Kota: A 19-year-old NEET aspirant from Madhya Pradesh allegedly died by suicide in her hostel room in the Talwandi area of this Rajasthan district, police said on Wednesday.
The deceased was identified as Rashi Jain, a resident of Sagar district in Madhya Pradesh. She was preparing for the national eligibility cum entrance test in Kota for over a year and was due to take the exam on May 7.
Rashi was last spotted outside her hostel room on Monday evening. When she did not come out of the room till late Tuesday morning, the hostel warden informed the police, which reached the spot and broke open her room. The girl was found hanging from the ceiling fan, said Assistant Circle Inspector at Jawahar Nagar Police Station Vasudev.
Packets of several medicines were found on Rashi’s table, he said, adding that no suicide note was recovered from her room.
Prima facie it seems the girl was upset over not being able to devote herself fully to studies due to an illness, which was not major, Circle Officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Amar Singh said.
Police handed over the body to the deceased’s family members on Wednesday after postmortem and lodged a case of unnatural death under Section 174 of Cr.P.C. for investigation, he added.
Hyderabad: Musical fountain at the Mir Alam Tank, developed at the cost of Rs 2.55 crores has nearly submerged in the stinky water while it remains completely ignored by the development authorities of the state.
The 40-metre-long and 9-metre-wide fountain structure was set up on the very facet of the Mir Alam Lake, between Tadban to Aramghar roads.
Equipped with music and multimedia effects, the fountain was launched by the Telangana municipal administration and urban development minister KT Rama Rao, in the presence of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and home minister Mahmood Ali on April 19, 2022.
However, the fountain worked for no more than two days and had since remained nonfunctional with overgrown bushes drowning the project into a costly dismay.
Developed by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), the fountain was inaugurated to fascinate its viewers but the set-up ended up submerged into the water, hidden by water hyacinth with only steel poles set to fence the area left behind as its remains.
Speaking to The Siasat Daily, Ramanthapur corporator Yousuf Danish points out the fact that the fountain never was lit up more than two days post-inauguration.
Pointing to the encroachments around the tank, Yousuf says that no measures have been taken by the state government to safeguard its investment.
Back then, authorities laid a separate drainage line to divert the sewerage water from the colonies of Hassannagar and surroundings into Musi. However, it seems like the pollution control measure haven’t worked out.
Though the Telangana government have taken up the task of beautification around the lake, maintenance with regular checks is essential.
Mysuru: All India Congress Committee, General Secretary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who was in Mysuru on Wednesday as part of her ongoing campaign in the poll-bound Karnataka, tried her hands at making dosas at a famous restaurant there.
Later, Priyanka could be seen relishing dosa on a banana leaf in a traditional style along with other party leaders at Mylary Agrahara, a food joint in Mysuru famous for its ‘dosas’ on Wednesday afternoon.
She also interacted with the eatery’s staff and the owners’ children. Priyanka was accompanied by party leader Randeep Singh Surjewala and Karnataka Congress President D K Shivakumar, Congress candidate of K R Constituency M K Somashekar and others.
On Tuesday while addressing a rally in Mysore only Priyanka had said her grandmother, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi never broke the people’s trust.
“You all know Indira Gandhi. Her speciality was that she never broke your trust. If you trust me, then it is because of Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and other Congress leaders, who worked for you,” Priyanka said.
Launching a scathing attack on BJP leaders, Priyanka urged the people of the state not to get influenced by their words but rather look at the “conscience” of the leaders seeking votes. She said, “The Prime Minister came here and said the leaders of the Opposition want to dig his grave.
What kind of talk is this? Every citizen of the country would like the health of the Prime Minister to be good.” “The people ofKarnataka should not vote on the words of any leader but of their conscience,” She added.
Targeting Chief Minister Bommai led-BJP government in the state, Priyanka said, “Last time, people elected JDS and the Congress but BJP stole the government with the power of money.” Urging the people of the state to vote wisely, Priyanka said, “The 40 per cent government ruthlessly looted the public. The Karnataka government looted Rs 1.5 lakh crore.
Urging the people of the state to vote wisely, Priyanka said, “The 40 per cent government ruthlessly looted the public. The Karnataka government looted Rs 1.5 lakh crore.
