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South Molton is hosting a vigil today (March 8) in support of Ukraine as violence against the country continues.
The event will take place at 6pm with anyone welcome to come along to pay their respects.
Locals are expected to gather at Pannier Market in the town as prayers and a short speech from the Mayor of South Molton will be read out.
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There will also be collection buckets for the British Red Cross which will be sent to Ukraine.
It is the latest town in Devon to show support for the people of Ukraine who are currently fleeing violence in the country following the invasion of Russia.
Over the weekend, Torquay held its own vigil when locals turned up to show their support as they held Ukrainian flags and banners reading "Torbay united with Ukraine".
The event was organised by Torbay councillor Jack Dart, who spoke on ways we can help the people of Ukraine.
Speaking to the crowd, Cllr Dart said although people might be feeling helpless there are lots of things you can do to support.
He said: "This is important today but there's more you can do - you can give to charities, the Red Cross, the UN.
"There will be plenty of places you can donate, but they need donations, monetary donations.
"We must give money because that is what will help these people.
"I am proud to be standing here in front of you today and I am proud that you are here, that Torbay is stepping up, because we always do."
Barnstaple and Exeter are among the other Devon locations who have held their own vigil's as hundreds across the county continue to show support to Ukraine.
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The first drawings of a massive new multi-million-pound “remodelling” planned for Torquay’s Rowcroft Hospice show a state-of-the-art specialist nursing home for people with dementia and complex needs.
The proposals have gone on show to the public as the hospice gauges public opinion on its bold new plans.
A consultation event will be held on Thursday and Saturday this week, giving local people another chance to examine the plans.
They include a revamped in-patient unit with an increased number of beds, and the 60-bed specialist nursing home which would be centred around a “village green”.
A village hall, a restaurant and allotments would also be part of the development.
Rowcroft also plans to build as “assisted living” complex to meet the growing demand for elderly care in the Torbay area.
Hospice chief executive Mark Hawkins said: “We are incredibly proud to care for our community and want to ensure specialist, quality end-of-life care is available to everyone who needs us, irrespective of diagnosis, circumstance or background.”
Rowcroft plans a remodelling of the inpatient unit to increase the number of beds from 12 to 14 in an environment that reflects a family home.
Rowcroft says the specialist nursing home will enable it to meet the wider care needs of the community, as well as providing a valuable income to support the hospice’s future care.
It expects to file a planning application in May, with a decision due by the end of the year.
Building could start early in 2024, to be completed the following year.
All the new developments fit within the existing Rowcroft site, which is in secluded woodland behind Torre Station.
The new hospice extension would be at the rear of the existing main house, with the care home alongside, arranged in six “households” of 10 bedrooms each.
The assisted living apartments would be set around Rainbow House, the main building at the northern end of the wooded site.
Remodelling the hospice will provide family accommodation so that loved ones can spend time together.
The specialist nursing home will boast open views of the gardens and homely communal areas.
A Rowcroft spokesman said: “We intend to offer a daily programme of activities to give our residents a real sense of purpose.”
And on the assisted living complex, the spokesman added: “Whether it’s growing vegetables in the allotments, pottering in the greenhouse of joining in with activities that bring the young and the old together, providing independence for our residents with a nurturing and caring environment is key to our proposals.”
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| 2022-03-08T11:03:53
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A shopper has accused Asda of being “insensitive” to vegans by putting plant-based food in the middle of the meat aisle.
They say it means people have to walk past “cut up parts of dead animals” and suggest the store should consider moving the display.
The post on Facebook triggered a discussion about whether the vegan food is in the wrong place.
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Asda says the plant-based food is placed near the meat to give options for 'flexitarians' who might want to swap out meat from their diet for an meat-free alternative.
Many people supported the store's decision and said there were more important things to worry about.
One comment described raising the concern as “snowflake syndrome” and others said they should just ignore the meat.
A supporter of the original post agreed that there should be a vegan section away from the meat and dairy aisles.
But other vegans and vegetarians said the location of the plant-based section next to the meat didn’t bother them.
One person said they always looked for plant-based items near the food they replaced.
A vegan said they were happy with the layout, as it might persuade someone to choose an animal-free item instead of meat.
Another commenter joked about gluten-free items being next to standard snacks, saying: “Does nobody care how awful it is to walk past delicious donuts that will hurt me to buy cardboard tasting ones that won’t? Get over yourselves.”
The original comment with a photograph of the plant-based display, posted on the Spotted Paignton page, said: “This positioning of plant based food in Asda is insensitive to those who have a plant based diet".
They said the store should "consider moving this section to the end of the aisle" so non-meat eaters did not have to walk past "the cut up parts of dead animals.”
Jake Langford commented: “I always look for veggie alternatives near the things it's replacing. It also means we get larger selections because it's not all being crammed on to one shelf as an afterthought.”
Becky Fetherlin, a non-meat eater, said the position of the plant-based food did not bother her, and people should respect each other’s decisions.
She commented: “So sorry but comments like this is what gives vegans and vegetarians a bad name for being forceful of their opinions and over the top.
“I will always respect others’ decisions to eat meat, just like I’d like them to respect my decision to not.
“I’d never push my opinions on to others just like I’d hope others not to push theirs on to mine. Let’s just all respect each others decisions and not make a fuss.
“There will always be meat and there will always be meat alternatives, who cares where it is placed, let’s not make more issues with things like this. There are much worse things going on in the world.”
Chris Hines, who described himself as a long-term vegan and animal rights activist, said he was happy with the position of the display.
He said: “Ultimately I want it in people’s eye line so they may try it over the meat products. My discomfort def comes second to someone potentially making kinder choices for the animals.”
Naomi Louise Morgan said: “I’m a veggie and I don’t expect the world to look after my feelings… this type of rhetoric is getting a bit out of hand now.”
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Naomi Rose Davis commented: “I'm a vegetarian, have been most of life. Doesn't phase me one bit. Also It's there for meat eaters too.. show them there are other options if they fancy trying something new.”
Jasmine Daniella Archer said: “I'm vegetarian and this doesn't bother me whatsoever, the food is all in packaging and if you don't want to look.. don't look.”
But Claire Stoyle said that vegan food should have its own section.
She said: “It’s a marketing tactic putting it there in order to appeal to everyone, not just vegans. I think that it should have a completely vegan section however and keep a few bits in with the meat as well if they must.”
Amelia Taylor-Brown pointed out: “The whole point of it being there is so that meat eaters walk past it and are provided with an alternative to meat.”
A spokesperson for Asda said: "Our plant based range was created to offer meat free alternatives not just for our vegan and vegetarian customers, but also those on a flexitarian diet that look for ways to swap meat out for other alternatives.
"The idea of locating it next to our meat is to show comparable products for those looking to swap meat and try vegetarian or vegan options – which is a lot easier on the aisle."
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Iran will not back down on its red lines in nuclear talks, Raisi says
Negotiations to revive a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major powers have now reached their climax, with the talks' coordinator Enrique Mora of the European Union saying that it is time for a political decision in the next few days. Iran's top negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, returned to Tehran on Monday for consultations over the nuclear deal's conclusion.
Iran will not back down on its red lines in the nuclear talks with Western powers, President Ebrahim Raisi said on Tuesday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
"The government pursues nuclear negotiations in full accordance with the principles and framework set by the Supreme Leader, it has not and will not back down on any of these red lines," the Iranian president was quoted as saying. Negotiations to revive a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major powers have now reached their climax, with the talks' coordinator Enrique Mora of the European Union saying that it is time for a political decision in the next few days. .
Iran has sought to remove all sanctions and it wants guarantees from the United States that it will not abandon the deal once more. Iran's top negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, returned to Tehran on Monday for consultations over the nuclear deal's conclusion.
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Study finds new algorithm that improves accuracy of screening for prostate cancer
A new study has discovered that calculating a person's risk of developing prostate cancer using results from two blood makers can improve the accuracy of screening for the disease.
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A new study has discovered that calculating a person's risk of developing prostate cancer using results from two blood makers can improve the accuracy of screening for the disease. The study was published in the journal, 'Journal of Medical Screening'.
Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in men, with more than 10,000 men dying from the disease every year in the UK, but there is currently no national screening programme. That is partly because the current best first-line test - a blood test that detects raised levels of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) - is not wholly reliable, missing some harmful cancers as well as giving false positives. False positives include not just false alarms where there is no cancer but the discovery of harmless cancers that are unnecessarily treated.
Researchers developed an algorithm estimating a person's risk of developing prostate cancer based on age and the levels of two prostate cancer markers, PSA and hK2 (human kalliknein peptidase). They tested how well the algorithm could predict prostate cancer by comparing blood samples of men who later died after a prostate cancer diagnosis with those who were never diagnosed with the disease.
They found that by setting a risk threshold above which men are counted as "screen positive", the approach would reduce the number of false positives by three quarters compared to a standard PSA test while catching the same proportion of cancers. Lead author Professor Sir Nicholas Wald (UCL Institute of Health Informatics) said, "A key drawback of screening for prostate cancer using a PSA test alone is the higher risk of a false positive, which can lead to an unnecessary, invasive biopsy and the unnecessary treatment of a clinically insignificant cancer that would not have caused harm anyway."
"Our study shows a different screening approach could reduce the number of false positives by three quarters. This would make screening for prostate cancer safer and more accurate, reducing overdiagnosis and overtreatment," he continued. "The next step is to test the feasibility of this approach in practice with a pilot project inviting healthy men for screening. If the project is successful, we believe this approach ought to be considered as part of a national screening programme for all men," he added.
Co-author Jonathan Bestwick (Queen Mary University of London) said, "The approach is innovative for cancer, as it screens people on the basis of their overall risk rather than the results of a single test. This is the same approach used in screening during pregnancy for certain fetal and maternal health conditions." Professor Roger Kirby, President of the Royal Society of Medicine and Vice-President of Prostate Cancer UK, who was not involved in the study, said, "This is a novel approach which utilises the levels of two prostate cancer markers, PSA and hK2 (human kallikrein peptidase) to refine prostate cancer screening. The use of PSA alone has significant drawbacks in terms of screening, but the addition of the hK2 marker in this context carries the genuine promise of significantly reducing the death rate from this most common cancer in men."
For the study, the researchers looked at data and blood samples from more than 21,000 men recruited into the prospective BUPA study over 40 years ago. They analysed a number of prostate cancer markers in blood samples of 571 men who later died from or with prostate cancer, comparing these with a control group of 2,169 men who were never diagnosed with the disease.
They noted that while hK2 was a relatively weak marker for prostate cancer on its own, it was relatively independent of PSA so the two together yielded a more accurate test. They categorised the results of the total PSA and hK2 tests based on how far away from average they were according to the participant's age. They also included age in their assessment of risk.
All men who were estimated to have a one in 20 or greater risk of developing prostate cancer in the next five years were counted as "screen positive". The researchers found that if men aged 55 and over were screened at least five-yearly using this risk cut-off, 90 per cent of cancer cases would be detected, with only 1.2 per cent of cases being false positives.
If a PSA test had been used to screen for the disease on its own, in one scenario modelled by the researchers, an 86 per cent detection rate would have been accompanied by a false positive rate of 2 per cent. By comparison, if the risk-based approach had been adjusted to have a detection rate of 86 per cent, the false positive rate would have been 0.5 per cent - a reduction of three quarters. In 2019, findings from the PRECISION trial, led by Professor Caroline Moore (UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science), resulted in a new National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance that all men with a positive PSA result should have an MRI scan prior to biopsy. This step has been shown to preserve the detection of aggressive cancers whilst reducing over-diagnosis and unnecessary treatment of insignificant cancers.
In the latest study, researchers also found that men's PSA levels were significantly elevated up to 30 years before a prostate cancer diagnosis, suggesting that a cause of prostate cancer plays a role long before it is diagnosed. However, the levels of PSA are not elevated enough to be useful in screening this far ahead of disease diagnosis. (ANI)
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Ukrainian comedian Yulia Pylyavskaya will be jetting into North Devon later this month, to raise funds for refugees at a "Comedy for Ukraine" night in Appledore.
Joining a star-studded line-up of local comedians, Yulia is bringing her unique brand of comedy to the Appledore Social Club for a single night on Thursday, March 17.
"When I saw what was happening in my homeland I felt I just had to do something to help", said Yulia in her distinctive Ukrainian accent.
"And what better way to do it than to give people a good night out to raise funds for those desperately in need?"
Joining her on stage is Plymouth comedian Suzy Bennett, North Molton prop comedian Alf, and Brighton-based comedians Dan Fardell and Nik Coppin, who will be the MC on the night.
All the acts have agreed to perform free of charge and all expenses are being covered by local sponsors, so every penny raised can go to the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal - and every donation is being doubled by the UK Government.
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Special drink offers will be available throughout the night including a brand new shot which has been created specially for the event.
Named "The Zelensky" after the gutsy President of the Ukraine, its layers yellow and blue liqueurs to form the colours of the Ukrainian flag.
Inventor Donna Landy says: "It's 50 per cent Blue Curacao and 50 per cent Advocaat, but - like Mr Zelensky - it's 100 per cent Bols."
Manager of the Appledore Social Club Jean Cann said: "We are really looking forward to hosting this very worthwhile event, comedy nights are always something we enjoy at the club, and hopefully we can raise funds to help support the people of Ukraine.
"Comedy for Appledore" is at 8pm on Thursday, March 17 at the Appledore Social Club, New Quay St, EX39 1LU, with doors open from 7.30pm.
"Tickets are £10 plus booking fee in advance from www.appledorecomedyfestival.co.uk or £12 on the door, with cash and cards accepted."
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Russia, Ukraine agree to safe corridor
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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 am-9 pm 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 am (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.
___ Copenhagen: 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." Egeland said that human suffering is "at unprecedented levels across the world — from Afghanistan to Central Sahel — and Ukraine is the latest in a long list of crises with record humanitarian needs." ___ Copenhagen: The head of the World Health Organisation'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.
___ 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 UK 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.
"We've also recognized that probably the biggest single casualties, so far in the war, are Russian military soldiers who have been let down by appalling leaders, appalling leadership, and appalling plans. And now you see them, literally, at large scales dying." ___ 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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UK scientists identify genetic factors behind severe Covid symptoms
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Scientists in the UK have identified some genetic factors that make certain people suffer severe symptoms from COVID-19 than others, a finding that could help develop more effective treatments for the viral disease.
The team led by researchers from the University of Edinburgh in the UK in partnership with Genomics England sequenced the genomes of 7,491 patients from 224 intensive care units in the UK.
Their DNA was compared with 48,400 other people who had not had COVID-19, and that of a further 1,630 people who had experienced mild disease.
Determining the whole genome sequence for all participants in the study allowed the team to create a precise map and identify genetic variation linked to severity of COVID-19.
The team found key differences in 16 genes in the ICU patients when compared with the DNA of the other groups.
''Our latest results explain why some people develop life-threatening COVID-19, while others get no symptoms at all,'' said Professor Kenneth Baillie, a consultant in critical care medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
''However, more importantly, this gives us a deep understanding of the process of disease and is a big step forward in finding more effective treatments,'' Baillie said.
The researchers also confirmed the involvement of seven other genetic variations already associated with severe COVID-19 discovered in earlier studies from the same team.
The findings included how a single gene variant that disrupts a key messenger molecule in immune system signalling -- called interferon Alpha-10 -- was enough to increase a patient's risk of severe disease.
This highlights the gene's key role in the immune system and suggests that treating patients with interferon -- proteins released by immune cells to defend against viruses -- may help manage disease in the early stages.
The study also found that variations in genes that control the levels of a central component of blood clotting -- known as Factor 8 -- were associated with critical illness in Covid-19.
This may explain some of the clotting abnormalities that are seen in severe cases of Covid-19, the researchers said.
Factor 8 is the gene underlying the most common type of haemophilia, they said.
''Through our whole genome sequencing research, we have discovered novel gene variants that predispose people to severe illness -- which now offer a route to new tests and treatments, to help protect the public from this virus,'' said Professor Mark Caulfield from Queen Mary University of London, and co-author of the study Rich Scott, Chief Medical Officer at Genomics England, noted that strategically, genomic science is becoming an integral part of the national infrastructure in routine healthcare.
''It represents a major leap forward in our understanding of how our genetic makeup influences severe illness with COVID-19,'' Scott added.
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Attacks on Ukrainian hospitals, ambulances increasing rapidly, WHO warns
They've been increasing quite rapidly over the past few days," Smallwood said. The agency was working to rapidly supply medical supplies to Ukraine, where oxygen, insulin, personal protective equipment, surgical supplies and blood products are running low, Europe regional director Hans Kluge said at the briefing.
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that attacks on hospitals, ambulances and other health care facilities in Ukraine have increased rapidly in recent days and warned the country is running short of vital medical supplies. The U.N. agency on Monday confirmed at least nine people had died in 16 attacks on health care facilities since the start of a Russian invasion on Feb. 24. It did not say who was responsible.
The WHO's senior emergency officer for Europe, Catherine Smallwood, told a news briefing that the tally included incidents where ambulances had been commandeered for purposes other than emergency healthcare. "We will continue to update those numbers. They've been increasing quite rapidly over the past few days," Smallwood said.
The agency was working to rapidly supply medical supplies to Ukraine, where oxygen, insulin, personal protective equipment, surgical supplies and blood products are running low, Europe regional director Hans Kluge said at the briefing. The supply of oxygen, children's vaccines and mental health expertise were among the WHO's top priorities for the region, he said.
Kluge also stressed the need to prioritise the health needs of women, including maternal health and emergency obstetric care, and to respond to sexual and gender based violence. "Past conflicts have shown us that adolescent girls, women with disabilities and elderly women are in the most vulnerable situation.
"They face an increased risk of suffering attacks by people outside the home and by armed groups as well as intimate partner violence and sexual abuse and exploitation," said Kluge.
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China says Hong Kong must stick to "dynamic zero" COVID strategy
Hong Kong reported more than 43,100 new cases on Tuesday after the launch of an online platform for people to record infections in a surge that has seen the city suffering the most deaths globally per million people in the week to March 6, according to the Our World in Data publication. China has championed the "dynamic zero" strategy that involves stamping out infections with strict mitigation measures as opposed to the approach adopted in other places of relying on high vaccination rates and moderate mitigation like masks in an effort to "live with COVID".
A top Chinese health official rallied embattled Hong Kong on Tuesday to stick with a "dynamic zero" coronavirus strategy and warned that the city's "lifeline" health system was at risk and the situation had to be turned around as soon as possible. Hong Kong reported more than 43,100 new cases on Tuesday after the launch of an online platform for people to record infections in a surge that has seen the city suffering the most deaths globally per million people in the week to March 6, according to the Our World in Data publication.
China has championed the "dynamic zero" strategy that involves stamping out infections with strict mitigation measures as opposed to the approach adopted in other places of relying on high vaccination rates and moderate mitigation like masks in an effort to "live with COVID". The fast-spreading Omicron variant has tested both strategies but Hong Kong is now suffering the consequences of a relatively low vaccination rate, especially among the elderly, as the virus surges through the community.
Hong Kong "must persevere with its dynamic zero strategy", Liang Wannian, an expert from China's National Health Commission, told the state-run Xinhua news agency in an interview. "Reducing infection, severe cases and deaths is Hong Kong's most urgent and top priority at the current stage," said Liang, who is in Hong Kong to coordinate efforts to battle the outbreak.
"After we achieve the first target, we will then move on to the second and third goals." Infections in the Asian financial hub have surged to record highs with a total of about 540,000 cases and more than 2,300 deaths - most in the past two weeks.
Liang said that a serious depletion of Hong Kong's medical resources was "endangering the city's lifeline operations". "Hong Kong is in danger of not being able to function normally," he said.
'EFFECTIVE AND REALISTIC MEASURES' Compounding Hong Kong's difficulties and public frustration have been contradictory and confusing messages about the campaign against the virus, including a plan for mass testing and whether a city-wide lockdown would be imposed.
