Hong Kong gears up for Christmas with Pulse Light Festival

The artwork are divided into three categories: technology and communication, childhood dreams and connections and romance. The lighting effects of some buildings, such as the Central Government Offices, Legislative Council Complex, One Exchange Square and Sun Hung Kai Centre, as well as the sound effects at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, will also be strengthened. An installation for the Hong Kong Pulse Light Festival is lit up against the Central business center. Pyrotechnic will be launched from the rooftops of Harbour Centre, Harcourt House and Cheung Kong Centre on designated nights.Dailyhunthttp://rhubarbblue.com/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/256298/Default.aspx

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Nissan's ousted chairman Carlos Ghosn re-arrested

The re-arrest means he could be detained for another 10 days in a Tokyo jail, where he has been confined since he was arrested on initial allegations of financial misconduct. There was no immediate word on Greg Kelly, who was arrested along with Ghosn and whose detention extension was rejected. Kyodo News said the new allegations were based on suspicions that Ghosn made the automaker shoulder personal investment losses of about 1.85 billion yen ($16.6 million) that he had incurred around 2008. His lawyer, Motonari Otsuru, was not available for comment. The lawyer has previously declined to return calls regarding the Ghosn case. The dramatic turn of events came hours after Ghosn, through his lawyer and quoted by Japanese public broadcaster NHK, vowed to restore his good name in court and to hold a news conference after his release. "Things as they stand are absolutely unacceptable," he was quoted as saying. "I want to have my position heard and restore my honour in court." Ghosn was initially arrested on Nov. 19 for allegedly understating his income by about half over a five-year period from 2010. He was later charged with the same alleged crime covering the past three years. Television camera crews had gathered outside the Tokyo jail on Friday morning in hopes of catching sight of Ghosn being released. The Ghosn case has put Japan's criminal justice system under international scrutiny and sparked criticism for some of its practices, including keeping suspects in detention for long periods and prohibiting defence lawyers from being present during interrogations, which can last eight hours a day. Ghosn's arrest has marked a dramatic fall for a leader once hailed for rescuing Nissan from the brink of bankruptcy. It has also shaken the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, with Nissan Chief Executive Hiroto Saikawa calling for changes to weaken Renault SA's control. Dailyhunthttps://justpaste.it/3tcrd

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Cash not in hand: The devastating effects of demonetization

