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Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh govt signed an MoU with Japan's Yamanashi Prefecture on Monday in the fields of industrial cooperation, tourism, and vocational education. The MoUs were exchanged between chief secretary Manoj Kumar Singh and director general of the Governor's Policy Planning Bureau of Yamanashi Junichi Ishidera, in the presence of CM Yogi Adityanath. Welcoming the Japanese delegation led by Governor of Yamanashi Prefecture Kotaro Nagasaki, the CM, who also spoke a few sentences to the delegation in Japanese, said that India and Japan have shared friendly relations for centuries, with strategic, cultural and global cooperation. "India and Japan are major economies with similar priorities in social-economic development, democratic values and strategic perspectives. The strong relationship between PM Narendra Modi and Japan's former PM Shinzo Abe has elevated the political, economic, and business ties between the two nations. The state govt is keen to collaborate with Japanese companies," he said. The CM said that over 1,400 Japanese companies are currently operating in India, including seven major ones in UP. The bilateral trade between India and Japan in 2023-24 amounted to USD 22.854 billion, with Japan exporting USD 17.69 billion to India and importing USD 5.15 billion. He added that UP, as the most populous state, had the country's largest labour and consumer market with 25 crore residents. Over the past eight years, he said, the state had created an excellent investment environment with improved connectivity through rail, road, air and waterways, enhanced logistics for industries to access global and domestic markets. He said UP was the world's youngest state and its youth could gain skills through training in Japan, which would prepare them to contribute to industries globally. The current population under 15 will join the workforce in the coming decade. Governor of Japan's Yamanashi Prefecture, Kotaro Nagasaki, acknowledged the spiritual and historical ties between Yamanashi and UP. Expressing happiness at the MoU, he said that Japan would work towards mutual cooperation in labour skill development, renewable energy, hydropower, and knowledge and technology exchange, elevating strategic relations between India and Japan. He invited Yogi Adityanath to consider Japan as his second home and expressed gratitude to all by inviting them to Yamanashi Prefecture. Stay updated with the latest news on Times of India . Don't miss daily games like Crossword , Sudoku , and Mini Crossword . Spread love this holiday season with these Christmas wishes , messages , and quotes.

The crash happened at 10.45am in crowded downtown Delray Beach, multiple news outlets reported. The Brightline train was stopped on the tracks, its front destroyed, about a block away from the Delray Beach fire rescue truck, its ladder ripped off and strewn in the grass several yards away, The Sun-Sentinel newspaper reported. The Delray Beach Fire Rescue said in a social media post that three Delray Beach firefighters were in stable condition at a hospital. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue took 12 people from the train to the hospital with minor injuries. Emmanuel Amaral rushed to the scene on his golf cart after hearing a loud crash and screeching train brakes from where he was having breakfast a couple of blocks away. He saw firefighters climbing out of the window of their damaged truck and pulling injured colleagues away from the tracks. One of their helmets came to rest several hundred feet away from the crash. “The front of that train is completely smashed, and there was even some of the parts to the fire truck stuck in the front of the train, but it split the car right in half. It split the fire truck right in half, and the debris was everywhere,” Mr Amaral said. Brightline officials did not immediately comment on the crash. A spokesperson for the National Transportation Safety Board said it was still gathering information about the crash and had not decided yet whether it will investigate. The NTSB is already investigating two crashes involving Brightline’s high-speed trains that killed three people early this year at the same crossing along the railroad’s route between Miami and Orlando. More than 100 people have died after being hit by trains since Brightline began operations in July 2017 – giving the railroad the worst death rate in the United States. But most of those deaths have been either suicides, pedestrians who tried to run across the tracks ahead of a train or drivers who went around crossing gates instead of waiting for a train to pass. Brightline has not been found to be at fault in those previous deaths.

The crash happened at 10.45am in crowded downtown Delray Beach, multiple news outlets reported. The Brightline train was stopped on the tracks, its front destroyed, about a block away from the Delray Beach fire rescue truck, its ladder ripped off and strewn in the grass several yards away, The Sun-Sentinel newspaper reported. The Delray Beach Fire Rescue said in a social media post that three Delray Beach firefighters were in stable condition at a hospital. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue took 12 people from the train to the hospital with minor injuries. Emmanuel Amaral rushed to the scene on his golf cart after hearing a loud crash and screeching train brakes from where he was having breakfast a couple of blocks away. He saw firefighters climbing out of the window of their damaged truck and pulling injured colleagues away from the tracks. One of their helmets came to rest several hundred feet away from the crash. “The front of that train is completely smashed, and there was even some of the parts to the fire truck stuck in the front of the train, but it split the car right in half. It split the fire truck right in half, and the debris was everywhere,” Mr Amaral said. Brightline officials did not immediately comment on the crash. A spokesperson for the National Transportation Safety Board said it was still gathering information about the crash and had not decided yet whether it will investigate. The NTSB is already investigating two crashes involving Brightline’s high-speed trains that killed three people early this year at the same crossing along the railroad’s route between Miami and Orlando. More than 100 people have died after being hit by trains since Brightline began operations in July 2017 – giving the railroad the worst death rate in the United States. But most of those deaths have been either suicides, pedestrians who tried to run across the tracks ahead of a train or drivers who went around crossing gates instead of waiting for a train to pass. Brightline has not been found to be at fault in those previous deaths.New Jersey fines firms $40K for sports betting violations

