window operation, declaring Punjab as the land of opportunities for investors.
She also expressed gratitude to the conference attendees and briefed them on Punjab’s economic, geographical, and business significance.
She also announced on the occasion establishment of a working group, the appointment of a focal person, and the creation of a help desk to facilitate investment by Chinese companies in Punjab.
Plans announced to facilitate Chinese companies through one-window operation
The conference witnessed participation from representatives of over 60 prominent companies from China and Hong Kong.
Representatives of health, artificial intelligence, agriculture, information technology, waste management, solar energy companies, and other sectors participated in the conference.
Key Chinese companies provided detailed briefings on their operations, while suggestions and recommendations on Pakistan-China free trade were also reviewed.
The Chinese representatives appreciated the No to Plastic campaign launched in Punjab by the Punjab government to protect the environment in the province.
Ms Nawaz reiterated her government’s commitment to banning the production, sale and use of all environmentally harmful plastics.
She also highlighted ongoing efforts of the Punjab government under the Clean Punjab initiative, including a zero-waste mission and projects, to convert waste into renewable energy.
Ms Nawaz emphasised the focus on affordable energy through windmills, solar energy, and other renewable sources.
She welcomed partnerships in a mega solarisation project, underscoring Punjab’s growing demand for solar energy.
In agriculture, she said, the government is modernising through mechanisation and fostering collaboration in sub-sectors such as machinery manufacturing, food processing, and hybrid seed development.
She also underlined the importance of innovation in the IT sector, welcoming investments in e-commerce, incubator centres, and e-learning. She invited Chinese firms to contribute to making the Nawaz Sharif IT City a state-of-the-art hub.
She noted that Punjab aims to utilise its young, skilled workforce and explore bio and hydrogen technologies.
Ms Nawaz described Pakistan as a gateway to Central Asia, the Middle East, and other global markets, reaffirming its strategic role in international trade. She called the positive response from Chinese investors encouraging for fostering Pak-China relations.
In health, she highlighted plans to benefit from China’s telemedicine technologies, while in agriculture, she pointed to potential breakthroughs with nanotechnology and water-efficient irrigation systems.
This is the best time for the Chinese companies to seize business opportunities in Punjab, Ms Nawaz said.
Published in Dawn, December 16th, 2024
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Weight Loss: Tips To Recognise And Stop Emotional Eating
We often turn to food for comfort, stress relief or as a reward, but emotional eating makes, will make you feel worse. We Identify and address issues that cause this self-destructive habit.
We often turn to food for comfort, stress relief or as a reward but emotional eating makes, you feel worse. Sometimes the strongest cravings for food happens where you are emotionally at your weakest point and turn towards food- consciously or unconsciously- for comfort, relieving stress or simply to keep us occupied. Emotional eating causes people to eat rather than deal with their feelings. Emotional hunger can sabotage your diet goals and lead to too much eating. People are prone to find comfort in high carbohydrate, high calorie salted food and this may result in tremendous weight gain.
*Image courtesy: © Thinkstock photos/ Getty Images
*Data Courtesy:- Registered dietician, Akansha Jhalani.
Also See: Say No to Emotional Eating
Tips to Recognise and Stop Emotional Eating
What is emotional eating?
Emotional eating is using food to make you feel better- eating to fill emotional needs rather than to fill your stomach. Everyone experiences a range of emotions that they express or deal with in various ways.
Some crave sugar and this distraction is usually linked to emotions, causing a pattern to develop. This pattern can be almost automatic- it is given no desire or thought. The science behind emotional hunger is that when certain food products are consumed, they bring about chemical and physiological changes in the brain that causes an altered pattern of behaviour.
While it’s true that certain foods can spur positive emotions, the opposite is also true;some dietary patterns can also predispose us to anxiety and depression.
Tips to Recognise and Stop Emotional Eating
How to identify real huger?
The first step to break free from the cycle of emotional eating is to understand the difference between emotional and real, physical hunger. Emotional hunger can be powerful and as a result, it can be very difficult to separate it from physical hunger. This can be tricker than it sounds but there are clues that can help you set them apart.
Tips to Recognise and stop Emotional Eating
Identify real Hunger Tip # 1:
Emotional hunger is not linked to your stomach- instead of a growling stomach or hunger pangs, emotional hunger is located in your brain. You start craving for specific foods and cannot stop thinking about the food until the craving is satisfied.
Tips to Recognise and stop Emotional Eating
Identify real Hunger Tip # 2:
Emotional hunger is a sudden event- emotional hunger has a sudden onset and feels overwhelming and urgent. It doesn't develop when you haven't eating for a long time. Generally, good or bad events make you crave for food and that is when emotional hunger sets in.
Tips to Recognise and stop Emotional Eating
Identify real Hunger Tip # 3:
Emotional hunger involves mindless eating- as emotional hunger doesn't develop for the reason of physical bodily needs, it is very difficult to stop when the craving ends. Before you have realised you have eaten more than required without paying attention or fully enjoying it.
Tips to Recognise and stop Emotional Eating
Identify real Hunger Tip # 4:
Emotional hunger sets cravings for certain specific foods- it creates a craving for certain "comfort" foods. Generally fatty foods, sugary foods or salted snacks are desired as they give the body an instant rush.
Tips to Recognise and stop Emotional Eating
Identify real Hunger Tip # 5:
Emotional hunger, causes regret, after the craving ends, it might lead to feeling of shame, guilt or regretting the episode as you did not eat to satisfy your physical needs.
Tips to Recognise and stop Emotional Eating
Identify your triggers
Identifying your triggers is an important second step in the run to avoid emotional eating. A wide range of emotions can cause different reactions and people have their own way of dealing with it. Identify what makes you reach out for comfort food and consciously avoid linking emotions with eating. Some of the common causes are summarised below.
Tips to Recognise and stop Emotional Eating
Identify your triggers # 1:
Stress- Chronic stress releases the hormone Cortisol, which makes your body crave for salty, sugary and fatty delights that will give you an instant rush.
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Football on ground, good food on the table and dancing indoors; that is what Renita practises to follow an active and healthy life. A fresh-out-of-college writer, Renita is the latest addition to the HealthMeUp family. Renita believes that if you want to stay fit, you need to sweat it out and the best way to do that is to play your favorite sport. Don't have a favourite sport? She thinks it's never too late to find one.
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FROM Bhashani Sweets, it takes only a few minutes to reach Bangla Bazaar, and a quick stop at Dhaka Fabrics for a ‘ghamchha’ or ‘lungi’ is followed by another brief visit to Chittagong Chemicals for any pesticide you might need.
In just half an hour, you can experience the vibrant streets of Dhaka, Chittagong, Gazipur, Khulna, Rangpur, or Narayanganj — all in the heart of Karachi. These businesses, located in Orangi Town, though well-established in their own right, share a deep-rooted connection to the personal histories of their owners.
Each story is unique, but many are marked by the haunting memories of the 1971 war — or the ‘Fall of Dhaka’ in the official Pakistani narrative — and the longing to revisit their birthplace, which they still see as a lost homeland. Many of them still carry the scars of the secession.
In the port city, countless tales trace back to the fateful events of Dec 16, 1971, when Bangladesh came into being, forcing many to migrate from what was once East Pakistan.
This year, however, as the 53rd anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence approaches, a sense of cautious optimism has emerged, replacing some of the grief that has long defined this chapter of history. In August, the fall of Sheikh Hasina Wajid’s autocratic rule gave rise to a renewed sense of hope among many Pakistanis, especially those who still feel a deep, personal connection to Bangladesh and its journey.
The ouster of Sheikh Hasina and the receptive attitude of Yunus-led regime in Bangladesh provide Pakistan a golden opportunity to rekindle the relationship with Dhaka
Shamim Akhtar and his family have been settled in Sector 11 ½ of Orangi Town since the mid-70s. The story of how they managed to escape with their lives and reach Pakistan in 1971 is a separate, heart-wrenching tale. Now, the only thing that has made them forget all their past sorrows is that next month, for the first time since 1987, they are going to visit their ancestral city – Khulna, the second largest port city in Bangladesh.
“I was 17 when my family and I prepared for our second migration after 1947…” he said. “In 1987, I visited Khulna with my wife, two daughters, and a son. There are still a few relatives who managed to survive the 1971 tragedy, and they are now settled there. Things began to deteriorate when Hasina Wajid came into power. Over the past 15 years, whenever we planned to visit Khulna, our relatives there advised us against it. Their only reason was, ‘Aap logo kay liye yahan halaat achaay nahin (the situation is not good for you here).’ It was all because of Sheikh Hasina’s anti-Pakistan thoughts and policies.”
Turning of the tide
Now, after more than 35 years, Mr Akhtar, accompanied by his son, is set to fly to Bangladesh for a long-awaited family reunion. It’s not just the people of Pakistan who feel this way; these sentiments are equally shared in Bangladesh.
Maruf Hasan, a young Dhaka-based journalist who has extensively covered the recent political unrest and violence that led to the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s regime, is witnessing it unfold firsthand. “I believe that pro-Pakistan sentiment among the people of Bangladesh has grown in recent times,” he said.
“While this sentiment has always existed among many, people were not able to express it openly before. Now, they feel more empowered to voice their feelings. Several factors contribute to this, including ethnic ties and growing influence of anti-India sentiments.”
The events following the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s regime continue to send the same signals. In September, PM Shehbaz Sharif met the chief advisor of the Bangladesh interim government, Muhammad Yunus, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly and called for the opening of a “new page” in their relations to enhance cooperation in various sectors. PM Shehbaz also invited him to Pakistan, reinforcing the importance of regional cooperation and dialogue.
Last month, a cargo ship from Karachi anchored at the port of Chittagong, establishing the first-ever direct maritime connection between the two nations. Many view this as a significant step towards strengthening trade relations. Pakistani traders were further pleasantly surprised when they received orders for the export of tonnes of sugar, rice, and potatoes from Bangladesh. It’s the first time in decades that Pakistan is set to export 25,000 tonnes of sugar to the riverine country.
The gesture didn’t stop there. The Consul General of Bangladesh met Pakistani traders last week, offering assurances for streamlined visa processing and also extending a formal invitation to the Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF), set to take place in Jan 2025.
“Things have changed 180 degrees [since the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s regime],” said Zubair Motiwala, a prominent industrialist and Chairman of the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP), who recently had a one-on-one meeting with Bangladesh’s Deputy High Commissioner in Karachi, S. M. Mahbubul Alam.
“It was incredibly difficult for our traders and businessmen to even secure a visa for Bangladesh during Sheikh Hasina’s government… But with the changing landscape, we are now eager to capitalise on the emerging opportunities. The Dhaka Trade Fair could mark the beginning of this new chapter.”
Cautious optimism
Despite all the positive developments, experts believe the biggest question remains: Can Bangladesh under Yunus forge a friendly relationship with Pakistan, leaving behind decades of deep ties with India? More importantly, will India tolerate this shift, and if not, how far will it go to protect its influence and investments in Bangladesh?
Author Dr Moonis Ahmar says that much remains to be seen in this regard.
The key question is whether Bangladesh can move beyond the wounds of 1971, which India has continued to exploit for its interests, and whether Pakistan can somehow heal those scars.
“The caretaker regime of Muhammad Yunus is certainly interested in mending fences with Pakistan,” says the former dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Karachi.
“But that basically depends on many domestic factors. We know very well that the Awami League, although it’s marginalised, has a deep-rooted presence in the institutions of Bangladesh like the judiciary, bureaucracy, civil society, academia, and even the military. So it’s true Yunus wants to come forward, but his hands are tied.”
He refers to “historical complexities”, particularly in the context of the 1971 war. For instance, Dec 16 is celebrated as the day of liberation in Bangladesh, while Pakistan considers it the ‘fall of Dhaka’. Dr Ahmar wondered how far the Pakistani government was receptive to the demand of Dhaka for an “unconditional apology”.
“Even when Gen Musharraf in 2002 had visited the National Martyrs Memorial outside Dhaka, it was a gesture very close to an apology when he had used the words that ’we regret,” he recalled.
“But again, domestic dynamics are very strong… The emerging situation in Bangladesh is definitely something which is a source of concern for the Modi regime. It has not been able to reconcile with the fact that they have lost Bangladesh, at least for the time being.”
Published in Dawn, December 16th, 2024
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Healthy Recipe: Scallops With Apple And Fennel In Saffron Cream
This glorious yellow saffron cream highlights the apple&rsquos lovely pinkish-red colouring and flavour. Feel free to substitute bass or another firm white fish for the scallops.
This glorious yellow saffron cream highlights the apple’s lovely pinkish-red colouring and flavour, and the wonderful taste of tender, seared scallops. Feel free to substitute bass or another firm white fish for the scallops.
Ingredients
- Cornstarch: 30 ml (2 tbsp)
- Salt: 2 ml (1/2 tsp)
- Cayenne pepper: 1 ml (1/4 tsp)
- Large scallops: 1 kg (2 lb)
- Butter or oil: 30 ml (2 tbsp)
- Minced shallots: 50 ml (1/4 cup)
- Fennel bulb, thinly sliced 1
- Pinch saffron threads 1
- Apples: 3 (quartered and sliced)
- 35% cream: 250 ml (1 cup)
- Minced fennel fronds: 15 ml (1 tbsp)
Method
- In a re-sealable bag, combine the cornstarch, salt and cayenne pepper. Place scallops in a bag and toss to coat evenly.
- In a skillet, melt butter over medium high heat. Arrange scallops in a single layer and cook for about 3 minutes per side or until golden and slightly crisp. Transfer scallops to a platter.
- Add shallots, fennel and saffron to the skillet. Cook over medium-high heat until softened and fragrant, for about 5 minutes. Stir in apples and cream. Bring the cream to a boil, stirring occasionally, until slightly reduced and pale yellow. Stir in the fennel fronds.
- Arrange scallops on warm plates. Spoon apple cream sauce around the scallops and serve with your favourite side dish, such as rice or pasta.
Makes 6 servings.
*Recipe and Image Courtesy: Washington Apple Commission
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• 44m kids to be vaccinated during weeklong campaign
• Balochistan reports 41pc of 63 cases across Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday launched the last anti-polio campaign of the year to ensure the complete eradication of polio from the country amidst an uptick in cases.
The last anti-polio campaign of 2024 is set to begin on Monday in 143 districts of the country, focusing on addressing the alarming rise in polio cases and ensuring maximum immunisation coverage, according to a Dawn.com report.
Pakistan is one of the last two countries in the world, alongside Afghanistan, where polio remains endemic, with the disease mostly affecting children under five, and sometimes causing lifelong paralysis. Despite global efforts to eradicate the virus, challenges such as security issues, vaccine hesitancy, and misinformation have slowed progress.
