Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced the provision of 3 million dollars (Rs 24,74,71,050) support for the reconstruction of the Palestinian town of Huwara in the West Bank and those affected by the recent events, the Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported.
The UAE support came under the directives of the President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to be implemented by the Abu Dhabi Municipality and Transport Department in cooperation with the UAE-Palestinian Friendship Club.
This initiative comes “within the framework of the humanitarian efforts made by the UAE to support the brotherly Palestinian people.”
#رئيس_الدولة يوجه بتقديم ثلاثة ملايين دولار لدعم إعادة إعمار بلدة حوارة الفلسطينية والمتضررين من الأحداث الأخيرة، وذلك في إطار الجهود الإنسانية التي تبذلها دولة الإمارات لدعم الشعب الفلسطيني الشقيق.#وام https://t.co/8FPWxruAwT pic.twitter.com/Xctem6rX3X
The move comes after Israeli media reports stated that the UAE had halted its military purchases from Israel amid the country’s political turmoil.
The UAE concluded diplomatic relations with Israel in the summer of 2020 through the Abraham Treaty, which was mediated by the United States (US).
Going back a little on February 26, 2023, the Palestinian village of Huwara was subjected to acts of vandalism, burning, and destruction of property by settlers who attacked the town, in addition to the killing of a Palestinian, after two settlers were killed in a commando shooting near the town.
فيديو| مسيرة في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطينيين شمال لبنان، تضامنا ودعما لقرى جنوب نابلس. pic.twitter.com/exl4Gj0zA8
The crusade anti-woke Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and probable candidate for the White House for the Republican Party in 2024, will stop at nothing, not even before the almighty Disney, the main employer of the Sunshine State. DeSantis has it in for the entertainment company since its then-CEO Bob Chapek last year criticized an education law that opposes teaching in Florida schools up to the age of nine about topics related to sexual orientation and gender identity. His detractors call that law Don’t Say Gay (Don’t say gay).
DeSantis summoned the media in Lake Buena Vista on Monday to sign a regulation that allows him to take control of the governing body of the Reedy Creek Improvement District (Reedy Creek Improvement District), an area of just over 100 square kilometers in the that sits since 1971 Disney World, the most famous amusement park in the world. The site, renamed the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, will no longer be governed by a board made up of people close to the company, but by five members handpicked by the governor.
Ron DeSantis supporters protest on the highway leading to Disney World in April.OCTAVIO JONES (REUTERS)
Announcing it Monday, DeSantis, who is gearing up for a busy week that will continue this Tuesday with the release of his second memoir, The Courage to Be Free (The courage to be free), said: “There is a new sheriff in this town.” He is taking a liking to the phrase, which he already pronounced last week, when the law passed the parliamentary process in a Congress whose two chambers are comfortably dominated by the Republicans, which is allowing the governor to meet the objectives of his agenda in a hurry, before of the foreseeable announcement of his presidential candidacy. DeSantis added: “The corporate kingdom has come to an end,” in an apparent reference to Disney World’s Magic Kingdom.
In the reign of DeSantis, that ultra-conservative experiment that is being carried out in Florida, there is no respite for the “culture woke”, a term that the American right has turned into its favorite insult and used to define those who “woke up” to injustices to fight against racism and inequality and in favor of feminism, LGTBI rights or trans people. All these groups have become the governor’s obsessions, and he seems to have obtained a high yield from them, as demonstrated by the results of the last elections in November, when he won by a margin of 1.5 million votes over the opponent from he.
“Disney opposed something [la ley educativa] that he was only meant to protect the little ones and make sure that students can go to school to learn to read, write, add, subtract and not have a teacher tell them they can change their sex,” DeSantis said Monday. “I think most parents are okay with that.”
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The move against Disney, harsh as it may be, is only a partial victory for DeSantis. His initial idea was to have made the district disappear, as of June 1, 2023, which would have been divided between Orange and Osceola counties. Both would have had to take care of paying municipal services such as electricity or water, as well as the costs of the police, ambulances or firefighters, accounts that since 1967 have been borne by the company. In addition, they would have inherited a debt of approximately one billion dollars. Those small details made Florida lawmakers recoil. And for a moment last fall it seemed that the multinational and the State were ready to sign peace, after the return of Bob Iger at the controls of Disney, replacing a struggling Chapek.
