- Caracas, Feb 10 :
- A Venezuelan rescue mission arrived at the Gaziantep airport in southern Turkey to help with disaster relief efforts following the earthquakes four days ago, Venezuelan authorities confirmed.
- The Venezuelan mission, including specialists in earthquake recovery and rescue dogs, will concentrate its operations in the Besni district of the city of Adiyaman, Venezuela’s Ministry of Interior, Justice and Peace said through Twitter on Thursday.
- “More than 50 professionals, technicians, doctors, and specialists in disaster care, identification and search for people, and all their technical equipment” have been deployed in Turkey and Syria, the Ministry said.
- Prior to landing in Turkey, the plane operated by state airline Conviasa made a stopover in Syria, where the first contingent of firefighters and rescue workers disembarked to aid the disaster relief efforts there, Xinhua news agency reported.
- The Venezuelan rescuers are members of the country’s Simon Bolivar Humanitarian Task Force, specialised in disaster management.
- Two strong earthquakes hit southern Turkey and northern Syria on Monday.
- –IANS
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Venezuelan rescue mission arrives in quake-hit Turkey
Mahindra Brings Formula E To India With Its Gen3 Race Car
Hyderabad, 9th Feb:
Mahindra on Thursday launched its Gen3 Formula E race car at the ongoing season 9 of the Formula E Championship, the worlds first all-electric street racing series, during a grand event, here.
The Mahindra Formula E and the Mahindra Advanced Design Europe (M.A.D.E.) teams collaborated on the livery design of the Gen3 car.
Mahindra Racing– one of the founding teams and the only Indian team to compete in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship — comes to India for its first home race this Saturday at the Greenko Hyderabad E-Prix.
The team consists of seasoned and accomplished drivers including Lucas Di Grassi who became the FIA Formula E Champion in 2016-2017 and has achieved three overall podiums at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and won the Macau Grand Prix in 2005.
Oliver Rowland is an established and respected single-seater champion and Formula E race winner. The 29-year-old British driver joined the Mahindra Racing outfit for Season 8 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, a media release said.
Mahindra Racing has also recently onboarded Jehan Daruvala, a young and accomplished racer, as the reserve driver, who is a protege of the Force India F1 team after being one of three winners of a ‘One in a Billion hunt’ organised by the team in 2011.
The Greenko Hyderabad E-Prix will be staged on the Hyderabad Street Circuit, located on the banks of the Hussain Sagar Lake.
“This is a momentous occasion as we get to race in front of a home crowd for the very first time. Mahindra Racing signifies our commitment to continue developing cutting-edge EV technologies and improving the next generation of consumer electric vehicles in the country,” said Dr Anish Shah, Managing Director & CEO, Mahindra Group.
Asha Kharga, Chairperson, Mahindra Racing said: “As one of the founding teams of Formula E and after racing across the world, this is a proud moment for Mahindra Racing as we come home to India for the first time. This race will help build Formula E as one of the premier sports in the country. More importantly, it outlines the kind of possibilities in race technology that can potentially inspire our road cars.”
Mahindra Racing has an impressive stats sheet and is a multi-race winning outfit after scoring its breakthrough victory at the Berlin E-Prix in 2017.
It was the first Formula E team to be awarded the FIA Environmental Accreditation Three-Star rating and is the only team to be certified Net Zero Carbon footprint, demonstrating best practice and excellence in sustainability practices.
Celebrating the first Formula E race in India, Mahindra also unveiled the XUV 400 Formula Edition with a special livery inspired by the racing spirit.
It was the first Formula E team to be awarded the FIA Environmental Accreditation Three-Star rating and is the only team to be certified Net Zero Carbon footprint, demonstrating best practice and excellence in sustainability practices. — (IANS)
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Kiara And Sidharth’s Note For Wedding Guests Doing The Rounds On Social Media
Bollywood couple Sidharth Malhotra and Kiara Advani got married on February 7 in Jaisalmer. It was an intimate ceremony, which saw a few friends from the industry such as Karan Johar, Manish Malhotra, Juhi Chawla, Shahid Kapoor, and Mira Rajput Kapoor.
