Junior Digest

Ortiz tried to get up and eventually did but he clearly could not continue. The fight was officially stopped at 2:51 of the seventh.

This was a rematch of their 2018 fight where Wilder battled through adversity to deliver a 10th-round stoppage.

New Delhi, Nov 23: Refuting reports of government planning to privatise Railways, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said Indian Railways is and will always remain ‘a property of people of India’.
Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha, Mr Goyal said,’ Railways
requires Rs 50 lakh crore as people from all states come to us with demand of a railway line
in their area. So to meet all these demands, to meet up the cleanliness standards, to meet new
challenges, we need to give better services for which there is outsourcing of services.’
Stressing his point, Mr Goyal said, ‘Railways is and will remain a property of people of
India. However, there is a proposal to outsource the commercial and on board services of a few trains and also to permit private players to induct modern rakes to run trains on select routes with an objective to provide improved service delivery to passengers.’
Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi said, ‘the interest of Railways wil be protected. We are not going in for privatisation. It is only corporatisation. The job of already employed people will not be affected.’
On number of accidents on railway tracks, Mr Angadi said, ‘Safety is our priority.’
‘Ownership right will remain with Railways always. Control is with Indian Railways and
rolling stock people,’ he added.
Highlighting women safety of Railway platforms during odd hours, Mr Angadi said special rooms
have been made on almost all stations for the same. Also, station masters are available
every time on the platforms for any further help if the need be.

“Espionage and foreign interference is insidious. Its effects might not present for decades and by that time it’s too late,” Lewis was quoted as telling the Sydney Morning Herald in his first interview since leaving office.

“You wake up one day and find decisions made in our country that are not in the interests of our country,” he said.

“Not only in politics but also in the community or in business. It takes over, basically, pulling the strings from offshore,” he added in the interview with the newspaper’s foreign editor.

Lewis singled out incidents of Chinese agents making large contributions to Australian political parties as part of a wide-ranging influence-peddling campaign that also targeted media and the country’s universities.

“It’s quite clear to me that any person in political office is potentially a target. I’m not trying to create paranoia, but there does need to be a level of sensible awareness,” he said.

The former spy chief said the help of Australia’s large ethnic Chinese community was “vital in the work against foreign covert influence” much like Muslim-Australians who have aided in the fight against terrorism.

While running ASIO, Lewis, who also held senior military positions and served as Australia’s ambassador to Belgium and NATO, frequently warned of the dangers of foreign espionage, but avoided singling out China for criticism.

His latest remarks are sure to rile Beijing, which has angrily denied allegations its ruling Communist Party was covertly meddling in Australian affairs.

Earlier this month, China barred a planned visit by two MPs from the governing Liberal party over their criticism of Chinese activities in Australia and across the Pacific.

And a group of Australian universities last week announced measures to combat foreign interference in key areas of research collaboration, cybersecurity, and international partnerships — a move seen as targeting China.

China is also widely suspected of being behind major intrusions into the computer systems of Australia’s parliament and a university with close ties to the government and security services.

Washington D.C. , Nov 23: According to a new study, whether it be love songs, lullabies or songs from cultures spanning the globe, despite their diversity, they exhibit universal patterns.
Drawn from an analysis across-cultures of more than a century of research from anthropology and ethnomusicology on more than 300 societies, the study reports the first comprehensive scientific analysis of the similarities and differences of music across societies around the world. The results of the study were published in the Journal ‘Science.’
Music has long been called the universal language of humankind; however, whether any meaningful universals in music do exist is unclear and many music scholars have been highly skeptical of the notion. Here, Samuel Mehr and colleagues address this challenge by merging modern data science with musical recordings and ethnographic records from world cultures to map out the universals and variations in human song (vocal music).
Mehr et al. built a discography of audio recordings of dance, healing, love and lullaby songs from 315 cultures accompanied with detailed descriptions of song contexts. They compared each recording based on formality, arousal level, and religiosity. The results underscore the universality of music.
They show that music – which appears in every measured society, is associated with predictable kinds of social functions and contexts, like dance and love; the social functions of a song can be predicted from its musical features across the world’s societies, the authors say.
Their results also show there is more variation in musical context within cultures than between them. “Overall, [Mehr et al.’s] approach, fusing data science anthropology and psychology, offers an exciting new way to tackle age-old problems in musicology, and promises deep insights into cognitive universals underlying the diverse musics our species creates and enjoys,” write W. Tecumseh Fitch and Tudor Popescu in a related Perspective.

