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Amber BernardAPTN NewsCamp Cloud is still up and running in Burnaby, B.C. despite an eviction notice from the city that threatened to pull down their Trans Mountain pipeline expansion protest site.The camp sits across from Kinder Morgan’s Burnaby Terminal.The deadline for following the eviction order came and went Saturday morning without incident.On Monday, water protectors will sit down with the city’s manager to try and find common ground – and keep the camp in place.abernard@aptn.ca@abernardnews
Kolkata: The results of Madhyamik Examination conducted by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education will be declared on May 21. Board president Kalyanmoy Ganguly will announce the results through a press conference at 9 am and it will be available in websites from 10 am. The merit list of the top 10 rankers will also be released. Students will be able to collect their marksheets and certificates on the same day. “We will inform the list of websites where the results will be made available later on,” said Kalyanmoy Ganguly, president of the WBBSE. Meanwhile, results of Higher Secondary (HS) examination conducted by the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education is likely to be announced on June 2. More than 8 lakh candidates had appeared for the HS exam this year. The exams started on February 26 and concluded on March 13.
A while ago Rovio announced there would be a sequel to the Angry Birds series, this time from the pigs point of view. It’s called Bad Piggies and instead of simply aiming and flinging things at buildings, you build the pigs different contraptions to try and steal the bird’s eggs.Building cars and flying machines is made easy with a simple drag and drop system, so even though the game requires more tactics than Angry Birds, it’s not hugely complicated. It allows you to be much more creative too, as there’s millions of different ways to build your vehicle. Just don’t break your machine or it’s game over for the piggies, although seeing them break up into several pieces is great fun.Bad Piggies is designed to be completely separate from Angry Birds, but Rovio hopes it will be just as successful. Angry Birds has been downloaded over a billion times since it first launched and has generated more than $100 million. With the console versions coming out soon, that figure is set to increase significantly.It’s easy to see why Angry Birds was so successful, it looked good, was full of humor, and most importantly the gameplay was simple. Playing as the pigs certainly contains a lot more creativity, but because it’s so involving that might put people off as it’s not as easy to pick up and play. However, with the drag and drop build system it seems easy enough and Rovio is great at marketing their games well to the masses.Bad Piggies launches on September 27 for iOS, Android, PC, and Mac.via Yahoo! Games
By Ruaidhrí Giblin Tweet thisShare on FacebookEmail this article 31,564 Views A DRUNK DRIVER jailed for the death of a four-year-old boy has had 18 months cut from his jail term following an appeal.Finbarr O’Rourke (41), of Laurel Drive, Portlaoise, Co Laois, had pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of Ciarán Treacy (4) at Ballymorris, Portarlington on 17 April, 2014. Ciarán’s mother Gillian was also severely injured as a result of the incident.Judge Keenan Johnson sentenced O’Rourke to seven-and-a-half years imprisonment at Portlaoise Circuit Criminal Court on 3 November, 2015.The Court of Appeal resentenced O’Rourke to eight years imprisonment with the final two suspended today following an appeal.Slouched over the steering wheelGiving judgment in the three-judge court, Justice Alan Mahon said Gillian Treacy was driving her car on the R419 between Portlaoise and her home in Portarlington, Co Laois, on the afternoon in question.At Ballymaurice she was confronted with a Toyota Avensis crossing the road and colliding head on with her vehicle.That car was being driven by O’Rourke, who was observed slouched over his steering wheel by Treacy shortly before impact.The woman received very serious personal injuries, and despite the best efforts of emergency services, her young son Ciarán, aged four, died that evening at Portlaoise Hospital.“Her seven year old son Seán, thankfully, escaped physically unscathed,” Justice Mahon said.Eight pints of ciderForensics suggested that there was no braking on the part of O’Rourke’s vehicle and that it was being driven at 86km/hr in an 80km/hr zone.After the collision, Treacy recalled O’Rourke approaching her vehicle. However, he walked away and was met on the road by gardaí in a distressed state and was arrested.He untruthfully told gardaí that he had consumed two glasses of wine.On being informed that the young boy, Ciarán had died, he smashed his head through a glass window in the garda station.O’Rourke had drunk between eight to ten pints of cider over a few hours that afternoon with a Mr Smith. While he was walking away from the scene, he telephoned Smith a number of times and told him there had been an accident and that he believed someone had died.He also asked Smith to come and collect him, the judge said.In her victim impact statement, Gillian Treacy detailed her own “life threatening and life long” injuries, including four serious fractures, severe lacerations, and her five week stay in hospital including ten surgical procedures.