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India Today
2 days ago
- India Today
Chardham Yatra 2025: Must-have essentials to stay safe in rain and snow
The Chardham Yatra, covering Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath, and Badrinath, takes you through the unpredictable weather and rugged terrain of the Himalayas. To stay safe and comfortable in rain and snow, careful packing and preparation are a comprehensive list of must-have essentials, based on the latest recommendations for IS KEYThermal Wear: Essential for cold mornings and nights at high Jackets or Woolen Sweaters: Lightweight but warm, ideal for & Waterproof Outer Layer: A raincoat, poncho, or windcheater protects against rain, snow, and cold Trekking Pants: Avoid denim; opt for quick-dry or woolen pants that dry fast and retain Socks, Gloves, Beanies, and Scarves: Crucial for retaining body heat, especially in Kedarnath and during Layers for Kids and Elders: Children and seniors are more susceptible to cold, so pack extra warm SAFETY AND COMFORT Sturdy, Waterproof Trekking Shoes: Good grip is vital for slippery, uneven paths; anti-slip soles are recommended for monsoon and Pair of Socks: Keep feet dry and warm, especially after walking in wet AND SNOW PROTECTIONRaincoat or Poncho: Lightweight and foldable for sudden Compact, for short walks and temple Backpack and Rain Cover: Protects your belongings from getting Covers for Electronics: Keep phones and cameras safe from water AND SAFETY ESSENTIALSFirst Aid Kit: Include personal medicines, antiseptics, pain relievers, bandages, and rehydration Sickness Medication: Consult your doctor and carry prescribed medicines for high-altitude Medical Certificate and Documents: Required for registration and Stick: Provides stability on steep and slippery trails, especially during rain or Water Bag: Useful for warmth in extreme cold (especially in winter months).OTHER PRACTICAL ITEMSadvertisementWater Bottle and Hydration Pack: Staying hydrated is critical at high Snacks: Carry energy bars, dry fruits, and light snacks for energy on the and Sunglasses: Protect against UV rays, which are strong at high altitudes, even in cloudy Proof and Yatra Registration Slip: Mandatory for travel and Bank: For charging devices, as electricity may be unreliable in remote Luggage: Especially important for seniors and helicopter TIPS FOR RAIN AND SNOWAvoid Monsoon Travel: If possible, plan your yatra outside the peak monsoon (June–September) to reduce landslide and road closure Daily Weather Alerts: Stay updated on weather conditions and follow local Insurance: Consider insurance that covers weather-related delays and emergencies.
Cision Canada
28-05-2025
- Business
- Cision Canada
Algonomy Unveils Trio of AI-Powered Innovations to Revolutionize Digital Commerce
BENGALURU, India, May 28, 2025 /CNW/ -- Algonomy, the global leader in algorithmic decisioning for retail, today announced the launch of three cutting-edge solutions purpose-built to help retailers deliver hyper-personalized shopping experiences at scale: Ensemble AI, Social Proof Messaging, and Active Content. These product innovations represent the next leap forward in retail personalization, merchandising efficiency, and real-time customer engagement. Ensemble AI redefines styling with a real-time, AI-powered outfitting engine that mimics a personal stylist—automatically creating editorial-style, head-to-toe looks tailored to individual shopper preferences, behavior, and current trends. By dynamically assembling complete, visually stunning outfits at key digital touchpoints, Ensemble AI increases average order value, improves conversion rate, and reduces styling overhead. Social Proof Messaging brings credibility and urgency to the shopper journey, enabling brands to embed psychological nudges—like trending tags, low stock indicators, and user popularity signals—throughout the funnel. With game-changing AI-led optimization, the platform automatically tests message variants and displays the best-performing one, maximizing KPIs such as conversion rate, add-to-cart rate, and revenue per visit. Active Content delivers website-like personalization on email and other marketing channels, boosting engagement, clicks, and conversions. It enables marketers to effortlessly draw from, mash up, and layer data from multiple sources to craft visually compelling marketing campaigns, delivered with open-time personalization. Powered by Generative AI and Algonomy's advanced decisioning engine, Active Content tailors every message to each individual with precision. Together, these new offerings expand Algonomy's Retail AI portfolio, which already includes market-leading products like Recommend™ (real-time personalized recommendations), multimodal search, Audience Manager, and supply chain optimization tech like Order Right. "Retail is undergoing a seismic shift—from static experiences to dynamic, real-time engagement across the shopper journey. With Ensemble AI, Social Proof Messaging, and Active Content, we're giving retailers the tools to operate with precision, creativity, and intelligence at scale—so they can meet every customer with relevance in the moment," said Mark Buckallew, Chief Product Officer, Algonomy. Meet Us at NRF APAC 2025 Algonomy will showcase these new innovations alongside its full product suite at NRF APAC 2025, which will take place June 3–5 at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Visit us at Booth #1116 to experience the future of algorithmic retail in action. For more information, visit About Algonomy Algonomy helps consumer businesses maximize customer value by automating decisioning across key retail functions, with AI-enabled solutions for eCommerce, Marketing, Merchandising, and Supply Chain. Algonomy is a trusted partner to more than 400 leading brands, with a global presence spanning over 20 countries. Our innovations have garnered recognition from top industry analysts such as Gartner and Forrester. More at
