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OYO's Women-only Hackathon 'WomenInCtrl' to Improve Gender Diversity in Tech
OYO offers 40 integrated products and solutions to patrons who operate over 157,000 hotel and home storefronts in more than 35 countries including India and those in Europe and Southeast Asia, as of March 31, 2021.For more information, please visit www.oyorooms.com.Disclaimer Oravel Stays Limited is proposing, subject to applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, receipt of requisite approvals, market conditions and other considerations, to make an initial public offering of its equity shares the Equity Shares and has filed the Draft Red Herring Prospectus DRHP with the Securities and Exchange Board of India SEBI.
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New Delhi, Delhi, India (NewsVoir) As the pandemic recedes, tech companies are committed to driving higher adoption across industries, leading to growing demand for tech talent across the country. As per a study by 451 Research, a technology industry research firm, women form 34% of the IT workforce in India. With this insight at the heart of its initiative, and ahead of International Women’s Day, global hospitality technology platform, OYO has rolled out ‘#WomenInCtrl’, its first women-only hackathon in India. With this initiative, OYO is inviting women developers across India to create tech-first hospitality products for OYO. This hackathon is aimed at promoting diversity in tech, with a key focus on software development roles. High potential participants will also be evaluated for roles in OYO’s technology team. The virtual hackathon will run between March 08th and 20th March, with a key focus on creating real-world technical solutions in the hospitality technology industry. Women coders can register on the HackerEarth website to join the challenge. The participants will have five hours to attempt and submit their innovative solutions to 10 Multiple Choice Questions and 2 live programming challenges. OYO’s event platform of choice, HackerEarth will then evaluate the submissions and shortlist candidates for potential tech roles and mentorship by OYO’s technology team. This challenge will test the candidates’ skill sets and knowledge around data structures, algorithms, APIs, system design, among others. OYO expects participation from 2000+ women developers across India. Selected participants can expect mentorship by OYO’s global technology team to begin within 24 to 48 hours of the hackathon. Commenting on the initiative, Ankit Mathuria, Chief Technology Officer, OYO said, “OYO’s tech & product teams are continually innovating for the evolving needs of travellers across the globe. We believe that customer-focused innovations happen when engineers from diverse backgrounds come together and problem solve. I am looking forward to meeting some of the most exceptional women in tech and hopefully, working alongside some of them soon. Doesn't matter if you are a full stack engineer, a machine learning or data science expert or an info security geek but if you relate to our mission, you must participate.” About OYO OYO is a global platform that empowers entrepreneurs and small businesses who operate hotels and homes by providing them with full-stack technology products and services that increase revenue and ease operations; bringing easy-to-book, affordable, and trusted accommodation to customers around the world. OYO offers 40+ integrated products and solutions to patrons who operate over 157,000 hotel and home storefronts in more than 35 countries including India and those in Europe and Southeast Asia, as of March 31, 2021.
For more information, please visit www.oyorooms.com.
Disclaimer: Oravel Stays Limited is proposing, subject to applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, receipt of requisite approvals, market conditions and other considerations, to make an initial public offering of its equity shares (the “Equity Shares”) and has filed the Draft Red Herring Prospectus (“DRHP”) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”). The DRHP is available on the website of SEBI at www.sebi.gov.in, websites of the Stock Exchanges, i.e., BSE Limited and National Stock Exchange of India Limited at www.bseindia.com and www.nseindia.com, respectively, and is available on the websites of the Global Coordinators and Book Running Lead Managers, i.e., Kotak Mahindra Capital Company Limited, J.P. Morgan India Private Limited and Citigroup Global Markets India Private Limited at www.investmentbank.kotak.com, www.jpmipl.com and www.online.citibank.co.in/rhtm/citigroupglobalscreen1.htm; the websites of the Book Running Lead Managers, i.e., ICICI Securities Limited, Nomura Financial Advisory and Securities (India) Private Limited, JM Financial Limited and Deutsche Equities India Private Limited at www.icicisecurities.com, www.nomuraholdings.com/company/group/asia/india/index.html, www.jmfl.com and www.db.com/India, respectively. Investors should note that investment in equity shares involves a high degree of risk and for details relating to the same, refer to the Red Herring Prospectus which may be filed with the Registrar of Companies in the future, including the section titled “Risk Factors”. Potential investors should not rely on the DRHP filed with SEBI for making any investment decision. The Equity Shares offered in the Fresh Issue (as defined in the DRHP) and the Offer for Sale (as defined in the DRHP) have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and, may not be offered or sold within the United States except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. Accordingly, the Equity Shares are only being offered and sold (i) within the United States only to “qualified institutional buyers” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) in transactions exempt from, or not subject to, the registration requirements under the Securities Act, and (ii) outside the United States in offshore transactions in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act and pursuant to the applicable laws of the jurisdictions where those offers and sales are made. There will be no public offering of the Equity Shares in the United States. Image: OYO’s women-only hackathon #WomenInCtrl to improve gender diversity in tech.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union officials on Tuesday defended the 27-nation bloc’s decision to ban Russian state-controlled media outlets from broadcasting in the region as decisive steps to check a Kremlin-led “information war.”
Speaking at the European Parliament during a debate on foreign interference and disinformation, the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell brushed off critics who say the EU is threatening freedom of information with the ban on Sputnik and RT/Russia Today.
“They are not independent media, they are assets, they are weapons, in the Kremlin’s manipulation ecosystem,” Borrell told lawmakers. “We are not trying to decide what is true and what is false. We don’t have ministers of the Truth. But we have to focus on foreign actors who intentionally, in a coordinated manner, try to manipulate our information environment.”
The EU has decided to suspend the broadcasting activities of Sputnik and RT/Russia Today in the bloc until Russia ends its war in Ukraine and stop disinformation campaigns in member states.
Borrell said Moscow-controlled outlets are part of a well-oiled propaganda machine providing biased news about Vladimir Putin’s true intentions.
“If the information is bad, democracy is bad,” he said, adding that information should be a protected good. “If the information is systematically contaminated by lies and twisted, citizens can’t have a clear understanding of reality and their political judgment is similarly twisted.”
Borrell insisted that Sputnik was created by a presidential decree with the aim of reporting on Russia’s sate policies abroad, and said that Russia Today is capable of conducting an “information war” against the western world.
Borrell said he will soon propose a new mechanism that will allow the EU to sanction disinformation actors. Lawmakers from the special committee on foreign interference and disinformation are also proposing to establish a sanctions regime to deal with foreign meddling.
MEP Sandra Kalniete, the author of the report, said it’s crucial for the EU to counter foreign threats in a bid to prevent third countries damaging democracies.
“Let’s call a spade a spade. Russia, China and other authoritarian regimes have funneled more than $300 million into 33 countries to interfere in democratic processes,” she said. “Putin’s propaganda machinery wasn’t just switched on on 24 February. It has already been working in Europe for decades, attempting to poison and divide our societies.”
Kaniete said online platforms and tech companies need to suspend all social accounts engaged in “denying, glorifying and justifying Putin’s aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
She also proposed to reinforce content in Russian and Ukrainian to resist the pressure from Russia’s disinformation.
“In short, any tech platform giving space to Putin’s propaganda or complying with his censorship request is an accomplice to Putin’s aggression,” she said.
European Commission Vera Jourova said Putin wants his people to be “apathetic” and praised streaming platform Netflix’s decision to suspend its Russian services.
“Because president Putin wants the people to be entertained, not to pay attention to what is happening,” she said. “It would not be right to see Russians being entertained, and next door Ukrainians being killed.”
Both Borrell and Jourova expressed deep concerns about the imposed censorship in Russia that threatens independent journalists with jail terms and deprives citizens access to verified information about what their government is doing in Ukraine.
“It is more important than ever to reach the Russian people, and provide them with information,” Jourova said. “Every possible channel should be used.”
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Malaysia's 2021 investments hit record $73 billion
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Malaysia approved a record 306.5 billion ringgit ($73.33 billion) in investments last year, an 83% jump from 2020 led by the manufacturing sector, the nation's investment promotion agency said on Tuesday. The manufacturing sector secured 195.1 billion ringgit worth of projects in 2021, 114% more than in the previous year, with the bulk of investment going to the electrical and electronics industry, the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) said in a statement.
The northern state of Penang, which is Southeast Asia's semiconductor manufacturing hub, was the largest recipient of investments. "The manufacturing sector continued to be the mainstay of the economy for 2021, generating significant multiplier effects on the nation's activities and growth," MIDA said.
Foreign direct investments accounted for about 68% of the approved investments, more than three times than in 2020. Top foreign investors included The Netherlands, Singapore, China, Austria and Japan. Minister of International Trade and Industry Mohamed Azmin Ali said in the statement that easing COVID-19 restrictions and high vaccination rates have allowed economic activities to resume in Malaysia.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s trip Tuesday to Fort Worth, Texas, is personal — a chance to talk with veterans and their caregivers and push for more help for members of the military who face health problems after exposure to burn pits.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Tuesday it has demolished the homes of two Palestinians accused of carrying out a deadly shooting attack in the occupied West Bank last year.
The residences of Mohammed Jaradat and Jit Jaradat in the West Bank were demolished Monday, the military said. The men are accused of shooting at a car driving near the outpost of Homesh, killing a Jewish seminary student and wounding two others.
During the demolition, the military said armed Palestinians fired at the troops, who fired back. The military also said dozens of Palestinians threw rocks, firebombs and grenades at the troops who responded with live fire and other means. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Israeli officials say home demolitions deter future attacks, while rights groups view the tactic as a form of collective punishment.
The demolitions came hours after a Palestinian stabbed two police officers in Jerusalem’s Old City before he was shot and killed by police, the second such incident in as many days.
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Crude oil price may surge to $300 a barrel, warns Russia
Ban on imports of Russian petroleum products by the western countries will have catastrophic consequences for the global economy and it will push crude oil price to over $300 per barrel, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has warned.
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Ban on imports of Russian petroleum products by the western countries will have catastrophic consequences for the global economy and it will push crude oil price to over $300 per barrel, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has warned. "It is absolutely obvious that abandoning Russian oil will lead to catastrophic consequences for the world market. A surge in prices will be unpredictable - more than $300 per barrel, if not more," Russian News Agency TASS quoted Novak as saying.
The crude oil price has soared to a 14-year high. Brent crude oil price in London surged to near $140 a barrel on Monday, the highest level since July 2008. Novak said the ban on Russian oil will lead to a rise in prices for fuel, electricity and heating in Europe and the United States.
"It is impossible to replace the volume of Russian oil on the European market quickly, it will take more than one year, and it will be much more expensive for European consumers," Novak told reporters in Moscow. "Under this scenario, they will become the main victims. European politicians should then honestly warn their citizens, consumers, what awaits them and that prices for gas stations, for electricity, for heating will skyrocket. This will affect other markets, including the American one," he said. (ANI)
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Maxwell’s lawyers say the verdictshould be thrown out over the juror’s apparent failure to disclose before the trial began that he’d been a victim of childhood sexual abuse.
U.S. Judge Alison J. Nathanintends to ask the jurorwhy he failed to note his personal history on a questionnaire during the jury selection process.
Maxwell’s lawyers potentially could have objected to the man’s presence on the jury on the grounds that he might not be fair to a person accused of a similar crime.
Maxwell’s sentencing is scheduled for June.
The juror, identified in court papers only as Juror No. 50, did several media interviews after the trial in which he revealed he’d been abused. He described persuading some fellow jurors during deliberations that a victim’s imperfect memory of abuse doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
All potential jurors in the case had been asked to fill out a screening form in early November that asked, “Have you or a friend or family member ever been the victim of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, or sexual assault? (This includes actual or attempted sexual assault or other unwanted sexual advance, including by a stranger, acquaintance, supervisor, teacher, or family member.)”
The juror checked “No.”
The juror said in the interviews he flew through the questionnaire and didn’t remember being asked that question, which was No. 48 on the form.
Prosecutors said theyexpect to offer the juror immunity in return for his testimony. His lawyer said the juror would have invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege without it.
Defense lawyers for Maxwell asked the judge to immediately order a new trial, but she said she could not do so without questioning the juror.
Nathan also checked “No” on a question which asked: “Have you, or any of your relatives or close friends, ever been a victim of a crime?”
Maxwell, 60, was convicted of sex trafficking and other charges after a monthlong trial that featured testimony from four women who said she played a role in setting them up for abuse by Epstein.
Epstein killed himself in August 2019 as he awaited trial at a federal jail in New York on related sex trafficking charges.
Maxwell says she’s innocent.
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CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s national oil company said it resumed oil production Tuesday from the country’s largest field three days after an armed group shut it down.
The state-run National Oil Corporation said pump valves at the Sharara field were opened a few minutes after midnight local time.
It said it lifted a force majeure, a legal maneuver that lets a company get out of its contracts because of extraordinary circumstances.
The company said technical workers were working to resume production from el-Feel oil field.
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MR.DIY celebrates its 50th store in India through a spectacular opening
MR D.I.Y., the largest home improvement retailer in Southeast Asia, celebrates its 50th store grand opening in the TI Mall, Indore. With the formal inauguration of the store at TI mall in Indore, Indore residents may rejoice
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Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], March 8 (ANI/The Media Troop): Mr.D.I.Y., the largest home improvement retailer in Southeast Asia, celebrates its 50th store grand opening in the TI Mall, Indore. With the formal inauguration of the store at TI mall in Indore, Indore residents may rejoice: everyday goods at" Always Low Prices" are now available locally. MR. D.I.Y has expanded from humble beginnings as a standard hardware store in 2005 to over1800 locations worldwide including stores in India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Cambodia, Turkey, and Spain. The company that began as a traditional hardware store has evolved into a retail sector game-changer. In December 2019, Mr D.I.Y opened its first store in India, in the opulent Infinity Mall in Mumbai. Since then, the brand has grown its retail presence across the country. Recently, Mr D.I.Y. celebrated its 50th store with one of the premier malls in Indore, the first in the city, along with stores in Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Baramati, Nasik, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Gandhidham, Surat, Vadodara, Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Bhopal, and Goa.
Announcing the opening of the store in Indore, Maneesh Sharma, Chief Executive Officer of Mr D.I.Y. India, said, "MR. D.I.Y. is a store loved by all. With over 18,000 SKU offerings in ten categories, namely household, hardware, electrical, car accessories, furnishing, stationery, sports, toys, gifts, computer accessories, fashion accessories, and cosmetics, there is always something for everyone. Each member of the family feels excited while shopping in the Mr. D.I.Y. store. We cater to those who value products that empower and improve their lives." It is growing its footprint in India after serving for about twenty-two years and having over 188 million clients annually across all outlets in Asia.
The home improvement retailer's newest location has products spread across some core categories (hardware, household & furnishings, electrical, stationery, and sports equipment), giving customers a wide range of options in a welcoming environment. Indians aspire to being self-sustaining, independent, caring for the environment, loving animals, and living a happy family life. These are examples of values that drive us to do more. Life improvement is relevant to every Indian family, whatever community, lifestyle, or life stage they belong to. These are the values that Mr D.I.Y. empowers its customers with. For us, being part of the life improvement of every Indian family is equally exciting and rewarding, "added Mr Sharma.
We are grateful for the love, support, and confidence shown by every customer since our first store launch in Mumbai. Their excitement and willingness to explore and experience our products have kept us motivated and pushing to achieve this milestone. It was only because of our customers that we were able to sustain and expand during these tough pandemic times. On the occasion of the 50th store opening in TI Indore Mall, MR.D.I.Y has organized a month-long celebration in all of its stores.
This is story is provided by The Media Troop (The Media Troop). ANI will not be responsible in any way for the content of this article. (ANI/The Media Troop)
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The latest developments on the Russia-Ukraine war:
GENEVA — The U.N.’s top human rights official is warning that a new Russian law allowing harsh punishment for spreading what is deemed to be fake information about the armed forces adds to concern about repressive legislation in Russia.
High Commission for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet told the U.N. Human Rights Council that “space for discussion or criticism of public policies – including (Russia’s) military action against Ukraine – is increasingly and profoundly restricted.”
Bachelet said some 12,700 people have been “arbitrarily arrested” for holding peaceful anti-war protests and noted that media are required to use only official information and terms.
She said she’s concerned about repressive and vaguely defined legislation, and added that “further legislation criminalising circumstances of ‘discrediting’ the armed forces continues down this concerning path.”
The new measure, signed into law by President Vladimir Putin on Friday, allows for prison sentences of up to 15 years. It has prompted some foreign media to suspend operations within Russia.
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LONDON — Britain’s defense secretary says the invasion of Ukraine will be Vladimir Putin’s downfall as the Russian leader struggles to defeat and occupy a country that has put up unexpectedly staunch resistance to his armies.
Ben Wallace said Russian forces are already “exhausted” after facing logistical problems and suffering thousands of losses in the first 13 days of fighting. He added it’s “an impossible task” to occupy a country of 44 million people that is bigger than France and Germany combined.
“This will be Putin’s end … and so it should be,” Wallace told the BBC.
Putin is already “a spent force” in the wider world because the international community has decided the invasion of Ukraine and the humanitarian catastrophe it has unleashed are unacceptable, Wallace said. The international sanctions imposed on Russia “are reducing his economy to zero,” and Putin is responsible for that, Wallace said.
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GENEVA — The number of refugees fleeing Ukraine reached 2 million on Tuesday, according to the United Nations, the fastest exodus Europe has seen since World War II.
“Today the outflow of refugees from Ukraine reaches two million people. Two million,” Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, wrote on Twitter.
The update came as a new effort to evacuate civilians along safe corridors finally got underway Tuesday. The route out of the eastern city of Sumy was one of five promised by the Russians to offer civilians a way to escape the Russian onslaught.
Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, is pressing for all civilians trapped by fighting in Ukraine to be allowed to leave safely. She said Tuesday she is “deeply concerned about civilians trapped in active hostilities in numerous areas.”
Bachelet also told the U.N. Human Rights Council that her office has received reports of pro-Ukrainian activists being arbitrarily detained in areas of eastern Ukraine that have recently come “under the control of armed groups.” She said there have been reports of beatings of people considered pro-Russian in government-controlled areas.
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TOKYO — Japan says it has suspended the assets of 32 more Russian and Belarusian individuals as part of international sanctions against Russia.
The additional sanctions announced Tuesday target 20 Russians including head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, deputy chiefs of staff and a press secretary for President Vladamir Putin’s govenment, and deputy chairmen of the state parliament. The list also includes business executives with close ties to Putin and his administration such as Volga Group, Transneft, the Private Military Company Wagner and USM Holdings, according to a statement jointly issued by the foreign, finance and trade ministries.
The sanction targets also included 12 Belarusian officials and business executives, including Belarus’ National Olympic Committee President Viktor Lukashenko, as well as 12 organizations in Russia and Belarus.
Officials said Japan is also banning exports of oil refinery equipment to Russia and general purpose goods to Belarus that could be used to strengthen the country’s military capability.
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WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s prime minister is calling for even tougher sanctions against Russia in order to dismantle President Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki made his comments as he departed Warsaw for visits to NATO countries Britain and Norway.
He told reporters that strengthening NATO’s eastern flank and pushing for more sanctions would be the main topics of discussion. In particular, Morawiecki wants to urge other European countries to replace Russian crude oil and gas with deliveries from other countries.
“In order to hit Russia effectively, our blow must be consistent and long-term if military action continues,” Morawiecki said.
Poland has been building a gas pipeline, Baltic Pipe, meant to import gas from Norway.
He called Baltic Pipe “a symbol of Poland’s sovereignty, of Poland’s independence from Russia, from gas blackmail … everything which has made it possible for Putin to build a war machine.”
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TALLINN, ESTONIA — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is wrapping up a short tour of the three Baltic states aimed at reassuring the former Soviet republics that NATO will guarantee their security as Russia’s war with Ukraine rolls on unabated.
Blinken was meeting with senior Estonian officials in Tallinn on Tuesday, a day after hearing appeals from both Lithuania and Latvia for more support and greater U.S. and NATO troop presence to deter a feared Russian intervention.
“We will defend every inch of NATO territory if it comes under attack,” Blinken said Monday in Riga. “No one should doubt our readiness. No one should doubt our resolve.”
Leaders in all three Baltic states have expressed grave concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intentions for former Soviet bloc countries that are now allied or otherwise linked to the West.
Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said the Russian invasion of Ukraine had shown the Baltic countries in particular the need to bolster air and coastal defenses. He added Latvia would like its security cooperation with NATO to be “more efficient.”
Lithuanian President Gitanes Nauseda told Blinken in Vilnius that a policy of deterrence was no longer enough and that “forward defense” was now needed. He predicted that “Putin will not stop in Ukraine if he will not be stopped.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — Safe corridors intended to let civilians escape the Russian onslaught in Ukraine could open Tuesday, officials from both sides said, though previous efforts to establish evacuation routes crumbled amid renewed attacks and it was not clear how large the operation would be if it happened.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Tuesday that both sides agreed to a cease-fire from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Ukraine time (0700-1900 GMT) for the evacuation of civilians from the eastern city of Sumy.
The first convoy with evacuated civilians in buses or private cars is to leave at 10 a.m. (0800 GMT), on a single route toward the Ukrainian city of Poltava. She said Russia’s Defense Ministry agreed to this in a letter to the International Red Cross.
Those being evacuated from Sumy include foreign students from India and China, she said. The corridor will also be used to bring humanitarian aid into Sumy, she said.
She reiterated that Russian proposals to evacuate civilians to Russia and Belarus were unacceptable. She didn’t elaborate on the possibility of evacuating Ukrainians toward western Ukraine.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The head of the Norwegian Refugee Council said that refugees fleeing in Ukraine was “the fastest-growing displacement crisis I have witnessed in my 35 years as a humanitarian worker.”
Jan Egeland, secretary general of the humanitarian group, said that “every second the war forces a person to flee across Ukraine’s borders, and countless are displaced within the country.”
The Oslo-based agency, which has been in Ukraine since 2014, said it was launching an aid plan to support 800,000 people inside Ukraine and neighboring countries.
NRC’s humanitarian response plan calls for $82 million and appealed to donors “to dig deep into their pockets to find new funding” and added do “not take resources from other crises.”
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The head of the World Health Organization’s Europe office says it has confirmed 16 attacks that have affected the provision of health care in Ukraine in the fighting since Russia’s invasion in the country began nearly two weeks ago.
Dr. Hans Kluge also told reporters Tuesday that Ukrainian health authorities have “remarkably” maintained COVID-19 surveillance and response since the invasion began on Feb. 24, though they reported 731 deaths related to the pandemic over the last week.
Kluge warned that “sadly, this number will increase as oxygen shortages continue” — with older people disproportionately affected. Treatment with oxygen is an important part of the response for people whose respiratory systems have been harmed by coronavirus infection.
The WHO Europe chief also said broken supply lines are harming the ability to treat conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and diabetes. Catherine Smallwood, senior emergency officer for WHO Europe, said the attacks on health care in Ukraine have led to at least 9 deaths and 16 injuries.
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LONDON — Britain’s defense secretary said Tuesday that there are reports Ukrainian special forces destroyed over 20 Russian helicopters on the ground overnight as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to face logistical problems and fierce resistance.
Russia’s advance toward the capital, Kyiv, continues to face pressure from Ukrainian forces around the nearby towns of Hostomel, Bucha, Vorzel and Irpin, the U.K. Defense Ministry said in an intelligence update released late Monday. In addition, a lengthy Russian column remains stuck on the road north of Kyiv.
Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said Russian forces are becoming more and more desperate in the face of such military and supply holdups, leading to “indiscriminate shelling” of civilians.
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WASHINGTON — The World Bank says it has approved more than $700 in emergency support for Ukraine.
Dubbed FREE Ukraine, it includes nearly $500 million in loans and guarantees and $134 million in grants, with Japan promising another $100 million in financing. The aid is meant to help the Ukrainian government pay wages of hospital workers, pensions and other social programs. Bundling the aid into a package is intended to streamline and speed the provision of the funding, the World Bank said in a statement.
“The World Bank Group stands with the people of Ukraine and the region,” World Bank President David Malpass said. “This is the first of many steps we are taking to help address the far-reaching human and economic impacts of this crisis.”
The World Bank also said it is preparing a $3 billion package of support for Ukraine and the region to help it cope with the flood of displaced people fleeing the fighting.
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TOKYO — U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel praised Japan’s latest sanctions on Russia’s oil refining industry and on Belarus Tuesday.
Japan has frozen the assets of Russian and Belarusian officials and banned the new issue and distribution of Russian government bonds, acting in unity with the U.S. and other Group of Seven industrialized nations. Japan is also banning exports of oil-refining equipment to Russia.
“We applaud the Kishida government’s leadership today to target Russia’s oil refining sector with strict export controls,” Emanuel said in a statement.
The moves help restrict Russia’s access to revenue that supports Vladimir Putin and his war on Ukraine, he said.
“These new actions, implemented in close unity with the United States and other partners, demonstrate Japan’s resolute commitment to stand together with the Ukrainian people and against Putin’s vicious regime,” said Emanuel.
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan sent an aircraft to Poland on Tuesday to evacuate more than 300 Pakistanis who escaped fighting in Ukraine.
Pakistan International Airlines says most of them are students.
Pakistan has refused to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, even as it has denounced war as a solution to differences and called for negotiations and a cease-fire. Prime Minister Imran Khan met with President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin just hours after the Russian leader sent tanks into Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Pakistan abstained from last week’s U.N. General Assembly vote condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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TOKYO — Japanese automaker Nissan is planning to halt production at its plant in Russia because of “logistical challenges.”
Nissan Motor Co. did not provide a specific date but said Tuesday production will stop “soon.” Its plant in St. Petersburg produced 45,000 vehicles last year, including the X-Trail sport utility vehicle.
The Yokohama-based manufacturer said the safety of its employees is its top priority.
Nissan earlier stopped exports to Russia.
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LVIV, Ukraine — Russian aircraft bombed cities in eastern and central Ukraine overnight, Ukrainian officials said. Shelling pounded suburbs of the capital, Kyiv.
In Sumy and Okhtyrka, to the east of Kyiv near the Russian border, bombs fell on residential buildings and destroyed a power plant, regional leader Dmytro Zhivitsky said. He said there were dead and wounded but gave no figures.
Bombs also hit oil depots in Zhytomyr and the neighboring town of Cherniakhiv, located west of Kyiv.
In Bucha, a Kyiv suburb, the mayor reported heavy artillery fire.
“We can’t even gather up the bodies because the shelling from heavy weapons doesn’t stop day or night,” Mayor Anatol Fedoruk said. “Dogs are pulling apart the bodies on the city streets. It’s a nightmare.”
The Ukrainian government is demanding the opening of humanitarian corridors to allow people to safely leave Sumy, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, Mariupol and suburbs of Kyiv, including Bucha.
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LVIV, Ukraine — The mayor of Lviv said the city in far western Ukraine is struggling to feed and house the tens of thousands of people who have fled here from war-torn regions of the country.
“We really need support,” Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said.
More than 200,000 Ukrainians displaced from their homes are now in Lviv, filling up sport halls, schools, hospitals and church buildings. The historical city once popular with tourists had a population of 700,000 before the war.
The mayor said the city needs big tents equipped with kitchens so food can be prepared.
Hundreds of thousands more people could arrive if humanitarian corridors are opened up from cities now under siege from Russian troops.
The embassies of the U.S. and EU countries also moved to Lviv from Kyiv before the invasion.
Lviv is the main transit point for those fleeing just across the border to Poland. Many of the 1.7 million Ukrainians now abroad passed through the city. The United Nations has called the situation the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.
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LVIV, Ukraine — A Russian general was killed in the fighting around Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, which Russian forces have been trying to seize since the invasion began, the Ukrainian military intelligence agency said.
It identified him as Maj. Gen. Vitaly Gerasimov, 45, and said he had fought with Russian forces in Syria and Chechnya and had taken part in the seizure of Crimea in 2014.
It was not possible to confirm the death independently. Russia has not commented.
Another Russian general was killed earlier in the fighting. A local officers’ organization in Russia confirmed the death in Ukraine of Maj. Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky, the commanding general of the Russian 7th Airborne Division.
Sukhovetsky also took part in Russia’s military campaign in Syria.
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CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian government says it is placing sanctions on Moscow’s “propagandists and purveyors of disinformation” who legitimatize Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Foreign Minister Marise Payne said in a statement on Tuesday her government was sanctioning 10 “people of strategic interest to Russia” for their role in encouraging hostility toward Ukraine.
“This includes driving and disseminating false narratives about the ‘de-Nazification’ of Ukraine, making erroneous allegations of genocide against ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, and promoting the recognition of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic as independent,” Payne said, referring to separatist regions of Ukraine.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had been accompanied by a widespread disinformation campaign, both within Russia and internationally, she said.
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There's need to change way products are marketed in favour of men: Women leaders
This will go a long way in closing pay gaps and raising awareness among women about how they quantify their performance at the very beginning of their careers and ask for what they deserve, she added.We need to continue to create opportunities for women to make their way into executive boards as decision-makers...
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With a majority (80 per cent) of consumer spending influenced by women, there is a need to change the way products are marketed in favour of men and it needs to be inclusive, according to women leaders from different fields.
The need to close the gap between perception and metrics when it comes to gender roles in the workplace was also highlighted in a roundtable organised by MMA India, a part of MMA global, which is the world's leading not-for-profit marketing trade body.
''The way we market our products needs to change, it needs to be inclusive. As long as women type the words 'for women' in the search bars, the change will be slow,'' Google Asia-Pacific Vice-President for Marketing (India, Southeast Asia and South Asia) Sapna Chadha said in a statement by MMA India. Google had analysed almost three million YouTube videos in advertising and marketing in India and found male representation to be 1.5 times more than women, when 80 per cent of consumer spending is influenced by women, she added.
While there is an appreciation for leaders with qualities that are perceived as essentially female today, Chadha said, ''However, the barrier needs to be broken and women aspiring to become future leaders should imbibe 'alpha' qualities, too.'' Chadha added that there needs to be more women in the tech industry. ''It will enable them to become better networkers, leaders and effective modern marketers.'' Expressing similar views, Geetanjali Bhattacharji, executive director (Africa, India & Middle East), advisory services at EY, stressed the need for women to set their key performance indicators and deliver accordingly to drive the conversation around what they bring to the table. This will go a long way in closing pay gaps and raising awareness among women about how they quantify their performance at the very beginning of their careers and ask for what they deserve, she added.
''We need to continue to create opportunities for women to make their way into executive boards as decision-makers... It is time to improve the numbers from just 4 per cent women CEOs in India to higher,'' Moneka Khurana, country head at MMA India, said.
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CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s east-based army rounded up at least 50 people in a coastal city following a prison escape earlier this year, a rights group said Tuesday.
Human Rights Watch said in a statement that an armed group affiliated with the self-styled Libyan Arab Armed Forces launched the crackdown after five prisoners escaped from a prison in the city of Derna on Jan. 16.
