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Over 6 Lakh Indians Gave Up Citizenship Since 2017: Union Home Ministry HiIndia Newsdesk

in the 2016-20 period, 1,106 got it in 2016, 817 in 2017, 628 in 2018, 987 in 2019 and 639 in 2020, Union minister for state for home affairs Nityanand Rai said in a written reply.

On the other hand, of the 6,07,650 who gave up their citizenship in the 2017-21 period, 1,33,049 gave it up in 2017, 1,34,561 in 2018, 1,44,017 in 2019, 85,248 in 2020 and 1,11,287 in the first nine months of this year.

Four of every 10 applicants received Indian citizenship

New Delhi: Over the last four years, from 2017 to September this year, 6,07,650 persons relinquished their Indian citizenship. On the other hand, just 4,177 persons were granted citizenship between 2016 and 2020, data from the Union home ministry has revealed.

Simply put, for every one person who has been granted Indian citizenship in the past four years and more, 145 persons have forgone their citizenship.

The above data was provided by the home ministry to the Lok Sabha in response to Congress MP from Kerala Hibi Eden’s query.

Of the 4,177 people who were granted citizenship

According to the data furnished by the ministry, for nearly every 10 people who applied for Indian citizenship during the 2016-20 period, only four actually got it.

The number of applicants was 2,262 in 2016, 855 in 2017 and 1,758 in 2018. Then it shot up sharply to 4,224 in 2019 but then fell to 1,546 in 2020. In all, 10,645 people applied for Indian citizenship during this five year period.

Most applications for citizenship came from Pakistan The maximum number of applications for Indian citizenship came from citizens of Pakistan. As many as 7,782 residents of that country applied for Indian citizenship between 2016-2020. There was a marked increase in the number of applications from Pakistanis in 2019 when they rose to 3,095 only to drop to the earlier levels the following year.

After Pakistan, most applications were received from the US (227), followed by Sri Lanka (205), Bangladesh (184), Nepal (167), Kenya (135), the UK (82), Iran (54) and Canada (44). People from the “stateless” category formed another large group of applicants with 452 applications.

To a query by Eden on the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC) and the progress made so far, the minister replied that CAA was notified on December 12, 2019 and came into force on January 10, 2020.

He added that “the persons covered under the CAA may apply for citizenship after the rules are notified under the CAA”. As for the NRIC, he said the government had not taken any decision to prepare it at the national level.

Citizenship applications were invited in May 2021 under the 1955 Act

The rules for CAA haven’t been framed yet despite the fact that the Act concerned was enacted nearly two years ago. The CAA provides for a fast track route to citizenship for non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

In May this year, the Centre allowed Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Christians and Buddhists from these three countries, and who are residing in certain 13 districts of India, to apply for the host country’s citizenship. However, the applications were invited under the Citizenship Act of 1955 since the rules pertaining to the amended Act are yet to be finalised.

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Business World Buy now pay later boom shows no signs of slowing this holiday season HiIndia Newsdesk

7% of shoppers said they will be using buy now, pay later as a payment method for holiday purchases this year, according to a CNBC/Momentive Small Business Survey.

The buy now, pay later phenomenon is showing little signs of slowing down.

Shoppers have flocked to the option over the last year as online shopping has surged amid the pandemic, benefiting fintech companies like Affirm, Klarna, and Square’s Afterpay, while also prompting other payment platforms like PayPal to move further in that direction and threatening banks and credit card companies.

Use of BNPL poised to grow this holiday season, according to a recent CNBC survey. Seven percent of shoppers said they will be using BNPL for holiday purchases this year, according to the CNBC/Momentive Small Business Survey for Small Business Saturday. The survey was conducted by Momentive from Nov. 10 to Nov. 12 and included 2,744 respondents.

While that 7% still pares in comparison to other traditional payment methods – 55% of shoppers say that will use debit cards, 51% will pay with credit cards, and 43% say they will use cash – experts say that percentage could easily be doubled or tripled in the next year. “The important thing is not the 7% adoption number, but the fact that the number is growing,” said Lex Sokolin, head economist and global fintech cohead at ConsenSys.

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But they’ve turned into money-making machines for banks, who collected $15.47 billion in 2019 — almost two-thirds of their reported fee revenue for the year, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

The fees hit a record high this year, averaging $33.58 each time someone overdraws their checking account, according to Bankrate’s 2021 Checking Account and ATM Fee Study.

HiIndia Newsdesk Overdraft fees can be especially pernicious Earlier this week, Capital One joined a growing because banks can charge them multiple number of banks eliminating all overdraft and times in one day, depending on how many non-sufficient fund (NSF) fees for customers. transactions a consumer makes. Minority That’s good news for consumers. Overdraft fees customers and those considered financially are considered a “convenience” for customers, vulnerable are most likely to be dinged by ensuring that their purchases aren’t declined. these fees, reports have found.

RBI May Launch Digital FM warns of unhealthy Currency Pilot Next speculation Year, Says Report HiIndia Newsdesk

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Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India‘s digital currency may see its pilot launch in the first quarter of the next fiscal year, a senior central bank officer said at the State Bank of India‘s Banking and Economic Conclave as reported by a local newspaper.

“I think somewhere it was said that at least by the first quarter of next year a pilot could be launched.

So we are bullish on that,” the Business Standard newspaper quoted P. Vasudevan, chief general manager (CGM) at the Department of Payment Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said a lot of speculation was & Settlement of the RBI as having said. taking place on cryptocurrencies. Her Central bank digital currencies or CBDCs are digital or virtual currencies that are basically the comments come against the backdrop of digital version of fiat currencies, for India that the government preparing to come out with a legislation to regulate cryptocurrencies. would be its domestic currency rupee.

Previously, the central bank governor had said The finance minister said there is certainly a soft launch of the CBDC could be expected by a well consulted bill which is coming in December but there has been no official timeline Parliament after the Cabinet nod.

“There is a lot of speculation...that’s not committed to by the RBI. healthy at all,” she said in a reply to a question “We are on the job and we are looking into the various issues and nuances related to CBDC. It’s if she thinks that a lot of unregulated not a simple thing to just say that CBDC can be a speculation is taking place on crypto. habit from tomorrow on,” Vasudevan said, adding The Cryptocurrency and Regulation of that a CBDC could have a useful role depending Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021 has been on how it is implemented and there should be no included in the Lok Sabha Bulletin-Part II for the introduction in the Winter Session. hurry to launch it

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A top U.S. banking regulator is cautioning firms to ensure they have robust policies to protect themselves from cyberattacks, saying it is seeing an uptick in ransomware attacks, it said in a report issued Monday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top U.S. banking regulator is cautioning firms to ensure they have robust policies to protect themselves from cyberattacks, saying it is seeing an uptick in ransomware attacks, it said in a report issued Monday.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said banks must have in place “robust” systems to identify threats and vulnerabilities in their technology, and should back up key systems and records in isolation to guard against hackers looking to disrupt systems for a payout.

In its semiannual risk report, the OCC also cautioned banks to be vigilant about third-party relationships, noting bad actors are increasingly exploiting outside vulnerabilities to conduct “malicious cyber activities.”

The OCC also said credit risk remains moderate for banks, as loan portfolios have weathered the pandemic due to good risk management by banks and government relief programs.

However, the OCC noted that banks face some challenges helping clients navigate the conclusion of some of those programs, like the Paycheck Protection Program, leaving banks with heightened compliance responsibilities.

On climate, the OCC said it was continuing to work to build a new climate risk framework for nationals banks it supervises, which it plans to first roll out with the nation’s largest, most complex firms.

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China warns US of action if it boycotts Winter Olympics

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The White House said on Monday US government officials would boycott the Beijing games because of China’s human rights atrocities The US will have to “pay a price” for its diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China said on Tuesday, just weeks after talks aimed at easing tense relations between the two sides.

The White House said on Monday US

government officials would boycott the Winter Olympics because of China’s human rights “atrocities”, although US athletes were free to travel there to compete.

The US boycott, encouraged for months by some members of Congress and rights advocacy groups, comes despite an effort to stabilise ties, with a video meeting last month between US President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping.

China opposes the boycott and would take “resolute countermeasures”, foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a regular media briefing in Beijing, host city of the 2008 Summer Olympics, on Tuesday. “The United States will pay a price for its mistaken acts,” he said, without giving details. “Let’s all wait and see.”

Covid-19 cases are rising among children in South African hospitals HiIndia Newsdesk

The number of coronavirus cases in South Africa continues to rise exponentially in a fourth wave of infections that epidemiologists believe is driven by Omicron.

The children had gone to the hospital for various reasons: One had jaundice, another malaria.

A third had a broken bone. But once they were admitted, they all tested positive for the coronavirus, a worrying trend in South African

Australia deputy PM tests positive for Covid after UK visit

hospitals that hints at how transmissible the new variant, omicron, may be.

The doctors in the children’s wards of two large hospitals in Johannesburg say they have not seen a spike in admissions, and they still do not know whether the children have omicron. But the increase in the number of those who test positive after coming in may provide a glimpse into the behavior of the heavily mutated variant that was discovered just last month, and about which little is known.

Pfizer and BioNTech have said a booster jab of their coronavirus vaccine promises to be an effective defence against the new Omicron variant.

Three doses provide a similar level of antibodies against Omicron to that of two doses against other variants, the companies said after a small study.

The World Health Organization (WHO) earlier said vaccines should still work against severe Omicron cases.

Researchers across the world are piecing together data about Omicron.

It is the most heavily mutated version of coronavirus found so far.

In a statement on Wednesday, Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla said protection against the variant would be improved with a third dose of the jab.

"Ensuring as many people as possible are fully vaccinated with the first two dose series and a booster remains the best course of action to prevent the spread of Covid-19," he said.

However, Pfizer and BioNTech noted that the results were preliminary and said they would continue to collect data and "evaluate real-world effectiveness".

Tokyo allows same-sex marriages HiIndia Newsdesk

UN halts food aid to Ethiopian towns after looting

Critics say LGBT couples still face disadvantages in areas such as taxation even under such partnership arrangements HiIndia Newsdesk

Australia's deputy prime minister has tested positive for coronavirus after arriving in the US on an official visit. Barnaby Joyce said he believed he had been infected while visiting the UK earlier this week. He said he was now in isolation and experiencing mild flu-like symptoms.

Mr Joyce met with UK cabinet ministers including Dominic Raab and Grant Shapps while in London, before travelling to Washington DC on Wednesday. It is unclear what transmission risk he posed. No other members of the Australian government delegation have tested positive so far.

Mr Joyce said he had returned negative tests before leaving the UK, but upon arrival in the US he felt some fatigue and pain in his legs.

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The World Food Programme has suspended food aid distribution in Ethiopia's Dessie and Kombolcha towns after its warehouses were looted by rebel Tigray forces. The UN said WFP staff were unable to prevent the stealing after facing extreme intimidation including being held at gunpoint during the theft. It says that large quantities of food supplies - including nutritional items for malnourished children - were looted in Kombolcha in recent days. A UN spokesman also accused government troops of commandeering three WFP humanitarian lorries and using them for their own purposes. Kombolcha and Dessie, which sit on the crucial highway to the capital Addis Ababa, were this week recaptured by federal forces led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

The Tokyo Metropolitan government will start a system that effectively allows same-sex marriage in Japan’s capital in the next fiscal year from April, Japan’s Kyodo news wire reported Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike as saying on Tuesday.

The local government for the city with a population of 14 million plans to introduce “same-sex partnership” after its local assembly unanimously called for such a move, Kyodo said.

