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Time of India
4 days ago
- General
- Time of India
Garhwa man's daughter-in-law, son get high ranks
1 2 Garhwa: A small village of Garhwa scripted history after two members of a family cleared the 11th Combined Competitive Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) exam 2023, the result of which was announced on Friday. It was a huge surprise for the Chetna villagers under the sadar police station of Garhwa district when one daughter-in-law of Anand Kumar Tiwari, a retired officer from the forest department, and another of his sons not only cracked the exam but also achieved good rankings. While Satyam secured the 21st rank, Tiwari's daughter-in-law, Archana Kumari, who is the wife of one of his sons elder to Satyam, secured the 152nd rank. Archana Kumari is currently working as a PGT teacher in the CM School of Excellence Plus 2 High School in Latehar. Satyam, after completing engineering, was preparing for the competitive exam in Rajasthan's Kota.
Yahoo
21-07-2025
- Yahoo
Akron man killed in crash in Genesee County
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — An Akron man was killed in a crash in Genesee County on Sunday afternoon, according to the Genesee County Sheriff's Office. Crews responded to Bloomingdale Road in the Town of Alabama just before 3:15 p.m. Sunday, where 36-year-old Justin Blasko was trying to pass another car while going eastbound, lost control, hit a tree and flipped over. Blasko was pronounced dead at the scene. He was the only person in the car. The crash is still under investigation. Latest Local News Buffalo & Erie County Public Library director dead at 51 Akron man killed in crash in Genesee County Winning lottery ticket worth over $27K sold in Olean Cyclists pedal over the Skyway in 11th annual SkyRide 2 charged after 2-year-old shot in Sloan Aidan Joly joined the News 4 staff in 2022. He is a graduate of Canisius College. You can see more of his work here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
New Straits Times
21-07-2025
- Business
- New Straits Times
Auditor-General uncovers serious irregularities in RM48.87 billion worth of projects
KUALA LUMPUR: The Auditor-General has flagged "serious irregularities" and "weaknesses" in projects and programmes costing RM48.87 billion involving seven ministries. In the Auditor-General's Report released today, a total of five audits involving seven ministries, with an overall cost of RM48.873 billion, were reported. The scope of the audits covered programmes, activities and projects implemented during the 11th and 12th Malaysia Plan periods. The report said serious irregularities were identified in three audits. The first was the compliance audit on oil palm plantation lease procurement by Felcra Berhad where it found governance weaknesses in the procurement of leases for one oil palm plantation in Sandakan, Sabah, and three oil palm plantations in Gua Musang, Kelantan, involving procurements totaling to RM241.76 million from 2022 to 2024. The second involved procurement of supplies, services and works at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), where serious irregularities and weaknesses were found in the tender procurement process. Three tenders amounting to RM58.45 million were involved where the Tender Procurement Committee had selected companies that were not recommended by the Technical Evaluation Committee, Financial Evaluation Committee and the Pre-Tender Committee. The third case related to the management of the army's armoured vehicles where the audit found weaknesses in contract administration and procurement management between 2020 and 2023. This included penalties amounting to RM162.75 million that were not collected from the company for delays in the supply of Gempita, and penalties of RM1.42 million that were not imposed for delays in maintenance services, repairs and supply of spare parts for armoured vehicles. The report also found that procurement of maintenance, repair, and spare parts worth RM107.54 million had been split into smaller contracts, which may have been an attempt to bypass procurement thresholds. Other weaknesses were identified in the implementation of programmes, activities and projects due to lack of monitoring and supervision by relevant parties, as well as weaknesses in policies and procedures. The audit found issues in the management of price control and the cooking oil subsidy programme. Introduced in 2007 by the Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry under the Cooking Oil Price Stabilisation Scheme (COSS), the programme initially had an approved quota of 85,405 metric tonnes per month. In 2016, its management was taken over by the Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry (KPDN), which reduced the quota to 60,000 metric tonnes per month. Although KPDN made efforts to continue reducing the quota of subsidised cooking oil supply, weaknesses persisted in implementation, monitoring and enforcement. Among the issues highlighted was the absence of allocation mechanisms to ensure that cooking oil reached targeted groups in need and eligible for assistance. The report said KPDN's efforts to reduce the quota since 2016 should continue, as this measure could have a positive impact in combating leakages through more targeted distribution, in line with audit recommendations. Another finding concerned compliance with the Selected Pre-Qualification Open Tender Procurement (Pre-Q), a method introduced by the Finance Ministry for all ministries and agencies through a directive for project procurement in 2023 and 2024. The audit revealed that the process allowed room for manipulation and lacked transparency in company selection. Some companies that did not meet the evaluation criteria at the first stage, or were not invited, were still shortlisted and evaluated in the second stage. In addition, the procurement process took longer than expected and exceeded the stipulated timeframe. The Auditor-General recommended that the Pre-Q method not be continued, stating that a standard open tender process is more suitable to ensure accountability and transparency.
