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  • Samuel Bankman-Fried, Founder of FTX, Arrested in Bahamas at US Government’s Request

    Samuel Bankman-Fried, Founder of FTX, Arrested in Bahamas at US Government’s Request

    New York [US], December 13: Bahamas authorities arrested collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried on Monday. The arrest was made after the United States prosecutors registered criminal charges against him, The New York Times reported citing a statement released by the Bahamas government.

    According to The New York Times, the statement released by the Bahamas government said, “SBF’s arrest followed receipt of formal notification from the United States that it has filed criminal charges against SBF and is likely to request his extradition.” The arrest has been confirmed by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Attorney Damian Williams. FTX Bankruptcy: What’s Happening at Bankrupt Crypto Exchange FTX? Is Your Bitcoin Safe! Here’s All You Need To Know.

    The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York in a tweet said, “USA Damian Williams: Earlier this evening, Bahamian authorities arrested Samuel Bankman-Fried at the request of the U.S. Government, based on a sealed indictment filed by the SDNY. We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time.” FTX Crypto Exchange, Once World’s Largest Cryptocurrency Trading Platform, Now at Verge of Collapse; Here’s Why It Should Not Come As Surprise.

    As per The New York Times news report, Samuel Bankman-Fried has been under investigation by the Justice Department over the sudden implosion of FTX. The USD 32 billion worth company FTX filed for bankruptcy on November 11.

    (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, Morning Tidings Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)

  • Haryana CET Exam 2022 Cancelled? Governments Urges Candidates To Not Fall Prey To Fake Notice; Says Exams Will Be Held As per Schedule

    A piece of news claiming that Haryana CET exam has been cancelled is doing rounds on social media. However, it must be noted that the news is fake. The Haryana Government’s fact check team took to Twitter to bust the fake claim. The fact check team of Haryana Govt said that candidates should not fall prey to the fake notice. “It is clarified that the Common Eligibility Test will be held on 5th and 6th November, 2022 as per the pre-determined schedule,” it stated. Indian Railways Lucky Draw Offers Chance To Win Rs 6,000? Government Debunks Fake Lottery Message Going Viral on Social Media.

    Common Eligibility Test Exams Cancelled?

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  • Uber Files: Leaked Documents Reveal How The Cab Aggregator Broke Laws, Lobbied With Governments To Expand Globally

    San Francisco, July 11: A sensational leaked trove of internal Uber documents has revealed the dark side of the ride-hailing platform, that allegedly broke laws and secretly lobbied governments as it planned to expand globally.

    According to The Guardian that accessed ‘Uber Files’ with over 1,24,000 documents from 2013 and 2017, the data “shows how Uber tried to shore up support by discreetly courting prime ministers, presidents, billionaires, oligarchs and media barons”.

    In addition to memos, presentations, notebooks, and other telling documents, the Uber leak includes “emails, iMessages and WhatsApp exchanges between the Silicon Valley giant’s most senior executives”. The leaked data is from a period when Uber was run by its controversial co-founder Travis Kalanick, and includes more than 83,000 emails, iMessages and WhatsApp messages, “including often frank and unvarnished communications between Kalanick and his top team of executives”. Ola, Uber Get Warning from Govt of Strict Action For Unfair Trade Practices.

    Leaked data suggests that Uber executives were at the same time under no illusions about the company’s law-breaking, with one executive joking they had become “pirates” and another conceding: “We’re just fucking illegal,” the report mentioned late on Sunday. In a statement, Uber said that there has been no shortage of reporting on Uber’s mistakes prior to 2017. “Five years ago, those mistakes culminated in one of the most infamous reckonings in the history of corporate America. That reckoning led to an enormous amount of public scrutiny, a number of high-profile lawsuits, multiple government investigations, and the termination of several senior executives,” the company said.