Although DeSantis could not strip the Californian company of the tax advantages it enjoyed, the new board members will have powers to tax, build infrastructure and borrow money for projects related to the theme park. The law also removes permits, never used, that Disney had to build its own airport or even a nuclear power plant.
Among the profiles chosen for the new board, which will meet for the first time next week, are Martin Garcia, a Tampa lawyer whose investment firm contributed $50,000 to the governor’s re-election campaign, and Bridget Ziegler, founder of the conservative organization Moms for Liberty, which is behind many of the book ban campaigns in libraries and school curricula across the United States. Faced with the prospect, DeSantis, a Yale and Harvard graduate who appears to have carved the rhetoric of him in a multiplex, watching 1980s movies, threatened Monday: “So fasten your seatbelts.”
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Mumbai: Rapper MC Stan has been making waves on internet ever since he won Bigg Boss 16 last week. His victory has only added to his already immense popularity, and it’s no surprise that his social media presence has become a hot topic of discussion.
On Thursday, Stan created history on his Instagram Live by surpassing the previous record created by Shah Rukh Khan with 255K live viewers. He has now joined the elite list of the Top 10 Most Viewed Instagram Live Streams.
Ever since then, his each and every detail about his social media including Instagram earnings is being discussed a lot among his fans and media circles. Scroll ahead to know how much MC Stan charges per reel and per story on Instagram.
MC Stan’s Instagram Fee
According to Money Control, MC Stan’s whopping fee to create a reel is Rs 18-23L and for an Instagram Story, the charges are close to Rs 5-7L. The reports also suggest that these rates were before his Bigg Boss stint, and now with the increased popularity from his win, they are expected to go up by at least 30-40%.
As per report in Moneycontrol, #MCStan’s one-day commitment with a brand comes with a price tag of Rs 8-10 lakh. For creating a reel he charges Rs 18-23 lakh and for an Insta Story, close to Rs 5-7 lakh. This was pre-Bigg Boss. Now, These rates going up by at least 30-40%.
It remains to be seen how much more MC Stan’s earnings will increase post his big win the reality show, but one thing is for sure, his Instagram presence will continue to be a talking point in the industry.
MC Stan, whose real name is Altaf Shaikh, gained popularity after his song “Wata” went viral on social media in 2018. He has since become a household name and has collaborated with several famous artists.
Hyderabad: Actors and their salaries for movies and brand endorsements have always been the topic of interest among fans. Pawan Kalyan’s massive remuneration for his next is the current talk of town. Reportedly, the south superstar is charging Re 75cr and also one third of the total profit for his upcoming project with Sujeeth and producer Danayya.
If the reports are anything to go by, Pawan Kalyan’s has hiked his fee. As per Filmy Focus, he earlier charged Rs 60cr for Vakeel Saab. He is even considered as the second highest paid actor in Tollywood after Prabhas.
Pawan Kalyan has several other projects in the works, including “Hari Hara Veera Mallu” with Nidhhi Agerwal and Sonal Chauhan and “Bhavadeeyudu Bhagat Singh” with Harish Shankar.
He has also agreed to work on a film with Surender Reddy, which has excited the curiosity of his fans.
The announcement poster, which features the Power Star in a dynamic pose with the tagline “They call him OG,” has already sparked interest among fans.
With Pawan Kalyan’s massive salary for this project, expectations are high, and audiences can’t wait to see what he has in store.
With his star power and talent, Pawan Kalyan is sure to deliver yet another blockbuster as the year progresses. Keep an eye out for more updates on this project and other upcoming releases as the Power Star continues to dominate the south film industry with his brilliant action.
Mumbai: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan who is currently enjoying the success of ‘Pathaan’ has been in the headlines since the last months of 2022. From the expensive watch he wears to his manager’s salary, fans are curious to know everything related to King Khan.