Liang said there could be improvements. "How can more effective and realistic measures be taken to curb the rising momentum of the epidemic and turn the situation around as soon as possible ... This is one of the most important tasks," he said.
Some experts have warned that the "dynamic zero" strategy is not sustainable. Liang said "dynamic zero" did not mean zero infections but the city should do its best to reduce infections and cut transmission. Liang's comments came as the city's 7.4 million residents braced for details of the mass testing that is expected to take place in coming weeks. Liang said it would need to be done at the right time with all details carefully arranged.
Health authorities on Monday launched a platform for people to register their own rapid antigen test results. The platform accounted for 14,715 of the new cases on Tuesday.
There were also 160 deaths recorded in the past 24 hours. A team from the University of Hong Kong has estimated that by the end of April the number of people infected in the city of 7.6 million people could be about 4.3 million, with a death toll of 5,000.
Hong Kong's hospitals, isolation centres and funeral parlours are swamped while public transport, malls, postal services, supermarkets and pharmacies are struggling to operate due to a severe manpower crunch. Food prices have shot up and supermarket shelves have been emptied every day for a week as shoppers panic buy. (Additional reporting by Marius Zaharia, Twinnie Siu and Jessie Pang; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan, Robert Birsel)
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Imran Khan faces rebellion amid looming no-confidence motion
Amid the looming no-confidence motion against his government, Imran Khan's woes multiplied as he faces another rebellion in his party from a former senior minister of Punjab Aleem Khan, a media report said on Tuesday.
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Amid the looming no-confidence motion against his government, Imran Khan's woes multiplied as he faces another rebellion in his party from a former senior minister of Punjab Aleem Khan, a media report said on Tuesday. Aleem Khan announced joining Jahangir Khan Tareen's group of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) legislators on Monday, saying he wants to reorganise the former loyalists of Imran Khan and protect the party and its public popularity, The News International reported.
Jahangir Khan Tareen is an estranged leader of PTI. He along with his group of PTI legislators and members may play a crucial role when the no-confidence motion is brought by the Opposition. The development comes at a time when the Opposition led by Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) have ramped up activity to oust the Imran Khan regime.
In February, Pakistan's Opposition leader in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif held a secret meeting with Tareen and discussed the ouster of the Imran Khan government as per local media reports. Earlier today, PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari gave Prime Minister Imran Khan a 24-hour ultimatum to resign and dissolve the assembly or be prepared to be ousted through a no-trust motion while addressing the Awami March participants in Lalamusa, Punjab.
Given the developments, Khan held a series of meetings with his ministers about the fast-changing political situation and also presided over the ruling PTI's core committee meeting, and made some important decisions, The News International further reported. Last Saturday, Imran Khan had exuded confidence that his party has sufficient numbers in the National Assembly in case a no-confidence motion is brought.
Talking to party members in the National Assembly on Saturday, Imran Khan reportedly said that the Opposition should go ahead with its plan of the no-confidence motion since all coalition partners are with him. He maintained that the government has done its homework. While addressing a public gathering in Mailsi on Sunday, Imran Khan used derogatory nicknames for his rivals. He said that a 'clique of looters' has now united to protect their vested interests by creating hype about a no-trust motion against the government. (ANI)
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PPP's 'Awami march' to reach Islamabad today
The 'Awami march' of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) against Prime Minister Imran Khan's 'misgovernance' is scheduled to reach Islamabad today, local media reported.
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The 'Awami march' of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) against Prime Minister Imran Khan's 'misgovernance' is scheduled to reach Islamabad today, local media reported. The 'Awami march' which began on February 27 from Mazar-e-Quaid, Karachi in the southern Sindh province will reach Islamabad on its 10th day. PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari addressed the march participants in several cities as the march progressed.
"We will reach Rawat around midnight. The route of the march was changed from Murree Road to Islamabad Expressway due to the Test match being played in Rawalpindi. We are committed to reaching D-Chowk by 4 pm on Tuesday (today)," PPP Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar was quoted by The Dawn. The PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday gave Prime Minister Imran Khan a 24-hour ultimatum to resign and dissolve the Assembly or be prepared to be ousted through a no-trust motion while addressing the Awami March participants in Lalamusa, Punjab, The News International reported.
The 'selected' (referring to Imran Khan) has become so scared that he has started abusing his political opponents and calling them names, said the PPP leader. He was referring to Imran Khan's comments while addressing a public gathering in Mailsi on Sunday. In his address, the Pakistan PM used derogatory nicknames for his rivals. He said that a 'clique of looters' has now united to protect their vested interests by creating hype about a no-trust motion against the government.
The Opposition parties in Pakistan have ramped up their activities ahead of the planned no-confidence motion against the Imran Khan government for "misgovernance and bad economic handling". Ahead of the no-confidence motion against the Imran Khan government, principal Opposition parties, Pakistan Mulsim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and PPP, have asked MNAs to cancel their foreign visits and stay put in Islamabad for the next few days, media reports said.
On Monday, Aleem Khan, a former senior minister of Punjab announced joining Jahangir Khan Tareen's group of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) legislators. Jahangir Khan Tareen is an estranged leader of PTI and along with his group of PTI legislators and members will be a key figure when the no-confidence motion is brought by the Opposition. (ANI)
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Former Ukraine President Yanukovych urges Zelenskyy to 'stop the war'
Ukraine's former President Viktor Yanukovych urged President Volodymyr Zelenskyy 'to stop the war' as Russia's military operation in the country entered the 13th day on Tuesday.
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Ukraine's former President Viktor Yanukovych urged President Volodymyr Zelenskyy 'to stop the war' as Russia's military operation in the country entered the 13th day on Tuesday. Notably, Viktor Yanukovych now lives in Russia since being ousted in 2014. In his letter which was published by Russian local media, Yanukovych asked Zelenskyy 'to stop the war at any cost', reported The Kyiv Independent.
The Kyiv Independent tweeted, citing a report by the Ukrayinska Pravda, an online newspaper, that the former president was being prepared by the Kremlin for a special occasion. Moreover, amid the ongoing tensions Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the head of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's office in a tweet slammed Russia for 'killing civilians'.
In a Tweet, Podolyak wrote, "There is a modern civilization, which includes Ukraine, where freedom, competition and humanism dominate. And there is the "world" of Russian high-ranking officials, in which they kill civilians of other countries because they are still at war with ghostly "Nazism" On Monday, after the third round of talks ended between Russian and Ukrainian delegations, Podolyak tweeted, "The third round of negotiations has ended. There are small positive subductions in improving the logistics of humanitarian corridors... Intensive consultations have continued on the basic political block of the regulations, along with a ceasefire and security guarantees."Russian forces launched military operations in Ukraine on February 24, three days after Moscow recognized Ukraine's breakaway regions - Donetsk and Luhansk - as independent entities. (ANI)
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Maha: Man held for shooting brother-in-law, injuring him
The MBVV police have arrested Deepak Gautam, a resident of Khar in neighbouring Mumbai, for allegedly firing two shots at his brother-in-law Hitendra Joshi 29 in a case of attempted honour killing, an official said.The incident took place in Santosh Nagar area of Nalla Sopara around 9.30 pm on Sunday, he said.
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A 30-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly opening fire at his brother-in-law and injuring him in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Tuesday. The MBVV police have arrested Deepak Gautam, a resident of Khar in neighbouring Mumbai, for allegedly firing two shots at his brother-in-law Hitendra Joshi (29) in a case of attempted honour killing, an official said.
The incident took place in Santosh Nagar area of Nalla Sopara around 9.30 pm on Sunday, he said. The victim was standing near a paan shop, when the accused fired two shots at him from behind, the official said. The victim was rushed to a hospital, where he is undergoing treatment, he said.
The police at the time registered an offence under relevant sections of the IPC and Arms Act against an unidentified person, the official said. Based on a tip-off, the police zeroed in on the accused and during interrogation, he revealed that his sister had married the victim against the family's wishes, he said. It was a love marriage and the accused did not approve of it and wanted revenge, the official said.
The police have recovered two country-made pistols and 14 cartridges from the accused, he said.
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DCW has instilled sense of security among women of Delhi: Kejriwal
Even the National Commission For Women NCW should learn how a womens panel should function, he said.Appreciating DCWs work, he said the panel has instilled a sense of security among the women of Delhi.The women of Delhi know that if they face any injustice or any untoward incident, they can call 181 DCW helpline and they will be provided assistance.
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Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday lauded the Delhi Commission For Women (DCW) for its work, saying the panel has instilled a sense of security among women in the capital.
The chief minister said other women's panels, including the National Commission For Women, should learn from the DCW.
Kejriwal was speaking at the International Women's Day Awards function hosted by the DCW here. Around 60 awards were given away to women achievers and those who have been involved in working on women's issues.
Kejriwal wished everyone on the occasion and also spoke about steps taken by the Delhi government to empower women.
''The DCW is the perfect example of how a women's commission should function. Other women's commissions should learn from the DCW. Even the National Commission For Women (NCW) should learn how a women's panel should function,'' he said.
Appreciating DCW's work, he said the panel has instilled a sense of security among the women of Delhi.
''The women of Delhi know that if they face any injustice or any untoward incident, they can call 181 (DCW helpline) and they will be provided assistance. ''Every woman knows that they can pick the phone, call 181 and Swati Maliwal (DCW chief) will reach for their assistance,'' he said.
He called Maliwal ''Delhi's Lady Singham'' who is not scared and has rescued several women and children without thinking about her own safety.
The chief minister also said Delhi has surpassed mega cities of the world in terms of CCTV camera coverage.
''I am not making these claims but an international magazine had recently said this,'' he said.
Maliwal said in the last six years, the panel has handled 1,23,000 cases and its helpline received over 15 lakh calls.
''We have given more than 300 suggestions to the Centre and Delhi government over various issues. The DCW has questioned the system and fixed accountability. Our endeavour is to ensure that a strict system is put in place so that people are scared of harming women,'' she said.
Maliwal said the DCW's budget has gone up from Rs 3 crore to Rs 35 crore under the Kejriwal-led dispensation. ''Our budget is higher than that of NCW. The Delhi government has installed CCTV cameras in Delhi and this has helped the police nab criminals,'' she said.
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Ukrainian video shows evacuation underway in safe corridor
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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 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.
Even as video posted by the Ukrainian state communications agency showed people with bags boarding buses, it was not clear how long the effort would last. Previous attempts to lead civilians to safety amid the biggest ground war in Europe since World War II have crumbled with renewed attacks. “The Ukrainian city of Sumy was given a green corridor, the first stage of evacuation began,” the agency tweeted. Sumy is just 50 kilometers 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 centres, 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, 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 centre 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 centre suggested there would be more than one corridor, but that most would lead to Russia, either directly or through Belarus. At the UN, 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.
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 US 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 west of Mariupol, Russian forces continued their offensive in Mykolaiv, opening fire on the Black Sea shipbuilding centre 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 “demoralised” 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 neighbours.
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 UN human rights office reported 406 confirmed civilian deaths but said the real number is much higher. The invasion has also sent 1.7 million people fleeing Ukraine.
On Monday, Moscow again announced a series of demands to stop the invasion, including that Ukraine recognise Crimea as part of Russia and recognise 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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Government publishes update on plan to tackle legacy IT
A Cabinet Office report outlines progress around areas such as new structures and leadership to address the issue of legacy IT
The UK government has provided an update on how it is progressing with its goal of being “the world’s leading digital government”, including mentions around tackling ageing IT infrastructure.
The update provided to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) is a response to the recommendations made in the report the Cabinet Office commissioned alongside the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) from the Digital Economy Council (DEC) on how the government should achieve its digital ambitions, and the Maude Review on strengthening cross-government functions.
According to the update, which listed the six actions completed until the end of 2021, there has been “significant change at the centre of digital government” since the DEC report was published in 2020. “Government is now better equipped with the leadership and operational clarity needed to make the UK one of the most digitally mature governments in the world,” it said.
Among the advances made, the report mentions developments in response to the DEC report including the new structures and senior leadership for the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) function, including the appointments of Joanna Davinson and Paul Willmott, who were respectively appointed as executive director and chair of the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), launched in April 2021 to lead the DDaT function and set the conditions to accelerate digital transformation within government.
In September 2021, Davinson said tackling legacy would be key to achieving digital transformation ambitions across central government. “We still have a lot of legacy, [as well as] a lot of risk in our legacy platforms. But we’ve got a fabulous opportunity as well, in terms of moving more [applications] into the cloud, doing that in a way that enables us to continue to be interoperable and to actually know where our data is,” Davinson pointed out, adding that she is often asked about this.
The Cabinet Office update points to a “strong commitment” to replacing legacy IT and driving interoperability within government. It cites the £2.6bn investment in cyber and legacy IT in the Spending Review – whereby the CDDO worked with stakeholders including HM Treasury to support decision making in DDaT funding – to go with £600m invested in legacy IT in the previous year’s Spending Review, as evidence of that drive.
On the other hand, and citing figures from the 2020 Digital Economic Council, the document noted that legacy IT costs the government £2.3bn to maintain, but added that there is no central assessment of the total cost of replacing the ageing IT infrastructure across the government.
The CDDO is working to come up with a “consistent view” of the costs and risks of legacy technology, according to the update. This, the review said, will be achieved through the introduction of a common legacy IT framework, which is expected to address “significant financial and security risks to HMG from legacy”. Moreover, discussions with departments to track progress have been introduced at quarterly business reviews co-chaired by CDDO’s Davinson and Cat Little, director-general for public spending at HM Treasury.
Also according to the report, clear investment swim lanes are being created to address the IT legacy debt. The DDaT approach introduced in the last Spending Review and run by CDDO “paves the way for significant investment in updating systems across government”, the report said.
The responsibility given to CDDO for central co-ordination of legacy IT and the appointment of a chief technology officer to help departments to address their legacy estates was also cited among the progress outlined in the report.
In June 2021, the government launched a reform programme intended to speed up the country’s recovery following the emergence of Covid-19, with one of the key pillars relating to improved performance through better use of technology. “We will invest in the latest technology, and replace legacy IT systems that are overly complex and difficult to use,” the reform declaration said.
The declaration also noted that all departments will have access to interoperable data platforms and IT services, as well as a single digital logon for all government services – which is aamong the latest updates provided by the Cabinet Office. According to the report, the expectation is that a minimum viable product for One Login will be launched by 31 March 2022, with further functionality added in the next three years.
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Maha: Spa owner held for running sex racket in Mira Bhayander
A spa owner has been arrested for allegedly operating a sex racket at his establishment in Mira Bhayander town of Maharashtras Thane district, police said on Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, a team from the anti-human trafficking cell AHTC of the MBVV police raided the spa in Latif Park locality on March 4, an official said.
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A spa owner has been arrested for allegedly operating a sex racket at his establishment in Mira Bhayander town of Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, a team from the anti-human trafficking cell (AHTC) of the MBVV police raided the spa in Latif Park locality on March 4, an official said. During the search, it was found that spa owner James Harakampung (27) was using the premises for flesh trade, he said. The police rescued three women from the establishment, the official said. An offence under relevant sections of the IPC and Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act (PITA) has been registered against the accused with the Mira Road police station, he said.
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Can death compensation be considered as income and taxed? Guj HC asks I-T dept
She was among the over 50 people killed by hijackers.A New York court had awarded a compensation of Rs 20 crore to Dalal between 2013-14 and 2014-15, but he had not shown the compensation as income in the tax returns filed for the assessment year 2014-15.The I-T department first issued summons to the petitioner in 2014, to which Dalal had responded saying the amount was compensation received as a result of a lawsuit in the US.
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The Gujarat High Court has sought to know whether compensation received by the kin of a victim can be termed as income and if it is liable to be taxed under the Income Tax Act.
The court was on Monday hearing a plea filed by the husband of a woman who was killed during the hijacking of the Pan American World Airways flight in 1986.
A division bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and Nisha Thakore posed a question to the I-T department, whether the amount received as compensation can be termed as income to be taxed under the Act.
''Your principal argument is that this compensation is not income and cannot be taxed...We will not go by sympathy, but it makes sense that something which has been received by way of compensation, can we term it as an income so as to tax it?'' the court asked.
It posted the matter for further hearing on March 14.
Petitioner Kalpesh Dalal had approached the HC after receiving a notice from the I-T department for payment of the income tax on Rs 20 crore which he received as compensation for the death of his wife Trupti in the hijack of the ill-fated Pan Am flight by terrorists in 1986, when it was on way to New York from Mumbai and was forced to land in Karachi.
The HC court asked the I-T department whether it sought to contest the petitioner's claim that the compensation amount could not be taxed.
The petitioner's wife was shot dead by terrorists on the flight after it was hijacked. She was among the over 50 people killed by hijackers.
A New York court had awarded a compensation of Rs 20 crore to Dalal between 2013-14 and 2014-15, but he had not shown the compensation as income in the tax returns filed for the assessment year 2014-15.
The I-T department first issued summons to the petitioner in 2014, to which Dalal had responded saying the amount was compensation received as a result of a lawsuit in the US. The department reopened the case last year, seeking to reassess Dalal's income and issued him a notice, after which he moved the high court.
In his plea, Dalal objected to the notice sent to him by the I-T department last year, seeking to levy tax on the compensation amount.
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Russia calls for return to 'peaceful co-existence' with U.S. like during Cold War -Interfax
Russia and the United States should return to the principle of "peaceful co-existence" like during the Cold War, the Interfax news agency cited the Russian foreign ministry as saying on Tuesday.
The foreign ministry added that it was open to honest and mutually respectful dialogue with the United States and that hope remained that normalcy in relations between the two countries could be restored, Interfax reported.
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On International Women's Day, an all women full bench for first time in Kerala HC history
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On International Women's Day, an all-women full bench of the Kerala High Court -- a first of its kind in the entire history of the court -- would be hearing several pleas on the issue of whether the Guruvayur Devaswom Managing Committee can donate temple money to the disaster relief fund of the Chief Minister or any government body.
A full bench of Justices Anu Sivaraman, Shircy V, and M R Anitha would be hearing on Monday afternoon several petitions moved by the state government seeking review of the court's December 18, 2020 decision which held that the committee cannot make contributions from the Devaswom money to the relief funds of the CM or any government agency.
Earlier the bench consisted of Justices A Hariprasad, Anu Sivarama, and M R Anitha and after the retirement of Justice Hariprasad, Justice Shircy replaced him.
Advocate Sajith Kumar V, who appears for one of the respondents in the review petitions, told PTI that it was for the first time that there has been an all-women full bench in the Kerala High Court.
Kumar further said that more and more women were graduating with law degrees and even the subordinate judiciary was seeing an increase in women judges, all of which were a welcome sight.
As a result, in the future we can expect to see more women judges in the higher judiciary as well as all-women full benches, he added.
Advocate A K Preetha, speaking to PTI, said that in the legal profession all competent lawyers are equal irrespective of their gender.
Similarly, all judges in the Kerala High Court are competent and experts in their respective fields, and therefore, whether it is an all-women full bench or not has no relevance where the matters being heard are concerned, she said.
However, she also said that it may have been a ''conscious decision'' on the part of the high court to constitute an all women full bench ''to give a signal to the society that there are three women who are proficient in their profession''.
These judges have risen to where they are now through their mettle, advocate Preetha said.
Probably women judges would be better suited to deal with gender-sensitive matters as they can identify with such issues, she added.
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed willingness to discuss Russia’s demands for Kyiv to recognize annexed Crimea and the breakaway pro-Moscow territories in an interview with ABC News published Tuesday.
“I think that items regarding temporarily occupied territories and pseudo-republics not recognized by anyone but Russia, we can discuss and find a compromise on how these territories will live on,” Zelenskiy said.
The Kremlin said Monday that it was ready to stop its deadly military campaign “in a moment” if Ukraine met its demands to recognize Crimea as a Russian region and the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk regions as independent republics.
“What’s important to me is how the people in those territories who want to be part of Ukraine are going to live,” Zelenskiy told ABC News.
But he refused to give in to ultimatums which Russia’s negotiating team has put forward in three rounds of dialogue that have so far failed to achieve a ceasefire.