A note from newlyweds for their wedding guests has gone viral on social media and it talks about making memories with them after the party.
In the note, Sidharth Malhotra and Kiara Advani penned: “Thank you so much for sharing in the joy of our wedding day. We are so fortunate to have such wonderful family and friends in our lives who have travelled from near and far to celebrate here with us.”
“Please drink, dance and make memories with us tonight as our first evening as a married couple. With Love, Kiara & Sid.”
They also gave a coin with the couple’s initials, S and K, engraved.
The couple will host two receptions, one in Delhi and the other in Mumbai. The Delhi reception will be held today (February 9). They will then travel to Mumbai on the 10th and will host a reception in the city on the 12th of February for their friends in the film industry.
On Wednesday, Sidharth and Kiara arrived in Delhi post their wedding ceremony. The couple was welcomed amid much pomp and show at Sidharth’s Delhi residence in the Defence Colony area.
Sidharth and Kiara looked adorable as they twinned in red outfits for the grah pravesh ceremony. Kiara looked jaw-dropping in a red suit, flaunting her sindoor and mangalsutra. Kiara’s uncut diamond wedding ring could also be spotted on the ring finger of her mehendi-adorned hands. She completed her look with kolhapuri chappals. The new bride in town kept her look minimal and classy.
Kiara and Sidharth got married on February 7 at Suryagrah palace in Jaisalmer. They posted pictures from their wedding ceremony on Instagram after the ceremony. –(IANS)
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World’s fastest accelerating e-car unveiled at Hyderabad E-Motor Show
Hyderabad: Battista, the world’s fastest accelerating electric car, was unveiled at Hyderabad E-Motor Show here on Thursday.
The pure-electric hyper GT Battista was unveiled for the first time in India at the show organised as part of the E-Mobility Week and it adds an important milestone, as the city gears up for India’s first Formula E Grand Prix on February 11.
Designed, developed, and made by Automobili Pininfarina, the Italian luxury car brand wholly owned by Mahindra & Mahindra, the Battista combines the pinnacle of legendary Italian design and unprecedented EV performance.
The makers claimed that the car is not only a design masterpiece and the most powerful car ever made in Italy, but also officially the fastest-accelerating car in the world.
The car was unveiled by Sujai Karampuri, Director, Electronics, Semiconductors and Advanced Chemistry Cell of the Telangana government in the presence of Gurpratap Boparai, CEO, Europe Business, Mahindra & Mahindra and Paolo Dellacha, CEO, Automobili Pininfarina.
“Telangana has a rich association with the Mahindra Group, and we are proud of Mahindra for getting such cutting-edge technology in electric mobility,” Karampuri said.
“Battista represents the pinnacle of technology in electric vehicles in its truest form. As the car is set to participate in the Hyderabad E Prix circuit, it will also mark its debut in India,” Boparai said.
Dellacha said that they are strengthening collaboration with the Mahindra Group for the future.
The Hyderabad E-Motor show is being organised from February 8 to 10 at Hitex Exhibition Centre where commercial EVs, energy storage companies, charging infrastructure and EV components manufacturers, and startups across these segments are displaying their products spread over an area of 10,500 square meters. The show is providing a platform for global and domestic electric vehicle players to showcase their strengths and capabilities to the world.
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TIPRA Motha election campaign and mass gathering in Chawmanu; Maharaja Pradyot attends the event
Chawmanu, 9th Feb 2023:
TIPRA Motha Campaign: Maharaja Pradyot in Karamchhara for Paul Dangshu
Karamchhara, 9th Feb 2023:
A mass gathering campaign was organised by TIPRA motha on Thursday. An active youth Paul Dangshu is campaigning as the candidate of TIPRA motha in ST seat Karmachhara Assembly Constituency. TIPRA motha chairman Maharaja Pradyot Kishore Debbarma attended the colourful mass gathering with huge applauds and expectations from the people.