Some local wards in Tokyo as well as some other local municipalities have already introduced a similar plan that officially recognises same-sex couples.

But critics say LGBT couples still face disadvantages in areas such as taxation even under such partnership arrangements.

A local court in Sapporo in northern Japan ruled in March that same-sex couples not being able to marry is “unconstitutional”, the first ruling in Japan on the legality of same-sex marriage.

Both houses of Chile’s congress voted on Tuesday to approve a marriage equality bill that also includes authorisation for adoptions by same-sex couples.

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Putin Signals Change of Tone on Ukraine After Biden Call HiIndia Newsdesk

Despite concerns in recent days that a Russian invasion of Ukraine appeared imminent, the Russian leader a day after a high-profile summit offered new cooperation with the White House.

Russia President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday characterized his virtual meeting with President Joe Biden the day before as open, substantive and constructive, and he announced that the Kremlin would within a week – perhaps even days – present the U.S. with new proposals on joint security issues.

Putin detailed his take on the call at a press

Africa needs China and the US to work together HiIndia Newsdesk

Seventeen African countries are taking part in a two-day Democracy summit hosted by US President Joe Biden, billed as an event to discuss ways to defend against the rise of authoritarianism. Observers say it highlights the contrasting priorities of the US and China on the continent.

The summit comes just over a week after the triennial Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (Focac) was held in Senegal's capital, Dakar, which has grown in significance as China became the continent's largest trade partner.

China's President Xi Jinping announced investments of at least $40bn (£30bn) in projects spanning agriculture, digital economy, climate change, industrialisation, as well as one billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines in donation and joint manufacturing.

"It appears counterintuitive, but the more democratic a country, the closer they get to China," said W Gyude Moore, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development.

"The biggest need in Africa happens to be infrastructure, and the funder to turn to in the last 20 years has been China," he added.

conference Wednesday morning, acknowledging the principal topic of Ukraine but also the importance of discussions about cybersecurity – amid U.S. accusations of a Russian-backed hacking campaign – and the value of keeping an open dialogue. We agreed that an appropriate structure will be created that will be able to do this professionally,” the Russian leader said, according to a translation of his remarks.

The announcement, though seemingly bureaucratic, indicates the Biden administration has succeeded in at least one of its goals for the high-profile encounter: moving heightened tensions in the Washington-Moscow relationship away from Putin’s provocative military action around Ukraine and instead toward matters of broader mutual concern.

Several senior officials within the administration this week have, at times awkwardly, attempted to push bold rhetoric about the strong military response the U.S. is willing to employ were Russia to follow through on its threats to undermine or even invade Ukraine, a former Soviet republic. But they are also quick to shift the conversation to the economic and diplomatic measures they appear more comfortable in wielding – not in the least because those don’t center on ultimately going to war over Ukraine, which Russia, at least, appears willing to do.

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Countries weigh whether to join diplomatic boycott of Olympics HiIndia Newsdesk

Neither President Joe Biden nor other US officials are going, but the Russian leader might. New Zealand says it decided months ago that its diplomats would not be attending. On Wednesday, Australia said its officials would be staying home, too. Political leaders of other nations are expected to bow out, too, whether they announce an explicit reason or not.

In less than two months, China will open the 24th Winter Olympics in Beijing under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic and now also a diplomatic boycott intended to protest the host country’s repressive policies. The White House announcement on Monday that it would send no official delegation prompted anger in Beijing, where Chinese officials on Tuesday once again vowed to retaliate. Although the effect of Biden’s decision on other countries remains to be seen, several have already signaled that they, too, will seek ways to express displeasure with China’s policies while stopping short of prohibiting athletes from attending.

U.S. Threatens ‘Extreme’ Sanctions if Russia Invades Ukraine HiIndia Newsdesk

Better.com CEO apologises after laying off 900 employees via Zoom call HiIndia Newsdesk

Vi s h a l G a r g , who has come under intense criticism after the SoftBankspecific details of President Joe Biden’s backed threats to Russian President Vladimir company laid Putin in a call that concluded moments off about 9% of before. its workforce The administration is preparing “Day through the video call, said he 1 measures, Day 5 measures, Day had “blundered the execution” of 10 measures,” the most extreme of communicating the layoffs. which will include a military response, “I realize that the way I communicated Victoria Nuland, undersecretary of this news made a difficult situation state for political affairs, told the Senate worse,” Garg said in a letter dated Foreign Relations Committee shortly Tuesday. The CEO had cited the after the end of the two leaders’ highly market, performance and productivity anticipated call. However, Nuland as reasons behind the decision to lay quickly shifted the subject back to off employees in the United States and potential economic sanctions.

India.

Top diplomat Victoria Nuland briefed Congress on the Biden administration’s plan to deter Russian aggression moments after Biden completed his highly anticipated call with Putin.

The U.S. response to Russia if it proceeds with an invasion of Ukraine will be “far harsher” than retribution for its last intervention in the former Soviet state, a top State Department official told Congress on Tuesday, offering the first

US lawmakers reach deal to overhaul how military handles sexual assault cases HiIndia Newsdesk

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), left, speaks during a news conference introducing the Vanessa Guillén Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act in Washington, June 23, 2021, as Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), second from left, looks on.

House and Senate negotiators reached a landmark agreement Tuesday that would strip military commanders of most of their

authority to prosecute sexual assaults and myriad other criminal cases, a move that Pentagon leaders, lawmakers and presidents have resisted for nearly a generation. The legislation, part of a broad defense policy bill, comes after nearly two decades of efforts by female lawmakers and survivors’ groups, and despite fierce last-minute lobbying against the proposal by military lawyers.

Under the agreement, independent military prosecutors would replace commanders in determining whether those accused of sexual assault, rape, murder, domestic violence and an array of other offenses would be prosecuted. Sexual harassment would

be criminalized but would not fall under the special prosecutor structure, a concession to opponents of the changes. The measure does not go as far as Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has long sought, and she vowed to fight for further changes in the new year. But the new system would be a sea change in the approach to the intransigent issue of sexual assault in the military. Don Christensen, a former chief prosecutor of the US Air Force who is now president of Protect Our Defenders, a nonprofit organization that has worked on the issue for a decade, called the new legislation “the most significant military justice reform in our nation’s history.”

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Top priority is to streamline how Twitter operates: Parag Agrawal HiIndia Newsdesk

Indian-origin USAF doctor chosen by NASA for as astronauts future missions HiIndia Newsdesk

Houston: Indian-origin physician Anil Menon, a lieutenant colonel at the US Air Force, has been selected

by NASA along with nine others to be astronauts for future missions, the American space agency has announced.

Menon, 45, was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Ukrainian and Indian immigrants.

He was SpaceX’s first flight surgeon, helping to launch the company’s first humans to space during NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission and building a medical organisation to support the human system during future missions.

In a statement, NASA announced that it has chosen 10 new astronaut candidates from a field of more than 12,000 applicants to represent the US and work for humanity’s benefit in space.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson introduced the members of the 2021 astronaut class, the first new class in four years, during a Monday, December 6 event at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. “ To day we welcome 10 ne w explorers, 10 members of the Artemis generation, NASA’s 2021 astronaut candidate class,” Nelson said.

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San Francisco: New Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has said that his top priority in the new role is to improve the company's execution and streamline how the micro-blogging platform operates.

Agrawal, appearing for the first time since replacing Jack Dorsey at the Barclays technology conference late on Tuesday, said the company was "operating previously in a functional structure where we had a single engineering organisation, a single design research organisation, and product teams that were matrixed into

London HC rules in favour of Boris Johnson in Priti Patel case HiIndia Newsdesk

The FDA Union filed the case against the fact that Johnson had gone against the conclusion reached by Sir Alex Allan, then his independent adviser on ministerial standards, to protect Patel.

The two-judge bench said: "The question for this court is whether the Prime Minister proceeded on the basis that conduct would fall within the description of bullying with paragraph 1.2 of the ministerial code if the person

concerned was unaware of, or did not intend, the harm or offence caused."

It added: "Reading the statement (made

by Johnson at the time) as a whole, and in context, we do not consider that the Prime Minister misdirected himself in that way."

In November last year, Sir Alex found that Patel had not always treated civil servants with "consideration and respect". He went on to say in his report to Johnson: "Her approach on occasions has amounted to behaviour that can be described as bullying in terms of the impact felt by the individuals. To that extent, her behaviour has been in breach of the ministerial code, even if unintentionally."

The Prime Minister is the final arbiter on such complaints. His interpretation was that Patel was "unaware" of the disquiet she had caused. And that he had received an assurance from her that she was "sorry for inadvertently upsetting those with whom she was working".

them."

The new Twitter CEO has already begun restructuring the company and two senior executives have already stepped down as part of the reorganisation plan.

According to The Verge, Agrawal rejigged the company under the key pillars of Consumer, Revenue, and Core Tech. "I believe we have set them up so they can really move fast," he said at the conference. Along with the three new general managers -- who are Kayvon Beykpour, Bruce Falck, and Nick Caldwell -- Lindsey Iannucci was named VP of Operations at Twitter.

Month after moving to Canada, Jalandhar girl lands in ICU HiIndia Newsdesk

Jalandhar: The dreams of a 23-yearold physiotherapy passout girl from a local college who made it to Canada nearly two months back have shattered.

Barely five weeks after she landed in Toronto, Kanika met with an accident in which she suffered serious head injuries. Since she got unconscious, the doctors there conducted two brain surgeries immediately after the accident. After a month long treatment, she remains paralytic on the left side and the doctors have said the treatment could take several months. While the girl’s mother Anju is working in a private school, her father Paramjit Singh is in a government job.

Vishal Garg: US boss fires 900 employees over Zoom HiIndia Newsdesk

The boss of a US firm has been criticised after he fired around 900 of his staff on a single Zoom call.

"If you're on this call you're part of the unlucky group being laid off," said Vishal Garg, chief executive of mortgage firm Better.com, on the call, later uploaded to social media.

Comments on social media said it was "cold", "harsh" and "a horrible move", especially in the run up to Christmas.

"Last time I did [this] I cried," Mr Garg told the staff on the call.

"I wish the news were different. I wish we were thriving," he said. This time his tone was measured and he referred to notes on the desk in front of him.

Mr Garg said staff performance and productivity, and market changes lay behind the mass-firing of what the BBC: "Having to conduct layoffs is gut-wrenching, he said was 15% of Better.com's workforce. especially this time of year." He added, however, that He did not mention the $750m (£565m) cash infusion having "a fortress balance sheet and a reduced and Better.com received from Softbank, the Japanese firm focused workforce" was necessary to take on the and key investor, last week. "radically evolving homeownership market".

Better.com's chief finance officer, Kevin Ryan, told

Vishal Garg's announcement to staff

"Hi everyone, thank you for joining. I come to you with not great news. The market has changed, as you know, and we have to move with it in order to survive so that hopefully we can continue to thrive and deliver on our mission.

"This isn't news that you're going to want to hear but ultimately it was my decision and I wanted you to hear it from me. It's been a really, really challenging decision to make. This is the second time in my career that I'm doing this and I do not want to do this. The last time I did it I cried. This time I hope to be stronger. But we are laying off about 15% of the company for [a number of] reasons: the market, efficiency and performances and productivity.

"If you're on this call you are part of the unlucky group that is being laid off. Your employment here is terminated. Effective immediately."

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South India News Karnataka: AAP leaders meet Governor, seek judicial probe into ‘commission’ allegations AAP Karnataka convener Prithvi Reddy also objected to CM Basavaraj Bommai asking the Chief Secretary to investigate the matter.