“The question is more difficult than simply acknowledging them. This is another ultimatum and we’re not prepared for ultimatums,” Zelensky said.
“I’m ready for dialogue, we’re not ready for capitulation.”
The Kremlin also said Monday that it wants Kyiv to cease military action and enshrine neutrality in its constitution, a proposal that Zelenskiy also appeared open to.
“I have cooled over the issue a long time ago after we understood that NATO is not prepared to accept Ukraine,” Zelenskiy said.
The Ukrainian leader reiterated his calls for Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate a ceasefire with him directly, calls the Kremlin has so far rejected.
“What needs to be done is for President Putin to start talking, start dialogue instead of living in an information bubble without oxygen.”
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Trapped civilians in Ukraine must be allowed to leave safely -UN's Bachelet
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U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet called on Tuesday for civilians trapped in active hostilities in numerous areas of Ukraine to be able to leave safely. Pro-Ukrainian activists have been unlawfully detained in the east of their homeland, while people considered pro-Russian have been beaten in Ukraine, she said in a speech to the Human Rights Council, citing reports received by her office.
"I repeat my urgent call for a peaceful end to hostilities," Bachelet told the Geneva forum by video message.
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Delhi HC asks DDA to check allegations of encroachment by Sahitya Kala Parishad on pond land
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to check allegations made in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against encroachment and construction of the Cultural Centre of Sahitya Kala Parishad on the land allocated for a pond of Budhela Village in the national capital.
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The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to check allegations made in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against encroachment and construction of the Cultural Centre of Sahitya Kala Parishad on the land allocated for a pond of Budhela Village in the national capital. The Division Bench of Justice DN Patel and Justice Neena Bansal Krishna today after noting down the submissions disposed of the petition and asked the DDA to look into the grievances raised by the petitioner and decide it according to the law, rules and regulations and Government policies as expeditiously as possible.
The petitioner Resident Welfare Association, Bhudela through its president Deepak Tyagi stated that in 2002 the DDA and the other Government authority took physical possession of the Pond of village Budhela and filled it with the soil and against the alleged illegal act of encroachment by the Government Authorities. Several affected people of village Budhela also met with the then Member of Delhi Legislative Assembly and a representation has made to him with the request that the DDA and other authorities be stopped from grabbing the land of Johad/Pond.
Lawyers Krishna Kumar Sharma, Anil Devilal and Raghvendra Shukla appeared for the petitioner also stated that in 2020 Dy. Secretary (GR) had directed to the District Magistrate (South-West) to enquire the matter in respect of the Cultural Complex of Sahitya Kala Parishad in being constructed in Budhela Village, Vikas Puri, on the land, which was earlier a water body and files a Status Report/Action Taken Report, but till date, no action has been taken by the authorities. (ANI)
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Russia says it understands N.Korea's move to renew missile launches -RIA
Russia understands North Korea's decision to renew frequent missile launches and sees no prerequisites to restart Korea de-nuclearisation talks, RIA news agency quoted a Russian foreign ministry official as saying on Tuesday. Pyotr Ilyichyov, head of the international organisations division at the foreign ministry, said that when Pyongyang paused missile tests before there had been an increase in military cooperation between Seoul and Washington.
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Russia understands North Korea's decision to renew frequent missile launches and sees no prerequisites to restart Korea de-nuclearisation talks, RIA news agency quoted a Russian foreign ministry official as saying on Tuesday.
Pyotr Ilyichyov, head of the international organization's division at the foreign ministry, said that when Pyongyang paused missile tests before there had been an increase in military cooperation between Seoul and Washington. North Korea tested a record number of missiles in January, including its largest since 2017, and launched a ballistic missile into the sea in a resumption of weapons tests in late February. It launched another one last Saturday.
Ilyichyov said he saw no prerequisites for the resumption of de-nuclearisation talks because Washington has chosen to pursue the path of sanctions against Pyongyang.
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Anurag Thakur praises PM Modi for 'Operation Ganga'
Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Tuesday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the evacuation of the stranded Indian students from Ukraine and said it was not an ordinary task to create safe corridors for evacuating the citizens.
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Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Tuesday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the evacuation of the stranded Indian students from Ukraine and said it was not an ordinary task to create safe corridors for evacuating the citizens. "PM Modi provided all facilities to bring back the stranded students. He talked to the Presidents of Russia and Ukraine. It was not an ordinary task to create a safe corridor to evacuate students," said Thakur.
"Union ministers were also sent to neighbouring countries to coordinate the evacuation process," he added. Meanwhile, slamming opposition parties, Thakur said, "the opposition made fun of PM Jan Dhan Yojana, but during the (Covid-19) crisis, our government gave financial help every month to 20.5 crore women across the country."
According to the Ministry of Civil Aviation on Monday, more than 17,400 Indians have been brought back under 'Operation Ganga' since special flights began on February 22 this year. The number of Indians airlifted by 73 special civilian flights have gone up to 15,206. (ANI)
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Guwahati CP orders inquiry after civil servant alleges cop slapped him
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- India
The Guwahati police commissioner, Harmeet Singh, has ordered an inquiry into an incident of alleged misbehavior by a police officer with a civil servant here.
In his complaint, South Salmara district's election officer and executive magistrate Bibhas Medhi said Pranjit Lahkar, the officer-in-charge of Satgaon police station, had slapped him on Monday evening as he tried to file a case against some brokers in connection with some land dispute.
Lahkar, instead of registering a case, entered into an argument with the magistrate and later assaulted him, a police officer said referring to the complaint filed by Medhi.
Assistant commissioner of police Nilotpal Deka will conduct the investigation into the incident along with a senior civil service officer.
A report will have to be submitted to the commissioner within three days for further action, the officer added.
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Levi's #IShapeMyWorld Season 7 - The Power of Women Supporting Women
Now, the platform seeks to empower women, with this season going beyond talking about inspiring stories and aims at enabling and empowering women through live sessions highlighting the protagonists journeys, quarterly masterclasses as well as an internship program to make a difference.I Shape My World is a platform through which many fearless and unstoppable women from varied backgrounds have inspired millions of other women, with their incredible stories.
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This International Women's Day, Levi's® unveils Season 7 of their iconic, Levi's® #IShapeMyWorld campaign, which has since evolved into a year-long digital initiative. This season the campaign goes beyond talking about inspiring stories and aims at enabling and empowering women through live sessions highlighting the protagonists' journeys, periodic masterclasses as well as flagship internship programs.
This year's program is rooted in the concept that behind every successful woman is another woman who has inspired her, supported her, and cheered her on. Levi's® recognizes and celebrates the risk-takers, rule-breakers, and game-changers who are pushing themselves, their communities, and empowering women across India.
Initiated back in 2017, #IShapeMyWorld is a platform that tells the stories of unstoppable women, whose stories inspire and engage millions of women across India. Having featured close to 50 women to date, including Faye D'souza, Zoya Akhtar, Rajakumari, Iti Rawat, Sumukhi Suresh, this season spotlights 4 fearless women.
Hima Das, the youngest of five children of a rice-growing farmer, was inspired by P.T. Usha, who asked her to keep doing what she does best. Without much formal training, she was the first Indian woman to win gold at IAAF WorldU20 Championships and now shaping things as a Deputy Superintendent of Police in Assam.
Mandira Bedi, an actress, one of the first female commentators and hosts for the ICC World Cup, a daughter with an equally strong mother and a mother herself, who is creating a strong lineage for her children, emerged from a tough year with resilience and strength.
Dr. Kriti Bharti, an Indian rehabilitation psychologist and children's rights activist, is a tireless crusader against child marriage. Keeping the strength and warmth of Rani Laxmibai in her heart, she has dedicated her life to freeing girls from the clutches of child marriage in India.
Tanya Appachu makes women's rights and laws accessible to the people through social media. As a lawyer making reels that might be frowned upon, she cares passionately is about empowering and enabling women, regardless of the channel.
Through I Shape My World, Levi's has built a strong platform that celebrates women and has inspired countless others through powerful storytelling. Now, the platform seeks to empower women, with this season going beyond talking about inspiring stories and aims at enabling and empowering women through live sessions highlighting the protagonists' journeys, quarterly masterclasses as well as an internship program to make a difference.
"'I Shape My World' is a platform through which many fearless and unstoppable women from varied backgrounds have inspired millions of other women, with their incredible stories. This season, we not only continue with more inspiring stories but go a step further to try and enable & empower women through various initiatives all-round the year, with an endeavor to make a more tangible impact,'' says Saikot Das, Marketing Director - South Asia, Middle East & Africa at Levi Strauss & Co.
Link to the promo video: Levi's #IShapeMyWorld Season 7 About the Levi's® brand Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) is one of the world's largest brand-name apparel companies and a global leader in jeanswear. The company designs and markets jeans, casual wear, and related accessories for men, women, and children under the Levi's®, Signature by Levi Strauss & Co.™, Denizen®, Dockers® and Beyond Yoga® brands. Its products are sold in more than 110 countries worldwide through a combination of chain retailers, department stores, online sites, and a global footprint of approximately 3,100 retail stores and shop-in-shops. Levi Strauss & Co.'s reported 2021 net revenues were $5.8 billion For more information, go to http://levistrauss.com, and for financial news and announcements go to http://investors.levistrauss.com.
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Russian air strike kills 21 civilians in Ukraine's Sumy city, say local authorities
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At least 21 civilians, including two children, were killed in a Russian air strike on a residential street in Ukraine's northeastern city of Sumy late on Monday, the regional prosecutor's office said in a statement on Tuesday.
The bodies were recovered by emergency services early on Tuesday in searches that are ongoing, it said.
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Nari Shakti Puraskar conferred on 29 women achievers for years 2020 and 2021
Twenty-eight awards - (14 each for the Year 2020 and 2021)- were presented to 29 women in recognition of their exceptional work towards empowerment of women, especially the vulnerable and marginalised.
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The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind conferred the 'Nari Shakti Puraskar' - 2020 and 2021, at a special ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, on occasion of International Women's Day, today. The award was conferred on 29 outstanding and exceptional women achievers for the years 2020 and 2021. Twenty-eight awards - (14 each for the Year 2020 and 2021)- were presented to 29 women in recognition of their exceptional work towards empowerment of women, especially the vulnerable and marginalised.
To acknowledge women's achievements, the Ministry of Women and Child Development confers Nari Shakti Puraskar on women and institutions in recognition of their relentless service towards the cause of women empowerment and social welfare, and to celebrate women as game changers and catalyst of positive change in the society. The award ceremony for the year 2020 could not be held in 2021 due to prevalent situation created by COVID-19 pandemic.
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Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Kha is trending on Twitter yet again. After a brief break from work and keeping a low profile following the arrest of his son Aryan Khan in a drugs case, King Khan is back with a bang! After taking the internet by storm with his action-packed advertisement for a brand of cola and then taking the audience by surprise with the announcement of his next film, 'Pathaan', following it up with a #AskSRK session on Twitter, SRK has managed to stay in the news for all the right reasons and has been ruling the social media trends.
On Tuesday morning, SRK was among the top trends on Twitter after a video of him, presumably, an ad for Dubai tourism, surfaced on the internet.
SRK is the brand ambassador of Dubai Tourism's #BeMyGuest campaign.
The ad showcases King Khan showing off his long tresses as he answers a call from his daughter Suhana. She is heard asking him about his whereabouts. Later, she suggests that he take a walk around Dubai and have fun experiencing the country.
The video highlights iconic locations and sites in the Middle Eastern city as SRK hops from one place to another giving the viewers a glimpse of Dubai. Take a look below:
THE KING #ShahRukhKhan 's new Adv
#DubaiTourism #BeMyguest#Pathaan
pic.twitter.com/7wVEDXM7Fy— Harry. (@Iamharry007) March 8, 2022
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As soon as the video surfaced on the internet, fans couldn't stop going gaga over Shah Rukh Khan's killer looks which many assumed was also his look for his upcoming film, 'Pathaan'.
On the work front, SRK was last seen in the 2018 film 'Zero', co-starring Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif.
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46 cases against child marriage lodged, 57 held in last 5 years in Rajasthan
The list provided with the answer revealed that Jodhpur Rural and Chittorgarh top it with six cases each while Kota City, Bhilwara and Sriganganagar share the second slot with 4 cases each. The probe in three is still going on, the list revealed.
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- India
As many as 46 cases of child marriage were registered in Rajasthan in five years.
According to a written reply given by the government to an unstarred question asked by independent MLA Khushveer Singh, 46 cases under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 were registered at different police stations in the state from January 2017 to January 2022. The list provided with the answer revealed that Jodhpur (Rural) and Chittorgarh top it with six cases each while Kota (City), Bhilwara, and Sriganganagar share the second slot with 4 cases each. Rests of the cases were registered in Barmer (3), Churu, Sirohi and Kota (Rural) (two each) and Jaipur (West), Ajmer, Dungarpur, Bundi, Karauli, Rajsamand, Sikar, Alwar, Jalore, Pali, Bikaner, Jhalawar and Sawaimadhopur one each. In all these cases, a total of 57 people were arrested while police filed charge sheets in 35 cases seeking trial of the accused and final reports in eight cases for their closures. The probe in three is still going on, the list revealed.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Sonakshi Sinha has broken her silence against the multiple reports claiming a non-bailable warrant issued against her. Taking to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday, March 8, the 'Dabbang' actress penned a long note calling the rumour as 'pure fiction and fake news'. "There have been rumours of a non bailable warrant issued against me floating in the media, without any verification from any authorities since a few days now. This is pure fiction and the work of a rogue individual trying to harass me", she wrote.
She even requested the media houses and journalists to not publish the fake news as she continued, "I request all media houses, journalists and news reporters not to carry this fake news as it is playing into this individual’s agenda to gain publicity. This man is purely trying to gain some publicity and extort money from me by attacking my reputation which I have very proudly built over the years, by planting these malicious articles in the media. Kindly do not participate in this harassment charade."
Daughter of actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha and actress Poonam Sinha, Sonakshi further shared the details of the case as she wrote, "This matter is subjudice before the Muradabad court and has been stayed by the Allahabad High Court. My legal team will be taking all the necessary action against him for contempt of court. This will be my only comment on this matter until the Muradabad Court has passed its verdict, so please do not approach me for the same. I am home and i can assure you there are no warrants issued against me."
For the unversed, there were rumours of a non-bailable warrant issued against the 'Kalank' actress which mentioned that the actress has charged a hefty amount for attending an event, but failed to do so at the last moment. As per the fake reports, the event's organiser Mr. Parmod Gupta claimed that he paid Sonakshi over Rs 25 lakh to become the chief guest at an event but she didn't turn up for it.
READ | Sonakshi Sinha breaks silence on viral photoshopped wedding photo with Salman Khan
Meanwhile, on the work front, the actress will be seen next in 'Double XL', a film focused on fat-shaming that stars Huma Qureshi and her as two plus-size women. Directed by Satramm Ramani, the film was announced in December 2021.
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Lokpal fails to give prosecution sanction to anyone in nearly 3 years
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The Lokpal has failed to provide prosecution sanction to public servants charged with corruption, since its constitution nearly three years ago, according to an RTI reply by the anti-graft ombudsman.
The appointments of directors of inquiry and prosecution, the two top personnel for looking into complaints of corruption and processing prosecution of accused public servants, are yet to be made, it said.
''Request was made to the government for providing a panel for the appointment of Director of Inquiry and Director of Prosecution,'' the Lokpal said in reply to the RTI application.
Constituted after a series of agitations seeking its formation, the Lokpal is the apex body to inquire and investigate graft complaints against public functionaries and it began functioning with the appointment of its chairperson and members on March 27, 2019. ''Nil'' was the response from the Lokpal when asked to provide details of prosecution approved, recommended or proposed by it for public servants accused of corruption.
The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013, states that the Lokpal shall constitute a prosecution wing headed by the director of prosecution for the purpose of prosecution of public servants.
It states that ''there shall be a Director of Inquiry and a Director of Prosecution not below the rank of Additional Secretary to the Government of India or equivalent, who shall be appointed by the chairperson from a panel of names sent by the central government''.
The director of prosecution shall, after having been so directed by the Lokpal, file a case in accordance with the findings of investigation report, before the special court and take all necessary steps in respect of the prosecution of public servants in relation to any offence punishable under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, the law states.
The Lokpal shall also constitute an inquiry wing headed by the director of inquiry for the purpose of conducting preliminary inquiry into any offence alleged to have been committed by a public servant punishable under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, according to the law.
''Provided that till such time the Inquiry Wing is constituted by the Lokpal, the central government shall make available such number of officers and other staff from its ministries or departments, as may be required by the Lokpal, for conducting preliminary inquiries under this Act,'' it said.
President Ram Nath Kovind had on March 23, 2019, administered the oath of office to Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose as the chairperson of the Lokpal.
The Lokpal's eight members, four judicial and the remaining non-judicial, were administered the oath of office by Justice Ghose on March 27 that year. Currently, the Lokpal has a vacancy of two judicial members. The Lokpal has received 4,244 corruption complaints between April 2021 and January 31, 2022, a jump of over 80 per cent from 2020-21. It had got 1,427 complaints during financial year 2019-20.
''Total 4,244 number of complaints (including format and non-format) have been received though online/offline and email during the financial year 2021-22 (up to January 31, 2022),'' the Lokpal had said.
A total of 2,355 complaints, including format and non-format, were received through online or offline and email during 2020-21.
The government had in March 2020 issued a format for filing corruption complaints with the Lokpal against public servants.
The Lokpal declined to reveal details of alleged corrupt officials, saying they come under ''3rd party information''.
''The name and designation cannot be revealed as they come under the 3rd party information,'' it said.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Zee News exit poll shows a second term for Yogi Adityanath-led BJP in Uttar Pradesh. AAP is likely to sweep Punjab polls winning between 52-61 seats.
Zee News conducted an exit poll in collaboration with DesignBoxed for the five states that went to Assembly polls including the biggest state of Uttar Pradesh. The survey has predicted a second term for the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP in Uttar Pradesh. Exit polls show Aam Aadmi Party is likely to sweep Punjab assembly polls winning between 52-61 seats out of the total 117 constituencies.
The Zee News exit poll has predicted a close fight between the ruling BJP and the Congress in Uttarakhand. Readers must note that this is an exit poll result and not the actual results that are scheduled to be declared on March 10 by the Election Commission of India.
1. Uttar Pradesh seat share
The Zee News exit poll predicts a thumping victory for BJP in Uttar Pradesh though BJP is projected to win lesser seats this time as compared to 2017. According to the projections, the ruling BJP is likely to get between 223- 248 seats. The Samajwadi Party-led alliance is expected to win between 138-157 seats this time.
The Congress party is only expected to win between 4-9 seats. While Mayawati's BSP will disappoint again as it is projected to win just 5 to 11 seats. Others are like to bag between 3-5 seats.
2. Punjab seat share
In Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party is likely sweep assembly polls winning between 52-61 seats out of the total 117 constituencies. Congress is likely to come out as the second biggest party in Punjab with 26-33 seats, closely followed by Shiromani Akali Dal which is likely to win between 24-32 seats.
3. Uttarakhand seat share
The Zee News exit poll has predicted a close fight between the ruling BJP and the Congress in Uttarakhand. Congress led by former chief minister Harish Rawat is expected to win around 35-40 seats. While Congress is predicted to make a strong comeback in the hill state, the ruling BJP is likely to win over 30 seats.
4. Goa seat share
As per Zee News exit poll 2022, the Congress-led alliance is predicted to bag 14-19 seats, followed by BJP which can secure around 13-18 seats in Goa. The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) alliance is likely to win 2-5 seats, while the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and others can win 1-3 seats each.
5. Manipur seat share
According to Zee News-DesignBoxed's Exit Poll, the BJP is expected to win between 32-38 seats out of the 60 assembly seats in Manipur. Congress, on the other hand, is likely to get 12-17 seats. While the NPF may win 3-5 seats, the NPP is expected to get 2-4 seats.
