Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool "Outsider" In Meghalaya, Says Conrad Sangma

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma, who is also the president of the National People's Party, today brushed off the challenge from Mamata Banerjee in the upcoming state polls, tagging her party Trinamool an "outsider". Mr Sangma added that he has the "greatest respect" for her.

"I have the greatest and the deepest respect for Mamata Banerjee and the reason is the kind of respect she has shown to our leader (PA Sangma). We Can't forget that. I have deep a sense of respect for her," he said.

Mr Sangma underlined that it will be a while before the Bengal Chief Minister's party can establish itself in the state.  

"Trinamool is a political party which does not have a base in Meghalaya and it will take a long time for them to establish themselves and for the people to accept them. Also, it is the old players who have come into their fold and they also are in a divided house... During the Bengal elections, the Trinamool had taken a stand that the national parties like the Congress and the BJP don't understand the issues of Bengal and are outsiders. Similarly, on same lines, Trinamool is an outsider party in Meghalaya right now," he said launching his party's campaign at Adokgre in North Garo hills.

Trinamool became the main opposition in the state following the defection of former Chief Minister Mukul Sangma and several other Congress legislators. Lunching her party's Meghalaya campaign, Mamata Banerjee announced that her party's primary focus in the elections is to fend off the BJP and its "proxies."

Mr Sangma's NPP, the only political party from the northeast that has the recognition of a national party, is the major party in the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA). BJP is a constituent of the MDA and has not entered into any prepoll understanding with any political party.

"Talking about our own coalition partners, we have always been clear with all of them that we will fight elections on our own terms. Post-election, we will review the scenario and decide how we will move forward," said Mr Sangma.

The Chief Minister said that he is confident of a good show in the polls.

"This time we are already moving forward with the vision and foundation we have laid in the last five years and showing the people how we have changed things in the last 5 years and how we will further take things in the next 50 years," he said.

Meghalaya will go to the polls on February 27. Votes will be counted on March 2.

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राहुल द्रविड़ पत्रकार पर बरसे, मुझे नहीं मालूम, चयनकर्ताओं से क्यों नहीं पूछते जाकर...

भारत और न्यूजीलैंड की टीम तीन मैचों की वनडे सीरीज के आखिरी मुकाबले में मंगलवार को खेलने उतरेगी. इंदौर के होलकर स्टेडियम में यह मुकाबला खेला जाना है. भारत के पास यहां क्लीन स्वीप करने का अच्छा मौका है क्योंकि पहले दो मैच उसने अपने नाम करने में सफलता हासिल की.

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Primal Instinct: California Shooting Hero Tells Of Wrestling Killer's Gun

The young coder credited with disarming the 72-year-old suspect in a mass shooting during Lunar New Year celebrations in California has described his "primal" battle with the gunman.

The man, identified by the New York Times as 26-year-old Brandon Tsay, was in the office of the Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio in Alhambra on Saturday night watching dancers when he looked up to see the suspect pointing a gun at him.

"My heart sank, I knew I was going to die," he told the newspaper.

"That moment, it was primal instinct," he said. "Something happened there. I don't know what came over me."

He lunged at the man and grabbed the barrel of the gun, beginning the fight of his life.

Mr Tsay, whose grandparents founded the ballroom, did not know that the suspect, identified by police as Huu Can Tran, was believed to have killed 10 people and wounded 10 others just minutes earlier at another dance hall in nearby Monterey Park.

He said he had never seen a gun in real life -- but that it was clear the gunman was there not to rob the place but to kill.

"From his body language, his facial expression, his eyes, he was looking for people," Mr Tsay told the Times.

Mr Tsay and his family said that security footage showed the pair struggling for around 90 seconds before he was able to seize the gun from the suspect.

He immediately pointed it back at him and yelled "Go, get the hell out of here," he told the newspaper.

The suspect fled. Hours later he was dead, shooting himself inside a white van in Torrance, several miles to the south, on Sunday afternoon as police moved to arrest him.

Five men and five women, all in their 50s or 60s, were killed by the gunman in Monterey Park on Saturday night.

Police have said the reason behind the attack, which came as Asian communities around the world celebrated the Lunar New Year holiday, remained a mystery.

They said they believe the gunman intended to carry out a similar massacre in Alhambra, and credited those who disarmed him with saving lives.

Los Angeles County sheriff Robert Luna has said two people disarmed the suspect in Alhambra -- but Mr Tsay and his family, who still run the ballroom, say the video footage shows he alone grappled with the killer.

Mr Tsay's older sister Brenda, who runs the business, said the footage showed the gunman's fierce struggle to keep control of his weapon.

"He kept coming at him," she told the Times. "He really wanted the gun back."

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जसप्रीत बुमराह चोट के चलते लगातार अंतरराष्‍ट्रीय क्रिकेट मिस कर रहे हैं. रवींद्र जडेजा छह महीने से चोट के कारण ही भारतीय टीम से बाहर रहने के बाद वापसी कर रहे हैं. राहुल द्रविड़ (Rahul Dravid) भी क्रिकेटर्स के बार-बार चोटिल होने से चिंतित हैं.

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"Cutting 12,000 Jobs Step In Right Direction But...": What An Investor Told Google

Google's parent company Alphabet Inc eliminated 12,000 jobs or 6 per cent of its workforce. Hedge fund billionaire Christopher Hohn wrote a letter to Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai advising him to "cut thousand more jobs".

In a viral letter, the billionaire dated January 20 that Google's 12,000 layoff is a step in the right direction, but it does not reverse the very strong headcount growth of 2022. "Ultimately management will need to go further".

The founder of The Children's Investment Fund Management (TCI) holds a $6 billion stake in Google-parent company Alphabet, The Telegraph reported.

Last year, Sir Chris who paid himself a record  Euro 1.5m a day in 2022 added that Alphabet had doubled its headcount in the last five years and he advised that the management should aim to "reduce headcount to 150,000, which is in line with Alphabet's headcount at the end of 2021. This would require a total headcount reduction in the order of 20 per cent."

He also said that Google should "address excessive employee compensation". He further warned that the company should moderate stock-based payments.

Sir Chris added that he hopes to "have a further dialogue" with Sundar Pichai on these matters in due course.

On January 21, Google announced layoffs.

For years Alphabet has attracted top talent to build Google, YouTube and other products that reach billions of users, but it is now locked in competition with Microsoft Corp in a burgeoning area known as generative artificial intelligence.

The cuts at Alphabet come days after Microsoft said it would lay off 10,000 workers, Reuters reported.

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