keeway 7xm ( MENAFN - Live Mint) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Mandi Kangana Ranaut praised local Himachal women, who are "equally or better looking than" than actors born in the state, working tirelessly in the fields. Along with the comment, she shared a collage on social media, with pictures of herself and other actors – Preity Zinta, Pratibha Ranta and Yami Gautam. “When I go to Himachal and see our women equally or better looking than us work tirelessly in the fields no insta no reels raising cattle and making the ends meet. I feel they can definitely do with some hype. #himachaligenes #himachaliwomen," Ranaut wrote on her Instagram story. Earlier, Kangana Ranaut shared her thoughts on the sexual harassment allegations made by Blake Lively against her It All Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni. On her Instagram story, Ranaut had described the case as“worrying” and“shameful.” She drew parallels with the Bollywood industry, referencing the Hema Committee report, which highlighted similar issues in the Malayalam film industry. The Hema Committee report was published earlier this year. Kangana had then posted on social media,“Even in Hollywood women who refuse to compromise, they are maligned and their careers are destroyed its not just bollywood (sic) similar report called Heme Committee had come out about Malayalam film industry, it is worrying and shameful." Ranaut also commented on the Bengaluru techie's suicide cas . She said the video of Bengaluru techie Atul Subhash, who died by suicide, is heartbreaking. But also blamed men for most marriage-related cases. On the work front, Kangana Ranaut is eyeing the release of her much-awaited film Emergency. The political drama, written, directed, and co-produced by Kangana, was earlier scheduled to be released on September 6 but was postponed due to the failure to get a clearance from the CBFC. It was also caught up in controversy after Sikh organisations, including the Shiromani Akali Dal, accused the film of misrepresenting the community and getting facts wrong. MENAFN30122024007365015876ID1109040386 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.The move could usher in an end to a protracted political crisis in the European Union country following the annulment of a presidential election by a top court. Parliament approved the new administration in a 240-143 vote in Romania’s 466-seat legislature. The new coalition is made up of the leftist Social Democratic Party (PSD) the centre-right National Liberal Party (PNL), the small ethnic Hungarian UDMR party and national minorities. It caps a month-long period of turmoil in which far-right nationalists made significant gains in a parliamentary election on December 1 a week after a first-round presidential race saw the far-right outsider Calin Georgescu emerge as the front-runner. “It will not be an easy mandate for the future government,” Mr Ciolacu, whose PSD party topped the polls in the parliamentary election, said in a statement. “We are aware that we are in the midst of a deep political crisis,” he said. “It is also a crisis of trust, and this coalition aims to regain the trust of citizens, the trust of the people.” Romania’s 16 ministerial positions will be shared among the parties, which will hold a slim majority in the legislature. It is widely seen as a tactical partnership to shut out far-right nationalists whose voices found fertile ground amid high living costs and a sluggish economy. Mr Ciolacu, who came third in the first-round presidential ballot despite polls indicating he would win the most votes, has served as prime minister since June 2023. After parliament’s approval, President Klaus Iohannis swore in the new government and warned the new Cabinet that it is entering a “difficult new period” in which “for many Romanians, there are major concerns”. Romania was plunged into turmoil after Mr Georgescu’s surprise success in the presidential race, after allegations of electoral violations and Russian interference emerged. Days before the December 8 run-off, the Constitutional Court made the unprecedented move to annul the presidential race. “We go through complicated times, but I think we all learned from mistakes of the past,” Mr Ciolacu said. “I hope that together with my colleagues in the coalition, we’ll find the best solutions to get past the challenges we have in front of us.” Mr Ciolacu said that the new government would aim to quickly organise the rerun of the presidential election in which the new coalition has agreed to put forward an agreed common pro-European candidate. Cristian Andrei, a political consultant based in Bucharest, said that the new government made up of the same political parties will likely embrace “soft populist” rhetoric such as economic patriotism, anti-austerity, and a peace solution in neighbouring Ukraine to counter the rise of far-right populism. “This will be a way to answer the concerns of many Romanians who voted for populists... but will not solve the fundamental problem of trust,” he said. “The only decisive factor now will be who and how convincing the pro-European candidates will be against this popular revolt.” George Simion, the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, which came second in the parliamentary election, said that all politicians from his party on Monday would vote against the Ciolacu government. In 2021, the PSD and the PNL also formed an unlikely but increasingly strained coalition together with UDMR, which exited the Cabinet last year after a power-sharing dispute.FirstEnergy's FE short percent of float has fallen 6.05% since its last report. The company recently reported that it has 10.30 million shares sold short , which is 2.33% of all regular shares that are available for trading. Based on its trading volume, it would take traders 3.5 days to cover their short positions on average. Why Short Interest Matters Short interest is the number of shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. Short selling is when a trader sells shares of a company they do not own, with the hope that the price will fall. Traders make money from short selling if the price of the stock falls and they lose if it rises. Short interest is important to track because it can act as an indicator of market sentiment towards a particular stock. An increase in short interest can signal that investors have become more bearish, while a decrease in short interest can signal they have become more bullish. See Also: List of the most shorted stocks FirstEnergy Short Interest Graph (3 Months) As you can see from the chart above the percentage of shares that are sold short for FirstEnergy has declined since its last report. This does not mean that the stock is going to rise in the near-term but traders should be aware that less shares are being shorted. Comparing FirstEnergy's Short Interest Against Its Peers Peer comparison is a popular technique amongst analysts and investors for gauging how well a company is performing. A company's peer is another company that has similar characteristics to it, such as industry, size, age, and financial structure. You can find a company's peer group by reading its 10-K, proxy filing, or by doing your own similarity analysis. According to Benzinga Pro , FirstEnergy's peer group average for short interest as a percentage of float is 1.97%, which means the company has more short interest than most of its peers. Did you know that increasing short interest can actually be bullish for a stock? This post by Benzinga Money explains how you can profit from it. This article was generated by Benzinga's automated content engine and was reviewed by an editor. © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.