6. NDTV exit poll results
NDTV's poll of exit polls predict a BJP win in Uttar Pradesh with 242 seats. It showed Samajwadi Party winning 143 seats. In Punjab, the poll of polls showed the Aam Aadmi Party winning the most seats. It predicted 63 seats for the AAP and 28 seats for the Congress.
For Uttarakhand, a poll of polls has predicted a close contest between the BJP and Congress with 35 and 32 seats respectively. Uttarakhand has 70 seats. A poll of exit polls indicates that both the BJP and the Congress will end up with 16 seats in Goa each leading the state for another hung assembly. Goa has a 40-member house.
In Manipur, the BJP is set to emerge as the largest party with 30 seats, predicts a poll of exit polls. Manipur voted in two phases - on February 27 and March 3 - as the elections were held for the 60-member state assembly.
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7. India Today-Axis My India exit poll
Yogi Adityanath-led BJP is likely to win a second term in Uttar Pradesh by a landslide, five exit polls showed. The sum of exit polls by India Today-Axis My India, C-Voter, Today's Chanakya, Jan ki Baat and Veto pointed to 260 seats for the BJP and its allies.
The result of India Today-Axis My India exit polls has predicted a BJP sweep in Uttar Pradesh with the Yogi Adityanath-led party winning 288-326 seats. The Samajwadi Party (SP) and its allies will win 71-101 seats, while the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is predicted to win 3-9 seats. The Congress could win 1-3 and others could bag 2-3 seats.
The AAP is set for a landslide victory in Punjab winning 41% of votes or 76-90 seats in the 117-member Assembly. Congress is at the second spot with 19-31 seats or 23% of votes. The BJP alliance with former chief minister Amarinder Singh's Punjab Lok Congress may win one to four seats or 7% votes. The Shiromani Akali Dal is predicted to secure 18% votes or 7 to 11 seats in the Punjab Assembly.
The polls have forecast 44% of the total vote share for the BJP in Uttarakhand, with 36-46 seats. The Congress could get 40% of votes, bagging anywhere between 20-30 seats, followed by the BSP with 0-2 seats.
The polls have forecast 15-20 seats for the Congress-Goa Forward Party alliance. According to the exit poll, the ruling BJP will win 14-18 seats in the 40-seat Assembly. The exit poll result put the Trinamool Congress-Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party alliance in the third spot, with 2-5 seats, followed by others with 0-4 seats.
The polls have forecast 33-43 seats for the ruling BJP in Manipur, 4-8 seats each for the Congress, the NPP and the NPF and 0-7 seats for others. The BJP is likely to secure 41% of Manipur's total polled votes, followed by 18% for the Congress, 16% for the NPP, 8% for the NPF and others 17%.
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8. ABP C-Voter exit poll
ABP News-CVoter has predicted that BJP will win anywhere between 228-244 seats in Uttar Pradesh. The Samajwadi Party will come second, bagging 132-148 seats. Mayawati's BSP will win 13-21 seats while Congress will get 4-8 seats. The majority mark is at 202 in the 403-member UP assembly.
In Punjab's 117-member assembly, Arvind Kejriwal's AAP is likely to be the single-largest party with 51-61 seats. The Congress is projected to win 22-28 seats. While the Akali Dal will win somewhere between 20-26 seats. The BJP is liekly to win somewhere between 7-13 seats.
The BJP is set to win 26-32 seats in Uttarakhand, and the Congress will win somewhere between 32-38 seats in the 70-member state assembly.
In Goa, the BJP - with 13-17 votes - is projected to be the single-largest party. For the Congress and the MGP-Trinamool combine, victory on 5-9 seats has been projected. Goa has a total of 40 seats in the assembly.
For Manipur, the ABP C-Voter survey says the BJP will win 23-27 votes, and the Congress-led MPSA will win 12-16 seats in the 60-member assembly.
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9. News24-Today's Chanakya Exit poll results
The BJP is projected to win as many as 294 seats, with the Samajwadi Party (SP) bagging only 105 seats. Other parties will together win as many as four seats in the 403-seat assembly, the survey showed.
The exit poll projected Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) winning 100 seats in the Punjab assembly of 117 seats (45% votes). The ruling Congress will slump from 77 to 10 (23%), while others, including the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)-Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) alliance and the BJP-Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) coalition, will win a total of seven seats.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will retain the hill state by winning 41 seats with a vote share of 43%, while the Congress will bag only 24 seats with a vote share of 34%. Others will win three seats with a vote share of 25%. The common margin of error for seat tally is seven while that for vote share is 3%.
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10. Jan Ki Baat exit poll
The Jan Ki Baat exit poll has predicted 222-260 seats for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh. The poll says that the SP will win around 135 to 165 seats, while the BSP would end up with 4 to 9 seats. The exit poll says that the Congress would end up with just 1 to 3 seats, while the others would bag 3-4 seats.
In Uttarakhand, the BJP is likely to bag 32-41 seats, Congress between 27-35, AAP to get between 0-1 and others to get between 0-4, according to exit polls by Jan Ki Baat.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on the occasion of International Women's Day on Tuesday, announced that 33 per cent of government jobs in Tripura will be reserved for women. Addressing a rally here to mark the fourth anniversary of the BJP-IPFT government in the northeastern state, he said that Biplab Deb's administration has put a full stop to political violence.
Shah claimed that farmers' earnings have doubled under the present government, and the per capita income has increased to Rs 1.3 lakh. "Agartala has been connected with the rest of the country through rail. A total of 542 km of national highways have been built," he said.
The Union home minister said that there has been a 30 per cent dip in heinous crimes in Tripura, and the conviction rate has increased to 53 per cent from 5 per cent. Shah said that the ruling dispensation will fulfill all promises made in the previous manifesto, and he will return to Tripura to seek votes. The northeastern state will go to assembly polls early next year.
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Russia, Ukraine agree to safe corridor
She said Russias Defence 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.
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- Ukraine
Safe corridors intended to let civilians escape the Russian onslaught in Ukraine could open on 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 on Tuesday that both sides agreed to a cease-fire from 9 am-9 pm 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 am (0800 GMT), on a single route toward the Ukrainian city of Poltava. She said Russia's Defence 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.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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While the counting of votes is yet to take place and people’s final mandate is still to be declared, the exit polls have raised the expectations of the common man by projecting their third choice the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as a probable winner of the Punjab Legislative Assembly elections.
Though only the final results declared post-enumeration on March 10, would certify the validity of these polls, the AAP is being projected to have made a clean sweep of Punjab with a margin of 70-90 seats out of a total of 117 assembly seats, fanning the fires of public euphoria and expectations of the masses, who have pinned high hopes of as “claimed” ‘good governance’ on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's.
In 2017, AAP had only won on 20 seats as against the 77 of Congress, 15 of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). However about ten of his elected MLA’s have left the party in last five years. The BJP, meanwhile, had won only on three seats in 2017. However, this time if AAP comes to power, it would be a massive change for both the party, which has by far largely catered to an urban populace and culture of the Union Territory of Delhi, as well as for Punjab, which has a majority of rural voters.
READ | Assembly Elections 2022: Here's what poll of exit polls predicts for 5 states
AAP would be playing in a new arena, with a whole host of new challenges, a majority of which have never been tended to even by the legendary parties of the state. The party’s manifesto promises a host of freebies and sops to the Punjabi voters on being voted to power, but it will have to go beyond allurements to catch the pulse of the state concentrated mainly in rural Punjab and tackle the issues pertaining to the same.
Even as, AAP proposes the Delhi-model for Punjab, which includes good health and education facilities and much more, attaining which would be a major challenge for them. A “Delhi model” which has yet to be tested by the inhabitants of Punjab. While the state of education has remained quite deplorable in Punjab till date, particularly in the rural areas, health facilities are scant.
The hospitals are situated quite far-off from the villages and are, therefore, inaccessible and ill-equipped with staff, medical supplies and other facilities. A far cry from Delhi, Punjab is by and large an agrarian state with agriculture being concentrated mainly in the rural areas spanning almost 50 thousands square kilometers. At least 62 per cent of Punjab’s electorate lives in these areas.
Taking care of these areas would require a lot of hard work on the part of the AAP considering the fact that these are farmer-dominated turfs with tricky agricultural issues that have hitherto been left unaddressed by even the legendary parties of the state including Congress and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). Considering AAP’s performance in Delhi and the change of leadership in Punjab, the farmers in the state would look towards the new party to resolve their issues and offer effective solutions.
If the final results validate the veracity of the exit polls, it would become all the more important to analyze the reasons behind people’s choice of AAP. Of these, the foremost would be the anti-incumbency factor. A majority of important issues as education, health, good civic infrastructure and much more, still remain a chimera for the masses as these have not been addressed by the present and previous governments over the years.
The next would be, the absence of a third viable option. The tradional parties had ruled long without offering something new to look forward to, to the masses. If AAP wins, it would mean that the voters have finally found the alternative they desired. The infighting within the ruling Congress party might turn out to be another reason, if AAP wins the election.
On top of that, AAP’s campaigning was quite managerial due to their use of the social media and the advent of the party’s brass in Punjab for campaigning. However, nothing can be rightly said at the moment. The exit polls are not always right. The real winner would only emerge on the scene post counting of votes on March 10.
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U.N. rights boss Bachelet says China visit agreed in May, including Xinjiang
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U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet announced on Tuesday that she has reached an agreement with China for a visit, "foreseen" in May, and said that she had already raised the cases of some critics who have been arrested for speaking out.
Her visit would include a stop in the Xinjiang region where activists say some 1 million Uyghurs are held in mass detention, she told the Human Rights Council in Geneva by video message.
An advance team from her office would leave in April to prepare her visit - the first by a U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights since Louise Arbour went to China in 2005 - she said.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Till now, one has to use a smartphone with internet connectivity to make a digital payment through Unified Payments Interface (UPI). But now the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday launched UPI for feature phones as well.
'UPI123Pay' will promote digital transactions in the country, especially in rural India. It will let customers use feature phones for almost all transactions except scan and pay. It won't even require an internet connection for this.
Customers only have to link their bank account with feature phones to use this facility. The Central bank also announced the rollout of a 24x7 helpline for digital payments called DigiSaathi.
What is UPI?
UPI is a platform developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) together with the Reserve Bank of India and the Indian Banks Association (IBA). Users have a unique UPI ID that can be used to send and receive payments using a secure PIN.
Since its inception in 2016, UPI has become the top choice for payments by Indians. The UPI platform registered 4.52 billion transactions, amounting to Rs 8.26 trillion in February. In January, the number was 4.61 billion transactions, amounting to Rs 8:32 trillion, in January.
In December 2021, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das had first proposed to launch the UPI payment service for feature phones. Speaking at the launch of the event today, Das said that the UPI on feature phones will help people in rural areas and allow India's 40 crore feature phone users to access the payment service.
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Russia, Ukraine agree to safe corridor to allow evacuation of civilians from Sumy
The first convoy with evacuated civilians in buses or private cars is to leave at 10 am 0800 GMT, on a single route toward the Ukrainian city of Poltava. She didnt elaborate on the possibility of evacuating Ukrainians toward western Ukraine.
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- Ukraine
Safe corridors intended to let civilians escape the Russian onslaught in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy could open on 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 on Tuesday that both sides agreed to a cease-fire from 9 am-9 pm Ukraine time (0700-1900 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 first convoy with evacuated civilians in buses or private cars is to leave at 10 am (0800 GMT), on a single route toward the Ukrainian city of Poltava. She said Russia's Defence Ministry agreed to this in a letter to the International Red Cross.
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.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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To stop the ongoing attacks in Ukraine, Russia has put forward four conditions. Moscow has said that if Kyiv accepts these conditions, then military action will be stopped soon. It is Day 13 of the Russian invasion into Ukraine which began on February 24 after the announcement of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But the two countries have not yet reached an agreement on any concrete issue. The third round of talks between Russia and Ukraine took place on Monday. But this also did not yield any result.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that if Ukraine stops military action, amends the constitution, recognises Crimea as Russian territory and also recognise Donetsk and Lugansk as independent states then Russia is ready to end the war.
This is for the first time since February 24 that such a vocal statement has been issued by Russia. Speaking to Reuters, Peskov said that Ukraine was aware of the conditions 'and they've been told it can all stop in a moment'. However, the Kremlin spokesman emphasized that Russia was not making any further territorial claims on Ukraine.
He also said that it is 'not true' that they are demanding Kyiv. "We are completing demilitarisation in Ukraine. We will complete it. But the main thing is that Ukraine should stop its military action. They should stop their military action and no one will fire."
Russia has attacked Ukraine from the north, east and south. Presently, Kyiv, Kharkiv and Mariupol have been greatly affected. Europe has seen the biggest refugee crisis since World War II. Due to this, many countries of the world have expressed their displeasure against Russia. Many countries including the United States have imposed economic sanctions on Russia.
The United Nations Human Rights Office has said that 406 civilians have been confirmed dead in Ukraine since the start of Russia's invasion on February 24. Apart from this, 801 people have also been confirmed injured till Sunday midnight, the office said.
The Human Rights Office said that it uses strict procedures in this regard and only gives information about casualties after confirmation. The office said the casualties could be relatively higher, especially in government-controlled areas.
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POCSO case: Kerala HC denies anticipatory bail to Kochi hotel owner and another
There is sufficient material in it to indicate that accused no.
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The Kerala High Court on Monday declined anticipatory bail to the owner of city-based Hotel 18 and another in a POCSO case against them.
Justice Gopinath P denied any relief to Hotel 18 owner Roy J Vayalat and his friend Syju M Thankachan.
The court, however, granted anticipatory bail to co-accused Anjali Vadakkepurakkal in the case.
The detailed order containing the reasons for the decision is not yet available.
The accused had alleged that the complaint of molestation and sexual assault against them by the minor's mother was ''a deliberate attempt at blackmail''.
On a previous date of hearing, after perusing the statement given by the minor under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code before a magistrate, the high court had said ''there appears to be a ring of truth in that''.
''The (section) 164 statement shows how the entire thing was planned. There is sufficient material in it to indicate that accused no. 3 (Anjali Vadakkepurakkal) had practically enticed the girl by saying she (minor) will be made a model.
''She (Anjali) made her (minor) do all sorts of things, made her wear all kinds of dresses, took her photographs, I cannot say anything more than that regarding the 164 statement,'' the judge had said.
According to the complainant mother, who was an employee of Vadakkepurakkal, the latter had invited her and her daughter to Hotel 18 under the guise of a meeting and there Vayalat had allegedly molested the minor and also video recorded the same.
After the mother and daughter left the hotel, Vadakkepurakkal allegedly circulated the video and other photographs of the minor on social media and to others, the complaint has claimed.
Hotel 18, Vayalat and Thankachan recently came in the news in connection with the deaths of three people, including two models, in a car accident which allegedly resulted as the latter was chasing them in his four-wheeler.
Models Ancy Kabeer (25) and Anjana Shajan (24) had died in the fatal crash on November 1 last year. A third passenger, in the car, succumbed to his injuries a few days later.
According to the prosecution in that case, Thankachan had allegedly stalked the models from a bar to Hotel 18 and when they left that place to avoid him, he chased them.
In that matter, the high court granted bail to Thankachan.
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Nigerian Yoruba activist released from prison in Benin
Adeyemo, more commonly known by his nickname Sunday Igboho, belongs to the Yoruba ethnic group and rose to prominence with calls for herdsmen from the Fulani ethnic group to be driven out of Yoruba lands in southwest Nigeria. He was arrested last July at Cotonou airport while on his way to Germany, after a Nigerian security agency said it had found a stockpile of weapons at his house.
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Nigerian activist Sunday Adeyemo, imprisoned in Benin since last year for allegedly plotting an insurrection in Nigeria, has been released under judicial supervision, one of his lawyers said on Tuesday. Adeyemo, more commonly known by his nickname Sunday Igboho, belongs to the Yoruba ethnic group and rose to prominence with calls for herdsmen from the Fulani ethnic group to be driven out of Yoruba lands in southwest Nigeria.
He was arrested last July at Cotonou airport while on his way to Germany, after a Nigerian security agency said it had found a stockpile of weapons at his house. He was released on Monday evening for health reasons, with the condition that he cannot leave Benin, said one of his lawyers, who requested anonymity until a news conference is held.
Only his close entourage will be allowed access to his house in Benin's commercial capital Cotonou, which will be under police surveillance, the lawyer said. Igboho's arrest was seen as a sign of intensifying efforts by the Nigerian government to go after people seen as a threat to national security, even beyond Nigerian borders.
It came shortly after separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu, from the Igbo ethnic group rooted in southeast Nigeria, was transferred to Nigeria in disputed circumstances. Kanu and his lawyers say he was detained and abused in Kenya before an illegal transfer, which Kenya and Nigeria denied. Earlier media reports said Nigeria was seeking Igboho's extradition, but the status of that request was unclear. The Nigerian authorities have not responded to multiple requests for comment on Igboho's case.
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TN youth joins Ukranian army to fight against Russia
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After his hopes of joining the Indian Army were dashed, a 21-year old youth from the city has enlisted with the Ukrainian army to fight against the invading Russian troops.
The matter came to light when some central intelligence officials visited the house of Sainikesh Ravichandran in Thudiyalur near here a few days ago to collect his details.
The Indian Army had reportedly rejected Sainikesh twice due to his height. He had even approached the US consulate to join the American armed forces, but to no avail, police said.
Sainikesh's parents told the authorities that he was pursuing Aerospace engineering in war-hit Ukraine and had landed a job at a video game developing company a few days before the war broke out there.
The distraught parents have appealed to the union government to trace and bring Sainikhesh back to India, as he was unwilling to return home, they added.
Sainikhesh was pursuing Aerospace engineering course in the National Aerospace University in Kharkiv since 2018 and had joined the Georgian National Legion consisting of paramilitary unit volunteers and fighting against Russia.
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Nkoana-Mashabane to host dialogue session with women farmers in Limpopo
International Women’s Day is celebrated globally annually on 08 March to commemorate the cultural, political, and socio-economic achievements of women.
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As part of International Women's Day, Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane is set to host a dialogue session with women farmers in Limpopo today.
International Women's Day is celebrated globally annually on 08 March to commemorate the cultural, political, and socio-economic achievements of women.
This year's International Women's Day is observed under the theme: "Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow".
The Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (DWYPD) said the dialogue brings together the global theme of attaining gender equality for a more sustainable future in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction.
"Ensuring gender equality in volatile times ensures greater chance of sustainability and stability for future generations, while addressing global concerns like food security, poverty and hunger, and managing our response to climate change, unstable political climates, and cultural and other changes," said the department.
The dialogues also forms part of a series of engagements that contribute to South Africa's position at the 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66), which will take place from 14 to 25 March 2022.
In accordance with its multi-year programme of work (2021- 2024), the DWYPD said the CSW66 will consider "achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes," as its priority theme.
"The department, as the custodian of government's women empowerment and gender equality mandate, is charged with coordinating South Africa's participation at the United Nation CSW session. South Africa [has] also secured Chairship of the Bureau for the 66th and 67th sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women in 2022 and 2023," the department said.
According to the United Nations, advancing gender equality in the context of the climate crisis and disaster risk reduction is one of the greatest global challenges of the 21st century.
Women are increasingly being recognised as more vulnerable to climate change impacts than men, as they constitute the majority of the world's poor, and are more dependent on the natural resources which climate change threatens the most.
The Minister will be joined by Limpopo Social Development MEC, Nkakareng Rakgoale who will representing the Premier's Office.
(With Inputs from South African Government Press Release)
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Mondli Gungubele recommits of State Security Agency to uproot corruption
Gungubele said these incidents of wrong-doing in the main are as a result of such weaknesses, as identified in the two recent reports.
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The Minister in the Presidency responsible for State Security, Mondli Gungubele, has restated the commitment of the State Security Agency (SSA) to uproot corruption.
