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Jan. 6 rioter who maced Brian Sicknick sentenced to 80 months

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Dozens of members of the Capitol Police turned out to witness Khater’s sentencing and remained for the entire four-hour hearing. Among them: Caroline Edwards, who was sprayed by Khater moments after Sicknick. Edwards delivered a courtroom statement describing “survivor’s guilt” for being unable to assist Sicknick because she, too, was incapacitated. Members of Sicknick’s family, including his longtime partner Sandra Garza, delivered scathing victim impact statements directed at Khater.
A medical examiner found that Sicknick’s death was the result of natural causes — two strokes that occurred in the evening of Jan. 6 resulting in his death the next day. But Sicknick’s family made clear they viewed Khater as culpable for his death, combined with the stress of the riot.
The hearing also laid bare how a series of mace attacks on Capitol Police officers early in the riot that day helped lead to the collapse of the police line and the breach of the Capitol building.
Prosecutors played footage showing that Khater’s attack caused not only the three injured officers to flee the outnumbered police line but several others to help guide them to safety while they were blinded by the spray. Prosecutors showed video of Sicknick pacing alone on a Capitol terrace, struggling to regain his sight and his balance. While he paces, a slew of other officers, also maced by the mob, joined him on the terrace, also struggling to return to action.
Five minutes after Khater’s spray attack, prosecutors noted, the police line collapsed and rioters reached the foot of the Capitol.
Hogan’s sentence was one of the harshest handed down to Jan. 6 defendants — far more than the sentence of time served sought by Khater, who has already served 22 months in pretrial detention – but it fell short of the 90 months sought by the government. Hogan said that was partly to account for what he described as inhumane conditions of the Washington, D.C., jail, which Hogan called a “disgrace.” The jail has been plagued by allegations of substandard living conditions and a pattern of mistreatment by corrections officials that have, at times, drawn rebukes from federal judges.
Hogan faulted Khater for refusing to directly apologize to Edwards or for the injuries he caused to Sicknick and others that day. Khater responded that he hadn’t made a more direct apology following the advice of his lawyers, and because he had recently been served with a civil lawsuit related to his actions.
Khater’s codefendant, George Tanios, was sentenced Friday to five months time served for his actions. He purchased and carried the spray used by Khater but took no part in the assaults.

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January 28, 2023
Mercury drops in J&K, MeT predicts snowfall on Jan 29, 30

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Srinagar, Jan 27 (GNS): Mercury dropped at all places barring Srinagar even as the weatherman on Friday said that isolated to “widespread” light rain and snow was expected for two days from Sunday evening in Jammu and Kashmir.
A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar recorded a low of 1.2°C, the same as on the last night. Today’s minimum temperature, he said, was above normal by 2.2°C for the summer capital.
Qazigund, he said, recorded a low of minus 0.6°C against minus 0.4°C on the previous night and it was 3.5°C above normal for the gateway town of Kashmir.
Pahalgam, he said, recorded a low of minus 4.3°C against minus 2.4°C on the previous night and it was 1.8°C above normal for the famous tourist resort in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
Kokernag recorded a low of minus 0.9°C against minus 0.6°C on the previous night and it was 1.7°C above normal for the place, the officials said.
Gulmarg recorded a low of minus 8.6°C against minus 10.4°C on the previous night and it was 1.1°C below normal for the world famous skiing resort in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, he said.
In Kupwara town, he said, the mercury settled at minus 3.7°C against minus 1.7°C on the previous night and it was above 1.2°C below normal for the north Kashmir area.
Jammu recorded a low of 5.5°C against 6.3°C on the previous night. It was 3.2°C below normal for J&K’s winter capital, he said.

