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TimesLIVE
5 days ago
- TimesLIVE
East African migrants drive surge of arrivals in Spain's Balearic Islands
More than 30 boats carrying about 600 irregular migrants have arrived in Spain's Balearic Islands since Monday, officials said, as a new migratory route from North Africa gains traction after a crackdown by authorities in other jumping off points. Overall, irregular migration to Spain has fallen this year, but it has risen by 170% in the Balearics in the first six months to about 3,000 people, official data shows. The number of boats, mostly departing from Algeria, more than doubled. A significant number of the arrivals are from East Africa. Konestory, a 20-year-old South Sudanese migrant, told Reuters on Tuesday in the Mallorcan capital of Palma that he had fled from growing instability in the region. He paid $2,000 (R35,121) to board a boat from Algeria, which took 46 hours to reach the islands. They faced 'a lot of waves', ran out of food and water, and got lost, he said. 'Now I'm happy. I'm looking at ways to talk to my mom to give her the information that I reached here.'
New Indian Express
12-07-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Bridges and potholes: India's monsoon economy stimulus
How big a problem is it? It is competitive. Last month before monsoon, the Karnataka PWD set a target of filling 3,400 potholes a day in Bengaluru. Meanwhile, the PWD in Delhi claimed to have set a 'world record' by filling 3,433 potholes in a day. The authorities in Bengaluru and Delhi seem to have rationalised that potholes are a part of the landscape. A minister from Madhya Pradesh underlined the horrific reality by simply stating that as long as there are roads, there will be potholes. Destruction caused by flawed construction must be followed by reconstruction. Effectively, this is an extortionary phenomenon—spending taxpayer monies twice for the same work. Between 2021 and 2024, as per the government, over Rs 17,900 crore was spent just maintaining highways—that is roughly Rs 6,000 crore a year. And the amount is rising. In the current financial year, the government will spend Rs 9,599 crore on fixing roads. 'Pothole budgets' also appear in the budgets of state governments and municipal corporations. Last year, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation allocated Rs 545 crore to fix potholes; the allocation as of June this year is Rs 154 crore. In 2019, an information request revealed that the BMC had spent Rs 17,693 on each pothole. In Bengaluru, the PWD last year allocated Rs 660 crore for potholes and its municipality spent Rs7,121 crore on them between 2019 and 2022. The consequences are manifest in human and economic cost. Take death on the roads. In the decade to 2023, over 15 lakh Indians were killed in road accidents. In 2023 alone, there were 4.80 lakh road accidents across the country claiming 1.72 lakh lives—that is, 55 accidents every hour and a death every 3 minutes. Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways, Nitin Gadkari, recently said 'I try to hide my face' at international meets because India tops the list of road deaths in the world. Gadkari also revealed that road accidents cost India roughly 3 percent of GDP. India's taxpayers, already forking out stamp duties, income tax, road toll and GST, are forced to bear the risks. There is virtually no city in India that is free of flooding in monsoon. As this column has highlighted, this is primarily because there is a drought of action on urban planning. This week, for instance, Gurugram—once dubbed 'Millennium City'—along with Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru were flooded for hours. Floods kept Nagpur's buses off the roads for long. The pace of haphazard urbanisation in Pune has resulted in the city municipality listing 73 new flood-prone areas. Public policy failures, as I wrote in my book The Gated Republic, have emerged as an alternative business model—be it water, health, education, security or power. The failures of the State impose costs on households—living in cities without pavements, marooned on flooded roads, bearing medical costs of accidents and illnesses, besides refurbishing flooded homes and basement parking spaces. The costs paid by the hapless taxpayer for mitigating these troubles verily morphs into the political economy's annual monsoon stimulus. Read all columns by Shankkar Aiyar Author of The Gated Republic, Aadhaar: A Biometric History of India's 12 Digit Revolution, and Accidental India (
The Star
29-05-2025
- The Star
Police cripple two drug syndicates, seize drugs worth RM7.121mil in Gombak