Cong-Left alliance mass public campaign in Kali Dighi
Dharmanagar, 9th Feb 2023:
A public meeting was organised in the premises of Dharmanagar Kali Dighi on Thursday 9th February at 3 pm. In this open public meeting, with the support of Mr. Chayan Bhattacharya, the Congress nominated candidate for 56 assembly constituencies, the election public meeting was organized in a joint initiative of the Left – Congress.
All India Congress leader Alka Lamba was present as the main speaker in this public meeting, along with Sudip Roy Barman, North District Congress President Ajit Das and other leaders.
In his speech, Sudip Roy Barman highlighted the corruption of the current government, while saying that this election will determine the future of Tripura, and called upon the Left – Congress alliance candidates to win huge votes for the alliance candidates.
All India leader Alka Lamba, in the very beginning of her speech, highlighted the corruption of Adani and at the same time highlighted the fear-filled situation in Tripura.
🔴 By Buddha Bhattacharya, Correspondent
SC orders Rs 650 crore payment to tea garden workers in Assam
The Supreme Court of India has ordered the payment of approximately Rs 650 crores to 28,556 workers of 25 tea gardens in the state of Assam, including those owned by the state-run Assam Tea Company Limited (ATCL).
A bench of justices MR Shah and CT Ravi Kumar approved the report submitted by retired justice Abhay Manohar Sapre, which was appointed by the court in January 2020 to calculate and pay the proper dues to the tea garden workers.
The report stated that Rs 414.7 crores were payable as various dues and Rs 230.7 crores were payable to the Provident Fund department.
The court instructed that the payments should be made within the specified time frame and after proper identification of the workers. The state government made a payment of Rs 99 crores in 2018 under the court’s direction, which the report suggests can be recovered from the ATCL.
The state of Assam has expressed objections to the report and the amount payable, particularly with regard to the 7th Pay Commission’s recommendation. The court has urged the state to respect the efforts of the committee and deposit the amount.
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Death toll surpasses 12,000 as quake relief in Turkey; Syria enters 3rd day
The number of fatalities from Monday’s devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria has surpassed 12,000, as chances have become smaller to find more survivors in cold weather before the golden 72 hours are over.
Rescuers and volunteers are working round the clock to locate the trapped under rubble as the survival rate without food or water drops drastically after the 72nd hour, which is rapidly approaching. Experts have warned that the 72-hour window for rescuing those trapped by the earthquakes may be much smaller than anticipated, given the low temperatures that have swept through the earthquake-hit regions will increase the risk of hypothermia.
According to the latest statistics, Monday’s devastating earthquakes in southern Turkey and northern Syria have killed 9,057 people in Turkey and 3,480 in Syria, Xinhua news agency reported.
The search and rescue teams from more than 65 countries have arrived in the Turkish earthquake zones to offer assistance in quake-relief efforts, according to an official statement.
A plane carrying a 83-member rescue team from China and 20 metric tons of disaster relief materials and equipment arrived in the city of Adana in southern Turkey in the early hours of Wednesday. In addition to materials and equipment for search and rescue, communication and medical treatment, they also brought with them four rescue dogs.
Volunteers flocked to southern Turkey hit hard by the earthquakes. Photographs show terminals crowded with volunteers trying to help, while the roads leading to the affected areas were clogged with long queues of vehicles ready to transport supplies or offer assistance.
“It was good that we came. When we arrived, the area was rubble everywhere,” said a volunteer who identified himself as Kerem Okyay, a businessman from the central Turkish city of Sivas who hurried to Elbistan, a town about 200 km away.
Located in the southern Turksih province of Kahramanmaras, Elbistan was the epicentre of the 7.6-magnitude quake that rocked the region on Monday and close to the town of Pazarcik, the epicentre of a 7.7-magnitude one hour earlier.
“We formed a team with some friends as soon as we heard the news of the earthquake and came here as volunteers,” Okyay told Xinhua.
