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The Hindu
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Casteel bags the Chettinad Stud Plate
S. Narredu trained Casteel (Ramswarup up) won the Chettinad Stud Plate (1,600m), the feature event of the races held here on Saturday (May 31). The winner is owned by M/s. Blazing Saddles (PF), Mr. Balam Mohla, Mr. Teja Gollapudi, Mr. Jehangir Homi Mehta & Mr. S. Narredu. The results 1. CLASSICAL ACT PLATE (1,400m): EL ALAMEIN (Bhawani S) 1, Embosom (Jagadeesh) 2, Sacred Creator (Ramswarup) 3 and Raffles (Trevor) 4. 2-1/2, Shd and 2. 1m 29.35s. Rs. 30 (w), 12, 25 and 15 (p), SHP: 66, THP: 40, FP: 648, Q: 202, Trinella: 1,643/568, Exacta: 2,954/978. Favourite: Raffles. Owners: Mr. Girish S. & Mrs. Kokila E. Trainer: Faraz Arshad. 2. WORLD NO-TOBACCO DAY PLATE (1,400m): SUNSHINE (S. Saqlain) 1, Efficacy (Shreyas S) 2, Knight Regent (Neeraj) 3 and Seneca (Sandesh) 4. 3-1/2, 1 and 5-3/4. 1m 26.72s. Rs. 35 (w), 13, 17 and 72 (p), SHP: 49, THP: 201, FP: 394, Q: 90, Trinella: 3,132/1,708, Exacta: 8,990/5,779. Favourite: Juracan. Owners: Mr. Saleem A. Jasdanwalla, Mr. Deepak S. Suryavanshi & Ms. Ameeta Mehra. Trainer: Irfan Ghatala. 3. ROMANTIC DANCE PLATE (Div. II), (1,400m): AMAZING STRIDE (C. Umesh) 1, Vibrant Queen (P.P. Dhebe) 2, Adelanto (R. Vaibhav) 3 and Pursuit Of Wealth (Sai Kiran) 4. 3-1/2, 1-3/4 and 2. 1m 27.64s. Rs. 18 (w), 10, 26 and 14 (p), SHP: 80, THP: 64, FP: 111, Q: 118, Trinella: 214/65, Exacta: 1,487/637. Favourite: Amazing Stride. Owners: Mr. P.J. Vazifdar, Mrs. P.J. Vazifdar, Mr. M. Rishad, Mr. Kersi H. Vachha & Mr. S.R. Sanas'. Trainer: S. Padmanabhan. 4. MARILINGAIAH MEMORIAL TROPHY (1,200m): DIVINE STAR (Trevor) 1, Walking Thunder (I. Chisty) 2, Aquastic (Suraj) 3 and Grenoble (Hindu S) 4. 6, 1 and 4-1/2. 1m 12.50s. Rs. 21 (w), 14, 17 and 11 (p), SHP: 54, THP: 55, FP: 146, Q: 112, Trinella: 293/78, Exacta: 1,668/893. Favourite: Divine Star. Owners: Mr. Ashok Ranpise, Mr. Pranav Ashok Ranpise, M/s. DT Racing & Breeding LLP, Mr. Rajiv S. Ghule, Mr. S.R. Sanas' & Shaawn Horses & Sports (P)ltd. Trainer: Aman Altaf Hussain. 5. DHARMAPRAKASHA L.S. VENKAJI RAO MEMORIAL TROPHY (1,400m): MAYNE MAGIC (Antony) 1, Secret Saint (Trevor) 2, Arkadian (S. Saqlain) 3 and All Attraction (G. Vivek) 4. 1/2, Lnk and 2-1/4. 1m 25.61s. Rs. 23 (w), 14, 14 and 17 (p), SHP: 41, THP: 49, FP: 100, Q: 67, Trinella: 192/66, Exacta: 326/176. Favourite: Mayne Magic. Owners: Mr. Eugene Aloysious Mayne & Mrs. Joan Mayne. Trainer: Kishan Thomas K. 6. CHETTINAD STUD PLATE (1,600m): CASTEEL (Ramswarup) 1, Champions Way (Suraj) 2, Star Of Night (Neeraj) 3 and Mescalito (Trevor) 4. 1/2, 2-1/2 and 2-1/2. 1m 39.08s. Rs. 66 (w), 27 and 13 (p), SHP; 31, THP: 39, FP: 233, Q: 78, Trinella: 270/120, Exacta: 656/175. Favourite: Champions Way. Owners: M/s. Blazing Saddles(PF), Mr. Balam Mohla, Mr. Teja Gollapudi, Mr. Jehangir Homi Mehta & Mr. S. Narredu. Trainer: S. Narredu. 7. ROMANTIC DANCE PLATE (Div. I), (1,400m): STENTORIAN (Shezad Khan) 1, Star Honour (Darshan) 2, Eclipse Pulse (Asirvatham) 3 and Highland Dream (I. Chisty) 4. Not run: Monterio. 1, 3-1/2 and Nose. 1m 27.25s. Rs. 32 (w), 14, 12 and 31 (p), SHP: 34, THP: 89, FP: 65, Q: 40, Trinella: 969/429, Exacta: 6,903/1,643. Favourite: Star Honour. Owners: Dr. Prabhakar Chowdary Tripuraneni, Mr. Teja Gollapudi & Mrs. Radhika Narredu. Trainer: S. Narredu. Jackpot: Rs. 1,422 (267 tkts) Runner-up: 235 (692 tkts); Treble (i): 137 (72 tkts); (ii): 611 (24 tkts).
