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Business Standard
4 days ago
- Politics
- Business Standard
Kerala govt revises Bakrid holiday to June 7, faces backlash over cutback
The Kerala government on Thursday announced that Saturday, June 7, will be a public holiday in observance of Bakrid, following reports that the festival will be celebrated across the state on that day. Earlier, the government had declared Friday, June 6, as the holiday for Bakrid. However, with the festival falling a day later, authorities have revised the decision. As a result, June 6 (Friday) will now be a regular working day. The updated holiday on June 7 will apply to all government offices, public sector undertakings, educational institutions including professional colleges, and institutions governed by the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, the government order said. Officials said the change was made to ensure the holiday aligns with the actual date of celebration observed by the people. The Muslim Students Federation (MSF), the student wing of the Indian Union Muslim League, criticised the Kerala government for cutting the Bakrid public-holiday period to a single day. In a Facebook post, MSF state president P K Navas called the move "extremely shameful" and urged the government to reverse it. "Kerala has always treated every community's festival as a festival for all," Navas wrote. "If you cannot protect us, at least do not harass us; if you cannot give, do not take away," he said.
Time of India
5 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Man loses over Rs 50 lakh in online trading scam
Kochi: A Muvattupuzha resident lost over Rs 50 lakh in an online scam. According to the police, the victim came across an advertisement about online trading on social media and clicked on a link attached with it. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now He was then added to a WhatsApp group. The accused then contacted him and convinced him to invest in the stock market with promises of high returns. He subsequently deposited Rs 52.85 lakh into various accounts. However, the accused then ended all contact with him. The victim approached police soon after. Two held for taking bribe: Vigilance and anti-corruption bureau (VACB) on Monday arrested a village field assistant and a retired village assistant for taking a bribe for allotting a title deed (patta). Police identified the arrested persons as Thambi, retired village assistant of Chowara, and Navas, a village field assistant. According to VACB, the complainant, a Kakkanad native, submitted an application before the Chowara village office to obtain a title deed for his 1.24-acre land. Subsequently, Thambi and Navas inspected his property on April 24. They then demanded Rs 10,000 as a bribe. The complainant then told the officials that he did not have that much money with him and they returned. When the application was not processed, the complainant contacted the officials and they repeated the demand for a bribe. However, Thambi had retired from service by then and the complainant was unaware of this when he called to enquire about the issue. He then approached Ernakulam vigilance DSP with a complaint. Thambi was arrested red-handed when he accepted the money from the complainant near Chowara village office. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Navas, who was in the area, was soon arrested. The accused were presented in court and remanded in judicial custody. Odisha native held with ganja: A migrant worker was caught with 2kg of ganja on Tuesday. Police identified the arrested person as Rajesh Deegal, 23, a native of Ganjam, Odisha. He was captured while attempting to hand over the ganja near the Perumbavoor bus stand after arriving in Aluva by train from Odisha. The ganja, purchased for Rs 3,000 from Odisha, was being sold here for Rs 20,000, police said.
The Hindu
21-05-2025
- The Hindu
Synthetic drug trafficking: DANSAF nabs two suspects in Kozhikode
The District Anti-Narcotics Special Action Force (DANSAF) on Wednesday (May 21, 2025) arrested two Kozhikode natives with 298 grams of suspected MDMA. C.V. Navas, 28, and T. Imthias, 30, were nabbed with the support of a patrol squad from the Feroke police station. Police sources said the two were suspected of targeting school and college students in the Feroke and Ramanattukara areas. Preliminary investigations revealed their role in smuggling synthetic drugs from Bengaluru using a car registered in Maharashtra, they added. The patrol squad intercepted their car near Ramanattukara as the two tried to escape from a previous checkpoint. Navas was reportedly engaged in odd businesses, while Imthias was working as an auto driver, the police said. 'Navas carried out the suspected drug business alongside some local livestock trade. He had maintained a network of drug pushers using WhatsApp groups,' a police officer associated with the probe said. He also ran a car resale business, which he used as a cover to traffic synthetic drugs from other States, the officer revealed. DANSAF officers said they had exposed six major incidents of drug trafficking within the last three weeks in Kozhikode city. There were also 11 arrests within the short term, they added.