It said the five prisoners were arrested again four days later. But the armed group, Tarek Bin Ziyad Battalion, continued detain others in the city, including relatives of the five and former detainees and their families.
“Once again, unaccountable LAAF forces resort to brutal tactics to instill fear and terror among Derna residents,” said Eric Goldstein, deputy regional director at HRW.
Goldstein called fort the release of those arbitrarily detained and reveal the whereabouts of anyone still in detention.
A spokesman for the LAAF was not immediately available for comment.
The LAAF, led by powerful commander Khalifa Hifter, controls Libya’s east and much of the south. It captured Derna after fighting with militant groups in 2018.
Hifter’s forces have brought a sense of stability in areas they control but they employed a more aggressive crackdown on activists and NGOs.
Libya descended into chaos following the 2011 uprising that toppled and later killed long-time ruler Moammar Gadhafi. The country is largely controlled by an array of militias profiting for decade-old chaos and civil wars.
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The Latest: People flee embattled Ukrainian cities along safe corridors
Buses packed with people fleeing the Russian invasion in Ukraine began a procession along a snowy road out of one city Tuesday, as a new effort to evacuate civilians along safe corridors finally got underway.
The Russian onslaught has forced 2 million people to flee Ukraine, U.N. officials said Tuesday, but has trapped others inside besieged cities that are running low on food, water and medicine amid the biggest ground war in Europe since World War II.
Here's the latest on the Ukraine-Russia conflict as of 5:45 a.m. (Eastern):
- The number of refugees fleeing Ukraine reached 2 million on Tuesday, according to the United Nations, the fastest exodus Europe has seen since World War II.
- The mayor of Lviv said the city in far western Ukraine is struggling to feed and house the tens of thousands of people who have fled here from war-torn regions of the country.
- A Russian general was killed in the fighting around Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, which Russian forces have been trying to seize since the invasion began, the Ukrainian military intelligence agency said. It identified him as Maj. Gen. Vitaly Gerasimov, 45.
- U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman says that getting military material for Ukrainians to fight a Russian invasion is set to become more difficult for the U.S. and its allies.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Monday for a global boycott of all Russian products – including oil.
Previous attempts to lead civilians to safety have crumbled with renewed attacks. The route people took Tuesday out of the eastern city of Sumy was one of five promised by the Russians to offer civilians a way to escape the fighting.
Video posted by the Ukrainian state communications agency showed people with bags boarding buses, but it was not clear how long the effort would last.
“The Ukrainian city of Sumy was given a green corridor, the first stage of evacuation began,” the agency tweeted. Sumy is just 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the Russian border.
With the invasion well into its second week, Russian troops have made significant advances in southern Ukraine but stalled in some other regions. Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers fortified the capital, Kyiv, with hundreds of checkpoints and barricades designed to thwart a takeover. A steady rain of shells and rockets fell on other population centers, including the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, where the mayor reported heavy artillery fire.
“We can’t even gather up the bodies because the shelling from heavy weapons doesn’t stop day or night,” Mayor Anatol Fedoruk said. “Dogs are pulling apart the bodies on the city streets. It’s a nightmare.”
Video: Refugees cross Ukraine-Moldova border
In one of the most desperate cities, the encircled southern port of Mariupol, an estimated 200,000 people — nearly half the population of 430,000 — were hoping to flee, and Red Cross officials waited to hear when a corridor would be established.
Russia's coordination center for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine and Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk both said a cease-fire was agreed to start Tuesday morning to allow some civilians to evacuate, but the two sides differed on where they said the corridors would be.
Russia's coordination center suggested there would be more than one corridor, but that most would lead to Russia, either directly or through Belarus. At the U.N., however, the Russian ambassador suggested corridors from several cities could be opened and people could choose for themselves which direction they would take.
Vereshchuk, meanwhile, only said that the two sides had agreed to an evacuation of civilians from the eastern city of Sumy, toward the Ukrainian city of Poltava. Those to be evacuated include foreign students from India and China, she said.
She reiterated that proposals to evacuate civilians to Russia and its ally Belarus, which was a launch pad for the invasion, were unacceptable.
Demands for effective passageways have surged amid intensifying shelling by Russian forces. The steady bombardments, including in some of Ukraine’s most populated regions, have yielded a humanitarian crisis of diminishing food, water and medical supplies.
Video: Ukrainian refugees cross into Poland
Through it all, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces were showing unprecedented courage.
“The problem is that for one soldier of Ukraine, we have 10 Russian soldiers, and for one Ukrainian tank, we have 50 Russian tanks,” Zelenskyy told ABC News in an interview that aired Monday night. But he noted that the gap in strength was closing and that even if Russian forces “come into all our cities,” they will be met with an insurgency.
A top U.S. official said multiple countries were discussing whether to provide the warplanes that Zelenskyy has been pleading for.
The besieged city of Mariupol was short on water, food and power, and cellphone networks are down. Stores have been looted as residents search for essential goods. Police moved through the city, advising people to remain in shelters until they heard official messages broadcast over loudspeakers to evacuate.
Hospitals in Mariupol are facing severe shortages of antibiotics and painkillers, and doctors performed some emergency procedures without them.
The lack of phone service left anxious citizens approaching strangers to ask if they knew relatives living in other parts of the city and whether they were safe.
The battle for Mariupol is crucial because its capture could allow Moscow to establish a land corridor to Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014.
Several hundred kilometers (miles) west of Mariupol, Russian forces continued their offensive in Mykolaiv, opening fire on the Black Sea shipbuilding center of a half-million people, according to Ukraine’s military. Rescuers said they were putting out fires caused by rocket attacks in residential areas.
Ukraine’s general staff of the armed forces said in a statement Tuesday that Ukrainian forces are continuing defense operations in the suburbs of the city.
The general staff said “demoralized” Russian forces are engaging in looting in places they have occupied, commandeering civilian buildings like farm hangars for military equipment, and are setting up firing positions in populated areas. The claims could not be independently verified.
Ukrainian defense forces were also involved in operations in the northern city of Chernihiv and the outskirts of Kyiv, the general staff said.
In Kyiv, soldiers and volunteers have built hundreds of checkpoints to protect the city of nearly 4 million, often using sandbags, stacked tires and spiked cables. Some barricades looked significant, with heavy concrete slabs and sandbags piled more than two stories high, while others appeared more haphazard, with hundreds of books used to weigh down stacks of tires.
“Every house, every street, every checkpoint, we will fight to the death if necessary,” said Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, with 1.4 million people, heavy shelling slammed into apartment buildings.
“I think it struck the fourth floor under us,” Dmitry Sedorenko said from his Kharkiv hospital bed. “Immediately, everything started burning and falling apart.” When the floor collapsed beneath him, he crawled out through the third story, past the bodies of some of his neighbors.
Video: Blinken to Baltics: NATO commitment is 'ironclad'
In the small town of Horenka, where shelling reduced one area to ashes and shards of glass, rescuers and residents picked through the ruins as chickens pecked around them.
“What are they doing?” rescue worker Vasyl Oksak asked of the Russian attackers. “There were two little kids and two elderly people living here. Come in and see what they have done.”
At The Hague, Ukraine pleaded with the International Court of Justice to order a halt to Russia’s invasion, saying Moscow is committing widespread war crimes.
Russia “is resorting to tactics reminiscent of medieval siege warfare, encircling cities, cutting off escape routes and pounding the civilian population with heavy ordnance,” said Jonathan Gimblett, a member of Ukraine’s legal team.
The fighting has sent energy prices surging worldwide and stocks plummeting, and threatens the food supply and livelihoods of people around the globe who rely on crops farmed in the fertile Black Sea region.
The U.N. human rights office reported 406 confirmed civilian deaths but said the real number is much higher.
On Monday, Moscow again announced a series of demands to stop the invasion, including that Ukraine recognize Crimea as part of Russia and recognize the eastern regions controlled by Moscow-supported separatist fighters as independent. It also insisted that Ukraine change its constitution to guarantee it won’t join international bodies like NATO and the EU. Ukraine has already rejected those demands.
Zelenskyy has called for more punitive measures against Russia, including a global boycott of its oil exports, which are key to its economy.
“If (Russia) doesn’t want to abide by civilized rules, then they shouldn’t receive goods and services from civilization,” he said in a video address.
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Associated Press reporters from around the world contributed to this report.
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IPM India reinforces its promise to #BreakTheBias, this International Women's Day
It is an attempt to drive inclusion in the new normal where opportunities for physical human interaction have dwindled. This womens day, under the pillar of Empower, Yin Yang will be launched as a digital community for employees to connect and have conversations around the uniqueness of each gender and the benefits of an equal and inclusive workplace.
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Focusing on contravening gender stereotypes & bringing forward psychological safety NEW DELHI, March 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IPM India Wholesale Trading Private Ltd (IPM India), a country affiliate of Philip Morris International, Inc. (PMI) sees diversity as one of its greatest strength and inclusion as one of its greatest business enablers. Since women make up the largest underrepresented group, the company had set a global target of reaching 40% female representation in the workforce, which it aims to achieve this year. PMI was added to the 2021 & 2022 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for transparency in gender reporting and advancing women's equity. IPM India obtained the Top Employer 2022 Certification from Top Employers Institute for the third year in a row, as one of only 11 Global Top Employers recognized for excellence in people practices. Furthermore, the company has also been awarded as one of the 'Top 10 places to work for women' by UNGCNI , the first EQUAL-SALARY certified company in India in 2018 as well as one of the Great Places to Work in 2020 & 2022.
Sharing his perspective, Alexander Reisch, Managing Director, IPM India, said, ''At IPM India, we envision the 'co-creation of an inclusive culture'. This comprises of four pillars: Allyship, Empower, Mental Health and Inclusion Communities. 'Allyship' helps all employees to contribute to the cause of I&D. 'Empower' refers to demographical inspirational networks for unlocking potential via inclusion. 'Mental Health' focuses on normalizing the much-needed conversation around emotional well-being and provides employees with resources such as professional counselling services. Under the fourth pillar 'Inclusion Communities', digitally-enabled community platforms are in place. It is an attempt to drive inclusion in the new normal where opportunities for physical human interaction have dwindled.'' This women's day, under the pillar of 'Empower', 'Yin & Yang' will be launched as a digital community for employees to connect and have conversations around the uniqueness of each gender and the benefits of an equal and inclusive workplace. The week will be marked with conversations with an author and a leadership coach to help employees of each gender, identify and claim their inner power. This would help #BreakTheBias especially around gender stereotypes. Conversations have also been planned on the topics of inspirational women leaders, male allies, and women's health.
Jasneet Kaur Director, People & Culture, IPM India, said, ''At IPM India, we have ensured the recruitment of equal numbers of men and women at all levels. Furthermore, we focus on supporting the growth and advancement of all employees through personalized development plans and access to learning opportunities, contributing to more gender-balanced leadership over time. We also empower our female talent by creating opportunities to network and build mentoring relationships with peers and role models. Currently IPM India's senior Management Team is 50% women. We have built strong gender diversity KPIs that have been part of the organizational objectives since 2017. And have further focused on grooming and nurturing talent from an early career stage.'' About IPM India Wholesale Trading Private Limited: IPM India Wholesale Trading Private Limited is a joint venture between Philip Morris Brands Sarl of Switzerland and two Indian entities, Godfrey Phillips India Limited and K.K. Modi Investment & Financial Services Private Limited.
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LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Evacuations of people fleeing embattled Ukrainian cities along safe corridors began Tuesday, while U.N. officials said the exodus of refugees from Russia’s invasion reached 2 million.
The Russian onslaught has trapped people inside cities that are running low on food, water and medicine amid the biggest ground war in Europe since World War II.
Previous attempts to lead civilians to safety have crumbled with renewed attacks. But on Tuesday, video posted by Ukrainian officials showed buses with people moving along a snowy road from the eastern city of Sumy and yellow buses with a red cross on them heading toward the southern port of Mariupol.
It was not clear how long the efforts would last.
“The Ukrainian city of Sumy was given a green corridor, the first stage of evacuation began,” the Ukrainian state communications agency tweeted.
While some people fled to other cities in Ukraine, many have chosen to leave the country instead. Safa Msehli, a spokesperson for the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration, tweeted that 2 million have now left, including at least 100,000 people who are not Ukrainian.
With the invasion well into its second week, Russian troops have made significant advances in southern Ukraine but stalled in some other regions. Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers fortified the capital, Kyiv, with hundreds of checkpoints and barricades designed to thwart a takeover. A steady rain of shells and rockets fell on other population centers, including the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, where the mayor reported heavy artillery fire.
“We can’t even gather up the bodies because the shelling from heavy weapons doesn’t stop day or night,” Mayor Anatol Fedoruk said. “Dogs are pulling apart the bodies on the city streets. It’s a nightmare.”
In one of the most desperate cities, Mariupol, an estimated 200,000 people — nearly half the population of 430,000 — hoped to flee.
Russia’s coordination center for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine and Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk both said a cease-fire was agreed to start Tuesday morning to allow some civilians to evacuate, but it was not clear where all the corridors would lead to, amid disagreement between the two sides.
Russia’s coordination center suggested there would be more than one corridor, but that most would lead to Russia, either directly or through Belarus. At the U.N., however, the Russian ambassador suggested corridors from several cities could be opened and people could choose for themselves which direction they would take.
Vereshchuk, meanwhile, only said that the two sides had agreed to an evacuation of civilians from the eastern city of Sumy, toward the Ukrainian city of Poltava. Those to be evacuated include foreign students from India and China, she said.
She reiterated that Russian proposals to evacuate civilians to Russia and its ally Belarus, which was a launch pad for the invasion, were unacceptable.
Later, Ukrainian presidential aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko posted a video of yellow buses with a red cross plastered on the side that he said were being used for evacuations from Mariupol.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said 30 buses were sent from Zaporizhzhia to Mariupol with humanitarian aid, including water, basic food staples, and medicines, and will be used to bring out civilians.
Demands for effective passageways have surged amid intensifying shelling by Russian forces. The steady bombardments, including in some of Ukraine’s most populated regions, have yielded a humanitarian crisis of diminishing food, water and medical supplies.
Through it all, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces were showing unprecedented courage.
“The problem is that for one soldier of Ukraine, we have 10 Russian soldiers, and for one Ukrainian tank, we have 50 Russian tanks,” Zelenskyy told ABC News in an interview that aired Monday night. But he noted that the gap in strength was closing and that even if Russian forces “come into all our cities,” they will be met with an insurgency.
A top U.S. official said multiple countries were discussing whether to provide the warplanes that Zelenskyy has been pleading for.
The besieged city of Mariupol was short on water, food and power, and cellphone networks are down. Stores have been looted as residents search for essential goods. Police moved through the city, advising people to remain in shelters until they heard official messages broadcast over loudspeakers to evacuate.
Hospitals in Mariupol are facing severe shortages of antibiotics and painkillers, and doctors performed some emergency procedures without them.
The lack of phone service left anxious citizens approaching strangers to ask if they knew relatives living in other parts of the city and whether they were safe.
The battle for Mariupol is crucial because its capture could allow Moscow to establish a land corridor to Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014.
Several hundred kilometers (miles) west of Mariupol, Russian forces continued their offensive in Mykolaiv, opening fire on the Black Sea shipbuilding center of a half-million people, according to Ukraine’s military. Rescuers said they were putting out fires caused by rocket attacks in residential areas.
Ukraine’s general staff of the armed forces said in a statement Tuesday that Ukrainian forces are continuing defense operations in the suburbs of the city.
The general staff said “demoralized” Russian forces are engaging in looting in places they have occupied, commandeering civilian buildings like farm hangars for military equipment, and are setting up firing positions in populated areas. The claims could not be independently verified.
Ukrainian defense forces were also involved in operations in the northern city of Chernihiv and the outskirts of Kyiv, the general staff said.
In Kyiv, soldiers and volunteers have built hundreds of checkpoints to protect the city of nearly 4 million, often using sandbags, stacked tires and spiked cables. Some barricades looked significant, with heavy concrete slabs and sandbags piled more than two stories high, while others appeared more haphazard, with hundreds of books used to weigh down stacks of tires.
“Every house, every street, every checkpoint, we will fight to the death if necessary,” said Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, with 1.4 million people, heavy shelling slammed into apartment buildings.
“I think it struck the fourth floor under us,” Dmitry Sedorenko said from his Kharkiv hospital bed. “Immediately, everything started burning and falling apart.” When the floor collapsed beneath him, he crawled out through the third story, past the bodies of some of his neighbors.
In the small town of Horenka, where shelling reduced one area to ashes and shards of glass, rescuers and residents picked through the ruins as chickens pecked around them.
“What are they doing?” rescue worker Vasyl Oksak asked of the Russian attackers. “There were two little kids and two elderly people living here. Come in and see what they have done.”
At The Hague, Ukraine pleaded with the International Court of Justice to order a halt to Russia’s invasion, saying Moscow is committing widespread war crimes.
Russia “is resorting to tactics reminiscent of medieval siege warfare, encircling cities, cutting off escape routes and pounding the civilian population with heavy ordnance,” said Jonathan Gimblett, a member of Ukraine’s legal team.
The fighting has sent energy prices surging worldwide and stocks plummeting, and threatens the food supply and livelihoods of people around the globe who rely on crops farmed in the fertile Black Sea region.
The U.N. human rights office reported 406 confirmed civilian deaths but said the real number is much higher.
On Monday, Moscow again announced a series of demands to stop the invasion, including that Ukraine recognize Crimea as part of Russia and recognize the eastern regions controlled by Moscow-supported separatist fighters as independent. It also insisted that Ukraine change its constitution to guarantee it won’t join international bodies like NATO and the EU. Ukraine has already rejected those demands.
Zelenskyy has called for more punitive measures against Russia, including a global boycott of its oil exports, which are key to its economy.
“If (Russia) doesn’t want to abide by civilized rules, then they shouldn’t receive goods and services from civilization,” he said in a video address.
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This story has been updated to correct that buses in video from Mariupol did not have people on them, though an official said they were part of evacuation efforts.
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Associated Press reporters from around the world contributed to this report.
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Two million people have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion the United Nations refugee chief and the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday.
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees,Filippo Grandi, confirmed the figure as more headed for the borders. Poland has received more than 1.2 million Ukrainian refugees, the most of any nation, U.N. figures show.
Civilians in one eastern Ukrainian city were shown leaving on buses Tuesday amid a a 12-hour-long cease-fire there after Russia and Ukraine agreed on establishing five safe corridors for people to escape the fighting.
Meanwhile, Russian aircraft continued to bomb cities in eastern and central Ukraine overnight, Ukrainian officials said. Shelling pounded suburbs of the capital, Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged his people to keep resisting the assault. Ukraine’s foreign minister says more than 20,000 people from 52 countries have volunteered to fight in Ukraine.
As the war enters its 13th day, food, water, heat and medicine have grown increasingly scarce in multiple cities facing electricity outages.
Here’s a look at key things to know about the war:
HAS THERE BEEN PROGRESS ON SAFE EVACUATIONS?
Videos Tuesday showed people boarding buses, and multiple buses marked with a red cross driving along a snowy road as the eastern city of Sumy was given a safe corridor for evacuation.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Tuesday both sides agreed to a cease-fire from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m Ukraine time for the evacuation of civilians from Sumy. Those leaving include foreign students from India and China, she said.
The Russian Defense Ministry has said civilians will be allowed to also leave the cities of Mariupol and the capital, Kyiv, where people have built hundreds of checkpoints to protect the city of nearly 4 million people.
Most of the corridors for fleeing civilians, however, will lead to Russia either directly or via Belarus, according to officials in Moscow. Russia’s ambassador to the U.N. suggested that humanitarian paths leading from the capital and other cities could give people a choice in where they want to go.
The safe corridors were agreed on by Ukrainian and Russian officials during their third round of direct talks Monday since the start of invasion Feb. 24. The foreign ministers of both countries are scheduled to meet in Turkey on Thursday, according to that country’s top diplomat.
WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING ON THE GROUND?
Russian aircraft bombed cities in eastern and central Ukraine overnight, Ukrainian officials said. Shelling pounded suburbs of the capital, Kyiv. Bombs also hit oil depots in two other towns.
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry reported Tuesday that nine people, including two children, were killed in a Russian airstrike in Sumy on Monday.
The mayor of Lviv said the city in far western Ukraine is struggling to feed and house the tens of thousands of people who have fled there from other parts of the country. More than 200,000 Ukrainians displaced from their homes are now in Lviv, filling up sport halls, schools, hospitals and church buildings.
In the southern port city of Mariupol, an estimated 200,000 people — nearly half its population — are hoping to flee as hospitals there face severe shortages of antibiotics and painkillers. An official with Ukraine’s presidential office says humanitarian aid is being sent to the city.
A Russian general was killed in the fighting in Ukraine’s second-largest city, according to the Ukrainian military intelligence agency. He is the second Russian general reportedly killed since the invasion began. The report said he had fought with Russian forces in Syria and Chechnya and had taken part in the seizure of Crimea in 2014. It was not possible to confirm the death independently. Russia has not commented.
Russian troops have overall made significant advances in southern Ukraine but stalled in some other regions.
HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED?
The death toll of the conflict has been difficult to measure. The U.N. human rights office said Monday that it had confirmed the deaths of 406 civilians and wounding of 801 others through the end of Sunday. However, it acknowledged the actual figures are likely considerably higher.
The World Health Organization said six health care workers have been killed and nearly a dozen wounded in attacks. It has confirmed 16 attacks on health care facilities in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began.
Ukrainian refugeescontinue to pour into neighboring countries, including Poland, Romania and Moldova. Among them are an unknown number of people with U.S. citizenship, though some haven’t been able to fleeUkraine yet.
WHAT IS THE GLOBAL IMPACT?
Surging prices for oil and other vital commodities, such as wheat used in subsidized bread and noodles, are rattling global markets.
Worries are growing that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will upend already tight supplies of oil. Russia is one of the world’s largest energy producers, with prices surging even further by the possibility the U.S. might bar crude imports from Russia.
A growing number of multinational businesses have cut Russia off from vital financial services, technology and a variety of consumer products in response to Western economic sanctions. Among those suspending services in Russia is Netflix, the popular streaming service.
In the Middle East, the war in Ukraine is magnifying divisions in the regionfollowing Moscow’s role in recent years in the war in Syria. Russia has support among militant factions in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen where ally, Iran, has influence.
Despite countries sending weapons and military equipment to Ukrainian forces fighting the Russians, Western countries have rejected Ukrainian calls to impose a no-fly zone over the country. There are concerns such a move would risk dramatically escalating the conflict.
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Maruti Suzuki drives in Dzire S-CNG trims with price starting at Rs 8.14 lakh
Vehicles are tuned and calibrated to deliver optimum performance and enhanced drivability across all kinds of terrains.Powered by 1.2-litre petrol engine, Dzire S-CNG delivers a peak power of 57kW and a mileage of 31.12 kmkg, MSI said in a statement.As the world pivots towards a greener future, the company has continually worked on expanding its growing portfolio of green vehicles.
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Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Tuesday said it has launched its compact sedan Dzire with S-CNG technology at a starting price of Rs 8.14 lakh (ex-showroom).
The company has introduced the S-CNG trims priced at Rs 8.14 lakh and Rs 8.82 lakh.
S-CNG vehicles are equipped with intelligent injection system. Vehicles are tuned and calibrated to deliver optimum performance and enhanced drivability across all kinds of terrains.
Powered by 1.2-litre petrol engine, Dzire S-CNG delivers a peak power of 57kW and a mileage of 31.12 km/kg, MSI said in a statement.
''As the world pivots towards a greener future, the company has continually worked on expanding its growing portfolio of green vehicles. With transformative technology like the S-CNG, more and more customers are actively looking to switch to S-CNG vehicles to fulfill their mobility requirements,'' MSI Senior Executive Director (Marketing & Sales) Shashank Srivastava noted.
Currently, the company has the largest portfolio of nine S-CNG vehicles, he added.
''With low running costs and high fuel efficiency of S-CNG vehicles, their demand has tremendously gone up as we have witnessed a 19 per cent CAGR increase in our S-CNG sales in the past five years,'' Srivastava stated.
CAGR stands for compound annual growth rate.
The launch of Dzire S-CNG will further strengthen the automaker's vision of green mobility and catalyse the adoption of green vehicles in India, he stated.
The company further stated that the model's powertrain and suspension have been specially tuned to offer better engine durability, greater mileage and safety.
The launch of the S-CNG vehicle range complements the government's vision of reducing oil import and enhancing the share of natural gas in the country's primary energy mix from 6.2 per cent now to 15 per cent by 2030, MSI said.
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ZAHONY, Hungary (AP) — It’s a global day to celebrate women, but many fleeing Ukraine feel only the stress of finding a new life for their children as husbands, brothers and fathers stay behind to defend their country from Russia’s invasion.
The number of refugees fleeing Ukraine reached 2 million on Tuesday, according to the United Nations, the fastest exodus Europe has seen since World War II.
Polina Shulga tried to ease the journey for her 3-year-old daughter by hiding the truth.
“Of course it’s hard to travel with a child, but I explained to her that we’re going on vacation and that we’ll definitely come home one day when the war is over,” Shulga said.
She didn’t know what would come next after arriving in Hungary from Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, but believed the experience was making her stronger. “I feel like I’m responsible for my child, so it was easier for me to take this step and leave, because if I had not had a child, I probably would not have dared to go into the unknown,” she said, as her little girl tugged at the hem of her coat.
Nataliya Grigoriyovna Levchinka, a refugee from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, felt much the same.
“I’m generally in some kind of a terrible dream which keeps going on,” the retired teacher said. “I would be in some kind of abstraction if it wasn’t for my daughter. I wouldn’t be able to come to my senses.”
A decree by Ukraine’s government that prohibits men aged 18 to 60 from leaving the country means that most of those fleeing Ukraine are women and children. The policy is meant to encourage men to sign up to fight against Russia’s invasion or to keep them available for conscription into the armed forces.
That has led to heartbreaking scenes of separation, and growing worry as some encircled, battered parts of Ukraine slip out of reach.
In a refugee camp in Moldova, Elena Shapoval apologized for her tears. She doesn’t hide them from her two children, one 4 and one 8, while recalling their journey from Odesa. The younger one doesn’t understand what’s happening, Shapoval said. The older one tries to calm her, saying, ‘Mom, everything will be all right.’”
She cannot collapse as she thinks about the life they left behind. “I realize that we’ll have to work a lot now,” she said. “I need to get myself together because I have two children and I need to ball up my will like a fist.”
In Romania, Alina Rudakova began to cry as the realized she had forgotten about International Women’s Day. Last year, the 19-year-old from Melitopol received a bouquet of flowers from her father and gifts from other relatives.
“This year, I didn’t even think about this day,” she said. “This day was really awful.”
In a theater at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in the Polish city of Przemysl near the border, women and children filled makeshift beds. Some checked their phones yet again for news.
“It was difficult to prepare myself for traveling,” said one refugee from near Kyiv who gave only her first name, Natalia. “My sister said that I am very brave, but in my opinion I am a coward. I want to go home.”
And at the Medyka border crossing in Poland, Yelena Makarova said her hurried flight from Kremenchuk with her mother and teenage daughter marked the end of her life as she knew it. Her father, husband and brother all stayed behind.
“I wish that (the war) it would finish as soon as possible, because do you know, for every mother, what can be worse?” she said. “I can’t understand why our children are dying. I don’t know.”
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Associated Press journalists around Europe contributed.
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EU court rules against UK over multi-billion-euro import fraud
While other EU countries heeded the warnings, the Commission argued, Britain did not and so attracted more undervalued trade, therefore incurring "exceptionally high losses". The Court of Justice of the European Union said Britain had failed to adopt measures necessary to combat fraud and so had not fulfilled its custom collection obligations.
The European Union's top court ruled against Britain on Tuesday, upholding a claim from the European Commission that the former EU member should pay the billions of euros it failed to collect due to import fraud.
The European Commission complained that importers into Britain evaded a large number of customs duties with false invoices and artificially low value declarations for Chinese textiles and footwear. The EU executive estimated that the EU budget lost 2.7 billion euros ($2.9 billion) from 2011 to 2017 and there were additional potential losses of value-added tax. All EU members were liable for such financial consequences, it said.
The Commission argued that, despite warnings about the risk of fraud by it and by EU fraud agency OLAF, Britain failed to put in place necessary controls to prevent undervalued goods from entering the EU single market. While other EU countries heeded the warnings, the Commission argued, Britain did not and so attracted more undervalued trade, therefore incurring "exceptionally high losses".
The Court of Justice of the European Union said Britain had failed to adopt measures necessary to combat fraud and so had not fulfilled its custom collection obligations. It had also failed to provide the Commission with the necessary information to calculate the amount due. The court did say that the Commission would need to recalculate the losses to the EU budget. Its calculations were reliable for part of the period covered, but it had not established the full amount to the requisite legal standard.
There was no immediate comment from the British government. ($1 = 0.9170 euros)
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BAGHDAD (AP) — In a neighborhood of Iraq’s capital, a gigantic poster of Vladimir Putin with the words, “We support Russia,” was up for few hours before a security force arrived and hurriedly took it down. Then came the security directive: All public displays of Putin’s pictures shall be banned.
In Lebanon, the powerful Hezbollah militia railed against the government’s condemnation of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, calling for neutrality.
Such wrangling shows the deep divisions over the Ukraine war in the Middle East, where Moscow has embedded itself as a key player in recent years, making powerful friends among state and non-state actors while America’s influence waned.
Political elites closely allied with the West are wary of alienating Russia or the U.S. and Europe. But other forces — from Shiite militia factions in Iraq, to Lebanon’s Hezbollah group and Houthi rebels in Yemen — vocally support Russia against Ukraine.
These groups are considered to be Iran’s boots on the ground in the so-called anti-U.S. “axis of resistance.” Putin won their backing largely because of his close ties with Tehran and his military intervention in Syria’s civil war in support of President Bashar Assad.
They see Putin as a steady, reliable partner who, unlike the Americans, does not drop his allies. In their circles, they even have an affectionate nickname for Putin — “Abu Ali” — which is a common name among Shiite Muslims and meant to portray a certain comaraderie.
Meanwhile, governments are walking a tightrope.
“Iraq is against the war but has not condemned it nor taken a side,” said political analyst Ihsan Alshamary, who heads the Political Thought Think Tank in Baghdad. Iraq needs to remain neutral because it has shared interests with both Russia and the West, he said.
He said Iran’s allies in the region are outspokenly with Russia “because they are anti-American and anti-West and believe that Russia is their ally.”
Russia has invested up to $14 billion in Iraq and the northern Kurdish-run region, mainly focusing on the energy sector, Moscow’s ambassador Elbrus Kutrashev told the Iraqi Kurdish news agency Rudaw in a recent interview.
Among the major oil companies operating in the country are Russia’s Lukoil, Gazprom Neft and Rosneft.
Iraq also maintains close ties with the U.S., but Western companies have steadily been plotting to exit from Iraq’s oil sector.