Soon after their arrival, the team saved two people from the debris. “We were focusing on areas where we could hear people,” he said.
In the heavily damaged city centre of Kahramanmaras, the name-sake capital of Kahramanmaras Province, sniffer dogs equipped with small GPS-enabled harnesses were leading rescuers in the search for survivors from site-to-site in the winter cold.
While rescue operations are taking place in Turkey and Syria, more countries have committed to providing assistance.
A Lebanese ministerial delegation headed by Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib arrived in Damascus on Wednesday to discuss with Syrian officials more possible aid for earthquake-stricken Syria.
On Wednesday, Tunisia sent its third aircraft, which was packed with tonnes of emergency humanitarian aid, including food, medication, blankets and clothing, to Syria. Two military planes from Tunisia were already sent to the two earthquake-stricken countries on Tuesday, carrying medical teams, rescue teams and urgent humanitarian aid.
Saudi Arabia launched on Wednesday a donation campaign to help earthquake victims in Syria and Turkey. According to local press, a total of 25 million Saudi riyals ($6.7 million) had been donated to the campaign so far.
Jordan announced on Wednesday that it would send aid convoys over the next few days to quake-hit areas in Syria and Turkey, while Sudan said its Civil Defence Forces is ready to send a specialised team to Turkey to help with rescue efforts.
David Saranga, Head of the Israeli aid delegation to Turkey, said on Wednesday that two Israeli rescue teams are searching for survivors in the country, while a field hospital complete with 15 Israeli aircraft and about 230 personnel is expected to be established by Thursday or Friday, according to the Israeli military and foreign ministry.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan admitted on Wednesday that there were some problems in the first-day response to the earthquakes.
Operations are currently back to normal, Erdogan said in Kahramanmaras Province, the state-run TRT broadcaster reported.
Earthquake victims can temporarily stay in hotels in the Mediterranean tourism hub of Antalya and southern province of Mersin, he added.
The Turkish President announced that each quake-stricken family would receive 10,000 Turkish liras ($531), and new homes will be built in the 10 provinces affected by the disaster within a year.
On Wednesday, Erdogan said it was impossible to get prepared for a calamity like the earthquakes that struck the country on Monday, but he vowed to exert utmost efforts to save citizens’ lives.
“There are deficiencies … It is impossible to be prepared for such a major disaster,” he told reporters in the southern province of Hatay, which was hit hard by the earthquakes.
“We will not leave any of our citizens unattended. We will carry out disaster management by taking every necessary step so that no one will suffer,” he added.
—-IANS
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Trailer out for Dhanush’s Telugu-Tamil bilingual ‘Sir/Vaathi’
Dhanush’s Telugu-Tamil bilingual ‘Sir’ (Telugu)/’Vaathi’ (Tamil) directed by Venky Atluri is all set for a grand release worldwide on February 17. Ahead of the theatrical release, the film’s trailer is out now.
The movie has Dhanush essaying the role of a college teacher taking on the education mafia.
The chairman of a private educational institution announces the adoption of several government colleges to provide better education to students in rural areas. Dhanush is one of the teachers who is sent as faculty. He falls in love with a teacher played by Samyuktha Menon, and the two believe that they can do some good for the college. Dhanush, however, takes on the education mafia when he realises the real motive behind sending them to the rural areas.
Venky Atluri, who previously made youthful entertainers, has now come up with a movie that has a socially relevant message. The trailer assures a hard-hitting social drama that throws light on several issues which distress the education segment.
The dialogues are thought-provoking and at times whistle-worthy too.
Dhanush fits the part of a junior lecturer well and the role offers him various emotions that complete a commercial hero outing, and there’s more. It’s not completely a serious role. Samuthirakani plays the antagonist in the film. The presence of Hyper Aadi promises to add a good dose of comedy as well.
The film has cinematography by J. Yuvraj while the music has been composed by G.V. Prakash Kumar.
Produced by Sithara Entertainments and Fortune Four Cinemas, ‘Sir/Vaathi’ promises to be an entertainer with a message.