Broadcast Pro
22-05-2025
- Business
- Broadcast Pro
Advanced Media wraps up ‘Behind the Lighting with Astera' open house event
Jesper Sorensen, Astera Product Specialist, highlighted their ecosystem and latest flagship lights, while TVTok's team demonstrated smooth set production using Astera products. Advanced Media and Astera wrapped up their open house event, 'Behind the Lighting with Astera,' on May 19, 2025, at GreySea Virtual Production Studio in collaboration with TVTok Dubai. The event drew a crowd of prominent gaffers, directors of photography, rental companies and emerging professionals in the film and photography industries. Attendees had the opportunity to explore two dynamic production sets, each demonstrating the seamless integration of Astera's professional lighting systems with its wireless control solutions. Beyond the technical demonstrations, guests also viewed completed videos filmed and edited on-site in under a day, offering a comprehensive look into real-time production workflows. Jesper Sorensen, Product Specialist for Astera, who presented at the event Astera's disruptive success story and latest products for filming industry that included QuikSpots and LunaBulb, highlighted guests' substantial interest in efficiently utilizing all represented solutions on sets. Having several events with Astera Academy, he also noted a unique format of the event created by Astera users for their own peers. Speaking about the event, Ahmed Abdelwahab, Head of Digital Cinema Department at Advanced Media, commented: 'This event is the outcome of two months of dedicated planning and collaboration with our partners. Our goal was to offer clients a unique experience that not only deepens their understanding of Astera products but also gives them the chance to see and interact with the products in real set. 'Our vision is to introduce a workshop model that enables participants to experience the products firsthand, supporting our core objective of accelerating demand creation.' Advanced Media exclusively represents Astera film lighting products from 2018, the same year Astera entered cinema market with FP series, winning several awards worldwide with its first Titan Tube. Throughout this long-term partnership they built loyal relationship with UAE customers, offering efficient service center and consulting in AMT showroom.
Winnipeg Free Press
20-05-2025
- General
- Winnipeg Free Press
Farmer's YouTube videos about bees creating a buzz
Ian Steppler's herd of honeybees has grown from four to 1,500 hives over the last 25 years. A third-generation farmer, he became interested in beekeeping after taking a course at the University of Manitoba while pursuing a diploma in agriculture. Honey initially seemed like a good way to add a new revenue stream to the family grain and cattle operation near Miami; instead, bees have changed Steppler's entire worldview — from the way he and his brothers manage their land to his feelings about public speaking. Self-described as a 'very shy guy,' Steppler inadvertently started a YouTube channel about beekeeping to prepare for a conference speaking gig he had been coaxed into. 'I was terrified to speak in front of people, so I picked up my phone and I videotaped myself speaking to see what I sounded like, and to be honest, I was absolutely horrified. It took me five videos talking about bees before I was actually comfortable with it,' he says. Steppler, 45, took a leap and posted the video to YouTube. Seven years later, @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog has nearly 92,000 subscribers and has become a space for bee farmers around the world to connect and commiserate over things such as mite infestations and seasonal hive maintenance. He has also become a leader in the local bee farming industry as the chairperson of the Manitoba Beekeepers' Association — a group representing 1,000 bee farmers, who produce nearly 20 million pounds of honey annually across 115,000 colonies. Today, on World Bee Day, Steppler shares some of his favourite things about apiculture and the humble honeybee. ● ● ● Free Press: What's your favourite thing about beekeeping? Ian Steppler: I love the way the honeybee has connected me to the natural world. Our farm has always been very involved in conservation and preserving the landscape and managing our lands properly, but we had never really considered the preservation of biodiversity. That's what the bees have done for our farm. It has made us appreciate how important it is to preserve natural growth. What my brother, who's a grain farmer, calls weeds, I call bee food. FP: How do your bees benefit from or contribute to the rest of your farming operation? IS: We grow canola, alfalfa and sunflowers, and the pollination that the crops get from my honeybees will increase the yield to a certain degree. And with the bees, I can capitalize on this huge abundance of nectar from these crops. So it works quite well. FP: What role do bee farms play in the wider agriculture industry? IS: We're this obscure little industry stuck between development and the natural world, and I think we're an important piece of the puzzle in trying to bring both groups together. As beekeepers, we need development to be able to harvest massive crops of honey, but at the same time we need that natural world to keep the bees fed. FP: How much honey do you produce and where does it end up? IS: I produce 350,000 pounds of honey per year. I sell it to Bee Maid Honey and they prepare it and sell it to markets across Canada, the United States, Japan and other places in the world. Bee Maid is a co-operative and we have about 350 