Speaking at the launch ceremony of the anti-polio drive in Islamabad, PM Shehbaz said, “We will win this war (against polio) despite the difficulties faced in the past, polio cases increased and approximately 60 cases in Pakistan have come forward which is a great challenge and matter of great concern.”
The prime minister personally administered polio drops to children at the ceremony.
PM Shehbaz also appealed to parents across the country, saying, “I would like to respectfully request the parents to help us in this campaign and by giving polio drops to their children to safeguard their future.
“I would like to acknowledge with a deep sense of gratitude the efforts of our international partners, Bill Gates Foundation, World Health Organisation and the Government of Saudi Arabia,” the prime minister added.
The development comes as the tally of polio cases nationwide rose to 63. The virus has been detected in eight more districts, bringing the affected districts to 83 this year.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister’s Focal Person for Polio Eradication Ayesha Raza Farooq, in a pre-recorded message, said the “last anti-polio campaign of the year 2024 is being launched from December 16.”
An accompanying statement from the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) said that the campaign would continue “in 143 specific districts of the country from Dec 16 to 22.” The statement added that more than 44 million children will be vaccinated against polio in this campaign.
“As a mother, I appeal to you to open your doors to polio workers,” Ms Farooq said in her statement, adding that the polio vaccine is completely safe, effective, and provided free of charge.
She said that for immunisation to protect against polio and other deadly diseases, it was essential to complete the course of vaccinations. She also paid tribute to the frontline polio workers serving in difficult conditions, adding, “our frontline workers are the real heroes in the ongoing struggle against polio.”
41pc cases from Balochistan
Of the 63 cases reported so far this year, 26 cases (41pc) were from Balochistan, 18 from KP, 17 from Sindh, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
However, coordinator of the Emergency Operations Centre of Balochistan Inamul Haq announced that a seven-day polio drive will commence across the province on Dec 17. This campaign has been launched in response to recent polio cases reported in the province and the detection of the virus in environmental samples.
During the campaign, over 2.66m children in Balochistan will be administered polio drops to safeguard them against the disease. He emphasised that all preparations for the campaign had already been completed. He urged parents to cooperate with polio teams and ensure their children receive the vaccine, warning that failure to vaccinate could result in life-long disability for children.
He appealed to parents not to jeopardise their children’s futures and to vaccinate all children under the age of five. If any child misses the polio drops, parents are advised to immediately contact the district administration.
The EOC coordinator also called on civil society, teachers, and religious scholars to play an active role in supporting the campaign. He pointed out that 26 polio cases — the highest among all provinces in Pakistan for 2024 — have been reported from areas, including Chaman, Dera Bugti, Qila Abdullah, Quetta, Jhal Magsi, Zhob, Qila Saifullah, Pishin, Loralai, Nushki, Chagai, Kharan, and Jafarabad.
Despite challenging weather conditions, polio workers have fulfilled their national duty with dedication, he added. Efforts were also being made to strengthen the routine immunisation system on solid grounds.
Nearly 11,600 teams would participate in the province-wide campaign, including 9,326 mobile teams, 904 fixed-site teams, and 593 transit points to ensure maximum coverage, he added.
Saleem Shahid in Quetta also contributed to this report
Published in Dawn, December 16th, 2024
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Health Star Of The Week: Sumit Narula's Determination To Lose Weight
Sumit Narula lost weight by ditching the junk food and overcoming all odds. He followed an online weight loss portal Dr Ishi Khoslas theweightmonitorcom. He uploaded his diet daily on their portal and it was analysed by their team of nutritionists.
Sumit Narula had no complaints with himself, but his friends, colleagues and family members were after his life to lose weight. By ditching the junk food and overcoming all odds, Sumit was finally able to get fit and healthy.
Name: Sumit Narula
Age : 37 years
Occupation: teacher
Weight before (August 2012): 90 kg
Weight after (October 2013): 78 kg
When did you realise that you were overweight? Was it a ‘Happy realisation’ or a medical issue?
The realisation happened at a snail's pace, my friends at work used to taunt me about being overweight, while others were genuinely concerned about my weight. I took this with a pinch of salt, but never aggressively tried to change my habits or lifestyle. The final nail was when even my wife started complaining about my weight and how it has bogged me down both mentally and physically. So I decided to change things and was determined to become fit and healthy.
How did you begin your weight loss journey? Tell us about the baby steps that you look, like avoiding junk, alcohol or if you started to taking a walk after lunch etc?
I totally gave up eating junk food and unhealthy snacking (namkeen and bhujia). I was so fond of street food, but I sacrificed it all completely. I started eating fewer chapatis, less oil and sweets, but I soon realised that I was doing all this on my own and not taking any expert advice, so I got in touch with an online weight loss portal (Dr Ishi Khosla's theweightmonitor.com) and started following her diet plan religiously.
Tell us about your exercise regime? How difficult was it in the beginning to exercise? What were your biggest concerns?
Strenuous exercise has always been difficult for me. My biggest concern was that I won't be able to run or follow a strict exercise regime. I couldn’t follow the pumping iron, lifting weight routine. So as advised by the nutritionist, I started going for a brisk walk. I did this religiously.
Tell us about your diet? What type of changes did you make? Did your family help you or join you in your efforts?
My weight loss expert, Dr Ishi Khosla sent me a diet chart fortnightly. I followed it very seriously and used to upload my diet daily on their portal. It was then analysed by their team of nutritionists and they gave me feedback on a daily basis. They told me where I went wrong, if I had eaten any extra calories, what I should reduce in my diet and the foods I needed to increase in my diet. The best part was that their team was always avaible to answer my queries and doubts.
Tell us about your diet in detail?
Breakfast: Glass of milk, 2 boiled eggs/omelette, oats
Lunch: a bowl of vegetable, 3 chapatti/ rice, a bowl of salad
Evening snack: A fist full of nuts or a vegetable sandwich
Dinner: A plate of salad along with a bowl of dal
Tell us about the happiness or sense of achievement you felt after your weight loss journey
It has been one of the best achievements of my life. Everybody now asks me as what they eat. My wife is also very proud of me. Losing weight has strengthened our relationship and her confidence in me. It obviously gave me confidence to do a lot of things in my life, now I am always positive before I take up a challenge.
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DHAKA: A Bangladesh commission probing abuses during the rule of toppled leader Sheikh Hasina has recommended a much-feared armed police unit be disbanded, a senior inquiry member said on Sunday.
Hasina, 77, fled by helicopter to neighbouring India on August 5 as a student-led uprising stormed the prime minister’s palace in Dhaka.
Her government was accused of widespread human rights abuses, including the extrajudicial killing of hundreds of political opponents and the unlawful abduction and disappearance of hundreds more.
The Commission of Inquiry into Enforced Disappearances, set up by the caretaker government, said it found initial evidence that Hasina and other ex-senior officials were involved in the enforced disappearances alleged to have been carried out by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
The RAB paramilitary police force was sanctioned by the United States in 2021, alongside seven of its senior officers, in response to reports of its culpability in some of the worst rights abuses committed during Hasina’s 15-year-long rule.
“RAB has never abided by the law and was seldom held accountable for its atrocities, which include enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and abductions,” Nur Khan Liton, a member of the commission, said.
Published in Dawn, December 16th, 2024
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SCOTT DETROW, HOST:
For weeks now, residents in New Jersey and across the Northeast have looked up to the night sky and seen drones, dozens of car-sized drones flying above critical infrastructure like reservoirs and military bases.
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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: ...One low looks pretty close, right?
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: So I - this one's going to fly over us right now.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: You think so?
DETROW: That is footage captured by one New Jersey resident, U.S. Senator Andy Kim, who spent his Thursday night drone hunting with local police in a rural part of the state and posting about it on social media. Naturally, these mysterious drones have raised some questions. Where are they coming from? Who's flying them? Why? Federal officials say they don't have answers to those questions but say they see no evidence so far of a national security threat. Here's Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaking on ABC earlier today.
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ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS: There's no question that people are seeing drones, and I want to assure the American public that we in the federal government have deployed additional resources, personnel, technology to assist the New Jersey state police in addressing the drone sightings.
DETROW: So in the era of see-something-say-something, the Feds seem to be assuring the public that there is nothing to see here. Local firefighters do say do not approach any drones that have crashed into the ground.
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IN PICS: Red Bull Tour Bus Launch
Red Bull Tour Bus kicked off its national tour in Mumbai with performances by talented bands like Supersonics, Scribe, Dualist Inquiry Band, and Swarathma.
Red Bull Tour Bus kicked off its national tour in Mumbai with performances by talented bands like Supersonics, Scribe, Dualist Inquiry Band, and Swarathma.
Red Bull Tour Bus kicked off its national tour in Mumbai with performances by talented bands like Supersonics, Scribe, Dualist Inquiry Band, and Swarathma.
An artist performs at the Red Bull Tour Bus launch.
Scribe band performs at the Red Bull Tour Bus launch.
An artist performs at the Red Bull Tour Bus launch.
Scribe band performs at the Red Bull Tour Bus launch
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| 2024-12-16T06:20:46Z
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Zee TV is set to unveil an exciting new historical fiction series centered around the illustrious life and works of the revered Indian poet, Tulsidas. Renowned as one of the most exceptional figures in Hindi literature, Tulsidas holds a significant place not only in India but also in the broader tapestry of global literary heritage. His profound influence stretches across various spheres—art, culture, and society—leaving a lasting legacy that continues to inspire generations and shape modern thought and artistic expression. This ambitious project will be crafted by the talented trio of Alind Srivastava, Nissar Parvez, and Piyush Gupta, who bring their artistic vision and expertise to this grand spectacle. The series will be produced under a newly established banner, Raindance Entertainment, which aims to deliver compelling storytelling that resonates with audiences.
We at IWMBuzz.com have been at the helm, reporting exclusively about the cast that is on board this show. We wrote about Tarun Khannaa and Rati Pandey playing the parents of Tulsi in the show. We also wrote about Teri Meri Doriyaann fame Naman Ratan brought on board the show to play the child version of the lead, Tulsi. If you have not read our exclusive newsbreaks, you can check it here.
We now hear of Amit Pachori being roped in to play the main antagonist in the show. As for Amit, he has recently entered the Colors mythological show Shiv Shakti Tap Tyaag Tandav. He will also be seen in Sony SAB’s new launch Tenali Rama.
In Tulsidas, Amit will be seen in a never-seen-before role and will have negative shades.
We buzzed Amit but did not get through to him.
We reached out to the Producer and channel spokesperson but did not get revert till we filed the story.
Watch this space at IWMBuzz.com for exclusive updates.
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| 2024-12-16T06:20:47Z
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Brad Pitt Reportedly Snubs $60M Film Deal That Could Lead to Angelina Jolie Reunion
Brad Pitt reportedly has no intention of accepting a lucrative proposal to work alongside his former wife, Angelina Jolie, in a movie.
Sources from Pitt's circle have revealed that the veteran actor is firm in his decision not to engage in a project alongside the 49-year-old actress, with whom he has been entangled in a prolonged divorce process since 2016.
The remarks were made in reaction to producer Danny Rossner's proposal to cast the ex-power-couple as romantic leads in his upcoming movie inspired by the life of hotel magnate Emmanuel Martinez.
As per the movie's creator, Jolie and Pitt might be able to "put their differences aside" for the sake of appearing in the movie.
However, individuals in the "Ocean's Eleven" actor's inner circle strongly believe that such a scenario is completely unlikely.
Despite the multi-million-dollar offer, there is reportedly "no way" Pitt is going to star alongside the "Tomb Raider" actress.
An insider told the Daily Mail, "All the money in the world wouldn't get Brad to appear in a movie with Angelina ever again. It would definitely spark public interest, but it's not anything he would ever consider for a moment."
"They are currently bitter enemies so there is no way Brad would lower himself to be paid any amount of money to talk to Angie on screen," the insider insisted.
The insider added, "She's caused him so much heartache and doesn't even want his inner circle to talk about her."
Rossner allegedly offered Jolie and Pitt around $60 million to feature in his movie.
In an interview with Page Six, he mentioned, "Right now, I think, Brad Pitt's in the $20 to $25 million range [per movie] and Angelina Jolie is in the $15 million range."
"In the 50-percent range above their going rate is what we're prepared to offer," Rossner revealed.
However, the alleged proposal from the producer was dismissed as "not something either side entertained" and a "clever publicity stunt," according to another source of the Daily Mail.
"There was never any real offer," a source said.
Since Jolie initiated divorce proceedings in 2016, Pitt has been distanced from his children. Although they were officially recognized as single individuals in 2019, their legal disputes continue to unfold.
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It started as long-distance, but 13 years later, they are still going strong.
Megan Gale, 49, and former AFL star Shaun Hampson, 36, met in 2011, and although their connection wasn’t initially instant, after they got to know each other better deep feelings began to grow.
“It was a slow burn,” Megan admitted to The Australian Women’s Weekly. “It wasn’t that instant, see each other, fall in love, inseparable.”
“I just found out after talking to him for a while that he had way more maturity and depth than I initially thought,” Megan continued.
But at the time, Megan was living in Sydney, and Shaun was in Melbourne. They initially dated over Skype, and even though long-distance relationships can be a risk, it only solidified their undeniable chemistry.
In 2019, Megan told The Australian Women’s Weekly, “We’d start Skyping around 8 pm, then look at the clock, and it would be 4 am.
“It was that giddy, high school thing where you could sleep for two hours then wake up and feel refreshed and energised. You’re glowing and bolstered by this new connection.”
The couple got engaged in 2017, they have yet to get married, but in 2019 Shaun opened up about his marriage plans.
At the time, he said the wedding might be a year away, and he gave a glimpse into the type of wedding the couple has in mind.
“There’s just been so much on. Both of us are trying to find the time to focus on a wedding now that our lives are running smoothly. I can guarantee it’ll be very small and intimate,” Shaun told TV Week.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Shaun spoke candidly about missing Megan while on Survivor and revealed why their connection is so strong.
“Our sense of humour is so stitched together, it is like one mind. If we are not looking after the kids or doing dinner, we are joking around and I missed that connection. She is my number one,” he told the publication.
On May 13 2014, the gorgeous couple welcomed their son, River, into the world.
“Our precious little 3.87kg (8.5 pound) man came into the world yesterday on the 13th of May 2014 at 4.47pm,” Gale wrote alongside the picture,” wrote Megan in her announcement.
The family of three became four when their daughter Rosie was born in 2017.