“The statement also speaks in the most moving terms of the extent of the family’s terrible loss of their adored young son, Ciarán, and how it has changed their lives forever,” the judgment stated.The statement also outlined the severe financial consequences visited on the family in the aftermath of the accident.‘Pre-meditated’ O’Rourke’s barrister, Conor Devally SC, submitted that the sentencing tariff of nine years was too high and not enough credit was given for due mitigation.Justice Mahon said it was suggested on O’Rourke’s behalf that the offence was not pre-meditated. Monday 24 Oct 2016, 11:52 AM 77 Comments https://jrnl.ie/3043442 Image: William Murphy
Oct 24th 2016, 11:52 AM Image: William Murphy But while the appellant (O’Rourke) may not have planned to drive with alcohol on board for any great length of time before doing so there was pre-meditation in the sense that, having consumed a great deal of alcohol, he made the conscious decision to leave the public house, walk to his car and then drive for some time before the collision occurred.“It was not something he did on the spur of the moment or without thinking.”“The act of driving with a lot of drink consumed was very much a calculated act on his part, and a risk he freely took.”Justice Mahon said the fact he walked away from the scene in circumstances where he was aware that somebody had probably died and “in circumstances where he must have been aware that Gillian Treacy was severely injured” were aggravating factors.While he was less than truthful with the gardaí, it is “nevertheless in his favour” that he co-operated with them thereafter pleading guilty at a relatively early state. He had also shown remorse which the court accepted as genuine.Although almost insignificant in comparison to the devastating and life long trauma visited on the victims in this accident, the appelant (O’Rourke) will himself have to live with the awful guilt which undoubtedly he feels for the rest of his lifetime.Justice Mahon said the maximum sentence for dangerous driving causing death was 10 years imprisonment.“Interestingly, by contrast, in the UK, it is fourteen years,” Justice Mahon noted.He said it was desirable and appropriate that there be a degree of consistency in sentencing for particular offences.He said the Court of Appeal’s efforts to establish consistency in sentencing for what might be described as broadly similar offending may appear clinical or “even callous” to the victims of “such a terrible event, as this was, but” it was necessary to achieve as much consistency as was reasonably possible.‘Anger, grief, revulsion’The Court of Appeal was satisfied that there was an error in principle by the Circuit Court judge in placing the headline sentence at nine years, primarily because of the absence of prolonged period of dangerous driving or excessive speed.Justice Mahon, who sat with Justice George Birmingham and Justice Garrett Sheehan resentenced O’Rourke to eight years imprisonment with the final two suspended.The period of suspension was primarily intended as a recognition of O’Rourke’s “genuine remorse”, plea of guilty and to incentivise rehabilitation.The court also re-imposed the disqualification period for twenty years.His head hung low, O’Rourke made no reaction when the judgment was delivered.In a statement read outside court, John Browne, on behalf of the Treacy family said “words cannot express their anger, their grief or their revulsion towards the drunk driver who robbed Gillian and Ronan of their beloved son” and their children “of the brother they deserved but now will never have”.“The family want to acknowledge the court’s decision today, which they hope will act as a warning and a deterrent to others.”“The family are disappointed, but respect and acknowledge the court’s judgment”. Share79 Tweet Email5 ‘Words cannot express the family’s anger’: Drunk driver who killed boy (4) has sentence cut He had 18 months cut from his jail term. Short URL
Short URL By Gráinne Ní Aodha Share83 Tweet Email1 ART INSTALLATIONS CAN really divide public opinion – especially if they’re a giant metal spike.A Cork-based radio station were getting quite a few calls about what was described as a ‘big silver thing pointing into the sky in the Town Park in Fermoy’ – something resembling the Spire in Dublin. Source: Pat Quinlan, Fermoy PhotographerSo C103’s Cork Today show contacted councillor Noel McCarthy to solve the mystery.“It’s a sculpture of a rowing boat on its side,” McCarthy explained to presenter Patricia Messinger. “[The sculpture] was commissioned after being put out to tender two years ago – [something that would] reflect the river of Fermoy.”He said that it was commissioned as part of the Office of Public Works to commend the flood relief work that had been done in the town – and was promised to be built after the winter period.