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STB chair Martin Oberman said the board approved the merger because “on balance the merger of these two railroads will benefit the American economy, and will be an improvement for all citizens in terms of safety and the environment.” He also argued that the bigger entity will be more competitive against larger railroads. He also suggested that in approving the merger, the board was constrained by the laws Congress has enacted, saying their decision “has to be measured against the backdrop of what is our congressional mandate.”
In a sign of the board’s normally-sleepy stature, Oberman observed that this was the board’s first press conference in recent memory — maybe ever.
Wednesday’s decision is a discordant note in a time when the Biden administration has sought to combat consolidation across a swath of industries ranging from technology giants to airlines. However, the board is not strictly an arm of the administration, but rather helmed by presidential appointees from both parties who are confirmed by the Senate.
A White House official noted that the STB is an independent agency and said the White House is “currently reviewing the text of their decision.”
Shortly after the STB’s announcement, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who sits on the Senate committee that oversees railroads, said the decision “needs to be scrutinized.”
The five-member board was not unanimous in its decision — board member Robert Primus dissented, saying he was concerned that the merger increases consolidation, risks service disruptions and could harm communities along the path of the railroad. “Because these detriments to the public interest outweigh the expected benefits, I dissent,” he said.
Erik Peinert, research manager at the progressive anti-monopoly group American Economic Liberties Project, called the decision “disgraceful” and said it “sets the stage for future disasters like East Palestine and will likely lead to railroad staffing cuts, higher cargo loads, and other profit-driven safety shortcuts.”
“Nothing in the history of rail consolidation suggests it is a good idea,” he added.
The Surface Transportation Board placed some conditions on the merger, including a seven-year period of oversight during which certain decisions involving competition, customer service and other transit agencies or Amtrak will have extra scrutiny, along with extensive data reporting requirements intended to help protect competition.
A decision has been expected since the board released the environmental impact statement earlier this year finding that the merger would have minimal impact other than increased train noise in some communities, and that while increased volumes would also mean more hazardous materials spills, the risk on any specific segment “would continue to be low” and any release “would be contained quickly.”
Chicago-area lawmakers asked STB to delay its decision, saying the environmental report cited faulty statistics provided by Canadian Pacific, while the region’s commuter railroad, Metra, predicted a greater increase in freight rail traffic than CP did.
Rep. Katie Porter and Sen. Elizabeth Warren also opposed the merger out of concern that it would mean even more consolidation in an industry that’s already controlled by just a handful of companies. On the other hand, four lawmakers from Kansas and Missouri, including House Transportation Chair Sam Graves, last year urged STB to approve the merger.
The STB has increased oversight over the freight railroads over the last year in an attempt to force better service for customers and to help rebuild the railroad workforce, which has been hollowed out over the last eight years as the industry has cut costs through layoffs.
Josh Sisco and Kayla Guo contributed to this report.
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A local journalist was arrested on Sunday on charges of alleged assault and abuse after he questioned a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLC Gulab Devi over promised development works in her constituency. The incident happened in Chandausi of Sambhal district, Uttar Pradesh.
The journalist – Sanjay Rana – reports for a Youtube channel Moradabad Ujala News. He is presently under police custody. An FIR was registered under Sections 323, 504 and 506 of the IPC (Indian Penal Code).
The video of Rana asking questions has gone viral. In the video, Rana asks the MLC regarding pakka road construction, the unavailability of government toilets, and the construction of a boundary wall of a Devi temple.
Rana was counter-questioned by the MLC’s associates who asked him if he was asking a question to the BJP leader or giving a lecture.
Rana then turned to the crowd of villagers who in unison agreed to his questions. MLC Gulab Devi assured reporter Rana that all works will be completed in due course of time.”Jab tu waha khada tha tabhi mein teri nighaye pehchan lee thi. Teri saari baatein theek hai. Sara kaam jaldi ho jayega (I understood your purpose when I saw you standing over there. I understand your problems and I assure you that all work will be completed),” Gulab Devi answered Rana.
संभल में स्थानीय पत्रकार है संजय राणा इनके गांव में आई राज्यमंत्री गुलाब देवी आईं जब गांव के विकास कार्यों को लेकर सवाल पूछता तो फिर क्या था पत्रकार पर भाजपा नेता ने चंदौसी थाने में मुकदमा दर्ज करवा दिया फिलहाल हिरासत में है। @ranvijaylive@DineshKumarLive@sachingupta787pic.twitter.com/SHFALrjxYc
Gulab Devi had come to Buddh Nagar village to inaugurate a check dam.
However, Rana found himself behind bars soon after, as an FIR was lodged against him based on the complaint of a Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) leader Shubham Raghav.