Iraq’s strongest move so far came after its central bank advised the prime minister against signing new contracts with Russian companies or payments in light of U.S. sanctions. The decision will impact new Russian investment in the country, but little else, Russian industry officials said.
Last week, Iraq was among the 35 countries that abstained from a U.N. General Assembly vote to demand that Russia stop its offensive and withdraw troops from Ukraine. Lebanon voted in favor, while Syria, where Russian ties run deep, voted against. Iran also abstained.
In Lebanon, an unusually blunt Foreign Ministry statement denouncing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine caused an uproar and upset the Russians, forcing the minister to clarify that Lebanon did not intend to take sides and would remain neutral.
“They distance themselves and claim neutrality where they want, and they interfere and condemn where they want,” Hezbollah lawmaker Ibrahim Moussawi wrote on Twitter, taking aim at the Foreign Ministry. “What foreign policy does Lebanon follow, and what is Lebanon’s interest in that? Please clarify for us, foreign minister.”
Hezbollah, which also sent thousands of fighters to neighboring Syria to shore up Assad’s forces, has seized on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to portray it as an inevitable result of U.S. provocations and yet another betrayal by the United States of its allies – in this case, Ukraine.
In Syria, where Russia maintains thousands of troops, billboards proclaiming, “Victory for Russia” popped up in areas of Damascus this week. In opposition-held areas, which still get hit by Russian airstrikes, residents hope pressure will ease on them if Russia gets bogged down in fighting in Ukraine.
In Iraq, the Ukraine war is highlighting divisions in an already fractured landscape during stalled efforts to form a new government, five months after parliament elections were held.
The huge billboard in support of Putin was briefly put up in a Baghdad neighborhood considered a stronghold of powerful Iranian-backed militias. After it was removed, the Russian Embassy in Baghdad tweeted an image of it.
“The poster was provocative, I am against it,” said Athir Ghorayeb, who works at a nearby coffee shop. Iraq is only just emerging from decades of war and conflict, he said. “Why do they insist on involving us in new problems?”
Many Iraqis see in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine echoes of Saddam Hussein’s invasion of neighboring Kuwait and subsequent years-long economic sanctions placed on Iraq. It was only a few days ago that Iraq finished paying reparations to Kuwait which totaled more than $52 billion.
On social media, Iraqi pages on Facebook with millions of followers have posted news of what is happening in Ukraine, sharing their views. “Our hearts are with the civilians, as those who have tasted war know its catastrophes,” posted one user, Zahra Obaidi.
“We have tents for refugees and internally displaced people, so you’re welcome to come use them,” Hafidh Salih posted.
Toby Dodge, a professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, said Iraq’s moves — abstaining from the U.N. vote while limiting economic activity — were prudent, managing the short-term risks without taking an ideological stance.
But the longer the war drags on, the harder it will be to maintain this strategy.
“Iraq is deeply divided politically amongst players between pro-Iran and those that are anti-Iran trying to assert autonomy. The Ukraine becomes another performance, another example of where either side can burnish their credentials,” he said.
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Karam reported from Beirut. Associated Press writer Samya Kullab in Kabul contributed reporting.
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Only 12 pc of contract staff were Women at 2021-end: TeamLease Services
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While the total number of female workers in India is 149.8 million, the labour market participation by them is abysmal, a TeamLease Services study said on Tuesday.
According to the TeamLease Services' latest report No Woman Left Behind -- a comprehensive analysis highlighting the current state of women participation in the workforce -- only 12 per cent of the women are part of the contractual staff in India compared to 88 per cent among men.
As per the study, one of the primary reasons for the low rate of women at work is the high participation in domestic duties or unpaid work.
The Economic Survey 2018-19 noted that the rate of women engaged in domestic duties is as high as 55.7 per cent in rural areas and 59.1 per cent in urban areas.
According to a first-of-its-kind Time Use Survey by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, women spend about 5 hours a day on unpaid domestic work or thrice as much time as men. Moreover, COVID-induced job market stagnation has also forced women out of the labour force.
Low participation of urban women in the labour force, mobility restrictions and sacrificing of career progression, education opportunities to meet family responsibilities, safety considerations and other social restrictions also are complementing the low presence of women in the workforce.
As per the analysis, the work eco-system, in general, is also not very conducive nor encouraging to increase women's participation. Irrespective of the nature of work, the majority of the women employees in India still do not have a written job contract, nearly half of the regular wage/salaried employees are not eligible for paid leave.
Similarly, a significant proportion of the women who are currently in the workforce do not have access or are not eligible for any social security benefits deterring the participation of women at work.
''One of the biggest casualties that the pandemic has caused is, it has pushed the women participation in the workforce to a further lower level. Correcting and improving it will call for an aggressive and comprehensive approach focussed on ensuring women are given equal importance in the country’s economic plan,'' said Rituparna Chakraborty, co-founder and Executive Vice President, TeamLease Services.
''It will require equal participation by the entire stakeholder, including women, employers and policymakers. In fact, improving women's labour force participation and bringing it to the same level as men can not only have a positive impact on women, it can help in boosting GDP by 27 per cent,'' Chakraborty added.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations and Yemen’s Houthi rebels have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at resolving the environmental threat posed by a tanker carrying more than 1 million barrels of crude oil that has been moored off the coast of the war-torn Arab nation since the 1980s, the U.N. said Monday.
The FSO Safer tanker’s long-term presence in the Red Sea has raised fears of a massive oil spill or explosion that could cause an environmental catastrophe. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the U.N. mission in Yemen “confirmed that the risk of imminent catastrophe is very real indeed, as we have been saying here for quite some time.”
Under the MOU, a short-term solution would transfer the oil from the Safer to another ship, along with a longer-term solution, he said.
But the MOU, dated March 5, makes clear the proposal’s implementation is contingent on mobilizing donor funds.
Yemen has been convulsed by civil war since 2014, when Iranian-backed Houthi rebels took control of the capital and much of the country’s north, forcing the government to flee to the south, then to Saudi Arabia. A Saudi-led coalition entered the war in March 2015, backed by the United States and the United Arab Emirates, to try to restore President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to power.
The MOU was signed by David Gressly, the U.N. resident and humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, and Ibrahim Al-Seraji, chairman of the committee overseeing the agreement established by the Houthi authorities in Sanaa, as well as Abdullah Mohamed Fahem & Co.
It states that the United Nations will “make all efforts to mobilize the necessary funds” and that all signatories acknowledge that the authorities in Sanaa “bear no financial obligations” for the project. But it says the Houthi authorities “are committed to providing all facilities for the success of the project.”
The MOU states that a temporary tanker may be required to transfer the cargo from the FSO Safer and that the United Nations will provide the temporary vessel which will remain near the Safer tanker.
In the longer term, it says “the United Nations is committed to providing and supplying a replacement equivalent to the FSO Safer suitable for export with a target of 18 months.”
The Safer tanker is a Japanese-made vessel built in the 1970s and sold to the Yemeni government in the 1980s to store up to 3 million barrels of export oil pumped from fields in Marib, a province in eastern Yemen that is currently a battlefield. The ship is 360 meters (1,181 feet) long with 34 storage tanks.
The Houthis control Yemen’s western Red Sea ports, including Ras Issa, just 6 kilometers (about 4 miles) from where the Safer is moored, and the U.N. has been negotiating with the rebel group for years to try to get experts on the tanker to examine it.
Internal documents obtained by The Associated Press in June 2020 showed that seawater had entered the engine compartment of the tanker, causing damage to the pipes and increasing the risk of sinking. According to the AP report, experts said maintenance was no longer possible because the damage to the ship was irreversible.
Dujarric said Gressly reported that the U.N. is finalizing an operational plan for moving ahead with the proposal.
In what he called “another positive step,” Dujarric said Yemen’s ambassador to the Netherlands joined a U.N. mission to the key port city of Hodeida and the Ras Issa terminal to discuss the proposal with local authorities.
“The Netherlands is an important stakeholder in this U.N.-coordinated proposal,” Dujarric said, expressing appreciation for the country’s leadership role in trying to get donors and their technological expertise ”of all things maritime and salvage.”
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Indian students in Ukraine's Sumy board buses to Poltava, hope to be in safe zone soon
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Several Indian students stranded in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy heaved a sigh of relief as their evacuation process started on Tuesday and hoped that they would be in a safe zone soon.
''The evacuation from Sumy has started. There was finally some good news on Tuesday. All Indian students will be evacuated from Sumy on Tuesday itself. They will be taken to a safe location from where they will be brought to India,'' said Anshad Ali, a student coordinator.
A medical student at the Sumy university, who did not wish to be identified, confirmed that buses have arrived and students have started boarding the buses.
''We have been told that we will go to Poltava. I am praying that we reach a safe zone and this misery is over,'' he told PTI from Sumy.
Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri told reporters here that 694 Indian students, who were stranded in Sumy, left for Poltava in buses on Tuesday.
''Last night, I checked with the control room, 694 Indian students were remaining in Sumy. Today, they have all left in buses for Poltava,'' he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday on ways to start the stalled evacuation process of the Indian students from Sumy, which is being pummelled by the invading Russian forces.
India has so far brought back over 17,100 of its nationals from Ukraine while Indian students remained stuck in Sumy, with their evacuation dependent on the facilitation of a safe passage by Russian and Ukrainian authorities.
''We stood in a queue for three hours in freezing cold on Monday, waiting to board the buses and then, we were told that we cannot go. Thankfully, we left Sumi on Tuesday. I am hoping that we will be in a safe zone soon,'' Aashiq Hussain Sarkar, another medical student, told PTI.
Sumy has been witnessing intense fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops for days now. India has been making efforts to evacuate its citizens from the northeastern Ukrainian city, but with little success due to the heavy shelling and air strikes.
With no electricity and water supply, ATMs running out of cash, melting snow to slake their thirst and fast running out of supplies, hundreds of Indian students trapped in Sumy stood on roads every morning, hoping that ''today would be the day'' when they would be rescued from the savagery of the war that has engulfed Ukraine.
The wait, however, got longer as fierce fighting blocked their way to safety across the Russian border. Exasperated, the students posted a video clip on social media platforms on Saturday, saying they had decided to walk to the Russian border in biting cold amid the fighting, raising fears about their safety on the corridors of power in New Delhi.
Soon after the video went viral, the Indian government asked the students not to take unnecessary risks and to remain in shelters, and assured them that they would be rescued soon.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — When Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas first started kicking a ball in the small square of her Spanish village, she did so with the typical disadvantages for a young girl with big dreams in a country that was crazy for soccer — as long as it was played by men.
But after two decades of hard work, along with the slow yet steady growth of the women’s game toward the mainstream in Spain, Alexia has reached the pinnacle of her sport.
The 28-year-old midfielder swept up all the major individual awards after leading Barcelona to a treble of titles last season, including its first Champions League. She became only the second Spaniard to win a Ballon d’Or in November, ending a long wait since Luis Suárez won the men’s award in 1960. She also was named UEFA Women’s Player of the Year in August and won FIFA’s The Best award in January.
While never feeling discriminated against by the boys she played with growing up in Mollet del Vallès near Barcelona, she did have to overcome the second-rate treatment like other girls who wanted to turn a hobby into a profession.
“I have come from training in the worst conditions, at the worst time of the day, with coaches who were my teammates’ dads, so that really when you are young you don’t learn much,” Alexia told The Associated Press in an interview at Barcelona’s training center.
“Now, it is completely different. That is why I say that 12-, 14-year-old girls who are training to become players now, when they arrive to the senior teams, they will be much better than we were,” she said. “Because we didn’t have what they have now and yet look what we have achieved. So imagine what the next generation can do.”
Rocked by the departure of Lionel Messi from its struggling men’s team, its ballooning debt, and a scandal-ridden turnover in its presidency, Barcelona needed its women’s team to uphold its championship tradition.
From the ruins, Alexia emerged as the club’s star.
Playing on a talent-packed Barcelona squad with Jenni Hermoso and Lieke Martens, Alexia stands out thanks to her scoring touch, passing skills, and cool-headed leadership. She scored a penalty and assisted on another goal in Barcelona’s 4-0 rout of Chelsea in last season’s Champions League final, despite playing with a hurt hamstring. She also struck twice in the final of the Copa de la Reina, and she scored 18 goals in the Spanish league to help Barcelona defend its title.
“I suffered just like any lifelong Barcelona fan,” Alexia said about the club’s recent troubles. “But we had the opportunity to give back some happiness to the club’s supporters in those very difficult moments. And that is what we set out to do, to keep going with our plan, with our style of play, winning games and doing what was in our power to help make our fans happy.”
In her decade with Barcelona, Alexia has lived through the lean years without titles to becoming a European powerhouse. This season, Barcelona is crushing the competition in the Spanish league and is gearing up to play at Camp Nou with fans in the stands for the first time later this month against Real Madrid in the Champions League quarterfinals.
Besides keeping Barcelona at the top, Alexia now wants Spain to culminate its huge progress over recent years with a title. The upcoming European Championship in England is the first chance.
Alexia applauded the victory of the United States women’s team after they secured the commitment by the U.S. soccer federation to equal their pay with the men’s team.
“I think it was long past due,” she said. “The typical thing you hear in this debate is that ‘they don’t generate income.’ But (the U.S. women) actually generate more income. … And on top of that, they had won four World Cups, so it made no sense for them to make less.”
Wage equality, however, looks elusive for her and her teammates.
“Here in Spain I see it as still far off. It might happen, but I don’t know if I will see it,” she said. “The reality is that it is still a bit too soon, because we have not been playing at a professional level for many years, while the U.S., the Scandinavian countries, and Germany have provided help and support (to women’s soccer) for many more years.”
Barcelona, despite its financial woes, has maintained its push to have an elite women’s team. On Tuesday, the club turned the center circle at Camp Nou into the female symbol to celebrate International Women’s Day and underscore its bid to expand its “more than a club” message to bring more female athletes into the forefront.
The first battle still to be won is for all the women in the Spanish league to enjoy the same conditions as Alexia and her Barcelona teammates.
The Spanish government announced the professionalization of the women’s league last year, but the clubs have yet to agree on the statues for the competition. While Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid are investing in their women’s teams, players threatened to strike last fall to protest the precarious conditions at some clubs. The protest followed an incident where an injured Rayo Vallecano player had to be treated by the doctor of an opposing team because her team did not have a doctor at the game.
“I think here in Barcelona we are in a kind of bubble,” Alexia said. “I think there are two realities, one like the one that Barça has created, in which we are players who dedicate 100% of our time to the sport and our goal is to be best. And then there are other clubs … I would like for all my fellow players to have the opportunity to play for clubs that truly believe in building teams for professionals.”
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Red Auerbach. Lenny Wilkens. Don Nelson. Going back to the end of the NBA’s inaugural season 75 years ago, before it was even called the NBA, they’re the only coaches to hold the distinction of having more wins than anyone else.
Until now.
Pop has finally joined the club.
Soon, perhaps as soon as Wednesday, Gregg Popovich will stand alone in NBA history. The longtime San Antonio coach — a winner of five NBA titles, the coach of the reigning Olympic gold medalists, a lock for enshrinement in the Basketball Hall of Fame as soon as he tells them that he’d like to be considered — got career win No. 1,335 on Monday night when the Spurs beat the Los Angeles Lakers 117-110, tying him with Nelson atop the league’s all-time regular season victory list.
“He deserves it,” Spurs guard Dejounte Murray said.
Predictably, Popovich never was on board with that sentiment. He’s been waiting somewhat impatiently for the last couple weeks for the pursuit — more specifically, all the questions about it — to end. Making matters worse, the Spurs had lost each of their first four attempts to get him the record-tying victory.
Now, one more win — the first chance comes Wednesday against Toronto — and he’ll be alone atop the regular-season victory list. More importantly to him, he won’t have to hear as much about it anymore.
“That’ll be a good thing,” Popovich conceded.
His place in basketball history, his legacy, his stamp as one of the game’s all-time greats — if not the greatest of the greats — was secure long ago. He’s one of only eight coaches in the four major U.S. sports leagues to be with one team for at least 25 years. And by adding in his 170 playoff victories, his total is at 1,505 in the NBA, which is 93 more than anyone else.
It was a circuitous path to this point. He played at the U.S. Air Force Academy, famously wasn’t picked in a bid to make the 1972 U.S. Olympic team, wound up becoming a coach and probably would have been perfectly content to run a Division III program in California for the entirety of his professional life.
Eventually, the NBA called. In time, Popovich would be paired with David Robinson, then the patriarch of a dynasty fueled by Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili. The rest is history. Historic, actually.
“Everyone knows the amazing job he’s done and all the accomplishments,” longtime coach Larry Brown said last year. “I wish more people really could know the type of person that he is.”
Brown was a big part of how Popovich got here.
Popovich’s path to the NBA, and then to the role as coach of the Spurs, wasn’t exactly traditional. Popovich was coaching at Pomona-Pitzer, a small Division III school in California. He inherited a program not exactly teeming with expectations: Pomona-Pitzer had lost 88 consecutive conference games before hiring Popovich.
He delivered a league title in 1985-86, the school’s first in about 70 years. And then Popovich asked for a sabbatical, telling the school he needed to go learn more about the game. He spent a month at North Carolina, absorbing the teachings of Dean Smith. And then he sat on Brown’s bench at Kansas, reuniting with a coach he met through ties he made while a student at the Air Force Academy.
Popovich acknowledged that he has wondered what would have happened if Smith and Brown hadn’t extended those opportunities his way.
“Each of us does that, right? Each of our lives is the sum of experiences, if-this, if-that,” Popovich said. “I’m no different than anybody else.”
After the sabbatical, Popovich, true to his word, returned to Pomona-Pitzer. Brown invited his team to Kansas for a game the following season; the Jayhawks, predictably, toyed with the D-III team, winning 94-38.
A year later, Brown called again. He had left Kansas to coach the Spurs. He wanted Popovich to come along. Popovich was in San Antonio until 1992, when Brown — and the whole coaching staff — got fired. Popovich got a job as an assistant in Golden State, working for Nelson.
It was at a cost.
“He emptied my wallet every time we golfed. He knew he was better than me and he did it anyway,” Popovich said.
It begged the question why Popovich continued golfing and giving away his money.
“He was my boss,” Popovich said.
Consider the golf money tuition for a basketball education. Popovich is still affected by Nelson; a recent highlight play from Murray was akin to something Nelson had drawn up a couple decades ago, Popovich said. And even the reminders that Popovich uses on the bench to keep some thoughts fresh are a nod to the lessons learned from Nelson.
“To this day, I have plays and things written on cards — I keep them now in my pants, used to be your sportcoat — and I couldn’t live without them,” Popovich said. “I never used them before. I got that from him and now I need them, badly. He was a joy and there was a lot to learn from him.”
After two seasons with Nelson, Popovich was wanted by the Spurs again — this time, as vice president for basketball operations. That was in 1994. In 1996, he fired Bob Hill and named himself coach of the Spurs. And he’s stayed in that chair ever since.
“They were two wonderful, wonderful years,” Popovich said of his time with Nelson. “Basketball-wise, the biggest thing I took away was he was a master of understanding the rules and knowing how to use the rules, isolate players, take advantage of another team’s weaknesses based on your own personnel. Very creative on offense, very much so. He got a big kick out of it.”
Funny. That’s what many say about Popovich now. At 73, he’s teaching a young team, building a new program with the Spurs, and still innovating.
“Every way you can win in this league, they’ve done it,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.
Spoelstra and Popovich are forever linked, after going head-to-head as coaches in the NBA Finals in 2013 and 2014. The Heat won the first one, the Spurs won the rematch for Popovich’s fifth and most recent title. They have spoken of each other in the most admirable terms since.
“The basketball part of it is Hall of Fame, arguably the greatest to ever do it,” Spoelstra said. “But it’s the human side that has really impacted everybody.”
The stories are legendary. If Popovich sees players in a restaurant, he picks up their check or sends something over. USA Basketball coaches have raved about his infamous dinners, where everything but basketball is discussed, usually over copious amounts of some of the world’s finest wine. This is a man who considered becoming a spy — he majored in Soviet studies at the Air Force Academy — before deciding to make a life out of basketball.
“He has an amazing sense of humor,” Boston forward Jayson Tatum said during the Olympic run. “I guess the casual fan sees the person who does those interviews postgame, but that’s not the case of who he is at all. I absolutely love spending time with him.”
Seems like everybody does.
Exactly 200 players have appeared in a game for the Spurs during the Popovich era. He’s coached against 1,991 different players, including a bunch of fathers and then their sons. He’s coached against 163 different men, who have held 273 different jobs over that span.
Pop has remained the constant. And the standard.
“It’s hard to put into words just how much he’s meant,” Spurs guard Josh Richardson said.
Auerbach was the NBA’s winningest coach after its first season and held that spot atop the list for nearly a half-century.
Wilkens passed Auerbach with win No. 939 on Jan. 6, 1995, when he and the Atlanta Hawks topped the Washington Bullets 112-90. And Wilkens stayed in the top spot until April 7, 2010, when he was passed by Nelson on a night where he and the Golden State Warriors beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 116-107.
At that point, Popovich was 15th on the all-time list.
No more. He’s tied for No. 1 now.
And soon, the top spot will be all his.
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Maha council asks state govt to resolve MSRTC strike soon
The MSRTC employees have been on strike since November last year, demanding the merger of the corporation with the state government, which will give them the status and benefits of government personnel. During the discussion, Parab said a committee that was set up to probe the issue had stated in its report the merger of the MSRTC with the state government was not feasible.
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Maharashtra Legislative Council chairman Ramraje Nimbalkar on Tuesday suggested that the state transport minister must take steps to resolve the strike by employees of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC).
Nimbalkar issued the instructions after BJP legislators alleged that state transport minister Anil Parab had failed to resolve the deadlock with the MSRTC employees. The MSRTC employees have been on strike since November last year, demanding the merger of the corporation with the state government, which will give them the status and benefits of government personnel. Though the state government has increased the salaries of MSRTC employees, they have refused to accept the hike and demanded a merger. During the discussion, Parab said a committee that was set up to probe the issue had stated in its report the merger of the MSRTC with the state government was not feasible. ''We are also of the same opinion. We cannot merge the corporation with the state government. We have made several appeals to the employees to return to work. Some have been terminated from work. If they want to get their jobs back, they have to submit a written appeal, which they have refused to do,'' the minister said. To this, Nimbalkar asked the state government to intervene. "The state government can set up a committee or invite employees and hold a joint meeting to solve the deadlock. It has been a long time and we should try to resolve the matter as soon as possible." Parab further said that the MRSTC had incurred losses to the tune of Rs 1,740 crore, and 12,207 employees had been suspended from service, while termination letters were issued to 2,126.
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With Selection Sunday just days away, AP Top 25 teams in major conferences are down to their final days to impact their landing spots in the NCAA Tournament.
Changes could come after title runs or early exits in this week’s conference tournaments. Here’s a look at what’s ahead:
ACC
The Atlantic Coast Conference opens its tournament Tuesday, though its two ranked teams — No. 7 Duke and No. 25 North Carolina — don’t play until Thursday’s quarterfinals.
The Blue Devils (26-5) won the ACC regular-season outright title for the first time since 2006 and hold the No. 1 seed for the first time since 2010. That team won the ACC Tournament and the fourth of five NCAA championships in retiring Hall of Famer Mike Krzyzewski’s unparalleled career.
The Tar Heels (23-8) re-entered Monday’s pollfor the first time since November and hold the No. 3 seed after beating Duke in Krzyzewski’s final home game. It was a huge boost to an NCAA resume that looked shaky through February, with UNC now looking headed for a No. 9 seed as of Monday night’s BracketMatrix average of 127 projected tournament fields.
BIG 12
This is one of two leagues that have multiple candidates for No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament with No. 3 Baylor and No. 6 Kansas.
The tournament opens Wednesday in Kansas City, Missouri, with the reigning national champion Bears and Jayhawks joined by No. 14 Texas Tech and No. 22 Texas. Those teams don’t play until Thursday’s quarterfinals and the tournament concludes Saturday.
The Jayhawks (25-6) own the top seed and held an NCAA 1-seed in last month’s preview of the selection committee’s top-16 seeds. They carry 10 Quadrant 1 victories into the tournament, second only to the Bears (26-5) with 11.
BIG EAST
Eleventh-ranked Providence won the regular-season title for the first time in program history and now headlines a field that includes No. 8 Villanova and No. 24 Connecticut in New York’s Madison Square Garden.
That tournament opens Wednesday, while the Friars (24-4) hold the top seed followed by the Wildcats (23-7) and the Huskies (22-8). Providence is trying for its first tournament title since 2014 and only its third overall, with the championship game set for Saturday night.
BIG TEN
The tournament’s top seed is the conference’s third team among AP Top 25 teams in No. 16 Illinois (22-8), which has a bye into Friday’s quarterfinals in Indianapolis.
No. 12 Wisconsin (24-6) is the 2-seed after earning a share of the regular-season title, while No. 9 Purdue (25-6) is the 3-seed. The field also includes No. 24 Iowa (22-9) as the 5-seed.
The championship game is the last game to tip off Sunday afternoon, making it one of five leagues — the American Athletic, Atlantic 10, Ivy League and SEC are the others — running all the way to Selection Sunday.
PAC-12
Second-ranked Arizona looks set to earn a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament as it enters Las Vegas. The Wildcats (28-3) have dominated the Pac-12 in their first season under Tommy Lloyd with only two of their 18 league wins coming by single-digit margins.
The field includes No. 13 UCLA, which had a memorable Final Four run last year, and No. 21 Southern California. All three of the league’s ranked teams open play in Thursday’s quarterfinals, with the championship set for Saturday.
SEC
This is the other league with a pair of teams in contention for No. 1 seeds in the NCAAs with No. 4 Auburn and No. 5 Kentucky.
The Tigers (27-4) own the top seed for the tournament in Tampa, Florida, after a regular season that included spending three weeks at No. 1 in the program’s first-ever stint atop the AP Top 25 poll. No. 9 Tennessee (23-7) holds the No. 2 seed over the Wildcats (25-6), followed by No. 15 Arkansas (24-7) as the 4-seed.
Auburn held a No. 1 NCAA seed on BracketMatrix’s projection Monday night, while Kentucky was a 2-seed and the Volunteers were a 3. All three of those teams have eight Quadrant 1 victories.
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Guv Das launches UPI service for 40 cr feature phone users; transaction volume to top Rs 100 lakh cr
Ensuring cybersecurity, customer satisfaction with transactions getting executed seamlessly and a strong grievance redressal mechanism should be the focus areas, he said.He also urged the team members from NPCI to continue with the journey to take UPI to other countries to help the global community benefit from their innovations.The RBI Governor also launched a 24x7 helpline for digital payments on Tuesday, which has also been set up by the National Payments Corporation of India NPCI.
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Nearly six years after the launch of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), a new service which will enable over 40 crore feature phone users to access the popular digital transactions platform, was launched by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Tuesday.
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), a RBI promoted body which created and operates UPI, had launched a USSD-based service to enable UPI access for feature phone users, within months of the launch of the main platform for smartphone users in 2016.
However, the service was found to be cumbersome, not free and also not supported by all telcos, Deputy Governor T Rabi Shankar said.
Das rued that the multifaceted features of the UPI are available mostly on smartphones as of now and people from the lower rung of the society, especially in the rural areas, are not able to access the payments service even as smartphones have become cheaper.
''The launch of UPI 123PAY makes facilities under UPI accessible to that section of society which was so far been excluded from the digital payments landscape. In that way, it is promoting great amount of financial inclusion in our economy,'' Das said at a launch event at the central bank attended by officials from NPCI and banks.
He said the brand name derives from a three-step process required to initiate and execute a payment.
Feature phone users will now be able to undertake a host of transactions based on four technology alternatives. They include calling an IVR (interactive voice response) number, app functionality in feature phones, missed call-based approach and also proximity sound-based payments, the RBI said.
Such users can initiate payments to friends and family, pay utility bills, recharge the FAST Tags of their vehicles, pay mobile bills and also allow users to check account balances, it said, adding customers will also be able to link bank accounts, set or change UPI PINs.
Das said the overall quantum of transactions under UPI is growing very fast and has touched Rs 76 lakh crore in FY22 so far, as against Rs 41 lakh crore in FY21. In February alone, the volumes doubled to Rs 8.26 lakh crore through 453 crore transactions.
"I don't see a day when we are far away from reaching transaction volume of Rs 100 lakh crore on UPI," Das said.
Das expressed satisfaction that all the solutions being launched have been developed indigenously, and added that some of them have actually come out through the regulatory sandbox launched last year by the RBI to help test innovations in a controlled environment.
With the growth in the digital payments, Governor Das underlined the need to up the cybersecurity aspect, and added that our systems have to be safe and available always. Ensuring cybersecurity, customer satisfaction with transactions getting executed seamlessly and a strong grievance redressal mechanism should be the focus areas, he said.
He also urged the team members from NPCI to continue with the journey to take UPI to other countries to help the global community benefit from their innovations.
The RBI Governor also launched a 24x7 helpline for digital payments on Tuesday, which has also been set up by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). The helpline christened 'Digisaathi' will assist the callers/users with all their queries on digital payments via website and chatbot.
Users can visit www.digisaathi.info or call on 14431 and 1800 891 3333 from their phones for their queries on digital payments and grievances.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Meet women 'Covidprenuers' who used lockdowns, WFH to launch their own successful businesses
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Opening a new venture in the chaotic times of Covid when even the long established ones faced a serious threat of shutting down, seemed crazy, if not suicidal, to most business minds. But ask the new breed of 'Covidprenuers' -- a new term used to describe individuals or businesses that thrive in the pandemic environment -- and they tell you how it proved to be an opportunity like never before. On the occasion of International Women's Day, PTI gives a peek into the lives of five young and successful female Covidprenuers who made the best use of the worst of times. Kamakshi Agarwala, founder of shapewear brand Butt-Chique: Launching a female-led 'Made for Indian' women shapewear brand in a male-dominated lingerie industry is easier said than done. Plus the Covid-induced lockdown and men mansplaining 'why it was impossible' can bog down any budding entrepreneur. But not Agarwala who had made up her mind, and most importantly her designs.
On May 9, 2020 -- India still under lockdown -- she launched 'Butt-Chique'. With over 50,000 customers already in her kitty, and most of the products getting sold out within weeks, the 25-year-old designer is happy seeing things go as envisaged.
Inspired by her father -- also an entrepreneur -- Delhi-based Agarwala believes in creating job opportunities for others and building a psychological safe space for women to flourish. Richa Jaggi, Co-founder, cannabis wellness startup Awshad: The struggle to find high-quality cannabidiol (CBD) medicines for her dog suffering from cancer was fresh in the mind of Richa Jaggi. So when in 2019 her beloved pet 'Champ' died, Delhi-based Jaggi, who had been working in the corporate sector for the past one decade, found a purpose in her life -- to make high-quality clinically-tested CBD accessible to the Indian market.
The mandatory 'work-from-home' due to Covid and subsequent lockdowns in 2020 proved to be a catalyst for the 32-year-old entrepreneurial journey as she used the time to do research and product development for her venture.