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The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Karnataka convener, Prithvi Reddy, has submitted a letter of appeal to the Governor demanding a judicial probe regarding the allegation of 40% commission in government tenders.

Speaking to the reporters after meeting Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot on Tuesday, Prithvi Reddy said, “D Kempanna, the president of Karnataka State Contractors’ Association, in a letter to the Prime Minister, had exposed the corruption and illegalities involved in the tender works. He had revealed the percentage details in government departments, such as the Public Works Department, Minor Irrigation and Water Resources Department, Major Irrigation Department, Panchayat Raj Department, Health Department, BBMP etc. These are serious allegations and hence need proper investigation.”

He added, “Regarding the illegalities, we had made an appeal to the Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai demanding a probe under the leadership of a High Court judge.

However, the CM has ordered the Chief Secretary to investigate the tenders of only the last three months.

Hyderabad Doctor With Speeding History Hits Pedestrians, 4 Injured HiIndia Newsdesk

Bengaluru doctor with Omicron tests positive again, recovering well HiIndia Newsdesk

Hyderabad: Two doctors in Hyderabad's Madhapur have been charged with "causing hurt by rash and negligent acts" after the car they were in seriously injured four people trying to cross the road.

The person at the wheel was reportedly a Dr Nikhil Reddy, 26, who has six challans - five for speeding - against him. Dr Reddy's blood alcohol level was 116mg/100 ml, against the limit

of 30mg/100ml.

Also in the car - a Kia Seltos - was a Dr Akhil Reddy.

Both Nikhil Reddy and Akhil Reddy - who have only just graduated and are waiting to do their PG courses - have not been physically arrested, Circle Inspector Ravindra Prasad told. he third doctor in the car was not drunk, police said.

In more horrific news, five other people were killed in three separate road accidents in Hyderabad.

The drivers of two cars involved were drunk; in one case, the driver's blood alcohol level was a staggering five times over the limit.

Former Andhra Pradesh CM Konijeti Rosaiah passes away at 88

A 46-year-old Bengaluru doctor, who is among the first cases of Omicron variant of coronavirus in India, has again tested positive for Covid-19. His reports came late on Monday night.

The anesthesiologist had tested Covid-positive on November 22. Later, genome sequencing of his samples had revealed that he was infected with the Omicron variant. According to health officials, his last RT-PCR test was conducted on November 29 and as per the health ministry guidelines, he was subjected to the test again in which he remained positive for the virus. Speaking to reporters, the doctor said that he did not have any travel history and is still unaware how he could have been infected with the variant.

Cyberabad CP holds review meeting on road safety

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Political leaders of all parties across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana condoled the death of former Andhra Pradesh C hief Minister Konij et i Rosaiah, who passed away in Hyderabad Saturday. Rosaiah died while being taken to a hospital after his blood pressure plummeted. He was 88.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao visited Rosaiah’s home and paid his tributes. The CM recalled that Rosaiah, who rendered his services as the Finance Minister, Chief Minister and Governor, brought laurels to the posts he held.

Two held with 4.5 kg ganja in Coimbatore

Hyderabad: Cyberabad Commissioner of Police M Stephen Raveendra held a review meeting on road safety with traffic officials on Tuesday.

During the meeting, he discussed about the various road safety initiatives adopted to redress traffic issues and road safety measures. Issues related to prevention road accidents, road safety, traffic education, traffic engineering and works, road engineering, water logging and junction improvement were also discussed.

The Cyberabad police decided to hold joint inspections of hot spots along with officials of other departments to reduce fatalities and injuries on roads.

Two ganja peddlers were arrested in the city on Tuesday and over four kg of the contraband seized from them, police said.

Based on a tip-off that ganja business was taking place behind Gandhipuiram central bus stand here, police rushed to the spot and found two youths moving about in a suspicious manner.

On interrogation and search, police recovered 4.5 kg of ganja, Rs 2,640 cash and three mobile phones from Sahabudeen and Jishnur, both residents of the city, police said.

Meanwhile, city and rural police chiefs have received circulars from DGP C Sylendra Babu directing them to put and end to the activities of ganja peddlers and ganja business near educational institutions within one month, police said.

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Decision To Sack Virat Kohli As ODI Captain Taken By Selectors: Sources HiIndia Newsdesk

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Last week, farmers said Home Minister Amit Shah spoke to them (via a phone call) to discuss outstanding issues.

New Delhi: Farmers who have been protesting for over 15 months against the (now scrapped) farm laws and other issues including a legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price (MSP) have announced that they will end their protest on Saturday, December 11, and return to their homes.

The farmers’ unions have planned a Fateh Ardas (victory prayer) at 5:30 pm today, and a Fateh March (victory march) at Singhu and Tikri protest sites on Delhi’s borders on December 11 around 9 am, sources said, and added that Punjab farm leaders plan to pay obeisance at the

Tri-service probe ordered into IAF chopper crash that killed CDS Rawat HiIndia Newsdesk

Golden Temple in Amritsar on December 13. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, or SKM, will hold another meeting in Delhi on December 15. The Centre had yesterday sent a written draft proposal to the SKM’s five-member committee following a November 21 letter from the SKM to PM Modi listing six demands. Farmers had pointed out that repeal of the contentious laws was only one of the several concerns they had raised, and refused to leave after PM Modi announced the cancelling of the laws and requested them to go back.

The Centre, as part of its offer, has agreed to form a committee to decide the MSP issue. The committee will consist of government officials, agriculture experts and representatives from the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, the umbrella body of farmer unions that has led this protest.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday announced the appointment of Rohit Sharma as India’s ODI captain, with the opener replacing Virat Kohli in the role ahead of the upcoming tour to South Africa.

The decision to remove Virat Kohli as captain of India’s ODI team was taken by the national selectors and the BCCI top brass had no prior communication with him, sources have told.

“Understanding workload is a very important thing and considering my immense workload over the last 8-9 years playing all 3 formats and captaining regularly for the last 5-6 years, I feel I need to give myself space to be fully ready to lead the Indian Team in Test and ODI cricket,” Kohli had stated at the time.

Omicron patients have to be treated in designated Covid facilities HiIndia Newsdesk

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Thursday announced that a tri-service enquiry had been ordered by the Indian Air Force (IAF) into the helicopter crash that killed Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 others. The enquiry, he said, would be headed by Air Marshal Manvendra Singh, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief

Crash Survivor, Group Captain, Being Moved To Bengaluru Hospital HiIndia Newsdesk

Group Captain Varun Singh, the only survivor of the helicopter crash in which Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and 12 others were killed, is being moved by road and will be shifted to a hospital in Bengaluru.

Group Captain Singh was moved by road from a military hospital in Wellington to the Sulur Air Base, from where he will be flown to Bengaluru. He will be treated at the Command Hospital in Bengaluru.

Training Command.

Speaking in Lok Sabha, Singh expressed profound grief over the demise of Rawat.

“With profound grief and a heavy heart, I stand to convey the unfortunate news of the crash of the military helicopter in the noon of 8th December 2021, with India’s first Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat onboard,” he said.

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan advised states and Union Territories to send samples of Omicron positive cases and their contacts to INSACOG labs for genome sequencing.

New Delhi: In the wake of Omicron cases being detected in a few places in the country, the Union health ministry on Wednesday wrote to states and union territories, stating that patients of the new coronavirus variant have to be treated in designated Covid facilities with separate isolation area.

Top Executives At Better.com Resign After CEO Vishal Garg Fires 900 On Zoom Call HiIndia Newsdesk

Three top executives have resigned from Better.com -- and more are expected to follow suit -- after the CEO of the

mortgage company fired 900 employees over a Zoom call. Leaked footage of the brutal call went massively viral on social media last week - prompting intense backlash against CEO Vishal Garg.

Mr Garg, 43, later apologised for the manner in which he handled the layoffs but that has not prevented the company’s head of marketing, head of public relations, and vice president of communications from handing in their resignation, reports The Daily Beast.

It has to be ensured that no cross infection takes place and adequate precautions are taken by healthcare workers in these facilities to prevent transmission among other patients and healthcare workers, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said in a letter to states and union territories (UTs).

Bhushan advised them to regularly review and ensure that samples of positive cases of international travellers and their contacts as well as from emerging hot spots are promptly submitted to INSACOG labs for genome sequencing according to protocol.

Further to contain spread, it is imperative that states and UTs follow a mission mode and focused approach of quickly tracking primary and secondary contacts of positive cases and facilitate testing for them, he said.

It is critical to track all contacts of such cases, quarantine them without delay and test them according to guidelines, Bhushan said.

New Zealand to ban cigarette sales for future generations HiIndia Newsdesk

New Zealand plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in one of the world’s toughest crackdowns on the tobacco industry, arguing that other efforts to extinguish smoking were taking too long. People aged 14 and under in 2027 will never be allowed to purchase cigarettes in the Pacific country of five million, part of proposals unveiled on Thursday that will also curb the number of retailers authorised to sell tobacco and cut nicotine levels in all products.

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After Omicron Cases Confirmed, “Missing” Passengers HiIndia Newsdesk

The government has said “severity of the disease (after being infected by the Omicron strain) is anticipated to be low” because of vaccination and some natural immunity

New Delhi: After India confirmed its first Omicron Covid cases, concerns have been raised over foreign arrivals - particularly those from ‘at risk’ countries - evading mandatory Covid tests and quarantine protocols, and potentially spreading the virus further.

In Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut, 13 of nearly 300 people on flights originating outside the country disappeared after providing false addresses and contact information. Seven flew in from South Africa, where the Omicron variant was first reported, news agency ANI reported. Officials are trying to track and test them for COVID-19, ANI said.

Chandigarh officials have registered a case against a woman who returned from South Africa and broke quarantine rules on landing in India. The woman landed Wednesday and tested negative on arrival.

She was asked to home quarantine for a week, but she broke isolation the following day to check into a hotel before returning home.

As many as 10 passengers - reportedly South Africans - have gone missing from Bengaluru airport. Karnataka Revenue Minister R Ashok said airport security, police and the health department are working to track them down and carry out Covid tests. This comes after a 66-year-old South African - India’s first confirmed Omicron Covid case - “fled” the country a week after landing in Bengaluru.

BJP talking to Amarinder, Dhindsa for alliance in Punjab: Amit Shah HiIndia Newsdesk

AK-203 rifles to be made in Amethi HiIndia Newsdesk

The Central government has approved a plan to produce over five lakh AK-203 assault rifles at Korwa in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi, in what official sources described as an endeavour to provide a big boost to self-reliance in defence manufacturing.

Uttar Pradesh is on way to become a defence manufacturing hub of India, they said.

9-year-old Indian American kid guest on Ellen DeGeneres Show HiIndia Newsdesk

A 9-year-old boy Anaik Sachdev impress ed T V personality Ellen DeGeneres so much that she invited him to his show. Anaik, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, founded “Anaik’s Loving Library,” an initiative he started during the peak of Covid-19 pandemic. He described on the show that his mother got Covid tand was in isolation for three weeks. Later, when his grandmother fellhe sick with Covid, she was hospitalized in isolation and had no one to interact with. During this time the family would read books to spend time and he thought of the same for his grandmother and later the underserved population.

The BJP may fight the Punjab elections in alliance with the parties of Captain Amarinder Singh and former Akali leader

Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday.

“We are talking to Captain (Amarinder Singh) saab as well as (former Akali Dal leader Sukhdev Singh) Dhindsa saab.

It is possible we will have an alliance.

