Latest news with #JA
What's On
3 days ago
- What's On
Treat yourself to a relaxing staycation at JA Palm Tree Court this Eid Al Adha
Sponsored: A staycation where you can truly relax and reconnect… No flights booked to an exotic green island? Turn that frown into a smile by booking an Eid staycation at JA Palm Tree Court. The truly serene all-suite beachfront sanctuary is located a short distance away from the bustling city, against the backdrop of Palm Jebel Ali. It's a perfect spot to book over the Eid Al Adha public holiday if what you're seeking is nature, wellness, togetherness, and a chance to slow down and connect. Your staycation will include lush gardens and a private beach that is just steps away – what more could you ask for? Here's why you have to book Unmissable offers Want to enjoy a longer staycation? At JA Palm Tree Court, if you book two nights, you will receive a third night for absolutely no charge – compliments of the hotel. For families with little ones under the age of 12, they can stay for free while enjoying full access to a world of activities. This includes the Just Splash waterpark, meeting friendly creatures at the Animal Discovery Zone, and having fun at the certified Pirates & Mermaids Kids Club. If a premium suite is more your style, you can book The Residence Suites with Signature Lounge benefits and butler service. You will enjoy a 20 per cent savings on dining, curated experiences and spa treatments at Calm Spa including personalised IV vitamin therapy. Resort activities and leisure facilities Want to just soak in the sun or wind down with a book by the pool? The exclusive Tamr Pool has your name on it. If you want to enjoy something a tad more unique, saddle up for an unforgettable swimming with horses experience at the Equestrian Centre. Additional benefits You can even enjoy early check-in, late check-out, and flexible cancellation for a worry-free holiday. Oh, and during your stay, keep your eyes peeled for the resort's resident white peacock, a magical sight that never fails to captivate. Get your bookings done here. JA Palm Tree Court, Palm Jebel Ali, Exit 13, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, Tel: (0)4 814 5555, Images: Supplied > Sign up for FREE to get exclusive updates that you are interested in
Hindustan Times
4 days ago
- Business
- Hindustan Times
SBI Clerk Mains Result 2025 News Live: Where, how to check Junior Associate results when out
SBI Clerk Mains Result 2025 News Live: Where, how to check JA results when out SBI Clerk Mains Result 2025 News Live: The State Bank of India has not yet released SBI Clerk Mains Result 2025. The Junior Associates (Customer Support and Sales) mains results when declared will be available to candidates on the official website of SBI at The SBI Clerk main examination was held on April 10 and 12, 2025 at various exam centres across the country. The main exam paper had 190 questions, and the maximum mark was 200. The question paper comprised of questions from topics including - General/ Financial Awareness, General English, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability and Computer Aptitude. ...Read More There is negative marking in the examination. For each wrong answer, 1/4th of the mark assigned to the question will be deducted. The SBI Clerk Prelims exam was held on February 22, 27, 28, and March 1, 2025. The result was declared on March 28, 2025. Candidates who passed the preliminary examination were eligible for the main examination. Through this recruitment drive, SBI will fill up 13,735 Junior Associate vacancies. For more related details candidates can check the official website of SBI. Follow all the updates here: May 29, 2025 9:36 AM IST SBI Clerk Mains Result 2025 News Live: State Bank of India has not announced the date and time of declaration of Clerk Mains exam result.
New Indian Express
23-05-2025
- Business
- New Indian Express
Emergency reserves, high prices and rationing – how did Japan's rice crisis get this far?