    It’s also exactly why Uber hired a new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, who was tasked with transforming every aspect of how Uber operates. “He was guided from the start by the recommendations of Eric Holder, a former US Attorney General hired by the company to investigate and overhaul our business practices,” said Uber. Khosrowshahi apparently rewrote the company’s values, revamped the leadership team, made safety a top company priority, implemented best-in-class corporate governance, hired an independent board chair, and installed the rigorous controls and compliance necessary to operate as a public company.

    “When we say Uber is a different company today, we mean it literally: 90 per cent of current Uber employees joined after Dara became CEO,” the company added. According to the report, Uber executives expressed “barely disguised disdain for other elected officials who were less receptive to the company’s business model”.

    When the then US vice-president, Joe Biden was late to a meeting with the company at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Kalanick texted a colleague: “I’ve had my people let him know that every minute late he is, is one less minute he will have with me.” The Guardian led a global investigation into the leaked Uber files, sharing the data with media organisations around the world via the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). “More than 180 journalists at 40 media outlets, including Le Monde, Washington Post and the BBC will in the coming days publish a series of investigative reports about the tech giant,” said the report.

    Uber said that “We have not and will not make excuses for past behaviour that is clearly not in line with our present values”. “Instead, we ask the public to judge us by what we’ve done over the last five years and what we will do in the years to come,” it added.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Jul 11, 2022 01:13 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Garena Free Fire Game Reportedly Removed From Play Store & App Store Post Indian Government’s Ban for 54 Chinese Apps

    The Indian government has banned 54 Chinese apps due to threats to the security and privacy of citizens. These apps reportedly belong to Chinese companies like NetEase, Tencent, Alibaba. In June 2020, the government had banned 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, WeChat, Helo and more. Now, 54 more apps have been banned. The Ministry of Electronics and IT claims that they were transferring sensitive data of Indian citizens to servers in China. Centre to Ban 54 Chinese Apps Posing Threat to National Security.

    Garena Free Fire

    Garena Free Fire (Photo Credits: Google Play Store)

    Post the ban of 54 Chinese apps, Garena’s Free Fire game has been removed from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Several Indian players are also reporting login issues on Free Fire’s official Discord channel. Tencent reportedly owns over 25 percent shares in Free Fire’s publisher Garena. So this could be the reason, the game is not available on Play Store and App Store. However, at the time of writing this article, the Garena Free Fire Max is available for download on Play Store.

    When PUBG Mobile was banned in India in 2020, players used VPN to play the game. So users might also use the same method to play the Garena Free Fire game, given that the game has a massive player count in India.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Feb 14, 2022 01:23 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Union Budget 2022-23: CoinDCX, WazirX Founders React on Government’s Move on Taxation of Cryptocurrency

    Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday presented the Union Budget 2022-23. In her Budget speech, she announced plans to start a digital currency and tax crypto assets, as the country keeps pace with the global move toward virtual financial instruments.

    She Announced that Income from the transfer of any virtual digital assets will be taxed at 30%.

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  • Delhi High Court Seeks Government’s Response Over Google’s Plea Against New IT Rules: Report

    Delhi High Court Seeks Government’s Response Over Google’s Plea Against New IT Rules: Report

    New Delhi: Google LLC moved a plea on Wednesday in the Delhi High Court seeking interim protection against its declaration as a “Social Media Intermediary” (SMI) under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Ethics Code) Rules 2021 (IT Rules 2021) and contended these rules are not applicable to its search engine. Search Engine Not Classified as Part of New IT Intermediary Guidelines 2021, Says Google.

    “While we maintain a consistent policy over removal of objectionable content from search results, the Delhi High Court order has cast certain obligations that would wrongly classify Google search as a social media intermediary,” a Google spokesperson told IANS. “We’ve filed an appeal against this part of the order and look forward to explaining the steps we take to remove objectionable content from Google search results,” the company spokesperson added.

    Google challenged a single judge bench order of the court which directed it to remove content globally, which was flagged as “objectionable” by a female petitioner, for being “offensive”. The petitioner claimed that the content was taken from her social media accounts on Facebook and Instagram, and circulated without her consent. Despite court orders the content was not removed in entirety from the World Wide Web. The plea urged the High Court to set aside the single judge order.

