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Hindustan Times
17-05-2025
- Hindustan Times
Sangrur: Man held for posing as cop, duping people
Sangrur police have apprehended a person impersonating himself as a cop and duping several persons of lakhs of rupees, officials said on Friday. Senior superintendent of police Sartaj Singh Chahal said the accused identified as Amritpal Singh was nabbed with ₹30,000 in cash, a police uniform, and a white T-shirt bearing the police logo in his possession. The SSP said the investigation began following a complaint lodged by Karanveer Verma whose brother Taranveer Verma is facing an assault case being investigated by the crime against women (CAW) cell. According to the SSP, Karanveer was introduced to Amritpal by a friend. Amritpal, who flaunted pictures of himself in a police uniform on social media, allegedly convinced Karanveer that he could halt the ongoing investigation against his brother. Trusting Amritpal, Karanveer, in his complaint, said that he paid him ₹2.3 lakh via UPI and an additional ₹2.5 lakh in cash. Amritpal allegedly borrowed another ₹2 lakh under the name of engaging a high court lawyer, thus defrauding him of a total of ₹6.8 lakh,' the complainant further added. However, when a rape case was registered against Taranveer, Karanveer approached police with a complaint against the fake cop. Consequently, an FIR was registered against Amritpal on May 13 under sections 318(4) (cheating), 316(2) (criminal breach of trust), 205 (impersonating a public servant) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), and 25/54/59 of the Arms Act. Chahal said that another case was registered against Amritpal on May 15 under sections 318(4) and 316(2) of the BNS for allegedly duping Avtar Singh, a resident of Sangrur, of ₹9 lakh by fraudulently transferring the registration certificate (RC) of a vehicle to another person.
Time of India
05-05-2025
- Time of India
Amid staff crunch, CP frees around 200 cops from additional units
Ludhiana: Despite a spate of crime cases, the police force remains inadequate for the rapidly expanding industrial city, where a sizeable chunk of the population comprises labourers from other states. There are only 4,000 police personnel for a city of over 25 lakh. Of these, only about 2,200 are actually working on the field. A number of police personnel were deployed in various wings such as two anti-narcotic cells, four cells of Crime Against Women (CAW), Anti-Human Trafficking Cell, Proclaimed Offenders Cell, three CIAs (Crime Investigation Agency), one special branch, and Economics Offences Wing (EOW). After police commissioner Swapan Sharma abolished all these cells, city police got about 200 police personnel deputed at police stations and the emergency response system (ERS). After the abolition of the aforementioned units, Ludhiana commissionerate only has one CIA, a crime branch, one special cell. "A unit needs an in-charge, an investigating team attached with him and other staffers for office work. With more units, more personnel were being used in offices. By doing away with these units, we have freed approximately 200 cops, who will be out on the field now. Half of these cops are being sent to police stations and some are being deputed to the emergency response system (ERS) recently been introduced in the city," the police commissioner said. City police have integrated the PCR, Traffic, and control room in the emergency response system to improve response time of the police to emergency situations. Sharma said, "Before abolishing the units, I thoroughly checked the number of staffers each unit had and was surprised to know that at many units, police personnel had been deployed unnecessarily. For example, in the complaint cell, there was an assistant and a nayab assistant. Further, there was a record keeper and, in addition, an assistant record keeper." by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Pernas e pés inchados: Experimente isso para ajudar a drenar o fluído do edema aartedoherbalismo Undo On being asked about how the work of these units would be divided, the CP said, "All the complaints that were being investigated by CAW and EOW have now been transferred to ACP-rank officials. Work of the anti-narcotic cell will be done by the respective police stations and units dealing with hardcore crimes." In August 2021, the four CAWs were shifted to a building in Rishi Nagar. As the CAW units have been abolished, the Women police station located near Damoria Bridge is being shifted to this building in Rishi Nagar. Ludhiana Police restructuring Staffing challenges City population: Over 25 lakh Total Police Personnel: 4,000 Personnel on field: 2,200 Organisational changes made Special Units Abolished: 2 Anti-Narcotic Cells 4 Crime Against Women (CAW) Cells Anti-Human Trafficking Cell Proclaimed Offenders Cell 3 CIAs (Crime Investigation Agencies) 1 Special Branch Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Remaining units: 1 CIA 1 Crime Branch 1 Special Cell Redeployment of Personnel Freed from add'l units: 200 personnel New Assignments: Half sent to police stations Others deployed to the Emergency Response System (ERS)
CBC
18-03-2025
- Automotive
- CBC
