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Arkansas receiver Andrew Armstrong said Tuesday that he is entering the NFL Draft. Later in the day, a school spokesman told reporters that Armstrong will skip the Razorbacks' bowl game. The destination isn't yet known. Armstrong led the Southeastern Conference in both receptions (78) and receiving yards (1,140) but caught just one touchdown in 11 games this season. His catches and yardage were both second-most in Arkansas history behind Cobi Hamilton, who had 90 receptions for 1,335 yards in 2012. "It's been a journey for the books and I wouldn't trade it for anything because it has made me into the man I am today," Armstrong said of his Razorbacks tenure in a social media post. "... I will never forget all the moments that were shared here in Fayetteville." Armstrong played two seasons at Texas A&M-Commerce before transferring to Arkansas ahead of the 2023 season. In two seasons with the Razorbacks, he caught 134 passes for 1,904 yards and six scores. --Field Level MediaThis week, one of Rugby Australia’s worst kept secrets finally broke: Jordan Petaia is pressing pause on his rugby journey to chase a career in the NFL. The news is being considered as a blow to RA, with Petaia once earmarked as the brightest talent in Australian rugby. He was set to become the third-youngest Wallabies debutant before injury struck and when you look back at his six-year stint, missing out through injury was a common trend. The timing of this move is what’s most curious. With a Lions tour on the horizon next year and a home World Cup in 2027, Australia has the potential to be involved in some of the biggest games in the coming years. With that in mind, did this new iteration of RA, post-Hamish McLennan, really want Petaia tied down long term? Were they willing to break the bank to keep him? I think they weren’t. Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii’s arrival to rugby union has been covered umpteen times. So has his wage and I’m afraid to say that players like Petaia are exactly the ones an organisation can’t afford. I’m not sure when the last time his biography on RA’s website was updated, but it almost feels as though they’re laying out a roundabout argument for his exit . Jordan Petaia (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images) “He (Petaia) went on to win selection on the Wallaby Spring Tour and looked set to become the third-youngest Test- capped Wallaby of all time before hamstring soreness forced him to withdraw at the eleventh hour from the side to play Italy. “Petaia started the 2019 Super Rugby season in red-hot form before he ruptured the Lisfranc ligament in his left foot against the Crusaders in round three. “The injury saw him ruled out for the remainder of the tournament, however Petaia returned to earn a berth to his first Rugby World Cup and went on to make his Test debut, against Uruguay in Oita. “Unfortunately, a frustrating run of injuries – a dislocated left shoulder, a thigh/quad strain, numerous hamstring strains and concussion protocols – have kept him sidelined for 12 of the 34 Tests played by the Wallabies over the past three years. In addition, Petaia has finished just three matches from his 14 run-on Test appearances.“ Whatever about listing out his injuries, the line “has finished just three matches from his 14 run-on Test appearances” just seems too on the nose to be a coincidence. Jordan Petaia is the perfect example of a mismanaged player, a players with huge potential who wasn’t supported my a mature organisation. An organisation that was fixated on its short-term survival as opposed to long-term potential. Australians constantly talk about the competitive landscape of sport in this country but it’s the years of short-term solutions that have hampered the game. Petaia was not physically conditioned for international rugby and his early induction was the catalyst for the series of injures he’s suffered. More Rugby Just this year, Joe Schmidt cited Queensland Reds’ Rookie of the Year Tim Ryan as an example of developing players. Ryan had an electric Super Rugby season, scoring a hat-trick on debut and finishing the year with nine tries from nine appearances. However, despite his try-scoring form and work rate, it was clear to see that Ryan needed time to develop physically. He’s since signed a two-year deal with Queensland and if he combines another pre-season of work with a good Super Rugby season, Ryan is exactly the under-scouted bolter Schmidt could unleash on the Lions in 2025. But if Ryan injured himself in the lashing rain at Optus Stadium versus the Springboks or hurts a shoulder tackling Duhan van der Merwe, he could miss the chance altogether. Unlike Ryan, Jordan Petaia was rushed onto the international stage and I’ve no doubt Michael Cheika believed he could make a difference for the Wallabies – his talent was unquestionable, but pound for pound he wasn’t prepared to play back-to-back games against veteran internationals. His series of injuries meant he consistently was unable to string practices, never mind games together and robbed him of the opportunity to train and develop any one position. The ability to be versatile shouldn’t hold a player back and is a great string to a coach’s bow but it does little for a player and their chances of progressing from good to great. Petaia’s potential has been squandered by RA and I don’t blame him for wanting a new experience. At 24 years of age, he’ll be well-placed to make his return to rugby when he eventually calls time on his NFL dream. The Rugby World Cup kicks off in October 2027, which means he has the 2025 and 2026 NFL seasons and mini camp period of 2027 to showcase himself to teams. The odds are against him, but if the deal Ruby Australia were offering him came up short of what he thinks he’s worth, then he’s right to chase a dream. He’s 24 years old. You only have to look at the images Louis Reese Zammit chooses to share on his social media to appreciate the opportunity. Full-time photographers capturing you head to toe in pads, sitting in meeting rooms with the likes of Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes. At the very least it will be an incredible experience and one Petaia should take now before it’s too late.