Responding to a series of media reports about alleged incidents of fraud, corruption and malfeasance, Gungubele said the agency was cognisant of the seriousness of the issues raised in both the High Level Review Panel on State Security and the July unrest reports, which all point to some weaknesses and gaps in the manner in which the agency conducts its business.
Gungubele said these incidents of wrong-doing in the main are as a result of such weaknesses, as identified in the two recent reports. He said the SSA is steadfast in the implementation of recommendations to ensure that such misconduct does not recur.
"We have noted with some deep concern, the number of media reports about the alleged corruption in the agency and we want to assure South African citizens that we share their disdain against such conduct.
"We are spending sleepless nights in our attempts to uncover these malpractices and we are confident that we will win this war and return the Agency to its former glory," he said.
He said the work of the forensic investigation team, in partnership with the NPA's Investigative Directorate, is underway and gaining momentum by the day.
"We are encouraged by the progress we are making... Just recently, we have dismissed no less than four officials on account of fraud, corruption and misconduct and we expect to do more," Gungubele said.
He reassured the nation that such efforts by the SSA are all meant to restore its image, which has been compromised by such acts of corruption and misconduct.
"We are determined to restore our image and to turn this place around to serve the needs and interests of our citizens.
"We have a constitutional mandate to safeguard the territorial integrity of this country and to protect its citizens. We cannot do that if we continue with the kind of misconduct that has been described in the media and elsewhere," Gungubele said.
(With Inputs from South African Government Press Release)
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Italy's Draghi speaks to Azerbaijan President on energy cooperation, Ukraine
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Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi spoke on the phone with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev on Tuesday about energy cooperation and the crisis in Ukraine.
"The two leaders discussed the situation on the ground in Ukraine and the further strengthening of bilateral cooperation, especially in the energy sector," the Prime Minister's office said in a statement.
Italy receives gas from Azerbaijan through the Trans Adriatic Pipeline.
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India, China to hold 15th round of border talks on Friday
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India and China will hold the 15th round of high-level military talks on Friday to resolve issues related to remaining friction areas in eastern Ladakh, sources in the defence establishment said on Tuesday.
The talks till now have resulted in the resolution of issues in North and South Bank of Pangong Tso, Galwan and Gogra Hot Spring areas.
There was, however, no fresh breakthrough in the 14th round of the dialogue that took place on January 12 this year.
The two sides will hold the next round at Chushul Moldo meeting point in Ladakh on Friday to end the 22-month standoff at the remaining friction areas, according to the sources.
Recent statements by both sides to find a mutually acceptable solution have been encouraging and positive in nature, they noted.
The eastern Ladakh border standoff between the Indian and Chinese militaries erupted on May 5, 2020, following a violent clash in the Pangong lake area.
Both sides gradually enhanced their deployment by rushing in tens of thousands of soldiers as well as heavy weaponry.
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Thirty buses are en route to collect evacuees from Mariupol, says Ukrainian official
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Thirty buses are en route to the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol to collect evacuees via a humanitarian corridor to Ukraine-controlled territory, deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on television on Tuesday.
There were signs Russian forces were firing in the direction of a route for humanitarian aid, she added, without providing further details.
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Ukraine starts evacuating civilians from some besieged areas
Residents began leaving the northeastern city of Sumy and the town of Irpin near the capital Kyiv, but it was unclear if Ukraine would agree to use other humanitarian corridors if they took Ukrainians to Russia or Belarus. "We have already started the evacuation of civilians from Sumy to Poltava (in central Ukraine), including foreign students," Ukraine's foreign ministry said in a tweet.
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Ukraine began evacuating civilians from besieged cities on Tuesday after Russia allowed the creation of "humanitarian corridors", and Kyiv appealed to Moscow to keep its guns silent so that people could leave safely. Residents began leaving the northeastern city of Sumy and the town of Irpin near the capital Kyiv, but it was unclear if Ukraine would agree to use other humanitarian corridors if they took Ukrainians to Russia or Belarus.
"We have already started the evacuation of civilians from Sumy to Poltava (in central Ukraine), including foreign students," Ukraine's foreign ministry said in a tweet. "We call on Russia to uphold its ceasefire commitment, to refrain from activities that endanger the lives of people, and to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid."
Dmytro Zhyvytsky, the governor of the Sumy region, said in a video statement that the second column of civilians would leave Sumy at around 1100 GMT. Oleksiy Kuleba, governor of the Kyiv region, said more than 150 people had been evacuated from Irpin by 0730 GMT.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said 30 buses were also en route to collect evacuees from the port city of Mariupol. There were signs Russian forces were firing in the direction of a route for humanitarian aid, she added, without providing further details. Civilians have been trapped by fighting since Russian troops invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, and officials say food, water, and other supplies have been running low in some cities.
Some areas have suffered heavy bombardments. Authorities in the Sumy region said 21 civilians, including two children, had been killed in a Russian airstrike on a residential street in Sumy late on Monday. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said a child had died of dehydration in Mariupol. The child's death could not immediately be confirmed independently. Moscow calls its actions in Ukraine a "special military operation" to disarm its neighbor and arrest leaders it calls "neo-Nazis". It denies targeting civilians.
FLOOD OF REFUGEES Russia's defense ministry said corridors had been opened to evacuate people from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Mariupol, and that Russian forces in Ukraine had introduced a "silent regime" from 0700 GMT, Interfax news agency reported.
But on Monday Ukraine rejected Russian proposals to evacuate Ukrainians to Russia or Belarus, a Russian ally. Zhyvytsky said on Tuesday it had been impossible to agree on the establishment of other humanitarian corridors but gave no details.
Humanitarian corridors from Mariupol failed on Saturday and Sunday, with each side accusing the other of continuing to fire. People trying to flee Irpin on Sunday were caught in Russian shelling, Reuters witnesses said.
Some 2 million refugees have already fled Ukraine to other countries, Filippo Grandi, the head of the United Nations refugee agency, said.
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London marine insurers widen high risk area as Ukraine conflict escalates
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London's marine insurance market has widened the area of waters around the Black Sea and Sea of Azov that it deems high risk, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine intensifies and perils to merchant shipping grow.
Marine insurers said in advisory dated March 7 that the high risk area had been widened to waters close to Romania and Georgia after initially adding Russian and Ukrainian waters in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov in February.
Guidance from the insurance industry's Joint War Committee is watched closely and influences underwriters' considerations over insurance premiums.
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''Yes, we need hands'': Kitchen pops up in Ukraine's capital
The field kitchen at a makeshift camp in Ukraines capital was a hive of activity Monday, giving volunteers a way to contribute to the war effort -- and providing a much-needed distraction from the harrowing news about Russias escalating invasion.A woman identified only as Oksana, whose husband is fighting in the Ukrainian army, said the kitchen duty gives her a way to avoid the latest developments.I got information that people need help in the kitchen, she said from the tent village that had sprung up between a multi-story building and a barrier made of stacked tires and sandbags.
The field kitchen at a makeshift camp in Ukraine's capital was a hive of activity Monday, giving volunteers a way to contribute to the war effort -- and providing a much-needed distraction from the harrowing news about Russia's escalating invasion.
A woman identified only as Oksana, whose husband is fighting in the Ukrainian army, said the kitchen duty gives her a way to avoid the latest developments.
“I got information that people need help in the kitchen,” she said from the tent village that had sprung up between a multi-story building and a barrier made of stacked tires and sandbags. “I came and asked, and they said: Yes, we need hands.' That's it, and we are not sitting and reading terrifying messages on news channels.” Another volunteer at the kitchen, Oleksiy Shevchenko, said: “We are cooking soups, porridge for our military, for civilians and for everyone who needs our help, including hospitals.” Volunteers chopped red peppers and boiled potatoes at the kitchen's various stations as the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine deepened, and as Russian forces intensified their shelling. Food, water, heat and medicine grew increasingly scarce, in what Ukraine condemned as a medieval-style siege by Moscow to batter it into submission.
A third round of talks between the two sides ended with a top Ukrainian official saying there had been minor, unspecified progress toward establishing safe corridors that would allow civilians to escape the fighting. Russia's chief negotiator said he expects those corridors to start operating Tuesday.
Blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flags flew above some of the field kitchen's tents. Stacks of wood crates and piles of firewood made for walls within the camp. Boiling vegetable soup sent steam into the cold air; wood fire crackled. Men in camouflage uniforms inspected canned food with messages scrawled on them in black marker. “Thank you, darlings! We pray for you. God with us!” said one can.
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London marine insurers widen high risk area as Ukraine conflict escalates
London’s marine insurance market has widened the area of waters around the Black Sea and Sea of Azov that it deems high risk, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine intensifies and perils to merchant shipping grow. Marine insurers said in advisory dated March 7 that the high risk area had been widened to waters close to Romania and Georgia after initially adding Russian and Ukrainian waters in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov in February.
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London's marine insurance market has widened the area of waters around the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov that it deems high risk, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine intensifies and perils to merchant shipping grow.
Marine insurers said in an advisory dated March 7 that the high-risk area had been widened to waters close to Romania and Georgia after initially adding Russian and Ukrainian waters in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov in February. The new high-risk areas also extended to various inland waters and sections of the high seas, underscoring the increasing dangers to sailings through the whole region.
Guidance from the insurance industry's Joint War Committee (JWC) is watched closely and influences underwriters' considerations over insurance premiums. The JWC in a market advisory pointed to three ships that had been hit around the Ukrainian port of Odesa adding that the situation "is dynamic and being closely monitored".
"The listed areas will be re-adjusted if the JWC believes it appropriate."
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Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now
Russia's Interfax news agency reported. RUSSIAN GENERAL KILLED A second senior Russian commander had been killed, Ukrainian military and intelligence said. FLEEING CONFLICT * Two million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion, the head of the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday.
Ukraine began evacuating civilians from besieged cities through humanitarian corridors agreed with Russia after several failed attempts in recent days. HUMANITARIAN CORRIDORS * 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. Russia's Interfax news agency reported.
RUSSIAN GENERAL KILLED A second senior Russian commander had been killed, Ukrainian military and intelligence said. Reuters could not verify the report. TALKS * Negotiators warned not to expect a quick breakthrough in peace in Belarus after the third round brought little progress. The Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers are expected to meet in Turkey on Thursday. MARKETS * Russia warned oil prices could more than double to $300 a barrel and it might close the main gas pipeline to Germany if the West halts oil imports. * Russia's Gazprom continued gas shipments via Ukraine at usual volumes, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. * Nickel trade suspended The London Metal Exchange (LME) halted nickel trading after prices doubled to a record $100,000 per tonne on fears Western sanction will hit Russian supplies.
* What would a U.S. ban on Russian oil mean for the world? SANCTIONS * EU targets more Russian oligarchs, Belarus banks The European Commission has prepared further sanctions that will hit more Russian oligarchs and politicians and three Belarusian banks, three sources told Reuters on Tuesday. FLEEING CONFLICT * Two million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion, the head of the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday. Around 1.2 million have arrived in Poland and more than 290,000 in Romania, the countries' authorities said. UKRAINE PRESIDENT ADDRESS * Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will address British lawmakers via video link in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the first time a president of another country has addressed the main Westminster chamber. DEATH TOLL * Ukraine says its forces have killed more than 11,000 Russian troops. Russia has confirmed about 500 losses. Neither side has disclosed Ukrainian casualties. * Attacks on health facilities The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that attacks on hospitals, ambulances and other health care facilities in Ukraine have increased rapidly in recent days and warned the country is running short of vital medical supplies.
INTERNATIONAL REPERCUSSIONS * Germany will host a virtual meeting of agricultural ministers from G7 countries on Friday to discuss the impact of the invasion on global food security and how to best stabilise food markets. INSIGHTS * For foreign fighters, Ukraine offers purpose, camraderie and a cause. * A war for life of our child': Health crisis spills out of Ukraine conflict
QUOTES "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 in Kyiv frontline suburb of Irpin, cradling a baby beneath a blanket.
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Militants using youngsters to carry out grenade attacks in Kashmir: Senior Army officer
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Militants are using youngsters to carry out grenade attacks in populated places in Kashmir as their networks are not being able to execute big strikes on security forces, a top Army officer said on Tuesday.
The remark of General officer Commanding (GoC) of the Srinagar-based 15 Corps, Lieutenant General D P Pandey, came in the backdrop of the grenade attack on Sunday at the Hari Singh High Street market here that killed two and injured 34 others.
Talking to reporters on the sidelines of an International Women's Day function here, he appealed to people to rise up against terror networks to stop such incidents.
''It was a very cowardice act, wherein women and men were going about their daily business and shopping, and you throw a grenade in which you lose two people and many are injured. I think it is condemnable,'' he said when asked about the attack at the market.
The lieutenant general said, ''Having realised that they are not able to do major difference to security parameters, the people who are propagating and the nexus that is trying to push terrorism in Kashmir, are using so-called hybrid terrorist, young men, to lob grenades, especially in populated areas''.
It is only possible to control ''such grenade attacks or such mindless killings when society rises up against the nexus'', he said.
On the ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan completing a year and the situation at the Line of Control (LoC), Lt Gen Pandey said the situation at the LoC is ''absolutely good''.
''It is absolutely fine. The people are enjoying their daily routine. I think it is a great, great thing which has happened, especially for the people of border areas like Uri, Keran, Tangdhar, who were suffering due to ceasefire violations,'' he said.
The commander said the enemy used to deliberately target buildings, houses, schools and farms of people on this side.
''This one year has been a good time for them (people residing in border areas), wherein children have been able to go to school, people have been able to go to their respective businesses, their farms, and there is progress, which has come to border areas. I think life is much, much better for the people there (now),'' he said.
The commander also said that women of the Kashmir Valley, who otherwise were pushed to the wall in the past, have started coming to the forefront, helping in preventing boys from treading the wrong path.
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PM Modi salutes Nari Shakti on International Women's Day
Replying to a tweet of the Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, the Prime Minister said in a tweet:
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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has saluted the Nari Shakti on International Women's Day.
In a series of tweets, the Prime Minister said;
"On Women's Day, I salute our Nari Shakti and their accomplishments in diverse fields. The Government of India will keep focusing on women empowerment through its various schemes with an emphasis on dignity as well as opportunity."
"From financial inclusion to social security, quality healthcare to housing, education to entrepreneurship, many efforts have been made to put our Nari Shakti at the forefront of India's development journey. These efforts will continue with even greater vigour in the coming times."
"At 6 PM this evening, I will address a programme being held in Kutch which highlights the contributions of women saints to our society.
The focus will be on different aspects of culture, the various welfare measures of the Centre and more. https://t.co/ImLHzdJpEQ"
(With Inputs from PIB)
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33 pc govt jobs in Tripura to be reserved for women: Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on the occasion of International Womens Day on Tuesday, announced that 33 per cent of government jobs in Tripura will be reserved for women.Addressing a rally here to mark the fourth anniversary of the BJP-IPFT government in the northeastern state, he said that Biplab Debs administration has put a full stop to political violence.Shah claimed that farmers earnings have doubled under the present government, and the per capita income has increased to Rs 1.3 lakh.Agartala has been connected with the rest of the country through rail.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on the occasion of International Women's Day on Tuesday, announced that 33 per cent of government jobs in Tripura will be reserved for women.
Addressing a rally here to mark the fourth anniversary of the BJP-IPFT government in the northeastern state, he said that Biplab Deb's administration has put a full stop to political violence.
Shah claimed that farmers' earnings have doubled under the present government, and the per capita income has increased to Rs 1.3 lakh.
''Agartala has been connected with the rest of the country through rail. A total of 542 km of national highways have been built,'' he said.
The Union home minister said that there has been a 30 per cent dip in heinous crimes in Tripura, and the conviction rate has increased to 53 per cent from 5 per cent.
Shah said that the ruling dispensation will fulfill all promises made in the previous manifesto, and he will return to Tripura to seek votes. The northeastern state will go to assembly polls early next year.
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Goa CM meets Modi ahead of poll results
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Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Tuesday, a day after exit polls predicted a hung assembly in the state.
Sawant exuded confidence of winning the assembly elections and forming the next government in the state with the help of regional parties.
Assembly elections were held in Goa on February 14 and the counting of votes is scheduled for March 10.
Goa had witnessed a multi-cornered contest with the Trinamool Congress, Aam Aadmi Party, Shiv Sena-NCP joining the fray along with key contestants the BJP and Congress.
The 2022 assembly elections were the first to be held after the demise of Manohar Parrikar, the tallest BJP leader in the state, who served four terms as chief minister.
In the 2017 elections, the Congress had emerged as the single largest party winning 17 seats, but BJP had pipped them to power after roping in the support of regional parties.
In the 2022 elections, the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party had joined hands with the Trinamool Congress, while the Goa Forward Party had a pre-poll alliance with the Congress.
The NCP and Shiv Sena were hoping for an alliance with the Congress, but entered the fray together after the grand old party gave them a cold shoulder.
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Goa Assembly Polls: Licensed premises for liquor sale in state to remain closed on March 10, counting day
All licensed premises for the sale of liquor will remain closed on March 10, in view of the counting of votes for the recently held Assembly polls in Goa, according to an order issued by the district magistrate.
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All licensed premises for the sale of liquor will remain closed on March 10, in view of the counting of votes for the recently held Assembly polls in Goa, according to an order issued by the district magistrate. "All the licensed premises for the sale of liquor shall remain closed from 00.00 hrs. Of March 10, till the end of counting of votes polled for General Assembly Election 2022," according to the order issued by the District Magistrate, North Goa.
As per the DM's notification, restaurants and bars would be allowed to serve food and non-alcoholic drinks. "The licensed premises having a license for Bar and Restaurant are allowed to keep the Restaurant open for serving food only and the Bar counter shall be closed and no liquor shall be allowed to be served on the above mentioned days and time," the notification read. Bars and restaurants have been instructed to display a board on the premises stating that 'No Liquor will be served 'on the said days and time.
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UN rights boss decries clampdown, arrests of anti-war protesters in Russia
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The ability to criticize public policy in Russia, particularly its invasion of Ukraine, is narrowing, with some 12,700 people unlawfully detained in anti-war protests, the top U.N. human rights official Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday.
"I remain concerned about the use of repressive legislation that impedes the exercise of civil and political rights and criminalizing non-violent behavior," Bachelet told the Human Rights Council in Geneva, speaking by video message.
She said that 'vague and overly broad definitions of extremism and incitement to hatred in Russia had led to legal interpretations that were not in line with its human rights obligations. "Further legislation criminalizing circumstances of 'discrediting' the armed forces continues down this concerning path," she added.
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2,145 FIRs lodged for poll code violations during UP elections
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A total of 2,145 FIRs were lodged for alleged violation of the model code of conduct during the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the state's chief electoral officer said.
He said Rs 103.56 crore cash, 17,640 kg drugs worth Rs 48.47 crore and over 22.94 litres of liquor worth Rs 62.13 crore were seized since the poll code came into effect on January 8.
''Preventive action was taken against 32.99 lakh people across the state under provisions of the CrPC, while 2,145 FIRs were registered under various sections for violation of the model code of conduct, of which 49 were lodged under different sections on March 7,'' Chief Electoral Officer Ajay Kumar Shukla said after the seventh and final phase of the polls on Monday.
The model code is a set of guidelines issued by the Election Commission for the political parties, candidates, government and the party in power during the polls concerning speeches, announcements, election manifestos and general conduct.
''In compliance with the model code of conduct, a total of 1.38 crore publicity materials have been removed from public and private places so far,'' the chief electoral officer said in a statement.
These include wall writings, banners and pamphlets, he said.
''So far, 8.96 lakh licensed arms have been deposited, 2,080 licences cancelled, while 631 licences have been confiscated,'' Shukla added.
Apart from this, 10,233 arms, 10,582 cartridges, 232 explosives and 336 bombs were seized, while 186 factories manufacturing illegal weapons were busted by the police till March 7, the officer said.
In addition to that, 429 kg of precious metals worth about Rs 40.71 crore was also seized by the police and the Income Tax department.
Elections to the 403 assembly seats of Uttar Pradesh were held in seven phases between February 10 and March 7. Votes will be counted on March 10.
