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Buy or sell: Vaishali Parekh recommends three stocks to buy today — 1st January
Buy or sell stocks: Vaishali Parekh has recommended three stocks to buy today — EIH, Dabur India, McDowell-N
Buy or sell stocks for today: After showing a sustainable upside move in the last five sessions, Indian stock market gave up its winning streak and ended lower on last trade session of 2023. Nifty 50 index remained in negative territory throughout the session and closed with minor loss of 22 points at 21,731 levels. BSE Sensex finished 0.23 per cent lowe at 72,240 levels whereas Nifty Bank index lost 0.45 per cent and ended at 48,292 levels. However, broader market outperformed with Nifty Mid-cap 100 and Nifty Small-cap 100 up 0.8 per cent and 0.6 per cent respectively.
Intraday trading tips
Vaishali Parekh, Vice President — Technical Research at Prabhudas Lilladher believes that Nifty 50 index is finding resistance at 21,900 levels. However, Prabhudas Lilladher expert maintained that overall stock market sentiment is positive. She said that Nifty today has strong support placed at 21,550 and breaching its resistance, Nifty 50 may touch 22,200 to 22,300 levels.
On stocks to buy today, Vaishali Parekh recommended three intraday stocks for today — EIH, Dabur India and McDowell-N.
Stock market today
On outlook for Nifty 50 today, Vaishali Parekh said, "Nifty took a breather near 21800 zone halting the ongoing rally finding resistance and remained rangebound for the entire session near 21720 zone with bias maintained positive. As mentioned earlier, the index would have levels near 21550 maintained as the near-term support while the next major targets of 22200-22300 levels are anticipated in the coming days with the strong uptrend still maintained intact."
"Bank Nifty finding resistance near the 48,500 levels slipped down to some extent with near-term support maintained near 48,000 zone whereas 46,300 levels shall remain maintained as the strong support zone overall," said Parekh.
Parekh said that immediate support for Nifty today is placed at 21,600 zone while the resistance is seen at 21,900 level. Bank Nifty would have a daily range of 47,900 to 48,600 levels.
Stocks to buy today
1] EIH: Buy at ₹249.50, target ₹264, stop loss ₹245;
2] Dabur India: Buy at ₹557, target ₹590, stop loss ₹548; and
3] McDowell-N: Buy at ₹1117, target ₹1165, stop loss ₹1100.
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| 2024-01-01T02:19:59Z
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Almaty to host Asian Youth National Sports Championship
"2019 is declared as the Year of Youth. The 1st Asian Youth National Sports Championship will take place on April 15-22 in Almaty bringing together more than eight teams. 10 countries have joined the council, so I invite all of them to participate in the championship," executive director of Kazakhstan's National Sports Association Rakhat Zhaksybai told the meeting of the World Kokpar Association. Heads of national sports federations from 10 states of the world are taking part in it.
He also added that sportsmen under 21 will compete in the championship.
According to him, the 2nd international conference of the World Ethnic Sports Confederation will be held on April 20-21. More than 30-40 countries are expected to attend it. Above 20 tourism and sports ministers from around the world have been invited to take part in the conference to focus on horseracing development prospects.
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Kyler Murray throws 3 TD passes as Cardinals rally past Eagles, disrupt Philly’s playoff path
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jalen Hurts’ desperation heave was intercepted to seal the Eagles’ fourth loss this month and one that meant so much more.
Philadelphia’s shot at the top spot in the NFC? Gone. The bye and home-field edge goes to the 49ers. The NFC East crown? Once in their grasp, the Eagles now need help from — yikes, Washington — to win a second straight division title.
The team that opened December 9-1 and looked like a favorite to return to the Super Bowl unraveled Sunday with a 35-31 loss to the Arizona Cardinals and now faces the grim reality of opening the playoffs on the road.
"We’ve got to get things fixed," coach Nick Sirianni said. "And we’ve got to get them fixed fast."
Where to start is the hard part.
James Conner ran for a 2-yard touchdown with 32 seconds remaining and Kyler Murray threw three TD passes for Arizona, which rallied from a 15-point deficit.
Former Eagles defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon returned to Philly and got his biggest win yet in his first season as Arizona’s coach. Granted, there haven’t been many of them for the Cardinals (4-12).
PHILADELPHIA, PA - DECEMBER 31: Michael Carter #22 of the Arizona Cardinals runs with the football during the second half against the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field on December 31, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Kathryn (Getty Images)
The Eagles (11-5) could have won the NFC East with wins against Arizona and the New York Giants next week. Now, Dallas can win the division with a win next week at Washington.
The Eagles could still earn the No. 2 seed with a win at the Giants and a Cowboys loss.
"Man, I’m not worried at all but there’s a lot to learn from a game like this," defensive end Brandon Graham said.
Maybe he should be concerned. The Eagles have played more like a team bound for a quick playoff exit than one that could make a second straight trip to the Super Bowl.
There was plenty of blame to go around: a discombobulated offense that included indecisive play-calling late in the game, a running game that never got going and a defense that couldn’t get off the field.
The series of blunders included Sirianni running out of timeouts on the Eagles’ final drive and a late-game first-and-20 (because of offensive holding) that saw the Eagles run twice and try a short pass that only got them 5 yards.
"We’re in the playoffs. Lot of teams want to be in the playoffs," Sirianni said. "We can still do some things here."
Murray finished 25 of 31 for 232 yards and got stronger as the game progressed, overcoming a 99-yard pick-6 by Sydney Brown early in the second quarter. Conner rushed for 128 yards on 26 carries.
"With everything that’s happened, a lot of disappointment this year, a lot of tough losses," Murray said. "But trying to finish the season off the right way."
The Cardinals rallied from a 21-6 halftime deficit on the strength of Murray’s two TD tosses in the third quarter that tied the game at 21-all.
Hurts put the Eagles ahead in the fourth with his third TD pass of the game, a 9-yarder to Dallas Goedert.
Normally, that would be enough to win a game at the Linc. But Philly’s defense couldn’t hold on. Cornerback Kelee Ringo was flagged for pass interference and the Cardinals used the extra 29 yards to help tie game 28-28 with 5:26 left. Murray hit Michael Wilson for a 5-yard TD.
Jake Elliott kicked a 43-yard field goal with 2:33 left to give the Eagles their last lead.
Murray had plenty of time to move the Cardinals into scoring position. He hit Greg Dorch for a 36-yard gain that brought Arizona to the Eagles 5 and set up Conner’s decisive score.
The Cardinals finished with 449 yards of offense and scored touchdowns on all four possessions in the second half.
Gannon certainly had reason to gloat — his successor, Sean Desai, already had his play-calling duties stripped during this morbid stretch and turned over to Matt Patricia. No matter who is calling the shots this month, the Eagles’ defense has been steamrolled. The Cardinals rushed for 221 yards and never punted.
"We still have everything in front of us," Hurts said.
Fast Philly start
The Eagles at last made solid use of 34-year-old receiver Julio Jones, signed in October to provide some depth.
The seven-time Pro Bowl selection had just seven catches for 27 yards and two touchdowns entering the game. He wasn’t supposed to be a top target, of course, not with A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith both topping the 1,000-yard receiving mark this season.
Jones caught a 12-yard TD pass in the first quarter and had a 22-yard TD with 16 seconds left in the second.
Hurts’ three TD passes brought his total to a franchise-record 38 touchdowns this season. He had already set an NFL QB record with 15 rushing touchdowns. Hurts in 2022 and Randall Cunningham in 1990 both accounted for 35 TDs for the Eagles.
Defensive gem
Brown, a rookie safety out of Illinois, circled under a pass from Murray at the Eagles 1-yard line and streaked down the sideline, then zig-zagged into the end zone to give Philly a 14-3 lead. Brown reached a top speed of 21.52 mph and traveled 126.7 total yards on the 99-yard return, per Next Gen Stats.
Fake out
The Eagles used a fake play off the tush push to get a first down. Hurts lined up under center on third-and-1 and flipped the ball to Kenneth Gainwell, who threw a 17-yard pass to Smith. Hurts found Jones for the 22-yard TD on the next play.
Injuries
Cardinals CB Garrett Williams left with an ankle injury, and OL D.J. Humphries suffered a knee injury.
Up next
While the Eagles try to finish strong against the Giants next weekend, the Cardinals will try to play spoiler to another playoff contender, hosting the Seattle Seahawks.
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SYDNEY - Former world champion cyclist Rohan Dennis has been charged over the death of his Olympian wife, Australian media reported on Jan 1, after allegedly hitting her with a car.
Ms Melissa Hoskins, a retired track cyclist who represented Australia at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, died in hospital after suffering what police said were “serious injuries” on the evening of Dec 30, 2023.
Her husband Dennis, 33, is a highly regarded former professional who won the world time trials in 2018 and 2019, as well as a 2015 stage win in the Tour de France.
South Australia Police said a 33-year-old man, widely reported to be Dennis, had been charged with “causing death by dangerous driving” and “driving without due care and endangering life”.
“The driver is known to the woman,” police said, without confirming his name.
The international association of women cyclists said it was “shocked” to learn of Ms Hoskins’s death.
“We send our thoughts to those who love her, starting with her children, and were lucky enough to ride with her during an all too short life,” CPA Women said on social media.
Ms Hoskins, 32, rode in the Australian team that won the team pursuit event at the 2015 Track Cycling World Championships in France. AFP
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Expert explains how aquaculture development can contribute to food security
PESHAWAR: The people of Pakistan require food security, jobs and other sources of income generation and best available alternative to quality food production is aquaculture.
Aquaculture may be marine, brackish or fresh water and we have tremendous opportunity to harness this resource of for both local consumption and export. However, for this purpose new innovative interventions are required at local level for each district throughout the country.
Talking to this scribe, an expert on aquaculture said that this is only possible through clubbing practicing experts on the subject in specific fields to devise an action plan for the development of the sub-sector of agriculture.
The action plan should be cost effective through robust short training programmes to existing employees of Fisheries Department and Provincial Fisheries Departments duly coordinated at the local level. Private Sector is the engine of growth which needs technical support to align to the new requirements of regulation and production of fish for local market and for export.
The new jobs and source of income generation should be arena of private sector. The private sector should shift its focus from traditional fish farming to knowledge-based fish farming on business model.
The expert said that the Government of Pakistan has taken a positive initiative to provide Access to Finance to Fish Farmers (Aqua-farms) in the country. The staff of commercial banks’ branches is being mobilized to provide different financial products to the fish farmers in remote areas of the country.
However, this facility could only be availed by those whole have collateral as security to provide for load to the banks and those aqua culturists who have no holding are raising fish on rented land or rented farms have got no collateral security to offer to the banks and are unable to obtain load for required inputs such fish seed, fertilizer and fish feed for increasing production of fish and are mostly subsistence level fish farmers. They need finance or grant to optimize their annual fish production.
The recent flood has damaged their fish crop and they are unable to start the production cycle of fish again due to unavailability of financial resources due to poverty. The federal government or the provincial government should provide them fish seed free of cost as grant to them so as to enable them to start the
fish production cycle on subsistence level for
their livelihood and food security.
They only require meager amount for purchase of input of lime and inorganic fertilizer in small quantity. This can be done Federal Rural Support Program or Provincial Rural Support Program in the Provinces. This will alleviate poverty-stricken segment of society in the rural area by reviving their livelihood and source of income.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2024
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Bowl season and the College Football Playoff are here, with eight games involving teams from the Pac-12 on the docket. For info on how to watch all of the hard-hitting action, keep scrolling.
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How Nalsarovar in Gujarat is set for big facelift
- Himanshu Kaushik
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM Dec 31, 2023, 01:16 IST IST
Gujarat’s First Ramsar Site Promises Newer Experiences With Theme Park, Boat Jetty
Nalsarovar, Gujarat’s first Ramsar site, is all set for a major makeover aimed at providing an experience beyond the thrill of watching migratory birds in all their glory and understanding their way of life. The state tourism department is working on supporting infrastructure on the lake’s periphery for tourists. Among the new additions will be a jetty for boats and a nature-inspired theme park. Similar features will come up at Thol, the second most popular site for bird watchers.
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| 2024-01-01T02:20:03Z
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PGA Tour seeks extension on commercial deal with Saudis, private investors
(AP) - The PGA Tour believes it has made enough progress with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf to extend their negotiations into next year for a new commercial deal that would include a U.S. investment group and the European tour.
Commissioner Jay Monahan sent a memo to players on Sunday afternoon, just seven hours before the deadline to finalize the deal that was set in the June 6 framework agreement.
The PGA Tour board unanimously agreed three weeks ago to negotiate exclusively with Strategic Sports Group, a consortium of American-based professional sports teams owners led by Fenway Sports Group.
Monahan said the tour has made “meaningful progress” with SSG and provided the group with all the information it requested.
“As we move forward in our discussions, we are focused on the finalization of terms and drafts of necessary documents,” Monahan said.
Far more complicated are the negotiations with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the financial supporters of the rival LIV Golf League which lured away Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka in 2022, and most recently Masters champion Jon Rahm earlier this month.
Monahan described conversations with PIF and the European tour as “active and productive.”
The framework agreement was to expire Dec. 31, though it included language that the deadline could be extended if all parties agreed. “We are working to extend our negotiations into next year based on the progress we have made to date,” Monahan said in his memo.
Monahan said the goal for 2024 was to reach agreements with SSG, PIF and the European tour to bring them in as minority co-investors in the for-profit PGA Tour Enterprises.
“These partnerships will allow us to unify, innovate and invest in the game for the benefit of players, fans and sponsors,” Monahan said.
Under the framework agreement, PIF Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan would have a seat on the PGA Tour board. The agreement also included PGA Tour Enterprises doing an “objective, empirical-driven evaluation” of LIV and to determine if team golf can be integrated into the PGA Tour and European tour.
It also was to determine a “fair and objective” process for LIV players who might want to return to the PGA Tour or European tour, which is said to be a sticking point because of the players who turned down Saudi riches to remain on the PGA Tour.
The PGA Tour season begins Thursday at The Sentry on Maui, the first of eight “signature” events with a $20 million purse and limited field. LIV Golf already has announced the bulk of its 2024 schedule and $20 million purses. It starts the first week of February.
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| 2024-01-01T02:20:04Z
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Al-Ujairi Scientific Center said, Sunday, that the Murabbaniyah season is nearing its end with the appearance of its third star, known as (the Shula Star), on January 2, 2024.
The center told the Kuwait News Agency that the number of days of the Shulah star is 13 and it is considered the third and last star of the square, and the sunrise during the appearance of the Shula star has reached its maximum extent of delay throughout the year, reports Al-Rai daily.
He added that the sunrise time on the first day of the shula is at 6:43 in the morning, while sunset is at 5:10 in the morning.
He stated that the night continues to prevail over the number of daylight hours, with the average number of hours reaching approximately 13 hours and 42 minutes.
He pointed out that during the days of Shula, temperatures drop during the night hours and in open areas, and at dawn cold intensity increases.
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https://timeskuwait.com/news/the-sun-will-rise-late-on-january-2/
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Buy or sell stocks for today: After showing a sustainable upside move in the last five sessions, Indian stock market gave up its winning streak and ended lower on last trade session of 2023. Nifty 50 index remained in negative territory throughout the session and closed with minor loss of 22 points at 21,731 levels. BSE Sensex finished 0.23 per cent lowe at 72,240 levels whereas Nifty Bank index lost 0.45 per cent and ended at 48,292 levels. However, broader market outperformed with Nifty Mid-cap 100 and Nifty Small-cap 100 up 0.8 per cent and 0.6 per cent respectively.
Intraday trading tips
Vaishali Parekh, Vice President — Technical Research at Prabhudas Lilladher believes that Nifty 50 index is finding resistance at 21,900 levels. However, Prabhudas Lilladher expert maintained that overall stock market sentiment is positive. She said that Nifty today has strong support placed at 21,550 and breaching its resistance, Nifty 50 may touch 22,200 to 22,300 levels.
On stocks to buy today, Vaishali Parekh recommended three intraday stocks for today — EIH, Dabur India and McDowell-N.
Stock market today
On outlook for Nifty 50 today, Vaishali Parekh said, "Nifty took a breather near 21800 zone halting the ongoing rally finding resistance and remained rangebound for the entire session near 21720 zone with bias maintained positive. As mentioned earlier, the index would have levels near 21550 maintained as the near-term support while the next major targets of 22200-22300 levels are anticipated in the coming days with the strong uptrend still maintained intact."
"Bank Nifty finding resistance near the 48,500 levels slipped down to some extent with near-term support maintained near 48,000 zone whereas 46,300 levels shall remain maintained as the strong support zone overall," said Parekh.
Parekh said that immediate support for Nifty today is placed at 21,600 zone while the resistance is seen at 21,900 level. Bank Nifty would have a daily range of 47,900 to 48,600 levels.
Stocks to buy today
1] EIH: Buy at ₹249.50, target ₹264, stop loss ₹245;
2] Dabur India: Buy at ₹557, target ₹590, stop loss ₹548; and
3] McDowell-N: Buy at ₹1117, target ₹1165, stop loss ₹1100.
Disclaimer: The views and recommendations made above are those of individual analysts or broking companies, and not of Mint. We advise investors to check with certified experts before taking any investment decision.
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Almaty to host Historical context and modern development sub-regional seminar
Understanding and managing any historical environment implies the realization that the cultural, property, surrounding landscapes and cities live under the influence of dynamic forces in the economic, social and cultural spheres, which have formed and continue to transform its appearance. The historical context and modern development can interact and strengthen each other's role and importance, the official website of the UNESCO Cluster Office in Almaty reads.
UNESCO advocates a holistic approach to the management of historical landscapes, which combines the objectives of preserving urban heritage and socio-economic development. Under this approach, urban heritage is considered as a social, cultural and economic resource for urban development.
This training workshop is funded by UNESCO/Netherlands Trust Fund.
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https://en.inform.kz/amp/almaty-to-host-historical-context-and-modern-development-sub-regional-seminar_a3498746/
| 2024-01-01T02:20:07Z
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce ring in the new year at Chiefs game in Kansas City
Taylor Swift is ringing in the new year with Travis Kelce in Kansas City at the last Chiefs game of the year.
In video shared on social media, Swift was seen arriving at Arrowhead Stadium, sporting a letterman-style jacket with the Chief’s and NFL logos on it, paired with a sleek all-black ensemble comprised of a shirt, pants and high-heeled boots.
The "Style" singer wore her hair down and loose, with a single small braid sure to spark a new trend, all tied together with her signature red lip.
Swift took her spot in the Chiefs' suite to enthusiastically cheer Kelce on during the game against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Taylor Swift cheers during the first quarter between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Kansas City Chiefs at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on December 31, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
EX-NFL STAR PUSHES BACK ON NARRATIVE TAYLOR SWIFT IS DISTRACTION FOR CHIEFS
Fans noted that Swift’s Chiefs letterman-style jacket matched one worn by Kelce last week, designed by Jeff Hamilton.
On Hamilton’s Instagram page, he posted a photo of Kelce wearing the look and responded to a fan comment saying Swift needed one with, "You know she has it already."
Swift’s appearance marks her ninth appearance at a game since she began dating Kelce. The "Cruel Summer" singer spent Christmas Day with her parents, Scott and Andrea, and brother, Austin, in the suite together.
The family got festive for the occasion with Swift wearing a Santa hat with Kelce's number, 87, on the brim, while her brother Austin wore a Santa costume.
The couple first sparked dating rumors in September after she appeared at Arrowhead Stadium to watch him play. In a recent interview with TIME, Swift clarified the timeline of their relationship, noting that her attendance was not their first outing together.
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"By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple," Swift explained. "I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game? We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date."
Swift is due back on the road for her Eras tour beginning on February 7 in Japan. She has three shows in Tokyo, the last on Feb. 10, then a short break before picking up again in Australia on Feb. 16.
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2000 Swedish kronor to Thai bahts
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LAHORE: The Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) has opened Lahore’s first government-owned bonsai garden featuring dwarfed trees at Jilani Park (formerly Race Course.
Translated from Japanese, “bonsai” means “tray planting” and involves cultivating dwarfed trees, shrubs, or vines in small pots.
Bonsai can vary in size from just a few inches tall to towering Imperial trees exceeding six feet. The dwarfed trees are hundreds of years old, and have been in training for five to 14 years.
While the Western world often associates bonsai with Japan, dating its origins to the third century A.D., the ancient practice actually originated over 2,000 years ago in China.
The brainchild of Director General Muhammad Tahir Wattoo, the display center introduces enthusiasts to hardy trees and shrubs like pines, junipers, and maples that typically thrive outdoors. The center spans over 10,890 square feet (two kanals).
Among the plants on display are Ficus, Fukien Tea, and Cedar, among others.
Speaking following a visit to the centre, Wattoo remarked that the centuries-old craft of bonsai is thriving as both a hobby and an art form.
He noted that the craft has its roots in Taxila in the Gandhara Civilisation and emphasized that the center is a gift to Lahore and its residents from PHA.
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With the regular season behind us, it's time for bowl season and the College Football Playoff. The postseason slate includes eight games that feature teams from the Big Ten. To ensure you catch all of the action, see the column below for details on how to watch.
Watch college football all season long on Fubo and ESPN+!
Big Ten Games on TV This Week
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US Navy helicopters fire at Yemen’s Houthi rebels and kill several in latest Red Sea shipping attack
BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. military said Sunday that its forces opened fire on Houthi rebels after they attacked a cargo ship in the Red Sea, killing several of them in an escalation of the maritime conflict linked to the war in Gaza. “We’re going to act in a self-defense going forward,” a White House official said.
In a series of statements, the U.S. Central Command said the crew of the USS Gravely destroyer first shot down two anti-ship ballistic missiles fired at the Singapore-flagged Maersk Hangzhou late Saturday, after the vessel reported getting hit by a missile earlier that evening as it sailed through the Southern Red Sea.
Four small boats then attacked the same cargo ship with small arms fire early Sunday and rebels tried to board the vessel, the U.S. Navy said.
Next, the USS Gravely and helicopters from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier responded to the Maersk Hangzhou’s distress call and issued verbal warnings to the attackers, who responded by firing on the helicopters.
“The U.S. Navy helicopters returned fire in self-defense,” sinking three of the four boats and killing the people on board while the fourth boat fled the area, the U.S. Central Command said. No harm to U.S. personnel or equipment, or casualties from the cargo ship, were reported.
The Houthis acknowledged that 10 of their fighters were killed in the confrontation and warned of consequences.
In Washington, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council sidestepped a question about the possibility of a preemptive strike against the Houthis to safeguard commercial shipping in the vital waterway.
“I won’t say what’s on or off the table right now,” John Kirby told ABC’s “Good Morning America,” adding, “We’re going to do what we have to do to protect shipping.” He said the United States has “significant national security interests in the region” and “we’re going to put the kind of forces we need in the region to protect those interests and we’re going to act in self-defense going forward.”
He said the U.S. has made it clear to the Houthis that “we take these threats seriously and we’re going to make the right decisions going forward.″
The events surrounding the Maersk Hangzhou represented the 23rd illegal attack by the Houthis on international shipping since Nov. 19, the Central Command said. It was the first time the U.S. Navy said its personnel had killed Houthi fighters since the Red Sea attacks started.
For over a month, Iran-backed Houthis have claimed attacks on ships in the Red Sea that they say are either linked to Israel or heading to Israeli ports. They say their attacks aim to end the Israeli air-and-ground offensive in the Gaza Strip that was triggered by the Palestinian militant group Hamas’ Oct.7 attack in southern Israel.
However, the links to the ships targeted in the rebel assaults have grown more tenuous as the attacks continue.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee called on President Joe Biden “to look at what actions need to be taken in Yemen to be able to prevent the Houthis to continue to put commercial and military vessels at risk.”
Noting Iran’s support for Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, told ABC’s ``This Week” that the Biden administration should be more aggressive “in responding to escalation by Iran.’’
The Denmark-based shipping giant Maersk, owner of Maersk Hangzhou, said Sunday it would suspend shipping through the Red Sea again after the two attacks on its freighter.
“In light of the (most recent) incident — and to give time to investigate the details of the incident and assess the security situation further — it has been decided that all transits through the area will be postponed for the next 48 hours,” Maersk was quoted as saying by the Danish public broadcaster DR.