AP Sports SummaryBrief at 6:25 p.m. ESTBEIRUT — Hezbollah fired about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel on Sunday, wounding seven people in one of the militant group's heaviest barrages in months, in response to deadly Israeli strikes in Beirut while negotiators pressed on with cease-fire efforts to halt the all-out war. An Israeli bomb squad policeman carries the remains of a rocket that was fired from Lebanon on Sunday in Kibbutz Kfar Blum, northern Israel. Some of the rockets reached the Tel Aviv area in the heart of Israel. Meanwhile, an Israeli strike on an army center killed a Lebanese soldier and wounded 18 others in the southwest between Tyre and Naqoura, Lebanon's military said. The Israeli military expressed regret, saying that the strike occurred in an area of combat against Hezbollah and that the military's operations are directed solely against the militants. Israeli strikes have killed over 40 Lebanese troops since the start of the war between Israel and Hezbollah, even as Lebanon's military has largely kept to the sidelines. People are also reading... Lebanon's caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, condemned the latest strike as an assault on U.S.-led cease-fire efforts, calling it a “direct, bloody message rejecting all efforts and ongoing contacts” to end the war. Hezbollah began firing rockets, missiles and drones into Israel after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack out of the Gaza Strip ignited the war there. Hezbollah has portrayed the attacks as an act of solidarity with the Palestinians and Hamas. Iran supports both armed groups. The Israeli police bomb squad inspects the site after a missile fired from Lebanon hit the area Sunday in Petah Tikva, outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel. Israel launched retaliatory airstrikes at Hezbollah, and in September the low-level conflict erupted into all-out war as Israel launched airstrikes across large parts of Lebanon and killed Hezbollah's top leader, Hassan Nasrallah. The Israeli military said about 250 projectiles were fired Sunday, with some intercepted. Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service said it treated seven people, including a 60-year old man in severe condition from rocket fire on northern Israel, a 23-year-old man who was lightly wounded by a blast in the central city of Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv, and a 70-year-old woman who suffered smoke inhalation from a car that caught fire there. In Haifa, a rocket hit a residential building that police said was in danger of collapsing. The Palestine Red Crescent reported 13 injuries it said were caused by an interceptor missile that struck several homes in Tulkarem in the West Bank. It was unclear whether injuries and damage were caused by rockets or interceptors. Sirens wailed again in central and northern Israel hours later. Israeli airstrikes without warning on Saturday pounded central Beirut, killing at least 29 people and wounding 67, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry. A flock of birds flies above the smoke from Israeli airstrikes Sunday in Dahiyeh, Beirut. Smoke billowed above Beirut again Sunday with new strikes. Israel's military said it targeted command centers for Hezbollah and its intelligence unit in the southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, where the militants have a strong presence. Israeli attacks have killed more than 3,700 people in Lebanon, according to the Health Ministry. The fighting has displaced about 1.2 million people, or a quarter of Lebanon’s population. On the Israeli side, about 90 soldiers and nearly 50 civilians have been killed by bombardment in northern Israel and in battle following Israel's ground invasion in early October. Around 60,000 Israelis have been displaced from the country's north. EU urges immediate halt to Israel-Hezbollah war The EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called for an "immediate ceasefire" in the Israel-Hezbollah war while on a visit to the Lebanese c... The European Union’s top diplomat called Sunday for more pressure on Israel and Hezbollah to reach a deal, saying one was "pending with a final agreement from the Israeli government.” U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein was in the region last week. Josep Borrell spoke after meeting with Mikati and Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally who has been mediating with the group. Borrell said the EU is ready to allocate $208 million to assist the Lebanese military. But Borrell later said that he did not “see the Israeli government interested clearly in reaching an agreement for a cease-fire" and that it seemed Israel was seeking new conditions. He pointed to Israel’s refusal to accept France as a member of the international