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Roper Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:ROP) Shares Sold by Prospera Financial Services IncLOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, who blocked the newspaper's endorsement of Kamala Harris and plans to overhaul its editorial board, says he will implement an artificial intelligence-powered "bias meter" on the paper's news articles to provide readers with "both sides" of a story. Soon-Shiong, the biotech billionaire who acquired the Times in 2018, told CNN political commentator Scott Jennings - who will join the Times' editorial board - that he's been "quietly building" an AI meter "behind the scenes." The meter, slated to be released in January, is powered by the same augmented intelligence technology that he's been building since 2010 for health care purposes, Soon-Shiong said. "Somebody could understand as they read it that the source of the article has some level of bias," he said on Jennings' " Flyover Country ," podcast. "And what we need to do is not have what we call confirmation bias and then that story automatically, the reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story based on that story and then give comments." Soon-Shiong said major publishers have so far failed to adequately separate news and opinion, which he suggested "could be the downfall of what now people call mainstream media." The comments prompted a rebuke from the union representing hundreds of the Times' newsroom staffers, which said Soon-Shiong had "publicly suggested his staff harbors bias, without offering evidence or examples." "Our members - and all Times staffers - abide by a strict set of ethics guidelines , which call for fairness, precision, transparency, vigilance against bias, and an earnest search to understand all sides of an issue," the Los Angeles Times Guild said in a statement Thursday. "Those longstanding principles will continue guiding our work." The contentious moves from the paper's owner also led to the resignation of Harry Litman, a senior legal affairs columnist for the Times' Opinion page. "My resignation is a protest and visceral reaction against the conduct of the paper's owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong. Soon-Shiong has made several moves to force the paper, over the forceful objections of his staff, into a posture more sympathetic to Donald Trump," Litman wrote Thursday. "Given the existential stakes for our democracy that I believe Trump's second term poses, and the evidence that Soon-Shiong is currying favor with the President-elect, they are repugnant and dangerous." Litman's resignation comes days after Kerry Cavanaugh, the Times' assistant editorial page editor, also announced her exit, Status first reported . In addition to his sweeping changes to the editorial board, a person familiar with the matter said Soon-Shiong has begun reviewing the headlines of all opinion pieces before publication. A spokesperson for the Times did not respond to CNN's request for comment. The moves come as Soon-Shiong looks to restructure the newspaper's editorial board, telling CNN last month that he plans to balance the paper's opinion section with more conservative and centrist voices in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump's victory. "If we were honest with ourselves, our current board of opinion writers veered very left, which is fine, but I think in order to have balance, you also need to have somebody who would trend right, and more importantly, somebody that would trend in the middle," Soon-Shiong told CNN in November. The restructuring follows Soon-Shiong's divisive decision to block a drafted endorsement of Vice President Harris two weeks before Election Day, which resulted in the resignation of several members of the paper's editorial board, staff protests, and thousands of readers canceling their subscriptions. Just three of the editorial board's eight members now remain, according to the Times website. On Wednesday, Soon-Shiong told Jennings that when the editorial board shared it had "pre-packaged" a presidential endorsement "without having met with any of the candidates," he was "outraged." "I did not want our paper to be part of that method of providing information or misinformation or disinformation," he said. "Everybody has a right to an opinion, that's fair," Soon-Shiong said, underscoring that the paper needs to "actually create some level of balance when it comes to opinion and columnist, and then we need to actually let the reader know this is opinion." In his resignation Thursday, Litman called the owner's decision to spike the presidential endorsement a "deep insult to the paper's readership." "Trump has made it clear that he will make trouble for media outlets that cross him," Litman wrote. "Rather than reacting with indignation at this challenge to his paper's critical function in a democracy, Soon-Shiong threw the paper to the wolves. That was cowardly." The-CNN-Wire TM & © 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Tulsa fired football coach Kevin Wilson on Sunday and will elevate wide receivers coach Ryan Switzer on an interim basis for the remainder of the season. The Golden Hurricane lost to South Florida 63-30 on Saturday, dropping their record to 3-8. The school's decision concludes Wilson's two-year tenure with a 7-16 record, including 3-12 in American Athletic Conference play. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.

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