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Business Standard
4 days ago
- Business
- Business Standard
HCBS Developments Receives 'Most Trusted Real Estate Brand of the Year' at ET Now Realty Conclave & Awards-2025
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], June 18: HCBS Developments, Gurugram's real estate developers, has been awarded the prestigious title of 'Most Trusted Real Estate Brand of the Year' at the ET Now Realty Conclave & Awards-2025. The event, held under the theme 'Shaping Tomorrow's Real Estate Landscape', brought together the biggest names in the industry to celebrate innovation, sustainability, and leadership in Indian real estate. The award reflects HCBS Developments' commitment to quality, timely delivery, and customer-centric practices that have earned them the trust of thousands of homebuyers, particularly in the luxury housing segments. The group continues to set benchmarks in real estate development with a focus on accessibility, innovation, and sustainable community living. Speaking on the recognition, Mr. Saurabh Saharan, Group Managing Director, HCBS Developments, expressed, "Being named the 'Most Trusted Real Estate Brand of the Year' is not just an honour, but a responsibility -- one we have upheld in every delivery so far. This reflects our core philosophy of delivering not just homes, but the promises that come with them. We are delighted to receive this award and are motivated to remain committed to our ethos. We thank our customers, partners, and teams who are integral to this journey." Col. S.S. Kadyan, Director, HCBS Developments, who received the awards on behalf of the organisation, added, "Receiving this award is a huge encouragement for us. Our upcoming project on the Dwarka Expressway is an endeavour we're committed to nurturing with utmost care and responsibility, and we're determined to deliver something truly exceptional. This corridor offers immense potential, and we're excited to bring premium, well-planned developments to this location. Trust is the foundation of everything we do, and as India urbanises rapidly, we remain focused on responsible growth and housing solutions that reflect the country's evolving aspirations." The ET Now Realty Conclave & Awards-2025 serves as a premier platform for recognizing excellence in the real estate sector. By bringing together developers, policymakers, and thought leaders, it fosters collaboration and encourages forward-thinking strategies to shape the future of Indian real estate. Website- (ADVERTORIAL DISCLAIMER: The above press release has been provided by NewsVoir. ANI will not be responsible in any way for the content of the same)
Toronto Sun
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Toronto Sun
GRETA'S GAZA GETAWAY! Wacky voyage of the S.S. Thunberg
Get the latest from Brad Hunter straight to your inbox ARGHHH! Shiver me timbers, the kidnappers are giving Greta Thunberg a pastrami sandwich. IDF Where were the Skipper and Gilligan on board Admiral Greta Thunberg's 'Freedom Flotilla'? This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. 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Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Sadly, we'll never know as the good ship Madleen ran into headwinds by way of the IDF about 200 km from its final destination, from Gaza. Survivors of the wreck of the S.S. Minnow in the 1960s TV sitcom were a lot more likable and less prone to melodrama and virtuous antics. Gilligan and the Skipper also failed in their voyage. CBS On Monday, Thunberg declared that her rag-tag crew of activists had been 'kidnapped!' by the IDF. Still, few kidnappers sort you out with pastrami sandwiches and water. After realizing there was boffo bucks in protesting against Israel, the Swedish actor-vist ditched whales, rivers, mountains and almost every other creature on the planet. Unless you live in Gaza, you are now passe. The elfin 22-year-old's latest escapade was setting sail on the Madleen with other activists looking for adventure and social media plaudits. Their goal: 'Break the siege' and deliver aid to Gaza. The sailboat (oddly, they only appeared to be using the diesel engines) was bringing 'aid,' really a 'symbolic' amount but never mind that … Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. LAND HO! The Israeli Navy ended the voyage. IDF Of course, aid is flooding into the besieged seaside city. Terror cult Hamas is just not letting suffering inhabitants have it. Here's your cheat sheet to Greta's seafaring social justice activists. Greta Thunberg speaks with the crew of the ship Madleen, headed to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid on June 1, 2025 in Catania, Italy. Photo by Fabrizio Villa / Getty Images Europe GRETA THUNBERG 411: The pixie-like protester ditched the earth and doubled down on Gaza, becoming a frequent flier at anti-Israel protests in Europe, complete with keffiyeh and combat jacket. Now, the Swedish scold has been photographed wearing a sou'wester. GAME OF DRONES: Actor Liam Cunningham. HBO LIAM CUNNINGHAM 411: The Irish actor is best known for playing the wise Davos Seaworth in the HBO epic Game of Thrones . Will Greta become his Red Queen? Does he know that his role as Davos was fictional? Greta Thunberg and terror fanboy Thiago Avila. INSTAGRAM THIAGO AVILA 411: The Brazilian is a big-time terrorist fanboy. When Hezbollah boss Hassan Nasrallah was iced, Avila attended his funeral in February. He called the fanatic a 'beloved' leader and 'martyr.' Avila said he was 'very honoured' and 'very happy' to attend the send-off. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Yasmin Acar. INSTAGRAM YASEMIN ACAR 411: Veteran hater and resident of Berlin, Acar is known for her antisemitic rants. When Iran launched missiles into Israel, Acar danced with joy, Bild reported. At one demo, she screeched: 'You're a white person, you shouldn't tell us what to do.' RIMA HASSAN. INSTAGRAM RIMA HASSAN 411: French politician and certified nutter, Hassan has accused Israel of being the culprit in the Oct. 7, 2023, kidnappings and murders of wee Kfir and Ariel Bibas and their mother Shira. She reportedly tweeted: 'Kfir, Ariel, and Shiri Bibas were killed by an Israeli attack.' At a demo in Jordan, the PC politician called for the destruction of Israel and joined a chant shouting: 'We die for jihad.' HOMER: Al Jazeera journalist OMAR FAIAD. IDF OMAR FAIAD 411: French 'journalist' employed by Al-Jazeera (go figure) has scoffed at the Holocaust and compared the IDF to Nazis. He tweeted: 'The Israeli army resembles the Nazi army.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Setting sail for fun and adventure. INSTAGRAM OTHERS 411: Pascal Maurieras — French activist; Yanis Mhamdi — French reporter; Suayb Ordu — Turkish activist; Sergio Toribio — Spanish activist; Marco van Rennes — Dutch activist; Reva Viard — French activist, and Baptiste Andre — French Physician. Climate activist Greta Thunberg stands near a Palestinian flag after boarding the Madleen boat and before setting sail for Gaza along with activists of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, departing from the Sicilian port of Catania, Italy, Sunday, June 1, 2025. Photo by Salvatore Cavalli / AP CAPTAIN'S LOG 411: Israel has warned that despite the crew's faculty lounge bravado, they weren't getting anywhere near Gaza. The Madleen departed Catania, Italy, on Sunday for the journey. They also claimed to have picked up two migrants floating in the Mediterranean. DRONES AHOY! Thunberg and Co. claimed they're being followed by — what they presume — are Israeli drones, poised to turn the activists into fish food. Greta Thunberg speaks with the crew of the ship Madleen, headed to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid on June 1, 2025 in Catania, Italy. Photo by Fabrizio Villa / Getty Images Europe SAILIN' SELFIES Despite the stress and perilous waters, the silly sailors (but mostly Thunberg) found time to post selfies on social media. Of course, no 2025 activist selfie is complete without a Palestinian flag and the pinnacle of what was once called cultural appropriation, a keffiyeh scarf. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. WHINE WITH THAT CHEESE The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which had organized the voyage, claimed the activists were 'kidnapped by Israeli forces' while trying to deliver desperately needed aid to the territory. QUOTE 'The ship was unlawfully boarded, its unarmed civilian crew abducted, and its life-saving cargo — including baby formula, food and medical supplies' — Freedom Flotilla. ISRAEL SAYS It's a publicity stunt, and they called the ship a 'selfie yacht.' Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is arrested during a climate march against fossil subsidies near the highway A12 in the Hague, on April 6, 2024. Dozens of police officers, some on horseback, blocked protesters from reaching the A12 arterial highway into the Dutch seaside city, the scene of previous actions organised by the Extinction Rebellion (XR) group. Photo by RAMON VAN FLYMEN / ANP/AFP via Getty Images Read More HOW DARE YOU Greta moaned in a prerecorded message: 'I urge all my friends, family and comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release me and the others as soon as possible.' SWEDEN SAYS Sweden has advised against travel to Gaza for a decade. Activists who disregard the warning are taking matters into their own hands. The foreign minister noted that no one is in danger, so no consular support. RECOMMENDED VIDEO Olympics Columnists Olympics Canada Celebrity
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Relying on teamwork, Naval Academy plebes conquer a 75-year tradition