King Khan has featured recently in the list of the world’s top richest actors. As the old saying goes that behind every successful man, there is the hand of the powerful woman but as SRK is talented himself still no doubt her manager has a big role in his life. SRK’s manager is Pooja Dadlani and now she has grabbed eyeballs after she moved into her new home. Fans of SRK are asking about her salary and net worth.
Pooja Dadlani recently flaunted her newly renovated house on Instagram. Just after sharing the picture, SRK’s fans started asking about her salary. Pooja Dadlani seems to be happy after moving into her new house and why not? She should be proud as it is not everyone’s cup of tea to buy a home in Mumbai.
Sharing a picture of her new house on Instagram, Pooja Dadlani wrote, “Stepping into my new abode… to new dreams to create warmth & happiness. And what better way to start this new journey than with a house designed by none other than Gauri Khan my family. She turned my house into a home..”.
Moments after Pooja posted the picture of her new home, fans started reacting to it and most of them ask how much salary she is receiving from SRK.
One user wrote, “The more the client earns, the more the manager earns and SRK earns alot!!”.
Another user wrote, “Shah Rukh Khan se Salary le kar wapas Gauri Khan ko de diye..Ghar ka Paisa ghar me hi reh gaya….Wahhh.”
Another fan wrote, “She has become very close to SRK and Gauri as well. Plus she accompanies SRK in almost all of her trips. Their kids are friends as well afaik. The house could be a gift as well, who knows”.
The new house of Pooja Dadlani is designed by SRK’s wife Gauri Khan. Sharing the pictures of her husband’s manager’s new home, Gauri wrote, “Added coziness and charm within a few weeks to turn a house into a home. “She added the hashtag #gaurikhandesign to her post. In the comments section of wife Gauri Khan’s post, Shah Rukh Khan wrote: “It’s the warmth and heart you put into your designs. Masha Allah.”
It is said that SRK’s family is very close to Pooja Dadlani and recently SRK and his son Aryan Khan were also spotted visiting Pooja’s new home. Many celebrities have also reacted with congratulatory messages to the pictures shared by Gauri and Pooja.
Pooja Dadlani’s Annual Earnings
With her expertise in managing Shah Rukh Khan, one of the biggest superstars in India, Pooja Dadlani has established herself as a leading figure in the field of celebrity management. She is one of the most sought-after managers in the industry and according to a report in MensXP her annual earnings stands at around Rs 7 to 9cr. Her net worth is reportedly over Rs 50cr.
Vijayapura: Following the abusive post on historical figure Shivaji, Karnataka town has become tense as Hindu organizations have called for a protest condemning the post on Tuesday in the Vijayapura district of the state.
According to locals, the abusive post on Shivaji Maharaj was posted on social media on Monday late at night and it became viral in no time. The post was condemned by one and all.
According to police, the miscreant is identified as Amin Bandarakavate, a resident of Devaranimbaragi village in Chadachana taluk. The locals have decided to stage a protest in Chadachana town condemning the incident.
The Hindu activists have also urged the police to arrest the accused person immediately. The police have beefed up security in the wake of the protest call to maintain law and order.
The police said that they have not received any complaint regarding the incident so far and are waiting for directions in this regard by the senior officers.
High up in Mallorca’s spectacular Tramuntana mountain range, the picturesque village of Deià is a Mediterranean idyll that has been a magnet for artists and bohemians for more than a century.
There is no beach to speak of nearby, which has served to keep the crowds at bay. Its problem now is that only millionaires and billionaires can afford to live there.
“It’s still attracting creative people but now they have to have money,” says the Chicago-born ceramicist Joanna Kuhne, who has lived in Deià since 1980. “They come here to relax and they don’t want to integrate or they don’t know how to. Their life is somewhere else.”
Ceramicist Joanna Kuhne in her studio. Photograph: Stephen Burgen
Local people have been priced out. It’s not that there’s nowhere to live – the two estate agents in the village have plenty of homes on offer for upwards of €2m (£1.75m) – it’s rather that people in the Balearic Islands, where the average monthly salary is €1,598, have been thoroughly priced out.