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International Women's Day: Priyanka leads march in Lucknow
She had also visited the families of rape victims in Unna and Hathras.She had recently told PTI that she would not leave Uttar Pradesh and its people regardless of the election result and continue to fight along with them for the resolution of issues concerning the common man.
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Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday led a march here on International Women's Day, a day after the voting for the final phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
The march was taken out from '1090 Crossing', a traffic intersection named after the office of Women Helpline number located there, to the Veerangana Uda Devi crossing in Sikanderbagh locality.
Ahead of the assembly elections, Priyanka Gandhi had come out with the poll slogan "ladki hoon, lad sakti hoon (I'm a girl and can fight)" with the party giving 40 per cent of its tickets in UP to women candidates in the assembly polls.
The Tuesday march too was named after this slogan.
Carrying pink balloons and flags with ''ladki hoon, lad sakti hoon'' written on them, thousands of people, including women from across the state, participated in the march.
Passing through Mantri Niwas, a high-rise apartment block for families of ministers and MLAs and the Dalibagh area, the march covered about three km and culminated at Veerangana Uda Devi Crossing with Priyanka Gandhi and other Congress leaders garlanding the statue.
In over the hour-long march, girls showed a lot of enthusiasm in the event and marched along with Priyanka Gandhi while also taking selfies with her.
Besides the 159 women candidates fielded by the party in the assembly polls, women MLAs and MPs besides several other prominent women noted for their achievements in various walks of life were invited for the march.
All India Mahila Congress president Netta D'Souza said 'ladki hoon, lad sakti hoon' was not a mere slogan but an attempt to ensure women's empowerment. During the electioneering and even prior to that, Priyanka Gandhi had been raising issues related to women and seeking their resolutions. She had also visited the families of rape victims in Unna and Hathras.
She had recently told PTI that she would not leave Uttar Pradesh and its people regardless of the election result and continue to fight along with them for the resolution of issues concerning the common man.
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Count of big cats in Sariska Tiger Reserve rises to 27
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The number of big cats, including cubs, in the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan's Alwar district, has increased to 27, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said on Tuesday.
He also tweeted a picture of two newborn cubs captured in the trap camera footage.
''Good news from Sariska Tiger Reserve as Tigress ST17's newborn cubs have been captured in trap cameras. Now the tiger reserve has 27 total tigers including 9 tigers, 11 tigresses and 7 cubs,'' Gehlot tweeted.
He said the rising number of big cats is a matter of joy.
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EU to propose sanctions regime against disinformation
He singled out Russian state-owned television network Russia Today and news agency Sputnik as examples of "instruments to push this narrative to manipulate and mislead" Russian people over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. Borrell said Moscow was not just bombing houses and infrastructure in Ukraine but also targeting Russians with fake news and disinformation.
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The European Union's executive will propose a new mechanism to punish disinformation around the world, foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Tuesday, citing what he said were lies intentionally spread by Russian state-owned media. Borrell told the European Parliament that the EU should be able to freeze assets and ban travel to the bloc of those deemed responsible, in order to highlight such abuses of information to manipulate and mislead.
"I will propose a new mechanism that will allow us to sanction those malign disinformation actors," Borrell said, adding that he was not trying to define what was true or false in news, but to protect against manipulation of societies. He singled out Russian state-owned television network Russia Today and news agency Sputnik as examples of "instruments to push this narrative to manipulate and mislead" Russian people over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Borrell said Moscow was not just bombing houses and infrastructure in Ukraine but also targeting Russians with fake news and disinformation. "They are bombing their minds," he said. The proposal comes after European Commission President Ursula von Der Leyen said the 27-member bloc will ban the channels following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Borrell did not give more details about the timing of his proposal. EU governments would have to agree, draw up legal acts and agree on the names of those to target.
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BJP will make history in UP : Radha Mohan Singh
BJP is all set to make history in Uttar Pradesh by returning to power after completing a full five-year term, party national vice-president and in-charge of the state Radha Mohan Singh asserted on Tuesday.The former union minister was interacting with journalists in his Lok Sabha constituency here after the last phase of poll in Uttar Pradesh, where according to most exit polls BJP is set for a victory.Yogi Adityanath may well be on his way to become the first chief minister of Uttar Pradesh to enjoy a second consecutive term.
BJP is all set to make history in Uttar Pradesh by returning to power after completing a full five-year term, party national vice-president and in-charge of the state Radha Mohan Singh asserted on Tuesday.
The former union minister was interacting with journalists in his Lok Sabha constituency here after the last phase of poll in Uttar Pradesh, where according to most exit polls BJP is set for a victory.
“Yogi Adityanath may well be on his way to become the first chief minister of Uttar Pradesh to enjoy a second consecutive term. The BJP will also buck the trend of no party returning to power in UP after remaining in power for five years”, an ebullient Singh said.
Notably in the most populous state of the country, stability has eluded those occupying the highest seat of power. Besides Yogi only his predecessors Akhilesh Yadav (SP) and Mayawati (BSP) have been able to complete their tenures as chief minister.
Besides, no party which has been ruling the state at the time of election has been able to return to power since the then invincible Congress lost power in 1967.
Singh, however, ducked a query as to whether the foray of AIMIM of Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi had helped or hurt BJP’s prospects in UP.
The AIMIM has fielded about 100 candidates in the election to the 403-strong assembly, leading to allegations that Owaisi’s party was a “B team” of the BJP and is out to help the saffron party by cutting into Muslim votes and facilitating polarization along communal lines.
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Blinken wraps up Baltic assurance tour as Ukraine war rages
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US 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 US 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 US 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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Ahead of Goa poll results, Cong to shift its candidates to hotel; state BJP leaders to meet Fadnavis in Mumbai
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A day after the exit polls predicted a hung Assembly in Goa, hectic political activities have begun in the state with the Congress focusing on keeping its flock together and plans to shift all its candidates to a resort, a senior party leader said on Tuesday.
On the other side, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, while other senior Goa BJP leaders are planning to meet their state poll in-charge Devendra Fadnavis in Mumbai.
Elections to the 40-member Goa Assembly were held on February 14 and the counting of votes is scheduled for March 10.
The Congress, whose strength in the outgoing Assembly reduced from 17 to just two over the last five years, with some of its legislatures switching over to the BJP, is leaving no stone unturned to keep its flock intact. ''All the Congress candidates will be staying in a resort in North Goa on Wednesday from where they will be heading towards the counting stations,'' a senior party leader said.
The counting of votes would be held in Margao and Panaji cities.
The Congress party has asked all its winning candidates to arrive at the party office after the results.
“We have full faith in our candidates, but we don't want to take any chance,” a senior Congress leader said.
All India Congress Committee's election observer for Goa P Chidambaram and state desk in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao are camping in the coastal state since last Sunday to keep an eye on the political activities.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Tuesday. A senior Goa BJP leader said they have designed a ''fool-proof strategy'' to ensure the party retains power in the coastal state.
He said Goa BJP president Sadanand Shet Tanavade and party's state general secretary Satish Dhond will be going to Mumbai later in the day to participate in an event and they will also meet Goa poll in-charge Devendra Fadanavis.
Fadnavis and BJP's Goa desk in-charge C T Ravi would reach Goa on Wednesday, a day ahead of the counting.
The BJP has also asked all its winning candidates to assemble at the party's head office in Panaji after the vote counting on Thursday. “We will not waste any time to decide our leader and stake the claim to form government,” a senior BJP leader said.
On the other side, Trinamool Congress's Goa chief Kiran Kandolkar claimed his party will win seven-eight seats and their ally MGP will bag four-five seats, ''after which we will bargain for the chief ministerial post, if any party wants our support,'' He said the party allowed its candidates who win to go to their constituencies and hold victory rallies before coming to the party office in Panaji after the counting.
“We don't have the fear that our candidates will leave the party. We also know that no one can form the next government without the support of the TMC and Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP),'' Kandolkar said.
Leaders of the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC, which contested the Goa polls for the first time this year, held a meeting with their candidates on Sunday to discuss the party's strategy after the poll results are out. PTI RPS GK GK
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AP Legislature pays homage to deceased minister
Works will be completed in six weeks and we will inaugurate it with the new name, he added.ROH ROH Speaker T Seetaram, several ministers, senior legislator Anam Ramanarayana Reddy and others also paid tributes to their departed colleague.ROH ROH The House was then adjourned for the day.ROH ROH Goutham was elected to the Assembly twice in 2014 and 2019 from Atmakuru Assembly constituency in SPS Nellore district.
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The Andhra Pradesh Legislature on Tuesday paid homage to Mekapati Goutham Reddy who, while serving as state Industries and IT Minister, died of cardiac arrest on February 21.ROH ROH Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy moved the condolence motion in the Assembly.ROH ROH Jagan recalled that he and Goutham were childhood friends and the latter had been a valuable colleague for him.ROH ROH “He held six portfolios in my Cabinet and rendered significant service. He always strove to attract investments into the state and create employment. Because of Goutham’s efforts, several major industrial houses that hitherto did not have a presence in AP, have now come forward to set shop here,” the Chief Minister said.ROH ROH “I lost a valuable friend and an able MLA. It is a deep loss for me, the YSR Congress party and also the state,” he said.ROH ROH The Chief Minister announced the upcoming Sangam Barrage in SPS Nellore district would be named as ‘Mekapati Goutham Sangam Barrage’. “Works will be completed in six weeks and we will inaugurate it with the new name,” he added.ROH ROH Speaker T Seetaram, several ministers, senior legislator Anam Ramanarayana Reddy and others also paid tributes to their departed colleague.ROH ROH The House was then adjourned for the day.ROH ROH Goutham was elected to the Assembly twice in 2014 and 2019 from Atmakuru Assembly constituency in SPS Nellore district. He was the son of former MP Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy.ROH PTI DBVROH ROH ROH
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Greek PM to meet Turkish President Erdogan in Turkey on March 13
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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on March 13, the Greek government spokesman said on Tuesday.
The two leaders are expected to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Greece and Turkey, NATO allies, disagree on a range of issues from airspace to maritime zones in the eastern Mediterranean, migration and ethnically split Cyprus.
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U.N. rights boss Bachelet says China visit agreed in May, including Xinjiang
Her visit would include a stop in the remote western region of Xinjiang, where activists say some 1 million Uyghurs have been held in mass detention, she told the Human Rights Council. China rejects accusations of abuse, describing the camps as vocational centres designed to combat extremism, and in late 2019 it said all people in the camps had "graduated".
U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet announced on Tuesday that she has reached an agreement with China for a visit, "foreseen" in May, and said she had already raised with Beijing cases of arrest and detention of activists. Her visit would include a stop in the remote western region of Xinjiang, where activists say some 1 million Uyghurs have been held in mass detention, she told the Human Rights Council.
China rejects accusations of abuse, describing the camps as vocational centres designed to combat extremism, and in late 2019 it said all people in the camps had "graduated". Bachelet, speaking by video message to the Geneva forum, made no reference to her long-awaited report on alleged abuses against Uyghurs. Her office began gathering evidence some 3.5 years ago and in December, her spokeperson had promised its release within weeks.
Referring to China, Bachelet voiced concern at the treatment of people who speak up on human rights issues that are deemed critical of Chinese government policies. Some had faced house arrest or prison terms based on criminal charges stemming from their activities, she said. "My office has raised a number of such cases with the government and encourage the authorities to take steps to ensure that freedom of expression and opinion are fully respected and protected," Bachelet added, giving no details.
An advance team from her office would leave in April to prepare her visit - the first by a U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights since Louise Arbour went to China in 2005 - she said. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Faruk Kaymakci were among speakers at the council last week who voiced concern about the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
Blinken said at the time: "In China, the government continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang against predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other minority groups, and we urge the High Commissioner to release without delay her report on the situation there." A Western diplomat in Geneva told Reuters before Bachelet's speech: "We very much hope Michelle Bachelet will reach into the deep freezer in her office and remove from it this report….
"It is long past time that Michelle Bachelet provide this report, we all know what is happening in Xinjiang. We understand the report is written," he said.
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Gurgaon's Chintels Paradiso stopped from selling apartments under its 7 projects
The Gurgaon authorities have stopped Chintels Paradiso from selling apartments under its seven projects, a month after a building at the housing complex collapsed. The Gurgaon administration has ordered stoppage of the registration of Conveyance Sale Deed or any other property related documents for projects relating to developers of Chintels Paradiso until further notice.
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The Gurgaon authorities have stopped Chintels Paradiso from selling apartments under its seven projects, a month after a building at the housing complex collapsed. An order issued by Deputy Commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav on Monday also said that the move ''only applies to transactions between the said developer and first-time buyers and not on third party transactions''. Two women were killed after the dining room floor of a sixth-floor apartment at Chintels Paradiso in Sector 109 came down on February 10, triggering the collapse of roofs and floors directly under it, till the first floor. ''The Gurgaon administration has ordered stoppage of the registration of Conveyance Sale Deed or any other property related documents for projects relating to developers of Chintels Paradiso until further notice. The administration has stopped the sale and purchase in 7 projects, including an under construction one. ''The projects concerned are Chintels Paradiso-12.306 acres Group Housing and Chintels Serenity- 20.169 acres Group Housing in sector 109; Chintels Corporate Parks- 3.2 acres in sector 114; Shoba City- 39.379 acres Group Housing in sector 108, among others. The said projects are under Chintels India Limited, Chintels Export Pvt. Ltd, Ashok Solomon and Intels India Pvt. Ltd,'' the order stated. PTI CORR SRY
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Amazon rainforest is losing resilience, reveals new research
A data analysis from high-resolution satellite images have suggested that the Amazon rainforest is likely losing resilience due to stress from a combination of logging and burning.
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A data analysis from high-resolution satellite images have suggested that the Amazon rainforest is likely losing resilience due to stress from a combination of logging and burning. The study also suggested that the influence of human-caused climate change is not clearly determinable so far, but will likely matter greatly in future.
This study was published in the 'Journal of Medical Screening'. For about three-quarters of the forest, the ability to recover from perturbation has been decreasing since the early 2000s, which the scientists see as a warning sign. The new evidence is derived from advanced statistical analysis of satellite data of changes in vegetation biomass and productivity.
"Reduced resilience - the ability to recover from perturbations like droughts or fires - can mean an increased risk of dieback of the Amazon rainforest. That we see such a resilience loss in observations is worrying," said Niklas Boers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Technical University of Munich, who conducted the study jointly with researchers from the University of Exeter, UK. "The Amazon rainforest is a home to a unique host of biodiversity, strongly influences rainfall all over South America by way of its enormous evapotranspiration, and stores huge amounts of carbon that could be released as greenhouse gases in the case of even partial dieback, in turn contributing to further global warming," Boers explained. "This is why the rainforest is of global relevance," he added.
The Amazon has been considered a potential tipping element in the Earth system and a number of studies revealed its vulnerability. "However, computer simulation studies of its future yield quite a range of results," said Boers. "We've therefore been looking into specific observational data for signs of resilience changes during the last decades. We see continuously decreasing rainforest resilience since the early 2000s, but we cannot tell when a potential transition from rainforest to savanna might happen. When it will be observable, it would likely be too late to stop it," he added.
The team from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Global Systems Institute of the University of Exeter used stability indicators that had previously already been applied to the Greenland ice sheet and the Atlantic overturning circulation. These statistical indicators are aimed at predicting the approach of a system towards an abrupt change by identifying a critical slowing down of the system's dynamics, for instance, its reaction to weather variability. The analysis of two satellite data sets, representing biomass and the greenness of the forest, revealed the critical slowing down. This critical slowing down can be seen as a weakening of the restoring forces that usually bring the system back to its equilibrium after perturbations.
While a system might seem stable if one is considering only its mean state, taking a closer look at the data with innovative statistical methods can reveal resilience loss," said Chris Boulton from the University of Exeter's Global Systems Institute. "Previous studies based on computer simulations indicated that large parts of the Amazon can be committed to dieback before showing a strong change in the mean state. Our observational analysis now shows that in many areas destabilization indeed seems to be underway already," he added.
To try and determine causes for the loss of resilience that the scientists find in the data, they explored the relation to rainfall in a given area in the Amazon, culminating in three 'once in a century' drought events in the region. Drier areas turn out to be more at risk than wetter ones. "This is alarming, as the IPCC models project an overall drying of the Amazon region in response to anthropogenic global warming," said Boers. Another factor is the distance of an area to roads and settlements from where people can access the forest. The data confirm that areas close to human land use are more threatened.
"Our novel analysis of empirical data brings additional evidence to the worries about the forest's resilience, especially in the near future," said Tim Lenton, Director of the Global Systems Institute. "It confirms that strongly limiting the logging, but also limiting global greenhouse gas emissions, is necessary to safeguard the Amazon," he concluded. (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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Walling off or 'bunkering' retina can save eyesight, suggests study
The retina is a layer of photoreceptors cells and glial cells within the eye that captures incoming photons and transmits them along neuronal pathways as both electrical and chemical signals for the brain to perceive a visual picture. Chronically stressing the retina can weaken it and damage our ability to see. But retinal cells have a remarkable ability to wall off damage. This was discovered by a team of neuroscientists led by UConn Health.
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The retina is a layer of photoreceptors cells and glial cells within the eye that captures incoming photons and transmits them along neuronal pathways as both electrical and chemical signals for the brain to perceive a visual picture. Chronically stressing the retina can weaken it and damage our ability to see. But retinal cells have a remarkable ability to wall off damage. This was discovered by a team of neuroscientists led by UConn Health. The study was published in 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' (PNAS).
The walling-off or "bunkering" of the damage may be key to preserving our eyesight.Muller glia are very long cells that span the thickness of the retina and provide mechanical strength, supporting the neurons and light receptors that detect light, shape and colour. Muller glia are also involved in protein changes related to retinal injury, being the first cells to respond. UConn School of Medicine neuroscientist Royce Mohan and colleagues discovered that the endfeet, a specialized zone in Muller cells, is where proteins become modified when the retina is under stress. These end feet are at the opposite end of the retina, quite a distance from light receptors. The researchers propose in the paper that this segregation of the endfeet and light receptors may permit light detection to continue even as the retina responds to stress.
The modification of proteins that Mohan's lab has been studying is called citrullination. In citrullination, the amino acid arginine is changed into citrulline. Because in the early stages of stress or disease, the citrullinated proteins stay sequestered in the Muller cells' endfeet, Mohan called this area the citrullination bunker. But if this bunker is chronically engaged, then the overabundance of citrullinated proteins reach other parts of the retina. Muller cells in human age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and mouse models of retinal degeneration reveal citrullinated proteins extending out of the endfeet and spreading throughout the cells. Citrullination may have many effects on Muller glial cells which are only just being understood. For example, arginine is positively charged, while citrulline is not. The loss of the positive charges is permanent, and may irreversibly change the flexibility or other mechanical properties of the Muller glial cells. This may cause the Muller cells to become incapable of adapting to fluid build-up when the retina swells up under stress. Alternatively, it's possible the citrullinated proteins could appear foreign to the body and draw the attention of the immune system, potentially beginning autoimmune disease. Turning off citrullination in the end feet bunker could delay or avoid these problems and preserve eyesight for longer.
This team has also identified that the endfeet citrullination process is controlled by an enzyme known as peptidyl arginine deiminase-4 (PAD4). Small molecule inhibitors of PAD4 have been developed for other types of citrullination-dependent diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis. Mohan believes that such therapeutic agents could be applied to reduce citrullination at the early stages of AMD and spare the retina of undesired responses to this protein modification. (ANI)
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LONDON (AP) — Energy giant Shell says it will stop buying Russian oil, natural gas and shut service stations in Russia.
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GENEVA (AP) — UN refugee chief says the number of people fleeing Russia's advance into Ukraine has reached 2 million.
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Refugees from Ukraine hit 2M; people flee embattled cities
Its 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.Russias coordination centre 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.Russias coordination centre suggested there would be more than one corridor, but that most would lead to Russia, either directly or through Belarus.
