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Patanjali to invest Rs 1,000 crore in Uttarakhand
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- India
Patanjali Yogpeeth will make investments of more than Rs 1,000 crore in Uttarakhand to improve public health in the state and promote its rich culture, the trust claimed on Wednesday.
Making the announcement in Gangotri, Patanjali Yogpeeth founder Baba Ramdev said he will work towards making Uttarakhand the "spiritual and cultural capital of the world".
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and Ramdev were in Gangotri to flag off an expedition from Gangotri to Rakt Van in the Himalayas. The expedition has been jointly organised by Patanjali and the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering to explore the medicinal herbs of the state and discover unnamed peaks.
''The world health mission will begin from Uttarakhand,'' the yoga guru and entrepreneur said.
Dhami also reiterated his government's commitment to make Uttarakhand the cultural and spiritual capital of the world.
Dhami expressed hope that the expedition, led by Ramdev's close aid Acharya Balkrishna, achieves its goal.
There are ten members in the expedition team which besides Balkrishna, also has NIM principal Colonel Amit Bisht.
The expedition will conclude on September 25.
Earlier, Ramdev also did yogasanas on the banks of Gangotri for the benefit of the teerth purohits.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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CM Dhami writes to Uttarakhand Assembly Speaker, seeks high-level probe into UKSSSC scam | https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/2178481-patanjali-to-invest-rs-1000-crore-in-uttarakhand | 2022-09-14T12:55:35 | en | 0.941834 |
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen Wednesday said Bangladeshi delegation led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will actively participate in all the events at the 77th United National General Assembly (UNGA) as the Premier is scheduled to address at UN on 23 September next, reports BSS.
"In her speech, she (Hasina) is expected to highlight the government's activities in Bangladesh's incredible economic development, health, education and development in the technology sector," he said in a media briefing held at foreign ministry.
The foreign minister said the Prime Minister will urge the international community to find ways to resolve the Rohingya crisis in accordance with international laws.
The Premier will also put emphasis on the challenges that developing countries are facing in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), he added.
Besides, he said, Bangladesh's strong position in peacekeeping operations to ensure international peace and security, 'zero-tolerance policy on terrorism and violent extremism, sustainable management of marine resources, safe migration and ensuring access to basic services for migrants, climate change and its impacts, the establishment of climate justice, and issues related to Palestine will come up in Premier's speech.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will attend a high-level discussion on the sidelines of the 77th UN General Assembly in New York on 22 September apart from her other engagements at the UNGA.
The theme of the seventy-seventh session of the UN General Assembly is "A watershed moment: transformative solutions to interlocking challenges."
Referring to sanctions following the situation in Ukraine, Momen said any decision should be taken in consultation with all so that people in the world do not suffer.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will attend the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London on 19 September while she is scheduled to leave Dhaka for Britain on 15 September, said the foreign minister.
She will return home after attending the 77th UN General Assembly in New York followed by a visit to Washington DC. Foreign minister Momen will be accompanying the PM during her upcoming visits to London, New York and Washington. | https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/lrhgl89lr5 | 2022-09-14T12:55:37 | en | 0.940111 |
Package explodes on Boston's Northeastern University campus; 1 injured
BOSTON - A package exploded on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston late Tuesday, and the college said a staff member suffered minor injuries.
Authorities said another suspicious package was found near a prominent art museum and the FBI was assisting with the investigation.
The parcel that blew up was one of two that were reported to police early in the evening. Boston's bomb squad neutralized a second package near the city's Museum of Fine Arts, which is on the outskirts of the Northeastern campus.
NBC Boston reported that the package that exploded went off as it was being opened near the university's Holmes Hall, which is home to the university's creative writing program and its women's, gender and sexuality studies program. It said the FBI was assisting the investigation.
Authorities declined to elaborate, but Northeastern spokesperson Shannon Nargi said in a statement that an unidentified university staff member suffered minor injuries to his hand in the explosion. Felipe Colon, a Boston police superintendent, later described the victim as a 45-year-old man.
Police converged on the campus shortly before 7:30 p.m., and the university asked students who had gathered for an evening journalism class at the hall to evacuate the building.
Northeastern is a private university in downtown Boston with about 16,000 undergraduate students. WCVB-TV said one of its reporters, Mike Beaudet, was teaching a class there at the time. Beaudet told the station his class was moved outside but that neither he nor his students heard an explosion.
Michael Davis, chief of Northeastern's police force, told reporters the campus was secure. Boston police didn't say whether any other suspicious packages were found.
"We’re monitoring the situation at Northeastern and we’re ready to work with the university and our law enforcement partners on any prosecutions that may develop," Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said, promising "a comprehensive investigation to determine exactly what occurred here."
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both on the other side of the Charles River separating Boston from Cambridge, said they were increasing patrols on their campuses as a precaution and urging students and faculty to report anything suspicious.
Tuesday's explosion marked one of the first big scares in Boston since 2013, when two bombs planted near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three spectators and wounded more than 260 others.
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She made her three children educated from renowned educational institutions of the world and they are successful and established in their respective fields today, he said.
After losing her father, the AL general secretary said, Sheikh Rehana faced endless sufferings but overcame those with patience.
Quader also said Sheikh Rehana used public transports in cities like London and even she is sharing a house with another Bangalee family there.
“Despite that, she never derails from the principles and ideals of the Father of the Nation. Bangabandhu’s daughter Sheikh Rehana has set a rare example of living like an unassuming commoner despite being at the centre of power,” Quader said.
Quader also said Sheikh Rehana used public transports in cities like London and even she is sharing a house with another Bangalee family there
He said Sheikh Rehana is the name of a human character comprising a wonderful combination of patience, honesty, courage, determination, diligence, devotion, generosity and self-control.
The road transport minister said after losing most of their family members in the 15 August carnage in 1975, two sisters – Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana – were the last resort to each other, bearing an ocean of sorrow in their hearts.
The two sisters had passed the exiled and terrible expatriate life sharing their pains with each others, he said.
After the killing of Bangabandhu, Quader said, Sheikh Rehana under the instruction of Sheikh Hasina voiced protest first in the international arena against “the cruelest carnage in the human history”.
He further said despite being a member of a political family, Sheikh Rehana never comes to active politics.
“But, apart from inspiring AL president Sheikh Hasina and other politicians of the party, she (Rehana) has been providing advice and cooperation on various issues in every crisis, including the movement and struggle to restore democracy and the spirit of the Liberation War,” the AL general secretary said.
He said Sheikh Rehana played a similar role in making prime minister Sheikh Hasina a successful statesman, just as Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatun Nesa Mujib had played in making Sheikh Mujib Bangabandhu and the Father of the Nation.
Sheikh Rehana has been quietly playing a role in the welfare of the country and its people while she even donated her Dhanmondi house for the country’s emancipation, Quader added. | https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/politics/eidpxthhsy | 2022-09-14T12:55:43 | en | 0.972524 |
India - a sovereign nation - can make its own decisions, says Pentagon on Vostok military exercises
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- United States
The United States has dismissed questions about India's participation in the recent multinational military exercises hosted by Russia and attended by countries like China, saying that India is a sovereign nation and it can make its own decisions.
''Certainly, we have appreciated our partnership with India in the region. They're an important partner, as you know. And we'll continue to work closely with them,'' Pentagon Spokesman Brig Gen Patrick Ryder told reporters while responding to a question on India participating in Vostok military exercises with Russia and China.
''India's a sovereign nation, they can make their own decisions in terms of who they're going to conduct exercises with,'' Ryder told reporters on Tuesday.
The Vostok military exercises was held from September 1 to 7 at different locations in Russia's Far East amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
According to the Russian Defence Ministry, the Vostok 2022 exercise involved more than 50,000 troops and over 5,000 weapons units, including 140 aircraft and 60 warships. The drills engaged troops from China, India, Laos, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Syria and several ex-Soviet nations.
''We have a very close partnership and relationship - defence relationship with India. We obviously will continue to work with India and further develop that relationship," Ryder said.
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PnB Rock's tragic death raises concerns about dangers of sharing location to social media
LOS ANGELES - Music fans and fellow artists are in shock after learning that rapper PnB Rock was shot and killed in South Los Angeles.
On Monday afternoon, the Los Angeles Police Department responded to a call of a shooting at a Roscoe's House of Chicken 'N Waffles on Manchester Avenue. LAPD said one person was shot from the restaurant and that person was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The rapper's death was confirmed by his record label, Atlantic Records.
PnB Rock, born Rakim Allen, was dining at the restaurant with his girlfriend at the time of the shooting. TMZ said in a report that the suspect may have targeted PnB Rock in a robbery after he posted a video of himself wearing expensive jewelry on social media.
On Tuesday, LAPD Chief Michel Moore confirmed PnB Rock was likely targeted because of his social media post. Moore said investigators believe the suspect(s) saw the rapper and his girlfriend's whereabouts and tracked them down in Monday's shooting.
Across social media, PnB Rock's death drew comparisons to how Pop Smoke was fatally shot in 2020. At the time of the investigation, LAPD believed that Pop Smoke's social media posts may have helped the suspects track down the rapper's location.
Rapper PnB Rock has reportedly died at the hospital after a shooting broke out at Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles in Los Angeles County.
A Feb. 2020 report from the Los Angeles Times suggested that Pop Smoke, born Bashar Jackson, or a member of his entourage shared a picture of a gift bag tagged with a Hollywood Hills address.
"What we’re not going to do is have victim shaming…they have a right to share their location" community activist Najee Ali said during a news conference Tuesday afternoon. "Being murdered in cold blood was the wrong thing to happen."
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Pop superstar Nicki Minaj was among those making the comparisons on social media.
"After Pop Smoke there’s no way we as rappers or our loved ones are still posting locations to our whereabouts," Minaj wrote on social media.
YouTuber turned professional boxer Jake Paul shared his reaction to social media shortly after the news broke. Paul also linked PnB Rock's death with Pop Smoke in the same sentence, calling the two incidents "senseless murders."
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According to LAPD, the gunman in the Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles shooting hopped on a getaway car and fled the scene. LAPD said officers do not know which direction the car went. As of Monday night, a description of the suspect vehicle has not been released.
On Tuesday, FOX 11 spoke with a security expert who has experience working with celebrities. Louis Perry, the celebrity security, warns the general public – not just the Hollywood stars – needs to be aware of their surroundings and what they wear.
"Don’t wear the jewelry in any place out the doors right now," he said. "There are a lot of crazy people out there and believe me the crazy people are desperate… they don’t target just rappers, they target anybody with money."
PnB Rock's reported death comes just days after entertainment personality DJ Akademiks released an interview with the rapper. In their conversation, the two discussed crime in Los Angeles and how brazen some of the criminals are.
"LA has gotten weird," DJ Akademiks said in his podcast.
"Somebody tried me on Fairfax, like mid-pandemic," PnB Rock said in the recorded interview, alleging he was previously targeted by a robber.
PnB Rock, who is from Philadelphia, said crimes are different in Los Angeles.
"Where I'm from, we like sneaky criminals," PnB Rock said in the interview. "LA is like, they bold. They want to spark a conversation with you first before they get into some s**t."
"LA spooky man," DJ Akademiks said later in the interview.
"I really don't really be outside like that," PnB Rock said, in part, during the interview. "I'm not going to put myself in those situations." | https://www.fox29.com/news/pnb-rocks-tragic-death-raises-concerns-about-dangers-of-sharing-location-to-social-media | 2022-09-14T12:55:46 | en | 0.976874 |
The name of that man is Ismail Rahman, who on the night of 10 September, went to the Gendaria police station in the capital to lodge the report. His son Ashikur Rahman is the joint convener of Chhatra Dal’s Kadamtali unit.
Ashikur took part in a programme arranged by BNP’s Dhaka North unit in front of the Bhashani Bhaban at the capital’s Naya Paltan on 10 September.
The police can’t just cook up a story. This attack was the outcome of internal conflict. The accused leaders have been embroiled in a conflict with the injured leaders for a long time. We have CCTV footage of the incidentAbu Saeed Al Mamun , OC, Gendaria police station
While returning home after the programme, he and two other BNP leaders were attacked near the Dayaganj truck stand. A few miscreants came out of a microbus and stabbed the BNP leaders. After the miscreants fled the scene in the microbus, the passersby took the wounded BNP leaders to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The other injured BNP leaders are Chhatra Dal’s Kadamtali unit convener Ariful Islam and Kadamtali unit’s no. 58 ward’s joint convener Atiqur Rahman.
Ismail Rahman, whose son Ashiqur is critically injured, spoke to Prothom Alo on Monday night on the phone. He said, at around 8:00pm on the day of the incident he went to the Gendaria police station to file a case against unidentified perpetrators.
But the police wrote down names of the accused as per their wishes and told him to sign it. When he saw the names of the accused and said these people weren’t at the site of the incident, the OC replied that they were there, the police saw it in the CCTV footage.
Ismail said, “When I refused to sign, the OC said if you don’t file the case, we will. Later, I heard that the police filed the case against the BNP leaders.”
But the police are not accepting Ismail’s statement. Gendaria police station’s officer in-charge (OC) Abu Saeed Al Mamun said, “The police can’t just cook up a story. This attack was the outcome of internal conflict. The accused leaders have been embroiled in a conflict with the injured leaders for a long time. We have CCTV footage of the incident.”
Out of the 15 accused in the case, the prime accused is Dhaka South unit BNP joint convener Tanvir Ahmed. The three injured are his supporters.
Tanvir told Prothom Alo, Ashiqur’s father gave the registration plate no. of the microbus the attackers used to the police. But the police didn’t try to use that number to track down the miscreants. The police have intentionally filed cases against him and other leaders.
Two ward councilors of the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) have also been named as accused in the case. They are, no. 53 ward councillor Mir Hossain, who is also the former president of BNP’s Kadamtali unit, and no. 61 ward councillor Jummun Mia, who is the former president of BNP’s Jatrabari unit.
They are our activists, they are members of Chhatra Dal, they are like our younger brothers. But the police have filed a case against us. What more can I say
The other accused are DSCC no. 53 ward BNP’s member secretary Delwar Hossain, the senior joint convener of the same ward Anwar Hossain, DSCC no. 52 ward BNP’s convener Md. Dipu, DSCC no. 60 ward BNP’s convener Yusuf Ali Bhuiyan, former general secretary of Jubo Dal’s Kadamtali unit Alamgir Hossain. The other seven accused are also involved with BNP.
The three wounded Chhatra Dal leaders are still hospitalised. Out of them, Ashiqur’s condition is critical.
Arifur, one of the three injured leaders, told Prothom Alo that those who have been accused in the case, are his political comrades. He said that this case was baseless and has been filed to trouble the BNP leaders.
When the Gendaria police station’s OC was asked about the injured Chhatra Dal leader saying that Tanvir Ahmed, two councillors and the other accused weren’t present at the site of the incident, he said all will be revealed in the investigation. He declined to talk further.
Ward councillor Mir Hossain said, “They are our activists, they are members of Chhatra Dal, they are like our younger brothers. But the police have filed a case against us. What more can I say.”
In the statement, the police said the three injured leaders had an argument with the accused BNP leaders at the party office in Naya Paltan. When the Chhatra Dal leaders were passing through the main gate of the Dayaganj truck stand on a rickshaw, the accused attacked them with knives and rod, and left them bloodied.
Seeing the Chhatra Dal leaders getting attacked by the BNP leaders, the bystanders approached. The BNP leaders then fled the scene.
The plaintiff in the case and Gendaria police station’s sub-inspector (SI) Saeed Bin-Ahmed said in the statement, the attackers stabbed Ashiqur on his right shoulder and on the right side of his back. Atikur was stabbed on his right wrist and Arifur was stabbed on his left shoulder, on the left side of his back and below his left armpit.
*This report appeared in the print and online edition of Prothom Alo and has been rewritten for the English edition by Ashfaq-Ul-Alam Niloy | https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/politics/whhq04g6mg | 2022-09-14T12:55:49 | en | 0.974837 |
UPDATE 1-Zelenskiy pays surprise visit to recaptured town of Izium in northeast Ukraine
Thousands of Russian troops fled Izium at the weekend, leaving behind large amounts of ammunition and equipment, in their worst defeat since they were driven back from the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in March. "It is probably possible to temporarily occupy the territory of our state.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy paid a surprise visit on Wednesday to the newly recaptured town of Izium, a key logistics hub in the northeastern Kharkiv region, and thanked his army for their success in retaking territory from Russian forces. Thousands of Russian troops fled Izium at the weekend, leaving behind large amounts of ammunition and equipment, in their worst defeat since they were driven back from the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in March.
"It is probably possible to temporarily occupy the territory of our state. But it is definitely impossible to occupy our people, the Ukrainian people," he said at a ceremony where the yellow and blue national flag was raised outside Izium's charred city council. "Before, when we looked up, we always looked for the blue sky, the sun. And today we, and especially the people in the temporarily occupied territories, looking up, are looking for only one thing - the flag of our state. This means the heroes are here. This means the enemy is gone, they have fled."
Earlier, Ukraine's 25th Separate Airborne Sicheslav Brigade published pictures of Zelenskiy, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar and military personnel in Izium. Commenting on the devastation he had seen in Izium, Zelenskiy said: "It's not a shock for me... because we saw the same scenes as in Bucha... The same destroyed buildings and people killed."
Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, was occupied for a short period of time by invading Russian forces. Ukraine and its Western allies have accused the Russian forces of perpetrating war crimes there, something Moscow denies. Izium, which had a prewar population of about 50,000, is located on an important highway that runs from Kharkiv, Ukraine's second biggest city, to the eastern city of Sloviansk, that Russian forces have been trying to advance towards.
Zelenskiy said in a late night address on Tuesday that his army had now liberated around 8,000 square km (3,100 square miles) of territory so far this month, though Russia still holds about a fifth of Ukraine. He has vowed to recapture all Ukrainian territory from Russian forces, including Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014.
"We will come. I don't know when. Nobody knows when. But we have plans, so we'll come, because it's our land and our people," he said.
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King Charles, William and Harry to join queen's coffin in procession to Westminster Hall
LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II's coffin will leave Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday as it is taken amid somber pageantry on a horse-drawn gun carriage past crowds of mourners to the Houses of Parliament, where the late monarch will lie in state for four days.
Crowds began massing early along the flag-lined road outside the palace for the procession from the monarch's official London residence to the historic Westminster Hall at Parliament. King Charles III, Prince William, Prince Harry, and other members of the royal family will walk behind the coffin.
Thousands of people are gathering on The Mall outside Buckingham Palace and along the banks of the River Thames hours before the coffin procession begins. People in the crowd cheered when Charles waved to them as he drove from his residence, Clarence House, to the palace.
Coffin of Queen Elizabeth II traveling in a state hearse arrives at Buckingham Palace ahead of tomorrow's Lying-in-State Procession in London, England, on Sept. 13, 2022. (Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Joan Bucklehurst, a 50-year-old retail worker from Cheshire in northwestern England, said the queen "meant so much for everybody."
"She was amazing, yeah," she added, choking up with emotion. "So, we had to be here. We’ve been here a few times when there have been special occasions, but this one, I couldn’t miss this."
The crowds are the latest manifestation of a nationwide outpouring of grief and respect for the only monarch most Britons have ever known, who died at her beloved Balmoral summer retreat on Thursday at age 96, ending a 70-year reign.
"It’s a very sad day, but it’s our last opportunity to do our duty for the queen and it’s our first opportunity to do it for the king, and that makes us all very proud," said Maj. Gen. Christopher Ghika, of the Household division, who is responsible for organizing the ceremonial aspects of the queen’s funeral.
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London’s Heathrow Airport said it was adjusting timetables to prevent overhead planes disturbing the procession. British Airways canceled 16 flights as a result of the changes.
The airport said in a statement that the changes would "ensure silence over central London as the ceremonial procession moves from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall."
Troops involved in the procession have been preparing since the queen died. So have the horses of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery.
A map shows notable locations in London during the 10-day-mourning period for the late Queen Elizabeth II. Her state funeral will be held at Westminster Abbey on Sept. 19, 2022. (Credit: FOX Television Stations)
Sgt. Tom Jenks, from the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, said that the horses have undergone special training, including how to handle weeping mourners, as well as flowers and flags being thrown onto streets as the procession passes by.
People stood behind metal barriers or sat on folding chairs, umbrellas at the ready, takeout coffees in hand under gray skies hours before the coffin was scheduled to leave the landmark palace at 2:22 p.m. (1322 GMT).
Crowds have lined the route of the queen's coffin whenever it has been moved in its long journey from Scotland back to London.
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On Tuesday night, thousands braved a typical London drizzle as the state hearse, with interior lights illuminating the sovereign's flag-draped casket, drove slowly from a military air base into the heart of London.
Police officers work on The Mall in central London on Sept. 14, 2022, ahead of the ceremonial procession of the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall. (Photo by VICTORIA JONES/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Geoff Colgan, a taxi driver who took the day off to witness the moment, stood stunned in the moments after the queen’s coffin passed.
"It’s one of those things you know would happen, but when it does you can’t believe it," he said, holding his toddler.
Earlier, in Edinburgh, some 33,000 people filed in silent respect past her coffin as it lay for 24 hours at St. Giles’ Cathedral.
Hundreds of thousands are expected to do the same in London when the queen lies in state at the 900-year-old Westminster Hall, the oldest building in Parliament, for four days before her state funeral on Monday.
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The hall is where Guy Fawkes and Charles I were tried, where kings and queens hosted magnificent medieval banquets, and where ceremonial addresses were presented to Queen Elizabeth II during her silver, golden and diamond jubilees.
Chris Bond, from Truro in southwest England, was among those lining up along the banks of the River Thames. He also attended the lying in state of the queen's mother in 2002.
"Obviously, it’s quite difficult queuing all day long, but when you walk through those doors into Westminster Hall, that marvellous, historic building, there was a great sense of hush and one was told you take as much time as you like, and it’s just amazing," he said.
"We know the queen was a good age and she served the country a long time, but we hoped this day would never come," he added.
Chris Imafidon, secured the sixth place in the queue.
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The aim of United Nations’ SDG no. 12 is to ‘ensure sustainable consumption and production pattern’. Keeping this aim in mind, the roundtable emphasised on food delivery. Meanwhile, Nazneen Ahmed, country economist UNDP Bangladesh presented a paper on this.
The paper stated, everything seems positive because of the online service. Production and consumers are increasing, plus the payments are done easily. These services are making life much easier. But alongside, we have to consider the environmental impact of it too. A potential 'push demand' is being noticed here.
Despite there being no need for a service or product, seeing it online creates an urge for purchase. And this is not positive always. The issue of climate change has to be considered, as the environment is slowly moving towards a threat. People need to ponder upon how much they actually need the things they are consuming or buying.
Professor Bazlul Hoque Khondker, chairman of the private research organisation SANEM said that the country's online-based service market is not that big yet, but it surely will grow. And when it does, the environmental problems will escalate as well.
If a policy isn’t formulated right now, it will be next to impossible to control the situation. There could be research on topics like what should be the packaging or delivery methods for the online service providers, he added.