Pink Villa
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
BTS to release new album at 2025-end? Fans revisit HYBE's remark of 'we will start comeback activities' as June reunion nears
As BTS approaches the completion of its members' military duties, by the end of June, all seven members will have been discharged, officially opening the door for the group's long-anticipated return. BTS' Jin and J-Hope have already returned to civilian life, and RM and V are set to be discharged on June 10, followed by Jimin and Jungkook on June 11 and Suga on June 21. Speculation suggests BTS ' new album could arrive by the end of 2025 at the earliest, with many expecting a release in the first half of 2026. This timeline allows the members time to prepare thoroughly after completing their military service, ensuring the comeback meets fans' high expectations worldwide. HYBE has confirmed that BTS will begin preparing for group activities once all members have returned. While fans are eager for an immediate comeback, the company has emphasized the need for preparation and time. HYBE previously stated they began the early planning stages with global producers, but both the company and the artists are approaching the process with intention. 'When all BTS members return, we will start comeback activities and perform,' HYBE said. CEO Lee Jae Sang echoed this sentiment at a shareholder meeting previously: the BTS members need space to get back on track and find their direction again, especially as artists now entering their 30s. This next phase of BTS is often referred to by ARMY as the group's second act. The last group album was Proof in June 2022, and their final concert before enlistment was Yet to Come in Busan. Since then, the members have been largely out of the spotlight as a group, though each has left their mark during the hiatus. It's true that BTS will need time to prepare for their comeback performance. Whether it happens in late 2025 or early 2026, time will be required. The reunion is definitely coming, and the FESTA celebration is set for next month (June). However, ARMYs should be patient—although the members will be out of the military, they'll still need time to get ready to perform on stage again. In the meantime, fans will get to see solo endeavors continue, with BTS' Jin preparing for a string of fan-focused concerts in Japan, the US, the UK, and Europe starting next month and running through August.
Hamilton Spectator
17-05-2025
- General
- Hamilton Spectator
Country's highest rate of child hunger felt in Newfoundland and Labrador classrooms
ST. JOHN'S - Summer is approaching and teachers in Newfoundland and Labrador are worried many of their students will spend their holiday months hungry without school lunch programs to offer a meal, says Trent Langdon. The province was tied with New Brunswick for the highest rate of children living in food-insecure households among the provinces in 2024, and Langdon, the president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers' Association, says his members are witnessing this first hand. 'If you have a young person who is coming to school when they're hungry, it reduces morale, it reduces overall energy, it reduces the likelihood of them getting out of bed,' Langdon said in an interview Friday. 'It weighs very heavily.' Langdon said he's hearing of more teachers who are bringing extra sandwiches to slip to the students that need them. Nearly 40 per cent of children under 18 in Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick lived in food-insecure households in 2024, according to a report this month from Proof, a research group based at the University of Toronto. The figures come from Statistics Canada data and they include all Canadian provinces, but not the territories. More than a quarter of Canadians lived in food-insecure households in 2024, which is a record high, the report said. Newfoundland and Labrador had the third-highest rate of overall food insecurity among the provinces, behind Alberta and Saskatchewan. More than half of all single-parent families in the province – 56.8 per cent – were food insecure last year, according to the Statistics Canada data used by Proof. The group defines food insecurity as 'the inadequate or insecure access to food due to financial constraints.' 'It is a serious public health problem, a marker of pervasive material deprivation, and a matter of public policy,' the Proof website says. The group's report prompted anti-poverty non-profit Food First Newfoundland and Labrador to call on the provincial government to re-examine its poverty-reduction strategies. 'These statistics are not surprising, but they are also not inevitable,' said Josh Smee, the group's chief executive, in a news release earlier this week. 