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Buses packed with people fleeing the Russian invasion in Ukraine left two embattled cities along safe corridors Tuesday, while officials said the exodus of refugees from the country reached 2 million.
The Russian onslaught has trapped people inside besieged 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 packed with people moving along a snowy road from the eastern city of Sumy and others leaving the besieged southern port of Mariupol.
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 Ukrainian state communications agency tweeted.
Those buses are headed to other cities in Ukraine, but many people have chosen to flee the country instead. Safa Msehli, a spokesperson for the UN's International Organisation for Migration, tweeted that 2 million have now fled the country, 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 centres, 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 centre 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 centre suggested there would be more than one corridor, but that most would lead to Russia, either directly or through Belarus. At the UN, 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. Later, Ukrainian presidential aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko posted a video of yellow buses with a red cross plastered on the side that he said showed evacuations from Mariupol toward the city of Zaporizhzhia. He said that humanitarian aid was also being sent in to Mariupol.
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 US 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 centre 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 "demoralised" 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 neighbours.
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 recognise Crimea as part of Russia and recognise 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 civilised rules, then they shouldn't receive goods and services from civilization," he said in a video address.
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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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Refugees from Ukraine hit 2M; people flee embattled cities
Its 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.Russias coordination centre 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.Russias coordination centre suggested there would be more than one corridor, but that most would lead to Russia, either directly or through Belarus.
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Buses packed with people fleeing the Russian invasion in Ukraine left two embattled cities along safe corridors Tuesday, while officials said the exodus of refugees from the country reached 2 million.
The Russian onslaught has trapped people inside besieged 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 packed with people moving along a snowy road from the eastern city of Sumy and others leaving the besieged southern port of Mariupol.
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 Ukrainian state communications agency tweeted.
Those buses are headed to other cities in Ukraine, but many people have chosen to flee the country instead. Safa Msehli, a spokesperson for the UN's International Organisation for Migration, tweeted that 2 million have now fled the country, 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 centres, 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 centre 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 centre suggested there would be more than one corridor, but that most would lead to Russia, either directly or through Belarus. At the UN, 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. Later, Ukrainian presidential aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko posted a video of yellow buses with a red cross plastered on the side that he said showed evacuations from Mariupol toward the city of Zaporizhzhia. He said that humanitarian aid was also being sent in to Mariupol.
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 US 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 centre 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 "demoralised" 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 neighbours.
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 recognise Crimea as part of Russia and recognise 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 civilised rules, then they shouldn't receive goods and services from civilization," he said in a video address.
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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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Women's ODI Rankings: Mithali drops to fourth, Lanning rises to second
The first five games of ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2022 have caused a lot of movement in the latest update of the ICC Women's ODI Player Rankings.
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The first five games of ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2022 have caused a lot of movement in the latest update of the ICC Women's ODI Player Rankings. Australia skipper Meg Lanning climbed up two spots in the latest women's rankings for ODI batters. She is now just one and 15 rating points away from the top spot that's currently occupied by her teammate Alyssa Healy.
Lanning was in sublime form in the first game of the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup against England, smashing 86 in 110 balls seven fours and a six, which helped Australia post a massive total of 310. They eventually won the game in the last over by 12 runs. The Player of the Match from the game, Rachael Haynes, who slammed a brilliant 130 of 131, climbed six spots and broke into the top 10 to occupy the No.7 spot in the rankings. The other centurion from the game - England's Nat Sciver rose five spots to No.6.
On the other hand, Mithali Raj has dropped to the fourth spot. Hayley Matthews of West Indies made considerable gains across the board in the rankings for batters, bowlers as well as all-rounders. She was the Player of the Match in West Indies' three-run heist against New Zealand - she scored a brilliant 119 to set a target of 260 for the White Ferns and then accounted for the wickets of the in-form Amelia Kerr and Brooke Halliday. Matthews broke into the top 5 in the all-rounders' list, climbing six spots to No.4 and rose a massive 12 spots to No.20 for batters and three spots No.10 for bowlers.
Among the other players that moved up the rankings were South Africa's Ayabonga Khaka, whose four-for against Bangladesh in the opening game helped her rise a spot to No.6. In addition, the Indian pair of Sneh Rana and Pooja Vastrakar - who added 122 for India's seventh wicket to lift them from 114-6 against Pakistan both moved up to their career-best positions with the bat. (ANI)
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Sania, Ankita, Karman named in Indian Billie Jean King Cup team for upcoming competition
Rutuja Bhosale also kept her place in the side while Riya Bhatia replaced Zeel Desai in the squad.India had lost 1-3 to Latvia in the play-offs in April last year to get back to the zonal competition.India will compete with China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea Republic and New Zealand in round-robin format, where the top two nations will get a chance to compete in the play-offs.Captain Vishal Uppal said the team will have to work hard to make it to the next stage.
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- India
Veteran Sania Mirza and singles players Ankita Raina and Karman Kaur Thandi were on Tuesday named in the five-member Indian Billie Jean King Cup team for the Asia/Oceania Group I competition, beginning April 12 in Antalya, Turkey. Rutuja Bhosale also kept her place in the side while Riya Bhatia replaced Zeel Desai in the squad.
India had lost 1-3 to Latvia in the play-offs in April last year to get back to the zonal competition.
India will compete with China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea Republic and New Zealand in round-robin format, where the top two nations will get a chance to compete in the play-offs.
Captain Vishal Uppal said the team will have to work hard to make it to the next stage. ''The selection committee felt that Riya being the higher-ranked deserves opportunity. She had missed out the last time due to COVID-19. It is a tough qualification zone. China and Japan will be the biggest threat,'' Uppal told PTI.
Uppal said ideally the players should have a preparatory camp since the matches will be on clay courts.
''We will see if we can get together and practice. The tournament is on clay. Our players are experienced on playing on European clay, they are familiar with the surface but homework is needed on matching up with these countries,'' he added.
Shalini Thakur will be the coach of the squad.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's state parks saw 38.5 million visits in fiscal year 2021, an increase of nearly 4 million from the previous year, according to a study done for the state.
State parks generated an economic impact of $2.1 billion, a figure that includes lodging, shopping and recreation spending, according to a report completed for the Department of Environment and Conservation by the economic consulting firm Impact DataSource.
The report also relied on data collected by the University of Tennessee Human Dimensions Research Lab.
Economic impact of the state parks in the 2020 fiscal year was $1.8 billion, with 34.7 million park visits, officials said.
In 2021, the parks generated $121.8 million in state sales taxes and $24.4 million in local sales taxes, the report said.
“We saw an increase in visitors to our state parks when the pandemic hit, and these figures show the parks continue to be a strong source of enjoyment and an economic lift for communities,” TDEC Deputy Commissioner Jim Bryson said.
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LONDON (AP) — Energy giant Shell says it will stop buying Russian oil and natural gas as well as shut down its service stations and other operations in the country amid international pressure for companies to sever ties over the invasion of Ukraine.
Shell says in a statement Tuesday that it would withdraw from all Russian hydrocarbons, including crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas and liquefied natural gas, “in a phased manner.”
The decision comes just days after Ukraine’s foreign minister criticized Shell for continuing to buy Russian oil, lashing out at the company for continuing to do business with President Vladimir Putin’s government.
“We are acutely aware that our decision last week to purchase a cargo of Russian crude oil to be refined into products like petrol and diesel — despite being made with security of supplies at the forefront of our thinking — was not the right one and we are sorry," Shell CEO Ben van Beurden said.
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Cricket-South Africa stick with tried and trusted for Bangladesh ODI series
South Africa have named a largely unchanged One-Day International squad for the three-match home series with Bangladesh on March 18-23, with only all-rounder Sisanda Magala missing out after he failed a fitness test.
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- South Africa
South Africa have named a largely unchanged One-Day International squad for the three-match home series with Bangladesh on March 18-23, with only all-rounder Sisanda Magala missing out after he failed a fitness test. But it is otherwise the same selection that defeated India 3-0 on home soil in January. Fast bowler Anrich Nortje remains a long-term absentee with a hip problem.
There had been some suggestion South Africa may lose players to the build-up to the Indian Premier League, which is set to get underway on March 26, but the likes of Quinton de Kock, Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen have all been included. The first and third ODIs against Bangladesh will take place in Pretoria, with the second just down the Golden Highway in Johannesburg.
It will be followed by a two-test series starting on March 31, which will provide a club versus country clash with the IPL for some of the South Africans. Squad: Temba Bavuma (captain), Keshav Maharaj, Quinton de Kock, Zubayr Hamza, Marco Jansen, Janneman Malan, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Wayne Parnell, Andile Phehlukwayo, Dwaine Pretorius, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi, Rassie van der Dussen, Kyle Verreynne.
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| 2022-03-08T11:12:33
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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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Follow the AP’s coverage of the Ukraine crisis at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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Indian Women footballers share their success story on International Women's Day 2022
Last year, Indian sports had witnessed some of the greatest moments in the sporting fields which involves a lot of women athletes achieving greater heights. On the eve of International Women's Day 2022, our Blue Tigresses spoke about women's empowerment in-depth and stressed why it is necessary for today's generation.
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Last year, Indian sports had witnessed some of the greatest moments in the sporting fields which involves a lot of women athletes achieving greater heights. On the eve of International Women's Day 2022, our Blue Tigresses spoke about women's empowerment in-depth and stressed why it is necessary for today's generation. They believe that sports are one of the most powerful platforms for promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls.
Blue Tigresses captain Ashalata Devi said, "We are no less than any men and from the bottom of my heart I would like to say that we are multi-talented. So anyone looks down upon you or says wrong, you just have to work hard. They can give you a good or bad opinion but you need to focus on your dream by putting in a lot of handwork and dedication and keep on moving forward. We, the women are built different, but we can very much achieve what men can, and maybe more. In order to move forward, we need to be one and respect each other." Custodian Aditi Chauhan described how women in India go through a number of societal barriers, which make them tougher.
"Women in India have gone through so much trying to achieve something or excel at something. They face society with all kinds of challenges, on different fronts. Not just from society, but even within their sport as well and within their families which really makes them so strong mentally as well as physically," Blue Tigresses custodian Aditi Chauhan said during the panel discussion. "I think mental toughness is something that we as Indian women are strong at and that is one of the reasons why I say that especially for India women if they really set their target, they don't mind facing anything because we've been through everything, faced everything, and come out on the other side to excel, so there is nothing we can't get through," she continued.
"We've seen in the Olympics how incredibly our women's team (hockey) have performed. Obviously, we've got P.V. Sindhu as well who's leading from the front and she set new heights and is a leading example of how much or how far women can achieve at the International level," Chauhan said. The recent Olympic games 2021 saw groundbreaking performances from our Indian athletes which motivated our Blue Tigresses in their preparations and they believe that the way society now looks upon women athletes has changed.
"It is changing now since everybody has seen the growth of the Indian women's football team and even in the last Olympics, we saw how many women athletes have come out and they have performed the way they have and they have been making the nations proud so there is so much of added support for women who want to come out and pursue sports now. I feel like there is global recognition", Dalima Chhibber mentioned. She continued, "Now if I go back to my school, I see young children who want to start playing sports who want to be like Mary Kom who want to be like P.V. Sindhu, Saina Nehwal, who want to be like me, they want to take up football or they want to be like Dutee Chand, they want to compete out on the track so I feel like it is changing and it's growing more and moreover the years".
Bala Devi, the first Indian Woman footballer to sign a professional contract with a European club, when she was signed by Rangers Women FC in 2020, also believes that the younger generation should focus more on themselves rather than concentrating on people's opinions. "My family supported me throughout but pressure from society was always there. They used to ask, "why are girls playing? What is the benefit of that?"
"My parents and I had to hear this a lot but we never answered back. When I went to play in the U-19 National Championship in 2002, Manipur became the champions and I received the best scorer award, and that is when people stopped asking questions and started supporting me," she said. "For all the youngsters do focus on what you love and want to achieve. If I would have listened to the comments of the people out there, I would not have moved ahead in my life. So, follow the same and remember that we are no less than anyone," Bala averred.
On being asked to give out a message to the girls Dalima said, "Go out there do your thing, believe in yourself and it's all going to eventually work itself out. It always takes one person to stand up and to bring about the change and it's a process that takes time, but when that change happens it's just another feeling you cannot put into words." Chauhan elaborated on a point that was earlier made by Ashalata Devi. "Women are built differently. We are different from men, much stronger and we are more special than men in every aspect. We face a lot of things while growing up in a society that makes us very strong. We are stronger than what people expect out of us, we are stronger than what we are told or believe. We are stronger both mentally and physically to achieve anything that we set our mind to. We have the responsibility to stand up for what is right, to question, to speak our mind, to choose our career, to choose whatever we want to do." (ANI)
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee state representative was sworn in to temporarily replace a Democratic lawmaker who was ousted from her position by the Republican-led state Senate because of a federal wire fraud conviction.
Democrat London Lamar took the oath of office during Monday’s Senate floor session.
The Shelby County Commission in Memphis chose Lamar to fill the Senate seat formerly held by Katrina Robinson during an hours-long meeting last week that featured several votes.
Robinson was ousted from her position by fellow senators during a Feb. 2 session, with Democrats voting against the expulsion. Lamar will serve in the Senate on an interim basis until the Nov. 8 election.
Lamar, who is a Democrat like Robinson, has represented a Memphis district in the state House since 2018. Both Robinson and Lamar are Black women, and Senate District 33 is majority Black.
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Honda Team trio among top riders in Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge
Honda Team riders capitalised on a scorching, dune-filled marathon stage at the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge
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- United Arab Emirates
Honda Team riders capitalised on a scorching, dune-filled marathon stage at the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge: the three Honda CRF450 Rally riders Ricky Brabec, Jose Ignacio Cornejo and Pablo Quintanilla all currently hold places in the rally top five. Another arduous day in the Liwa desert near the Emirates 'Empty Quarter'. The second stage of the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge featured a total of 316 kilometres of the special stage with heaps of sand and dunes once again dominating the day. Competitors also had to negotiate their way through a dried-out lake. Once back at the bivouac, it was time to leave the bikes in the parc ferme without access to mechanical assistance from the teams.
The tough trek continued for the Honda Team riders. The team's three riders now hold the privileged position of being able to manage the race over the coming days. Ricky Brabec, fourth today, occupies second in the overall race standings, followed by team-mate Jose Ignacio 'Nacho' Cornejo. Pablo Quintanilla is fifth, only seven and a half minutes behind the leader. The Chilean posted sixth on the day. The race will cover 255 kilometres of the timed special stage - once again in the vast Liwa desert - with just 35 kilometres of liaison section.
"This second stage was a bit faster than yesterday. The first part went through sandy valleys and the speed was very high. Until refuelling, I didn't feel at all comfortable with this terrain, but then I was able to ride with more pace and there were some technical areas of dunes where I was able to push a bit harder. It was a good day and the race is still very tight. Opening up on this type of terrain can really hurt you; right now I have fast riders in front and behind, which could be good for the remaining stages. These first two days have been very physically demanding, now we are going to try to rest our bodies before tomorrow's stage, " said Honda rider Pablo Quintanilla. "I felt very good on the bike, very comfortable and I think that showed in the riding. I took this second stage of Abu Dhabi with some good pace and I think it went well. I think I had a good stage; we are doing well in the overall standings and in a good starting position for tomorrow's stage," Honda rider Jose Ignacio Cornejo.
"Day two was a good one. A long, hot day. It was great. We're nowhere in the bivouac getting ready for tomorrow. The stage was long. I lost maybe five minutes. I think that the team is in a good position. Today was really hot in the dunes. I made no mistakes, but a couple of other people crashed. We capitalized on that and we will go on the attack tomorrow. The team is in a great position and we're looking forward to tomorrow, " said Honda rider Ricky Brabec. (ANI)
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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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Afghan opener Gurbaz likely replacement of Roy in Gujarat Titans
Gujarat Titans will in all likelihood be replacing Jason Roy with Rahmamullah Gurbaz, the hard hitting Afghan opener, for the upcoming Indian Premier League.Roy had pulled out of the IPL as he didnt want to stay in the bubble for a prolonged period.Apart from having a 150-plus career T20 strike rate as an opener, Gurbaz is also a handy keeper which makes him a multi utility player.
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Gujarat Titans will in all likelihood be replacing Jason Roy with Rahmamullah Gurbaz, the hard hitting Afghan opener, for the upcoming Indian Premier League.
Roy had pulled out of the IPL as he didn't want to stay in the bubble for a prolonged period.
Apart from having a 150-plus career T20 strike rate as an opener, Gurbaz is also a handy keeper which makes him a multi utility player. The most exciting aspect is the 20-year-old's ability to clear the ropes with 113 sixes in 69 career T20 games.
He has played 9 ODIs and 12 T20Is in his short but exciting career so far.
Gujarat Titans are yet to officially announce Gurbaz as a replacement as they await the BCCI green light. But, it is understood that the team think-tank has taken extensive inputs from premier spinner Rashid Khan, who has also been Gurbaz's senior in the national team.
Gurbaz's entry could also solve another issue for Titans and that's the keeping crisis.
Matthew Wade will only be available in the second week of IPL and the only other keeper in the roster is Wriddhiman Saha, whom they may be compelled to play despite not such great T20 record in recent times.
Gurbaz's entry might lessen the worry of head coach Ashish Nehra and captain Hardik Pandya.
Gurbaz has been a sought after name in franchise cricket having played for Multan Sultans and Islamabad United in Pakistan Super League, Kandy Tuskers in Lanka Premier League and Khulna Tigers in Bangladesh Premier League.
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CA Eureka CA Zone Forecast for Monday, March 7, 2022
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253 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
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CAZ101-090200-
Coastal Del Norte-
253 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 55 to 65. North wind 10 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy frost overnight. Lows 34 to 44.
North wind 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Patchy
frost in the morning. Slight chance of rain in the morning. Highs
50 to 60. Northwest wind 10 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows 30 to 40.
Northeast wind 5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 54 to 64. North wind around 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 44. Highs
54 to 67.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 35 to 45.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Chance of rain. Highs 54 to 64.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows 37 to 47.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Highs 53 to 63.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Lows 38 to
48.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Highs 55 to 65.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Crescent City 55 40 51 / 0 10 20
Klamath 63 35 57 / 0 10 20
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CAZ102-090200-
Del Norte Interior-
253 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 50 to 63.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost overnight. Lows 31 to 41.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Slight
chance of rain and snow in the morning. Snow level 3000 feet.
Highs 41 to 56.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows 26 to 36.
Northeast wind around 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 49 to 63. Northeast wind around 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to
44. Highs 52 to 67.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Chance of rain and snow. Highs 50 to 61.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely. Lows 35 to 45.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow. Highs 46 to 59.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Lows 37 to
47.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Highs 49 to 61.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Gasquet 63 36 56 / 0 10 20
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CAZ103-090200-
Northern Humboldt Coast-
253 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs 54 to
64. North wind 5 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost overnight. Lows 32 to 42.
North wind 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Patchy drizzle and fog in the morning. Slight chance of
rain in the morning. Highs 49 to 59. Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost. Lows 29 to 39.
North wind 5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 53 to 63. North wind around 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 32 to 42. Highs
53 to 68.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 35 to 45.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Highs 56 to 66.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows 38 to 48.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Highs 53 to 63.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Lows 39 to
49.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Highs 55 to 65.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
McKinleyville 58 34 53 / 0 0 10
Arcata 59 35 53 / 0 0 10
Eureka 56 36 53 / 0 0 10
Fortuna 59 35 53 / 0 0 10
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CAZ104-090200-
Southwestern Humboldt-
253 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 53 to 66. North wind 10 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost overnight. Lows 34 to 44.
North wind 10 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy drizzle, fog and frost in the
morning. Highs 46 to 58. North wind 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 31 to 41. North wind 10 to
20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 52 to 64. North wind 5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to
44. Highs 52 to 67.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Highs 52 to 62.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Lows 38 to 48.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain.