On Saturday, the top commander of U.S. naval forces in the Middle East said Houthi rebels have shown no signs of ending their “reckless” attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea even as more nations join the international maritime mission to protect vessels in the vital waterway and trade traffic begins to pick up.
Earlier this month, Washington announced the establishment of a new international coalition to protect vessels traveling through the waterway. The United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles and Spain are also part of the new maritime security mission.
Since the Pentagon announced Operation Prosperity Guardian to counter the attacks just over 10 days ago, 1,200 merchant ships have traveled through the Red Sea region, and none had been hit by drone or missile strikes, Vice Adm. Brad Cooper told The Associated Press in an interview on Saturday.
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Associated Press writer Jari Tanner in Helsinki, Finland, contributed to this report.
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Ambassador Daulet Batrashev paid working visit to central regions of Romania
The pivotal theme of the diplomat's talks with authorities and private companies was attraction of investments to Kazakhstan and expanding export of Kazakh products to Romania.
The Ambassador visited the "Dacia" automobile company and discussed prospects of bilateral cooperation in the sphere of automobile production and component parts as well as the possibilities of launching production in Kazakhstan.
At the meeting with the Arges county's authorities, the Kazakh diplomat held talks about the opportunities of establishing links between companies in the consumer industry, tourism, agriculture and logistics. It is planned to continue collaboration for the purpose of identifying companies interested in participating in an economic mission to Kazakhstan.
At a meeting with the administration of the Transylvanian University of Brasov, the sides discussed the prospects of expanding cooperation with Kazakh higher education facilities. The two sides reached an agreement about extension of collaboration with Kazakh universities and acceptance of several students from Kazakhstan to the Transylvanian University.
The Ambassador met senior management of the "Prodlacta S.A." dairy company, which successfully works in Almaty region through its parent company JSC Group, and reviewed possibilities of expanding manufacturing facilities and exploring the market of other regions of Kazakhstan.
During the visit to Covasna and Harghita counties, D.Batrashev met with the senior executives of the local Chambers of Industry and Trade and business-communities, and discussed possibilities of establishing links with local meat, dairy, clothing and wood processing industries.
The Kazakh Ambassador also visited a number of agriculture farms and examined the outlook for participation in priority investment projects in the agricultural sector of Kazakhstan, attraction of modern technologies and leading specialists.
Following the meetings, it was agreed to organize in April and May 2019 an economic mission of companies from Covasna and Harghita counties to the Akmola region for exploration of investment opportunities in agriculture and other sectors of Kazakhstan's economy.
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Personnel from the Farwaniya Governorate Criminal Investigation Department raided an apartment in Khaitan and took into custody three men for manufacturing alcohol.
The Al-Anba daily said police have seized from the three men 100 barrels containing materials, 24 bottles of booze ready for sale and liquor manufacturing equipment.
The bootleggers and the contraband have been referred to the General Department for Drugs and Alcohol Control.
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JOHOR BAHRU - Locals are not the only ones complaining about the traffic snarls within the city area that is getting from bad to worse.
Now, even foreign visitors are left frustrated due to the bad congestion.
They said this has been the case for the past few months and has worsened following the holiday season.
Singaporean businessman Edward Tan, 56, said he was stuck on the road for many hours after leaving a mall at Jalan Wong Ah Fook here recently.
“Since the reopening of the border in April last year, I have only been to Johor about five times.
“I can see a significant difference in the traffic condition now compared to about a year ago.
“It is also not easy to get a parking spot in town. The situation is very bad during the holiday season,” he said, adding that the ongoing construction works have also contributed to this.
On congestion at the border, Mr Tan said while there have been some improvements, more should have been done to make things better.
“In a recent visit a few days before Christmas, I noticed that there were still counters that were closed.
“This should not have happened as I am sure the authorities would have anticipated a high volume of people coming in from Singapore,” he said.
Another Singaporean Zahidah Zulkifli, 30, who was visiting Johor with her friend over the weekend, said while the traffic condition in town has worsened, it did not deter her from enjoying her time in Johor Bahru.
“It did not affect me that much as I do not drive. All the places I needed to go were within walking distance, making it easier to enjoy my time here.
“The only concern has always been the traffic at the Causeway, but thankfully, I had a smooth bus ride that was less than 30 minutes,” said the saleswoman.
Filipino Paterno III Villamor Sumbilon, 31, said while he did not face any congestion at the Causeway during his recent trip, the traffic condition around Johor Bahru has worsened.
“I came to Johor for an early New Year’s holiday and to visit my friend.
“I anticipated heavy traffic due to the long weekend and decided to make my way here on Friday morning.
“I was lucky as there was no congestion at the border. Instead, I was greeted with traffic jam upon arrival in Johor Bahru,” he said, adding that he has been working in Singapore for over a decade.
The assistant supervisor said it has also been increasingly difficult for him to get e-hailing services in Johor Bahru, especially during peak hours.
“I use public transport to get to Johor. Once I am here, I will either walk or use e-hailing services.
“However, I noticed that it has been very difficult to get any drivers these days.
“I believe the traffic congestion in town may have caused ehailing drivers to have to spend more time to complete a single trip,” he said.
Johor Tourist Guides Association chairman Jimmy Leong said the congestion in Johor Bahru town was expected to go back to normal once all the construction works in the area have been completed.
“The main concern is still traffic congestion at the border. The year-end traffic congestion at the Causeway and Second-Link has improved this year compared to last year, but it is still far from the standard we should strive for.
“We should have seen better results by now as Mentri Besar (Datuk Onn Hafiz Ghazi) has been pushing for improvements.
“We were also told that Johor will be getting more immigration officers in the middle of this month,” he said, adding that he has also received complaints from travellers of counters that were closed in the recent holiday period.
On Dec 21, state works, transportation and infrastructure committee chairman Mohamad Fazli Mohamad Salleh said all contra lanes at the two land Customs, Immigration and Quarantine checkpoints in Johor will be activated in anticipation of a high volume of vehicles from Singapore during the Christmas and New Year celebrations. THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
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NEW DELHI: As we close out 2023, here's a brief recap of all the major elections in India and other countries that either upended expectations or firmly towed the line -- and will undoubtedly influence the upcoming critical general elections not just in India but also US and Russia.
Erdogan returns for third term
Turkiye's incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared victory in his country's runoff election, extending his rule into a third decade.
The outcome could have implications far beyond Ankara. Turkiye stands at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, and it plays a key role in Nato. Erdogan's government vetoed Sweden's bid to join Nato and purchased Russian missile-defense systems, which prompted the US to oust Turkiye from a US-led fighter-jet project. But it also helped broker a crucial deal that allowed Ukrainian grain shipments and averted a global food crisis.
Egypt's Sisi sweeps poll
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi swept to a third, six-year term as Egypt's president, winning 89.6% of votes in an election in which he faced no serious challengers. Sisi, a former general, has overseen a sweeping crackdown on dissent across the political spectrum since leading the 2013 overthrow of Egypt's first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood. Sisi was elected to the presidency in 2014, and re-elected in 2018, both times with 97% of the vote. The constitution was amended in 2019, extending the presidential term to six years from four, and allowing Sisi to stand for a third term.
Tinubu wins Nigerian polls
Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu was declared winner of Nigeria's presidential election. Tinubu received 37% of the vote, or nearly 8.8 million, while main opposition candidate Abubakar won 29% with almost 7 million. Nigeria’s presidential election was closely watched as the country is not only the continent’s largest economy but it is also one of the continent’s top oil producers.
Argentina's Milei wins presidential poll
Javier Milei, a self-described "anarcho-capitalist", pulled off a massive upset by ousting the populist Peronist coalition that has long dominated Argentine politics. Milei's triumph signals a surge for the far-right in the Americas. Aligned with the ideologies of Donald Trump in the US and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Milei's ascent to political prominence is fueled by perspectives that evoke apprehension regarding his potential administration. His proposals include adopting the US dollar as Argentina's currency, prohibiting abortion, dismantling the public healthcare system, and transitioning public education to a voucher system.
New Zealand national election
Former conservative businessman Christopher Luxon become New Zealand's prime minister after the change in leadership that came after a six-year tenure by a liberal government, primarily led by Jacinda Ardern. Luxon campaigned on promises of tax cuts for middle-income earners and a crackdown on crime, while Hipkins had advocated for free dental care for those under 30 and the elimination of sales taxes on fruits and vegetables.
Congress razes BJP's lone southern fort in Karnataka
Karnataka witnessed a seismic shift in its political landscape, dominated by the state Congress. The year marked a significant victory for the grand old party as it wrested power from the BJP, setting the stage for the impending 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The Congress delivered a resounding blow to the BJP, uprooting them from their stronghold in South India. The May assembly polls proved to be a watershed moment, with the party securing an impressive 136 out of 224 seats, marking a notable increase from its 2018 performance. This victory, with a 43.2% vote share, stands as the party's largest since the 1989 elections.
Rajasthan continues the trend
The BJP secured victory in Rajasthan, winning 115 out of the 199 assembly seats. The Congress, aiming to break the trend of the incumbent being voted out every five years, managed to bag 69 seats. Later, the BJP named Sanganer MLA Bhajan Lal Sharma as the new chief minister of Rajasthan. He won the Sanganer seat in 2023, defeating Congress's Pushpendra Bhardwaj with a margin of 48,081 votes.
Historic Telangana win for Congress
The Congress party made a historic comeback by sweeping the Telangana legislative assembly polls by defeating the dominating rival Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In the results, Congress emerged victorious with 64 seats while BRS managed to get just 39 seats in the 119-seats assembly. Later, Anumula Revanth Reddy was sworn in as the chief minister of Telangana, marking a historic moment as the first Congress CM of the youngest state in India. Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu also took the oath as the deputy CM of the state, established in 2014.
BJP storms to power in Madhya Pradesh
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had a big win in the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections. The BJP secured a resounding victory, winning 163 out of 230 constituencies. While the BJP observed a rise in vote share across 200 seats in the 2023 polls compared to previous general assembly elections, it clinched victory in only 163 seats. Similarly, Congress also saw an increase in vote share across 100 constituencies but could only secure 66 seats. Later, the BJP picked Ujjain South MLA Mohan Yadav as the new chief minister of Madhya Pradesh. He will succeed four-time CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
BJP defies predictions in Chhattisgarh
The BJP not only defied exit poll projections but also raced towards its biggest-ever victory in Chhattisgarh, winning 54 of the 90 assembly seats and wresting power from Congress. PM Modi's emphasis on the corruption allegations resonated with voters. Later, Mohan Yadav was sworn in as the 19th chief minister of Madhya Pradesh in a grand but brief ceremony in Bhopal's Motilal Nehru Stadium in the presence of PM Narendra Modi.
Northeast polls
With the declaration of results for the assembly elections in Northeast this year, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) returned to power in Tripura and Nagaland by winning an absolute majority. Meanwhile, in Meghalaya, Conrad Sangma, who leads the National People's Party (NPP), is all set to return as chief minister. The BJP has extended its support to NPP in forming the new government in the state, soon after Sangma reached out to Union home minister Amit Shah.
In a major setback to MNF and BJP-led NDA Govt in Mizoram, Zoram People's Movement (ZPM) sweeps the assembly polls and is all set to form government. ZPM surpassed the 21-seat majority mark in the 40-seat assembly by winning 27 seats. On the other hand, incumbent Mizo National Front (MNF) registered victory in just 10 seats while CM Zoramthanga lost Aizawl East-I seat to Lalthansanga of ZPM by 2,101 votes.
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Indian stock market: 6 things that changed for market over weekend - Gift Nifty, FPI buying to China’s factory activity
Indian stock market: The Indian stock market may see a thin trade as Asian markets are closed today. The US and most European markets will also remain closed today.
Indian stock market: The domestic equity indices, Sensex and Nifty 50, are expected to open lower on Monday, January 1, the first trading day of 2024, following a muted trend in global markets. Most of the stock markets around the world are shut today on New Year’s Day.
The Indian stock market may see a thin trade as Asian markets are closed today. The US and most European markets will also remain closed today.
The domestic benchmark indices ended on Friday, the last trading day of 2023, on a negative note, snapping their five-day winning streak, on profit-booking in select heavyweights. However, the benchmarks Sensex and the Nifty 50 ended the year with healthy gains of 19% and 20%, respectively.
On Friday, the Sensex ended 170.12 points, or 0.23%, lower at 72,240.26, while the Nifty 50 declined 47.30 points, or 0.22%, to settle at 21,731.40.
Also Read: Buy or sell: Vaishali Parekh recommends three stocks to buy today — 1st January
“After an ebullient market which touched life-time highs, fostered by strong economic numbers and good inflows from overseas investors, and prospects of lower interest rates, witnessed some amount of correction on the last trading day of the week. Profit booking and the developments around the Middle East, the movements in the Dollar Index etc. are likely to influence the markets at the periphery this week," said Joseph Thomas, Head of Research, Emkay Wealth Management.
Here are key global market cues for Sensex today:
Asian Markets
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Gift Nifty
Gift Nifty was trading around 21,776 level as compared to Nifty futures’ previous close of 21,861, indicating a weak start for the Indian stock market indices.
US Stock Market
The US stock market ended marginally lower on Friday, the last trading day of 2023, dragged by real estate stocks. All the three Wall Street indices, the S&P 500, the Dow and the Nasdaq recorded nine consecutive weekly gains, the longest weekly winning streak for the S&P 500 since January 2004, and posting double-digit growth.
On December 29, the Dow Jones Industrial Average eased 20.56 points, or 0.05%, to 37,689.54, while the S&P 500 fell 13.52 points, or 0.28%, to 4,769.83. The Nasdaq Composite ended 83.78 points, or 0.56%, lower at 15,011.35.
US stock markets will remain closed on Monday, January 1 for New Year’s Day.
China factory activity
China’s factory activity shrank for the third straight month in December as the official manufacturing purchasing managers index declined to 49 during the month, from 49.4 in November.
Oil prices
Crude oil prices declined on Friday, the last trading day of the year 2023, with Brent oil settling down 11 cents or 0.14%, at $77.04 a barrel. US West Texas Intermediate crude ended at $71.65 a barrel, lower by 12 cents or 0.17%. Brent futures lost over 10% in 2023.
FPI buying
The Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) bought ₹66,135 crore worth of Indian equities in December, while taking into account debt, hybrid, debt-VRR, and equities, the total inflow stood at ₹84,537 crore, according to National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) data. FPIs heavily bought stocks in financial services, according to analysts. For the entire calendar year 2023, FPIs bought ₹1.71 lakh crore worth of Indian equities.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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PESHAWAR: Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University Peshawar and the Bank of Khyber (BoK) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
The MoU was signed by vice chancellor of the university Prof Dr Safia Ahmad and Head of Conventional Banking, the Bank of Khyber Sher Muhammad.
Giving details about the agreement, the university Treasure Sana Younas told the media that The Bank of Khyber will provide accounts facility to university’ employees under the agreement, besides soft loans facility will also be offered to them.
Similarly, she said special packages will be offered to female students of the university as per agreement.
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Top 25 College Football Streams & TV Channel Info | Bowl Season
Published: Dec. 25, 2023 at 2:46 PM CST|Updated: 2 hours ago
Among the best games on the 2023 bowl game schedule is the No. 3 Texas Longhorns squaring off against the No. 2 Washington Huskies in the Sugar Bowl.
Find what you need regarding how to watch this weekend of college football right here. Check out the links below.
How to Watch AP Top 25 Games
No. 24 James Madison Dukes at Air Force Falcons
- Time: 3:30 PM ET
- Date: Saturday, December 23
- Venue: Amon G. Carter Stadium
- TV Channel: ABC
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Air Force (-2)
Virginia Tech Hokies at No. 23 Tulane Green Wave
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: Wednesday, December 27
- Venue: Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Virginia Tech (-11.5)
No. 16 Louisville Cardinals at USC Trojans
- Time: 8:00 PM ET
- Date: Wednesday, December 27
- Venue: Petco Park
- TV Channel: FOX
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Louisville (-4.5)
Texas A&M Aggies at No. 22 Oklahoma State Cowboys
- Time: 9:00 PM ET
- Date: Wednesday, December 27
- Venue: NRG Stadium
- TV Channel: SECN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Oklahoma State (-3.5)
No. 17 SMU Mustangs at Boston College Eagles
- Time: 11:00 AM ET
- Date: Thursday, December 28
- Venue: Fenway Park
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: SMU (-13)
No. 19 NC State Wolfpack at Kansas State Wildcats
- Time: 5:45 PM ET
- Date: Thursday, December 28
- Venue: Camping World Stadium
- TV Channel: ACCN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Kansas State (-3)
No. 14 Arizona Wildcats at No. 12 Oklahoma Sooners
- Time: 9:15 PM ET
- Date: Thursday, December 28
- Venue: Alamodome
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Arizona (-2.5)
No. 21 Oregon State Beavers at No. 15 Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: Friday, December 29
- Venue: Sun Bowl Stadium
- TV Channel: CBS
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Notre Dame (-5.5)
No. 9 Missouri Tigers at No. 7 Ohio State Buckeyes
- Time: 8:00 PM ET
- Date: Friday, December 29
- Venue: AT&T Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Ohio State (-4)
No. 11 Ole Miss Rebels at No. 10 Penn State Nittany Lions
- Time: 12:00 PM ET
- Date: Saturday, December 30
- Venue: Mercedes-Benz Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Penn State (-6)
No. 6 Georgia Bulldogs at No. 4 Florida State Seminoles
- Time: 4:00 PM ET
- Date: Saturday, December 30
- Venue: Hard Rock Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Georgia (-22.5)
Wisconsin Badgers at No. 13 LSU Tigers
- Time: 12:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Raymond James Stadium
- TV Channel: SECN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: LSU (-8.5)
No. 20 Iowa Hawkeyes at No. 25 Tennessee Volunteers
- Time: 1:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Camping World Stadium
- TV Channel: ABC
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Tennessee (-5.5)
No. 18 Liberty Flames at No. 8 Oregon Ducks
- Time: 1:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: State Farm Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Oregon (-17.5)
No. 5 Alabama Crimson Tide at No. 1 Michigan Wolverines
- Time: 5:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Rose Bowl
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Michigan (-1.5)
No. 3 Texas Longhorns at No. 2 Washington Huskies
- Time: 8:45 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Caesars Superdome
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Texas (-3.5)
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Angolan, Russian, Tajik teams to compete in Sayan Mountains at 2019 Army Games, Kazakhstan to attend as observer
The Sayan March contest kicked off at a training center in the Ergaki national park in the East Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk on Sunday, TASS reports.
Winter competitions for mountaineering units were added to the International Army Games for the first time this year.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the contestants will have to fulfil eleven assignments in a span of five days.
"The teams of Russia, Angola and Tajikistan will have to search for an avalanche victim and transport them, to climb steep slopes and descend them with the help of ropes and crampons, to navigate in the highlands and to shoot and hurl grenades to hit. A total distance of the competition tracks is more than 25 kilometers, with a climb of up to 3,000 meters," the ministry said.
"Kazakhstan's representatives will attend the contest as observers," it added.
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“In a relentless pursuit of enforcing the law and safeguarding public safety, the Directorate-General for Drug Control has made a significant breakthrough by meticulously following the trail of drugs and the illicit substances traffickers after obtaining crucial information about a narcotics smuggling operation through one of the country’s border crossings.
By ramping up surveillance, gathering essential intelligence, and strategically deploying forces to the border area, the DGDC personnel have arrested two individuals for attempting smuggle into the country approximately 35 kilograms of Shabu and around 300,000 Captagon pills cleverly concealed in various compartments of the vehicle, reports Al-Anba daily.
The seized contraband — with a street value of half a million Kuwaiti dinars — and the suspects have been referred to the concerned authority.
The Ministry urges the public to collaborate with security forces, encouraging them to report any suspicious activities through the emergency phone (112) and DGDC hotline 1884141.”
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Indian stock market: The domestic equity indices, Sensex and Nifty 50, are expected to open lower on Monday, January 1, the first trading day of 2024, following a muted trend in global markets. Most of the stock markets around the world are shut today on New Year’s Day.
The Indian stock market may see a thin trade as Asian markets are closed today. The US and most European markets will also remain closed today.
The domestic benchmark indices ended on Friday, the last trading day of 2023, on a negative note, snapping their five-day winning streak, on profit-booking in select heavyweights. However, the benchmarks Sensex and the Nifty 50 ended the year with healthy gains of 19% and 20%, respectively.
On Friday, the Sensex ended 170.12 points, or 0.23%, lower at 72,240.26, while the Nifty 50 declined 47.30 points, or 0.22%, to settle at 21,731.40.
Also Read: Buy or sell: Vaishali Parekh recommends three stocks to buy today — 1st January
“After an ebullient market which touched life-time highs, fostered by strong economic numbers and good inflows from overseas investors, and prospects of lower interest rates, witnessed some amount of correction on the last trading day of the week. Profit booking and the developments around the Middle East, the movements in the Dollar Index etc. are likely to influence the markets at the periphery this week," said Joseph Thomas, Head of Research, Emkay Wealth Management.
Here are key global market cues for Sensex today:
Asian Markets
Most of the Asian stock markets are closed today, January 1, for New Year’s Day. Asian markets, including China, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea are shut today.
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Gift Nifty
Gift Nifty was trading around 21,776 level as compared to Nifty futures’ previous close of 21,861, indicating a weak start for the Indian stock market indices.
US Stock Market
The US stock market ended marginally lower on Friday, the last trading day of 2023, dragged by real estate stocks. All the three Wall Street indices, the S&P 500, the Dow and the Nasdaq recorded nine consecutive weekly gains, the longest weekly winning streak for the S&P 500 since January 2004, and posting double-digit growth.
On December 29, the Dow Jones Industrial Average eased 20.56 points, or 0.05%, to 37,689.54, while the S&P 500 fell 13.52 points, or 0.28%, to 4,769.83. The Nasdaq Composite ended 83.78 points, or 0.56%, lower at 15,011.35.
US stock markets will remain closed on Monday, January 1 for New Year’s Day.
China factory activity
China’s factory activity shrank for the third straight month in December as the official manufacturing purchasing managers index declined to 49 during the month, from 49.4 in November.
Oil prices
Crude oil prices declined on Friday, the last trading day of the year 2023, with Brent oil settling down 11 cents or 0.14%, at $77.04 a barrel. US West Texas Intermediate crude ended at $71.65 a barrel, lower by 12 cents or 0.17%. Brent futures lost over 10% in 2023.
FPI buying
The Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) bought ₹66,135 crore worth of Indian equities in December, while taking into account debt, hybrid, debt-VRR, and equities, the total inflow stood at ₹84,537 crore, according to National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) data. FPIs heavily bought stocks in financial services, according to analysts. For the entire calendar year 2023, FPIs bought ₹1.71 lakh crore worth of Indian equities.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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01/11Last sunset of Goa beach
Thousands of tourists witnessed the last sunset of 2023 at Calangute beach on Sunday. (Photo credit: Rajtilak Naik)
02/11People gather to click selfie
People take selfies with the display board decorated with flowers wishing 'Happy New Year' in New Delhi on Sunday. (Photo credit: ANI)
03/11Mumbaikars witness last sunset of 2023
People watch the last sunset of the year from a beach on New Year's eve in Mumbai. (Photo credit: Reuters)
04/11Celebratory wave in Delhi
People enjoying the New Year evening at Kartavya path in New Delhi. (Photo credit: Rajesh Mehta)
05/11Tirumala temple adorned for New Year's Eve
The renowned Lord Venkateswara Swamy temple at Tirumala is decked up for New Year's Eve worship.(Photo credit: Sandeep Raghavan)
06/11Crowd gather at Goa beach to welcome New Year
Thousands of tourists thronged the Calangute-Baga beach to witness the last sunset of 2023 on New Year’s Eve. (Photo credit: Rajtilak Naik)
07/11Bhopal celebrating New Year 2024
Girls in Bhopal strike a pose for a fun photograph. (Photo credit: A Moeed Faruqui)
08/11People buy decorated headgear
Cultural events and festivals spice up New Year 2024 celebrations in the Nation. (Photo credit: AP)
09/11Mumbai celebrating New Year's eve
People take pictures with the 'Welcome 2024' sign at Walkeshwar in Mumbai. (Photo credit: PTI)
10/11Cakes and sweets top the sales charts
People getting ready for new year celebrations in Vijayawada on Sunday.(Photo credit:SS Vijay Babu)
11/11Families savor New Year's Eve fun
Families embrace the joyous celebration of New Year's Eve together at a promenade in Mumbai.(Photo credit: AP)
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KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s newest mall The Exchange TRX has been drawing enthusiastic crowds since its opening four weeks ago, with its offering of a rooftop park with 150,000 plantings and 400 shops and eateries.