As such, while poverty is driving the depopulation of rural areas on the Spanish mainland, Deià and dozens of villages like it in the Balearics are being depopulated by wealth.
The regional government is fighting back, with a request for European approval for a law that would ban anyone not resident in the islands from buying property.
This has been interpreted as a ban on foreigners’ buying property but that is not the case in Deià, where foreigners, mostly from the UK and US, make up around 37% of the population.
“It’s not about people’s nationality, everyone is welcome. It’s how they plan to use the houses,” says Deià’s mayor, Lluís Apesteguia. “What we want is people who plan to live here. We don’t want people buying second homes, nor do we want speculators.”
It was the English poet and novelist Robert Graves, who settled in Deià in 1929, who put it on the map as a place of pilgrimage for artists and writers.
Robert Graves with his second wife, Beryl, and children outside their home in Deià. Photograph: Daniel Farson/Getty Images
“Even when my father arrived there was already an artists’ colony of German and Catalan painters,” his son Tomás says. “In fact, he initially rented from an American woman.”
The charcoal industry had gone into decline, leading to massive emigration. As a result, houses were cheap to buy or rent.
When mass tourism arrived in the 1960s, the colony of foreign residents opposed any sort of tourist development.
“That was the first rift between the locals and the foreigners,” says Graves. “The foreigners didn’t want any more building and the locals saw what was happening elsewhere and wanted some for themselves.”
“Back then Mallorca was paradise,” says Carmen Domènech, who moved to Deià from Barcelona in 1974. “It was a refuge for artists, poets and intellectuals.
“There was a good relationship between the locals and the foreigners. You could sit in a bar and Julio Cortázar [an Argentinian novelist] would be at the next table. It was all very natural and it was a proper village with a butcher and a fishmonger.”
Things began to change in 1987 when the Virgin Group boss Richard Branson obtained planning permission to build la Residencia, originally conceived as an artists’ retreat but in reality a luxury hotel.
La Residencia in Deià. Photograph: Tyson Sadlo
“The rot set in with the arrival of Branson and that’s when I became an activist,” Domènech says. “The argument went that, thanks to Branson, lots of money would come to the area and everyone would have a job. Nearly all the village was against me because I opposed it.”
Graves says house prices rocketed “once the Residencia started to attract art consumers rather than art producers”.
Prices also rose when, under a bylaw passed in the 1980s, any new houses in Deià had to be built of stone, thus making them much more expensive.
Branson sold the hotel in 2002. It is now owned by Bernard Arnault, the boss of the luxury goods firm LVMH, and currently the world’s wealthiest man.
Francesca Deià, 63, has lived in the village for most of her life. She recalls what it was like growing up with such a cosmopolitan crowd in what was a very conservative and Catholic place.
A street in Deià. Photograph: Alex/Getty Images/iStockphoto
“To the older generation, the people who came here were like aliens and our parents wanted to protect us from the all the sex and drugs and rock’n’roll,” Deià says.
“I feel enriched that I was able to grow up with all these different nationalities and learn to speak English – and Welsh. The people I grew up with and their children are still here and they all speak Mallorquin. But nowadays I don’t see that happening much. There is less integration.”
Her Welsh partner, Dai Griffiths, says: “It’s curious that often artistic and bohemian types say they feel freer in rural, conservative places than in the city. It’s as though the linguistic and cultural barriers are a plus because they don’t feel a need to engage with the people around them. The village is just a backdrop.”
Apesteguia, who describes himself as “pathologically optimistic”, says the EU needs to be flexible and recognise that the islands are a special case, “otherwise villages such as Deià will cease to exist”.
“The Mallorca population is increasing while here in Deià it’s falling,” he says. “A village without a stable community isn’t a village, it’s just a group of houses or a tourist resort.”
Aside from a small supermarket, nearly all the shops have gone and GP services have shrunk from four days a week to two hours.
“It’s a ghost town and a theme park,” says Domènech.
Apesteguia is inclined to agree. “Tourists came here because it’s authentic,” he says. “But now it’s not.”
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SRINAGAR: A search operation was launched by security forces after observing suspicious movement in Damhal Hanjipora village of south Kashmir’a Kulgam district on Friday, police said.
