Bhubaneswar: Senior IAS officers Hamant Sharma and Yamini Sarangi appeared before the Lokayukta Monday to plead their cases in connection with an alleged scam in the purchase of PPE kits in Odisha.Hemant Sharma, the former head of the state level purchase committee and Sarangi who was the Managing Director of Odisha State Medical Corporation Limited…...
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EC clears 31 parties of illegal borrowings Future Forward only party found breaking rules published : 21 Sep 2020 at 20:12 EC secretary-general Jarungvith Phumma says the EC has dropped the investigation into 31 parties over their borrowings. (Bangkok Post file photo) The Election Commission has cleared 31 political parties of breaking financial borrowing rules…...
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A man, who identified himself as Adeniyi only, has explained how some officials of the Nigeria Customs Service in Efosa, a town along Ore-Benin Expressway, extort and harass car dealers and owners of fairly used vehicles.The man also accused personnel of the Nigerian Army of conniving with the customs officials to extort members of the…...
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Under the tenure of former minister of public enterprises Malusi Gigaba from 2010 until 2014, political interference at Eskom was heightened. This is according to former Eskom head of legal and compliance Suzanne Daniels. Tender manipulation to award contracts to people friendly to ANC members was the norm and orders from the ministry of public…...
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SynopsisThe comments came after Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal met the Union home minister in Delhi on Sunday and discussed the status of clause 6 panel on Assam accord, National Register of Citizens (NRC) and granting of scheduled tribe status to six communities of the state. Sarma was also present in the meeting.AFPAmit Shah (File…...
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Netflix released the documentary The Social Dilemma this month.The movie details just how insidious the effects of social media have become.While we’ve been on phones, screaming at people like Ellen DeGeneres, we should be more focused on people like Mark Zuckerberg.The Social Dilemma might be this year’s most important documentary. It’s more revelatory than The…...
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The five largest stocks in the S&P 500 could be replaced as market leaders.Goldman used the Rule of 10 criteria to identify 21 stocks that could beat the market.Salesforce, Paypal, and Netflix are among those top stocks.Five mega-cap stocks have led the U.S. stock market rally–Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Alphabet (FAAMG stocks). They currently…...
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Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo was announced the 2019-20 NBA Most Valuable Player on Friday.LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers was a distant second in the MVP voting, garnering just 16 first-place votes.James later confessed to being “pissed off” when he saw that so few voters had made him their top choice.Giannis Antetokounmpo of…...
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Kanye West has gone on yet another rant.The latest headlines about him all focus on one rant after another.Even though West is spitting facts in his rants, the message gets lost because of the messenger.Kanye West is at it again.His Twitter rants are making headlines — and people, as usual, are pointing their fingers and…...
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