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India Today
20-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Meet the 3 IPS officers probing Minister's remarks against Col Sofiya Qureshi
Colonel Sofiya Qureshi became a well-known face during press briefings on Operation Sindoor, India's retaliatory air strikes on Pakistani terrorist camps, alongside Wing Commander Vyomika Singh and Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri. However, Madhya Pradesh Minister Vijay Shah sparked widespread outrage following his remarks on Operation Sindoor and Colonel Shah, was purportedly heard saying in a viral video, "Jinhone humari betiyon ke sindoor ujade unhiki behen bhej kar ke unki aisi ki taisi karwayi (those who wiped sindoor (vermilion) off our daughters' sent their sister to teach them a lesson)."advertisementThe Supreme Court then pulled up the state government over the "crass" and inappropriate comments made by Shah. Later, the Madhya Pradesh government constituted a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe Shah's controversial remarks against Colonel Sofiya Qureshi. Let us have a look at the SIT team, which includes three senior IPS Verma (SIT Chief) A 2001-batch IPS officer, Verma currently serves as the Inspector General (IG) of Sagar Range. Known for his discipline and tough administrative style, he has extensive experience in anti-Naxal operations and cybercrime investigations. He has been awarded the President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service by the Ministry of Home Chakravarty advertisement A 2010-batch IPS officer posted as DIG in the Special Armed Forces, Chakravarty operates out of the police headquarters in Bhopal. He has served on central deputation and played a key role in security arrangements during the G-20 summit. He is widely recognised for his sharp grasp of law and order Singh The only female member of the SIT, 2014-batch IPS officer Vahini Singh is currently the Superintendent of Police (SP) in Dindori district. Known for her effective handling of child trafficking and drug trafficking cases, Singh also has expertise in digital evidence and its legal validation in court proceedings. Her investigative track record earned her a place on the SIT.
Boston Globe
20-03-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Seven high school sports takeaways: A new Hall of Fame class, a new football coach at Arlington Catholic, and more
The 2025 MHSFCA Hall of Fame class includes Auburn's Jeff Cormier , Milton's Steve Dembowski , Burlington's Shawn Maguire , Leominster's Dave Palazzi , Chelmsford's Bruce Rich , and Bishop Fenwick's Dave Woods . Assistant coaches Don Miller (West Bridgewater), Ryan Dailey (Westborough), Fernand Lavoie (Lynnfield), Melvin Sasser (Chicopee), Matt Wassel (King Philip), and Marc Grady (Auburn) will also be inducted. Related : Advertisement Uxbridge's Shane Gilmore , Lynnfield's Madux Iovinelli , and Barnstable's Manual Rivera will be honored as Courageous Players, while Hector Longo of the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune will receive the Media award. Sandy Ruggles will receive the Cella Lifetime Achievement award, and Steve Ash and Matt Ross will receive Distinguished Service awards. Recognition will be given to Mansfield's Mike Redding for his 300th win and Northbridge's Ken LaChapelle for his 400th win. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up For ticket information please contact Justin McKay ( Tom Lopez ( 2. Coaching carousel After eight seasons as the football coach at Lynn Classical, Brian Vaughan will be moving over to Arlington Catholic. Vaughan went 43-38 at Lynn Classical, where he coached his son, Brian Vaughan Jr. , now a freshman quarterback at Western Connecticut State. The elder Vaughan was a standout running back at Lynn English and graduated as the all-time leading rusher at Northeastern. He has served as an assistant at Lynn English, Winthrop, and Everett and was head coach at South Boston, Boston English and Pope John in Everett. He takes over an Arlington Catholic program that went 1-10 each of the last two seasons and, other than a 2-2 finish in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, hasn't had a winning record since 2014. Vaughan takes over for Brian Wilcox, who coached the Cougars for five seasons. 3. Fabulous Pham For the fifth time in the award's 40-year history, the Gatorade Massachusetts Girls' Basketball Player of the Year went to a player from Noble & Greenough School. Advertisement Senior Christina Pham is this year's recipient after leading the Bulldogs to a 29-2 record and the NEPSAC Class AAA title game. The 5-foot-6-inch guard averaged 18.6 points, 5.4 assists, 5.0 rebounds, and 3.0 steals while shooting 45 percent on 3-pointers. A four-time All-New England selection, she was named Independent School League MVP. 'Pham hit three big dagger 3-pointers against us,' said Worcester Academy coach Dan Sullivan . 'She never lets up, she competes all game long. She's the straw the stirs the drink for Nobles.' Carrying an A-minus average in the class and ranked No. 3 in New England in the Class of 2025, Pham has committed to play basketball at Fairfield. She also volunteers coaching youth basketball players and went on a service mission to Rwanda. Congrats to Future Stag, Christina Pham, on winning Massachusetts 2024-25 Gatorade Player of the Year! We are so proud of you! 