Russia's RIA Novosti news agency also reported that there were no casualties following Friday's incident, while the fire had been put out.
A drone attack on the Ilsky oil refinery in southern Russia, the second in as many days, has caused a fire, TASS news agency reported on Friday, citing emergency services.
Russia's RIA Novosti news agency also reported that there were no casualties following Friday's incident, while the fire had been put out.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the incident. Ukrainian officials do not usually claim responsibility for such attacks inside Russia's territory, although they sometimes celebrate them using euphemistic language.
A source at refinery told Reuters that an aerial cooler at the CDU-5 column, which has an annual capacity is 1.8 million tonnes, was hit. Another primary unit at the plant has capacity of 3.6 million tonnes per year.
That cooler could be replaced within a couple of weeks, though the impact is yet to be fully accessed, the source added.
The press service at the plant was not immediately available for comments.
Once again in
another placement feat, LPU’s Tanya Arora, a final year Computer Science
Engineering student, has secured a package of INR 42 Lakh at Microsoft. This is
one of the highest starting packages to be received in engineering for 2019.
The final year student has been offered the position of Software Engineer at
Microsoft India’s R&D Centre in Hyderabad.
While many students from LPU marked amazing
starts to their careers, Tanya Arora has become the highlight of 2019.
“I am excited to
get the opportunity to work at Microsoft. I did my summer internship at the
company and had a great experience. To now get selected as a member of the
Microsoft team is a dream come true. I have always had a deep interest in
technology and have worked hard to stay on top of emerging trends like AI and
Machine Learning. I have benefitted immensely from my peers at LPU, several of
whom are equally technology savvy. I am also thankful to my alma mater, Lovely
Professional University that provided an invigorating and career-focused
learning environment and my teachers and mentors who helped me at every turn”,
said Tanya.
Ashwani Kumar
Tewari, Associate professor and Deputy Dean, School of Computer Application,
Lovely Professional University said, “We are proud of the kind of offer that
Tanya has received from Microsoft. At LPU, our focus is on industry-academia
immersion. The centres of excellence that we have, offer students plenty of
opportunities to work on real-time industry projects and apply what they learn
in the classroom. We hope to see more students following Tanya’s path in the
future”.
The School of
Computer Science and Engineering at LPU is without doubt one of the best
performing schools at the university, establishing a record for the highest
number of placements in North India in the last three years. With several alumni
working in Fortune 500 companies at promising compensation packages, the School
of Computer Science and Engineering exemplifies LPU’s vision of being a premier
academic institution that is recognised for its contributions to the industry
and society.
The BTech admissions for LPU take place through
university’s entrance test NEST (National Entrance & Scholarship Test). The
students would be able to appear for the exams in two phases, one in January
2020 and other in April 2020. This is the same pattern as that of the newly
introduced JEE pattern by the CBSE. Based on performance on the test, the
student can also get scholarships upto Rs. 5.4 Lakh per student.
BANGKOK: Thailand's King Maha
Vajiralongkorn has fired four more officials, two palace announcements
said on Tuesday (Oct 29), the latest shake up after the sacking of the king's royal consort last week.
In
one announcement, two palace officials, identified as bedroom guards,
were fired for "extremely evil misconduct" and "adultery", which it said
was a violation of a code of conduct for courtiers.
In another document, two military officers
were fired for being "lax" in their duty as palace guards and "behaving
unbecomingly of their ranks and titles".
The four were all stripped of their ranks and titles, the announcements said.
The four dismissals on Tuesday followed those of six palace officials
last week, who were accused of severe disciplinary misconduct that
caused harm to the royal service.
Since
taking the throne following the death of his revered father in 2016,
King Vajiralongkorn has proved to be an assertive constitutional
monarch, taking more direct control of royal affairs and the crown's
vast wealth, and transferring two military units from the army to his personal control.
Last week, the king also demoted Royal Consort Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi in an extraordinary announcement, just months after granting her the title.
She was accused of being "disloyal"
and conducting a rivalry with Queen Suthida Bajrasudhabimalalakshana,
who married King Vajiralongkorn in May just days before his coronation.
A two-year-old boy, who had fallen down a well in southern India on Friday, has been found dead.
Early on Tuesday officials in Tamil Nadu said Sujith Wilson's body had been retrieved in a decomposed state, following an 82-hour rescue operation lasting four days.
Sujith had fallen into the abandoned borewell while playing with friends.
He had initially been stuck at about 10m (30ft) but then fell further into the 180m-deep abandoned well.