Pointing out that although Bangladesh has a high economic growth, employment opportunities are not being created accordingly Research and Policy Integration for Development (RAPID) chairman MA Razzaque said, when enough employment cannot be created, service-based sectors are thought of. Contribution of those providing online services has to be considered intently now. This sector is ballooning up.
Mahfuzul Islam, deputy general manager of Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) said that how to ensure a balanced distribution by minimising the wastage has to be kept in mind.
Addressing the food delivery companies he added, the idea of including an option for customer to review if they are ordering excessive food or not, can be considered, so that the thought of moderation is there on the consumer’s mind.
Fakrul Ahsan, chief technical adviser at UNDP Bangladesh reckons, if a little attention is paid towards production and consumption, the impact of this on the environment will decline. If a paperless system is developed, it will be good for the country itself, he said.
Ambareen Reza, chief executive officer of Foodpanda Bangladesh highlighted different challenges of delivering food. She said, packaging is the toughest when it comes to food. Foodpanda is working on that alongside working with restaurants to prevent food wastage, she added.
Biplob Ghosh, chief executive officer of eCourier said, those who provide logistics services to make online services and businesses eco-friendly, can share warehouse and vehicle.
Nasima Akhter, founder and president of Women and e-Commerce (WE), emphasised on training entrepreneurs on how to do business in an environment friendly way, starting from packaging.
Tahmina Khan, co-founder of Mummy’s Pickle and chief executive officer of Shoily said, if someone returns a pickle bottle bought from Mummy's Pickle, they get a discount of Tk 12.
She added that they get 60 per cent of their bottles back in this way. Although it incurs a bit of losses, some regular customers are created in the process.
Waresa Khanam, founder of Her E-Trade, said that certain rules have to be followed for using their platform, where the environment is also been given importance.
Mahfuz Sadique, chief communication officer of bKash Limited said that bKash is ready to help in various fields including cut down on fuel consumption as a Mobile Financial Service (MFS) company, keeping the SDGs in mind.
Mohammad Aminul Haque, executive director of Nagad Limited said that Nagad will facilitate those who will work on issues that are environment friendly.
Abdul Quayum, associate editor of Prothom Alo gave the opening speech at the roundtable while Firoz Choudhury, assistant editor of Prothom Alo moderated it. | https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/roundtable/5e7caoy0xn | 2022-09-14T12:55:55 | en | 0.960256 |
Teens charged in traffic cone beating death of 73-year-old man due in court Wednesday
PHILADELPHIA - Two teenagers charged in the brutal killing of a 73-year-old man who was attacked by a group of teen in June are set to appear in court Wednesday.
Richard Jones and Gamara Mosely, both 14 years old, are charged with third-degree murder and conspiracy after turning themselves into authorities earlier this summer.
Officials say both teens were involved in the death of 73-year-old James "Simmie" Lambert Jr. on the 2100 block of Cecil B. Moore Avenue on June 24.
Lambert died after he was reportedly attacked by a group of teens as he walked down a sidewalk that morning.
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Surveillance video from the attack showed the elderly man being surrounded by the teens and knocked to the ground with a traffic cone. Officials say Mosely struck him with the cone at least two times.
Two other juveniles, ages 10 and 13, turned themselves into authorities in connection to the deadly attack, but they were both released.
Both Jones and Mosely are being charged as adults in this case, with a preliminary hearing set to begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Richard Jones, 14 (Philadelphia Police)
Gamara Mosley, 14, faces third-degree murder and conspiracy charges for the traffic cone beating death of James Lambert Jr. She is the second 14-year-old charged in the case. (Philadelphia Police Department) | https://www.fox29.com/news/teens-charged-in-traffic-cone-beating-death-of-73-year-old-man-due-in-court-wednesday | 2022-09-14T12:55:58 | en | 0.979635 |
SC modifies BCCI's constitution, office bearers can serve continuously for 12 years in State & BCCI
The BCCI, in its proposed amendment, has sought the abolition of a cooling-off period for its office bearers which would enable Ganguly and Shah to continue in office as President and Secretary despite them having completed six years at respective state cricket associations.Earlier, the Justice R M Lodha-led committee had recommended reforms in the BCCI which have been accepted by the top court.
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The Supreme Court Wednesday allowed modification of BCCI's constitution and paved the way for its President Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah to continue in office without having to serve the mandatory cooling-off period. A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Hima Kohli said that an office bearer can have continuous tenure of 12 years which includes six years in State Association and six years in BCCI before the cooling-off period of three years triggers. The bench said that an office bearer can serve on a particular post for two consecutive terms, both at the BCCI and the State Association level, after which he would have to serve three years cooling-off period. ''The purpose of the cooling-off period is not to create undesirable monopolies'', the bench said.
The top court's order came on the Board's plea seeking to amend its constitution concerning the tenure of its office bearers including its President Sourav Ganguly and Secretary Jay Shah by doing away with the mandatory cooling-off period between tenures of office bearers across state cricket associations and the BCCI. The BCCI, in its proposed amendment, has sought the abolition of a cooling-off period for its office bearers which would enable Ganguly and Shah to continue in office as President and Secretary despite them having completed six years at respective state cricket associations.
Earlier, the Justice R M Lodha-led committee had recommended reforms in the BCCI which have been accepted by the top court. The constitution of the BCCI, which was earlier approved by the top court, stipulates a mandatory three-year cooling-off period for anyone who had served two consecutive terms of three years each in the state cricket association or the BCCI. While Ganguly was an office bearer in the Cricket Association of Bengal, Shah had served in the Gujarat Cricket Association.
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Emon Kalyan Dutta, chief sales and service officer of upay and Md Firoz Khan, the company secretary of KGDCL, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organisations.
KGDCL is a Bangladesh government-owned gas distribution company responsible for distributing gas in Chittagong district and the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Among others, Goutam Chandra Kundu (general manager, planning & development), Aminur Rahman (general manager, marketing, south division), Md Rois Uddin Ahmed (general manager, IT & prepaid metering), Md Matiur Rahman (general manager, finance division), Md Khairul Hassan (general manager, accounts), Hasan Sohrab, (deputy general manager , IT department), KGDCL, and Rashedul Huque, assistant director, east cluster, Md Iftekharuzzaman Chowdhury, general manager, business sales, and Mohammad Mockbul Hosin Bhiuya, deputy general manager of upay were present at the signing ceremony held at the KDGCL head office in Chattogram.
Besides, Md Aman Ullah, senior executive vice president, Tunku Humayan Md Morshed, executive vice president, Arfanul Islam, first vice president, and Mehedi Hassan Chowdhury, first vice president of UCBL were also present at the program.
upay, a subsidiary of United Commercial Bank, launched its operation in March 2021.
upay customers enjoy a range of services, including fund transfer, utility bill payment, merchant payment, airtime recharge, traffic-fine payment, Indian visa fee payment, receiving inward remittances, salary and government social safety net, and other value-added financial services. | https://en.prothomalo.com/corporate/eg90ea3ry1 | 2022-09-14T12:56:02 | en | 0.927562 |
US formula shortage to improve by October, Gerber CEO projects
Tarun Malkani, the CEO of Nestle S.A.'s Gerber Products Company, said last week that he expects the U.S. infant formula shortage to improve by October.
Malkani said the Nestlé company is still in "critical task force mode."
During a Thursday media event at Nestle's U.S. headquarters in Virginia, he said that Gerber added market share as it produced formula to meet the surging demand.
The Gerber Products Company, which makes the Good Start line of infant formulas, now has a market share of roughly mid-9%.
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Prior to the shortage, its market share was around 8.5%.
"We need the marketplace to rebalance," Malkani said, noting that Gerber had "pruned" novelty infant formula to focus on those most needed.
The company also flew in supplies from Europe to the U.S. under the White House's Operation Formula Fly.
In August, Walmart – the largest retailer in the country – said the availability of formula was improving.
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Target also said it has seen supplies improve, although saying it was still rationing the product online and in stores.
Millions of babies in the U.S. rely on formula, which is the only source of nutrition recommended for infants who aren’t exclusively breastfed.
COVID-19 pandemic-related supply chain issues were exacerbated when Abbot Nutrition, the largest producer of baby formula in the U.S., recalled some formula and closed a Michigan manufacturing plant earlier in the year. | https://www.fox29.com/news/us-formula-shortage-to-improve-by-october-gerber-ceo-projects | 2022-09-14T12:56:04 | en | 0.970058 |
Couple kill self over domestic trouble in Rajasthan's Bikaner
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A couple allegedly committed suicide by jumping into a pond in a domestic dispute in Bikaner district, police said on Wednesday.
The incident occurred late on Tuesday at Tantgaon village in Nokha town, Nokha police station SHO Ishwar Prasad said.
The deceased were identified as Madan Meghwal (25) and his wife Raja Devi (23).
Their bodies were retrieved from the pond on Wednesday and handed over to their family members after a post mortem.
No suicide note has been recovered from the dead couple, Prasad said.
A case has been registered under Section 174 (suicide) of the CrPc.
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Nabi, who was leading the list last week with 252 points, lost his position as due to his failure in the Asia Cup where he scored just 16 runs in four innings and picked up merely three wickets.
On the other hand, Shakib, who had 248 points during last week, also lost two rating points as he scored just 35 runs and picking up just one wicket from two matches but Nabi’s dismal show helped him regain the zenith.
The experienced all-rounders must have to improve their performance to keep the pole positions as young Sri Lankan Wanindu Hasaranga is quickly catching them up.
The leg-spinner, who was instrumental in Sri Lanka’s Asia Cup triumph, picked up nine wickets and scored 66 runs batting lower in the order.
Hasaranga, who claimed three wickets and scored 36 runs in the final of the tournament, jumped four levels to reach the fourth spot and looming as a big threat to clinch the top spot with a stellar show in the forthcoming T20 World Cup scheduled to be held at next month.
In batting ranking, India’s Virat Kohli, who scored his first century after 1020 days, jumped 14 steps to 15 while Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan kept his top spot despite his 49-ball 55 innings that many thought was the reason his side losing the final of Asia Cup.
Rizwan’s teammate Babar Azam, however, descended one spot to three due to a poor show in the tournament. | https://en.prothomalo.com/sports/cricket/1ecwmwj8pj | 2022-09-14T12:56:08 | en | 0.983631 |
Walled Lake man who killed wife, dog sought mental health help days before attack, daughter says
WALLED LAKE, Mich. (FOX 2) - A Walled Lake man who killed his wife and dog and shot his daughter early Sunday had tried to get mental health help days before the attack, his other daughter said.
Igor Lanis, 54, was shot and killed by police after murdering his wife and the family dog. His 25-year-old daughter Rachel was hurt but survived.
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His 21-year-old daughter Rebecca Lanis said her father was being radicalized by conspiracy theories online and was dealing with mental health issues. She said he tried to check himself into a mental health facility on Sept. 8, three days before the attack but was sent home.
Rebecca wrote about what happened in a post she made on Reddit titled "My q-dad snapped and killed my family this morning." She was referring to QAnon theory. According to Rebecca, Igor believes in baseless claims, such as a cult of pedophiles, that the elite planned the Covid pandemic, and the election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.
She claims that while Igor was never violent, his beliefs led to the violent attack. She is warning people to get help for family members who get tied into QAnon conspiracy theories, especially if they have access to guns.
Rebecca said that when Rachel is fully recovered, they plan to move and start over new. She said her sister has undergone surgery at Ascension Providence Hospital in Novi, but is not able to move her legs at this point and is facing permanent paralysis. | https://www.fox29.com/news/walled-lake-man-who-killed-wife-dog-sought-mental-health-help-days-before-attack-daughter-says | 2022-09-14T12:56:10 | en | 0.992899 |
Mahmudullah, who is Bangladesh’s most experienced T20I cricketer, didn’t make it into the 15-man squad or in the list of standby cricketers.
Shakib Al Hasan will lead the side and Nurul Hasan will be his deputy in the tournament. Openers Mohammad Naim and Anamul Haque have also been dropped from the side with Najmul Hossain Shanto being recalled into the team.
Liton Das, Nurul Hasan, Yasir Ali and Hasan Mahmud have returned to the side after recovering from their respective injuries.
Sabbir Hossain and Mehidy Hasan Miraz, who Bangladesh used as their makeshift opener in the Asia Cup, have been retained in the squad.
Pacer Shoriful Islam and all-rounder Mahedi Hasan will travel with the team as standby cricketers. Uncapped leg-spinner Rishad Hossain and opener Soumya Sarkar have also been included in the standby list.
Bangladesh squad for the T20 World Cup: Shakib Al Hasan (c), Liton Das, Nurul Hasan (vc), Afif Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Mehedi Hasan Miraz, Mosaddek Hossain, Yasir Ali, Mustafizur Rahman, Mohammad Saifuddin, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain, Hasan Mahmud, Nasum Ahmed, Najmul Hossain Shanto
Standby: Shoriful Islam, Rishad Hossain, Mahedi Hasan, Soumya Sarkar | https://en.prothomalo.com/sports/cricket/gejdteqr97 | 2022-09-14T12:56:14 | en | 0.919215 |
"Stand as symbols of pure evil", Goa Forward Party chief 8 Congress MLAs over merger with BJP
Reacting sharply to the merger of eight Congress MLAs with the Bharatiya Janata Party in Goa on Wednesday, Goa Forward Party president Vijai Sardesai said that they stand as the "symbols of pure evil" while also calling their joining a "subversion of the political and democratic process".
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Reacting sharply to the merger of eight Congress MLAs with the Bharatiya Janata Party in Goa on Wednesday, Goa Forward Party president Vijai Sardesai said that they stand as the "symbols of pure evil" while also calling their joining a "subversion of the political and democratic process". Eight Goa Congress MLAs including former Chief Minister Digambar Kamat and Leader of Opposition Michael Lobo joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in Goa on Wednesday.
Among others who joined the ruling BJP include Delilah Lobo, Rajesh Phaldesai, Kedar Naik, Sankalp Amonkar, Aleixo Sequeira and Rudolf Fernandes. They joined BJP after meeting Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant at the Assembly complex during the day. Hitting out at the leaders, Sardesai issued a statement which read, "The eight legislators who have decided, against all political propriety, basic decency and honesty, to pursue their greed for wealth and hunger for power, stand today as the symbols of pure evil, displaying their shameless selfishness, avarice and chicanery, in defiance of Almighty God."
He called their merger "much more than" betrayal of people's mandate. "We often see political defections as a betrayal of the people's mandate, but it's much more than that. It's a betrayal of the people, subversion of the political and democratic process, the repudiation of their own parentage, and the denigration and mockery of God," Sardesai said.
He dubbed the leaders' act as "undisguised disloyalty and treachery towards the very people who elected them", and said that the people will never forget it, and will respond to them "in a fitting manner". He also came down heavily on the BJP which returned to power winning the Assembly elections earlier this year, and said they are in power "not because of the mandate of the people but because of deceit and manipulation".
Sardesai further alleged that the party has "lowered democracy and parliamentary politics" and also "reduced Goa to ridicule" by treating people's representatives as "commodities like sacks of wheat, to be bought for a price". He described the MLAs as "unfaithful" stating that they "allowed them to be purchased like cattle". Sardesai also hit out at Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and alleged that he "failed in every constitutional and administrative duty he's been assigned".
"The people will not forget that the chief minister who would consider himself to be victorious in this dirty bargain has miserably failed in every constitutional and administrative duty he's been assigned including the proper governance of the state, protection of life and property of its citizens," he said. The Goa Forward Party president appealed to the people of the state to reject them and "brand them as enemies of the people".
"We will, as a party, fight this political plague that has destroyed Goa, and appeal to true Goemkars to reject these traitors with the contempt they deserve from our civilised and discerning society, and brand them as enemies of the people and God," he said. Earlier today, former Congress MLA Michael Lobo who joined the BJP said that they have merged to strengthen the hands of PM Modi.
"We have merged with BJP with a majority of 2/3rd to strengthen the hands of PM Modi and CM Pramod Sawant... 'Congress Chhodo, BJP ko Jodo', said Lobo. Meanwhile, Goa CM Sawant also took a jibe at Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra and said that "Congress Chhodo Yatra will begin from Goa now" while welcoming the leaders.
The BJP already holds a majority of 25 in the House of 40 of which its own 20 MLAs with two others from the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party and three independent leaders. After the joining of eight Congress MLAs, its count will rise to 33. (ANI)
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Nick Maton's 7th-inning two-run homer leads Phillies past Marlins
PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Phillies are getting a huge energy boost from Nick Maton.
Some big hits, too.
Maton homered off Miami ace Sandy Alcantara for the second time in a week, hitting a go-ahead, two-run drive in the seventh inning Tuesday night that led the Phillies past the Marlins 2-1.
"I hope I play the rest of my career with that guy," Phillies starter Bailey Falter said. "He’s always motivated. Brings the guys together. Always that hyper guy. Especially around this time of year, where everybody tends to get a little tired, we’ve got that guy to pick us up. He does it on the field, and he does it in here, too."
Philadelphia won its fourth in a row, and tightened its grip on the second spot in the NL wild-card race. The Phillies lead San Diego by 1 1/2 games for that slot.
The 24-year-old Maton, in his second big league season, has played right field while Nick Castellanos recovers from an oblique injury.
"I'm just trying to contribute in any way I can," Maton said. "Whether that's on the bench, or whether I'm playing. Anything I can do."
Alcantara fell to 1-3 in six starts against the Phillies this season. Maton, who has five home runs this season, connected off Alcantara last Thursday during a 6-5 loss to the Marlins at Citizens Bank Park.
"To beat a guy like that, you've got to pitch well. You've got to play defense," Phillies interim manager Rob Thomson said. "And like tonight, you've got to get a bloop and blast and hold him off."
It was 1-0 when Jean Segura hit a one-out single off Alcantara (12-8) in the seventh and Maton connected on an 0-2 pitch. Earlier in the game, Maton grounded out with the bases loaded against the All-Star right-hander.
Falter (5-3), who replaced Philadelphia's injured ace Zack Wheeler, allowed one run and four hits in six innings, striking out four.
"That's been kind of how it's been all year," Thomson said. "These kids have come up from the minor leagues and just played well and fit right in and contributed almost on a daily basis. I thought Falter was really efficient today. I thought he got better as the game went on."
The Phillies then got perfect innings from relievers José Alvarado and Seranthony Domínguez, and David Robertson followed with a perfect ninth for his 20th save.
Alcantara was lifted after seven and reached 200 innings for the second consecutive season. The NL Cy Young Award contender gave up two runs, eight hits, walked one and struck out four.
"It means a lot to me. I thank God for keeping me healthy," Alcantara said of pitching 203 2/3 innings this season. "Super happy about it. And hopefully, it won’t be just last year and this year but every year."
Segura had three hits for the Phillies, who opened a six-game road trip that will include a trip to the NL wild-card leader Atlanta after the series in Miami.
Since June 15, the Phillies are 28-13 against the NL East.
Bryan De La Cruz’s solo home run in the fifth, which snuck just inside the left field foul pole, gave Miami a 1-0 lead. Before that, the Phillies could not capitalize on multiple scoring opportunities.
Philadelphia stranded runners in scoring position in the second and fourth. In the second, Segura hit a two-out single, but was caught stealing second by Miguel Rojas.
In the fourth, Alcantara gave up three straight two-out singles to Alec Bohm, Bryson Stott and Segura, but the Phillies couldn’t capitalize with the bases loaded. Maton grounded out to end the threat.
BOTTOM OF ORDER DOMINATES
Alcantara had little trouble with the top of the Phillies order. Kyle Schwarber, Rhys Hoskins, Bryce Harper and J.T. Realmuto combined for just one hit through six innings, which was an infield single by Harper in the sixth.
The damage came from the bottom five: Bohm, Stott, Segura, Maton and Brandon Marsh. There were five hits between them.
"When you get a lineup like theirs you’re going to have to fight," Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. "Sometimes there are guys in the seventh, eighth hole, you’re going to make some mistakes and they’re going to make you pay."
ROSTER MOVES
Marlins: Called up INF Jordan Groshans from Triple-A Jacksonville. Returned RHP Bryan Hoeing to Triple-A. Recalled LHP Andrew Nardi from Triple-A Jacksonville. Optioned LHP Braxton Garrett to Triple-A.
Groshans started at third and went 0-3.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Phillies: Thomson told reporters that starter Zack Wheeler (right forearm tendinitis) threw a 30-pitch bullpen session Tuesday. He expects Wheeler to throw another bullpen or live bullpen on Friday in Atlanta. If that goes well, a possible return to the mound could come as soon as next Tuesday’s opener against Toronto. … RHP Zach Eflin was reinstated Monday from the 60-day injured list, and RHP Mark Appel placed on 60-day injured with right elbow inflammation.
Marlins: Placed OF Avisail Garcia (left hamstring strain) on the 10-day injured list.
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The report finds that boys have up to 1.3 times the odds of obtaining mathematics skills than girls. Negative gender norms and stereotypes often held by teachers, parents, and peers regarding girls’ innate inability to understand mathematics are contributing to the disparity.
This also undermines girls’ self-confidence, setting them up for failure, the report notes.
With the learning of an entire generation of children at risk, this is not the time for empty promises. To transform education for every child, we need action and we need it now
“Girls have an equal ability to learn mathematics as boys – what they lack is an equal opportunity to acquire these critical skills,” said UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell. “We need to dispel the gender stereotypes and norms that hold girls back – and do more to help every child learn the foundational skills they need to succeed in school and in life.”
Learning mathematics skills in turn strengthens memory, comprehension, and analysis, in turn improving children’s ability to create, the report notes.
Ahead of next week’s United Nations Transforming Education Summit, UNICEF warns that children who do not master basic mathematics and other foundational learning may struggle to perform critical tasks such as problem solving and logical reasoning.
An analysis of data from 34 low- and middle-income countries featured in the report shows that while girls lag behind boys, three-quarters of schoolchildren in grade 4 are not obtaining foundational numeracy skills.
Data from 79 middle- and high-income countries show more than a third of 15-year-old schoolchildren have yet to achieve minimum proficiency in mathematics.
Household wealth is also a determining factor. The report notes that schoolchildren from the richest households have 1.8 times the odds of acquiring numeracy skills by the time they reach fourth grade than children from the poorest households.
Children who attend early childhood education and care programmes have up to 2.8 times the odds of achieving minimum proficiency in mathematics by the age of 15 than those who do not.
The report also notes the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has likely further exacerbated children’s mathematics abilities.
Moreover, these analyses focus on girls and boys who are currently in school. In countries where girls are more likely to be out of school than boys, the overall disparities in mathematics proficiency are most likely even wider.
UNICEF has called on governments to commit to reaching all children with quality education and sought new effort and investment to re-enroll and retain all children in school, to increase access to remedial and catch up learning, to support teachers and give them the tools they need, and to make sure that schools provide a safe and supportive environment so all children are ready to learn.