Banihal recorded a low of 0.6°C (below normal by 0.4°C), Batote minus 0.1°C (below normal by 1.8°C), Katra 6.0°C (0.9°C below normal) and Bhadarwah minus 0.4°C (0.4°C below normal).
Ladakh’s Leh recorded a low of minus 11.2°C, the official said.
The MeT said that light to widespread rain and snow was likely from January 29th night-30 ( 60%).
He said in the last 24 hours till 0830 hours, Qazigund received 5.0cm of snow, Pahalgam 3.3cm and Kokernag 1.0cm.
Kashmir is under the grip of Chillai-Kalan, the 40-day long harsh winter period that started on December 21. It does not mean an end to the winter either. It is followed by a 20-day-long period called ‘Chillai-Khurd’ that occurs between January 30 and February 19 and a 10-day-long period ‘Chillai-Bachha’ (baby cold) which is from February 20 to March 1. (GNS)
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January 27, 2023
Hyderabad: KCR to hold BRS Parliamentary party meeting on Jan 29

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Hyderabad: The Telangana chief minister and the Bharat Rashtra Samithi’s (BRS) supremo K Chandrashekhar Rao will be holding the Parliamentary party meeting on Sunday.
The meeting is scheduled to commence post lunch at 1 pm in Pragati Bhavan where KCR will ask the party MPs to raise the issues that need discussion in the parliament and implement strategies to be followed to resolve them.
The BRS members will further discuss the party strategy for the upcoming budget session of the Parliament scheduled to commence on January 31 while the union budget will be presented on February 1.
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January 27, 2023
Capitol Police officers to attend sentencing of man who maced Sicknick on Jan. 6

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The family wrote a series of pained and impassioned letters to the court urging a harsh sentence for Khater. It wasn’t immediately clear whether members of Sicknick’s family would also attend the sentencing hearing.
Prosecutors echoed their sentiment, agreeing that Khater bore responsibility for Sicknick’s death and urging Hogan to impose a 90-month sentence.
“While Julian Khater’s spray assault on Officer Sicknick ultimately was not determined to be the direct cause of his death,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Gilead Light wrote in a 30-page sentencing memo, “Officer Sicknick’s tragic demise, so close in time to the traumatic events of that day, underscores the seriousness of the offense committed by Khater and his fellow rioters.”
Khater’s attack became a significant flashpoint in the Jan. 6 riot. In addition to spraying Sicknick, he sprayed Caroline Edwards, a Capitol Police officer who had already been injured during the initial breach of police lines that afternoon. Edwards was a witness at the Jan. 6 select committee’s first public hearing and described the horrors she witnessed as a mob of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters surged past police lines and into the Capitol.
The sentencing hearing is sure to be wrenching, a stark reminder of the real-world pain caused by the Jan. 6 attack. While many Capitol Police officers have taken the trek to the courthouse to testify in Jan. 6 trials or make victim impact statements in cases in which they were personally scarred by the actions of a particular defendant, Friday’s hearing appears to be the first organized, collective action by a large swath of the department in support of a fallen officer.
Other Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police Department officers died subsequent to the events of Jan. 6, including at least two by suicide. One member of the mob, Ashli Babbitt, was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer as she tried to breach the House chamber. Several others in the crowd that day died amid the chaos.
Khater’s family has pleaded with Hogan for leniency.
“I am not excusing his actions, your Honor, only pleading for a second chance for Julian to truly live a life of service and repentance,” his mother, Eleanor Khater, wrote in a letter to the judge. “I place my son in your hands, in the desperate hope that you will show him compassion and leniency.”

In a sentencing memo urging Hogan to give Khater a sentence of time-served — his 22 months of post-arrest detention — his attorneys Joseph Tacopina and Chad Seigel cited Khater’s anxiety disorder and a pervasive mob mentality as the root causes of his behavior.
“A climate of mass hysteria, fueled by the dissemination of misinformation about the 2020 election, originating at the highest level, gave rise to a visceral powder keg waiting to ignite,” Tacopina and Seigel wrote. “And that is precisely what occurred.”
The attorneys also described Khater’s pretrial detention as “extraordinarily harsh,” particularly amid restrictions imposed as a result of the Covid pandemic.
Khater was born in New Jersey, but his father moved the family to war-torn Lebanon when he was 5, until 2006, when his family fled and returned to the United States. He agreed to attend Trump’s Jan. 6 rally when asked by a friend, George Tanios, to join him. Tanios has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor offenses stemming from the attack.
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January 27, 2023
Amit Shah to visit Karnataka on Jan 28