The opening of one of the country’s biggest malls in the capital city on Nov 29, with 100 per cent occupancy, has helped to spotlight the rise of the Tun Razak Exchange, or TRX – a 28-hectare district the Malaysian government hopes will be its answer to Wall Street.
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College Football Bowl Game Computer Picks & Predictions
According to our projections, the best bet versus the spread out of 39 FBS postseason matchups is Florida State (+22.5) -- for more tips, including parlay possibilities, scroll down.
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Pick: Florida State +22.5 vs. Georgia
- Matchup: Georgia Bulldogs at Florida State Seminoles
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Florida State by 2.2 points
- Time: 4:00 PM ET
- Date: December 30
- TV Channel: ESPN
Pick: Tulane +11.5 vs. Virginia Tech
- Matchup: Virginia Tech Hokies at Tulane Green Wave
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Tulane by 3.9 points
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: December 27
- TV Channel: ESPN
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Pick: LSU -8.5 vs. Wisconsin
- Matchup: Wisconsin Badgers at LSU Tigers
- Projected Favorite & Spread: LSU by 21.3 points
- Time: 12:00 PM ET
- Date: January 1
- TV Channel: ESPN2
- Live Stream: Fubo
Pick: Ohio +1.5 vs. Georgia Southern
- Matchup: Georgia Southern Eagles at Ohio Bobcats
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Ohio by 10.7 points
- Time: 11:00 AM ET
- Date: December 16
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live Stream: Fubo
Pick: Boise State +6.5 vs. UCLA
- Matchup: UCLA Bruins at Boise State Broncos
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Boise State by 5.5 points
- Time: 7:30 PM ET
- Date: December 16
- TV Channel: ABC
- Live Stream: Fubo
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Over 40.5 - Oregon State vs. Notre Dame
- Matchup: Oregon State Beavers at Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- Projected Total: 55.0 points
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: December 29
- TV Channel: CBS
- Live Stream: Fubo
Over 40.5 - Miami (OH) vs. Appalachian State
- Matchup: Miami (OH) RedHawks at Appalachian State Mountaineers
- Projected Total: 51.3 points
- Time: 3:30 PM ET
- Date: December 16
- TV Channel: ABC
- Live Stream: Fubo
Over 47.5 - SMU vs. Boston College
- Matchup: SMU Mustangs at Boston College Eagles
- Projected Total: 55.6 points
- Time: 11:00 AM ET
- Date: December 28
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live Stream: Fubo
Over 46.5 - UTSA vs. Marshall
- Matchup: UTSA Roadrunners at Marshall Thundering Herd
- Projected Total: 54.5 points
- Time: 9:00 PM ET
- Date: December 19
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live Stream: Fubo
Under 66.5 - Georgia Tech vs. UCF
- Matchup: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at UCF Knights
- Projected Total: 59.6 points
- Time: 6:30 PM ET
- Date: December 22
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live Stream: Fubo
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ISLAMABAD: The weapons left over by the US forces in Afghanistan are being used by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in cross-border terrorist activities against Pakistan.
It was evident from the recent terror attacks by the TTP from the Afghan soil in Pakistan that its terrorists were blatantly using the weapons left behind by the foreign forces in Afghanistan to damage peace and security in the region, the well-informed political and defence analysts said on Sunday.
They said the Pakistan Army had been fighting the war against the TTP for the last two decades. However, it was a known fact that its terrorists had full access to the weapons, which the US and NATO forces had left behind after facing humiliating defeat in the so-called war against terror. It had significantly damaged the security of the region, particularly in Pakistan, which had seen an surge in terrorist activities since the fallout of Afghan defence forces.
An intelligence-based operation was conducted against terrorists in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan district on December 29, 2023. At least, five terrorists, including their commander Rahzaib Khurray, were killed in the exchange of fire during the operation.
Foreign weapons, including M4 Carbine and Ak-47 along with ammunition were recovered from the terrorists. Such type of foreign arms had been used in many terrorist attacks in Pakistan in the past also.
The Baloch Liberation Army, which attacked FC camps in Nowshki and Panjgur districts in February, 2022, was also using the same weapons.
The attack on the Zhob Garrison on July 12, 2023 also involved the use of American weapons by the TTP. On September 6, 2023, the TTP terrorists armed with the latest American weapons attacked two army check posts in Chitral.
The weapons recovered from the terrorists in the November 4 Mianwali Air Base attack were foreign-made, including RPG-7, AK-74, M-4 and M-16/A4.
Moreover, the night vision goggles and American rifles were also used by terrorists in the terrorist attack in Daraban area of Dera Ismail Khan on December 12.
In the terrorist incident in Tank on December 15, modern American weapons used. Three policemen were martyred and five terrorists were killed. The terrorists used M16/A2, HE Grenades, and AK-47.
On December 13, Customs and security forces recovered modern American weapons from onion sacks from a vehicle coming from Afghanistan to Pakistan. The weapons included modern American made M4, American rifle, and grenades.
The smuggling of advanced foreign weapons from Afghanistan into Pakistan and the TTP’s use of the American weapons against the security forces and the people of Pakistan are a big question mark on the claims of the Afghan Interim Government of not allowing the use of its land against Pakistan.
The Eurasian Times also claimed that the US-made weapons were used by the TTP terrorists in their terror acts on the Pakistani soil.
The US had delivered a total of 427,300 combat weapons to the Afghan military, with 300,000 remaining at the time of its withdrawal, the Pentagon said. However, due to the massive arsenal, the region witnessed a massive increase in terrorism during the last two years.
The United States provided equipment worth $18.6 billion to the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces between 2005 and August 2021, the Pentagon said.
After the US withdrawal, those weapons helped the TTP carry out cross-border terrorist attacks. It all shows that the Afghan regime is not only arming the TTP but also providing a safe haven to it and other terrorist organizations.
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A federal appeals court in the United States has cleared the way for a law passed by the state of California that bans carrying guns in most public places.
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Saturday suspended a December 20 injunction issued by a judge who concluded the Democratic-led state’s law violated the right of citizens to keep and bear arms under the US Constitution’s Second Amendment.
The law is set to take effect at the start of 2024.
The three-judge panel issued an administrative stay that put the injunction on hold until a different 9th Circuit panel can consider whether to issue an even longer pause while the litigation plays out.
The measure, which was set to take effect on January 1 after being signed into law in September by California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, was enacted after a landmark ruling in June 2022 by the conservative-majority US Supreme Court that expanded gun rights nationwide.
The Supreme Court in that case struck down New York’s strict gun permit regime, offering a broad interpretation of the Second Amendment, the basis for gun rights in the US.
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Stock market holiday: US, Europe, Asian markets to remain closed today for New Year’s Day
The US stock market, most of the European and Asian stock markets will remain closed today on New Year’s Day. Markets in the UK will also have trading holiday today.
Stock market holiday: January 1, 2024, will be celebrated as the New Year’s Day and most of the global stock markets will remain closed. This New Year’s Day falls on a Monday, but there will be no trading activity in most of the markets around the globe as it will be a stock market holiday today. However, the Indian stock market will remain open on January 1, 2024, the New Year’s Day.
New Year’s Day is the first day of the year in the modern Gregorian calendar. It is celebrated to welcome in the new calendar year. Most global stock markets will resume trading on Tuesday, January 2, 2024.
The US stock market will remain closed today on New Year’s Day. On Wall Street, the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) will be closed as it is a stock market holiday today.
Also Read: Stock market holiday 2024: Check days, dates, and trading holidays in the new year
Meanwhile, most of Europe and Asia will also have a market holiday today.
Among European markets that will remain closed today on account of New Year’s Day include that of France, Germany and Italy. Asian markets, including China, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea are also shut today. Stock market in the UK will also have trading holiday today.
The normal trading hours in these stock markets will resume on Tuesday, January 2, 2024.
In the year 2023, all three indices on Wall Street posted double-digit growth. The Indian stock market also saw a stellar rally during the year. The benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty 50 gained around 20% in 2023.
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01/11‘Defence exports surge’
In FY 2022-23, the Ministry of Defence reported that defence exports soared to nearly Rs 16,000 crore, marking a substantial increase of nearly Rs 3,000 crore from the prior fiscal year. This surge signifies a remarkable tenfold rise since 2016-17, showcasing India's significant stride towards transforming from a net importer to a significant net exporter in the defence sector.
02/11Global demand for Indian defence products
The global market exhibited a rise in demand for Indian defence products like LCA-Tejas, light combat helicopters, and aircraft carriers, contributing significantly to the surge in exports. (Photo: PTI)
03/11First made in India Light combat helicopters
The 5.8-tonne twin-engine LCH comes fitted with the Shakti engine, jointly developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) in partnership with French engine-maker Safran. Armed with 20mm turret guns, 70mm rocket systems, and air-to-air missiles, it boasts agility, maneuverability, extended range, high altitude performance, and all-weather combat capability. The helicopter incorporates numerous stealth features, armored-protection systems, night attack capability, and crash-worthy landing gear, enhancing its survivability in challenging conditions.
04/11Light Combat Aircraft 'Tejas'
The Indian Air Force (IAF), known for its operational squadrons of the light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas, has recently acquired the first Tejas twin-seater from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), a defense PSU. This twin-seater variant of Tejas serves as a lightweight, all-weather, multi-role 4.5 generation aircraft primarily designed to meet the IAF's training needs. Additionally, it can seamlessly transition to a fighter aircraft role when required, enhancing its versatility and adaptability in various operational scenarios. (Photo: IANS)
05/1140 planes to be made in India, first one likely in 2026
Indian Air Force (IAF) got its first C-295 transport plane during a ceremony in Spain's Seville. The aircraft is capable of performing special missions as well as disaster response and maritime patrol duties. The IAF has signed a contract for 56 of these planes of which 16 will be made in Spain while the remaining 40 will be produced by the joint venture of Tata and Airbus in their facility in Vadodara, Gujarat. The C-295MW aircraft, boasting a 5-10 tonne capacity, is equipped to accommodate up to 71 troops or 49 para-troopers while maintaining a maximum cruise speed of 260 knots.
06/11Government's self-reliance initiatives
The government's strong focus on 'Aatmanirbharta' (self-reliance) in defence, ongoing modernization of the Armed Forces, and Defence Ministry's initiatives aimed at bolstering border infrastructure, empowering women, and supporting Ex-Servicemen played pivotal roles in this growth.
The Defence Ministry introduced the Fifth Positive Indigenisation List (PIL) featuring 98 items, intended to be sourced from indigenous channels under the Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020. (Photo: PTI)
07/11'BrahMos missile system a Brahmastra of its time'
Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan recently called the BrahMos missile system a ‘Brahmastra’ of its time. BrahMos started with 13% indigenous components and went on to become a 76% ‘Make in India’ missile system. Operating from submarines, ships, fighter aircraft, or TEL, it's a product of BrahMos Aerospace. It is said to be the world’s "fastest supersonic cruise missile." BrahMos Aerospace is in talks with a dozen countries for the export of this very potent weapon system.
08/11Advanced Towed Artillery Guns
The Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System (ATAGS) is a 155 mm/52 calibre towed howitzer under development for the Indian Army. It's a collaborative effort involving the Armament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE), Tata Advanced Systems, and Kalyani Strategic Systems.
09/11Investment in modernisation and infrastructure
Capital Procurement Allocation: A record 75 per cent of the defence capital procurement budget, approximately Rs one lakh crore, was allocated for the domestic industry in FY 2023-24, marking a significant increase from the previous fiscal year's 68 per cent.
Budget Allocation Overview: The Ministry of Defence received a total budget allocation of Rs 5.94 lakh crore for FY 2023-24, constituting 13.18 per cent of the total budget. A substantial portion, Rs 1.63 lakh crore, was designated for modernisation and infrastructure development. (Photo: ANI)
10/11Light Utility Helicopter (LUH)
The defence ministry accorded preliminary approval for military modernization projects worth Rs 7,965 crore under the 'Make in India' policy, which includes procurement of 12 light utility helicopters from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for around Rs 1,500 crore. The HAL Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) along with its derivative Light Observation Helicopter (LOH) was designed and developed by Rotary Wing Research and Design Center of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for civilian and military applications.
11/11India's Naval expansion
India’s first homemade carrier, INS Vikrant, joined the fleet last year and was built by Cochin Shipyard Ltd. The country also has a Russia-made aircraft carrier. India plans to have 160 warships by 2030 and 175 by 2035 at an estimated cost of 2 trillion rupees, according to people familiar. The country is carrying out more warship patrols than ever before amid growing concerns over China’s rising naval prowess. India's getting a new carrier, which can hold at least 28 fighter jets and helicopters and displaces 45,000 tons of water soon.
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Land mafia are accused of filling the pond to take over the land.
Patna: After a bridge and a train engine, Bihar's list of bizarre thefts continued with an entire pond being "stolen". The pond vanished and had a hut built on it, leaving the locals baffled in Darbhanga district.
The surprise appearance of a hut did prompt them to inform the cops, but the land mafia - who are accused of filling the pond to take over the land - had fled by the time the police arrived.
Locals suggest the pond was publicly-owned and even maintained for fishing and other activities. But the rising prices of land in Darbhanga made the mafia set their eyes on the water body.
The locals had complained to the authorities when the pond-filling started and had led to zonal officials briefly stopping the work and making some seizures. But the mafia carried out the levelling work secretly in the dark - until the pond was entirely gone.
"People say the pond was filled with soil within 10-15 days. The work was done only at night. Officials had visited the spot earlier and even seized some items," said Amit Kumar, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO).
Bihar has hit the headlines for some of the most bizarre incidents of theft carried out - though not imaginable - by humans.
This includes an entire diesel engine being stolen in November, 2022 - part by part from a railway yard in Begusarai. The thieves had dug a tunnel to the yard and started stealing parts, according to the police. Slowly, they had taken away the entire engine that had come for repairs.
Earlier that year, an entire 60-foot bridge was stolen in Rohtas district. Eight persons including a government officer were arrested and 247 kg iron channels were recovered from the accused. The thieves used JCBs and gas cutters to dismantle it and the bridge disappeared in just three days.
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Interested in which NBA players were the stars in yesterday's action? We have checked out all the numbers, and have collected the top performances for you here.
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Louisiana Tech vs. Liberty January 14 Tickets & Start Time
The Liberty Flames (10-4, 0-0 CUSA) face a fellow CUSA squad, the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs (9-5, 0-0 CUSA), on Sunday, January 14, 2024 at Thomas Assembly Center. The game will start at 3:00 PM ET and you can watch via ESPNU.
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- Isaiah Crawford: 14.8 PTS, 5.9 REB, 2.7 AST, 2 STL, 1.2 BLK
- Daniel Batcho: 14.3 PTS, 10.4 REB, 0.7 AST, 0.3 STL, 2 BLK
- Tahlik Chavez: 11.7 PTS, 2.7 REB, 1.3 AST, 0.9 STL, 0 BLK
- Sean Newman Jr.: 7.5 PTS, 3.2 REB, 5.5 AST, 1 STL, 0.1 BLK
- Dravon Mangum: 5.7 PTS, 4.3 REB, 0.9 AST, 1 STL, 0.4 BLK
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Liberty Players to Watch
- Zach Cleveland: 10.6 PTS, 6.1 REB, 3.6 AST, 0.9 STL, 0.9 BLK
- Kyle Rode: 13 PTS, 4.3 REB, 2.7 AST, 0.9 STL, 0.2 BLK
- Kaden Metheny: 11.9 PTS, 3.4 REB, 2.8 AST, 0.6 STL, 0 BLK
- Joseph Venzant: 6.2 PTS, 7.9 REB, 0.9 AST, 0.8 STL, 0.4 BLK
- Colin Porter: 8.7 PTS, 2.1 REB, 3.6 AST, 0.8 STL, 0 BLK
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LAHORE: Former left-arm pacer Junaid Khan has been named Pakistan U-19 bowling coach, following the unavailability of Rehan Riaz, who has opted out of the ICC U-19 World Cup due to a family emergency.
Junaid, who previously served as the head coach of Islamabad Region, led the team to victory in the Hanif Mohammad Trophy and Hanif Mohammad Cup 2023-24. The 34-year-old cricketer has represented Pakistan in 107 international matches, taking 189 wickets. He played 22 test matches 76 ODIs and nine T20I.
Earlier, former Test all-rounder Yasir Arafat was appointed as the High-Performance Coach of the Pakistan Cricket Team.
Yasir is also part of the team management for the upcoming five T20Is against New Zealand scheduled from 12 to 21 January, 2024 in New Zealand.
The 41-year-old, Yasir, appeared in three Tests, 11 ODIs and 13 T20Is for Pakistan. He completed his ECB Level 4 coaching course from Loughborough University, becoming the first Pakistan Test cricketer to do so. He has also worked as bowling coach with county teams like Sussex and Surrey, as well as with Australia’s Big Bash League franchise, Perth Scorchers. Recently, he worked as a bowling coach with the Hong Kong national team.
Besides coaching, Yasir has featured for different T20 teams in league cricket around the globe, including appearances for Otago and Canterbury in New Zealand domestic T20 league cricket.
Yasir is serving as the camp commandant for the team currently underway till 2nd January for the preparation of the tour.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2024
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Twelve months ago, when we looked back at our most-read stories of 2022, there was an anomaly. For the first time in Speedhunters’ history, our ‘top 10′ story list was completely dominated by event coverage. Well, 12 months on, history has repeated itself.
But exactly which event posts made the cut? Let’s take a look back at your favorite stories of 2023…
10 / The Modified Machines Of IAMS
Despite having debuted in 2018, 2023 (the event’s third running) was our first time covering the International Amsterdam Motor Show (IAMS) on Speedhunters. Thanks to some amazing IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER reader submissions, we were able to keep the content coming from the Netherlands over the course of the year, and given what we’ve seen in that time, we’re excited to keep it up in 2024.
9 / Scandinavian Car Culture On Show In Oslo
Alen’s Oslo Motor Show story was a little late to be published – the event happened at the end of the 2022 Scandinavian summer season after all – but that didn’t seem to matter in the slightest. It was interesting to see some other sides of Norwegian car culture outside of Gatebil.
8 / Tokyo Underground: Germany vs. Japan
Toby pieced together a couple of stories on the 2023 Tokyo Underground meet, held at a secret carpark spot one evening during Tokyo Auto Salon week. Both stories did well, but it was the second post showcasing the standout Japanese and German cars that really resonated with you.
7 / Embracing The Chaos: Retro Havoc 2023
We don’t think there was any way Retro Havoc in Malaysia wouldn’t make it on this list, as it’s an amazing show in an amazing country that just keeps getting bigger and better with every iteration.
6 / The Elite Showcase Indonesia Mega Gallery
Sticking in Southeast Asia, but this time Indonesia, Rick’s huge coverage from The Elite Showcase also went down very well. And how could it not with scenes like this?!
5 / Is South Tyrol The New Wörthersee?
In May, Michał took us with him to Italy’s northernmost mountainous region of South Tyrol, to see whether the spirit of Wörthersee – which the Austrian authorities just across the border had put an end to – could live on. What he found was something rather refreshing.
4 / The Perfect Recipe At Players Classic 2023
The annual Players Classic is a regular fixture on Speedhunters’ end-of-year top story lists, and 2023 was no different.
3 / Tokyo Auto Salon: The Big, The Small & The Bizarre
The Tokyo Auto Salon is one of our favorite events of the year, and it’s obviously one of yours too. Toby’s look at the less mainstream/big name tuner side of TAS was a real winner.
2 / The Ultrace 2023 Mega Gallery
An Ultrace mega gallery with ‘Kevin’ on the cover was always going to be received well, and Vladimir’s main 2023 event recap from Poland ticked all the right boxes. We thought this story might take out the top story spot in 2023, and it came very close…
1 / Tokyo Auto Salon 2023: Everything You Need To See From Day One
But a Liberty Walk-kitted Ferrari F40 headlining our main (read: huge) Tokyo Auto Salon gallery was ultimately too hard to beat, Mark’s superb coverage taking our most-viewed story honor in 2023.
As mentioned at the beginning of this post, event coverage totally dominated Speedhunters story views this year, but further down the list, which feature car story ranked highest?
Honorable Mention / Love It Or Hate It: The Liberty Walk F40
Love it or hate it, it’ll probably come as no surprise that Kato-san’s F40, as featured by Dino after TAS, piqued the most interest.
As always, thanks for reading. And a special thanks to all our IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER contributors for helping us celebrate and showcase car culture from all over the world.
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Ridgefield restaurants you'll love
Must-try Ridgefield restaurants
La Oie Cajun Cuisine - Lil'La Oie -
24415 NE 10th Ave, Ridgefield
Brewed Awakenings - WA - Ridgefield - 301 South 47th Avenue
301 South 47th Avenue, Ridgefield
24415 NE 10th Ave, Ridgefield
301 South 47th Avenue, Ridgefield
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We asked the devoted Linux users, the dual-Windows-and-Linux-booters, and the newer converts to the open-source operating system last week why they made the switch to Linux, and received over 330 responses as of this posting. The answers were sometimes level-headed, often passionate in their embrace of open-source culture, and occasionally induced a laugh (or a cringe) with tales of the last straw before switching. Read on for a look at why a good number of Lifehacker readers took the time to learn, customize, and adopt to Linux. Photo by Sphinx the Geek.
Older hardware
It makes sense that inheriting an old laptop or desktop, or upgrading to a newer system, would inspire many folks to check out an operating system that usually costs less than $1—the cost of a CD-R—to use and install. Two of our commenters described how a free Linux CD revived an old system. Photo by ryanrocketship. micjwelch:
... I had an old laptop that just wasn't doing very well. I was ready to get rid of it, but thought I'd give Linux a try. I installed Ubuntu and suddenly all the hardware worked, the OS ran smooth, and the laptop was actually quite useful again.
What else can run so smoothly on old hardware? I did a HDD install of Damn Small Linux on a 233mhz, 96mb, 3gb hdd, severely antiquated Thinkpad 560x. I have turned it into a quick web-surfing, emailing, m3-playing machine. Resurrected from the dead!
Dislike of Microsoft's practices/OS
We tried to make it apparent that we weren't asking for a laundry list of popular Vista/XP grievances, but it's hard to ignore the obvious—some of the requirements and demands the Redmond giant places on its customers caused some of you to seek out a more welcoming alternative: NICU:
Windows Genuine Advantage made me switch. I rightfully owned my copy of XP and they came up with that garbage to ensure my copy was "genuine" (and it was). Microsoft's guilty-until-proven-innocent attitude turned me off from Windows.
Commenter dspratomo was more than just annoyed at copyright "reminders"—Windows products in his country were the source of extortion and accusations:
First time copyright law exist in my country it was a chaos, because most of the software is the pirated version, and the police just keep asking for legitimate software actually they're just looking for excuse for bribe, because back then even the police and the law court using pirated software ....
Pure curiosity!
This one is easy to understand. Linux is definitely friendly to anyone who wants to tweak their desktop, set up automated actions, or reinvent their system's look entirely. But early-bird commenter XPditer put it best:
Q: Why do people climb Mt. Everest? A: Because it's there.
Photo by BotheredByBees. carignan.boy:
I wanted to try something new. What happened to the satisfaction of achieving something on a computer? Yes Linux is hard at times. But the rewards are tenfold. You discover the beauty after you find out how Linux can easily be an Apache, FTP, SVC or RDP server. Also, it's so much prettier than Vista or OS X. I mean how awesome is the desktop Cube or Cylinder!
The tipping point was during the Christmas holiday last year. My work PC's disk failed and I was able to get it up and running faster with an Ubuntu install (restored my data from an online backup). I kept Windoze installed in a dual boot mode once I got a new disk, but use it less than once a month now, if at all.