“Our darling little bun came out of the oven earlier this week 🍞 Sweet little soul. You are already so blessed. Healthy as can be with a family that has fallen head over heels in love with you,” penned Megan.
To soak in the love between this ridiculously good looking couple then enjoy this deep dive into their cutest moments together.
A truly gorgeous couple.
Looking as glammed-up as ever.
All loved up!
Megan posted loved up pictures from her family vacation to Fiji, and she wanted to clarify two things – they’re having the best time, and no, they aren’t naked.
The former model captioned the snap, “Salty, sun-kissed, smiling and soaking up Vomo Lai Lai ☺️ And yes, I’m aware that we appear naked in the first shot, but we’re not #orarewe?”
Megan looked radiant, enjoying a beachfront breakfast with her beau.
Megan shared with her followers that the couple makes sure they don’t forget about date night.
“My partner Shaun and I make sure we don’t leave it more than 3 or 4 weeks between date nights,” said Megan.
This shot of the couple captures the sweetness of their love.
In a revealing Christmas message Megan cleared the air about her wedding plans, she wrote, “Meeting my man and we’re now engaged. (Not planned a single thing for the wedding including where and when but we are in no rush ☺️).”
The couple announced they had become owners of the Dollywood Daylesford hotel.
Christmas at the Gale-Hampson household looks delightful.
Shaun and Megan at a Vogue event in 2019.
Shaun told TV Week that he went on Survivor because Megan loves the show. “I wouldn’t have gone if she wasn’t [supportive].”
Shaun captioned this love-filled pic, “Happy Birthday to this INCREDIBLE woman. The best mum and person I know. Tough and resilient but funny as hell and gentle. Your day @megankgale 🎁🎉🎊🎂.”
The glamour exuding from this picture is getting us in awe of this couple all over again!
Shaun and Megan on one of their regular date nights.
Megan Gale and Shaun Hampson event
Megan and Shaun were looking straight out of the vintage wild west!
Megan and Shaun were enjoying a day at the polo a year into dating.
”The quickest 5 years of my life but they say time fiels when you’re having fun and this girl proves it,” Megan shared to her Instagram to celebrate her daughter Rosies birthday.
Mum and dad all dressed up for the National Gallery of Victoria Alexander McQueen exhibition opening party.
”So much to be thankful for. Heart is full (and lots of full bellies),” Megan shared to her Instagram for Christmas 2022.
The family celebrated the first day of school for 2023 with this sweet, and rather silly, snap.
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As of October 2024, the outstanding credit card portfolio in Pakistan stood at Rs8.5 billion, according to the State Bank’s Credit/Loans report. This represents approximately one per cent of the industry’s total consumer financing portfolio.
While the financial sector has traditionally prioritised the mass consumer segment, there is significant potential to broaden its focus. Expanding into the largely underserved corporate and small and medium enterprise (SME) segments for business credit cards could address their growing credit needs and unlock new opportunities for growth.
With over 67pc of Pakistan’s bank financing directed toward the corporate sector, there is a significant untapped opportunity to introduce business credit cards. This product, which is a staple in the offerings of most Gulf Cooperation Council banks and even widely available in neighbouring India, remains notably absent in Pakistan. Leveraging this potential could cater to the financial needs of businesses and drive diversification within the banking sector.
Business credit cards offer companies a practical tool for managing expenses and optimising working capital. They are particularly effective for handling short-term costs such as travel, utility bills, supplies, and entertainment. By issuing these cards to employees, businesses can implement category-specific spending controls, set limits, restrict usage to approved merchants, and even enable offers or discounts tailored to specific needs.
Business credit cards remain largely untapped despite their immense potential to support the corporate sector and SMEs
For employees, business credit cards eliminate the need to use personal funds for company-related expenses like travel, streamlining processes by reducing the burden of reimbursements, internal approvals, and associated delays. Companies also benefit from rewards such as cashback, loyalty points, and discounts on business expenses like fuel, retail, and travel, which can be passed on to employees as added perks.
It can be argued that generating revenue from corporate credit cards can be challenging due to setup costs and the negotiation leverage of large corporations, which often results in the avoidance of late fee payments.
However, banks can leverage alternative revenue streams to ensure profitability. These include annual and maintenance fees, minimum deposit requirements for corporate accounts, transaction fees, interchange fees, and foreign transaction fees.
Additionally, fees for setting up and maintaining expense tracking systems, as well as revenue-sharing agreements with value-added services such as travel insurance and retail partnerships, can contribute significantly.
Corporate credit cards also present cross-selling opportunities for products like employee loans, savings plans, and payroll accounts, which can further diversify income streams. In the event of delayed repayments or misuse, banks can mitigate risks by promptly blocking cards, reducing credit limits, and taking corrective actions to protect their interests.
With the rise of fintech and innovative financial solution providers, banks can offer business credit cards without incurring significant setup costs. By partnering with established global fintech companies that specialise in this domain, banks can seamlessly integrate card functionalities into their existing product suite using application programming interfaces.
These companies provide a range of solutions, including various card types with customisable limits, merchant-specific onboarding, advanced expense tracking systems, and branding options — all without requiring heavy upfront investments. This approach allows banks to expand their product offerings efficiently while leveraging the expertise and infrastructure of fintech partners.
Business credit cards can also be tailored to meet the unique cash flow needs of different business segments. In Pakistan, the SME sector, which accounts for only around 6pc of total private sector credit (as per the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority’s March 2024 report), presents a significant opportunity for targeted financial solutions.
For instance, a stable SME that incurs upfront inventory costs, faces high transportation expenses and experiences delayed payments from customers could benefit from a business credit card offering features such as cashback on office supplies and utilities, expense management tools, and fuel cashback or surcharge waivers.
Customising credit card solutions for SMEs, corporates, and even startups or venture capital-backed businesses can attract more firms to bank credit products, fostering loyalty and trust in the banking system. Despite the potential, only two banks in Pakistan currently advertise corporate credit cards, which falls short of the sector’s capabilities and the demand for such products. In the current environment of declining interest rates, introducing business credit cards could help banks improve their advance-to-deposit ratios (ADR) and enhance credit availability.
As the banking sector transitions toward Islamic financial models, introducing Shariah-compliant business credit cards should be on the list for product development and structuring. This aligns with the evolving needs of businesses while adhering to Islamic principles. The financial sector plays a critical role in market creation, and the success of such products in other regions highlights untapped potential in Pakistan, underscoring missed growth opportunities.
The writer is a seasoned Islamic finance professional.
Email: Aisha.kudiya@gmail.com
Published in Dawn, The Business and Finance Weekly, December 16th, 2024
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Some things are easier to learn when you're a kid, like an instrument or a sport. NPR's Avery Keatley visited a gymnastics class outside of Washington, D.C., to find out why it's important to keep learning new things, no matter your age.
AVERY KEATLEY, BYLINE: On a dark, rainy Tuesday night, the Barcroft Sports & Fitness Center in Arlington, Virginia, is brightly lit and absolutely buzzing. The gymnastics floor is mobbed with kids wearing bright leotards, taking turns on the vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor. It is loud as the kids tumble across the floor and parents wait in the bleachers overlooking the gymnasium. But as the kids' classes begin winding down, a different group files in.
GAELEN WOOD: (Inaudible) forward rolls, so arms up.
ERIN WEISENBERGER: This is the worst one because it really hurts your head. When I was a kid, this didn't hurt, but it really gives me a headache doing it. I don't know why.
KEATLEY: That's 32-year-old Erin Weisenberger. She's warming up doing somersaults across the gymnastics floor along with the rest of her class. It's a group of nearly all women ranging in age from their late 20s to their early 40s, and they're all here trying something a little different.
WOOD: So we're going to learn something new today.
KEATLEY: They're part of an adult beginner gymnastics class. It's a bit of a rarity in the gymnastics world, where most classes are geared towards kids and teens.
WOOD: And if you're lefty, you're going to jump, land on your right foot, extend your left foot into your lunge.
KEATLEY: That's Coach Gaelen Wood. Tonight, they're learning how to power hurdle. It's a move that helps generate momentum for tumbling, and the footwork is a little complicated.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: So think about jumping off of two feet and just land on your right foot.
WEISENBERGER: Just land on my right foot. Just land on my right foot.
(LAUGHTER)
KEATLEY: While Erin tries to master the power hurdle, classmate Shateela Winters has a simpler goal in mind.
SHATEELA WINTERS: So my goal is to not injure myself. I have a bad back amongst other things. But if I could pick the dream thing that I had learned to do, if I could just do one back handspring, I'd be incredibly happy.
WOOD: Awesome.
KEATLEY: After warming up on the floor, the class files over to a trampoline that stretches almost halfway across the gym.
WOOD: All right, we're going to straddle jumps. So remember, either straddle jumps can go out to the side or straddle jumps can come up in front of you, OK?
KEATLEY: Gymnastics program supervisor Alex Asante-Dean says that for adult beginners, breaking out of their normal patterns of movement, like jumping really high in the air on a trampoline, can be uncomfortable.
ALEX ASANTE-DEAN: When we start, some of the things are really jarring 'cause you're moving your body in ways that hasn't been done before.
KEATLEY: And it's not just physical movements.
ASANTE-DEAN: When we get older and we have, you know, routines that we're used to, gets hard to break those habits.
KEATLEY: That's an observation backed up by research.
RACHEL WU: Adults might have a more fixed mindset in terms of thinking, if I'm not good at something now, I'm never going to be good at it.
KEATLEY: Rachel Wu is an associate professor of psychology at University of California, Riverside. She studies the way children learn and how those patterns might help adults learn too. She says that in some ways, learning is easier as an adult. Adults generally grasp concepts more quickly. They're less distracted, and they have better motor control than kids. But learning as an adult requires time, money and quality teachers, which can all be harder to find. She also says adults are often convinced they simply lack a talent for something.
WU: I've never been good at languages, or I've never been good at art, or I don't have a musical ear or something like that - that kind of, like, very fixed mindset. So you're either born with some talent or you're not.
KEATLEY: But continuing to learn as an adult has serious brain benefits.
WU: You will increase a lot of different types of cognitive abilities - your attention, memory. You have existing neurons that can be strengthened and existing pathways between neurons that can be strengthened as well.
KEATLEY: She says physical activities can be especially helpful in growing new neurons, which help the brain remain healthy and flexible later in life. Community can also play a big role in supporting adult learning.
WU: Learning new stuff is really hard, and if you're doing it with other people, it may be less depressing (laughter) in some ways because those people can help hold you accountable. You can see through how other people are struggling that you're not the only one struggling.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: There you go. Yes. Pull, pull, pull, pull, pull. Good.
KEATLEY: Back in the gym, the class is practicing on the uneven bars.
WEISENBERGER: The Olympians make it look so smooth and so easy and just like a walk in the park. But it is not (laughter).
KEATLEY: Erin Weisenberger says that even though class is challenging, she gets a lot out of it.
WEISENBERGER: Just proud of myself for trying something that I thought I would be really bad at.
KEATLEY: Coach Gaelen Wood says that for him, seeing adult students achieve something new is one of the best parts of the class.
WOOD: I love when people are nervous of something, and they finally take that step forward, and they're like, I can do this.
KEATLEY: As class winds down, one of those moments unfolds as Erin successfully pulls herself all the way over the uneven bar for the first time.
WEISENBERGER: I did it.
(LAUGHTER)
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: There you go. Yay.
KEATLEY: Avery Keatley, NPR News.
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Pop Star Breaks Silence on Alleged Abuse by Diddy During Danity Kane Era: 'I'll Never Recover'
New allegations have surfaced against music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs regarding his treatment of pop star Dawn Richard during her time in the girl group Danity Kane.
Representing Richard, attorney Lisa Bloom revealed that the decision to take legal action against the disgraced Bad Boy Records mogul stemmed from witnessing hotel surveillance footage that went viral, showing Diddy altercation with his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura.
"All she wants to do is make music and be a musician. And yet, she found herself in the position – after Cassie Ventura came forward – of saying, 'I need to come forward too, in support of Cassie, and in support of others, to tell my own story,'" Bloom said, per the Daily Mail report, titled, "I'll never recover from what Diddy did to me in the dressing room after making my dreams come true."
In the lawsuit, Richard alleged that the disgraced music producer caused her financial loss, physical harm, emotional suffering, and significant psychological distress while he employed her.
Diddy is facing charges related to sex trafficking following the emergence of disturbing video footage showing him violently attacking Ventura online.
Upon witnessing Diddy's alleged misconduct, Richard came forward with disturbing accusations which included Diddy forcibly touching her buttocks and chest during an encounter in her dressing room.
Additionally, Richard disclosed that the "I Need A Girl" rapper insisted on her undressing to her undergarments, all the while subjecting her to derogatory remarks about her appearance in the presence of industry professionals, security personnel, and his acquaintances.
The lawsuit claims Diddy called Richard "lazy, fat, ugly, and skinny."
Diddy also reportedly made inappropriate advances towards her while they were on a trip to Glasgow, Scotland, in October 2010 and that he had been exerting control over Richard for an extended period, despite promising to help further her music career during her time in Danity Kane.
In response to the accusations, the rapper denied the claims that she was not compensated for her efforts and claimed that Richard was deprived of adequate rest and nourishment as a result of the demanding work hours imposed.
Diddy's legal team also that the former pop star's actions were an attempt to twist the truth and fabricate a web of lies solely for financial gain. They added that the move seemed carefully orchestrated to align with the launch of her latest album and promotional activities.
Richard wasn't the only Danity Kane member who was thrilled that justice was about to be served to Diddy.
Aubrey O'Day said in September, "The purpose of Justice is to provide an ending and allow us the space to create a new chapter. Women never get this. I feel validated. Today is a win for women all over the world, not just me. Things are finally changing."
O'Day has consistently voiced her opposition to Diddy. The debut of Danity Kane dates back to 2005 when the group was brought together on Diddy's "Making the Band," eventually signing with his Bad Boy Records label.
They disbanded in 2014.
Read more: Diddy Hit With 3 More Sexual Assault Claims as Accusers Claim He Drugged and Sodomized Them
Originally published in Music Times
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They were a match made in Love Island Australia heaven, but Mimi and Dylan just couldn’t get on the same page – at least inside the villa.
But Mimi and Dylan have reportedly rekindled their romance outside of the villa and away from the pressures of TV.
Mimi was eliminated from the reality competition with her Love Island-partner Steph, after being voted most likely to be ‘clout-chasers’. However, the pair called it quits one month after their exit.
Steph claimed they both decided to end things, while Mimi told 9Entertainment that she called it quits with him.