As far as the farmers’ protests are concerned, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, showing a big heart to end the protests and saying, fine if you think the farm laws are not in your benefit, took them back. I don’t think there is any issue left in Punjab. Elections in Punjab will be fought on merits,” Shah said during an interview at HT Summit.

Ajaz joins Kumble, Laker in ‘10-fers’ club HiIndia Newsdesk

New Zealand spinner Ajaz Patel achieved the rarest of rare feats as he took all 10 wickets to fall in India’s first innings in Mumbai, on day 2 of the second Test at the Wankhede Stadium.

Ajaz Patel became only the third player in the history of Test cricket to do so on Saturday. He joins England’s Jim Laker and former Indian captain Anil Kumble to dismiss 10 opposition players in an innings. Ajaz continued his fine bowling performance from Day 1 where he claimed four wickets. On the morning of the second day of the ongoing Test against India, Ajaz once again tormented the Indian batters and spun a web around them to take the remaining six wickets. Ajaz ended with figures of 10 wickets for 119 runs in 47.5 overs. The fall of the 10th wicket will forever be etched in the minds of the New Zealand players with Mohammed Siraj skying the ball only to be caught at mid-on.

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Omicron-Infected Man Returned To Gujarat From Zimbabwe, India’s 3rd Case HiIndia Newsdesk

New Delhi: A man who returned from Zimbabwe has been found infected with the Omicron variant of coronavirus in Gujarat’s Jamnagar, the state health department said.

This is the third Omicron case in India.

The sample of the Jamnagar resident, a 72-year-old man, was sent for genome sequencing after he tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, news agency PTI reported quoting the state health department, adding Gujarat health commissioner Jai Prakash Shivhare has confirmed that the man was found infected with Omicron. The other two cases in India are of a 46-year-old fully vaccinated doctor from Bengaluru, who had no travel history and developed symptoms of fever and body ache, and a 66-year-old South African national who came to India with a negative COVID-19 report.

Cyclone ‘Jawad’ likely to weaken HiIndia Newsdesk

Cyclonic storm “Jawad”, currently over west-central Bay of Bengal, is likely to weaken into a deep depression before making landfall near Puri in Odisha on Sunday, the India Meteorological Department said on Saturday. At 5:30 am on Saturday, the cyclonic storm lay centered over the west-central Bay of Bengal about 230 km southeast of Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, and 410 km south-southwest of Puri, Odisha, the IMD said in a statement. “It is likely to weaken gradually and move nearly northwards during the next 12 hours and then north-northeastwards along the coast of Odisha, reaching near Puri around Dec.5 noon as a deep depression.

Biden warns Russia against Ukraine ‘red lines’ HiIndia Newsdesk

Joe Biden has warned that he will not accept “r e d l i n e s” s e t by Moscow as fears mount that Russia is planning an imminent invasion of Ukraine.

The US president said he will make it “very, very difficult” for Russia to invade its neighbour.

Meanwhile, US media has reported that intelligence officials fear an invasion could begin in early 2022. It comes as Ukraine says Russia has boosted its military at the border and amassed some 94,000 troops there. A video call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mr Biden to ease tensions is expected this week. The US President told reporters he is expecting to have a long discussion with the Russian leader, and warned that he will not “accept anybody’s red lines”.

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Bollywood is an ‘Surname and the lobby you belong to matter more than talent’

Naseeruddin Shah on his friends, ageing and death How do you confront the idea of aging in your personal life?

I confront the idea by taking care of my health, both mental and physical. What terrifies me the most is the thought of becoming an invalid. The thought of death doesn’t scare me at all. But having to depend on others to perform the basic tasks is a very frightening thought. As far as I am concerned, ever since I turned 60, I have kept myself busy learning new things. I have been learning how to read and write Urdu, how to play the flute, how to play the guitar; during the lockdown I learnt how to cook! I think it is very important. Be it any part of your body, if you don’t use it for a while it will stop working properly. If you don’t use your arm for a while it will begin to atrophy.

Similarly, you need to keep stimulating your brain. I have realised that this kind of mental instability can happen to anyone; just like a fever or a cold it can strike anybody. But just like in the case of a physical illness, you can definitely take precautions. What would be worse than me suffering from such an ailment is if this happens to someone I love. So, one has to be on one’s guard. Of course you can’t escape such thoughts but then you can’t afford to dwell on those thoughts –it does no good and leads you nowhere.

Whenever such thoughts crop up in my head, I immediately dismiss it and focus on something else. I read something or write something or play my flute. You can’t afford to indulge in such thoughts or let yourself go in that direction.

I want to have fun till I am alive. I don’t think I would be doing many such grim plays! It would be more of the lighthearted stuff

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ctor Vivek Oberoi has had a difficult of the show Inside Edge, he journey in Bollywood and was almost requested Excel producers written off at one point, but he has to put Richa Chadha’s name no regrets about the professional above his. “When I did decisions he made. Recently, the actor, who is this show (Inside Edge), has a crucial role in the web show Inside Edge, for t he sma l l women said that Bollywood has now evolved into an empowerment stor y ‘exclusive club’, where surnames are prioritised that I have in my head, I over talent. He also said that he does his best to requested Excel (producers nurture new talent.

Excel Entertainment) to Speaking about how he still treasures his put Richa Chadha’s name turbulent journey, he went on to say, “As far as above mine. Even though practical aspects of it, being ….(sounds funny technically, I have been in when I say it) being a senior who has been the industry longer than her, I around for 20 years, I do feel we have missed a said ‘no let it be starring Richa trick or two. ” Chadha and then Vivek Oberoi.

He added, “One big complaint that I have against That is fine’ and that is something my industry is that we haven’t developed the I celebrate,” he said, adding that he nursery that nurtures young talent. It is difficult. ‘celebrates’ all his women colleagues.

We made it into this exclusive club where it is “I celebrate Richa as a great actor and I either surname or who you know or which am fortunate to have worked with her. That lobby or which darbar you do a salaam at… that equanimity, that sense of doing away with all matters, not your talent. That’s unfortunate.” hierarchical structures and just being creative Vivek added that he tries his best to bring people having fun on sets, is what should drive in ‘new and fresh’ talent, and support new it,” he said. actors. He mentioned that during the course

Don Sushmita Sen redefines a ‘working mother’ in this crime thriller series

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Sushmita Sen is back fighting for her family, as the 'working mother' who is now a don. The show will land on Disney+ Hotstar on December 10.

he trailer of Sushmita Sen starrer Aarya 2 is out and it takes the story of the titular character forward. The last season ended with Aarya planning to leave the country with her children after her husband gets assassinated on her father’s orders. After getting embroiled in some illegal businesses, Aarya is now on the radar of the mob.

The trailer suggests that Aarya had, in fact, left the country but is now back and is sharpening her claws again. Shekhawat’s (Manish Chaudhary) father is out for revenge against her and so is her own brother. Even the Russian mob is pressing against her for their money. From the trailer, it looks like Aarya will have to resort to violence once again to save her family. Vikas Kumar returns as ACP Khan.

Discussing Aarya’s return in Season 2, Sushmita said in a statement, “After being nominated for the previous season for the International Emmy awards, we are supercharged for the second season. Season 2 is not just about Aarya, a strong woman but also a warrior. The new chapter is a fascinating revelation of the character and has proved to be a huge learning for me as an actor. I challenged myself by donning Aarya in a new avatar and I hope that the audiences will appreciate her fierce, unapologetic self in the second season.”

Fernandez detained at Mumbai airport

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Jacqueline Fernandez was stopped from leaving the country by immigration officials at the international airport in Mumbai on Sunday after a Look Out Circular (LOC) was issued by the Enforcement Directorate against her. She was detained briefly before she was allowed to go. This is in connection with the Sukesh Chandrashekhar extortion and money laundering case. Jacqueline, who wanted to go to Dubai for a show, will now be taken to Delhi for questioning. As per authorities, the agency will not let Jacqueline leave India till the probe is on. The ED had recently filed a chargesheet against Sukesh Chandrashekhar and others in connection with the Rs 200-crore money laundering case.

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I bounced back harder On the work front, Raveena Tandon will be seen in Netflix series Aranyak that features her as a cop named Kasturi Dogra, who is torn between investigating a case and giving time to her family, while making her presence felt in a system that favours men.

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ctor Raveena Tandon looks back at her journey of 30 years in Bollywood and says she made her way through the male dominated industry by sheer hard work. Tandon made her screen debut with the 1991 action film “Patthar Ke Phool” and emerged as one of the top female stars of the decade, featuring in money spinners like Mohra, Diwale, Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi and Bade Miyan Chote Miyan.

She is now set to make her digital debut with the Netflix series, Aranyak, which features her as a cop named Kasturi Dogra, torn between investigating a case and giving time to her family, while making her presence felt in a system that favours men.

When asked, how did Tandon navigate the patriarchal set up of Bollywood to remain consistently on the top, the actor said there were breaking points, but her will power and family always had her back.

“Perseverance, hard work will always get rewarded. If you are talented, hardworking and sincere, no one can take it away from you. It was a man’s world then but I see a great change today. There are times when you thank your family for being your backbone, for being there for you.

“You also thank those, who were not there for you, who probably tried to kick you at a time when you were down at your lowest and tried to completely bury you. I thank those people because they gave me the drive to bounce back ever harder. The harder they tried to put me down, the stronger I wanted to bounce back,” Tandon told PTI. The 47-year-old actor, who returns to the screen after the 2017 romantic drama “Shab”, said “Aranyak” offered her the opportunity to bring to the forefront the struggle women go through, juggling their personal and professional lives.

The series is directed by Vinay Vyakul, with filmmaker Rohan Sippy attached as the showrunner. The actor recalled how, when she was in her mid 20s, she was shooting for a song in Mauritius, which required her to wear a mini skirt, have two pigtails and pass off as a 16 year old.

‘Filmon mein kaam mil nahi ‘circumstances’ that raha tha’ forced him to do KBC ‘So much sweetness is not good…’

“Twitter Waleyo Mainu Pata Tusi Mera Baut Teh Mooh Karde Hon.. Par Roz Hee Mera Birthday YAAR… Love Ju Twitter .. Par baal Mithaa V sehat Lai Changa Ni.. Avi Sugar KARAO Ge Mainu. Jaan Deo YAAR.. (Twitter people, I know you love me a lot… but why is every day my birthday? Love you Twitter… but so much sweetness is not good for health, I will get diabetes. Let it be).” Excited Diljit fans still enjoy celebrating his birthday every other day, and reacted to his post with affectionate comments.

“Darasal, ikkis saal ho gaye hain. San 2000 mein iski shuruat hui thi. Aur uss samay humko pata nahi tha, sab log keh rahe they ke aap film se television mein jaa rahe hain, bade parde se chhote parde par aa rahe hain, aapki image ko nuksaan hoga. Lekin humari apni kuch paristhitiyan aisi thi ke mujhe laga ke… Filmon mein kaam jo hai wohh mil nahi raha tha, lekin pehle broadcast ke baad jiss tarah ke reaction aane shuru hue, phir aisa laga ke puri duniya mil gayi hai.

Bachchan then watched the montage, which made even Jaya and the others emotional.

He took on the KBC hosting gig after his ambitious business venture, ABCL, collapsed and he was left in massive debt. He bounced back with KBC and a starring role in the film Mohabbatein.

“Bhavuk kar diya (You made me emotional),” Bachchan said as he wiped away tears, after watching a short montage of clips from over the years, which showed him celebrating with contestants who’d won the jackpot.