‘Why did we spend this money?’McCarthy acknowledged that others had ideas about what the money could be spent on, but said that the funds had been allocated for an art installation.The councillor said that he has been inundated with calls, with people asking ‘what it is’ and ‘why did we spend this money’ and suggesting that the money used could have been used to enhance other local areas or to tackle the homeless crisis.“People must understand, it wasn’t a council project,” he stresses. “We could make our views known, but we had to keep it to the conditions associated with that.”Read: Michael Flatley ‘set to perform’ at Trump inaugurationRead: Stella Cinema set to reopen its doors after 12 years 40,002 Views 41 Comments Tweet thisShare on FacebookEmail this article Jan 19th 2017, 10:48 PM This metallic spike in the ground is causing a stir in north Cork A local councillor said he had been inundated with calls asking about the sculpture. Thursday 19 Jan 2017, 10:48 PM http://jrnl.ie/3195488 
Facebook Twitter: @NeosKosmos Instagram Greece is behind in the implementation of 153 actions demanded by its lenders, according to a timetable compiled by the Finance Ministry.Of the outstanding actions, 57 are the responsibility of the Finance Ministry, 17 fall to the Development Ministry, another 17 to the Labor Ministry and eight to the Administrative Reform Ministry. The rest are divided among other ministries.Among the Finance Ministry’s key tasks is to scrap third-party levies. It has sent a proposal on this to the troika and is waiting for a response. For the Development Ministry, one of the main goals is to implement the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) proposals for removing barriers to competition, also known as the tool-kit. The Administrative Reform Ministry still has 12,500 civil servants to place in a mobility scheme. More than 7,000 of these will come from positions being scrapped at healthcare provider EOPYY. For the Labor Ministry, reducing social security contributions and changing regulations on mass dismissals are among the outstanding items.A number of the actions have yet to be completed as the government remains in discussions with the troika about the measures. Inspectors are expected to return to Athens later this month but a date has not yet been fixed.Greece has proposed adopting about 80 percent of the OECD’s competition-enhancing proposals and is waiting for a response from its lenders. The OECD has identified 555 regulatory restrictions which it says undermine competition and cost just over 5 billion euros. It made 329 recommendations on legal provisions that should be amended or repealed.OECD official Anna Thiemann, who was the project manager for the organization’s competition assessment review in Greece, told Sunday’s Kathimerini that Greeks would be able to see the positive effect of the interventions within five years.She rejected claims that the sale of over-the-counter medicines in supermarkets would threaten the role of pharmacies, saying they would still have a “vital role” to play in selling prescription medicines and providing customers with medical advice. Thiemann admitted, though, that extending the shelf life of fresh milk from the current five days would result in some small farms having to pool resources or being bought out by competitors.“In a competitive market there are winners and losers,” she said. “This is natural and positive. Efficiency will only improve if you let the inefficient companies fail. Greece needs its industry to become efficient and competitive.”Source: Kathimerini
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France are favourites to win the 2018 World Cup tournament, Manchester United head coach Jose Mourinho said on Saturday.He also added that their opponents Croatia has only chances to beat The Blues.“France are the favourites. But as it’s usually said, there are no favourites and outsiders at the World Cup. In the final one needs to play, not to win. One should go [onto the pitch] with this kind of mood. I’m sure that Croatia will have this kind of mood,” Mourinho said as quoted by the RT television channel via FourFourTwo.He praised Croatia’s lineup, saying that they were a “fantastic generation.”
Jose Mourinho is sold on Lampard succeeding at Chelsea Tomás Pavel Ibarra Meda – September 14, 2019 Jose Mourinho wanted to give his two cents on Frank Lampard’s odds as the new Chelsea FC manager, he thinks he will succeed.There really…“There’s a fantastic generation in Croatia now – [midfielder and captain] Luka Modric, [striker] Mario Mandzukic, [midfielder] Ivan Perisic. They have every chance to win. If the game drags on, Croatia will have fewer chances. But their combative spirit may help them win,” Mourinho added.The 2018 FIFA World Cup kicked off on 14 June and will come to a close on Sunday, with France facing Croatia in the final, which will be played at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium.