According to the FIR, Raghav has accused Rana of abuse and assault.
When Siasat.com spoke to Raghav, he said he was slapped by Rana.
“Rana had planted 4-5 drunk men in the crowd who were constantly hooting and creating a public nuisance. After his rendezvous with our leader Gulab Devi, I questioned him regarding his attitude toward her. Suddenly, one of his associates grabbed my collar and then Rana slapped me. I did not want to create any ruckus at that time and went straight to the police station to lodge a complaint,” Raghav told Siasat.com.
Raghav claimed that Rana does not belong to any newspaper or news channel. “He is a fake journalist. He was holding a mic of some Moradabad Ujala. I think it is a youtube channel,” he said.
Dakshina Kannada: Former Minister and BJP MLA K.S. Eshwarappa has stirred a fresh controversy in Karnataka by stating that “does Allah listen only if the Azaan prayers are played on loudspeakers”.
Speaking at a rally organised as part of the Vijay Sankalp Yatra on Sunday, Eshwarappa said, “Will Allah listen only if the prayers are done through loudspeakers”.
The statement went viral on social media on Monday.
BJP MLA KS Eshwarappa makes controversial remarks during his speech in Mangaluru as Azaan plays in the background. “This (Azaan) is a headache for me, does Allah hear prayers only if one screams on a microphone? is Allah deaf? This issue must be resolved soon” pic.twitter.com/Xlt3Up7pJp
While delivering the speech at Shanthinagar in Kavoor near Mangaluru, Eshwarappa said, “Wherever I go, this is a headache,” he said.
“We call people who need to be heard through loudspeakers as deaf. The Supreme Court had given the order in this regard. This problem is going to be solved. There shall be no doubts in this regard,” Eshwarappa maintained.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a call to respect all religions. But, will Allah listen to prayers only if done on loudspeakers?
“We also carry out worship in our temples. Sholaks and bhajans are performed. Even we have more devoutness and respect towards God than them.
“If at all there is any country which saves religion it is only India,” he maintained.
Dakshina Kannada: Former Minister and BJP MLA K.S. Eshwarappa has stirred a fresh controversy in Karnataka by stating that “does Allah listen only if the Azaan prayers are played on loudspeakers”.
Speaking at a rally organised as part of the Vijay Sankalp Yatra on Sunday, Eshwarappa said, “Will Allah listen only if the prayers are done through loudspeakers”.
The statement went viral on social media on Monday.
BJP MLA KS Eshwarappa makes controversial remarks during his speech in Mangaluru as Azaan plays in the background. “This (Azaan) is a headache for me, does Allah hear prayers only if one screams on a microphone? is Allah deaf? This issue must be resolved soon” pic.twitter.com/Xlt3Up7pJp
While delivering the speech at Shanthinagar in Kavoor near Mangaluru, Eshwarappa said, “Wherever I go, this is a headache,” he said.
“We call people who need to be heard through loudspeakers as deaf. The Supreme Court had given the order in this regard. This problem is going to be solved. There shall be no doubts in this regard,” Eshwarappa maintained.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a call to respect all religions. But, will Allah listen to prayers only if done on loudspeakers?
“We also carry out worship in our temples. Sholaks and bhajans are performed. Even we have more devoutness and respect towards God than them.
“If at all there is any country which saves religion it is only India,” he maintained.
New Delhi: Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Saturday questioned the journalistic independence of the BBC after the media house suspended a former footballer and star anchor for his remarks on social media and reportedly took a documentary off air.
Thakur took a swipe at the UK-based public broadcaster while sharing two news reports on the BBC suspending former England captain and star sports anchor Gary Lineker after he criticised the UK government’s immigration policy and taking off air a documentary by David Attenborough “over fearing of right-wing backlash”.
“Interesting to see how the BBC which makes lofty claims about journalistic objectivity and independence suspends their star anchor over his social media activity,” the Union minister said on Twitter.
“In yet another interesting exhibit, BBC suspends airing of a documentary it shot over fears that it would anger a section of society,” he said.
“Fake narrative setting and ethical journalism are inherently contradictory. Those indulging in malicious propaganda forged in concocted facts can obviously never be expected to have the moral fibre or the courage to stand up for journalistic independence,”Thakur said.
The government had, in January, banned the BBC documentary ‘The Modi Question’ on the 2002 Gujarat riots and termed it as a propaganda piece.
The BBC has stood by the documentary, calling it “rigorously researched according to highest editorial standards”.
Last month, the income tax Department conducted a survey at the BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai to investigate a charge of “deliberate non-compliance with Indian laws including transfer pricing rules and diversion of profits illegally”.
The BJP had launched a scathing attack on the BBC, calling it the “most corrupt” and accusing it of unleashing “venomous” propaganda against India.