Invoking the Amul-Nandini row, Priyanka said, “Nandini Milk earlier used to produce 90 lakh litres of milk and milk products, but today only 70 lakh litres of milk is being produced.” “The government deliberately reduced the production of milk so that Amul milk could be brought to Karnataka,” she alleged.
She said it is time for a change in Karnataka as BJP has not done any constructive work in the state. “They (BJP) have not done any constructive work for Karnataka. So it is time for a change.
In the last three years, everything has been on downhill in the state, be it facilities or infrastructure. People know from their ownexperiences about the governance of the BJP,” she added.
Climate advocates say the gains from Biden’s gambit could be as big as the risks. The electric power sector is the nation’s second-largest source of greenhouse gases, so cleaning it up is essential to meeting Biden’s goal of having U.S. carbon pollution reach net zero by 2050. Environmentalists hope EPA will go bold by targeting not just coal, the dirtiest fuel in the power mix, but also natural gas — the reigning champ in the U.S. energy economy.
The EPA and the White House have declined to confirm any details about the rule, which is still undergoing review and could be released as early as next week.
“[W]e have been clear from the start that we will use all of our legally-upheld tools, grounded in decades-old bipartisan laws, to address dangerous air pollution and protect the air our children breathe today and for generations to come,” EPA said in a statement.
‘Considerable risk here’
The Biden administration is already trying to take on the nation’s No. 1 carbon source — transportation — with an EPA auto-pollution rule released just two weeks ago that’s designed to spur a huge increase in sales of electric cars and trucks.
That rule is also at risk of political and legal attacks from Republicans, who accuse the president of endangering the economy by pushing green technologies before they’re ready.
But electric vehicles are already traveling the highways. In contrast, carbon-capturing technology is not yet in place in any active commercial power plant in the U.S., and industry groups argue it’s not ready for wide deployment.
That could make the EPA proposal especially vulnerable in the courts, because the Clean Air Act requires the agency to show that the technologies it proposes are “adequately demonstrated” — not something that might work in the future.
“I think there’s considerable risk here,” said Justin Schwab, founder of the firm CGCN Law and a former EPA deputy general counsel during the Trump administration.
EPA’s rule is expected to set emissions limits for power plants that would in some fashion rely on achieving reductions in line with what carbon capture could achieve, according to people familiar with the proposal. States would then craft compliance plans and could choose other methods that achieve the same reductions, although what those options are remain unclear. The people were granted anonymity to discuss the proposal because the draft rule is not final.
The rule could also require operators of natural-gas-fired plants to reduce their carbon pollution by adding hydrogen to their fuel mix.
“Carbon capture and hydrogen are simply not well established technologies in the way that historical, traditional pollution control technologies have been when they’ve been adopted by EPA on a broad scale,” Schwab said.
Utilities and fossil fuel advocates have long argued that carbon capture and hydrogen could be important technologies for reducing sector emissions — but not for some time, even with recent unprecedented federal investments and incentives.
Climate advocates say the industry needs to put up or shut up.
“The fossil fuel industry says this [technology] is how they stay competitive in a carbon-constrained world. Well, we’re in that carbon-constrained world now,” said Jim Murphy, director of legal advocacy for the National Wildlife Federation. “I think it’s time for the fossil fuel industry to put their money where their mouth is.”
Tom Pyle, president of the pro-fossil fuel American Energy Alliance, accused the administration of issuing an overly aggressive rule that could compel utilities to shutter their coal plants as a political message to environmentalists ahead of Biden’s reelection.
“I think that the end goal is, they’re really just trying to game the system for renewables,” Pyle said.
A 2024 message for both parties
Republicans are eager to tie the upcoming rule and every other Biden climate and energy policy to one of their major themes — the inflation that’s irking Americans and weighing down the president’s approval ratings.
Rules limiting fossil fuels would also align with the GOP’s narrative that Biden is out to shut down traditional home-grown energy, messages they’ve also sounded on gas stoves, oil drilling and cars.
Even if courts nix the upcoming EPA rules, their mere existence could prod utilities to shutter existing natural gas power plants depending on how the agency designs the regulations, said Todd Snitchler, president of the Electric Power Supply Association, a trade group that represents power generators. That would probably feed into Republicans’ broader criticisms of the Biden administration, he said.
“If we are in effect turning off natural gas,” Snitchler said, “I think they’re likely to lean into this to say the administration is raising your prices and jeopardizing power reliability.”