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump plan to cut programs that get poor kids into college makes no sense
Calling a 61-year-old federally funded project 'a relic of the past' is insulting, not because I'm just a few years older than the Upward Bound program that continues to provide a vital service in guiding low-income students into college. Clearly, the Trump administration's effort to eliminate Upward Bound, Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate and other programs known by the acronym of TRIO, to trim 15% from federal education spending to allow for generous tax cuts to billionaires is not only short-sighted but also dumb. How can they justify erasing programs that help get poor students into college, where they will move up the economic ladder and bring their families along with them? They can't. But Russell T. Vought, executive director of the president's Office of Management and Budget, gave it a try. Opinion 'TRIO and GEAR UP are a relic of the past when financial incentives were needed to motivate Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) to engage with low-income students and increase access,' Vought said in a May 2 letter to Sen. Susan Collins in which he outlined President Donald Trump's recommendations on discretionary spending for 2026. 'Today, the pendulum has swung and access to college is not the obstacle it was for students of limited means,' said Vought, who added that institutions of higher education should fund those programs rather than engaging in woke ideology with federal taxpayer subsidies.' There are seven TRIO programs, each designed to identify and provide services for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. They range from Veterans Upward Bound to Educational Opportunity Centers to Educational Talent Search. I wish some of them had been in place when I was graduating from Delano High School, where I never had a counselor point me toward college or explain how to fill out college applications. Christopher Navas, an 18-year-old student at Riverdale High, is more fortunate. The Fresno State-bound Navas, who plans to major in mechanical engineering, is the second-youngest of seven children of a farm irrigation manager and a merchandiser. 'I'm so grateful that I took the risk to join ETS (Fresno State Educational Talent Search) because this simple program that was supposed to motivate students to pursue a higher education impacted my life significantly,' said Navas at Wednesday's ceremony honoring 23 TRIO graduates at his school. Navas said he was ambivalent about college until a summer program in his sophomore year introduced him to college majors and helped him establish relationships with college staff. A trip to Disneyland remains a highlight. Once in the program, Navas became more active in school, joining the baseball team and clubs and getting 'out of his comfort zone.' Olga Núñez, director of the Educational Talent Search at Fresno State, said 94% of the 680 high school students with 62% of all California students. The program gets $370,000 of federal funds for a staff of two counselors, an administrative assistant and Núñez. When money is available, student assistants are hired. The return on investment is impressive: 91% graduate with the requirements to get into college (vs. a 45.3% state average); and 91% graduate from high school (vs. 52.7% average at Riverdale High, 48.5% at Mendota High). 'They need to want to go to college,' said Núñez, who stressed her team can't promote students to go to Fresno State. 'Maybe they don't know where, or what major, but we want to increase high school graduation rates and college enrollment rates.' This TRIO program is critical because sometimes working-class parents with no college experience don't know how to prepare their children for college. Any help parents can get is sorely needed. According to the Sacramento-based Public Policy Institute of California, high school students from the San Joaquín Valley are less likely to attend and graduate from college than their counterparts in the rest of the state. Only 26% of ninth graders in the region are on a path to earn a bachelor's degree (vs. 35% statewide), and only 57% of high school graduates attend public or nonprofit colleges (vs. 65% statewide). Núñez was among those notified earlier this month about the Trump administration's desire to cut funding. TRIO programs are required to submit annual progress reports to remain eligible for 5-year grants. Núñez is preparing to submit another grant for the cycle starting in the 2026-27 school year. A May 7 webinar organized by the Council for Opportunity in Education ran out of space after organizers were flooded by more than 5,000 requests. A follow-up session is scheduled for May 22 for TRIO educators. Organizers want to remain nonpartisan because the TRIO program has gotten support from both Republicans and Democrats. Of more than 200 representatives who have signed a letter of support for TRIO for the 2026 fiscal year, only 63 are Democrats. The Fresno State TRIO programs are among 3,500 at more than 1,000 colleges and universities in the country. They help 870,000 students through individualized counseling, advising and other services. The letter explains why TRIO works: 'Since their inception in 1964, TRIO programs have produced over 6 million college graduates. Research demonstrates that college graduates have lower rates of unemployment, pay more in federal taxes, and earn a million dollars more throughout their working lives than non-college graduates.' What is so difficult to understand that eliminating TRIO funding is bad for the country? It seems like Trump and his advisors need some education.