Later, she quit her full-time job and co-founded 'Awshad' in 2021.
With her startup witnessing a growth of over ''400 per cent'' in terms of sales, Jaggi is confident about becoming market leaders in India in the cannabis wellness domain.
Sheetal Saxena, founder, Colocal cafe: The 32-year-old Saxena was designing Colocal's artisanal chocolate store in Dhanmill Compound, Chhattarpur when the Covid-19 pandemic hit India in March, 2020.
With the big and mighty of the restaurant industry bracing themselves for the worst, Saxena, who has done her Masters in Finance, decided to take a leap of faith and set out to achieve what she calls her ''chocolaty ambitions''.
She managed to launch the first store in November 2020. God was kind, and so were Delhiites who instantly fell in love with arguably India's first live bean-to-bar chocolate factory with a casual dining café. Such was the demand for her Indian craft chocolates that she opened her second outlet in the high-street Khan Market next year to satiate the taste buds of her patrons.
The ''passion project'', which was started by Saxena at an initial investment of Rs 85 lakhs, has generated a turnover of Rs 3.5 crore in the very first year of operation.
Leading a team of 75 employees, and with one more store in the offing in Delhi-NCR, the former ICICI bank Wealth Manager now plans to expand the capacity of our chocolate factory from ''800 kilo to 2000 kilo a month''.
The country went into lockdown in March 2020 to arrest the spread of coronavirus. Ruchi Pathak, founder, home furnishing brand Orahana: Art has always been the favourite hobby of National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) graduate Ruchi Pathak. Stuck at her home in Jaipur due to lockdown, she used the opportunity to build a business out of her hobby.
She mixed her talent with the academics to launch home furnishing and apparel brand 'Orahana' -- the term derived from the Hawaiian word 'Ohana', meaning ‘home’, with the initial letter of her name ‘R’ -- during the first lockdown in May 2020.
While experiments with raw materials such as fabrics, tassels and wool gave her products the aesthetic appeal; the use of technology and presence on different social platforms, especially, her WhatsApp Business account, gave her access to consumers and vendors across the country.
Pathak's lockdown brainchild 'Orahana', which started with an allowance of Rs 10,000 per month, has become a fully functioning enterprise in less than two years with a solid customer base. In fact, even after being a niche business, the company managed to generate a turnover of Rs 15 lakhs last year.
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Next, before anyone knew she put Beetroot Lip Scrub up for sale, and a request for order was placed through the Instagram DM. With little infrastructure and almost no professional help initially, her living room became a manufacturing unit-cum-assembly-point. The rest is a victory tale of Juneja's perseverance and hard work.
From almost zero sales in 2020 to generating a turnover of whooping Rs 35 lakh in 2021, the brand 'SkinWorks' worked and how.
Ready to test the waters in the retail, the company, which turns two next month, has a number of launches planned, including face oils and a full-fledged make-up range for children.
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Meet women 'Covidprenuers' who used lockdowns, WFH to launch their own successful businesses
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- India
Opening a new venture in the chaotic times of Covid when even the long established ones faced a serious threat of shutting down, seemed crazy, if not suicidal, to most business minds. But ask the new breed of 'Covidprenuers' -- a new term used to describe individuals or businesses that thrive in the pandemic environment -- and they tell you how it proved to be an opportunity like never before. On the occasion of International Women's Day, PTI gives a peek into the lives of five young and successful female Covidprenuers who made the best use of the worst of times. Kamakshi Agarwala, founder of shapewear brand Butt-Chique: Launching a female-led 'Made for Indian' women shapewear brand in a male-dominated lingerie industry is easier said than done. Plus the Covid-induced lockdown and men mansplaining 'why it was impossible' can bog down any budding entrepreneur. But not Agarwala who had made up her mind, and most importantly her designs.
On May 9, 2020 -- India still under lockdown -- she launched 'Butt-Chique'. With over 50,000 customers already in her kitty, and most of the products getting sold out within weeks, the 25-year-old designer is happy seeing things go as envisaged.
Inspired by her father -- also an entrepreneur -- Delhi-based Agarwala believes in creating job opportunities for others and building a psychological safe space for women to flourish. Richa Jaggi, Co-founder, cannabis wellness startup Awshad: The struggle to find high-quality cannabidiol (CBD) medicines for her dog suffering from cancer was fresh in the mind of Richa Jaggi. So when in 2019 her beloved pet 'Champ' died, Delhi-based Jaggi, who had been working in the corporate sector for the past one decade, found a purpose in her life -- to make high-quality clinically-tested CBD accessible to the Indian market.
The mandatory 'work-from-home' due to Covid and subsequent lockdowns in 2020 proved to be a catalyst for the 32-year-old entrepreneurial journey as she used the time to do research and product development for her venture.
Later, she quit her full-time job and co-founded 'Awshad' in 2021.
With her startup witnessing a growth of over ''400 per cent'' in terms of sales, Jaggi is confident about becoming market leaders in India in the cannabis wellness domain.
Sheetal Saxena, founder, Colocal cafe: The 32-year-old Saxena was designing Colocal's artisanal chocolate store in Dhanmill Compound, Chhattarpur when the Covid-19 pandemic hit India in March, 2020.
With the big and mighty of the restaurant industry bracing themselves for the worst, Saxena, who has done her Masters in Finance, decided to take a leap of faith and set out to achieve what she calls her ''chocolaty ambitions''.
She managed to launch the first store in November 2020. God was kind, and so were Delhiites who instantly fell in love with arguably India's first live bean-to-bar chocolate factory with a casual dining café. Such was the demand for her Indian craft chocolates that she opened her second outlet in the high-street Khan Market next year to satiate the taste buds of her patrons.
The ''passion project'', which was started by Saxena at an initial investment of Rs 85 lakhs, has generated a turnover of Rs 3.5 crore in the very first year of operation.
Leading a team of 75 employees, and with one more store in the offing in Delhi-NCR, the former ICICI bank Wealth Manager now plans to expand the capacity of our chocolate factory from ''800 kilo to 2000 kilo a month''.
The country went into lockdown in March 2020 to arrest the spread of coronavirus. Ruchi Pathak, founder, home furnishing brand Orahana: Art has always been the favourite hobby of National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) graduate Ruchi Pathak. Stuck at her home in Jaipur due to lockdown, she used the opportunity to build a business out of her hobby.
She mixed her talent with the academics to launch home furnishing and apparel brand 'Orahana' -- the term derived from the Hawaiian word 'Ohana', meaning ‘home’, with the initial letter of her name ‘R’ -- during the first lockdown in May 2020.
While experiments with raw materials such as fabrics, tassels and wool gave her products the aesthetic appeal; the use of technology and presence on different social platforms, especially, her WhatsApp Business account, gave her access to consumers and vendors across the country.
Pathak's lockdown brainchild 'Orahana', which started with an allowance of Rs 10,000 per month, has become a fully functioning enterprise in less than two years with a solid customer base. In fact, even after being a niche business, the company managed to generate a turnover of Rs 15 lakhs last year.
Nehaa Juneja, founder, SkinWorks: 'Just go ahead and make an Instagram page, don't bother about results'. This one-liner advice to Nehaa Juneja (34) by her husband during the lockdown is what set the ball rolling for cosmetic brand 'SkinWorks'.
Next, before anyone knew she put Beetroot Lip Scrub up for sale, and a request for order was placed through the Instagram DM. With little infrastructure and almost no professional help initially, her living room became a manufacturing unit-cum-assembly-point. The rest is a victory tale of Juneja's perseverance and hard work.
From almost zero sales in 2020 to generating a turnover of whooping Rs 35 lakh in 2021, the brand 'SkinWorks' worked and how.
Ready to test the waters in the retail, the company, which turns two next month, has a number of launches planned, including face oils and a full-fledged make-up range for children.
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Sudanese pound devalued by 19% as banks freed to set rates
An emergency economic committee under Sudan's ruling council had said official and black market exchange rates would be unified. After that devaluation, the exchange rate had held steady for several months, and the black market had all but disappeared before it began to resurface in recent weeks.
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- Sudan
Sudanese banks were selling dollars at a rate of 530 pounds on Tuesday, a drop of about 19% from the previous rate, after authorities moved to counter a slide in the value of the pound on a resurgent black market.
The central bank said on Monday that banks and currency exchanges would set their own exchange rates without central bank intervention. An emergency economic committee under Sudan's ruling council had said official and black market exchange rates would be unified. Both the Bank of Khartoum, Sudan's largest bank, and the Saudi Sudanese Bank, had set a rate of 530 pounds to the dollar on Tuesday morning, from about 445 pounds previously, a Reuters reporter said. Other banks set similar rates.
The dollar was trading at around 560 pounds on the parallel market. Sudan's economy has come under renewed pressure since substantial international support was suspended following a military coup in late October.
The military dissolved a civilian government that had carried out rapid economic reforms, including a sharp devaluation of the pound under a "managed float" policy in February 2021. After that devaluation, the exchange rate had held steady for several months, and the black market had all but disappeared before it began to resurface in recent weeks.
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Bombay HC allows Future Enterprises to sell stake in insurance joint venture
After hearing the Counsels for parties at length, the Bombay High Court was pleased to allow the Appeal and set aside the ex-parte order, Future Enterprise said in its regulatory filing.
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- India
The Bombay High Court has allowed Future Enterprises to sell its stake in insurance joint venture Future Generali to Italian partner Generali, the company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday.
A local city court in Mumbai, following objections raised by some bold holders of Future companies, had last month put on hold the plan of the cash-starved Future Enterprises to sell 25 percent of its stake in Future Generali India Insurance Company to Generali for about Rs 1,252 crore.
Future Enterprises filed an appeal with the Bombay High Court, which on Monday set aside the order of the city court, the company said.
''The Appeal along with the Interim Application was listed today (Monday) before ... Bombay High Court. After hearing the Counsels for parties at length, the Bombay High Court was pleased to allow the Appeal and set aside the ex-parte order,'' Future Enterprise said in its regulatory filing.
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2 million refugees fleeing Ukraine, says UN
Two million, Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, wrote on Twitter.The update came as a new effort to evacuate civilians along safe corridors finally got underway Tuesday. The route out of the eastern city of Sumy was one of five promised by the Russians to offer civilians a way to escape the Russian onslaught.
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- Switzerland
The number of refugees fleeing Ukraine reached 2 million on Tuesday, according to the United Nations, the fastest exodus Europe has seen since World War II.
"Today the outflow of refugees from Ukraine reaches two million people. Two million," Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, wrote on Twitter.
The update came as a new effort to evacuate civilians along safe corridors finally got underway Tuesday. The route out of the eastern city of Sumy was one of five promised by the Russians to offer civilians a way to escape the Russian onslaught.
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OFFICAL CORRECTION-Kuwait's Jazeera Airways to increase fares from March 7
Kuwait's Jazeera Airways has increased fares to all destinations from March 7 due to higher oil prices, it said in a statement on Monday,
The airline said fares for Gulf Arab destinations have increased by 5 dinar ($16.47) per flight, while those for other destinations involving more than 3 hours' flight time have increased by 10 dinar per flight. "We hope that oil prices will stabilize and fall again with additional supply in the market, at which point we intend to immediately reverse these changes," the company said.
($1 = 0.3036 Kuwaiti dinars)
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ADB announces $1million grant to help Tonga respond to COVID-19
Tonga reported its first confirmed case last month and has seen a surge to more than 1,000 confirmed cases as of 7 March.
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- Philippines
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today announced a $1.03 million (2.23 million pa'anga) grant to the Government of Tonga from its Asia Pacific Disaster Response Fund (APDRF) to help finance the country's response to community transmission of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Tonga reported its first confirmed case last month and has seen a surge to more than 1,000 confirmed cases as of 7 March. Tonga is experiencing localized community transmission of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 and declared a state of public health emergency on 17 February 2022.
"This grant, with co-contribution from the Government of Japan, will complement government resources and other development partner assistance in providing financing to expand health service delivery as Tonga navigates two disasters—a public health emergency and the aftermath of the tsunami in January," said ADB Director General for the Pacific Leah Gutierrez.
ADB's support will help alleviate Tonga's immediate financial, logistic, and other constraints to meet immediate response needs and deliver medical services where required. The APDRF grant will complement ADB's past and current response to Tonga on both COVID-19 and post-eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai undersea volcano on 15 January.
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Fines over cheaper 'posted workers' must be proportionate, EU court says
The case before the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) arose after an Austrian court sought guidance on a 54,000 euro ($58,708.80) fine levied by an Austrian administrative authority on a Slovakian company that had sent workers to Austria. The administrative body said the Slovakian company had failed to comply with Austrian labour law obligations to retain wage and social security documents for the posted workers.
Fines on companies that send workers from low-pay EU states to richer member states and fail to comply with the latter's red-tape should be proportionate, Europe's top court said on Tuesday.
The issue of so-called 'posted' workers employed on contracts that need only guarantee the host country's minimum wage has divided EU states for years. The case before the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) arose after an Austrian court sought guidance on a 54,000 euro ($58,708.80) fine levied by an Austrian administrative authority on a Slovakian company that had sent workers to Austria.
The administrative body said the Slovakian company had failed to comply with Austrian labour law obligations to retain wage and social security documents for the posted workers. CJEU judges said penalties should not be disproportionate.
"Posting of workers: national courts must ensure that penalties for non-compliance with administrative obligations are proportionate," the Court said. "National courts may apply a national system of penalties contrary to the directive concerning the posting of workers as long as it ensures proportionality of the penalties."
The case is C-205/20 Bezirkshauptmannschaft Hartberg-Fürstenfeld. A rich-poor divide over the issue of posted workers prompted the European Commission to adopt rules four years ago that limit the right of citizens from poorer member states to work in richer ones on a low salary. ($1 = 0.9198 euros)
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IOC to build more crude oil tanks at Adani's Mundra port
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- India
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the nation's largest oil firm, will build nine more storage tanks to stock additional 10 million tonnes of crude oil at Adani group-operated Mundra port in Gujarat.
''Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) has signed an agreement with IOC towards augmentation of IOC's crude oil volumes at Mundra,'' the Adani group firm said in a statement.
IOC will expand its existing crude oil tank farm at APSEZ's Mundra Port, thus enabling it to handle and blend additional 10 million tonnes of crude oil at Mundra.
''This will support IOC's expansion of its Panipat refinery in Haryana,'' the statement said.
IOC is raising the capacity at its Panipat refinery to 25 million tonnes per annum from the current 15 million tonnes to meet India's rapidly growing energy requirements.
''Mundra Port is a major economic gateway that serves the northern hinterland of India by providing multimodal connectivity. It gives us immense pride to strengthen our partnership further and support IOC, which plays a vital role in ensuring the energy security of the nation,'' said Karan Adani, CEO of APSEZ.
APSEZ, he said, is well equipped to handle the additional 10 million tonnes of crude oil at its existing single buoy mooring (SBM) at Mundra.
IOC, which controls a little less than half of the country's fuel market, can refine 80.55 million tonnes of crude oil per annum into fuel. It has over 15,000 kilometers of the pipeline network.
Part of IOC's current crude oil requirement of 15 million tones for its Panipat Refinery is handled at the SBM at Mundra Port.
The Mundra SBM is located 3-4 km off the coast where very large crude carriers (VLCCs) unload crude oil.
An undersea pipeline then transports this crude oil from SBM to the crude oil tank farm and thereafter to the refinery at Panipat via the Mundra Panipat Pipeline (MPPL).
IOC currently operates a crude oil tank farm in an exclusive area in Adani's Mundra Special Economic Zone, consisting of 12 tanks with a total capacity of 7,20,000 kilolitres. The addition of nine new tanks will augment the storage capacity to 1,260,000 km, thus making Mundra Port by far the largest port-based crude oil storage facility for IOC.
This shall be accompanied by augmentation of the MPPL pipeline capacity by IOC to 17.5 million tonnes per annum.
IOC's board had approved a capital expenditure of Rs 9,000 crore for the crude oil tanks and MPPL augmentation in December 2021.
''This expansion project at Mundra Port underlines the trust of state-run IOCL in APSEZ, earned through its strategic approach of modernizing its ports, improving turnaround time, and thus creating value for its customers,'' the statement said.
APSEZ is the largest port developer and operator in India with six strategically located ports and terminals on the west coast (Mundra, Dahej, Tuna, and Hazira in Gujarat, Mormugao in Goa, and Dighi in Maharashtra) and six ports and terminals on the East coast of India (Dhamra in Odisha, Gangavaram, Visakhapatnam, and Krishnapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, and Kattupalli and Ennore in Chennai) representing 24 percent of the country's total port capacity.
The company is also developing two transshipment ports at Vizhinjam (Kerala) and Colombo (Sri Lanka).
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Road accidents, fatalities jump up in AP in 2021
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- India
Road accidents increased by 10.16 per cent and fatalities by 14.08 per cent in Andhra Pradesh in the year 2021.
The percentage of injured persons in these accidents also rose by 7.94, data compiled by the AP Road Safety Council (RSC) showed.
The year 2021 saw 19,729 road accidents in 13 districts of the state, leaving 8,053 people dead and 21,169 injured.
Two-wheeler riders were the worst victims, followed by pedestrians, in terms of fatalities, the numbers being 3,352 and 1,723 in 9,456 and 4,275 mishaps respectively.
The data showed that 'over-speeding' (all vehicles) contributed to 69.9 per cent of the accidents and 69.5 per cent of deaths. While in 26.5 per cent of the cases, the reasons for accidents were classified as 'not known', 2.3 per cent of mishaps happened due to driving on the wrong side.
Drunk driving contributed to 0.5 per cent and use of mobile phone (while driving) to 0.1 per cent of the accidents, resulting in 0.1 and 0.2 per cent fatalities respectively.
Persons in the 25-35 age group were the worst victims, with 1,679 males and 234 females killed.
In the 35-45 age group, 1,625 males and 272 females met with fatal accidents and in the 18-25 group 1,326 and 182 respectively.
Among the districts, Guntur topped the chart with 953 fatalities, followed by East Godavari with 774. Srikakulam was at the bottom with 290 road accident deaths.
"Going by the latest statistics, AP may now rank among the top five in road accidents and fatalities across the country. In 2019, we were at number eight," a senior official of the RSC told PTI.
In 2020, despite being the Covid-19 year, the state recorded 7,059 deaths and 19,612 injuries in 17,910 accidents.
Road accidents and the resultant fatalities showed a declining trend in 2017 and 2018, with accidents lesser by 5.3 and 11.85 per cent and fatalities fewer by six and 8.57 per cent.
In 2019, however, the year-on-year increase in accidents was 4.1 per cent while fatalities were up by 5.6 per cent.
Since 2019, bad roads have been one of the major factors that contributed to spurt in accidents and fatalities.
The government's focus on road safety has also seemingly waned in the last couple of years.
More than two years after the Supreme Court Committee on Road Safety suggested various measures to curb road accidents and fatalities, the state government is yet to act on it.
Not even half of the 1,190 'black spots' identified on state roads have been rectified, the Road Safety Council data revealed.
On the other hand, the National Highways Authority of India has been fast in taking corrective measures to improve road safety. Of the 352 black spots, which are accident-prone areas, on National Highways in the state, 288 have been rectified and work on the remaining 64 is being carried out.
The Supreme Court Committee suggested creation of a Lead Agency on Road Safety at the state as well as the district levels but the AP government is yet to put that in place.
The Lead Agency is supposed to assist the Road Safety Council in implementing the decisions of the Apex Court panel and also in policy formulation and implementation.
The state Transport Commissioner submitted a proposal to the government for deploying officials from police, transport, roads and buildings and health departments to the Lead Agency either through fresh recruitment or on deputation but it is yet to happen, according to the RSC officials.
While the Transport Department nominated its own officials to the Lead Agency at the state and district levels, the Police recently nominated a sub-inspector and two home guards at the district level.
"There is a need to stabilise this set up at the earliest so that we can take required action. Otherwise, the very purpose is being defeated," the RSC officials say.
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Infinity Learn acquires Don't Memorise
This will help Infinity Learn to increase its lead over its competitors in online space and traditional education institutes, Infinity Learn founder-director Sushma Boppana said in a statement on Tuesday.She said the acquisition is not about having a specific budget or number of targets but assessing complementarity and strengthening its position in the education technology edtech sector.The acquisition of Dont Memorise establishes content production expertise and complements Infinity Learns existing robust in-house content expertise.
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- India
Sri Chaitanya group's edtech start-up Infinity Learn has acquired concept-based multilingual content platform Don't Memorise for an undisclosed amount.
Founded in 2014, Don't Memorise focuses on the K-10 segment -- specifically for grades 6 to 10 -- developing content in English, Hindi, Marathi and Bengali mainly for maths and science.
Mumbai-based Don't Memorise claims to have a subscriber base of 2.6 million and over 250 million views on YouTube.
''While the organic growth continues to be strong for Infinity Learn, inorganic routes including acquisitions, is another pillar for growth and expansion. This will help Infinity Learn to increase its lead over its competitors in online space and traditional education institutes,'' Infinity Learn founder-director Sushma Boppana said in a statement on Tuesday.
She said the acquisition is not about having a specific budget or number of targets but assessing complementarity and strengthening its position in the education technology (edtech) sector.
''The acquisition of Don't Memorise establishes content production expertise and complements Infinity Learn's existing robust in-house content expertise. The acquisition will also provide additional opportunities for enhanced partnerships with the existing partners,'' Infinity Learn CEO and President Ujjwal Singh said.
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Sterling edges higher versus dollar, flat versus euro
Against the euro, sterling was little changed at 82.83 pence after reaching its strongest level since June 2016 on Monday, in part due to diverging policy expectations from the Bank of England and European Central Bank. The primary focus right now is the sharp rise in energy prices, according to analysts at Lloyds Bank.
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- United Kingdom
The British pound edged higher against the U.S. dollar on Tuesday but was little changed against the euro after an earlier bounce in the single currency proved short-lived. Sterling has been at the mercy of dollar strength in recent days, which led to the currency pair dropping to its lowest level since Nov. 2020 during Asia-Pacific trading hours on Tuesday.
The pound dropped as low $1.3079 before moving into positive territory at $1.3120 by 1026 GMT. Against the euro, sterling was little changed at 82.83 pence after reaching its strongest level since June 2016 on Monday, in part due to diverging policy expectations from the Bank of England and European Central Bank.
The primary focus right now is the sharp rise in energy prices, according to analysts at Lloyds Bank. "The big question is whether central banks will primarily see this as a further indication of inflationary pressures that needs to be responded to with tighter monetary policy or as an escalation of the downside risks for economic growth," Lloyds said.
Markets are still pricing in an interest rate hike from the Bank of England this month and a total of 145 basis points of tightening this year compared to just 25 basis points of interest rate hikes from the ECB in 2022. Policymakers at the ECB are currently in their blackout period before Thursday's policy announcement.
The BoE is set to enter its blackout period after Tuesday, ahead of the policy announcement on March 17, however, there are no scheduled speeches scheduled from BoE rate setters on Tuesday. Meanwhile, two surveys showed people in Britain spent heavily in February after COVID-19 restrictions were eased.
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Indian Embassy evacuates 52 Indian sailors stranded at Port of Mykolaiv
Mission is attempting their evacuation today, it said.India has brought back over 17,100 of its nationals in 83 flights under Operation Ganga, which was launched on February 26 following Russias military aggression against Ukraine.
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- India
The Indian mission in Ukraine on Tuesday said it has evacuated 52 out of the 75 Indian sailors stranded at the Port of Mykolaiv in the war-hit nation.
It also said that the evacuation of the remaining 23 sailors would be attempted on Tuesday.
''Mission intervened to evacuate 75 Indian sailors stranded in Mykolaiv Port. Yesterday buses arranged by Mission evacuated total of 57 sailors including 2 Lebanese & 3 Syrians,'' the Indian Embassy in Ukraine said in a tweet.
''Route constraints precluded evacuation of balance 23 sailors. Mission is attempting their evacuation today,'' it said.
India has brought back over 17,100 of its nationals in 83 flights under ''Operation Ganga'', which was launched on February 26 following Russia's military aggression against Ukraine.
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EXCLUSIVE-EU to sanction more Russian oligarchs, Belarus banks over Ukraine invasion -sources
The European Commission has prepared a new package of sanctions against Russia and Belarus over the invasion of Ukraine that will hit additional Russian oligarchs and politicians and three Belarusian banks, three sources told Reuters on Tuesday.
The European Commission has prepared a new package of sanctions against Russia and Belarus over the invasion of Ukraine that will hit additional Russian oligarchs and politicians and three Belarusian banks, three sources told Reuters on Tuesday. The draft sanctions were adopted by the EU executive on Tuesday morning and will be discussed by EU ambassadors at a meeting starting at 1400 GMT, one source said.
The draft package will ban three Belarusian banks from the SWIFT banking system and add several more oligarchs and Russian lawmakers to the EU blacklist, the sources told Reuters. The package also bans exports from the EU of naval equipment and software to Russia and provides guidance on the monitoring of cryptocurrencies to avoid their use to circumvent EU sanctions, the sources said.
Moscow describes its actions in Ukraine as a "special operation" to disarm its neighbour and arrest leaders it calls "neo-Nazis". Ukraine and its Western allies call this a baseless pretext for an invasion to conquer a country of 44 million people. EU diplomats have so far approved sanctions proposed by the EU Commission against Russia and Belarus without any changes.
The EU has already excluded seven Russian banks from SWIFT, but had not included Belarusian banks. The sources declined to name the new lenders to be sanctioned.
One source said the package also listed oligarchs and members of Russia's Federation Council, which is the upper house of the Russian Parliament. So far EU sanctions have hit hundreds of members of the lower house, the Duma, who voted in favour of Russia's recognition of the self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.
The EU will also expand its ban on EU exports of advanced technology to Russia, mostly supporting the ban on the export of maritime technology, the sources said. The ban on the export of naval equipment and software to Russia is mainly meant to hit its shipping sector, one source said.
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146 stranded passengers airlifted between J-K & Ladakh
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The Indian Air Force and state-run helicopter service provider Pawan Hans on Tuesday airlifted together a total of 146 people stranded at various places in J&K and Ladakh and flew them to their destinations, officials said.
The IAF's AN-32 Kargil Courier transported 111 people while Mi-172 Pawan Hans helicopter flew 35 to their destinations.
As many as 41 people were flown from Jammu to Kargil and 12 from Kargil to Jammu, they said.
Similarly, AN-32 aircraft flew 16 people from Kargil to Srinagar and 42 from Srinagar to Kargil, they said.
The Mi-172 Pawan Hans helicopter transported 32 from Srinagar to Kargil and three from Leh to Kargil.
The IAF has been operating C-17, C-130 and AN-32 aircraft regularly to airlift stranded passengers in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh due to the closure of the 434-km Srinagar-Leh national highway owing to heavy snowfall in January.
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Malaysia to reopen borders from April with quarantine waiver
Malaysian nationals barred from leaving the country for more than a year can fully resume international travel, Ismail Sabri said, adding that travel agreements with other countries including Brunei, Thailand and Indonesia were in the works in addition to one with Singapore announced last year. He also said restrictions on business operating hours, gatherings, social distancing and interstate travel would be eased.
Malaysia will reopen its borders fully from April 1 and allow entry without quarantine for visitors vaccinated against COVID-19, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said on Tuesday.
Malaysia has since March 2020 maintained some of the tightest entry curbs in Asia to try to contain coronavirus outbreaks, with most foreign nationals barred from entry and returning Malaysians required to undergo quarantine. The Southeast Asian country will begin a transition to the endemic phase of COVID-19 from next month, Ismail Sabri said in a televised address.
The reopening follows similar steps taken by neighbours Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia, with quarantine waived for vaccinated travellers with negative COVID-19 tests before departure and after arrival. Malaysian nationals barred from leaving the country for more than a year can fully resume international travel, Ismail Sabri said, adding that travel agreements with other countries including Brunei, Thailand and Indonesia were in the works in addition to one with Singapore announced last year.
He also said restrictions on business operating hours, gatherings, social distancing and interstate travel would be eased. ($1 = 4.1800 ringgit)
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NSE Academy to join hands with Karnataka education body for financial awareness among students
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NSE Academy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Stock Exchange (NSE), on Tuesday said it intends to collaborate with the Karnataka State Higher Education Council to provide financial education and investment awareness for the holistic well-being of college students.
Under the collaboration, all undergraduate students in Karnataka will gain the advantage of an enriched curriculum in financial education developed by experts from NSE Academy and professors of universities in the state, according to a statement.
A centre of excellence will be set up at the BASE University with an action plan for upskilling students for careers in BFSI and creating recruitment exposure by benchmarking the program with international standards.
''This collaboration will empower the youth of Karnataka with sound financial knowledge and financial management skills through a long-term intervention at the higher education level,'' Ravi Varanasi, president and chief business development officer of NSE, said.
NSE Academy CEO Abhilash Misra said the collaboration with the Karnataka State Higher Education Council will build a solid foundation for students towards their journey of financial well-being.
''The state government is having an open mind about the financial education and investment awareness programme. The program will provide financial awareness and scientific knowledge about entrepreneurship to students,'' Karnataka Higher Education Minister Dr C N Ashwathnarayan said.
Ashwathnarayan added that this will impart knowledge to students on economic policies, fintech, capital market, central banks among other subjects. ''Further, this will include the exchange of knowledge between students and faculties of colleges across the state.'' PTI SP HRS hrs
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Delhi HC sets aside PCI moratorium on opening of new pharmacy colleges
Similarly, despite the grounds used to justify the moratorium, the PCI has, in fact, granted permission for addition of 34,800 seats in exempted institutions in the year 2020-21, the court said.
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The Delhi High Court has set aside the moratorium issued by the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) on the opening of new pharmacy colleges for five years with effect from the academic year 2020-21.
Justice Prateek Jalan said in his judgement dated March 7 that a statutory body must trace the source of its power to a statutory provision and the exercise of executive authority by PCI in the present instance was in excess of its powers and thus cannot be sustained.
"I do not find any clear power to be conferred by the Act (the Pharmacy Act, 1948) upon the PCI to impose the moratorium by way of a policy decision, unsupported by any authority under the Education Regulations," the high court said. "The impugned decisions of the PCI dated 17.07.2019 (on moratorium) and 09.09.2019 (on exceptions) are set aside," it ordered.
The judgement was passed on a batch of 88 writ petitions challenging the moratorium and its exceptions. The petitioners were entities which claimed to be desirous of establishing pharmacy colleges and therefore needed prior approval of the PCI.
The moratorium did not apply to the government institutions, the institutions in North Eastern region, the states/Union Territories where the number of D.Pharm and B.Pharm institutions is less than 50.
Defending the decision, the Council had argued before the court that it had the power to regulate the pharmacy sector and the moratorium in question was not a prohibition but a temporary suspension. In its 38-page order, the high court observed that the right to establish an educational institution has been held to be a fundamental right under Article 19(1)(g) of the Constitution by the Supreme Court and the regulator must have sufficient material to support its decisions and show consistency in its approach.
