( MENAFN - KNN India) Patna, Nov 30 (KNN) The Bihar government is taking ambitious steps to position the state as a thriving hub for textiles and leather, aiming to generate large-scale employment and attract significant investments. Senior officials underscore a commitment to fostering an enabling environment through policy support, incentives, and modern infrastructure. A delegation from Bihar's Department of Industries recently visited Tamil Nadu, a leading state in textiles and leather, to study advanced practices and forge collaborations. The team explored Tiruppur, a global textile manufacturing hub, gaining insights into cutting-edge technologies and efficient practices. Alok Ranjan Ghosh, Director of Industries, emphasised the importance of replicating successful models, stating,“The visit has equipped us with critical knowledge to transform Bihar into a textile powerhouse and create employment opportunities.” The delegation also visited Ranipet to observe the zero liquid discharge (ZLD) technology at the Ranitec Common Effluent Treatment Plant. These innovative methods, which recycle 85 per cent of tannery wastewater, hold promise for Bihar's emerging leather sector. Discussions with Selvam, Executive Director of the Council of Leather Exports, further strengthened prospects for the state's leather industry. In its bid to attract investors, the government will host the Bihar Business Connect 2024 in Patna from December 19-20. This event aims to surpass the Rs 50,000 crore investment proposals secured in the 2023 edition, which saw 278 companies signing MoUs worth Rs 50,500 crore. Industries Minister Nitish Mishra expressed optimism about the summit, stating,“We are confident that this year's meet will mark the beginning of a new industrial era in Bihar.” Promotional roadshows across major cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata have already set the stage for this landmark event. Key sectors like food processing, textiles, and tourism are poised for significant investment, further boosting Bihar's industrial growth. By leveraging innovative practices and fostering collaborations, Bihar is charting a path to emerge as a crucial player in India's textile and leather industries. (KNN Bureau) MENAFN30112024000155011030ID1108941696 Legal Disclaimer: MENAFN provides the information “as is” without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic is scheduled to start Saturday’s home game against the Utah Hockey Club at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Mike Sullivan announced Nedeljkovic’s status approximately two hours before the opening faceoff. In 10 games this season, Nedeljkovic has a 3-3-3 record, a 3.17 goals against average and an .886 save percentage. Notes: • Penguins forward Kevin Hayes was activated from injured reserve Saturday evening. Sullivan labeled him as a “game-time decision.” An undisclosed injury has sidelined Hayes for the past eight games. Before his injury, Hayes had appeared in 14 games and scored four points (three goals, one assist) while averaging 9:27 of ice time per contest. • In a corresponding transaction, rookie forward Vasily Ponomarev was assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League. Initially recalled Nov. 14, Ponomarev had primarily been deployed on the fourth line. In three NHL games, he had no points on four shots while clocking an average of 9:12 of ice time per contest. “He did some good things,” Sullivan said of Ponomarev. “It was a good experience for him to get those games. He can get a little bit stronger so he’s stiffer on pucks in the puck battles. Obviously, one the biggest challenges for a young player is just how fast things happen. Part of that learning process is just getting some experience so that you can process the game quickly so you can recognize where potential threats are when you’re on the defensive side and where opportunities are when you’re on the offensive side. That’s just part of the process that (Ponomarev) is going through.” • Penguins defenseman Matt Grzelcyk is available for Saturday’s lineup, according to Sullivan. During a 4-1 home loss to the Winnipeg Jets on Friday, Grzelcyk missed a handful of shifts during the second period after blocking a shot with his left foot. He completed the game but was hobbling a bit following the contest. • Penguins forward Sidney Crosby has scored 599 career goals. • This is the first meeting ever between the Penguins and Utah Hockey Club. Utah is primarily composed of former players, coaches and other assets from the now-defunct Arizona Coyotes franchise but, per the NHL’s decision, the history of the Coyotes franchise (which includes the original Winnipeg Jets franchise) did not transfer to Utah. • The Utah Hockey Club is scheduled to start goaltender Karel Vejmelka. In eight games this season, Vejmelka has a 1-5-0 record, a 2.37 goals against average and a .922 save percentage. Vejmelka is one of four right-catching goaltenders (i.e. silly siders) who have played a game in the NHL this season (compared to 72 left-catching goaltenders). The only other right-catching goaltender the Penguins have played this season is Charlie Lindgren of the Washington Capitals. He stopped 28 of 31 shots in a 4-2 home loss to the Penguins on Nov. 8.
