Kolkata: Etihad Airways will resume flight services between Kolkata and Abu Dhabi on Sunday, the airlines said.
The flights, to be available every day, will be operated with an Airbus A320 aircraft, offering eight seats in business class and 150 in economy class, it said.
With the recommencement of services to Kolkata, Etihad will now fly to 14 destinations across the region — India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives, it added.
The aircraft will depart Abu Dhabi at 9.10 pm local time, and land in Kolkata at 3.30 am. It will take off from Kolkata at 4.35 am, and reach the UAE capital at 8.15 am local time.
“Our return to Kolkata will come at the same time as we go double daily to New York, providing better access between India and the United States via Abu Dhabi, where our guests can take advantage of our US preclearance facility for a seamless arrival into the States,” said Martin Drew, the senior vice-president of global sales and cargo at Etihad.
Last week, low-cost carrier Air Arabia launched its services between Kolkata and Abu Dhabi, flying three days a week. It is also operating an Airbus A320.
Etihad had stopped its services between Kolkata and Abu Dhabi following the COVID-19 outbreak.
Kolkata has direct flights to two other west Asian destinations, Dubai and Doha.
Hyderabad: On the occassion of World Oral Healthy Day, Indian Dental Association (IDA), Deccan branch in collabration with Our Lady of Good Health Church is conducting free dental check up and medical camp.
In a press release, Hyderabad Secretary IDA Deccan Dr A Srikanth, said that the free dental check up and medical camp will be conducted at 10am on Sunday, March 19 at Roch Memorial high school and church, AC Gaurd, near Vijay Mary Hospital.
The another free dental and health camp, which is being held in honour of World Oral Health Day on March 20, will offer free doctor consultations in dental and general medicine, as well as free basic diagnostic services.
For the free dental and medical camp, health care providers such as Zoi Hospitals and senior dentists from IDA, Deccan are collaborating.
Raipur: Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal will be on a one-day visit to Chhattisgarh capital Raipur on Sunday to boost AAP’s preparations for the assembly elections in the state scheduled later this year, a party leader said.
Kejriwal will be accompanied by Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann and the duo will address a party workers’ convention here.
The AAP had tried its luck for the first time in Chhattisgarh assembly polls in 2018 and fielded candidates in 85 of 90 seats but failed to achieve success. However, a landslide win in Punjab last year turbocharged its national ambitions.
Even though it won in just five constituencies despite running a high-decibel campaign in Gujarat, where the Bharatiya Janata Party won a record 156 seats, the party garnered about 13 per cent vote share. On Saturday, AAP also announced its plans to contest all 230 seats in Madhya Pradesh, which too goes to polls this year.
The visit of the AAP top leadership and their interaction with party workers will further strengthen the preparations for the assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Delhi minister and the party’s state election in-charge Gopal Rai told reporters here.
The two leaders will address the party workers’ convention in Jora ground in front of the Agriculture university around 3 pm on Sunday, he said.
Rai accused the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party that have governed the state since it was carved out of Madhya Pradesh in 2000. The present Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress government has completely failed on the law and order front, he claimed.
Highlighting several schemes of the Kejriwal government in New Delhi in just few years of its rule, Rai demanded to know why Chhattisgarh has failed to register such achievements in so many years.
He said the BJP and Congress have been seeking votes through false promises and populist announcements.
Her parents struggled to explain why they had to use a different bathroom, or why the entrances to stores and restaurants were different for people who looked like them. Webb-Christburg peppered her parents with questions, but she always listened and was well behaved.
That would change on Jan. 2, 1965.
Webb-Christburg and her best friend, Rachel West, were playing in front of Brown Chapel AME Church. There were more cars than usual — fancier cars than she was used to seeing in her neighborhood. She and Rachel walked closer and saw a man “dressed in a nice white starched shirt, black tie, black slacks.”
A crowd gathered around the stranger, and another man walked up to the two girls, asking them if they knew who this was. They did not.
It was the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
He saw the two girls and walked over to them. He asked where they lived (they pointed to the projects nearby), how old they were and where they went to school. One of the men in the crowd told them to run along — grown folks were about to meet.
King disagreed. “Let them come in,” he said, taking them by the hand and leading them into the church. He sat them down in the back.