The merits of Linux itself
Cake isn't just an alternative to ice cream, and Linux isn't just an alternative to Windows. The OS is based on one of the most tried-and-true system in the world, and it's geared toward letting users do whatever their imaginations and skills can allow. Here's a few examples of users taking a shine to this ethos. Photo by Charl van Niekirk. sensibile:
Ubuntu makes a better OS:
Plain and simple. It really is. I'll take a command line and config files over window's registry and dll hell anyday! More proof: windows update vs. ubuntu update manager. My wife's xp machine will reboot on her while she is working if she doesn't click the restart later button every 5 minutes. She has 10 programs constantly bugging her about updates avaialble from her system tray. Instead in linux, update manager handles it all in one place, only needing a reboot on kernel updates (about every 2 months.)
That was a Sunday evening, and the whole next week I didn't boot into Windows at all (and this is my work machine). By the next weekend I was so completely hooked on Linux that I couldn't believe that I hadn't started using it years ago. All that time wasted downloading and cracking software, when there's such an abundance of excellent free and open source software just a click away!
Those are just a few of the comments we spotted in our original post. If you've got a unique story to tell, do so in the comments.
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It’s a hot quiet weekday morning in Falls City, Oregon, which is more of a town than a city, at least by the standards of a northern Californian who has lived in Santa Rosa and San Francisco. There’s a post office, a high school with an award-winning principal, and a volunteer fire department. Big lumber trucks from Valetz, now a ghost town, and once a thriving community, cruise down Main Street with newly harvested trees bound for the sawmill. Driving West on Oregon highways, I saw hillsides that had been clear cut and reforested. Some one was ecologically minded or maybe thinking about a renewal resource.
Falls City seems to be largely autonomous, though there is no coffee shop and no public library. There is one of those little libraries that are ubiquitous. This one had a dozen or so paperbacks. My friends, who recently moved from Sebastopol to Falls City, tell me that the town is a mirror of America with blue collar workers, some with small arsenals and also counter cultural folks who preach the gospel of live and let live. I met some of them at the three-day Pride festival. They were tattooed, had body piercings and wore costumes, mostly Barbie pink, the color of this summer. Two sheriffs deputies stood around and smiled. Good PR for law enforcement. A woman who called herself Wonder Woman, and who had relocated from California greeted arrivals and flirted, too.
The Falls City general store sells burritos. There is a bakery owned by two gay men and a bar, the Boondocks, owned by two lesbians. I haven’t met a Latino or an Asian in a week. I did meet a talkative Moslem, his wife and daughter in Newport on the coast, and there was also a group of Amish women and men who wore their traditional garb. Ahmed, the Moslem, wanted to talk and did. The Amish hardly spoke a word. They clustered around one another as though for safety.
Ahmed said he was born on the border between Morocco and Algeria and that the French who colonized the region outlawed his religion. So much for liberty, equality and fraternity. Ahmed came to the US decades ago, taught math at a college and assimilated. Now he practices his religion without fear, he said. He basked in the sun, talked freely and watched his wife and daughter stroll on a beach dotted with tourists from near and far who had escaped from the heat in the interior.
This is only my fourth visit to Oregon. On the first visit I attended a marijuana confab when a measure on the ballot called for the legalization of weed. The measure failed, but Oregonian lawyers and their clients smoked weed openly. Now there are marijuana dispensaries almost everywhere in the state, though not in Falls City. I purchased two pre-rolled joints at a dispensary in Monmouth and tried to pay, first with a debit card and then with a credit card as I do in San Francisco. No go. I handed over a $20 bill. Later in the day I got stoned on Oregon weed.
I was wearing a hat that said “Cold War Veteran” that might explain why the fellow behind the counter looked at me suspiciously.
I figure that anyone who lived through the Cold War is a Cold War veteran. When I wear the hat I’m usually told, “Thanks for serving our country.” Sometimes I’m treated to coffee and a muffin, No harm done, I figure. Like my parents and members of their generation, and like members of the Silent Generation and the Boomers, I endured Cold War bullshit and lies about the bomb. Now the bullshit is about the new Cold War in Ukraine.
On my second visit to Oregon, I connected with friends who had fled from Berkeley because they couldn’t afford to live there, but who could afford to live in Portland, a city that has many of the same social problems as any sizable city in the US. On the drive from the Portland airport to Falls City I saw tents and camps for the homeless. I’m told that in Oregon opioid use is out of control. In 2023, there’s nowhere to run to and nowhere to hide from urban problems unless you belong to the super rich and can afford to live in enclaves for the 1%. On my third visit to Oregon, I hiked along the Columbia River in a forest torched by a wild fire with blackened trees that went on for miles. California has no monopoly on environmental disaster.
Mid-way through my stay in Falls City, the TV in my friends’ living room, brought news of Trump’s indictment. Hurray! Washington, D.C., and the ex-president’s attempt to hijack the popular vote, seemed a long way off, and so did LA. I watched the Dodgers sweep the As and then head for San Diego. They were bound for the World Series. The summer of 2023 would go down in history, I figured, as the summer before the shit really hit the fan. Trump might well be re-elected and then pardon himself. Isn’t that the American way? I think so. In Corvallis, home of Oregon State University, I enjoyed a local IPA and chatted with a long-haired hippie refugee from Virginia who complained about the lack of diversity in Oregon by ethnic and and culinary standards. Still, he was happy he had relocated. My friends missed their California community.
In Falls City, I ate exceedingly well night after night. The gal of the house, who was also the gal of the garden, had brought her recipes and cook books with her from northern California and cooked up a storm for seven days. I might have had anxieties about the political and cultural climate of the nation and global warming, but I ate exceeding well and I was grateful to have friends in a town that might be forgiven for calling itself a city and that had made room for Oregonians and ex-Californians of all stripes and sizes.
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Body found in Decatur Co. small pond
A truck driver spotted the body off Highway 641 North.
Published: Dec. 31, 2023 at 8:07 PM CST|Updated: seconds ago
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Decatur County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) is investigating after they found a dead body in a pond.
On Thursday, Dec. 27, an officer with the Parsons Police Department got a call saying a truck driver spotted what looked to be a body floating in a small pond in the 2100 block of Highway 641 North.
The officer went to the location along with deputies with the DCSO.
Law enforcement determined the body was of an unidentified male. They sent him to Nashville for an autopsy.
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Man Industries Bets On 'Tremendous' Growth On Expected Hydrogen Boom
Hydrogen, as a source of clean energy, is expected to become more popular worldwide, says Chairman Ramesh Chandra Mansukhani.
Man Industries (India) Ltd. expects "tremendous" growth in the next two years as the maker of large pipes anticipates hydrogen consumption to drive demand.
As far as FY24 is concerned, Man Industries top line is expected to grow by 40%, Chairman Ramesh Chandra Mansukhani told NDTV Profit. The bottom-line growth will also be much better than last year, he said.
This is because hydrogen, as a source of clean energy, is expected to become more popular worldwide, he said. Man Industries has invested resources in research and development to make it compatible and make the most of the high-growth space, the company's chairman said.
The company's pipe test for safe hydrogen transportation by a leading European research centre was successful, it informed the exchanges on Thursday.
Man Industries is also meeting and holding discussions with Indian conglomerates that are looking to transition to green energy, Mansukhani said.
In the short term, Man Industries is likely to incur capital expenditures of Rs 30–40 crore based on the need for equipment upgrades or replacements.
The company does not have any burden of debt, and its debt-to-equity ratio stands at 0.12%. It is supporting its subsidiary's debt burden as of now, Mansukhani said.
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https://www.ndtvprofit.com/business/man-industries-bets-on-tremendous-growth-on-expected-hydrogen-boom
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Askar Mamin is new PM of Kazakhstan
13:03, 25 February 2019
ASTANA. KAZINFORM President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree to appoint Askar Mamin as the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Akorda informs via Twitter.
As earlier reported, the Head of State is participating in the plenary session of the Majilis of the Kazakh Parliament.
Nursultan Nazarbayev recommended Mamin's candidacy for the Prime Minister's post. The deputies of the Majilis unanimously backed Mamin's candidacy.
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https://en.inform.kz/amp/askar-mamin-is-new-pm-of-kazakhstan_a3501679/
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Stock market holiday: January 1, 2024, will be celebrated as the New Year’s Day and most of the global stock markets will remain closed. This New Year’s Day falls on a Monday, but there will be no trading activity in most of the markets around the globe as it will be a stock market holiday today. However, the Indian stock market will remain open on January 1, 2024, the New Year’s Day.
New Year’s Day is the first day of the year in the modern Gregorian calendar. It is celebrated to welcome in the new calendar year. Most global stock markets will resume trading on Tuesday, January 2, 2024.
The US stock market will remain closed today on New Year’s Day. On Wall Street, the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) will be closed as it is a stock market holiday today.
Also Read: Stock market holiday 2024: Check days, dates, and trading holidays in the new year
Meanwhile, most of Europe and Asia will also have a market holiday today.
Among European markets that will remain closed today on account of New Year’s Day include that of France, Germany and Italy. Asian markets, including China, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea are also shut today. Stock market in the UK will also have trading holiday today.
The normal trading hours in these stock markets will resume on Tuesday, January 2, 2024.
In the year 2023, all three indices on Wall Street posted double-digit growth. The Indian stock market also saw a stellar rally during the year. The benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty 50 gained around 20% in 2023.
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MINNESOTA - One morning in 2019, an auditor arrived at a meatpacking plant in rural Minnesota. He was there on behalf of national drugstore chain Walgreens to ensure that the factory, which made the company’s house brand of beef jerky, was safe and free of labour abuses.
He ran through a checklist of hundreds of possible problems, such as locked emergency exits, sexual harassment and child labour. By the afternoon, he had concluded that the factory had no major violations. It could keep making jerky, and Walgreens customers could shop with a clear conscience.
When night fell, another 150 workers showed up at the plant. Among them were migrant children who had come to the United States by themselves looking for work. Children as young as 15 were operating heavy machinery capable of amputating fingers and crushing bones.
Migrant children would work at the Monogram Meat Snacks plant in Chandler, Minnesota, for almost four more years, until the Department of Labour visited this spring and found such severe child labour violations that it temporarily banned the shipment of any more jerky.
In the past two decades, private audits have become the solution to a host of public relations headaches for corporations. When scandal erupts over labour practices, or shareholders worry about legal risks, or advocacy groups demand a boycott, companies point to these inspections as evidence that they have eliminated abuses in their supply chains.
Known as social compliance audits, they have grown into an US$80 billion (S$106 billion) global industry, with firms performing hundreds of thousands of inspections each year.
But a New York Times review of confidential audits conducted by several large firms shows that they have consistently missed child labour.
Children were overlooked by auditors who were moving quickly, leaving early, or simply not sent to the part of the supply chain where minors were working, the Times found in audits performed at 20 production facilities used by some of the nation’s most recognisable brands.
Auditors did not catch instances in which children were working on Skittles and Starburst candies, Hefty brand party cups, the pork in McDonald’s sandwiches, Gerber baby snacks, Oreos, Cheez-Its or the milk that comes with Happy Meals.
In a series of articles in 2023, the Times has revealed that migrant children, who have been coming to America in record numbers, are working dangerous jobs in every state, in violation of labour laws. Children often use forged documents that slip by auditors who check paperwork but do not speak with most workers face to face. Corporations suggest that supply chains are reviewed from start to finish, but sub-suppliers such as industrial farms remain almost entirely unscrutinised.
The expansion of social compliance audits comes as the Labour Department has shrunk, with staffing levels now so low that it would take more than 100 years for inspectors to visit every workplace in the department’s jurisdiction once. For many factories, a private inspection is the only one they will ever get.
Auditors for several firms said they are encouraged to deliver findings in the mildest way possible as they navigate pressure from three different sources: the independent auditing firms that pay their salaries; corporations, such as Walgreens, that require inspections at their suppliers; and the suppliers themselves, which usually must arrange and pay for the audits.
The auditor who looked at the Minnesota jerky factory for Walgreens was Mr Joshua Callington. He has conducted more than 1,000 audits in the past decade.
He had not seen any child labour in the Minnesota factory. To keep to his work schedule, he had to leave for his next audit at 4pm, long before the late shift arrived. Spotting problems had also led to tension between Mr Callington and his employer, UL Solutions, which began as a safety testing business and expanded more than two decades ago into social compliance audits. The company took in US$2.5 billion in revenue in 2022 and is on the cusp of an initial public offering.
What Mr Callington saw as a commitment to his job, his firm seemed to see as overzealousness.
“The assessment is not meant to be a policing effort,” the UL Solutions employee handbook says.
After Mr Callington failed three Walgreens suppliers in 2017 and 2018 for abusive working conditions, the chain complained about his communication style and asked for him to be taken off its account. UL put him on a remediation plan for about a year.
Walgreens declined to comment on the incident, but said it only rarely asks for auditors to be removed. In response to questions about the Monogram factory, the company said it had cut ties with the supplier. Monogram said it is now using stronger age-verification procedures.
This spring, Mr Callington flagged labour issues involving adult migrant workers at a warehouse that supplies Costco’s potatoes. The plant’s management complained that he was demanding and argumentative, and his supervisor barred him from returning. Mr Callington believed that the supplier objected to his finding 21 violations when the previous audit had found none. UL Solutions, which still employs Mr Callington, declined to comment on either incident.
Night shifts, daytime audits
In dozens of interviews, auditors said that sometimes, their firms provide little more than a veneer of compliance for global corporations, which overstate how rigorously they review sprawling supply chains.
Auditors typically start their inspections in the morning and stay for about seven hours, even at 3,000-person factories that operate round the clock. In practice, this means that late afternoon and night shifts, where child labour violations most often occur, are almost never seen.
In 2023, the Department of Labour imposed a US$1.5 million fine against Packers Sanitation Services, which provides cleaning crews to slaughterhouses. Investigators found that the company was employing more than 100 children, including 13-year-olds, to clean back saws and head splitters overnight.
These plants had been supplying McDonald’s and Costco for years, and the corporations required regular audits. Some of those auditors noted that there was a large night shift run by the sanitation company, but said they had not been able to observe any of the workers. One auditor who was checking a Nebraska plant for Costco’s Kirkland brand beef spoke with 20 out of 3,500 workers – as is standard in much of the industry – and left at noon, an inspection showed. In another audit at the same plant, the inspector left at 1.30pm.
Costco and McDonald’s said in statements that they were strengthening their auditing standards. Packers said it had improved age verification of its workers.
Even if auditors had stayed later at the plants, they might not have been able to talk privately with the migrant child workers, who largely speak Spanish or Indigenous languages of Central America. Auditing firms rarely provide interpreters.
In the absence of in-person interviews, auditors rely on paperwork. But children use forged documents. This summer, for instance, a 16-year-old from Guatemala was killed while cleaning a Mississippi slaughterhouse that supplies Chick-fil-A. His documents said he was in his 30s. In a statement, Chick-fil-A said it was reviewing how it investigates violations at plants.
Research has shown that outside audits are less conclusive than companies suggest. A 2021 analysis of 40,000 audits by a Cornell professor found that nearly half had relied on forged or dubious documents. An earlier study that explored the industry’s financial conflicts of interest found that auditors report fewer violations when factories are paying the bill.
In a statement, UL Solutions said that audits provide a snapshot for companies, which are ultimately responsible for enforcing their standards. An audit, the statement said, “cannot and does not guarantee that an audited facility is in full compliance with requirements against which it was audited, and does not confirm nor certify compliance with laws”.
In the absence of thorough inspections, child workers can stay hidden for years.
In 2020, an auditor visited a snack food factory in Geneva, Illinois, to do an inspection required by baby food giant Gerber. As it always had, Gerber’s report came back clear of child labour. The factory was also being regularly audited for the makers of Starburst and Skittles candies, Oreos and Cheez-Its. The companies behind those products said in statements that they had not seen indications of child labour in any inspections.
However, some migrant children were working on these products at the time. Among them was Efren Baldemar, who described getting the job with false identification at 14 years old. He was working from 10pm to 6.30am to help support his family in Guatemala, renting space in a house of strangers.
In the mornings, he went from the factory to ninth grade and often fell asleep at his desk. The pace on the assembly lines was gruelling. “If you didn’t keep up, the product would back up, and the machines would smoke,” he said.
The manufacturer, Hearthside Food Solutions, has been under federal and state investigations since the Times revealed child labour at other facilities in February 2023. In a statement last week, the company said it “has never knowingly employed underage labour in our facilities”. It said it could not find a record of Efren working at its plant.
Nagging questions
In his career, Mr Callington had never found a case of migrant child labour, which would trigger an automatic failing grade. But now, looking back, he suspected he had often audited plants where children were working.
Earlier in 2023, Callington asked managers at UL Solutions if Costco or other corporations might be willing to start requiring unannounced night-time inspections. He pointed out news coverage that mentioned child labour raids at slaughterhouses.
“I have audited these locations and was never able to detect these issues, given that we are only present for the first shift,” he wrote.
A manager said she would raise the question with higher-ups. He never heard anything more about it. NYTIMES
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NEW DELHI: India firmed up defence procurement worth over Rs 3.50 lakh crore in 2023 as the lingering border standoff with China in eastern Ladakh as well as the crises and conflicts around the world kept the military focused on ways to enhance the country's overall combat prowess to firmly deal with any security challenges. India also went on an overdrive in expanding its military engagement with like-minded countries in its neighbourhood and beyond in the face of China's relentless attempts to become a regional hegemon and establish its primacy in South Asia.
The Indian troops guarding the nearly 3,500 km Line of Actual Control (LAC) maintained an assertive approach as the eastern Ladakh border spilled into the fourth year even as both sides held several rounds of high-level military and diplomatic talks to resolve it.
The face-off between the two of the planet's biggest military forces mainly continued in Demchok and Depsang regions though both sides completed disengagement in several other friction points.
In line with a growing realisation about the need to boost the national military power, the defence ministry accorded approval to a number of big-ticket acquisition projects including procurement of 97 Tejas light combat aircraft, 156 Prachand combat helicopters and upgrading 84 Su-30 fighter jets.
In 2023, the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) approved in its meetings proposals worth a total of over Rs 3.50 lakh crore to enhance the operational preparedness of the armed forces, the defence ministry said in a year-end review.
In June, the DAC, the defence ministry's highest decision-making body on procurement, approved acquisition of 31 MQ-9B high altitude long endurance remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) for the three services from the US through foreign military sale (FMS) route.
In another significant decision, the DAC granted approval for procurement of 26 Rafale marine aircraft along with associated equipment, weapons, simulator and spares for the Indian Navy from French defence major Dassault Aviation under the framework of an inter-governmental agreement.
The Indian Air Force formally inducted the first C-295 medium tactical transport aircraft, days after it was handed over to it in the southern Spanish city of Seville.
The IAF received the first of the 56 C295 transport aircraft two years after India sealed a Rs 21,935-crore deal with Airbus Defence and Space to procure the jets to replace its ageing Avro--748 fleet.
Under the deal, Airbus will deliver the first 16 aircraft in 'fly-away' condition from its final assembly line in Seville by 2025 and the subsequent 40 aircraft will be manufactured and assembled by Tata Advanced Systems (TASL) in India as part of an industrial partnership between the two companies.
The defence ministry also maintained its focus on making India a hub for defence manufacturing in the year.
In June, American defence major GE Aerospace inked an agreement with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to co-produce F-414 fighter jet engines in India, during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's state visit to the US.
According to provisions of the deal, GE Aerospace's F414 engines will be co-produced in India to power Tejas light combat aircraft Mk2.
The agreement was seen as a transformational move in further expanding the India-US global strategic partnership.
In reflection of growing military ties between the two nations, two B-1B Lancer supersonic heavy bomber jets of the US Air Force joined the American exhibits at the Aero India at the Yelahanka air base in February.
The bomber carries the largest conventional payload of both guided and unguided weapons in the US Air Force and is considered the backbone of America's long-range bomber force, American officials said.
The defence and strategic ties between India and France also witnessed a major upswing in 2023.
The two sides announced a raft of ground-breaking defence cooperation projects including the joint development of jet and helicopter engines and construction of three Scorpene submarines for the Indian Navy in July.
The government also worked on its policy to boost domestic defence production. The value of defence production in 2022-23 crossed the figure of Rs one lakh crore for the first time ever.
In November, Prime Minister Modi flew a sortie in 'Tejas' twin-seater Light Combat Fighter aircraft designed, developed and manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.
During the 30-minute sortie, capabilities of Tejas were demonstrated to Modi. It was the first time an Indian prime minister flew a fighter aircraft sortie.
In tune with the government's policy priorities, the three services carried out numerous military exercises in the last one year with their counterparts from several friendly nations to boost cooperation in confronting common challenges.
In the fag end of the year, the Indian Navy commenced focused maritime security operations in the Arabian sea in view of incidents of attacks on commercial vessels.
Liberian-flagged vessel MV Chem Pluto, with 21 Indian crew members, was the target of a drone attack off India's west coast on December 23, triggering security concerns as the incident came amid Iran-backed Houthi militants launching strikes on several commercial ships.
Another commercial crude oil tanker, MV Sai Baba, that was on the way to India came under a suspected drone strike in the Southern Red Sea on the same day.
India also prioritised development of border infrastructure in 2023 as 118 projects of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) were dedicated to the nation by defence Minister Rajnath Singh this year.
In September, he launched 90 infrastructure projects worth over Rs 2,900 crore, spread across 11 states and Union territories.
In February, the defence budget was increased to Rs 5.94 lakh crore for 2023-24 in a modest hike of 13 per cent from last year's allocation of Rs 5.25 lakh crore.
The year also saw women armed forces personnel shattering glass ceiling on many fronts.
Captain Shiva Chauhan became the first woman officer to get operationally deployed in Kumar Post, Siachen Glacier in January. Siachen is the world's highest battlefield.
In another milestone, Lt Cdr Prerna Deosthalee was named as the first woman officer to command an Indian Naval warship.
The induction of women officers in the Regiment of Artillery is under progress. Ten 10 women officers were commissioned in the Regiment of Artillery during 2023.
The Indian Air Force deployed Group Captain Shaliza Dhami to take over the command of a frontline combat unit in the Western sector. She is the first woman to command any combat unit of IAF.
The year 2023 saw the Indian Army continuing its anti-militancy operations in Jammu and Kashmir besides keeping a strong vigil over the Line of Control.
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The ISRO informed that the spacecraft will carry two payloads in a low earth orbit.
After the success of Chandrayaan-3 and Aditya L-1, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to launch the X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) today.
With this big space move, India will become the second nation in the world to launch an advanced astronomy observatory specifically geared to study black holes and neutron stars.
It must be noted that when the biggest stars run out of fuel and die, they leave behind black holes or neutron stars, by collapsing under their own gravity.
What is XPoSat?
As per the official ISRO site, “XPoSat is India's first dedicated polarimetry mission to study various dynamics of bright astronomical X-ray sources in extreme conditions.”
XPoSat, which will be launched on the trusted rocket the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, is the world's second of its kind after National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The US-based space agency launched it in 2021.
XPoSat Payloads
The ISRO informed that the spacecraft will carry two payloads in a low earth orbit. ISRO added that the primary payload POLIX (Polarimeter Instrument in X-rays) will measure the polarimetry parameters in the medium X-ray energy range. By polarimetry parameters, the organisation meant, “degree and angle of polarisation.”
The second payload — XSPECT (X-ray Spectroscopy and Timing) will provide spectroscopic information.”
XPoSat Vision
Talking about the vision of this XPoSat mission, an astrophysicist at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Dr Varun Bhalerao said, “This is only the second mission of its sophisticated class after NASA's 2021 mission named Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer or IXPE. The mission will try to decipher the stellar remnants or corpses of dead stars.”
With the help of X-ray photons and their polarisation, XPoSAT will study the radiation near black holes and neutron stars.
Dr Bhalerao added that black holes are objects that have the highest gravitational force in the universe and neutron stars have the highest densities.
Therefore, India's third launch in less than a year will unravel the mysteries of the ultra-extreme environments that one witnesses in space.
ISRO's PSLV-C58 mission is to launch XPoSat into an eastward low-inclination orbit. The Indian space organisation will also send a 'POEM' up into space.
What is POEM?
The fourth stage of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is the 'PSLV Orbital Experimental Module', or POEM.
The POEM will have 10 experiments, the highlight of which will be a 'Women Engineered Satellite' (WESAT) made by an institute in Thiruvananthapuram.
This will be POEM's third flight that can easily be described as a low-cost, non-human Indian space station.
ISRO Chairman S Somanath said, “The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is creating wealth from waste in space.”
