POLITICS
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Dec- 2024 -31 December
Use AI to increase road safety, Fadnavis to transport department
Fadnavis also directs officials to enforce policies for scrapping all vehicles above 15 years of age Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has asked the State transport department officials to increase the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in order to minimise road accidents. Fadnavis also directed them to enforce policies for scrapping all vehicles above 15 years of age, a release issued by the Chief Minister’s Office on Monday said.The Maharashtra government has signed an agreement with Google, it said, adding the CM asked the transport department to increase the use of AI to strengthen the sector’s security and sustainability, using the agreement. As per the release, more than 13,000 outdated government vehicles will be scrapped, and the state transport corporation’s buses older than…
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31 December
Editorial: Profit with people
Building institutions with compassionate leadership is also crucial to retaining and nurturing talent The RBI’s recent Report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India 2023-24 flags the critical issue of attrition in private and small finance banks. The report states employee attrition rates are as high as 25% in select private sector banks and small finance banks. Though the total number of employees in private sector banks has surpassed that of public sector banks during 2023-24, their attrition too has shot up sharply over the last three years. The report points out that the Reserve Bank has stressed that reducing attrition is not just a human resource function but a strategic imperative. Banks need to implement strategies such as improved onboarding processes, extensive…
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31 December
Manipur CM apologies for for ethnic conflict, urges all to ‘start afresh’
Biren Singh says there has been relative peace in the State in the last three months, which gives him hope that normalcy will be restored in the new year Imphal: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Tuesday apologised for the ethnic conflict in the State which claimed over 250 lives and rendered thousands homeless and appealed to all communities to forget and forgive past mistakes and start afresh. Addressing reporters here, Singh said that there has been relative peace in the State in the last three months, which gives him hope that normalcy will be restored in the new year. “I want to say sorry for what happened in the State. Many people lost their loved ones and many had to leave…
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31 December
Two killed as bike skids off road in Telangana’s Mancherial
The two received serious injuries when they fell off the bike resulting in their instantaneous death Mancherial: Two persons were killed on the spot when the motorbike they were riding on skidded off the road in Dandepalli mandal centre on Tuesday evening. Dandepalli Police said that Manda Raju (30), a daily wage earner and Jilapalli Pavan (28), a band operator, both from Dandepalli mandal centre received serious injuries when they fell off the bike resulting in instantaneous death for the two. More details of the accident were yet to be known.
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30 December
Former US President Jimmy Carter, a friend of India, passes away at 100
He was the third American leader to visit India during which a village in Haryana was named Carterpuri in his honour Washington: Jimmy Carter, the 39th US President and the third American leader to visit India during which a village in Haryana was named Carterpuri in his honour — has died peacefully at his home in Plains, Georgia surrounded by his family, the Carter Centre said. Carter died on Sunday aged 100. He was the longest-lived President in US history. “Today, America and the world lost an extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian,” President Joe Biden said in a statement mourning his loss. Carter is survived by his children — Jack, Chip, Jeff, and Amy; 11 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife…
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30 December
South Korea struggles to determine what led to plane crash
Many observers also worry how effectively the South Korean government will handle the aftermath of Sunday’s crash as it grapples with a leadership vacuum Seoul: South Korean officials are struggling to determine what caused a deadly plane crash that killed 179 people, with the nation saddened, shocked and ashamed over the country’s worst aviation disaster in decades. Many observers also worry how effectively the South Korean government will handle the aftermath of Sunday’s crash as it grapples with a leadership vacuum following the recent successive impeachments of President Yoon Suk Yeol and Prime Minster Han Duck-soo, the country’s top two officials, amid political tumult caused by Yoon’s brief martial law introduction earlier this month. New Acting President Choi Sang-mok on Monday…
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30 December
After four decades, Union Carbide toxic waste to be shifted 250 km from Bhopal for disposal
“The waste of Bhopal gas tragedy is a stigma which is going to disappear after 40 years. We will dispose it by sending it safely to Pithampur,” Bhopal/ Indore: The work to remove 377 metric tonnes of hazardous waste from the now-defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal has got underway ahead of its planned disposal near Indore. The development comes weeks after the Madhya Pradesh High Court chided the authorities for not taking action despite repeated directions to clear the site in the Madhya Pradesh capital. The highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate leaked from the Union Carbide pesticides factory on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984, killing 5,479 persons and leaving more than five lakh others with health problems and…
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30 December
Punjab bandh: Farmers block roads at many places, traffic hit
The bandh will be observed from 7 am to 4 pm. However, emergency services will remain operational. Anyone travelling to the airport to catch a flight or anyone going to attend a job interview, or anyone needs to attend a wedding… all these things have been kept out of our bandh call Chandigarh: Farmers blocked roads at many places across the state on Monday as part of their Punjab bandh call, hamstringing the commuter traffic. A call for a shutdown was given last week by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha over the Centre not accepting the demands of protesting farmers. The bandh will be observed from 7 am to 4 pm. Farmers observed a sit-in at Dhareri Jattan…
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30 December
Body of missing 22-year-old Kerala student found in Scotland
According to the local police, the body of Sandra Elizabeth Saju was found in the water near Newbridge Hyderabad: The body of a Malayali student, Sandra Elizabeth Saju, who went missing earlier this month in Edinburgh of the United Kingdom, was found on Friday morning. According to the local police, the body was found in the water near Newbridge. Sandra, 22, a student at Heriot-Watt University, gone missing from the Gyle area of Edinburgh on December 6. She was last seen outside a store in Burnvale, Livingston, where she had been working. Police had released CCTV footage of her last known sighting. Sandra hailed from Perumbavoor in Ernakulam, Kerala, and moved to the UK’s Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh last year to pursue her studies.…
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30 December
Farmers’ bandh hits normal life in Punjab; rail, bus service suspended
Farmers staged ‘dharnas’ on several roads as part of their bandh call, throwing commuter traffic out of gear Chandigarh: Life was hit in several places of Punjab due to a ‘bandh’ imposed by farmers who have been agitating against the Centre for a legal guarantee of a minimum support price for their crops. Rail and road traffic was crippled and commercial establishments remained shut in many places of the State. Farmers staged ‘dharnas’ on several roads as part of their bandh call, throwing commuter traffic out of gear. A call for a shutdown was given over a week ago by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha over the Centre not acting on the farmers’ demand for a legal guarantee for the MSP. The…
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