‘Women hid their husbands from me’

Her vamp image spilled into real life, Bindu answered in the affirmative.

“Women would hide their husbands from me. They feared dore daalegi (I’d hit on their men). As though the husbands were so handsome! I’d laugh it off,” she said, also saying that in reality, she is actually a soft-hearted person and is sorry if someone has ever been hurt because of her. The gaalis were my awards.

She also added that whenever male fans gathered around her, their wives would pull them away.

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The General who became India's first defence chief Rawat was one of the most celebrated soldiers of his time

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South Block. He wore his ranks and elonging to a family of stars lightly, willing to speak up on military officers and one of topics that others of his stature would the most celebrated soldiers shy away from. of his time, General Bipin Lt Gen S K Saini, who retired as Vice Rawat took over as the Chief of Chief of the Army earlier this year, and Defence Staff (CDS) on January 1, 2020 – the first to occupy the post crossed paths with Rawat several times professionally, called him “unflappable” that made him the country’s foremost and said that Rawat “had a lot of military officer. Since his youth he ideas”, although, he added, “I won’t say was known for two things the most, everybody found those ideas favourable the ability to come up with ideas, and across the board.” Rawat “came up not being shy to express them. innovative solutions to manpower As CDS, he ranked above the other problems”, he said. four-star military officers heading the Navy, Air Force and Army, headed “He was very open about issues and did not mince his words. Even if they the Department of Military Affairs were offensive or they heard others, in the Defence Ministry, carving out he came out with those. Many people responsibilities that were with the got offended by what he used to say.

Department of Defence till then, and Nonetheless, he was very frank and was the Principal Military Advisor to expressed himself.” the Defence Minister on all matters “Operationally also, he had a very related to the forces.

Rawat died in a helicopter crash near extensive experience of counterCoonoor on Wednesday afternoon, insurgency operations. You along with his wife Madhulika Rawat, require people who understand ops, and remain steadfast. and officers in his staff, including Brig L S Lidder, his senior-most staff Things go wrong sooner than one realises.” officer.

When the Balakot airstrikes were As the Army’s 27th Chief, from planned, Rawat, who was the December 31, 2016, to December 31, 2019, Rawat was known as a jovial, Army Chief then, called a meeting of the Army Commanders, straight-talking officer who initiated Saini, himself an Army studies to re-organise the Army and C o m m ander then, make it a leaner force, to make it fit for wars of the future. Another recalled. “He took us into confidence and reform initiated by him was creation forewarned us that of Integrated Battle Groups, which this is high-profile are like bigger brigades, agile and retaliation, therefore we self-sufficient in combat formations. must not be caught off-guard,” he said.

His elevation to lead the Army though Rawat told the Commanders to have was not without controversy, as he the air defence grid ready, and while superseded two of his seniors to the role, a precedent repeated after 33 “surprise is of paramount importance, after that we have to have a balanced years. posture, we will get retaliation”.

General Bipin Rawat during a GRSE Later, during the standoff in eastern programme in Kolkata.

Ladakh, CDS Rawat attended a “large A gregarious man, he could be found number” of China Study Group smiling in the dour corridors of meetings “and always came up with very practical and implementable suggestions”, according to Saini.

He said Rawat was part of the decision-making process of the Army’s operations to capture the heights on Kailash ranges in August 2020, which gave India leverage in negotiations.

President tweeted, “I am shocked and anguished over the untimely demise of Gen. Bipin Rawat and his wife, Madhulika ji. The nation has lost one of its bravest sons.

His four decades of selfless service to the motherland was marked by exceptional gallantry and heroism. My condolences to his family.”

Gen Bipin Rawat was an outstanding soldier. A true patriot, he greatly contributed to modernising our armed forces and security apparatus. His insights and perspectives on strategic matters were exceptional. His passing away has saddened me deeply. Om Shanti.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 8, 2021

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Patri Prabhu Das: A polyglot and passionate articulator of Krishna consciousness HiIndia Newsdesk | By Mayank Chhaya

Blurb: “Our war is with ignorance. As Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita “torch the light of knowledge. It is never too late to take a U-turn however long you are traveling in the wrong direction. It is morning whenever you wake up,” – Patri Prabhu Das

Patri Das Prabhu leaps from English to Ranjali, Nepali, his world travels. As a communist state the erstwhile Sanskrit, Russian and Ukrainian effortlessly in pursuit Soviet Union rejected all religious and philosophical of his life’s two main passions—Krishna and the texts, but Prabhupada managed to meet Professor, G. Bhagvad Gita. If that is not extraordinary enough, he is G. Kotovsky, who headed the department of Indian and a half Russian from his father’s side and half Ukrainian South Asian studies at Moscow’s U.S.S.R. Academy of from his mother’s who was a former officer of the Sciences, with whom he had been corresponding with Soviet army. He now travels the world popularizing him for a year. the quintessence of India’s Vedic philosophy.

That encounter spawned interest Indian philosophy He says he is now in the “army of God” as a “warrior generally and the Gita and Krishna particularly among of love” and “ambassador of peace.” young Russians. Prabhu was one of them. He says “Our war is with ignorance. As Krishna says in the Prabhupada sneaked in one copy of the Gita “which Bhagavad Gita “torch the light of knowledge. It is never led to spiritual transformation.” He began with reading too late to take a U-turn however long you are traveling the Gita and the way he describes his first experience in the wrong direction. It is morning whenever you it sounds humorous. “When I read the first line wake up,” Prabhu, whose original name was Igor “Dhritrashtra uvacha (Thus spake Dhritrashtra) I kept Oblonkov, says ending his last sentence with the Hindi saying Dhriiii Dhriii and it took me five minutes to proverb “Jab jage tab savera.” read one word. If it took me five minutes to read one It was in June, 1971 when Srila Prabhupada, the word, when would I ever finish the whole book?” He founder of the International Society for Krishna wondered. That is when he decided to teach himself Consciousness (ISKCON), visited Moscow as part of Sanskrit which took him 15 years.

AARP Presents “Leading with Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas Posts First Installment Property Tax a Champion Mind” HiIndia Newsdesk

16 at 3 p.m. (EST) for an uplifting conversation moderated by Olympic gold medalist speed skater Apolo Ohno and panelists, Olympic gold medalist figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi and two-time Olympic bronze medalist figure skaters Alex and Maia Shibutani.

Welcome remarks will be made by Ron Mori, Senior Advisor, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at AARP. “AARP is honored to bring together four U.S. Olympians whose unique SEATTLE, WA – After a challenging year of navigating the “double pandemic” lived experiences as Asian Americans have contributed to enhancing the of COVID-19 and the rise of anti-Asian visibility and representation of our hate, AARP presents “Leading with a AAPI community, ” said Daphne Kwok, Champion Mind” — a live virtual panel to celebrate the strength of the Asian AARP Vice President of Diversity, American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Equity, and Inclusion, Asian American community by bringing together and Pacific Islander Audience Strategy. several generations of Asian American “As we end a difficult year for AAPIs, we want to share the skills of resilience Olympians who embody resilience and and strength that our Asian American excellence.

Olympians have utilized to persevere Join AARP on Thursday, December through life’s challenges and succeed.”

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owners can plan their finances or make payments before the end of the year.

“During the holiday season, it’s good to think about what bills will come due in the new year,” Pappas said. “My office is committed to helping taxpayers keep their homes and seeing these bills early allows people to think ahead about their budgets.”

You can download your tax bill and make a payment by visiting cookcountytreasurer.com and following these steps: • Select the blue box labeled “Pay Online for Free” • Enter your address or 14-digit Property CHICAGO, IL – Cook County Treasurer Index Number (PIN) Maria Pappas has posted the First There is no fee if you pay from your Installment Tax Year 2021 bills on bank account. The Treasurer’s Office cookcountytreasurer.com. accepts partial payments but First The First Installment, which is 55 Installment taxes must be paid by March percent of the previous year’s total tax, 1 to avoid a late charge of 1.5 percent is due March 1, 2022. By providing per month, as mandated by Illinois law. an early look at the bills, property

Golden Anneviersary and Diwali Event Celebrated Pharmacy Owner Convicted in Telemedicine Fraud

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the LAGC executive board and other special guests and devotional singing by Rita Shah and chanting by Gina and Suhani. National Anthems were sung by Dhir, Dhruvi, Neil and Nysa.

The event was full of musical surprises with beautiful singing by a variety of melodious singers. The master of ceremony Prachi Jaitly started the event with a brief introduction of the organization, its founders and the journey of the organization in the last 50 years. LAGC was founded in 1971 by Jayanti Bhai Thakkar, Prahlad Bhai Thakkar, Arvind Bhai Thakkar and Vinod Bhai Thakkar. The current President Kirit CHICAGO, IL – Lohana Association of Greater Thakkar with his wife Bhavna Thakkar and Vice Chicago organized its annual Diwali celebration President Vasudev Thakkar with his wife Nisha gala on December 5th at Manav Seva Mandir, Thakkar welcomed all the guests and thanked all the sponsors and supporters.

Bensenville, IL. The scintillating music kept the guests regaled The event started with traditional lamp lighting by through the evening.

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A federal jury in Greeneville, Tennessee, convicted Peter Bolos, 44, of Tampa, Florida, of mail fraud, conspiracy to commit health care fraud and introduction of a misbranded drug into interstate commerce.

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Bolos and his co-conspirators, Andrew Assad, Michael Palso, Maikel Bolos, Larry Smith, Scott Roix, HealthRight LLC, Mihir Taneja, Arun Kapoor, and Sterling Knight Pharmaceuticals, as well as various other companies owned by them, deceived pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), such as Express Scripts and CVS Caremark, regarding tens of thousands of prescriptions. Bolos and his co-conspirators defrauded the PBMs into authorizing claims worth more than $174 million that private insurers such as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, and public insurers such as Medicaid and TRICARE, paid to pharmacies controlled by the co-conspirators.

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Hindus Urge Sega to Discontinue Depicting Hindu Deities as Demons HiIndia Newsdesk

Casting Hindu gods and goddesses, who were highly revered by the devotees, as demons was a sacrilege; distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed said in a statement in Nevada today.

A supposedly responsible company like Sega Sammy Group, which claimed to be “living up to society’s ethical and public expectations”, should not be in the business of trivializing the deeply held beliefs of “others” and ridiculing entire communities; Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, indicated.

Rajan Zed also urged Sega Sammy Group CEO Haruki Satomi and Board Chairman Hajim Satomi to offer public apology for creating confusion in the world community by portraying inappropriate and disrespectful images of Hindu deities.

NEW YORK, NY- Upset Hindus are urging Sega Sammy Group Do Sega Sammy Group and Atlus executives needed to go to discontinue portraying of various Hindu deities as demons in back to elementary school to re-learn that “demon” was an the video-games titled “Shin Megami Tensei”, developed by its evil spirit or devil, while “deity” was a god or goddess who subsidiary Atlus. had divine status? Zed asked. He suggested them to reHindu deities Ganesha, Hanuman, Kali, Lakshmi, Sarasvati, Shiva, evaluate their systems and procedures and send their staff Vishnu, etc., are said to be among the various demons used in “Shin for religious and cultural sensitivity training so that such Megami Tensei” video-games. an inappropriate stuff did not slip through in the future.

Man Facing Federal Charges for Selling Fraudulent Covid-19 Vaccination Cards HiIndia Newsdesk

OWINGS MILLS, MD – Authorities say a Maryland man is facing federal charges in connection with a scheme to distribute fake COVID-19 vaccination cards.