“With the learning of an entire generation of children at risk, this is not the time for empty promises. To transform education for every child, we need action and we need it now,” said Russell. | https://en.prothomalo.com/youth/education/6dj84vwaov | 2022-09-14T12:56:20 | en | 0.962119 |
Weather Authority: Sunny, pleasant Wednesday ahead of beautiful last days of summer
PHILADELPHIA - The clouds have cleared, and the rain has gone, making way for lots of sunshine!
A clear sky overnight brought a drop in humidity and temperature for Wednesday morning as temperatures start in the 60s.
Warmer weather is on the way with the sunrise bring temperatures to a comfortable high of 82 degrees.
Sun is in the forecast for Wednesday and the rest of the week with just eight days until the start of fall!
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WEDNESDAY: Sunny skies. High: 82
THURSDAY: Sunny and beautiful. High: 78, Low: 65
FRIDAY: Sunny, nice. High: 81, Low: 55
SATURDAY: Stays nice. High: 83, Low: 61
SUNDAY: Sunny, warmer. High: 89, Low: 65
MONDAY: Sunny, humid. High: 88, Low: 69
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Bengal has become lawless under Mamata, Oppn's rights curbed: BJP
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A day after the crackdown on protesting BJP workers in West Bengal, the party on Wednesday said the state has become ''lawless'' and ''bankrupt'' under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and accused her of inflicting ''police torture'' on its members to suppress their voice.
BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad also alleged that Banerjee could be trying to divert attention from the rivalry within her Trinamool Congress (TMC) by using force against BJP members The BJP had launched the protest march against the ruling Trinamool Congress' alleged corrupt practices.
The opposition party in West Bengal claimed that over 1,000 of its workers were injured in the use of force by police and and alleged that Banerjee had surpassed the communist parties in inflicting atrocities.
Former Union minister Prasad slammed Banerjee, saying she speaks of saving democracy outside the state while crossing all limits to curb people's democratic and civil rights inside Bengal.
The Opposition is being denied its legitimate right to raise its voice, he said.
He said the chief minister's conduct has been ''contrary'' to her political evolution, noting her rise from the grassroots and long struggle against the earlier Left rule.
Is the fight for succession going on in the TMC, he asked, hinting about the reported differences between the chief minister and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee without naming the second most powerful leader in the regional party.
BJP workers may have been attacked to divert attention from the internal fight within the TMC, he claimed.
''She has now left the Left behind in inflicting atrocities and brutalities on the BJP,'' he alleged, asserting that the TMC cannot stop his party's march in the state.
''Under Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal has become a lawless and bankrupt state,'' Prasad alleged.
Corruption has reached epic proportions, he added, referring to the recovery of the huge sum of money from a TMC leader by the Enforcement Directorate.
However, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that BJP had brought in goons armed with bombs from outside Bengal for the rally and said the police could have opened fire on violent BJP protesters, but her government exercised restraint.
Parts of Kolkata and Howrah district turned into a battlefield on Tuesday as BJP supporters clashed with the police while trying to get past barricades erected to prevent them from marching towards the West Bengal secretariat 'Nabanna'.
While the BJP alleged that the Mamata Banerjee government does not want to give space to opposition parties, the TMC described the saffron camp workers as ''hooligans''.
Prasad said Banerjee should draw a lesson from what happened to the then prime minister Indira Gandhi following the Emergency, when she had cracked down on the Opposition.
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In this situation, to attend the exam hall safely and timely, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner (traffic) Munibur Rahman requested the examinees to set out for exam centres with enough time in hand.
He came up with this request in a press release on Wednesday.
The release says traffic movement is being disrupted for a few days due to water logging in different roads caused by torrential rain and road maintenance. That is why students are specially requested to approach the exam hall with enough time in hand.
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"Stand as symbols of pure evil", Goa Forward Party chief thrashes 8 Congress MLAs over merger with BJP
Reacting sharply to the merger of eight Congress MLAs with the Bharatiya Janata Party in Goa on Wednesday, Goa Forward Party president Vijai Sardesai said that they stand as the "symbols of pure evil" while also calling their joining a "subversion of the political and democratic process".
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Reacting sharply to the merger of eight Congress MLAs with the Bharatiya Janata Party in Goa on Wednesday, Goa Forward Party president Vijai Sardesai said that they stand as the "symbols of pure evil" while also calling their joining a "subversion of the political and democratic process". Eight Goa Congress MLAs including former Chief Minister Digambar Kamat and Leader of Opposition Michael Lobo joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in Goa on Wednesday.
Among others who joined the ruling BJP include Delilah Lobo, Rajesh Phaldesai, Kedar Naik, Sankalp Amonkar, Aleixo Sequeira and Rudolf Fernandes. They joined BJP after meeting Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant at the Assembly complex during the day. Hitting out at the leaders, Sardesai issued a statement which read, "The eight legislators who have decided, against all political propriety, basic decency and honesty, to pursue their greed for wealth and hunger for power, stand today as the symbols of pure evil, displaying their shameless selfishness, avarice and chicanery, in defiance of Almighty God."
He called their merger "much more than" betrayal of people's mandate. "We often see political defections as a betrayal of the people's mandate, but it's much more than that. It's a betrayal of the people, subversion of the political and democratic process, the repudiation of their own parentage, and the denigration and mockery of God," Sardesai said.
He dubbed the leaders' act as "undisguised disloyalty and treachery towards the very people who elected them", and said that the people will never forget it, and will respond to them "in a fitting manner". He also came down heavily on the BJP which returned to power winning the Assembly elections earlier this year, and said they are in power "not because of the mandate of the people but because of deceit and manipulation".
Sardesai further alleged that the party has "lowered democracy and parliamentary politics" and also "reduced Goa to ridicule" by treating people's representatives as "commodities like sacks of wheat, to be bought for a price". He described the MLAs as "unfaithful" stating that they "allowed them to be purchased like cattle". Sardesai also hit out at Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and alleged that he "failed in every constitutional and administrative duty he's been assigned".
"The people will not forget that the chief minister who would consider himself to be victorious in this dirty bargain has miserably failed in every constitutional and administrative duty he's been assigned including the proper governance of the state, protection of life and property of its citizens," he said. The Goa Forward Party president appealed to the people of the state to reject them and "brand them as enemies of the people".
"We will, as a party, fight this political plague that has destroyed Goa, and appeal to true Goemkars to reject these traitors with the contempt they deserve from our civilised and discerning society, and brand them as enemies of the people and God," he said. Earlier today, former Congress MLA Michael Lobo who joined the BJP said that they have merged to strengthen the hands of PM Modi.
"We have merged with BJP with a majority of 2/3rd to strengthen the hands of PM Modi and CM Pramod Sawant... 'Congress Chhodo, BJP ko Jodo', said Lobo. Meanwhile, Goa CM Sawant also took a jibe at Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra and said that "Congress Chhodo Yatra will begin from Goa now" while welcoming the leaders.
The BJP already holds a majority of 25 in the House of 40 of which its own 20 MLAs with two others from the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party and three independent leaders. After the joining of eight Congress MLAs, its count will rise to 33. (ANI)
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville Metro Police are asking for the public's help in locating a 23-year-old man last seen early Tuesday morning.
According to police, Hunter Ceralde was last seen at 4:42 a.m. after parking his car at the 7300 block of Winstead Drive, not far from Greenbelt Highway. He then started walking south.
Police say he suffers from depression, is diabetic and does not have his medication.
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Congress prez poll: Jairam Ramesh bats for consensus, upholds "prominence" of Nehru-Gandhi family
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With the process for electing the new Congress president round the corner, senior party leader Jairam Ramesh has batted for ''consensus'' in selecting the new AICC chief and sought to uphold the ''prominence'' of the Nehru-Gandhi family in the organisational matters in any sort of emerging situation.
Ramesh, the AICC general secretary in-charge Communication, Publicity and Media, said even if somebody else is elected as the party chief in the October 17 polls, Sonia Gandhi will continue to be a person ''everybody looks up to'' and insisted Rahul Gandhi will be the ''ideological compass'' of the grand old organisation.
He rejected the suggestion the Wayanad MP will do ''backseat driving'' in the event of somebody else being a Congress president, hailing the Gandhi scion as a very accommodative and democratic person.
A party without a 'high command' would be 'anarchy,' he said.
In an interview to PTI, the former Union minister also opposed a section of Congress leaders' argument against its high command culture, claiming that there will be anarchy in a party without such a mechanism.
To buttress his arguments for a unanimous election of the new AICC chief, Ramesh invoked the ''view'' of legendary Congress leader K Kamaraj, which according to him, is ''talk to everybody and find a suitable consensus choice'' for leading the party.
''In the history of the Indian National Congress, generally we've selected people by consensus. But there had been elections -- in 1938, 1950, 1997 and 2000. But my view is that of a broad consensus--the Kamaraj view. I belong to the Kamaraj school,'' said Ramesh, a key Congress strategist, as the Rahul Gandhi-led ''Bharat Jodo Yatra'' reached near Kollam district in Kerala.
The notification for the election will be issued on September 22, while the filing of nomination would begin on September 24 and continue till September 30.
The election, if there is more than one candidate, will take place on October 17, while counting of votes, if necessary, and the declaration of results would be on October 19.
When asked about the argument of a section of party leaders including Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor that a democratic contest for the Congress president's post will revitalise the Congress, Ramesh said if a consensus is not possible ''we should have elections''.
''Mr Tharoor is welcome to contest. It's democratic process. We are the only political party which has elections to the post of President.'' Ramesh also took an indirect dig at Tharoor and the leaders who argue for organisational reforms and election to the party president's post, terming as ''unrealistic'' the thinking that the Congress or any other party in India should be run along the lines of Labour and Conservative parties in the United Kingdom.
''It is being unrealistic. I think that the people who say this don't understand the realities of India,'' the senior Rajya Sabha MP said.
Responding to a query on the growing demand in the party for electing Rahul Gandhi as AICC chief, Ramesh said the former Congress president was in a ''peculiar position'' on the matter and it was up to him to decide whether to contest the polls or not.
''People are asking him (Rahul) now, why are you a candidate? Are you a candidate? At the end of the process of filing nomination, the same people could ask him why are you not a candidate? Mr Gandhi is in a peculiar position. It is up to him. I have no knowledge what he is going to do,'' he said, adding that currently the focus of Gandhi and the party is on the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Ramesh said when he had discussed the matters of the organisational elections with Rahul Gandhi on two or three occasions, ''he has always told me -- why not have elections...why not people contest''.
''If people want to file their nomination papers, they are welcome to do so. He (Rahul) himself has said this -- I welcome elections,'' the AICC general secretary said.
Rejecting the arguments of Tharoor and a few other members of the old G-23 groupings on the need of reducing or eliminating the ''High Command'' culture in the Congress party, Ramesh said every party has a high command and they call it in different names.
''Do you think the BJP doesn't have a high command? Do you think the CPI(M) doesn't have a high command? Every party has a high command. Every party has a group of people who discuss, deliberate, decide based on various factors. A party without high command will be anarchy,'' he said.
When asked who will be the Congress high command if a new president from outside the Nehru-Gandhi family is elected as party chief, Ramesh said these are hypothetical questions now but said he was sure that both Sonia and Rahul will continue to be respected and people will look up to them.
''Mrs Sonia Gandhi is a person everybody looks up to. She will continue to be a person everybody looks up to. Mr Rahul Gandhi is Member of Parliament and he is on a five month long Bharat Jodo Yatra. So he will be very prominent. He will be an ideological compass,'' he said.
Pressed further, Ramesh said Rahul Gandhi will not do backseat driving of the organisation in the event of somebody else coming to the helm of affairs.
''I don't see that. I think circumstances have changed and Mr Gandhi is a person with strong views on issues. He is also a very accommodative, very democratic person. So is Sonia Gandhi herself. So I don't think that there is going to be any friction. I don't think there is going to be any tension','' he added.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A man has been arrested for allegedly taking part in a double shooting over the weekend that left two people dead.
According to his arrest report, 31-year-old Maurice Gibson drove a murder suspect away from a deadly shooting on 26th and Cedar Streets on Saturday, Sept. 10.
Officers were called to the 400 block of 26th Street at Cedar Street, near Club Cedar Bar, around 2:45 p.m. on a report of a shooting. That's where they found 26-year-old Edward Smith who had been shot and killed.
Moments later, police were called a block away on Cedar Street and found 24-year-old Alexis McCray fatally shot in a car.
Police said Gibson admitted to giving the suspect a ride after the murders.
Gibson is scheduled to face a judge Wednesday to face two counts of complicity to murder.
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Amid Russia's war, pope says faith cannot justify such evil
Against the backdrop of Russias invasion of Ukraine, Pope Francis told the Russian Orthodox hierarchy and other faith leaders on Wednesday that religion must never be used to justify the evil of war and that God must never be held hostage to the human thirst for power. Francis opened an interfaith conference in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan by challenging delegations to unite in condemning war and religious justifications for it.
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Against the backdrop of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Pope Francis told the Russian Orthodox hierarchy and other faith leaders on Wednesday that religion must never be used to justify the "evil" of war and that God must never "be held hostage to the human thirst for power." Francis opened an interfaith conference in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan by challenging delegations to unite in condemning war and religious justifications for it. He cited a Kazakh poet in warning that "he who permits evil and does not oppose it cannot be regarded as a true believer. At best he is a half-hearted believer." In the audience of the 80 imams, patriarchs, rabbis and muftis was Metropolitan Anthony, in charge of foreign relations for the Russian Orthodox Church, which has firmly backed Russia's invasion. His boss, Patriarch Kirill, was supposed to have participated in the congress but canceled last month. Kirill has supported Russia's invasion on spiritual and ideological grounds, calling it a "metaphysical" battle with the West. He has blessed Russian soldiers going into war and invoked the idea that Russians and Ukrainians are one people.
Francis didn't mention Russia or Ukraine in his remarks to the Kazakh conference. But he insisted that faith leaders themselves must take the lead in promoting a culture of peace, since it would be hypocritical to expect that non-believers would promote peace if religious leaders don't.
"If the creator, to whom we have devoted our lives, is the author of human life, how can we who call ourselves believers consent to the destruction of that life?" he asked. "Mindful of the wrongs and errors of the past, let us unite our efforts to ensure that the Almighty will never again be held hostage to the human thirst for power." Francis then laid down a challenge to all those in the room to commit themselves to resolving disputes through dialogue and negotiation, not with arms. "May we never justify violence. May we never allow the sacred to be exploited by the profane. The sacred must never be a prop for power, nor power a prop for the sacred!" Kirill sent a message to the congress read aloud by Anthony. In it, the Russian patriarch didn't refer to the war but in general to problems over the past two decades caused by "attempts to build a world without relying on moral values." The Russian patriarch has blasted the West's secular mentality and claimed the seeds of the Ukraine conflict were sown by foreign threats to Russia's borders. He has depicted the conflict as a struggle against a foreign liberal establishment purportedly demanding countries hold "gay parades" as the price of admission to a world of excess consumption and freedom.
"These attempts have led not only to the loss of the concept of justice in international relations, but also to brutal confrontation, military conflicts, the spread of terrorism and extremism in different parts of the world," Kirill said in his message. Suggesting he felt Russia was the victim of a smear campaign, he denounced the spread of misinformation and the "distortion of historical facts" and "manipulation of mass consciousness" to spread messages of "hatred towards entire peoples, cultures and religions." In addition to the Russian Orthodox delegation, the religious leaders included Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Al-Azhar, the seat of Sunni learning in Cairo, who warmly greeted Francis with a kiss on the cheek when the pope arrived in a wheelchair. Al-Tayeb used his speech to the conference to complain that traditional religion had been replaced by "selfishness, worship of pleasure and lust, and sexual liberation" that includes gay marriage and polygamy. "This is not acceptable, not even for animals and beasts, let alone for people with pure hearts and sound minds," he said.
The Right Rev. Jo Bailey Wells, the Anglican bishop of Dorking and one of only a half dozen women heading delegations, lamented that women represent half the world's population but are hardly represented in religious leadership.
"My expectation is it will be a challenge to those present to empower women in the family context and in public society," she told reporters afterward. Before Kirill bowed out, there had been speculation that Francis could meet with Kirill on the sidelines of the congress after both confirmed their presence earlier this year. The two met for the first time in 2016 in Cuba — the first-ever meeting of a pope and Russian patriarch — and spoke by videoconference in the early weeks of the war. Francis afterward publicly criticized Kirill's justification of Russia's invasion and warned that he mustn't become "Putin's altar boy." Speaking to reporters after he met with Francis, Anthony said Francis' "altar boy" comment didn't go over well in Moscow. "It wasn't expected and clearly it's not useful for the unity of Christians," he said. "It was a surprise. But we know we have to move on." He said a Kirill-Francis meeting is still possible, but insisted it had to be well-prepared ahead of time and must produce a concrete joint statement, as was issued after the Havana meeting.
In addition to the meeting with Anthony, Francis also was meeting with al-Tayeb, the head of Russia's religious council of Muslims, Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin, and other Orthodox, Jewish, Lutheran and Muslim leaders.
Another visitor in Kazakhstan on Wednesday was apparently not on Francis' agenda. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Nur-Sultan on his first state visit outside China since early in the coronavirus pandemic. Vatican and Kazakh officials said they didn't expect Xi would meet with the pope during his brief visit to a key economic and political ally in the region.
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UK to set out details of energy crisis package for businesses next week - spokesman
Britain's government will next week set out further details of its plan to support businesses through the energy crisis, Prime Minister Liz Truss's spokesman said on Wednesday. The spokesman said the scheme would help with October energy bills and be backdated if necessary. "We will confirm further details of the business support scheme next week.
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Britain's government will next week set out further details of its plan to support businesses through the energy crisis, Prime Minister Liz Truss's spokesman said on Wednesday.
The spokesman said the scheme would help with October energy bills and be backdated if necessary. "We will confirm further details of the business support scheme next week. The scheme will support businesses with their October energy bills and that includes through backdating if necessary," he told reporters.
Britain announced last week it would cap consumer energy bills for two years and provide billions to help businesses struggling to cope with soaring energy costs. Details of the scheme were scarce at the time, and promised as soon as possible, but the public work of government was subsequently paused following the death of Queen Elizabeth.
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When will govt restore status quo ante: Cong on Ladakh border row with China
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The Congress on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of ceding 1,000 sq kms of Indian territory to China ''without a fight'' and asked when will the government restore status quo ante of April 2020.
The opposition party's attack came after Indian and Chinese armies carried out a joint verification of the disengagement process at Patrolling Point 15 in the Gogra-Hotsprings area in eastern Ladakh after withdrawing their troops and dismantling temporary infrastructure from the friction point.
Both sides completed the disengagement in a phased and coordinated manner, according to people familiar with the development.
Attacking the government, Rahul Gandhi tweeted, ''China has refused to accept India's demand of restoring status quo of April 2020. PM has given 1,000 sq kms of territory to China without a fight.'' ''Can the government of India explain how this territory will be retrieved?'' he asked.
Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here, Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said this is not the first time ''we are disengaging and creating buffer zones'' out of destinations where Indian side was patrolling up to.
''First it happened in Galwan, then it happened in Gogra and now it is happening in Hotsprings. Why is our army being made to push back, why is our army being to give up patrolling points where we had been patrolling up until now,'' Shrinate said.
Raising the issue of status quo ante as in April 2020, Shrinate said the prime minister had promised this country ''we will go to status quo ante''.
Why is there no status quo ante as far as April 2020 is concerned, she asked.
''We also want to know that with cheap publicity and cheap popularity with domestic audience, why is our foreign security and foreign policy being compromised,'' the spokesperson said.
Noting that there is tension on the border with China for the last 31 months, Shrinate said why has the Modi government not done anything decisive to ensure that India's national security is not compromised.
''It almost seems China is playing out a script, they come, they acquire a portion of our land, they stay there and then push us back from our patrolling points and our patrolling points get into buffer zones.
''Is this happening because China has seen chink in our armour which is that our prime minister is given to false propaganda, the PM is given to cheap popularity, the PM does not care about our territorial integrity or he does not care about our national security,'' Shrinate said.
She said the government must answer as to when will status quo ante as in April 2020 be restored.
What will happen about Depsang and Demchok, she asked.
''Why are we not able to patrol at Patrol Point 15, Patrol Point 14 in Galwan valley, Patrol Point 17 in Gogra. Why is the government conspicuously silent as China comes and builds bridges, and lays down villages in Arunachal, kidnaps our citizens. Is this all happening because Modi ji is not being able to give up his love for China,'' she said, attacking the prime minister.
The eastern Ladakh border standoff erupted on May 5, 2020, following a violent clash in the Pangong lake areas. Both sides gradually enhanced their deployment by rushing in tens of thousands of soldiers and heavy weaponry.
As a result of a series of military and diplomatic talks, the two sides completed the disengagement process last year on the north and south banks of the Pangong lake and in the Gogra area.
The disengagement in the Pangong Lake area took place in February last year while the withdrawal of troops and equipment in Patrolling Point 17 (A) in Gogra took place in August last year.
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Karnataka to enact law to make Kannada mandatory
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Amid protests and anger in some quarters against observing 'Hindi Diwas', Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Wednesday his government is bringing in a legislation to make Kannada ''mandatory'' in the State.
Kannada activists have been demanding for many years now for full implementation of Kannada as the administrative language. Though Chief Minister, did not specify if it's in the context of administrative language or its scope is beyond it, according to sources, he seemed to be referring to the proposed 'Kannada Language Comprehensive Development Bill', aimed at further strengthening the efforts to give primacy to Kannada.
Bommai told the Legislative Assembly that the legislation would be tabled during the ongoing session to make Kannada mandatory and asserted that Kannada is supreme in the State.
He said that for the first time a legal statute is being given in the state, making Kannada mandatory, aimed at protecting the language and its users, and also to grow it further.
The CM was responding to the issue raised by JD(S) legislators and its leader H D Kumaraswamy in the Assembly, opposing celebration of 'Hindi Diwas,' calling it forceful imposition of Hindi on Kannadigas.
''India is a union of states with different languages, cultures. There is no scope here to impose any specific language. Our Prime Minister has said very clearly that all mother tongues and regional languages are national languages,'' Bommai noted.
The government, the state and its people are committed to protect and grow Kannada, there is no compromise on this, and there is no need to worry, he said, adding that ''On the issue of the state's land, waters, people and language, we have always taken decisions beyond politics.'' Highlighting that Kannada is supreme in the state, Bommai said this is for the first time a legislation is being made to make Kannada compulsory in the state, with a legal backing.
''Till now there had been only slogans- Kannada is compulsory. There were several committees and authorities for it, but there was no legal framework. For the first time, we are bringing in a law which will protect Kannada language, Kannada people,'' he said, adding that to increase the usage of Kannada, it will be emphasised that people of other languages living in the state, learn Kannada.
Noting that for the first time under the new education policy, a professional course like Engineering had an option with Kannada as the language of instruction and to write the exam, Bommai said one semester under this has been completed.
''We are committed to protecting and growing Kannada, and if there is anything against the language we will react to it swiftly and everything will be done to safeguard the language and its respect,'' he added.