Former Lincoln East, Nebraska wideout Malachi Coleman transfers to MinnesotaMassad Boulos, who has been widely described as a billionaire and a lawyer and was recently named as one of Donald Trump's advisors on Middle East affairs, appears to be neither a billionaire nor a licensed attorney, according to public records and interviews. Boulos first entered the public eye in 2018, when his son Michael met Tiffany Trump at a club in Greece and the pair began dating. The couple married at Mar-A-Lago in 2022, making Massad Boulos Tiffany's father-in-law. He was credited in news stories with playing a key role in Donald Trump's 2024 electoral victory, helping peel Arab American voters away from Democrats in battlegrounds like Michigan. Earlier this month, Trump said Boulos would be a "senior advisor" on Middle Eastern affairs, joining a team that includes Trump's longtime friend and supporter Steven Witkoff, his pick for ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, and Marco Rubio, his nominee for secretary of state, who will shape US policy in the region. At the time, Trump described Boulos as an "accomplished lawyer" and a "highly respected leader in the business world." But Trump apparently inflated Boulos's résumé. Business Insider found no proof of Boulos's supposed billions. And while he may have attended law school, he hasn't passed a bar exam and can't practice law. No connection to a company that shares his last name — but he does control a truck dealership worth less than $1 million in Nigeria Claims of the Boulos family's wealth first started circulating in English-language media in 2018, when Tiffany Trump's relationship with Michael Boulos became public. his family "owns a multibillion-dollar conglomerate" and later mentioned Boulos Enterprises. Vanity Fair the description of the Boulos businesses as "worth billions," a description that was picked up by the Times. On December 2, the New York Times said Massad Boulos built "his wealth in West Africa" and runs two companies, SCOA Nigeria and Boulos Enterprises. The Financial Times called him an "auto tycoon" who leads both companies, while ABC a "billionaire businessman" who "runs Boulos Enterprises." But Massad Boulos doesn't run Boulos Enterprises, according to several former employees and its actual boss, Boulos Boulos. Boulos Enterprises is part of the Boulos Group, a holding company owned by a different group of Lebanese Nigerians with the same last name. A due-diligence report for Boulos Enterprises Ltd. created by Moody's Orbis database doesn't mention Massad Boulos. Archived copies of the Boulos Group website from 2016 and 2018 didn't mention him, either. And Elephant Africa Holding, a Mauritius company created by the Boulos Group to hold its paper businesses, also doesn't mention Massad in its corporate filings. On Thursday, the Times and said he previously misled one of its reporters by answering "yeah" when asked if it was accurate to call his company a multi-billion dollar business. Beyond headlines in news outlets, BI couldn't find any evidence to suggest Massad Boulos is a billionaire. The company Massad Boulos actually does run, SCOA Nigeria, which has a subsidiary called SCOA Motors, is a penny stock. Its shares trade for , roughly a tenth of a US cent, making the entire business worth about $865,000. That's not Billionaire's Row money, but it could buy you in Queens. The company's , which is partly printed in Comic Sans, is consistent with such a valuation. For its financial year ending September 30, SCOA reported about 5.9 billion naira, or $3.7 million, in revenue and about 25 million naira, or $15,562, in post-tax profits. The year before, when sales were weaker, SCOA lost about 715 million naira, or $444,000. In interviews with the New York Times, Boulos has said he didn't correct the record because he doesn't discuss his businesses. He also said it was hard to value his family's businesses. It's possible that Massad Boulos's family could have other sources of wealth. His wife, Sarah Fadoul Boulos, is the daughter of another Lebanese businessman in Africa, Michel Zouhair Fadoul, whose boasts of a presence in "more than 10 countries" and has been among the most successful Lebanese businesses in Africa. On social media, Massad and his family seem to live large, posting from a yacht floating off the southern coast of France and a ski run in . While Massad Boulos has virtually no history of political giving, his son Michael made $200,000 in political contributions in two days in 2020. Michael was also reported to have proposed to Tiffany with a $1.2 million ring — which he " " to an even pricier piece by their wedding day. Phone numbers listed for Massad Boulos and his wife were disconnected. Efforts to reach him through family members and political associates weren't successful. 