Why America's biggest auto union supports Trump's tariffs — and Canada's does not
The UAW has thrown support behind Trump's tariffs. Here's a look at why 2 hours ago Duration 6:45 On the surface, it seems like a surprising split for two powerful unions with decades of shared history and interests. The United Auto Workers, or UAW, representing thousands of American auto workers, has thrown itself behind U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs against Canada and Mexico. "We are glad to see an American president take aggressive action on ending the free trade disaster that has dropped like a bomb on the working class," the union said recently. It's a sharply different position than the union's Canadian counterpart, which has denounced the tariffs and called the UAW's stance "naive," given the impact experts say tariffs will have on the auto industry and U.S. autoworkers. "To think that Canada could just suffer and eat up these kinds of tariffs and it not to have an impact is completely naive in my opinion," Unifor National President Lana Payne said Thursday. Labour and automotive experts say tariffs are very unlikely to bring legions of manufacturing jobs back to the U.S., citing the potentially devastating damage to the North American auto sector's deeply integrated supply chains. Regardless, experts say the UAW's position is emblematic of decades of job losses, shifting politics and new leadership. "U.S. auto workers have not had a great three decades," said Wayne Lewchuk, professor emeritus in the School of Labour Studies and Department of Economics at McMaster University. "They've lost a lot of jobs, they have lost a lot of salary, they've lost a lot of benefits." The split is also remarkable when you consider that the two unions used to be one. It wasn't until the 1980s that Canadian autoworkers broke off from the UAW to form their own union: the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), which eventually became Unifor. "It's a very, very serious breach of international solidarity because it's an acceptance, almost, of some of the ideological B.S. that's coming from Trump," said Herman Rosenfeld, a retired CAW staffer who worked in the union's education department for 15 years. Payne said there have been discussions at the staff level between unions about the UAW's stance on tariffs, and that the Canadian side is "not shy about making [its] position known." Many of Unifor's leaders, who met last week in London, Ont., to discuss the ongoing tariff threat, have also "expressed their anger with" the UAW's position, Payne said. The UAW did not respond to repeated interview requests. But it's not the first time tensions have bubbled up between the unions, the experts said. In fact, past tensions are the reason why the unions splintered in the first place. A shared history In the early days, autoworkers in Canada and the U.S. were both represented by the UAW, which formed during the 1930s amid a broader push to unionize industrial workers. The UAW's Canadian regional office, as it was called, grew out of Windsor, Ont., still known as Canada's automotive capital. "From the beginning, the UAW was an international union, but there were always tensions, and the tensions had to do with, 'This is a different country'," said Rosenfeld, who now writes about labour issues and politics from a socialist perspective. For one, the Canadian side of the union had a more militant reputation, which some research attributes in part to the lack of collective bargaining rights in Canada until the mid-1940s. WATCH: Residents in Windsor, Ont., are bracing for possible tariffs. Just across the border, Americans are, too. Residents in Windsor, Ont., are bracing for possible tariffs. Just across the border, Americans are, too. 10 days ago Duration 3:01 While U.S. President Donald Trump this week paused a host of tariffs on Canadian goods and auto for 30 days, the episode had had residents in Windsor bracing for the possible impact on a border city economy that depends on automotive and manufacturing jobs. The CBC's Jacob Barker went to Sterling Heights, Mich., where Ford and Stellantis, two major employers in Windsor, also have plants, to hear what residents there are thinking this week. Other differences arose over the years, but the unions also fed off of each others' victories, securing additional rights and benefits for their memberships. Tensions swelled in the 1980s amid a growing debate over strategy, when the American leadership of the union shifted toward a less aggressive position while the Canadian side wanted to maintain firm pressure on the auto companies. Rosenfeld called this the start of the era of "concession bargaining," when the American wing of the union, seeing competition from the Japanese auto industry, accepted concessions for promises of job security. "It was seen as a fundamental change, and here in Canada, we rejected that," he said. It was ultimately this difference in opinion that drove the creation of the Canadian Auto Workers by the mid-1980s. The North American Free Trade Agreement of the early 1990s provided fresh opportunities for tension between the two unions, Rosenfeld and Lewchuk said, by forcing workers in the U.S., Canada and now Mexico to compete