Like last year, there has been social media outrage, also protests by pro-Kannada organisations against Hindi Diwas today, calling it ''imposition of Hindi''.
Soon after the question hour, JD(S) legislators wearing a shawl with hues of red and yellow, symbolising the unofficial Kannada flag, led by K Annadani, raised the issue of Hindi Diwas celebration, and alleged that the central government was trying to impose Hindi on the state forcefully.
''We oppose it. We oppose the imposition of Hindi on Kannadigas, injustice is being done to Kannadigas,'' Annadani and others shouted.
Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri said he has not received any notice on the issue being raised and ''no one knows as to what was the issue'' and asked JD(S) legislature party leader Kumaraswamy to assist him and calm down his party MLAs, and inform the House as to what was the matter.
Intervening, Kumaraswamy said his party legislators had staged a protest outside House against the Centre celebrating Hindi Diwas and want to raise the issue within the House too, with an intention that such celebration or extolling of one language in a multilingual country like India, should in no way affect Kannada.
Observing that India is a country with numerous languages and each state has several languages within, he said, in the recent days an atmosphere is being created to have ''one nation-one language with Hindi.'' He further stated that regional languages have emotional and historical connect with the people of the region. ''No attempt should be made to scuttle these languages. This is the appeal of our legislators in this House through the chair.'' Kumaraswamy on Monday wrote to Bommai urging his government not to celebrate 'Hindi Diwas' by utilising the taxpayers' money, and said that forcefully celebrating it, would amount to ''injustice'' to the people of Karnataka.
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Speaker's word of caution to Cong MLA irks Assam Opp party
Before Barman could rise to place his question, the speaker said it was his responsibility to inform the House that if any MLA participates in the proceedings while his or her party was abstaining from it, the member could face disqualification notice from the party.
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The Assam Assembly Speaker's word of caution to a Congress MLA over risk of facing disqualification from his party for remaining in the House after a walk out by the opposition party led to noisy scenes on Wednesday. Following it, Speaker Biswajit Daimary had to clarify that his words were only to alert the Congress legislator of the rules so that he may not violate it unknowingly. The Congress lawmakers had staged the walk out during Question Hour on Wednesday over reduction of time for supplementary queries. However, some of its MLAs returned immediately afterwards and a question listed by one of them, Diganta Barman, came up for reply. Before Barman could rise to place his question, the speaker said it was his responsibility to inform the House that if any MLA participates in the proceedings while his or her party was abstaining from it, the member could face disqualification notice from the party. ''Assamese people do not take rules seriously but I have to run the House as per rules. And a MLA can face disqualification notice for not abiding by the party's decision. I think it is my duty to point this out to the honourable member,'' Daimary said. The other Congress MLAs who were at the lobby beside the House chamber at that time immediately rushed in and claimed that they had decided to listen to the proceedings from outside as they were not being allowed to raise any supplementary questions. Only those members who had questions listed against their name had re-entered the House, they said. State Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pijush Hazarika defending the speaker said he was playing a 'positive role'. Daimary said that he is currently hearing three disqualification notices from the Congress against its MLAs and therefore thought it prudent to caution the opposition party's lawmakers about any activity that may attract action against any of them. Raking up the matter after Question Hour, deputy leader of Opposition and Congress MLA Rakibul Hussain said the speaker's words have ''hurt'' his party. ''We are deeply saddened at the words coming from the Chair that a member of Congress can face problems,'' he said.
Seeking to clarify his stance yet again, the speaker said, ''I am just like any of you. I have to run the House as per rules. ''My statement on the disqualification notice was addressed to the House. And to Barman was only whether he wanted to raise the question or not,'' Daimary added.
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AAP will fully support Agnipath scheme: Arvind Kejriwal
Every effort will be made to recruit the maximum number of candidates in the army from the state, Mann said in a tweet.The Agnipath scheme, launched in June this year, seeks to recruit soldiers in the Army, Navy and Air Force on a short-term contract of four years.
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said that the AAP government in Punjab will ''fully support'' the Agnipath Scheme during the recruitment drives of Agniveers.
Kejriwal's clarification came after reports that the Punjab government was not supportive of the recruitment drive.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had earlier criticised the Agnipath Scheme and appealed to the central government to give defence job aspirants the chance to serve the country throughout their life, not just four years.
''We had differences with the Centre on Agnipath Scheme but since the Centre has implemented it we will support it fully. We will completely cooperate with the scheme and the army,'' Kejriwal said while replying to a question in his first offline press conference since the formation of the AAP government in Delhi in February 2020.
Later, his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann clarified that directions have been given for ''complete support'' on the Agnipath scheme.
''All deputy commissioners were directed to provide complete support to Army authorities for recruitment of Agniveers in Punjab. Any laxity shall be viewed seriously. Every effort will be made to recruit the maximum number of candidates in the army from the state,'' Mann said in a tweet.
The Agnipath scheme, launched in June this year, seeks to recruit soldiers in the Army, Navy and Air Force on a short-term contract of four years.
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Kremlin has no comment on report of U.S. envoy visit to discuss prisoner swap
The Richardson Center said it could not comment. Russia's foreign ministry said last month it was engaged in "quiet diplomacy" with the United States about a potential prisoner swap that could include basketball star Brittney Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan.
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The Kremlin on Wednesday had no comment on reports that a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, had travelled to Moscow to discuss a potential exchange of imprisoned Americans and Russians
"There were no meetings at the Kremlin," spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call. "I have nothing to tell you on this subject." CNN reported that Richardson, a former state governor of New Mexico, had held meetings with Russian officials in Moscow.
His Richardson Center specialises in negotiating the release of prisoners and hostages, and the ex-diplomat has been involved in the release of several high-level prisoners, including that of American Danny Fenster from a Myanmar prison last year. The Richardson Center said it could not comment.
Russia's foreign ministry said last month it was engaged in "quiet diplomacy" with the United States about a potential prisoner swap that could include basketball star Brittney Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan. Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) star, was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison on drug charges on Aug. 4, a verdict that U.S. President Joe Biden called "unacceptable".
Washington has offered to exchange Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout for Griner and Whelan, sources familiar with the situation have told Reuters. Whelan, who holds American, British, Canadian and Irish passports, was sentenced in 2020 to 16 years in jail after being convicted of spying. He denied the charge.
Griner, who had been prescribed medical cannabis in the United States to relieve pain from chronic injuries, was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport in February with vape cartridges containing hashish oil in her luggage. Cannabis is illegal in Russia for both medicinal and recreational purposes.
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The escalation between Israel and Palestinian conflict, which began on Monday has led to the death toll in Gaza Strip to 83, including 17 children and seven women. Nearly 500 other people have been wounded as the attacks continue.
Israel on Wednesday conducted military strikes in the Gaza Strip, killing as many as 10 senior Hamas military leaders and toppling a pair of high-rise towers housing Hamas facilities in a series of airstrikes, AP reported.
The militants in Gaza claimed they fired 130 rockets into Israel in response to the Israeli air raid that destroyed the al-Sharouk tower in Gaza City. The tower, which is the third tall building to be destroyed by airstrikes this week, housed al-Aqsa TV, the station run by Hamas.
Israel said it had killed senior Hamas officials in Gaza and was also targeting missile launching sites. Hamas confirmed a senior commander and other leaders had died.
Reports of violent confrontations between Jewish Israelis and Palestinian citizens of Israel in several cities of Israel have also surfaced. In two incidents, a Jewish man in Acre was attacked by Arab men, and a Jewish mob pulled a Palestinian out of his car and beat him up in Bat Yam.
The fighting erupted on Monday after weeks of rising Israeli-Palestinian tension in East Jerusalem which culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by Muslims and Jews.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed solidarity with Palestine on Wednesday, as tensions escalated between Israeli forces and Hamas militants, leading to the death of scores.
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SCO summit opportunity for India, Pakistan to break the ice, resolve issues: Hurriyat Conference
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The Hurriyat Conference on Wednesday said the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Uzbekistan is an opportunity for prime ministers of India and Pakistan to break the ice and move towards resolving their outstanding issues.
The SCO will hold its first in-person summit in Samarkand in Uzbekistan on Thursday after two years. This is the first time after the Covid pandemic that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his Pakistani counterpart Shehbaz Sharif along with Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will be attending the two-day summit.
In a statement, the Hurriyat Conference said, ''As Indian and Pakistani prime ministers will be in Samarkand...it is an opportunity to break the ice in their relationship and talk to each other and move forward in resolving their differences including the settlement of the Kashmir conflict.'' The amalgam alleged that the situation in Kashmir was volatine since the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into Union territories in August 2019.
It demanded the release of all political prisoners, rights activists, youths and journalists jailed in different parts of the country. It also sought release of Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq ''who is under house detention since August 2019''.
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It is Congress' fault too: Arvind Kejriwal on 8 Cong MLAs joining BJP in Goa
Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday reacted to the eight Congress MLAs joining Bharatiya Janata Party in Goa and alleged it was the former's fault for not being able to save its MLAs in the country.
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Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday reacted to the eight Congress MLAs joining Bharatiya Janata Party in Goa and alleged it was the former's fault for not being able to save its MLAs in the country. "BJP is breaking MLAs by giving crores of rupees to them across the country in the name of Operation Lotus, this is wrong. But the fault is also of Congress," Kejriwal said addressing a press conference in the national capital.
"They could not break our MLAs in Delhi-Punjab because we expose them, but Congress has failed to save its MLAs," he added. His remarks came hours after eight Goa Congress MLAs including former Chief Minister Digambar Kamat and Leader of Opposition Michael Lobo merged with the Bharatiya Janata Party in Goa on Wednesday.
Delilah Lobo, Rajesh Phaldesai, Kedar Naik, Sankalp Amonkar, Aleixo Sequeira and Rudolf Fernandes also joined the party after meeting with Chief Minister Pramod Sawant at the Goa Assembly complex during the day. Taking a jibe at the Centre, Kejriwal further asked where the crores of money are coming to them. He accused BJP of 'siphoning off' the public's money and said it has resulted in an increase in the inflation rate.
"Where are the thousands of crores to buy the MLAs coming from? This is the money of the government, which is being siphoned off, thus increasing inflation," said Kejriwal mentioning that the "BJP tried its Operation Lotus in every state including Punjab." Days ago on September 4, Gujarat Youth Congress President Vishwanathsinh Vaghela resigned from his post which is considered to be a major jolt for the party.
On September 2, party leader Rajinder Prasad, who is also the son of late Master Beli Ram Sharma from Nowshera, Rajouri, resigned from all posts and the primary membership of the party. Prasad blamed the 'coterie' system for being a reason for the 'demise' of the party. In recent months, Rajinder Prasad and several high-profile leaders have quit Congress. The exit of veteran leader Ghulam Nabi Azad from the Congress, months before the upcoming Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls, as well as the general elections in two years' time, dealt a huge blow to party.
Jaiveer Shergill, who is a lawyer by profession and was one of the prominent ones among young Congress leaders, on August 24, tendered his resignation claiming that the vision of the decision-makers no longer was in sync with the aspirations of the youth. Earlier this year in May, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal, a prominent face of the G-23 group of dissenting leaders, resigned from the party and filed nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha elections as an independent candidate backed by the Samajwadi Party (SP).
Former Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar too parted ways with the Congress in May this year. Former Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar in February also resigned from Congress after a long association of 46 years with the party.
Back in May, Gujarat Patidar leader Hardik Patel had quit the party after he felt that he was being "ignored". (ANI)
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Doubts crept in when Vedanta chairman said only Centre's nod was awaited for semi-conductor plant in Maha: ex-minister Desai
Opposition parties in Maharashtra have been slamming the Eknath Shinde-led state government after it was announced on Tuesday that the mega project would be set up in Gujarat, and not in Maharashtra as proposed earlier.Speaking to reporters here, Desai said when the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA government was in talks with Foxconn, Karnataka and Telangana were the other two competitor states.Gujarat was nowhere in the picture.
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Former Maharashtra Industries Minister Subhash Desai on Wednesday said that Foxconn-Vedanta's proposed semiconductor project in the state had been all but finalized when MVA government was in power. But the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress coalition government began to have doubts about whether it would materialize when Vedanta boss Anil Agarwal told them that only the Centre's assent was awaited, he claimed. Opposition parties in Maharashtra have been slamming the Eknath Shinde-led state government after it was announced on Tuesday that the mega project would be set up in Gujarat, and not in Maharashtra as proposed earlier.
Speaking to reporters here, Desai said when the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA government was in talks with Foxconn, Karnataka and Telangana were the other two competitor states.
''Gujarat was nowhere in the picture. Our government held talks with the company several times and even the MIDC industrial area in Talegaon was finalised. We also reached agreement over land, water, electricity and incentives,'' the Sena leader said.
''After almost finalizing Maharashtra (for the project), Vedanta chairman Anil Agarwal told us at the World Economic Forum in Davos that only the central government's nod was now needed for going ahead,'' Desai said.
''At this point we began to have doubts,'' he added.
As recently as on July 26 the company officials had met new Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis, and an official statement had said that the central government was supporting Maharashtra for the project, Desai further said.
The BJP, meanwhile, shared links to Desai's older statement when he, as industries minister in the MVA government, had sounded pessimistic about Foxconn investing in Maharashtra.
Published on January 7, 2020, the report quoted Desai as saying, “Foxconn's commitment of investing in the state will not work.'' The Taiwanese electronic giant was facing market related issues and also competition from smartphone assembling firms in India, he had purportedly said.
“Why did the company say no? Did anyone demand kickbacks?” the BJP's Maharashtra unit tweeted on Wednesday with a screenshot of the report.
Foxconn had signed a high-profile memorandum of understanding with the Maharashtra government in August 2015, offering an investment of USD 5 billion in the state.
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NCW chairperson expresses concern over 'growing' sale of drugs in Chhattisgarh
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National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma on Wednesday expressed concern over ''growing'' sale of narcotics in Chhattisgarh and said she has heard the state was fast turning into “Udta Chhattisgarh”, a reference to drug menace.
Sharma, who met Director General of Police Ashok Juneja on Tuesday to discuss pending complaints on which Chhattisgarh cops were yet to give replies to the commission, also slammed the police in the Congress-ruled state for their alleged laxity in handling offences against women.
During the discussion, the DGP tried to give the impression that ''all is well'' in the state, the NCW chief said.
Targeting the Congress government for allowing online liquor sale in the state, she said, “The Chief Minister (Bhupesh Baghel) had promised to ban liquor ahead of polls. But now it is being delivered at home through an online facility causing trouble to women. If men consume liquor more, then women will have to bear the brunt of it which is known to all of us.'' The NCW chairperson also drew attention towards the ''growing'' drug menace in the state.
''Another issue is drug sales which have increased in the state. When I spoke to the DGP about it, he said Chhattisgarh serves as a corridor for supply of drugs but its sale is less in the state. But during discussions with women here I came to know that drug sales have increased here and youngsters are becoming victims of drug menace. Many people told me that like 'Udta Punjab', the state is becoming 'Udta Chhattisgarh,” she said at a press conference in Raipur.
Sharma said she will write to the state's chief secretary in this regard.
'Udta Punjab' was a 2016 Bollywood film loosely based on the drug abuse by youngsters in the northern state.
There were 156 cases (related to women), ten of them taken up suo moto (on its own) by the NCW after going through media reports, in which the state police were yet to send replies to the commission despite sending repeated reminders, she said.
“I met the state's DGP on Tuesday to raise the issue of delay in submitting replies (action take reports) by the police. When I met him, his (the DGP) way of talking was like 'all is well' in the state. Neither was (he) ready to accept any suggestions nor listen to anything. It was like 'everything is going on well in the state and it does not need police anymore'. But in reality complaints the we received from the state are of very serious nature,” Sharma said.
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Bhutan king meets PM Modi
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Bhutan king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Wednesday and both leaders are believed to have discussed bilateral ties and the ways to further strengthen them.
Wangchuck was in India enroute to London to attend the Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, officials said. India and Bhutan share historically strong ties which have stood the test of time.
Wangchuck also met foreign secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra.
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WRAPUP 5-Ukraine leader views wrecked frontline town as Russian forces dig in
Ukraine said it was trying to extend a counter offensive in the east as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made a surprise visit to a devastated and recently recaptured town on Wednesday, but pro-Russian officials said they had halted Kyiv's forces for now. Russian forces suffered a stunning reversal this month after Ukrainian troops made a rapid armoured thrust with special forces in the northeastern region of Kharkiv, forcing a sometimes rushed and chaotic Russian withdrawal.
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Ukraine said it was trying to extend a counter offensive in the east as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made a surprise visit to a devastated and recently recaptured town on Wednesday, but pro-Russian officials said they had halted Kyiv's forces for now.
Russian forces suffered a stunning reversal this month after Ukrainian troops made a rapid armoured thrust with special forces in the northeastern region of Kharkiv, forcing a sometimes rushed and chaotic Russian withdrawal. Zelenskiy said in a late night address on Tuesday that his army had liberated around 8,000 square km (3,100 square miles) of territory so far this month, a swath of land nearly equivalent to the island of Cyprus.
Reuters was not able to immediately verify the full scope of battlefield successes claimed by Ukraine. Zelenskiy, who visited the town of Izium, an important logistics hub around 15 km (9.3 miles) from the current frontline in the east, said fully securing and rooting out any pro-Russian elements had been completed in about half of liberated territory.
Ukrainian troops were now assaulting the Russian-held town of Lyman in Ukraine's Donetsk region, Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Zelenskiy said, and were eyeing territorial gains in the neighbouring Luhansk region which is under Russian control. "There is now an assault on Lyman," Arestovych said in a video posted on YouTube, predicting a fight too for the town of Svatovo, where he said the Russians have storage depots.
"And that is what they fear most - that we take Lyman and then advance on Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk," he said, referring to twin cities in the Luhansk region taken by Russia after fierce fighting in June and July. Denis Pushilin, head of the Russia-backed self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, said troops loyal to Moscow had successfully pushed back Ukrainian forces trying to make inroads into Lyman and that the situation had stabilised for now.
"Nothing worked out for the enemy," said Pushilin, adding that Ukrainian attacks to the north and south of Lyman had also been repelled. Asked whether Ukraine's lightning counter offensive in the east was a turning point in the six-month war, U.S. President Joe Biden said it was hard to tell.
"It's clear the Ukrainians have made significant progress. But I think it's going to be a long haul," said Biden. Russian forces still control about a fifth of Ukraine in the south and east, even though Kyiv is now on the offensive in both areas.
The White House, which has provided billions of dollars of weapons and support to Ukraine, has said the United States is likely to announce a new military aid package in the "coming days". DEVASTATION
In Izium, recaptured by Ukrainian forces in their lightning counter offensive, Zelenskiy watched as the Ukrainian flag was raised in front of a charred local administration building that had sandbags at its entrance. No buildings were left unscathed on the main thoroughfare: a derelict bath house had a hole blasted in its side; meat shops, pharmacies, a shoe shop and a beauty salon were sprayed with shrapnel.
Stray dogs - perhaps abandoned by fleeing owners - scampered around in the destruction, while the golden dome of an Orthodox Church stood badly damaged. "I know this region very well," Zelenskiy told reporters.
"The view is shocking, but it is not shocking for me because we… saw the same pictures from Bucha, from the first de-occupied territories. The same destroyed buildings, people killed." After a Russian retreat earlier in the war, dead civilians were found in the town of Bucha, near Kyiv.
In Izium, bus stops were daubed with "Z" markings, the symbol Russian forces use to identify themselves, and the charred remains of tanks and armoured personnel carriers lay by the road into town. With a pink hood wrapped around her face for warmth, Lyubov Sinna, 74, said residents were shell-shocked and that it was too early to feel safe.
"We waited a long time for our guys. Of course we feel positive. Joy. But there is also fear - fear that the Russians could return here," she said. "Because we lived through this whole six months. We sat it out in cellars. We went through everything it is possible to go through. We absolutely cannot say that we feel safe."
There was no gas, electricity, or water supply in the town, she added, saying she was unsure how people would get through winter. 'PUTIN REJECTED DEAL'
In a move that suggests Russian President Vladimir Putin had much wider war aims when he ordered tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, three people close to the Russian leadership told Reuters that Putin had rejected a provisional deal with Kyiv as the war began. They said the deal would have satisfied Russia's demand that Ukraine stay out of NATO and had been brokered by Putin's then top envoy on Ukraine. The Kremlin said the Reuters report had "absolutely no relation to reality." It also said Ukraine's ongoing ambitions to join the Western NATO military alliance still presented a threat to Russia.
On top of its reversals in Ukraine, Russian authorities are also facing challenges in other former Soviet republics. About 100 people have been killed this week in the deadliest fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia since a 2020 war, prompting Putin to appeal for calm.
And on Wednesday, shooting broke out between guards patrolling the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, Russian news agencies said, citing the Kyrgyz border service.
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'Operation Kichad': Cong slams BJP, says Goa MLAs crossover fast-tracked due to Yatra success
The crossing over of eight of its Goa MLAs to the BJP is part of the ruling partys Operation Kichad, the Congress said on Wednesday and claimed the break was fast-tracked because of the visible success of its Bharat Jodo Yatra.In a body blow to the party in Goa, eight of the Congress 11 MLAs, including former chief minister Digambar Kamat, joined the ruling BJP.
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The crossing over of eight of its Goa MLAs to the BJP is part of the ruling party's 'Operation Kichad', the Congress said on Wednesday and claimed the ''break'' was fast-tracked because of the visible success of its Bharat Jodo Yatra.
In a body blow to the party in Goa, eight of the Congress' 11 MLAs, including former chief minister Digambar Kamat, joined the ruling BJP. The Congress is now left with just three MLAs in the 40-member Assembly.
''Operation Kichad of BJP in Goa has been fast-tracked because of the visible success of the Bharat Jodo Yatra. BJP is nervous,'' Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said in a tweet.
''A daily dose of diversion & disinformation is handed out to undermine the Yatra. We remain undeterred. We will overcome these dirty tricks of the BJP,'' he said.
His party colleague Pawan Khera echoed him and said the BJP, rattled by the Bharat Jodo Yatra, had organised ''Operation Kichad (muck)'' in the coastal state.
''Once again it has been proven that the BJP can only break,'' the Congress' communication department head said in a tweet in Hindi.
''Those who are not able to support this difficult journey of uniting India, fearing the threats of BJP, cross over to those who break... (they) should understand that India is watching,'' he added.
Congress and other opposition parties have often accused the BJP of poaching legislators under its 'Operation Lotus'. Lotus is the BJP's poll symbol.
Asked about the developments in Goa and whether the Congress was caught off-guard, party spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said the party was not clueless, but one cannot have a dialogue with people who compromise their values beyond a point.
''I think it is absolutely erroneous for anybody to believe that we did not know,'' she told reporters at a press conference at AICC headquarters here.
Those MLAs who crossed over had sought votes from people against the Bharatiya Janata Party, she said.
''With what face are you joining BJP today? Is there a thing as ideology or not,'' Shrinate said.
