Jaffer Sadiq was arrested in drug trafficking case. Photo Courtesy: AR Jaffer Sadiq X web page
Delhi Police Special Cell and Narcotics Control Board (NCB) have arrested a Tamil film producer over his alleged hyperlink to a Rs 2,000-crore drug smuggling racket.
The film producer was recognized as Jaffer Sadiq.
NCB mentioned it’s believed that Sadiq was working a drug syndicate which despatched 45 consignments over the previous three years to varied international locations, containing roughly 3,500 kg of pseudoephedrine, reported India Today.
NCB claimed that Sadiq had earned an enormous sum of money from illicit drug trafficking operations and invested the identical in companies like film, development, and hospitality, amongst others.
Confirming Sadiq’s arrest, NCB deputy director basic (operations) Gyaneshwar Singh informed Hindustan Times: “He is the kingpin of the India-Australia-New Zealand drug trafficking community, which we had been probing. We will share particulars in the afternoon.”
Another NCB officer informed the newspaper: “We are probing if drug cash was used in his manufacturing firm. It appears to be like like his manufacturing firm was a entrance to launder cash. He was on the run for the previous two weeks.”
According to stories, he produced and co-produced 4 motion pictures.
Jaffer Sadiq’s political hyperlink
Jaffer Sadiq joined politics in 2010.
He was serving because the Chennai West deputy organiser of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ( DMK)’s NRI wing.
The celebration eliminated him not too long ago over his alleged involvement in drug smuggling.
“Since stories mentioned drug smuggling costs, we didn’t watch for motion,” a senior DMK chief informed Hindustan Times, requesting anonymity.
Gold trades at an all-time excessive worth domestically. Gold costs have superior almost $70 within the final two buying and selling days, breaking the vary of $2000 to $2060, it traded in Jan and Feb. Prices obtained a lift from New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) shares collapsing final week, triggering the hypothesis of Banking disaster 2.0 within the US. This week we’re seeing follow-through shopping for and buyers leaping into the gold market with FOMO concern. FED Hawkish stance, continued geopolitical tensions, and robust speculative and funding demand are the opposite components supporting costs. Due to rupee depreciation, gold costs have touched document excessive costs in India. Prices are anticipated to proceed their bullish momentum until $2150 (Rs 65500) within the quick time period. The long-term bullish view remains to be intact with a goal of $2300 (Rs 70000) in Gold in 2024.
Asif Ali Zardari served as President of Pakistan between 2008 to 2013. Photo Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons
Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari was elected as Pakistan’s 14 president on Saturday, days after Shehbaz Sharif was elected because the Prime Minister of the financially -hit nation.
This goes to be Zardari’s second time period because the President.
Zardari acquired majority votes of the electoral faculty, comprising the parliament and provincial assemblies, paving method for him to imagine the workplace of President of Pakistan, reported ARY News.
According to reviews, the PPP co-Chairman acquired 411 votes whereas the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) backed candidate Mehmood Khan Achakzai — the house of PTI independents — bagged solely 181 seats.
Asif Ali Zardari was backed by PPP and the PML-N.
An electoral faculty comprising members of the Senate, National Assembly and the 4 provincial assemblies elected the President.
Who is Asif Ali Zardari?
Asif Ali Zardari is the husband of slain Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
She was assassinated in 2007.
He will change Dr Arif Alvi whose five-year time period ended final yr.
Alvi continued because the new electoral faculty was not shaped.
Zardari had earlier served because the nation’s President from 2008 to 2013.
Shehbaz Sharif congratulates Zardari
Congratulating Zadari, Sharif was quoted as saying by Geo News: “Zardari’s election as president is the continuity of democratic values”
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari needs new President
Bilawal wished his father Asia Ali Zardari and wrote on X: “Congratulations President elect Zardari @AAliZardari.”
New Delhi, March 9, 2024 – My Inbox Media, a number one telecommunications service supplier, right now celebrates its journey from a modest enterprise to a outstanding participant in the Indian telecom panorama. Founded in 2010 by Mr. Yusuf Hasan, the firm has grown from providing SMS companies and e mail options to catering to a various clientele throughout numerous sectors.
“We are extremely proud of the success My Inbox Media has achieved over the previous decade,” says Mr. Yusuf Hasan, Managing Director of My Inbox Media. “Our dedication to innovation and customer-centricity has allowed us to broaden our companies and attain, empowering companies of all sizes to attach successfully with their audiences.”
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Following its preliminary success in Delhi, My Inbox Media strategically expanded to Mumbai and Hyderabad in 2018. Under Mr. Hasan’s management, the firm has set its sights on international ventures, establishing a presence in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, USA, Canada, and past.