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New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit poll-bound Karnataka’s Hubballi-Dharwad and Belagavi on January 28 to attend various events, including a BJP roadshow.
This is his second visit to Kittur Karnataka (Mumbai-Karnataka) region within a month.
The BJP’s Karnataka unit hopes this tour and more such visits by the BJP leadership in the days to come, will help the party in mobilising its cadre base and achieve its ‘mission 150’ target (winning at least 150 out of 224 seats) in the Assembly polls, due by May, to retain power.
According to a source, Shah will be arriving and staying in Hubballi on January 27, and on January 28 morning, attend two programmes – the 75th anniversary of the KLE’s BVB college and inauguration of an indoor stadium, then, the stone-laying foundation for Forensic Science Laboratory in Dharwad”
“He will then participate in BJP’s ‘Vijaya Sankalpa Abhiyana’ in Kundagol,” the source added.
“After the rally, two meetings are organised regarding party affairs in Belagavi district – one will be related to organisation and the other will be leaders meeting- and both these will be attended by Shah,” the source said.
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, state President Nalin Kumar Kateel, senior leader B.S. Yediyurappa, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi among others, will be participating in party programmes.

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January 26, 2023
Hyderabad: Fresh water supply to be interrupted on Jan 27

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Hyderabad: Fresh water supply will be interrupted in many places in the city on Saturday, said the Hyderabad Metropolitan Fresh Water Supply & Sewerage Board (HMWSSB).
In a statement released on Thursday, HMWSSB stated that due to repair work in Mylar Dev Palli Phase-2 of Jalamandali fresh water supply will be less from 10 am to 6 pm. Citizens are requested to use water consciously.
The areas are as below – Shastripuram, Bandlaguda, Bhojagutta, Allabanda, Madhuban, Durga Nagar, Budvel, Suleman Nagar, Golden Heights, 9 no, Kismatpur, Gandham Guda and Dharmasai.
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January 25, 2023
Status of 2-day nationwide bank strike will be known on Jan 27

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Chennai: The status of the two-day strike announced by the bank unions will be known on January 27 when another round of conciliation meeting between the unions and the management will be held.
“The strike call for January 30 and 31 stands. At the conciliation meeting held by Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner in Mumbai on Tuesday, no concrete assurance on resolution of our demands emerged. On the other hand, the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) said it was ready to hold discussion with the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) within 15 days,” C.H. Venkatachalam, General Secretary, All India Bank Employees’ Association (AIBEA) told IANS.
According to him, the next round of conciliation meeting is posted on January 27 and as such the strike call stands.
The strike if it happens will be ahead of the Union budget to be presented by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1.
The UFBU is an umbrella body of several bank unions which had earlier decided to go on strike to press their various demands.
The strike is to press for the following demands: five days banking, updation of pension, residual issues, scrapping of National Pension System (NPS), immediate starting of negotiation on charter of demands for wage revision, and adequate recruitment in all cadres.
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January 25, 2023
Trump tries to intervene as Navarro faces trial for defying Jan. 6 committee