''My own belief is that doing opposition politics is a very difficult task today, especially for those people who get scared of agencies and get carried away by greed,'' she added.
If that is not the case then one fights as thousands, lakhs, crores of people are doing in this country, Shrinate said.
The eight MLAs joined the BJP in the presence of Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and state BJP chief Sadanand Shet Tanavade. In a similar move in July 2019, 10 Congress MLAs had switched over to the BJP in Goa.
The BJP retained power in the coastal state after the assembly elections in March this year. It has 20 MLAs in the Assembly, while the Congress’ strength will be depleted from 11 to three.
The eight Congress MLAs -- Kamat, Michael Lobo, Delilah Lobo, Rajesh Phaldesai, Kedar Naik, Sankalp Amonkar, Aleixo Sequeira and Rudolf Fernandes -- were seen interacting with Sawant in a viral photo hours ahead of formally joining the BJP.
In January, they had taken the loyalty pledge at a temple, church and dargah in Goa ahead of the elections.
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What if WB followed UP’s bulldozer model: TMC’s Mohua Moitra on violence in BJP rally
A day after public properties were damaged in Kolkata and Howrah during the BJPs mega protest march, TMC MP Mahua Moitra on Wednesday asked whether the West Bengal government should follow its Uttar Pradesh counterpart and bulldoze houses of saffron camp leaders.Attacking the BJP in Twitter posts, Moitra also asked if the first chapter of the central governments National Education Policy is on how to set police vehicles afire.She tweeted What if Bengal used Bhogiji Ajay Bishts model sent bulldozers to homes of BJP workers who destroyed public property yesterday
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A day after public properties were damaged in Kolkata and Howrah during the BJP’s mega protest march, TMC MP Mahua Moitra on Wednesday asked whether the West Bengal government should follow its Uttar Pradesh counterpart and bulldoze houses of saffron camp leaders.
Attacking the BJP in Twitter posts, Moitra also asked if the first chapter of the central government’s National Education Policy is on how to set police vehicles afire.
She tweeted: “What if Bengal used Bhogiji Ajay Bisht’s model & sent bulldozers to homes of BJP workers who destroyed public property yesterday? Will BJP stand by own policy or get their chadds in a twist?” Ajay Bisht is the birth name of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The administration of that state has razed alleged illegal properties of people accused of committing crimes with bulldozers. “Chapter 1 in BJP’s New Education Policy: how to methodically torch police vehicle,” Moitra said in another tweet.
The Krishnagar MP shared a photograph of a group of people torching a car belonging to the police during the rally on Tuesday to protest against the alleged corrupt practices of the Trinamool Congress government. Reacting to Moitra’s statement, senior BJP leader Rahul Sinha said she should first explain if the same yardstick can be applied in the case of vandalising of properties of the West Bengal Assembly by TMC members.
He was referring to the incident of November 30, 2006, when TMC MLAs, who were in the opposition then, went on the rampage after Mamata Banerjee came to the Assembly after she was stopped from proceeding to Singur by the police.
''Moitra should explain if the same rules can be applied for those who took part in the rampage of Assembly properties against her party colleagues,'' Sinha said.
Some stray retaliations could have taken place as the “peaceful protesters were facing brutal police action”, he said.
However, it is also to be found out whether the arson was carried out by supporters of the BJP or the TMC, Sinha said.
During the BJP’s march to the state secretariat on Tuesday, BJP supporters fought pitched battles with the police, threw stones at them, torched a vehicle and damaged a kiosk while the cops used batons and water cannons to disperse the protesters. Several persons from both sides were injured in the melee.
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Kolkata mayor visits BJP councillor injured during protest march
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Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim on Wednesday visited BJP councillor Meena Devi Purohit at a hospital where she was admitted after suffering head injuries during the saffron party's march to West Bengal secretariat, Nabanna, a day earlier.
BJP's state unit president Sukanta Majumdar also visited her at the hospital here.
''She has suffered an injury on her head and I wished her speedy recovery,'' Hakim told reporters after visiting Purohit, a Kolkata Municipal Corporation councillor.
He also said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has enquired about the BJP councillor's health.
Hakim, also the state urban development and municipal affairs minister, said he came to visit an injured person and does not want to go into what happened during the BJP's march to 'Nabanna' programme on Tuesday.
BJP supporters and the police clashed at different places during the programme.
The National Commission for Women (NCW) has sought stringent action from the Kolkata Police against its male officers who allegedly assaulted Purohit and an FIR against them.
The NCW said it came across a video clip on Twitter, in which the senior BJP leader was seen getting brutally assaulted by male police officers during the mega “Nabanna Cholo” (march to the state secretariat) rally taken out by the saffron party against the alleged corrupt practices of the Trinamool Congress government in the state.
Majumdar visited Purohit along with BJP MP Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato and MLA Agnimitra Paul and also spoke to the attending doctor to enquire about her health.
The BJP state president said he also spoke over the phone to an injured assistant commissioner of police who was injured in the clashes.
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Chhattisgarh CM launches second edition of 'Bhent-Mulaqat' scheme in Raigarh
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Bahgel on Wednesday visited Raigarh in-lieu of 'Bhent-Mulaqat' scheme of the state government.
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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Bahgel on Wednesday visited Raigarh in-lieu of 'Bhent-Mulaqat' scheme of the state government. Talking about, the 'Bhent-Mulaqat' scheme, Baghel told ANI, "It is through this scheme that the people's issues reach us, that is why there is a dialogue in the meeting, information about the schemes, for the farmers, for the school children. We have made many schemes for tribals, women, labourers, farmers, and its benefits are being given to the beneficiaries."
He further, said, "Whether or not everyone is getting the ration in the APL card or the caste certificate in the BPL card. We directly question all these things to the general public and if even necessary instructions have to be given, we also give, if an action has to be taken, we also do it, if where the officials do their work correctly, then action is also taken." When asked about which scheme of his Government is most successful and which scheme is getting more feedback, Baghel, replied, "The biggest thing is that we have increased the income of the general public. The farmer who are benefiting under the Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Yojana, are given input subsidies, which has benefited them a lot and has changed their standard of living a lot. There is 44% forest in Chhattisgarh, and we also buy 74% of the whole country's minor forest produce, in Chhattisgarh, tendu leaves are made from 4000 per standard bag and 65 types of minor forest produce are its support price. By declaring and arranging for its purchase, then a lot of change has come in the lives of tribals, giving them forest rights recognition letters under Forest IT Act is also a matter of community claim, forest resource rights have also been made as per rules."
He further spoke about health and education schemes in Chattisgarh, "We have been very successful with the Haat Bazar Clinic scheme, we are also getting cheap medicines under Shri Dhanwantri Yojana and we are giving assistance up to 20 lakhs under Dr Khubchand Baghel health scheme up to 500000. On the education side, Swami Atmanand English School and Hindi School, there is a big demand for it, last year 279 schools were operated by us and 422 schools will start from next education session. In this way, 700 schools will be ours." (ANI)
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Green activists urge U.N. rights body to reject Vietnam's bid to join
More than 50 winners of a prominent global environmental prize have called on the the U.N. human rights council (UNHRC) to reject Vietnam's effort to join it, citing a crackdown on climate activists in the Southeast Asian nation.
More than 50 winners of a prominent global environmental prize have called on the the U.N. human rights council (UNHRC) to reject Vietnam's effort to join it, citing a crackdown on climate activists in the Southeast Asian nation. In a letter https://www.goldmanprize.org/blog/goldman-prize-winners-call-for-release-of-nguy-thi-khanh published on Wednesday, 52 winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize flagged concerns over a two-year jail sentence handed to one of Vietnam's best-known environmental advocates, Nguy Thi Khanh.
"What's happening in Vietnam is just the tip of the iceberg," said the letter, signed by winners of the prize from 41 countries. "As Goldman prize winners, we have all faced uphill battles in our efforts to protect our planet and catalyse change."
Vietnam's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the environmentalists' letter. The UNHRC will consider Vietnam's bid for membership during its 51st session, which runs until Oct. 7.
Khanh, who became Vietnam's first recipient of the Goldman prize in 2018, is among a number of Vietnamese environmental advocates sentenced to prison on tax-related charges. The United States has said it was "deeply concerned" by her sentencing and called on Vietnam to release her.
In June, Vietnam's foreign ministry said Khanh was jailed for tax fraud, not for her campaigning, and rejected calls for her release, as well as that of other climate change activists. In January, Dang Dinh Bach, an environmental lawyer who worked to protect communities affected by pollution from coal power plants, was jailed for five years on charges of tax evasion.
Vietnam's public security ministry has also said Bach's sentence was for tax evasion, and not campaigning. In their letter, the environmentalists urged Vietnam to revise the tax code "so that it can no longer be used as a tool to silence civil society voices" and urged the release of Khanh, Bach and other jailed environmental defenders.
Launching Vietnam's bid to join the UNHRC last year, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh told a council session that "protecting human rights is the duty of every progressive, civilized nation", state media have said. First awarded in 1990 by American philanthropist Richard Goldman and his wife Rhoda, the Goldman prize aims to highlight the international nature of environmental problems and the need for global action, the prize body says on its website.
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A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck southeast of the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia on Wednesday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 141 km (87.61 miles), GFZ said.
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HFCs to cede market share to banks in FY23 as well despite higher growth: Report
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Housing finance companies (HFCs) will cede market share to banks in 2022-23 despite expectations of a faster growth in assets under management, a report said on Wednesday.
The HFCs' AUM growth will come at 10-12 per cent in FY23 as against 8 per cent in FY22, the report by rating agency Crisil stated.
The agency, however, said that the faster growth in AUM will not be sufficient to hold on to market share when compared to banks' aggressive play, it said.
The HFC segment had been consistently ceding market share to the banks over the last four fiscal years, and the banks held a 62 per cent share, up by 4 percentage points, as of March 2022, as per Crisil.
This trend of banks gaining market shares is unlikely to reverse in the near term, the agency said, adding that the merger of the largest pure play home financier HDFC with HDFC Bank will only expand the banks' market share.
One segment where HFCs have been growing relatively faster is affordable housing loans, where competition from banks is limited, it said, adding that the segment will see a 18-20 per cent growth in assets in FY23.
However, the ability of HFCs to compete with banks in the traditional salaried-home-loan segment remains a challenge given their relatively higher funding costs, the agency said.
It added that access to funding is not a big challenge for most HFCs, but banks score on competitive borrowing costs courtesy access to low-cost deposit base.
Given the challenges like thin spreads, tightening regulatory conditions and lack of depth in the corporate bond market, HFCs will need to realign their business models, the agency said.
It expects HFCs to increasingly partner with banks, so that both the entities are able to leverage on each other's strengths, and added that already, there are some examples of the same and this will lead to faster growth in AUM though the on-book growth in assets will be lower.
The agency said the core home loans segment for HFCs will grow at 15 per cent in FY23, while the growth in developer financing and loans against property will continue to be muted.
Last fiscal, HFC growth was a story of two halves which included a stunted growth of 2 per cent on an annualised basis in the first half because of the second wave of the pandemic, followed by a 14 per cent growth on an annualised basis in the second half.
The home loan segment, which is nearly three-fourths of the HFC AUMs, grew 11 per cent last fiscal on the back of better affordability, improved income visibility after resumption of economic activity, higher demand in urban areas bolstered by migration of service sector workforce back to base locations, and increased preference for home ownership, the agency said.
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Heavy rain likely in parts of Rajasthan during next 48 hours
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Heavy rain is likely in several parts of Rajasthan during the next 48 hours due to a low pressure area that has developed over Madhya Pradesh, the meteorological department said on Wednesday.
There is also a possibility of very heavy rain at isolated places on Wednesday and Thursday, it said.
A low pressure area has developed over Madhya Pradesh and is currently located over the northwestern part of the state. It is very likely to gradually move in the north-northwest direction during the next 24 hours and then turn north-eastwards towards south Uttar Pradesh, the Met department said.
Under the influence of this system, there is a strong possibility of monsoon becoming active and light to moderate rain in most parts of east Rajasthan during the next 48 hours, it said.
On September 14-15, there is a possibility of very heavy rain at one or two places in the districts of Udaipur, Kota and Bharatpur divisions, it added.
From September 16, there will be a decrease in the heavy rain activity in eastern Rajasthan and light to moderate rain is likely to be recorded at some places in Kota and Bharatpur divisions, the weather office said.
In Bikaner and Jodhpur divisions of western Rajasthan, there is a possibility of light to moderate rain at isolated places in the coming days, it said.
Heavy rain occurred at one or two places in the state in the last 24 hours, with Bhungra in Banswara recording the highest rainfall at 84 mm, according to the meteorological department.
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Ten killed in air strikes on capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region - hospital
A second day of air strikes against the capital of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region killed 10 people on Wednesday, hospital officials said, while local forces accused troops from neighbouring Eritrea of again joining the war against them. Ethiopia's government, which has been fighting the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) since late 2020, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the airstrikes, fighting, or presence of Eritrean troops.
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A second day of air strikes against the capital of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region killed 10 people on Wednesday, hospital officials said, while local forces accused troops from neighbouring Eritrea of again joining the war against them.
Ethiopia's government, which has been fighting the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) since late 2020, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the airstrikes, fighting, or presence of Eritrean troops. Wednesday's reported drone strikes in Mekelle followed a TPLF ceasefire offer at the weekend.
Among the casualties in Mekelle were a father killed in the second strike and his son, a doctor, wounded when tending victims, said Fasika Amdeslasie, a surgeon at Mekelle's Ayder Referral Hospital. Some 13 people were wounded.
Five of the victims died en route to the hospital, said Ayder's CEO Kibrom Gebreselassie. Another five died at the scene in an area called Dagim Amsal, he said, citing Mekelle's emergency coordinator. Kibrom said the hospital was struggling to save the wounded because of supply shortages in a region largely cut off from aid. "I don't know what to do. Am I to lose every salvageable victim because there is no oxygen or medicine?" he said.
The conflict has killed thousands of civilians, uprooted millions, destroyed hundreds of schools and clinics, and caused starvation in the already impoverished region of Tigray. ERITREANS BACK?
With fighting flaring in several parts of Tigray and neighbouring Amhara region, TPLF commander-in-chief Tadesse Werede said in an interview broadcast on Tigrayan television on Tuesday that Eritrea's military had taken the town of Shiraro near the border. Yemane Gebremeskel, Eritrea's minister of information, did not respond to requests for comment.
Ethiopia's military spokesperson Col. Getnet Adane and government spokesperson Legesse Tulu also did not respond to requests for comment on latest events in Tigray. Eritrean troops previously entered the war days after it erupted, although both governments denied their presence for around five months. Residents and rights groups accused the Eritrean troops of abuses including gang rape and sexual enslavement of civilians, mass civilian killings and torture.
Eritrea denied those accusations. Verifying claims is difficult as reporters are not allowed into the region and it has had no phone connections since federal troops pulled out more than a year ago.
William Davison, senior analyst for Ethiopia at the International Crisis Group think-tank, said recent diplomatic activity by the African Union, United States and others was encouraging, but events on the ground were undermining them. "If we don't see progress on key points of contention soon, then we could see these diplomatic efforts lose momentum," he said.
Wednesday's reported strikes came after two people were wounded on Tuesday in hits on Mekelle University and a local TV station, a hospital official said.
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Green activists urge U.N. rights body to reject Vietnam's bid to join
More than 50 winners of a prominent global environmental prize have called on the U.N. human rights council (UNHRC) to reject Vietnam's effort to join it, citing a crackdown on climate activists in the Southeast Asian nation. In a letter https://www.goldmanprize.org/blog/goldman-prize-winners-call-for-release-of-nguy-thi-khanh published on Wednesday, 52 winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize flagged concerns over a two-year jail sentence handed to one of Vietnam's best-known environmental advocates, Nguy Thi Khanh.
More than 50 winners of a prominent global environmental prize have called on the U.N. human rights council (UNHRC) to reject Vietnam's effort to join it, citing a crackdown on climate activists in the Southeast Asian nation.
In a letter https://www.goldmanprize.org/blog/goldman-prize-winners-call-for-release-of-nguy-thi-khanh published on Wednesday, 52 winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize flagged concerns over a two-year jail sentence handed to one of Vietnam's best-known environmental advocates, Nguy Thi Khanh. "What's happening in Vietnam is just the tip of the iceberg," said the letter, signed by winners of the prize from 41 countries.
"As Goldman prize winners, we have all faced uphill battles in our efforts to protect our planet and catalyse change." Vietnam's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the environmentalists' letter.
The UNHRC will consider Vietnam's bid for membership during its 51st session, which runs until Oct. 7. Khanh, who became Vietnam's first recipient of the Goldman prize in 2018, is among a number of Vietnamese environmental advocates sentenced to prison on tax-related charges.
The United States has said it was "deeply concerned" by her sentencing and called on Vietnam to release her. In June, Vietnam's foreign ministry said Khanh was jailed for tax fraud, not for her campaigning, and rejected calls for her release, as well as that of other climate change activists.
In January, Dang Dinh Bach, an environmental lawyer who worked to protect communities affected by pollution from coal power plants, was jailed for five years on charges of tax evasion. Vietnam's public security ministry has also said Bach's sentence was for tax evasion, and not campaigning.
In their letter, the environmentalists urged Vietnam to revise the tax code "so that it can no longer be used as a tool to silence civil society voices" and urged the release of Khanh, Bach and other jailed environmental defenders. Launching Vietnam's bid to join the UNHRC last year, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh told a council session that "protecting human rights is the duty of every progressive, civilized nation", state media have said.
First awarded in 1990 by American philanthropist Richard Goldman and his wife Rhoda, the Goldman prize aims to highlight the international nature of environmental problems and the need for global action, the prize body says on its website.
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Wildfire still raging in southwestern France, more evacuations
France, like the rest of Europe, has had to tackle heatwaves and a drought over the summer that have caused multiple wildfires across the continent. Close to 65,000 hectares (250.97 square miles) have gone up in flames so far in France this year, half of it in southwestern France - six times the full-year average for 2006-2021, according to data from the European Forest Fire Information System.
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A wildfire raging since Monday in southwestern France prompted authorities to evacuate an extra 500 people on Wednesday, bringing the total to over 1,000 in an area already hit this summer by huge blazes. One thousand firefighters and 11 aircraft are battling the fire that has burned more than 3,600 hectares and destroyed four houses and several buildings in the wine growing Medoc area.
"The weather conditions remain unfavourable, with the persistence of wind, heat and drought (...) the fires remains active (...)," the prefect of the Gironde department said in a statement, adding seven firefighters had been slightly injured. France, like the rest of Europe, has had to tackle heatwaves and a drought over the summer that have caused multiple wildfires across the continent.
Close to 65,000 hectares (250.97 square miles) have gone up in flames so far in France this year, half of it in southwestern France - six times the full-year average for 2006-2021, according to data from the European Forest Fire Information System.
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Ukraine's Zelenskyy visits recently retaken, devastated city
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday visited an area of northeastern Ukraine that was recently retaken from Russian forces, witnessing large-scale devastation as prosecutors claimed that residents had been tortured and killed during the half-year occupation.
Russian forces left the war-scarred city last week as Ukraine pressed forward in a sweeping counteroffensive that has reclaimed vast swaths of territory in the country's northeastern Kharkiv region in a matter of days.
As Zelenskyy visited Izium, the Ukrainian flag was raised in front of the burned-out city hall building in the largely devastated town.
Apartment buildings are blackened by fire and pockmarked by artillery strikes. The entire center of one residential building had collapsed, with a gaping hole and piles of rubble where homes used to be.
"The view is very shocking but it is not shocking for me,'' Zelenskyy said in brief comments to the press, ''because we began to see the same pictures from Bucha, from the first de-occupied territories so the same destroyed buildings, killed people." Bucha is a neighborhood near Kyiv where the bodies of civilians, many of them bearing signs of torture, were found dumped in the streets, in mass graves, and yards after Russian forces withdrew hastily in March.
Prosecutors say they have found six bodies bearing traces of torture in recently retaken villages in the Kharkiv region. They announced the creation of investigative teams.
''We have a terrible picture of what the occupiers did, particularly in the Kharkiv region. Such cities as Balakliia, Izium are standing in the same row as Bucha, Borodyanka, Irpin," said Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin.
The head of the Kharkiv prosecutor's office, Oleksandr Filchakov, said bodies were found in Hrakove and Zaliznyche villages, around 60 kilometers (35 miles) southeast of Kharkiv.
He said investigators were also learning of residents being killed and buried by Russian troops in another retaken town, Balaklava.
On the northern outskirts of Izium, the remains of Russian tanks and vehicles lie shattered along the road.
Zelenskyy declared that it was very important for the area to be reclaimed by soldiers, who are welcomed by the population.
"I see how people meet them, in what a sensitive moment," the president said. ''It means that with our army, life comes back." Ukrainian troops have recently carried out a dramatic counteroffensive that has allowed them to recapture large swaths of territory around Kharkiv and inflict a stunning blow on Moscow's military prestige.
Following those gains, a new front line has started to emerge in the war, a Washington-based think tank said on Wednesday.
The Institute for the Study of War said the Oskil River appeared to be emerging as the new front line in the area after Kyiv's significant gains in recent days.
The Oskar flows south and largely represents the eastern edge of Ukraine's Kharkiv region.
"Ukrainian forces are continuing localized ground assaults to threaten Russian positions behind the Oskil River," the institute said.
"Russian troops are unlikely to be strong enough to prevent further Ukrainian advances along the entire Oskil River because they do not appear to be receiving reinforcements, and Ukrainian troops will likely be able to exploit this weakness to resume the counter-offensive across the Oskil if they choose,'' it added.
The counter-offensive has also left more weapons in Ukrainian hands.
Russian forces likely left behind dozens of tanks, armored personnel carriers, and other heavy weaponry as they fled Ukraine's advance in the east of the country, a Ukrainian think tank said on Wednesday.
The Center for Defence Strategies said one single Russian unit that was around Izium left behind 39 T-80 tanks and 35 infantry fighting vehicles, known by the acronym BMP.
Another unit left behind 47 tanks and 27 armored vehicles.
The center said Russian forces tried to destroy some of the abandoned vehicles through artillery strikes as they fell back. Typically, armed forces destroy equipment left behind so their opponent can't use it.
However, the chaos of the Russian withdrawal saw them leave untouched ammunition and weapons behind.
In other areas, Russia has continued its attacks over the past day, causing the death toll to keep rising in the war that has now dragged on for more than seven months.
Russian shelling of seven Ukrainian regions over the past 24 hours killed at least seven civilians and wounded 22 more, Ukraine's presidential office reported on Wednesday morning.
Two people were killed and three injured after Russia attacked Mykolaiv with S-300 missiles overnight, said regional Gov Vitaliy Kim.
An educational institution, infrastructure, and residential buildings were damaged. Settlements near the front line in the Mykolaiv region remain under constant fire.
The Nikopol area, which is across the Dnieper River from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, was shelled three times during the night, but no injuries were immediately reported, said regional Gov Valentyn Reznichenko.
