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Srinagar, Dec 30 (PTI) The ruling National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir has expressed disappointment over the lieutenant governor's decision to not include days commemorating 1931 martyrs and party founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah in the list of holidays. "Today's list of holidays and the decision reflects the BJP's disregard for Kashmir's history and democratic struggle," National Conference (NC) chief spokesman Tanvir Sadiq said in a post on X late on Sunday night. Also Read | Kolkata Fatafat Result Today: Kolkata FF Result for December 30, 2024 Declared, Check Winning Numbers and Result Chart of Satta Matka-Type Lottery Game. Notably, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had earlier this month hinted that holidays removed after abrogation of Article 370 will be restored. "While we had hoped for the inclusion of holidays commemorating leaders like Sher-e-Kashmir Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and the martyrs of July 13th, their absence does not diminish their significance or our legacy. These holidays will be restored one day," Sadiq said. Also Read | Shillong Teer Results Today, December 30 2024: Winning Numbers, Result Chart for Shillong Morning Teer, Shillong Night Teer, Khanapara Teer, Juwai Teer and Jowai Ladrymbai. July 13 was observed as a public holiday in Jammu and Kashmir to commemorate the 23 men who fell to the bullets of Dogra Maharaja's soldiers in 1931. December 5 was also marked as a public holiday to commemorate the birth anniversary of NC founder Sheikh Abdullah. Both the holidays were scrapped by the LG administration after 2019, when Article 370 was abrogated. The list of public holidays announced by the LG administration for 2025 does not include these days. (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)
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Cancer Daily Horoscope Today, Dec 10, 2024 predicts good fortuneA reestablished team of Clark County cold-case investigators is hoping to link trace evidence to one of serial killer Warren Forrest’s suspected victims from 50 years ago. In October 1974, a hunting party found Carol Valenzuela, 18, and Martha Morrison’s skeletal remains in shallow graves about 100 feet apart in a densely wooded area of Dole Valley in eastern Clark County. Morrison’s remains weren’t identified until July 2015, however. A Clark County Superior Court jury convicted Forrest of Morrison’s cold-case murder in February 2023 — after a breakthrough in the case thanks to DNA evidence. Blood found on an air pistol Forrest used to torture a Camas woman in October 1974 was identified as Morrison’s. Now, investigators want Forrest prosecuted for Valenzuela’s slaying. Earlier this year, Clark County Sheriff John Horch reestablished a mostly volunteer cold-case team that had been suspended in 2020. The team includes retired homicide detectives, including Doug Maas, who joined in June. Maas was one of the first deputies who responded after a Camas woman escaped an attack by Forrest at Lacamas Lake in 1974. Maas later served as a detective on the Forrest cases in 1976, according to the sheriff’s office. “We want the community to know we haven’t given up on this, and we mainly want Forrest to know we haven’t given up on this — and won’t,” Maas said during a Monday interview from the Major Crimes Unit office in downtown Vancouver. “As long as I stay vertical, I’m going to stay on this one.” With Maas taking the lead, a trio of cold-case investigators are working on Forrest’s cases. A couple other cold-case investigators are actively working on another seven unsolved cases, said sheriff’s Sgt. Fred Neiman Jr., who oversees the unit. (Another 23 unsolved cases are pending, he said.) Forrest, 75, of Battle Ground is suspected in the disappearances and deaths of seven women and girls in Clark County between 1971 and 1974: Jamie Grissim, 16, in December 1971; Barbara Ann Derry, 18, in February 1972; Diane Gilchrist, 14, in May 1974; Gloria Nadine Knutson, 19, in May 1974; Krista Kay Blake, 20, in July 1974; Valenzuela in August 1974; and Morrison in August or September 1974. Two others — Norma Jean Countryman, 15, who was abducted in July 1974, and the 20-year-old Camas woman — survived. Forrest, an Army veteran and former Clark County parks employee, is serving two life sentences for Morrison and Blake’s slayings. Blake was last seen July 11, 1974, climbing into Forrest’s light blue van near downtown Vancouver. Her remains were found exactly two years later in a shallow grave on Clark County parks property at Tukes Mountain. Cold-case investigators are now working to analyze trace evidence, including hair and nail samples, recovered from Forrest’s van in the 1970s. Some of the trace evidence was examined by the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab more than a decade ago. But at that time, the lab didn’t have the capability to build a DNA profile. Advances in DNA technology now make that possible. Private labs, in particular, are able to work off as little as a hair shaft, Maas and Neiman said. The sheriff’s office is consulting with Texas-based Othram, a private laboratory, to explore options for testing. The agency has previously worked with the laboratory, Neiman said. The sheriff’s office does not yet have a timeline for when the evidence will be tested. It is still determining what should be sent to Othram and how that will be funded, and what can be tested by the State Patrol, Neiman said. DNA testing can take six months to a year to complete, although private labs are typically faster, he said. In the meantime, the sheriff’s office is seeking the public’s help in gathering information related to Forrest’s suspected victims. A sheriff’s office team contacted Forrest in prison earlier this year, Neiman said, and plans to reach out again. “We’ve given him opportunities to bring closure to the families,” Neiman said. At his sentencing in Morrison’s case, Forrest declined to address the court, despite Morrison’s brother and prosecutors urging him to provide answers. “He probably hopes he never sees us, but we’re never going to give up,” Maas said. Starr Lara has been seeking answers about her sister, Jamie Grissim, for decades. Grissim’s wallet was discovered in May 1972 beside a road in Dole Valley, about a mile from where Morrison and Valenzuela’s remains were later found. Grissim’s remains have never been located, although a K-9 trained in cadaver detection searched as recently as July, Maas said. “Forrest is an enigma. (Serial killer Ted) Bundy came clean in the end. ... Forrest is as cold as they come,” Maas said. “He’s 75 now. Time is of the essence.”