'Is not now, and never has been, an attorney licensed to practice law' It's also not clear that Massad Boulos is a "lawyer," as Donald Trump has described him. Some news outlets say that Boulos has a law degree from the University of Houston. But a spokesman for the University of Houston system said that's not correct; Boulos has a bachelor's degree in "general business" from one of its smaller schools, the University of Houston-Downtown. In a 2015 interview on Nigerian TV, said her husband "graduated as a lawyer from Thurgood Marshall School," part of Texas Southern University, before they moved to Nigeria. Massad Boulos also listed a law degree from the school on his LinkedIn profile before the profile went offline, according to information saved in the contact database Rocketreach. Texas Southern officials didn't respond to several requests for comment on Wednesday and Thursday. But graduating from law school doesn't make someone a lawyer. Nahdiah Hoang, the executive director of the Texas Board of Law Examiners, said in an email that Boulos applied to take the July 1996 bar exam, but he either didn't take it or didn't pass. A spokeswoman for the Texas Bar said Boulos "is not now, and never has been, an attorney licensed to practice law in Texas." BI also checked bar records for DC and 47 other states — covering 99% of the US population — and found Boulos wasn't registered as a lawyer in any of those states, either. (BI was unable to confirm if Boulos was registered to practice law in Alaska or South Dakota.) L'Orient Le Jour, a Lebanese newspaper, reported that Boulos is also a citizen of Lebanon, Nigeria, and France. There's no public evidence that Boulos is licensed as a lawyer in any of those places. He was not listed in the directories for the 11 largest French bar associations, which cover two-thirds of French lawyers. Lawyers in Lebanon must be registered with one of two bar associations; one of them, the Beirut Bar Association, said Boulos wasn't in its database, and the other didn't respond to repeated inquiries. The Nigerian Bar Association and the country's Supreme Court, which maintains its registry of lawyers, did not respond to emails about whether Boulos was an attorney. Read the original article on
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HOUSTON — Houston Texans receiver Tank Dell will miss the remainder of the season after dislocating a knee and tearing an ACL in a loss to Kansas City on Saturday. Coach DeMeco Ryans revealed the details of his injury Monday before announcing that Dell would have season-ending surgery for a second straight year. He fractured his fibula in Week 13 against the Broncos as a rookie last season and had surgery on it the following day. “He dislocated the knee, he tore the ACL, other things there he’ll have to get repaired," Ryans said. “So he’ll be out for the year.” Ryans didn't have a date for Dell's surgery for this injury, but said it would be soon. Dell was injured on a 30-yard touchdown catch in Houston’s 27-19 loss Saturday. He was coming across the back of the end zone and made the spectacular catch on a pass from C.J. Stroud before colliding with Houston teammate Jared Wayne on the way to the ground. Dell immediately grabbed at his knee and Wayne signaled for team trainers, who spent several minutes working on the wide receiver while teammates waited anxiously. Dell was eventually placed on a stretcher and driven in a covered medical cart off the field, and then he was taken to the hospital. He stayed in the hospital overnight before flying back to Houston on Sunday. Stroud, who is so close to Dell that he considers him a brother, cried the entire time the receiver was down on the field and for a while after he was taken away. “It was just not easy for me to sit there and be emotional,” Stroud said Monday. “But it’s something that we all go through in life and it’s easy to be a fake tough guy. It’s easy to go through life acting like everything doesn’t affect you, but deep down we all know we’re going through something.” Some criticized Stroud for crying. But he believes a display of emotion such as that was important to remind people of the human aspect of this game and the toll it can take on players. “It’s good for young men and women out there, kids who are brought up — and I was taught this too as a kid, not from my parents but just from the world, don’t let anybody see you emotional,” he said. “Don’t let anybody see you down and yeah there’s some truth to that in in certain aspects, but there’s also life and I think it was good for people to see me in that light and knowing that there is still a human factor to me and I’m a normal person.” CLEVELAND — Two days before recording another milestone, resume-building sack on Sunday at Cincinnati, Myles Garrett delivered a jarring hit — on the Browns. In this case, any roughness could be deemed necessary. Garrett piled on to what has been a painful and puzzling season in Cleveland by saying he doesn't have any interest in going through another rebuild and wants to know exactly what the organization's offseason plans are to fix things. If that wasn't enough, Garrett indicated for the first time that he would consider leaving the Browns if his vision doesn't mesh with the team's ambitions. “It’s a possibility,” he said of playing elsewhere. "But I want to be a Cleveland Brown. I want to play my career here.” It's unclear how Garrett's comments were received by owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam, who have plenty to consider as the Browns (3-12) head into the final two weeks of a season that began with playoff expectations and could be followed by upheaval. The Browns haven't been this bad since going 0-16 in 2017. Aaron Rodgers is still contemplating his playing future. The star quarterback knows if he returns to the field, it might be out of hands whether it's with the New York Jets. The 41-year-old Rodgers said last week that he'll take some time after this season, his 20th in the NFL, to determine what he wants to do next. On Monday, he suggested a decision on whether