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Time of India
3 days ago
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- Time of India
50+ congratulations messages for passing exams – Jharkhand board, class 10 & 12, UGC NET & CUET UG 2025 results
JAC 12th Arts Result 2025: The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) is all set to announced 12 board Arts results 2025. Students and their families are celebrating this significant achievement of their loved one. To help you express your joy and pride, here are over 50 heartfelt congratulations messages, wishes, and quotes to celebrate your happiness in more meaningful way. Congratulations Messages for Passing JAC Class 12 Arts Exams 2025 Congratulations on your success in the Jharkhand Board Class 12 exams! Your hard work truly paid off. Well done on passing your 10th board exams with flying colors! The future is bright. Your dedication and effort have brought you this great success. Congrats on your Class 10 results! Keep shining and achieving. Congratulations on clearing your Jharkhand Board 10th exams! You made us proud by passing your Class 10 exams. Wishing you even more success ahead! Best Wishes for Jharkhand Board Class 12 Results 2025 Heartfelt congratulations on your Class 12 board results! Your perseverance is inspiring. Passing the 12th board exams is a big step. Wishing you all the best for your future endeavors. Your success in the Jharkhand Board Class 12 exams is well-deserved. Keep aiming higher! Congratulations on clearing your 12th exams! This is just the beginning of your bright journey. Proud of your achievement in the Class 12 board exams. Best wishes for the next chapter! Inspirational Congratulations for UGC NET 2025 Passers Congratulations on clearing the UGC NET exam! Your hard work and dedication are truly admirable. Passing UGC NET is a remarkable achievement. Wishing you success in your academic and professional journey. Your determination has paid off. Congrats on your UGC NET success! Clearing UGC NET opens many doors. Best wishes for a bright future ahead! Well done on passing the UGC NET exam! Your commitment to excellence is inspiring. Motivational Messages for CUET UG 2025 Result Success Congratulations on your CUET UG 2025 results! Your efforts have paved the way for a great future. Passing CUET UG is a milestone worth celebrating. Keep striving for excellence! Your success in CUET UG 2025 is just the start of an amazing journey. Well done! Best wishes on clearing CUET UG! May your future be filled with success and happiness. Proud of your CUET UG results! Keep chasing your dreams with the same passion. Quotes to Celebrate Exam Success for Students "Success is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." – Colin Powell "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson "Success doesn't come to you, you go to it." – Marva Collins "Your hard work will pay off. Congratulations on your success!" The Jharkhand Academic Council conducted the Class 10 and 12 board exams from February 11 to March 3, 2025, with results declared online on official websites such as and JAC class 12th Arts 2025 result is all set to be announced today at 2:00 PM itself.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
It's America's duty to mediate Asia's crisis
The line of control slices like a sword cut across the mountain ranges of Kashmir, the Himalayan territory bitterly disputed by India and Pakistan for almost 80 years. Time and again, the enemies have come to blows only for calm to be restored, often with American mediation. Do not assume that the pattern must always repeat itself. The latest crisis was triggered by a heinous terrorist attack on a tourist camp inside Indian-administered Kashmir last month, claiming 26 civilian lives. India retaliated on Tuesday by striking nine targets in Pakistani-administered Kashmir and elsewhere in its neighbour. As a spiral bloodshed threatens to take hold between two nuclear powers, who will mediate a resolution? We could once have assumed that America would step forward to lead a concerted effort to broker de-escalation. When India and Pakistan mobilised for war in 2002, Colin Powell, the late US secretary of state, engaged in shuttle diplomacy between New Delhi and Islamabad, joined by our then Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw. Will anything like this happen now? Donald Trump scorns the idea of an American obligation to resolve distant crises, even between nuclear-armed states. Today his only comment was: 'I just hope it ends very quickly.' But it may not end just by itself. The leaders of India and Pakistan surely understand the potentially catastrophic consequences of further escalation. Having skirmished along the line of control for decades, they are adept at managing their rivalry, signalling resolve to domestic audiences while also offering subtly conciliatory messages to decision-makers on the other side. Today's statement from