Shortly after her exit, Dylan and his villa-partner Sophie were booted, and met the same fate – confirming their split after their elimination episode aired.
But now living their best life outside of the villa, Mimi and Dylan have confirmed their attempts to “rekindle an old flame.”
“My intrusive thoughts won,” she told 9Entertainment. “We were just talking – and then I just kissed him. Then we ended up having a really deep conversation. He opened up to me and I opened up to him… ”
“He’s amazing, I’ve literally never been with anyone as caring as him before.”
As “guarded people,” Dylan admitted they both found it difficult to be “vulnerable” on television.
Now, without the constant eye of cameras, the pair have begun to explore their connection but their relationship isn’t official at the moment.
It’s known that Mimi and Sophie were close friends inside the villa, so how has Sophie responded to the news? While Dylan claimed she “wasn’t happy,” Sophie explained how she felt to 9Entertainment.
“My intuition was growing and I’ve had some discussions with both of them and they’ve sort of laid things out on the table to me,” she said. “If something does blossom between Mimi and Dylan I can’t hold it against anyone. I’d never ask somebody to choose between friendship and love.”
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Sphere Origins, the renowned production house that has bankrolled popular shows like Balika Vadhu, Jyoti, Mere Angne Mein, Peshwa Bajirao, Silsila Badalte Rishton Ka etc, is presently working on a new fiction concept for Colors. The show which is slated to be the remake of a successful South show, will be launched soon.
We at IWMBuzz.com have reported exclusively about popular actor Karan Vohra being the male lead on the show. We have also written about Manasi Salvi playing a significant role in the show. Karan was last seen in Main Hoon Saath Tere while Manasi was seen in Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin. If you have not read these stories, you can check them here.
Exclusive: Karan Vohra bags the lead role in Sphere Origins’ next for Colors
Exclusive: Manasi Salvi bags Sphere Origins’ show for Colors
We now hear of a new face being launched in the show as the female lead. A noted content creator from Delhi, Prisha Dhatwalia has been finalized opposite Karan Vohra as the female lead of the show.
We buzzed the actress but did not get through to her.
We reached out to the Producer and channel spokesperson but did not get revert till we filed the story.
Watch this space at IWMBuzz.com for exclusive updates.
Exclusive: Vidhaan Sharma to feature in Vikram Bhatt’s Tumko Meri Kasam
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Pakistan is grappling with escalating water shortages as it seeks to expand cultivated areas and increase cropping intensity. These measures are imperative to ensure food security for a rapidly growing population and to produce an agricultural export surplus to reduce the country’s current account deficit.
However, with no new reservoir expected in the short term to augment water storage capacity, the most viable solution lies in conserving water through efficient irrigation and minimising water losses in the irrigation system.
The canal irrigation system can be broadly categorised into two parts based on operational control and maintenance and repair responsibilities. The first includes canals, branch canals, distributaries, and minors, which are fully managed by the provincial irrigation departments.
The second consists of watercourses — approximately 58,000 in Punjab — where farmers, often through water-users associations (applicable for lined watercourses), are responsible for maintenance and repair tasks to improve water conveyance efficiency.
Watercourse losses intensify as budget allocation for maintenance falls compounded by a lack of cooperation in repairing efforts
Unfortunately, conveyance losses in water channels remain high, and therefore, a large portion of the Punjab Irrigation Department’s maintenance and repair budget (for irrigation works) is spent on desilting (Bhal Safai) of distributaries and minors. The activity is carried out annually, mostly during December and January.
Unfortunately, the allocated budget has consistently proven inadequate to desilt all of them effectively. As a result, some distributaries and minors are either entirely overlooked for the following year or only partially desilted, leading to continued water losses and reduced water availability at the tail ends.
Compounding the issue, the budgetary allocation for repairing and maintenance has been declining in real terms over the past few years due to high inflation. Alarmingly, even in absolute terms, the annual budget has decreased in the current year from Rs8.59 billion in FY24 to Rs7.46bn in FY25. This highlights that water conservation — a critical issue of global significance — is not a priority for the government despite increasing water scarcity and mounting food security challenges.
On the other hand, watercourse losses are even greater. In 2001, these losses were estimated at 31 per cent of the water delivered at the watercourse head, amounting to 26 million acre-feet annually across Pakistan. That is why, over the past 23 years, a large number of watercourses were partially lined to reduce conveyance losses.
However, all watercourses, whether lined or unlined, require frequent cleaning and maintenance (desilting, removing vegetation and debris, and compacting embankments) typically every one to two months.
Nevertheless, despite farmers recognising water as a vital resource for farming, this task has become increasingly difficult in many villages due to evolving socio-cultural dynamics.
Budgetary allocation for repairing and maintaining watercourses has been declining in real terms over the past few years due to high inflation, with the annual budget decreasing in the current year from Rs8.59bn in FY24 to Rs7.46bn in FY25
Historically, in Punjab, the development approaches based on mutual collaboration, like cooperatives, Farmer Field School (experiential learning technique in groups), and community organisations (developed by rural support programmes and other non-government organisations) have largely failed to achieve their intended outcomes.
This failure stems from deep-rooted societal fragmentation based on caste, clan (baradari), religion, ethnicity, sect, and most recently, political affiliation. Such an intensifying divide poses a serious obstacle to the effective management of shared resources like watercourses.
Increasing the challenge further, farm sizes have shrunk over the last two decades due to the division of land among successive generations, driven by a population growth rate of over 2.55pc. Consequently, the number of shareholders (irrigators) per watercourse has surged, often exceeding 100, and further complicating collective efforts.
In addition, the growing obsession with social media in rural areas — fueled by high teledensity of around 85pc and expanding internet coverage with presently 111m internet users — has further aggravated the situation. This shift has diminished traditional social interactions among smallholders, which was once a hallmark of our rural life. Such developments have made collective efforts for watercourse upkeep even more difficult.
Across the world, the roles and responsibilities of individuals, families, governments, and the private sector have been shifting with changing socio-economic and cultural trends. Given the growing water scarcity and the transformation of rural areas, the government must enhance its oversight to ensure regular watercourse cleaning and maintenance, rather than relying entirely on farmers, as is currently the case.
This can be achieved by exercising the provisions of two existing laws: the ‘On-Farm Water Management and Water Users’ Associations Ordinance 1981’ (under the Agriculture Department), and the ‘Punjab Irrigation, Drainage and Rivers Act 2023’ (Punjab Irrigation Department), while effectively utilising the existing field staff of these departments.
However, going one step further, the government should introduce paternalistic laws — a widely recognised legal approach worldwide — to regulate the actions and choices of farmers. Through an amendment in the existing legal framework, the Irrigation Department can be empowered to hire service providers (contractors) for cleaning and maintenance of watercourses at regular intervals, in cases where farmers fail to fulfill this responsibility. In that case, the associated costs should be incorporated into the Abiana (water tax) levied on them.
As water shortages intensify, manifested by protests from Sindh’s government, political parties, and civil society against the allocation of water to new canals, it is imperative to take every possible step to minimise water losses. With the annual canal closure approaching, there is a timely opportunity to launch a mega “Bhal Safai” campaign this year, engaging all stakeholders to maximise impact.
Chaudhary Mohammad Ashraff is the former Director General (On-Farm Water Management) of the Punjab Agriculture Department, and Khalid Wattoo is a farmer and a development professional.
Published in Dawn, The Business and Finance Weekly, December 16th, 2024
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Two COVID-19-related deaths were reported in the region Monday.
Stoddard and Bollinger counties in Missouri each reported on death.
According to Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center, the county's seven-day testing positivity rate was 23.7%. For the southeast region of the state, medical bed availability as of Monday was 18%, and ICU bed availability was 27%.
Updated virus numbers in Missouri counties were:
Southern Seven Health Department in Illinois reported no new deaths in Union County (1,478 total cases, 944 recoveries, 24 deaths) or Alexander County (317 total cases, 279 recoveries, four deaths).
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By many measures, California is a shining success story. On its own, it boasts the world's fifth-largest economy. It's one of the richest states in the U.S., with one of the country's highest per capita incomes. And California is also a place where Hollywood and Silicon Valley have set a standard for the U.S. and created a mythical, romantic version of the state that looms over pop culture. But in recent years, it is a story that has been told of one as a state in decline. And according to that narrative, the most populous state is overregulated and too expensive to live in, and so much so, according to some, that people are fleeing it in droves. But how true is that story? To answer, I am joined now by Tessa McLean, the California editor at the online publication SFGATE. She dug into this narrative - not just the current one, but previous times that everybody has been talking about California failing. Welcome to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.
TESSA MCLEAN: Thanks for having me.
DETROW: Let's just start with the now - how dire is it? Is the California dream over? Are we packing it up?
MCLEAN: (Laughter) No, the California dream is not quite over yet, though many would say it is dying. The population in the last three years has declined, but it's never declined more than 1%. Each year since 2021, it's declined by a smaller and smaller number, and in 2023, it only declined 0.09%, according to figures from the State Department of Finance. So growth is simply slowing. It has not fully declined.
DETROW: But this led you to take a broader look because, you know, I covered California politics for a couple of years, and I heard this at the time I was there, and it seems like such a constant. This state is too expensive. It's overregulated. It's killing itself, and people are leaving in droves. And yet, the population - big-picture - continues to go up, the economy continues to grow. Why did you want to take a look back at these previous moments of doom and gloom? What was interesting about it to you?
MCLEAN: I write a lot about the movement of Californians, whether that's leaving the state entirely for a different state like Texas or Montana or whether they're moving around within the state itself. So I really wanted to take a look at the population data and see how big any decline has been in recent years and find out if this was a new phenomenon or if this had in fact been happening for years.
DETROW: Yeah.
MCLEAN: And leading up to the most recent election, it felt like California was in the spotlight more than ever. Kamala Harris was born in the Bay Area. She started her career in California, and that fact was often used against her. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is boasting about how Elon Musk left California for Texas. And Governor Gavin Newsom is sparring with the governors of Texas and Florida, and these conversations are making the national news. I wanted to take a step back and examine America's obsession with California failing.
DETROW: To be clear, though, you're not saying that some of the real problems that are being flagged, like the high cost of living, the cost of housing, in particular, aren't real. It's just that they may be overblown in terms of leading people to flee the state in droves?
MCLEAN: Absolutely. California is an expensive place to live. There's no doubt about it. And that high housing costs and all the cost of living expenses that come along with that are a big reason - the main reason, mainly - why people leave. There's been a lot more migration within the state itself, especially since the pandemic. You know, people might be leaving large coastal metros like San Francisco or Los Angeles for places like the Inland Empire or Sacramento, more so than are leaving the state itself.
DETROW: Why do you think then there's such an impulse over the years - and you're talking about the dot-com bust, you're talking about earlier periods in the 20th century. Why do you think there's such an interest in declaring the death of California?
MCLEAN: California has always been a prosperous place. It's a place that people look to, to go find wealth and success. People have been migrating out to California, looking for the California dream since the Gold Rush. And so I think that idea of the California dream is really important for people, and it really draws people out there.
DETROW: Were there any interesting parallels that you picked up on when you compared these moments?
MCLEAN: Yeah. I mean, the parallels is that the reasons that people are leaving are almost always the same. It's high housing costs. It's traffic. It's overpopulated cities, people just being fed up with the politics of the state. Those reasons never really changed, whether it's 1989 or 2023.
DETROW: That's Tessa McLean, the California editor at SFGATE. Her piece, "America's Obsession With California Failing," is at sfgate.com. Thanks so much for talking to us.
MCLEAN: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Hosting Carols In The Domain is the tinsel on top of another spectacularly successful year for Sunrise’s Natalie Barr and Matt “Shirvo” Shirvington.
Another joy (to the world) is that the beloved Christmas tradition will be broadcast live this year after a few years of pre-recorded events, and the pair laugh as they hint they may just go rogue.
“Well, you never really know,” Shirvo, 46, tells TV WEEK. “I mean, Nat and I are pretty comfortable working alongside each other these days and do tend to go a little sideways on the show here and there, and so you just never know what could be around the corner.”
“And then we’ll be on holidays,” Nat adds.
“Yeah, we’ve got a month off afterwards,” Shirvo says, “so people will forget, and we can come back and start afresh.”
It’s Nat’s 12th year hosting the annual concert, which notches up 41 years this year and will see a standout list of performers including perennial favourites The Wiggles, Samantha Jade, Rhonda Burchmore, and Hugh Sheridan take to the stage. She still gets goosebumps.
“I love Christmas – but even if you don’t, even the most cynical person could not watch that broadcast and not be moved by it and not feel a sense of joy and belonging and happiness,” Nat, 56, says.
“It is a beautiful night. A unique night, and to be front and centre is just so special for us.”
Shirvo is hyped for his second turn as host, especially because there’ll be a huge contingent of his family cheering him on from the crowd.
“We’re very limited in having our family interact with us on [Sunrise] – you head off in the middle of the night and you do your thing and you come back home,” he shares. “It will be so lovely to know there’ll be so many of my family out there.”
While the popular presenters love a singalong with their festive favourites (Shirvo’s is Jingle Bells because he can remember all the words, and Nat loves a stirring traditional carol such as Song Of Joy), they do ask production to turn their microphones off.
“We don’t want to inflict too much pain on the audience,” Shirvo says. “There are professional singers on stage for a reason. That’s not our forte – we’re better at speaking.”
It’s also a chance to tie a bow on what has been another extraordinary year for the Channel Seven breakfast show.
“Our production team has worked tirelessly to put the show together this year, and there hasn’t been a week where we’ve thought, ‘Wow, that was a bit of a down week,’ or ‘That was a slow week,'” Shirvo shares.
“We are packed every week, every show. And we’re getting huge name guests on. I mean, we’ve had, we had the cast of Gladiator II on, the cast of Wicked. There’s been so many – it’s been brilliant.”
While Nat headed off to the US to cover the election, which saw Donald Trump again elected president, ever the consummate professional, she won’t be drawn on the result.
“There’s lots of people happy with the result – It was good to go there and feel the pulse of that nation,” she says.
“We do lots of political interviews, and I think, as a show, we take pride in not taking sides. Each and every day, we try and ask questions of both sides. And in an increasingly partisan media landscape, I think we really concentrate on not showing our politics, and we will continue to do that.”
The pair are chatting to TV WEEK on the last day of the ratings year. Shirvo jokes that they are in separate rooms because they don’t like to be with each other unless they are contractually obligated to do so. Nat clarifies quickly they are actually sitting side by side, and adds her highlight of 2024 is having a “great full first year” with her co-host (who took over from original host David “Kochie” Koch in mid-2023).