May 14 (UPI) -- A lard-covered obelisk is more than a slippery slope for U.S. Naval Academy plebes, who view it as a rite of passage that changes them into midshipmen. Dozens of freshmen who are called "plebes" were tasked with climbing the 21-foot-tall Herndon Monument on Wednesday, with the mission being to replace a cap placed on top to mark the end of their first year at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. They accomplished the feat in 2 hours, 27 minutes and 31 seconds by using the kind of teamwork that is required to effectively operate vessels on the high seas like the U.S. Navy has done for almost 250 years, and as it today carries out missions on land and in the air, as well. The annual climb is a 75-year tradition that started in 1950 and scales the monument to Commander William Lewis Herndon, who went down with his ship when a hurricane sank it in 1857. The climb requires Naval Academy plebes to scale the obelisk after it has been covered with 200 pounds of lard, remove a "Dixie cup" placed on top and replace it with the hat of an upperclassman. The Dixie cup is not a reference to the paper cup that often is used at water dispensers. Instead, it is a reference to the "low-rolled brim, high-domed item constructed of canvas" cap that was created in 1886 and has represented the U.S. Navy throughout the 20th century and beyond. The Dixie cup cap is featured in the iconic photo of a sailor kissing a nurse in New York City's Times Square on Victory over Japan Day in 1945. It also was featured in many classic films and was worn by the S.S. Minnow's first mate Gilligan on television's "Gilligan's Island." Members of the Naval Academy's class of 2028 successfully undertook the task of replacing the Dixie Cup with the upperclassman's hat. The 2028 class has about 1,187 plebes, who now are referred to as "midshipmen" upon their completion of the annual rite of passage.
The Hindu
23-04-2025
- Automotive
- The Hindu
T.N. to introduce AI-powered driver monitoring system on buses
The Tamil Nadu government is set to introduce an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered driver monitoring system on 500 buses on a pilot basis, as part of efforts to ensure road safety and to improve the skills of drivers. The driver monitoring system would notice changes if any in the driver's face such as head movements, eye gaze, and facial expressions and raise an alarm and help the drivers. 'It would ensure reduce accidents to improve passengers' safety,' Transport Minister S.S. Sivasankar said the Assembly on Wednesday. 'The recordings would be studied to develop training modules for better driving skills of drivers,' he said. The State government would also install 360 degree cameras in 4,000 buses to help drivers deal with blind spot, to locate pedestrians and cyclists, he said. The State government would increase the allocation of funds for undertaking steps to prevent road accidents in the State from ₹65 crore to ₹130 crore, Mr. Sivasankar said. About 6,000 accident-prone locations have been identified across the State, where installation of traffic signals, development of roads were to be undertaken in the first phase, he said. As part of 'Accident Free Tamil Nadu,' 100 accident-prone roads would be identified for necessary action.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
How to Say No to the President
One night while my family was having dinner, the president of the United States called my dad to complain about something he'd seen on television. My father, Newton Minow, was then the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. And the president, John F. Kennedy, was furious. 'Did you see Huntley-Brinkley tonight?' Kennedy asked, referring to NBC's nightly news broadcast, anchored by the journalists Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. The news report had featured steel executives bitterly attacking Kennedy, who was angry with them about an increase in steel prices. The president yelled over the phone, 'Did you see how those guys lied about me? Outrageous! Do something about it!' Dad said he would. The next morning, Dad called the White House and spoke with Kennedy's aide Kenny O'Donnell, who had been with the president during the phone call the night before. Dad said he would be happy to talk to the president, or O'Donnell could give him this message: 'He is lucky to have a friend at the FCC who knew not to pay attention to the president when the president was angry.' A week later, at a diplomatic reception, Kennedy beckoned to my dad, waving him over. He then put his arm around Dad's shoulders and whispered, 'Thank you.' What my father knew, and what Kennedy appreciated once he'd calmed down, is that it may be hard to hear what people think of your ideas, but it is the only way to test them. And even when people do not agree, feeling heard often helps gain their confidence and support. Read: Capitulation Is Contagious Dad is best remembered for a speech he gave on May 9, 1961, to the National Association of Broadcasters, when he told television executives that they needed to do a better job of living up to their license agreements to serve the public interest. He said, 'When television is good, nothing—not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers—nothing is better.' But, he warned, television is also a 'vast wasteland.' In return for the privilege of using the public airwaves, he said, broadcasters had to do more for the good of the citizenry. (He reflected on that speech in the pages of this magazine in 2011, in honor of its 50th anniversary.) The broadcasters were not happy. One producer even decided to insult