“He said, ‘What do you little girls want?’” Webb-Christburg recalled. “We looked at each other. He said, ‘Now, children, when I ask you little girls what you want, I want you to say, freedom.’ And then he said, ‘Now, when do you little girls want it?’ We looked at each other again, not knowing how to answer that question. He said, ‘When I ask you, When do you want it? I want you to say, now.’”
It was a moment that changed her life. She ran to tell her parents. But they weren’t receptive.
“My daddy told me, ‘You just better stay from around that mess,’” she remembered. They were worried about her safety — and theirs — and about losing their jobs.
She did the exact opposite: sneaking out, skipping school, spending hours at the church for mass meetings.
“In my mind as a child, I was fighting for them,” she said, smiling.
Spending time with King, Williams, Lewis and other activists — Jonathan Daniels, Viola Liuzzo and James Reeb — awakened something in her. “I was already inquisitive. But I gained some courage because I was around courageous people,” she said.
When March 7 came, her parents begged her not to march. And even when she gathered at Brown Chapel AME Church, which served as a meeting place and offices of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference that helped plan the march, adults discouraged her from going. She cried and they relented.
The march had been planned by Lewis and Williams in response to the killing of civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson by an Alabama state trooper. The group planned to march from Selma to the state capital, Montgomery, 54 miles in all.
As they walked the 15-minute route to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge, she began to see dozens of white people and a wall of law enforcement.
“Some of them start just yelling the n-word out, trying to distract the marchers. Some would even come up and spit on some of the marchers,” she said. “I could see the policemen with the billy clubs, tear gas masks. You see the horses, the dogs — my heart started beating very fast, and I just knew something was going to happen.”
What came next shocked the country and forced action in Washington, D.C., leading to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Today, Slovenia is a superpower in ski jumping, but it was not visible in the ski jump. There was hardly anyone in the actual stands. After all, there was a group standing next to the descent slope.
Planica
I ski The World Championships had a humor day on the program on Sunday, but it wasn’t funny at all. The day was filled with doubles and mixed team competitions in each of the three sports, which don’t want to fire up the athletes as much as the spectators.
Mikko Gynther Picture: Morning paper
If this is the future the International Ski Federation wants to take the event towards, the picture is bleak.
The people on the spot voted with their feet, what they thought of the competition format. During the skiing pair sprints, the atmosphere was still moderate, but right after that the fans’ march started. It was not directed towards the stands, but towards the pleasure substances or out of the entire area. It was a sight that the organizers do not want to show on television.
Only a handful stayed to watch the combined mixed team competition organized for the first time. The occupancy rate of the beer and food tent next to the stadium was significantly higher. Of course, it is understandable that if the alternatives are drinking beer and watching couple antics, the choice of many is the first.
In Planica, the value competition drug has not peaked, but Sunday was already somewhat low. Most of those in the stands and along the route had an accreditation or VIP tag hanging from their necks or wore a ribbon from their country’s ski association. Those who showed up for money were few, if not even in the minority.
The competition itself was as relaxed as the atmosphere. Only eight countries participated. The differences were shocking, even though the ski runs were made as short as possible.
Many looked like they would have rather been anywhere else than competing on the ski slopes. The clear number one name in the sport Jarl Magnus Riiber anchored Norway at the end of a leisurely run to the finish line as the winner. He looked as happy as he did a year ago, when he found out about his corona infection, which ruined the Olympic trip.
Even the Norwegian fans couldn’t get excited about the championship.
The “culmination” of the evening was the mixed team hill. Today, Slovenia is a superpower in ski jumping, but it was not visible in the ski jump. There was no one in the actual stand. After all, there was a group standing next to the descent slope.
The average gross salary of Slovenians is well over 2,000 euros. You had to shell out at least 64 euros for the Sunday day ticket. It allowed you to get miles away from the competition venue, as cars are not allowed in the stadium. Accessibility is poor, and there are no large masses of people living in the surrounding areas. I would have thought that even the most inexperienced event organizer would have realized that this equation does not work.
Hyderabad: Sunday Funday event at Tank Bund which resumed yesterday after a long gap saw thousands of visitors who got a glimpse of newly launched double-decker buses and musical fountain at Hussain Sagar.
At the event, people were seen enjoying watching the musical fountain show that took place between 7 pm and 10 pm. The fountain waves were seen dancing to the tunes of various songs including Oscar-nominated Naatu Naatu.
Apart from it, food stalls at the Tank Bund saw huge rush.