“And we’ve had another great year of ratings, and that shows you how much the viewers love him and how well he’s fitted in with the team,” Nat says.
“It is a big team, it’s way more than the four of us on the desk and Sam Mac. There’s a lot of people who put this together and we’re really proud of everyone of all the parts that make our show happen.
“We’ve just finished 40 weeks of ratings. And we’ve won them again. We’re really proud of that and so thankful for our viewers.”
They’re both looking forward to celebrating Christmas with their families – Nat in WA and Shirvo hosting at home. Neither will make a New Year’s resolution, except to switch off from the news cycle for some weeks and catch up on television watching. Shirvo’s recently discovered 7Plus has all seven seasons of the award-winning Sons of Anarchy.
“Everyone’s going to think I’m so lame,” Shirvo laughs. “I am so late to the party. But I never watched it the first time around. So I’ll be literally smashing it out.”
Nat also relishes the opportunity to have a big chunk of time off.
“We don’t take much time during the year – so, you know, it’s a long year when you’re doing shiftwork,” she says. “We’re really ready for a big break and thankful everyone can go and spend time with their family and our friends, and then come back refreshed.
“That’s how you get the work-life balance when you must be across so many things [for most of the year].
“All I want to worry about is what we’re putting on the barbecue.”
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Navratri Special: 9 Beauties in White
The Navratri colour for today is white. Here's a look at nine beauties who rock the colour...
The Navratri colour for today is white. Here's a look at nine beauties who rock the colour...
The Navratri colour for today is white. Here's a look at nine beauties who rock the colour...
Deepika Padukone looked statuesque in this white sari, which she wore during the trailer launch of her upcoming film 'Ramleela'.
Alia Bhatt looked stunning in a white corset gown, which she wore during an award ceremony.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was spotted in a white anarkali during an event.
Kajol showed her patriotic side by wearing white on Independence day.
Kareena Kapoor turned heads when she shimmered on the ramp in white.
Fashionista Sonam Kapoor looked beautiful in white during her 'Ranjhaana' promotions. Even Dhanush decided to colour co-ordinate with Sonam!
PeeCee decided to go white for an awards ceremony.
Shilpa Shetty at her traditional best.
Katrina Kaif dons the colour for an event.
Neha is a keen observer of human behaviour and a devout Tina Fey worshipper. She is a good listener and will gladly listen to all your rants and raves. This job has made her shift base from the far-flung suburbs to town, and she is therefore now adapting to a new lifestyle (which is a sweet coincidence as she manages the lifestyle section at indiatimes) She is a TV fanatic and has watched most of your TV shows well in advance. Neha’s favourite shows include ‘Mad Men’, ‘Dexter’, ‘Game of Thrones’ and everything between. Her newfound passion is running and thinks that a good 30-minute-run is the ultimate key to happiness. Also, loves the sound ‘hmm’ a lot..
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Zee TV’s popular show Bhagya Lakshmi, produced by Ekta Kapoor under the banner Balaji Telefilms, continues to entertain the audience with major ups and downs in the lives of Rishi (Rohit Suchanti) and Lakshmi (Aishwarya Khare). Rishi dances with Lakshmi, and she falls suddenly, leaving her concerned for her baby.
In the upcoming episode, Malishka plans to separate Rishi and Lakshmi. Shalu confronts Karishma. She tells her sometimes people forget the way of talking, and then she has to teach them, creating an intense scene. On the other hand, Anushka fights with Neel. Neel warns Anushka, highlighting that she knows she is wrong in this situation because she married again even after being married to him. Shalu overhears their conversation and discovers the truth about Anushka’s marriage.
Rishi tries to talk to Lakshmi and make her comfortable, but Lakshmi is angry with him. Lakshmi threatens Rishi that if he continues to talk to her, then she will leave the Oberoi house right now and will not ever return. Malishka becomes happy about separating Rishi and Lakshmi.
What will happen next?
Bhagya Lakshmi chronicles the story of a poor girl, Lakshmi. Her life changes after she gets married to a businessman, Rishi Oberoi. However, she feels betrayed when she learns the truth about her marriage and Rishi’s girlfriend. Now Rishi and Lakshmi are separated. Will destiny bring them together?
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Pakistan’s electricity supply companies caused a staggering Rs660 billion loss to the national exchequer in the last fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, according to a recent Dawn report. To put this in perspective, this amount is 11 times the federal government’s Rs59.7bn budget for higher education last year. This comparison starkly highlights the depth of the structural problems afflicting Pakistan’s power sector.
The inefficiencies of electricity supply companies are draining national resources, leaving little fiscal space for the government to invest in the economic welfare of Pakistan’s 241 million citizens. While the power sector reforms are underway, even the most optimistic policymakers acknowledge that eliminating these losses is unlikely in the near future.
The inefficiencies of power companies, which lead to significant annual financial losses, create a snowball effect on the economy. They add to the mounting circular debt, further constrain fiscal space, drive frequent energy price hikes, and hamper industrial production. This not only reduces output but also makes goods more expensive, exacerbated by prolonged power outages.
Among the worst affected are small and medium enterprises, small shopkeepers, and information technology (IT) freelancers — a crucial source of much-needed foreign exchange — who rely on uninterrupted electricity and internet services to work from home or modest offices.
Unless the government accelerates reforms in the power sector and effectively addresses internet service disruptions, IT professionals will continue to emigrate
As of December 2024, Pakistan ranks a dismal 198th globally in internet speed, trailing behind countries like Palestine, Bhutan, and Libya, according to the World Population Review. Frequent disruptions in internet services further compound the difficulties faced by IT professionals, many of whom are now relocating to nearby Dubai in search of better facilities.
Unless the government accelerates reforms in the power sector and effectively addresses internet service disruptions, IT professionals will continue to emigrate, and export-oriented businesses will struggle to remain competitive in global markets due to high energy costs. This poses a serious threat to sustaining the growth momentum in exports of goods and services.
In the first five months of this fiscal year (July-November 2024), goods exports grew by 12.57 per cent to $13.69bn, while services exports increased by 7.91pc to $2.6bn. Maintaining this growth trajectory is crucial for narrowing the trade deficit.
In the first five months of this fiscal year (July-November 2024), goods exports grew by 12.57pc to $13.69bn, while services exports (from July to October 2024) increased by 7.91pc to $2.6bn. Maintaining this growth trajectory is crucial for narrowing the trade deficit.
During July-November 2024, the goods trade deficit stood at $8.65bn, with imports growing by only 3.9pc year-on-year. However, as the economy begins to expand and fuel prices rise amid growing instability in the Middle East, imports are likely to grow faster, putting additional pressure on the trade deficit.
Similarly, the services trade deficit for July-October 2024 totalled $993 million, with imports increasing by 2.41pc. As the economy recovers and is projected to grow by 3pc this fiscal year, according to the Asian Development Bank, services imports are also expected to rise. Thus, faster growth in services exports is essential to keep the deficit in check.
However, challenges remain. Poor performance in wheat and cotton crops threatens to slow the growth of goods exports, while the relocation of IT businesses to Dubai has introduced uncertainty in foreign exchange inflows from this critical segment of services exports.
Remittances from overseas Pakistanis ($14.76bn in July-November 2024) have now become the largest source of non-debt foreign exchange inflows, surpassing goods exports. However, escalating political turmoil in the Middle East, triggered by the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and an immediate Israeli incursion along the Syrian border, presents grave concerns.
With over 55pc of Pakistan’s remittances originating from Gulf Cooperation Council countries, it would be optimistic to assume that these inflows will remain unaffected if military escalation spreads to countries like Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates. Any disruption in these key remittance corridors would significantly impact Pakistan’s foreign exchange inflows.
The situation also hinges on how the incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump, set to take office on January 20, 2025, handles this crisis. (Remittances in November were already lower by 4.55pc than in October).
On the domestic front, some encouraging signs have emerged in Pakistan’s political landscape. The government and the main opposition party, PTI, have taken initial steps towards dialogue following the November 26 protest in Islamabad, which resulted in the tragic deaths of 12 PTI workers and half a dozen law enforcement personnel. Political stability is crucial for sustaining economic recovery and attracting foreign investment.
However, it remains too early to predict a breakthrough in these talks, given the unpredictable nature of Pakistani politics. For instance, the government’s proposed reforms of religious seminaries have sparked a backlash from Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s JUI and other religious parties.
If the government fails to placate both PTI and the religious factions, an alliance between them could pose significant challenges. Managing this potential coalition amid a rising tide of militancy and terrorism in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan would not only be politically daunting but could also result in severe economic repercussions. It’s time to tread carefully, both for the government as well as for the opposition political parties.
Published in Dawn, The Business and Finance Weekly, December 16th, 2024
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SCOTT DETROW, HOST:
Two important food holidays are meeting up this year. December 25 is both Christmas and also the first night of Hanukkah.
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DETROW: Well, we did not want to miss the opportunity to explore the potential for a feast for all. And to help us imagine what to prepare, we have called on Sarah Lohman, who's a food historian and writer. Sarah has put together a menu for us, and my only regret here is that this is a remote interview and I cannot eat it all right now. So that being said, welcome to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, Sarah.
SARAH LOHMAN: Hi, Scott. Thank you.
DETROW: When you first realized the alignment here, what was your first thought?
LOHMAN: OK, first thought was, of course, fry everything.
DETROW: Yeah.
LOHMAN: I mean, maybe it's obvious, maybe it's my first thought, but I was like, let's fry things that have never been fried before. Let's make it the Iowa State Fair up in here.
DETROW: (Laughter).
LOHMAN: OK, so the fun part of this project for me was I got to reach out to my community. And I started talking to my friend Leah Koenig, who is the author of the recent cookbook "Portico," which is about Roman Jewish culture. And she pointed out to me that latke, the traditional Hanukkah fried potato pancake - they really aren't that old in terms of Judaism. The practice originates with German Jews in the late 18th century. So that's like a drop in the bucket of the multiple-thousand-year history. So that's when I said, OK, well, is there another direction we can go here?
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DETROW: So you have put together a menu. And before we go into it, tell me...
LOHMAN: Feast.
DETROW: A feast - important correction.
LOHMAN: (Laughter) I think.
DETROW: Tell me what you ended up organizing it around. What were the central thoughts? What were you trying to bring together?
LOHMAN: Well, I also happen to know a lot of people who are Christian or specifically Catholic and Jewish from populations around the world. And I think particularly in America, we can get sort of lost the idea of Christian as being a majority faith here, whereas in most of the world, it is a minority faith. And so I decided to put together a multicourse menu that looks at regions that have traditional, historical Christian and Jewish populations and look at where their food intersects and differentiates. I really believe that, like, cooking can be an act of learning; eating can be an act of education. And so I wanted to use this moment, this party, this feast, this festival to make space for the understanding of the long histories of these faiths throughout the world.
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DETROW: That being said, let's get going. Tell us what the first course is.
LOHMAN: OK, so for the first course, we're going to go to China, which does have a historical Jewish population. No one's quite sure when they came, but they came into the area around Kaifeng, which is in Henan, which - not Hunan, Henan, which is a northern Chinese province. And it's difficult to trace dishes from Jewish ancestry there. There's maybe only about 1,000 Kaifeng Jews today. But one we know of is a Kaifeng noodle-blanketed carp. And it's a whole fish that's wok fried, and it's served with a sauce made from vinegar, rice wine, ginger and scallions. And then you top it with crispy fried noodles.
But if you're not up for frying a whole fish, which not everybody is, I would recommend ordering in some Henanese cuisine. Soup dumplings, or xiaolongbao, are from the Henan area. But don't get the pork ones. Get ones made with lamb or chicken and vegetables, or you could also order in some hui mian (ph), which are wide wheat noodles. I should note in this whole menu, I decided to avoid pork, shellfish, and I didn't serve meat and dairy so that anyone can come to your house for this party of any religious background and be able to eat the food.
DETROW: All right, so walk me through the last main dish.
LOHMAN: OK, so last main dish, we're going to go to Ethiopia. And I think, you know, this might be - sound like a simple answer, but the national dish of Ethiopia is dora wat, which is a chicken stew, and it's dark meat chicken, slow cooked with hard boiled eggs, garlic ginger, onions, tomato, and you finish the top with a sprinkle of black cardamom. So I also love the connections, the spice connections and flavor connections made through these dishes. Now, dora wat is sort of the Coptic Christian name for it, but it's also known as sanbat wat in Ethiopian Jewish communities. And sanbat means Shabbat. So a lot of these two aren't necessarily Hanukkah dishes. Actually, the Ethiopian Jews didn't traditionally celebrate Hanukkah in Ethiopia. But now over 100,000 Ethiopian Jews have moved to Israel and another thousand are here in America too. So they've moved in the cultures that celebrate Hanukkah. And definitely, you should make it with injera, too.
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DETROW: So assuming there's any room left at all after all of these dishes so far, I know you've put a lot of thought into a very important holiday item, and that is desserts.
LOHMAN: Oh, my gosh, of course. I mean, but there is always room for dessert.
DETROW: (Laughter).
LOHMAN: So I've got two ideas here. One is cassola, which is from my original person who gave me this idea, Leah Koenig. It's a cheesecake that was created by Roman Jews, and it actually descends from this idea of pancake-making on Hanukkah. Hanukkah, you know, oil, things that are fried and things that are dairy are sort of traditional Hanukkah foods. Cassola was originally made on stove tops, like a really thick pancake. Now it's baked, and now it's actually crossed over that it's a favorite served by Roman Catholics on Christmas. So it's a ricotta cheesecake made with cinnamon, vanilla and raisins.
Now, for some people, having dairy after meat is OK, but for some people, it's not. So if you want to stick to a menu that's kosher friendly, I'd also recommend bolo menino. Bolo menino is named after the Christ child, and it's a cake made in Macao, which is governed somewhat by China, but not totally, so they have more religious freedom. And many people there are also Portuguese descendants, as well. So this is a cake made with crumbled cookies, coconut and pine nuts that is always served on Christmas in Macao.
DETROW: You know, I think a lot of people listening might be taking notes and thinking, I want to do this. And I think there might be a lot of people listening who are thinking, like, oh, my gosh, this sounds so overwhelming.
LOHMAN: (Laughter).
DETROW: What do you say to somebody who, like, loves the idea, but when it comes to, especially, like, a multicourse meal, just kind of gets intimidated?
LOHMAN: You know, there is always a potluck. There's always divvying this up. Or, you know, hey, if you love throwing a party like me, make the whole thing. But if not, just make the one dish that appeals to you. I think that food is always better with a story. And I love the idea of using this December 25 to reflect on these cultures throughout the world. And sometimes they're often difficult stories, too.