against each other for work. Drawn to its cheaper labour, automotive manufacturers shifted some production south to Mexico, leading to job losses in the heavily unionized Rust Belt, while advancements in automation and robotics replaced people on assembly lines. UAW membership now sits at just under 400,000, a sharp decline from its peak of 1.5 million in the '70s. Big changes at the UAW In recent years, several UAW union leaders were convicted in corruption cases that included bribes from auto union executives and embezzlement of union funds. It was in the fallout of that scandal that the union changed its rules to give the rank and file more say in who becomes president. Each member now gets a vote, instead of a smaller group of officials electing the leader. The result was the election of Shawn Fain. Under his leadership, the UAW launched a historic simultaneous strike against the Big Three automakers in 2023, securing new contracts with sizable pay increases for members. Fain also wielded significant power during the 2024 presidential race, ultimately throwing the union's support behind Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. But Harris lost, particularly in traditionally Democratic strongholds like Michigan, where thousands of autoworkers live. America's shifting politics As job losses continued to mount after the 2008 financial crisis, blue collar workers who were historically reliable Democratic voters started to shift to the right – a shift that resulted in the partial collapse of the "Blue Wall" during Trump's first presidential win in 2016, and again last year. His campaign promises to bring manufacturing jobs back to the American midwest have resonated with autoworkers in swing states like Michigan, which remains the country's automotive capital. "A lot of workers were sick and tired, and they were looking for some kind of alternative, even if it's a terrible right wing alternative," said Rosenfeld. "I'm just assuming that the leader of the UAW is cognizant of a lot of his members' perspectives on this." Still, Peter Frise, an automotive industry expert at the University of Windsor, said it's unclear exactly why the UAW has come out in favour of tariffs. "It's a little puzzling to see the UAW aligning itself with far-right Republican policy and sort of throwing their union brethren under the bus," Frise said. "But I guess you have to look at it from several different ways." Fair trade, not free trade: Unifor Lewchuk, the McMaster professor, says the UAW's position to support Trump's tariffs should be seen less as anti-Canada, and more "as a way of breaking the free trade paradigm," which "has not served workers anywhere." The UAW in its March 4 statement said the manufacturers should bear the brunt of tariffs. "The working class suffered all the pain of NAFTA, and we won't suffer all the pain of undoing NAFTA," their statement reads. Frise, whose background is in engineering, argues that free trade has been good for the continent, saying the agreements of the past few decades "have been absolutely incredible at bringing stability, prosperity and good things to the North American marketplace." "There's no question about it ... there have been problems and some people have gotten hurt," he said. "But in the main, for the large swath of North American industry and North American workers, free trade has been exactly the right thing." Frise and other industry experts have repeatedly noted that trying to disentangle the deeply interconnected supply chains would imperil both economies. "It would take years to do that, many years and cost countless hundreds of billions of dollars," Frise said. Frise also said the manufacturers don't have the profit margins to absorb tariffs at 25 per cent or more – especially since parts can cross the border several times before the car is finally assembled. At a certain point – some say it could be a matter of days – that cost becomes too much for the companies, especially smaller parts suppliers, leading to plant closures and job losses. Unifor says it would like to see issues hammered out during the mandated renegotiations of the USMCA – NAFTA's successor that was signed during Trump's first term – next year. Payne, the union's president, said she would like to focus on "fair" trade rather than free trade. "If that is your lens, then you will get a trade agreement that lifts the living standards of workers," she said. "I agree with the UAW, that is not what we got out of many of these trade agreements. But the reality is, that trade will still happen. So how do we make sure that that works for working people?" Lewchuk and Rosenfeld expressed support for "managed" trade agreements, such as the original Auto Pact between Canada and the U.S. in the 1960s. Rosenfeld says he would also like to see Canada move away from its closely intertwined economic relationship with the U.S. where possible. Lewchuk said "the real problem in the United States, to be frank, is the increasing inequality of distribution of what's produced." "The rich have made out like bandits in the United States, and they've left everyone else behind," he said. "I'm not seeing Trump reversing that trend. But there is a reason for optimism, he says.