The organizer of Sunday Funday, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) distributed saplings free of cost. At the stalls set up by HMDA, there were around 5000 saplings of various varieties.
For the event, authorities restricted the traffic movement on Tank Bund and barricaded the road.
Musical fountain, double-decker bus made Sunday Funday event attractive
Recently launched double-decker bus and India’s largest musical floating fountain which was recently inaugurated by Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) at Hussain Sagar made Sunday Funday event attractive.
The fountain which was launched near NTR Marg has a height of around 90 meters. It is 180 meters in length, and 10 meters wide. It is developed at a cost of Rs 17.02 crore.
The musical floating fountain boasts several exceptional features, including three laser sets that display a range of themes, mist fairy fog to create a cloud effect along with music, 800 jet high-powered nozzles, and 880 underwater LED lights that add to the dynamic visual experience.
On the other hand, double-decker buses returned to the roads of Hyderabad with the launch of three electric double-decker buses recently. It has historical relevance in Hyderabad. It was Nizam who had started the conventional double-decker buses that plied in the city until 2003.
These buses are predominantly plying around the race track covering Tank Bund, Necklace Road, Paradise, and Nizam College stretch.
Initiative suggested by KTR
As Tank Bund is located in the center of the city and it is one of the oldest hangout spots for the citizens of Hyderabad, many people from all over the city visit the spot to spend leisure time, especially in the evenings.
In order to enable citizens to enjoy the beauty of the place and keeping safety of citizens in mind, minister for municipal administration and urban development K.T. Rama Rao suggested traffic free Sundays on the Tank Bund road from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Later, the initiative, Sunday Funday at Tank Bund, Hyderabad, received a massive response with people thronging the place with their families, clicking photos, and spending time in leisure.
Srinagar, Feb 10 (GNS): Jammu-Srinagar highway, the only surface link connecting Kashmir Valley with the outside world, reopened for stranded traffic on Saturday. Over 1000 light and heavy motor vehicles were stranded on the thoroughfare, officials said.
They said that the highway remained closed mainly due to mudslides, shooting stones at Cafeteria, Mehar and Panthyal.
After clearance of the debris, they said, stranded traffic was allowed to move towards respective destinations.
On February 12, they said, subject to fair weather and better road conditions LMVs (Passenger)/private Cars shall be allowed from both sides on the thoroughfare viz Jammu towards Srinagar and vice-versa . “TCU Jammu/Srinagar shall liaise with TCU Ramban before releasing the traffic.”
The Mughal road, which connects Shopian district of Kashmir with Poonch district of Jammu division, as well as Srinagar-Leh highway are already closed for traffic for this winter. (GNS)
Hyderabad: The 125th Du Ba Du Mulaqat Program organized by Siasat and Millat Fund will be held on Sunday, February 12, from 10 am to 4 pm at NS Palace Function Hall, Near Masjid Lal Bagh, Zinda Tilismat Road, Amberpet, Hyderabad.
Maulana Mufti Saadat Hussain, Muhammad Arif Hussain, Muhammad Abid Hussain, Muhammad Akbar Hussain, Owners of NS Palace will be the chief guests. Syed Tajuddin, President of Lalaguda Old Boys Association (LOBA), Muhammad Jahangir Secretary LOBA (Convener), Muhammad Usman, Organizing Secretary LOBA and others will also attend.
Parents and guardians are advised to keep additional copies of biodata and photographs of their loved ones for ready reference. Parents who are attending this program for the first time have to pay a registration fee of Rs. 500. A registration card will be issued for follow up visits at the office of the Siasat Daily on all working days between 11 am to 4 pm.
At this program there will be counters for graduates, postgraduate, MBBS, MD, BDS, pharmacy, diploma holders, late marriage, a separate counter for differently-abled will also be there. Online registration facility has been set up for parents who want to search alliance while sitting at home, a separate counter has been set up in the function hall.
More details can be obtained from the program coordinator Khalid Mohiuddin Asad on 9848004353-9391160364.
Abu Dhabi: Indian expatriates in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) can now submit their applications for passport and visa services on all days including Sundays, local media reported.
Indian outsourcing services provider for government and diplomatic missions, BLS International Service Ltd, will be open seven days a week, effective from January 22, 2023.
Three centers located in Dubai and Sharjah will be open for submitting applications for passport and visa services on all days.
Except for local government holidays, the center will be open for consular services throughout the year.