The court recorded that the objectives of the moratorium were to ensure that the pharmacists-to-population ratio in the country did not exceed a level where job opportunities are not available to trained pharmacists and to ensure the maintenance of quality education in the field as well as to prevent a shortage of qualified faculty consequent upon increase in the number of colleges. However, the exemptions granted by the PCI were antithetical to the objectives and prima facie there was an inconsistency in the regulator's approach, it said. "In the present case, for example, the PCI has justified the moratorium inter alia on the ground of vacancy in pharmacy colleges. However, the PCI's communication dated 26.09.201967, contemplates an addition of 2,00,000 pharmacists to the workforce every year. ''There is prima facie an inconsistency in these considerations to the extent that it is unclear whether such an addition would occur despite the vacancies in pharmacy colleges. Similarly, despite the grounds used to justify the moratorium, the PCI has, in fact, granted permission for addition of 34,800 seats in exempted institutions in the year 2020-21," the court said. It added: "In the present case, for example, the exemption granted to the states with less than 50 pharmacy colleges is independent of the size of the State. Consequently, it bears no correlation to the pharmacist-to-population ratio prevailing in the State, or to any other metric which has been used to justify the moratorium in the first place. Similarly, the exemptions granted to existing institutions for increase in number of seats is also unsupported by any material on record." The court also said that as a matter of practice, regulatory bodies "would do well to consider" if it is possible to make their decisions known some time before they come into effect. It further said that while the regulatory bodies have experts with relevant experience, "it is necessary to emphasise that sufficient factual basis of the decision must be available, so that the authority is able to show due application of mind".
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Shri Ram Global School Pledges for an equitable and inclusive society on International Women's Day
The teachers also shared their experiences of various challenges that they went through in life and how a bias-free society is a must for a sustainable tomorrow.On the occasion, Academic Advisor to Shri Ram Global School, Ms. Pooja Prasad, said, The school strongly believes that it is must to enrich young minds about equality to help break the stereotypes in society.
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LUCKNOW, India, March 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To create awareness about gender equality among young minds, Shri Ram Global School came forward to celebrate the International Women's day aligning with this year's global theme 'Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow'.
While celebrating the accomplishments of women in different fields, and recognising their contribution and significance in society, Shri Ram Global School arranged a virtual awareness session for its students on Gender Equality.
During an interactive session, students also shared experiences of the gender biases that they have faced or encountered in day-to-day life. The teachers also shared their experiences of various challenges that they went through in life and how a bias-free society is a must for a sustainable tomorrow.
On the occasion, Academic Advisor to Shri Ram Global School, Ms. Pooja Prasad, said, ''The school strongly believes that it is must to enrich young minds about equality to help break the stereotypes in society. We want to create a society that is gender-equal, free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination and build a society that is diverse, equitable, inclusive where differences are valued and celebrated. With such initiatives and awareness programs at a young age, we are sure to give momentum to create a gender-equal society worldwide.'' The students were encouraged to take a pledge to create a bias-free environment around them and strive to dismantle the age-old gender norms by changing the thought process of the upcoming generations. The teachers and school management also joined the pledge to raise awareness and accelerate gender-parity and equality for women.
About SRGS: Over a century, the Shri Ram Family has created, supported, and managed some of the country's finest educational institutions like Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) and Lady Shri Ram College (LSR), ranked by an India Today survey as the country's top colleges in Commerce and Arts respectively.
The Shri Ram Global School has been founded by the Shri Ram Education Trust, adding a whole new dimension to the renowned Shri Ram legacy in education. Shri Ram Global School is not only a school but an experience which children and parents identify as their own. Here they will have the first experience in the process of learning with joy, becoming confident of themselves and considerate of others by knowing themselves as an individual, understanding by exploring, discovering and reinventing.
Thus Shri Ram Global School sets forth the way for each child to develop his/her unique potential, foster children to become successful citizen, soaring high in tomorrow's world. The school emphasizes on constructive relationship between the parents and teachers as an important factor contributing to child's success.
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International women's day: Army, IAF organises events across Jammu division
The Army and the Indian Air Force IAF organised several events across Jammu division on International Womens Day on Tuesday with a focus on spreading awareness on womens health and motivate schools girls to take up higher education, a defence spokesperson said. School girls were also motivated to take up higher education, the spokesperson added.
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The Army and the Indian Air Force (IAF) organised several events across Jammu division on International Women's Day on Tuesday with a focus on spreading awareness on women's health and motivate schools girls to take up higher education, a defence spokesperson said. Women achievers were also felicitated at the various functions, the spokesperson said.
The Air Force Station in Jammu organised an event which was attended by all women employees, including officers and civilian staff, who interacted with Ruhi Bhullar, an Air Force veteran from the first women controllers batch.
Indigo Airlines staff also cut a cake to facilitate women controllers, the spokesperson said.
At the Nagrota military station here, zonal president of the Army Wives Welfare Association (16 corps) Barinderjit Kaur inaugurated a ''well women clinic'' at the Trikuta Medical Centre (Section Hospital).
A 'well woman health card' which is an essential tool for routine public health surveillance and monitoring was also unveiled at the event, the official said.
Screening for lifestyle diseases and awareness activities were also organized in all forward medical units under the aegis of Medical Branch, Headquarter 16 Corps.
Vice chairperson, Family Welfare Organisation, Tiger Division, Kreeti Segan also inaugurated an event at 166 military hospital Jammu in connection.
Segan addressed the gathering and asked women to be proud of this special day and strengthen their contribution in various fields.
The spokesperson said a booklet on cancer prevention was released, while lectures about awareness of women's health, including cancer prevention and screening in females, was delivered by the army women medical officers.
Gynae and Oral Cancer Screening camp along with special demonstration of brushing techniques and oral hygiene was also held on the occasion, the official said.
The Army's Crossed Swords Division also felicitated women achievers of Pallanwala sector on the outskirts of Jammu. School girls were also motivated to take up higher education, the spokesperson added.
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Nita Ambani launches women empowerment platform 'Her Circle' in Hindi
Ambani, Founder-Chairperson of Reliance Foundation announced that Her Circle, a unique initiative that synergises womens power with the power of digital revolution is now expanding into the multilingual space with the launch of a Her Circle Hindi app today, the statement said.Speaking at the launch of the Hindi app, Ambani said, Her Circle is an evolving platform meant for all women, irrespective of region and language.
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Founder-Chairperson of Reliance Foundation, Nita Ambani, on Tuesday announced the expansion of women empowerment platform `Her Circle' into multilingual space, with the launch of its Hindi app.
`Her Circle' was launched by Nita Ambani a year ago and has already become India's fastest growing digital platform for women with a reach of 42 million, Reliance Foundation said in a statement.
''On International Women's Day this year, Nita M. Ambani, Founder-Chairperson of Reliance Foundation announced that Her Circle, a unique initiative that synergises women's power with the power of digital revolution is now expanding into the multilingual space with the launch of a Her Circle Hindi app today,'' the statement said.
Speaking at the launch of the Hindi app, Ambani said, ''Her Circle is an evolving platform meant for all women, irrespective of region and language. I want our reach and support to expand un-hindered''. She added: ''And to reach more women in their language of ease, we are first launching Her Circle in Hindi. We go live in March 2022 and I hope it gets as much love as the English platform has received till now." Her Circle's first-year milestones cover a series of goals across digital usage and networking. Elaborating about the platform, the release said thousands of job opportunities curated and listed for users have connected them to the right career choice. Extensive masterclasses on how to become a professional makeup artiste, food stylist, fitness trainer, dog trainer, radio jockey have found serious takers. Personalised trackers for fitness and nutrition, fertility, pregnancy as well as finance have been used by 1.50 lakh subscribers free of cost. ''With 30,000 registered entrepreneurs on our network, we have a community of women looking to collaborate and rise together,'' the release said.
In addition to the launch of the Hindi App, Ambani marked the first anniversary of `HerCircle' by featuring on its digital cover and giving an exclusive interview.
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Tabu wraps up second shoot schedule of 'Khufiya'
Actor Tabu has wrapped up the second shoot schedule of her upcoming espionage thriller 'Khufiya' on Tuesday.
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Actor Tabu has wrapped up the second shoot schedule of her upcoming espionage thriller 'Khufiya' on Tuesday. Taking to her Instagram handle, Tabu shared a picture of herself with her team and wrote, "End of schedule 2. #khufiya @vishalrbhardwaj."
Helmed by ace filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj, 'Khufiya' is based on the espionage novel 'Escape to Nowhere' by Amar Bhushan. The Netflix project is a story about Krishna Mehra, an R&AW operative who is assigned to track down India's defence secrets.
The spy thriller also stars Ali Fazal, Wamiqa Gabbi, and Ashish Vidyarthi in pivotal roles. (ANI)
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One Piece Chapter 1043: Luffy might regain sense with Gomu Gomu no Mi
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The Japanese manga One Piece has crossed 1000 chapters, and its popularity continues to increase. Currently, fans are waiting for One Piece Chapter 1043 which is one of the most awaited chapters. We all are quite eager to know the storyline, as we are in the final moments of the Onigashima raid.
The Japanese manga One Piece 1043 manga will most likely focus on Luffy's Gomu Gomu no Mi devil fruit powers.
Gomu Gomu no Mi
The Gomu Gomu no Mi is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that gives the user's body the properties of rubber, making the user a Rubber Human. It was originally a treasure that was heavily guarded by the World Government until it was stolen by Shanks and his crew. It was then accidentally eaten by the series protagonist, Monkey D. Luffy.
The fruit's major strength, as demonstrated by Luffy, is that the user's body can stretch, bend, bounce, inflate, and twist like rubber, even when the user himself is nullified. So it would be interesting to see what happens to Luffy after using devil fruit Gomu Gomu no Mi?
One Piece Chapter 1042 Recap
On the rooftop, the CPO boss arrives at the spot where Luffy vs. Kaido's battle is on. While Luffy is unfocused for the arrival of the boss, Kaido grabs the chance and lands a powerful punch on Luffy.
But Kaido is completely shocked! His expression is heartbreaking when he sees that the same thing that happened with Oden has happened again. In his fight with Kozuki Oden, Kaido was interrupted by KirozumiHigurashi who distracted Oden while fighting him. This angered Kaido who would eventually kill KirozumiHigurashi.
Luffy is now in an unconscious state due to the strongest Yonkou's attack. Kaido can easily kill Luffy now, but he is going to be satisfied with such a victory.
Also Read: Will One Piece Chapter 1043 reveal the purpose of Shanks' possible disloyalty to Luffy?
One Piece Chapter 1043 spoilers
Before killing Luffy, Kaido may first finish off the CP0 Boss in One Piece Chapter 1043. In the meantime, Luffy could gain his consciousness.
One Piece Chapter 1043 could also show the role of Luffy's Gomu Gomu no Mi Devil Fruit in the destruction of the Red Line. Seemingly, this time Luffy will be back with more power that is the 4th mode Snake Man. We saw that Luffy used Snake Man at the end of the One Piece Chapter 1041.
According to Luffy, he would not stop until he kills Kaido and saves Wanokuni. Besides, World Government is frightened of Luffy's decision, as he is the son of Monkey D Dragon. He wants to be the Pirate King. But the most dangerous thing about Luffy is his devil fruit GomuGomu no Mi.
One Piece Chapter 1043 might portray Luffy awakening with Gomu Gomu no Mi which is the nightmare for the Gorosei elders. If it happens, it could be the revival of the Legendary Devil Fruit.
These all are the predictions of the storyline. You can also wait for the raw scans of One Piece 1043 to be surfaced two or three days before its release.
One Piece Chapter 1043 will release on Sunday, March 13, 2022. The upcoming One Piece Chapter will be released on February 14, 2022. Readers can read the manga chapters online for free from Shonen Jump, Viz Media, and Manga Plus apps and websites. Stay tuned to Devdiscourse to get the latest updates on Japanese manga chapters.
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Will One Piece Chapter 1043 reveal the purpose of Shanks' possible disloyalty to Luffy?
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Int'l Women's Day: Kerala gets its first woman ambulance driver in govt sector
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The Kerala government on Tuesday appointed the first woman ambulance driver under its emergency medical response network, marking International Women's Day. State Health Minister Veena George handed over the key of an ambulance under the health department's trauma care project- "KANIV-108" (Kerala Ambulance Network for Injured Victims)- to Deepamol, the newly recruited driver.
Hailing from Kottayam district, she is a seasoned driver having experience in driving different types of vehicles during her years-long career.
The minister said more women would be appointed as ambulance drivers in various districts under the KANIV-108.
The government was mulling appointing interested women in every district and its objective was to ensure their participation in all sectors, she said.
This also aims to help women break the stereotypes and support them to step into domains of their choice, the minister said.
''Deepamol is an inspiration to all. I extend all my wishes to her during the occasion,'' George added.
Expressing happiness for being appointed as the first ambulance driver in the government sector, Deepamol said it was a dream come true and thanked everyone who helped her realize it.
The project called "KANIV-108" (Kerala Ambulance Network for Injured Victims) has been envisaged as a part of Trauma care to save the precious life which is being lost in road accidents.
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''Some kind of terrible dream'' for Ukrainian women refugees
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It's a global day to celebrate women, but many fleeing Ukraine feel only the stress of finding a new life for their children as husbands, brothers and fathers stay behind to defend their country from Russia's invasion.
The number of refugees fleeing Ukraine reached 2 million on Tuesday, according to the United Nations, the fastest exodus Europe has seen since World War II.
Polina Shulga tried to ease the journey for her 3-year-old daughter by hiding the truth.
“Of course it's hard to travel with a child, but I explained to her that we're going on vacation and that we'll definitely come home one day when the war is over,” Shulga said.
She didn't know what would come next after arriving in Hungary from Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, but believed the experience was making her stronger. “I feel like I'm responsible for my child, so it was easier for me to take this step and leave, because if I had not had a child, I probably would not have dared to go into the unknown,” she said, as her little girl tugged at the hem of her coat.
Nataliya Grigoriyovna Levchinka, a refugee from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, felt much the same.
“I'm generally in some kind of a terrible dream which keeps going on,” the retired teacher said. “I would be in some kind of abstraction if it wasn't for my daughter. I wouldn't be able to come to my senses.” A decree by Ukraine's government that prohibits men aged 18 to 60 from leaving the country means that most of those fleeing Ukraine are women and children. The policy is meant to encourage men to sign up to fight against Russia's invasion or to keep them available for conscription into the armed forces.
That has led to heartbreaking scenes of separation, and growing worry as some encircled, battered parts of Ukraine slip out of reach.
In a refugee camp in Moldova, Elena Shapoval apologised for her tears. She doesn't hide them from her two children, one 4 and one 8, while recalling their journey from Odesa. The younger one doesn't understand what's happening, Shapoval said. The older one tries to calm her, saying, Mom, everything will be all right.'” She cannot collapse as she thinks about the life they left behind. “I realise that we'll have to work a lot now,” she said. “I need to get myself together because I have two children and I need to ball up my will like a fist.” In Romania, Alina Rudakova began to cry as the realised she had forgotten about International Women's Day. Last year, the 19-year-old from Melitopol received a bouquet of flowers from her father and gifts from other relatives.
“This year, I didn't even think about this day,” she said. “This day was really awful.” In a theatre at the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in the Polish city of Przemysl near the border, women and children filled makeshift beds. Some checked their phones yet again for news.
“It was difficult to prepare myself for travelling,” said one refugee from near Kyiv who gave only her first name, Natalia. “My sister said that I am very brave, but in my opinion I am a coward. I want to go home.” And at the Medyka border crossing in Poland, Yelena Makarova said her hurried flight from Kremenchuk with her mother and teenage daughter marked the end of her life as she knew it. Her father, husband and brother all stayed behind.
“I wish that (the war) it would finish as soon as possible, because do you know, for every mother, what can be worse?” she said. “I can't understand why our children are dying. I don't know.”
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Tigmanshu Dhulia concludes first schedule of series 'Garmi'
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Filmmaker Tigmanshu Dhulia on Tuesday said that he has wrapped the first schedule of his upcoming web series ''Garmi'' in Bhopal.
The show, which will premiere on a leading OTT platform, is based around student politics and has a cast featuring newcomers.
''Finished our first schedule of 'Garmi' in Bhopal worked with a lovely bunch of first time actors was frustrating at times but rejuvenating and a totally new experience this is what film MAKING is all about,'' Dhulia posted on Twitter.
The series will reportedly also star Mukesh Tiwari, Vineet Kumar and Jatin Goswami.
Dhulia, known for the National Award-winning film ''Paan Singh Tomar'' and ''Sahib Biwi Aur Gangster'' series, had previously tackled the theme of student politics in the 2005 movie ''Haasil''.
The film, starring Jimmy Sheirgill, Irrfan Khan, and Hrishitaa Bhatt, is considered to be one of Dhulia's finest works and has attracted a cult following over the years.
The filmmaker most recently directed the Disney+ Hotstar series ''The Great Indian Murder'', starring Richa Chadha and Pratik Gandhi.
Dhulia previously helmed web shows such as ''Out of Love'' and ''Criminal Justice'', which were also released on the streamer.
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Everyday is women's day: Kareena Kapoor Khan
On the occasion of International Women's Day, actor Kareena Kapoor Khan penned an inspiring note to celebrate womanhood.
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On the occasion of International Women's Day, actor Kareena Kapoor Khan penned an inspiring note to celebrate womanhood. Taking to Instagram Story, Kareena wrote, "Every day is women's day... Pride, love, equality, respect."
Kareena's sister Karisma Kapoor, too, celebrated Women's Day and that too by shooting. She took to Instagram and shared a picture from her vanity.
"What better way to celebrate women's day! At the job, doing what you love. To all the strong woman out there, keep shining, keep growing #happywomensday," Karisma captioned the post. International Women's Day is celebrated worldwide every year on March 8 to recognise the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women across the globe. (ANI)
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NFDC, Netflix join hands for virtual scriptwriting programme for women
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On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) on Tuesday announced a virtual training programme for hundred women scriptwriters in partnership with streaming platform Netflix.
With the programme, designed for industry professionals, freelance writers, academicians and final-year students of film schools, the NFDC aims to upskill and empower the creative community in India, and create a more gender-inclusive media and entertainment ecosystem, a press release stated.
The curriculum and course structure of the programme, to be conducted in four batches, have been collaboratively developed by the NFDC and Netflix.
Furthermore, the participants will complete the programme after submitting a script, within 30 days of completion of their training and each participant will undergo a comprehensive assessment by a joint committee of officials from the NFDC and Netflix.
Based on the evaluation, shortlisted scripts will have the opportunity to be selected for NFDC Screenwriting Lab or at the NFDC Film Bazaar.
Ravinder Bhakar, managing director, NFDC, said this programme would empower women and will provide them a platform to showcase their talent.
''With the advent of OTT platforms, it is a great contribution by Netflix to have come forward to support the cause of training and development of women professionals,'' Bhakar said in a statement.
According to the press release, the participants will get an opportunity to train under veteran screenwriter-filmmaker Munish Bhardwaj, known for movies like ''Moh Maya Money”, “Ankhon Dekhi” and “Everything is Fine”.
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EXCLUSIVE-Enel ready to resume LNG plan as Italy steps up gas hunt
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Italy has ramped up efforts to secure alternative sources of gas, with LNG-rich Qatar a particular focus of attention. Italy aims to become independent of Russian gas imports within 24-30 months, Energy Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani said on Tuesday.
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Italy's biggest utility Enel is ready to dust off plans to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in southern Italy as Rome steps up efforts to find alternative supplies to replace Russian gas. In comments to Reuters on Tuesday Enel said it was useful for Italy to have two additional LNG terminals so as to be less tied to gas pipelines.
"For this reason, Enel has given availability to resume the Porto Empedocle LNG plant project, that is fully permitted," an Enel spokesperson said. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Italy has ramped up efforts to secure alternative sources of gas, with LNG-rich Qatar a particular focus of attention.
Italy aims to become independent of Russian gas imports within 24-30 months, Energy Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani said on Tuesday. Italy, which uses gas to generate some 40% of electricity, imports more than 90% of its gas needs with Russian flows accounting for around 40%. It has other pipeline connections to Algeria, Azerbaijan, Libya and the North Sea but only three LNG terminals.
Two sources said Rome was eager to install at least one floating LNG terminal, or FSRU. One of the sources said energy group Eni and gas infrastructure group Snam had been asked to help out on the logistics including looking for the FSRU to charter.
Other European countries are seeking to build LNG facilities to wean themselves off Russian gas. On Saturday Germany unveiled plans for a terminal. Eni and Snam declined to comment. The Industry and Ecological Transition ministries were not immediately available for a comment.
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Nita M Ambani launches women's empowerment platform 'Her Circle' in Hindi
On the occasion of International Women's Day, Nita M Ambani, Founder-Chairperson of Reliance Foundation on Tuesday launched the popular women empowerment platform "Her Circle" in Hindi.
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On the occasion of International Women's Day, Nita M Ambani, Founder-Chairperson of Reliance Foundation on Tuesday launched the popular women empowerment platform "Her Circle" in Hindi. Her Circle, a unique initiative that synergises women's power with the power of the digital revolution is now expanding into the multilingual space with the launch of Her Circle Hindi app.
It was originally founded and launched by Nita Ambani exactly one year ago and has already become India's fastest-growing digital platform for women with a phenomenal overall reach of 42 million. Speaking on the occasion of the launch, Nita Ambani said, "Her Circle is an evolving platform meant for all women, irrespective of region and language. I want our reach and support to expand un-hindered. And to reach more women in their language of ease, we are first launching Her Circle in Hindi. We go live in March 2022 and I hope it gets as much love as the English platform has received till now."
In addition, she also celebrated d the first anniversary of Her Circle by featuring on its first-ever digital cover and giving an exclusive interview. She said that Her Circle's first-year milestones cover a large list of goals across digital usage and networking along with the curation of thousands of job opportunities.
"Her Circle's first-year milestones cover a large list of goals across digital usage andnetworking. Thousands of job opportunities curated and listed for users have connected them to the right career choice," she stated. Further, she said, "The extensive masterclasses on how to become a professional makeup artist, food stylist, fitness trainer, dog trainer, radio jockey have found serious takers. With 30,000 registered entrepreneurs on our network, we have a community of women looking to collaborate and rise together."
Nita M Ambani also informed that the network of Sir HN Reliance Hospital medical experts provides free health and medical advice within 24 hours on specialities ranging from mental wellness, physical fitness, skincare, gynaecological concerns, counselling, etc. She asserted that thousands of women have been benefitted from this timely service.
Mentioning the other benefits of the app, she said, "Personalised trackers for fitness and nutrition, period, fertility, pregnancy as well as finance have been used by 1.50 lakh subscribers free of cost." "Interviews and stories of women achievers featuring Gita Gopinath, Naina Lal Kidwai, Padma Shri Gulabo Sapera, Geeta Phogat, Anita Dongre as well as exclusives with an Afghan woman who escaped to safety as well as Ukrainian nationals and the evacuees from conflict-ridden regions keep Her Circle's content topical and inspiring," she added.
Following the launch ceremony, Nita M Ambani gave her vote of thanks to the user of the Her Circle app and welcomed all the women who have joined this movement. "Congratulations! Not just to us but to every woman in Her Circle, Our Circle! I am so happy to see Her Circle expand and grow so beautifully in such a short time. I welcome all the women who have joined this movement... I am delighted to see them collaborating, bonding, applauding and cheering for each other!" she said.
"Those were meant to be the hallmarks of our platform, and it's a joy to see them come to life. On Her Circle, we listen, we share, we educate, we enable, and connect! It's a place where we let our hair down, ask questions without hesitation, go beyondthe defined. A safe space where women thrive by learning newer things, reskillingthemselves, and growing to fulfil their dreams!" she added. (ANI)
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MADRID (AP) — Around 1,000 migrants tried unsuccessfully to climb over the barrier separating Morocco from one of Spain’s African enclaves on Tuesday, authorities in Spain said.
The representative for Spain’s government in Melilla said that Moroccan border guards repelled the attempt while Spanish border guards remained positioned on the other side of the frontier.
The failed attempt to reach European Union territory came less than a week after an unprecedented 2,500 people tried to enter the city, with 491 managing to get across two 6-meter (20-foot) fences onto the Spanish side. That was followed a day later by another push by some 1,200 people, resulting in another 380 crossings.
People fleeing violence or poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa sometimes use mass border incursions to try to reach Melilla and Spain’s other city on the North Africa coast, Ceuta, as a springboard to continental Europe.
The attempts include violent clashes between those crossing and the agents charged to stop them.
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Russia-Ukraine War: What to know about the war in Ukraine
However, Russias ambassador to the UN suggested that humanitarian paths leading from the capital, Kyiv, and other cities could give people choice in where they want to go.Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Tuesday both sides agreed to a cease-fire from 9 am to 9 pm Ukraine time 0700 to 1900 GMT for the evacuation of civilians from the eastern city of Sumy.
Minor progress has been made on establishing safe corridors to allow civilians to escape the fighting. A top Ukranian official says both sides agreed to a 12-hour-long cease-fire on Tuesday for the evacuation of civilians from a key eastern city.
Meanwhile, Russian aircraft continued to bomb cities in eastern and central Ukraine overnight, Ukrainian officials said. Shelling pounded suburbs of the capital, Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is urging his people to keep resisting the assault, which United Nations officials say has forced more than 1.7 million to flee the country. Ukraine's foreign minister says more than 20,000 people from 52 countries have volunteered to fight in Ukraine.
As the war enters its 13th day, food, water, heat and medicine have grown increasingly scarce in Ukraine. Here's a look at key things to know about the war: Has there been progress on safe evacuations? The Russian coordination center for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine said Russia will begin a cease-fire at 10 am Moscow time (0700 GMT) Tuesday to allow civilians to flee through special corridors that the Russians say was agreed upon with Ukrainian authorities, according to Russian media. Most of those corridors would lead to Russia either directly or via Belarus, according to officials in Moscow. However, Russia's ambassador to the UN suggested that humanitarian paths leading from the capital, Kyiv, and other cities could give people choice in where they want to go.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Tuesday both sides agreed to a cease-fire from 9 am to 9 pm Ukraine time (0700 to 1900 GMT) for the evacuation of civilians from the eastern city of Sumy. Those being evacuated from Sumy include foreign students from India and China, she said. The Russian Defense Ministry has said civilians will be allowed to leave Sumy, Mariupol and Kyiv.
In the southern port city of Mariupol, an estimated 200,000 people — nearly half its population — are hoping to flee. Hospitals there are facing severe shortages of antibiotics and painkillers.
Ukrainian and Russian officials held a third round of direct talks Monday since the start of invasion February 24. The countries' foreign ministers are scheduled to meet in Turkey on Thursday, according to that country's top diplomat.
What else is happening on the ground ? In the capital, soldiers and volunteers have built hundreds of checkpoints to protect the city of nearly 4 million people, often using sandbags, stacked tires and spiked cables. A Russian general was killed in the fighting in Ukraine's second-largest city, according to the Ukrainian military intelligence agency. He was identified as Maj. Gen. Vitaly Gerasimov — the second Russian general reportedly killed since the invasion began. The report said he had fought with Russian forces in Syria and Chechnya and had taken part in the seizure of Crimea in 2014. It was not possible to confirm the death independently. Russia has not commented.
The mayor of Lviv said the city in far western Ukraine is struggling to feed and house the tens of thousands of people who have fled there from war-torn regions of the country. More than 200,000 Ukrainians displaced from their homes are now in Lviv, filling up sport halls, schools, hospitals and church buildings. Russian aircraft bombed cities in eastern and central Ukraine overnight, Ukrainian officials said. Shelling pounded suburbs of the capital, Kyiv. In Sumy and Okhtyrka, to the east of the capital near the Russian border, bombs fell on residential buildings and destroyed a power plant, a regional leader said. Bombs also hit oil depots in two other towns.
Russian troops have overall made significant advances in southern Ukraine but stalled in some other regions. A top US official said multiple countries were discussing whether to provide the warplanes that Ukraine's president has been pleading for.
How many people have been killed? The death toll of the conflict has been difficult to measure. The UN human rights office said Monday that it had confirmed the deaths of 406 civilians and wounding of 801 others through the end of Sunday. However, it acknowledged the actual figures are likely considerably higher.
The World Health Organisation said it verified at least six attacks that have killed six health care workers and injured 11 others. Ukrainian refugees continue to pour into neighbouring countries, including Poland, Romania and Moldova. Among them are an unknown number of people with US citizenship, though some haven't been able to flee Ukraine yet.
Global Impact Surging prices for oil and other vital commodities, such as wheat used in subsidized bread and noodles, are rattling global markets. The situation remains uncertain as investors search for safe havens from expanding sanctions against Russia. Worries are growing that Russia's invasion of Ukraine will upend already tight supplies of oil. Russia is one of the world's largest energy producers, with prices surging even further by the possibility the US might bar crude imports from Russia.
A growing number of multinational businesses have cut Russia off from vital financial services, technology and a variety of consumer products in response to Western economic sanctions and global outrage over the war. Among those suspending services in Russia due to sanctions is Netflix, the popular streaming service. In the Middle East, the war in Ukraine is magnifying divisions in the region following Moscow's role in recent years in the war in Syria and among militant factions in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen where ally, Iran, has influence. Despite countries sending weapons and military equipment to Ukrainian forces fighting the Russians, Western countries have rejected Ukrainian calls to impose a no-fly zone over the country. There are concerns such a move would risk dramatically escalating the conflict.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — When Ballon d'Or winner Alexia Putellas first started kicking a ball in the small square of her Spanish village, she did so with the typical disadvantages for a young girl with big dreams in a country that was crazy for soccer — as long as it was played by men.
But after two decades of hard work, along with the slow yet steady growth of the women's game toward the mainstream in Spain, Alexia has reached the pinnacle of her sport.
The 28-year-old midfielder swept up all the major individual awards after leading Barcelona to a treble of titles last season, including its first Champions League. She became only the second Spaniard to win a Ballon d’Or in November, ending a long wait since Luis Suárez won the men's award in 1960. She also was named UEFA Women’s Player of the Year in August and won FIFA’s The Best award in January.
While never feeling discriminated against by the boys she played with growing up in Mollet del Vallès near Barcelona, she did have to overcome the second-rate treatment like other girls who wanted to turn a hobby into a profession.
“I have come from training in the worst conditions, at the worst time of the day, with coaches who were my teammates' dads, so that really when you are young you don’t learn much,” Alexia told The Associated Press in an interview at Barcelona’s training center.
“Now, it is completely different. That is why I say that 12-, 14-year-old girls who are training to become players now, when they arrive to the senior teams, they will be much better than we were," she said. "Because we didn’t have what they have now and yet look what we have achieved. So imagine what the next generation can do.”
Rocked by the departure of Lionel Messi from its struggling men's team, its ballooning debt, and a scandal-ridden turnover in its presidency, Barcelona needed its women's team to uphold its championship tradition.
From the ruins, Alexia emerged as the club’s star.