On Saturday, the BBC denied the report that it decided not to broadcast an episode narrated by world-famous conservationist Sir David Attenborough for a new wildlife series over fears of a right-wing backlash.
“This is totally inaccurate, there is no sixth episode’. Wild Isles’ is and always was a five-part series and does not shy away from environmental content,” a BBC statement said.
The broadcaster is also reeling under a controversy over football legend Gary Lineker.
Several of the BBC’s regular sports presenters have stepped back in solidarity with Lineker after he was suspended over a controversial tweet related to the government’s immigration policy.
Bhopal: Bharatiya Janata Party Lok Sabha MP Pragya Thakur on Saturday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi must be thrown out of the country for some of his statements made on foreign soil.
Gandhi had, on Monday, told British parliamentarians in London that functioning microphones in the Lok Sabha are often silenced against the Opposition. He made the comment during an event organised by veteran Indian-origin Opposition Labour Party MP Virendra Sharma in the Grand Committee Room within the House of Commons complex.
Thakur, who is Lok Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal, also claimed Chanakya had said a “son born to a foreign woman can never be a patriot” and that “Rahul Gandhi had “proved” the saying was true.
“We have assumed you are not from India because your mother is from Italy,” Thakur further said.
She was replying to a query on Gandhi’s allegations during an event in the UK that his party colleagues were not being allowed to speak in Parliament.
Hitting back, the BJP MP claimed it was the Congress which was not allowing Parliament to function.
“More work will be done if Parliament functions smoothly. (But) If there is more work, then they (Congress) will not survive. Their (Congress) existence is on the verge of ending. Now their mind is also getting corrupted,” she said.
“You (Rahul Gandhi) are a leader of this country, have been elected by the people (here) and are now insulting the public. While sitting abroad, you (Rahul Gandhi) are saying you are not getting an opportunity to speak in Parliament. Nothing can be more shameful than this. He should not be given a chance in politics and should be thrown out of the country,” Thakur said.
Reacting to her statement, MP Congress media department chairperson KK Mishra said Thakur was an accused in the Malegaon blast case.
Six people were killed and over 100 injured when an explosive device strapped to a motorcycle went off near a mosque in Malegaon, a communally sensitive town in north Maharashtra, on September 29, 2008.
Fed officials had already estimated that unemployment could rise more than 1 percentage point — which could equate to about 2 million lost jobs — and they may update those projections at their next meeting this month. Friday’s jobs report for February will offer further clarity on a labor market that has shown stunning growth even in the face of higher rates.
Powell suggested that he’s still holding out hope that joblessness won’t have to rise significantly, but he also made it clear that fighting inflation is his top priority. The unemployment rate — a more than 50-year-low of 3.4 percent — may not be sustainable without further stoking price spikes, he indicated.
“We’re very far from our price stability mandate and, in effect, the economy is past most estimates of maximum employment,” he told the committee in his semiannual testimony. Still, he said, inflation has been fed by unprecedented factors related to the pandemic that, as they fade, might aid the central bank.
Here are some key exchanges between the Fed chair and lawmakers:
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.): “You’re trying to raise the unemployment rate, are you not?”
Powell: “No, we’re not — we’re trying to realign supply and demand, which could happen through a bunch of channels, like for example, just job openings.”
While Powell flatly denied that his goal was to see unemployment increase, he acknowledged that the Fed does want to see the labor market weaken. Those might seem contradictory, but the thinking is that if there are fewer open jobs, it will help cool wage gains, which feed inflation, without necessarily causing a rise in joblessness.
For the record, Kennedy was driving at a separate but related point: It’s a good idea, in his mind, to cut government spending to help reduce inflation because the Fed’s tools are much blunter and potentially more painful to the labor market.
Many Republicans have been pressing for spending cuts as a condition for agreeing to raise the government’s borrowing limit this year.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.): “Chair Powell, if you could speak directly to the 2 million hardworking people who have decent jobs today who you’re planning to get fired over the next year, what would you say to them? How would you explain your view that they need to lose their jobs?”
Powell: “I would explain to people more broadly that inflation is extremely high, and it’s hurting the working people of this country badly — all of them. Not just 2 million, but all of them are suffering under high inflation, and we are taking the only measures we have to bring inflation down.”
Warren: “And putting 2 million people out of work is just part of the cost, and they just have to bear it?”
Powell: “Will working people be better off, if we just walk away from our jobs and inflation remains 5, 6 percent?”
This was an unusually testy moment from Powell, who is generally calm and collected under questioning, including from Warren.
But this conversation highlights the key points that both officials have been making. In the senator’s mind, inflation is largely caused by problems like supply chain issues and corporate greed — issues that are unrelated to overspending, which is what the Fed is designed to counteract. (To get to that two million number, she’s pulling from Fed projections that unemployment could rise to 4.6 percent.)