“I reiterate our commitment to work for your well-being and well-being. To this end, since last week, the overseas service provider for passport and visa services has been operating on all days of the week.”
Dr Aman Puri, Consul General of India, was quoted as saying by Khaleej Times.
On Sundays, applicants may submit their filled application online with the required supporting documents on an appointment only basis from 9 am to 3 pm except for cases of Tatkal, Emergencies (medical treatment, death); senior citizens; who can apply on a walk in basis.
Applicants are requested to book an appointment with BLS on the given link.
Hyderabad: The City police on Saturday issued traffic restrictions ahead of the Durgam Cheruvu run- 2023 being organized on Sunday between 4 am to 9 am in the limits of Madhapur and Raidurgam traffic police station limits.
The event includes 21 km, 10 km, and 5 km runs. Approximately 4,500 runners will take part in the running event and other ancillary staff would be around 350 to 400 including organizers, volunteers, etc.
The run is being organized by the Inorbit Mall authorities.
VIPS are also expected to take part in the event, a press note from the police said.
Marathon details
5K Run: Inorbit mall – cable bridge – road No. 45 Down ramps U tum – Up ramp- Cable bridge straight – ITC Kohinoor – My home Abbra junction – C gate junction – Right turn – ends at inside the Mind space.
10K Run: – Inorbit mall – cable bridge – straight – Road No. 45 flyover straight – Enters Hyderabad city limits – and returns back Road No. 45 flyover – Cable bridge – ITC Kohinoor beside lane – Right turn – Knowledge city – T-Hub – Right turn – C gate –and ends inside the Mind space.
Half Marathon (21.1KM): Inorbit mall – cable bridge – straight road no 45 flyover straight – Enters Hyderabad city limits – and returns back Road No. 45 flyover – Cable bridge – ITC Kohinoor side lane – Right tum – Knowledge city – T hub junction – left turn – Sky view building back side road – U-turn at Orian villa opposite new road – T- Hub- Left My Home Bhooja Lane – U-turn – T-Hub – Left turn – IOCL road – U-turn – T-Hub – Left turn – C-Gate – U-turn – T-Hub – Left turn – Knowledge city road- left turn – ITC Kohinoor adjacent road – Left turn – Ikea Flyover – Meenakshi Junction – Left turn – Shilpa Layout flyover Down ramp – U-turn – Shilpa Layout flyover up the ramp – Left turn – Meenakshi junction – Right turn – IKEA flyover – immediate left – C gate and ends inside the Mind space.
Traffic diversion in the limits of Madhapur and Raidurgam Traffic PS’ limits on Sunday between 4 am to 10 am
The traffic coming from Kavuri Hills, COD Junction towards Bio-diversity junction via Durgam Cheruvu will be diverted at COD junction – Cyber Tower Junction – Left turn – Lemon Tree Junction – IKEA under Pass – towards NCB Junction.
The traffic coming from Road No 45 via Cable Bridge will be diverted at near Road No- 45 towards Madhapur L&O PS – left turn – COD junction – Cyber Towers – Left turn – Lemon Tree Junction – IKEA under Pass – towards NCB Junction.
ITC Kohinoor Adjacent road, C-gate road, IOCL road, My home Abhra lane, My home Bhooja Lane, Sky view lane and Orion villa opposite new road towards T-Hub will be closed.
The traffic coming from Biodiversity to AIG hospital via IKEA Rotary will be diverted at IKEA Rotary – Cyber Towers – Left turn – HITEX junction – Kothaguda junction – Left turn – Rolling Hills – AIG Hospital.
The traffic coming from Gachibowli Junction to IKEA Rotary via under the Shilpa layout flyover will be diverted towards Bio diversity Junction – Left turn – IKEA Rotary.
The traffic coming from Rolling hills towards Jubilee hills via IKEA flyover will be diverted at IKEA Rotary – Left turn – Lemon tree junction – Cyber towers – Right turn – COD junction – Neeru’s Junction – Jubilee hills.
Restrictions on heavy vehicles on the below routes
On Sunday, from 4 am to 11 am, heavy vehicles i.e trucks, lorries, DCM’s, RMCs and water tankers will not be allowed in the limits of Madhapur Traffic police station and Raidurgam Traffic police station, Cyberabad, in view of Durgam Cheruvu Marathon on the following roads:
Kavuri Hills Junction to Kothaguda Junction via Cyber Towers Junction.