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Michigan vs. Alabama Rose Bowl Semifinal Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - Monday, January 1
Based on our computer projection model, the No. 1 Michigan Wolverines will take down the No. 5 Alabama Crimson Tide when the two teams come together at Rose Bowl on Monday, January 1, which starts at 5:00 PM. For our projections on the spead, point total, and final score, check out the rest of the article below.
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- Based on this game's moneyline, the Wolverines' implied win probability is 55.6%.
- The Wolverines have seven wins in 12 games against the spread this season.
- In games this season when favored by 1.5 points or more, Michigan are 7-5 against the spread.
- The Wolverines have seen seven of its 12 games go over the point total.
- The average total for Michigan games this season has been 47.7, 2.2 points higher than the total for this game.
Alabama Betting Info (2023)
- Oddsmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Crimson Tide have a 48.8% chance to win.
- The Crimson Tide are 8-4-0 ATS this season.
- Alabama is 1-0 against the spread so far this season when playing as at least 1.5-point underdogs.
- Crimson Tide games have hit the over in eight out of 12 opportunities (66.7%).
- The average point total for Alabama this season is 5.9 points higher than this game's over/under.
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Tulane vs. Tulsa January 14 Tickets & Start Time
Sunday's AAC slate includes the Tulsa Golden Hurricane (9-3, 0-0 AAC) facing the Tulane Green Wave (9-3, 0-0 AAC) at 3:00 PM ET on ESPN+.
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LAHORE: A total of 1679 kanals of government land worth more than 10 billion 270 million was retrieved on the orders of the Punjab Ombudsman Major Azam Suleman Khan (Retd).
According to details, various complaints across the province were filed in this office regarding encroachment on government land, illegal occupation and occupation of government roads and requested that the government land be vacated from these encroaching mafias.
In this context, the Ombudsman Punjab Major Azam Sulaiman Khan (R) issued instructions to the relevant provincial officers to dispose of the said area at Sheikhupura, Narowal, Kasur and Faisalabad as per the rules of the provincial government.
In this regard, by taking action as per the order, the Chief Officer Municipal Corporation Sheikhupura, Deputy Commissioner Narowal, Assistant Commissioner Kasur and Deputy Commissioner Faisalabad have taken over a total area of 1679 kanals, the market value of which is more than 10 billion 270 million.
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NLC India Aims To Become A 17 GW Company By 2030, Says Chairman
The company is going to commission the first unit of its Ghatampur Power Station in January 2024, he said.
With outstanding performance in all areas in 2023, NLC India Ltd. will hopefully maintain the performance levels next year, said Chairman and Managing Director Prasanna Kumar Motupalli.
The company is going to commission the first unit of its Ghatampur Power Station in January 2024, while the other units also will be commissioned later in the year.
In addition to that, the company is going to add a 300 MW Solar capacity in Rajasthan. "We are going to award the Talagraha power station into 3x800MW in the first quarter of the financial year, while the prestigious lignite to methanol project will be awarded in 2024 as well," he said.
As the land problem has sorted out, the company is hoping to perform better in 2024 in all areas, compared to 2023.
As of now, NLC India generates 6 GW of power and 50 million metric tonne of fuel. "We are targeting to become a 17GW company by 2030 and 82 tonne production by 2030. And I think we will be achieving this target if all things are lined up," Motupalli said.
"In terms of thermal power station, we are going to award in the month of January 2024," he said. Two 660 MW first ignite base thermal power stations in the country will also be awarded. Production at the Pachawara coal block will also start next year, he said.
"We are adding the capacity aggressively in the renewables. As of now our NOPL strength is right proportion of renewables and thermal. As on date, we are having 24% of the capacity in renewables, we want to take it to more than 32% shortly. In the same time, we are giving equal importance to the thermal capacity addition also, because going forward right balance needs to be maintained to ensure that the demand for the power supply of the country is met."
For its 17 GW target, the company will require a capex of Rs 82,000 crore, the chairman said. "With 70-30 for thermal power stations and 80-20 for renewable power stations. We planned around Rs Rs 22,000 crore for equity. We are going to meet this equity through the profits that are being generated."
The company intends to open the Talabira Thermal Power plant soon. It has formed a wholly owned subsidiary; NLC India Renewable Energy Ltd. and the process of asset monetisation is already in progress, Motupalli said. "We are hopeful that in the next financial year it will be completed."
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Forget the Christmas tree and Saint Nic’s suit, it is music that marks Germany’s greatest contributions to the holiday. Aside from any number of carols, there is the ubiquitous Messiah, like Handel himself, to be thought of as a Teutonic export. Long since migrated from its original Springtime calendar setting, the overdone oratorio is a Christmas interloper now overshadowing all other classical yuletide offerings, even Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.
If you’ve had your fill of these classical chestnuts this holiday season, turn your listening attention to Heinrich Schütz’s Christmas Story (Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi). This revered master of the German baroque was born exactly a century before Bach and Handel and lived almost long enough to overlap with their births. Schütz’s influence on Lutheran music and education was pervasive and felt in innumerable ways by both Bach and Handel. Standard music histories often claim that Schütz’s music “culminates” in the works of Bach and Handel. But this progressive view of history is obliterated by the breadth and profundity of Schütz’s creations. They are their own zenith.
Whereas the oratorios by Bach and Handel both last a good two hours, Schütz’s Christmas Story comes in at around forty minutes. That duration speaks to the economy with which Schütz’s music sets its familiar text. His Christmas tale is packed with vibrant vocal and instrumental sonorities and literally star-studded, images. It radiates warmth and wonder like a Nativity scene by the greatest German colorist painter of the early sixteenth century, Matthias Grünewald.
Painter not in pigments but in tones, Schütz’s kaleidoscopic oratorio depicts a hovering angel in three of the eight movements that the composer interleaves between the narrative delivered by a tenor in recitatives. This lighter-than-air soprano voice is joined by a pair of ethereal, often jubilant violins—a favorite instruments of the heavens, as Grünewald, among many others, well knew. The soprano and strings swirl and echo around one another in expectant ecstasy: “I bring you good tidings of great joy”—the word joy (Freude) resounding repeatedly from above, as if it is a feeling too intoxicating ever to let fade into silence. A fourth angelic movement introduces the entire choir of angels undergirded by the buzzy snarl of the dulcian, that girthsome ancestor of the bassoon. Singing the German Gloria (“Glory be to God on High”), Schütz’s angels rejoice with and in a music that seems to spiral through itself as individual voices emerge from the rapture. These incorporeal beings dance as they fly.
Schütz delineates this group and the story’s other characters through his ingenious instrumental accompaniments. The Shepherds are three high tenors heartened by pastoral recorders and the bleat of the dulcian. Schütz sets the three Wise Men a notch deeper as low tenors. They hurry to the manger in a succession of vocal entries that suggest that they are proceeding for a time in single file. At the close of the number, a unified, grandly ceremonial cadence marks their awed, simultaneous arrival at the natal stall. Most striking of all are the stentorian pronouncements of the High Priests and Scribes, portrayed by four basses darkly cloaked in the sound of two portentous sackbuts. Introduced by regal cornettos, nefarious King Herod’s upward slashing lines dispatch his security service to track down the newborn child. Schütz’s instrumental and vocal groupings, melodic gestures, harmonic pacing, and contrapuntal inventions make each scene and character come alive with perfectly judged theatrical energy. The ideas of musical evocation and emotion are endless, constantly sparking the listener’s imagination. Even non-believers see what they hear.These characters are depicted in the eight Intermedia that continually enliven the narrator’s tale.
Before the Christmas Story, this narration had always been chanted in rather somber, static manner. Schütz’s innovation was to set the Evangelist’s text in the lively, modern Italian recitative style with continuo underpinning—blocks of text delivered in melodically expressive sentences accompanied by chords played by the organ, harpsichord, and plucked string instruments like the oversized lute known as the theorbo. Always fluent and clear, the narrator’s music is also capable of profound expression, as in the shattering lament that evokes Rachel’s grief at the murder of the innocents. Schütz frames his Christmas Story with two magisterial choral movements drawing on the entire ensemble of voices and instruments. These choruses stand like two elaborate pilasters to either side of an imposing altarpiece.
Like the story itself, this music is full life, born again with each performance. Yet it is the work of an old man of more than sixty chafing against the conditions of his employment under the rulers of Saxony, the dissensions of court life and the inbuilt rivalries of the musical establishment in opulent Dresden riven by animosity between indigenous Germans and expatriate Italians. Years before, when in his twenties, Schütz had studied in Venice with Giovanni Gabrieli, organist at San Marco. In his early forties Schütz returned to La Serenissima to work with the basilica’s director of music, Claudio Monteverdi, a leading European musical figure of his time. Given these southern sojourns, Schütz’s music is itself a kind of import. In later years, however, the composer showed an increasing predilection for his Germanic contrapuntal roots. He is therefore often portrayed in his old age as a curmudgeonly conservative unwilling to accommodate himself to musical modernity. On the contrary, the Christmas Story proves that the great man could effect a moving synthesis of old and new, neither averse to risk nor scornful of history.
There are many recordings that pay homage to Schütz’s Christmas masterpiece. One of the most imaginative, ambitious, and compelling of these was made in 1999 by Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort. It takes the form of a partial reconstruction of a Vespers service as it would have been heard in the Dresden court chapel on Christmas Day of 1664, the year the Evangelist’s part of the Christmas Story was published.
For some four decades, McCreesh has presided over a series of projects intent on putting individual works back in their broader musical and cultural contexts, undertakings akin to removing altarpieces from museums and restoring them to the churches from which they were extracted. McCreesh’s initiatives range from the 1595 coronation of the Doge in Venice to an Epiphany Mass from Bach’s Leipzig, among others.
In their re-creation of the Dresden Christmas Vespers, McCreesh and his Consort dispense with a few incidental liturgical numbers, not to mention the sermon, epic hour-long orations come from an age before the seventy-five-minute CD and the radically constriction of attention spans. (If you want to indulge in Lutheran homiletics, a massively truncated ten-minute pulpit address made up of Martin Luther’s words can be heard on the just-mentioned two-CD set dedicated to a Leipzig Epiphany service from Bach’s day.)
No slave time-consuming exercises in authenticity even if these efforts are buttressed by impressive musicological research, McCreesh frees up enough CD minutes for the organ prelude and postlude, congregational hymns, and sacred concertos that together provide the sumptuous surroundings for Schütz’s luminous musical pageant. The re-enactment takes place in the magnificent cathedral of Roskilde in Denmark. Housing the crypt of the Danish monarchs, the cathedral was also a place where Schütz himself made music for short periods during the Thirty Years’ War when he had fled embattled Dresden. The church’s stunning seventeenth-century organ survives from Schütz’s day and lends brilliance and fire to the hymns (sung by parishioners) and to the concerted music, from the radiant concertos to the spare recitatives. The church’s architecture, organ and people play an indispensable role in this sonic re-imagining.
The long, high, and narrow Roskilde Cathedral is studded with balconies tucked beneath its ceiling. These allow for the dramatic spatial separations in the various units of the larger musical ensemble, a divide-and-conquer sonic strategy Schütz had learned from Gabrieli in the many choir lofts of San Marco in Venice. In Roskilde’s cavernous physical setting the singing—both choral and solo—and the instrumental playing full of improvised flourishes awe with their expansiveness even as they enchant with startling intimacy. The effect is as vivid and uplifting now as it was 350 years ago in a Dresden chapel free of loudspeakers, poinsettias, Christmas trees, and iPhones in hands and pockets.
Heard in this ancient space, Schütz’s Christmas music proves both that it is gloriously of its time, yet miraculously capable of escaping to yours—and beyond.
(David Yearsley is a long-time contributor to CounterPunch and the Anderson Valley Advertiser. His latest book is Sex, Death, and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks. He can be reached at dgyearsley@gmail.com.)
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Assistant to Russian President awarded with Dostyk Order
During the ceremony, the head of the diplomatic mission said that by decree of the Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Russian politician was awarded a high order "for his special contribution to strengthening relations between Kazakhstan and Russia."
In turn, Yury Ushakov expressed gratitude to the leadership of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the high award and assured that together with his colleagues he would do his best to develop and strengthen fraternal relations between the countries and friendly dialogue between the heads of two states.
The Order "Dostyk" (Friendship) is one of the highest awards of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which is honored for its fruitful work to preserve mutual consent in society, merits in strengthening peace, friendship and cooperation between nations.
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Stocks to Watch: Zomato, Vedanta, Torrent Power, Yes Bank, Reliance Power
Foreign portfolio investors pumped ₹1.7 trillion into Indian equities in 2023, propelled by confidence in the country's robust economic fundamentals amid a challenging global landscape
New Delhi: Following are the stocks that are likely to be in focus on Monday:
Zomato: The company has received three orders from the sales tax officer, Delhi, and deputy commissioner, Bengaluru, alleging short payment of GST along with applicable interest and penalty under the Central Goods and Services Tax, totalling ₹4.24 crore. These orders are for financial year 2018.
Vedanta: Has received two orders worth ₹48.82 crore, along with applicable interest and penalty of 10% of GST demand, from additional commissioner, GST and Central Excise Commissionerate, confirming the demand for GST input tax credit availed during FY18 and FY19 on account of interpretational issues in terms of relevant provisions of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act.
Dr Reddy's Laboratories: The step-down subsidiary Dr Reddy’s Laboratories has acquired a 6.46% stake in Israel's Edity Therapeutics Ltd for $2 million. Separately, the company has received an order from GST authorities towards tax demand, including interest and penalty.
Torrent Power: Has incorporation wholly-owned subsidiary Torrent Green Hydrogen Private Ltd. The newly incorporated entity will manufacture, assemble, purchase, purify, store, transport, experiment with, the supply, trade and generally deal in hydrogen, its by-products and/or its derivatives like ammonia, chemicals, compressed natural gas and mineral substances.
Yes Bank: Pertaining to the sale of the NPA portfolio to JC Flowers ARC on 17 December 2022, the private sector lender has received ₹150 crore from a single trust in the security receipts portfolio.
Reliance Power: The company has transferred the development rights and associated physical assets of the proposed 1,200 MW KalaiII hydro-electric project at Lohit River Basin of Arunachal Pradesh to THDC for ₹128.39 crore.
PVR Inox: Nippon Life India Trustee has picked up 2 lakh equity shares, equivalent to 0.2% of paid-up equity, in the company via open market transactions. Nippon Life's shareholding in the company now stands at 7.54%, up from 7.33% earlier.
GPT Infraprojects: The company has been declared the lowest bidder for an order value of ₹267 crore. The project involves construction of a four-lane Raniganj Bypass of length 5.261km on NH-60 (new NH-14) from km 275.20 of NH 60 to km 478.18 of NH-2 (New NH 19) in Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal in EPC mode.
Karur Vysya Bank: The Reserve Bank of India has granted approval to ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company for acquiring up to 9.95% of the paid-up share capital or voting rights of Karur Vysya Bank.
Dalmia Bharat: The subsidiary of the company Dalmia Cement (Bharat) has received a GST demand order from the State Tax Officer, Lalgudi, Tamil Nadu, of ₹62.38 crore along with a penalty due to alleged non-reversal of input tax credit by customers and a tax liability computed based on an alleged stock mismatch pertaining to FY18.
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TEZPUR: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said the government is developing a strong base of domestic defence industrial ecosystem to make the country a strategic economy. Addressing the 21st Convocation of Tezpur University here, Singh said his ministry is making all efforts to achieve the target of becoming self-reliant in the defence sector.
"Our government is developing a strong base of domestic defence industrial ecosystem to make India a strategic economy," he said.
Highlighting the various steps taken by the Ministry of Defence, Singh stressed that for the first time, the import of arms went down while exports rose.
"We issued five positive indigenisation lists, under which 509 defence equipment have been identified whose manufacturing will now be done indigenously.
"In addition, we have also issued four positive indigenisation lists of Defence Public Sector Undertakings, in which 4,666 items have been identified and these will now be manufactured in our country," he added.
Talking about the domestic defence manufacturing, Singh said that the production has crossed the record figure of Rs 1,00,000 crore for the first time.
"The total value of India's defence exports, which was Rs 1,521 crore in 2016-17, has increased almost 10 times to reach a record level of Rs 15,920 crore in 2022-23," he stated.
Singh also spoke about the change of attitude over the years and highlighted the working style of the present government in tackling any situation.
"India is no longer tolerant of the 'let-it-be' approach. Today, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the new India believes in the 'let's-do-it' approach," he added.
On the issue of women empowerment, Singh said the government has taken steps to ensure proper representation of women in all sectors including the military.
"Today, women are walking shoulder to shoulder with men in every field in the country. From fighter planes to Chandrayan, there is no field in which the presence of women is not seen," he added.
Emphasising on the role of youths in making the country developed, the Defence Minister said that the idea of making India an economic and military superpower is based on the confidence in the capabilities of talented youths.
"To empower the youth and enhance their capabilities, our government has promoted start-up culture and innovation ecosystem," he added.
Mentioning the start-up culture initiated by the Defence Ministry in the Defence industrial sector, Singh said the Innovation for Defence Excellence (iDEX) has been successfully promoting innovative ideas since its inception.
"Because of the various efforts by the government to promote entrepreneurship among youths, today there are over one lakh start-ups in the country," he said.
A total of 1,355 students were conferred Degrees and Diplomas during the convocation. Out of them, 110 received PhD, 785 post-graduate, 432 graduate, five PG diplomas and 23 have been awarded degrees and diplomas through distance and open learning mode.
Appreciating Tezpur University's efforts in providing quality education, the Defence Minister urged the students to focus on the essence of practical knowledge and the pivotal role of character development.
In regard to starting a Centre for Defence Studies named after Ahom General Lachit Borphukan at Tezpur University, he directed the university authority to submit a proposal on the same.
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Black holes have the highest gravitational force in the universe
New Delhi:
India will begin the New Year today with an effort to solve one of the biggest mysteries of the universe -- black holes. A rocket will lift off today carrying an advanced astronomy observatory meant to study black holes and neutron stars.
Here are the Top 10 points in this big story:
With the successful launch of XPoSAT or the X-ray Polarimeter Satellite, at 9.10 am , India will become the second country after the US to have an 'observatory' to study black holes. The new mission comes on the heels of India's successful moon mission Chandrayaan.
Using X-ray photons and their polarisation, XPoSAT will help study the radiation from near black holes and neutron stars. It carries two payloads namely POLIX (Polarimeter Instrument in X-rays) and XSPECT (X-ray Spectroscopy and Timing).
The satellite will measure polarisation of X-rays in the energy band 8-30keV emanating from about 50 potential cosmic sources through Thomson Scattering by POLIX payload.
It will carry out long term spectral and temporal studies of cosmic X-ray sources. It will also carry out polarisation and spectroscopic measurements of X-ray emissions from cosmic sources through POLIX and XSPECT payloads..
When stars run out of fuel and 'die', they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind black holes or neutron stars.
Black holes have the highest gravitational force in the universe and neutron stars have the highest densities.
Gathering more information on this, the mission will help unravel the mysteries of the ultra-extreme environments in space.
The XPoSat satellite cost around Rs 250 crore (approximately $30 million) while the NASA IXPE – which is on a similar mission since 2021 -- required an outlay of $188 million.
The Indian satellite is expected to last more than five years compared to the two-year life span of the NASA IXPE,
The XPoSAT mission will see the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV -- undertake its 60th flight. Besides the 469-kg XPoSAT, the 260-tonne PSLV will lift off with 10 experiments.
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CUSA Games Today: How to Watch CUSA Games, TV Schedule, Live Streaming Options - Bowl Season
Published: Dec. 31, 2023 at 1:10 PM CST|Updated: 58 minutes ago
Looking for info on how to watch all of the college football postseason action now that bowl season and the College Football Playoff are here? Below, we highlight how you can watch all four games involving teams from the CUSA.
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Nearly half of all states will raise the minimum wage in 2024
Published: Dec. 31, 2023 at 8:57 PM EST|Updated: 20 minutes ago
(CNN) - Millions of workers will get a pay bump when the clock strikes midnight on Monday, January 1.
Nearly half of all U.S. states and the District of Columbia will increase their minimum wage in 2024.
Washington state will continue to have the highest minimum wage in the country at $16.28 an hour. That’s up from $15.74 an hour.
And over in Hawaii, workers will receive the largest increase, raising its minimum wage to $14 an hour.
And Washington D.C. will have the highest hourly minimum wage in the country at $17.05. The city will raise its minimum wage again this summer.
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MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin praised the Russian army in his New Year’s Eve address Sunday, arguing society had “united” behind the Kremlin in a scaled-back message that did not mention Ukraine.
In stark contrast to last year, when the Kremlin leader gave a combative speech flanked by soldiers, Putin described 2024 as the “year of the family” in front of the traditional backdrop of the Kremlin.
“We have repeatedly proved that we are able to solve the most difficult tasks and will never back down, because there is no force that can separate us,” Putin said in the message, which aired on state TV.
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SINGAPORE, Dec 30 (Reuters) - In recent months, China has sought to stabilise the yuan by orchestrating buying by state banks and giving market guidance to bankers.
The strategy of moral suasion marks a sharp break from Beijing’s approach the last time the currency was on the ropes, in 2015.
Back then, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) resorted to official intervention as the central bank burned $1 trillion in reserves to shore it up.
In 2023, as China’s economy wobbled and money left the country, the PBOC took a starkly different approach, defending the currency by signalling to markets what kind of selling it would and would not tolerate.
Interviews with 28 market participants show at least two dozen cases where regulators closely and frequently steered market participants through a range of co-ordinated actions this year to resist strong downward pressure on the yuan.
The PBOC and State Administration of Foreign Exchange, the currency regulator, did not respond to Reuters’ faxed questions about its approach. PBOC governor Pan Gongsheng has previously said regulators would prevent exchange rate overshooting risks and maintain stable FX market operations.
The strategy market participants and analysts described to Reuters has prevented a destabilising yuan slide.
However, they told Reuters that it has also chilled large parts of China’s foreign exchange market, crashing trading volumes and raising questions about the yuan’s chances of becoming a global reserve currency.
“The circumstances ... at the moment are considerably more complicated because there are both domestic as well as global macroeconomic factors,” said Eswar Prasad, Tolani senior professor of international trade policy at Cornell University.
He described the PBOC’s use of “non-standard measures to intervene in foreign exchange markets” as a form of “triage” to stop the yuan falling too rapidly.
As the currency of the world’s second-largest economy and biggest exporter, the yuan’s value determines the price of goods around the world and trillions of dollars in capital flows. It also serves as a barometer of China’s challenges.
A Chinese forex regulator, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the currency’s value was ultimately determined by fundamentals and currently a product of how “effectively China can thwart decoupling”, a reference to Western efforts to reduce economic reliance on China.
Ten traders interviewed by Reuters said key warnings first emerged in June when the PBOC’s daily yuan guidance that determines its trading range for the day, known as the midpoint, started to diverge from market expectations.
In theory, the midpoint is based on contributions from 14 banks and referenced to the previous day’s trade and overnight moves, which should make it easy for markets to predict.
By August, however, the midpoint’s yawning deviation from trader estimates was read by the traders interviewed by Reuters as a signal the PBOC did not want the currency to go where markets were pushing it.
Against the tide
Managing a currency can be a white-knuckle ride.
In 2015, China cut the yuan’s midpoint by 2%, with the PBOC saying it was a one-off move to bring the trading band in line with market pricing.
Fearing further devaluations, however, investors sold Chinese assets, sending stocks and the yuan into freefall and forcing the bank to use reserves to stabilise the currency.
This time, efforts to manage the yuan involved more targeted and specific directions to banks and currency market participants, according to the traders who spoke to Reuters.
For example, whenever momentum seemed against the yuan, state-owned banks quietly became buyers, the traders said. This generally happened around psychologically significant currency levels and seemed aimed at containing volatility.
Those traders told Reuters that in late May they noticed state banks stepping in with two days of yuan buying after the currency hit its lowest then for 2023.
Similarly, state banks’ yuan buying intensified in December after Moody’s announced a cut in China’s ratings outlook.
Individual traders were not able to estimate the size of buying nor was Reuters able to confirm whether such trading was directed by the central bank.
Official data shows no evidence the PBOC sold dollars outright as it did in 2015. However, market participants noted banks sold dollars acquired by currency swaps, which would not be seen in such data.