the Indian defence ministry was a masterpiece of this genre, announcing 'focused strikes' on 'terrorist infrastructure' inside its neighbour, while also stressing that 'no Pakistani military facilities were hit, reflecting India's calibrated and non-escalatory approach'. Today, Pakistan's own retaliation seems both inevitable and imminent. If General Asim Munir, the Pakistani military chief, achieves a similar balance between robustness and restraint, this crisis could yet dissipate. But General Munir may have no wish to de-escalate. His proclaimed doctrine, after all, is to return a heavier blow than any that Pakistan receives. He also leads a morally bankrupt military establishment which has for decades armed and hosted terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, whose sole purpose is to attack India. Whether Mr Trump wishes it or not, America is the only credible mediator in this crisis. The EU does not have the geopolitical weight. China, as Pakistan's closest ally, is mistrusted by India. It was, in retrospect, an unfortunate coincidence that Sir Keir Starmer should have concluded a free trade agreement with India on Tuesday only hours before the latter fired missiles at Pakistan. In any case, Britain can only have a credible role if America takes the lead. Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, will be fully aware of the risks of an uncontrolled crisis between two enemies with over 300 nuclear warheads between them. Unless calm returns soon, he should ask his boss for permission to begin a new round of shuttle diplomacy. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Telegraph
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
It's America's duty to mediate Asia's crisis
The line of control slices like a sword cut across the mountain ranges of Kashmir, the Himalayan territory bitterly disputed by India and Pakistan for almost 80 years. Time and again, the enemies have come to blows only for calm to be restored, often with American mediation. Do not assume that the pattern must always repeat itself. The latest crisis was triggered by a heinous terrorist attack on a tourist camp inside Indian-administered Kashmir last month, claiming 26 civilian lives. India retaliated on Tuesday by striking nine targets in Pakistani-administered Kashmir and elsewhere in its neighbour. As a spiral bloodshed threatens to take hold between two nuclear powers, who will mediate a resolution? We could once have assumed that America would step forward to lead a concerted effort to broker de-escalation. When India and Pakistan mobilised for war in 2002, Colin Powell, the late US secretary of state, engaged in shuttle diplomacy between New Delhi and Islamabad, joined by our then Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw. Will anything like this happen now? Donald Trump scorns the idea of an American obligation to resolve distant crises, even between nuclear-armed states. Today his only comment was: 'I just hope it ends very quickly.' But it may not end just by itself. The leaders of India and Pakistan surely understand the potentially catastrophic consequences of further escalation. Having skirmished along the line of control for decades, they are adept at managing their rivalry, signalling resolve to domestic audiences while also offering subtly conciliatory messages to decision-makers on the other side. Today's statement from the Indian defence ministry was a masterpiece of this genre, announcing 'focused strikes' on 'terrorist infrastructure' inside its neighbour, while also stressing that 'no Pakistani military facilities were hit, reflecting India's calibrated and non-escalatory approach'. Today, Pakistan's own retaliation seems both inevitable and imminent. If General Asim Munir, the Pakistani military chief, achieves a similar balance between robustness and restraint, this crisis could yet dissipate. But General Munir may have no wish to de-escalate. His proclaimed doctrine, after all, is to return a heavier blow than any that Pakistan receives. He also leads a morally bankrupt military establishment which has for decades armed and hosted terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, whose sole purpose is to attack India. Whether Mr Trump wishes it or not, America is the only credible mediator in this crisis. The EU does not have the geopolitical weight. China, as Pakistan's closest ally, is mistrusted by India. It was, in retrospect, an unfortunate coincidence that Sir Keir Starmer should have concluded a free trade agreement with India on Tuesday only hours before the latter fired missiles at Pakistan. In any case, Britain can only have a credible role if America takes the lead. Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, will be fully aware of the risks of an uncontrolled crisis between two enemies with over 300 nuclear warheads between them. Unless calm returns soon, he should ask his boss for permission to begin a new round of shuttle diplomacy.
