Sunday, 9 December 2018
Moments of joy beyond turf
Principal K. C. Satapathy, co-ordinator Indira Bhattacharya and student representatives felicitated the guests with garlands and Odissi pattachitra.In another development, it was an exciting and fun-filled day for 250 children at the SOS Children's Village at Khandagiri here on Wednesday as they found members of the South Africa's national hockey team amidst them. The players spent some quality time with the kids, while many of whom got their fan-moment. "They shared their beautiful experiences with us and also listened to many children. The asked them about their future plans. It was a great opportunity for us to meet international players in our village," said Pushpa Mallick, a Class X student, who performed Odissi for the guests.Players of the team Diungwana Tyson and Ntuli Nqobile did a tango with the kids and enjoyed Odissi by the children of the village.In the SOS Children's Village as many as 250 parentless and abandoned children stay. "The environment here is so peaceful, and the students are so excited about hockey. The mothers are really beautiful as they have been nurturing these kids as their own and taking all care of them," said South African captain Tim Drummond. Dailyhunthttps://www.plurk.com/bizzareedase
SHARP announces New J-Series air purifiers
While living in a polluted environment, our goal should be to reduce the exposure or risk from indoor pollutants, and by breathing fresh air for at least 8 to 10 hours a day, we will nourish our cardiovascular system, respiratory system, nervous system and take the pressure off our Immune System thus giving stamina and energy to fight diseases while in challenging environments. The fundamental purpose of an Air Purifier is to help in reducing toxic load entering the body thereby reducing sick days and medication. What all can it eliminate? With every season and urban condition, there are a variety of pollutants indoor and the right air purifier should be able to destroy all of them - House Dust, PM2.5/PM10, Infectious substances like fungi, mold, mites, virus etc., VOC, toxic fumes, Static electricity and dander is what the J series effectively eliminates. How much can it eliminate? SHARP has obtained third-party verifications from 31 renowned labs on the various types of pollutants and infectious substances neutralized and eliminated from room spaces within a specified time frame. How does it eliminate? SHARP J Series deploys the high-density Active Plasmacluster Technology combined with Passive Mechanical Filtration Systems (PM10 Pre Filter, Carbon Filter & H14 Grade True HEPA Filter) to trap and eliminate the harmful substances. IEC Japan and British Allergy Foundation Seal of Approval confirms the safety & effectiveness of the Purification process along with 29 other global labs. It is also proven through IEC, Japan Safety Standards of EN1822 that the SHARP Plasmacluster Technology doesn't produce any harmful Ozone during the Purification process. Speaking on the launch SHARP's National Manager, Shuvendu Mazumdar said, 'While the Indian market is flooded with OEM products sold by reputed brands, SHARP original design Made in Thailand J series offers Superior built quality, premium Electrical Safety, super high air flow with low noise as some of the added benefits.' Mentioned below are some unique benefits of SHARP J Series Air Purifiers: HAZE Mode: During winters the density of pollutants increase in the lower atmosphere. More number of pollutants enters the respiratory tract in one breath. The HAZE Mode in SHARP J Series ensures superior purification from poisonous HAZE substances like Toluene, Benzene, NOx, Sox etc using the Plasmacluster, HEPA & Carbon Filters along with strong airflow and suction. Light Sensor: Many of us like dark rooms while asleep. While the interactive panel in SHARP J Series displays the Wattage consumed, PM2.5 levels (only on J60 & J80), Odor and Dust levels it ensures that the panel lights are switched OFF as soon as the room lights are turned OFF. Thanks to the super sensitive light sensor mounted on the panel. Washable PM10 Pre Filter: House Dust, Dander, coarse dust up to 10 microns can now be trapped and washed from the Pre Filter without loading the HEPA. Charged HEPA: Deploys H14 Grade True HEPA for 99.97% efficiency, which due to charges generated inside the HEPA, particles are trapped in corners thus not clogging the air path and thus maintaining efficiency for upto 2 years. Enhanced life and efficiency for complete peace and high ROI. Spot Mode (only on J60 & J80): As we all know that the concentration of harmful substances are generally at a lower height where the furnishings, carpets etc. are housed and our children also inhale at that height. The high-density Plasmacluster emitted from the SPOT Mode enables a quicker removal of VOC, Infections and Static Charge to offer sterilized air