Officials
said "special equipment" was used to retrieve the body from the well,
and a team of doctors "took around 45 minutes to confirm his death and
give a special report".
"We found his body to be highly decomposed," Tamil Nadu official J Radhakrishnan told reporters on Tuesday.
The body was sent to a government hospital for autopsy and then handed over to his parents, who buried him later in the morning.
A
borewell is a narrow shaft drilled into the ground to extract water.
Heavy machinery had been used to try to dig a second hole parallel to
the one the child fell into.
Efforts to rescue the boy involved German-made
drilling machines, firefighters, rescue workers and oxygen supplies but
they were slowed down by the rocky soil and rain.
India was
celebrating its Diwali holiday over the long weekend and the rescue
operation gathered widespread social media attention.
Prayers
were held in temples, mosques and churches across Tamil Nadu for his
safe return and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also tweeted his
concern for the toddler.
The main opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi voiced his condolences after news of the boy's death was announced.
An estimated 1.5 million more people
in California are set to lose power on Tuesday as a utility firm tries
to stop damaged cables triggering wildfires.
Pacific Gas &
Electric (PG&E) already faces an investigation by regulators after
cutting supplies to 970,000 homes and businesses.
It announced that another 650,000 properties would face precautionary shut-offs on Tuesday amid high winds.
Wildfires fanned by the strong winds are raging in two parts of the state.
Thousands
of residents near the wealthy Brentwood neighbourhood of Los Angeles
have been told to evacuate because of a wildfire that began early on
Monday.
Celebrities including the actor-turned-politician Arnold
Schwarzenegger and basketball star LeBron James are among those who have
fled the fast-moving Getty Fire, which started near the Getty Center
arts complex.
Further north in Sonoma County, a larger fire has forced 180,000 people from their homes.
California's governor has declared a state-wide emergency.
What about the power cuts?
On
Monday regulators announced a formal inquiry into whether energy
utilities broke rules by pre-emptively cutting power to an estimated 2.5
million people as wildfire risks soared.
They did not name any utilities but analysts said PG&E was responsible for the bulk of the "public safety power shut-offs".
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Those fighting the flames had been "overwhelmed", a fire chief said
The company filed for bankruptcy in January after facing hundreds of lawsuits from victims of wildfires in 2017 and 2018.
Of
the 970,000 properties hit by the most recent cuts, under half had
their services back by Monday, the Associated Press reported.
Despite
criticism that the precautionary blackouts were too widespread and too
disruptive, PG&E said more would come on Tuesday and Wednesday
because further strong winds were expected.
The company said it had logged more than 20 preliminary reports of damage to its network from the most recent windstorm.
In
a video posted to Twitter on Saturday, Governor Gavin Newsom said the
power cuts were "infuriating everyone, and rightfully so".
Where are the fires now?
In
Los Angeles, the Getty Fire has burned over 600 acres (242 ha) and
about 10,000 buildings are in the mandatory evacuation zone.
At least eight homes have been destroyed and five others damaged.
"If you are in an evacuation zone, don't screw around," Mr Schwarzenegger tweeted. "Get out."
LA fire chief Ralph Terrazas said fire crews had been "overwhelmed" by the scale of the fires.
"They had to make some tough decisions on which houses they were able to protect," he said.
"Many
times it depends on where the ember lands. I saw homes that were
adjacent to homes that were totally destroyed, without any damage."
Media captionSonoma County residents react to raging fireIn northern California, schools remain closed in Sonoma
County, where tens of thousands of homes and businesses are under
threat.
Sonoma has been ravaged by the Kincade Fire, which started
on Wednesday and has burned through 50,000 acres of land, fanned by the
winds.
The Kincade Fire began seven minutes after a nearby
power line was damaged, but PG&E has not yet confirmed if the power
glitch started the blaze.
About 180,000 people have been ordered
to evacuate, with roads around Santa Rosa north of San Francisco packed
with cars as people tried to flee.
There are fears the flames could cross the 101 highway and enter areas that have not seen wildfires since the 1940s.
You
would be forgiven for thinking so. After all, several major
international news websites have written headlines about the world's
most popular YouTuber being "wiped" or "banned" from the internet in
China.
But there is one tiny problem - it did not happen.
Fanpages
for PewDiePie still exist on Chinese social media, and a cursory search
for his name on Baidu - China's Google - returns 8.28 million results.
PewDiePie himself originally claimed to have been banned
in a video on Saturday but he later appeared to make light of the
supposed block, suggesting he was not being completely serious.