DETROW: Yeah. You know, we're talking about learning about different cultures, as this menus together. But, you know, I think for a lot of people, a holiday is also about kind of leaning into your heritage - right? - your family story - right? - in terms of food.
LOHMAN: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And I think that we can't forget that many of these cultures that I talked about today also exist within America. These communities are here. And I think for all of us during this holiday season, this is often a time where we connect to our own ancestry. I'm sure that there are people listening right now thinking about the recipes that they're going to make that have been passed down through their families and that really are labors of love that make this feel like a special and important time of year.
DETROW: Absolutely.
LOHMAN: It's religion, but it's celebration, it's family, it's ancestry, too.
DETROW: And all of this is kind of very American, right? Like, you've put together a meal that touches on a dozen different countries and cultures.
LOHMAN: Yeah, but they can all be found here, absolutely.
DETROW: Yeah.
LOHMAN: And to me, I think that that's the most powerful and beautiful thing about America, our diversity. We can be a little hard to govern sometime. We're an unruly lot. But just how many different people become American too, I think that's really the most wonderful thing about living here and celebrating the holidays here.
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DETROW: That is food historian Sarah Lohman. Her most recent book is just out in paper, "Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods." Thank you so much for taking up the challenge and crafting a Christmas Hanukkah feast for us.
LOHMAN: Oh, my gosh, my pleasure. Now the real challenge is I'm going to have to sit down and make all of this.
DETROW: I think there's no question now. Thank you.
LOHMAN: Thank you.
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A new poll has revealed that women feel the emotional connection with their partner as important as reaching orgasm. Couples who communicate about sex while in bed are more likely to experience sexual satisfaction.
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Kumkum Bhagya, produced by Ekta Kapoor under the banner Balaji Telefilms, has been entertaining the audience for the last ten years with major twists and interesting dramas. Monisha hits Netra and replaces her by becoming RV’s (Abrar Qazi) bride. Jasbir helps her execute her plan.
In the upcoming episode, RV hugs Purvi, consoling her. Diya sees them as emotionally connected. Deepika comes with the bride, and Monisha hides her face. Monisha and RV’s marriage begins, which leaves everyone worried. Vaishali purposely falls down, and she finds Monisha under the ‘ghunghat.’ She reveals this to Harleen, leaving her shocked. Deepika convinces Harleen that RV and Monisha are eventually supposed to marry, so finally, it’s happening.
On the other hand, RV tries to convince Monisha, considering her Netra, to stop the marriage. Diya tells Purvi to cancel the wedding anyway. Netra comes downstairs and stops the wedding, leaving everyone shocked. Purvi asks her if she is here, so who is there as a bride? Netra exposes Monisha, taking out her ‘ghunghat.’ RV and Purvi are shocked by this.
Kumkum Bhagya, a popular Zee TV show, chronicles the love story of Pragya and Abhi, played by Sriti Jha and Shabir Ahluwalia. They meet by destiny, and a love story is built. The show now features Mugdha Chaphekar as Prachi, Krishna Kaul as Ranbir (second generation), Rachi Sharma as Poorvi, and Abrar Qazi as Rajvansh (third generation).
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The government is struggling to bring about structural changes in the economy to achieve sustainable and inclusive economic growth with a focus on addressing the external balance of payments crisis.
When the economic growth goes up to four per cent, the current account deficit rises, says Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb. The average economic growth rate in three years was 1.7pc, and the current account was surplus in the first four months of FY25.
While acknowledging the present signs of economic stability and how tempting it may be to move to the growth stage, Pakistan Business Council Chief Executive Ehsan Malik recalls that every boom after a period of stability in the past has left Pakistan in an external account crisis.
The aggregate demand components of GDP, according to economic literature — mainly consumption, business investment, government spending, and net exports — tell you what a country is good at producing and how robust its overall economy is. The quality of life depends not just on the overall level but also on the distribution of GDP among the country’s citizens.
Pakistan’s struggle for reviving the economy is hindered by declining investments, deficits and low industrial productivity
Pakistan’s net exports — the difference between exports and imports — improved to -6.5pc in FY24 from -7.6pc in FY23 and -12pc in FY22. A net exporter is a country that, in aggregate, sells more goods to foreign countries through trade than it brings in from abroad. Imports are excluded from the GDP composition.
According to the State Bank’s annual report for FY24, imports fell sharply from 22.5pc in FY22 to 18.5pc in FY23 and 10.4pc of the GDP in FY24 owing to curb on imports and the manufacturing sector trying to replace costly imported inputs by indigenous material, shifting to cheaper solar energy by businesses and farmers from expensive electricity based on fossil fuels, and slower economic growth.
Pakistan’s exports have dropped to 16.9pc in FY24 despite efforts mounted to diversify production, exports and markets, hampered by low investments and low productivity, surge in global trade sanctions/protectionism and faltering global financial system.
Owing to a growing perception of political instability and discouraging footprints of the government stifling economic activities, as per the State Bank report, investment declined for the second consecutive year, falling to the lowest level of 13.2pc of
The quality of life depends not just on the overall level but also on the distribution of GDP among the country’s citizens
GDP in FY24. Simultaneously, national savings slightly decreased from 13.2p of GDP to 13pc.
The value-addition by finance and insurance and general government services also contracted for the second consecutive year in FY24. The government’s own aggregate demand as a percentage of GDP was reduced to 8.7pc in FY24 from 10.5pc in FY22.
Given the economic outlook, foreign investors now prefer to buy stakes in running businesses. To quote Mr Aurangzeb, the government could not privatise a single loss-making entity. He said their loss was around half of the revenue collection target set at Rs12.9 trillion for this fiscal year.
Now, there is a proposal by the Pakistan Air Force to buy Pakistan International Airlines’ engineering unit for Rs6.5
billion, with a cash payment of Rs2.5bn, and it is awaiting cabinet approval. Separated from the core business, the unit
manufactures high-precision parts for the aerospace industry and a number of other industries.
Notwithstanding slower growth, the demand-side measure of GDP shows that consumption expenditure continued to dominate with a share of over 90pc. In fact, the SBP report noted that low and stagnant investments stifled economic expansion, especially by limiting the pace of industrialisation.
Against this backdrop, increasing investment is crucial for revitalising the industrial sector for sustainable and inclusive growth. The share of industry in Pakistan’s GDP is not only the lowest in the region (nearly half of 40pc recorded for China in 2022) but has also been trending downward in recent years.
As a percentage of GDP, the total consumption declined from 96.4pc in FY22 to 93.5pc in FY23 and 93.4pc in FY24, achieved mainly by a tight monetary policy. Including the non-profitable institutions serving households, the share in consumption of household dropped from 85.9pc of GDP in FY22 to 83.2pc in FY23 but rose marginally to 84.6pc in FY24, possibly due to increasing remittances sent by overseas Pakistanis to support their families at home coupled with falling but fluctuating prices of foodstuff.
Despite an unexpected sharp fall in inflation, many analysts do not see a stable long-term price trend that depends on erratic local production and supplies of commodities. The wages also improved in the last fiscal year, albeit at a slower pace than the previous year.
However, it has emerged from the recent elections held in both developed and developing countries that economic data varies from the perception of the majority or sizeable segment of the population, particularly those hit by the cost-of-living crisis seeking a decent quality of life.
Published in Dawn, The Business and Finance Weekly, December 16th, 2024
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The hearts of Gogglebox Australia fans broke when Isabelle Silbery revealed on Instagram that she and her family would not be returning to the beloved series in 2025.
The Silbery family have become a staple on Gogglebox considering their appearance in the program for nearly a decade. But this wasn’t enough after being told they wouldn’t be returning for the new season.
In Isabelle’s post to Instagram, she revealed: “Foxtel have decided not to renew our beloved show and although the show will continue on Channel 10, the three of us have not been included in its new form.”
Initially, Isabelle and her mother, Kerry were told to remain free in the first half of 2025 to film the new season. But the news that came following this completely “blindsided” the family.
“After being told to keep the first half of next year free for Season 21, receiving the news over the phone that Mum and I’s contract would not be renewed was not something I saw coming,” she told Mamamia.
“I won’t lie, it was a shock. Mum was equally as shocked and we tried to make sense of things.”
Isabelle continued to explain their cut was due to “financial costs” and yet “no other families have been cut.”
She first applied after feeling there was a ‘multi-generational’ gap in mainstream media, now the new mother fears the show is “dominated heavily by men’s voices.”
In 2016, Isabelle made her debut on Gogglebox Australia with her mum, Kerry and grandmother Emmie. Unfortunately, Grandma Emmie stepped back from the show in 2023 after being diagnosed with dementia.
Emmie was 94 years old at the time of her departure. But Isabelle kept her vision of multi-generational voices on TV as her baby, Ruby – born in December 2023 – joined the program.
At the time of Isabelle’s pregnancy, the family confessed to Woman’s Day they would regularly visit Emmie where they had to “relive” the pregnancy news all over again.
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Chandipur Beach, Where the Sea Disappears
Have you seen the sea disappear in front of your eyes?
Have you seen the sea disappear in front of your eyes? A unique phenomenon rarely seen anywhere else, the sea recedes by as much as five kilometres every day on the Chandipur beach in eastern India, not just enthralling the onlooker but also offering an opportunity to literally walk into the sea.
One of nature's many wonders, the sea recedes massively from the beach during ebb and returns to fill the emptiness during high tide. This hide-and-seek of the sea comes to play twice a day and seeing the sea disappear and then return is an unforgettable experience.
Chandipur lies around 200 km from state capital Bhubaneswar. From here, one can either take the train to Balasore, the closest town at a distance of 10 km, and then travel by road, or take the entire journey by road on National Highway 5. One can be assured of a good journey thanks to the green scenery that follows you throughout and good roads.
Adding to the peaceful ambience are the swaying casuarina trees and the solitary sand dunes, with the constant hum of the waves as they rise and fall gently.
Considering its uniqueness, the beach supports a varied range of biodiversity. It's not rare to thus find a horseshoe crab or red crab crawling beside you.
While it's still not very well known among tourists who flock to its cousin beaches of Puri, or the temple destination of Konark, local tourists often visit Chandipur.
"My wife and I saw the sea disappear in front of our eyes, and we walked in the sea bed, almost for four kilometres, and then returned with the gentle water when the high tide came," Anirban Mukherjee, a tourist from the nearby state of West Bengal, told IANS.
"It was like returning with the sea. The massive void left behind by the waters, the path we took, was soon filled up and it was as if we had walked into the sea. This beach is nothing like the other beaches," said his wife Arpita.
For some, it's not just walking but also riding a bike into the sea.
When asked if it was dangerous for people to ride a bike into the sea bed with the impending high tide, Dasarath Dash, a coconut seller by the beachside, said no.
"The tide has its timings. Depending on the moon, the timings keep changing. It's mostly the locals, familiar with the tide's time, who take their bikes into the sea bed. The others are thrilled just to even walk that distance," Dash said.
"In any case, the sea is not rough here. The waves are gentle," he said.
Food is another plus point here. For those who love sea food, here's a place which can offer you plenty, especially fresh prawns.
The Chandipur beach is also well known for its proximity to the Defence Research and Development Organisation's (DRDO) Integrated Test Range. A number of missiles have been launched from here, including Akash, Agni, Shaurya and Prithvi ballistic missiles.
There is a handful of small hotels - with a tariff range of Rs.500 to Rs.2,500 per day - and a government guesthouse in Chandipur. There are no 5-Star hotels in the area. One can also opt to stay in Balasore.
"The best time to visit Chandipur is winter, between November and March, and most tourists come during this time," Dash said.
The tourism department has also been trying to promote Chandipur and other spots nearby as potential tourist destinations. An elaborate beach festival, showcasing the dance forms, art and culture of the state, has become an annual affair here and takes place every February.
"I really hope proper infrastructure can be put in place so that the Chandipur beach attracts more tourists and the locals around can benefit. Right now we mostly have local tourists and those from the neighbouring states. The number of foreign tourists is still very low compared to Puri," said Ubachan Mohanty, a local.
IANS
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MDL recruitment 2024: Application window for 234 Non Executive posts ends today
Candidates can apply for the vacancies on the official website mazagondock.in.
The Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) will soon end the online applications for eligible candidates for recruitment to Non-Executive posts on a permanent basis. Interested candidates can apply for the vacancies at the official website mazagondock.in till December 16, 2024.
A total of 234 vacancies have been notified. The applicants should have attained the age of 18 years and should not be more than age of 38 years (except for Master Ist Class trade and Licence to Act Engineer) as on November 1, 2024. The upper age limit is 48 years for Master Ist Class trade and Licence to Act Engineer. More details in the notification below:
Here’s the official notification.
Vacancy Details
- Composite Welder: 27
- Chipper Grinder: 06
- Electric Crane Operators: 07
- Electrician: 24
- Electronic Mechanic: 10
- Fitter: 14
- Gas Cutter: 10
- Jr. Hindi Translator: 01
- Jr. Draughtsman(Mechanical): 10
- Jr. Draughtsman(Electrical/Electronics): 03
- Jr. Quality Control Inspector(Mechanical): 07
- Jr. Quality Control Inspector(Electrical/Electronics): 03
- Millwright Mechanic: 06
- Machinist: 08
- Jr. Planner Estimator(Mechanical): 05
- Jr. Planner Estimator(Electrical/Electronics): 01
- Rigger: 15
- Store Keeper/Store Staff: 08
- Structural Fabricator: 25
- Utility Hand (Skilled): 06
- Wood Work Technician ( Carpenter): 05
- Fire Fighters: 12
- Utility Hand (Semi-Skilled): 18
- Master Ist Class: 02
- License To Act Engineer: 01
Application Fee
Candidate belonging to General/ OBC/EWS category are required to pay the application fees of Rs 354, whereas applicants belonging to SC/ ST/ PWD (Persons With Disability) and Ex-servicemen are exempted from such payment of processing fee.
Steps to apply for Non-Executive posts 2024
- Visit the official website mazagondock.in
- On the homepage, go to the Careers—Career Non Executive
- Register and proceed with the application process
- Fill the form, pay the fee and submit the form
- Take a printout for future reference
Direct link to apply for Non-Executive posts 2024.
Selection Process
The candidates will be called for “Written Test” based on the information provided by them in the Online application form. The Detailed scrutiny of documents of the shortlisted candidates will be done at the time of Trade/skill Test.
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In an oddball attempt at wildlife conservation, the KP government chooses irony as its choice tool. The formula is simple enough: offer a few sacrificial lambs (literally) to eager hunters and rally together funds for further conservation practices and social development — building mosques, schools, park maintenance, the works.