For Powell and his fellow Fed officials, they have a key role to play in bringing down price spikes, and they’re the ones who have been tasked to do it, even if there is a cost.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.): “I want to have the opportunity to address Sen. Warren’s conversation with you earlier about the tools that you have and the impact that it has on causing potentially more people to be unemployed.”
Powell: “We do not seek, and we don’t believe we need to have a very significant downturn in the labor market. … You’re starting from such a strong labor market, it seems as though you’re a long way away from anything that looks like a recession, just looking at the labor market by itself.”
Here, the Fed chief is making a point that even if unemployment rises to 4.6 percent, as central bank officials projected in December, that would still be relatively low by historical standards.
He’s being relatively hopeful here about the prospects for the job market and the economy as a whole, but the words “very significant” are notable; it suggests he’s still expecting unemployment to rise at least somewhat.
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Etawah: Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav and BSP chief Mayawati expressed disquiet Tuesday over recent police encounters in Uttar Pradesh, with Yadav saying that one of the sons of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed might also be gunned down soon.
Two men allegedly linked to the murder of Umesh Pal, the key witness in the 2005 murder case of former BSP MLA Raju Pal, have been killed in two police encounters in the last 10 days.
Umesh Pal and his police security guards Sandeep Nishad and Raghvendra Singh were shot dead on February 24 outside his home in Prayagraj’s Dhoomanganj.
Based on a complaint lodged by Umesh Pal’s wife Jaya Pal, a case was registered at Dhoomanganj police station against Ahmed, his brother Ashraf, wife Shaista Parveen, two sons, aides Guddu Muslim and Ghulam, and nine others.
Speaking to reporters in Etawah’s Saifai, Yadav claimed, “There is pressure on the police from the top to kill whoever they find. Whoever gets caught will be killed. Both sons of Atiq Ahmed were caught by the police on the very first day. One of them will be killed in the coming days… You all will see.”
“When our Constitution gives a man the fundamental right to live, then you cannot take someone’s life. There is no other way than the legal way. Those who carry out fake encounters are booked for murder,” he said.
Two other accused in the Umesh Pal murder case, Arbaaz and Vijay Chowdhary alias Usman, were killed in encounters with the police on February 27 and March 6 respectively.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati asked if the Uttar Pradesh government will follow the rule of law or eliminate criminals on the streets.
Without directly mentioning the encounters, Mayawati said, “The police action which has come before the public following the killing of Umesh Pal in Prayagraj has raised suspicion among people if the government will conduct another ‘Vikas Dubey episode’ to cover up its failures.”
Vikas Dubey, a Kanpur gangster, was shot dead in an encounter in 2020.
In another tweet in Hindi, the BSP chief said, “The UP government is under a lot of tension and pressure, especially regarding the law and order situation after the murder of Umesh Pal, the witness in the Raju Pal murder case.”
But the entire country is watching if the government will follow the rule of law to control crime or punish the criminals by eliminating them on the streets, she added.
Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, however, said the police action in the Umesh Pal murder case is praiseworthy and it is wrong to raise questions over it.
“The statement given by Professor Ram Gopal Yadav ji in favour of the murderers of Umesh Pal and the security personnel is an irresponsible one. The SP’s real character is to give patronage to criminals and increase their confidence.
“This is the beginning of the dirty politics of Muslim appeasement. The action taken by the police in this case is praiseworthy and it is wrong to raise questions over it,” the deputy chief minister said in a tweet in Hindi.
On Monday, Ahmed’s family held a press conference in Prayagraj and expressed apprehension that he, his brothers and sons would be killed in a fake encounter by the police and requested Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for help.
There are reports that Ahmed, who is currently lodged in a Gujarat jail, will be brought to Uttar Pradesh for the investigation into the Umesh Pal murder case.
New Delhi: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials arrives at the residence of Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Misa Bharti (seen at back) to question her father and party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in land-for-jobs case, in New Delhi, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (PTI Photo)
New Delhi: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials arrives at the residence of Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Misa Bharti (seen at back) to question her father and party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in land-for-jobs case, in New Delhi, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (PTI Photo)
New Delhi: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials arrives at the residence of Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Misa Bharti to question her father and party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in land-for-jobs case, in New Delhi, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (PTI Photo)
New Delhi: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials arrives at the residence of Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Misa Bharti to question her father and party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in land-for-jobs case, in New Delhi, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (PTI Photo)
New Delhi: Media at the residence of Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Misa Bharti ahead of CBI’s questioning of her father and party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in land-for-jobs case, in New Delhi, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (PTI Photo)