he'll return with the Jets could be made for him the day after the team's regular-season finale. “I think there’s a world where they just say, ‘Hey, thank you, we’re going to go in another direction’ on Jan. 6,” Rodgers said during his weekly appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show.” “That’s a possibility,” he added. "I think there’s also a possibility we’re going to wait and see who the new staff is.” Get local news delivered to your inbox!SINGAPORE – Want to process your thoughts by journaling, but not sure where to start? The Emotional Baggage Interface, or EBI, is an app that helps people to articulate their feelings more clearly through prompts that are powered by artificial intelligence (AI). Besides typing out their responses to these prompts as notes, users of EBI can also describe their emotions to a chatbot, or have a conversation with a voice assistant that can respond in Singlish with the use of OpenAI models. The app then generates a summary of the key concerns and coping mechanisms from various journaling entries and conversations, so that users can track their progress and easily share their thoughts with mental health professionals. Developer Richard Xiong, 25, said: “We spoke to therapists, who said journaling is a great coping mechanism and a way to practise mindfulness. So our app tries to lower the barriers of entry to journaling and give people more conversational options through the chatbot and voice input.” EBI was one of five new tech solutions to tackle eldercare, mental health, sustainability, and other community issues that were launched at the National Library on Nov 30. They came from teams who had won the month-long Build For Good citizen hackathon in September, which brought together some 100 participants, including students, tech professionals and public officers, to use technology to tackle societal issues. The teams then underwent an accelerator programme to take them closer to deploying their products after winning. During the eight-week programme that began on Oct 12, the five teams were mentored and attended workshops by founders of start-ups, social enterprises and industry experts. They were also connected to partners that could provide them with suitable users to test their products. Each team also received $20,000 in funding from Open Government Products (OGP), which had organised the hackathon in collaboration with the Singapore Government Partnerships Office. EBI’s Mr Xiong said the accelerator enabled his team to zoom in on what their app’s value proposition should be, because they were still unclear about their target audience after winning the hackathon in September. The team – which also includes a pharmacist-turned-user experience designer, a fintech start-up co-founder, and a university student – was mentored by a venture capitalist. They were also given credits to use OpenAI’s systems. EBI was pilot tested in November by 13 users. They said the prompts were helpful, but also requested for other features, such as a way to import journal entries from existing apps they are using. The team plans to work with therapists and social service agencies who might be able to use EBI to complement their journaling-based intervention programmes. A beta version of the app is available at app.ebi.sg Three other products launched at the finale of the Build For Good accelerator seek to address gaps in eldercare, given that one in four Singaporeans will be aged 65 and older by 2030, up from about one in five today. Among them was Let’s Kaypoh (letskaypoh.org), an online platform that rallies volunteers and members of the public to visit seniors living alone around them to check on their well-being. According to the Ministry of Health, some 79,000 seniors currently live alone. Using a map and a language filter, the “kaypoh” users can find seniors living near them who speak the same language. The socially isolated seniors were identified by Active Ageing Centres (AACs). After their visits, users can key in their observations about the seniors’ well-being, such as their physical health, mood and living conditions, and flag seniors who may need more assistance to the AACs. Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information Janil Puthucheary said the Government does not have a monopoly on good ideas, and the Build For Good teams are an example of citizens developing solutions that have a positive impact on society. “All of us can play a very meaningful part in creating that vision for Singapore...where our technology and our smart nation efforts build a better community,” added Dr Janil, who is also Minister-in-charge of GovTech. Another 10 teams from the hackathon also received $5,000 under the Build For Good starter fund to help them to continue refining their products and conduct small-scale pilots to gear up for launch. Ms Joycelyn Chua, 33, a product designer for (Re)store, a web browser extension that suggests eco-friendly alternatives to users when they are shopping online, said the funding from OGP will help her team with the cost of marketing and introducing incentives for users. OGP director Li Hongyi said the starter fund was introduced because many teams who did not win the Build For Good hackathon really believed in their projects and wanted to try to get them launched. “We want to give people who are trying to do good the best chance of success, and to really help them solve the problems that they want to solve.”
