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Patiala: A protest by unemployed teachers for long-overdue job appointments turned violent on Tuesday in Punjab’s Sangrur district, forcing police to use batons, water cannon, and tear gas to disperse the crowd before it could reach chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s residence here after blockading the Chandigarh highway for three hours. The demonstrators were from ETT cadre’s 5994 and 2364 unions, and this confrontation left 25 of them injured along with eight police officers. These are official numbers, even though protesters put their side’s injuries above 30, while accusing police of desecratiing turbans and pulling women’s scarves. Police claimed their personnel were injured in stone-pelting. There are no formal complaints or arrests yet. The teacher union accused the state govt and education department of delaying recruitment deliberately even though the Punjab and Haryana high court had not stayed the process. After the lathi-charge incident, the unemployed tearchers have now vowed to intensify their agitation. TNN We also published the following articles recently Unemployed ETT teachers Lathi-charged in Sangrur; 25 protestors, 8 cops injured in clash Police in Sangrur used tear gas and water cannons on unemployed teachers after they blocked the Patiala-Chandigarh highway and marched towards Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann's residence, seeking job appointment letters. The clash injured 25 demonstrators and eight police officers. Protesters claim delays in recruitment despite court orders permitting the process to proceed. Police intensify search for accused Chirayinkeezhu police are intensifying their search for gangster Auto Jayan, accused of murdering Vishnu in Anathalavattom. Authorities plan to invoke the Kerala Anti-Social Activities Prevention Act (Kaapa) against him once apprehended. Meanwhile, police have arrested Jayan's associate Jiju, and gangster Praveen has been booked under KAAPA for attempting to murder someone with a machete. Kolkata police officer injured as protests against attacks on Bangladesh minority Hindus turn violent A police officer was injured in a protest in Kolkata against violence targeting Hindus in Bangladesh. The protest intensified following the arrest of Hindu priest Chinmoy Krishna Das on sedition charges in Bangladesh. The rising attacks on Hindu temples in Bangladesh have prompted political and spiritual leaders in Kolkata to demand stronger protections for religious minorities.Maven recently looked back on his squash match against Triple H in 2003 and how The Rock showed him support after. The Game, who was WWE World Champion at the time, defeated Maven in a squash match on his way toward WrestleMania, and Maven looked back on the match in a recent YouTube video. “Following this match, The Rock would actually pull me aside and just voice his displeasure,” Maven said ( per Fightful ). “Tell me he didn’t just appreciate the way I was jobbed out, the fact that I was squashed, and said, ‘Business has to be done a different way.’ He didn’t appreciate, he didn’t like the way Hunter just pretty much used me. I wasn’t in a position to where I could say anything. I was just happy to be on the damn show, but the fact that Rock took the time to tell me, ‘Hey, man, I don’t like what he did.'” He continued, “Then he told me something. He said, ‘When I come back,’ and I don’t know where he was going, maybe he was filming a movie, doing something, he said, ‘When I come back, we’ll do something together.’ He was, he was trying to make things right. Now, it never happened, and to be honest with you, I’m still waiting on it, but the fact that he took the time to pull me aside, and the mere fact that he was in my corner, rooting for my career, truly meant the world to me.” Maven did not ultimately get that match because Rock stepped away from WWE for an extended period after. Maven went on to face Triple H for the World Title again after Survivor Series 2004, which was not a squash match.