KUALA LUMPUR: Police have crippled two drug syndicates in separate raids in Gombak, following the arrest of a local man and woman, as well as a foreign man, with drug seizures amounting to RM7,121,015.20, recently. Gombak OCPD Asst Comm Noor Ariffin Mohamad Nasir said the Narcotics Crime Investigation Division of the Gombak district police headquarters (IPD) seized 212 plastic packets, believed to contain syabu (methamphetamine), weighing 222.331kg, from a sedan which had been left at a storage facility, at 9.30pm on May 14. He said that further investigation led to the arrest of a 25-year-old local man, who works as a used car salesman. The man has been remanded for 12 days, until Friday (May 30). "The drugs seized in the first case are valued at RM7,114,592, and are believed to have been intended for distribution in the Klang Valley. "Action was also taken under the Dangerous Drugs (Forfeiture of Property) Act 1988, with the seizure of a gold chain, worth RM11,348.86," he said, in a press conference at the Gombak IPD on Thursday (May 29). In the second case, Noor Ariffin said that police arrested a 34-year-old foreign man, believed to be a private college student, and a 47-year-old local woman, believed to be working as an insurance executive for a private company, in a car at around 6am last Tuesday (May 27). He added that the two suspects, believed to be a couple, have been remanded for seven days, until June 3. "A search of the vehicle uncovered two packets containing compressed dried leaves, believed to be cannabis, weighing 2.072kg, which is estimated to be worth RM6,423.20. "The drug seized in this case is believed to have been intended for distribution in the Gombak area. Also seized was RM500 in cash," he said. He said all three suspects have no prior criminal record, and they also tested negative for drugs. The case is being investigated under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952. – Bernama
Business Wire
19-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Western Global Airlines Inaugurates New Base Maintenance Operation in Blytheville, Arkansas
ESTERO, Florida--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Western Global Airlines, Inc., the 'can-do airline,' announced today that it had opened a new base maintenance facility at Arkansas International Airport in Blytheville, Arkansas. The new facility includes a 50,000 ft 2 hangar, 40,000 ft 2 of stores capacity, and is adjacent to a premier suite of aviation component repair, sheet metal, and machine shops. Maintenance operations for WGA at the site are expected to commence in June 2025. 'We are pleased to announce the relocation of our base maintenance operations from Shreveport, Louisiana, to Blytheville, Arkansas,' said James K. Neff, WGA's CEO and Founder. 'With its access to outstanding back shop capabilities, a highly supportive airport authority, and a much more attractive cost of living, BYH will be a huge improvement for our fixed base maintenance operations going forward.' In addition to its new base maintenance operation in Blytheville, the company will continue to maintain line maintenance operations at airports across the world, including Columbus, Ohio; Ft. Myers, Florida; Ostend, Belgium; and Shenzhen, China. About Western Global Airlines. Established in 2013 and based in Estero, Florida, Western Global Airlines is an FAA Part 121 certified cargo airline operating globally for the world's leading airlines, multi-national freight forwarders, and the United States Air Mobility Command. With an operating fleet of fourteen B747-400Fs and MD-11Fs, WGA has carried millions of tons of wide-body cargo to over 400 cities in 135 countries. For more information, please visit
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Los Andes Copper at 121 Mining Investment London
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 8, 2025) - Los Andes Copper Ltd. (TSXV: LA) (OTCQX: LSANF) ("Los Andes" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company will be attending and participating in the upcoming 121 Mining Investment London event ("121") on 12-13 May 2025. The 121 conference is London's largest dedicated mining investment event with over 100 companies and more than 400 sophisticated investors attending for two days of pre-booked 1-2-1 meetings. Alongside the curated schedule of pre-booked meetings matching investors with appropriate projects, the conference program will provide expert commentary and the latest market intelligence on key industry developments. About Los Andes Copper Ltd. Los Andes Copper Ltd. is an exploration and development company with an 100% interest in the Vizcachitas Project in Chile. The Company is focused on progressing the Project, which is located along Chile's most prolific copper belt, into production. Vizcachitas is one of the largest copper deposits in the Americas not controlled by the majors and the Company believes it will be Chile's next major copper mine. The Project is a copper-molybdenum porphyry deposit, located 150 kilometres north of Santiago, in an area of very good infrastructure. An independent technical report for the PFS, prepared in accordance with NI 43-101, is available on the Company's SEDAR profile. Los Andes Copper Ltd. is listed on the TSX-V under the ticker: LA. For more information please contact: Santiago Montt, +56 2 2954-0450 Elizabeth Johnson, Investor E-Mail: info@ or visit our website at: us on X: @LosAndesCopperFollow us on LinkedIn: Los Andes Copper Ltd To view the source version of this press release, please visit Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