At the same time, smaller lenders have experienced increased “window guidance” or unofficial, verbal advice from regulators to have both banks and their clients reduce dollar holdings, according to six trader and banking sources.
In June and July, the China FX Market Self-Regulatory Framework, which is overseen by the PBOC, told major state-owned banks to cut dollar deposit rates, which would encourage exporters and households to switch dollar receipts into yuan, market watchers said.
Working the phones
The pressure on bankers has mirrored pressure on the yuan, which is down almost 2.8% against the dollar this year even though the benchmark dollar index lost 2.2%.
On Sept. 8, the yuan struck a 16-year low. A few days later, managers at eight major banks were summoned to Beijing to meet PBOC officials, according to five banking sources, two of whom attended the meeting.
They were told companies wishing to buy more than $50 million would need approval from the PBOC, three sources said.
Bankers were also told they needed to cut spot trading, stagger dollar buying and not hold net long dollar positions at the end of any trading day, two sources said.
Authorities also focused on monitoring exporters’ foreign exchange buying and selling plans given their large currency holdings and outsized sway on yuan moves.
In recent months, regulators have called banks and queried them with surveys on a near weekly basis on the intentions of exporter customers, according to officials at five banks who spoke to Reuters. Such calls had previously been sporadic and surveys sent only monthly.
The volume of yuan traded onshore slumped 73% from August’s level to a record low of 1.85 trillion yuan in October. That shows China’s bankers have heeded the call to reduce trading, particularly dollar buying, but also that the central bank’s efforts are chilling the market, analysts say.
For now, however, the currency appears to have stabilised comfortably above September’s 16-year low.
Market players are unwilling to directly fight the PBOC – but nor are they willing to acquiesce entirely.
“I’ve been closely monitoring dollar prices this year, as I have dollar payments coming in every few weeks,” said one Shanghai-based exporter of electronic components surnamed Zhu.
“The daily question has been: ‘Do I need to save them, or convert them back into yuan?‘“ So far, she has saved them on expectations of a better yuan price for her dollars.
- Reporting by Reuters staff. Writing by Tom Westbrook. Editing by Paritosh Bansal and Sam Holmes
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Maersk Halts Red Sea Shipping As U.S. Navy Sinks Houthi Boats
The world’s No. 2 container line is suspending all Red Sea transit for 48 hours to assess the security situation.
(Bloomberg) -- AP Moller-Maersk A/S halted transit through the Red Sea after an attack on one of its ships by Houthi rebels led to a significant escalation of tensions in the vital waterway.
The world’s No. 2 container line is suspending all Red Sea transit for 48 hours to assess the security situation. The US Navy said it was fired upon when responding to a distress call from the Maersk Hangzhou, resulting in the sinking of three Houthi boats and the death of their crews.
The latest attack undermines efforts by Washington to reassure shipping companies that it’s safe to sail through the Suez Canal and Red Sea, a passageway for nearly 12% of global commerce. The US set up Operation Prosperity Guardian to secure navigation as Yemen-based Houthi rebels show no signs of stopping attacks designed to pressure Israel into a cease-fire in Gaza.
Yahya Saree, a spokesman for Houthi forces, warned all countries of “grave” consequences if they participate in the US-led maritime coalition.
In a televised statement on Sunday, preceded by anti-American propaganda videos and slogans, Saree said 10 members of the group were dead or missing.
He said the ship was headed toward Israel and that the US interfered with the group’s “humane and moral duty” to stop it. He urged Yemenis and “free” Arabs and Muslims to be “ready for all options in confronting the American escalation.”
Distress Calls
The US said it received a distress call at 6:30 a.m. Sanaa time from the Maersk Hangzhou — the second from the same vessel in less than 24 hours.
Read More: US Tries to Reassure on Red Sea Shipping as Doubts Persist
Four small boats originating from Yemen got to within 20 meters of the ship and attempted to board it, US Central Command said in a post on X. Helicopters from the USS Eisenhower and USS Gravely responded with an attack that sunk three boats.
“In the process of issuing verbal calls to the small boats, the small boats fired upon the US helicopters with crew served weapons and small arms,” it said. The fourth boat fled and there was no damage to US personnel or equipment, according to the statement.
The first incident involving the Singapore-flagged and Denmark-owned container ship occurred Saturday evening local time when it reported that it was struck by a missile as it was transiting the Southern Red Sea, Centcom said in an earlier post on X.
Two US destroyers, the USS Gravely and USS Laboon, responded to the container ship’s first distress call. The Graveley shot down two anti-ship ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen toward the ships, Centcom said in the statement.
A spokeswoman for Maersk confirmed the incidents and said the crew is safe and the vessel continues to transit north.
“The Houthis are still testing the limits of the US strategy,” said Ryan Bohl, senior Middle East and North Africa analyst at RANE Network. “Each shipping company will have to decide their own risk tolerance given that the US also has a record of successful interceptions like the ones reported today.”
He said even if the US and its allies were to escort every single ship transiting the Red Sea, it would not deter aerial attacks by the Houthis.
Read More: Gulf Splits Hinder US Efforts to End Houthi Ship Attacks
Houthi Warning
Military commanders of the Houthi forces, who control a swath of Yemen’s territory including the capital Sanaa and the strategic port city of Al-Hudaydah, held a meeting on the coast Wednesday to plot their next moves. “The commanders discussed options to confront US provocations in the Red Sea,” said the Saba News Agency, which is controlled by the group.
The agency released a photograph which it said was from the Al-Hudaydah meeting showing Houthi commanders, who also hold senior positions in the group’s Sanaa-based government, seated in a conference room with large maps of the Red Sea, Middle East and Israel displayed behind them.
The Houthis have seized one container ship and launched more than 20 attacks in the Red Sea since mid-November in what they have said was a show of solidarity with Palestinians.
Israel has vowed to press on with its nearly three-months-old war in Gaza until it eradicates Hamas, which launched an unprecedented attack on the Jewish state on Oct 7. More than 21,000 Palestinians have been killed so far, according to health authorities in the Hamas government in Gaza. The United Nations has warned that the enclave’s estimated 2 million people are suffering from severe food shortages and a dire humanitarian situation.
Read More: Why Yemen’s Houthis Have Joined Fight Against Israel: QuickTake
Sunday’s incident underscores that the Houthis’ motives go beyond the war in Gaza, said Farea Al-Muslimi, a Yemen expert with the London-based think tank Chatham House.
“They are praying and hoping for a boxing match with the US, that’s definitely their dream,” he said referring to Houthi aspirations to bolster their regional and global standing as a resistance force to be reckoned with.
The US said last week that Iran was “deeply involved” in the Houthi attacks on ships and that the Yemeni militants rely on monitoring systems provided by Tehran. Iran denied this.
“I made clear that Iran shares responsibility for preventing these attacks given their long-standing support to the Houthis,” said UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron on X after a call with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Sunday.
UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said the UK won’t hesitate to take “direct action” against attacks on cargo vessels in the Red Sea, the Telegraph newspaper reported.
“The Houthis should be under no misunderstanding: We are committed to holding malign actors accountable for unlawful seizures and attacks,” Shapps said in an article for the newspaper.
Danish Link
Before the attacks on the Maersk Hangzhou, Denmark’s government said it planned to send a frigate by the end of January to join the US-led Red Sea task force.
Operation Prosperity Guardian was launched on December 19 with Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles, Spain and the UK “to jointly address security challenges in the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.”
Additional countries are expected to join the task force, US Naval Forces Central Command Vice Admiral Brad Cooper told Associated Press in an interview on Sunday.
Read More: Red Sea Attacks Mean Double Wages for Danish Crew
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen declined to draw any linkages between his government’s announcement two days ago and the Houthi attacks on the Denmark-owned ship.
He said Denmark, which is home to the world’s largest shipping firms, was undeterred by the attack and the government would seek to expedite the process of securing parliamentary approval to dispatch the Danish warship to the Red Sea.
“This attack clearly emphasizes how serious the situation unfortunately is now,” he said in emailed remarks.
--With assistance from Christine Burke and Yi Wei Wong.
(Adds comment by UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapp in paragraphs 23 and 24.)
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Chief Justice Roberts casts a wary eye on the uses of artificial intelligence in the federal courts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts on Sunday turned his focus to the promise, and shortcomings, of artificial intelligence in the federal courts, in an annual report that made no mention of Supreme Court ethics or legal controversies involving Donald Trump.
Describing artificial intelligence as the “latest technological frontier,” Roberts discussed the pros and cons of computer-generated content in the legal profession. His remarks come just a few days after the latest instance of AI-generated fake legal citations making their way into official court records, in a case involving ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
“Always a bad idea,” Roberts wrote in his year-end report, noting that “any use of AI requires caution and humility.”
At the same time, though, the chief justice acknowledged that AI can make it much easier for people without much money to access the courts. “These tools have the welcome potential to smooth out any mismatch between available resources and urgent needs in our court system,” Roberts wrote.
The report came at the end of a year in which a series of stories questioned the ethical practices of the justices and the court responded to critics by adopting its first code of conduct. Many of those stories focused on Justice Clarence Thomas and his failure to disclose travel, other hospitality and additional financial ties with wealthy conservative donors including Harlan Crow and the Koch brothers. But Justices Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor also have been under scrutiny.
The country also is entering an the beginning of an election year that seems likely to enmesh the court in some way in the ongoing criminal cases against Trump and efforts to keep the Republican former president off the 2024 ballot.
Along with his eight colleagues, Roberts almost never discusses cases that are before the Supreme Court or seem likely to get there. In past reports, he has advocated for enhanced security and salary increases for federal judges, praised judges and their aides for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and highlighted other aspects of technological changes in the courts.
Roberts once famously compared judges to umpires who call balls and strikes, but don’t make the rules. In his latest report, he turned to a different sport, tennis, to make the point that technology won’t soon replace judges.
At many tennis tournaments, optical technology, rather than human line judges, now determines “whether 130 mile per hour serves are in or out. These decisions involve precision to the millimeter. And there is no discretion; the ball either did or did not hit the line. By contrast, legal determinations often involve gray areas that still require application of human judgment,” Roberts wrote.
Looking ahead warily to the growing use of artificial intelligence in the courts, Roberts wrote: “I predict that human judges will be around for a while. But with equal confidence I predict that judicial work — particularly at the trial level — will be significantly affected by AI.”
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New Delhi: Following are the stocks that are likely to be in focus on Monday:
Zomato: The company has received three orders from the sales tax officer, Delhi, and deputy commissioner, Bengaluru, alleging short payment of GST along with applicable interest and penalty under the Central Goods and Services Tax, totalling ₹4.24 crore. These orders are for financial year 2018.
Vedanta: Has received two orders worth ₹48.82 crore, along with applicable interest and penalty of 10% of GST demand, from additional commissioner, GST and Central Excise Commissionerate, confirming the demand for GST input tax credit availed during FY18 and FY19 on account of interpretational issues in terms of relevant provisions of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act.
Dr Reddy's Laboratories: The step-down subsidiary Dr Reddy’s Laboratories has acquired a 6.46% stake in Israel's Edity Therapeutics Ltd for $2 million. Separately, the company has received an order from GST authorities towards tax demand, including interest and penalty.
Torrent Power: Has incorporation wholly-owned subsidiary Torrent Green Hydrogen Private Ltd. The newly incorporated entity will manufacture, assemble, purchase, purify, store, transport, experiment with, the supply, trade and generally deal in hydrogen, its by-products and/or its derivatives like ammonia, chemicals, compressed natural gas and mineral substances.
Yes Bank: Pertaining to the sale of the NPA portfolio to JC Flowers ARC on 17 December 2022, the private sector lender has received ₹150 crore from a single trust in the security receipts portfolio.
Reliance Power: The company has transferred the development rights and associated physical assets of the proposed 1,200 MW KalaiII hydro-electric project at Lohit River Basin of Arunachal Pradesh to THDC for ₹128.39 crore.
PVR Inox: Nippon Life India Trustee has picked up 2 lakh equity shares, equivalent to 0.2% of paid-up equity, in the company via open market transactions. Nippon Life's shareholding in the company now stands at 7.54%, up from 7.33% earlier.
GPT Infraprojects: The company has been declared the lowest bidder for an order value of ₹267 crore. The project involves construction of a four-lane Raniganj Bypass of length 5.261km on NH-60 (new NH-14) from km 275.20 of NH 60 to km 478.18 of NH-2 (New NH 19) in Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal in EPC mode.
Karur Vysya Bank: The Reserve Bank of India has granted approval to ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company for acquiring up to 9.95% of the paid-up share capital or voting rights of Karur Vysya Bank.
Dalmia Bharat: The subsidiary of the company Dalmia Cement (Bharat) has received a GST demand order from the State Tax Officer, Lalgudi, Tamil Nadu, of ₹62.38 crore along with a penalty due to alleged non-reversal of input tax credit by customers and a tax liability computed based on an alleged stock mismatch pertaining to FY18.
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Astana 4th in team time trial at Tour Colombia 2.1. Stage 1
07:46, 13 February 2019
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - The Tour Colombia 2.1 stage race has been opened today with a super fast 14-km team time trial on the streets of Medellin. Astana Pro Team did a very good race and finished with fourth time (average speed 54,369 km/h), 22 seconds behind EF Education First, the winner of the stage, Kazinform has learned from the team's press office.
- I think we can be happy with our race today. Our riders did a very good job, we raced really well and did everything by the plan we had for this time trial. In the end of the day we have 4th place, not bad at all. Now we are looking forward to the next stages, - said Stefano Zanini, sports director of Astana Pro Team.
The Tour Colombia 2.1 will continue with stage 2 of 150,5 km in La Ceja.
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- AV Health Center Report & Fundraiser
- Sheriff’s End Of Year Report
- Bring Back Our Auditor
- Despite Dysfunctional Board & Challenging Circumstances
- An Independent Advisory Board Member
- Lawfare Times
- Eyster, The Attorney General And The Media
- Sorry, Mike
- Tweekers
- Don’t Reward Couch Potatoes
- Follow-Up About Gaza
- Clarification
- Night Skies
- Let Voters Decide
- Secrets Lead To Autocracy
- Obscene Priorities
- Lack Of Proportionality…
- Train To Nowhere
AV HEALTH CENTER REPORT & FUNDRAISER
Dear Community,
Things feel like they are getting slightly back to “normal.” What is normal for us at the Health Center? Focusing on improving the care we provide to you every day. Our building is built, our parking lot is new and has a solar array and seven electric car chargers. We are nearly 100% solar powered and we have a whole new area dedicated to the medication dispensary.
Most importantly, we are fully staffed with the exception of one dentist. This is quite a feat for rural healthcare these days. We are grateful to have 47 amazing people working at the Health Center. Our board recently completed an update to the Health Center's strategic plan, and the focus over the next two years is you.
We hear how hard the last few years have been on many of you. We are hoping to find new ways to expand our services. You will see more of us at community events promoting things like the new Medi-Cal expansion.
You may see our new Community Healthcare Worker who is out and about promoting overdose awareness through Narcan training, preventative healthcare visits and connecting people with our services.
Anderson Valley’s aging adults are unique and their care should also be unique. We are looking at how we can provide supportive services for aging in place, spaces for community groups and palliative and end-of-life care.
Our teen clinic is back up and running and we are working closely with the schools to have teen center representatives on campus. Our Health Center is a place to learn. From High School volunteers, AV Education Foundation interns, Adventist Health MD residents and UCSF Nurse Practitioners we have a variety of students learning what being a health professional in a small rural community is all about.
Our aim is to provide our community with whole-person care whether through our main departments (Medical, Dental, Acupuncture or Behavioral Health) or through our supportive services like outreach and case management. We're in your healthcare journey together.
We ask you to consider supporting Anderson Valley Health Center's work. Caring for this community is our life's work and we are proud to serve you.
Happy Holidays,
Chloe Guazzone-Rugebregt, Executive Director
Ric Bonner, Board Chair
Anderson Valley Health Center (avhc.org)
SHERIFF’S END OF YEAR REPORT
Editor,
Here we are in December and this is the time of year we receive updates regarding legislation as well as predictions on new laws which will be effecting us in California as well as the United States.
Sadly we are seeing crime continue while more legislation is handed down which seems to miss the focus of public safety.
Each year at the end of the fiscal year cycle, the Attorney General releases the annual crime report for our state. If the report is good news, it is often released with a large press release with many government leaders enjoying accolades for a job well done.
When the news is less than favorable, it will often be released on a Friday afternoon with minimal media coverage. This year the Department of Justice quietly, released its annual report on crime. This report was released the Friday preceding the 4th of July weekend. This report revealed violence and property crimes spiked in 2022.
For every action there is a reaction. When fire danger is at an all-time high, we ask our residents to prepare their homes have defendable space and take steps in home hardening. This allows our first responders and fire service partners better odds of saving lives and homes. This is simply common sense and it is truly a “help us help you” tactic.
When crime spikes we see we need to see our residents take the same approach and work hard to remain diligent in protection of themselves and their property. This is simply the way things have to work. I want to encourage all of our residents to help us help you and be prepared. The massive increase in drug related incidents has also lead to large increases in property crimes and crimes against persons.
Thefts from mail boxes and thefts of packages from front porches are always an issue around the holidays. Please get your mail every day. If you have a rural mail box please install a locking mail box this helps deter mail thieves who are looking for the easiest targets. When shopping please don’t leave large amounts of merchandise in your vehicles. That type of activity will make your vehicle a target.
Remember the items you purchase are never worth your life or the life of another person. Last week we saw the Oakland 7-Eleven security guard who was shot and killed while trying to stop someone from stealing from the store. This is truly a concerning time and I remain hopeful things will change.
Having Security systems and cameras has been very helpful in solving crimes in Mendocino County.
Please stay connected with your family friends and neighbors. Being good neighbors and looking out for our fellow residents will never go out of style. Lets all work hard to support each other and keep each other safe.
Thank you
Sheriff Matt Kendall
Ukiah
BRING BACK OUR AUDITOR
Editor,
Two months ago Chamise Cubbison, Mendocino County's Auditor-Controller / Treasurer-Tax Collector, was suspended from her elected office without salary or benefits.
I am very upset. I voted for Chamise Cubbison for Auditor-Controller/Treasurer-Tax Collector in 2022. Chamise Cubbison was elected. She earned 15,286 votes. (More than the District Attorney)
Now the Mendocino Board of Supervisors is taking away our right to have an independent auditor . We voted for Chamise Cubbison and now she is replaced by a person appointed by the Board. Who will do the independent audits of The Board, the CEO’S office and District Attorney’s Offices as well as many school districts. Who is watching the money?
Chamise Cubbison was elected by the citizens of Mendocino County in June 2022. We have a right to be represented by an elected auditor and not someone selected by the Board.
Val Muchowski
Philo
DESPITE DYSFUNCTIONAL BOARD & CHALLENGING CIRCUMSTANCES, Mendocino County Workers Move Forward to Ratify Union Contract
Tuesday, December 19th, 2023 — 700 Mendocino County workers — including road crews, public health nurses, and children’s social workers — voted to ratify a union contract with a 77% “yes” vote.
Hard-fought over nine months, this agreement will bring all classifications’ pay up to market rate. This agreement will also have Mendocino County pick up a higher percentage of the cost of employees’ healthcare. Ultimately, these improvements will begin to address the long-standing staffing issues that are harming Mendocino County’s children, seniors, and families.
With the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors talking about bankruptcy and layoffs, the determination and unity of Mendocino County workers have moved the County forward.
What has become clear is that the County’s leadership is suffering from profound levels of dysfunction — from lawsuits, audits, and a tragicomic misunderstanding of its own budget.
In addition to addressing this dysfunction, Mendocino County workers will continue to focus their efforts on pushing the County to be more open about its finances. They will continue to push the County to collect its uncollected revenues. More broadly, Mendocino County workers will continue to engage with the County’s issues with housing and economic development — essential issues for the County to thrive.
While disappointed by the County's failure to engage and work with its employees through the negotiating process, the SEIU 1021 bargaining team looks forward to continuing to fight for a Mendocino County that works for all its residents.
“Bringing all classifications’ pay up to market rate is a significant first step toward making sure we can attract enough staff to provide the public services that Mendocino families rely on,” said SEIU 1021 Chapter President A'Kesh Eidi, a program administrator for the county. “Despite challenging circumstances, we are going to continue to fight for a better, more equitable Mendocino.”
(SEIU Local 1021 represents nearly 60,000 employees in local governments, non-profit agencies, health care programs, and schools throughout Northern California, including seven private colleges and numerous community colleges. SEIU Local 1021 is a diverse, member-driven organization with members who work to make our cities, schools, colleges, counties, and special districts safe and healthy places to live and raise our families.)
In solidarity,
Ian Lee, Communications Specialist
SEIU Local 1021
(510) 384-7165
AN INDEPENDENT ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
Dear AVA,
Been a long frickin time! I'm still alive and only sometimes not wanting to still be in this broken body of mine. I was just reading Mark Scaramella's comments about the budget report and was really educated. I knew those numbers were out before they relieved Chamise, she had gone up and said so in chambers, on the record. It's there if anyone goes back and looks. She told them explicitly how to go find the numbers they wanted. I couldn't believe we were using public time to educate our supervisors how to be an auditor controller.
I kind of know now myself just by paying attention. Sara Pierce blows in and puts those numbers in pretty charts and graphs and they got all excited like little kids, then did nothing with it as you said. Poor thing has the look of a frozen deer in the headlights. Like the third person on the hanging platform asking the others if it was their first time.
Don't know if you have seen me moving around but I was recently appointed by Mo Mulheren to the Behavioral Health |Advisory Board. I kind of earned it by throwing in my two cents as I have for a while now after a preacher friend of mine set me straight about where to put my remaining Energy.
That daughter we wrote about is 37 now and I have a grandson from her, and 5 more from my other two whom I finally got to meet over the past few years. My back is still crumbling and I'm still teaching, mostly not getting paid as usual. Keeps it clean for sure. Like that I'm only a volunteer on the BHAB board, I have threatened to throw it back a few times already. That board, it seems to be the thing to do, leave.
Measure B overrides everyone it seems. Sure rejected my, and our board's recommendation to fund Ford St. and let the Jail find other ways to back up their grand plans for the jail which I agree need to happen. Just not the bells and whistles parts for them at first, just the jail please, we need more street de-tox to prevent them from needing it in custody.
Seems a lot of what happens is ego driven but I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. I myself am having a ball messing with them. Life doesn't hold anything for me anymore other than teaching bodywork and public service. And the public service part is not my monkey, so I figure as long I keep that attitude, I just might do some good. Instead of going to all these meetings, I should have just signed up for a subscription to the AVA a long time ago. Good to cross paths, hope to see you in the future.
Sincerely,
Mark Donegan
Ukiah
LAWFARE TIMES
AVA,
Glad to read that your tooth issue is resolved.
I've had migrating wisdom teeth issues and allowed them to jut their way out as they cracked other teeth for room. Insane toothaches followed and constant Listerine and baking soda toothpaste drenching worked to eventually stop the pain and infection. We're living in “For my friends--everything. For my enemies--the law!” lawfare times. That's why I like watching old Perry Mason reruns-even prosecutor Hamilton Burger would approve of justice over winning (he was really good at that).
A probably made in China Nativity scene photo for the AVA today and good cheer…
Jeff Goll
Willits
EYSTER, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND THE MEDIA
To: AGPressOffice <agpressoffice@doj.ca.gov>
Please consider this a formal complaint about the handling of media requests regarding the attempted criminal prosecution of the Mendocino County Auditor/Controller/Treasurer/Tax Collector by District Attorney David Eyster.
In short, the lack of a face or telephone number to discuss the serious issues involved with someone in the press office is appalling. I am a veteran North Coast journalist, with 40 years of experience covering political and environmental-related news for The Press Democrat newspaper in Santa Rosa, and now as a media consultant and contributor to the Ukiah Daily Journal and Anderson Valley Advertiser.
I have never experienced in all those years the ongoing situation with the AG's Office.
In 2022, the AG issued an opinion dismissing conflict concerns involving DA Eyster, and the sudden firing of the Ukiah Police Chief. DA Eyster had been involved earlier in a domestic violence case involving the former police chief.