committee that would oversee the cease-fire's implementation. The emerging agreement would pave the way for the withdrawal of Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops from southern Lebanon below the Litani River in accordance with the U.N. Security Council resolution that ended the monthlong 2006 war. Lebanese troops would patrol with the presence of U.N. peacekeepers. With talks for a cease-fire and hostage release deal in Gaza stalled, freed hostages and families of those held marked a year since the war's only hostage-release deal. “It’s hard to hold on to hope, certainly after so long and as another winter is about to begin," said Yifat Zailer, cousin of Shiri Bibas, who is held along with her husband and two young sons. Around 100 hostages are still in Gaza, at least a third believed to be dead. Most of the rest of the 250 who were abducted in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack were released in last year's cease-fire. Talks for another deal recently had several setbacks, including the firing of Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who pushed for a deal, and Qatar’s decision to suspend its mediation. Hamas wants Israel to end the war and withdraw all troops from Gaza. Israel has offered only to pause its offensive. The Palestinian death toll from the war surpassed 44,000 this week, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count. On Sunday, six people were killed in strikes in central Gaza, according to AP journalists at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. Buyer beware: How to spot fake online shopping sites Buyer beware: How to spot fake online shopping sites How often do you buy something online ? A couple of times a month? A couple of times a week? A couple of times a day? Everybody's answer will be different, but collectively, it's done a lot: Online retail accounted for over $1 trillion of purchases in the U.S. in 2022 and a record $277.6 billion in the second quarter of 2023 alone. Retailers ranging from titans like Amazon and Walmart, down to local small-town shops work very hard to land their share of that business. Sadly and inevitably—so do criminals and scammers. At any given moment, they operate millions of bogus sites. So how can you spot those fake online shopping sites? Spokeo provides a guide. It's Easy to Create an Online Presence In the early days of the internet , it took some genuine skills to set up a website, but those days are gone. A quick search will show that there are lots of apps and services offering websites on a prefabricated "fill in the blanks" basis, and most web hosts provide those tools as part of the service when someone signs up with them. It's even easier on social media . If you were opening a "side hustle" business tomorrow from your home, you could set up your own Facebook page tonight in under an hour, with exactly zero knowledge of websites. Once that page is set up, you just need to throw a few dollars in the direction of Facebook's advertising department, and they'll start advertising your page to users. It's no harder to promote a website, except in that case, you'd give your advertising dollars to Google. This is a simplified overview, but the main point holds: Establishing a presence online has become a very democratized process, open to anyone with minimal skills and even the smallest budget for advertising. That's been a boon for legitimate entrepreneurs, but it also makes life very easy indeed for scammers. How Bogus Websites Steal Money and Information There are multiple types of bogus websites . Some are imposters, created to look very much like a legitimate commercial or government site that you're familiar with, such as Amazon or Netflix. Others don't imitate a specific site, but instead attempt to capture the look and feel of those sites in general (whether that be a retail site, a government or bank page, or even something relatively shady like a gambling or porn site). Next, scammers find ways to drive traffic to their site. Often that's through phishing texts or emails, but deceptive ads on social media or search engines like Google and Bing work just as well. Once a browser arrives at the criminals' site (or, in some cases, downloads their app), any number of bad things can happen. One is that they'll download malware onto your devices, which can capture passwords or steal personal information. A more straightforward risk is that the browser will cheerfully enter their personal and banking/credit card information, thinking they're making a legitimate purchase. That's largely why fake online shopping sites are so dangerous, and so useful to scammers and identity thieves. How Fake Online Shopping Sites Work Most bogus sites share some or all of those characteristics, but shopping sites are a very specific type of bogus site with some quirks of their own. One characteristic to count on—whether the website directly impersonates a major retailer like Amazon, a niche retailer like MEC, or just positions itself as an anonymously general retail site—is that it will offer unusually low pricing on high-demand products. That might be a mass-market item like the latest gaming console, a suddenly in-demand item that's unavailable through normal channels (remember trying to get masks and sanitizing wipes during COVID-19?), or something as mundane as disposable diapers or high-capacity computer drives. Whatever the product, the advertised price will be low enough to get attention. The bogus site will have any number of ways to transfer a browser's money