Playing on a talent-packed Barcelona squad with Jenni Hermoso and Lieke Martens, Alexia stands out thanks to her scoring touch, passing skills, and cool-headed leadership. She scored a penalty and assisted on another goal in Barcelona's 4-0 rout of Chelsea in last season's Champions League final, despite playing with a hurt hamstring. She also struck twice in the final of the Copa de la Reina, and she scored 18 goals in the Spanish league to help Barcelona defend its title.
“I suffered just like any lifelong Barcelona fan,” Alexia said about the club's recent troubles. “But we had the opportunity to give back some happiness to the club’s supporters in those very difficult moments. And that is what we set out to do, to keep going with our plan, with our style of play, winning games and doing what was in our power to help make our fans happy.”
In her decade with Barcelona, Alexia has lived through the lean years without titles to becoming a European powerhouse. This season, Barcelona is crushing the competition in the Spanish league and is gearing up to play at Camp Nou with fans in the stands for the first time later this month against Real Madrid in the Champions League quarterfinals.
Besides keeping Barcelona at the top, Alexia now wants Spain to culminate its huge progress over recent years with a title. The upcoming European Championship in England is the first chance.
Alexia applauded the victory of the United States women's team after they secured the commitment by the U.S. soccer federation to equal their pay with the men's team.
“I think it was long past due," she said. "The typical thing you hear in this debate is that ‘they don’t generate income.’ But (the U.S. women) actually generate more income. ... And on top of that, they had won four World Cups, so it made no sense for them to make less.”
Wage equality, however, looks elusive for her and her teammates.
“Here in Spain I see it as still far off. It might happen, but I don’t know if I will see it," she said. "The reality is that it is still a bit too soon, because we have not been playing at a professional level for many years, while the U.S., the Scandinavian countries, and Germany have provided help and support (to women's soccer) for many more years.”
Barcelona, despite its financial woes, has maintained its push to have an elite women’s team. On Tuesday, the club turned the center circle at Camp Nou into the female symbol to celebrate International Women’s Day and underscore its bid to expand its “more than a club” message to bring more female athletes into the forefront.
The first battle still to be won is for all the women in the Spanish league to enjoy the same conditions as Alexia and her Barcelona teammates.
The Spanish government announced the professionalization of the women's league last year, but the clubs have yet to agree on the statues for the competition. While Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid are investing in their women's teams, players threatened to strike last fall to protest the precarious conditions at some clubs. The protest followed an incident where an injured Rayo Vallecano player had to be treated by the doctor of an opposing team because her team did not have a doctor at the game.
“I think here in Barcelona we are in a kind of bubble,” Alexia said. “I think there are two realities, one like the one that Barça has created, in which we are players who dedicate 100% of our time to the sport and our goal is to be best. And then there are other clubs … I would like for all my fellow players to have the opportunity to play for clubs that truly believe in building teams for professionals.”
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Bhupender Yadav emphasizes on detection of occupational diseases among women workers
Shri Bhupender Yadav emphasized on detection of occupational diseases among the women workers of the unorganized sector.
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Shri Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister of Labour & Employment and Environment, Forest & Climate Change hosted the initiative of Health & Nutrition check-up camp here today. Smriti Zubin Irani, Union Minister for Women & Child Development presided over the programme. Shri Rameswar Teli, Minister of State for Labour & Employment & Natural Gas also attended the programme.
In order to promote the idea of 'Swastha Bharat' amongst the women workers & acknowledge their contribution in nation-building, a Health & Nutrition Check-Up Camp was organized on International Women's Day. Shri Bhupender Yadav emphasized on detection of occupational diseases among the women workers of the unorganized sector. Women workers exposed to hazardous work environment are prone to various occupational diseases and many macro and micronutrients deficiencies. Women workers of Brick Kiln Industries and Beedi Industries are much more prone to iron deficiencies and hence become Anaemic in due course.
Anaemia is a major health concern in India, especially among women of lower socio-economic strata is at higher risk of being anaemic.
While acknowledging the efforts put in by Ministry of Labour & Employment, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, also reiterated about the efforts being taken by the Ministry of Women & Child Development. She urged for formulating policies around the idea of 'Equal Pay for Equal Work'. She said that collaboration between both the ministries can solve problems of the women workforce of our country. She enumerated many women centric flagship schemes of the Government brought to alleviate the problems faced by women workers. She also promoted the idea of collaboration with ESIC for extending help to women workers of unorganized sector through the 'One Stop Centre' Scheme which has been implemented in 704 districts throughout country.
Health & Nutrition Check-Up Camp for Women Brick Kiln Beedi workers
For an early detection of any major occupational diseases, a health & nutrition check-up camp was organized by Ministry of Labour & Employment, GoI assisted by ESIC& Labour Welfare Department on the International Women's Day. The initiative started will facilitate in achieving optimum health of the working women for improving overall productivity. During the camp, Health profile cards were made for the participants. The participants will also be continuously monitored for next 06 months. Besides these, to promote preventive healthcare, health supplements & Ayush Kits were also distributed among the 20 women Beedi Workers from Ajmer, 22WomenBeedi Workers from Uttar Pradesh and 26women Brick Kiln Workers from Haryana who participated in the event.
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was on the last leg Tuesday of a short tour of the three Baltic states aimed at reassuring the former Soviet republics that NATO will guarantee their security as Russia’s war with Ukraine rolls on unabated.
Blinken was meeting with senior Estonian officials in Tallinn, a day after hearing appeals from both Lithuania and Latvia for more support and greater U.S. and NATO troop presence to deter a feared Russian intervention.
“We will defend every square inch of NATO territory if it comes under attack, if it’s on the receiving end of aggression,” Blinken told Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets.
Liimets, echoing her Baltic counterparts, denounced the Russian invasion, calling it a direct threat to Europe and particularly to the Baltics.
“As the security situation has changed in Europe we must continue to strengthen the defense and deterrent posture here in NATO, especially here on the eastern flank,” she said.
As the war in Ukraine rages, leaders in all three Baltic states have expressed grave concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intentions for former Soviet bloc countries that are now allied or otherwise linked to the West.
“We have no illusions about Putin’s Russia anymore,” Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said Monday in Riga. “We don’t really see any good reason to assume that Russia might change its policy.”
Rinkevics said that the Russian invasion of Ukraine had shown the Baltic countries in particular the need to bolster air and coastal defenses and that Latvia would like its security cooperation with NATO to be “more efficient.”
Lithuanian President Gitanes Nauseda told Blinken in Vilnius that a policy of deterrence was no longer enough and that “forward defense” was now needed. He predicted that “Putin will not stop in Ukraine if he will not be stopped.”
Memories of Soviet rule are still fresh in the Baltics and since the Russian invasion of Ukraine last month, NATO has moved quickly to boost its troop presence in its eastern flank allies while the U.S. has pledged additional support.
Support for Ukraine’s resistance to the Russian invasion was palpable in all three Baltics as Ukrainian flags and other signs of solidarity were evident in many businesses and on houses, public buildings and buses.
From Tallinn, Blinken will travel to Paris later Tuesday for a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss his recent conversations with Putin about Ukraine and efforts to convince the Russian leader to end the conflict.
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EMERGING MARKETS-FX steady as Russian offensive slows, rouble bounces
The MSCI's index for emerging market currencies was 0.1% higher for the first time in three days. Russia opened "humanitarian corridors" to allow civilians to be evacuated from Ukrainian cities including Cherhihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Mariupol, as well as Kyiv, Interfax cited the Russian defence ministry saying.
Emerging market currencies edged higher on Tuesday, including the Russian rouble as Russia's offensive in Ukraine continued at a slower pace, and fears of global inflation weighed down stocks in the developing world. The MSCI's index for emerging market currencies was 0.1% higher for the first time in three days.
Russia opened "humanitarian corridors" to allow civilians to be evacuated from Ukrainian cities including Cherhihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Mariupol, as well as Kyiv, Interfax cited the Russian defence ministry saying. "Yesterday, we had seen that there might be a ban on imports of Russian oil from various Western countries. The U.S. Congress is still trying to go ahead, but it now seems less sure that something like that will happen," said Franziska Palmas, market economist at Capital Economics.
The rouble strengthened about 7% to 125 against the dollar on the interbank rate by 0915 GMT, rising for the first time in four days. Local markets remained shut for a public holiday, with currency trading set to resume on Wednesday. The MSCI's EM stocks index slipped 1.4% amid worries about a recent rally in oil and other commodity prices, which are expected to add to the global inflationary pulse.
U.S. data this week expected to show its consumer price index climbed a stratospheric 7.9% on a year-on-year basis in February, up from 7.5% in January. Emerging market assets, especially those in regions such as Latin America, are seen benefiting from surging commodity and oil prices and relatively quiet domestic political noise, with currencies propped up by a cycle of interest rate hikes that preceded developed markets. The MSCI's Latam stocks index is up 11.8% this year, while its currencies counterpart gained 6.3%.
"Emerging markets excluding Russia and the EMs in Europe, which have been particularly hard hit given the exposure to Russia... have held up better than expected," Palmas added. EM stocks are down about 10% this year, faring better than the S&P 500 and the all-country index, which have fallen about 12% and 13% respectively. EM currencies have slipped 1.7% compared to a fall of 2.3% in its global peer.
South Africa's rand dipped 0.3% as traders awaited the release of domestic economic growth numbers later in the day. The Polish zloty slipped 0.1% to 4.98 against the euro after hitting a record low of 5 on Monday, ahead of the central bank's announcement of its interest rate decision. Analysts polled by Reuters expect a 50-basis-point hike.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union officials on Tuesday defended the 27-nation bloc's decision to ban Russian state-controlled media outlets from broadcasting in the region as decisive steps to check a Kremlin-led “information war."
Speaking at the European Parliament during a debate on foreign interference and disinformation, the EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell brushed off critics who say the EU is threatening freedom of information with the ban on Sputnik and RT/Russia Today.
“They are not independent media, they are assets, they are weapons, in the Kremlin's manipulation ecosystem," Borrell told lawmakers. “We are not trying to decide what is true and what is false. We don't have ministers of the Truth. But we have to focus on foreign actors who intentionally, in a coordinated manner, try to manipulate our information environment."
The EU has decided to suspend the broadcasting activities of Sputnik and RT/Russia Today in the bloc until Russia ends its war in Ukraine and stop disinformation campaigns in member states.
Borrell said Moscow-controlled outlets are part of a well-oiled propaganda machine providing biased news about Vladimir Putin's true intentions.
“If the information is bad, democracy is bad," he said, adding that information should be a protected good. “If the information is systematically contaminated by lies and twisted, citizens can't have a clear understanding of reality and their political judgment is similarly twisted."
Borrell insisted that Sputnik was created by a presidential decree with the aim of reporting on Russia's sate policies abroad, and said that Russia Today is capable of conducting an “information war" against the western world.
Borrell said he will soon propose a new mechanism that will allow the EU to sanction disinformation actors. Lawmakers from the special committee on foreign interference and disinformation are also proposing to establish a sanctions regime to deal with foreign meddling.
MEP Sandra Kalniete, the author of the report, said it's crucial for the EU to counter foreign threats in a bid to prevent third countries damaging democracies.
“Let’s call a spade a spade. Russia, China and other authoritarian regimes have funneled more than $300 million into 33 countries to interfere in democratic processes," she said. “Putin’s propaganda machinery wasn’t just switched on on 24 February. It has already been working in Europe for decades, attempting to poison and divide our societies.”
Kaniete said online platforms and tech companies need to suspend all social accounts engaged in “denying, glorifying and justifying Putin’s aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity."
She also proposed to reinforce content in Russian and Ukrainian to resist the pressure from Russia’s disinformation.
“In short, any tech platform giving space to Putin’s propaganda or complying with his censorship request is an accomplice to Putin’s aggression," she said.
European Commission Vera Jourova said Putin wants his people to be “apathetic" and praised streaming platform Netflix's decision to suspend its Russian services.
“Because president Putin wants the people to be entertained, not to pay attention to what is happening," she said. “It would not be right to see Russians being entertained, and next door Ukrainians being killed."
Both Borrell and Jourova expressed deep concerns about the imposed censorship in Russia that threatens independent journalists with jail terms and deprives citizens access to verified information about what their government is doing in Ukraine.
“It is more important than ever to reach the Russian people, and provide them with information," Jourova said. “Every possible channel should be used."
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Agri Min ready with new scheme to promote natural farming; to seek cabinet nod soon
The Agriculture Ministry is ready with a new central scheme to promote natural farming in the country with an estimated outlay of Rs 2,500 crore, a senior government official said on Tuesday.The proposed new scheme on natural farming will soon be placed before the Cabinet for approval, the official added.
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The Agriculture Ministry is ready with a new central scheme to promote natural farming in the country with an estimated outlay of Rs 2,500 crore, a senior government official said on Tuesday.
The proposed new scheme on natural farming will soon be placed before the Cabinet for approval, the official added. The new scheme has been designed months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed the need to keep looking at alternatives for existing fertiliser and pesticide-based farming while addressing a national conclave on natural farming in Gujarat in December last year. Modi had also said natural farming offers much better products with no side effects.
''After several rounds of consultations with stakeholders, a draft scheme on natural farming has been framed in order to promote natural farming with a systematic approach without disturbing the existing systems of farming,'' the government official told PTI.
The proposed scheme aims to adopt a complementary and cluster approach, to begin with, and will focus on intensive handholding of farmers practising natural farming, marketing of the produce and providing extension services, among other activities, the official said. The objective of the scheme is not the conversion of chemical farming but promoting natural farming in areas where chemical farming has not reached yet. For instance, chemical farming is not much practised in dryland areas, the official said. It may be noted that the government in the Union Budget 2022 has announced the promotion of chemical-free natural farming throughout the country, starting with fields within a 5-km corridor along the Ganga river. According to government think-tank Niti Aayog, natural farming is a chemical-free alias traditional farming methods. It is considered an agroecology based diversified farming system, which integrates crops, trees and livestock with functional biodiversity.
In India, natural farming is promoted as Bharatiya Prakritik Krishi Paddhati Programme (BPKP) under the centrally sponsored scheme Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY). Niti Aayog along with the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers welfare had convened several high-level discussions with global experts on natural farming practices. It is roughly estimated that around 2.5 million farmers in India are already practising regenerative agriculture. In the next five years, it is expected to reach 20 lakh hectares - in any form of organic farming, including natural farming, of which 12 lakh hectares are under BPKP, Aayog said on its website.
The BPKP programme has been adopted in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala. Several studies have reported the effectiveness of natural farming BPKP in terms of increase in production, sustainability, saving of water use, improvement in soil health and farmland ecosystem. It is considered as a cost-effective farming practice with scope for raising employment and rural development, Aayog added.
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The latest developments on the Russia-Ukraine war:
GENEVA -- The U.N.'s top human rights official is warning that a new Russian law allowing harsh punishment for spreading what is deemed to be fake information about the armed forces adds to concern about repressive legislation in Russia.
High Commission for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet told the U.N. Human Rights Council that “space for discussion or criticism of public policies – including (Russia’s) military action against Ukraine – is increasingly and profoundly restricted.”
Bachelet said some 12,700 people have been “arbitrarily arrested” for holding peaceful anti-war protests and noted that media are required to use only official information and terms.
She said she’s concerned about repressive and vaguely defined legislation, and added that “further legislation criminalising circumstances of ‘discrediting’ the armed forces continues down this concerning path.”
The new measure, signed into law by President Vladimir Putin on Friday, allows for prison sentences of up to 15 years. It has prompted some foreign media to suspend operations within Russia.
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LONDON — Britain’s defense secretary says the invasion of Ukraine will be Vladimir Putin’s downfall as the Russian leader struggles to defeat and occupy a country that has put up unexpectedly staunch resistance to his armies.
Ben Wallace said Russian forces are already “exhausted” after facing logistical problems and suffering thousands of losses in the first 13 days of fighting. He added it's “an impossible task” to occupy a country of 44 million people that is bigger than France and Germany combined.
“This will be Putin’s end ... and so it should be,” Wallace told the BBC.
Putin is already “a spent force” in the wider world because the international community has decided the invasion of Ukraine and the humanitarian catastrophe it has unleashed are unacceptable, Wallace said. The international sanctions imposed on Russia “are reducing his economy to zero,” and Putin is responsible for that, Wallace said.
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GENEVA — The number of refugees fleeing Ukraine reached 2 million on Tuesday, according to the United Nations, the fastest exodus Europe has seen since World War II.
“Today the outflow of refugees from Ukraine reaches two million people. Two million,” Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, wrote on Twitter.
The update came as a new effort to evacuate civilians along safe corridors finally got underway Tuesday. The route out of the eastern city of Sumy was one of five promised by the Russians to offer civilians a way to escape the Russian onslaught.
Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, is pressing for all civilians trapped by fighting in Ukraine to be allowed to leave safely. She said Tuesday she is “deeply concerned about civilians trapped in active hostilities in numerous areas.”
Bachelet also told the U.N. Human Rights Council that her office has received reports of pro-Ukrainian activists being arbitrarily detained in areas of eastern Ukraine that have recently come “under the control of armed groups.” She said there have been reports of beatings of people considered pro-Russian in government-controlled areas.
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TOKYO — Japan says it has suspended the assets of 32 more Russian and Belarusian individuals as part of international sanctions against Russia.
The additional sanctions announced Tuesday target 20 Russians including head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, deputy chiefs of staff and a press secretary for President Vladamir Putin’s govenment, and deputy chairmen of the state parliament. The list also includes business executives with close ties to Putin and his administration such as Volga Group, Transneft, the Private Military Company Wagner and USM Holdings, according to a statement jointly issued by the foreign, finance and trade ministries.
The sanction targets also included 12 Belarusian officials and business executives, including Belarus’ National Olympic Committee President Viktor Lukashenko, as well as 12 organizations in Russia and Belarus.
Officials said Japan is also banning exports of oil refinery equipment to Russia and general purpose goods to Belarus that could be used to strengthen the country’s military capability.
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WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's prime minister is calling for even tougher sanctions against Russia in order to dismantle President Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki made his comments as he departed Warsaw for visits to NATO countries Britain and Norway.
He told reporters that strengthening NATO’s eastern flank and pushing for more sanctions would be the main topics of discussion. In particular, Morawiecki wants to urge other European countries to replace Russian crude oil and gas with deliveries from other countries.
“In order to hit Russia effectively, our blow must be consistent and long-term if military action continues,” Morawiecki said.
Poland has been building a gas pipeline, Baltic Pipe, meant to import gas from Norway.
He called Baltic Pipe “a symbol of Poland’s sovereignty, of Poland’s independence from Russia, from gas blackmail ... everything which has made it possible for Putin to build a war machine.”
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TALLINN, ESTONIA — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is wrapping up a short tour of the three Baltic states aimed at reassuring the former Soviet republics that NATO will guarantee their security as Russia’s war with Ukraine rolls on unabated.
Blinken was meeting with senior Estonian officials in Tallinn on Tuesday, a day after hearing appeals from both Lithuania and Latvia for more support and greater U.S. and NATO troop presence to deter a feared Russian intervention.
“We will defend every inch of NATO territory if it comes under attack,” Blinken said Monday in Riga. “No one should doubt our readiness. No one should doubt our resolve.”
Leaders in all three Baltic states have expressed grave concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intentions for former Soviet bloc countries that are now allied or otherwise linked to the West.
Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said the Russian invasion of Ukraine had shown the Baltic countries in particular the need to bolster air and coastal defenses. He added Latvia would like its security cooperation with NATO to be “more efficient.”
Lithuanian President Gitanes Nauseda told Blinken in Vilnius that a policy of deterrence was no longer enough and that “forward defense” was now needed. He predicted that “Putin will not stop in Ukraine if he will not be stopped."
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KYIV, Ukraine — Safe corridors intended to let civilians escape the Russian onslaught in Ukraine could open Tuesday, officials from both sides said, though previous efforts to establish evacuation routes crumbled amid renewed attacks and it was not clear how large the operation would be if it happened.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Tuesday that both sides agreed to a cease-fire from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Ukraine time (0700-1900 GMT) for the evacuation of civilians from the eastern city of Sumy.
The first convoy with evacuated civilians in buses or private cars is to leave at 10 a.m. (0800 GMT), on a single route toward the Ukrainian city of Poltava. She said Russia’s Defense Ministry agreed to this in a letter to the International Red Cross.
Those being evacuated from Sumy include foreign students from India and China, she said. The corridor will also be used to bring humanitarian aid into Sumy, she said.
She reiterated that Russian proposals to evacuate civilians to Russia and Belarus were unacceptable. She didn’t elaborate on the possibility of evacuating Ukrainians toward western Ukraine.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The head of the Norwegian Refugee Council said that refugees fleeing in Ukraine was “the fastest-growing displacement crisis I have witnessed in my 35 years as a humanitarian worker.”
Jan Egeland, secretary general of the humanitarian group, said that “every second the war forces a person to flee across Ukraine’s borders, and countless are displaced within the country.”
The Oslo-based agency, which has been in Ukraine since 2014, said it was launching an aid plan to support 800,000 people inside Ukraine and neighboring countries.
NRC’s humanitarian response plan calls for $82 million and appealed to donors “to dig deep into their pockets to find new funding” and added do “not take resources from other crises.”
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The head of the World Health Organization’s Europe office says it has confirmed 16 attacks that have affected the provision of health care in Ukraine in the fighting since Russia’s invasion in the country began nearly two weeks ago.
Dr. Hans Kluge also told reporters Tuesday that Ukrainian health authorities have “remarkably” maintained COVID-19 surveillance and response since the invasion began on Feb. 24, though they reported 731 deaths related to the pandemic over the last week.
Kluge warned that “sadly, this number will increase as oxygen shortages continue” — with older people disproportionately affected. Treatment with oxygen is an important part of the response for people whose respiratory systems have been harmed by coronavirus infection.
The WHO Europe chief also said broken supply lines are harming the ability to treat conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and diabetes. Catherine Smallwood, senior emergency officer for WHO Europe, said the attacks on health care in Ukraine have led to at least 9 deaths and 16 injuries.
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LONDON — Britain’s defense secretary said Tuesday that there are reports Ukrainian special forces destroyed over 20 Russian helicopters on the ground overnight as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to face logistical problems and fierce resistance.
Russia’s advance toward the capital, Kyiv, continues to face pressure from Ukrainian forces around the nearby towns of Hostomel, Bucha, Vorzel and Irpin, the U.K. Defense Ministry said in an intelligence update released late Monday. In addition, a lengthy Russian column remains stuck on the road north of Kyiv.
Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said Russian forces are becoming more and more desperate in the face of such military and supply holdups, leading to “indiscriminate shelling” of civilians.
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WASHINGTON — The World Bank says it has approved more than $700 in emergency support for Ukraine.
Dubbed FREE Ukraine, it includes nearly $500 million in loans and guarantees and $134 million in grants, with Japan promising another $100 million in financing. The aid is meant to help the Ukrainian government pay wages of hospital workers, pensions and other social programs. Bundling the aid into a package is intended to streamline and speed the provision of the funding, the World Bank said in a statement.
“The World Bank Group stands with the people of Ukraine and the region,” World Bank President David Malpass said. “This is the first of many steps we are taking to help address the far-reaching human and economic impacts of this crisis.”
The World Bank also said it is preparing a $3 billion package of support for Ukraine and the region to help it cope with the flood of displaced people fleeing the fighting.
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TOKYO — U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel praised Japan’s latest sanctions on Russia’s oil refining industry and on Belarus Tuesday.
Japan has frozen the assets of Russian and Belarusian officials and banned the new issue and distribution of Russian government bonds, acting in unity with the U.S. and other Group of Seven industrialized nations. Japan is also banning exports of oil-refining equipment to Russia.
“We applaud the Kishida government’s leadership today to target Russia’s oil refining sector with strict export controls,” Emanuel said in a statement.
The moves help restrict Russia’s access to revenue that supports Vladimir Putin and his war on Ukraine, he said.
“These new actions, implemented in close unity with the United States and other partners, demonstrate Japan’s resolute commitment to stand together with the Ukrainian people and against Putin’s vicious regime,” said Emanuel.
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan sent an aircraft to Poland on Tuesday to evacuate more than 300 Pakistanis who escaped fighting in Ukraine.
Pakistan International Airlines says most of them are students.
Pakistan has refused to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, even as it has denounced war as a solution to differences and called for negotiations and a cease-fire. Prime Minister Imran Khan met with President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin just hours after the Russian leader sent tanks into Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Pakistan abstained from last week’s U.N. General Assembly vote condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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TOKYO — Japanese automaker Nissan is planning to halt production at its plant in Russia because of “logistical challenges.”
Nissan Motor Co. did not provide a specific date but said Tuesday production will stop “soon.” Its plant in St. Petersburg produced 45,000 vehicles last year, including the X-Trail sport utility vehicle.
The Yokohama-based manufacturer said the safety of its employees is its top priority.
Nissan earlier stopped exports to Russia.
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LVIV, Ukraine — Russian aircraft bombed cities in eastern and central Ukraine overnight, Ukrainian officials said. Shelling pounded suburbs of the capital, Kyiv.
In Sumy and Okhtyrka, to the east of Kyiv near the Russian border, bombs fell on residential buildings and destroyed a power plant, regional leader Dmytro Zhivitsky said. He said there were dead and wounded but gave no figures.
Bombs also hit oil depots in Zhytomyr and the neighboring town of Cherniakhiv, located west of Kyiv.
In Bucha, a Kyiv suburb, the mayor reported heavy artillery fire.
“We can’t even gather up the bodies because the shelling from heavy weapons doesn’t stop day or night,” Mayor Anatol Fedoruk said. “Dogs are pulling apart the bodies on the city streets. It’s a nightmare.”
The Ukrainian government is demanding the opening of humanitarian corridors to allow people to safely leave Sumy, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, Mariupol and suburbs of Kyiv, including Bucha.
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LVIV, Ukraine — The mayor of Lviv said the city in far western Ukraine is struggling to feed and house the tens of thousands of people who have fled here from war-torn regions of the country.
“We really need support,” Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said.
More than 200,000 Ukrainians displaced from their homes are now in Lviv, filling up sport halls, schools, hospitals and church buildings. The historical city once popular with tourists had a population of 700,000 before the war.
The mayor said the city needs big tents equipped with kitchens so food can be prepared.
Hundreds of thousands more people could arrive if humanitarian corridors are opened up from cities now under siege from Russian troops.
The embassies of the U.S. and EU countries also moved to Lviv from Kyiv before the invasion.
Lviv is the main transit point for those fleeing just across the border to Poland. Many of the 1.7 million Ukrainians now abroad passed through the city. The United Nations has called the situation the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.
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LVIV, Ukraine — A Russian general was killed in the fighting around Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, which Russian forces have been trying to seize since the invasion began, the Ukrainian military intelligence agency said.
It identified him as Maj. Gen. Vitaly Gerasimov, 45, and said he had fought with Russian forces in Syria and Chechnya and had taken part in the seizure of Crimea in 2014.
It was not possible to confirm the death independently. Russia has not commented.
Another Russian general was killed earlier in the fighting. A local officers’ organization in Russia confirmed the death in Ukraine of Maj. Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky, the commanding general of the Russian 7th Airborne Division.
Sukhovetsky also took part in Russia’s military campaign in Syria.
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CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian government says it is placing sanctions on Moscow’s “propagandists and purveyors of disinformation” who legitimatize Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Foreign Minister Marise Payne said in a statement on Tuesday her government was sanctioning 10 “people of strategic interest to Russia” for their role in encouraging hostility toward Ukraine.
“This includes driving and disseminating false narratives about the ‘de-Nazification’ of Ukraine, making erroneous allegations of genocide against ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, and promoting the recognition of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic as independent,” Payne said, referring to separatist regions of Ukraine.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had been accompanied by a widespread disinformation campaign, both within Russia and internationally, she said.
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LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Evacuations of people fleeing embattled Ukrainian cities along safe corridors began Tuesday, while U.N. officials said the exodus of refugees from Russia's invasion reached 2 million.
The Russian onslaught has trapped people inside cities that are running low on food, water and medicine amid the biggest ground war in Europe since World War II.
Previous attempts to lead civilians to safety have crumbled with renewed attacks. But on Tuesday, video posted by Ukrainian officials showed buses with people moving along a snowy road from the eastern city of Sumy and yellow buses with a red cross on them heading toward the southern port of Mariupol.
It was not clear how long the efforts would last.
“The Ukrainian city of Sumy was given a green corridor, the first stage of evacuation began,” the Ukrainian state communications agency tweeted.
While some people fled to other cities in Ukraine, many have chosen to leave the country instead. Safa Msehli, a spokesperson for the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration, tweeted that 2 million have now left, including at least 100,000 people who are not Ukrainian.
With the invasion well into its second week, Russian troops have made significant advances in southern Ukraine but stalled in some other regions. Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers fortified the capital, Kyiv, with hundreds of checkpoints and barricades designed to thwart a takeover. A steady rain of shells and rockets fell on other population centers, including the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, where the mayor reported heavy artillery fire.
“We can’t even gather up the bodies because the shelling from heavy weapons doesn’t stop day or night,” Mayor Anatol Fedoruk said. “Dogs are pulling apart the bodies on the city streets. It’s a nightmare.”
In one of the most desperate cities, Mariupol, an estimated 200,000 people — nearly half the population of 430,000 — hoped to flee.
Russia's coordination center for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine and Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk both said a cease-fire was agreed to start Tuesday morning to allow some civilians to evacuate, but it was not clear where all the corridors would lead to, amid disagreement between the two sides.
Russia's coordination center suggested there would be more than one corridor, but that most would lead to Russia, either directly or through Belarus. At the U.N., however, the Russian ambassador suggested corridors from several cities could be opened and people could choose for themselves which direction they would take.
Vereshchuk, meanwhile, only said that the two sides had agreed to an evacuation of civilians from the eastern city of Sumy, toward the Ukrainian city of Poltava. Those to be evacuated include foreign students from India and China, she said.
She reiterated that Russian proposals to evacuate civilians to Russia and its ally Belarus, which was a launch pad for the invasion, were unacceptable.
Later, Ukrainian presidential aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko posted a video of yellow buses with a red cross plastered on the side that he said were being used for evacuations from Mariupol.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said 30 buses were sent from Zaporizhzhia to Mariupol with humanitarian aid, including water, basic food staples, and medicines, and will be used to bring out civilians.
Demands for effective passageways have surged amid intensifying shelling by Russian forces. The steady bombardments, including in some of Ukraine’s most populated regions, have yielded a humanitarian crisis of diminishing food, water and medical supplies.
Through it all, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces were showing unprecedented courage.
“The problem is that for one soldier of Ukraine, we have 10 Russian soldiers, and for one Ukrainian tank, we have 50 Russian tanks,” Zelenskyy told ABC News in an interview that aired Monday night. But he noted that the gap in strength was closing and that even if Russian forces “come into all our cities,” they will be met with an insurgency.
A top U.S. official said multiple countries were discussing whether to provide the warplanes that Zelenskyy has been pleading for.