Yahoo
22-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Investigating claim of Colin Powell's name being removed from Arlington Cemetery website
A rumor that circulated online in March 2025 claimed U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth oversaw the removal of former Secretary of State Colin Powell's name from a list of noteworthy military figures hosted on the Arlington National Cemetery website. Social media users discussed this matter in the days after the removal of links to pages about Black, Hispanic and female veterans buried at the site, among other Department of Defense removals. The Office of Army Cemeteries, a division of the U.S. Army, operates the prominent military cemetery just outside Washington. The Army and other military branches report to the DOD. For example, one X user wrote (archived) on March 20, "Pete Hegseth removed Colin Powell's name from a list of notable Americans, buried at Arlington. Hegseth also removed the names of every person of color and every woman on the same list. Only white men were left in place." Additional X users shared the rumor about Hegseth, who is white, and Powell, who was Black and died in 2021. Users also promoted the claim on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Threads and TikTok. However, as of March 21, the cemetery website's page titled "prominent military figures" still featured a brief biography describing Powell's military service, in which he achieved the rank of a four-star Army general. Even so, while neither Hegseth nor anyone under the umbrella of the Defense Department entirely deleted Powell's name from the page, some biographical information pertaining to Powell's race was removed, as well as one mention of Powell's name from the biography of another noteworthy service member. The remainder of the rumor claiming "Hegseth removed the names of every person of color and every woman," and that "only white men were left in place," was not entirely true. In an email, Kerry L. Meeker, the chief of public affairs at Arlington National Cemetery, labeled the claim that someone removed Powell's name from the website "inaccurate." "All notable graves are represented on our website – including Colin Powell," she said. She pointed us to a statement on the cemetery's website that mentioned "no service members have been permanently removed from the 'notable graves' section of our website." The statement also referenced "compliance with executive orders issued by the president and Department of Defense instructions." President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 20, 2025, the first day of his second term, seeking to end "illegal" programs and activities related to diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as DEIA, with the "A" standing for accessibility. The order targeted DEIA-related "mandates, policies, programs, preferences and activities in the federal government, under whatever name they appear." An archived version of the Arlington National Cemetery website's "prominent military figures" page from late February 2025 displayed Powell's biography beginning with the sentence, "General Colin Powell, a Vietnam veteran, was the first African American to hold three of the U.S. government's highest positions: national security adviser (1987-1989), chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-1993), and secretary of state (2001-2005)." By early March, another archived version of the page confirmed the removal of the fact that Powell was the first African American to hold the three positions. Between February and March, another edit removed a mention of Powell's name in the biography for Brig. Gen. Roscoe Conklin "Rock" Cartwright. The late-February version featured a sentence entirely removed from the page, reading, "Cartwright founded a social group that provided mentoring and leadership training to African American officers; prominent members included Generals Colin Powell (Section 60) and Roscoe Robinson Jr. (Section 7A)." Colin Powell receives the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George H.W. Bush at the White House on July 3, 1991. (Howard L. Sachs/CNP/Getty Images) Other removals from the "prominent military figures" page included 17 mentions of "African American," around a dozen for "black" and one for "Irish American." Many of the mentions of "African American" and "black" described milestones, such as Brig. Gen. Hazel W. Johnson-Brown, originally documented on the page as "the first African American woman general in the U.S. Army." The biography for Maj. Kurt Chew-Een Lee originally began by describing him as "the first Asian American officer in the Marine Corps." As of March 21, that fact, as well as the words "Asian American," no longer appeared on the page. The most recent version of his biography also removed the following sentence featured in previous years: "Kurt Chew-Een Lee's record of service not only honored his country, but also demolished anti-Asian stereotypes: 'I wanted to dispel the notion about the Chinese being meek, bland and obsequious,' he told the Los Angeles Times in 2010." In an apparent oversight in the removal process of race-related content, the page still displayed Lt. Col. Alexander T. Augusta of the U.S. Army as "the highest-ranking African American officer of the Civil War," as well as "the Army's first black physician, the United States' first black hospital administrator (Freedman's Hospital, Washington, D.C.) and its first black professor of medicine (Howard University)." After we asked Meeker about the removals from Lee's biography about demolishing anti-Asian stereotypes and the fact Augusta's biography still featured four mentions of his race, Arlington National Cemetery spokeswoman Becky Wardwell provided a link to a video from Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell. In the March 20 video, Parnell said, in part, "We want to be very clear, history is not DEI." He also discussed making mistakes and mentioned the usage of artificial intelligence to perform some content edits to comply with the Trump administration's orders. Parnell's mention of errors possibly at least partially referenced the removal, and later restoration, of entries for three women on the "prominent military figures" page. Those women were Lt. Cmdr. Barbara Allen Rainey, "the first woman pilot in the Navy," Maj. Marie Therese Rossi, "the first American female combat commander to fly into battle" during the Persian Gulf War, and Lt. Kara Spears Hultgreen, "the first female carrier-based fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy, and the first woman to qualify as an F-14 combat pilot." All three women disappeared from the cemetery website's page in late February or early March, and reappeared sometime between March 17 and 21, according to archived page captures. Burns, Robert, et al. "Colin Powell Dies, Trailblazing General Stained by Iraq." The Associated Press, 19 Oct. 2021, Christensen, Laerke. "Arlington National Cemetery Removed Links to Webpages about Black, Hispanic and Female Veterans." Snopes, 14 Mar. 2025, "Colin Powell | Biography & Facts." Britannica, "Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing." The White House, 20 Jan. 2025, "Learn More about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA)." New York Department of State, "Organization." The United States Army, "Our Cemeteries." Office of Army Secretaries, "Wayback Machine."