to your loved ones. PM2.5 level Monitoring (only on J60 & J80): While the air is being taken from each corner of the room space through powerful suction, the sensor placed right at the Input duct before mechanical filtration ensures modest PM2.5 level monitoring of the purified air in the room. Global certifications for safety & effectiveness: Each and every claim made in SHARP J Series is backed by Global Certifications from 31 renowned Labs. SHARP announced its achievement of 7 crore satisfied users till April 2018 for Plasmacluster Ion Technology, the highest in the world for Air Purification. Plasmacluster Technology can best be described as the next generation of Air Purifiers. This natural purification method works by using an electrical discharge to create both Positive and Negative ions, which are then surrounded in water and then released into the air. This process can clean the air and surface from irritants including dust, fungi, viruses, pollen and mold etc. Pricing & Availability: SHARP's FP-J30M-B priced at Rs 19,250 is exclusively available through Vestige Marketing Private Limited and the FP-J40M-W, FP-J60M-W& FP-J80M-H priced at Rs 27,000, Rs 35,000 & Rs 39,000 respectively are sold through our online and offline Sales & Distribution Networks across India. ... Dailyhunthttps://ask.fm/eggyrotens
Uber makes confidential filing for long-awaited IPO
Uber is eager to beat Lyft to Wall Street, according to sources familiar with the matter, a sign of the company's entrenched competitiveness. Its filing sets the stage for one of the biggest technology listings ever. Uber's valuation in its most recent private financing was USD 76 billion, and it could be worth USD 120 billion in an IPO. It's listing next year would be the largest in what is expected to be a string of public debuts by highly valued Silicon Valley companies, including apartment-renting company Airbnb Inc and workplace messaging firm Slack. Ongoing market volatility, however, could alter companies' plans. The IPO will be a test of public market investor tolerance for Uber's legal and workplace controversies, which embroiled the company for most of last year, and on Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi's progress in turning around the company. Khosrowshahi took over just over than a year ago and has repeatedly stated publicly he would take Uber public in 2019. In August, he hired the company's first chief financial officer in more than three years. Together, Uber and Lyft will test public market investor appetitive for the ride-hailing business, which emerged less than a decade ago and has proven wildly popular, but also unprofitable. Uber in the third quarter lost USD 1.07 billion and is struggling with slowing growth, although its gross bookings, at USD 12.7 billion, reflect the company's enormous scale. Its revenue for the quarter was USD 2.95 billion, a 5 per cent boost from the previous quarter. Its bookings grew just six per cent for the quarter. Uber has raised about USD 18 billion from an array of investors since 2010, and it now faces a deadline to go public. An investment by SoftBank that closed in January, which gave the Japanese investor a 15 per cent stake in Uber, included a provision that requires Uber to file for an IPO by Sept. 30 of next year or the company risks allowing restrictions on shareholder stock transfers to expire. Uber has not formally chosen underwriting banks, although Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are likely to get the lead roles, sources told Reuters. Lyft hired JPMorgan Chase & Co, Credit Suisse and Jefferies as underwriters. The Wall Street Journal reported Uber's filing earlier on Friday. Becoming a public company will bring a heightened level of investor scrutiny and exposure to Uber, which suffered a string of scandals when the company was led by co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick, who resigned last year. The controversies included allegations of sexual harassment, obtaining the medical records of a woman raped by an Uber driver in India, a massive data breach, and federal investigations into issues including possibly paying bribes to officials and illicit software to evade regulators. Khosrowshahi and his leadership team have worked to reset the workplace culture and clean up the messes, including settlements with US states over the data breach and with Alphabet's self-driving car unit, Waymo, which had sued Uber for trade-secrets theft. Uber today is a different company than the vision its founders pitched to early investors, which helped it become the most highly valued venture-backed company in the United States. After concessions in China, Russia and Southeast Asia, where Uber sold its business to a local competitor and the prospect of another merger in the Middle East, Uber is far from being the dominant global ride-hailing service it set out to be. Still, Uber operates in more than 70 countries, while Lyft is in the US and Canada, although the smaller company is plotting a global expansion. Uber has also added a number of other businesses, which are growing but have yet to show sustainable profits, in a bid to become a one-stop mobility app. Those include freight hauling, food delivery and electric bike and scooter rentals. Meanwhile, its self-driving car unit is costing the company about USD 200 million a quarter, according to investors, but Uber's program has retrenched since one of its autonomous cars killed a pedestrian in March. ... Dailyhunthttp://www.tripntale.com/profile/130745