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Look. Santa’s been around for a while. A spring chicken he isn’t. Plus — as us collaborators know only too well — he has bad habits. It’s not the drugs or the drink. It’s the snacks. You know the way we use the word ‘treats’ to excuse scoffing salted caramel anything? Covers a multitude, that word ‘treats’, with its implication of rarity and its paired implication of somehow having been earned by earlier privation or meritorious effort. The world may not owe you a living, or fame, or fortune, but we still feel entitled to treats and extrapolate from that to the conviction that we must all reward/bribe Santa by setting out a saucer of cookies and a glass of milk. It’s a reprehensible form of cause and effect. Parents spend the year conscientiously refusing ever to link food with their children’s occasional good behaviour. Back in the day, this wasn’t a problem because, once you had the bonding thing nailed, parenting was down to training your kids like dogs: “Homework done? Who’s a good boy, then?” Then enlightenment struck and the instructions to well-behaved offspring to sit and gratefully snaffle a KitKat morphed into as shameful exemplar of your parental inadequacies so vile that you knew, if you stood for election, even a crime gang leader would do better than you. Santa, of course, bypasses all this child development woke stuff. He still operates the canine training model: “Been a good girl? Here’s a whole stocking full of reward for you (insert ear-scratch here)!” Understandably, the dog-training model works both ways. You use it to ensure reasonable pre-teen behaviour in your offspring, then accept that the quid pro quo is that the overweight guy in the red suit gets a few cookies left out for him. We don’t even do the political reproach where Santa is concerned. No parent ever complains: “We never see you except when you want free cookies, and I bet you haven’t declared the carrots for Rudolf to Sipo either.” Santa: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell It’s arguable that the success, over these many generations, of the Santa Claus model of social conditioning is behind the benign Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell approach to Saint Nick himself regnant in the western world. Presenters on radio programmes get more warnings from their producers about not breaching the unspoken rules than if the next guest was the Israeli ambassador. Signs on it, when some bunch of medics this year raised reservations about Santa as a health model, the story died on the vine. Leave the old charmer alone, was the unspoken message, a bit like the consensus around Michael D. Nor will the dire example of the Anglican priest Paul Chamberlain be readily forgotten. This eminent cleric shared his truth with a congregation of 10-year-olds. Let’s not even delineate the shape of his ecclesiastical truth. All anybody needs to know is that it broke the Yuletide Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell rule, and peace on earth plus goodwill to all ceased, right there. His public defrocking, defenestration, and forced pyre-toasting was averted only by him seeing the light and outing himself as a complete eejit. In the litany of public sinning covered by the grandees of many religions, what he’d done might be regarded as down the scale a bit, but it represented a profound failure to read the room. The reverend priest would’ve been a lot better off finding a saucer, a couple of cookies, and a space beside the hearth for their display. The 'Late Late' connection Santa may be all ho ho ho and product placement but, when it comes right down to it, you know you shouldn’t cross him. It’s a bit like Pat Kenny quoting Gay Byrne to the effect that “one for everybody in the audience” was a dreadfully counterproductive move, the negative consequences of which meant that, on any given show, you might have a stunning lineup of guests and topics, but if the Late Late Show audience freebie that particular week wasn’t up to much, it tainted the in-studio appreciation and subsequent recollection of the entire show, turning the presenter into a freebie-shill and the audience into discount Olivers, always asking for more. Perhaps — because those of us who love the programme — perhaps in the distant future, someone as wise as Gay will condemn the Toy Show and its relentlessly greedy brand extension to a full-day festival rather than the 90-minute celebration of the commercially mawkish and precocious that it really is. Of course, the very minute you say anything against the Toy Show, you’re in trouble. I blame my misfortune, this year, on that. Definitely. If I’d never bad-mouthed the Toy Show, I’d be fine. 