Of the entire hunting itinerary — markhor, blue sheep, ibex — markhors are the most sought-after trophies that attract hunters from far and wide and manage to rack up a decent bill for individual licenses. Just this year, the highest bid was offered for $271,000 in the Toshi district, while all four licenses for the season (the current cap) were auctioned for $925,000 (around Rs0.25 billion), much greater than last year’s estimate of $657,000. As the years go by, the trophy licenses keep rising despite a slightly confused understanding of how endangered markhors actually are.
Around 2015, there was a significant outcry over their apparent endangerment. An increase in community-based hunting programmes thinned the herd quite a bit, and by 2018, its status changed to near-threatened. Trophy hunting started out as a way to discourage overhunting by offering 80pc of the funds raised via auction to community-based organisations. On the other hand, officials insist that the wild goat population has increased from 700 in 2004 to 5,621 in 2023, so much so that the KP government is keen to increase the licensing quota, especially now that the federal government has added a 10pc tax to trophy hunting despite receiving the remaining 20pc of all proceeds.
This might also appease organisation advocating for animal rights that question the legitimacy of these numbers, convinced that, in reality, the population of not markhors but other northern wild goats auctioned are most probably going down rather than up. They’re primary argument in the past has been the stagnant quota of bids that have remained unchanged for several years. For instance, ten years ago, the estimated population of urials was 1,500 and the quota stood at 16 per season. Today the quota remains unchanged despite a population growth to almost 6,000. Published in Dawn, The Business and Finance Weekly, December 16th, 2024
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Sussanne & Malaika at House of Tales
House of Tales hosted a two day pop up store with The Home Label styled by Susanne Roshan.
House of Tales hosted a two day pop up store with The Home Label styled by Susanne Roshan. Scheduled on 5th October & 6th October, 2013, this shopping extravaganza saw a humble turn out of people looking for exceptional home décor collection for their personal spaces and for gifting for the upcoming festival.
Sussanne Roshan, Creative Director, The Home Label graced the event and shared insights with the patrons on their queries regarding decorating their homes. On the occasion of the brand’s first pop up show at House of Tales, she said, "The Home Label is almost a year old and we wanted to commemorate the occasion with our first ever pop-up store... What better way than to do it just in time for Diwali! Diwali to me means beautiful lights and bright colours, and I think our Diwali collections really express that. The House Of Tales gallery was just the perfect venue for what we had in mind. Its simplistic, clean and modern design made for a beautiful foundation to complement our products."
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With this event, House of Tales, Mumbai’s first cross-disciplinary event gallery, opened its doors for a multitude of events. From pop up stores to pop up restaurants, from designer expositions to art showing, corporate events and much more, this simplistic and versatile gallery will shoulder the responsibilities with its partners for each event every step of the way.
On the occasion of the pop up show, Neha Sheth, Director House of Tales said, "House Of Tales, is Kala Ghoda’s first contemporary event space that is yours to design. With the cultural and historic richness of Kala Ghoda, Fort, I was interested in introducing a space that was more versatile in nature, not just restricting itself to art. As one of House Of Tales’ first few events, I couldn’t ask for one better than the Home Label’s weekend pop-up boutique styled by Sussanne Roshan. The Home Label’s collection is also very elegant, stylish and affordable, which synergizes perfectly with the House Of Tales’ impression that it hopefully aims to create!"
The Home Label, a retail brand in the online marketplace, showcased a wide range of hand-picked collection at the show. Preeta Sukhtankar, Founder, The Label Corp. said, "We're excited about doing our first pop-up at the gallery. Being our first on-ground event for the label, we were looking for a venue that suited our sensibilities best and House Of Tales fit perfectly."
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“Sometimes the government just needs to get out of the way,” says Misbah Naqvi, co-founder of invest2innovate (i2i) Ventures, at the launch of Pakistan Startup Ecosystem Report (PSER) 2024. Her sentiments have been echoed by similar successful sectors, maize and sports goods, to name a couple.
Pakistani startups have only reported $37 million till November 2024, a far cry from the peak of $355m in 2022 when global investor attention was driving up valuations, states PSER 2024. However, the recent vibe of rooms full of startup founders and venture capitalists is largely bullish for business in 2025 as the macroeconomic fundamentals of Pakistan appear to be stable. The feel-good sentiment carried into +92Disrupt by Katylst Labs — a two day event that ended on Sunday.
The third quarter injection of about $15m raised across four publicly disclosed deals may have also helped with general enthusiasm as the VC space gains traction after its downward trajectory. Gobi Partners has also launched a $50m Techxila Fund II after a Memorandum of Understanding with the Bank of Punjab. Then there is Sarmayacar’s $40m Climaventures Fund with a $15m investment from the Green Climate Fund, part of the broader National Rural Support Programme. Last week, curated online fashion marketplace Laam raised $5.5m as well. With everything remaining the same (though that rarely continues to be the case), Pakistan’s funding graph should be climbing steadily next year.
Fintech, e-commerce, and cleantech remain hot sectors, with fintech securing the bulk of the funding at $30.5m in 2024. Notable achievements this year include SadaPay’s billion-dollar acquisition by Papara, PostEx’s $7.3m pre-Series A round, and COLABS’ $2m funds raised for expansion in the Middle East and North Africa region.
After a rocky few years, VCs seem more enthusiastic about the road ahead
But despite the optimism amongst the VCs and startups, there is a layer of acrimony beneath the words. Internet restrictions and slowdowns caused an estimated $23m in losses in 2023, with 47pc of the population lacking internet access. Regulatory complexities, low investment in research and development — 0.16pc of GDP compared to the global average of 2.62pc of GDP — and limited access to capital further strain the ecosystem’s potential, states the fourth edition of PSER. Most funds raised are consumed by working capital requirements, which makes growth challenging.
The gender angle
PSER 2024 drew attention to the challenge of gender disparity, with women comprising only 39pc of the workforce and receiving just 18.75pc of total startup funding since 2015. Viewed in a positive light, however, there was an explicit and tacit understanding of supporting female founders. About 3,000 more female-led startups were added to the ecosystem in 2024, adding to the existing pool of 12,000 female-led startups, stated Tara Uzra Dawood, CEO of Ladies Fund at the launch.
At tech events, the increase in inclusivity is palpable, be it in the form of increased women-to-men ratio as speakers, participants and panellists, or in the form of sign language at +92Disrupt.
Shark Tank
In the era of non-stop ‘saas bahu’ drama that continues around the themes of family politics and long-suffering women, a show that steps away and speaks to businesses is refreshing. Usman Malik, Co-Founder and CEO of Grenlit Studios, who has the rights to Shark Tank, said that in the first season, roughly Rs200 billion was pledged to businesses, with the commodity trading platform Saraaf taking the lion’s share of Rs150bn. The rest of the deals were smaller at an average of Rs20m.
However, perhaps the more significant impact on the start up culture of Shark Tank in Pakistan is the normalisation of entrepreneurship and the move away from the Ivy League, connected elites that secure millions of dollars in funding. Mr Malik stated an example of youngsters from Gilgit Baltistan who appeared on the show and were living in such a remote area that they had to travel over an hour for internet connectivity to coordinate with the Shark Tank team to be able to appear on the show.
‘Have-to-haves’
The end of the ‘free money’ era and the failure of startups such as Retailo, Airlit, and Sukoon have made VCs careful about investing and startup founders more prudent about spending. Startups must focus on unit economics and profitability rather than burning money for customer acquisition, which is the constant refrain among VCs as they look for more mature pitches.
Umair Khan, Founder & Chairman of Folio 3, speaking at +92Disrupt, estimated that top VC firms hear about 200 pitches a month but barely write one cheque. And among those, one out of 20 is a possible home run (or a sixer, given that Pakistan’s passion is cricket rather than baseball), he said, underlining the long, hard slog on the road of start ups.
Businesses need to solve problems and operate in the “have-to-have” space rather than the “nice-to-have” space, underlined Ms Naqvi.
“Prepare to have no support and be miserable alone,” said Maha Shahzad, founder of mobility startup BusCaro, giving a reality check and underscoring the need for tenacity. She outlined her journey of being rejected by all the Pakistani VCs but preserving until she raised the funding needed.
Despite these hurdles, PSER 2024 identifies emerging opportunities, such as the digital economy’s potential to generate Rs9.7 trillion in value by 2030. It emphasises the need for coordinated action from all stakeholders, including harmonising regulatory frameworks, improving infrastructure, and providing targeted support for women entrepreneurs.
Published in Dawn, The Business and Finance Weekly, December 16th, 2024
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UPSC CSE DAF II application ends on Dec 19; check details here
Candidates can fill out their application form through the official website upsc.gov.in till December 19, 2024.
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has started the Detailed Application Form (DAF) for the Civil Services exam 2024. Eligible candidates can fill out their DAF form through the official website upsc.gov.in or upsconline.nic.in till December 19, 2024.
The CSE Mains 2024 was conducted from September 20 to 29, 2024. The shortlisted applicants have to appear for the interview round. The number of vacancies to be filled through the Civil Services exam 2024 is approximately 1056.
“Dates of Personality Tests (Interviews) of these candidates will be notified in due course, which will be held in the Office of the Union Public Service Commission at Dholpur House, Shahjahan Road, New Delhi-110069. The Personality Tests (Interviews) Schedule will be made available accordingly. The eSummon Letters of Personality Tests (Interviews) of the candidates will be made available in due course, which may be downloaded from the Commission’s Website https://www.upsc.gov.in & https://www.upsconline.in,” reads the notification.
How to fill out the UPSE CSE DAF form
- Visit the official website upsc.gov.in
- On the homepage, go to the what’s new section
- Click on the DAF link
- Key in your details and submit the form
- Take a print out for future reference
Direct link to fill the UPSE CSE DAF form.
For more details, candidates are advised to visit the official website here.
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Your Daily Horoscope
Discover what's in store for you today. Here's our daily horoscope for the 12 astrological sun signs...
Discover what's in store for you today. Here's our daily horoscope for the 12 astrological sun signs...
Aries
You will share wonderful moments with your beloved today. Go ahead and learn some musical instrument, suggests Ganesha: it's a beautiful way to convey emotions. And it provides a perfect means to woo someone anew. Join a class before the mood wanes.
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Taurus
It is highly unlikely that you will be emotional and sentimental today, predicts Ganesha. Adopt a laid-back attitude towards life to feel at ease. Public servants will have encouraging and affirmative results in their efforts. Your competency will be put to test at the work place.
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__PAGEBREAK__Gemini
If you have children, they will be a pampered lot today, says Ganesha. Your affection, however, may not have its desired impact. Children are known to be unpredictable, but keep an eye on their activities, especially today. You may entertain your loved ones with a sumptuous dinner tonight. Your creative side will do well for itself, feels Ganesha.
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Cancer
Today, you will need to rise above your emotional leanings and will have to choose between doing the right thing and keeping your loved ones happy. So far, you have managed to strike a balance. It is about time that you learn to deal with your fears, suggests Ganesha. Always keep in mind that your emotions cloud your reasoning. You may not be able to think clearly and any careless outbursts may leave relationships strained.
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__PAGEBREAK__Leo
Friendships are supposed to last forever. But it all depends on whether or not the friend is around when most needed. Today, your pals may turn to you for help, and sure enough, you will be there to extend all the support you can, says Ganesha. Get ready to make new acquaintances today, some of whom may go on to become life-long friends. Ganesha foresees you visiting a pleasant new place made doubly nice because of the friendly people there.
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Virgo
You are the banner carrier for those around you today, giving hope and inspiring. Clad yourself in robes of the perfect family man. This should spread warmth and love, and will work wonders in improving relationships.
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__PAGEBREAK__Libra
Call it two sides of the same coin, but today, you shall have the uncanny desire to be your own master and servant. But this day is all set to be animated and eventful and full of life. Expect a few run-ins with the opposite sex, as you are bound to attract quite a few of them, mainly because of your killer good looks. Hitting the gym pays its dividends, says Ganesha.
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Scorpio
You may find yourself sulking in your shell today, feels Ganesha. One event or another may lead you to shut out work. Hindsight and bitterness will not lead you anywhere, so Ganesha advises that you must steer clear of negativity. Soul searching and inner cleansing may best be complimented with meditation and yoga.
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__PAGEBREAK__Sagittarius
A nice, easy and pleasant day is on the cards. Your professional approach will bring you much appreciation, especially in the way you handle complicated problems. The way you balance people's opinions will help you make many friends.
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Capricorn
Recognition and rewards are awaiting you at work, and unlike in most cases, colleagues won't be envious of your success. They will, in fact, provide the much-needed motivation for taking up new and challenging projects, says Ganesha. For those of you looking to switch jobs, wait awhile, this may not be the right time. You will be showered with better job opportunities, but it will be wise of you to wait till you strike the right deal.
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__PAGEBREAK__Aquarius
Today, you social butterflies will set hearts fluttering! Also, whatever you have been working on will reach completion now. You do have a great vision, but you're lost when it comes to executing your plans. Ganesha assures success if only you are a little more practical!
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Pisces
Being a friend in need is what today will be about, says Ganesha. Making new acquaintances and associations is also on the cards. Try not to let jealousy mar your better judgement while you are at it.
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The Electronic Intifada 15 December 2024
Developing as a young journalist without jeopardizing your morals has become incredibly difficult.
While independent journalism is evolving, offering alternative narratives to those spread by the mainstream media machine, the status of the newsroom retains a certain appeal. With bills to pay and personal aspirations to meet, we are discouraged from questioning the ramifications of our words.
It is easy enough to convince yourself that being on the inside is the only way to change things but, as Palestinian journalist Mohammed El-Kurd so incisively wrote: “Once we have protection, we’ll want to stay protected. And once we get some money, we’ll want more and more wealth. When we go back to ourselves after a long career and look deep in our closets for the skin we once wore, we find it shriveled and discarded, foreign to us as we are foreign to it. One could say it is a strategy but we know what the master’s tools will not do.”
Such thoughts had been brewing during my short time as an intern-turned-freelancer at CNN International (CNNi). When I finally resigned, in October last year, they had engulfed me entirely.
I maintain a great deal of respect for many of my former colleagues at CNNi, where coverage of the genocide has been significantly less biased than on CNN domestic, albeit far from innocent, and much more for the Palestinian experts and activists I booked for interviews. My resignation letter highlighted that “the pro-Israeli rhetoric at CNN/CNNi is far too deep-rooted and unwilling to change fast enough to stop what is now a genocide of the Palestinian people.”