Except that it wasn't. An air of gloom, even desperation, seemed to hang over the proceedings; applicant after applicant spoke of the dire uncertainty of their future, not just in economic terms but in ways that embraced pretty much all aspects of their lives - the impossibility of being certain if a daughter would be able to go to college, a nephew get married, a chronically ill parent receive treatment, a close relative get a loan to set up a small shop, and so on and on and on.Somewhat surprised to begin with, we were soon struck by the realization that it was less than a fortnight since the historic announcement of demonetization on November 8 2016, and just six days since the notification by the Reserve Bank of India that district central cooperative banks would no longer be allowed to accept deposits or exchange the now worthless 500- and 1,000-rupee notes. Virtually everyone we met that day had the bulk of her or his savings in cooperative societies which, in turn, did the bulk of their business with DCCBs. In the few days that DCCBs had accepted deposits and exchanged currency notes from SKUSs, transactions worth hundreds of crores had already taken place. Although people had had to stand in line for hours, most SKUSs had risen to the occasion and increased their work hours and the number of people at their counters. But now, it was all over. Not a single one of the people we met that day - the applicants for our course, family and friends who had accompanied them, members of the SKUS, other folk from the village - had any idea of how, if ever, this nightmare would end. This was the miasma of gloom and fear that hung over the meeting room that cool November afternoon 25 months ago. Things didn't really change much in the following weeks and months and a year later they were still limping along at best, as samiti members kept telling us. It was not until next year, and after much litigation, that DCCBs were finally allowed to deposit the demonetized notes in their vaults with the RBI.These memories swum to the surface as I read Meera H. Sanyal's The Big Reverse: How Demonetization Knocked India Out - an account of the devastating effects of demonetization on the times and lives of hundreds of millions of ordinary Indians. Sanyal is one of India's most successful bankers, someone who has served in top positions in some of the world's largest banks and financial institutions. She is no air-headed socialist; on the contrary, she champions markets, competition, and the need to encourage entrepreneurship, small-scale and large. Like most of us, she believes the stated aims of demonetization, as announced by the country's prime minister on the night of November 8, 2016 - eradicating black money, ending corruption and stopping terror-funding - are eminently laudable objectives that no patriotic Indian ought to argue with. To these three primary goals, she adds five others announced by the government's spokespersons in the days following demonetization: moving to a cashless society, expanding the tax base, integrating the informal sector of the economy with the formal, lowering interest rates and bringing down real estate prices. In the sixth chapter, "Demonetization Report Card", she draws on government statistics to show how not a single one of these eight objectives came even close to being achieved. In her other five chapters, not including the Introduction and Conclusion, Sanyal looks at the effects of demonetization from the angle of people, institutions, economics and history. And what she says does not make for pretty reading.I am no economist or political scientist, but in over three decades of trying to understand literary texts, and by speaking with people from a wide range of backgrounds, I have understood two things: stories matter and memory is short. For most salaried city-dwellers like me, demonetization was a shock to the system, but a shock we recovered from fairly rapidly. In the days immediately after November 8, 2016 many (most?) neighbourhood shops opened khatas for their regular customers, where purchases were noted down and payment asked for only after the total had inched close to Rs 2,000; more establishments started accepting card payments; even queueing up outside banks and ATMs turned into something resembling a street-side adda, and the frequent (and often contradictory) orders issued by the RBI provided much grist for the mills of para humorists. Yes, there was hardship, which we encountered not always first-hand but often from those who worked in our homes or ferried fresh provisions to our doorstep or ran a local chai shop; and many times we helped them out in small but not insignificant ways - by not asking for change, by taking their now-useless notes and giving them fresh legal tender in exchange, by making advances against a future month's salary, and so forth. Things were far worse in non-urban areas. There is little data on how many people lost livelihoods in villages, how many patients went untreated, how much additional interest had to be given to usurious moneylenders to pay for daily necessities, how many social gatherings and family events had to be cancelled or drastically curtailed. yet anyone who has even a nodding acquaintance with rural India will have heard many of these stories of loss and despair.On the 21st day of the second month in the third year after demonetization most of those who read this paper will have probably forgotten the hardships undergone by ordinary people, the chaos created in every sector of the economy, and the failures swept quietly under the carpet by the architects of demonetization. Through her meticulously documented, carefully crafted, deeply felt and, most of all, profoundly human book, Sanyal has given us reason to remember the many stories that went into the making of this strange and, ultimately, tragic chapter in our country's recent history. The author is professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, and has been working as a volunteer for a rural development NGO for the last 30 years Dailyhunthttp://www.itsarab.org/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/33164/Default.aspx

Telangana couple burn 22-year-old daughter to death for marrying outside caste

When the newly-married couple returned to the village to attend the hearing of the case at Luxettipet Court, the girl's parents assaulted the man and forcefully took her away. Anuradha's family waited until the cops who had accompanied her and Laxman left to attack the couple, following which Laxman lodged a complaint with the police and even appealed to residents of the village to intervene and counsel Satyanna and family. Even as Laxman pleaded with the police to take action, Anuradha's family set her on fire in their field and threw her ashes as well as all her remains into the river late on Saturday night. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Venu Gopal Rao visited the village and took Satyanna's family into custody for questioning. Dailyhunthttps://wanelo.co/meekneekitto

IBPS PO main scores 2018 today at ibps.in

Steps to check IBPS PO main exam scores 2018: 1) Go to official website of IBPS 2) Click on the link to view scores of online main exam for CRP PO MT VIII 3) You will be directed to the login page 4) Enter your registration number and password 5) Enter the captcha code 6) Your scores will be displayed on the screen 7) Take a print-out and save it on your computer The IBPS had invited applications to recruit around 3,500 PO in various banks. Dailyhunthttp://www.feedbooks.com/user/4818036/profile