The Guardian
05-05-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
PSG are in safe hands in Champions League with Gianluigi Donnarumma
If man-of-the-match trophies were chosen by the PSG squad, Gianluigi Donnarumma would have picked three of them from his last three performances in England. The Italian goalkeeper has had the biggest hand – or glove – in taking the club to the brink of the Champions League final and his contributions against Liverpool, Aston Villa and Arsenal have not gone unnoticed by his teammates. His saves in the penalty shootout at Anfield helped PSG overcome Liverpool, earning him the man-of-the-match award. He did not receive the trophy for his performance at Villa Park, despite big saves from Marcus Rashford and Marco Asensio. 'It was Gigi who was the man of the match,' said a bewildered Ousmane Dembélé as he was handed the award after the second leg at Villa Park. 'He saved us with his incredible saves. He was decisive in every important moment.' A finger-tip save from Leandro Trossard and a great stop to deny Gabriel Martinelli helped PSG keep a clean sheet at the Emirates last week. On that occasion, Vitinha was handed the award before writing on social media that Donnarumma was 'the real MVP'. Donnarumma has re-written the script this year. So often the man who would crumble on big European nights – memorably at the Bernabéu in 2022, when his mistake was instrumental in PSG throwing away a lead to Real Madrid in the last 16 – he has become the man who is pushing them towards the Champions League trophy, still perceived as the 'holy grail' by the club's owners. And his performances have come at an opportune time or his own career. When he arrived at PSG on a free transfer from Milan in the summer of 2021, Donnarumma was thrust into a 'difficult situation' in which he was in competition with Keylor Navas for the No 1 jersey. Mauricio Pochettino chopped and changed between the two keepers. Towards the end of Donnarumma's first season at the club, both goalkeepers recognised the situation was unsustainable. 'It has to change,' said Navas. Donnarumma agreed, saying: 'We have an excellent relationship but it isn't easy to live with, for him or for me. Things surely must change.' And they did. 'A choice had to be made: it was either him or me,' said the Italian after Navas was demoted and then loaned to Nottingham Forest. In Christophe Galtier's only season at PSG, Donnarumma was the undisputed No1 and that remained the case in Luis Enrique's first season. However, the goalkeeper's shortcomings with the ball at his feet and his questionable aerial presence saw old doubts re-emerge last summer. Those doubts led to the recruitment of Matvey Safonov for the not inconsiderable fee of €20m. The Russian arrived in bullish mood. 'Luís Campos [PSG's sporting director] never said I was No 2. I don't see myself as a No 2,' said the Russia international. 'I don't want to be a substitute. If they make me a No 2, things won't be easy for the No 1. I have never lost a competition. I have always been the No 1 goalkeeper. Maybe they don't have the intention of making me No 1 straight away, but I believe I will become that.' Safonov, who has since stressed that he has a strong relationship with the other goalkeepers at the club, has not displaced Donnarumma this season but he has nonetheless made 16 appearances. PSG were also linked with a move for Lille goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier, seen as the future for the France national team, and therefore in fitting with Les Parisiens' new strategy of signing homegrown talents. However, there is now optimism that Donnarumma will sign a new contract. As stated by the player and his agent, an extended stay at the Parc des Princes is the priority. For a long time, it was uncertain whether that was also the club's priority but, in this make-or-break season, it seems he has sufficiently convinced the club's hierarchy. There is still a trade-off with Donnarumma, despite his undoubted shot-stopping abilities. Luis Enrique gave a stern 'no comment' when asked a fair question about the goalkeeper's aerial presence – or lack thereof – before the game at Villa Park. He had just one word to describe Donnarumma's performance after the match: 'Sen-sa-tion-nelle'. It was the PSG manager's only word in French during the whole press conference. It is one that doesn't need translating but it is one that applies to all of Donnarumma's performances on English soil in this Champions League knockout phase. Those performances could yet prove decisive in PSG's quest to win the prestigious and elusive European crown. Two games remain for Donnarumma's own individual redemption arc to be complete. Nantes 0-1 Angers Auxerre 1-2 Le Havre Brest 1-0 Montpellier Lyon 1-2 Lens Lille 1-1 Marseille Strasbourg 2-1 PSG Toulouse 2-1 Rennes Saint-Étienne 1-3 Monaco Nice 1-0 Reims Ousmane Dembélé returned to training on Monday to give PSG a timely boost before their second leg against Arsenal. The France international, who scored the only goal in the first leg, had been a concern after picking up a muscle injury at the Emirates. However, he took part in a squad session and is expected to be available for the match at the Parc des Princes on Wednesday. PSG's lack of interest in the remainder of the Ligue 1 season was once again evident against Strasbourg. Luis Enrique made 10 changes to the team that beat Arsenal at the Emirates in midweek, with only João Neves keeping his place in a side that had an average age of just 21. Unlike PSG, Strasbourg do have something to play for, and it showed. Lucas Hernández scored an own goal as PSG conceded their seventh goal from a corner this season before a sublime effort from Félix Lemarechal doubled Strasbourg's lead on the stroke of half-time. Bradley Barcola netted within 40 seconds of the restart, but despite Désiré Doué coming of the bench – to face his brother Guéla – Luis Enrique's side could not find an equaliser. The result means that PSG's 39-game unbeaten run away from home in Ligue 1 comes to an end. Luis Enrique did not seem too worried. Titles, not records, are his priority. The win means that Strasbourg remain in a congested pack behind PSG. Only two points separate Marseille in second from Strasbourg in sixth. Monaco and Nice, third and fourth, both got important wins, while Marseille drew with fifth-placed Lille. The big losers of the weekend were Lyon, who are now three points behind Strasbourg after a 2-1 loss to Lens. Paulo Fonseca's side were dominant in the game but wasteful, and the defeat could have grave consequences. Lyon had counted on Champions League qualification to ease the dire financial situation at the club, which led the DNCG to provisionally relegate Lyon earlier this season. The Champions League may now be beyond them, and the consequences of that failure could be severe. Their local rivals, Saint-Étienne, look increasingly likely to make a swift return to Ligue 2. Their defeat to Monaco was compounded by a last-gasp win for Le Havre, who are now four points above Sainté and in the relegation playoff spot. Les Verts were without forward Lucas Stassin this weekend and they may miss him until the end of the season. Without him, it is difficult to see where the goals will come from. Reims, defeated by Nice, as well as Angers and Nantes, all remain in danger of the drop. This is an article by Get French Football News