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EXCLUSIVE: A third (33%) of respondents believe that flexible working is the main method to improve wellbeing during the winter months, according to research by group risk provider Canada Life Group Insurance.Its survey of 1,002 employees also found that 22% find their workplace environment more stressful during the winter; this increases to 35% for those aged under 30. Furthermore, 16% state that their workplace makes it difficult to maintain good mental health, and for those under 30, this figure rises to 29%.Paul Avis (pictured), marketing director at Canada Life Group Insurance, said: “Getting up in the dark, going home in the dark, a longer commute and the bad weather all play a part in reducing people’s feel-good factor. At this particular time of year, organisations need to be ever more diligent when considering employee welfare, especially for younger [staff].”Around a fifth (20%) of respondents under the age of 30 state that access to an employee assistance programme (EAP) would help improve their wellbeing during the winter months.During winter, 26% of employees overall take annual leave for a week or more, compared to 17% who request part-time working from home or 20% who ask for flexible working hours. A further 18% opt to call in sick.For the under-30s, however, 46% would take annual leave for a week or more during the winter, 35% would want to work part-time from home, 32% would request flexible working hours and 28% would take a sick day.Avis added: “The heightened levels of stress and depression experienced during the winter months will not disappear with the first flush of spring. The knock-on effect it could have [on] employee wellbeing throughout the rest of the year is likely to be highly detrimental.“No one should suffer in silence in the workplace. Employers must take responsibility for employee wellbeing and create an open atmosphere which encourages engagement and emphasises the importance of staff wellbeing.“Employee assistance programmes, provided alongside most group income protection products, can help communicate this message and provide practical support to those with longstanding or particularly acute problems.”
OT joins the Globe’s growing roster of niche publications to be rolled out in the past two years, including Lola, a monthly magazine targeted at young women; FB, a monthly with a name that stands for “Fashion Boston”; and Design New England, a bimonthly magazine about home and garden design. The Boston Globe has launched OT, a new sports weekly. OT, which stands for “Our Town/Our Teams,” will provide coverage of professional sports teams beyond what’s covered in the paper.”It reads more like a Sports Illustrated than a daily newspaper,” according to Jay Fogarty, vice president of strategic planning for Boston Globe Media.The 24-page oversize tabloid will appear in full color on bright newsprint, to be published weekly on Thursdays. The sports weekly will feature articles, columns and analysis by the paper’s columnists and bloggers as well as previews of upcoming games involving the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Bruins—the city’s four major sports teams.The initial press run of OT is 20,000 copies at a newsstand cost of 50 cents. It is set to be sold at 420 locations from Southern New Hampshire to Southern Rhode Island, including Stop & Shop stores and standalone news racks.
If the critical areas ordinance passes on June 27th, it would change development rules for South Kramer Avenue. An outside firm mapped the area for landslide risk in the aftermath of the August 18, 2015 landslides. (Map from Shannon & Wilson South Kramer report)The state is currently mapping the potential risk for landslides in Sitka. This time next year, the Sitka Assembly will be presented with a community-wide map. Whether they adopt the maps or not, city staff wanted to be prepared for how the information could affect property development. They presented their critical areas ordinance (Ord 2017-14) to the Sitka Assembly on June 13.Listen nowThis is a policy rooted in tragedy.“We all remember August 18th, 2015. Over 65 landslides hit Baranof Island that day,” Sitka Community Affairs Director Maegan Bosak said at the start of her presentation. “We had extremely heavy rainfall in the morning and a shift of wind patterns that left our community reeling over the tragic loss of life and damage to property.”Future development in Sitka is now a fraught enterprise, particularly in the South Kramer and Gary Paxton Industrial Park areas. Bosak said this leaves the city in a tough position and in writing the critical areas ordinance, staff looked to other places with hazardous land.