WFP plan to suspend aid to over 200,000 Palestinians due to fund shortage
Gaza: The World Food Programme (WFP) is planning to suspend food aid to over 200,00 Palestinians from next month due to a shortage of funds, the group’s senior official for the Palestinian territories confirmed on Sunday.
WFP’s country director, Samer Abdeljaber, told Reuters that the WFP was planning to suspend food assistance to over 200,000 people from the month of June.
However, it was hard to decide while considering impacted families where insecurity and poverty are the highest, and people there thoroughly rely on international aid.
“WFP is compelled to make painful choices to stretch the limited resources in light of the severe funding shortages,” Samer Abdeljaber said.
Food baskets and monthly vouchers with a value of USD 10.30 each are provided to poor Palestinians by the UN agency. There will be an impact on both programs.
According to Palestinian and UN records, 2.3 million people reside in poverty hit Gaza, of which 45 percent are unemployed and 80 percent depend on international aid.
The WFP is the main leading humanitarian organization dedicated to saving and changing lives in violent or utterly poverty-hit country areas it delivers food assistance in emergencies and works with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.
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Bengaluru: The Karnataka State Election Commission has made eloborate arrangements for the May 10 Assembly elections in the state. To ensure no untoward incidents take place, the commission is deputing 1.56 lakh police personnel across the state.
As many as 84,119 police officers from the state have been deputed and the rest are roped in from the neighbouring states.
According to a statement, 304 deputy superintendents of police (Dy SP), 991 inspectors, 20,601 sub-inspectors, and 650 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) would be deputed for the polling duty in the state.
The 650 CAPF companies would include 101 from the Central Reserve Police Force, Border Security Force (108), Central Industrial Security Force (75), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (70), Sashastra Seema Bal (75), Railway Protection Force (35), and 186 of the Special Armed Police.
In Bengaluru 16,000 police personnel have been deputed for election duties. They will be deployed to 7,916 polling booths and 1,907 hyper sensitive polling booths.
Abu Dhabi: Three United Arab Emirates (UAE) based Indian expatriates won the grand prize of 100,000 Dirhams (Rs 22,23,997) in the latest Big Ticket Abu Dhabi weekly draw.
The winners – Lineesh Mekkottemal, Ajith Gopina, and Satheesan Thazhathayin – bagged the prize after matching five of the six winning numbers.
Lineesh Mekkottemal, who works as a driver in Dubai, plans to send the money back home to India and vows to continue purchasing Big Tickets.
Ajith Gopina, a resident of Dubai working as an electrical technician, intends to spend the money on his daughter’s university education.
The third winner Satheesan Thazhathay works as a government employee. He purchased his lucky ticket online on April 2.
The latest weekly draw also saw the fourth winner— Emirati national in Abu Dhabi, Sultan Alshehyari.
During the month of April, Big Ticket’s weekly secured electronic draw gave four customers the chance to win 100,000 Dirhams each week.
Big Ticket customers who purchase raffle tickets during the month of May are automatically entered into one of the weekly electronic draws and have a chance to be one of three winners to receive 100,000 Dirhams or one of 20 winners to receive 10,000 Dirhams each week
The same ticket will give them a chance to win the grand prize of 20 million Dirhams or one of the seven other life-changing cash prizes on June 3.
Big Ticket fans have until May 31 to make their purchases online at the official website or by visiting store counters at Abu Dhabi International Airport and Al Ain International Airport.
SRINAGAR: A local court in the Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district sentenced a man to six months of simple imprisonment and a fine of Rs eight Lakh in a cheque bounce case.
An official said that Judicial Magistrate Ist Class Sopore sentenced the man to six months simple imprisonment in a cheque bounce case and also imposed a penalty of Rs 800000.
The accused has been identified as Ghulam Mohiddin War son of Hayaat War Of Warpora Sopore
He was sentenced to six months jail after he was found guilty of the commission of an offense under section 138 of the Negotiable Instrument Act.