Hyderabad (Telangana) , Nov 23 : In a major setback to the striking employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC), Telangana High Court has disposed of a writ petition filed against the state government’s decision to privatise 5,100 RTC routes.
According to the petitioner Prof PL Vishweshwer Rao, the court disposed of the petition and has given a verdict in favour of the government.
The state government had, on Thursday, decided that it will wait for the High Court’s order in the matter before taking any action.
“The High Court is expected to give its verdict on the privatisation of the RTC routes on Friday. The state government has decided to take a final decision after the High Court verdict and after taking into consideration all the related issues,” the CMO had said in a statement.
The Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao-led state government had decided to privatise 5,100 RTC routes, where the corporation was making a loss.
Around 48,000 employees of the corporation have been on strike since October 5 with several demands including revision of pay. As many as five RTC employees have committed suicide since the commencement of the strike.

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he would not resign despite being charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust in a corruption scandal that he denounced as an “attempted coup”.

The charges announced by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit were the first of their kind against a serving Israeli prime minister and represented the gravest crisis in the political career of Israel’s longest-serving leader.

Netanyahu, in power continuously since 2009 and before that in the 1990s, has dominated Israeli politics for a generation, decisively turning the country to the right. He has denied wrongdoing in the three graft cases, saying he is the victim of a political witch hunt.

He is under no legal obligation to resign. But the indictment could further embolden challengers trying to dislodge him after two inconclusive elections since April, with a third election expected to be announced within weeks.

Conviction on the charges could bring a lengthy jail term. But any trial could be delayed for months by the political crisis, and Netanyahu could try to secure parliamentary immunity from prosecution.

Chisinau, Nov 25: Incumbent Romanian President Klaus Iohannis is winning re-election with 63.12 percent of the vote after 97.5 percent of ballots were counted, according to the Central Electoral Bureau of Romania.
Romania held its second round of presidential election on Sunday.
Iohannis’ main rival, Social Democrat Viorica Dancila, who is the former prime minister of the country, gained 36.18 percent of votes, Sputnik rerported.
Pro-Western Iohannis ran a campaign promising closer EU ties and a push for entering the Schengen Area and Eurozone. He also demonstrated intentions of strengthening strategic ties with NATO and the United States.
Danchile served as the first female prime minister of the country. She is also the first female head of Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD) and first woman to reach runoff presidential election.
Danchile’s PSD-led government was mired in controversy around corruption and bad-faith judicial reform and was dissolved following a vote of no-confidence in October.
Iohannis ran for the second five-year term having served the first term since 2014.

Mumbai, Nov 23: The Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress meeting concluded on Friday with a call to Sena President Uddhav Thackeray to accept the post of Maharashtra Chief Minister.
Emerging from the two-hour meeting, NCP President Sharad Pawar indicated that a consensus had evolved on Mr Thackeray’s name for the top post.
“There is unanimity on the name of Uddhav Thackeray for CM post… Now, he must take it up,” Mr Pawar said.
On his part, Mr Thackeray briefly said that the discussions were held in detail and efforts were on to ensure that no issues were left out.
The proposed Maha Vikas Aghadi, comprising Sena-NCP-Congress is likely to hold a press conference on Saturday, where the final details will be shared with the media.
“After the press conference tomorrow, we shall make attempts to stake claim at the earliest possible opportunity,” NCP National Spokesperson Nawab Malik said.