him by naming the sinking ship on Gilligan's Island the S.S. Minnow. (We are all very proud of that.) They may not have liked his message, but Dad knew where to draw the line. He had assured the broadcasters, 'I am unalterably opposed to governmental censorship. There will be no suppression of programming which does not meet with bureaucratic tastes. Censorship strikes at the tap root of our free society.' So, in his nearly three years at the FCC, Dad's priority was not restricting content but expanding choices. (In those days, network news was just 15 minutes a day, and programming for children included local productions and Howdy Doody.) When Dad was at the FCC, the equal-time rules and the fairness doctrine were still in effect. The theory was that because the broadcast spectrum was limited, anyone granted a license to use the public airwaves had to allow all sides of an argument to be presented. Dad got three major pieces of legislation passed while he was at the FCC, all giving viewers more choices. The laws required new television sets to have chips enabling access to UHF channels—remember the 'U' knob on old televisions?— launched the first telecommunications satellite, and created an alternative to the commercial networks. All of these moves meant more access to more choices in television programming for the public. Dad and President Kennedy both came from cities with educational television channels, WTTW in Chicago and WGBH in Boston, respectively. (WGBH is now chaired by my sister Martha Minow.) When they learned that most cities, including Washington, D.C., did not have an educational station, they worked together to establish PBS. I remember him explaining to my sisters and me why it was important that 'educational television' was becoming 'public television.' And when Kennedy asked Dad why the telecommunications satellite mattered so much to him, Dad told him it was more important than putting a person in space, because the satellite would launch ideas, and ideas last longer than people. Dad did once threaten a station's license when he was at the FCC, and it was because of another phone call, this time from a former resident of the White House. Eleanor Roosevelt called Dad just before Election Day in 1962 and said, 'Why aren't you helping Reverend Smith?' Reverend L. T. Smith was a Black minister who was running for Congress in Jackson, Mississippi. The local station, WLBT, refused to sell him advertising time. The FCC staff had decided not to get involved, because his opponent, the incumbent, was not seeking time, and thus their decision complied with the equal-time rules. Dad directed the staff to send WLBT a telegram telling the station that it had to sell Smith airtime or risk not being able to renew its license. And that's how, for the first time ever, a Black candidate in Mississippi had a chance to speak to voters on television. Twenty years after he left the FCC, I got to hear Dad argue for the revocation of a radio station's license. A station then called KTTL, based in Dodge City, Kansas, was broadcasting virulently racist and anti-Semitic programming. The FCC ruled that hate speech was protected under the First Amendment and it could not deny a license for that reason. By then, though, the station had been sold and the new owner changed the call letters and switched the programming to contemporary music. I am sure Dad thought that was the right solution. Dad was 97 years old when he died in 2023. I think about him every day, and I have a good sense of what he'd say about what is unfolding in our country now. He decided to share publicly the story about Kennedy's phone call—and his decision to disobey the president—just before Donald Trump was inaugurated for his first term. He thought of it as a cautionary tale for Trump's incoming appointees. Dad was passionately committed to robust argument and the marketplace of ideas as the best way to solve problems and seek a fairer world. (You should have heard the debates every night at our family dinners. Unsurprisingly, my sisters and I all became lawyers.) I have spent much of my career studying corporations that fail, and the one consistent theme in all of them is leadership that insulates itself from bad news, complaints, and disagreements. Dad taught us that arguing can be productive, but that insults are not arguments. He said we had to be able to disagree in good faith, and we had to be able to state an opposing view in terms that even those who disagreed could see as accurate. He would have admired Harvard President Alan M. Garber's response this week to Trump's efforts to control universities. Gerber promised that his institution would 'proceed now, as always, with the conviction that the fearless and unfettered pursuit of truth liberates humanity.' Just as my dad told Kennedy he was wrong, the people who make up the institutions we depend on for the pursuit of truth— people at news organizations, schools, museums, and libraries—must remain committed to supporting fearless empiricism, logic, and debate, even when it hurts the president's feelings. Article originally published at The Atlantic