Australian batsmen need to learn from Virat Kohli, says Graeme Hick

We knew (Cheteshwar) Pujara, even Kohli, one of the most explosive batters, got to 20 off 25, 26 balls, then the rest of his innings took whatever it was," Hick said on SEN Radio on Saturday. "For the best player in the world to change his innings and play like that, if you can't be on the same field as him and watch him and learn from what he is doing, then you are in the wrong space. "There are certainly thing our players can take out of that. It takes a lot of discipline, a lot of patience and, on top of that, you have got to bat with intent," he added. Australia's batting woes against India at the MCG have sparked debate about their technique and the impact of the Big Bash League on batsmen. Hick said it was disappointing to see his hard work come undone and urged his batsmen to learn quickly and find the right balance. "It's disappointing as a head coach. You feel if you are putting the work in and doing the right things, over a period of time, the players learn. Unfortunately, it's not the easiest thing to learn out in the middle at the MCG of the Boxing Day Test match," said the former England batsman. "You have got to learn quickly in international cricket these days because you don't get a lot of time to remedy what you might feel is wrong." Australia scored 258 for eight in their second innings after Pat Cummins top-scored with an unbeaten 61. The home team require another 141 runs with two wickets remaining to win the Test. Dailyhunthttp://www.tichytraingroup.com/ActivityFeed/MyProfile/tabid/57/UserId/13544/Default.aspx

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SRK is fun but Zero is not

ut as Zero plods on for a butt-numbing 165 minutes, Bauua being vertically challenged becomes more of a gimmick than an important plot point or a source of conflict. So does Aafia's (Anushka Sharma) condition, whose inconsistent portrayal of a genius scientist afflicted by cerebral palsy brings the film down several notches.In fact, the whole of Zero is one big fat gimmick. Salman Khan saunters in to judge a dance competition just because it puts the two Khans in a frame. In one scene, a whole lot of SRK's leading ladies are lined up in an Om Shanti Om-inspired parade. While it's fun to see Kajol and Rani Mukerji, real-life cousins but not the friendliest of co-stars, behave like long-lost pals and a glimpse of Sridevi in her last screen appearance, none of these moments contribute to the story.Zero is a strange film. It attempts to tell a story rooted in middle-class reality and the pain and perils of love, something director Aanand L. Rai has done so well in many of his films. But it takes such improbable flights of fantasy - it starts from the busy bylanes of Meerut and ends up in Mars - that you don't feel for the characters or any of their conflicts. There's no easy way to say it - Zero is an incoherent mess, redeemed only by a few moments.Which is a pity because the film starts off with a lot of promise. Despite some loopy sequences, most of the first half is flat-out fun, the highlight being a cowboy-style dream scene at the beginning that is sure to bring on the laughs. At the centre of that sequence is Bauua who stands at four feet-something but nurtures dreams that touch the skies. Armed with a caustic tongue and quick wit, Bauua meets Aafia through a matrimonial site. He woos her, she staves him off, but eventually they discover companionship in each other. But before they can say 'I love you', Bauua and Aafia land up at the marriage mandap. Bauua, who fanboys over superstar Babita Kumari (Katrina Kaif), scoots without a word, leaving Aafia behind in her bridal finery and with resentment in her heart. Along the way, Bauua becomes a part of Babita's entourage, realises Aafia's true love for him and volunteers to go on a one-man mission to Mars designed by Aafia, just to prove to her that he isn't running away this time around. A baby pops up somewhere, R. Madhavan plays an Elon Musk kind of a character and there's a mad dash on a wheelchair through the streets of New York. None of it makes sense after a point.The idea on the part of Rai and writer Himanshu Sharma may have been to attempt an epic love story where two seemingly incomplete people come together to form a whole, but none of it feels authentic.What also doesn't help is that the film consistently makes fun of the conditions it spotlights. "Tumhari akal tumhare height se bhi chhoti hai," Aafia tells Bauua even as he makes fun of her speech impairment. There are some winner lines, a few of them that initially make you laugh but soon become borderline offensive. With his last couple of films, Shah Rukh has been trying to break out of his superstar image. In Zero, though, he's a hoot as Bauua, especially in that fun bit where he dances to the Shashi Kapoor hit Humko tum pe pyaar aaya, he keeps slipping into being the SRK we know. Some of it may be attributed to Bauua being a film buff and wanting to emulate his favourite stars, but there's too much of SRK here - trademark arm stretch to self-referential mentions like his dimples. But no one else could have pulled off the soulfully romantic Mere naam tu - the best number of the Ajay-Atul scored album - as well as the man who's personified romance does. But in a film starring Shah Rukh and Anushka, it's Katrina Kaif who pulls off the best performance, playing to perfection an unhinged, alcoholic film star. Some of Babita's meltdown moments may belong more in a bad Madhur Bhandarkar film, but Katrina not only owns the character, she seems to be having a lot of fun playing her part too. Especially in the bits where her cheating actor boyfriend is called Kapoor. Now where have we heard that one before? Dailyhunthttps://www.ted.com/profiles/11544037