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About My Inbox Media
My Inbox Media is a number one telecommunications service supplier providing a complete suite of options, together with SMS companies, e mail options, shortcodes, voice calls, and personalized software program options. The firm caters to a various clientele throughout numerous sectors and is dedicated to delivering revolutionary and tailor-made options.
Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied. Photo (*11*): Wikimedia Commons/2.0 Generic
Actress Natalie Portman has divorced her director husband Benjamin Millepied which ended their 11 years married life.
Natalie Portman reportedly filed for divorce eight months in the past.
The actress, 42, filed final July and the divorce was finalized final month in France, the place Portman and Millepied, 46, stay with their kids, son Aleph, 12, and daughter Amalia, 7, reported People journal.
Portman started her performing profession at age twelve, when she starred because the younger protégée of a hitman within the motion movie Léon: The Professional (1994).
Portman’s profession superior along with her starring roles as Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta (2005), Anne Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), and a troubled ballerina within the psychological thriller Black Swan (2010), for which she gained the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Navigating their under-the-radar separation, which adopted media stories in May 2023 of an extramarital affair by Millepied, has not been straightforward for Portman.
“It was initially actually powerful for her, however her buddies rallied round her and helped get her by way of the worst of it,” a good friend of the couple informed People.
“Natalie is popping out of a extremely powerful and painful 12 months however she’s come out the opposite facet of it stronger and is discovering pleasure in her household, buddies and work,” the good friend mentioned.
Natalie Portman and Benjamin married in 2012.
Before their marriage, the couple started relationship in 2009 after having met whereas working collectively on the set of Black Swan.
Natalie Portman was final seen in 2023 launched May December.
India’s international alternate reserves shot up by $6.55 billion to $625.63 billion for the week ending March 1, based on the most recent knowledge launched by the RBI on Friday.
The nation’s international alternate reserves had elevated by $2.98 billion to $619.07 billion within the previous week ending February 23.
India’s Forex Reserves Rise To 4-Month HighIANS
Rising international alternate reserves are a optimistic for the financial system, as they replicate an ample provide of {dollars} that assist strengthen the rupee. An enhance in international alternate reserves helps the RBI stabilise the rupee when it turns unstable.
The RBI intervenes within the spot and ahead forex markets by releasing extra {dollars} to forestall the rupee from going right into a free fall when it comes below stress.
On the opposite hand, a pointy decline within the nation’s forex kitty leaves the RBI much less headroom to intervene available in the market to prop up the rupee.
Indian PM Narendra Modi inaugurates Sela Tunnel. Photo Courtesy: Kiren Rijiju X web page
Indian PM Narendra Modi nearly devoted to the nation the Sela Tunnel mission in the course of the Viksit Bharat Viksit North East programme in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh on Saturday (March 9, 2024), a construction that guarantees to supply all-weather connectivity and enhance the convenience of journey for the folks of Tawang.
In his handle, the Prime Minister voiced the Government’s unwavering dedication to the event of the Northeast area.
“Work on many tunnels is happening within the area,” he added.
The Prime Minister criticised the sooner neglect of the event of the border villages.
We are dedicated to creating the Northeast the expansion engine of India. Addressing the ‘Viksit Bharat Viksit Northeast’ programme in Itanagar.https://t.co/dhHibYEwJG
He reiterated his model of working as per the wants of the nation and never for electoral concerns.
He promised the defence personnel that he would come to satisfy them at this ‘engineering marvel’ in his subsequent time period.
Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party are eyeing to return to energy for the third straight time period as India is gearing as much as vote within the nationwide polls this yr.
Some attention-grabbing information in regards to the tunnel
The Sela Tunnel has been constructed utilizing the brand new Austrian Tunnelling Method and incorporates security options of the very best requirements.
The basis stone of the tunnel was laid by the Prime Minister on February 09, 2019, and the development commenced on April 01, 2019.
The tunnel has been accomplished in simply 5 years overcoming challenges of adverse terrain and adversarial climate circumstances.
The tunnel has been constructed by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) at an altitude of 13,000 ft on the highway connecting Tezpur, Assam to Tawang within the West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh.
Built at a complete price of Rs 825 crore, the tunnel will present all-weather connectivity to Tawang throughout Sela Pass on the Balipara – Chariduar – Tawang Road, boosting the preparedness of the Armed Forces and augmenting the socio-economic growth of the border area.
Gazans queuing for meals. Photo Courtesy: UNRWA(*5*)
At least 5 individuals died and 10 others have been injured after they have been hit by airdropped aid packages in Gaza City’s Al Shati camp, media experiences stated on Saturday (March 9, 2024).