And after delaying action to await the Supreme Court’s ruling last summer, the EPA also has little time to defend the rules in court should Biden lose his reelection bid.
“These things are about the campaign,” said Republican energy lobbyist Mike McKenna. “That’s why they waited until year three.”
But going small would also carry risks by causing the U.S. to miss its climate goals, and it would turn off supporters Biden needs in 2024.
“The whole Biden coalition is built around this commitment” on climate change, said Dallas Burtraw, a senior fellow with the think tank Resources for the Future. He noted that the administration got Congress to pass a climate law last year that offers big incentives for clean power as well as hydrogen and carbon capture.
While the climate effort may drive enthusiasm among Biden’s green supporters, Senate Democrats’ hopes of keeping their slim majority depend on defending their turf in moderate states. Some, such as West Virginia, Michigan, Montana and Ohio, are home to big workforces in the automobile, coal and natural gas sectors.
Biden found a balance in the 2020 campaign, winning the blue-collar-heavy swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin while promising to eliminate carbon pollution from the power grid by 2035. At the time, he said carbon capture and hydrogen technology could give a lifeline to power industry workers. Few of Biden’s Democratic primary rivals shared that vision.
“The public fully understands that fossil fuels are creating pollution that is harming communities across the country,” said Matthew Davis, senior director of government affairs with the League of Conservation Voters, addressing questions about the upcoming EPA rules. “There is also a need to emphasize how important it is that we transition in a way that helps workers that are in those sectors.”
Some energy experts say electricity generation doesn’t offer Republicans the same potent weapon that Biden’s other green energy moves do.
“It doesn’t hit home to a driver or a homeowner as much as a gas stove or an electric car does,” said Frank Maisano, who represents energy clients at the law firm Bracewell. “I suspect most people don’t know they’re already getting a lot of renewable power because the sector has transitioned much faster than expected.”
But will it work?
For utilities, forthcoming investments and incentives from the federal government mean carbon capture could one day be an effective way to reduce power plants’ impact on warming the planet.
But the big question is whether it can do that now.
Only two commercial-scale coal-fired power plants in North America have installed carbon capture technologies: Petra Nova in Texas and Boundary Dam in Saskatchewan, Canada. Both projects experienced cost overruns and performance issues that caused them to miss their targets, and Petra Nova shut down after a few years in operation.
That means the technology flunks the Clean Air Act’s “adequately demonstrated” test, Bracewell attorney Scott Segal argued.
On the other hand, EPA has previously set standards that require industries to invest in new types of pollution controls, said Dena Adler, an attorney with New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity.
“The history of the Clean Air Act is filled with regulations where technologies were projected to be very expensive,” she said. “And after the regulations came down, industry figured out how to install these control technologies better and cheaper.”
But installing the technology isn’t the only hurdle. Requiring large amounts of carbon capture will also raise questions about what to do with all the CO2.
Oil producers can use carbon dioxide in “enhanced oil recovery” wells in which CO2 is pumped underground to push out difficult-to-reach oil — although those are mostly clustered in Texas, California and a few other states. It can also be pumped underground into geological formations.
Either option would probably require many new pipelines to be built to carry the gas to its destination — at a time when permitting is taking longer and the public increasingly opposes them.
Running carbon capture technologies also requires a significant amount of power, as much as 20 percent of a plant’s electricity output, the Congressional Research Service said last fall. Petra Nova powered its carbon capture equipment by building a 75-megawatt natural gas unit onsite, the emissions from which dampened the carbon reductions achieved by the coal-fired unit.
“If EPA wants its rule to survive, it needs a substantial basis in the record that its assumptions about the feasibility of the adoption of this technology have a real basis and that it’s not just pie in the sky,” said Schwab.
Similarly knotty questions surround the possibility of utilities burning hydrogen alongside natural gas — another promising but unproven technology that they could use to comply with the upcoming rule.
SCOTUS’ shadow hangs over the rule
The courts may have the final say on EPA’s rule — as they did in knocking down both Obama’s power plant regulation and the Trump administration’s attempt to replace it.
The Supreme Court last summer split along ideological lines in striking down the Obama-era Clean Power Plan — while embracing a legal doctrine that forbids agencies from deciding “major questions” that legally rest with Congress. That doctrine doomed the Obama rule, which had pushed for a broad shift by utilities away from coal.