Quoting an official the news agency KNO reported that suspicious movement was reported in the late afternoon in main town of DH Pora.
He said cordon and search operation was launched while some speculative shots were also fired.
The official said searches were going on when reports last came in.
It is hard to believe that in the small Sicilian town of Campobello di Mazara, where everyone knows each other and their secrets, no one thought to inquire after the identity of the man who had turned up out of the blue, with no known family or friends, over a year ago.
The street outside the apartment in Campobello where an apparent secret bunker has been found. Photograph: Alessio Mamo for the Guardian
Impeccably dressed in designer clothes, he could be seen drinking an espresso at the local cafe on most mornings, dining in a pizzeria, strolling the streets, shopping, and cordially greeting his neighbours.
That is until Monday, when he was arrested coming out of a clinic in Palermo and revealed to be Matteo Messina Denaro, the last godfather of the Sicilian mafia and the world’s most wanted mob boss.
Denaro being led out of the clinic in in Palermo on Monday. Photograph: Italian carabinieri press office
There is a Sicilian proverb that roughly translates as: “He who speaks little, will live a hundred years.” It refers to the code of silence, the first rule of the mafia, which for three decades protected Denaro and dozens of other mafia bosses before him.
“I cannot deny feeling great bitterness and a lot of disbelief in having learned that Matteo Messina Denaro lived right in Campobello,” said the town’s mayor, Giuseppe Castiglione. “Unfortunately, there are citizens here who have chosen to put their heads in the sand.”
According to mafia informers and prosecutors, Denaro, nicknamed Diabolik or U Siccu (the skinny one), holds the key to some of the most heinous crimes perpetrated by the Sicilian mafia, including the bomb attacks in 1992 that killed the anti-mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino and the killing in 1996 of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 12-year-old son of a mobster turned state witness who was strangled and dissolved in acid. In 2002, he was convicted and sentenced in absentia to life in prison for having personally killed or ordered the murders of dozens of people.
A bartender watches news of the arrest in the mafia boss’s hometown of Castelvetrano. Photograph: Alessio Mamo for the Guardian
Before being arrested as he came out of a well-known private clinic in the Sicilian capital, where he was being treated for a tumour, Denaro – who once claimed “I filled a cemetery, all by myself” – had been in hiding since 1993. Year after year, Italian investigators relentlessly seized his businesses and arrested more than 100 of his confederates, including cousins, nephews and his sister, scorching the earth around him.
But every time investigators seemed to get closer to their target, Denaro would again fade away, disappearing and reappearing around the world. Former mobsters claimed to have seen him in Spain, England, Germany and South America. It is not yet known what he did in those 30 years and which countries he visited. However, it is certain that in early 2021 he decided to move to his Sicilian stronghold in the province of Trapani, hiding out in Campobello, five minutes from his home town of Castelvetrano and 11 minutes drive from his mother’s house.
Local people gather on the street in Castelvetrano. Photograph: Alessio Mamo for the Guardian
He bought a modest apartment not far from the town centre, about two miles from the sea on the south-western coast of Sicily, where the carabinieri police on Thursday said they found a poster of Francis Ford Coppola’s film The Godfather, featuring the face of Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone.
The flat’s deeds were in the name of Andrea Bonafede, whose identity was taken by Denaro while he was a fugitive.
A poster of Marlon Brando in The Godfather, found in Denaro’s apartment. Photograph: Carabinieri
“I saw him at the bar, every now and then, in the morning,” said Piero Indelicato, a neighbour. “He seemed like a friendly person. But I never imagined he could be the boss, Denaro.”
Another neighbour said: “I didn’t know who he was. Why should I have suspected anything? For me, he was a gentleman who said ‘good morning and good evening.”
With police from around the world trying to track him down, Denaro was living like a free man in Campobello – a Sicilian echo of Osama bin Laden’s final years in Abbottabad, Pakistan, his home for five years before he was killed in a raid by US forces in 2011.
“I didn’t know who he was,’’ said the owner of a cosmetics shop on the corner by Denaro’s apartment. “I don’t recall seeing him here. Maybe I saw him somewhere in town.”