Highs 51 to 61. Lows 38 to 48.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Highs 51 to 61.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Honeydew 60 36 52 / 0 0 0
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CAZ105-090200-
Northern Humboldt Interior-
253 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs 53 to
68.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost overnight. Lows 31 to 41.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy drizzle, valley fog and frost
in the morning. Slight chance of rain in the morning. Snow level
3000 feet. Highs 44 to 59.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows 26 to 36.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 51 to 66.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to
44. Highs 58 to 73.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Highs 53 to 68.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow. Lows
36 to 46.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain.
Highs 49 to 64. Lows 37 to 47.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Highs 51 to 66.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Orleans 68 33 59 / 0 0 0
Hoopa 63 34 56 / 0 0 0
Willow Creek 65 33 57 / 0 0 0
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CAZ106-090200-
Southern Humboldt Interior-
253 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs 55 to 68.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost overnight. Lows 31 to 41.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy drizzle, valley fog and frost
in the morning. Highs 45 to 60.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows 26 to 36.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 53 to 66.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 33 to
43. Highs 57 to 72.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Highs 54 to 67.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Lows 35 to 45.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain.
Highs 51 to 64. Lows 36 to 46.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Highs 52 to 65.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Garberville 66 35 58 / 0 0 0
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CAZ107-090200-
Northern Trinity-
253 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs 58 to
73.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost overnight. Lows 27 to 37.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs 49 to 64.
Northwest wind around 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows 20 to 30.
North wind around 20 mph with gusts at higher elevations to
around 35 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 53 to 68. Northeast wind around 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 29 to 39.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 61 to 76.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 31 to 41.
.SATURDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs 56 to 71.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow. Lows
31 to 41.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Slight chance of rain and snow. Highs 52 to 67.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 32 to 42.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain and snow. Highs
54 to 69.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Trinity Center 59 28 54 / 0 0 0
Weaverville 69 30 61 / 0 0 0
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CAZ108-090200-
Southern Trinity-
253 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs 54 to 69.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost overnight. Lows 28 to 38.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs 44 to 59.
Northwest wind around 20 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows 23 to 33.
North wind around 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 51 to 66. Northeast wind around 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Clear. Lows 30 to 40. Highs 57 to
72.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 31 to 41.
.SATURDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs 51 to 66.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow. Lows
32 to 42.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Highs 48 to 63.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 33 to 43.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Highs 50 to 64.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Hayfork 67 29 58 / 0 0 0
Ruth 64 28 55 / 0 0 0
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CAZ109-090200-
Mendocino Coast-
253 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs 57 to 67.
North wind 5 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost overnight. Lows 34 to 44.
North wind 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Patchy fog and frost in the morning. Highs
50 to 60. Northwest wind 10 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 30 to 40. North wind 10 to
20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 54 to 64. North wind around 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 33 to
43. Highs 54 to 66.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs 53 to 63.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Lows 36 to 46.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Highs 53 to 63.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 37 to 47.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Highs 53 to 63.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Fort Bragg 60 40 55 / 0 0 0
Point Arena 56 45 51 / 0 0 0
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CAZ110-090200-
Northwestern Mendocino Interior-
253 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs 60 to 73.
Northwest wind around 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost overnight. Lows 29 to 39.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Patchy valley fog and frost in the morning.
Highs 51 to 64. Northwest wind around 20 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Areas of frost. Lows 25 to 35.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 57 to 68.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 32 to
42. Highs 57 to 72.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 57 to 69.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Lows 33 to 43.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Highs 54 to 66.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 35 to 45.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Highs 56 to 68.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Leggett 66 35 56 / 0 0 0
Laytonville 65 33 56 / 0 0 0
Willits 68 31 57 / 0 0 0
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CAZ111-090200-
Northeastern Mendocino Interior-
253 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs 58 to 73.
Northwest wind around 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost overnight. Lows 30 to 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs 51 to 66.
Northwest wind around 20 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear, breezy. Areas of frost. Lows 25 to 35.
North wind 20 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, breezy. Highs 56 to 71. Northeast wind 20 to
25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Clear. Lows 33 to 43. Highs 61 to
76.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 44.
.SATURDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs 57 to 72.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow. Lows
34 to 44.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs 54 to 69.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 36 to 46.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Highs 55 to 70.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Covelo 66 29 58 / 0 0 0
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CAZ112-090200-
Southwestern Mendocino Interior-
253 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 62 to 72.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost overnight. Lows 34 to 44.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Patchy valley fog and frost in the morning.
Highs 54 to 64. Northwest wind around 20 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows 30 to 40.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost. Highs 58 to 68.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to
44. Highs 58 to 72.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 58 to 68.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Lows 36 to 46.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Highs 56 to 66.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 37 to 47.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Highs 58 to 68.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Boonville 68 37 58 / 0 0 0
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CAZ113-090200-
Southeastern Mendocino Interior-
253 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs 63 to 74.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost overnight. Lows 34 to 44.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Breezy. Highs
53 to 64. Northwest wind 20 to 25 mph with gusts at higher
elevations to around 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 29 to 39. North wind around
20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 58 to 69.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 44.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 62 to 74.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 45.
.SATURDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs 59 to 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Lows 37 to 47.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 56 to 67.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 38 to 48.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Highs 58 to 69.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Ukiah 73 34 62 / 0 0 0
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CAZ114-090200-
Northern Lake-
253 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs 56 to 70.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost overnight. Lows 33 to 43.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs 49 to 63.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear, breezy. Lows 25 to 35. North wind 20 to
25 mph with gusts at higher elevations to around 40 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, windy. Highs 51 to 66. Northeast wind 20 to
30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Clear. Lows 32 to 42. Highs 56 to
71.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 33 to 43.
.SATURDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs 53 to 68.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Lows
34 to 44.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 50 to 64. Lows
35 to 45.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Highs 53 to 66.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lake Pillsbury 69 31 62 / 0 0 0
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CAZ115-090200-
Southern Lake-
253 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PST THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 64 to 74.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 46.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, breezy. Highs 57 to 68. Northwest wind 20 to
25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear, windy. Lows 31 to 41. North wind 20 to
30 mph with gusts at higher elevations to around 45 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, windy. Highs 56 to 66. Northeast wind 20 to
30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Clear. Lows 34 to 44. Highs 58 to
73.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 45.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 60 to 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Lows
36 to 46.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 57 to 70. Lows
37 to 47.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lakeport 69 35 60 / 0 0 0
Middletown 71 37 65 / 0 0 0
Clearlake 69 36 64 / 0 0 0
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CA Los Angeles/Oxnard CA Zone Forecast for Monday, March 7, 2022
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Zone Forecasts for Southwestern California
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
CAZ041-090045-
Los Angeles County Coast including Downtown Los Angeles-
Including Malibu, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Hollywood,
and Long Beach
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid to upper 60s at the beaches to
the lower to mid 70s inland. From Malibu to the Hollywood Hills,
areas of northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with local gusts to 35 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. West
winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the upper 50s and 60s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. Southwest
winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the 60s. North winds 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 60s to
mid 70s. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s to around 70 at the
beaches to the mid 70s inland.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the night and
morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows around 50. Highs in the mid
60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs
from around 70 at the beaches to the mid to upper 70s inland.
$$
CAZ087-090045-
Catalina and Santa Barbara Islands-
Including Avalon
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s. Areas of northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs around 60. Areas of northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Patchy low clouds and fog in the
night and morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s
to mid 50s. Highs in the 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy early then low clouds and fog.
Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog clearing to the beaches in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Low clouds and fog near the coast early spreading
inland. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog clearing to the beaches in the
afternoon. Highs around 70.
$$
CAZ040-090045-
Ventura County Coast-
Including Ventura, Oxnard, and Camarillo
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70. Northeast
winds 15 to 25 mph shifting to the northwest around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around 50. West winds
around 15 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Southwest
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to around
50. West winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 60s to
lower 70s. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the night and
morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around
50. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the night and
morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around
50. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ039-090045-
Santa Barbara County South Coast-
Including Santa Barbara, Montecito, and Carpinteria
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to around 70. West winds around
15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s. Areas of
northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with local gusts to 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s. Areas of
northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with local gusts to 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly
cloudy. Lows in the 40s to around 50. Areas of northwest winds 20
to 30 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s
except around 50 in the hills.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid to upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear except for patchy low clouds and fog along
the beaches after midnight. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.SATURDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the night and
morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Patchy low clouds and fog in the night
and morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to lower
50s. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ548-090045-
Los Angeles County San Gabriel Valley-
Including Pasadena, San Gabriel, and Pomona
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Northeast
winds around 15 mph in the morning.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70. Southwest
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50. Southwest
winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, becoming partly cloudy
with a 20 percent chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s. North winds 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the lower 70s. Lows in
the mid to upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the night and
morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows around 50. Highs in the
lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Patchy low clouds and fog in the night
and morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows around 50. Highs in the
mid 70s to around 80.
$$
CAZ547-090045-
Los Angeles County San Fernando Valley-
Including Woodland Hills, Northridge, Burbank, and Universal City
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Areas of
northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with local gusts to 40 mph shifting
to the northwest around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s. West
winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. West winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s except around 40 western
valley. West winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Areas of north winds 15
to 25 mph. Gusts to 40 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around
50 except the mid to upper 30s western valley.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 60s to mid
70s. Lows in the 40s to around 50 except the mid to upper 30s
western valley.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the night and
morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to lower
50s. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
$$
CAZ046-090045-
Santa Monica Mountains Recreational Area-
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Areas of north
to northeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts to 40 mph in the morning.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s except
the mid to upper 30s colder valleys. West winds 10 to 20 mph in
the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s and 60s. Southwest
winds 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s except around 40 colder
valleys. West winds 10 to 20 mph shifting to the east after
midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. North winds 15 to 25 mph.
Gusts to 40 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s
except the mid to upper 30s colder valleys.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the mid 60s to mid
70s. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s except the mid to upper 30s
colder valleys.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the night and
morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to lower
50s. Highs in the upper 60s and 70s.
$$
CAZ088-090045-
Santa Clarita Valley-
Including Santa Clarita, Newhall, and Valencia
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70. Areas of
northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with local gusts to 40 mph becoming
north 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. Northwest
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph shifting to the southwest after
midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs around 60. North winds 15 to 25 mph increasing
to 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to
around 50. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80.
$$
CAZ045-090045-
Ventura County Coastal Valleys-
Including Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Moorpark, and Newbury Park
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Areas of
northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with local gusts to 40 mph shifting
to the north around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around 50. West winds
around 15 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s. West winds around 15 mph in
the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s. West winds around 15 mph
shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. North winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts to 40 mph
in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the mid 60s to around
70. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the night and
morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around
50. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to
lower 50s. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ044-090045-
Ventura County Interior Valleys-
Including Santa Paula, Fillmore, Ojai, and Piru
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the mid 60s
to mid 70s. Areas of northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35
mph becoming south around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
Northwest winds around 15 mph shifting to the north after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to around 70. West winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid
40s. Northwest winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. North winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts to 40 mph
in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s
except the lower to mid 30s in the Ojai Valley.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 60s to
mid 70s. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s except the lower to mid
30s in the Ojai Valley.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the night and
morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to lower
50s. Highs in the 70s to around 80 except around 70 nearest the
coast.
$$
CAZ059-090045-
Antelope Valley-
Including Lancaster and Palmdale
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the upper
50s to mid 60s. East winds 10 to 20 mph in the morning.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in
the 30s to around 40. West winds 10 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s and 60s. West winds 15 to 25 mph increasing to 20 to
30 mph with gusts to 50 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the 30s to around 40. West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts
to 45 mph decreasing to 15 to 25 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
morning, then a slight chance of rain and foothill snow in the
afternoon. Snow level 3500 to 4000 feet. Highs in the upper 40s to
mid 50s. West winds 15 to 25 mph shifting to the north 20 to 30
mph with gusts to 45 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 20s to around
30 except the lower to mid 30s in the hills.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s except
around 40 in the hills.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 60s
to around 70. Lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s except the lower
to mid 40s in the hills.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
60s to lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ054-090045-
Los Angeles County Mountains excluding the Santa Monica Range-
Including Acton, Mount Wilson, and Sandberg
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 50s and 60s at low
elevations to the mid 40s to lower 50s at high elevations. Local
northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph becoming north
10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the upper 30s to mid 40s at
low elevations to the upper 20s to mid 30s in colder valleys and
peaks. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 50s to mid 60s at low
elevations to the upper 40s to mid 50s at high elevations.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph shifting to the west to northwest 20
to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph in the afternoon. Winds strongest
through the Interstate 5 Corridor.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the 40s at low
elevations to the 30s in colder valleys and peaks. West to
northwest winds 15 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow. Snow
level 4000 to 4500 feet. Highs from the 50s to around 60 at low
elevations to the upper 30s to mid 40s at high elevations. North
winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts to 50 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the upper 30s and 40s
at low elevations to the upper 20s to mid 30s in colder valleys
and peaks.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 50s and 60s at low
elevations to the mid 40s to lower 50s at high elevations.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows from the 40s at low elevations to the
mid 30s to around 40 in colder valleys and peaks.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s to lower 70s at low
elevations to the 50s at high elevations.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the night and
morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows from the mid 40s to around
50 at low elevations to around 40 in colder valleys and peaks.
Highs from the 60s to around 70 at low elevations to the 50s to
around 60 at high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 40s to lower 50s
at low elevations to the mid 30s to lower 40s in colder valleys
and peaks.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the mid 50s to lower 60s at high elevations.
$$
CAZ053-090045-
Ventura County Mountains-
Including Lockwood Valley and Mount Pinos
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the 60s to around 70 at low elevations
to the upper 40s to mid 50s at high elevations. Areas of northeast
winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts to 40 mph in the morning.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 30s to mid 40s at low
elevations to 15 to 22 in colder valleys and peaks. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the 60s to around 70 at low
elevations to the upper 40s to mid 50s at high elevations.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 30s to mid 40s
at low elevations to the 20s in colder valleys and peaks.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from
the 50s to around 60 at low elevations to the 40s at high
elevations. North winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 30s to mid 40s
at low elevations to the mid 20s to around 30 in colder valleys
and peaks.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 50s and 60s at low
elevations to the upper 40s to mid 50s at high elevations.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows from the upper 30s to mid 40s at low
elevations to the mid 20s to lower 30s in colder valleys and
peaks.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the mid 50s to around 60 at high elevations.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the night and
morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows from the 40s to around
50 at low elevations to the upper 20s to mid 30s in colder
valleys and peaks. Highs from the mid 60s to lower 70s at low
elevations to the 50s at high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows from the 40s to
lower 50s at low elevations to the upper 20s to mid 30s in colder
valleys and peaks. Highs from the upper 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the upper 50s to mid 60s at high elevations.
$$
CAZ052-090045-
Santa Barbara County Mountains-
Including San Marcos Pass, San Rafael Wilderness Area,
and Dick Smith Wilderness Area
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the 60s at low elevations to the mid
50s to around 60 at high elevations. Northeast winds 10 to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 40s to mid 50s at low
elevations to the mid 30s to lower 40s in colder valleys and
peaks. North winds 15 to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the 60s to around 70 at low
elevations to the mid 50s to around 60 at high elevations. North
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the 40s to lower 50s
at low elevations to the 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from
the mid 50s to mid 60s at low elevations to the mid 40s to mid
50s at high elevations. North winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to
40 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 40s to mid 50s
at low elevations to the 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs from the mid 60s
to lower 70s at low elevations to the mid 50s to lower 60s at
high elevations. Lows from the mid 40s to mid 50s at low
elevations to the 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the upper 50s to mid 60s at high elevations.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the
night and morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows from the upper
40s to mid 50s at low elevations to the upper 30s to mid 40s in
colder valleys and peaks. Highs from the mid 60s to lower 70s at
low elevations to the mid 50s to lower 60s at high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 40s to
mid 50s at low elevations to the mid 30s to mid 40s in colder
valleys and peaks. Highs from the 70s at low elevations to the
60s at high elevations.
$$
CAZ034-090045-
San Luis Obispo County Central Coast-
Including San Luis Obispo, Pismo Beach, Morro Bay, Cambria,
and San Simeon
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the 60s.
Local northeast winds around 15 mph shifting to the northwest in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
Northwest winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the upper 50s and 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s. Northwest winds 15 to
25 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. North winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then areas of low clouds and
fog. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then
sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 60s at the beaches to the
lower 70s inland.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the night and
morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s.
Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs
from the mid to upper 60s at the beaches to the mid 70s inland.
$$
CAZ035-090045-
Santa Barbara County Central Coast-
Including Santa Maria, Lompoc, and Vandenberg
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 50s to mid 60s at the
beaches to around 70 inland. Northwest winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s. Northwest winds
around 15 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from
the mid 50s to around 60 at the beaches to the mid 60s to around
70 inland. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s except the mid
40s to around 50 in the hills. Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph with
gusts to 45 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 60s at the beaches
to around 70 inland.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s except the mid
to upper 40s in the hills.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning and
night clearing to the beaches in the afternoon. Highs from the
upper 50s to mid 60s at the beaches to the lower 70s inland. Lows
in the mid 30s to lower 40s except the mid to upper 40s in the
hills.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Low clouds and fog near the coast early spreading
inland. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog clearing to the beaches in the
afternoon. Highs from the lower to mid 60s at the beaches to the
lower to mid 70s inland.
$$
CAZ036-090045-
Santa Ynez Valley-
Including Solvang and Santa Ynez
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the mid
60s to lower 70s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s to around 40. West winds around 15 mph in the
evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
mid 60s to lower 70s. West winds 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly
cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s to
lower 40s. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph in the
evening.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to
35 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s except the lower
to mid 40s in the hills.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear except for patchy low clouds and fog after
midnight. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the night and
morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid
40s. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Patchy low clouds and fog in the night
and morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the 40s. Highs in
the lower to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ037-090045-
San Luis Obispo County Interior Valleys-
Including Paso Robles and Atascadero
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the 60s
to around 70.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in
the 30s to around 40 except the mid to upper 40s in the Carrizo
Plain.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
60s to around 70. Northwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly
cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the 30s to lower
40s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s to mid 60s. North winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to
35 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s to lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 30s to around 40 except the
lower to mid 40s in the Carrizo Plain.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Low clouds and fog in the
night and morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to
mid 40s. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the mid 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ051-090045-
San Luis Obispo County Mountains-
Including Black Mountain
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s and 60s. East winds 10 to
20 mph in the morning.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the lower to mid 40s at low
elevations to the 30s in colder valleys and peaks. North winds
10 to 20 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s and 60s. North winds
15 to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower
40s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s to lower 60s. North winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s to lower 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the 60s to
around 70. Lows from the lower to mid 40s at low elevations to
the 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the night and
morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny.
Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ038-090045-
Cuyama Valley-
Including Cuyama
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the 60s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the
30s to lower 40s. North winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the
60s. North winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s to around 40. Northwest winds around 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
50s to lower 60s. North winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s to around 40.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 30s to lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the night and
morning, otherwise mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid
40s. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
upper 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ549-090045-
San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands-
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. patchy fog
in the morning. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Northwest
winds 20 to 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50. Northwest winds 25 to
35 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid to upper 50s. Northwest winds 20 to 35 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog mostly clearing in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the night and
morning mostly clearing in the afternoon. Lows around 50. Highs
in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows around
50.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog mostly clearing in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
$$
CAZ550-090045-
Santa Cruz and Anacapa Islands-
244 AM PST Tue Mar 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 60s near the coast to
around 70 interior.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 60s near the
coast to around 70 interior. West winds 20 to 30 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly
cloudy. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 20 to 35 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs around
60. Northwest winds 20 to 35 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then partly cloudy. Lows in
the mid 40s to around 50.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
60s to around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows around 50.
.MONDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog mostly clearing in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
$$
Hall
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