The besieged city of Mariupol was short on water, food and power, and cellphone networks are down. Stores have been looted as residents search for essential goods. Police moved through the city, advising people to remain in shelters until they heard official messages broadcast over loudspeakers to evacuate.
Hospitals in Mariupol are facing severe shortages of antibiotics and painkillers, and doctors performed some emergency procedures without them.
The lack of phone service left anxious citizens approaching strangers to ask if they knew relatives living in other parts of the city and whether they were safe.
The battle for Mariupol is crucial because its capture could allow Moscow to establish a land corridor to Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014.
Several hundred kilometers (miles) west of Mariupol, Russian forces continued their offensive in Mykolaiv, opening fire on the Black Sea shipbuilding center of a half-million people, according to Ukraine’s military. Rescuers said they were putting out fires caused by rocket attacks in residential areas.
Ukraine’s general staff of the armed forces said in a statement Tuesday that Ukrainian forces are continuing defense operations in the suburbs of the city.
The general staff said “demoralized” Russian forces are engaging in looting in places they have occupied, commandeering civilian buildings like farm hangars for military equipment, and are setting up firing positions in populated areas. The claims could not be independently verified.
Ukrainian defense forces were also involved in operations in the northern city of Chernihiv and the outskirts of Kyiv, the general staff said.
In Kyiv, soldiers and volunteers have built hundreds of checkpoints to protect the city of nearly 4 million, often using sandbags, stacked tires and spiked cables. Some barricades looked significant, with heavy concrete slabs and sandbags piled more than two stories high, while others appeared more haphazard, with hundreds of books used to weigh down stacks of tires.
“Every house, every street, every checkpoint, we will fight to the death if necessary,” said Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, with 1.4 million people, heavy shelling slammed into apartment buildings.
“I think it struck the fourth floor under us,” Dmitry Sedorenko said from his Kharkiv hospital bed. “Immediately, everything started burning and falling apart.” When the floor collapsed beneath him, he crawled out through the third story, past the bodies of some of his neighbors.
In the small town of Horenka, where shelling reduced one area to ashes and shards of glass, rescuers and residents picked through the ruins as chickens pecked around them.
“What are they doing?” rescue worker Vasyl Oksak asked of the Russian attackers. “There were two little kids and two elderly people living here. Come in and see what they have done.”
At The Hague, Ukraine pleaded with the International Court of Justice to order a halt to Russia’s invasion, saying Moscow is committing widespread war crimes.
Russia “is resorting to tactics reminiscent of medieval siege warfare, encircling cities, cutting off escape routes and pounding the civilian population with heavy ordnance,” said Jonathan Gimblett, a member of Ukraine’s legal team.
The fighting has sent energy prices surging worldwide and stocks plummeting, and threatens the food supply and livelihoods of people around the globe who rely on crops farmed in the fertile Black Sea region.
The U.N. human rights office reported 406 confirmed civilian deaths but said the real number is much higher.
On Monday, Moscow again announced a series of demands to stop the invasion, including that Ukraine recognize Crimea as part of Russia and recognize the eastern regions controlled by Moscow-supported separatist fighters as independent. It also insisted that Ukraine change its constitution to guarantee it won’t join international bodies like NATO and the EU. Ukraine has already rejected those demands.
Zelenskyy has called for more punitive measures against Russia, including a global boycott of its oil exports, which are key to its economy.
“If (Russia) doesn’t want to abide by civilized rules, then they shouldn’t receive goods and services from civilization,” he said in a video address.
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This story has been updated to correct that buses in video from Mariupol did not have people on them, though an official said they were part of evacuation efforts.
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Associated Press reporters from around the world contributed to this report.
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TOP WRAP 4-Ukrainians escape besieged Sumy in first evacuation corridor agreed with Russia
There was no immediate comment from the Ukrainian side on evacuations from cities apart from Sumy. Russian and Ukrainian officials had agreed similar corridors to evacuate residents from the besieged port of Mariupol in the south on Saturday and Sunday, but both those attempts failed, with each side accusing the other of continuing to fire.
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Ukrainians boarded buses to flee the besieged eastern city of Sumy on Tuesday, the first evacuation from a Ukrainian city through a humanitarian corridor agreed with Russia after several failed attempts in recent days. Sumy governor Dmitro Zhivitskiy said in a video statement that the first buses had already departed Sumy for the city of Poltava, further west. He said priority would be given to the disabled, pregnant women and children in orphanages.
A short video clip released by presidential advisor Kyrolo Tymoshenko showed a red bus with some civilians on board. "It has been agreed that the first convoy will start at 10 a.m. (0800 GMT) from the city of Sumy. The convoy will be followed by the local population in personal vehicles," Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said in a televised statement.
Residents were also leaving the town of Irpin, a frontline Kyiv suburb where Reuters journalists had filmed families fleeing for their lives under fierce bombardment on Sunday. Residents ran with their young children in strollers or cradling babies in arms, while others carried pets and plastic bags of belongings. "The city is almost ruined, and the district where I'm living, it's like there are no houses which were not bombed," said one young mother, holding a baby beneath a blanket, while her daughter stood by her side.
"Yesterday was the hardest bombing, and the lights and sound is so scary, and the whole building is shaking." Russia's Interfax news agency said Moscow was opening corridors on Tuesday to allow people to leave five Ukrainian cities: Cherhihiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol and the capital Kyiv, as well as Sumy. There was no immediate comment from the Ukrainian side on evacuations from cities apart from Sumy.
Russian and Ukrainian officials had agreed on similar corridors to evacuate residents from the besieged port of Mariupol in the south on Saturday and Sunday, but both those attempts failed, with each side accusing the other of continuing to fire. Moscow describes its actions in Ukraine as a "special operation" to disarm its neighbor and arrest leaders it calls "neo-Nazis". Ukraine and its Western allies call this a baseless pretext for an invasion to conquer a country of 44 million people.
Russia's invasion, the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two, has sent 1.7 million refugees fleeing to other countries. Western sanctions have cut off Russia from international trade to a degree never before imposed on such a big economy. Russia is the world's leading exporter of oil and gas, and both Russia and Ukraine are major suppliers of grain and metals, creating concern that the conflict could cause massive supply disruptions and derail the global recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
DISASTER Ukraine said the pace of Russia's advances had slowed on Tuesday. Its defense ministry said Russian Major General Vitaly Gerasimov, first deputy commander of Russia's 41st army, had been killed on Monday, the second Russian major general killed since the invasion began. Russia's defense ministry could not be immediately reached for comment and Reuters could not verify the reports.
Negotiations have so far focused mainly on allowing safe passage for civilians to escape bombardment from cities that came under Russian siege. Sumy in the east and Mariupol in the south have been among the hardest hit by Russia's assault. Russia had said it would require those fleeing from Kyiv or Kharkiv to go to Russia itself or its ally Belarus, conditions rejected by Ukraine. Those leaving Sumy or Mariupol would be permitted to go to other parts of Ukraine.
Western countries say Russia's initial battle plan for a rapid strike to topple the Kyiv government failed in the early days of the war, and Moscow has adjusted its tactics for longer sieges of cities. The main assault force heading towards Kyiv has been stuck on a road north of the capital, an armored column stretching for miles. To the south, Russia has made more progress along the Black and Azov Sea coasts.
Fears of energy war between Russia and the West have grown this week after the United States pushed its allies to ban Russian oil imports. Sanctions so far have made an exception for Russian energy exports. U.S. President Joe Biden held a video conference call with the leaders of France, Germany, and Britain on Monday. The United States is not a major buyer of Russian energy, but Russia supplies 40% of Europe's gas, and European allies have indicated so far that they are not in a position to halt Russian energy supplies.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Monday Russia could halt gas deliveries to Germany in retaliation for Berlin suspending a new pipeline. Oil prices could more than double to $300 a barrel if the United States and its allies banned imports of Russian oil, he said. A senior U.S. defense official said Putin had now deployed nearly 100% of the more than 150,000 troops that he had pre-staged outside Ukraine before the invasion.
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As the political scene in Uttarakhand heats up, with exit poll predicting a hung House and a close race between the Congress and ruling BJP, senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya – who successfully engineered a split in the Congress ranks in 2016 – has entered the picture.
The BJP national general secretary, who arrived in Dehradun on Sunday, has held meetings with top state leaders including incumbent Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and former CM Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank. While Vijayvargiya denied being in contact with candidates of other parties, the Congress is understandably on alert.
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In 2016, Vijayvargiya was said to have played a key role in the revolt within the Congress against its then CM Harish Rawat. As the state went under President’s Rule, an unhappy Rawat had been one of the reasons for a Congress collapse. In the 2017 elections, the party had won only 11 seats, with the BJP getting 57 of 70. In this election, Rawat is back at the front and centre in the Congress campaign.
On Monday, Vijayvargiya was present at a meeting held by the BJP state unit with office-bearers, district presidents and party candidates, along with Union minister Pralhad Joshi.
Congress organisation general secretary Mathura Dutt Joshi told The Indian Express that the timing of Vijayvargiya’s visit to Uttarakhand was significant. He also said that if needed, the party would consider shifting its winning MLAs to “a secure location”.
“In 2016, Vijayvargiya stayed here for a month and left only after dislodging our government,” Joshi said, adding that the Congress central leaders were expected to reach Dehradun soon to counter any such moves and be ready for any eventuality on result day.
Denying the Congress claims, Vijayvargiya said the BJP would get a two-third majority in the state and not need any outside help to form the government. “I do not know why Congress is scared of my entry in Uttarakhand… We will have our CM and our Cabinet will be formed with a a two-third majority. The Congress has already admitted defeat.”
He claimed he had arrived in the state for training of party workers before the counting. “Sometimes those participating are new workers and that is why their training is important… The BJP takes elections very seriously and that is why we also take counting seriously,” Vijayvargiya told the media.
Exit polls have suggested a tough fight in Uttarakhand, which voted on February 14, with none giving either the Congress or the BJP more than 40 seats in the 70-member Assembly. No party has retained power in Uttarakhand since its formation in 2000.
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ZAHONY, Hungary (AP) — It's a global day to celebrate women, but many fleeing Ukraine feel only the stress of finding a new life for their children as husbands, brothers and fathers stay behind to defend their country from Russia's invasion.
The number of refugees fleeing Ukraine reached 2 million on Tuesday, according to the United Nations, the fastest exodus Europe has seen since World War II.
Polina Shulga tried to ease the journey for her 3-year-old daughter by hiding the truth.
“Of course it’s hard to travel with a child, but I explained to her that we’re going on vacation and that we’ll definitely come home one day when the war is over,” Shulga said.
She didn’t know what would come next after arriving in Hungary from Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, but believed the experience was making her stronger. “I feel like I’m responsible for my child, so it was easier for me to take this step and leave, because if I had not had a child, I probably would not have dared to go into the unknown,” she said, as her little girl tugged at the hem of her coat.
Nataliya Grigoriyovna Levchinka, a refugee from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, felt much the same.
“I’m generally in some kind of a terrible dream which keeps going on,” the retired teacher said. “I would be in some kind of abstraction if it wasn’t for my daughter. I wouldn’t be able to come to my senses.”
A decree by Ukraine’s government that prohibits men aged 18 to 60 from leaving the country means that most of those fleeing Ukraine are women and children. The policy is meant to encourage men to sign up to fight against Russia’s invasion or to keep them available for conscription into the armed forces.
That has led to heartbreaking scenes of separation, and growing worry as some encircled, battered parts of Ukraine slip out of reach.
In a refugee camp in Moldova, Elena Shapoval apologized for her tears. She doesn’t hide them from her two children, one 4 and one 8, while recalling their journey from Odesa. The younger one doesn’t understand what’s happening, Shapoval said. The older one tries to calm her, saying, ‘Mom, everything will be all right.’”
She cannot collapse as she thinks about the life they left behind. “I realize that we’ll have to work a lot now,” she said. “I need to get myself together because I have two children and I need to ball up my will like a fist.”
In Romania, Alina Rudakova began to cry as the realized she had forgotten about International Women’s Day. Last year, the 19-year-old from Melitopol received a bouquet of flowers from her father and gifts from other relatives.
“This year, I didn’t even think about this day,” she said. “This day was really awful.”
In a theater at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in the Polish city of Przemysl near the border, women and children filled makeshift beds. Some checked their phones yet again for news.
“It was difficult to prepare myself for traveling,” said one refugee from near Kyiv who gave only her first name, Natalia. “My sister said that I am very brave, but in my opinion I am a coward. I want to go home.”
And at the Medyka border crossing in Poland, Yelena Makarova said her hurried flight from Kremenchuk with her mother and teenage daughter marked the end of her life as she knew it. Her father, husband and brother all stayed behind.
“I wish that (the war) it would finish as soon as possible, because do you know, for every mother, what can be worse?” she said. “I can’t understand why our children are dying. I don’t know.”
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said that the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, two of the biggest wheat exporters in the world, has increased the demand for India’s wheat in global markets and this opportunity could be used to provide the best-quality product globally.
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Speaking at a webinar ‘Financing for Growth & Aspirational Economy’ organised by the finance ministry, he said that the financial institutions and the government departments should work to meet different financing needs of exporters.
He said there is now a renewed push towards self-dependence in meeting the country’s requirements, while at the same time also on seizing opportunities of boosting growth.
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There is news of the rising attractiveness of domestic wheat in global markets, and the financial sector, import-export departments as well as shipping industry should make a “comprehensive effort” to help wheat and other exporters, he said via a video link.
“Agar mano dunia mein hamare liye gehun (export) ki opportunity aayi hai, to usko samay se pehle, uttam quality, uttan service ke saath hum provide karein, to dheere dheere woh permanent ban jayega. (Suppose now an opportunity has come to export Indian wheat, we should seize this opportunity and provide the best-quality product with the best service, and slowly such an arrangement will become permanent),” he said.
Wheat prices have skyrocketed globally due to the geopolitical situation, especially since Russia and Ukraine are the world’s second-largest and fourth-largest wheat exporters, respectively.
The ongoing war between the two countries has sent prices of wheat and corn traded at Chicago Board of Trade futures exchange soaring to their highest since March 2008 and December 2012, respectively.
This has made Indian wheat exports very competitive. Wheat from Gujarat, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh is now being delivered by rail wagons or trucks at warehouses near Kandla port at Rs 2,400-2,450 per quintal, as against Rs 2,100 or so hardly 15 days ago. This is above the government’s minimum support price of Rs 2,015 per quintal for the new crop that will arrive in the markets from mid-March.
Modi also urged financial institutions to support the rural economy and identify eight to ten potential sectors where India can emerge as a strong player globally. He asked whether India can emerge among the top three countries in the sectors like constructions, startups, or emerging sectors like drones, space and geo-spatial data.
The Indian economic recovery is again picking up speed and the budget this year has taken several measures to keep up the momentum of high growth, he said, adding that the government departments should focus on effective implementation of these measures so that outcomes become visible within the next year.
“By encouraging foreign capital flows, reducing tax on infrastructure investment, creating institutions like NIIF, Gift City, new DFIs, we have tried to accelerate financial and economic growth…The country’s commitment to the widespread use of digital technology in finance is now reaching the next level. Be it 75 digital banking units in 75 districts or the central bank digital currency, they reflect our vision,” he said.
Modi stressed the need to discuss ways of reducing dependence on other countries by exploring different models of financing infra projects, citing the PM Gatishakti National Masterplan as one such example in that direction. He said that the financial institutions should also focus on the Aspirational Districts Programme and the development of eastern India and the North East.
A total of 16 ministries, NITI Aayog, Capacity Building Commission, state governments officials and financial sector regulators participated in the webinar wherein discussions are being held on subjects including financing of infrastructure, funding sectors with high employment potential and green finance, among others.
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MEIL to commission 15 oil and gas rigs for ONGC by May
Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Limited MEIL, which has secured an order from ONGC Limited to supply 47 oil and gas rigs, expects commissioning of 15 of them by May end, a senior official of the infra major said on Tuesday.K Satyanarayana, Technical Head, Rigs Project, MEIL, said most of the 15 rigs have reached the respective locations and commissioning will be expedited soon.The total order from ONGC was for 47 rigs-20 are workover rigs, and 27 are land drilling rigs.
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Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Limited (MEIL), which has secured an order from ONGC Limited to supply 47 oil and gas rigs, expects commissioning of 15 of them by May end, a senior official of the infra major said on Tuesday.
K Satyanarayana, Technical Head, Rigs Project, MEIL, said most of the 15 rigs have reached the respective locations, and commissioning will be expedited soon.
"The total order from ONGC was for 47 rigs-20 are workover rigs, and 27 are land drilling rigs. We will be able to commission the first lot, 15 rigs (10 Drilling Rigs and five Workover Rigs by May end,'' he told reporters.
The capacity of the 20 Workover Rigs ranges from 50 to 150 tonnes while the Land Drilling Rigs have a capacity of 1500HP to 2000 HP, he noted.
As of now, the MEIL has supplied 10 Drilling rigs. While three of them are already operational, seven others are in the final stage of installation and commissioning, and these rigs will be operational in 4 to 5 weeks across various onshore ONGC Fields.
Satya Narayana said the second lot of the 47 Rigs comprising six Rigs will be delivered as per the given schedule.
The MEIL will be manufacturing and supplying all the rigs to the ONGC assets in Assam (Sibsagar, Jorahat), Andhra Pradesh (Rajahmundry), Gujarat (Ahmedabad, Ankaleshwar, Mehasana and Cambay), Tripura (Agartala), and Tamil Nadu (Karaikal).
In spite of COVID-19, MEIL is committed to completing the project with its expertise, dedication, and hard work. The problem of procuring components from global suppliers still persists, however, the supply chain of the industry is slowly recovering which is helping in the timely delivery of the rigs.
As the energy prices soar, the advanced rigs are very crucial for the Indian energy sector to drill the oil and gas wells faster and increase the oil and gas production for domestic use, the MEIL official added.
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Power station breakdown leads to implementation of load shedding
According to the power utility, at least seven units were affected – putting the power grid under severe pressure.
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Breakdowns and shut downs at Eskom's power stations has led to the implementation of Stage 2 load shedding.
According to the power utility, at least seven units were affected – putting the power grid under severe pressure.
"Medupi Unit 3 broke down, necessitating load shedding to be [implemented]…continuously until 5am on Wednesday. This adds to the multiple generating unit failures that occurred over the past 24 hours and has severely reduced available generating capacity.
"Since [Monday] morning, a unit each at Matla, Kendal, Matimba, Kusile and Grootvlei power stations tripped, while a unit each at Arnot and Hendrina power stations were forced to shut down. This, in addition to other units that had tripped during the weekend, reduced available generation capacity, forcing Eskom to rely heavily on emergency generation reserves to keep the lights on," the power utility said.
Eskom explained that the current bout of load shedding will allow the power utility to replenish emergency generation reserves which have been used "significantly since the past weekend".
"While we expect some generation units to return to service…Eskom appeals to all South Africans to help us limit the impact of load shedding by reducing the usage of electricity and to switch off all non-essential appliances," Eskom said.
Meanwhile, President Cyril Ramaphosa has acknowledged that the power utility is facing serious challenges – some of which can be remedied through government's procurement of additional power.
"Eskom is dealing with a very difficult situation. We are short of 4000MW so when they reach…their availability factor – which is low – then they are challenged because they don't have an additional 4000MW.
"We are speeding up the acquisition of the 4000MW. Once we've got an additional 4000MW, we are in a much better position. This is important for the economy, for the people of South Africa. We want to see this resolved [but] there will be those hiccups, those ups and downs. But the matter is being addressed, is being handled," he said.
The power utility is expected to brief the media on the current challenges facing the power grid on Tuesday.
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Financial stocks lift FTSE 100 higher; M&G jumps
Ten-year yields on British bonds rose 1.4% to a one-week high. Energy stocks rose 0.4%, a day after recording its best session since January 2021, supported by firmer crude prices.
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London's FTSE 100 stock index recouped early losses to trade higher on Tuesday, aided by gains in financial stocks, while insurer and asset manager M&G jumped on a 500 million pound buyback programme.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 rose 0.2%, supported by a 2.0% and 2.6% jump in banks and insurers , respectively. "The gains are largely led by the biggest losers of recent weeks, a point reinforced by the rise in 10-year bond yields today," said Chris Bailey, strategist at Raymond James. Ten-year yields on British bonds rose 1.4% to a one-week high.
Energy stocks rose 0.4%, a day after recording its best session since January 2021, supported by firmer crude prices. The rising oil prices stoked inflation fears and added to economic growth worries. Russia's invasion on Ukraine has triggered sweeping sanctions by the United States and other Western allies that aim to isolate the country.
President Joe Biden's administration is willing to move ahead with a U.S. ban on Russian oil imports even if European allies do not, Reuters reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The domestically focused mid-cap index gained 1.0%, rebounding from the low levels in the prior session that were last seen in November 2020.
"Its probably just a rebound on the basis of we haven't seen another devastating headline in a brief period of time which is allowing some kind of a minor relief rally," said Craig Erlam, a senior market analyst at Oanda. Among individual stocks, M&G gained 12.5% and was among the top gainers, after the insurer and asset manager said it would offer shareholders a 500 million pound ($654.30 million) buyback programme as capital generation beat targets.
Robert Walters rose 5.9% after the recruitment firm reported its annual profit had more than quadrupled, benefiting from clients ramping up permanent hiring amid fierce competition for talent as economies reopen.
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Libya's oil company says production resumed at largest field
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Libya's national oil company said it resumed oil production Tuesday from the country's largest field three days after an armed group shut it down.
The state-run National Oil Corporation said pump valves at the Sharara field were opened a few minutes after midnight local time.
It said it lifted a force majeure, a legal maneuver that lets a company get out of its contracts because of extraordinary circumstances.
The company said technical workers were working to resume production from an el-Feel oil field.
The closure of the two fields caused Libya's daily oil production to drop by 330,000 barrels, the NOC said.
Before the shutdown, Libya's production stood at around 1.2 billion barrels a day.
The North African nation has the ninth-largest known oil reserves in the world and the biggest oil reserves in Africa.
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ANALYSIS-Ukraine crisis could disrupt India's spending plans, economic recovery
If the conflict lasts, India, which imports close to 85% of its oil needs, is likely to see its fiscal, trade and account deficits swelled by a surge in crude oil prices to their highest in more than a decade, which will also fuel inflation. "The contagion from currently rising geopolitical tension is unlikely to remain limited to financial assets and warrants a change in our key macro forecasts for FY23," said Abheek Barua, chief economist at HDFC Bank.
India is likely to rank among the emerging economies worst affected by the Russia-Ukraine crisis as a surge in global prices of commodities is set to upend spending plans and derail its pandemic recovery, analysts say. If the conflict lasts, India, which imports close to 85% of its oil needs, is likely to see its fiscal, trade and account deficits swelled by a surge in crude oil prices to their highest in more than a decade, which will also fuel inflation.
"The contagion from currently rising geopolitical tension is unlikely to remain limited to financial assets and warrants a change in our key macro forecasts for FY23," said Abheek Barua, chief economist at HDFC Bank. February's budget was based on an average oil price of $75 to $80 a barrel for the fiscal year starting from April 1, but Brent briefly soared on Monday to nearly $140, its highest in over a decade.
A senior government official said if oil prices averaged $100 a barrel in the fiscal year to March 2023, that could shave 90 basis points off growth, taking it below 8%, from a forecast range of 8% to 8.5%. In such a scenario, inflation is seen rising by 100 basis points and the current account deficit could widen by 120 basis points to 2.3% to 2.4% of GDP.
DBS Bank says every increase of $10 a barrel in the price of oil lifts India's consumer price index-based inflation by 20 to 25 basis points, widens the current account gap by 0.3% of GDP, and poses a downside risk of 15 basis points to growth. The oil price spike is also expected to pressure the government to lower fuel levies and reduce the burden on consumers. That in turn would dent revenues, narrowing the room for capital spending needed to boost growth.
Retail fuel prices could rise 10% or more, starting from this week, as results flow in from elections in key states. To avoid voter backlash at the polls, state-run oil companies have not raised prices since Nov. 4. "Given the bunched-up increase in the offing, excise duty cuts might be undertaken, to ease pressure on purchasing power and incomes," said Radhika Rao, an economist with DBS Bank.
But every rupee cut from fuel levies shrinks revenue for the government's coffers by 130 billion rupees ($1.7 billion) a year. Economists say India could lose as much as 900 billion rupees in trying to lower pump prices. And a recent battering of markets, which forced a rethink of plans for an $8-billion IPO of state-run Life Insurance Corp by the end of March, is likely to further dent the government's financial position.
RATINGS RISK On the plus side, the government could turn a profit by selling some of its vast grain stockpiles following a rise in global wheat prices that could boost exports of the grain from India.
That could defray expenses on its vast annual purchases of grain at prices above global levels in the effort to support farm incomes. But India's fiscal deficit had widened to a record 9.3% in the year that ended in March 2021, thanks to efforts to cushion the shock of the coronavirus pandemic and revive growth.
That meant the ratio of debt to GDP shot up to more than 90%, for the worst among similarly-rated emerging markets. Although India's ratings have held steady, agencies have warned of long-term challenges and the need to cut the debt-to-GDP ratio to more sustainable levels.
Government officials said the fiscal deficit could slip by 20 to 30 basis points from a target of 6.9% of GDP in the current fiscal year ending in March if LIC was not listed by then. "The ratings agencies were not very happy with the fiscal consolidation path undertaken by us in the budget. Further deterioration could concern them," said a second government official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.
The government is reworking some key budget figures and the outcome of next year's spending plans could look very different from the budget outlined last month, he added.
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GLOBAL MARKETS-World stocks at 1-year lows on inflation shock worries; gold shines
"The price action appears to reflect building concerns over a sharper slowdown/recession for the global economy on the back of the energy price shock," Mizuho strategists said in a note. The MSCI world equity index, which tracks shares in 50 countries, was down 0.2% and has lost 10% since early February.
World stocks held at a one-year low on Tuesday, while gold climbed above the key $2,000 level, as the prospect of a ban on Russian oil imports pushed up oil prices and raised concerns of soaring inflation and slowing economic growth.
President Joe Biden's administration is willing to move ahead with a U.S. ban on Russian oil imports even if European allies do not, U.S. sources indicated, while Russia warned that prices could surge to $300 a barrel and it might close the main gas pipeline to Germany if the West halts oil imports over the invasion of Ukraine. International oil benchmark Brent crude, which briefly hit more than $139 a barrel in the previous session, was up about 2.6% at $126.42.
Still, with Europe rejecting plans to ban energy imports, there was some relief and European stocks picked up more than 1% in early trading, although some analysts said that may be a temporary reprieve. Since mid-February, European banks have lost a quarter of their share value and an earnings hit looks inevitable.
After the S&P 500's worst day since October 2020, Wall Street futures pointed to more losses. "The price action appears to reflect building concerns over a sharper slowdown/recession for the global economy on the back of the energy price shock," Mizuho strategists said in a note.
The MSCI world equity index, which tracks shares in 50 countries, was down 0.2% and has lost 10% since early February. It was down as much as 0.5% in early Asian trading, hitting its lowest level since March 2021. An Asian stock market gauge lost 1% in afternoon trade, tracking a bruising Wall Street session with Japan and Hong Kong leading losses.
"Clearly oil is in the firing line now from both sides. And there's a little bit of brinkmanship as to who can threaten whom when it comes to oil imports or exports," said Kyle Rodda, a market analyst at IG Australia. Price action in the currency markets reflected increased investor nervousness with the U.S. dollar advancing against the Aussie, signalling traders were becoming increasingly pessimistic about the global growth outlook. A currency market volatility gauge jumped to a two-year high.
U.S. crude ticked up 1.8% at $121.55 a barrel, while prices of many other commodities, including nickel, continued to rise as industrial buyers and traders scramble as the Russian-Ukraine conflict shows no sign of cooling. UBS Global Wealth Management is recommending a neutral stance on equities and advising clients to hold commodities, energy stocks and the U.S. dollar as portfolio hedges in the short term.
The yield on benchmark 10-year Treasury notes rose to 1.8369% compared with its U.S. close of 1.749% on Monday. The two-year yield, which rises with traders' expectations of higher Fed fund rates, touched 1.5947% compared with a U.S. close of 1.548%. The rally in oil and other commodities prices will only add to the global inflationary pulse with data this week expected to show the U.S. Consumer Price Index climbed a stratospheric 7.9% on a year-on-year basis in February, up from 7.5% in January.
With the outlook for European growth darkening, the euro was up 0.1% on the day at $1.0857, after taking a beating and falling 3% last week to its lowest level since mid-2020. The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of currencies of other major trading partners, was steady at 99.212.
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SA must redouble efforts of building capable, developmental State
The Minister challenged those in attendance to assist the country to develop a pathway to get back on track to social and economic recovery.
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Minister in the Presidency and chairperson of the National Planning Commission, Mondli Gungubele, says in order for South Africa to achieve the objectives of the National Development Plan (NDP), the country must redouble its efforts of building a capable, ethical and developmental State.
Addressing the NDP Public Lecture on Monday, Gungubele said building such a State requires strong leadership, a focus on people and strong implementation capability.
The Minister addressed the lecture under the theme, 'Reclaiming & Building a Capable, Ethical, Professional & Developmental State'.
"[The theme] is in recognition of these factors and more... it is important to reclaim and build a capable State.
"This moment of crisis requires an integrated response, where government works hand-in-hand with institutions of higher learning, independent researchers, the private sector, civil society and labour, and collectively come up with development strategies to ensure that we recover from the current crisis and restore a thriving economy," he said.
Gungubele said this is what the President refers to when he talks about the social compact.
The Minister challenged those in attendance to assist the country to develop a pathway to get back on track to social and economic recovery.
Consistent with the NDP imperatives, three of the seven priorities adopted by the sixth administration have a component of infrastructure development.
"Job creation, reduction of poverty and the growing gap between wealth and destitution require accelerated development, underpinned by speedy implementation of national programmes.
"The top priority of 'A capable, ethical and development State' underpins all seven priorities of the MTSF. This priority cherishes the ideal of a strong leadership, a focus on people and improved implementation capability," the Minister said.
In terms of the implementation of the Economic Recovery and Reconstruction Plan (ERRP), the Minister said South Africa is now on the threshold of an important opportunity to creatively reshape its economic landscape.
He said the current conjuncture presents an opportunity to reset the South African economy and it is an opportunity to build a new, inclusive economy that benefits all South Africans.
"This is a moment for a permanent and decisive break with our past of low and declining growth, falling per capita incomes, low investment, as well as high and deeply entrenched levels of inequality, poverty and unemployment."
Through the ERRP, he said the country is committed to growing the economy at a rate of 5.4%, reducing the unemployment rate to 6%, increasing investment as a share of GDP to 30%, reducing inequality as measured by the Gini Coefficient to 0.60, and the total eradication of poverty.