Now we have the DA filing a single felony misappropriation of public funds against a duly elected county Auditor, who he has publicly quarreled with over the use of asset forfeiture funds for staff dinners, and questionable travel reimbursements. DA Eyster has been engaged in running disputes with the Auditor's Office since he took office in 2011.
Now, we have a civil writ demand for reinstatement of the Auditor Chamise Cubbison based on the lack of hearing and due process by the county Board of Supervisors, and DA Eyster plays a large role in that scenario. He is a possible witness in the civil action.
These are local issues of serious concern.
Yet inquiries at the AG's levels are met with anonymous responses and no contact mechanism.
Adding further insult is the fact the latest AG opinion about DA Eyster was issued with no notification, or copy provided until after the fact.
It is disappointing, and troubling. The public deserves an impartial assessment of the current situation.
Mike Geniella
Ukiah Daily Journal
Anderson Valley Advertiser
SORRY, MIKE
From: AGPressOffice<agpressoffice@doj.ca.gov>
Date: Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: Mendocino County District Attorney
Hi Mike (Geniella),
The California Department of Justice takes community concerns -- and every case we undertake -- very seriously, and makes decisions based on the evidence and the law. With regard to the recusal motion you've asked about, that case remains active and ongoing. As stated in our filing, under California Penal Code section 1424, recusal of a district attorney may only be granted where a conflict of interest exists such as would render it unlikely that the defendant would receive a fair trial. The legal standard is discussed in detail in our brief, starting on page 4. The next hearing in this case regarding the recusal motion is now set for January 12, 2023. We are aware of the additional allegations you referenced, and beyond that we are unable to comment on, even to confirm or deny, potential or ongoing investigations or actions.
Also flagging that you can call our press office with inquiries at 916-210-6000.
Best,
Press Office, California Attorney General
TWEEKERS
Editor,
I'm writing as the recently selected Corresponding Secretary for the Society of Language (SOL), a watchdog group that monitors communications in local media, community signage, and administrative and popular discourse.
In the 11/15/23 AVA, at the top of the front page, the reader is teased to ‘Tweeker Takeover’ on page 4, a piece with the same head by Paul Modic. SOL objects to the cartoonishly tweaked spelling of Tweeker. The Editor is perhaps trying out a new spelling of Tweaker in an attempt to demonstrate how hip and cool and drippy the AVA is, a prominent influencer in creating neologisms or spell-it-as-it-sounds innovations, like “u no,” current among 12 year-olds and other digital savants. Or perhaps the editor doesn't understand why tweakers — amphetamine users/addicts — are so named.
Amphetamine enthusiasts are known as tweakers because that is what the drug encourages and thus what they often do. Tweak, dictionaries generally agree, has a couple of meanings, both germane. The most common is to make small adjustments in, or to, the controls. The second definition, deriving from the movements of pinch, pull, or twist, are gathered in twitch.
Allow me to offer an old personal example: As a 20 year old editor of a college feature magazine, about to put it to bed, exhausted and sniveling about the few remaining tasks to get it done, a mother of three felt merciful and offered me a mothers'-little-helper, in this case a Dexamyl Spanshell. As I sat down to work, a smooth energy bringing my concentration to an intense focus, I began my first task, writing a caption for a single, mundane photograph. Twenty hours later, after a half-million tweaks in a 30-word sentence, mainly proper nouns, I was finally satisfied with my effort, though the only real difference from my first attempt was switching the order of two names. Years later I watched a speed freak friend count, one by one, his considerable collection of bolts, then a tote full of screws. My labor on that photo caption flashed in my memory, especially the strength and confidence feeding my desire to get it right, endlessly tweaking the components, and around Hour 18 physically beginning to twitch.
Without going into my theories of desire, obsession, and addiction, suffice it to say that in our current American culture any drug that makes you feel powerful and focused will find more than a few devotees. Alas, as amphetamine usage increases over time and the real world retreats, you often end up like the man I met on the beach the other day, a wet cigarette cupped reverently in his hands, who replied when I asked him how he was doing, “I got this constant chatter all the time in my head, my brain I guess, and I've found walking on the beach is the only way I can handle it.”
But aside from my efforts on behalf of SOL, let me point out that the home invasion Mr. Modic unfortunately experienced presents no evidence that it was meth addicts, or “homeless tweekers (sic)” as Modic characterizes them early on. Nothing in the writings left behind, no meth paraphernalia, nada. The liquor bottle suggests alcohol aficionados. The writing, like “My house not yours,” indicates a rage born of envy and frustration. Modic, in fact, actually seems more inclined toward mental illness as a motive, and it is certainly present among homeless folks. I'm not defending meth users, just pointing out they may be innocent in this situation, which makes the assumption of guilt dangerously simplistic. Our culture is being overwhelmed by misinformation, outright lies, sloppy language, and a sort of deliberate ignorance that leads to some strangely warped beliefs. In a world where everyone is urged to pursue and embrace their dreams, let’s not forget that dreams die hard, and it becomes ever more difficult to withstand the damage.
Jim Dodge, Corresponding Secretary,
Society of Language
Manila (Humboldt County)
DON’T REWARD COUCH POTATOES
Dear Editor,
America's destructive socialism. How the useless create uselessness. Uselessness does not always look homeless. Sometimes it wears a suit and a bow tie. Think politicians and bureaucrats. A good way to destroy free enterprise and personal motivation is to have programs that reward uselessness and tax usefulness. It's called Social services. Or just socialism. The system also weakens family bonds and allows people to become more dependent on government programs.
These programs depend on ever-growing tax assessments and the ability to inflate the currency. Under this system more people will need help just to pay taxes. Higher taxes will then be needed to fund the growing taxation machine and the layoffs from the deaths of overtaxed businesses. Can you imagine getting a loan to pay taxes?
It is actually happening now. The only way to stimulate the economy is to lower taxes. All taxes: property taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, just to name a few.
Let's explore some ways to save money. Anyone making more than $200,000 per year on the taxation system should be subject to a 50% cut. Let them try to find a job that pays $100,000 in private business. Remember even after they retire they still collect 80% of their bloated salary. Government today is way too inflated especially at the top end. These people have no real skills unless you call pickpocketing a skill. When someone runs for office and they promise to take a 50% pay cut, that is the person you want to elect. Not Coast-Lib. Not inland-Lib. Not Lib. No matter how excited, humble, excited, or honored, they are couch potatoes and their real goal is to transfer your money into their account. This letter does not even touch on the subject of corruption which is a huge problem at all levels of government.
Tom Madden
Comptche
FOLLOW-UP ABOUT GAZA
Dear AVA:
Responding to Marshall Newman, AVA 12/6/23, where he asserts that "Israel had NO role in creating Hamas [and] whether Israel ever financed Hamas is doubtful ...", see the following:
Why Netanyahu Bolstered Hamas by Jeet Heer, The Nation, 12-11-23 Netanyahu and Hamas Depended on Each Other by Steve Hendrix and Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 11-26-23
How Israel Helped Create Hamas by Ishaan Tharor, Washington Post, 7-30-14 These articles, a small sampling of the large and long-standing literature on an old subject, are nuanced and richly sourced; whatever one thinks of The Nation and The Washington Post, they're not known as kook fringe outfits.
Quoting Mr. Newman, "Having picked this fight, Hamas and the Gazan people have lost the right to dictate the terms of the consequent battle." Really? The Gazan people, including the thousands of dead children, and the injured now freezing and starving in tents in the desert, without clean water, crawling with lice, stalked by disease, they "picked this fight"? I'm not following Mr. Newman here.
About The Great March of Return, in which scores of thousands of people participated between March 2018 and December 2019, Mr. Newman says, "And make no mistake, these protests were not peaceful; they frequently included Gazans breaching the border fence, making incursions into Israel, and burning tires to obscure their actions, all of which provoked Israel to take the action it took against the protesters."
"The action it took" was to shoot dead some 223 Palestinians and, according to Robert Mardini, head of Middle East for the International Committee of the Red Cross, wound more than 13,000, most severely, with some 1,400 struck by three to five bullets. One Israeli soldier was reported as slightly wounded on May 14, 2018.
From this one could fairly conclude that the violence was coming mostly from one side. Yes, there were burning tires, breaches of Israel's precious border fence, and what Marshall Newman calls "incursions into Israel". Were these really crimes that called for the death penalty or crippling injury by gunfire?
The demonstrators, most of whom, according to Wikipedia, demonstrated peacefully, were protesting for the right of return to lands they were displaced from; against Israel's air, land, and sea blockade; and the U.S. (Trump's) recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Israel's actions were condemned by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, B'Tselem, and anybody else with half a fucking brain and even a little heart.
Finally, while we're on the subject of Gaza and blockades, let us remember the fate of the nine Turkish nationals and one American Turkish national whom Israel shot to death when its troops stormed the Maavi Marmara, head of a relief flotilla on May 31, 2010, just a few years into the siege which persists to this sad day. There is a hopeful note:Â By any measure, and by many measures, American public opinion overwhelmingly favors a ceasefire.
Stephen Elliott
Bridgewater, Massachusetts
CLARIFICATION
Editor,
Sad that Stephen Elliot has difficulty following me on various points I made.
One being, “Having picked this fight, Hamas and the Gazan people have lost the right to dictate the terms of the consequent battle.” Discussing this, he conveniently left out Hamas, which started this conflict and which is responsible – by not working towards a durable ceasefire – for it continuing. He also left out that Gazans voted Hamas into power.
Another being, “And make no mistake, these protests were not peaceful; they frequently included Gazans breaching the border fence, making incursions into Israel, and burning tires to obscure their actions, all of which provoked Israel to take the action it took against the protesters.” He admits all of those things happened, then blames Israel for responding. Fairness and a proportional response are rare in these situations.
The main focus of my comments has been this current conflict. Yes, Israel has inflicted terrible death and destruction on Gaza, a significant proportion of which might have been avoided. However, this conflict began October 7 and Hamas is responsible for starting it. When will Hamas – on behalf of the Gazans it has so poorly served and who now bear the horrible brunt of that action – take the necessary steps to end it?
Marshall Newman
San Francisco
NIGHT SKIES
Editor:
Gerald Waxman, a popular professor and director of the Santa Rosa Junior College planetarium, died in 2009. As he was dying, his wife, and my neighbor, Pam Zimmerman, helped him publish a book based on the astronomy classes he taught. I am sorry I never got to meet Waxman, but I’m inspired by his book. Zimmerman told me he spent a lot of time staring at the night sky.
I, too, am a star gazer. I want to stargaze while sitting in my own backyard. Sadly, in the six years I’ve lived in Santa Rosa, light pollution has increased, making it harder to see the stars and planets. Besides blocking our view of the universe, light pollution disrupts wildlife, wastes money and energy, impacts human health and contributes to climate change.
Towns and cities around the world are working to reduce light pollution. Glen Ellen is one of them. Santa Rosa should join this movement. Dark Sky International, darksky.org, has ideas and suggestions for cities and citizens to reduce light pollution. If Gerald Waxman were still alive I believe he’d be advocating against light pollution.
Molly Martin
Santa Rosa
LET VOTERS DECIDE
Editor:
The Colorado state Supreme Court, with three justices dissenting, is denying Colorado citizens the right to vote for the presidential candidate of their choice. The Colorado justices ruled that Donald Trump’s name be taken off the primary ballot, and voters may not even write in his name. The justices’ premise is that they, and they alone, have decided that Trump is ineligible. This is wrong, and I would say so no matter who was being taken off the ballot, even if it was Joe Biden. Let the voters of Colorado, or any other state, decide who will be president. It is not the job of state court justices to legislate.
June Keefer
Santa Rosa
SECRETS LEAD TO AUTOCRACY
Dear Editor,
America has had its political flip-flop artists in the past, like President Woodrow Wilson. Anyone who followed Wilson down a political path was almost certain to meet him coming back the opposite direction.
However, virtually all of today’s politicians are as bad as the worst of those of the past. They don’t know what they are doing, unless it is positioning themselves for career enrichment, usurping the law, or buying votes through misleading speeches or advertising. Being a politician means caring more about money and power than about people.
Our politicians don’t know the history of this country. They don’t know the difference between democracy and autocracy. They don’t know how to give a straight answer to a question.
A politician squirms away from answering a question, answers a different question, or goes off on a campaign talking point.
Government leaders in a democracy are elected to serve and teach, not to hide anti-democratic activity going on behind the scenes.
Kimball Shinkoskey
Woods Cross, Utah
OBSCENE PRIORITIES
Editor:
Definition of obscenity: ob-scen-i-ty (noun): the quality or state of being deeply offensive or disgusting to morality or decency. Used in a sentence: While schoolteachers, social workers, fire, police and military personnel struggle to make ends meet, the ultimate obscenity is to pay baseball stars a $700 million salary (“Dodgers give two-way star Ohtani record-shattering $700 million, 10-year deal,” Santa Rosa Press Democrat, December 12. 2023).
Bob Canning
Petaluma
LACK OF PROPORTIONALITY…
Dear Editor,
The news from the Israeli/Hamas War continues to be as terrible as it possibly can be when “dumb bombs” are dropped in dubious response to the criminal rapes, murders, torturing horrible slaughter that marked October 7th, but what Pres. Benjamin Netanahu has carried out is out of proportion. Whatever he says, his nation’s war aims are, he is responsible for what took place on October 7th.
According to the ‘Guardian’ news our Western European allies, Germany and the UK, have criticized Israel for it lack of proportionality. “20,000 casualties.” Gaza hospitals are out of necesary medicines. Only a truce, better yet, a cease fire can bring releases of hostages. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is correct. Israel cannot destroy the freedom movement of a whole nation. What is coming will only be more hatred by the Palestinian people.
Frank H. Baumgardner, III
Santa Rosa
TRAIN TO NOWHERE
Editor:
I voted in 2008 against the high-speed rail system. Southwest Airlines transports people all over the state, quickly and cost-efficiently. Within a few months after the vote, construction costs went up, and the advertised one-way ticket from San Francisco to Los Angeles doubled in price.
Gov. Jerry Brown rescued this bad project by stealing money from the cap-and-trade fund. He changed what voters backed. If the backers of this high-speed rail system were Texas Republicans, Democrats would have cried fraud and had investigations for criminal and civil actions and lawsuits filed. But when Democrats and environmentalists do this, we are to look the other way and say it is good for the environment.
The train line is in the Central Valley. How many people will use it? No state subsidy allowed, but there probably will be one. Worse, all the billions spent could have helped complete the SMART line up to Cloverdale.
Andrew Smith
Santa Rosa
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NEW DELHI: The Joint Military Exercise 'Desert Cyclone 2024' between India and UAE will be held from January 2 to January 15 in
Rajasthan.
The joint drills under 'Desert Cyclone 2024' will aim to enhance interoperability by learning and sharing best practices in urban operations.
Taking to its official handle on X, the Indian Army posted, "Exercise #DesertCyclone_2024.The Inaugural edition of Joint Military Exercise #DesertCyclone, between #India & #UAE, will be conducted from 02 Jan to 15 Jan 2024 in #Rajasthan.
The exercise aims to enhance interoperability by learning & sharing best practices in Urban Operations."
India and the UAE enjoy strong bonds of friendship which are founded on millennia-old cultural, religious and economic intercourse between the two regions.
According to the Ministry of External Affairs, potential areas of bilateral cooperation in the defence field are the production and development of defence equipment; joint exercises of armed forces, particularly naval exercises; sharing of information on strategy and doctrines; technical cooperation in respect of Intermediate Jet Trainer etc.
In recent years, bilateral defence cooperation has been strengthened, notably in the field of defence training and supply of defence inventory, besides regular exchange programmes.
The first-ever India-UAE Joint Air Forces exercise took place in September 2008 at the Al-Dhafra base in Abu Dhabi.
India has also been a regular participant at the biennial International Defence Exhibition (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi.
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According to The Economist's calculations, over four billion people in 76 countries are set to cast their votes in 2024 to elect governments. It states that populous countries like Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, and the United States will have elections in 2024.
This is a remarkable coincidence, but the team at The Economist seems less enthused. They observe: "More people will vote in 2024 than in any previous year. But this great march to the ballot box does not necessarily mean an explosion of democracy." Instead of embracing the convergence of this global democratic carnival, the magazine opines that "2024 will be stressful for those who care about liberal democracy."
Democratic renewal of the kind we have not seen before
While I admire the audacity of some intelligent individuals sitting in a London office and offering their insights to the world, my humility reminds me not to dismiss the collective wisdom of a staggering four billion people. It is not my place to question the innate intelligence of voters. They have the right to make their choices, and who are we to challenge their preferences in the name of a flawed construct called "flawed democracies".
To me, an election is about engagement. It involves the pledges that parties make to voters, recognizing the importance of people at its core. It signifies a transition from the old to the new and a renewal of commitments, government structures, policy frameworks, and the engagement between people and government.
While some may have the audacity to despair at such a large-scale renewal, I do not share that sentiment. I wholeheartedly support the celebration of democratic renewal in 2024 on an unprecedented scale, and that is precisely the kind of optimism I eagerly anticipate as we await the arrival of the New Year.
In India, we are gearing up for the largest event of all-the Lok Sabha elections scheduled for April-May 2024. Additionally, key states such as Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Jharkhand, and possibly Jammu & Kashmir will hold elections. Regardless of the outcome (current indications suggest a one-sided election in favour of the Modi regime in New Delhi), India will move one step closer to its dream of achieving a $30 trillion economy.
Interest rate cuts across the world
A year marked by numerous elections will also witness another record, one not seen in 14 years. According to The Wall Street Journal, "With inflation crumbling around the globe, Bank of America strategists project 152 global central bank rate cuts next year, the most since 2009."
Interest rates cuts in 152 countries! This prospect is enough to bring a smile to even the most pessimistic observers of the economy. It is no wonder that Goldman Sachs is confidently asserting that the global economy will perform better in 2024 than many expect, with India retaining its title as the fastest-growing large economy.
Amidst the prevailing optimism fuelled by the grand-scale democratic renewal and declining credit costs worldwide, a note of caution emerges as the impact of climate change becomes increasingly evident in our lives. June of this year was the warmest on record, and some days in July recorded the highest temperatures ever. Dire predictions loom for 2024-it is projected to be even hotter than 2023, with global temperatures expected to surpass 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Furious climate change nightmare unfolding
The significance of the 1.5-degree Celsius target cannot be overstated; repeated breaches will have catastrophic consequences. If such breaches occur in the coming years, we must be prepared to bear a heavy price. The other side of this challenge is the significant investment in green technology and the raw materials that power it, a process already underway worldwide and poised to accelerate. This offers a silver lining amidst the chaos induced by climate change, which continues to unfold at frequent intervals across the globe.
What is heartening is the kind of decisive stand India has taken on this count. Even as India and many other developing countries have gone the extra mile on green transition, what is worrying is vacillation and double-speak by the developed countries. Hope better sense prevails in 2024.
When I look at the key events of 2024, I am more optimistic than ever because we are better equipped to handle challenges coming our way. While occasional geopolitical flare-ups may occur, the global system has developed a remarkable capacity to contain them locally.
As I bid farewell to the year that marked a period of recovery after the pandemic-induced hardships, I am confident that the year ahead will be one of renewal and consolidation.
The year 2023 started on a sombre note in India. There was a sense of gloom with geo-political tensions and spiking inflation. The end, however, has been the exact opposite of that. There is an unprecedented consensus on a 'we will do it' theme. Regardless of the challenges ahead, there is a seamless flow of collective energy ever eager for a big leap.
Let us all pledge to be at the forefront of democratic renewal and the resulting advancements. And let us all celebrate the impending India moment.
Wishing you all a very happy new year.
(Sanjay Pugalia is the CEO & Editor-in-Chief, AMG Media Network)
Disclaimer: These are the personal opinions of the author.
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Currency Traders Play With Fire As Rupee Stability Spurs Riskier Options
This lucrative trade play may burn a hole in market players' pockets if the rupee comes under pressure.
Currency traders in the India's foreign exchange market are choosing exotic option trades in the dollar-rupee pair amid the Reserve Bank of India's aggressive intervention to keep the rupee stable, according to four foreign currency traders who spoke to NDTV Profit anonymously.
This lucrative, but riskier, trade play is likely to burn a hole in market players' pockets if the rupee comes under pressure, they added.
Indian rupee has been trading in a narrow range of 83.25-83.40 a dollar over the last four months on account of the central bank's active two-sided intervention in the forex market.
A lack of significant trading opportunities in the spot market has turned currency traders to exotic foreign exchange options trading to make money, according to the traders quoted above. The build-up of such risk, if any external shock arises in the future, will result in hefty monetary losses, they added.
Exotic options are options contracts that differ from traditional options in their payment structures, expiration dates, and strike prices. These options can be customised to meet the risk tolerance and desired profit of the investor.
Although exotic options provide flexibility, they do not guarantee profit.
Options currently at play include knock-in and knock-out trades. These are options which get activated or expire whenever the rupee reaches a specific level against the dollar.
On the National Stock Exchange, the open interest on most-active options expiring on Dec. 29 at the strike price of 83.25 stood at 6.23 lakh contracts on Friday. According to the trader mentioned above, any level above 3 lakh contracts is considered high interest. NSE accounts for the highest volume of currency futures and options trading.
Some banks are selling call options on the dollar-rupee currency pair as the volatility in the spot rupee in 2023 has been lower than the implied volatility for options, a senior forex trader with a large private bank said, speaking anonymously.
On Friday, the rupee closed at 83.21 against the dollar, ensuring that the option sellers made a profit.
Aggressive Intervention
The RBI has turned the market players somewhat complacent through its aggressive interventions over the last few months. Thus they are encouraged to indulge into trades where the risk is negligible and they can pocket the premium without incurring losses, the private bank trader quoted above said.
The risk is building up, this person added.
Vikas Bajaj, head of currency derivatives at Kotak Securities, echoes this view.
"On the face of things, it may not be an alarming situation so long as volatility is well contained and yield chasing positions are in shorter tenors but things can turn bad, if for some reason volatility makes a sharp come back, and there is a vol (volatility) squeeze," Bajaj said.
Market players do not expect the rupee to fall beyond 83.75 a dollar in the near-term.
In October, RBI bought $36.7 billion and sold $36.9 billion in the spot market, according to the central bank's latest monthly bulletin. RBI had an outstanding currency futures position of $4.2 billion in October, the data showed.
Since then, the central bank's headline forex reserves, which do not factor in the forward book, have swelled up by $29 billion to $615 billion in December.
While the RBI's forex interventions is aimed at curbing sharp volatility in the exchange rate, the continued forex operations is to ensure a strong buffer as "foreign currency reserves are the first line of defense," according to Dhiraj Nim, economist at ANZ Research.
"It is very clear that they want to optically keep the reserve number decent," Nim said. "This means that they don't want to run down a lot of their spot reserves, in case there is a sell-off pressure on the the rupee."
"Secondly, the whole suite of intervention, whether it's by spot, forward or futures in India, is to manage market expectations and have a check on domestic liquidity," he added.
These spot dollar sales were followed by a similar intervention in the dollar-rupee forward market, to nullify the impact on systemic liquidity that is already running into deficit. According to RBI data, system liquidity is at Rs 2.68 lakh crore deficit, as of Thursday.
Emerging Threats
Simmering tensions in the Middle East and recent attacks in the Red Sea have brought back concerns of a rise in crude oil prices to the fore. This is likely to result in a pressure on the rupee in the future if the Brent crude oil prices surge to near $100 per barrel, the traders quoted above said.
Brent crude futures on the Intercontinental Exchange traded at $79.63 a barrel on Thursday, compared to $79.54 per barrel on Wednesday. Brent Crude hit a low of $73.52 on Dec 12, before the Red Sea attacks by Houthi rebels last week.
Geopolitical uncertainties along with an aggressive rate hike cycle by the US Federal Reserve in 2023 led RBI to conducting large forex intervention through spot, forward and futures market, the people quoted above said.
Owing to the swap transactions, RBI's forward book turned negative in October to $14.6 billion. This means that the central bank is required to sell this amount at a later date.
By that calculation, RBI's forex reserves are essentially at $600 billion after accounting for the net forward sales positions held by the central bank. Analysts expect the markets regulator to employ its three-pronged approach next year as well — mopping up dollar inflows, keeping the rupee stable, and strengthening its foreign currency coffers.
The fact that the Indian rupee is overvalued against the US dollar, even among its Asian peers, makes room for the RBI to continue its dollar purchases going ahead, the traders said.