'Ho ho' turns to 'oh no' Off I flew to spend Christmas in warm climes, and — before exiting the plane in Newark airport — dutifully checked I had phone and wallet. Two hours into a four-hour layover, I realised I’d left my iPad on the flight. “Oh-oh,” I went, in a Santa Claus reversal. Inevitably, the plane had been turned around and was off to Cancún. The customer service guy on the phone said he’d email me a lost property form, which I filled in and filed, before wandering the airport to locate a customer service human in the flesh. This, after an hour and a half, I duly did. Lifted me out of it, she did. Stood there and ate the face off me. I was supposed to check my seat and surroundings for property before I left the plane, she snapped. She effectively refused to help locate my battered little computer with its Sink the Rich sticker because I didn’t obey all the instructions. ‘Customer service’, said her United Airlines label but not her mouth. (The Sink the Rich sticker came for free when I ordered Bernie Sanders’ most recent book.) I got on the second flight facing a future wherein all my colleagues, friends, and relations cast me aside as an incompetent inattentive old fool for losing an iPad that was too good for me in the first place. My inner discourse tends towards the punitive and ageist at the best of times but after my bracing encounter with the customer service woman, it hit rock bottom. I decided to lie or at least not tell on myself. Me? Lose an iPad? Perish the thought. Then my phone started to buzz with messages from colleagues who could see United Airlines’ acknowledgment of my lost property form and they all began doing technological things to find out where it was (Newark Airport, surprise, surprise) and assure me that iCloud would have everything I’d ever put into the iPad stashed safely somewhere. Aoife in the office found the iPad before the lost one and started to reprogramme it as a fallback. This greatly helped the grieving process. Santa, meanwhile, continued the ho ho ho in his promiscuously cheerful way from every hoarding and radio programme.

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Charming property on coastal outskirts of Totland Bay up for saleI was fined £1,000 for silly bin day mistake ANYONE could make – Christmas is now ruined for my 5 kidsHeisman Trophy finalist and two-way Colorado star Travis Hunter was named The Associated Press Big 12 defensive player of the year while also being a first-team selection at wide receiver on Thursday. Buffaloes quarterback Shedeur Sanders is the league's top offensive player. Kenny Dillingham, the 34-year-old in his second season at Arizona State, was the unanimous choice as Big 12 coach of the year after leading his alma mater to a championship and a spot in the 12-team College Football Playoff. The Sun Devils (11-2) went into their league debut as the preseason pick to finish last among the 16 teams. At cornerback, Hunter had 31 tackles, tied for the Big 12 lead with 11 pass breakups and was tied for second with four interceptions. On offense, he leads the Big 12 with 92 receptions and 14 receiving touchdowns, and is second with 1,152 yards receiving. His 21 catches of at least 20 yards are the most nationally. He is also the AP's player of the year. Sanders is the Big 12 passing leader, completing 337 of 454 passes (74.2%) for 3,926 yards and a school-record 35 touchdowns with eight interceptions for the Buffaloes (10-2) Arizona State freshman quarterback Sam Leavitt, who is 11-1 as a starter, is the league’s top newcomer. The Michigan State transfer has 2,663 yards passing with 24 touchdowns and only five picks in 304 attempts. LAS VEGAS — Former Florida and Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen has agreed to lead UNLV's 24th-ranked football program, two people with knowledge of the hire said Wednesday. The people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no announcement has been made. The 52-year-old Mullen replaces Barry Odom, who left for Purdue on Sunday after going 19-8 and helping the Rebels receive back-to-back bowl invitations for the first time in program history. UNLV will play California in the LA Bowl on Wednesday. UNLV athletic director Erick Harper wasted little time in finding Odom's replacement. Mullen, most recently an ESPN college football analyst, went 103-61 at Florida and Mississippi State. Rich Rodriguez is returning to West Virginia for a second stint as head coach at his alma mater. Athletic director Wren Baker announced the hiring on Thursday, 17 years after Rodriguez made a hasty exit for what became a disastrous three-year experiment at Michigan. “We are thrilled to welcome Coach Rich Rodriguez and his family back home,” Baker said in a statement. “Coach Rodriguez understands what it takes to win at West Virginia, and I believe he will pour his heart, soul and every ounce of his energy into our program. I am convinced Coach Rodriguez wants what is best for West Virginia, WVU and West Virginia football, and I am excited about the future of our program.” Rodriguez, who is the current coach at Jacksonville State, an architect of the spread offense and a polarizing figure in his home state, replaces Neal Brown, who was fired on Dec. 1 after going 37-35 in six seasons, including 6-6 this year. BRIEFLY FCS: The NCAA is taking its Football Championship Subdivision title game back to Tennessee. The FCS championship games at the end of the 2025 and 2026 seasons will be played in Nashville on the Vanderbilt campus. This season’s game will be played Jan. 6 at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas, which will host the game for a record 15th season in a row and was set for at least two more. OC: UCLA announced Tino Sunseri’s hiring as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Sunseri replaces Eric Bieniemy, who was fired on Dec. 5 after fielding one of the nation’s worst offenses this season. Sunseri spent one season as Indiana’s co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach after following Hoosiers coach Curt Cignetti from James Madison. Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!Radio giant bids emotional farewell to 43-year career

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