Newsweek
16-07-2025
- Sport
- Newsweek
Honored by ESPN, Billy Bean's Husband Has Message For MLB
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. As MLB's first Senior Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the late Billy Bean carved out a unique legacy. An outfielder and first baseman for the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres (1987-95), Bean made history by coming out as gay after he retired as a player. More news: Former American League All-Star Pitcher Passes Away Bean, who died last year at age 60, was named MLB's first-ever Ambassador for Inclusion by former Commissioner Bud Selig in July 2014. Greg Baker saw first-hand how seriously his husband committed himself to the work of making professional baseball a more inclusive place for those in the LGBTQ+ community. "He was always there to work things out with other people, to be a coach, encourage all sorts of people who met along the way," Baker told Newsweek Sports. "But I would see him come home at the end of the day at 6 p.m. and sit right there on the counter in the kitchen and get the laptop out and start just tidying things up — making sure he was dotting his I's and crossing his T's." Players pause for a moment of silence in memory of Billy Bean before the game between the Oakland Athletics and the Chicago White Sox at Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 6, 2024 in Oakland. Players pause for a moment of silence in memory of Billy Bean before the game between the Oakland Athletics and the Chicago White Sox at Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 6, 2024 in was presented the Stuart Scott ENSPIRE Award Tuesday on Bean's behalf at the 11th annual Sports Humanitarian Awards. The awards will be featured in ESPN studio programming and during the 2025 ESPYs, airing live on Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET. Broader efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion — the very values that Bean championed — have recently come under attack in ways that intersect directly with baseball. More news: Former Orioles Pitcher Announces Return to Baseball Following Cancer Battle In March, the Department of Defense briefly removed, then restored, a web page recognizing trailblazing Dodgers star Jackie Robinson's service in the U.S. Army in World War II. The page honoring Robinson, who became the first Black player in modern American or National League history in 1947, reappeared following intense media backlash without the letters "DEI" in its URL. No active major league players have come out publicly since Bean played his final game in 1995. The question of whether a modern clubhouse would welcome such a player might have been answered last August, when a television microphone for the Boston Red Sox's regional sports network picked up outfielder Jarren Duran using a homophobic slur. NESN mics picked up Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran calling a heckling fan a "f*cking f*****" during Sunday's game (Warning, slur included in clip below) — Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) August 12, 2024 By the time Duran met with reporters after the game, he was apologetic. The Red Sox echoed the apology in a written statement after the game and suspended Duran for two games. "Maybe it's gonna take a little longer than we think, you know?" Baker said Tuesday. More news: Former Cubs, Phillies Manager Passes Away MLB elevated April Brown from its Senior Vice President, Social Responsibility and Community Affairs to Senior Vice President, Social Responsibility and Diversity after Bean's death. The league still lists "inclusiveness" among the values on its careers page, after it removed references to "diversity" in March following an executive order by President Donald Trump. More news: Tigers All-Star, First Draft Pick to Appear in an MLB Game, Passes Away Baker said that Bean lived with his acute myeloid leukemia diagnosis for about a year. During that time, Baker said Bean "couldn't do the amount of work that he wanted to be able to do" and, as a result, "he felt that things were suffering." "I know that Billy certainly had a lot more work that he wanted to do, and that I know that there's a lot of work that still needs to be done," Baker said. "I just hope that they [Major League Baseball] find a way to continue the mission that he started and he did so well." For more MLB news, visit Newsweek Sports.
Hans India
25-06-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
Commonwealth conference. Khadar meets Om Birla thanks him
New Delhi/Mangaluru: Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly U.T. Khader Farid met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in New Delhi on Tuesday and expressed gratitude for selecting Karnataka as the venue for the 11th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) India Region Conference, scheduled to be held on September 9 and 10, 2025. During the meeting, Speaker Khader discussed plans for the high-profile event, which will see participation from Presiding Officers of all State Legislative Assemblies across India, and for the first time, Presiding Officers from Commonwealth nations. The deliberations also touched upon key subjects to be discussed during the conference sessions. Khader proposed that the inaugural ceremony of the conference be held on September 8, 2025, on the grand steps of the Vidhana Soudha, highlighting the architectural and symbolic significance of the state legislature. He also briefed the Lok Sabha Speaker about several progressive reforms recently introduced in the functioning of the Karnataka Assembly, which aim to modernise legislative processes and improve transparency and public engagement. In response, Speaker Om Birla assured full support from the Lok Sabha Secretariat and said the hosting of an international-level parliamentary event would be a matter of pride for Karnataka and a significant milestone in the state's legislative history. Karnataka Assembly Secretary M.K. Vishalakshi and senior officials from the Lok Sabha Secretariat were also present during the meeting.