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Pentagon Removes Webpages Celebrating Racial Integration of the Armed Forces
Several webpages that celebrated the armed forces' history of racial integration have been removed from Defense Department websites, TPM has found. An Army webpage from 2008 that lauded the 60th anniversary of President Harry Truman's 1948 integration order has disappeared. It was available as recently as last year, web archives show. One Air Force page devoted to 'breaking barriers' is no longer accessible — and the word 'DEI' appears to have been added to its URL. A page from the Navy's History and Heritage Command that includes a monograph about 'Black Sailors and the Integration of the U.S. Navy' now has a large red banner on top that reads, 'Content on this website has been revised or removed to align with the President's executive orders and DoD priorities in accordance with DoD Instruction 5400.17 'Official Use of Social Media for Public Affairs Purposes.'' After TPM sent the Pentagon a list of deactivated links that included a Marines page with the URL and an Air Force page about Colin Powell being the first African-American joint chiefs chairman now labeled as 'DEI,' Press Secretary John Ullyot owned the move in a statement. 'As Secretary Hegseth has said, DEI is dead at the Defense Department. Efforts to divide the force — to put one group ahead of another through DEI programs — erode camaraderie and threaten mission execution,' Ullyot wrote. 'We are pleased by the rapid compliance across the Department with the directive removing DEI content from all platforms. In the rare cases that content is removed that is out of the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we instruct components accordingly.' The Pentagon so far seems to have taken a scattershot approach to its task. In addition to having 1.3 million active duty personnel and around 800,000 in the reserve, the Department of Defense also boasts a large presence online. Some pages that were scrubbed — like the Air Force's Colin Powell page that's no longer accessible — continue to be accessible elsewhere on the military's online footprint. It's not a total scrub. There are still many pages that mention or celebrate racial integration that are still online; but the Pentagon appears to have removed a significant portion of them under the anti-DEI order. One page that focuses on 'African American Service and Racial Integration in the U.S. Military' was deactivated when TPM first asked about it in a Monday evening press inquiry. After the inquiry, the page appears to have been restored to the internet. Still, many pages across the branches that celebrated the military's history of desegregation initiatives are no longer available. The Washington Post reported on Monday that a page on a Native American Marine who was captured in a famous image raising an American flag on Iwo Jima was also caught up in the purge; Axios reported Monday that a page on the Navajo Code Talkers had been removed. One website that celebrated the passage of the Civil Rights Act and its effect on the military is no longer accessible, TPM found. Internet archives show that it could be accessed during Trump's first term. Another page, in which a veteran from the late 1940s recalled the process of integration, is also down. One Army page, accessible last year via archive, honored the 75th anniversary of Truman's integration order and its impact on the National Guard. The page is no longer available. The article within quoted one official as saying that change 'ultimately comes from people, not laws.' 'When someone says to me, 'Hey, I would love to see more African Americans in my organization,' my question is, Are you part of the recruiting process?' the person said. 'When it comes to inspiring change, it's on every one of us.'