to its coffers, depending on the scammers' intentions and skillset. A few of the most common include: These are all aside from the potential to infect devices or steal payment information . Sites focused on identity theft might consider a faux purchase to be just the added gravy. Fake Online Shopping Sites are a Big (and Year-Round) Problem How common is online shopping fraud? Well, the news is pretty bad. The FTC's 2022 Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book recorded over 327,000 online shopping complaints, the fourth-highest category for overall complaints and second among fraud categories. You would expect these sites to be more prevalent during the final quarter of the year, corresponding to the holiday gift-giving season—Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas itself—and they are, but that doesn't mean you can relax during the other nine months of the year. The Anti-Phishing Working Group, or APWG, identified nearly a million fake or phishing websites during the first quarter of 2022 alone (not a busy time of year for shopping), for example. To be clear, only 14.6% of those were eCommerce sites, but that still translates to well over 140,000 bogus shopping sites. The true number is almost certainly higher because the APWG only tracks the ones that use a phishing approach. Many opt to simply buy advertising instead (or as well), and those won't be captured in the APWG's statistics. However you slice it, there's a definite risk of encountering these sites when you shop. Recognizing Fake Online Shopping Sites The good news is that bogus shopping sites aren't hard to spot, once you're aware of the risk. They aren't built for permanence; scammers pull them together quickly and cheaply and then abandon them once they stop producing.That "just good enough" approach leaves plenty of visible signs you can detect. Below, here's what to look for when recognizing fake online shopping sites. Bad images Bogus sites don't have direct access to the real products' manufacturing images, so they resort to copying and pasting from legitimate sites. \That means bogus sites' product images (and often their fake logos, if they impersonate a legitimate site) are fuzzy and low-res. A URL that's slightly "off" Imposter sites obviously can't have the same URL as the legitimate site, so they'll usually have a URL that looks right, but isn't quite. They might have a typo in the name, or incorporate the real company's name into their URL in a non-standard way ("myfakesite.amazon.com.123xyz.com"), or—sneakiest of all—use a letter from a different language's character set , which looks the same to the eye, but not to the computer. Broken links The scammers may have simply copied and pasted user interface elements from a legitimate site, in which case many links on the site may be broken (or simply not clickable). Lots of missing elements A legitimate retail website will have several pages of legalese, often starting with a pop-up about its cookie policy or privacy policy. You should certainly expect to see a detailed document spelling out shipping policies, return and refund policies, and similar details. If those are missing or brief and vapid, it's probably a fake site. Limited options for payment Sites that plan to take your money and run will often show oddly specific payment options, from wire transfers to gift cards to cryptocurrency. The thing those payment methods have in common is that it's very difficult to get money back once it's spent. Sites geared around capturing your personal or payment information, on the other hand, may insist on getting your credit card. Typos, grammar, and linguistic errors Simple, silly language errors are often a red flag. Scammers may not be native English speakers, and it shows up in awkward or sometimes inappropriate phrasing. Errors in actual product listings aren't necessarily a smoking gun—you'll see them frequently on real Amazon pages—because they come from the manufacturers, who are often not English speakers. Language errors on the rest of the site are more of a concern. HTTP vs. HTTPS In the address bar of your browser, a legitimate retail site's URL will start with HTTPS, rather than HTTP, and will show a closed lock symbol. The majority of fake sites now also have an HTTPS URL and will show the lock (so this isn't as helpful as it used to be), but less-sophisticated scammers may miss that detail. You can automatically rule those ones out. And, of course, the biggest red flag of all is an unrealistically low price on the product you're looking for. We all want to get a really good deal, but that impulse will often lead you astray. What to Do if You Think a Shopping Site Is Fake If a shopping site fails those basic "eyeball" tests, the smart thing to do is just close that browser tab and walk away. If you want to dig deeper, or if you aren't sure, there are a few quick and easy ways to verify a site's legitimacy. Use a URL/website checker Remember those really sneaky fake URLs that use a letter from another alphabet? The best way to check those (and other problematic elements in a URL) is through a URL verifier/website reputation service, like the ones from URLVoid and Google . Just copy (don't click!) the link, and paste it into the checker. If the site is sketchy, they'll tell you. Look up the site on a registry Domain names all need to be registered and there are several lookup tools to check this, like ICANN's registration lookup (think of it as Spokeo for websites). If a site claims to be Amazon but was registered just