That genocide is now recognized around the world, including by the governments of Colombia and South Africa. The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Yet CNN/CNNi continuously spreads misinformation and publishes reports which pander to the Israeli regime.
In Al Jazeera’s recent documentary, Failing Gaza: Behind the Lens of Western Media, an anonymous CNN journalist testified to this reality: “It’s very clear where we lie, regrettably. And it’s not entirely with the truth.” He continued, explaining that there was a period in which CNN journalists “couldn’t call air strikes in Gaza air strikes unless we had confirmation from the Israelis.”
Before 7 October
As with the war on Palestine, internal bias began before 7 October 2023.
While at CNNi, I recall trying to book Palestinian guests and being told to send my list to the Jerusalem Bureau to be checked. What I received back was a list of almost entirely different options, half pro-Israel and half “pro-Palestine,” with many of my Palestinian suggestions replaced with liberal Israeli alternatives.
On another occasion, I wrote a guest-file for an interviewee, and put down their location as “Ramallah, Palestine.” I was immediately told to change it to “Ramallah, West Bank.”
More than 145 UN members – approximately three quarters of the 193 total – have recognized Palestine as a state, but putting the word in an internal document is apparently an overstep at CNNi.
On 20 April 2023, while I was working on CNNi’s Connect the World, anchor and correspondent Christina MacFarlane interviewed the British-Israeli Rabbi Leo Dee about the killing of his wife and two of his daughters in the occupied West Bank. She made no attempt to fact-check his claim that the men who killed them were “paid a million dollars each by the Palestinian Authority, which is funded by the Iranian regime.”
I had been responsible for managing the logistics for the interview and had flagged my concerns in that morning’s meeting.
The point was to focus on his loss, his understandable grief. But what was the plan to counteract any potentially inflammatory statements?
I was ignored.
CNN/CNNi never held Israeli guests to the same degree of scrutiny as Palestinians, nor did it expect the same standard of passivity.
In fact, one month after the original MacFarlane interview, CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour publicly apologized to Dee for referring to the killings of his wife and daughters as a “shootout” on air. If CNN/CNNi apologized to every Palestinian for misrepresenting the killings of their loved ones, the internet would be a minefield of indignant Zionists.
Bias intensifies
On 11 October 2023, just before I left, CNN Anchor and Senior National Correspondent Sara Sidner misreported the baseless and now disproven story, “confirmed by the [Israeli] Prime Minister’s Office,” that Hamas beheaded babies on 7 October. CNN reporter Hadas Gold contributed on air, suggesting that the contemporary “rhetoric” of the Israeli government and military was the product of such “atrocities.”
Those beheadings never occurred, but by the time Sidner issued her apology, the story had already spread.
In November 2023, a report from CNN International Diplomatic Editor Nic Robertson simply accepted Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari’s claim that a document, written on the wall of Gaza’s recently bombarded Rantisi children’s hospital, was “a guarding list” for watching over Israeli captives. Robertson ignored an alert from a Palestinian colleague that it was not a roster, but a calendar listing the days of the week, and published the misleading report (this part of the report has since been removed on CNN.com but is shown in Al Jazeera’s investigation).
Nearly a year later, in October 2024, CNN published a report about Israeli soldiers “suffering from PTSD or mental illnesses caused by trauma during the war.” References in the article to two soldiers bulldozing Palestinian bodies come across as a secondary concern.
The article was heavily criticized on social media, reading for many as a sympathy piece in which references to gruesome acts against Palestinians are largely framed as traumatizing ordeals for Israeli men. It also relies almost exclusively on interviews with current and former Israeli soldiers, an Israeli military medic, family members and the Israeli government.
Eliran Mizrahi, an Israeli reservist profiled in the report, who was so “traumatized by what he had witnessed” that he took his own life, appeared on Israeli television just a few months before, bragging about destroying 5,000 Palestinian homes. His trauma is oddly lifted up over the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians – run over by the pair – that his co-driver indicates were all “terrorists.”
Beyond these blatant lies and omissions, the devil is in the detail. The likes of CNN, the BBC, the Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times and The Washington Post continue to categorize articles about Israel’s genocide in Palestine under the sub-section “Israel-Hamas war” or “Israel-Gaza war” rather than the much more factual “War on Gaza.”
Despite the consequences
Of course, there are still some brilliant journalists at CNN/CNNi. The likes of International Correspondent Nada Bashir and global breaking news writer Sana Noor Haq conduct reporting which consistently addresses Israeli violence and emphasizes Palestinian suffering.
Other more senior anchors and reporters have also been increasingly critical. According to a leaked recording published by The Intercept in March, Christiane Amanpour described “real distress” over “changing copy, double standards and all the rest.”
Nevertheless, what I witnessed in my time at CNNi, before and after 7 October, was enough for me to leave. As Israel’s genocide rages on, fueled and funded by our trigger-happy governments and money-grabbing institutions, we journalists have a responsibility to question our involvement and our capacity to influence its continuation.
However difficult it may be to abandon the comforts of the newsroom, there is nothing more comforting than the knowledge you walked away.
Leaving CNNi was not an act of bravery, nor did it impact the coverage (I was only a lowly freelancer and recently graduated intern after all), but it changed who I became.
If not for the incredible Palestinian journalists and witnesses who shared their stories with us on social media, or the brilliant guests I worked with at CNNi – from Issa Amro, the Hebron-based human rights defender, to Nour Odeh, political analyst and former Al Jazeera correspondent – I would never have left. Their commitment to the representation of Palestinian narratives forced me to recognize a lack of commitment by CNN/CNNi.
The shortage of Palestinian guests and overt reliance on Israeli and Western sources was already enabling a misinformation campaign that was certain to intensify in the months ahead.
We should all be grateful for the bravery of the Palestinian people, but that gratitude is inseparable from a responsibility to resist in their names. For me, beyond protesting and fundraising, this commitment is bound to a continuous criticism of bias in the mainstream press.
To constantly question what we are told, and how we are told it, has become the essence of my development as a young journalist, regardless of careerist aspirations.
As Mohammed El-Kurd wrote: “We are required, as writers and journalists, to have a backbone, to refuse, to take our reporting beyond the politics of appeal, despite the consequences – for they do not compare to life under occupation – and because the consequences (recrimination, censorship, ostracization, even murder) should terrify us into action. Fear should make our voices bigger and more resounding. One seldom survives if they shrink themselves when confronted with a black bear.”
Ana Maria Monjardino is an independent journalist from London.
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Even as the draft of the New Energy Vehicle Policy (NEVP) 2025-2030 predicts a 30 per cent share of new electric vehicles by 2030, 90pc by 2040, and 100pc by 2050, it has not seriously touched the main issue of removing decades-old vehicles responsible for polluting air quality and promoting smog.
With business as usual, the government expects to increase its fuel import bill to $64 billion by 2060. The above policy targets new sales of NEVs with an ambitious 100pc zero-emission vehicle fleet by 2060, so the fuel bill will gradually reduce and be eliminated by 2060.
The NEVP draft, while mainly focusing on 20-year-old vehicles, lacks any serious measures to remove 30- 40-year-old private transport vehicles, many of which are visible on Karachi’s dilapidated roads.
The 30-page draft, however, carries a replacement scheme in which if a consumer wants to sell their old petrol/diesel vehicles to buy a NEV, the government will offer credit amounting to 20pc of the original value of the old vehicle in addition to its scrap value.
Govt outlines ambitious targets for NEV adoption yet fails to address systemic removal of decades-old polluting vehicles
The old vehicle will then be taken into government custody for removal from the national mobility portfolio. The condition is that the consumer must use the credit amount and the scrap value exclusively to purchase the NEV.
A notable auto assembler has questioned how the government will fund this 20pc or scrap value; it will be a provincial subject, but what will happen if the provincial governments do not comply? He added that tall promises in previous auto policies have also never been fully implemented.
There is a need to immediately implement the “Old Vehicles Scrapping Policy” in collaboration with provincial governments to eliminate over 20-year-old used vehicles including cars, light commercial vehicles (LCVs), pickups and vans, contributing to carbon emissions. Similar scrapping policies exist worldwide to improve the air quality in major cities.
The federal government needs to provide a fair scrap value against scrapped vehicles funded through private steel melters, 100pc registration and road tax waiver on new vehicles by provincial governments against vehicle scrapping certificates and income tax rebates up to 50pc to the filers against their income tax liability for the year on the purchase of new hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery EVs against the scrapping certificate, the assembler said.
The draft NEVP policy suggests that CO2 emissions from the transport sector currently stand at nearly 90 million tonnes without mentioning the source for this critical information. In contrast, the Pakistan Energy Yearbook suggests that the energy consumed by the transport sector in 2023 is 15m tonne of oil equivalent, translating into total CO2 emissions at under 44m tonnes.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or any other government authority must ensure that the vehicular emissions must be scientifically measured and documented to allow for sound policymaking.“The government should also conduct a thorough cost-benefit analysis of all policy proposals and evaluate whether the country has enough ‘fiscal space’ to ensure policy continuity,” the assembler said.
The proposed NEVP policy roughly provides Rs4-5m worth of duty and tax subsidy per vehicle, which will cost the national exchequer approximately Rs230bn per year and cumulatively over Rs1.4 trillion over a five-year period, the assembler estimated. It will also increase our import bill by $1.3bn every year as demand will increase for NEVs given the massive concessions. The total fuel savings per year is estimated at only $100m, ignoring the cost of imported fuel used at generation plants.
The government also wants to utilise excess generation capacity. Still, experts also reveal that even if 50,000 NEVs replace fossil fuel vehicles in any given year — it will only consume 0.07pc of the 46,000MW of generation capacity — 60pc of which run on fossil fuels, coal/gas/furnace oil.
While carefully estimating, two-wheeler expert, Mohammad Sabir Sheikh said that the country’s roads are loaded with around 27m bikes of which 2m models are 30 years old, 2-2.5m are 20 years old, 5-6m are 30 years old, and 12-15m are less than 10 years old.
Due to a lack of up-grades by the local assemblers, the majority of locally assembled bikes carry Euro 2 compliant engines, which had been discontinued in the world some three decades back, he explained, urging the government to devise a policy for getting rid of obsolete old bikes to improve air quality and control smog.
Chairman All Pakistan Motor Dealers Association, H.M. Shehzad, shares that, “Many people are bound to rely on 20-year-old models due to a high cost of living as a result of inflated power and gas bills and other expenses.”
Amid the lack of any government monitoring, bike assemblers have been rolling out 30-40-year-old models without making a complete model change, and only fuel tank stickers and indicators have been changed.
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Published in Dawn, The Business and Finance Weekly, December 16th, 2024
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https://www.dawn.com/news/1879081/corporate-window-ev-transition-in-with-the-new
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SNAP 2024 admit card out for Test 3; here’s direct link
The examination will be held on December 21, 2024.
The Symbiosis International (Deemed University) has released the admit card for the Symbiosis National Aptitude Test 2024 (SNAP 2024) Test 3. Registered candidates can download their hall tickets from the official website snaptest.org.
SNAP Test 3 is scheduled for December 21, 2024. The exam will be conducted for 60 minutes. The test timings will be intimated via admit cards. The paper will consist of 60 questions of 60 marks and each wrong answer attracts one-fourth of negative marking.
Steps to download SNAP Test 3 admit card 2024
- Visit the official website snaptest.org
- On the homepage, click on the SNAP test 3 admit card 2024 link
- Key in your login details and submit
- Check and download the admit card
- Take a printout for future reference
Direct link to SNAP Test 3 admit card 2024.
“A candidate can appear for up to three tests for SNAP 2024. If a candidate appears for more than one test, the higher score will be considered for the final percentile calculation and there will be no normalization,” reads the notification.
Direct link to SNAP 2024 Information Bulletin.
For more details, candidates are advised to visit the official website here.
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https://scroll.in/announcements/1076843/snap-2024-admit-card-out-for-test-3-heres-direct-link
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March For Immigration Reform In US: PICS
Thousands of people poured into streets across the United States in a push to overhaul immigration and end the legal limbo of more than 11 million undocumented immigrants.
Thousands of people poured into streets across the United States in a push to overhaul immigration and end the legal limbo of more than 11 million undocumented immigrants.
Thousands of people poured into streets across the United States in a push to overhaul immigration and end the legal limbo of more than 11 million undocumented immigrants
The coast-to-coast activities saw about 3,000 demonstrators -- mostly Asian, Hispanic and Arab -- demonstrate in New York before marching over the landmark Brooklyn Bridge, as counterparts in California marched in Hollywood.
In all, protesters marched in 160 US cities. "What we need is to win over peacefully those who are opposed.
He have got to get a deal struck," said Danick Martinez, 30, a Honduran who has been living and working illegally in the country for almost a decade.
Participants raise their hands as they take an oath to work towards immigration reform while marching for reform in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California October 5, 2013.
The March for Dignity and Respect was organized by the New York Immigration Coalition and other groups supporting legalization of undocumented workers.
Organizers said they hoped to rally up to 130,000 people to push Congress to adopt comprehensive legislation to give a path toward US citizenship to the more than 11 million US residents who are living illegally in the shadows.
Officials estimate there are about half a million undocumented workers in New York alone.
The overwhelming majority of the undocumented are Hispanic, most from neighboring Mexico and many from Central and South America.
President Barack Obama has sought to give a pathway to citizenship to the undocumented millions but negotiations with opposition Republicans in Congress have bogged down.
In Los Angeles, which has a massive Mexican-American population, Mexican-born Francisco Cabrera said: "we came to work; that is all we do."
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https://www.indiatimes.com/news/americas/thousands-march-for-immigration-reform-in-us-pics-105228.html
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AIIMS New Delhi faculty recruitment Interview schedule for Phase III, IV released
Candidates can check their date and time slot through the official website www.aiimsexams.ac.in.
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, has released the interview schedule for recruiting various faculty posts. The interview process will be held in two phases. The phase III interview will be held on November 19 and 20, 2024, and the phase IV interview will be held on November 23 to 24, 2024.
For the phase I interview process, 64 candidates have been called. For phase II of the interview process, a total of 85 candidates have been called.
Candidates who are shortlisted for the interview process can download their call letter by logging in to the website. Candidates should report for an interview on the scheduled date of their post, along with an interview letter, a copy of the online application, and all those supporting documents (in original) that they have uploaded along the online applications.
Candidates should also check the list of the required documents to be carried out while appearing for the interview. Check the detailed notification.
Direct link to the detailed notification.
For more details, candidates are advised to visit the official website here.
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https://scroll.in/announcements/1076845/aiims-new-delhi-faculty-recruitment-interview-schedule-for-phase-iii-iv-released
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