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A couple who were found dead in a house in Portage la Prairie on Sunday night were the victims of a double homicide that RCMP believe was targeted — the latest in a high number of slayings in rural Manitoba this year. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * A couple who were found dead in a house in Portage la Prairie on Sunday night were the victims of a double homicide that RCMP believe was targeted — the latest in a high number of slayings in rural Manitoba this year. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? A couple who were found dead in a house in Portage la Prairie on Sunday night were the victims of a double homicide that RCMP believe was targeted — the latest in a high number of slayings in rural Manitoba this year. Manitoba RCMP have investigated 55 homicides so far in 2024, spokesman Sgt. Paul Manaigre said Tuesday. “It’s just unheard of, the numbers this year,” he said. “We’re on pace for over 60, and that’s double our average.” The total does not include slayings investigated by the Winnipeg Police Service or other municipal police agencies. In Winnipeg, police have investigated 36 slayings so far this year. MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS RCMP officers were posted outside the home at 604 Oak Bay in Portage la Prairie, Tuesday, where the bodies of a 42-year-old man and 37-year-old woman were found dead over the weekend, victims of a double homicide that RCMP believe was targeted. In Portage, officers found the bodies of a 42-year-old man and 37-year-old woman when they were called to a home on Oak Bay at about 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Manaigre told the investigators suspect the man’s involvement in the drug trade is behind the crime. “There are a lot of moving pieces in this investigation right now,” Manaigre said. “(Investigators) believe it to be targeted, and definitely not a random thing.” RCMP, who don’t believe there is a danger to the public, didn’t release information about the suspect or the names of the victims. RCMP confirmed the man and woman were in a relationship. “It’s just unheard of, the numbers this year ... We’re on pace for over 60, and that’s double our average.” Manaigre believes a wellness check type of call led officers to the home. Investigators are trying to put together a timeline prior to the discovery of the bodies, he said. The woman had contact with family earlier Sunday, Manaigre said. Autopsies were scheduled to determine the cause of their deaths. RCMP remained at the house in a northeast Portage neighbourhood Tuesday afternoon. Two police vehicles were parked behind the home, which was taped off, when the went to the scene. The back of the house faces North Memorial School. Two people who live in the neighbourhood said the home had a reputation for drug trafficking, based on previous RCMP visits or arrests that were publicized. MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS Neighbours say the Portage la Prairie home had a reputation for drug trafficking, based on previous RCMP visits or arrests that were publicized. “The police certainly knew he was selling drugs. They had been there numerous times,” said a man, who asked to remain anonymous. He said he noticed police at the victims’ house late Sunday night. “I noticed lots of activity. I knew something was going on,” he said. “It actually pisses you off, that this sort of stuff goes on.” The second person said they were shocked when they learned about the double homicide via an RCMP Facebook post. “The neighbourhood has some rough edges, but I didn’t expect this kind of thing,” said the woman, who also requested that her name be withheld due to the homicide’s suspected drug trade links. “It actually pisses you off, that this sort of stuff goes on.” Portage, which had a population of about 12,950 as of the 2021 census, is about 70 kilometres west of Winnipeg. The double homicide was one of three slayings the RCMP released details of Tuesday. In the other incidents, a 31-year-old man was stabbed to death in Thompson on Monday, and a missing 37-year-old man was found dead in Canupawakpa Dakota Nation, in western Manitoba, on Nov. 30. The high number of homicides has been taxing for the Manitoba RCMP’s Winnipeg-based major crime services, which travels around the province to investigate slayings alongside Mounties in local detachments. The historical average for Manitoba RCMP is usually 20 to 30 homicides per year, Manaigre said. “We hope this is an anomaly, because this is a trend that can’t continue,” he said about this year’s homicide total. Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. The number of homicides in Manitoba has fluctuated in recent years. Including all police agencies in Manitoba, the province reported 74 homicides in 2023 for a rate of 5.09 per 100,000 people, a recent Statistics Canada study found. Of those, 51 victims, or 69 per cent, were of Indigenous identity. Manitoba had 89 homicides in 2022 (6.3 incidents per 100,000 residents), up from 62 in both 2021 and 2020, and 74 in 2019, StatsCan data showed. — chris.kitching@freepress.mb.ca Chris Kitching is a general assignment reporter at the . He began his newspaper career in 2001, with stops in Winnipeg, Toronto and London, England, along the way. After returning to Winnipeg, he joined the in 2021, and now covers a little bit of everything for the newspaper. . Every piece of reporting Chris produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the ‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about , and . Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider . Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.Akola: Five persons suffered minor injuries after a private bus carrying 49 persons fell off a bridge into a dry riverbed in Akola district of Maharashtra on Thursday evening, police said. The incident occurred around 7 pm on the bridge over Bhikund river in Balapur taluka, they said. “The private bus was going from Bhusawal (in Jalgaon district) to Washim when it fell off the bridge. A total of 49 passengers were travelling in it and five of them suffered minor injuries. Fortunately, there was no loss of life in the incident,” a police official said. The driver lost control and the vehicle fell into the dry riverbed due to the absence of a guardrail on the bridge. Soon after being alerted, local citizens rushed to the spot. The police and other authorities carried out a rescue operation with their help, he said. The injured passengers were later admitted to a government hospital in the district, the official said.3 match earn 。

Brazil’s federal police last Thursday formally accused Mr Bolsonaro and 36 other people of attempting a coup. They sent their 884-page report to the Supreme Court, which lifted the seal. “The evidence collected throughout the investigation shows unequivocally that then-president Jair Messias Bolsonaro planned, acted and was directly and effectively aware of the actions of the criminal organisation aiming to launch a coup d’etat and eliminate the democratic rule of law, which did not take place due to reasons unrelated to his desire,” the document said. At another point, it says: “Bolsonaro had full awareness and active participation.” Mr Bolsonaro, who had repeatedly alleged without evidence that the country’s electronic voting system was prone to fraud, called a meeting in December 2022, during which he presented a draft decree to the commanders of the three divisions of the armed forces, according to the police report, signed by four investigators. The decree would have launched an investigation into suspicions of fraud and crimes related to the October 2022 vote, and suspended the powers of the nation’s electoral court. The navy’s commander stood ready to comply, but those from the army and air force objected to any plan that prevented Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s inauguration, the report said. Those refusals are why the plan did not go ahead, according to witnesses who spoke to investigators. Mr Bolsonaro never signed the decree to set the final stage of the alleged plan into action. Mr Bolsonaro has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing or awareness of any plot to keep him in power or oust his leftist rival and successor. “No one is going to do a coup with a reserve general and half a dozen other officers. What is being said is absurd. For my part, there has never been any discussion of a coup,” Mr Bolsonaro told journalists in the capital Brasilia on Monday. “If someone came to discuss a coup with me, I’d say, that’s fine, but the day after, how does the world view us?” he added. “The word ‘coup’ has never been in my dictionary.” The top court has passed the report on to prosecutor-general Paulo Gonet. He will decide whether to formally charge Mr Bolsonaro. Rodrigo Rios, a law professor at the PUC university in the city of Curitiba, said Mr Bolsonaro could face up to a minimum of 11 years in prison if convicted on all charges. “A woman involved in the January 8 attack on the Supreme Court received a 17-year prison sentence,” Mr Rios told the Associated Press, noting that the former president is more likely to receive 15 years or more if convicted. “Bolsonaro’s future looks dark.” Ahead of the 2022 election, Mr Bolsonaro repeatedly alleged that the election system, which does not use paper ballots, could be tampered with. The top electoral court later ruled that he had abused his power to cast unfounded doubt on the voting system, and ruled him ineligible for office until 2030. Still, he has maintained that he will stand as a candidate in the 2026 race. Since Mr Bolsonaro left office, he has been targeted by several investigations, all of which he has chalked up to political persecution. Federal police have accused him of smuggling diamond jewellery into Brazil without properly declaring them and directing a subordinate to falsify his and others’ Covid-19 vaccination statuses. Authorities are also investigating whether he incited the riot on January 8 2022 in which his followers ransacked the Supreme Court and presidential palace in Brasilia, seeking to prompt intervention by the army that would oust Mr Lula from power. Mr Bolsonaro had left for the United States days before Mr Lula’s inauguration on January 1 2023 and stayed there for three months, keeping a low profile. The police report unsealed on Tuesday alleges he was seeking to avoid possible imprisonment related to the coup plot, and also await the uprising that took place a week later.

