The shooting, which took place in broad daylight outside the CEO's office building, sent shockwaves through the business community and beyond. The CEO, a well-respected figure in the industry, was pronounced dead at the scene, leaving behind a legacy of innovation and success.As the release date for "Moonlight Bang!" draws near, the buzz surrounding Fu Jing's performance continues to build, with fans eagerly anticipating her comedic debut. With her infectious energy, impeccable comedic timing, and undeniable charisma, Fu Jing is poised to win over audiences with her portrayal of the lovable and quirky Lily.However, the discovery of the missing student has led to a breakthrough in the case, as suspects believed to be connected to her disappearance were apprehended by law enforcement agencies. The suspects, whose identities have not been disclosed, are currently under investigation for their alleged involvement in the incident. The motives behind the student's disappearance and the extent of the suspects' involvement are yet to be determined.
In the context of China's ongoing efforts to eradicate poverty, the arrest of the "tiger official" sends a powerful message that reckless decision-making will not be tolerated and that those who compromise the integrity of poverty alleviation efforts will be held accountable. It also underscores the importance of building a culture of accountability and good governance at all levels of government.As the sun sets over the construction site, casting a solemn shadow over the scene of the tragedy, the memory of the worker who lost his life in pursuit of a fair day's pay serves as a poignant reminder of the work that remains to be done. May his sacrifice not be in vain, but instead galvanize a collective effort to build a more just and equitable society for all.Lucknow: Northeastern railway 's (NER) Varanasi division senior divisional commercial manager, Sheikh Sami Ur Rahman (37), has secured Ati Vishisht Seva Puraskar (AVSP), for highest revenue through non-fare initiatives for the division that serves eastern UP and western Bihar and whose headquarters is in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency. Previously, Rahman was data analyst in a Gurugram-based private business development consultancy. He was commissioned IRTS officer in Dec 2016 and helped exceed revenue targets by 55.8%, generating Rs 13.82 crore through passenger amenities like kid's zone, train side vending, advertising through glow ball tower, LED TV, mobile charging kiosk, luggage wrapping contract and air-conditioned waiting lounge. "Though 70% of our division's revenue comes from freight services, we are taking initiatives for amenities at economical rates to generate revenue opportunities. For pilgrims and tourists from across the globe visiting holy city Varanasi, we have introduced several amenities," said Rahman, who began a programme with NGOs and RPF, engineering and commercial departments to provide free food and water packets to underprivileged passengers, returning for their daily wage jobs after Chhath Puja. Durg, Chhattisgarh native, Rahman holds BTech in information technology from NIT Raipur. His grandfather S A Gani was maths lecturer in Bhilai, his father Sheikh Shakir a retired chief engineer and his mother Shamim Sheikh, MSc gold medallist from Bilaspur University, honoured by former President Zail Singh. His sister Dr Zehra Sheikh and wife Dr Ghazia Tarannum are dentists. " Chhattisgarh has the finest schools and universities/colleges and it is thanks to that education that I and my commercial department team take crucial decisions to handle around 200 trains including 120 express/mail trains," said Rahman, who previously served as AOM (Assistant Operations Manager), DOM (Divisional Operations Manager) and Sr DSO (Senior Divisional Safety Officer) in Lucknow. Stay updated with the latest news on Times of India . Don't miss daily games like Crossword , Sudoku , Location Guesser and Mini Crossword .