a few weeks ago, that's a really big red flag. Similarly, if the site isn't located where it should be, or if the ownership data is obscured, that's grounds for concern. Turn to Google If you have a bad feeling about a particular site, do a quick Google or Bing (or whatever) search that pairs the site's name with keywords like "scam," "fraud," "bogus" or "ripoff" and see what comes up. If you get a lot of hits, that's definitely grounds for concern. Go Forth and Shop (Safely) If a given site fails any or all of those tests, then keeping your wallet in your pocket is definitely the smart choice. Instead of making the purchase, report the site instead to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center and the FTC's Report Fraud website. That will get the investigative wheels turning and may help protect someone less wary from falling victim to the scammers. As always, wariness and skepticism are your friends when it comes to avoiding scams. Don't click on links in emails, texts , or social media messages; instead, go to the company's site by typing the URL directly. If you search a company's page on Google, scroll down through the actual search results until you find it instead of clicking on the sponsored results or advertisements at the top. Most of all, remember the golden rule of scam avoidance: If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Keeping those principles in mind, and using the tips given here to screen out dubious sites means you'll be able to shop 'til you drop (safely), despite the vast number of scammers out there. And that—as the credit card ads like to say—is priceless. This story was produced by Spokeo and reviewed and distributed by Stacker. Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!
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Professor Delali Kwasi Dake is an Associate Professor of Computing and Information Technology at the Department of ICT Education, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, and currently the Ag. Head of Department. He became an Associate Professor at age 36, making him one of the youngest to reach the Professorial rank in Ghana. Prof. Dake is a trained Computer Engineer with a PhD in Computer Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi. Prof. Dake, in addition to being a lecturer, is the founder and CEO of Jobweb Africa. Jobweb Africa is a job aggregator platform across eight African countries, including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Rwanda. Professor Dake is currently an external examiner for the Telecommunications Engineering Dept, KNUST and the Information Technology Dept, BlueCrest University College. He is an academic reviewer for highly indexed journals, including Signal, Image and Video Processing – Springer; Scientific Reports – Springer Nature; Journal of Network and Systems – Springer; Education and Information Technologies – Springer; Cluster Computing – Springer; Discover Computing – Springer; BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making – Springer; Frontiers of Digital Education – Springer; BMC Oral Health, Data Science Aspect – Springer; MPDI Education Sciences – Scopus indexed; and PeerJ Computer Science – Scopus indexed . Prof. Dake has been invited to speak at top Artificial Intelligence summits. These include the 2nd Global Summit on Artificial Intelligence 2024 – Heighten Science Publications Inc, Webinar, USA; Ghana Data Science Summit 2024 – Indabax Ghana, KNUST, Ghana; and the Artificial Intelligence Summit, UEW, Winneba. His research focusses on educational data mining, artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, intelligent systems, software-defined networks, and blockchain technology.Search for Christmas, Hanukkah joy in bittersweet times
Netflix ( NFLX ) stock has closed at a fresh record every day this past week — and it could keep soaring. A growing number of analysts are calling for the streaming giant's shares to soon trade in the quadruple digits. On Wednesday, Pivotal Research analyst Jeff Wlodarczak raised his price target on Netflix to a Street high of $1,100 a share, implying over 20% upside based on current trading levels of around $900. Bank of America's Jessica Reif Ehrlich followed one day later, boosting her target to $1,000 from $800. Jefferies analyst James Heaney also raised his target to $1,000 earlier this week. The price target increases come despite some concerns over slowing growth for the streaming giant. Wall Street analysts who cover Netflix have a median price target of just around $800 a share, according to the latest Bloomberg consensus estimates. One of the main catalysts for the recent price target boosts is the company's continued foray into live events, with the most recent boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson attracting over 108 million global viewers last weekend to become the most-streamed sporting event of all time. For context, the 2024 Super Bowl, which was the most-watched American TV broadcast ever , pulled in 124 million US viewers. The Netflix event's impressive numbers came despite the streamer experiencing several technical glitches throughout the broadcast, which analysts (and investors) mostly shrugged off. "We view the event as a (very) successful learning experience for NFLX and expect these technical issues will not happen again with future live events," Pivotal Research's Wlodarczak wrote on Wednesday. The analyst said the event's success likely means Netflix will "accelerate its offerings of 'eventized' live programming," which