Nikopol city itself was shelled two times and left almost 3,000 families without electricity. Reznichenko said the electricity has been partially restored.
In the Kharkiv region, where Ukrainian forces have retaken more than 300 cities and villages, the process of demining is underway; three people have been injured over the past 24 hours.
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Ukraine official promises 'great news' from Kharkiv counteroffensive | https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/science-environment/2178479-ukraines-zelenskyy-visits-recently-retaken-devastated-city | 2022-09-14T12:59:56 | en | 0.974251 |
PM Modi has assured CM Shinde of Vedanta-Foxconn like project for Maha: minister, blames MVA
Under flak for losing out on the mega Vedanta-Foxconn semiconductor project to Gujarat, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday said Prime minister Narendra Modi has assured the state will get a similar project or even a better one.Talking to reporters here, a day after Gujarat bagged the project, state Industries Minister Uday Samant alleged the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA dispensation was responsible for the loss as it sat on the project offer for seven months whereas the new government approved incentives worth Rs 38,831 crore in July.
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- India
Under flak for losing out on the mega Vedanta-Foxconn semiconductor project to Gujarat, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday said Prime minister Narendra Modi has assured the state will get a similar project or even a better one.
Talking to reporters here, a day after Gujarat bagged the project, state Industries Minister Uday Samant alleged the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) dispensation was responsible for the loss as it sat on the project offer for seven months whereas the new government approved incentives worth Rs 38,831 crore in July. He said Chief Minister Eknath Shinde spoke to the prime minister on Tuesday after the Vedanta-Foxconn signed an MOU with the Gujarat government to set up a semiconductor and display manufacturing unit in the state. The project was proposed to come up in Maharashtra but Vedanta- Foxconn picked Gujarat, triggering a political blame game. ''The then MVA government sat on the project offer for seven months. On January 7, 2020, the then industries minister of Maharashtra declared that Vedanta- Foxconn was not interested in coming to Maharashtra. Other states including Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, and Karnataka wanted the project to come up in their states,'' Samant said. He said the MVA government was never serious about the semiconductor project, which was supposed to come up at Talegaon near Pune, as it never formed a high-powered committee and decided on incentive packages to be offered. ''The delay and folly of the MVA government led to the project going to Gujarat,'' Samant alleged. After the Eknath Shide-Devendra Fadnavis government came to power on June 30 this year, they reviewed the project and expedited the process.
Samant said a high-powered committee under the new government on July 15 approved the package of incentives worth Rs 38,831 crore.
''We are also feeling sad over losing the project. We are sorry. On Tuesday, the chief minister put forth his views before the prime minister on Vednata (Foxconn semi-conductor project). The CM held a detailed discussion with the prime minister on this matter. The PM has assured the youth that a similar project, or a better one, will be given to Maharashtra," Samant said.
The minister claimed that discussions for finalising the project for Maharashtra were going on for the last eight months and meetings were also held in Davos.
He also said the Centre and the Shinde government are committed to addressing the unemployment issues.
Samant said a state delegation led by Shinde and Fadnavis will meet the prime minister in the next 8 to 15 days and will try to get a project for the state. Shiv Sena leader and former minister Aaditya Thackeray had said the project was almost finalised by the erstwhile MVA government but the current dispensation has lost the confidence of potential investors.
A joint venture of the Indian conglomerate Vedanta and Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gujarat government on Tuesday to set up a semiconductor and display manufacturing unit in the state.
Vedanta-Foxconn would invest Rs 1,54,000 crore to set up the facility, which would create one lakh job opportunities.
Samant said factoring in the recent experience and delay, the Industries department will adopt a time-bound plan to approve new projects in the state. ''A Rs 3.50 lakh crore refinery was supposed to be set up in Maharashtra. The Centre had approved this project but some people are spreading misinformation. They should answer why it was delayed,'' Samant said taking potshots at Shiv Sena. He said the Shinde-Fadnavis government will come up with definite solutions to address the issue of unemployment in the state. ''We will support industries to carry on operations at district and other levels. Recently, Union minister Nitin Gadkari held a meeting which decided to set up logistics parks in different cities in Maharashtra including Pune, Jalgaon, Bhiwandi, Sambaji Nagar etc. This will generate considerable employment opportunities,'' the minister said.
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Hubble images glittering globular cluster close to Milky Way's core
This star-studded image shows the globular cluster Terzan 4 that lies close to the Milky Way's core. As this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows, the hearts of globular clusters are densely packed with stars.
Globular clusters are collections of stars bound together by their mutual gravitational attraction, and can contain millions of individual stars. The individual stars in these dense crowds are almost impossible to distinguish from one another with ground-based telescopes, but can be picked apart using space telescopes.
Astronomers have taken advantage of Hubble's crystal-clear vision to study the stars making up globular clusters, as well as how these systems change over time. Launched in 1990, Hubble has revolutionised the study of globular clusters. Two of Hubble's powerful instruments - the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) were used to capture this glittering scene.
2/ Hubble explored Terzan 4 and other globular clusters to understand the properties of clusters close to the Milky Way's core. These clusters are shrouded in clouds of gas and dust.Read more 🔗 https://t.co/gyHeEkeV60📷 @esa / @HUBBLE_space / @NASA , R. Cohen pic.twitter.com/vxYU9b3unS
— HUBBLE (@HUBBLE_space) September 12, 2022
This observation comes from astronomers using the telescope to explore Terzan 4 and other globular clusters to understand the shape, density, age, and structure of globular clusters close to the centre of our home galaxy - the Milky Way.
Unlike globular clusters elsewhere in the sky, these globular clusters have evaded detailed observation because of the clouds of gas and dust swirling around the galactic core. These clouds blot out starlight in a process that astronomers refer to as 'extinction', and complicate astronomical observations.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (the European Space Agency). ACS was installed on the telescope during Servicing Mission 3B in 2002 while WFC3 was installed during Hubble Servicing Mission 4 in 2009.
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Study finds Earth's most devastating mass extinctions triggered by slowing of continental plates
Scientists have shed new light on the timing and likely cause of major volcanic events that occurred millions of years ago and caused such climatic and biological upheaval that they drove some of the most devastating extinction events in Earth's history. Surprisingly the new research suggests a slowing of continental plate movement was the critical event that enabled magma to rise to the Earth's surface and deliver the devastating knock-on impacts.
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- United States
Scientists have shed new light on the timing and likely cause of major volcanic events that occurred millions of years ago and caused such climatic and biological upheaval that they drove some of the most devastating extinction events in Earth's history. Surprisingly the new research suggests a slowing of continental plate movement was the critical event that enabled magma to rise to the Earth's surface and deliver the devastating knock-on impacts. Surprisingly the new research, published today in the journal Science Advances, suggests a slowing of continental plate movement was the critical event that enabled magma to rise to the Earth's surface and deliver the devastating knock-on impacts.
Earth's history has been marked by major volcanic events, called Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) -- the largest of which have caused major increases in atmospheric carbon emissions that warmed Earth's climate, drove unprecedented changes to ecosystems and resulted in mass extinctions on land and in the oceans. Using chemical data from ancient mudstone deposits obtained from a 1.5 km-deep borehole in Wales, an international team led by scientists from Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural Sciences was able to link two key events from around 183 million years ago (the Toarcian period).
The team discovered that this time period, which was characterised by some of the most severe climatic and environmental changes ever, directly coincided with the occurrence of major volcanic activity and associated greenhouse gas release on the southern hemisphere, in what is nowadays known as the southern Africa, Antarctica and Australia. On further investigation -- and more importantly -- the team's plate reconstruction models helped them discover the key fundamental geological process that seemed to control the timing and onset of this volcanic event and others of great magnitude.
Micha Ruhl, Assistant Professor in Trinity's School of Natural Sciences, led the team. He said: "Scientists have long thought that the onset of upwelling of molten volcanic rock, or magma, from deep in Earth's interior, as mantle plumes, was the instigator of such volcanic activity but the new evidence shows that the normal rate of continental plate movement of several centimetres per year effectively prevents magma from penetrating Earth's continental crust.
"It seems it is only when the speed of continental plate movement slows down to near zero that magmas from mantle plumes can effectively make their way to the surface, causing major large igneous province volcanic eruptions and their associated climatic perturbations and mass extinctions. "Crucially, the further assessment shows that a reduction in continental plate movement likely controlled the onset and duration of many of the major volcanic events throughout Earth's history, making it a fundamental process in controlling the evolution of climate and life at Earth's surface throughout the history of this planet."
The study of past global change events, such as in the Toarcian, allows scientists to disentangle the different processes that control the causes and consequences of global carbon cycle change and constrain fundamental Earth system processes that control tipping points in Earth's climate system. (ANI)
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Former Davis Cup captain and Leander Paes' 'Mentor' Naresh Kumar passes away
Born on December 22, 1928 in Lahore in the undivided India, Kumar began his journey with tennis at the Asian Championships in 1949 before ruling the Indian tennis along with Ramanathan Krishnan for close to a decade in the 1950s.His Davis Cup journey started in 1952 and went on to captain the side.
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Naresh Kumar, who famously mentored a young Leander Paes as India's Davis Cup captain, has passed away.
He was 93. He is survived by his wife Sunita, son Arjun, and two daughters -- Gita and Preah.
''He was suffering from age-related issues since last week. I was told that his chance of survival was not very good. I've lost a great mentor,'' Jaidip Mukerjea, who made his Davis Cup debut under the Kumar's captaincy, told PTI. Born on December 22, 1928 in Lahore in the undivided India, Kumar began his journey with tennis at the Asian Championships in 1949 before ruling the Indian tennis along with Ramanathan Krishnan for close to a decade in the 1950s.
His Davis Cup journey started in 1952 and went on to captain the side. Three years later his biggest career high came when he made the fourth round of Wimbledon in 1955 before losing to the eventual champion and American No. 1 Tony Trabert.
As an amateur, Naresh Kumar has played a record number of 101 Wimbledon matches.
He won five singles titles in his career -- Irish Championships (1952 and 1953), Welsh Championships (1952), Essex Championships at Frinton-on-Sea (1957) and his title at the Wengen tournament in Switzerland the next year.
He played his final tournament at the Asian Championships in 1969.
In 1990, Kumar as a non-playing Indian captain played a key role in including a 16-year-old Leander Paes in the Davis Cup team in their match against Japan and the rest, as they say, is history.
Naresh Kumar, clad in white trousers and T-shirts, was a calming influence during some great Davis Cup years. An emotional Kumar ambling towards Leander Paes to hug him after his iconic fifth rubber win against France in Davis Cup quarter-final in Frejus (France) while Atul Premanarayan calling the moment for Doordarshan, would remain a fond memory for all tennis lovers.
A recipient of Arjuna Award, Naresh Kumar became the first tennis coach to receive Dronacharya Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.
''The best teachers teach from the heart and not from the book — Sir Naresh Kumar was my first Davis Cup captain and his wisdom has been the beacon of light in my journey,'' Paes had said after his 'Uncle Naresh' got the Dronacharya.
''A guru, a mentor and a confidante, he gave me the wings to fly and stoked my passion to play for our country. I have come a long way in 30 years yet what my Guru, Naresh Kumar taught me has stayed with me through my journey. ''I am fortunate to witness him getting the Lifetime Dronacharya Award for his contribution to India.'' Mukerjea recalled how he started his tennis career looking up to him at the Calcutta South Club.
''He was already a top player when I started playing tennis at the age of 12-13. Premjjit Lal and I looked up to Naresh in our formative years.'' ''Whenever we came back from Tours, he has helped us a lot in our formative years. I made my debut under him against Thailand in 1960. ''It was Naresh and myself as (Ramanathan) Krishnan was down with chicken pox. He helped me a lot with my game. Later on we became very good friends.'' A true gentleman to the core and always neatly-dressed, Naresh Kumar was also a well-known sports commentator-cum-columnist, successful businessman, tropical aquarium fish breeder, art collector, horse racing aficionado.
He was also very close to former chairman and managing director of Tata Steel Russi Mody who died here in 2014.
''Apart from being a tennis player, he was also a very good tennis writer, a commentator before the days of TV,'' Mukerjea recalled. ''I vividly remember, he was not in the team in 1956 when India played Australia in in the Davis Cup final in Melbourne. He did a commentary in Hindi and English,'' he added.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.) | https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/sports-games/2178372-former-davis-cup-captain-and-leander-paes-mentor-naresh-kumar-passes-away | 2022-09-14T13:00:27 | en | 0.985817 |
CHICAGO (AP) — Jurors were set to begin deliberating for a second day Wednesday at R. Kelly's federal trial in Chicago, sorting through a month of evidence and arguments on charges accusing the singer of producing child pornography, enticing minors for sex and rigging his 2008 child porn trial.
Jurors must consider 13 separate counts, some involving complex law and assessments of which witnesses were more believable. They began deliberating Tuesday after Judge Harry Leinenweber gave them jury instructions, including explicit descriptions of what constitutes sexual abuse.
Before they withdrew Tuesday, Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean sounded indignant, likening government testimony and evidence to a cockroach and the government’s case to a bowl of soup.
If a cockroach falls into soup, she said, “you don’t just pull out the cockroach and eat the rest of the soup. You throw out the whole soup," said told jurors. She said of the prosecution’s case: “There are just too many cockroaches.”
Kelly, 55, was sentenced in June to 30 years in prison during a separate federal trial in New York where he was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking.
In her rebuttal Tuesday, prosecutor Jeannice Appenteng told jurors to remember the girls and women Kelly allegedly abused.
“When you are in the quiet of the jury room, consider the evidence in light of who is at the center of this case. Kelly’s victims: Jane, Nia, Pauline, Tracy and Brittany,” Appenteng said, referring to five Kelly accusers named in charging documents by their pseudonyms or first names.
She said as Kelly's fame boomed in the mid-1990s, his inner circle increasingly geared everything they did to what Kelly wanted.
“And ladies and gentlemen, what R. Kelly wanted was to have sex with young girls,” she said.
Bonjean described Kelly as a flawed genius who has been functional illiterate since childhood and was ill-equipped to navigate his celebrity and expanding wealth. She said having been abused as a child also deeply affected him.
Known for his smash hit “I Believe I Can Fly” and for sex-infused songs such as “Bump n’ Grind,” Kelly sold millions of albums even after allegations of sexual misconduct circulated in the 1990s. Widespread outrage emerged after the #MeToo reckoning and the 2019 Lifetime docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly.”
Kelly and co-defendant Derrell McDavid, Kelly's ex-business manager, are accused of fixing Kelly's 2008 trial on state child porn charges by intimidating and paying off witnesses.
Kelly faces four counts of producing child porn, one of conspiring to obstruct justice by fixing the 2008 trial, one of conspiring to receive child porn, two of actually receiving it and five of enticing minors for sex.
McDavid is charged with four counts — two for receiving child porn, one for conspiring to do so and one for conspiring to obstruct justice by rigging the 2008 trial, at which Kelly was acquitted.
Co-defendant Milton Brown, a former Kelly associate, faces a single count of conspiring to receive child pornography. | https://www.cp24.com/entertainment-news/day-2-of-jury-deliberations-at-r-kelly-s-child-porn-trial-1.6067713 | 2022-09-14T13:00:35 | en | 0.974416 |
NEW DELHI (AP) — A minibus tumbled into a deep gorge in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday, killing 11 people and injuring 29 others, officials said.
At least 36 people were on board the bus when the accident occurred near Sawjian, a village in Jammu’s Poonch district, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
Rescue efforts by the army, police and local villagers were underway, it quoted authorities as saying.
Nine people were killed on the spot and two others died later in a hospital. Officials said the 29 injured people were in critical condition, including six who were airlifted to a hospital in Jammu, PTI reported.
The bus, which was carrying a number of students, plunged about 75 meters (250 feet) down the steep gorge.
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha announced in a tweet that compensation of 500,000 rupees (about $6,300) would be given to victims' families.
India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, and president, Droupadi Murmu, both expressed their condolences on Twitter.
“My thoughts are with all those who lost their loved ones. Wishing the injured a speedy recovery,” Modi wrote.
Last month, a bus carrying paramilitary soldiers in the Kashmir region skidded off a mountainous road and rolled down into a river, killing six people and injuring dozens.
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Tendulkar's son Arjun to feature in J P Atray memorial cricket tournament
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- India
Legendary batter Sachin Tendulkar's son Arjun will feature in the 27th All-India J P Atray memorial cricket tournament beginning here from September 22, organising secretary Sushil Kapoor said on Wednesday.
The 16 teams taking part in the tournament have been drawn into four pools of four sides each.
''Arjun Tendulkar (22-year-old left-arm pacer) will be playing in the tournament from the Goa Cricket Association side,'' Kapoor said at a press conference.
The participating teams include Goa Cricket Association, Players Academy XI Delhi, HPCA, JKCA, Minerva Cricket Academy, UTCA Chandigarh, Players XI Bihar, Baroda Cricket Association, RBI Mumbai, PCA Colts and MPCA.
''We have been able to eke out a 12 days playing time encompassing 31 matches in six venues with the help and support of Punjab Cricket Association management, Chandigarh UT Sports Department and Haryana Sports Department,'' convener of the tournament Vivek Atray said.
Over the years, the BCCI-recognised tournament has seen participation of more than 100 players who later have gone on to don the national colours.
Chander Shekhar, a former Punjab police DGP and chairman of the organising committee of the tournament, said the winners will get a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh while the runners-up will get Rs 1 lakh.
There will be a man-of-the-match award for each game, he said.
''Best batsman, best bowler and player of the tournament special prizes will be given during the finals,'' he said.
''This is the most prestigious and long standing cricket tournament in north India and has won a wide acclaim all over the country as being one of the best organised event.'' The tournament will be held at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur, I S Bindra Cricket Stadium, Mohali, Sector 16 cricket stadium, Chandigarh, Tau Devi Lal Cricket Stadium, Panchkula and GMSS, Sector 26, Chandigarh.
The finals will be played on October 3 at Mohali.
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BEIRUT (AP) — An armed woman and a dozen activists broke into a Beirut bank branch on Wednesday, taking over $13,000 from what the activists say were her trapped savings.
Lebanon’s cash-strapped banks have imposed strict limits on withdrawals of foreign currency since 2019, tying up the savings of millions of people. About three-quarters of the population has slipped into poverty as the tiny Mediterranean country’s economy continues to spiral.
The woman said she needs the money to fund her sister's cancer treatment, witnesses said.
Armed with a handgun, she and the activists entered the BLOM Bank branch and stormed into the manager's office, they said.
“They doused gasoline everywhere inside, and took out a lighter and threatened to light it,” Nadine Nakhal, a customer at the bank, told The Associated Press. She said the armed woman threatened to shoot the manager if she did not receive her money.
The activists accompanying the woman were from a group called Depositors' Outcry. Some entered the bank with her, while others staged a protest at the entrance. The woman eventually left with cash in a plastic bag, witnesses said.
Security forces standing outside arrested several of the activists, including a man carrying a handgun.
The incident occurred weeks after a food delivery driver broke into another bank branch in Beirut and held 10 people hostage for seven hours, demanding tens of thousands of dollars in his trapped savings. Most hailed him as a hero.
Lebanon has scrambled for over two years to implement key reforms in its decimated banking sector and economy. It has so far failed to reach an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a recovery program that would unlock billions of dollars in international loan and aid to make the country viable again.
In the meantime, millions are struggling to cope with rampant power outages and soaring inflation.
“We need to put a stop to everything that is happening to us in this country," Nakhal said. "Everyone's money is stuck in the banks, and in this case, it's someone who is sick. We need to find a solution." | https://www.cp24.com/world/armed-woman-breaks-into-beirut-bank-takes-trapped-savings-1.6067686 | 2022-09-14T13:00:47 | en | 0.977128 |
Michael Hussey, David Saker added to England's coaching set-up for ICC T20 World Cup
Hussey, 47, who had a stellar career as a middle-order batsman for Australia in all three formats, will join the England set-up for the World Cup as Coaching Consultant
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England Men's white-ball coach Matthew Mott has enlisted the support of former Australian batter Michael Hussey and former England bowling coach David Saker for the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup 2022, which will take place in Australia during October-November this year. Hussey, 47, who had a stellar career as a middle-order batsman for Australia in all three formats, will join the England set-up for the World Cup.
Saker, England Men's bowling coach from 2010 to 2015, will join the tourists in Pakistan for the seven-match tour preceding the World Cup. With this, England's coaching team for the T20Is during the Pakistan tour and ICC T20 World Cup looks like: Head Coach - Matthew Mott, Assistant Coach - Richard Dawson, Assistant Coach - Carl Hopkinson, Coaching Consultant - Mike Hussey (World Cup only), Coaching Consultant - David Saker.
Earlier in September, England had announced their squad for T20 World Cup. But hours after its announcement, batter Jonny Bairstow was ruled out of the squad due to an injury sustained while playing golf. Alex Hales, who has not represented England since 2019, was named as his replacement.
England ICC Men's T20 World Cup Squad: Jos Buttler (Lancashire) Captain, Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Harry Brook (Yorkshire), Sam Curran (Surrey), Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire), Chris Jordan (Surrey), Liam Livingstone (Lancashire), Dawid Malan (Yorkshire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Phil Salt (Lancashire), Ben Stokes (Durham), Reece Topley (Surrey), David Willey (Yorkshire), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire) Mark Wood (Durham). Travelling Reserves: Liam Dawson (Hampshire), Richard Gleeson (Lancashire), Tymal Mills (Sussex).
ICC T20 World Cup will start from October 16 and will end on November 13. England had a great campaign during the 2021 edition of the tournament. They reached the semifinal, where they were defeated by New Zealand. (ANI)
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — With monkeypox cases subsiding in Europe and parts of North America, many scientists say now is the time to prioritize stopping the virus in Africa.
In July, the U.N. health agency designated monkeypox as a global emergency and appealed to the world to support African countries so that the catastrophic vaccine inequity that plagued the outbreak of COVID-19 wouldn't be repeated.
But the global spike of attention has had little impact on the continent. No rich countries have shared vaccines or treatments with Africa, and some experts fear interest may soon evaporate.
“Nothing has changed for us here, the focus is all on monkeypox in the West,” said Placide Mbala, a virologist who directs the global health research department at Congo’s Institute of Biomedical Research.
“The countries in Africa where monkeypox is endemic are still in the same situation we have always been, with weak resources for surveillance, diagnostics and even the care of patients,” he said.
Monkeypox has sickened people in parts of West and Central Africa since the 1970s, but it wasn't until the disease triggered unusual outbreaks in Europe and North America that public health officials even thought to use vaccines. As rich countries rushed to buy nearly all the world's supply of the most advanced shot against monkeypox, the World Health Organization said in June that it would create a vaccine-sharing mechanism to help needy countries get doses.
So far, that hasn’t happened.
“Africa is still not benefiting from either monkeypox vaccines or the antiviral treatments,” said Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO’s Africa director, adding that only small amounts have been available for research purposes. Since 2000, Africa has reported about 1,000 to 2,000 suspected monkeypox cases every year. So far this year, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have identified about 3,000 suspected infections, including more than 100 deaths.