“A fine of Rs 8,00,000 which is double the cheque amount was also imposed on him,” the official said—(KS)
Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Police Commissioner Stephen Raveendra on Friday handed over a cheque of Rs Rs. 11,60,000 to the kin of G Srinivas of Medchal Traffic police station, a home guard who lost his life in a road accident last on January 25th.
The cheque was handed over to the victim’s family in presence of Jt.CP Traffic Narayan Naik, Addl.DCP Traffic Srinivas Reddy, ACP Medchal Traffic Venkat Reddy, inspector Narsimha Reddy.
On January 25, at about 1230 hrs G Srinivas of Medchal Traffic police station met with accident while performing duty at Kandlakoya Junction and died while shifting to hospital. The victim belonged from a very poor family. He had a wife and 2 kids, a press note said.
After the accident, police personnel started collecting contributions on behalf of Cyberabad police for his family members, and collected Rs. 11,60,000.
The contributors are from Traffic, L & O and other wings of Cyberabad, Hyderabad, RCK Commissionerates. The people generously came forward to support the family. Further, a Corporate sector in (CSR) group came forward to help the survival of the victim family members, the press note further informed.
HDFC bank, in which the victim had a bank account issued a cheque of Rs. 30,00,000 to his family under insurance.
The Medchal Traffic SHO BNS Reddy has announced to give Rs.2500 per month to the victim’s mother up to one year.
Hyderabad: The Telangana government on Tuesday announced life insurance of Rs 5 lakhs for toddy tappers in the state.
‘Geeta Karmikula Beema’ which translates to ‘Toddy tappers’ insurance’ will be provided to a toddy tapper’s family in case of death during the job.
ఈ సందర్భంగా సీఎం మాట్లాడుతూ.. కల్లుగీత సందర్భంగా ప్రమాదవశాత్తు జారిపడి ప్రాణాలు కోల్పోతున్న దురదృష్ట సంఘటనలు జరుగుతుంటాయని సీఎం ఆవేదన వ్యక్తం చేశారు. అటువంటి వూహించని దురదృష్టకర సందర్భాల్లో మరణించిన కల్లుగీత కార్మికుల కుటుంబాలను ఆదుకోవాల్సిన బాధ్యత ప్రభుత్వం మీద వున్నదని సీఎం…
New York: Be it fashion or acting, Alia Bhatt is nailing everything like a pro. On Tuesday, she represented India at Met Gala 2023 and she definitely won hearts with her look.
For her Met Gala debut, Alia opted for a pristine white gown with a billowing silhouette from the shelves of Prabal Gurung.
This time the Met Gala theme paid homage to the late designer Karl Lagerfeld and our Bollywood diva followed it in the most elegant way. The new mother of one perfectly delivered on the theme in the pure white princess gown that had a long train, with every inch of its bodice drenched in pearls.
Also, her white outfit channelled a 1992 bridal look created for Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld and modelled by Claudia Schiffer.
After walking the red carpet, Alia shared pictures of her Met Gala look on Instagram and revealed that her royal ensemble was made using one lakh pearls. Unbelievable, right?
“Met Gala — Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty…I have always been fascinated by the iconic Chanel brides. Season after season, the genius of Karl Lagerfeld shone through in the most innovative and awe-inspiring couture. My look tonight was inspired from this and in particular by supermodel Claudia Schiffer’s 1992 Chanel bridal look.. I wanted to do something that felt authentic (hello, pearls!) and proudly made in India. The embroidery, made with a 100,000 pearls is a labour of love by @prabalgurung. I’m so proud to wear you for my first Met,” she shared.
Alia teamed the gown with embellished gloves, matching diamond earrings and rings. For the glam, she opted for centre-parted half-tied ponytail, high heels, subtle smoky eye shadow, kohl-lined eyes, nude lip shade, and a dewy base.
“A girl can never have too many pearls… and the right accessories to complement the look which in our case translated to the bow of pearls on my hair. Oh, and it’s white, for my Choup-ED,” Alia added.