Officials say 23-year-old Amar Shabazz is accused of selling and distributing over 600 fake COVID-19 vaccine cards that he allegedly bought through a foreign online marketplace.

Shabazz advertised the cards for sale on social media platforms and distributed them through the U.S. mail, official say.

Court officials say Shabazz sold the fraudulent card for approximately $70 to $75 each. “I’m sold out right now no more vax cards until next week,” officials say he posted online over the summer. Additionally, authorities say Shabazz messaged another person saying, “Made 300 today. I’m sold out.

Amar Shabazz, 23

Amar Shabazz selling and Distributing Them Through a Mail Service, he allegedly bought through a foreign online marketplace.

Just bought 500 more cards. 60×500 is $30k. I’m gonna be rich.”

Shabazz was an inmate of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in early 2021 after being sentenced in in the Circuit Court of Maryland for possession of child pornography. He was released in April 2021. In October, law enforcement executed search warrants at a basement used by Shabazz and said they found a bulleted list titled, “Things I’m doing when I get out (updated).” The list included obtaining two “burner” cell phones, with the note, “first burner is for scamming.” Another bullet point stated, “hire a lawyer and get tips of what not to do when getting money illegally.”

If convicted, Shabazz faces a maximum sentence of 20 years’ incarceration each for mail fraud and for obstruction of justice.

FIA unveils ambitious roadmap to undertake community-centric initiatives HiIndia Newsdesk

Chicago, IL: Federation of Indian Associations (FIA) hosted a welcome reception to unveil its comprehensive roadmap for 2022 & beyond replete with meaningful events that seeks to compliment and celebrate a multitude of communitycentric program initiatives with emphasis on India’s festivals, community outreach, charitable causes, social, cultural, business, medical and other communityoriented events including addressing the emerging pandemic challenges at its annual board meeting held on Sunday, November 28, 2021 at the Big Suchir Banquets in Westmont, IL. The meeting was attended by the entire FIA team as a well as the advisory board members.

This year FIA Chicago unanimously elected its new leader Hitesh Gandhi and the new board. The event was presided by Founding Members Sunil Shah, Onkar Sangha, Neil Khot, Rita Singh, Mukesh Shah, Dhitu Bhagwakar and Current President Kamal Patel. FIA’s General Secretary Richa Chand conducted the proceedings of the Annual Board Meeting for the year 20212022 and invited Founder President Sunil Shah for his opening remarks.

Shah in his speech, outlined the successes behind the year 2021, listing the events conducted by the FIA and its team. He thanked the outgoing team for its hard work in putting together and conducting various India centric and Charitable events during the year.

Help Combat Hunger by Donating to Empty Bowls at Oakton HiIndia Newsdesk

DES PLAINES, IL – While Empty Bowls at Oakton, a long-running fundraiser that raises awareness about local and worldwide hunger, will not take place as an in-person event this year, you can still donate and support local families struggling to put food on their tables.

Donations large and small are welcome and 100% of the proceeds go to local food charities. Donate online now through Jan. 31. Donations can also be dropped off in-person to either campus at the Office of Student Life and Campus Inclusion (Room 1530, 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines or Room A130, 7701

Empty Bowls at Oakton, sponsored by the College’s Ceramics Club, is a long-standing fundraiser for local food pantries

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Sponsored by the Ceramics Club at

Oakton and supported by the College’s Student Government Association, Empty Bowls at Oakton is part of a nonprofit, global movement that has raised millions of dollars for food banks, soup kitchens and other meal programs.

Empty Bowls at Oakton, sponsored by the College’s Ceramics Club, is a long-standing fundraiser for local food pantries.

In its 18th year, Empty Bowls at Oakton has raised more than $391,500 for area food charities. Since 2004, this event at Oakton has sold approximately 17,500 hand-made bowls to benefit local food pantries. Due to the pandemic, the

Ceramics Club could not make any artwork available for this year’s event.

“Your donation will bring joy and happiness to someone in these uncertain times,” said Louis Pierozzi, chair of Oakton’s Art and Design Department.

“The Ceramics Club is hoping this will be our best year ever, with our goal to raise over $50,000. Now is the most important time of year to give. Every cent will go directly to local food pantries and pay for meals for those most in need.”

For more information, email emptybowls@oakton.edu or call 847635-1699.

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Visits by Russian presidents to India always invoke a sense of nostalgia.

The Moscow-Delhi relationship dates back to the Cold War era and it has been strong ever since.

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What Russian president's India visit means for world politics

This "all-weather" partnership is one of the success stories of global diplomacy, and a high mark for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to live up to when they meet in Delhi on Monday. But beyond the big-ticket defence deals, trade announcements, handshakes and Mr Modi's trademark hugs, the two countries will also have to overcome serious challenges. And that is largely down to the different geopolitical choices the two countries have made in recent months and years. How they solve these issues will influence regional, and global politics.

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rowing India-US relations is one irritant neighbour and archrival, that has loomed large over Delhi-Moscow now has better strategic ties, more so in the past decade. Mr Modi depth in Afghanistan as even held a big rally for Donald Trump in it appears to have formed 2020 when he visited India. It was a vibrant show of an informal alliance with support for Washington.

Russia, Iran and China.

Moscow largely overlooked such irritants even though Moscow can help Delhi its own relations with Washington steadily deteriorated recover the lost ground in recent years. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei in Afghanistan as the two Lavrov chose to speak openly when India joined have shared concerns the Quad - an alliance involving the US, Japan and about the future of the Australia. The group said the Quad was a non-military country. alliance and wasn't aimed at a specific country, but Mr "Both Russia and India are Lavrov didn't seem to agree. wary of the Taliban and He said the West was "trying to engage India in anti- the Haqqani Network, and China games by promoting Indo-Pacific strategies". the potential for terrorism Former Indian diplomat Anil Trigunayat, who served coming out of Afghanistan in Moscow, says that the Quad is a red line for Russia a n d i mp a c t i n g t h e i r and this will most definitely be part of the discussions countries, So, Afghanistan really is an area of strong between the two leaders. agreements between New Delhi and Moscow," says Moscow's worries about the Quad can be understood Derek Grossman, senior defence analyst at the USfrom its growing relations with Beijing in recent years. based RAND Corporation think-tank.

Mr Trigunayat adds that Russia has been compelled to forge closer ties with China to secure its economic and geopolitical interests in Asia as the US-led West The showpiece of the visit is likely to be the delivery also seeks to dominate the region. of the Russia-made S-400 missile defence system to China's deteriorating ties with the US also appear to India. It's is one of the most sophisticated surfacehave pushed Beijing and Moscow closer. to-air defence systems in the world. It has a range of What complicates the matter further is that India- 400km (248 miles) and can shoot down up to 80 targets China relations have been recently tense - troops from simultaneously, aiming two missiles at each one. the two countries fought a deadly clash in Ladakh's The system gives India crucial strategic deterrence Galwan Valley with clubs and stones which left 20 against China and Pakistan, and that is the reason Indian soldiers dead. China later accepted that some why it went ahead with the order despite threats of of its soldiers also died in the clashes.

US sanctions.

In this context, Mr Putin's visit is important to uphold Washington has put several Russian firms under the special relationship. "I think for Russia, the sanctions. The Countering America's Adversaries objective in this case, is to reinforce the importance Through Sanctions Act (Caatsa) was introduced in of Moscow's relations with New Delhi, even as 2017 to target Russia, Iran and North Korea with the geopolitical signposts suggest otherwise," Mr economic and political sanctions. It also prohibits Kugelman adds. any country from signing defence deals with these The countries have several areas where they can and nations. While the deal may create tensions between will look to cooperate - Afghanistan is one of them. the US and India, Moscow appears to be satisfied with It will most definitely be part of the discussion as Delhi Delhi's stand. tries to stay relevant in Afghanistan. Pakistan, India's The US was India's second-largest supplier between

Trade and defence

The S-400 is one of the world's most sophisticated missile defence systems

2011 and 2015 after Russia but it fell behind France and Israel in the period between 2016 and 2021.

Washington would want to do better and analysts say that gives India leverage.

Russia will also try to boost its defence export to India and some major deals could be announced on Monday.

However, commercial trade between the two countries has remained far below their potential. Bilateral trade in 2019 (pre-pandemic levels) stood at $11bn and it was skewed in Russia's favour as it exported goods and services worth $7.24bn, according to a report from the Indian government. In comparison, India-US bilateral goods and services trade stood at $146bn in the same period. ndia's decision to give $1bn line of credit to businesses to invest in Russia's Far East region will also help boost trade between the countries. Talks are also expected on the proposed Chennai-Vladivostok maritime corridor.

The route will open more business frontiers.

Talks over a free trade agreement between India and the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union are also likely to progress. If the deal happens, it will help businesses move goods easily between the two regions.

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Bianca Andreescu takes Was fortunate to get 10-fer: Ajaz time off for mental break Patel in interview to R Ashwin HiIndia Newsdesk

grow” after a challenging two years that included getting COVID-19.

The 21-year-old from Canada wrote in a posting on Twitter that she was affected mentally and physically by “multiple weeks in isolation quarantining” and that her grandmother’s stay for several weeks in a hospital’s intensive care unit because of the coronavirus really hit me hard.”

Bianca Andreescu, the 2019 US Open “A lot of days, I did not feel like myself, champion, will take a mental break especially while I was training and/ or playing matches. I felt like I was from tennis and sit out the start of next carrying the world on my shoulders,” season, including the Australian Open, saying she wants to “re-set, recover, and Andreescu said.

Jadeja, Gill may miss South Africa series because of injury HiIndia Newsdesk

Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Shubman Gill and Ishant Sharma - are doubtful for the trip as they will take some months to be completely fit.

Injuries to several players has prompted the BCCI senior selection committee to delay naming the squad for the tour of South Africa. The Indian Express understands that at least four players – Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Shubman Gill and Ishant Sharma – are doubtful for the trip as they will take some months to be completely fit.

Left-arm spin has been India’s strength of late, especially at home, but with Jadeja and Patel unfit, selectors may not

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have a viable back-up option in South Africa. Jadeja has a ligament tear while Patel has a stress fracture. In any case, Ravichandran Ashwin is expected to be the lead spinner and there is rarely a need to play more than one specialist tweaker in the Rainbow Nation.

Jadeja missed the second Test against New Zealand in Mumbai where Patel had a decent showing with bat and ball.

A source in the cricket board informed that Jadeja’s ligament tear will take months to heal and if he undergoes surgery, he will only get fit before the Indian Premier League next year.

If the selectors have to pick a left-arm spinner, they have Shahbaz Nadeem and Saurabh Kumar – the latter a part of the India A team currently playing in South Africa – to choose from.

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ew Zealand left-arm spinner Ajaz Patel considers himself “fortunate” to be just the third Test cricketer ever with 10 wickets in an innings as all he tried doing in that magical performance against India was putting the ball in the right areas for a long period of time.

The 33-year-old Mumbai-born Patel, who migrated to New Zealand as a seven-year old, said it has been a “dream come true” to be able to play at the city of his birth and come up with a historic feat.

“It has been a special outing for me. It’s dream to come here and play at Wankhede and be able to do something like that (historic feat) is very special. Not only for me but also for my family back home,” Patel said in an interview by senior India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin. “I will count myself as fortunate. I thank God to have (got) this opportunity but it was about putting the ball at good areas for a long period of time,” he said in a video uploaded by the BCCI. “As a spinner, sometimes you really have to work. I have to bowl 47 overs or something. In the end I am very exhausted, 72 or 73 overs in three days.”