The world you will enter is a different one from the one I walked into when I graduated. There was one aspect of the world of my youth that I treasure, an aspect I would greatly like to see restored: that somehow the society in which I lived and worked was more united, more naturally, unselfconsciously Indian than the one that is emerging today. That all-permeating Indianness is still strong. My principal civil servants, for instance, come from four corners of India. One comes from Tamil Nadu, another from Kerala, one from Punjab and another from Gujarat; and they have all served India in their own ways. The India in which I grew up, earned my livelihood, brought up my children -- this India has meant much to me. I have regarded all of it as my home, and I could not have been at home anywhere else. But in some important respects, that India is being questioned, challenged. My own home state is rent by strife over its Indianness, a strife that fills me with great sadness. Competitive politics has raised caste and communal tensions to a dangerous level in several parts of our country. There is more parochiality in the governments. Politics is ceasing to be a vehicle of purposeful social change. Even industry finds its cosmopolitan character under threat of erosion. This is what I find most disturbing, even more for you than for myself. You have the future of this country in your hands; I would urge you to work to restore its Indianness, its instinctive unity. There is another important respect which requires urgent national attention. I refer to the visible signs of erosion of national self-confidence and to the need for strong corrective action. The sense of confident nationhood was the most palpable characteristic of the era of my youth. Our leaders Gandhi ji, Nehru, Patel had this confidence in great abundance; they had no doubts about the potential of this nation, or about its ability to look after itself. They were, in fact, allergic to dependence and its consequences to sycophancy on the one hand and truculence on the other. The one thing they tried to impart to the country was self- confidence and self-respect. Their influence is still strong, and their example would continue to inspire us to look the world in the face. But it must be admitted that of late there has been a weakening of this feeling of self-confidence. A feeling has grown that somehow, we Indians are inferior to other nations, that we cannot compete against other countries in the global markets, that therefore we must build strong protective walls to insulate our economy from outside competition. I regard this feeling of lack of self-confidence a major barrier to the realisation of India’s immense development potential. The leaders of our national struggle had faith in our nation, and the greatest homage we can pay them would be if we could restore the nation’s belief in itself not simply restore it, but revivify, rediscover, and redesign it. Let me illustrate what I mean by taking examples from the fields with which I know well. Trade and industry Take, for instance, the area of trade. Industrialists in this country are blessed with many advantages that other countries do not enjoy. Our wage costs are very low. Our food prices are generally lower than elsewhere. We grow some of the world’s best cotton at extremely competitive costs. Our raw materials, where it is iron ore or coal or bauxite or bamboo, are available at throwaway prices. But even with these advantages, the idea of our industry competing with industry abroad encounters resistance. Our import duties are amongst the highest in the world. We are trying to reduce them. We have reduced the peak duties to 110% in the last budget. With this, the duties on some products have fallen to the same level as the duties on their inputs. This appears to some of our industrialists as unreasonable. They argue that their products must bear a duty that is at least 20% higher than the duty on their components and raw materials. But if they made full use of the cheap labour and raw materials available in this country, it is not they but their competitors abroad that should need protection. Excessive protection of industry and import substitution regardless of cost have created a pattern of industrialisation which generates few additional jobs. It has sheltered monopolies and accentuated disparities in income and wealth. Protection entails a subsidy given to the producer at the cost of the consumer. Heavy protection granted to industry has constituted massive discrimination against agriculture; no wonder that the disparities in living standards between rural and urban India have increased over time. Industries and firms may be protected to correct inequalities in competition. If firms are new or small, they may deserve protection until they can compete on equal terms. But they should not become permanent infants. It is important not to equate protection with patriotism and trade with sin. Glorification of autarky can do our country enormous harm. India has a fairly diversified natural resource endowment but it has to be recognised that on a per capita basis we are not well endowed with natural resources. Thus, India has to become a major international trading nation if its development potential is to be realised in full measure. With our manpower, with our natural resources, we can capture considerable share of markets in the world. We can be the world’s leading exporters of tropical goods, textile, steel and engineering goods. With larger exports, we can import materials from elsewhere and become competitive manufacturers of goods for which we do not have cheap inputs electronic goods, chemicals, wooden and metal handicrafts. Export activity would generate production and employment in our own country. We would not need to send our workers abroad to work under arduous conditions: they could make a gainful living in India itself. With a more dynamic economy, the graduates of our institutes of science and technology will not need to migrate to foreign lands in such large numbers. Trade also has political implications. Japan and Germany are major world powers today, not because of powerful armies or lethal weapons, but because of their trade with the world. As the world prospers, they will inevitably prosper; on the other hand, they are so important to the world that the world cannot let them go down. The world has a stake in a country in proportion to its international trade. Our share in world trade has declined from 3% in 1950 to half a per cent today. The result is that the world’s stake in our welfare and prosperity is minimal today. Our country has been in serious economic trouble in the last two years. We have looked for help from outside. Irrespective of their political colour, irrespective of their nationalist postures at home, finance ministers have travelled abroad in search of support. Yet they got very little. The reason is not that the world is unduly hardhearted towards us, but that our importance to the world has diminished. Our place in the world is not measured by the size of our population or our arsenal, but by the goods and services we export and import. India sits astride the busiest trade lanes of the world. All the sea and air traffic between the east and the west passes along its seaways and airways. But little of it originates or ends in India. It is my hope that this trade will not simply pass us by, and that we shall take our rightful share of it. But the world outside cannot be forced to take our goods and services; it must be coaxed to do so. We have to produce the goods the world wants, up to the quality standards that it demands, with the techniques it finds acceptable. This is where we need not only to have knowledge of the world, but to use it in ways it recognises. Our country has imported technologies on a considerable scale. We have