Why is Japan having rice shortages and soaring prices? Ishiba has pledged to bring the average rice price down to about 3,000 yen ($20) per 5 kilograms. 'We don't know why we haven't been able to push prices lower," he said during parliamentary questioning on Wednesday when asked how exactly his government will resolve the problem. 'We first will figure out exactly how much rice there is and where it is." Ishiba acknowledged current measures aren't working and blamed "structural problems' of the government's rice policy. Experts say last summer's panic buying just worsened longstanding problems. A sharp rise in tourism and an increase in dining out have raised demand. Some people started eating more rice after prices of bread and noodles rose when the Russia-Ukraine war pushed wheat prices higher. And the 2023 harvest was relatively poor because of hot weather and pests. Japan's rice supply chain is complicated. Most farmers still sell their rice in the traditional system run by Japan Agricultural Cooperatives, or JA, a powerful interest group with close ties to the governing Liberal Democratic Party. But a growing share is sold through other businesses and online, making it hard to track supplies and prices, said Masayuki Kanamori, an executive of the National Federation of Agricultural Co-operative Associations, a JA umbrella organization. The shortage caught JA by surprise, Kanamori said. 'Looking back, the current rice shortage was unforeseeable,' he said. "We are puzzled.' What's been done so far? The Agriculture Ministry is under fire for delaying releases of emergency rice reserves, which normally are kept for disasters, and for misjudging the demand-supply balance. So far, only 10% of the released rice stocks have reached the market, raising suspicions about what's happening. Koizumi on Thursday announced plans to switch to voluntary government contracts for rice to better control prices and to lift a cap on the next sale. One problem may be a lack of enough milling capacity to turn the stocks of brown rice kept in reserves into the pure white rice that Japanese prefer. But others have accused some wholesalers of hoarding rice to keep prices higher. So far, the government has done little to investigate and resisted releasing reserves, fearing prices would fall, Kazuhito Yamashita, research director at the Canon Institute for Global Studies. Japan could have avoided the problem by allowing more rice to be planted and exporting more if there were surpluses, he said. 'Acreage cutbacks are contrary to food security, a ruinous policy," Yamashita said. He said that the policy benefits JA by keeping small farmers afloat. Meanwhile, farmers coping with rising costs say prices aren't too high. Ultimately, Japan will need to figure out a long-term strategy since the average age of its farmers is 69, and the farming population has fallen by half over the past two decades to 1.1 million in 2024. What are consumers and retailers doing to cope? Hiromi Akaba, who lives in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, said that she had no choice but to buy rice at the current high prices. But she added: 'If this continues, we will stop eating rice. This could lead to a shift away from rice consumption.' Many stores are limiting customers to one bag of rice per visit. Whatever the cause of the shortages, retailers must put rice on the shelves, so some are switching to imports, which usually aren't popular with finnicky Japanese shoppers. Major supermarket chain operator Aeon Co. plans to sell US-grown Japonica 'Calrose' rice at 600 outlets in major cities beginning next month. A 4-kilogram (nearly 9-pound) bag of Calrose will sell for 2,894 yen ($20). Aeon is buying 1.4 tons to tide it over until the autumn harvest, Aeon corporate communications official Hirokazu Satou said. In the past, Aeon has sold Calrose blended with Japanese rice, and this will be the first time that it's selling bags of 100% Calrose, with suggestions like turning it into fried rice. The idea is to keep people eating rice, said Satou, who said he's worried they might just stop. 'We are worried that the ongoing rice shortages and soaring prices may accelerate that trend... and we don't want it to happen,' he said.
23-05-2025
- Business
Emergency reserves, high prices, rationing. How did Japan's rice crisis get this far?
TOKYO -- Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain, which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the decades. But since last summer, prices have soared as supplies have fallen short of demand. The government has long paid farmers to cut back on rice acreage, and change to other crops to keep rice prices relatively high. To cope with shortfalls this year, the government has released rice reserves. But the grain has been slow to reach supermarket shelves. Anger over that was part of the reason the agriculture minister quit this week. Consumers are frustrated and wondering where's the rice? Agriculture Minister Taku Eto resigned Wednesday after he raised an uproar by saying he 'never had to buy rice,' because his supporters give it to him as gifts. The remark was seen as utterly out of touch with the realities of ordinary people struggling to make ends meet and to afford rice to eat. Eto apologized, but he was obliged to step down as damage control by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, whose minority government faces a big challenge in a crucial national election in July. Eto's successor is former environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi, who has taken part in reforming Japan's powerful agriculture lobby. He's been tasked with investigating and resolving the rice problem. Rice started disappearing from supermarket shelves, and prices surged to twice normal levels since last summer, when a warning about a possible 'megaquake' triggered panic buying. The top 'Koshihikari' brand now sells for nearly 5,000 yen ($35) per 5 kilograms (11 pounds). Rice stocks at Japan Agricultural Cooperatives and other commercial wholesalers have been 400,000 tons short of last year's levels, hitting a record low 1.53 million tons as of June, farm ministry data show. The sense of urgency over shortages has risen now that rice crops have just been planted, with harvests several months away. Ishiba has pledged to bring the average rice price down to about 3,000 yen ($20) per 5 kilograms (11 pounds). 