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ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir on Sunday reaffirmed Pakistan Armed Forces’ patriotic spirit of serving the motherland, a land of immeasurable bounties and countless opportunities.
In a New Year message, the COAS said that a challenging yet momentous year of 2023 is over. “Pakistan Armed Forces wish a happy new year to the proud and honourable people of Pakistan.
Year 2024 is of immense significance for Pakistan both internally & externally. Pakistan Armed Forces reinforce the patriotic spirit of serving the motherland, a land of immeasurable bounties and countless opportunities,” he said.
He further stated: “Undoubtedly, our great nation will rise, in line with the dreams of our forefathers and aspirations of the people of Pakistan. Surely a bright future for the coming generations awaits us, InshaAllah.”
In line with the directive of the PM of Pakistan, he added that the armed forces of Pakistan stand with and pray for the resilient people of Palestine and Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir and hope that the New Year will bring relief in their sufferings from Tyrannical regimes.
“Pakistan Army as a National Army will leave no stone unturned to contribute to the cause of national security and development. We take pride in our unwavering commitment to the people of Pakistan. Pakistan Armed Forces and the people are ‘one’. No one can defeat the spirit of Pakistan,” the COAS further stated.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2024
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Chief Justice Roberts casts a wary eye on the uses of artificial intelligence in the federal courts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts on Sunday turned his focus to the promise, and shortcomings, of artificial intelligence in the federal courts, in an annual report that made no mention of Supreme Court ethics or legal controversies involving Donald Trump.
Describing artificial intelligence as the “latest technological frontier,” Roberts discussed the pros and cons of computer-generated content in the legal profession. His remarks come just a few days after the latest instance of AI-generated fake legal citations making their way into official court records, in a case involving ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
“Always a bad idea,” Roberts wrote in his year-end report, noting that “any use of AI requires caution and humility.”
At the same time, though, the chief justice acknowledged that AI can make it much easier for people without much money to access the courts. “These tools have the welcome potential to smooth out any mismatch between available resources and urgent needs in our court system,” Roberts wrote.
The report came at the end of a year in which a series of stories questioned the ethical practices of the justices and the court responded to critics by adopting its first code of conduct. Many of those stories focused on Justice Clarence Thomas and his failure to disclose travel, other hospitality and additional financial ties with wealthy conservative donors including Harlan Crow and the Koch brothers. But Justices Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor also have been under scrutiny.
The country also is entering an the beginning of an election year that seems likely to enmesh the court in some way in the ongoing criminal cases against Trump and efforts to keep the Republican former president off the 2024 ballot.
Along with his eight colleagues, Roberts almost never discusses cases that are before the Supreme Court or seem likely to get there. In past reports, he has advocated for enhanced security and salary increases for federal judges, praised judges and their aides for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and highlighted other aspects of technological changes in the courts.
Roberts once famously compared judges to umpires who call balls and strikes, but don’t make the rules. In his latest report, he turned to a different sport, tennis, to make the point that technology won’t soon replace judges.
At many tennis tournaments, optical technology, rather than human line judges, now determines “whether 130 mile per hour serves are in or out. These decisions involve precision to the millimeter. And there is no discretion; the ball either did or did not hit the line. By contrast, legal determinations often involve gray areas that still require application of human judgment,” Roberts wrote.
Looking ahead warily to the growing use of artificial intelligence in the courts, Roberts wrote: “I predict that human judges will be around for a while. But with equal confidence I predict that judicial work — particularly at the trial level — will be significantly affected by AI.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Michigan home explosion heard for miles kills 4 and injures 2, police say
DETROIT (AP) — Four people died and two others were injured Saturday in a Michigan house explosion that could be heard miles away, police said.
The explosion happened before 4 p.m. in Northfield Township, about 45 miles (72.4 kilometers) west of Detroit. The structure was destroyed, leaving only the basement, Northfield Township Police Lt. David Powell told reporters Saturday.
The blast, which could be heard about 9 miles (14.4 kilometers) away, sent debris into the air that landed on both sides of a nearby highway. Neighboring homes were not damaged, Powell said.
Six people were in the home, with four fatalities discovered at the scene and the two surviving victims hospitalized in critical condition. Police did not immediately know if the victims were related, Powell said.
Authorities have not determined the cause of the explosion.
Northfield Township police did not immediately return a message from The Associated Press seeking additional information on Sunday.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Happy New Year! Stunning fireworks light up Burj Khalifa as world welcomes 2024 | Watch Video
UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan wished for peace and progress in the new year.
Beautiful fireworks light up the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, in Dubai on January 1st, as the world joyfully welcomed 2024.
Ahead of the New Year, The Dubai Media Office also gave a sneak peek at the 10 months of planning and hard work that went into making the celebrations possible.
As the New Year ringed in, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan wished and prayed for peace and progress for all.
In a tweet on X, he wrote, “As we welcome the new year, let us stand united and pray for peace and progress for all people in the UAE, region, and world."
In Abu Dhabi, trucks, heavy vehicles and buses transporting labourers were banned from Abu Dhabi roads on New Year's Eve, the Traffic and Patrols Directorate of the Abu Dhabi Police, in cooperation with the Integrated Transport Centre had announced.
"This includes Sheikh Zayed Bridge, Sheikh Khalifa Bridge, Mussafah Bridge and Al Maqtaa Bridge," the Traffic and Patrols Directorate of the Abu Dhabi Police added, noting that the ban would be implemented from 7 am on Sunday, December 31, 2023, until 7 am on Monday, January 1, 2024.
"Exemptions from the ban include vehicles from public cleaning companies and logistical support," added the Traffic and Patrols Directorate.
Speaking of New Year celebration in other countries, In Australia, more than 1 million people watched a pyrotechnic display centered around Sydney’s famous Opera House and harbor bridge — a number of spectators equivalent to one in five of the city’s residents.
In New York, people lined up early to nab a spot in Times Square for the midnight ball drop. Officials and party organizers said they were prepared to keep tens of thousands of revelers safe in the heart of Manhattan, as the city has seen near-daily protests sparked by the Israel-Hamas war.
China celebrated relatively quietly, with most major cities banning fireworks over safety and pollution concerns. Still, people gathered and performers danced in colorful costumes in Beijing, while a crowd released wish balloons in Chongqing. During his New Year address, President Xi Jinping said the country would focus on building momentum for economic recovery in 2024 and pledged China would “surely be reunified" with Taiwan.
In India, thousands of revelers from the financial hub of Mumbai watched the sun set over the Arabian Sea. Fireworks in New Delhi raised concerns that the capital — already infamous for its poor air quality — would be blanketed by a toxic haze on the first morning of the new year.
(With inputs from AP)
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NEW DELHI: The Israel Embassy blast case has been transferred to the special cell of Delhi Police and an FIR was registered at Tughlak Road Police Station.
As per Delhi Police, now special cell will lead the further investigations in the case. The suspicious blast that took place near the Israel Embassy on December 26.
"The case has been transferred to the special cell of Delhi Police.
The special cell will further investigate the matter; the FIR was registered at Tughlak Road Police Station of New Delhi District. New Delhi district also handed over the initial observation report of central agencies to a special cell," said a statement from Delhi police.
According to Delhi Police, the component of the blast was yet to be ascertained and therefore, they have been waiting for forensic reports to come. The samples of leaves and soil from the spot were collected by forensic experts from the National Security Group (NSG) and Delhi Police on Wednesday.
The Delhi Police have launched a search operation in the whole area, in which the people who passed the spot just before the incident were interrogated. Apart from this, all the taxi and auto drivers who had passed Prithvi Raj Road and Abdul Kalam Road were also interrogated thoroughly.
On Tuesday, Delhi Police received a call that a 'blast' was heard near the Israeli Embassy in the Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave, but officials said that nothing as such was found at the spot of the incident.
Paramilitary forces have been deployed outside the Israeli Embassy in Delhi, two days after the police received a call about a 'blast' being heard near the area. The sound of the blast was heard by the security official standing near the Israel embassy, which informed an official of the FSL team.
Delhi Special Cell, Dog Squad and NIA officials carried out an investigation outside the Israel Embassy. The Delhi police have zeroed in on two 'suspects' after examining the CCTV footage of the area.
Officials have, however, not confirmed the duo's involvement in the same. Israel's Deputy Ambassador to India, Ohad Nakash Kaynar, confirmed that all the workers and the diplomats at the Israel embassy were safe.
"All our workers are safe, and all our diplomats are safe. Our security teams are working in full cooperation with the local Delhi security and they will investigate the matter further," he said.
A security guard standing near the embassy said," I heard a loud noise at around 5 pm The noise was similar to a tyre burst. I also saw smoke going up near a tree."
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Astana and Tashkent hockey schools sign memo
09:46, 23 February 2019
ASTANA. KAZINFORM Specialized ice hockey youth athletic school of Astana city and Binokor hockey club of Tashkent signed a memorandum of cooperation in the capital of Kazakhstan, the culture and sport department reports.
The memorandum provides for development of mutual cooperation, exchange of programs, practice and information of mutual interest in spheres such as mass sports, sports science and medicine, sports technologies and infrastructure, use of doping, transfer policy and sports management.
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The naval battle underlines the risk of a regional escalation in fighting.
Copenhagen/Dubai/Cairo: US helicopters repelled an attack by Iran-backed Houthi militants on a Maersk container vessel in the Red Sea, sinking three ships and killing 10 militants, according to accounts by American, Maersk, and Houthi officials on Sunday.
The naval battle occurred around 0330 GMT on Sunday as the attackers sought to board the Singapore-flagged Maersk Hangzhou, Maersk and US Central Command (CENTCOM) said. Helicopters from the USS Eisenhower and USS Gravely joined the ship's security team in repelling the attackers after receiving a distress call, CENTCOM said.
Maersk said it was pausing all sailing through the Red Sea for 48 hours after the attack.
A spokesman for the Houthis said the group carried out the attack because the ship's crew refused to heed warning calls. He said 10 Houthi naval personnel were "dead and missing" after their boats were attacked by US forces in the Red Sea.
The naval battle underlines the risk of a regional escalation in fighting as Israel continues with its relentless bombing campaign following a Hamas surprise cross-border attack on Israeli towns on Oct. 7 that left 1,200 dead, and took 240 hostages. Israel's air and artillery bombardment has killed more than 21,800 people, according to Gazan health authorities.
Yemen's Houthis have been targeting vessels in the Red Sea since November to show their support for Hamas, prompting major shipping companies to take the longer and costlier route around the Africa's Cape of Good Hope rather than through the Suez Canal.
The Red Sea is the entry point for ships using the Suez Canal, which handles about 12% of global trade and vital for the movement of goods between Asia and Europe.
The United States launched Operation Prosperity Guardian on Dec. 19, saying more than 20 countries had agreed to participate in the efforts to safeguard ships in Red Sea waters near Yemen.
Maersk, one of the world's top cargo shippers, said on Dec. 24 it would resume sailing through the Red Sea. However, attacks have continued and US allies have proven reluctant to commit to the coalition, with nearly half not declaring their presence publicly.
The botched Houthi boarding operation was the second attack on the Maersk Hangzhou in as many days. The ship, which is carrying 14,000 containers en route from Singapore, was on Saturday hit by a missile about 55 nautical miles southwest of Al Hodeidah, Yemen.
The shipping company added that the crew of the Maersk Hangzhou crew was safe and there was no indication of fire onboard the vessel, which continued its journey north toward the Suez Canal.
White House national security spokesperson John Kirby declined to say what options the US is considering when asked on ABC's "Good Morning America" if Washington would consider a preemptive strike on the Houthis.
"We have made it clear publicly to the Houthis, we've made it clear privately to our allies and partners in the region, that we take these threats seriously."
Writing in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, British Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said: "We are willing to take direct action, and we won't hesitate to take further action to deter threats to freedom of navigation in the Red Sea."
"The Houthis should be under no misunderstanding: we are committed to holding malign actors accountable for unlawful seizures and attacks," he said.
Earlier on Sunday, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said he had told Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in a call that Iran should help stop the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea.
The BIMCO shipping association condemned the attacks and thanked those states involved in repelling them.
"We are thankful to US, French, and UK efforts so far and hope even more states will support the coalition with naval assets or other impactful means including diplomatic pressure on the Houthis and their sponsors," Jakob Larsen, BIMCO's head of maritime safety and security, told Reuters.
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China Home Sales Fall Again As Policy Shifts Fail To Stem Decline
China’s prolonged housing downturn has weakened the economy and hurt developers that are struggling to repay debts and complete projects.
(Bloomberg) -- The slide in China’s home sales accelerated in December, underscoring the challenges to arrest the country’s property slump.
The value of new home sales among the 100 biggest real estate companies fell 34.6% from a year earlier to 451.3 billion yuan ($64 billion), compared with a 29.6% decline in November, according to preliminary data from China Real Estate Information Corp. on Sunday.
That puts major developers’ full-year sales 16.5% lower than 2022, worse than the institution’s earlier estimate of a 15% drop. December’s sales were up 15.7% compared with the previous month.
China’s prolonged housing downturn has weakened the economy and hurt developers that are struggling to repay debts and complete projects. In the latest move to revive demand, authorities relaxed homebuying curbs in Beijing and Shanghai, two of the country’s biggest housing markets.
Officials in the two mega cities cut downpayment requirements for some homebuyers and also changed the definition of so-called non-luxury homes, effectively allowing more residences to qualify for lower mortgages. The changes followed central government guidance to cut downpayment requirements in late August.
Despite policy changes, the market remains sluggish, with home sales plunging 20 out of the past 24 months. Buyers remain on the sidelines, spooked by price drops, construction delays and company defaults.
Industry giant Country Garden Holdings Co. defaulted on a dollar bond for the first time in late October. China Evergrande Group, the world’s most indebted developer, narrowly avoided liquidation this month when a winding-up court hearing was postponed, as it struggles to restructure its borrowings.
The government has signaled stronger support to ease developers’ funding woes. China’s vice housing minister earlier this month pledged to avoid a cascade of debt defaults. Last month, authorities created a draft list of developers eligible for bank support and may allow lenders to offer them unsecured loans for the first time, people familiar have said.
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ARBIL, (Iraq): Authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan said Sunday two drones struck a military base used by the autonomous region’s security forces, blaming the attack on “outlaws” funded by Baghdad.
The attack on the base in Arbil province was carried out late Saturday and caused some damage but no casualties, the regional government said in a statement.
The region’s peshmerga forces are allies of the US-led anti-jihadist coalition that has troops deployed in Iraq. There was no immediate claim for the attack.
But since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7, there has been a surge in attacks on US forces and their allies in Iraq and neighbouring Syria.
The majority have been claimed by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a loose alliance of Iran-linked armed groups that oppose US support for Israel in the Gaza war.
On Sunday afternoon, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed responsibility for a drone attack which it said was aimed at US-led coalition forces stationed at Arbil airport.
Authorities in the region said the drone was shot down. A tally by US military officials has counted 106 attacks against its troops in Iraq and Syria since October 17.
The prime minister of Kurdistan, Masrour Barzani, said he was “deeply alarmed” by Saturday’s drone attack. “I condemn the outlaws and their collaborators in the strongest terms possible,” he said on X, formerly Twitter.
The regional government said these groups “are funded by the federal government” in Baghdad, with which it has strained relations. The government of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani is backed by pro-Tehran parties.
Sudani’s office said Sunday he “had ordered a thorough investigation into this criminal (drone) attack”, in coordination with the Iraqi Kurdish security services.
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Nearly half of all states will raise the minimum wage in 2024
Published: Dec. 31, 2023 at 8:57 PM EST|Updated: 17 minutes ago
(CNN) - Millions of workers will get a pay bump when the clock strikes midnight on Monday, January 1.
Nearly half of all U.S. states and the District of Columbia will increase their minimum wage in 2024.
Washington state will continue to have the highest minimum wage in the country at $16.28 an hour. That’s up from $15.74 an hour.
And over in Hawaii, workers will receive the largest increase, raising its minimum wage to $14 an hour.
And Washington D.C. will have the highest hourly minimum wage in the country at $17.05. The city will raise its minimum wage again this summer.
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Beautiful fireworks light up the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, in Dubai on January 1st, as the world joyfully welcomed 2024.
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Ahead of the New Year, The Dubai Media Office also gave a sneak peek at the 10 months of planning and hard work that went into making the celebrations possible.
As the New Year ringed in, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan wished and prayed for peace and progress for all.
In a tweet on X, he wrote, “As we welcome the new year, let us stand united and pray for peace and progress for all people in the UAE, region, and world."
In Abu Dhabi, trucks, heavy vehicles and buses transporting labourers were banned from Abu Dhabi roads on New Year's Eve, the Traffic and Patrols Directorate of the Abu Dhabi Police, in cooperation with the Integrated Transport Centre had announced.
"This includes Sheikh Zayed Bridge, Sheikh Khalifa Bridge, Mussafah Bridge and Al Maqtaa Bridge," the Traffic and Patrols Directorate of the Abu Dhabi Police added, noting that the ban would be implemented from 7 am on Sunday, December 31, 2023, until 7 am on Monday, January 1, 2024.
"Exemptions from the ban include vehicles from public cleaning companies and logistical support," added the Traffic and Patrols Directorate.
Speaking of New Year celebration in other countries, In Australia, more than 1 million people watched a pyrotechnic display centered around Sydney’s famous Opera House and harbor bridge — a number of spectators equivalent to one in five of the city’s residents.
In New York, people lined up early to nab a spot in Times Square for the midnight ball drop. Officials and party organizers said they were prepared to keep tens of thousands of revelers safe in the heart of Manhattan, as the city has seen near-daily protests sparked by the Israel-Hamas war.
China celebrated relatively quietly, with most major cities banning fireworks over safety and pollution concerns. Still, people gathered and performers danced in colorful costumes in Beijing, while a crowd released wish balloons in Chongqing. During his New Year address, President Xi Jinping said the country would focus on building momentum for economic recovery in 2024 and pledged China would “surely be reunified" with Taiwan.
In India, thousands of revelers from the financial hub of Mumbai watched the sun set over the Arabian Sea. Fireworks in New Delhi raised concerns that the capital — already infamous for its poor air quality — would be blanketed by a toxic haze on the first morning of the new year.
(With inputs from AP)
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Nagpur: The Nagpur district and sessions court on Saturday rejected disqualified
Maharashtra Congress MLA Sunil Kedar's plea seeking stay on his conviction, suspension of his jail term and grant of bail. Kedar had filed the plea after being convicted in Rs 150-crore Nagpur District Central Cooperative Bank (NDCCB) scam.
Rejecting Kedar's application, district and additional sessions judge RS Patil-Bhosale said, "It would send a wrong message to society if bail is granted to such an accused as the scam involved Rs 150 crore of hard-earned money of the poor farmers and common man." Kedar was the bank's chairman when the scam took place in 2002.
A magisterial court had on December 22 convicted Kedar and five others - NDCCB ex-general manager Ashok Chaudhary, stockbroker Ketan Seth, Giltage Management Services manager Amit Verma, senior vice-president of Home Trade Securities Subodh Bhandari and director of Home Trade Securities Nandkishor Trivedi - and awarded them five years of rigorous imprisonment.
The five others convicted along with Kedar had filed separate bail applications. The court would decide on these applications on January 2.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Robert Carpenter had 20 points in New Mexico State's 66-61 victory against Cal Baptist on Saturday night.
Carpenter added seven rebounds for the Aggies (6-9). Jaylin Jackson-Posey was 4-of-10 shooting and 2 of 4 from the free-throw line to add 11 points. Femi Odukale shot 3 of 9 from the field and 1 for 5 from the foul line to finish with seven points.
The Lancers (8-5) were led in scoring by Kendal Coleman, who finished with 14 points and 12 rebounds. Dominique Daniels Jr. added 14 points for Cal Baptist. In addition, Hunter Goodrick had 13 points and seven rebounds.
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Astana announces roster for Tour De La Provence 2019
18:06, 11 February 2019
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - Astana Pro Team will take part in the UCI Europe Tour 2.1 stage race Tour de la Provence, which will be held in France fron February 14th to 17th, Kazinform has learnt from the club's press service.
Team's line-up includes Laurens De Vreese, Daniil Fominykh, Dmitriy Gruzdev, Gorka Izagirre, Jonas Gregaard Wilsly and Andrey Zeits.
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‘We rely on people to decide who they want to listen to’
A retiree in North Carolina has a constitutional right to speak about math, in public, according to a ruling from a federal judge, Richard Myers.
His opinion held that the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors violated the First Amendment when it ordered Wayne Nutt not to speak about engineering issues.
They demanded he have a state license in order to speak.
According to the Institute for Justice, it sued after the state officials “sent him a series of threatening letters ordering him to stop publicly offering opinions about engineering without a license, on pain of potential criminal punishment.”
Nutt, in fact, is a trained engineer, but under the various licensing rules, he was not required to hold his own license as he worked in a corporate environment for his entire career.
“State licensing boards nationwide increasingly act as if they are boards of censors, deciding who may or may not speak about the topics they regulate,” charged IJ attorney Joe Gay. “Today’s ruling is a powerful reminder that in this country we rely on people to decide who they want to listen to. We don’t rely on government boards to decide who gets to speak.”
The judge’s ruling concluded that the state board was in violation of the First Amendment with the speech restrictions it demanded.
The case erupted when the board discovered he was using his decades of experience as a working engineer to offer opinions about the designs of public works.
State officials claimed he could be found guilty of a misdemeanor unless he obtained his own engineer’s license from the state.
“At its core, this case concerns the extent to which a law-abiding citizen may use his technical expertise to offer a dissenting perspective against the government,” the judge said. “Stating that dissent required the speaker to use his expertise in several ways. He had to do some math. He had to apply recognized methodologies. He even had to write a report memorializing his work. Some of that work may plausibly be considered conduct. But it ends up providing him the basis to speak his mind.”
“The First Amendment protects everyone’s right to speak their minds, whether they’re talking about politics or talking about math,” explained IJ Deputy Director of Litigation Robert McNamara. “Regulators often seem to forget that basic fact, but we always stand ready to remind them.”
WND reported the case exploded when he offered comment on a piping system that reportedly flooded a couple of homes.
The IJ pointed out that the board is known for such antics, and it previously sued a photographer who was using drones to take informational photographs, which he sold.
The board accused him of performing surveying work without a license.
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Ireland’s Finance Minister Predicts Strong Economy In 2024
The domestic economy, measured by modified gross national income, will expand at a “still a healthy pace” of 2.5% in 2023-2024, the IMF said.
(Bloomberg) -- Ireland’s economy will remain strong in 2024 as inflationary pressures ease and key measures support growth, Finance Minister Michael McGrath said in an interview with theBusiness Post.
While acknowledging global headwinds, McGrath said Ireland had much to be optimistic about with record employment, falling national debt, a large budget surplus and increasing housing output.
“The Irish economy will continue to grow as measured by modified domestic demand, a measure we believe best reflects the underlying health of the Irish economy,” he told the newspaper. “I am confident about the prospects in 2024.”
McGrath confirmed that the state’s finances will finish the year in surplus.
His comments follow the International Monetary Fund’s prediction this month of a soft landing for Ireland’s economy and praise for its “remarkable resilience in the face of consecutive shocks.” The IMF said private consumption underpinned solid growth, even as homegrown activity slowed.
The domestic economy, measured by modified gross national income, will expand at a “still a healthy pace” of 2.5% in 2023-2024, the IMF said. It warned, however, of “considerable external risks” — including weaker foreign demand, rising commodity prices and global conflicts.
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LONDON: Australian-born investigative journalist and documentary maker John Pilger, known for his support for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his coverage of the aftermath of Pol Pot’s regime in Cambodia and the Thalidomide scandal, has died in London, his family said Sunday.
Pilger, who had mostly lived in Britain since the early 1960s, had worked for Reuters, Britain’s left-wing Daily Mirror and commercial channel ITV’s former investigative programme World In Action.
In 1979, the ITV film “Year Zero: The Silent Death Of Cambodia” revealed the extent of the Khmer Rouge’s crimes, and Pilger won an International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences award for his 1990s follow-up ITV documentary “Cambodia: The Betrayal”.
Pilger also made the 1974 documentary for ITV called “Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot”, about the campaign for compensation for children after concerns were raised about birth defects when expectant mothers took the drug.
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