Day: January 15, 2017

Yedioth editor: We would have walked if publisher made deal with PM

Editor-in-Chief of Israeli newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, Ron Yaron, speaks at the opening of a conference at the Jerusalem Convention Center, March 28, 2016. Amid a growing scandal surrounding recordings that appear to show Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes negotiating a series of firings and reforms to push coverage more friendly to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the editor of the popular daily said his staff would have quit en masse had the plan gone through.

Boxing rabbi Foreman loses title fight in KO

Erislandy Lara knocked out Israeli boxer Yuri Foreman with a crushing left uppercut in the fourth round on Friday to retain his World Boxing Association super welterweight world title. Cuban southpaw Lara made good on his vow to make a statement against former champ Foreman, even though the knockdown he was credited with in round three looked more like a slip by the challenger.

Britain may change ‘economic model’ if shut out of EU single market: Hammond

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Foreign Minister Philip Hammond and Foreign Ministry Political Director Tim Barrow arrive with fellow G7 foreign ministers for a working session, the fourth session of the their meetings in Hiroshima, Japan April 11, 2016. Britain could change its economic model to regain competitiveness if it were to leave the European Union without an agreement on market access, British finance minister Phillip Hammond said in a German newspaper interview published on Sunday.

‘No change is not an option’: What next for the NHS in Hampshire?

Health chiefs told a meeting that the NHS must alter the way it cares for people at a time of spiralling demand and flatlining funding. It would centralise the service for the most critically-ill 15 per cent of patients and replace the duplication of services at the North Hampshire Hospital in Basingstoke and the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester.

Telangana Deputy CM Mohammed Mahmood Ali requests Centre for increasing Haj subsidy budget17 min ago

Hyderabad, Jan 15 : Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali has requested the Centre to increase the budget of subsidy provided to Muslims for their Haj pilgrimage, from Rs 690 crore to Rs 1,000 crore. In a letter addressed to Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Mahmood Ali said the pilgrims who avail this opportunity are very poor Muslims and it is felt necessary that the facility of extending subsidy for this noble cause should continue.

Have more than two kids? Delhi school says no admission1 hour ago

New Delhi, Jan 15 : In a quirky move, a prominent Delhi school has barred parents having more than two kids from seeking admission for their wards, saying it wants to motivate people to have less children. Salwan School in West Delhi’s Rajendra Nagar has mentioned this condition in the registration forms issued by its two branches- Salwan Montessori and GD Salwan.

Ranveer Singh is Deepika Padukone’s boyfriend, officially confirmed…

Bollywood actors Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh are a hot item for a long time but without any official confirmation over their relationship. But the actress’ debut Hollywood film XXX: Return of Xander Cage co-star and global superstar Vin Diesel confirmed Ranveer Singh to be Deepika Padukone’s BOYFRIEND! Diesel in an interview with film critic Anupama Chopra referred Ranveer as Deepika’s boyfriend as the 31-year-old Indian beauty smiled sitting beside him.

Arun Jaitley looks to break deadlock at GST meeting tomorrow27 min ago

New Delhi, Jan 15: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will tomorrow look to break the deadlock over distribution of powers between centre and states to administer GST, an issue that is holding up launch of the new national sales tax from April. The all-powerful GST Council, headed by Jaitley, will meet for the ninth time tomorrow with the issue of who gets to administer the Goods and Services Tax being the single biggest issue on agenda.

Palestinian embassy opens in Vatican City

“We are very grateful about the role that the Holy See has played for a just and lasting peace in the Holy Land, and for having opened an embassy of Palestine in the Vatican for first time,” Abbas said, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA. “We are proud to be the birthplace of Christianity and about having one of the oldest Christian communities in the world.”

World diplomats in Paris to urge renewed Mideast peace talks

The French organizers hope Sunday’s conference will send a strong message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump that much of the world wants a two-state solution to the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Netanyahu says the conference is “rigged” against Israel, and the incoming Trump administration isn’t taking part.