"Drawing from the NDP, which envisions a developmental, capable and ethical State that treats citizens with dignity, the MTSF [Medium-Term Strategic Framework] seeks to establish a public sector staffed with professional, responsive, people-centred and meritocratic public servants who enjoy high levels of trust amongst the citizenry," the Minister said.
However, the Minister said as the NDP cautions, "a developmental State cannot materialise by decree, nor can it be legislated or waved into existence by declarations. It has to be consciously built and sustained".
(With Inputs from South African Government Press Release)
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Mamata greets women on IWD
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday greeted all women on International Womens Day and said that the society would not have advanced to where it is now without their contribution.She said that West Bengal is committed to empowerment of women and creating enabling circumstances for them for greater contribution to society.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday greeted all women on International Women's Day and said that the society would not have advanced to where it is now without their contribution.
She said that West Bengal is committed to empowerment of women and creating enabling circumstances for them for greater contribution to society. ''On International Women's Day, my heartiest greetings to women all over the world. You make us proud,'' Banerjee tweeted.
''Without your contribution, society would not have advanced to where it is now,'' she wrote.
Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee exhorted women and girls to claim their space and to be proud of their achievements.
''You have the power to do anything you want, do not let anyone tell you otherwise,'' the TMC MP tweeted.
He urged everyone to make the world a better place for all.
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Ukraine president says child died from dehydration in besieged Mariupol
"In 2022, from dehydration," Zelenskiy said in a video address, likening the humanitarian crisis linked to Russian bombardment of Ukrainian cities to that created by the Nazi invasion during World War Two. The child's death could not immediately be confirmed independently. Moscow calls its actions in Ukraine a "special military operation" to disarm its neighbour and arrest leaders it calls "neo-Nazis".
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- Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday a child had died from dehydration in Ukraine's besieged city of Mariupol, which has had no water, power or heating supplies for days. "In 2022, from dehydration," Zelenskiy said in a video address, likening the humanitarian crisis linked to Russian bombardment of Ukrainian cities to that created by the Nazi invasion during World War Two.
The child's death could not immediately be confirmed independently. Moscow calls its actions in Ukraine a "special military operation" to disarm its neighbour and arrest leaders it calls "neo-Nazis". It denies targeting civilians.
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia police say multiple suspects fired dozens of bullets at a car parked on a Strawberry Mansion street early Tuesday morning killing a man.
"It appears the shooters were firing into this vehicle from every direction," Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.
It happened around 1:30 a.m. on the 1900 block of North 32 Street.
Arriving officers found a shooting victim in the driver's seat of a Hyundai sedan with the engine still running.
Small said the victim was shot multiple times in his head, face and torso. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
At least 31 shots were fired from two weapons.
"Some of the spent shell casings were on the passenger side of the vehicle, some were in front of the vehicle, and most of the spent shell casings were on the driver's side of the vehicle," Small said.
The Hyundai was struck over 15 times, police said, with most of the bullet holes in the driver's side door and window.
"This appears to be an execution due to the fact the car's hit so many times and the victim is hit multiple times," Small said.
The victim's identity is not yet known. Police said he appears to be in his 20s.
Police said surveillance cameras captured three males walking up to the victim, firing shots and then fleeing the scene. No arrests have been made.
A second vehicle which was parked in front of the victim's car was also struck by the gunfire.
Suspects fire 31 shots at man sitting in car in Philly execution-style shooting: Police
The Hyundai was struck over 15 times, police said, with most of the bullet holes in the driver's side door and window.
FATAL SHOOTING
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World markets mixed after rout on Wall St; oil prices climb
US benchmark crude gained USD 2.16 to USD 121.56 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The exchange said the evolving situation in Russia and Ukraine had led it to suspend trading at least for Tuesday and possibly longer on orderly market grounds. Russia is a key supplier of nickel.
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World markets were mixed on Tuesday, with European benchmarks and US futures turning higher after Asian shares extended losses. Surging prices for oil and other vital commodities have been rattling global markets and the situation remains uncertain as investors search for safe havens from expanding sanctions against Russia. Oil prices were relatively steady after surging past USD 130 a barrel the day before. US benchmark crude gained USD 2.16 to USD 121.56 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, the international standard, added USD 2.43 to USD 125.64 a barrel. Russian troops were making significant advances in southern Ukraine early Tuesday but were stalled in some other regions. Ukrainian officials were skeptical over a Russian plan for safe corridors to let civilians escape fighting after earlier efforts to establish evacuation routes crumbled amid renewed attacks.
France's CAC 40 added 2.2per cent to 6,112.21 while Germany's DAX climbed 1.4 per cent to 13,010.32. Britain's FTSE 100 gained 0.2 per cent to 6,971.04. US futures also advanced, with the contract for the Dow industrials up 0.3 dollars while the contract for the S&P 500 gained 0.5 per cent. Analysts expect the war in Ukraine to top the agenda for some time to come and say the full impact of the conflict is yet to be fully taken into account. Worries are growing that Russia's invasion of Ukraine will squeeze already tight supplies of oil. Russia is one of the world's largest energy producers, and oil prices already were high before the attack because the global economy is demanding more fuel after disruptions to travel and manufacturing from the pandemic. But reports on Tuesday highlighted plans by European leaders to find ways to reduce the region's current heavy reliance on Russian natural gas. "Disruptions to energy markets and the possibility of a geopolitical paradigm shift make for a highly unpredictable environment,'' Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management said in a commentary. However, he added, "we should reach a point at which equities start to price in a light at the end of the tunnel.'' Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 shed 1.7 per cent to finish at 24,790.95. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 sank 0.8 per cent to 6,980.30. South Korea's Kospi slipped 1.1 per cent to 2,622.40. Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 1.4 per cent to 20,765.87, while the Shanghai Composite tumbled 2.4 per cent to 3,293.53. India's Sensex was the rare gainer, adding 1 per cent to 53,345.24. The price of gold — a measure of nervousness on Wall Street — jumped more than USD 22 an ounce to USD 2,018.00. Nickel, crucial for batteries and steel making among other vital manufacturing, jumped 44.3 per cent to USD 42,995.00 per metric ton on the London Metal Exchange. The exchange suspended trading after the price of the metal's three-month contract more than doubled to over USD 100,000 a ton. The exchange said the evolving situation in Russia and Ukraine had led it to suspend trading at least for Tuesday and possibly longer "on orderly market grounds.'' Russia is a key supplier of nickel. It and Ukraine together also supply 13 per cent of the world's titanium, which is used to make passenger jets and 30 per cent of the palladium, which goes into cars, cellphones and dental fillings. In currency trading, the US dollar rose to 115.50 Japanese yen from 115.32 yen. The euro cost USD 1.0915, up from USD 1.0853.
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Eco Park aimed at creating natural self-sustaining ecosystem supporting flora and fauna opened
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An Eco-Park set up on a sprawling area of 350 acres by Ramco Cements was formally opened by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin in Virudhunagar district.
The park aims to create a natural self-sustaining ecosystem supporting local flora and fauna.
The concept for the eco-restoration has been designed by the city-based Ramco Group in association with Botanical Services, Auroville.
As of date, 2.50 lakh saplings cover 250 species with 150 indigenous species like different types of neem, peepal tree, mahilam, pungam, babul tree, plumeria, cactus, aloe vera, medicinal plants, were planted at Pandalgudi in the district, the company said.
The company, as part of the restoration, has completed two phases which cover 190 acres of land and the majority of this plantation was using native species that were adapted to the low rain regime of the local area.
''A butterfly garden has also been created for various species of butterflies,'' it said.
According to company officials, phase three of the project already commenced on additional 100-acre land and was expected to be completed by March 2023.
''As of date, an area of 350 acres out of the 800 acres project has been covered and around 2.50 lakh saplings have been planted against the proposed one million (10 lakh),'' the company said.
The project would create a diverse forest area with plant species that facilitates the local species of birds, insects, small animals and reptiles to thrive, the release said.
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European stocks stage tentative recovery as banks surge
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said the country could cut gas supplies via the existing Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany, but it has not made such a decision yet. Shares in banks Raiffeisen, Societe Generale and Unicredit rose between 6.8% and 10.1% after getting hammered in the past weeks on concerns about their exposure to Russia as well as receding expectations of an interest rate hike from the European Central Bank.
European stocks rose on Tuesday, as the banking sector bounced back from a weeks-long rout, but the overall mood in the market was sombre after Moscow warned of cutting gas supplies to the continent. The region-wide STOXX 600 index rose 0.8%, with banks gaining 3.6% after hitting a one-year low in the previous session. Utilities gained 3.2%.
European bourses including the German DAX and Italy's FTSE MIB on Monday confirmed that they were in a bear market, or a decline of 20% or more from their record closing highs, due to the prospects of a ban on Russian oil imports. Fears of a severe supply crunch sent crude prices soaring to $127 per barrel and fuelled concerns about inflation stifling economic growth.
"In the absence of new negatives, the market may try to stabilise but it's very much an ebb and flow between very depressed technicals and a highly uncertain situation in Ukraine," said Emmanuel Cau, head of European equity strategy at Barclays. "We're seeing a lot of moves in the market implying investors are positioning for stagflation risks."
The STOXX 600 is down almost 14% so far this year, falling from record highs hit in January as the Ukraine crisis threatens to derail an economic recovery. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said the country could cut gas supplies via the existing Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany, but it has not made such a decision yet.
Shares in banks Raiffeisen, Societe Generale and Unicredit rose between 6.8% and 10.1% after getting hammered in the past weeks on concerns about their exposure to Russia as well as receding expectations of an interest rate hike from the European Central Bank. Shares in Telecom Italia jumped 10.4% after an Italian newspaper reported that U.S. fund KKR was still interested in a takeover deal, albeit at a lower price.
French food group Danone gained 0.8% after unveiling measures to ramp up revenue growth. British insurer and asset manager M&G surge 12.8% after announcing a 500 million pound ($654.30 million) share buyback programme.
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POESTENKILL, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Troy Public Safty confirmed to NEWS10 that there is currently an active barn fire in Poestenkill. Details are currently limited and NEWS10 is sending a crew down now for live video of the fire.
For live updates of this incident go to NEWS10 Live.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Upcoming emergency no parking restrictions listed below. Vehicles in violations are subject to ticketing and/or tow.
Tuesday, March 8
- On Tuesday, March 8th from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., parking will be restricted on the north side of State Street just east of South Swan Street for event vehicles.
Thursday, March 10
- On Thursday, March 10th from 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., parking will be restricted on the north side of Columbia Street from 71-81 Columbia Street for water and sewer repairs.
- On Thursday, March 10th from 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m., parking will be restricted on the west side of North Pearl Street just north of Sheridan Avenue for a bus.
- Beginning on Thursday, March 10th at 7:00 a.m. until Sunday, April 10th at 5:00 p.m., parking will be restricted on the south side of State Street near 352 State Street for service vehicles.
Friday, March 11
- On Friday, March 11th from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., parking will be restricted on the east side of Dove Street near 46 Dove Street for service vehicles.
- On Friday, March 11th from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., parking will be restricted on both sides of Quail Street from West Street to Benson Street for AWD service vehicles.
- On Friday, March 11th from 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., parking will be restricted on both sides of Quail Street from Hamilton Street to Madison Avenue for water and sewer repairs.
- On Friday, March 11th from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., parking will be restricted on the south side of Hudson Avenue near 330.5 Hudson Avenue for service vehicles.
- Beginning on Friday, March 11th at 8:00 a.m. until Saturday, March 12th at 6:00 p.m., parking will be restricted on the south side of Irving Street near 8 Irving Street for a move.
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Snake rescuer, organic farmer, entrepreneur -- 29 women get Nari Shakti award
From first woman snake rescuer to Down syndrome affected Kathak dancer, 29 outstanding women achievers were conferred with Nari Shakti award on Tuesday on the occasion of International Womens Day.Twenty-eight awards 14 each for 2020 and 2021 were presented to the 29 women in recognition of their exceptional work towards empowerment of women, especially the vulnerable and marginalised.Among the awardees are Vanita Jagdeo Borade, the first woman snake rescuer, who founded Soyre Vanchare Multipurpose Foundation for nature and wildlife protection and promoting pollution-free environment.
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From first woman snake rescuer to Down syndrome affected Kathak dancer, 29 outstanding women achievers were conferred with Nari Shakti award on Tuesday on the occasion of International Women's Day.
Twenty-eight awards (14 each for 2020 and 2021) were presented to the 29 women in recognition of their exceptional work towards empowerment of women, especially the vulnerable and marginalised.
Among the awardees are Vanita Jagdeo Borade, the first woman snake rescuer, who founded 'Soyre Vanchare Multipurpose Foundation' for nature and wildlife protection and promoting pollution-free environment. She has rescued and released over 50,000 snakes to their natural habitat. She also conducted snake awareness programmes that included topics such as first aid for snake bite victims, safety considerations, among others. She is known as ''Snake Friend'' and the Indian postal department honoured her by releasing a postal stamp. Down syndrome affected Kathak Dancer Saylee Nandkishor Agavane has performed in more than 100 events. At the Global Olympiad Dance competition, she received a bronze medal. She has been awarded for promoting Indian classical dance internationally despite facing hardship.
Visually challenged social activist Tiffany Brar was awarded for her exemplary work for visually impaired rural women. Organic farmer Ushaben Dineshbhai Vasava was awarded for her outstanding contribution in organic farming and assistance in educating women farmers at the ground level.
Nivruti Rai, Country Head, Intel India has been awarded for excellence in the field of technology, truly representing the 21st century women and empowering students to build Artifical Intelligence enabled Hi-Tech future for India.
Shobha Gasti, who started Mahilla Abhivrudhi Mattu Samrakshana Samasthe (MASS) that works in 360 villages across three talukas in Belgaum, Karnataka, has been awarded for her exemplary contribution for the cause of empowerment of women and girls.
The next awardee is Tage Rita Takhe, an entrepreneur who produces 'Naara Aalba', India's first organic kiwi wine, with an annual capacity of approximately 60,000 litres and a turnover of Rs 4.5 crore. An engineer by qualification, she left her job to become an entrepreneur. She founded 'Lambu Subu Food and Beverages', Naara-Aaba ''wine' in 2016 in Lower Subansiri, Arunachal Pradesh. She was also awarded the United Nations Women Transforming India Award. The Nari Shakti Puraskar is given to her for excellence in promoting women entrepreneurship and local product internationally.
The Nari Shakti Puraskar is an initiative of the Ministry of Women and Child Development to acknowledge the exceptional contribution made by individuals and institutions, and celebrate women as game-changers and catalysts of positive change in society. PTI UZM SRY
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- Karnataka
- Nandkishor Agavane
- Tiffany Brar
- International Women's Day
- Intel India
- Ministry of Women and Child
- Country Head
- United Nations Women Transforming
- Naara-Aaba '
- Soyre Vanchare Multipurpose Foundation'
- Ushaben Dineshbhai
- Nari Shakti
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CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. (NEWS10) – According to the National Grid Power Outage map, over 15,000 customers are currently affected by power outages throughout the Capital Region. These outages started overnight from the major windstorm that went through the Capital Region.
If you have any photos or videos of the storm damage, you can email them to news@news10.com.
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Bartlesville High Bruins ride 'mo' of strong start to put up a baker's dozen runs in win
Friday’s Bartlesville High vs. Tulsa NOAH varsity baseball bash featured heart-jolting drama, the prickly thorns of ragged-edge plate appearances with two outs and runners on base, pressure-clamped clutch pitches, torpedo-quick hustle on defense and a raucous two-out rally.
And, that was just in the first inning Friday at Bill Doenges Memorial Stadium.
Bartlesville (2-1) erupted for seven runs in the bottom of the first and held on to win, 13-7, by parrying off NOAH’s thrusts the rest of the way.
Energized Bartlesville supporters fanned the fires of excitement for the Bruins in their home opener.
Coming off a 2-0 loss Thursday night at Sapulpa, Bartlesville players dialed in against the NOAH Jaguars like a hungry spider answering the dinner gong of a web-entangled wriggling meal.
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But, the Bruins didn’t exactly dominate at the start.
NOAH burst to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first and threatened with the bases loaded before Bruin right fielder Luke Fox tracked down a tall pop fly for the third out.
“That’s something we focus on,” Bruin head coach Cody Price said about limiting NOAH to one run and leaving the bases loaded. “We call it minimizing damage. I don’t expect my pitchers to be perfect. I don’t expect my players to be perfect. But we’ve talked about how important it is avoiding big innings.”
Bartlesville’s offense then sprang to life in the bottom of the first — striking for seven runs — to take control.
For the game, Bruin seven-hole hitter Mason Moody swung a feisty bat — a double, single and three RBI’s.
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Brendan Asher, Harrison Clark, Zeb Henry and Aidan Silva also each clobbered a double add high octane to the Bruin offensive attack.
Garrett Kelly crushed a two-bagger and plated a pair of tallies for Tulsa NOAH.
On the pitching bump, Eric Olenberger, Carson Leach and Henry each took turns for Bartlesville.
They combined on an eight-hitter with four earned runs allowed, six walks and 12 strikeouts. Henry mowed down six batters on strikeouts in 2.1 innings.
An explosive first inning set the tone for the game.
NOAH opened up the heavyweight battle by threatening to produce an early haymaker.
Jaguars’ leadoff hitter Cade Bauers reached base on an error.
But, the defense made some restitution on the next play when right fielder Luke Fox appeared to run five acres at breakneck speed to scoop a sinking liner out of the air on the right side of center field.
But, the next NOAH hitter hammered a low-flying rocket single to right-center to bring home Bauers for the game’s first run.
NOAH threatened to do a lot more damage when Olenberger walked two batters — sandwiched around a strikeout — to load the bases.
However, Fox — the defensive star of the inning — made a pop fly catch for the final out.
Trailing 1-0, Bartlesville came to bat in the bottom of the first.
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Bradee Rigdon ripped a first-pitch, one-out wormburning single up the middle, followed by Olenberger drawing a walk. Courtesy runner Davis Chancellor took his place at first.
The next batter went down on strikes for Bartlesville’s second out.
But, Nik Johnson kept the rally alive on a four-pitch walk to load the bases for Fox.
Fox took a called strike on the first pitch, but then watched four balls whiz by to force-home Rigdon on the bases-loaded walk.
That opened up the revolving door at home plate.
Moody came up next and belted a bases-clearing double — scoring Chancellor, Johnson and Fox — to power the Bruins to a 4-1 lead.
Asher followed with a two-bagger to plate Moody. Asher scored on an error on a ball put in play by Christian Hernandez.
The Bruins finished off their first-inning run tsunami when Henry doubled home Hernandez to rewrite the score to 7-1.
“We really did a good job of grinding out the at-bats,” Price said about Bartlesville’s early offense. “For the most part, we’ve done a better job of not striking out when we gotten to two-strike counts. It certainly makes a big difference.”
Bartlesville added three more runs in the second inning, highlighted by Johnson’s towering sacrifice fly to deep left and Fox’ RBI bunt single.
The Bruins’ lead after two innings stood at 10-1 — it looked like it might be a short night.
“I was pleased with the way we swung the bats off from the opening gate,” Price said.”
But, the Jaguars displayed plenty of grit to claw back within four runs, 11-7.
Bartlesville refocused to score two runs in the bottom of the sixth — one off Clark’s double and the other off Johnson’s grounder — to extend the margin back to six runs, 13-7.
“After scoring 10 runs in the first two innings, we weren’t able to produce as many runs as I hoped,” Price said.
Henry did the rest.
In the top of the seventh, he struck out three of the four NOAH batters he faced to lock down the triumph.
Price continues to be concerned about the Bruins’ defensive lapses.
“We’ve made more errors than I want,” he said. “I believe we’re going to clean that up.”
Price is overall pleased with a 2-1 record the first week — especially considering his high number of players that are new to high-profile varsity roles.
“We should have been 3-0, but one bad inning hurt us vs. Sapulpa,” he said about the 7-5 loss.
He lauded the offensive work the first week of Henry and Olenberger, and the pitching of Asher and Johnson.
The Bruins eye a home game at 6 p.m. Tuesday evening against Tulsa Union and home games Thursday and Friday, at 5 p.m., against Oologah and Skiatook, respectively.
Next week, they head to a guaranteed four-game tourney in Alabama.
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FOREX-Euro near 22-month lows as Ukraine crisis grips
The euro was trading near 22-month lows on Tuesday as war in Ukraine darkens Europe's economic outlook, while currencies lifted by rocketing energy prices paused after a weeks-long rally. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to increased demand for assets seen as safer across markets, with the dollar - the world's reserve currency - up around 3% over nearly two weeks as the crisis has intensified.
The euro was trading near 22-month lows on Tuesday as war in Ukraine darkens Europe's economic outlook, while currencies lifted by rocketing energy prices paused after a weeks-long rally.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to increased demand for assets seen as safer across markets, with the dollar - the world's reserve currency - up around 3% over nearly two weeks as the crisis has intensified. The euro regained ground on the day after five sessions of declines, but is still trading near a trough of $1.08060 on Monday - its lowest since March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic gripped Europe.
Russia's offensive in Ukraine continued on Tuesday but at a slower pace, though fighting is showing no signs of abating. Russia calls its actions a "special military operation". The crisis has led to soaring energy prices and concerns about inflation and a possible hit to global economic recovery.
"The price action appears to reflect building concerns over a sharper slowdown/recession for the global economy on the back of the energy price shock," currency analysts at MUFG said in a note. "The weakening growth outlook for the euro-zone economy is already reflected by the weaker euro."
The dollar index was broadly flat on the day at 99.146 , while the euro was last up 0.2% at $1.08795. The single currency was briefly trading at parity with the Swiss franc on Monday for the first time in seven years, but again gained some ground, last up 0.6%.
Traders are expecting choppy markets, with euro/dollar volatility gauges at their highest since the market chaos of March 2020. Overall forex volatility gauges were also up to the highest level since April 2020. Although Germany's opposition to a ban on Russian energy imports knocked oil futures from Monday's 14-year peak, analysts expect the supply shock to persist and hold back growth.
The ECB meets on Thursday with the spectre of stagflation prompting economists to suggest policymakers might delay rate hikes until late in the year. Sterling was last up 0.2% at $1.31270 after falling to a new 16-month low of $1.30830 earlier in the trading session.
The yen dipped slightly to 115.57 per dollar. Besides commodities' rally, the war and subsequent Western sanctions have crushed Russian assets, with the rouble falling to a record low of 160 to the dollar in erratic offshore trade on Monday. The rouble firmed slightly in thin offshore trade on Tuesday.
Commodities and exporters' currencies paused on Tuesday, with the Australian and New Zealand dollars off Monday's four-month peaks. Traders are starting to fret that in the longer run sky-high commodity prices could become a drag on world growth. The Aussie was last down a third of a percent at $0.72905, while the kiwi was broadly flat at $0.68290.
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Oil companies to determine fuel prices: Union minister
Amid the Russia-Ukraine war, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday said oil companies will determine the fuel prices, even as he said there will be no shortage of crude oil in the country.Puri, however, said the government will take decisions in the best interest of citizens.I assure you all that there will be no shortage of crude oil.
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Amid the Russia-Ukraine war, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday said oil companies will determine the fuel prices, even as he said there will be no shortage of crude oil in the country.
Puri, however, said the government will take decisions in the best interest of citizens.
''I assure you all that there will be no shortage of crude oil. We will make sure that our energy requirements are met, even though 85 per cent of our requirements are dependent on imports for crude oil and 50-55 per cent on gas,'' Puri said at a press conference here.
He refuted the allegation that the fuel prices were reduced by the Centre earlier due to elections and the rates will be hiked again after the polls.
Puri said the Centre had reduced Rs 5 per litre on petrol and Rs 10 per litre on diesel last year, but ''young leaders'' said it was done because of the Assembly elections in five states, the results of which will be announced on March 10.
He said people should take note of other conditions such as the Ukraine-Russia crisis to understand why the rates were hiked globally.
''Oil prices are determined by global prices and there is a war-like situation in one part of the world and the oil companies will factor that in. The oil companies will themselves determine the prices. We will take decisions in the best interest of the citizens,'' Puri said.
He said when economic activities came to a halt due to the lockdowns clamped to curb the spread of COVID-19, the global oil prices fell significantly.
''But now, because of tension and the military action in Ukraine, it (the oil prices) has gone up. The oil companies will take a decision in this regard (to increase prices),'' the minister said.
Crude oil prices rose by Rs 37 to Rs 9,321 per barrel on Tuesday as participants widened their positions on a firm spot demand.
On the Multi Commodity Exchange, crude oil for March delivery traded higher by Rs 37 or 0.4 per cent at Rs 9,321 per barrel in 9,660 lots.
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Ukraine war may have limited impact on domestic credit market: Report
But since pharma companies have low leverage on their balance sheets, risk will be minimal.The agency also said that higher food, NPK fertilisers and oil prices are likely to put pressure on the subsidy allocation for fertilisers and LPG.
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The direct impact of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war on the domestic credit markets appears to be limited as the banking system has adequate liquidity but not the market as a whole, as per a report.
According to India Ratings, overall, the duration and intensity of the war will be the key determinant for the macro and micro risks. Although the direct impact seems to be limited on the credit based on limited escalation from the ongoing situation, the rippling effect will be disproportionately higher in case the war continues for long. From a financing point of view, the agency said the domestic banking system has adequate liquidity; but, this does not ensure market and balance-sheet liquidity for the system as a whole. Given the rising uncertainties, high energy prices and cautious sentiments in the capital markets, entities with a weak financial profile may face financing challenges in case the situation worsens.
The agency's assessment is based on an analysis of the top 1,400 corporates (excluding oil and financial entities) based on their total debt, and it shows a limited-to-moderate impact on their credit profiles. If commodity prices sustain at the current elevated levels, the rupee may depreciate by 10 per cent and an increase in the borrowing costs by 1 per cent, median operating margins can be impacted by 100-200 bps for commodity-consuming sectors, the report said. Their debt at risk (with net leverage exceeding 5x) will exceed by Rs 1.2 lakh crore compared to what was anticipated prior to the war.
The agency's initial assessment indicated that the impact of the war will be largely restricted to small entities and those at the lower end of the credit spectrum.
The impact will be more pronounced on a few sectors and given the relatively small exposure, it will be manageable from a credit perspective, the report said. Pharma and subsidy-linked sectors such as fertilisers are the most exposed. Pharma has meaningful exports to the Commonwealth of the Independent States/ex-USSR states which, coupled with the ongoing pressure on generic pricing in the US, can impact the profitability of some drug makers. But since pharma companies have low leverage on their balance sheets, risk will be minimal.
The agency also said that higher food, NPK fertilisers and oil prices are likely to put pressure on the subsidy allocation for fertilisers and LPG. If the government refrains from increasing fertiliser subsidy, the deficit will need to be funded by balance sheets of fertiliser companies, which will deteriorate their credit metrics. According to the report, rising commodity prices will result in a stretched working capital cycle for small businesses, thereby weakening their debt servicing ability.
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Fire breaks out at scrap godown in Maharashtra's Thane
A fire broke out at a scrap godown in Thane on Tuesday, said fire department officials.
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A fire broke out at a scrap godown in Thane on Tuesday, said fire department officials. The godown is located near the HP petrol pump, on the Shilphata-Mahape road.
Many fire tenders reached the spot to douse the fire. No injuries have been reported in the incident.
More details are awaited. (ANI)
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Ukraine energy system is operational despite costly damage, says minister
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Ukraine's energy system is working as normal despite sustaining damage that amounts to tens of billions of hryvnia, Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko said in televised comments on Tuesday.
The ministry hopes to repair a damaged gas line near the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol despite active fighting in the area, he said. ($1 = 29.7000 hryvnias)
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Former glamour model Katie Price has revealed the promise she's made to herself following her drink-driving crash.
Last year, the mum-of-five flipped her car while under the influence of alcohol on her way to visit a friend.
In her follow-up BBC documentary What Harvey Did Next, she spoke to her mum Amy about her thoughts that night.
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The documentary followed her eldest son's journey in his first term at a specialists college as he embarks on a new phase of adulthood without his mum.
While filming the documentary, Katie had her drink-driving accident which resulted in her becoming an inpatient at the priory mental health facility.
When she was there, the 49-year-old was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and underwent daily therapy.
Speaking about that night with her mum Amy, the reality star revealed she's made a promise to see a therapist once a week so she doesn't 'self-destruct'.
She said: "There's no one to blame for me getting in that car but myself. But that night I got in the car, if people knew what was going on in my head, I wasn't telling myself don't get in the car. I like 'I just need to go'.
"I'm lucky nothing happened. There are now consequences I have to put up from that night now so I've made a promise, that I've never done before.
"I'm going to see a therapist once a week. I just need to learn to cope when these situations happen because I don't want to self destruct."
Her mum was emotional as she told Katie that as a family they all have had to step up to help and protect her.
She said: "Imagine if anything would have happened in that accident, how do you think Harvey would have coped? That's why I know, for you to do what you did do, it must have been something dreadful."
While speaking to each other, Amy recalled the night she got the phone call from Katie about being in the crash.
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She said: "For me to have a phone call at 6.30 in the morning saying, 'I’ve just had a crash, I’m ever so sorry mum' - it was unbelievable. We just couldn’t believe it.
"When you say to me at the time, “Well, why am I still here?” It’s awful for a mother to hear that."
Katie Price: What Harvey Did Next is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
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Former Exeter City councillor Lee Mottram has passed away age 50 following a battle with cancer.
Exeter City Council announced the death of their colleague in a statement on their website on Sunday (March 7).
Lee served as a Conservative councillor representing the Duryard ward from 2010 to 2015 and was also on the Exeter Quay and Canal Trust.
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The council have since passed on their condolences to Lee's family and friends during this time.
A statement from the council said: "Former Exeter City Councillor Lee Mottram has sadly passed away at the age of 50.
"Lee died at the weekend following a battle with cancer. He served as a Conservative councillor representing the Duryard ward, from 2010 to 2015.
"He served on a number of City Council committees including Planning and Scrutiny Resources, on which he was Deputy Chair. He was also on the Exeter Quay and Canal Trust.
"The City Council sends its condolences to Lee’s friends and family at this sad time."
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BSF flags off Seema Bhawani Shaurya Expedition Ride on Women's Day
With an aim of spreading the message of Women's Empowerment, the Border Security Force (BSF) on Tuesday flagged off Seema Bhawani Shaurya Expedition Empowerment Ride 2022.
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With an aim of spreading the message of Women's Empowerment, the Border Security Force (BSF) on Tuesday flagged off Seema Bhawani Shaurya Expedition Empowerment Ride 2022. "36 members of BSF Seema Bhawani All-Women Daredevil Motorcycle Team will travel 5280-kilo meters spreading the message of women empowerment across the nation," Inspector Himanshu Sirohi told ANI.
The expeditionary empowerment ride would pass through major cities en route to Kanyakumari. According to BSF, Seema Bhawani Shaurya Expedition Empowerment Ride 2022 flagged off from India Gate, marking International Women's Day, would be passing through major cities en route to Kanyakumari spreading the message of Women Empowerment. (ANI)
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