🦌🤘 — Fairfield Women's Basketball (@StagsWBball) 4. Best in Western Mass The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame is presenting its 14th annual Western Massachusetts Players of the Year awards to Ryan Vedovelli (Pope Francis) and Olivia Chrzan (Monson). Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Announces 2025 Western Massachusetts High School Players of the Year. 🏀🏆 — Hoophall Classic (@HoophallClassic) Vedovelli, a senior, was a four-year varsity starter and two-year captain who averaged 19 points, 8 rebounds, and 7 assists per game. A 1,000-point scorer, he led Pope Francis to more than 70 wins in his four seasons, becoming the program's all-time leading scorer and earning Player of the Game honors at the Hoophall Classic. Vedovelli also played baseball and was named Western Mass. Player of the Year in soccer as well. He is committed to play basketball at WPI. The family tradition continues. Ryan Vedovelli is your Game 5 Player of the Game. 🏆 — Hoophall Classic (@HoophallClassic) Chrzan, a captain, averaged 28 points and 12 rebounds per game as a senior, posting three triple-doubles, and finishing as the school's all-time leading scorer (boys and girls) with 2,287 career points. She has been named First Team All Western Mass. every year since seventh grade and is second in her class with a GPA of 100.5. Advertisement 5. Commitment central A two-time state champion football player and Trevor Jones announced his commitment to Salve Regina to play football. The 6-0, 190-pound dual-threat quarterback/cornerback threw for 1,003 yards and ran for 700, accounting for 20 touchdowns last fall in leading Duxbury to Salve Regina University '29 I am super excited to announce my commitment to Salve Regina University. Special thanks to my family, coaches and teammates who have helped me throughout this process. Lastly, thanks to the Salve coaching staff for giving me this opportunity… — Trevor Jones (@Trevj48) Woburn senior guard Mckenna Morrison , who Old Rochester's 6-1, 225-pound senior linebacker Sawyer Johnson announced he'll spend a post-graduate year at New Hampton. I'm very excited to announce that I will be doing a post graduate year at the New Hampton school. Thank you to all my family and friends who have supported me throughout this process. Go huskies!! — sawyer (@sawyerj220) 6. MIAA honors The MIAA will honor longtime Scituate cross-country and track coach Kathleen McCarthy as its Massachusetts Women in Athletics Distinguished Service award winner. The award recognizes women who have 'devoted their time and energy to guiding and nurturing female athletes.' The award will be given at the Massachusetts Celebration of Girls and Women in Sports Day on May 20 at Cross Insurance Club Atrium at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough. On Monday, the Bruins honored boys' and girls' hockey players from every conference with the 2025 Boston Bruins/MIAA Sportsmanship Awards. The boys' winners were: Bay State: Framingham's Jason Fitch Berry: Frontier's William Petrin Cape Ann: North Reading's Max Forristall Catholic Central: Bishop Feehan's Logan Petrucci Catholic Conference: BC High's Sonny Christian Commonwealth: Northeast's Will Baker Fay Wright: Agawam's Frankie DiSanti Greater Boston: Medford's Vincent Castro MVC/DCL 1: Billerica's Stephen MacIntosh MVC/DCL 2: Waltham's Garo Gebeyan MVC/DCL 3: Haverhill's Jake Costa Middlesex: Reading's Nathan Mulvey Northeastern: Winthrop's Mike Donahue Patriot: Marshfield's Jack Doherty Roy: Wachusett's Caden Lane South Shore: Cohasset's Taighe Dwyer The girls' winners were: Cape & Islands: Falmouth's Raelynn Spellman Catholic Central: Arlington Catholic's Markie Lawhorne Independent: Ursuline's Victoria Higgins MVC/DCL Large: Andover's Bella DiFiore MVC/DCL Small: Shawsheen's Corrine Foley Middlesex: Burlington's Caitlyn Tremblay Northeastern: North Reading's Gianna Griffith Patriot: Duxbury's Parker Metzler 7. Odds and ends On Saturday, former Victoria Bossong was second and Stanford's Roisin Willis took third. Advertisement Women's 800m Champion 🥇 Makayla Paige ( 📊 2:00.39 — NCAA Track & Field (@NCAATrackField) Congratulations to Tewksbury's Makayla Paige! NCAA Women's 800M National Champion!!! 💪🏆 — Tewksbury Police (@TewksburyPD) ▪ Rosters were announced for the annual MSHCA/HNIB Senior All-Star games, which will be held Sunday at Worcester Ice Center, with the girls at 1:50 p.m. and the boys at 4 p.m. Announcing the student-athletes selected to play in this Sunday 3/23's MSHCA/HNIB Senior All-Star Games at the Worcester Ice Center! Players were nominated by their coaches & from those pools, selected & participation confirmed before finalizing rosters. — Mass State High School Hockey Coaches Association (@MSHCA1) ▪ Nauset Regional will hold its 8th Annual Evening for Champions from 6-9 p.m. on Saturday at the Ocean Edge Resort. This fund-raising event features dinner, cash bar, and live and silent auctions. There will also be a special tribute to the Warriors' state champion