Gilcrease Museum won’t reopen for another two years, but the new building itself is a grand piece of art that Mayor G.T. Bynum was determined to showcase before he leaves office. Friday, with a rich blue sky and a bright warm sun, was a perfect day to do so. “I think there was long a belief that we had a facility here that did not reflect the majesty of the collection that we have here,” Bynum said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the near completion of the 95,000-square-foot structure. “And so today is a celebration of our community's willingness to invest in itself and to leave things better than we found it for future generations.” Founded in 1949 by oilman Thomas Gilcrease, the museum is recognized as having the largest collection of American art, documents and artifacts in the country outside of those owned by the federal government. 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Although the new building has a smaller footprint than the old one, it will have more exhibit space and incorporate high ceilings and massive glass windows and walls to create open and well-lit space for the artwork to shine. Jame Anderson, vice president and director of cultural for SmithGroup, the lead design firm on the project, said visitors to the new museum will enjoy a whole new experience. “Everything in this building is very focused on cardinal directions, on the sun rising in the east and setting. So like when you come inside, you know, you know you can go downstairs or you can go up,” Anderson said. “And so the hope is, not only is there the opportunity to present more of the collection, which is an experience all into itself, but it's to make it intuitive and to make it easy, lessen the hurdle between a person and their experience with works of art.” The $141 million project was funded with more than $90 million in city funding and $49 million in private donations. Bynum thanked the public for their support of the project and made special note of the contributions made by philanthropies and others in the private sector. “I hope the donors to this museum know how grateful our city is for your generosity and that you take pride in what you have helped us build,” Bynum said. “This (would not be) standing behind us in the beautiful, world-class way that it is if we had not had donors step up in a historically significant way.” The new museum building northwest of downtown was built on the site of the old museum and is designed to highlight the natural beauty of the Osage hills that surround it. Marla Redcorn-Miller, Osage Nation Museum director, said the Osage Nation was proud and grateful to be part of Friday’s ceremony. “The Gilcrease Museum has really reached out to not only the Osage Nation but also the others in Oklahoma to make sure that that story and that narrative that is put through really reflects all of the different constituencies that are here and the indigenous contingencies that you know that are represented in the collection.” Brian Lee Whisenhunt, executive director and CEO of the Gilcrease Museum, said the museum plans to host community activities and workshops from May to November next year, with the exhibition installation beginning late 2025. “We really thought it was important that they (the public) understand and appreciate this beautiful new setting for our collection and understand that it belongs to them and have a sense of place, a sense of belonging, a sense of what the museum will be,” Whisenhunt said. No one was more instrumental in getting the new museum built than Susan Neal, the former executive director of the Gilcrease Museum. In addition to her regular administrative duties, Neal spearheaded the effort to raise private dollars for the project. “It's very emotional for me, and it's just overwhelmingly happy — a very happy time,” Neal said after touring the building. “And it's just beautiful. It's already beautiful, but I think as soon as you see people in there and the art in there and hear kids in there, that is really going to be beautiful.” The Gilcrease family was represented at Friday’s celebration by Thomas Gilcrease’s grandson, Thomas Gilcrease Denney, who praised the new museum building and thanked Tulsans for their commitment to keeping his grandfather’s vision alive. “I do know that he wanted it here, to be at this location for posterity,” Denney said. “And he wanted it preserved intact for posterity. 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Malawi drifted into the New Year 2024 still battling foreign exchange challenges and it seemed inevitable that the fuel shortages experienced in 2023 would re-emerge. But much as the fuel crisis has been linked to forex shortages, it was also connected to political meddling into Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) Board’s operations. Warnings came as early as August when The Nation reported that Mera was struggling to pay K785 billion to fuel suppliers who were importing the commodity into at a higher cost than the prevailing pump prices. The energy regulator had maintained the price of petrol at K2 530 per litre and diesel at K2 734 per litre since November 2023. By August, industry players were concerned with the price and as Mzuzu University-based economist Christopher Mbukwa told The Nation at the time, the prices were not reflecting reality and were working against players in the fuel sector. He said: “It is indeed the case of the State trying to mechanically hold the fuel pump price increase, which is unsustainable.” Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) executive director John Kapito backed the calls for an increase in fuel prices, stating that further delays would lead to fuel shortage in the country. However, the government maintained its hold on prices due to concerns that a rise in the pump prices could worsen inflation, a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy. It is measured using a consumer price index (CPI, an aggregate basket of goods and services used in computing inflation. Fuel reserves were depleted. According to the National Stocks Fuel Report compiled by Mera, by October 1 2024, the country had 4.9 days stock of petrol and 15 days stock of diesel against the required three months of import cover. During the year under review, daily consumption remained at one million litres each for petrol and diesel and by mid-October, fuel reserves had dried up and consumers were feeling the pinch of the shortage as queues of more than 50 vehicles at one filling station became the order of the day across the country. For the first two weeks, there was mainly a shortage of petrol but the crisis eventually extended to diesel. The impact was huge. Public transport costs went up, trucks were stuck at filling stations for days and could not haul goods, including relief items while ambulances were grounded in some hospitals. On October 31, at the height of the crisis, Mera chief executive officer Henry Kachaje said the regulator and players in the energy sector were working on doubling fuel imports to restore petrol and diesel stocks “within the shortest possible period”. On the $75 million (about K130 billion) owed to suppliers for fuel supplied on open credit, he said they used $50 million (about K87 billion) secured from Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (Badea) and funds from local banks to pay back a huge chunk of the loan. Said Kachaje: “With the loan balance reduced, we expect that the suppliers will now be supplying us with fuel in higher volumes. We are also working to raise more forex so that we should not have fuel challenges during the Christmas period.” On November 27 2024, President Lazarus Chakwera addressed the nation for the first time about the crisis. Kachaje lamented about the open tendering process of procuring fuel which he said is not suitable for Malawi because of the country’s inability to generate the foreign currency needed for National Oil Company of Malawi (Nocma) and Petroleum Importers Limited (PIL) to pay international private sector suppliers. The President said his administration would transition Malawi from the open tender system for procuring fuel to a government-to-government arrangement that will make Malawi’s access to fuel more secure through better payment terms and cycle. On December 3, Parliament passed the Liquid Fuels and Gas (Production and Supply) Act (Amendment) Bill which gives the Minister of Energy the power to nominate an agent or State entity to import fuel without the oversight prescribed in the Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets (PPDA) Act of 2017. Two days later, Chakwera travelled to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) where he held discussions with President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on the government-to-government procurement system. Upon his return, the President told the nation on December 11 that the UAE President will be sending a team to Malawi in January 2025 to finalise the technical aspects of the arrangement. In mid-December, long queues resurfaced for two days and Nocma attributed the shortage to fuel supply challenges caused by post-election protests in Mozambique. As we close the year, availability of the commodity in filling stations has been erratic and the crisis remains to be resolved. Snaking queues have since resurfaced during the festive season.In the days that followed his reappearance, Jack Ma continued to make headlines with his bold statements and groundbreaking projects. From launching new ventures to partnering with established companies, he proved once again that his vision and drive were as strong as ever.The case against Tang Renjian is a stark reminder of the challenges facing the agricultural sector in China, where issues such as rural poverty, food safety, and environmental sustainability continue to pose significant obstacles to progress. The failure to effectively deploy resources and address key concerns has not only hindered the development of the agriculture industry but also eroded public confidence in the government's ability to protect the interests of farmers and rural communities.
The performance left fans and analysts alike wondering if Zhu Fangyu, the former captain of the Guangdong Southern Tigers and a key figure in Chinese basketball, was regretting the decision to let Ding Yanyuhang leave the team. Ding's rise to stardom has been nothing short of remarkable, and his ability to excel in pressure situations like this game against Zhou Qi only solidifies his status as one of the top players in the league.