Journalist Khader Al Zaanoun informed CNN he witnessed the aid packages falling from planes over the Al Shati camp on Friday (March 8, 2024) however couldn’t affirm which nation was behind the airdrop.
Muhammad Al-Sheikh, Head of Emergency Care Department at Al Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City confirmed to the American information channel that 5 individuals have been killed within the incident.
The airdrop reportedly went fallacious after the parachute on a pallet malfunctioned.
Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza, stated in a press release quoted by Xinhua that the aid was dropped in an unprofessional and unprecedented method on the heads and homes of residents within the northwest space of Gaza City.
Several international locations, together with Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, France, the Netherlands, and the United States, have been conducting joint operations for a couple of week to drop meals aid to the strip.
New maritime aid lifeline in Gaza
An worldwide maritime aid hall to Gaza might be in operation as early as Sunday (March 10, 2024), in response to the top of the European Commission, working carefully with the UN’s Senior Humanitarian Coordinator and different worldwide companions.
In a joint assertion launched on Friday, the Commission, Cyprus, United Arab Emirates, United States and the United Kingdom introduced their intent to open a brand new hall in coordination with the UN’s Sigrid Kaag.
The UN coordinator has a mandate from the Security Council to facilitate, increase and monitor the arrival of aid to greater than two million Gazans in want. A technical staff from her workplace is now primarily based in Cyprus, whose authorities has led the event of the brand new mechanism to ship aid from the Mediterranean island to Gaza.
The joint launch stated that “the devoted efforts of the UAE to mobilize help for the initiative” would quickly see an preliminary trial cargo make its solution to the Gaza coast. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated it might occur as early as this weekend.
US pier pledge
The Cypriot Government stated it could quickly convene senior officers to debate accelerating the brand new sea route, acknowledging the US announcement on Thursday (March 8, 2024) evening from President Joe Biden of a brand new short-term pier for distributing aid on the Gaza coast. All these efforts “can be carefully coordinated with the Government of Israel,” stated the assertion.
Taking questions from correspondents in New York, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric stated Kaag had been in shut contact with Cyprus “and he or she’s been concerned in discussions on the initiative as a further entry path to Gaza, according to her mandate”.
The operational particulars of the precise maritime shipments or the constructing of the dock or of the port are being managed by the companions to the initiative, he added.
Questioned concerning the potential effectiveness of the US plan and maritime aid routes, Dujarric stated there was “no various to a bigger scale deployment of aid by land” and industrial visitors, though aid getting into by different means was welcome.
The worldwide coalition planning the maritime hall stated that the supply of help to those that want it in Gaza by sea “can be advanced” and have to be a part of a sustained effort to extend the circulation of aid and industrial items “by means of all attainable routes”.
“Together, we should all do extra to make sure aid will get to individuals who desperately want it,” the assertion concluded.
In new competition to Google-owned YouTube, Elon Musk on Saturday confirmed that X platform is launching a streaming service where people can watch long videos on their smart TV screens.
The company is apparently launching a TV app for Amazon and Samsung smart TVs, and Musk said it is “coming soon”.
“We just want people to be able to watch long videos in comfort on their big screen TV,” the billionaire posted on X.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO further said that people can “already use Apple AirPlay to play videos from your phone to your TV”.
One of his followers commented that this move by X is a “strategic step towards diversifying its platform and competing in the ever-evolving digital content landscape”.
“It will be intriguing to see how this foray into video streaming will impact the larger ecosystem of online media consumption. Exciting times ahead,” the user posted.
Elon Musk wanted ‘absolute control’ of the company: OpenAIIANS
Musk wants the X platform to become an “everything app”. Beyond smart TVs, the social media network is also exploring video games, podcasts and long-form writing.
Taking on legacy media, X on Friday introduced ‘Articles’ which is a new way to share long-form written content on the platform.
Those who are Premium users and pay for X services can now post articles on the platform with stylised text, embedded images and videos.
They can also format text with headings, sub-headings, bold, italics, strikethrough, indentation, numerical and bulleted lists.
Hey lovely! Today, I need to dive deep into a subject that’s reshaping our magnificence routines in essentially the most fantastic methods. It’s not simply concerning the shades we choose or the finishes we love; it’s concerning the coronary heart and soul behind our magnificence selections. The journey in direction of vegan and cruelty-free products is a mirrored image of our collective want for magnificence that’s form, sustainable, and true to our values.
The Heart of Vegan and Cruelty-Free Beauty
The Essence
At its core, vegan beauty means indulging in merchandise free from animal-derived components, whereas cruelty-free signifies a stand towards animal testing at any stage of product improvement. It’s heartwarming to see how these ideas have moved from area of interest to essential, signaling a shift in direction of extra compassionate magnificence practices.