Biden’s foes could argue that his rule similarly runs afoul of the same legal standard if it effectively prompts utilities to shutter their coal plants.
But some legal experts see a bright spot for Biden in last year’s EPA ruling.
For one thing, NYU’s Adler said, an EPA standard based on carbon capture would be “entirely different” from the Obama regulation’s demand that utilities switch to cleaner fuel sources. Capturing pollution at the source “is really the bread and butter of the Clean Air Act and the type of regulation that EPA has been issuing for decades,” she said.
In addition, while Congress hasn’t explicitly changed EPA’s regulatory authority, Democrats have passed major investments as part of the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. Those laws provided billions of dollars in research grants for carbon capture and hydrogen, plus expanded tax credits to encourage adoption of those technologies.
But EPA can’t rely on those federal dollars to justify a more stringent regulation, said Schwab, the Trump-era agency veteran. He said it’s not clear the Clean Air Act even allows EPA to consider the availability of the money, and much of the funding may never materialize if a future Congress and administration undo the Biden-era laws It’s unlikely that all of Biden’s many climate rules will survive Supreme Court scrutiny, environmental and energy lawyer Michael Buschbacher said in an email this week to POLITICO’s E&E News.
“The Biden administration appears to just want something to stick, essentially scaring industry into self-regulating,” wrote Buschbacher, a partner at Boyden Gray & Associates. He added, “This approach could backfire spectacularly.”
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Hyderabad: Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Smita Sabharwal has requested the Supreme Court and Chief Justice of India to intervene in the release of convicts involved in the killing of IAS officer G. Krishnaiah in Bihar.
Smita, who is secretary to the Telangana chief minister, on Wednesday, expressed solidarity with the family of Krishnaiah.
“Sometimes one wonders if being a civil servant is worth it. Request the SC and CJI to intervene,” tweeted Smita, who is known for expressing her views on burning issues.
She retweeted the statement of the Central IAS Association, which expressed its deep dismay at the decision of the Bihar government to release the convicts involved in the brutal killing of G. Krishnaiah, former District Magistrate of Gopalganj.
A convict charged with murder of a public servant on duty, cannot be reclassified to a less heinous category. Amendment of an existing classification which leads to the release of the convicted killer of a public servant on duty is tantamount to denial of justice, said the IAS Association.
It also stated that such dilution leads to impunity, erosion in morale of public servants, undermines public order and makes a mockery of the administration of justice. The Association requested the Bihar government to reconsider its decision at the earliest.
Krishnaiah’s family, which lives in Hyderabad, has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene and stop release of former MP Anand Mohan Singh, who had instigated the bureaucrat’s lynching.
The slain Dalit IAS officer’s wife Uma said that she was shocked by Bihar government’s decision to release former MP Anand Mohan Singh by amending the Bihar prison manual.
Uma said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should intervene and make Nitish Kumar withdraw his decision which will set a bad precedent and have serious repercussions for the entire society. “My husband was an IAS officer and it is the Centre’s responsibility to ensure that justice is done,” she said.
She alleged that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is releasing the killer of her husband for votes of Rajputs and to form government again.
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Chhattisgarh: 10 policemen, driver killed in blast by Naxals in Dantewada (Photo: Twitter)
Dantewada: Ten police personnel and a driver were killed in a blast carried out by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Wednesday, officials said.
The incident took place under Aranpur police station limits when a team of the state police’s District Reserve Guard (DRG) was returning after an anti-Naxalite operation, a senior official said.
The area is located around 450 km from the state capital Raipur.
Naxalites blew up the mini-goods van in which the security personnel were travelling by using an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), police sources said.
It is a picture of a kiss – an everyday human interaction between partners after 90 minutes on opposing sides. Posted by Football Is Everywhere along with the caption “Football is Love, everywhere”, the photo of the Swedish top-flight players Anna Tamminen and Rosa Herreros is a perfect example of a sport renowned for its inclusiveness.
On 15 April, top of the table Hammarby hosted Växjö in the third game of the Swedish domestic top-flight season. It was the first time that Tamminen and Herreros had faced each other on the field, a unique situation for the couple but far from uncommon in the women’s game. The 28-year-old Tamminen started in goal for Hammarby, helping her team to a 6-1 victory, while Herreros was named on the visitors’ bench and did not make an appearance. After the final whistle and the work on the pitch was done, the couple greeted each other with this simple moment of affection caught by a waiting photographer.