“We’ve compared other municipalities, specifically Juneau – they have both a hazard, landslide, and avalanche area – Seattle, and Snohomish County. We’ve included outside counsel in drafting and review. And really struggled with this ordinance all personally. It’s really the argument of what is the role of government. Where do we step in? And what is that demand for public safety or the need to develop?” Bosak said.Right now, the city cannot issue permits in landslide areas unless the homeowner pays for a geotechnical evaluation and any necessary mitigation. Under this new critical areas ordinance (Ord 2017-14), the homeowner can waive that requirement.That person would sign a covenant with the city that would be tied to the deed of the land, “stating that essentially that they know and accept the risks and are protecting the municipality from financial liability,” Bosak explained.Subdivisions and high occupancy buildings would not qualify for this waiver option. Future homeowners could cancel that covenant at any time.The Assembly had mixed opinions on how this, with some wondering how designating land as “risky” could change its value, development, and financing. Would a bank be reluctant to loan money for a house on the Benchlands?Planning Director Michael Scarcelli said that is beyond the city’s control and the market for supplemental insurance is growing. Homes in Juneau have been able to access “difference in conditions” insurance, or DIC, that is designed to cover catastrophes the broader insurance market won’t touch.Scarcelli pointed out that an ordinance like this may be inevitable, as the federal government pushes for GIS mapping. FEMA recently published drafts of a multi-hazard map for Sitka, which the Assembly will review next year.“Those private [insurance] markets – whether the Sitka Assembly would adopt those [flood] maps – might use those for those risk actuary analysis,” Scarcelli said. Some on the Assembly were ill at ease with continued hazard mapping in Sitka, with Steven Eisenbeisz worrying about homeowners who suddenly find themselves in a high risk area. As for the critical areas ordinance, he said, “it scares me.”“It seems like the city is just trying to wash its hands of any responsibility here. We’re just trying to step back and say, ‘Yeah no, let’s not be a part of this.’ But there’s still something in here that’s unsettling to me,” Eisenbeisz said.Kevin Knox reasoned that landowners have their hands tied as is, under current rules, and saw the ordinance as a move in the right direction. “There are landowners right now that are hamstrung. They can’t do anything,” Knox said.Mayor Matthew Hunter went so far as to say that this ordinance gives rights back to property owners. “If I owned a lot that was in a risky area and I wanted to use it, I’d say, ‘I own this property but why can’t I use it? I’ll sign a waiver that says I recognize this is dangerous, but just let me do what I want to do.’”That may come to pass if the Assembly gives the critical areas ordinance final approval at their next meeting on June 27th. They passed the ordinance on first reading Tuesday night 5-2, with Eisenbeisz and Aaron Bean voting no.
The president and chief executive officer of Industrial Bank, the oldest Black-owned bank in the District of Columbia, is urging Blacks to keep their dollars in the community by supporting Black businesses.B. Doyle Mitchell Jr., president and chief executive officer of Industrial Bank. (Photo Courtesy/industrial-bank.com)“We have to do business with all of our businesses,” B. Doyle Mitchell Jr. said Nov. 1 at a town hall meeting held at Union Temple Baptist Church in Southeast D.C. “And I can tell you that — I’m almost certain about it — there is nothing we can’t do to fix our situation but put money back in our community.”Industrial Bank, which operates five branches in the District and two in Prince George’s County, practices what it preaches.The bank now buys its paper from Freedom Paper Company, a Black-owned manufacturer and distributor of paper products headquartered in Baltimore — founder and chief executive officer Kamose Muhammad confirmed to the AFRO that the bank is one of his clients.Industrial Bank previously sourced its paper products through Office Depot, but severed those ties several years ago to work with Freedom Paper Company, said Jacqueline Boles, the bank’s director of retail and operations.The bank was also buying its bottled water from Blue Delta Water, a Black-owned company in Upper Marlboro, Md., before the company went out of business in 2013.Most importantly though, Industrial Bank reinvests 60 percent of its assets back into the community it serves, Boles said.The bank also offers related community outreach initiatives including holding free financial literacy seminars and other sessions that focus on home ownership, retirement and the importance of saving.The bank is also working with 14-to-17 year olds incarcerated in Baltimore and will soon do the same thing for youth serving time in the District, Boles said.