The Drive Behind the Movement
This lovely shift is fueled by a deeper understanding and concern for our furry mates and the planet. We’re turning into extra acutely aware of the impression our magnificence selections have, in search of paths that enable us to glow with out compromise.
The Beautiful Benefits
Gentle on You
Vegan and cruelty-free merchandise typically lean in direction of pure, much less harsh components. For anybody who’s ever confronted a pores and skin tantrum from harsh chemical substances, this strategy is a soothing balm, providing magnificence options which can be as mild as they’re efficient.
Gentle on the Earth
Choosing these merchandise is like giving the earth a little bit hug. They’re typically crafted with a lighter environmental footprint, which means we get to get pleasure from our magnificence rituals realizing we’re minimizing hurt to our planet.
A Stand for Compassion
Opting for cruelty-free is our method of voicing that magnificence ought to by no means come at the price of one other being’s welfare. It’s a robust assertion in favor of moral practices within the magnificence trade.
Innovation: The Beauty Industry’s Response
The magnificence world is responding to our name for kindness with improvements that don’t simply meet our moral requirements however dazzle us with their high quality and comfort. Imagine reaching that salon-perfect look with merchandise which can be as form to the planet as they’re to your nails. The improvement of merchandise like LED gel strips and press-on nails, together with these from manufacturers like Kleo Kolor, is a testomony to the trade’s capacity to mix ethics with excellence. These improvements are a direct response to our yearning for magnificence choices that align with our values with out skimping on efficiency. It’s about discovering that excellent concord the place moral issues meet our wishes for fast, beautiful magnificence options.
The Power of Knowledge
As we navigate this shift, the significance of transparency and training turns into clearer. We’re all turning into extra inquisitive, desirous to peel again the layers and perceive the ethos behind our favourite merchandise. Brands that share their journey in direction of sustainability and moral practices not solely win our hearts but additionally empower us to make knowledgeable selections.
A Vision of Ethical Beauty
Looking forward, it’s evident that the way forward for magnificence intertwines with ethics and sustainability. This isn’t only a fleeting development however a profound evolution in direction of practices that honor our planet and its inhabitants. Brands main this cost are usually not simply a part of the wonder trade; they’re pioneers of a motion that guarantees a extra compassionate, sustainable future.
This evolution in direction of kinder magnificence practices is a vivid reminder of the impression our selections can have. By supporting manufacturers and merchandise that align with our moral and environmental values, we’re contributing to a magnificence trade that cares deeply for each individuals and the planet.
The Role of Social Media in Spreading Awareness
In this digital age, social media performs a pivotal function in amplifying the message of vegan and cruelty-free magnificence. Influencers, bloggers, and on a regular basis magnificence fanatics are taking to platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to share their favourite moral finds, DIY magnificence recipes, and the tales behind the manufacturers they love. This grassroots stage of awareness-building creates a ripple impact, educating and provoking a broader viewers to discover and embrace sustainable magnificence practices. It’s an area the place private tales and transformations can shine, making the journey in direction of moral magnificence relatable and accessible to all.
The Personal Touch: Customization and Creativity
Another thrilling development within the realm of vegan and cruelty-free magnificence is the rise of customization and creativity. Brands are more and more providing merchandise that enable shoppers to tailor their magnificence expertise to their distinctive preferences and desires. From build-your-own eyeshadow palettes to customized skincare routines, this strategy not solely caters to the need for particular person expression but additionally minimizes waste by making certain that each product is cherished and utilized. This stage of personalization enriches the wonder expertise, permitting every of us to craft a routine that’s as distinctive as our values, additional solidifying the bond between moral selections and private id within the magnificence world.
Beyond Beauty: A Community of Kindness
What’s actually inspiring about this shift is the sense of neighborhood it’s constructing. It’s about extra than simply make-up or skincare; it’s about becoming a member of arms with others who share your values, making a motion in direction of magnificence that’s accountable, inclusive, and stuffed with coronary heart. This collective journey enriches our magnificence routines with which means, connecting us to a bigger goal.
In Closing
Embracing vegan and cruelty-free magnificence is a fantastic expression of our interior values, a selection that displays a want for kindness in each side of our lives. As we turn into extra aware of our beauty selections, the trade evolves to fulfill us with choices that aren’t solely efficient and delightful but additionally form and sustainable. This journey in direction of moral magnificence isn’t nearly enhancing our exterior look; it’s a path to dwelling in concord with our values, the planet, and its creatures. It’s a motion that invitations us all to be a part of one thing actually transformative, proving that magnificence, at its finest, is a pressure for good.
