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Sharad Pawar's bags were checked by the poll personnel at Baramati helipad in Maharashtra's Pune district on Sunday morning, according to his associate. Pawar was on way to attend a poll rally in Solapur, the associate said. The model of code of conduct is enforced in the state for the assembly elections scheduled on November 20. «While Pawar saheb was on his way to Karmala poll rally in Solapur, his bags were checked at the Baramati helipad. After the due checking, he boarded the chopper and proceeded for the rally,» the associate said.

credit risk funds maintained their trend of consistent outflows. The positive inflow boosted the asset base of debt mutual funds by 11 per cent to Rs 16.64 lakh crore in October-end from Rs 14.97 lakh crore at the end of September, according to data with Association of Mutual Funds on India (Amfi). As per the data, debt mutual funds attracted inflows of Rs 1.57 lakh crore in October, marking a sharp reversal from the outflows of Rs 1.14 lakh crore recorded in September.

Ramvir Singh Bidhuri to spell out its poll promises and vision for Delhi ahead of the assembly polls due in February next year. The committee includes three former Union ministers, as well as other experienced party leaders, including Harsh Vardhan, Meenakshi Lekhi, Vijay Goel, Arvinder Singh Lovely Parvesh Verma, Satish Upadhyay and MLA Ajay Mahawar, a Delhi BJP statement said. Bidhuri charged that Delhi was turned into a «slum» under the AAP's 10-year rule with the collapse of basic facilities like roads, drains, drinking water and civic infrastructure, and the BJP manifesto will explain how a turnaround will be brought about if the party won the election. «The manifesto document will also script how the BJP will fulfil the aspirations and needs of Delhi people that were neglected and betrayed by AAP,» he said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shomie Das, who was successively principal of three well-known boarding schools, Mayo College, Lawrence School, Sanawar, and The Doon School from 1969-95, had radically unconventional ideas about education, gleaned from German and Austrian educationists and the product of his own innate liberalism and innovativeness. His ideas about education have a relevance well beyond the three posh schools he headed because they were contrary to the priorities of Indian education, then and now.

A team of police officials from Hyderabad and Odisha reached the village and raided the house of the in-laws of accused Gopal Behera. Gopal, who is absconding at present, worked in an agro-based company in Hyderabad and he had allegedly stolen more than Rs 20 lakhs from the company locker.

The 21-year-old suspect, surnamed Xu, was caught at the scene and he confessed to his crime, according to a statement released by the public security bureau of Yixing, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. According to the police, Xu, a graduate of the school this year, returned to the school to vent his anger for not receiving his graduation certificate due to failing exams and for dissatisfaction with his internship pay.

Seema, a housewife who has been grieving for her twins lost in the blaze at the neonatal hospital, said that official apathy led to the incident. «I don't want to recall the incident in which I lost my two children. It was not the fault of just one person. It was the fault of the whole administration and there (Jhansi) also the same must have happened,» Seema said, adding such incidents will keep happening till it is rectified.

Iraq's Yazidi religious minority a decade ago. Then last year, the 20-year-old started receiving messages from a Facebook account he didn't recognize, asking about his missing brother, Rojin. «Can you give me a call?» the person asked.

Aditya Birla Group has invested about USD 20 billion, mainly in manufacturing space, as it looks to be among the top two players across the segments it operates in, a top company official said on Saturday. Speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Aditya Birla Group Chairman KM Birla said the group firm has taken tough decisions, including the acquisition of Novelis by Hindalco, to build scale and aims to expand cement business from 100 million tonnes to 200 million tonnes over the next 10 years. He said most of the group's investments are long-term, with a business outlook over the next 15-20 years, while consumer businesses have a shorter span. «We have USD 20 billion of announced investments that are on the ground. Obviously, you look at it because a lot of them are in the manufacturing space. You would look at the next 15-20 years. Shorter than that doesn't make sense in that kind of business… If, on the other hand, you're looking at fashion retail or jewellery retail or financial services, then you are looking at a much shorter time frame,» Birla said.