“By your deposits and by your loans and by your complete relationship, you empower us to affect the livelihoods of our families and our communities,” Boles said. “It is so critical that we follow what Mr. Mitchell and what so many others have said to us: seek out those opportunities to support each other because it will affect those children that we see incarcerated in jail. It’ll reduce those numbers. It will affect employment. It will affect how our Black men see each other. It will affect how our Black women see each other.”The town hall meeting focused on Black banks’ role in the Black community.While African Americans comprise 13.2 percent of the United States’ population, less than half of one percent of U.S. banks are Black-owned, according to the Federal Reserve.In 2017, there are about 20 banks with a majority Black ownership in the U.S., a steep decline from when there were 41 in 2007, a year before the recession hit.It appears Industrial is the only Black-owned bank left in the D.C.Jesse H. Mitchell — Mitchell’s grandfather — founded Industrial Bank in 1934 during the Great Depression. B. Doyle Mitchell Jr. succeeded his namesake father as bank president in 1993.As of 2015, the bank had more than $300 million in deposits and was one of the 10 largest Black-owned banks nationwide, according to the bank’s annual report from the same year.Black borrowers continue to face obstacles securing home loans from big banks and when they do get them, they’re typically paying higher interest rates, according to the Pew Research Center.In 2015, 27.4 percent of Black applicants were denied mortgages, while roughly 11 percent of White and Asian applicants experienced the same fate.In 2014, just 5.3 percent of all approved mortgage applications from the 10 largest retail banks in the U.S. were Black, down from 7.8 percent in 2007, before the financial crisis, The Wall Street Journal reported.“We were formed to serve originally a Black population that was being underserved, that they didn’t want to lend to anyway,” Mitchell said, noting that Black buying power is expected to reach $1.3 trillion by the end of the year. “Don’t tell me we don’t have any money.”
With a phenomenal Game of Thrones season now over, Microsoft has decided to celebrate the occasion by releasing a limited edition Game of Thrones-themed Xbox One. The only drawback here is that it’s only available to contest winners in France.This console is designed to resemble the Game of Thrones logo seen at the end of the show’s intro; the three metal rings that spin around the logo are placed at the top of the console. They don’t animate the way they do on the show, but the gaming world hasn’t exactly ventured into animated-console territory as of yet. The console is covered in the sort of metal texture from the intro, though it’s hard to tell from the video if it’s as metallic as it appears here. It also comes with a controller that’s stylized with the same Game of Thrones theme.If you recall, Microsoft ran a similar contest a while back for an Xbox One that was shaped to resemble Tony Stark’s chest piece. That one was released to promote the then upcoming Captain America: Civil War. As cool as the Starkbox One was, it’s a simpler design compared with the Game of Thrones system. Like with the previous contest, only three of these consoles will be given away. One each on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to call an all-party meeting on holding future elections through state funding, saying it was one of the most urgently required electoral reforms in the country. Noting that state funding of elections is currently the norm in 65 highly developed countries like Germany, Italy, France and Japan, Banerjee said it is also required in India to make the elections “free, fair and transparent”. Also Read – Rs 13,000 crore investment to provide 2 lakh jobs: Mamata “The issue is broadly of electoral reforms and especially to prevent corruption and criminality in our democratic polity. The time has come for Government funding of elections which is the norm today in 65 countries in the world,” Banerjee wrote in her letter. “Given the examples across the world on Direct Public Funding of political parties and given that India has gained notoriety of having spent the largest amount of funds in the world in elections 2019… I urge you to call an all party meeting with a single agenda of Government funding of elections in India,” she wrote. Also Read – Lightning kills 8, injures 16 in state Citing a report published by the Centre for Media Studies (CMS) on poll expenditure, Banerjee said the expenditure on the 2019 general elections had been roughly around Rs 60,000 crore ($8.65 billion) which is more than the combined expenditure on the US Presidential and Congressional elections ($6.5 billion). She noted that corruption cannot be checked if the spiralling of election expenditure is not controlled. “The political parties spend lavishly on publicity and logistics and are said to have even distributed cash for votes. The Election Commission of India has imposed strict limitations on expenditure incurred by the candidates in their election campaigns but not on political parties,” Banerjee said. “Mother of all corruption lies in the spiralling of election expenditure. If we are not able to address this we can’t check corruption,” she added.
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