Zawya
11-02-2025
- Business
- Zawya
African Development Bank's Climate Action Window channels $31m to boost climate resilience in four countries
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group ( has approved over $31 million in funding under its African Climate Action Window (CAW) to strengthen climate resilience in Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Djibouti, and Madagascar. The Climate Action Window of the Bank Group's African Development Fund seeks to mobilize $4 billion by 2025 to provide rapid and coherent access to climate finance, support co-financing, and prioritize the most vulnerable countries, fragile states, and those affected by conflict. The African Development Fund is the concessional arm of the Bank Group. The funding, approved in November and December 2024, will support innovative projects that respond to the CAW's first call for project proposals. Forty-one pioneering climate adaptation projects valued at $321.75 million have been selected in the initial funding wave, with a focus on tackling climate change, bolstering livelihoods of vulnerable communities, including women and youth, and enhancing climate information systems. The projects will also benefit from $28.13 million in climate co-financing from sources including the Green Climate Fund. In Sierra Leone, the Freetown WASH and Aquatic Environment Revamping Project will receive $5 million to enhance access to sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services and introduce modernized hydrometeorological observation networks and early warning systems, benefiting approximately 700,000 people. Another key component of the project is the creation of an interactive flood map for the Freetown Peninsula, a crucial tool for disaster risk reduction. In South Sudan, the Climate Resilient Agri-Food Systems Transformation Programme has been allocated $9.4 million to expand climate-adaptive technologies that enhance agricultural productivity and food and nutritional security. The program also has a rehabilitation element focusing on 1200 hectares of land as well as rural infrastructure and will provide training to about 8,000 individuals. Among expected benefits are a projected reduction of about 720,000 tonnes of CO 2 emissions. and the creation of 180,000 direct jobs with a strong focus on women and youth; additionally, 90,000 farmers will learn about climate-smart farming practices. In Djibouti, the Youth Entrepreneurship for Climate Change Adaptation Project will receive $7.5 million to strengthen the resilience of productivity of agricultural systems, particularly for horticulture and pastoralism, including increasing the self-sufficiency rate of selected market garden crops from 10% to 30%. It is also expected to generate about 3,500 permanent jobs, a significant share of these for youth and women, and create 200 new medium small and micro enterprises. The Climate Resilience through Park Biodiversity Preservation Project, in Madagascar, has been allocated $9.4 million for investment in conserving biodiversity by protecting Lokobe, Nozy Hara, and Andringitra national parks. The project will restore 100% of these protected areas, sequestering 10 million tonnes of CO 2, and creating 1,500 green jobs, with 500 specifically reserved for women. In addition to environmental conservation, it will boost agricultural production in surrounding communities to add 24,000 tonnes of rice and 14,000 tonnes of cereals, legumes and other crops. Further, 24,000 farmers will receive irrigation training, and 12 women-led farmers' groups will be provided with agricultural kits. Dr. Kevin Kariuki, African Development Bank Vice President for Power, Energy, Climate Change and Green Growth, said: "The Climate Action Window is catalyzing transformative solutions in Africa's most climate-vulnerable regions. From strengthening water security in Sierra Leone to advancing youth-led agribusiness in Djibouti and restoring biodiversity in Madagascar, these initiatives go beyond adaptation—they drive prosperity. Through investments, we are equipping communities to withstand climate shocks, create jobs, and accelerate inclusive economic growth." Prof Anthony Nyong, the Bank's Director for Climate Change and Green Growth said, "These initiatives are not just about responding to climate change—they empower communities to take control of their own futures. They show that adaptation finance can and must be directed to those vulnerable communities that need it most. The Climate Action Window is more than just a funding mechanism—it's a lifeline for communities facing the harsh realities of climate change every day." The CAW has since launched two further calls focusing on mitigation and on technical assistance, respectively. For more information about the Climate Action Window, click here ( Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Development Bank Group (AfDB).