In recent weeks, monkeypox cases globally have fallen by more than a quarter, including by 55% in Europe, according to WHO.
Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, head of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, said the lack of help for Africa was reminiscent of the inequity seen during COVID-19.
“Everybody looked after their (own) problem and left everybody else,” he said. Adetifa lamented that monkeypox outbreaks in Africa never got the international attention that might have prevented the virus from spreading globally.
Rich countries have stretched their vaccine supplies by using a fifth of the regular dose, but none have expressed interest in helping Africa. WHO's regional office for the Americas recently announced it had struck a deal to obtain 100,000 monkeypox doses that will start being delivered to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean within weeks. But no similar agreements have been reached for Africa.
“I would very much like to have vaccines to offer to my patients or anything that could just reduce their stay in the hospital,” said Dr. Dimie Ogoina, a professor of medicine at Nigeria’s Delta University and a member of WHO’s monkeypox emergency committee.
Since WHO declared monkeypox a global emergency, Nigeria has seen the disease continue to spread, with few significant interventions.
“We still do not have the funds to do all the studies that we need,” Ogoina said.
Research into the animals that carry monkeypox and spread it to humans in Africa is piecemeal and lacks coordination, said Mbala, of Congo’s Institute of Biomedical Research.
Last week, the White House said it was optimistic about a recent drop in monkeypox cases in the U.S., saying authorities had administered more than 460,000 doses of the vaccine made by Bavarian Nordic.
The U.S. has about 35% of the world’s more than 56,000 monkeypox cases, but nearly 80% of the world’s supply of the vaccine, according to a recent analysis by the advocacy group Public Citizen.
The U.S. hasn't announced any monkeypox vaccine donations for Africa, but the White House did make a recent request to Congress for $600 million in global aid.
Even if rich countries start sharing monkeypox tools with Africa soon, they shouldn't be applauded, other experts said.
“It should not be the case that countries only decide to share leftover vaccines when the epidemic is declining in their countries,” said Piero Olliaro, a professor of infectious diseases of poverty at Oxford University. “It is exactly the same scenario as COVID and it is still completely unethical."
Olliaro, who recently returned to the U.K. from a trip to Central African Republic to work on monkeypox, said WHO's emergency declaration appeared to offer “no tangible benefits in Africa.”
In Nigeria’s Lagos state, which includes the country's largest city and is hard hit by monkeypox, some people are calling for the government to urgently do more.
“You can’t tell me that the situation wouldn’t have improved without a vaccine,” said Temitayo Lawal, 29, an economist.
“If there is no need for vaccines, why are we now seeing the U.S. and all these countries using them?” he asked. “Our government needs to acquire doses as well.”
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Maria Cheng reported from London. | https://www.cp24.com/world/as-monkeypox-drops-in-the-west-still-no-vaccines-for-africa-1.6067710 | 2022-09-14T13:00:53 | en | 0.964055 |
Soccer-Klopp unimpressed by Boehly's idea for All Star game
So we're thinking we could do a North versus South All-Star game for the Premier League, for whatever the pyramid needed quite easily." Teams for the NBA's All Star game are selected via fan, player, and media voting.
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Chelsea owner Ted Boehly's call for an 'All-Star game' in the Premier League similar to those played in the United States has been given short shrift by Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp. American Boehly, head of a consortium that completed a 4.25 billion pounds ($4.91 billion) takeover of Chelsea in May, suggested in a conference in New York that a 'north v south' game would create revenue that would filter down the English soccer pyramid.
Klopp, however, believes the idea is unworkable, citing an already crowded fixture list. "He doesn't wait long. When he finds a date for that he can call me. In American sports these players have four-month breaks," Klopp said after his side's Champions League win over Ajax Amsterdam on Tuesday.
"Does he want to bring the Harlem Globetrotters as well?" Boehly, part owner of basketball sides the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Sparks, believes a game similar to the NBA's All-Star game which pits players from the Eastern Conference against the Western Conference in February could catch on in Britain.
"Ultimately I hope the Premier League takes a little bit of a lesson from American sports," Boehly said at the SALT leaders' conference in New York on Tuesday. "People are talking about more money for the pyramid; in the MLB All-Star game this year we made $200m from a Monday and a Tuesday. So we're thinking we could do a North versus South All-Star game for the Premier League, for whatever the pyramid needed quite easily."
Teams for the NBA's All Star game are selected via fan, player, and media voting. But Klopp thinks Premier League fans would be unimpressed.
"Maybe (Boehly) can explain that. I'm not sure people want to see that -- United players, Liverpool players, Everton players all together. North-east too, so Newcastle. "It is not the national team. All the London guys together, Arsenal, Tottenham (Hotspur), great. Did he really say it?"
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NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday started his first trip abroad since the outbreak of the pandemic with a stop in Kazakhstan ahead of a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and other leaders of a Central Asian security group.
Xi’s trip underlines the importance Beijing places on ties with Russia and Central Asia as the ruling Communist Party promotes its strategic ambitions amid tension with Washington, Japan and India.
Wearing a blue suit, Xi was met on the airport tarmac by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and an honor guard, all of whom wore masks.
Tokayev’s government said the two leaders would discuss energy markets and global economic turmoil. Kazakhstan, a sparsely populated country of 19.4 million people and sprawling grasslands, is a major oil and gas producer. China is a leading customer.
On Thursday, Xi is due to fly to Samarkand in neighboring Uzbekistan for a summit of the eight-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization, led by China and Russia.
Beijing and Moscow see the SCO as a counterweight to U.S. alliances in East Asia.
Other SCO governments include India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. Observers include Iran and Afghanistan.
The Chinese leader is promoting a “Global Security Initiative” announced in April following the formation of the Quad by Washington, Japan, Australia and India in response to Beijing’s more assertive foreign policy. Xi has given few details, but U.S. officials complain it echoes Russian arguments in support of Moscow’s attack on Ukraine.
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LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II's coffin will leave Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday as it is taken amid somber pageantry on a horse-drawn gun carriage past crowds of mourners to the Houses of Parliament, where the late monarch will lie in state for four days.
Crowds began massing early along the flag-lined road outside the palace for the procession from the monarch's official London residence to the historic Westminster Hall at Parliament. King Charles III and other members of the royal family will walk behind the coffin.
Thousands of people are gathering on The Mall outside Buckingham Palace and along the banks of the River Thames hours before the coffin procession begins.
The crowds are the latest manifestation of a nationwide outpouring of grief and respect for the only monarch most Britons have ever known, who died at her beloved Balmoral summer retreat on Thursday at age 96, ending a 70-year reign.
“It’s a very sad day, but it’s our last opportunity to do our duty for the queen and it’s our first opportunity to do it for the king, and that makes us all very proud,” said Maj. Gen. Christopher Ghika, of the Household division, who is responsible for organizing the ceremonial aspects of the Queen’s funeral.
Troops involved in the procession have been preparing since the queen died. So have the horses of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery.
Sgt. Tom Jenks, from the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, said that the horses have undergone special training for the funeral, including how to handle weeping mourners, as well as flowers and flags being thrown onto streets as the procession passes by.
People stood behind metal barriers or sat on folding chairs, umbrellas at the ready, takeout coffees in hand under gray skies hours before the coffin was scheduled to leave the landmark palace at 2:22 p.m. (1322 GMT).
Crowds have lined the route of the queen's coffin whenever it has been moved in its long journey from Scotland back to London.
On Tuesday night, thousands braved a typical London drizzle as the state hearse, with interior lights illuminating the sovereign's flag-draped casket, drove slowly from a military air base into the heart of London.
Geoff Colgan, a taxi driver who took the day off to witness the moment, stood stunned in the moments after the queen’s coffin passed.
“It’s one of those things you know would happen, but when it does you can’t believe it,” he said, holding his toddler.
Earlier, in Edinburgh, some 33,000 people filed in silent respect past her coffin as it lay for 24 hours at St. Giles’ Cathedral.
Hundreds of thousands are expected to do the same in London when the queen lies in state at the 900-year-old Westminster Hall, the oldest building in Parliament, for four days before her state funeral on Monday.
The hall is where Guy Fawkes and Charles I were tried, where kings and queens hosted magnificent medieval banquets, and where ceremonial addresses were presented to Queen Elizabeth II during her silver, golden and diamond jubilees.
Chris Bond, from Truro in southwest England, was among those lining up along the banks of the River Thames. He also attended the lying in state of the queen's mother in 2002.
“Obviously, it’s quite difficult queuing all day long, but when you walk through those doors into Westminster Hall, that marvellous, historic building, there was a great sense of hush and one was told you take as much time as you like, and it’s just amazing,” he said.
“We know the queen was a good age and she served the country a long time, but we hoped this day would never come," he added. | https://www.cp24.com/world/crowds-gather-in-london-to-see-queen-s-coffin-procession-1.6067688 | 2022-09-14T13:01:05 | en | 0.967305 |
Equestrian: Fouaad Mirza eyes glory as World Championship
Ace Indian equestrian Fouaad Mirza is all set for the FEI World Championship Eventing, starting at the historic Pratoni del Vivaro, Italy on Thursday.The Asian Games double silver medallist, Mirza is the lone Indian to have qualified for the 15th edition of the World Championship Eventing, which will be conducted at the historic equestrian venue which had hosted the Eventing discipline at the 1960 Rome Olympics.Im very excited to participate in the World Championship at the historic venue where top riders from across the world will compete.
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Ace Indian equestrian Fouaad Mirza is all set for the FEI World Championship Eventing, starting at the historic Pratoni del Vivaro, Italy on Thursday.
The Asian Games double silver medallist, Mirza is the lone Indian to have qualified for the 15th edition of the World Championship Eventing, which will be conducted at the historic equestrian venue which had hosted the Eventing discipline at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
''I'm very excited to participate in the World Championship at the historic venue where top riders from across the world will compete. I have trained hard in Germany while preparing for the event and I look forward to giving my best and bringing glory to the country,'' Mirza said.
The Bengaluru-born Mirza will enter the competition along with his horses, Seigneur Medicott (FEI ID 103UA93) and Dajara 4 (FEI ID 105ZR23). Seigneur Medicott was part of Mirza's historic Tokyo Olympics campaign last year, where he became the first Indian to reach the Olympics final. It was also the same horse, who helped the 30-year-old win two silver medals at the 2018 Asian Games.
Besides two horses, Mirza will be assisted by a team of six-member support staff at the championship, which will go on till September 25.
The prestigious Eventing World Championship will see the world's top 90 horse-and-athlete combinations from 27 countries, including Australia, USA, New Zealand, France and Great Britain.
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BOSTON (AP) — A package exploded on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston late Tuesday, and the college said a staff member suffered minor injuries.
Authorities said another suspicious package was found near a prominent art museum and the FBI was assisting with the investigation.
The parcel that blew up was one of two that were reported to police early in the evening. Boston's bomb squad neutralized a second package near the city's Museum of Fine Arts, which is on the outskirts of the Northeastern campus.
NBC Boston reported that the package that exploded went off as it was being opened near the university's Holmes Hall, which is home to the university's creative writing program and its women's, gender and sexuality studies program. It said the FBI was assisting the investigation.
Authorities declined to elaborate, but Northeastern spokesperson Shannon Nargi said in a statement that an unidentified university staff member suffered minor injuries to his hand in the explosion. Felipe Colon, a Boston police superintendent, later described the victim as a 45-year-old man.
Police converged on the campus shortly before 7:30 p.m., and the university asked students who had gathered for an evening journalism class at the hall to evacuate the building.
Northeastern is a private university in downtown Boston with about 16,000 undergraduate students. WCVB-TV said one of its reporters, Mike Beaudet, was teaching a class there at the time. Beaudet told the station his class was moved outside but that neither he nor his students heard an explosion.
Michael Davis, chief of Northeastern's police force, told reporters the campus was secure. Boston police didn't say whether any other suspicious packages were found.
“We’re monitoring the situation at Northeastern and we’re ready to work with the university and our law enforcement partners on any prosecutions that may develop," Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said, promising "a comprehensive investigation to determine exactly what occurred here.”
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both on the other side of the Charles River separating Boston from Cambridge, said they were increasing patrols on their campuses as a precaution and urging students and faculty to report anything suspicious.
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Operation day completed, back home to rest: Jonny Bairstow updates fans on injury
Just hours after the announcement of England's ICC T20 World Cup 2022 squad, Bairstow was ruled out of the rest of the summer season and the World Cup due to injury
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England batter Jonny Bairstow confirmed on Wednesday that his leg surgery has been completed successfully and is heading back home for rest. Just hours after the announcement of England's ICC T20 World Cup 2022 squad, Bairstow was ruled out of the rest of the summer season and the World Cup. Bairstow sustained a lower limb injury in an accident whilst playing golf in Leeds.
Bairstow took to Instagram to announce the successful completion of his operation and thanked his fans for their support and wishes. "Operation day completed and back home now to rest! Thanks for all your messages of support and wishes!" said a post from Bairstow.
Until his injury, Bairstow was enjoying the form of his life in a highly-prolific summer season of English cricket. In Test cricket, it was the 'Summer of Jonny'. In six Test matches, he scored 681 runs at an average of 75.66. He scored four centuries and one half-century, with the best individual score of 162. His four centuries in three back-to-back Tests against New Zealand (two Tests) and India (one) helped his side win the home series against New Zealand by 3-0 and also draw the series against England by 2-2.
Throughout 2022, he also stands as the highest Test run-scorer worldwide, having scored 1,061 runs in 10 matches across 19 innings at an average of 66.31. Six centuries and one half-century have been scored by this aggressive batter. He was named the 'Test Cricketer of the Summer' after the conclusion of England's home series against South Africa recently.
His ODI stats for this season though were not up to the mark as he scored only 136 runs in five matches at an average of 27.20. His best score in the format was 63, his solitary ODI half-century this season. Bairstow put on some solid numbers in three T20Is he played this season. He scored 147 runs in three matches at an average of 49.00. His best score in the format is 90 for this season. One half-century has come out of his bat.
Meanwhile, Alex Hales, who has not represented England since 2019 was recalled as Bairstow's replacement for the T20 WC squad. England ICC Men's T20 World Cup Squad: Jos Buttler (Lancashire) Captain, Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Harry Brook (Yorkshire), Sam Curran (Surrey), Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire), Chris Jordan (Surrey), Liam Livingstone (Lancashire), Dawid Malan (Yorkshire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Phil Salt (Lancashire), Ben Stokes (Durham), Reece Topley (Surrey), David Willey (Yorkshire), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire) Mark Wood (Durham).
Travelling Reserves: Liam Dawson (Hampshire), Richard Gleeson (Lancashire), Tymal Mills (Sussex). ICC T20 World Cup will start from October 16 and will end on November 13. England had a great campaign during the 2021 edition of the tournament. They reached the semifinal, where they were defeated by New Zealand. (ANI)
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s privacy watchdog has fined Google and Meta a combined 100 billion won ($72 million) for tracking consumers’ online behavior without their consent and using their data for targeted advertisements.
South Korea’s Personal Information and Protection Commission said it fined Google 69.2 billion won ($50 million) and Meta 30.8 billion won ($22 million) after a meeting where officials agreed that the companies’ business practices might cause serious” privacy infringements.
The fines were the biggest ever penalties imposed by South Korea for privacy law violations, the commission said in a press release.
Both companies refuted the commission’s findings and Meta indicated it could challenge the fine in court. The fines can be appealed through administrative lawsuits, which must be filed within 90 days after the companies are formally notified of the commission’s decision.
According to the commission, Google and Meta, which operates Facebook and Instagram, didn’t clearly inform users or obtain their consent as they collected information about their online activities when they used other websites or services outside their own platforms. Such data was used to analyze their interests and create individually customized advertisements, the commission said.
The commission ordered the companies to provide an “easy and clear” process of consent giving people more control over whether to share information about what they do online.
“Google did not clearly inform consumers that it would collect and use their behavioral information about their use of other companies’ (services) when they signed up,” the commission said.
“Meta did not present the content of consent in way that could be easily seen by consumers when they signed up, and just included the content in their full data policy statement. It did not specifically inform consumers of the legally required notifications and did not obtain their consent.”
The commission said the companies’ practices seriously threatened privacy rights as more than 82% of South Koreans using Google and more than 98% using Meta have let the companies track their online activities.
Google, a search and email giant that also operates the YouTube video platform, disagreed with the commission’s findings. It said in a statement that it has always demonstrated a commitment to “making ongoing updates that give users control and transparency.” The company said it will review the commission’s findings once it receives the fully written decision.
Meta said it will consider “all options,” including seeking a ruling from court.
“We are confident that we work with our clients in a legally compliant way that meets the processes required by local regulations,” Meta said in an emailed statement. | https://www.cp24.com/world/south-korea-fines-google-meta-over-privacy-violations-1.6067693 | 2022-09-14T13:01:17 | en | 0.965105 |
Soccer-Klopp unimpressed by Boehly's idea for All Star game
Chelsea owner Todd Boehly's call for an 'All-Star game' in the Premier League similar to those played in the United States has been given short shrift by Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp. American Boehly, head of a consortium that completed a 4.25 billion pounds ($4.91 billion) takeover of Chelsea in May, suggested in a conference in New York that a 'north v south' game would create revenue that would filter down the English soccer pyramid.
Chelsea owner Todd Boehly's call for an 'All-Star game' in the Premier League similar to those played in the United States has been given short shrift by Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp.
American Boehly, head of a consortium that completed a 4.25 billion pounds ($4.91 billion) takeover of Chelsea in May, suggested in a conference in New York that a 'north v south' game would create revenue that would filter down the English soccer pyramid. Klopp, however, believes the idea is unworkable, citing an already crowded fixture list.
"He doesn't wait long. When he finds a date for that he can call me. In American sports these players have four-month breaks," Klopp said after his side's Champions League win over Ajax Amsterdam on Tuesday. "Does he want to bring the Harlem Globetrotters as well?"
Boehly, part owner of basketball sides the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Sparks, believes a game similar to the NBA's All-Star game which pits players from the Eastern Conference against the Western Conference in February could catch on in Britain. "Ultimately I hope the Premier League takes a little bit of a lesson from American sports," Boehly said at the SALT leaders' conference in New York on Tuesday.
"People are talking about more money for the pyramid; in the MLB All-Star game this year we made $200m from a Monday and a Tuesday. So we're thinking we could do a North versus South All-Star game for the Premier League, for whatever the pyramid needed quite easily." Teams for the NBA's All Star game are selected via fan, player, and media voting.
But Klopp thinks Premier League fans would be unimpressed. "Maybe (Boehly) can explain that. I'm not sure people want to see that -- United players, Liverpool players, Everton players all together. North-east too, so Newcastle.
"It is not the national team. All the London guys together, Arsenal, Tottenham (Hotspur), great. Did he really say it?" ($1 = 0.8654 pounds)
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IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — His hand on his heart, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watched as his country’s flag was hoisted Wednesday above the recently recaptured city of Izium, a rare foray outside the capital that highlighted Moscow’s embarrassing retreat in the face of a lightning Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Russian forces left the war-scarred city last week as Kyiv's soldiers pressed a stunning advance that has reclaimed large swaths of territory in the country’s northeastern Kharkiv region.
As Zelenskyy looked on and sang the national anthem, the Ukrainian flag was raised in front of the burned-out city hall building in the largely devastated town, where apartment buildings are blackened by fire and pockmarked by artillery strikes. The center of one residential building had collapsed, a gaping hole and piles of rubble where homes used to be.
“The view is very shocking but it is not shocking for me," Zelenskyy said in brief comments to the press, "because we began to see the same pictures from Bucha, from the first de-occupied territories … the same destroyed buildings, killed people.”
After Russian forces withdrew from Bucha, on the outskirts of the capital of Kyiv, in the early weeks of the war, the bodies of civilians were found dumped in the streets, yards and mass graves. Many bore signs of torture. Moscow's recent rout in the northeast was its largest military defeat since that withdrawal from the Kyiv area.
Prosecutors said they have found six bodies with traces of torture in recently retaken villages in the Kharkiv region.
"We have a terrible picture of what the occupiers did. ... Such cities as Balakliia, Izium are standing in the same row as Bucha, Borodyanka, Irpin,” said Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin, listing the names of places where the Ukrainians have alleged Russian forces committed atrocities.
Local authorities have made similar claims in other places formerly held by Russia, but it was not immediately possible to verify their information. They have so far not provided evidence of atrocities on the scale that was seen in Bucha.
The head of the Kharkiv prosecutor’s office, Oleksandr Filchakov, said bodies were found in Hrakove and Zaliznyche, villages around 60 kilometers (35 miles) southeast of Kharkiv.
He said investigators were also learning of residents being killed and buried by Russian troops in another retaken town, Balakliia.
On the northern outskirts of Izium, the remains of Russian tanks and vehicles lay shattered along the road.
Zelenskyy said that as Ukrainian soldiers retook villages, "the life comes back.”
In the wake of the recent gains, a new front line has started to emerge along the Oskil River that largely traces the eastern edge of the Kharkiv region, a Washington-based think thank said Wednesday.
“Russian troops are unlikely to be strong enough to prevent further Ukrainian advances along the entire Oskil River because they do not appear to be receiving reinforcements, and Ukrainian troops will likely be able to exploit this weakness to resume the counteroffensive across the Oskil if they choose," the Institute for the Study of War said.
The counteroffensive has also left more weapons in Ukrainian hands.
Russian forces likely left behind dozens of tanks, armored personnel carriers and other heavy weaponry as they fled Ukraine’s advance in the east of the country, a Ukrainian think tank said Wednesday.
The Center for Defense Strategies said one single Russian unit that was around Izium left behind more than three dozen T-80 tanks and about as many infantry fighting vehicles known by the acronym BMP. Another unit left behind 47 tanks and 27 armored vehicles.
The center said Russian forces tried to destroy some of the abandoned vehicles through artillery strikes as they fell back. Typically, armed forces destroy equipment left behind so their opponent can’t use it.
However, the chaos of the Russian withdrawal apparently saw them leave untouched ammunition and weapons behind.
In other areas, Russia continued its attacks, causing the death toll to keep rising in a war that has dragged on for nearly seven months.
Russian shelling of seven Ukrainian regions over the past 24 hours killed at least seven civilians and wounded 22 more, Ukraine’s presidential office reported on Wednesday morning.
Two people were killed and three wounded after Russia attacked Mykolaiv with S-300 missiles overnight, said regional Gov. Vitaliy Kim. Settlements near the front line in Mykolaiv region remain under constant fire.
The Nikopol area, which is across a river from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, was shelled three times during the night, but no injuries were immediately reported, said regional Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko. Nikopol city itself was shelled two times and left almost 3,000 families without electricity. Reznichenko said the electricity has been partially restored.
In the Luhansk region, where some of the Russian troops went after retreating from the Kharkiv region, mobile internet has been shut down, according to the region’s governor Serhiy Haidai, and intense shelling of Ukrainian forces continues.