sent thousands abroad to be trained. But if we want to learn at home how people work and produce abroad, it is also possible to do so by letting people from abroad come and show us; and one way to get a live demonstration is to invite them to set up enterprises in India. The idea of foreign direct investment generates considerable heat in our country. It is evident that there are large corporations in the world, and that they can play a role in the foreign policies of their home countries. One should not be unmindful of the possibility that their interests may conflict with our national interests. But their power should not be exaggerated; nor should our ability to protect our interests be belittled. Building self-reliance The East India Company had acquired control of a large part of east-west trade by means of a control of trade routes, ports, centres of production and markets. No multinational corporation of today comes close to acquiring that kind of control. Further, the government today has more means and more knowledge to regulate the activities of foreign enterprises in the national interest. This is what independence means; this is what independence should be used for not for cutting ourselves off from the global production system, but to interact with it for our own benefit. And worldwide, direct investment is not a monopoly of large transnational corporations; more often, it is small knowledge-intensive firms that make the most difference. For instance, small Japanese firms driven out of production by rising wages have gone to Malaysia and made it the world’s biggest exporter of rubber gloves. Italian shoemakers looking for new opportunities have provided the backbone of the highly successful Brazilian shoe exports. Mysore and its surroundings today produce some of the finest silks. The most expensive garment in the world is the Japanese silk kimono. Why should not Japanese pattern makers come and make kimonos out of Mysore silk? For trade, technology and investment are not the only things the world can give us; there is a world full of knowledge outside. There are books, journals that inform and educate and with the ad vent of electronic communications, new means of knowledge are arising. The creation of knowledge is a global process involving universities, research institutes, industries and inventors. We too can participate in this Process with enormous benefit. or much of this knowledge is available at costs far lower than we would incur to produce it, and the value that can be produced by using that knowledge is a vast multiple of the cost of the knowledge It is short-sighted to try import substitution in knowledge at whatever cost. It can do considerable harm to our technological dynamism. It can cut India off from the community of nations where know ledge grows in an ordered framework. The successful absorption, assimilation and adaptation of available knowledge is a critical aspect of development It is a necessary precursor to the stage where we can ourselves generate new knowledge. India needs a strong research and development base to emerge as a front-ranking nation in the world We must spend more on research and development. Our scientists and technologists ought to be provided with facilities comparable to those available abroad. But R&D must have a proper focus. We ought to pay particular attention to areas which have hitherto been neglected, where we cannot depend on foreigners to generate new knowledge and where new knowledge can make a major contribution to the enhancement of India’s developmental potential and the improvement of living conditions of our masses. So how are we to regain our self- confidence, to restore our self-reliance? Self-reliance should not mean self-defeating withdrawal and futile confrontation; it should mean thinking for oneself. An essential element in restoring the spirit of self-reliance must be to change the policy environment which gave sanctified withdrawal and glorified confrontation, and to open our country again to the winds of change. Self-confidence comes from practice, from successful adaptation to change; for adaptation, change has to be invited into our country. This is what we have been engaged in doing in our recent policy initiatives. The intention behind the initiatives is not to betray our nation, nor to weaken its resolve for creative self-reliance. It is to broaden the arena for our productive forces, to bring the best out of them by raising the level of challenge, to make our resources more productive and to distribute the fruits of that productivity more equitably. But practice is helped by example, and action by resolve. For this leadership our nation will look to you, to young men and women whom it has educated at much cost. I would invite you I would challenge you to look at the world with frank and confident eyes, and to translate the lessons it holds into a better life for our people.Tomas Soucek and Aaron Wan-Bissaka combined to burst Newcastle's bubble as West Ham handed under-pressure boss Julen Lopetegui breathing space with a priceless Premier League away win. Soucek headed the Hammers into a first-half lead in front of a largely stunned crowd of 52,094 at St James' Park before Wan-Bissaka's first goal for the club ended the Magpies' three-game winning run in all competitions with a 2-0 defeat which prevented them from climbing into the top six. Eddie Howe's men were culpable for both goals, but also guilty of not using the wealth of possession they enjoyed effectively enough on a night when chances went begging. By contrast, the visitors were lethal on the break and produced the most fluent passages of play to leave Tyneside more than satisfied with a job well done. The visitors took a 10th-minute lead when Soucek was left criminally unmarked by Lloyd Kelly, deputising for the suspended Dan Burn, to power home a header from Emerson Palmieri's corner. Joe Willock whipped a shot just wide of Lukasz Fabianski's left post but, with Paris St Germain loanee Carlos Soler linking well with Lucas Paqueta in the centre of midfield and Jarrod Bowen and Crysencio Summerville taking a direct approach from the flanks, the Hammers were a constant threat on the counter. Sean Longstaff headed straight at Fabianski from Anthony Gordon's floated 29th-minute cross and Lewis Hall sent a skidding shot just past the upright as the hosts responded. Fabianski blocked Gordon's 36th-minute shot from point-blank range after defender Jean-Clair Todibo had failed to deal adequately with Longstaff's low cross, and Alexander Isak, who had earlier seen a good finish ruled out for offside, blasted off target after controlling Bruno Guimaraes' cross on his chest, although he may again have gone marginally too soon. Nick Pope had to pluck Bowen's dipping snapshot from under his crossbar deep into added time, but the first half ended with the visitors a goal to the good. Harvey Barnes, who scored twice inside the final seven minutes in Newcastle's 4-3 comeback win in the corresponding fixture last season, replaced Willock at the break and helped his side lay siege to the West Ham goal in an early flurry. Gordon's 51st-minute prod sailed just the wrong side of the far post with Fabianski beaten, but Wan-Bissaka enjoyed better fortune two minutes later when he ran on to Bowen's pass inside and steered a shot across Pope and in off the upright. The hosts were in disarray at the back and it took a series of blocks and Pope's saves from Soucek and Soler to preserve their hopes of a fightback. Substitute Sandro Tonali sent Tino Livramento away down the right to cross for Isak, but the misfiring Sweden international was unable to direct his header at goal, and Callum Wilson's penalty appeals, to his astonishment, were waved away on his first appearance of the season following a clumsy challenge by fellow substitute Konstantinos Mavropanos.