Ludhiana: Woman booked for extortion slits wrist at police station, stable
They said when she was being questioned regarding the case, she threatened to end her life. She then asked for permission to go to the washroom and slit her wrist inside, they claimed. The woman, a dancer with an orchestra group, was booked in an FIR for allegedly extorting Rs 40,000 from a man from whom she took a lift in his car. The complainant, Mohammad Iliyaas from Arjun Nagar, claimed that on the night of November 30, he was going to Jalandhar bypass from Sherpur in his car when the woman asked for a lift and he agreed. He alleged that soon the woman threatened him and demanded that he hand over all his money. He alleged that she also threatened him of implicating in a false rape case if he did. So he gave her Rs 40,000 which he had then, he told police. The police filed FIR against the woman under IPC section 386 (extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt). However, the woman claimed to the police that she has been implicated in a false case. Additional DCP-1 Gurpreet Singh denied any harassment by police and said a probe was on into the extortion case. Dailyhunthttps://www.intensedebate.com/people/juckzingchuk
'Attack' on Diana Edulji too raised by BCCI's acting secretary
opefully, Johri and Saba Karim realise their salaries are paid for by the BCCI, not any individual. Their loyalty, therefore, must necessarily be to the institution. Exclusively to the institution, in fact. In a stern and lengthy email to Saba Karim, accessed by The Telegraph, Amitabh has sought an explanation for the following:(A) How ODI captain Mithali Raj's email to Johri and to him was leaked? The email presented outgoing head coach Ramesh Powar and Administrator Diana Edulji in poor light. It actually damned both.(B) Who authored the "unauthorized, unprecedented" mid-season change in the qualification rules for domestic tournaments, which suited the sons of two government employees?"Unauthorised" because "it had no sanction from the technical committee, tournament committee, apex council (a feature of the BCCI's new Constitution) or the general body."Tripura's Pratyush Singh and Rohan Choudhary of Mizoram gained. The father of one of them, at least, is understood to be "close" to Rai.Amitabh has sought the answers "at the earliest.""Earliest" may, of course, be interpreted differently by different individuals.Saba Karim had taken all of 15 days to respond to Amitabh's earlier email on the change in the qualification rules.Referring to that, Amitabh has written: "Reluctance to part with information on the subject is confirmed by the slothful manner of your response despite insistent queries on my part."Strong words.Amitabh is the elected joint-secretary and the acting secretary following an order of the Supreme Court. Can an employee of the BCCI be reluctant to "part with information" sought by him?That he was "kept in the dark" has been highlighted by Amitabh: "It must have been thought fit by you, and those others concerned, to keep the acting secretary of the BCCI in the dark even on an issue dealing with the very core of cricket."In his email, Amitabh has also come to Diana's defence. "The manner in which the email of a leading woman player (Mithali) was leaked over a week ago and the consequent and deliberate harm intended towards a most illustrious ex-India captain and, then, refusal to part with information in this regard by you leaves little to imagination..."It is now part of the BCCI records that while the views of the only other member of the CoA, so half the CoA - if that need be said, having far better credentials in the game than any of us in the BCCI, have been repeatedly ignored and confidential emails received by a few orchestrated to be leaked just to bring discomfort to her in the public eye."Either Mithali herself leaked the email or one from among Johri and Saba Karim. It was handed on a platter to a news channel which didn't have a word to say while the CEO was the subject of an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment.It's interesting that Amitabh emailed Saba Karim hours after a report in these columns headlined "Diana made to pay the 'price' for challenging Rai."Clearly fuming, Amitabh has written: "... The recent composition of the so-called independent committee (set up by Rai for the probe against Johri) by one individual with disagreement demonstrated even about its formation, the manner of its deliberations, the refusal of half of CoA to accept its recommendations establish beyond reasonable doubt that unfettered and wanton exercise of power without accountability has not only taken hold of the BCCI, but has now become its hallmark."Amitabh and the other two office-bearers, acting president Chandra Kishore Khanna and treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry, have been sidelined and humiliated by Rai since March.To rub it in, Rai gave Johri (who didn't, by the way, get a unanimous clean chit from the independent committee) enormous powers. Dailyhunthttp://www.penninetroutfarmandfishery.co.uk/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/1755087/Default.aspx
Murder unravels online 'adult chat' racket in Lucknow
Another police official associated with the probe said all the accused were connected with each other through social media groups and shared pictures of girls available for flesh trade and offered prospective clients their services. The accused provide flesh trade services to different people after getting payments through e-wallets. They also provided adult chatting services through different girls in return of hefty payments, he added. He said the key accused also revealed that he had duped many people on the pretext of providing flesh trade services. 'The accused said he often demanded hefty amount as advance payment for providing services of high profile girls and then blocked the clients' phone numbers after getting the money,' added the official. The official said the victims never lodged a police complaint about the fraud to avert social embarrassment. The Lucknow cyber cell received a few similar complaints in the past, but people refused to lodge formal FIR in the matter, he added. The receptionist, Krishna Pratap Singh, 20, was allegedly shot dead by two assailants, Abhay Singh and Hari Om, at the hotel around 1.52 am on Saturday after being instigated by three others including two girls. The three accused were booked for charges of criminal conspiracy. Police said the assailants had come to meet a Delhi girl staying in room number 217 of Sara Grand Hotel and opened fire when the receptionist refused to allow them to meet her. PAYMENTS THROUGH E-WALLETS The accused were connected with each other through social media groups and shared pictures of girls available for flesh trade and offered prospective clients their services, said cops. The accused provide flesh trade services to different people after getting payments through e-wallets. The key accused revealed that he duped many people of the pretext of providing flesh trade services. But the victims never lodged a police complaint to avert social embarrassment. Dailyhunthttps://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/user/profile/413955.page
IMF chief economist lauds Modi government for 'very solid' growth, GST
These include the Goods and Services Tax (GST), the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code...A lot of what they have done on financial inclusion has been really important," Obstfeld told a group of journalists here. Summing up his impression of India's economy in the last four-and-a-half years of the Modi government, the top IMF economist said the country's "growth performance has been very solid". "I mean, not so much in the third quarter of this year, but generally it has been quite solid," he said. "There are important vulnerabilities, so it is important for the reform momentum to be maintained even as an election comes up and for the path of fiscal adjustment to be maintained," Obstfeld added. He said one risk that has become much more evident in the last few years has been non-bank finance, usually called shadow banking. "There is a big challenge of stricter, oversight," the economist said. Noting that there has long been a legacy of corporate debt associated with bad infrastructure projects in India, Obstfeld said it has been very concentrated in banking system. "But as the government is trying to better oversee the banking system, these loans have migrated to shadow banking and that is an area where more needs to be done to contain financial pressures, which we are beginning to see in India," he said. However, with an upcoming election in the country, there is a reluctance to do anything that would slow the economy, Obstfeld said, observing, "But the lesson of experiences is that financial vulnerabilities can go south very quickly". Maurice Obstfeld, who has served in the post of Chief Economist for more than three years, will return to the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Dailyhunthttps://anotepad.com/notes/irg4yr
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