    A bench of Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notices to the Centre, the Delhi government, Facebook, Internet Service Providers Association of India, the pornographic site and the woman. The High Court sought their responses in the matter by July 25. Citing the April 20 judgment, Google contended it has “mischaracterised” its search engine as a ‘social media intermediary’ or ‘significant social media intermediary’, which has been provided under the new rules for digital media.

    Google said it was aggrieved by the blanket, “template directions” issued by single judge. It further argued that the judge mixed various sections of the IT Act and separate rules prescribed thereunder and passed template directions combining all such offences and provisions, which it emphasized was bad in law. However, the High Court said it would not pass any interim order at this stage. A Google spokesperson told IANS that search engines are a reflection of the content and information that is available on the internet.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Jun 02, 2021 05:39 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • The government’s market in the first half of the financial year is ₹ 7.24 lakh crore.

    The government’s market in the first half of the financial year is ₹ 7.24 lakh crore.

    The government will borrow Rs lakh.24 lakh crore in the first half of 2021-22, so as to meet the resources, the economy may be harmed due to the fiscal epidemic.

    According to the budget of 2021-22, the government’s gross borrowings in the financial year commencing from April 1 was .05 12.05 lakh crore.

    “In the budget, we announced that there would be a gross borrowing of ₹ 12.05 lakh crore and a net borrowing of ₹ 9.37 lakh crore. In the first half of 2021-22, we will borrow ₹ 7.24 lakh crore, which is 60.06. Gross. % Of Jari, ”said Economic Affairs Secretary Tarun Bajaj.

    Gross borrowing involves repayment of previous debts. Repayment of previous loans is estimated at ₹ 2.80 lakh crore in the next financial year.

    “Gross borrowings from the market will be around ₹ 12 lakh crore for the next year. We plan to continue our path of fiscal consolidation, and intend to reach a level of fiscal deficit below 4.5% of GDP by 2025-26. There is a steady decline in this period, “Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said while presenting the budget 2021-22 last month.

    The government raises funds from the market to fund its fiscal deficit through dated securities and treasury bills.

    In the budget, the fiscal deficit has come down to 6.8% in the next fiscal from 9.5% of GDP in the current financial year.

    He said, “In RE 2020-21 the fiscal deficit is pegged at 9.5% of GDP. We have funded it through government borrowing, multilateral lending, small savings funds and short-term lending.”

    Mr. Bajaj said that the fiscal deficit for the current financial year would be around the revised estimate announced in the budget.

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  • Hindu Description | Why are the central and Mizoram governments different on the issue of Myanmar refugees?

    Hindu Description | Why are the central and Mizoram governments different on the issue of Myanmar refugees?

    Why is the direction of the Center regarding the stand of the Central Government on the influx of the State Government?

    the story So Far: With the military coup in Myanmar on 1 February, Mizoram is caught between a humanitarian urge and India’s policy on refugees. At least 1,000 people from the nearby Chin state of Myanmar are said to have crossed Mizoram for fear of military escalation. The Mizoram government favors asylum to Chin, who belongs to the majority of Mizos in the state, but the Ministry of Home Affairs has made it clear that “India is not concerned with the status of refugees at the 1951 United Nations Convention.” And the 1967 Protocol Theron ”.

    When did the arrival of refugees begin?

    A month after the military coup, heat was felt in Mizoram when three policemen crossed the village of Lungkavalh in Serchhip district. Within weeks, the number increased to around 400. According to the State Home Department, most of the asylum seekers were from the Myanmar Police and Fire Services Department. He had to flee after joining the civil resistance movement.

    Read this also. Mizoram MP said, Myanmar cannot be deported

    The citizens of Myanmar came from Hanthiyal, Champai, Satual and Serchhip districts. Most of the refugees reached across the Tiyu River, which is in most of Mizoram’s 510-kilometer border with Myanmar.

    Is this the first time?