Maurizio De Lucia, the chief prosecutor of Palermo, has his suspicions.
“There are more than a few questions regarding the fact that someone like Denaro could have gone unnoticed in Campobello,” he said. “But we knew people weren’t going to race to give us information … ”
A newspaper story about the arrest inside a bar near Denaro’s house in Campobello. Photograph: Alessio Mamo for the Guardian
Investigators say Denaro was protected by politicians and entrepreneurs during his 30 years on the run. But he was also protected by omertà, the code of behaviour in communities across southern Italy that places importance on silence in the face of questioning by authorities or outsiders, often reflecting a lack of trust towards institutions of the state.
Anti-mafia posters hang from a gate in Castelvetrano. Photograph: Alessio Mamo for the Guardian
For 14 years, Giacomo Di Girolamo, a Sicilian journalist and author of a biography on Denaro called The Invisible, started his daily radio show on Rmc 101 by asking the question: “Matteo, where are you?”
Di Girolamo, born and raised on the same land as Denaro, knows what it means to live in places under the shadow of the mafia.
“People are resigned,” he said. “The mafia in these parts has operated as a welfare state. When the bosses were arrested, the state didn’t fill that void and people lost faith in the authorities. In a place like Campobello – population 10.000 – there are around 50 people celebrating Denaro’s arrest. Dozens more people fear being arrested for protecting him. And then there are the remaining 9,000 inhabitants who are quite simply resigned to living in an area abandoned by the Italian state.”
Denaro had apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle. Police found designer clothes, expensive shoes, perfumes and ties by Yves Saint Laurent in his house on Monday night.
Carabinieri police stand guard near Denaro’s apartment. Photograph: Alessio Mamo for the Guardian
On Wednesday, police also uncovered a possible secret bunker suspected of being used by the mobster in another apartment, not far from the first. The entrance to the bunker was concealed by a closet full of clothes. Investigators said they found emeralds, diamonds and other gemstones there.
On Tuesday, Denaro was moved to a maximum-security prison in the central Italian city of L’Aquila, where his cancer treatment will continue. Prosecutors have placed at least four people under investigation after his arrest, including two doctors.
The maximum-security prison in L’Aquila to where Denaro has been moved. Photograph: Lorenzo Di Cola/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
During the first hours in prison, the boss was calm and smiling, some witnesses said. Denaro had 30 years to nominate his successor, hide his money and make evidence of his illicit dealings disappear. For two days, investigators have been sifting through every inch of his hideouts in Campobello in search of confidential documents.
The police hope to find the “secret archive” of the Sicilian mafia’s “boss of bosses” Totò Riina, who died in 2017. According to some mafia informers, the archive was stolen by Denaro and allegedly contains the secrets of the last 40 years of mafia killings.
The search for Denaro may be over, but the quest to uncover secrets has just begun.
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Two persons from Doda district in Jammu and Kashmir were apprehended by Jammu and Kashmir Police along with heroin-like substances from their possession, police said on Sunday.
According to a statement issued to The News Caravan, police said that a police party of Police Post DH Doda laid a naka on Bharat Road and, while conducting checking and frisking of vehicles and pedestrians, intercepted one vehicle, a WagonR bearing Registration No. JK06A/3499, for checking purposes. On inquiry, the driver disclosed his name as Shadab Ishaq, son of Mohd Ishaq Wani, a resident of Ghat Doda. During his personal search, a heroin-like substance (chitta) was recovered from his possession. Similarly, his associate, who was also travelling in the said wagon-type vehicle, disclosed his name as Farooq Ahmed, son of Mohd Sabar, resident of Sekwan Doda, was also searched, and a heroin-like substance (chitta) was also recovered from his possession.
“Upon this, FIR No. 249/2022 under the relevant sections has been registered at Police Station Doda and the investigation of the case has started,” the statement further reads.
Doda Police is appealing to the general public to extend cooperation to the police and provide inputs or information if any clue of drug smuggling is noticed so that the menace of drugs is eradicated from the society, according to the statement.
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