Stocks shook off a choppy start to finish higher Monday, as Wall Street kicked off a holiday-shortened week. The S&P 500 ended 0.7% higher after having been down 0.5% in the early going. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also recovered from an early slide to eke out a 0.2% gain. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite rose 1%. Gains in technology and communications stocks accounted for much of the gains, outweighing losses in consumer goods companies and elsewhere in the market. Semiconductor giant Nvidia, whose enormous valuation gives it an outsize influence on indexes, rose 3.7%. Broadcom climbed 5.5% to also help support the broader market. Walmart fell 2% and PepsiCo slid 1%. Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan said they are talking about combining in a deal that might also include Mitsubishi Motors. U.S.-listed shares in Honda jumped 12.7%, while Nissan ended flat. Eli Lilly rose 3.7% after announcing that regulators approved Zepbound as the first and only prescription medicine for adults with sleep apnea. Department store Nordstrom fell 1.5% after it agreed to be taken private by Nordstrom family members and a Mexican retail group in a $6.25 billion deal. All told, the S&P 500 rose 43.22 points to 5,974.07. The Dow gained 66.69 points to 42,906.95. The Nasdaq rose 192.29 points to 19,764.89. Traders got a look at a new snapshot of U.S. consumer confidence Monday. The Conference Board said that consumer confidence slipped in December. Its consumer confidence index fell back to 104.7 from 112.8 in November. Wall Street was expecting a reading of 113.8. The unexpectedly weak consumer confidence update follows several generally strong economic reports last week. One report showed the overall economy grew at a 3.1% annualized rate during the summer, faster than earlier thought. The latest report on unemployment benefit applications showed that the job market remains solid. A report on Friday said a measure of inflation the Federal Reserve likes to use was slightly lower last month than economists expected. Worries about inflation edging higher again had been weighing on Wall Street and the Fed. The central bank just delivered its third cut to interest rates this year, but inflation has been hovering stubbornly above its target of 2%. It has signaled that it could deliver fewer cuts to interest rates next year than it earlier anticipated because of concerns over inflation. Expectations for more interest rate cuts have helped drive a roughly 25% gain for the S&P 500 in 2024. That drive included 57 all-time highs this year. Inflation concerns have added to uncertainties heading into 2025, which include the labor market's path ahead and shifting economic policies under an incoming President Donald Trump. "Put simply, much of the strong market performance prior to last week was driven by expectations that a best-case scenario was the base case for 2025," said Brent Schutte, chief investment officer at Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company Treasury yields rose in the bond market. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.59% from 4.53% late Friday. European markets closed mostly lower, while markets in Asia gained ground. Wall Street has several other economic reports to look forward to this week. On Tuesday, the U.S. will release its November report for sales of newly constructed homes. A weekly update on unemployment benefits is expected on Thursday. Markets in the U.S. will close at 1 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday for Christmas Eve and will remain closed on Wednesday for Christmas.
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Melvin Odoom’s secret attempt to win over Carol Vorderman BEFORE I’m A Celebrity revealedArctic Bay, Nunavut, is expecting to receive federal money to build a small craft harbour in 2025, six years after the project was first announced. In 2019, the federal government revealed plans to build harbours in four Nunavut communities — Arctic Bay, Clyde River, Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay. That's part of the Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation Area and the associated Inuit Impact and Benefit Agreement, which is meant to support local training and employment. last week proposed $105.9 million over seven years, starting in 2025, for construction in Arctic Bay. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) expects it to be operational by 2031. "Community and commercial fishing, hunting, food supply, safety and security issues, transportation, tourism, and socialization will be enhanced at the community and regional level," DFO wrote in an email. DFO estimates the harbour will create roughly 60 to 150 jobs during the construction period, and $90 to $130 million in GDP. "This project will be publicly tendered as a set-aside project for firms on the Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. Inuit Firm Registry and will include Inuit Benefits Criteria," DFO said. Nunavut NDP MP Lori Idlout said the announcement has been a long-time coming. "Time and time again they keep neglecting the North unless forced to act. Now, we see the first steps and I won't stop pushing until the harbour is complete," she said. "Hunters and trappers in Nunavut feed their families and keep their culture alive." Construction of Clyde River's small craft harbour in September 2024. (Caitlin Joanas/CBC) Meanwhile in Clyde River, construction of a small craft harbour there is underway by Pilitak Enterprises. That's set to be operational by summer 2026. Pond Inlet, which was also a party to that conservation area agreement, opened their community harbour in 2022. The construction timelines for Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay remain unclear. According to the , the Government of Nunavut partnered with Worley Consulting this year to support geotechnical studies for the two proposed community harbours.
Meta faces April trial in FTC case seeking to unwind Instagram mergerThe Philadelphia Eagles ruled wide receiver DeVonta Smith out for Sunday night's game at the Los Angeles Rams due to a hamstring injury. Smith did not practice all week and will miss his second game of the season and just the third of his four-year NFL career. He was inactive in a Week 4 loss at Tampa Bay due to a concussion. Smith, 26, leads the Eagles with 41 receptions and four touchdown catches ands ranks second with 516 receiving yards in nine starts this season. The former Heisman Trophy winner has 281 catches for 3,694 yards and 23 scores in 59 games (58 starts) since the Eagles drafted him with the 10th overall pick in 2021. NFC East-leading Philadelphia (8-2) takes a six-game winning streak to Los Angeles (5-5), which has won four of its last five games. --Field Level Media
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