India won the series 1-0 with a 372-run thumping of the visitors in the second Test here, the same match in which Patel made history.

“It is about playing that long games especially when the wickets suited you and giving something to you. We knew that you guys are amazing players of spin. You guys put a lot of pressure on me.

“I was trying to be on the money every ball because as soon as I miss, you guys would be on top. So, it has been a bit of mind game. It was about sticking and trusting what you are doing is the right thing.”

How an incredible bench strength has fuelled India’s golden era in cricket HiIndia Newsdesk

India’s Test series in South Africa will commence at the Centurion on Boxing Day, Cricket South Africa has confirmed.

As per the revised itinerary, India will play three Tests and as many ODIs during their tour of South Africa, while the T20Is have been postponed following the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Johannesburg and Cape Town will host the second and third Test respectively, and the ODIs will be played at Paarl and Cape Town.

“It is a pleasure for Cricket South Africa (CSA) to confirm the updated schedule for the India men’s tour to South Africa. As announced over the weekend, the tour has been reduced from three series to two: the Test and One-Day International series, following successful engagement with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

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It’s a testament to the reserves that India can triumph in Australia or win at home against New Zealand without much fuss and without their key players.

ndia’s bench strength may have almost come to be taken for granted, but that perception should not take away from just how ridiculously good it is. The Brisbane Test against Australia earlier this year will remain the hallmark on that front. It is still mind-boggling to recall that T Natarajan and Washington Sundar were making their debuts, Navdeep Saini and Shardul Thakur were playing their second Test, and Mohammed Siraj his third.

And this attack bowled out Australia in their famed citadel for 369 and 294. Even in this series against New Zealand, it was two batters far from the first XI who made the difference – Shreyas Iyer in in Kanpur and Mayank Agarwal in Mumbai.

Iyer hadn’t played a first-class game in nearly three years

before making a century and half-century on Test debut.

Also deriving confidence will be the likes of Axar, who’s thrived this year in Test cricket with ball and now with bat too, with 52 and 41 not out in Mumbai.

It tells you something about the health of Indian cricket when alongside the growth of the IPL, there are so many first-rate young cricketers making cases for a run in the Test team. When a Tony Grieg would try pressing his keys into the turf in Australia during pre-dawn pitch reports and unbend himself with a smile at how hard the pitch is, shivers would go up the spine. Nowadays, a smile appears in pitch reports. Dry, bouncy, or moisture laden, the pitch-talk feels just another incidental thing in a day of Indian cricket fan.

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T "The take home point here is that even 15 minutes a day of walking, without stopping, provides benefit with regards to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality." Michael Weinrauch, MD, cardiologist

here are seasons in life when a 15-minute walk is the most you can commit to your exercise routine—and, hey, that's 100 percent okay. Maybe your job is more of a nine to nine than a nine to five right now, or childcare is monopolizing your free moments. ccording to Michael Weinrauch, MD, a New Jersey-based cardiologist, the bottom line is that even the smallest neighborhood loop can have an immense impact on your health and well-being. "The take home point here is that even 15 minutes a day of walking, without stopping, provides benefit with regards to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality," he says. Morbidity refers to illness or disease, while mortality refers to death. Research has associated 15 minutes of activity with a 22 percent lower risk of death (mortality), and walking with a 43 percent reduced risk in stroke and reduction the risk factors of heart attack (morbidity), regardless of

how fast your heart is beating. "Keep in mind, most of the research that has been done on the benefits of walking have been done without monitoring heart rates during physical activity. Remember, the Fitbit and smart watch apps are still actually a relatively new phenomenon," adds Dr. Weinrauch. Long story, short: The morbidity and mortality benefits of walking seem to occur regardless of your heart's beats per minute (BPMs).

With that being said, you can increase your cardiovascular fitness by increasing your heart rate and going longer distances—and that may offer even more benefits when it come to morbidity and mortality. "Cardiovascular fitness or aerobic fitness can be defined as a measurement of the body's ability to deliver oxygen to its muscles," explains Dr. Weinrauch. "VO2 Max, which is the maximum rate that oxygen can be consumed during exercise that increases in intensity, is the gold standard for measurement of fitness." However, it's

really up to you how "fit" you want to be. If you're someone who wants to build up your VO2 max so you can run a marathon, fantastic. And if you're someone who's content with a brisk walk to your favorite coffee store, that's also great.

"The bottom line is, if you are walking to improve your health, do not worry about how high to raise your heart rate. If you are interested improving your cardiovascular fitness in addition to improving your health, then more vigorous exercise training will likely be necessary," Dr. Weinrauch says. It's the choose your own adventure of fitness. And regardless of your choice, you're still collecting those morbidity and mortality benefits as long as you clock your 15 minutes each day.

1. You'll feel more alert during your workout Fun fact: Your body naturally produces more of the stress hormone "cortisol" in the morning. This makes you feel more alert and primed for your workout.

In the evening, your body produces less cortisol, so it may be harder to convince your brain that it's time to go, go, go.

2. You'll feel happier (thanks, endorphins, serotonin, and norphenylephrine) Endorphins, serotonin, and norphenylephrine—the happiness-boosting neurotransmitters produced by exercise—are great any time of day, but they're especially game-changing on, you know, Monday... Tuesday... and Wednesday mornings. (Every morning, TBH.) "While meditation, laughing, or eating chocolate do raise endorphin levels, they don't raise them as much as exercising intensely for an hour or more," J. Kip Matthews, PhD, previously told Well+Good. Go for a power walk, hop on the treadmill, or bike around your city in the morning, and you'll be walking on sunshine all day long.

3. You'll help your heart do its job Research indicates that early workouts may also benefit those with high blood pressure (HBP). "There are studies saying if you have HBP, there is a favorable HBP change when working out in the morning versus at night," says Lampa. The 2019 study Lampa references was conducted by the American Heart Association (AHA), and studied women and men between the ages of 55 and 80. The research also found that it may be even more beneficial to combine your early-bird workouts with frequent, brief morning walks. So keep that in mind.

What Happens To Your Body When You Get Up and Exercise in the Morning "The best thing about working out in the morning is that you've got it out of the way and you don't have to think about it for the rest of your day," says Tatiana Lampa, NASM, a corrective exercise specialist and trainer. "Working out at night may be difficult— especially after work if a meeting or commitment comes up."

Plus: Since the end of daylight saving time means pitch-black darkness by 5 p.m., working out in the a.m. is also your best bet for catching some sunlight.

4. You'll make working out a habit The rules of habit sticking say that if you want to create a new habit, it's best to combine it with an old, established one. Since most of our life-long habits take place in the morning (think: drinking coffee, brushing your teeth, washing your face, etc.), it's also easier to squeeze in a workout then. For example: You may decide that you're going to charge your wearable right next to your toothbrush, so you can easily strap it on and head out for your morning jog.

This also takes a lot of overthinking and decision fatigue out of the equation because you know you're going to get it in right after you've taken care of your oral hygiene, period.

5. You may get better sleep Remember that cortisol we talked about earlier? Well, one downside of working out at night is that exercise—and particularly moderate to highintensity exercise—spikes your cortisol levels. While this can be useful for helping your feel alert and ready to go in the morning, it could backfire in the evening and cause trouble sleeping. However, research is conflicting here, and some studies hold that—so long as you finish your workout 90 minutes before bed—you should sleep soundly.

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Sruthy Sithara, first Indian to win Miss Trans Global 2021 This year’s Miss Trans Global title was conferred to Kerala native Sruthy Sithara, who had been competing in the pageant for the last six months.

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PM Warns BJP MPs

New Delhi: BJP MPs absent from, or irregular in attending, Parliament were pulled up on Tuesday, with sources saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned them to “change yourself or there will be changes”.

In a strong warning, the Prime Minister who has repeatedly advised his party MPs and ministers to be disciplined, punctual and not speak out of turn - chided BJP leaders for behaving “like children”.

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Defence minister Rajnath Singh meets his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoigu to sign the contract

India and Russia have inked agreements for the procurement of nearly six lakh AK-203 assault rifles and also to extend military technology cooperation for the next decade from 2021 to 2031 as the two countries began their first 2+2 ministerial dialogue on Monday morning. Another agreement for protocol on an amending agreement on cooperation in the field of Kalashnikov series small arms manufacturing was also signed. Defence minister Rajnath Singh met his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoigu and the two sides signed contracts for the manufacture of nearly six lakh AK-203 rifles under a joint venture in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh.

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New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) today urged t h e g ov e r n m e nt t o a n n o u n c e “additional” doses of Covid vaccine for healthcare, frontline workers, and immunocompromised individuals amid concerns over Omicron, 21 cases of which have been detected in India so far. It also demanded that the government expedite the proposal of vaccinating individuals aged 12 to 18 years.

At a press conference, the doctors’ body said that cases of the latest variant

Indian American Gas Station Owner Gunned on Daughters’ Birthday HiIndia Newsdesk

The 45-year-old man, identified as Amit Patel, hailed from Nadiad and owned a gas station in Columbus. He was shot dead and robbed outside a bank on Monday night as he was about to deposit his weekend collection in a bank.

In distressing news coming from Columbus, Georgia an Indian American gas station owner was gunned down in what appears to be a robbery attempt on the day of his daughters’ third birthday.

What is also shocking is that the robbery attempt happened during morning daylight hours.

45-year-old Amit Patel was killed on Monday morning according to confirmation reports coming from Muscogee County Coroners’ Office. The police said that the emergency medical service was unable to resuscitate him and he was pronounced dead at the front door

Math Genius Indian American wins American Mathematical Society Prize HiIndia Newsdesk

Nikhil Srivastava, a mathematician who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley has been selected for the inaugural Ciprian Foias Prize in Operator theory by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Two other awardees of the prize include Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman. The award recognizes their unique work that developed the methods towards understanding polynomials of matrices and the method of interlacing polynomials.

of the bank around 10.00 in the morning.

Amit Patel owned the Chevron gas station at the corner of Steam Mill Road and Buena Vista Road. He was fatally shot at the bank. The bank is in the same building as the Columbus Police Department’s east precinct. The incident happened as an apparent robbery when Patel was making the weekend deposit.

The shooter took the money with him.

Amit Patel is survived by his wife and a 3-year-old daughter. So far no arrests have been made in the case and police continue to be on the lookout.

of coronavirus were reported from a number of major states of India, and the tally, which is in double digits, is bound to increase. With scientific evidence available and the experience noted in countries of origin, it is evident that the Omicron variant will have high penetrability and will affect more people, the IMA claimed.

“At a time when India is limping back to normalcy, this is a great setback. If we do not take adequate measures, we may have a massive third wave,” it warned.

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China has condemned a planned US diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and threatened to retaliate. Foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said China would take “resolute countermeasures”, but did not give further details. On Monday, the US said it would not send diplomats to Beijing over concerns about China’s human rights record. It added that US athletes could go and would have full government support.

At a media briefing on Tuesday, Mr Zhao accused the US of violating “political neutrality in sport” and said the proposed boycott was “based on lies and rumours”.

Big UAE Change: Work Week Is 4.5 Days Long, Saturday-Sunday Weekend HiIndia Newsdesk

Dubai: The United Arab Emirates is slashing its official working week to fourand-a-half days and moving its weekend to Saturday and Sunday in a major shift aimed at improving competitiveness, officials said on Tuesday.

The “national working week” is mandatory for government bodies from January 1 and bucks the regional norm of a full day-off on Friday for Muslim prayers.