'We don't know why we haven't been able to push prices lower," Ishiba said during parliamentary questioning Wednesday when asked how exactly his government will resolve the problem. 'We first will figure out exactly how much rice there is and where it is." He acknowledged current measures aren't working and blamed "structural problems' of the government's rice policy. Experts say last summer's panic buying just worsened longstanding problems. A sharp rise in tourism and an increase in dining out have raised demand. Some people started eating more rice after prices of bread and noodles rose when the Russia-Ukraine war pushed wheat prices higher. And the 2023 harvest was relatively poor because of hot weather and pests. Japan's rice supply chain is complicated. Most farmers still sell their rice in the traditional system run by Japan Agricultural Cooperatives, or JA, a powerful interest group with close ties to the governing Liberal Democratic Party. But a growing share is sold through other businesses and online, making it hard to track supplies and prices, said Masayuki Kanamori, an executive of the National Federation of Agricultural Co-operative Associations, a JA umbrella organization. The shortage caught JA by surprise, Kanamori said. 'Looking back, the current rice shortage was unforeseeable,' he said. "We are puzzled.' The Agriculture Ministry is under fire for delaying releases of emergency rice reserves, which normally are kept for disasters, and for misjudging the demand-supply balance. So far, only 10% of the released rice stocks have reached the market, raising suspicions about what's happening. Koizumi on Thursday announced plans to switch to voluntary government contracts for rice to better control prices and to lift a cap on the next sale. One problem may be a lack of enough milling capacity to turn the stocks of brown rice kept in reserves into the pure white rice that Japanese prefer. But others have accused some wholesalers of hoarding rice to keep prices higher. So far, the government has done little to investigate and resisted releasing reserves, fearing prices would fall, Kazuhito Yamashita, research director at the Canon Institute for Global Studies. Japan could have avoided the problem by allowing more rice to be planted and exporting more if there were surpluses, he said. 'Acreage cutbacks are contrary to food security, a ruinous policy," Yamashita said. He said that the policy benefits JA by keeping small farmers afloat. Meanwhile, farmers coping with rising costs say prices aren't too high. Ultimately, Japan will need to figure out a long-term strategy since the average age of its farmers is 69, and the farming population has fallen by half over the past two decades to 1.1 million in 2024. Hiromi Akaba, who lives in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, said that she had no choice but to buy rice at the current high prices. But she added: 'If this continues, we will stop eating rice. This could lead to a shift away from rice consumption.' Many stores are limiting customers to one bag of rice per visit. Whatever the cause of the shortages, retailers must put rice on the shelves, so some are switching to imports, which usually aren't popular with finnicky Japanese shoppers. Major supermarket chain operator Aeon Co. plans to sell U.S. grown Japonica 'Calrose' rice at 600 outlets in major cities beginning next month. A 4-kilogram (nearly 9-pound) bag of Calrose will sell for 2,894 yen ($20). Aeon is buying 1.4 tons to tide it over until the autumn harvest, Aeon corporate communications official Hirokazu Satou said. In the past, Aeon has sold Calrose blended with Japanese rice, and this will be the first time that it's selling bags of 100% Calrose, with suggestions like turning it into fried rice. The idea is to keep people eating rice, said Satou, who said he's worried they might just stop. 'We are worried that the ongoing rice shortages and soaring prices may accelerate that trend ... and we don't want it to happen,' he said.
Hindustan Times
23-05-2025
- Business
- Hindustan Times
SBI Clerk Main Result 2025 News Live: Where to check JA exam results when out
SBI Clerk Main Result 2025 News Live: Where to check JA results when declared SBI Clerk Main Result 2025 News Live: The State Bank of India is expected to release the Junior Associates (Customer Support and Sales) or SBI Clerk Mains Result 2025 soon. When announced, candidates can check their results on the official SBI website, The SBI Clerk Mains examination was conducted on April 10 and April 12, 2025. ...Read More The main exam consisted of 190 questions, and the maximum mark was 200. The questions were from General/ Financial Awareness, General English, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability, and Computer Aptitude. In the objective tests, wrong answers result in negative marks. For each wrong answer, 1/4th of the mark assigned to the question will be deducted. The exam lasted 2 hours and 40 minutes. The SBI Clerk Prelims exam was held on February 22, 27, 28, and March 1, 2025. The result was declared on March 28, 2025. Candidates who passed the preliminary examination were eligible for the main examination. SBI will fill up 13,735 Junior Associate vacancies through this recruitment drive. SBI Clerk Mains Results 2025: Steps to check results when out Visit the bank's official website, Click on the careers link available on the home page. Go to the current openings section. Open the Junior Associate tab. Click on the result link for the Mains examination. Enter your login details. Submit and check the result. Follow all the updates here: May 23, 2025 10:20 AM IST SBI Clerk Main Result 2025 News Live: After the official announcement, candidates can check the SBI Clerk Mains exam results on the bank's official website,