To overcome the challenges posed by greed, conflict, and deception, it is essential for individuals, institutions, and the broader community to embrace a renewed sense of ethical responsibility and social consciousness. This requires a willingness to confront uncomfortable truths, engage in constructive dialogue, and work together towards building a more just, equitable, and harmonious society.Gurgaon: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Union law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal inaugurated the country's first Constitution Museum at OP Jindal Global University in Sonipat on Saturday. The museum showcases a photolithographic copy of the Constitution, one of the thousand reproductions available, as its centrepiece. Officials said visitors could experience pre-Independence India through a 360-degree visual presentation, and also view a multimedia presentation that chronologically presents significant events that led to the drafting of the Constitution. To acknowledge the Constituent Assembly members' contribution to the making of the document, nearly 300 sculptured busts have been installed at the facility. A hologram of Dr BR Ambedkar is featured in the mezzanine section of the museum, where his philosophies are also exhibited. The interactive display provides responses derived from his documented speeches and written works. Maharashtra Jharkhand Maharashtra Alliance View i Party View Seats: 288 Results Majority: 145 BJP+ 229 MVA 47 OTH 12 Results : 288 / 288 BJP+ WON Jharkhand Alliance View i Party View Seats: 81 Results Majority: 41 INDIA 56 NDA 24 OTH 1 Results : 81 / 81 INDIA WON Source: PValue Moreover, artists have created installations celebrating constitutional principles. ‘We, The People of India' by Rajesh P Subramanian represents the constitutional value of ‘unity in diversity'. Rahul Gautam's ‘Echoes of Liberty' combines constitutional manuscript elements with contemporary artistic design. ‘Triad of Unity' by Harsha Durugadda connects the concepts of unity, justice, and sovereignty. Nishant S Kumbhatil presents ‘Insaaf Ki Devi', depicting the lady justice with scales, representing judicial impartiality. ‘Equality Before Law' by Pradeep B Jogdand illustrates equality and justice principles. Deval Verma's extensive ‘Map' installation encourages visitors to examine their perspectives on value and beauty. KR Nariman's ‘Freedom' pays tribute to ‘We, the People' who practise constitutional values daily. Rahul Gautam's ‘Founding Mothers' presents an artistic interpretation of a photograph featuring the 15 women Constituent Assembly members, recognising their role in developing India's constitutional framework. The CEO of culture and head of the Centre for Museums, Anjchita B Nair, who is also the curator, said this facility was different from traditional museum formats, which follow a single narrative. Instead, diverse presentation methods were incorporated at the Constitution Museum to create engaging and innovative ways of storytelling. At the inauguration, Speaker Birla said, "India's first Constitution Museum marks a historic milestone. This will tell our future generations about our Constitution, its history, its inception, and the immense efforts that went behind its creation. More than a legal framework, our Constitution is a transformative document that brought about a profound social, economic, and political change. It is not merely a set of laws but a guiding philosophy that continues to lead us towards a more just and inclusive society." Union minister Meghwal said, "The Constitution Museum is a memorial of the significant contribution of Dr Ambedkar, the main framer of the Indian Constitution. I sincerely hope that it is visited by the current legislators of India to get a modern and digital insight into the making of the Constitution." MP Naveen Jindal, who is also chancellor of the university, said, "The museum is a reminder to celebrate the Constitution of the world's largest democracy, and to promote the idea of an Indian constitutionalism as we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of India on Nov 26 this year."The situation has escalated tensions within the country, with demonstrations and protests erupting in major cities. The political landscape in South Korea is in a state of flux, with uncertainty looming over the upcoming presidential election. Yoon's supporters see him as a strong and decisive leader who can bring much-needed change to the country, while Moon's supporters accuse him of dividing the nation and putting national security at risk.
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