Alia’s Met Gala is now the talk of the town, garnering abundant love from the netizens.
“Princess,” a netizen wrote.
“Angel,” Alia’s sister Shaheen posted.
“Looking too pretty,” a fan commented.
Anaita Shroff, who styled Alia for Met Gala, also shared more details about her overall “princess” look.
“Let it reign pearls!! Alia zeroed in on a famous corseted couture ball gown look by Karl Lagerfeld worn by Claudia Schiffer as the final Bridal look for Fall 1992 Couture. We then added around 100,000 pearls as a fiting salute to the genius of Karl Lagerfeld by @prabalgurung ! ewelry designer Alice Cicolini x Malabar Gold and Diamonds worked with me closely to create the ring stack. Creating a modern, fresh interpretation, the knuckle duster is created around a large rose cut, surrounded by tapered, baguette and round diamonds, with a tassel of pearls. While the other hand has rings in our beautiful uncut diamond heritage all the same. Karl famously always liked looking ahead looking at what was next,” she wrote.
Anaita continued, “Cutoff custom made embellished gloves by Outhouse with mini motifs as Karl liked to show in his embroidery and statement earrings. We wanted to highlight Alia’s face by releasing the hair back with a straight and wavy messy look. As our Indian brides always wear flowers in their hair, delicate hand strung jasmine buds, so today we created these with pearls and a few spikes to add the right amount of danger and sweetness in a bow! Pearl encrusted hand embroidered shoes by ASAxSko add the finishing punch.So the objective with makeup was to keep the skin looking really romantic with flushed cheeks but also give it that modern twist with soft ethereal eyes and nude lips.”
This appearance of Alia will precede her Hollywood debut in Heart of Stone. Helmed by Tom Harper, Heart of Stone is intended to be the first installment in a series akin to Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible.
New Delhi: GST collection grew by 12 per cent in April to Rs 1.87 lakh crore, the highest monthly mop-up since the rollout of the indirect tax regime.
The gross GST revenue collected in the month of April 2023 is Rs 1,87,035 crore of which CGST is Rs 38,440 crore, SGST is Rs 47,412 crore, IGST is Rs 89,158 crore (including Rs 34,972 crore collected on import of goods) and cess is Rs 12,025 crore, the finance ministry said in a statement.
The previous high collection of Rs 1.68 lakh crore was in April last year.
“The revenues for the month of April 2023 are 12 per cent higher than the GST revenues in the same month last year,” the ministry said.
During the month, the revenues from domestic transactions (including import of services) are 16 per cent higher than the revenues from these sources during the same month last year.
The total gross collection for the 2022-23 fiscal stood at Rs 18.10 lakh crore, 22 per cent higher than the previous year.
SRINAGAR: Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip garden, located on the foothills of Zabarwan mountain range, turned out to be a major tourist attraction in Kashmir this year with over 3.7 lac visitors from far and wide thronging the garden to enjoy the diverse hues of nature at display.
The Tulip garden spanning over an area of 30 hectares (74 acres) has on a year-to-year basis pulled record number of visitors from all across be it the local, the national or the foreigners.
The figures suggest that a total of 377201 tourists of which 315266 included domestic, 3259 foreigners and 58676 locals visited the garden over a period of 33 days – after thrown open to visitors on March 19,2023 upto April 20, 2023.
As per an official, the footfall this season was the highest ever. “We had 3.6 lakh tourists visiting the garden last year and this year it saw an increase making it the highest ever footfall in the history of this garden”, the official told GNS adding the period of tulip bloom this season lasted for 33 days, as compared to last year’s 27 day period, largely due to mild weather conditions.
“There were 68 varieties of tulips on display in the garden this season, out of these varieties, four new ones were introduced this year: Hamilton, Sweetheart, Cafe Noir and Christmas Dream”, the official said.
Expressing his satisfaction over the record number of visitors, the official further said the enormous flow of Tourists from within and outside the country motivates us and imbues in us courage to do more to make the visit to the garden a memorable experience.