He joked on Twitter that he had punched a wall in outrage.
"Well boys, we did it," he said in Saturday's video, which has been viewed 6.5m times. "I'm banned from China."
He continued: "I spoke about the Hong Kong protests, and showed their leader being mocked for looking like Winnie the Pooh."
He added searches for his name now bring up no results on certain forums and video platforms.
But did not mention that searches for him on video sites like iQiyi and Tencent Video still return tens of thousands of results.
Chinese authorities have banned any comparison between President Xi Jinping and Disney character Winnie the Pooh since 2017.
Put
simply, the government is extremely sensitive about how the president
is regarded and seeks to maintain the perception he is loved and praised
by the country's 1.4bn population.
The Pooh comparisons were propelled back into the public consciousness in October 2019 when a South Park episode heavily criticised the Chinese government.
The show was subsequently largely made unavailable in China, with any
search for it on social media and video websites returning no results.
But
this has not happened to PewDiePie: Some content related to the
YouTuber has indeed been made inaccessible online, such as a Baidu-run
forum about him which has removed messages and even prevented people
from posting new comments.
But there is no evidence to suggest this was done on the orders of the government.
In China, the general rule for censorship is: if something is
too violent, sexualised, or goes against the government's message, it
will be banned from the country.
Several manga and anime (Japanese comics and cartoons) are banned for the first two reasons.
Meanwhile celebrities are usually barred for the third reason. For example, Lady Gaga was reportedly denied a Chinese visa in 2016 over her meeting with the Dalai Lama.
With regards to PewDiePie, the censorship of the forum seems to be Baidu acting out of an abundance of caution.
The
government has certainly not demanded that the search engine erase
mentions of PewDiePie. A search for his name still returns more than
eight million results.
Who: గాయకుడి సంజయ్ సుబ్రహ్మణ్యం Where: తమిళనాడు What: 2015 సంగీత కళానిధి అవార్డు ప్రదానం When: 1 జనవరి 2016
ప్రఖ్యాత దక్షిణ భారత శాస్త్రీయ గాయకుడు సంజయ్ సుబ్రహ్మణ్యం 1
జనవరి 2016 న 2015 సంగీతా కళానిధి అవార్డును అందుకున్నారు. తమిళనాడు లోని
చెన్నై లో 89 వ మద్రాస్ మ్యూజిక్ అకాడమీ వార్షిక సమావేశంలో గణిత
శాస్త్రజ్ఞుడు మంజుల్ భార్గవ అతనిని ఈ ప్రతిష్టాత్మక అవార్డును
బహూకరించారు.
ఈ అవార్డుతో సుబ్రహ్మణ్యం, అరియకుడి అయ్యంగార్, ముసిరి సుబ్రమణ్య
అయ్యర్, మహారాజపురం విశ్వనాధ అయ్యర్, సెమ్మంగుడి శ్రీనివాస అయ్యర్, జిఎన్
బాలసుబ్రహ్మణ్యం, ఎంఎల్ వసంతకుమారిల మరియు ఎం బాలమురళీకృష్ణ లతో పాటు 50
సంవత్సరాల వయస్సు పూర్తి కాకుండా ఈ పురస్కారాన్ని అందుకున్న ఏడో
కళాకారుడిగా అయ్యారు.
సంజయ్ సుబ్రహ్మణ్యం గురించి
• సుబ్రహ్మణ్యం వృత్తిరీత్యా చార్టెడ్ అకౌంటెంట్ కానీ 2000 లో, అతను పూర్తిగా సంగీతకారుడు మారారు.
• అతను 1987 లో కర్నాటిక్ సంగీతాన్ని ప్రదర్శించడం ప్రారంభించారు.
• అతను గాన పద్మం (2013), వాణి కళా సుధాకర (2010) మరియు తమిళనాడు
ప్రభుత్వంచే కలైమమని టైటిల్ (2006) లతో సహా తన గానానికి వివిధ అవార్డులు
కూడా లభించాయి.
సంగీతా కళానిధి అవార్డు / టైటిల్ గురించి
• ఇది మద్రాస్ మ్యూజిక్ అకాడమీ ద్వారా కర్ణాటక సంగీతంలో ఒక నిపుణుడికి ఏటా అందజేసే ఒక ప్రతిష్టాత్మక పురస్కారం.
• ఈ అవార్డు యొక్క పేరుని సంస్కృత భాష నుండి తీసుకున్నారు. ఆంగ్ల భాషలో సంగీతం మరియు కళ యొక్క నిధి అని అర్ధం.