BJP had made Parliament «hostage» and was not allowing discussions on the floor of the House but it was Rahul Gandhi who compelled the Narendra Modi government to hear the voices of all parties, senior Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala said on Saturday. The Congress general secretary and the party's Karnataka in charge was answering a query on Union parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju's statement earlier in the day that «the standard of debates in the Lok Sabha has gone down since Rahul Gandhi's arrival». «The BJP made Parliament hostage and there were no discussions. However, after Rahul Gandhi became leader of opposition (in the Lok Sabha), he compelled the government to have discussions and hear the voice of every party,» Surjewala said.

Kiren Rijuju on Saturday said that the standard of debates in the Lok Sabha has gone down since Congress leader Rahul Gandhi entered Parliament. Addressing a press conference, the Union minister of parliamentary and minority affairs, who is here to campaign for the November 20 Maharashtra election, said there is an undercurrent in favour of the BJP and Mahayuti, and the Ladki Bahin scheme will benefit the ruling alliance. «The standard of debates in the Lok Sabha has gone down since Rahul Gandhi's arrival. We have people who can talk and debate, but the Congress seems to have no one, and those who want to debate are afraid of Rahul Gandhi,» he said. Rijiju claimed that many senior Congress MPs have told him they want debates and discussions, but the Leader of Opposition is not concerned because he cannot debate and reads chits given by some NGOs.

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Donald Trump privately held «more nuanced» positions on Ukraine, days after he spoke with the president-elect of the United States by phone. Trump's reelection in last week's US presidential vote has raised concerns he could withdraw Washington's significant support for Ukraine once back in the White House. On the campaign trail, the Republican claimed he could end the fighting within hours and that he would talk directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Dr. Gerba's groundbreaking study, published in the Journal of Dairy, Food, and Environmental Sanitation, highlighted the role that communal kitchen sponges and dishcloths play in spreading harmful bacteria across office kitchen surfaces. «Coliform bacteria were present on 20 per cent of the coffee cups before wiping, but after using a dishcloth or sponge, 100 per cent of the cups tested positive for bacteria,» he explained. He also noted that while no E. coli was found on the cups prior to being wiped down, 20 per cent tested positive for the bacterium afterward.

Akhilesh Yadav on Friday criticized the BJP-led government, accusing it of undermining the Constitution while emphasizing his party's commitment to safeguarding democracy. «The government that does encounters doesn't trust the Constitution,» said Yadav during a public rally in support of Dr Charu Kain, the Samajwadi Party candidate for Khair constituency. «We have worked to educate people about the Constitution and the INDIA alliance has gained widespread support. But that doesn't mean the ruling party cannot meddle with it. We, the Samajwadi Party, will continue to protect the Constitution and our democracy,» he added. Taking a jibe at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Yadav said, «Sadhus and saints speak less, but in 'kalyug' (the current age), they are speaking more.»

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Donald Trump's vision for education revolves around a single goal: to rid America's schools of perceived " wokeness " and «left-wing indoctrination.» The president-elect wants to keep transgender athletes out of girls' sports. He wants to forbid classroom lessons on gender identity and structural racism. He wants to abolish diversity and inclusion offices. Throughout his campaign, the Republican depicted schools as a political battleground to be won back from the left. Now that he's won the White House, he plans to use federal money as leverage to advance his vision of education across the nation.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake took a large lead Friday in early results from the parliamentary elections, in an apparent solid mandate for his program for economic revival. Dissanayake's National People's Power Party won 15 of the 22 electoral districts whose results have been released so far by the Elections Commission. Dissanayake was elected president on Sept. 21 in a rejection of traditional political parties that have governed the island nation since its independence from British rule in 1948. But he received just 42% of the votes, fueling questions over his party's outlook in Thursday's parliamentary elections. But the party received large increases in support less than two months into his presidency.

Rising electricity demand and ambitious targets for renewable energy capacity expansion, over the next few years led to fund managers buying stocks like NHPC, KEI, Inox Wind Energy and IEX. With government spending likely to resume in the second-half of the fi nancial year, some fund managers bought into cement stocks like Ramco Cement and Ambuja Cement.