boys' hockey team. Tickets are $65 at AUCTION: The annual Evening For Champions fundraising event is this Saturday, March 22nd @ 6:00PM at Ocean Edge Resort. Details are below, purchase your tickets today! — Nauset Athletics (@Nausetsports) ▪ The NEPSAC girls' basketball tournament awards were announced, with six MVPs, six Defensive Player of the Year selections and six coaches of the year. Players of the year were Tilton senior Hannah Lynch , Worcester Academy senior Elyse MacDonough , Loomis Chaffee senior Alicia Mitchell , Rivers senior Grace O'Sullivan , Hamden Hall senior Emma Olausson , and Brimmer & May freshman Jaliah Duplessy . Related : The defensive players of the year were New Hampton's Serenity Lancaster , Austin Prep's Fope Ayo , Sacred Heart Greenwich's Eva Wilkerson , Berkshire School's Pearl Dickson , Lexington Christian's Nicole Burns and Brimmer and May's Elliana Barros . Coaches of the Year were Alex Gallagher (Nobles), Dan Sullivan (Worcester Academy), Ayo Hart (Sacred Heart Greenwich), Kenny Small (Rivers), Angelica Pascual (Kimball Union), and Courtney Sims (Brimmer and May). Brendan Kurie can be reached at
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Darlene Mink-Crouse, Warren, Ohio
WARREN, Ohio (MyValleyTributes) – After 22 months of a valiant and elegant fight, Darlene Mink-Crouse lost her battle with pancreatic cancer with her family by her side on Saturday, March 15, 2025. Darlene was born on December 1, 1944. Find obituaries from your high school If a measure of success in life is passing the best traits from the previous generation to the next generations; Darlene was a success. From her father Nick Fittipaldo's business and real estate acumen to her mother Sally's warm, loving, caring, and nurturing manner; Darlene took those gifts, lived them, and passed them by example to her daughters Kim and Pam and all around her. Darlene had a 50+ year real estate career as an agent, broker/owner of her own firm, and a real estate educator; Darlene loved her profession, hobby, and vocation, working with her daughter and husband She was three times the President of the Warren Area Board of Realtors, Realtor of the year, and was the 2018 Distinguished Service award winner from the Ohio Association of Realtors. More than that, Darlene was an incredible big sister, to Beverly Fittipaldo, June (Ric) James, and Sally Gelata; and mother, to Kim (Jimmy) Dobson and Pam (Jim) Martuccio. Darlene was an amazing wife and business partner to her husband Dan for 41 years, the best grandmother to Connor (Lacey) Griffin, James and Jack Martuccio; she was a doting great-grandmother to Piper and Denver Griffin. She was Aunt Dar to seemingly endless numbers of nieces, nephews, and children of her lifelong friends. Darlene desperately missed her late son-in-law, Bill Griffin; grandson, Ross Griffin; and brothers-in-law, Pete, Charlie and Al Crouse, Tom Daily, and Ken Gelata. Throughout her life Darlene made and kept friends from grade school, through Warren G Harding High class of 63, and her career; she relished her time with Dan at Lake Chautauqua and their boat friends. She will be missed by all. Since her childhood, Darlene was a huge fan of everything Wizard of Oz. From books autographed by original Munchkins to cookie jars of movie characters, around her home there is no doubt she loved the movie. Darlene also always celebrated her friends' birthday. She shopped for funny birthday cards in every store she visited from grocery or dollar stores to Tractor Supply. Her gift of choice was a card laden with a scratch-off lottery ticket. There was always a stack of pre-addressed and stamped cards waiting at the front door for the correct day to mail them in advance of someone's birthday. Our family would like to thank Darlene's doctor MaryAnn Fontanarosa and the staff and doctors at the Cleveland Clinic for years of treatment that allowed us to all travel and enjoy more time with Darlene. We would also like to thank Becky at Traditions Health for outstanding Hospice care; and offer a special loving Thank You to Melinda Chapin who has helped our family through generations of end of life care and love. In lieu of flowers and in order to lessen the blow to Hallmark sales, be sure to send a funny card to someone. Donations can be made to the Ross Griffin Memorial Foundation c/o The Community Foundation 7 West State St Sharon, Pa 16146, the Ernie Hall Aviation Museum 4033 N River Rd NE Warren, Ohio 44484, or Blessed Sacrament Church 3020 Reeves Rd., NE Warren 44483. Family and friends may visit and pay tribute to Darlene during memorial calling hours on Friday, March 21, 2025 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. at the Peter Rossi & Son Memorial Chapel of Warren, 1884 North Road NE. A funeral service will follow at the funeral home on Friday at 12:30 p.m. Family and friends may visit to view this obituary, sign the guest book and send condolences to Darlene's family. A television tribute will air Tuesday, March 18 at the following approximate times: 7:10 a.m. on FOX, 12:22 p.m. on WKBN, 5:08 p.m. on MyYTV and 7:27 p.m. on WYTV. Video will be posted here the day of airing. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