    Extremism, anti-terrorism and communal violence drove the people of Myanmar out of India in the past as well. In 2017, more than 1,200 Buddhists and Christians from the Arakan state of Myanmar took refuge in the Longtalai district of Mizoram in 2017. They fled their homes after the Myanmar army collided with the extremist Arakan army. The refugees stayed back for over a year. Thousands of Chin are said to have been living in Mizoram for more than 40 years.

    There are other examples, though not on this scale. Manipur, too, has been dealing with the issue of income, albeit on a smaller scale, for a long time. The villages of Kuki-zomi were often inhabited by people from Myanmar.

    Read this also. India cannot turn a blind eye to the crisis in Myanmar: Zoramthanga

    How much is the border?

    Unlike India’s border with Pakistan and Bangladesh, most of the border with Myanmar is without any fence. The personnel of the Assam Rifles guard the border but a difficult terrain gets in the way of maintaining airtight violations.

    There have been calls for fencing on the border. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP, Arunachal Pradesh MP Tapir Gao said that fencing the border would help in checking the movement of extremist groups from and to Myanmar.

    Read this also. After Mizoram, Manipur provides help to Myanmar refugees

    Some people are against the idea that a fence will make “free movement” of border residents difficult in each other’s country. Was in both countries 2018 agreed to streamline the movement of people within 16 km on both sides of the border. There are more than 250 villages within 10 km of the Indo-Myanmar border with about 300,000 people.

    Where do the Center and Mizoram stand now?

    As a humanitarian gesture, the Mizoram government on 26 February issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to the Deputy Commissioners of the border districts to facilitate the entry of refugees and migrants. The SOP said that all Myanmar nationals entering Mizoram would be properly identified in connection with political developments in the country.

    Read this also. Stop illegal floods from Myanmar, Center tells northeastern states

    The government said that those who pose a threat to their lives should be treated as refugees, given medical care, relief and rehabilitation and protection. But the SOP was repealed on 6 March after the Center made the state aware of its displeasure with the development. On 10 March, the North East Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs issued a letter to the principal secretaries of Mizoram, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and the Director General of Assam Rifles, directing them not to allow refugees from Myanmar and to take appropriate action. Gave instructions. Law. The ministry stated that state governments have no powers to “grant refugee status to a foreigner”.

    Mizoram is not happy about this. “They are like family … We share ethnic ties with them,” of Mizoram. Rajya Sabha member from Vanlalvena said. “We do not want the Indian government to grant them full-time citizenship or employment. The only thing we ask is that these refugees be allowed to stay until their country returns to normal. ”

  • The government’s market in the first half of the financial year is ₹ 7.24 lakh crore.

    Rotary club will assist in the government’s vaccination campaign

    RCM will donate two 14-foot refrigerated vaccine trucks, two eight-foot refrigerated vaccine trucks, 10 ice-lined refrigerators, 10 deep freezers and 1,000 vaccine carriers.

    The Rotary Club of Madras (RCM) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Health to support and strengthen the government’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

    The agreement was signed on 17 March by club president Kapil Chitle and Health Secretary J. It was signed by Radhakrishnan. The MoU entrusted RCM as the Nodal Rotary Club to assist Rotary India with the government’s immunization drive through its affiliation (sister), the charitable trust, Saathi Rotary. Clubs and partnering corporates, a press release said.

    RCM will donate two 14-foot refrigerated vaccine trucks, two eight-foot refrigerated vaccine trucks, 10 ice-lined refrigerators, 10 deep freezers and 1,000 vaccine carriers.

    The Secretary of Health agreed to consider government-approved hospitals and medical centers to operate hospitals and medical centers operated by Rotary clubs and Rotarians, asking to increase Rotary’s participation in the vaccination campaign.

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  • Delhi government’s decision to make LG’s node for all

    Delhi government’s decision to make LG’s node for all

    The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha where it proposed that “Government” in the National Capital Territory of Delhi means the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. The Bill also gives discretionary powers to LG of Delhi in cases where the Legislative Assembly of Delhi has the right to make laws.