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Nagaland Op That Killed 14 Civilians: Army Unit Named In FIR HiIndia Newsdesk

Congress’ Gogoi calls Nagaland killings a ‘black day’ in history, blames ‘inaccurate intel’ | The army unit did not make requisition to police station to provide police guide for their operation, the state police alleged in its FIR against it.

The 21 Para Special forces of Army “blankly opened fire” resulting in the killing of many Oting villagers in Mon district of Nagaland near Assam border, the state police has alleged in its FIR against the Army unit. It further alleges that the “intention” of security forces was to “murder and injure civilians”.

Thirteen villagers and a soldier were killed at an Indo-Myanmar border district in Nagaland on Saturday as a counter-insurgency operation went horribly off script. On Sunday, a civilian was killed in firing by the Assam Rifles when an angry mob stormed into their camp in Mon town and set a a part of their camp on fire.

“It is to be noted that at the time of incident there was no police guide nor security forces did make requisition to police station to provide police guide for their operation. Hence it is obvious that the intention of security forces is to murder and injure civilians,” read a copy of the FIR. Union Home Minister Amit Shah today told Parliament the centre regretted the deaths of 14 civilians in Nagaland after a botched Army op. Mr Shah read out statements in both Houses as opposition MPs shouted objections and demanded repeal of AFSPA.

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg Fires 900 People Over Zoom Call HiIndia Newsdesk

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg fired 900 of his employees in a brutal Zoom call on Wednesday. The Indian-American CEO said market efficiency, performance and productivity were the reasons behind the mass lay-off.

“This isn’t news that you’re going to want to hear...If you’re on this call, you are part of the unlucky group that is being laid Better.com CEO Vishal Garg off. Your employment here is terminated laid off 900 of his employees.

NGO raises over 20 million for specially abled in India HiIndia Newsdesk

effective immediately,” Vishal Garg, 43, told employees of the mortgage company during the Zoom call, according to CNN. The fired employees made up about 9 per cent of Better. com’s workforce. Among those fired were the company’s entire diversity, equity and inclusion team. One worker filmed the call and leaked it on social media, where the CEO has received flak for firing employees right before the holidays.

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Putin’s Visit To India HiIndia Newsdesk

Big Focus On $5 Billion Missile Deal New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin will arrive in India on Monday for just his second overseas trip since the pandemic, seeking to bolster military and energy ties with a traditional ally being courted by Washington. In its efforts to address a rising China, Washington has set up the QUAD security dialogue with India, Japan, and Australia, raising concerns in both Beijing and Moscow. India was close to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, a relationship that has endured, with New Delhi calling it a “special and privileged strategic partnership”.

“The friendship between India and Russia has stood the test of time,” PM Modi told Putin at a virtual summit in September. “You have always been a great friend of India.”

It is only the Russian leader’s second trip abroad since the coronavirus pandemic began.

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The annual event raised donations and a matching pledge of $317000 VOSAP is a “Special consultative status” with UN ECOSOC, and is working to create an inclusive and accessible world through social awareness.

India carried out a decimation of New Zealand, winning the second Test by a record-breaking 372-run margin to clinch the two-Test series 1-0 with comebackman Jayant Yadav cleaning up the visiting team’s lower half on the fourth morning here on Monday.

At exactly 10.13 am, 43 minutes to the start of the day, Ravichandran Ashwin (4/34) benefitted from a reflex stumping

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GAS STATION FOR SALE Brand New Sunoco Gas Station Business with Property for sale possibly with Beer License.

Nearby Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Now Medicare Advantage PPO Plans available with: Only serious inquiries.

Call: 215-323-4844

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FOR ADVERTISING 773 338 0222 MOTEL & CONVINENCE STORE HELP શિકાગોથી એક કલાકના અંતરે શિશિગન I-94 પર આવેલી ફ્રેંચાઇઝ Quality Inn Motel, 12850 Super Dr, Sawyer, MI 49125 િોટેલિાં હાઉસકકશપંગ અને ફ્ંટડેસકનુ ં કાિ કરી િકે Now Medicare Advantage PPO Plans available with: તેવા કપલની જરૂરછે . તેિજ કનવીશનયનસ સટોર with Liquor, American & Indian Food લીકર અને િીટ સૅનડશવચને લગતું કાિ કરી િકે તેવા વયક્તઓની જરૂર છે . રહેવાની સગવડ આપવાિાં આવિે.

Call: 269-903-9677 (Cell) or 269-426-4646 (Store)

Call: 630-814-9245 - 312- 375-4782

MOTEL FOR SALE 22 Unit Highway location in Washington, Iowa priced at just $450K. Average sales ofAdvantage $185K a cap rate of 9.2%.

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RESTAURANT AND GROCERY STORE FOR SALE

Call Broker Jeff Edberg: 319-331-6187

Warehouse Associates needed immediate hiring BENSENVILLE, IL 60106

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Indian Fast Food Restaurant and Grocery Store for sale in Northwest Indiana. Located at corner of 3 major towns: Schererville, Highland and Munster. Asking Now Medicare Advantage PPO + Plans available with: Gross sales: $500,000. $100,000 Inventory.

Rent $3,300 (1800 sq.ft) (House of India, 825 Main Street, Schererville, IN 46375.

Ph # 219-322-3843)

Call Hasmukh: 219-218-0695 HOTEL HELP

Econo Lodge, Manchaster, New Hampshire seeks help for Front Desk and Maintenance. Living accommodation can be provided

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Call Aspi : 603-660-1404 (Call between 9 am-5 pm)

MOTEL HELP

Single or Couple needed to manage Independent Motel near Chicago. Attractive Salary. Accommodation provided.

English speaking skills must.

Call: 224-381-5501 or 224-381-5502

MOTEL HELP Joliet, IL ખાતે આવેલી 24 રૂમની ટાઉન હાઉસ મોટેલ ચલાવવા માટે કપલની જરૂર છે . રહેવાની સગવડ આપવામાં આવશે. વધુ વવગતો માટે સંપક્ક કરો.

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HOTEL JOB OPENING HOTEL HELP

Franchise Hotel Near O’hare Airport (Chicago, IL) is Looking for individuals, couples, or families to help as a Manager, Housekeeper, Front Desk.

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ઓહેર એરપોર્ટ (શિકાગો) નજીક આવેલી ફ્ેન્ાઇઝ હોરલમા મેનેજર, હાઉસકીપર, ફ્નર ડેસક તરીકે મદદ કરવા મારે વ્યક્તઓ, કપલ અથવા પરરવારોની જરુર છે .

Call Or Text: 331-308-5438

HOTEL HELP

67 Room Hotel in Naperville, Illinois is looking for Front Desk Personnel. Fluency in English & Computers, legal work status is required.

Call: (215) 964-3016

SUBWAY HELP

IMMEDIATE CASHIER’S JOB OPENINGS

Urgently required single or couple for full-time job in subway, downtown location. store working hours are Mon to Fri 6am to 4pm

Convenient Food & Liquor Stores:

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Call: 312-540-1087 HOTEL HELP

Franchise Hotel in Gurnee, IL seeking Front Desk help for 3rd shift, Housekeeping and General Manager.

Experience preferred. Free accommodation provided.

Now Medicare Advantage PPO Plans available with: Legal status must

Call: 630-930-4781

• Villa Park (Route 83 & Roosevelt Ave) • Palatine (Rand Rd & Route 53).

Now Medicare Advantage PPO Plans available with: Full or Part-Time (Flexible days) with very good pay.

Call Nirav Patel 630-709-9902

MOTEL HELP

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Wanted Housekeeper couple for independent Motel in Washington, IA.Accommodation Provided.

Call: 224-572-1282.

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Motel Manager couple needed for 19 room Motel. Only 50 minutes North of Chicago. Good salary.

Accommodation will be provided.

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Staff Accountant- Experienced in using quick books. Reviewing financial statements and preparing sales & payroll taxes.

Tax Preparer- Experienced Individual and Business Tax Return Now Medicare Advantage PPO Plans available with: is needed. preparer Administrative Assistant- Duties include phone, fax, email, filing, scanning, data entry, etc. Must know Microsoft office and speak Gujarati or Hindi.

Email resume to: info@hjainco.com or fax: 847-368-8815 Call Himanshu Jain @ 847-368-8850

Call: 224-656-2020 GAS STATION HELP Gas Station located at River Grove, IL need Cashier, must be willing to work overnight.

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HOTEL HELP Looking for Hotel Manger. couples or singles. Good salary with accommodation. English and computer knowledge must.

Call: 773-391-6682

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Call Paul : 760-792-8820 MOTEL 6 GENERAL MANAGER HIRING

Looking for motivated, result driven, and experienced General Managers for Franchise Motel 6 in Milwaukee, WI, Candidates should have an entrepreneurial mindset. We offer attractive Now Medicare Advantage PPO Plans available with: and bonus. salary

RESTAURANT HELP WANTED Well-established Indian Restaurant in Jefferson City, Missouri 65101 is looking for a full-time experienced Chef, Food Runner/Server and a Dishwashers.

Now Medicare Advantage PPOcompensation/salary with free Competitive accommodation.

Call/text- Harsh Singh: 507-202-4221

Please email your resume to: jobs@incomepropertyinvestments.com or call: (619) 500 4241

EYEBROW THREADER WANTED

Full time job. Good Hourly Pay plus tips & commission.

Family or without family. We will help her. : (269) Now CALL Medicare Advantage PPO Plans830-3468 available with: or (269) 330-0453

Wanted Motel Manager couple orFOR Single SALE for Franchise LIQUOR STORE Motel in St. Louis, MO Good Salary Liquor Store for sale atand NorthAccommodation Chicago, Lake County,Provided.

IL. Asking $109K, Gross Sales $700K, Lotto Commission per year $30K, Rent $3000, 3000 Now Medicare Advantage PPO Plans available with: CALL: 314-497-3292 or 314-330-4621 Sq. Ft. Store. Inventory $125K to $150K

Email: habeeban@saharahomecare.com Need Couple for Housekeeping. for Hotel in MADISON, WISCONSIN. Accommodation Provided.

Legal status Must.

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HOTEL HELP Baymont Inn in Stevensville, MI Hotel. indoor facility, looking for a couple to work housekeeping and Front desk positions.

Call Trushar Patel 269-369-6652

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Call Broker Raj Patel: HOTEL HELP630-205-6353

Beauty salon in Chicago looking for someone who knows how to do threading and waxing. Full-time and part-time available. Very good pay and tips.

Well established Indian Restaurant in Wicker Park of Chicago is looking for a full-time experienced kitchen helper and a part-time food runner/server.

For immediate consideration.

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EYEBROW THREADER WANTED Full time job. Good hourly pay plus tips & commission.

Family or without family we will help her.

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CAREGIVER WANTED •The person will assist another caregiver already working • Timings: 9 AM to 6 PM, Monday to Friday and on Sunday 6 hrs • The main job includes taking care ofAdvantage one elderly couple Now Medicare PPO Plans available with: who are wheel chair bound.

• COVID vaccination Card Proof required. ]LIQUOR STORE FOR SALE ]Liquor Store for sale at North Chicago, Lake County, IL.

Duties includes following items: dressing, Asking $109K, Gross Sales $700K, Bathing, Lotto Commission per $30K, Rent $3000, 3000 Sq. Ft. Store. Inventory $125K administeryear medicines, Kitchen cleaning and dishes, to $150K meal preparations, laundry. ]Call Broker Raj Patel: 630-205-6353 Please contact Pallavi Shah ] Cell: 847-687-6329 Email: pallavishah1@hotmail.com

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