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Donald Trump has threatened to seize the Panama Canal, revived calls to buy Greenland and joked about annexing Canada -- leaving the world guessing once again whether he is serious or not. By challenging the sovereignty of some of Washington's closest allies four weeks before he even returns to the Oval Office, the US-president elect has underscored his credentials as global disruptor-in-chief. His comments have renewed fears from his first term that Trump will end up being harsher on US friends than he is on adversaries like Russia and China. But there are also suspicions that billionaire tycoon Trump is looking for leverage as part of the "art of the deal" -- and that the former reality television star is grabbing headlines to look strong at home and abroad. "It's hard to tell how much of this he really wants, and how much is the latest soundbite that will be heard around the world," said Frank Sesno, a professor at George Washington University and former White House correspondent. "He puts other leaders in position of having to figure out what is literal and what is not," he told AFP. The idea of buying Greenland is not a new one for Trump. He also raised the prospect of purchasing the vast strategic island, a Danish territory, during his first term in office. He revived his push over the weekend when naming his ambassador to Copenhagen, saying the "ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity" for US national security. But he received the same answer this time as he did then, with Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede saying on Monday that the resource-rich island was "not for sale." Yet his most headline-grabbing remarks have been on Panama, as he slammed what he called unfair fees for US ships passing through and threatened to demand control of the Panama Canal be returned to Washington. Trump said on Sunday that if Panama did not agree "then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America -- in full, quickly and without question." He also hinted at China's growing influence around the canal, which was built by the United States in 1914 to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It was returned to Panama under a 1977 deal. Panama's President Jose Raul Mulino dismissed Trump's threats, saying that "every square meter" of the canal would remain in Panamanian hands. Trump responded on TruthSocial: "We'll see about that!" Trump also teased neighboring Canada last week that it would be a "great idea" to become the 51st US state -- but against a dark backdrop of threatened tariffs. Sesno said it was hard for other countries to know how to deal with Trump's comments. "Well, it's clearly a joke. Or is it? said Sesno. "Imagine if you're the President of Panama, how do you react to something like that? You can't ignore it and your country will not let you. So the ripple effect of these comments is extraordinary." Trump's harsh treatment of US allies also stands in stark contrast to his repeated praise for the leaders of US foes -- including Russia's Vladimir Putin, who invaded Ukraine in 2022 in a bid for a land-grab. But there is still likely to be method behind Trump's rhetoric. "Maybe the message is for China" when Trump talks about buying Greenland, said Stephanie Pezard, senior political scientist with the Rand Corporation. Just as Trump expressed concern about Beijing's influence in Panama, China's growing presence in the Arctic and its ties with Russia were "something that the US is really worried about," Pezard told AFP. But there could also be a signal to Denmark that 'If you're too friendly with China, you'll find us in your way" -- even though Denmark and Greenland had been "very good NATO allies." And perhaps Trump knows the reality. Any US plan to "buy" Greenland would be unfeasible "not just in international law but more broadly in the global order that the US has been trying to uphold," she said. dk/bgsRural Notions: The chickens and the night owls
Euthanasia -- “It was the rage of the age”Home | Mancherial | Athletic Sports Competition Held In Mancherial Athletic sports competition held in Mancherial District Athletic Association president Samba Murthy was chief guest of the event, while secretary Maraiah, vice president Jeevarathnam, meet organizer R Narender also graced the occasion. By Telangana Today Published Date - 23 November 2024, 07:36 PM Mancherial: A day long athletic sports competitions for boys and girls were held on the premises of Mount Carmel High School at Gudipet village in Hajipur mandal on Saturday. Principal of the schoo, Sister Alphy inaugurated the event and handed over prizes to winners of the competitions. District Athletic Association president Samba Murthy was chief guest of the event, while secretary Maraiah, vice president Jeevarathnam, meet organizer R Narender also graced the occasion. Around 300 students from several schools across the district and their coaches participated in the competition. Follow Us : Tags Gudipet Hajipur Mancherial Mount Carmel High School Related News Two-day long science, tech exhibition concludes in Mancherial Two-day long science, technology exhibition begins in Mancherial Foundation stone laid for super specialty hospital in Mancherial Three held for killing buffaloes in Mancherial
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