Manmohan Singh, the former prime minister who governed the country for two terms, has died, aged 92. Singh was admitted to New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences late Thursday after his health deteriorated due to “sudden loss of consciousness at home,” the hospital said in a statement. He was “being treated for age-related medical conditions,” the statement added. Singh is credited with steering India to unprecedented economic growth and lifting hundreds of millions out of dire poverty. Prime minister Narendra Modi said: “India mourns the loss of one of its most distinguished leaders, Dr. Manmohan Singh Ji.” A mild-mannered technocrat, Singh became one of India’s longest-serving prime ministers for 10 years and earned a reputation as a man of great personal integrity. He was chosen to fill the role in 2004 by Sonia Gandhi, the widow of assassinated prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. But his sterling image was tainted by allegations of corruption against his ministers. Singh was elected to a second term as prime minister from 2009-2014 that was clouded by financial scandals and corruption charges over the organization of the 2010 Commonwealth Games. This led to the Congress Party’s crushing defeat in the 2014 national election by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party under the leadership of Narendra Modi.Singh adopted a low profile after relinquishing the post of prime minister. He was born into a poor family in a part of British-ruled India now in Pakistan, Singh studied by candlelight to win a place at Cambridge University before heading to Oxford, earning a doctorate with a thesis on the role of exports and free trade in India’s economy. He became a respected economist, then India’s central bank governor and a government advisor but had no apparent plans for a political career when he was suddenly tapped to become finance minister in 1991. During that tenure to 1996, Singh was the architect of reforms that saved India’s economy from a severe balance of payments crisis, promoted deregulation and other measures that opened an insular country to the world. Famously quoting Victor Hugo in his maiden budget speech, he said: “No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come,” before adding: “The emergence of India as a major economic power in the world happens to be one such idea.” Singh‘s ascension to prime minister in 2004 was even more unexpected. He was asked to take on the job by Sonia Gandhi, who led the centre-left Congress party to a surprise victory. Italian by birth, she feared her ancestry would be used by Hindu-nationalist opponents to attack the government if she were to lead the country. Riding an unprecedented period of economic growth, Singh‘s government shared the spoils of the country’s new found wealth, introducing welfare schemes such as a jobs programme for the rural poor. In 2008, his government also clinched a landmark deal that permitted peaceful trade in nuclear energy with the United States for the first time in three decades, paving the way for strong relations between New Delhi and Washington. But his efforts to further open up the Indian economy were frequently frustrated by political wrangling within his own party and demands made by coalition partners. And while he was widely respected by other world leaders, at home Singh always had to fend off the perception that Sonia Gandhi was the real power in the government. The widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, whose family has dominated Indian politics since independence from Britain in 1947, she remained Congress party leader and often made key decisions. Known for his simple lifestyle and with a reputation for honesty, Singh was not personally seen as corrupt. But he came under attack for failing to crack down on members of his government as a series of scandals erupted in his second term, triggering mass protests. The latter years of his premiership saw India’s growth story, which he had helped engineer, wobble as global economic turbulence and slow government decision-making battered investment sentiment. In 2012, his government was tipped into a minority after the Congress party’s biggest ally quit their coalition in protest at the entry of foreign supermarkets. Two years later Congress was decisively swept aside by the Bharatiya Janata Party under Narendra Modi, a strongman who promised to end the economic standstill, clean up graft and bring inclusive growth to the hinterlands. But at a press conference just months before he left office, Singh insisted he had done the best he could. “I honestly believe that history will be kinder to me than the contemporary media or, for that matter, the opposition parties in parliament,” he said. Singh is survived by his wife and three daughters.

( MENAFN - AFP) Shares in Japanese chipmaker Kioxia rallied more than seven percent on their debut in Tokyo on Wednesday after an initial public offering that valued the firm at more than $5 billion. Formerly the Semiconductor unit of Japanese engineering giant Toshiba, the firm is the world's third-largest producer of NAND flash memory chips. It was acquired by US investment firm Bain Capital in 2018. Memory chips are used in everyday devices such as smartphones and storage drives, as well as in industrial and medical equipment, but their prices are notoriously volatile. Global demand for the chips has been driven by the growth of generative artificial intelligence technology, such as that used in OpenAI's popular chatbot ChatGPT. Kioxia had been expected to go public in October, emboldened by soaring demand for AI, but a rout in tech shares forced the company to delay until this month. The firm set its listing price at 1,455 yen per share, valuing the firm at 784 billion yen ($5.2 billion) and raising about 120 billion yen -- making it Japan's second biggest IPO this year. Its shares jumped as much as 7.7 percent in morning trade before paring the gains to sit 4.7 percent higher at 1,508 yen. The company previously said it planned to issue around 21.5 million new shares, in addition to more than 63 million to be sold at home and abroad by existing shareholders Bain Capital and Toshiba. Kioxia is among several Japanese semiconductor producers the government is subsidising as it seeks to triple the sales of domestically produced chips to more than 15 trillion yen by 2030. Firms such as Toshiba and NEC helped Japan dominate in microchips during the 1980s, but competition from South Korea and Taiwan saw its global market share slump from more than 50 percent to around 10 percent now. But as China ramps up military pressure on Taiwan, heralding volatility on the self-ruled island's ability to produce semiconductors, hopes are running high that Japan will re-emerge as a new chip hub. MENAFN17122024000143011026ID1109005033 Legal Disclaimer: MENAFN provides the information “as is” without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.49ers QB Brock Purdy resumes throwing but status for this week remains unknownNFL Christmas grades, plus playoff-clinching scenarios and Seahawks-Bears picks for 'Thursday Night Football'Farmers call for 'Punjab bandh' on December 30

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