    The proposed legislation also seeks to ensure that LG is “given an opportunity to give her opinion as necessary” before implementing any decision taken by the Council of Ministers (or the Delhi Cabinet).

    Delhi is a Union Territory and came into existence in 1991 under Article 239AA of the Constitution (Sixty-seventh Constitution Amendment) Act, 1991. As per the existing Act, the Legislative Assembly of Delhi has power. Make laws in all matters except public order, police and land.

    The Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi government has on several occasions challenged the BJP-ruled central government regarding administrative matters in the capital.

    The National Capital Territory of Delhi Government (Amendment) Bill, 2021 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday by Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kishan Reddy.

    The Bill proposes to amend sections 21, 24, 33 and 44 of the 1991 Act.

    For structural clarity

    The MHA statement on “Objects and Causes” of the Bill stated that section 44 of the 1991 Act relates to the conduct of business and there is no structural mechanism for effective time bound implementation of the said section.

    “Further, there is no clarity as to whether the proposal or matters need to be presented to the lieutenant governor before issuing the order,” the MHA statement said.

    Section 44 of the 1991 Act states that all executive actions of LG, whether done on the advice of its ministers or otherwise, will be expressed to be taken in LG’s name.

    Opinion supreme

    It is now proposed to include the following clause in the Act: “Provided that before taking any executive action in pursuance of the decision of the Council of Ministers or Minister to exercise the powers of the Government, the State Government, the appropriate Government, the Lieutenant Governor, the Administrator or the Chief. The Commissioner may, as the case may be, under any law in the capital, by clause (4) of Article 239AA of the Constitution, in the opinion of the Lieutenant Governor, receive on all such matters, by a general or special order, specify By the Lt. Governor “

    Article 239AA of the Constitution states that the Council of Ministers will assist and advise the LG in matters where the Legislative Assembly has the power to make laws, where the LG can exercise discretion.

    The MHA statement said that the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in the judgment dated July 4, 2018 and a Division Bench of the Supreme Court on February 14, 2019, have interpreted the provisions of Article 239AA of the Constitution relating to the structure of governance in the NCT. Of Delhi.

    The MHA said that in order to give effect to the interpretation made by the apex court, the Bill seeks to amend section 21 of the Act and clarify the expression of “Government”, with reference to the legislations to be passed by the Legislative Assembly is. Delhi shall mean the LG of the NCT of Delhi “to address ambiguities in the interpretation of legislative provisions consistent with the position of Delhi as a Union Territory.”

    “It further seeks to ensure that LG is necessarily given the opportunity to exercise the power entrusted to it under clause (4) of Article 239AA of the Constitution, to make rules in select cases and in cases which would be in violation On matters falling outside the preview of the Legislative Assembly. It seeks to provide for the rules made by the Legislative Assembly of Delhi to conform to the rules of the house of the people, “said the MHA.

    It added that the Bill would promote harmonious relations between the legislature and the executive and carry forward the responsibilities of the elected government and the LG in line with Delhi’s Constitutional Plan of Governance as interpreted by the Supreme Court.

    According to the MHA notification of May 21 and July 23, 2015 of the 2019 decision by the SC as “legal”, LG authorized the exercise of powers in relation to the services and directed the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) Police That they should not take cognizance of the crimes against the Central. government officer.

    The Bill seeks to amend section 33 of the Act, which empowers the Delhi Legislative Assembly to do its business with the rule that it may enforce the rule with the rules of procedure and conduct of business in the House of People Will not be inconsistent.

    The amendment states that “the Legislative Assembly shall not make any rules to enable itself or its committees to consider matters of day-to-day administration of the capital or to inquire in relation to administrative decisions” and made before commencement. Gone are any such rules. The act will be void.

    The amendment to section 24 states that LG will not accept any bill passed by the Delhi Legislative Assembly that “covers any matter which is outside the purview of the powers conferred on the Legislative Assembly.”

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