beekeepers who are members across Western Canada. FP: What's your favourite way to use honey at home? IS: I have a spoonful of honey in every cup of coffee. And my wife cooks and bakes with honey; we've cut back on our table sugar and it makes for a really nice sweetener. FP: Why do you share about beekeeping online? IS: Beekeeping is this small little world. YouTube and social media has helped connect beekeepers all over the world and grow this community. It helps broaden my perspective on the management of my craft. I think one of the reasons beekeepers have gravitated to watching my YouTube channel is because I share what I'm doing, the issues I'm encountering and how we're trying to overcome some of these challenges. There's a sense of familiarity and honesty. FP: What are some of the biggest threats facing bees right now? IS: Pests, specifically the varroa mite. It latches onto the honeybee and it makes them sick by injecting a virus. It's sickening them, it's killing them and it's something we're having a lot of trouble controlling. Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. Another problem is the lack of biodiversity across the countryside. We're starting to lose natural aspects of our landscape because of development and the way we manage our lands. Without the biodiversity of all those flowering plants, our bees are becoming malnourished. FP: What can the public do to help bees? IS: Plants need pollination to be able to set seeds and having bees and other native pollinators flying around is very important. If you want to help, focus your efforts on preserving biodiversity within your community — specifically growing a variety of plants that will help feed the bees. All these small efforts contribute to a big outcome. What's good for honeybees is good for natural pollinators. If we can have more flowers around and more diverse growth and manage our landscape a little bit differently, I think we can have a healthier environment overall. Eva WasneyReporter Eva Wasney has been a reporter with the Free Press Arts & Life department since 2019. Read more about Eva. Every piece of reporting Eva produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. 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First Post
17-05-2025
- Politics
- First Post
Operation Sindoor: Modi's paradigm shift in India's national security strategy
With Operation Sindoor, India's global image of a soft state has finally shattered, and a new, assertive India acting without qualms, scepticism, and hesitations in using force against its adversaries has solidified read more In his speech on May 12, PM Narendra Modi categorically reiterated India's position that terror and talks cannot go together. Representational Image: FP On April 22, the tourist city of Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir witnessed one of the most horrific genocides, with the brutal murder of 26 Hindu men. Reportedly, four terrorists of The Resistance Force (TRF), a Pakistan-sponsored terrorist group, forced tourists to demonstrate their religious identity by reciting Qalima at gunpoint and selectively killed Hindus. The brutality shook the entire world. On the night of May 7, India launched Operation Sindoor in retaliation, bombing nine sites holding 'terrorist infrastructure', five in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and four in the Pakistan mainland, including Jaish-e-Mohammad's Bahawalpur complex and Lashkar-e-Taiba's Muridke headquarters. India smashed the terror camps, training centres, and launch pads of Pakistan's three key proxy terror outfits, ie, Hizbul Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Muhammad, and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Following India's attack, Pakistan launched a full-fledged attack on India, targeting multiple cities, military installations, and airbases across the entire Western border with drones. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD On the Line of Control (LoC), the Pakistani army began firing and heavy shelling with the artillery guns, killing 15 civilians in the Rajouri border region. In the counterattack, India attacked Pakistan's strategically sensitive six air bases and dropped bombs in mainland cities like Lahore and Rawalpindi. Pakistan's nuclear-capable Fatah missile launched at Delhi was intercepted by India's Akash at Sirsa near Delhi. The war was gaining momentum; however, it halted with a sudden and unexpected ceasefire apparently achieved with US facilitation. Setting a New Normal With Operation Sindoor, India has set a 'new normal' against terror, explicitly signalling the three-point doctrinal shift – zero tolerance and direct retaliation for terror attacks, no differentiation between the terrorists and their sponsors, and refusal to succumb to Pakistan's nuclear blackmail. In his speech on May 12, PM Narendra Modi categorically reiterated India's position that terror and talks cannot go together. Further, he also emphasised that 'terror' and 'trade' cannot go together, and 'blood' and 'water' cannot flow together. The PM's speech signifies a resolute, determined, and tough stance against terror. PM Modi's speech gives a clear message that India will decisively hit terror targets in direct retaliation if Pakistan continues to support terror groups in Kashmir and the Indian hinterland. Also, it is worth mentioning that hitting deep inside the Pakistani territory at Bahawalpur and Muridke has completely altered the dynamics, showcasing India's unrestrained approach while retaliating. Pakistan will have to pay unbearable costs for terror attacks. Contrary to the dominant analytical discourse around Operation Sindoor, it is worth mentioning that India had already set a new normal when it conducted the Uri surgical strike in 2016. Following that, once again, Indian jets bombed Jaish training centres in Balakot in 2019 after JeM killed 42 Indian soldiers in the Pulwama fidayeen attack. Continuing its war against terror, India abrogated Article 370 of its constitution that conferred special status to J&K. With its massive crackdown on the terror ecosystem inside its borders and tough stance against foreign terror sponsors, it was expected that Delhi would retaliate with tremendous firepower if Islamabad ever conducted a terror attack of the scale of Pulwama. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD India has decisively and demonstrably called out Pakistan's nuclear bluff. In his May 12 speech, PM Modi said, 'India will strike precisely and decisively at the terrorist hideouts developing under the cover of nuclear blackmail.' Pakistan, emboldened with its nuclear shield, intensified terror activities in Kashmir after 1998. This nuclear blackmail continued unabated for 18 years until 2016, when it was first punctured by the Uri surgical strikes. With the Balakot strikes, the message was clear to Pakistan that India will not be cowed down by its nuclear threats; however, General Headquarters (GHQ) Rawalpindi refused to smell the coffee. Finally, India's aggressive retaliatory posture seen in Operation Sindoor, killing more than 80 terrorists, has made Pakistan's nuclear arsenal a dysfunctional and ineffective tool to continue shielding its terrorist activities in India. The Operation Sindoor comes in succession to a series of the Modi government's tough national security measures. In the domestic domain, the Modi government took bold actions against the terror ecosystem, the Waqf board, foreign NGOs, and illegal immigrants. In the external domain, New Delhi took decisive cross-border military actions against Pakistan, maintained a firm stand against China after the Galwan clash, and reportedly, Indian intelligence agencies neutralised many Khalistani and Jihadi terrorists in foreign territory. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Over the last ten years, India has signalled a robust and decisive diplomatic signature in its dealings with the West and the Arab world after the abrogation of Article 370, hosting global events like the G20, guarding its strategic autonomy in the Russia-Ukraine war, playing hardball with the Maldives after its China switch, and emerging as a leader in the battle against extremism and terrorism. With Operation Sindoor, India's global image of a soft state has finally shattered, and a new, assertive India acting without qualms, scepticism, and hesitations in using force against its adversaries has solidified. The author is a Cornell University graduate in public affairs, bachelors from St Stephen's College, Delhi and has done his PhD on Jaish-e-Mohammad. He is a policy analyst specialising in counterterrorism, Indian foreign policy and Afghanistan-Pakistan geopolitics. Views expressed in the above piece are personal and solely those of the author. They do not necessarily reflect Firstpost's views. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD
Daily Tribune
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Tribune
Cardinals assemble to elect pope and set course for church A
FP | Vatican City All 133 Catholic cardinals who will vote for a new pope have arrived in Rome, the Vatican said Monday, two days before they gather in conclave to elect the next head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. Hailing from 70 countries across five continents, the group -- summoned following the death of Pope Francis on April 21 -- is the largest and the most international ever. At stake is the direction of the Catholic Church, a 2,000-yearold institution with huge global influence but which is battling to adapt to the modern world and recover its reputation after the scandal of widespread child sex abuse by priests. The 133 cardinals who will vote -- all those aged under 80, minus two who are absent for health reasons -- will gather on Wednesday afternoon under the frescoed splendour of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. They are sworn to secrecy, risking excommunication if they reveal what happens -- as are their support staff, from medics to lift operators, canteen and cleaning staff, who took their oath Monday. Cardinals of all ages had met earlier Monday for the latest in a series of closed-door preparatory meetings. Discussions so far have covered everything from the Vatican's finances to the abuse scandal and Church unity. On Monday morning 'the focus was on the missionary nature of the Church: a Church that must not withdraw into herself', the Vatican said. Cardinals discussed the profile of the next pope -- 'a figure who must be present, close, capable of being a bridge and a guide, of favouring access to communion for a disoriented humanity marked by the crisis of the world order'. He should be 'a shepherd close to the real life of the people', the Vatican added. On Monday morning, technicians also installed red curtains on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica, where the new pontiff will make his first appearance. Francis was an energetic reformer from Buenos Aires, who helped open up the Church during his 12-year papacy but was accused by critics of failing to defend key Catholic doctrine. The question now is whether his successor will follow the progressive line, or take the Church on a more conservative, traditionalist path.