The fighting continued in the neighboring Donetsk region, where shelling killed five civilians and wounded 16 more. Together, Luhansk and Donetsk make up the Donbas.
“Every night in Donbas is restless. The civilians should leave the region. It’s a matter of life and death,” Donetsk governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said.
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BEIJING (AP) — Residents of a city in China’s far western Xinjiang region say they are experiencing hunger, forced quarantines and dwindling supplies of medicine and daily necessities after more than 40 days in a virus lockdown.
Hundreds of posts from Ghulja riveted users of Chinese social media last week, with residents sharing videos of empty refrigerators, feverish children and people shouting from their windows.
The dire conditions and food shortages are reminiscent of a harsh lockdown in Shanghai earlier this year, when thousands of residents posted complaints online that they were delivered rotting vegetables or denied critical medical care.
But unlike in Shanghai, a glittering, cosmopolitan metropolis of 20 million people and home to many foreigners, the harsh lockdowns in smaller cities such as Ghulja have received less attention until recently.
As more infectious variants of the coronavirus creep into China, flareups have become increasingly common. Under China's “zero-COVID” strategy, tens of millions or people are experiencing rolling lockdowns, paralyzing the economy and making travel uncertain.
The lockdown in Ghulja is also evoking fears of police brutality among the Uyghurs, the Turkic ethnic group native to Xinjiang. For years, the region has been the target of a sweeping security crackdown, ensnaring huge numbers of Uyghurs and other largely Muslim minorities in a vast network of camps and prisons. An earlier lockdown in Xinjiang was particularly tough, with forced medication, arrests and residents being hosed down with disinfectant.
Yasinuf, a Uyghur studying at a university in Europe, said his mother-in-law sent fearful voice messages this past weekend saying she was being forced into centralized quarantine because of a mild cough. The officers coming for her reminded her of the time her husband was taken to a camp for over two years, she said.
“It’s judgment day,” she sighed in an audio recording reviewed by The Associated Press. “We don’t know what’s going to happen this time. All we can do now is to trust our creator.”
Food has been in short supply. Yasinuf said his parents told him they were running low on food, despite having stocked up before the lockdown. With no deliveries, and barred from using their backyard ovens for fear of spreading the virus, his parents have been surviving on uncooked dough made of flour, water and salt. Yasinuf declined to give his surname for fear of retribution against his relatives.
He hasn’t been able to study or sleep in recent days, he said, because thoughts of his relatives back in Ghulja keep him up at night.
“Their voices are always in my head, saying things like I’m hungry, please help us,” he said. “This is the 21st century, this is unthinkable.”
Nyrola Elima, a Uyghur from Ghulja, said her father was rationing their dwindling supply of tomatoes, sharing one each day with her 93-year-old grandmother. She said her aunt was panicking because she lacked milk to feed her 2-year-old grandson.
Last week, the local governor apologized at a news conference for “shortcomings and deficiencies” in the government’s response to the coronavirus, including “blind spots and missed spots," and promised improvements.
But even as authorities acknowledged the complaints, censors worked to silence them. Posts were wiped from social media. Some videos were deleted and reposted dozens of times as netizens battled censors online.
Multiple people in the region told AP the posts online reflected the dire nature of the lockdown, but declined to detail their own situations, saying they feared retribution.
On Monday, local police announced the arrests of six people for “spreading rumors” about the lockdown, including posts about a dead child and an alleged suicide, which they said “incited opposition” and “disrupted social order."
Leaked directives from government offices show that workers are being ordered to avoid negative information and spread “positive energy” instead. One directed state media to film “smiling seniors” and “children having fun” in neighborhoods emerging from the lockdown.
“Those who maliciously hype, spread rumors, and make unreasonable accusations should be dealt with in accordance with the law,” another notice warned.
The AP was unable to independently verify the notices. China's Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
As the authorities mobilize, conditions have improved for some. One resident, reached by phone, said food deliveries resumed after stopping for a couple of weeks. Residents in her compound are now allowed to take walks in their courtyard for a few hours a day.
“The situation is gradually improving, it’s gotten a lot better,” she said.
Authorities have ordered mass testing and district lockdowns in cities across China in recent weeks, from Sanya on tropical Hainan island to southwest Chengdu, to the northern port city of Dalian.
In the city of Guiyang, in mountainous southern Guizhou province, a zoo put out a call for help last week, asking for pork, chicken, apples, watermelons, carrots and other produce out of concern they could run out of food for their animals.
Elsewhere in the city, residents in one neighborhood complained of hunger and missing food deliveries, prompting a surge of comments online. Local officials apologized, saying that despite their best efforts, they were overwhelmed.
“Due to lack of experience and inappropriate methods,” they said in a public notice, “the supply of basic necessities wasn’t enough, bringing inconvenience to everyone. We are deeply sorry.” | https://www.cp24.com/world/under-covid-lockdown-xinjiang-residents-complain-of-hunger-1.6067699 | 2022-09-14T13:01:29 | en | 0.974274 |
Soccer-Tuchel sacking not about Zagreb but lack of shared vision, says Chelsea owner Boehly
"It wasn't about Zagreb, it was really about the shared vision of what we wanted Chelsea Football Club to look like." Boehly, who is co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, said the passion of Premier League fans was what had drawn him to acquiring Chelsea.
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Chelsea's American owner Todd Boehly said sacking manager Thomas Tuchel last week had nothing to do with losing to Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League but was because the German did not share the same vision for the club. Tuchel, who won the Champions League for Chelsea in 2021 just months after being hired to replace Frank Lampard, was sacked on Wednesday after a 1-0 defeat in Croatia.
Brighton & Hove Albion manager Graham Potter replaced Tuchel on Thursday -- the first managerial appointment under Boehly who led a consortium that completed a 4.25 billion pounds ($4.91 billion) takeover of Chelsea in May. Boehly said the change of head coach was all part of Chelsea's moving in a new direction.
"When you take over any business you just have to make sure you're aligned with the people who are operating the business," Boehly, speaking at the SALT leaders conference in New York, said when asked to explain Tuchel's departure. "Tuchel is obviously extremely talented and someone who had great success at Chelsea but our vision for the club was finding a coach who wanted to collaborate with us."
Boehly suggested a more forensic approach to player development from the first team down to the academy was behind the change. "There are a lot of walls to break down at Chelsea," Boehly said. "Before the first team and the academy didn't really share data, they didn't share information about where the top players were coming from, so our goal was to bring a team together with the academy, with the first team, with the incremental clubs we want to acquire and develop, all of that needs to be a well-oiled machine.
"The reality of our decision was that we weren't sure that Thomas saw is the same way we saw it. No one is right or wrong, we just didn't have a shared vision for the future. "It wasn't about Zagreb, it was really about the shared vision of what we wanted Chelsea Football Club to look like."
Boehly, who is co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, said the passion of Premier League fans was what had drawn him to acquiring Chelsea. "When you experience it I don't think there's anything like it," Boehly said. "Maybe American college football could compare. But it's beyond passion. It's bordering religion." ($1 = 0.8654 pounds)
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SC allows BCCI to amend its constitution on tenures of office bearers
This amendment may enable board President Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah to have longer tenures in BCCI
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Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to amend its constitution relating to the cooling-off period for the president, secretary among other office-bearers. This amendment may enable board President Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah to have longer tenures in BCCI.
The Supreme Court was hearing the matter of changing BCCI rules relating to the "cooling off" period for the president, secretary and other office bearers. A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Hima Kohli allowed BCCI to amend its constitution. "We are of the considered view that the amendment would not dilute the original objective. We accept the proposed amendment," the bench said.
"Amendment proposed by BCCI does not detract from the spirit of our original judgment and is accepted," it said. BCCI had sought permission to change the rules relating to the "cooling off" period for the President, secretary and other office bearers. The petition also sought a direction for the extension of the tenure of BCCI President, Sourav Ganguly and Secretary Jay Shah. The petition was filed in 2020.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), earlier moved the Supreme Court seeking an urgent hearing on a plea for approval to amend six rules of the board's constitution. The tenure of Sourav Ganguly as BCCI president and Jay Shah as BCCI secretary is set to expire in September 2022.
In 2019, the General Body of the BCCI during an AGM on December 1, 2019, proposed six amendments, including one in Rule 6 of the Constitution, which had barred BCCI and state board office bearers from holding office for more than six consecutive years. According to the current rules, any person who has been an office bearer in the BCCI or state cricket body, or any combination, has to undergo a mandatory 3-year "cooling off period" following a maximum six-year term in office.
During this period, they cannot hold office in either a state body or in the BCCI. This would effectively bar the current office bearers of the BCCI from holding any posts either in the BCCI or any state board, for the next three years. Before his appointment to the BCCI, Ganguly had served as president of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) from 2014, while Jay Shah was an office bearer in Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) since 2013. (ANI)
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Digital engineering to grow substantially, may account for 50-60% of ER&D revenue: Report
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India has emerged as a leading destination for digital engineering, and its share in the overall ER&D revenue is expected to ''grow substantially'' from the current 28-30 per cent, according to a report by Nasscom-Deloitte.
In the field of engineering, research and development (ER&D), digital engineering (DE) is gradually displacing traditional engineering as the main force, said the report titled 'the future growth sectors in digital engineering'.
National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) President, Debjani Ghosh said, “India is advancing into the fourth industrial revolution with an optimistic digital transformation revenue amounting to 50-60 per cent in overall ER&D revenues in the coming years''.
India, the report noted, has already established a strong presence in this market due to its growing talent pool, developing environment for partnerships and favourable encouragement towards this industry from government institutions.
''India today has emerged as a leading destination for digital engineering,'' the report said. The share of digital engineering in the overall ER&D revenue in India is in the range of 28-30 per cent as of FY22.
India is becoming more popular as a location for digital engineering due to various factors.
The availability of key technologies like AI (Artificial Intelligence), cloud technology, blockchain, automation, and IoT (Internet of Things) has transformed businesses. This, in turn, is giving rise to digital strategies for sustainable and smarter ways to operate.
Industries such as banking, financial services and insurance, healthcare, consumer packaged goods and retail have witnessed a gradual increase in Digital Engineering.
''Disruptive technologies are currently delivering on their promise to alter these industries and establish them as pillars of the future,'' the report observed.
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Sony India Announces BRAVIA XR 85X95K 4K Mini LED, Featuring Innovative XR Backlight Master Drive Technology
Developed specifically for Netflix content, Netflix Adaptive Calibrated Mode works together with the ambient light optimization feature of BRAVIA XR TV to immerse you in your favourite shows by optimising the picture brightness based on your room lighting conditions Enjoy picture and sound in complete harmony as screen is the speaker with Acoustic Surface Audio and XR Surround with 3D surround upscaling The Acoustic Multi-Audio technology in 85X95K includes sound positioning tweeters to ensure high frequency sounds come from the right place in the scene, precisely matching whats on screen.
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New Delhi, Delhi, India (NewsVoir) Sony India today launched the all-new 216 cm (85) television under its BRAVIA XR X95K Mini LED series. Powered by the Cognitive Processor XR, the TV encompasses XR Backlight Master Drive, that precisely controls the latest generation Mini LED backlight for incredible brightness. The newly launched TV has an unprecedented dynamic range with incredibly dazzling lights and deep blacks, authentically delivering the creator’s true intent. Next Gen Cognitive Processor XR thinks like a human brain providing a revolutionary experience that completely immerses viewers in their favourite content The new BRAVIA XR 85X95K television takes the vision and sound to the next level with Cognitive Processor XR™. The revolutionary processor on Sony BRAVIA XR™ TVs reproduces content the way humans see and hear for an incredibly lifelike experience. It understands how the human eye focuses, cross analysing images to give real life depth, extraordinary contrast and beautifully vivid colours. The television offers exceptional contrast from a 4K Mini LED screen that's expertly controlled by our unique XR Backlight Master Drive technology to deliver dynamic range like never before. See incredibly deep blacks and dazzling lights, as well as beautifully natural mid tones, without flare or halos around highlights. Experience incredible depth with intense contrast and brightness with BRAVIA XR Mini LED with XR Backlight Master Drive The BRAVIA XR 85X95K television comprises a unique XR Backlight Master Drive, that utilises a unique local dimming algorithm to control thousands of tiny, high-dense Mini LEDs with absolute precision and independence. It focuses light for maximum brightness almost without flare or halos around highlights. Scenes are full of dazzling lights, deep blacks and natural mid tones. XR Triluminos Pro and XR Contrast Booster combined to express billions of accurate colours with exceptional black contrast Powered by our Cognitive Processor XR™, XR Triluminos Pro enables 85 X95K to access over a billion colours and reproduce each one with the subtle differences seen in the real world. Together with our wide colour gamut panel and human-centric processor, it can detect colour from saturation, hue and brightness to deliver natural shades in every detail. By precisely balancing light output across the screen, dimming some areas and boos ting others, XR Contrast Booster adjusts brightness for higher peaks in glare and deeper blacks in shadow. As bright areas are brighter and dark areas darker, scenes look more real with extra depth and detail. With the latest XR 4K Upscaling and XR OLED Motion clarity enjoy 4K action that stays smooth, bright and clear with no blur The 85X95K television encompasses XR 4K upscaling technology so that you can enjoy entertainment close to 4K quality, whatever the content or source. The Cognitive Processor XR™ accesses a vast amount of data, intelligently recreating lost textures and detail for real world pictures. With OLED XR Motion Clarity technology powered by the Cognitive Processor XR™, the television combats blur by detecting and cross analyzing key visual elements on successive frames. It creates and inserts extra frames between the original ones so you can enjoy smooth and clear action, even in fast-moving sequences. Enjoy best-in-class gaming experience with dedicated game mode with HDMI 2.1 compatibility, including 4K 120fps, Variable Refresh Rate (VRR), Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM), Auto HDR Tone and Auto Game Mode The BRAVIA XR 85X95K is a giant gaming machine loaded with HDMI 2.1 compatibility, including 4K 120fps, Variable Refresh Rate (VRR), Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM), Auto HDR Tone Auto Game Mode, you will have the advantage in shooting, sports and high-performance games with instant on-screen action. HDMI 2.1 has higher speed and enables more resolution, data handling and added features such as 4K 120Hz, VRR and ALLM. Auto Game Mode, the TV automatically switches into Game mode to minimise input lag and make the action more responsive. When watching movies on PlayStation5® consoles, it switches back to Standard Mode to focus on picture processing for more expressive scenes so that you enjoy ultra-smooth gaming, with clear movement. Introducing Award Winning BRAVIA CORE, enjoy the largest collection of IMAX enhanced movies with highest quality Pure Stream™ 80mbps on BRAVIA XR TVs The BRAVIA Core app is a pre-loaded exclusively available in BRAVIA XR TVs movie service that allows for redemption of up to 5 current releases and classic blockbusters films, and 12 months unlimited streaming of top movies. With BRAVIA XR technology, Pure Stream™ and IMAX® Enhanced, everything you watch is delivered with stunning visuals and expressive sound quality. With the BRAVIA CORE Calibrated mode, your movie will automatically adjust to the optimal picture settings to create a truly exceptional at-home movie viewing experience. X-Anti Reflection minimises reflection and X-Wide Angle™ technology provides vivid real-world colours from any angle It's sometimes difficult to watch dark movies in a bright room due to screen reflection. The 85X95K comes loaded with X-Anti Reflection reduces glare caused by sun or lamp light so you can see pure blacks in brightness and enjoy clear pictures without distraction. With 85X95K watching TV from the sides is now as satisfying as from the centre. Sony's original optical design to control light from the backlight, the X-Wide Angle panel ensures colours stay true from wherever you're watching. Explore an array of fun new TV experiences with BRAVIA CAM (CES 2022 Best of Innovation Awards Honoree) including gesture control, proximity alert and Ambient Optimisation Pro’ Connect your BRAVIA XR 85X95K with BRAVIA CAM, sold separately, for an even more immersive viewing experience. BRAVIA CAM recognizes where you are in the room and how far you are from the TV, then adjusts sound and picture settings so they're just right. You can also enjoy an array of fun new TV experiences with BRAVIA CAM including Gesture control, proximity alert, power saving, optimization, video chat and much more. Create your own cinema at home with exceptional visual and audio experience with Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, IMAX Enhanced and Netflix Adaptive Calibrated Mode For the ultimate in picture quality, the 85X95K pairs the brilliance of 4K clarity with the brightness, color, and detail of High Dynamic Range (HDR). It features Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos so that one can enjoy cinematic thrills at home. Dolby Vision brings scenes vividly to life for authentic viewing, while Dolby Atmos fills the room with immersive surround sound. With IMAX Enhanced this TV reproduces all the drama and excitement of the director’s imagination. Enjoy Netflix content in spectacular studio quality, just as the creator intended. Developed specifically for Netflix content, Netflix Adaptive Calibrated Mode works together with the ambient light optimization feature of BRAVIA XR TV to immerse you in your favourite shows by optimising the picture brightness based on your room lighting conditions Enjoy picture and sound in complete harmony as screen is the speaker with Acoustic Surface Audio+ and XR Surround with 3D surround upscaling The Acoustic Multi-Audio™ technology in 85X95K includes sound positioning tweeters to ensure high frequency sounds come from the right place in the scene, precisely matching what's on screen. These sound positioning tweeters precisely manage sound positioning in high tone areas for enhanced realism, while left and right subwoofers deliver powerful bass wherever you place your television. With BRAVIA XR™, everything you watch gets the true surround sound treatment. XR Surround virtually creates surround sound from the sides and vertically using just the TV speakers, so you can experience 3D audio without the need for in-ceiling or up-firing speakers. Supreme pictures and sound in every environment with Ambient optimization, Light sensor and Acoustic auto calibration technology BRAVIA XR 85X95K television comes loaded with ambient optimization technology with light sensor which automatically adjusts the picture brightness to room conditions, boosting brightness in light rooms and reducing it in dark ones so you get the perfect view. No matter where you're sitting, this TV detects your position and optimises sound, so you'll enjoy the same sound quality as if you'r e sitting right in front of the TV. Sound can change depending on your room environment. Curtains, for example, absorb sound while objects in front of the TV can disturb the passage of sound, compromising the quality of what you hear. This TV detects objects and reproduces sound that’s enhanced and optimised to your room. Enjoy superfluid Google TV user interface with hands free voice search offering endless entertainment, works seamlessly with Apple AirPlay 2 and HomeKit Now seamlessly integrate Google TV and bring together more than 700,000 movies, shows, live TV and more from apps and subscriptions and organize seamlessly. With BRAVIA XR OLED X95K, browse content from across your apps, intelligently organized just for you. Customers can easily find something to watch with personalized recommendations and bookmark shows and movies by adding a watchlist from their phone and watch it on TV to keep track of what to watch. Users can even add to their Watchlist from their phone or laptop with Google Search and find everything in one place. Apple Home Kit and AirPlay support seamlessly integrates your Apple devices like iPads and iPhones with your OLED TV for effortless content streaming. Share your content on the big screen or control your TV with this latest feature support. With hands-free voice control built into Sony’s Google TVs, you can set aside the remote and just use your voice to search for entertainment, get answers, and control the TV and smart home devices. All you need is to say, “OK Google, turn on the TV” or “OK Google, what should I watch?” and see it happening. Minimalist One Slate design and Three-way stand provides a truly immersive big screen viewing experience without distraction Our minimalist one slate design with seamless edge features a single pane of tempered glass in a minimised bezel to keep you focused on the picture. Enjoy truly immersive big-screen viewing without distraction. Actual look may differ depending on TV size. The design also comes with a 3-way multi-position stand gives you the choice of a standard setting that focuses you more on the picture, narrow setting for smaller shelves and soundbar setting for ideal positioning of your sound system. With BRAVIA, enjoy Sony’s advance engineering for sustainability in every scene Sony is committed to sustainability from the development process all the way through to the viewing experience. This year select models use Sony-developed SORPLAS™, a 99% recycled plastic material that has reduced the amount of virgin plastic used by up to 60%. TV packaging size has also been reduced by approximately 15% and features a significant reduction in ink (approx. 90%) and plastic (approx. 35%). 8 Additionally, BRAVIA CAM can recognize when viewers are no longer in front of the TV and dim the display to conserve energy. Price and Availability: Model Best Buy (in Rs.) XR-85X95K 699,990/- This will be available across all Sony Centers, major electronic stores and e-commerce portals in India. About Sony India Pvt. Ltd.
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EU proposes banning products made with forced labour
The European Commission proposed on Wednesday an EU ban on products made using forced labour with legislation that will add to existing U.S. pressure on China, but will likely change before it enters force. The EU executive does not name any country in its proposal, but it follows a European Parliament call for such a law in June that highlighted concerns over human rights in China's Xinjiang region.
The European Commission proposed on Wednesday an EU ban on products made using forced labour with legislation that will add to existing U.S. pressure on China, but will likely change before it enters force.
The EU executive does not name any country in its proposal, but it follows a European Parliament call for such a law in June that highlighted concerns over human rights in China's Xinjiang region. Rights groups accuse Beijing of abuses against Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority, in Xinjiang, including mass forced labour in internment camps. The United States, which accuses China of genocide, introduced a law in 2021 that broadly prohibits importing goods from Xinjiang.
China denies abuses in the region, a major cotton producer that also supplies materials for solar panels. The EU proposal highlights the 27.6 million people the International Labour Organization says were engaged in forced labour in 2021, 11% more than in 2016.
Just over half were in the Asia-Pacific region, although the highest level per capita was in Arab states. Forced labour was also a problem in high-income countries. The European Commission is proposing national agencies in the 27-member EU should establish if forced labour has been used to make a product. The Commission would publish decisions on a website to guide customs authorities.
The ban should apply to all products, including components, and to all levels of production from extraction or harvest to manufacturing as well as to EU-made products and EU exports. The new law might not lead to major changes in trade flows, but would increase pressure on companies to monitor supply chains.
Greens EU lawmaker Anna Cavazzini welcomed the broad proposal, but expressed concern products would only be blocked at the end of an investigation and said the burden of proof was not on companies after allegations of forced labour, as it is in the United States. The European Parliament and EU governments will almost certainly modify the proposal and will need to agree before it enters force.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The British author known in part for his news-making bestseller on Princess Diana has a biography of Queen Elizabeth II coming out Nov. 15. Andrew Morton's "The Queen" was supposed to be published in 2023, but it was moved to this fall after the queen died last week at age 96.
“During her long and storied reign Queen Elizabeth II devoted herself to her family and the wider family of nations. During times of national celebration and concern, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, she was the glue who kept the nation together," Morton said in a statement released Wednesday by Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group.
“Teasing out the character of the woman behind the impassive mask has been one of the challenges and fascinations of this biography,” he said.
According to Grand Central, Morton will draw upon archival research and his long relationships with palace insiders, including private secretaries and bodyguards. He has written unauthorized books on William, Prince of Wales and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex among others. But he had the cooperation of his subject for the 1992 release “Diana: Her True Story — in Her Own Words,” in which Diana acknowledged marital troubles with Prince Charles, now King Charles III.
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