Reaction, overall, has been largely positive reflecting the accepting nature of the game. The series of rainbow emojis and “love is love” replies below the post demonstrate the positive impact visibility can have. However, as is the nature with social media, it has unfortunately also garnered a few negative responses. Questions have been raised about professionalism and whether the pitch is the right place for these interactions, especially with players on opposing sides.
What these posters fail to understand is the unique position women’s football holds within sport and society as a whole. In stark contrast to their male counterparts, many players feel comfortable and supported enough to be open about their sexuality. Couples are common and well-known across the sport, and while more often than not they play for the same side, they are not restricted by the harmful and antiquated norms held by some fans in the men’s game. In addition, many of these same couples understand the power of their platforms to try to tackle the considerable inequality LGBTQIA+ people still face in speaking openly about their relationships.
There have been many occasions where photographers have captured such interactions between players. One went viral when the Australia captain, Sam Kerr, and the American Kristie Mewis were pictured in a touching embrace on the pitch at the Tokyo Olympics. The USA had just beaten Kerr’s side in a seven-goal thriller to secure bronze and Mewis was comforting her girlfriend, a private exchange juxtaposed with its public setting.
Another image that took the internet by storm was the kiss between Pernille Harder and Magdalena Eriksson after Sweden had knocked Canada out of the 2019 World Cup. With Denmark absent from the tournament, Harder attended, wearing a Sweden shirt, to support her long-time partner through her journey to a bronze medal. It has become an iconic moment in the sport and the two Chelsea players now consciously speak up and advocate for equality and their community.
The Sweden defender Magdalena Eriksson kisses her girlfriend, Pernille Harder, after Sweden beat Canada in the 2019 World Cup. Photograph: Valéry Hache/AFP/Getty Images
Most importantly, however, is the fact that none of these should be seen as anything more than the inherently human reactions they are. Across sport, the emotions and interactions of athletes are photographed, in both victory and defeat and regardless of sexuality. Whether it’s the brothers Jason and Travis Kelce embracing after facing off against each other in this year’s Super Bowl, Alex Morgan’s daughter playing on the pitch after an international or Julie Ertz kissing her husband, Zach, pitchside after winning the 2019 World Cup, these are all moments caught on camera that bring the joy of sport to life. A celebration of the athlete and everyone around them that has helped them arrive at that point.
The photo of Tamminen and Herreros was not on this scale of celebration. In contrast, it was an intrinsically ordinary situation, a couple returning to each other after a day at work. But the power of a photograph is significant, and in bringing it to life, it has perfectly encapsulated a sport that has built its foundations and values on acceptance. A game that has found its own identity and space despite the constant attempts to police it from those on the outside. Comparisons with the men are constant and frustrating, with that side often viewed as the pinnacle of how things should be despite its evident frailties. Women’s football, however, despite being in its relative infancy, has the power to shape a new vision. It is a prism through which you can see a safer, more inclusive sport that can combine competitiveness and professionalism with inclusivity, empathy and a feeling that football really can be a place for all. Where for 90 minutes on the pitch, you are rivals; but once the final whistle goes, love, respect and relationships can exist.
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Tehran: An Iranian official announced that trade between Tehran and Saudi Arabia has resumed as the two Arab countries stepped up efforts to normalise ties following a China-brokered deal in March.
Trade Minister Reza Fatemi-Amin made the remarks to mediapersons on Tuesday when asked to comment on the agreement reached between Tehran and Riyadh to normalise bilateral relations in March, Xinhua news agency reported.
On Sunday, Iran’s Roads and Urban Development Minister Mehrdad Bazrpash announced that the country has received a proposal from Saudi Arabia to launch three regular flights between the two countries per week, in addition to the Haj flights.
Iran and Saudi Arabia reached a deal in March to resume diplomatic relations and reopen embassies and missions in the two countries within two months.
In a meeting held in Beijing on April 6, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud signed a joint statement, announcing the resumption of diplomatic relations with immediate effect.
Riyadh cut diplomatic ties with Iran in 2016 in response to the attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in Tehran after the kingdom executed a Shia cleric.