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“This confirms President Trump’s position that, as one of his senior advisors, you had an obligation to assert executive privilege on his behalf and fully comply with the principles of confidentiality stated above when you responded to the Committee’s subpoena,” the attorney, Evan Corcoran, wrote on Trump’s behalf.
The letter appears calculated to undercut the ruling of U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta rejecting Navarro’s effort to dismiss the cases against him. Mehta noted in a 39-page opinion last week that Navarro had presented no evidence that Trump actually asserted executive privilege on his behalf — even though he made explicit assertions to block the testimony of other former aides.
“Defendant has failed to come forward with any evidence to support the claimed assertion of privilege,” Mehta wrote. “And, because the claimed assertion of executive privilege is unproven, Defendant cannot avoid prosecution for contempt.”
Mehta is unlikely to consider Corcoran’s letter sufficient to derail Navarro’s trial. Navarro had initially claimed in court arguments that Trump told him, during a private conversation, to assert executive privilege before the Jan. 6 committee. But Corcoran’s letter makes no reference to such an assertion.
It’s the second time Trump has made a last-second bid to disrupt the pending contempt trials for aides who defied the select committee. Days before longtime ally Steve Bannon faced a criminal trial for contempt, Trump took the opposite tack — writing a letter to Bannon waiving any potential executive privilege and clearing the way for Bannon to testify to the committee. Prosecutors dismissed the gambit as a stunt to disrupt the trial, and Bannon ultimately took no steps to actually comply with the select committee’s subpoena, even after Trump’s explicit permission.
Navarro, like Bannon, both claimed that they were categorically “immune” from appearing before the Jan. 6 committee to discuss their involvement in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. They said their sensitive conversations with Trump were protected by executive privilege and therefore they could not be compelled by Congress to discuss them. But U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols rejected Bannon’s contention, noting that longstanding legal precedents don’t permit witnesses to defy congressional subpoenas even over assertions of executive privilege.
And in both cases, prosecutors noted that there was no evidence Trump had asserted privilege on Bannon or Navarro’s behalf.
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January 25, 2023
Telangana: Sharmila to resume padayatra from Jan 28

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Hyderabad: YSR Telangana party chief Y S Sharmila on Tuesday announced the resumption of her ‘Praja Prasthanam Padyatra‘ on January 28.
The leader came down heavily on chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and mocked him for ‘enthralling’ in national politics while keeping Telangana citizens in distress for the past nine years.
“It has been only the YSRTP that steadfastly and unconditionally took on KCR and his corrupt and tyrannical government. We never bowed down even when they tried hard to corner us, abusing power and authority,” said the YSR chief.
“With honesty in our intentions and affection for Telangana, and above all, recalling the people-friendly reign of YSR, we travelled across Telangana and covered 3500km, only to be troubled and threatened by KCR, who was now scared of our growing prominence and the manner in which we exposed their local MLAs and MPs.” added Sharmila.
Recounting the chain of events that she claimed were born out of KCR’s growing sense of insecurity, Sharmila went on to add, “We will continue to battle his inefficient rule marked by failed promise, as we did with Kaleshwaram or Palamuru or unemployment or other issues.”
“My entry to Paleru has rocked his morale and now he realized that the YSRTP is growing in its popularity and presence in the entire district along with contiguous parts of Nalgonda,” she contented.
YS Sharmila also ruled out early elections to the Telangana Assembly, as she claimed KCR was not ready to take on the anti-incumbency and also for the much-needed stature as a chief minister to travel across the country.
She further lashed out at Congress’s Revanth Reddy and BJP’s Bandi Sanjay for their inefficiency in exposing KCR and his corruption.

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January 24, 2023
Counselling schedule for transfer of teachers to begin on Jan 27

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Hyderabad: The counselling schedule for the promotion and transfer of teachers and principals in Telangana will begin on January 7 notified the Director of School Education (DSE).
A list of existing vacancies in category-wise schools and a seniority list for promotion of Grade II headmasters and school assistants will be displayed.
The education department will likely be completing the process of transfers in 37 days and the online applications for the same will be accepted between January 28 to 30.
The district education officers and regional joint directors will display the provisional seniority lists with entitlement points for transfer and seniority lists for promotion on February 7 after verifying the hard copies.
Objections can be submitted on the very same day following which a final list of seniority will be displayed on February 11 to 12.
Various processes, including the display of headmaster Garde II vacancies, promotions of school assistants as headmasters followed by a display of vacancies of school assistants and their transfers, promotions for secondary grade teachers (SGT) as school assistants and transfer for the post of SGT will take place from February 14 to March 4.
Appeals against the orders of district educational officers will be received from March 5 to 19 and resolved within 15 days, winding up the whole process by March 4.

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January 24, 2023