'People in this province are under tremendous pressure right now to afford the food they need, and there are many ways that pressure could be relieved.' Danielle Seward agrees that something needs to be done. The executive director of the Single Parent Association of Newfoundland and Labrador said many of the people using her organization's food bank are seeking help for the first time. Many are skilled professionals with good jobs whose rents and electricity bills have gone up, leaving them far less money to pay for groceries. 'I think a lot of folks would be shocked to see the vast diversity amongst our clients, and to see how many of them are in very successful working positions,' Seward said in an interview. 'The cost of everything has increased exponentially, whereas the incomes for these professional occupations haven't.' Increasing income support rates would help some of her clients, but not all of them, she added. The provincial government needs to take food insecurity seriously and assemble a team to find solutions, Seward said. And they could start, she suggested, by looking at ways to reduce the cost of groceries, perhaps by offering money to offset the high cost of shipping to the island of Newfoundland, and to the more remote communities of Labrador. Seward is also worried about the summer months, when parents don't have a breakfast or lunch program to rely on. It's one of the busiest times of year at the association's food bank. 'For single-parent families, the summer is the most critical time of the year for food insecurity,' she said. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 17, 2025.
Winnipeg Free Press
17-05-2025
- General
- Winnipeg Free Press
Country's highest rate of child hunger felt in Newfoundland and Labrador classrooms
ST. JOHN'S – Summer is approaching and teachers in Newfoundland and Labrador are worried many of their students will spend their holiday months hungry without school lunch programs to offer a meal, says Trent Langdon. The province was tied with New Brunswick for the highest rate of children living in food-insecure households among the provinces in 2024, and Langdon, the president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers' Association, says his members are witnessing this first hand. 'If you have a young person who is coming to school when they're hungry, it reduces morale, it reduces overall energy, it reduces the likelihood of them getting out of bed,' Langdon said in an interview Friday. 'It weighs very heavily.' Langdon said he's hearing of more teachers who are bringing extra sandwiches to slip to the students that need them. Nearly 40 per cent of children under 18 in Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick lived in food-insecure households in 2024, according to a report this month from Proof, a research group based at the University of Toronto. The figures come from Statistics Canada data and they include all Canadian provinces, but not the territories. More than a quarter of Canadians lived in food-insecure households in 2024, which is a record high, the report said. Newfoundland and Labrador had the third-highest rate of overall food insecurity among the provinces, behind Alberta and Saskatchewan. More than half of all single-parent families in the province – 56.8 per cent – were food insecure last year, according to the Statistics Canada data used by Proof. The group defines food insecurity as 'the inadequate or insecure access to food due to financial constraints.' 'It is a serious public health problem, a marker of pervasive material deprivation, and a matter of public policy,' the Proof website says. The group's report prompted anti-poverty non-profit Food First Newfoundland and Labrador to call on the provincial government to re-examine its poverty-reduction strategies. 'These statistics are not surprising, but they are also not inevitable,' said Josh Smee, the group's chief executive, in a news release earlier this week. 'People in this province are under tremendous pressure right now to afford the food they need, and there are many ways that pressure could be relieved.' Danielle Seward agrees that something needs to be done. The executive director of the Single Parent Association of Newfoundland and Labrador said many of the people using her organization's food bank are seeking help for the first time. Many are skilled professionals with good jobs whose rents and electricity bills have gone up, leaving them far less money to pay for groceries. 'I think a lot of folks would be shocked to see the vast diversity amongst our clients, and to see how many of them are in very successful working positions,' Seward said in an interview. 'The cost of everything has increased exponentially, whereas the incomes for these professional occupations haven't.' 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. Increasing income support rates would help some of her clients, but not all of them, she added. The provincial government needs to take food insecurity seriously and assemble a team to find solutions, Seward said. And they could start, she suggested, by looking at ways to reduce the cost of groceries, perhaps by offering money to offset the high cost of shipping to the island of Newfoundland, and to the more remote communities of Labrador. Seward is also worried about the summer months, when parents don't have a breakfast or lunch program to rely on. It's one of the busiest times of year at the association's food bank. 'For single-parent families, the summer is the most critical time of the year for food insecurity,' she said. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 17, 2025.