will help lower subscriber churn and increase the streamer's ability to raise prices. "The NFLX service remains a highly compelling, frankly relatively inexpensive, entertainment alternative for consumers, which bodes well for future subscriber/average revenue per user growth," he said. Since the start of the year, Netflix shares have surged over 85%, far outpacing the broader markets and streaming rivals, including Disney ( DIS ) and Comcast ( CMCSA ). Much of the uptick has been driven by the company's push into live content and the positive impact that could have on its ad-supported offering. Last week, Netflix said its ad tier, now two years old, has reached 70 million global monthly active users , a significant jump from the 40 million users the company revealed at its second Upfront presentation in May. Netflix's next big live event will be its NFL Christmas Day doubleheader, with the Kansas City Chiefs vs. Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens vs. Houston Texans. Beyoncé will serve as the headline performer during the Ravens vs. Texans halftime show, which analysts said should help attract viewers outside of the US. The company inked a three-season deal with the NFL earlier this year to air the Christmas Day games, which will be produced by CBS Sports ( PARA ). The streamer reportedly coughed up about $75 million per game, according to the Wall Street Journal. Jefferies' Heaney, who described the success of the Paul-Tyson match as a "breakthrough" moment for Netflix's live events strategy, said he's increasingly confident the NFL Christmas Day games will outperform linear viewership and serve as a catalyst to ad growth. BofA's Reif Ehrlich agreed, adding, "Live and advertising are complementary growth drivers, as more live programming drives additional high value, premium ad inventory. Netflix's ability to monetize this premium live inventory will be key to making advertising a multiyear growth driver." Netflix recently beat Wall Street expectations across every major financial metric in its third quarter results on Oct. 17 , with shares surging to all-time highs as many analysts call Netflix the winner of the hard-fought streaming wars. Still, the company recently revealed that year-over-year engagement levels came in roughly flat — a potential headwind when it comes to its ability to raise prices and boost growth. "With much of the subscriber growth seemingly representing improved monetization of an existing (and not growing) user base, we question whether the momentum can continue into next year," MoffettNathanson analyst Robert Fishman wrote in a recent note to clients. Valuation has also been a concern, with Fishman adding that Netflix's stock "is massively expensive for a company whose own guidance implies a revenue deceleration into 2025." Last month, Netflix said its revenue growth is expected to slow from an expected 15% this year to between 11% and 13% in 2025. Alexandra Canal is a Senior Reporter at Yahoo Finance. Follow her on X @allie_canal , LinkedIn, and email her at alexandra.canal@yahoofinance.com. Click here for the latest stock market news and in-depth analysis, including events that move stocks Read the latest financial and business news from Yahoo Finance .National Conference (NC) MP Aga Syed Ruhullah was on Tuesday (December 24, 2024) criticised by his party colleague, Salman Sagar, for joining a protest along with Opposition parties over the current reservation policy in Jammu and Kashmir . The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) , on the other hand, warned against tampering with the policy, which reserves up to 70% seats for different marginalised communities, and only 30% for aspirants in the Open Merit category. A day after Mr. Ruhullah sat outside the Chief Minister’s residence in Srinagar with protesting students, Mr. Sagar said it was “an individual action rather than the party’s policy”. “It (the protest) was not an NC initiative and does not represent the party’s stance. NC’s protests are only organised under the instructions of top leaders like Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah ,” the MLA from the Hazratbal Assembly constituency said. Mr. Sagar accused Mr. Ruhullah of joining the party’s adversaries and thus “inadvertently strengthening the position of rival political groups like the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)“. “It was a gathering of our enemies and, unfortunately, one of our MPs allowed them a stage to exploit the situation,” Mr. Sagar said. He said the protest outside the Chief Minister’s residence had “only created unnecessary drama”. “We won’t allow political point-scoring on this issue. Such actions could damage the party’s credibility. Ruhullah sahib is a big man with a significant mandate, having been an MLA and MP multiple times, but he is connected to the party and cannot be bigger than the party. No MLA, Minister, or even the Chief Minister is bigger than the party,” Mr. Sagar said. In a veiled retort, Mr. Ruhullah took to social media platform X. He referred to the ‘House Negro and field Negro’ speech of the late African American human rights activist Malcom X to make a statement on the issue. “And today, you still have house Negroes and field Negroes. I’m a field Negro,” Mr. Ruhullah said in a post on X. Meanwhile, the Congress party, an ally of the NC, also criticised Mr. Ruhullah for joining the protesters. “It has become a fashion now to get the camera’s attention. Otherwise, a responsible MP could have behaved seriously,” senior Congress leader G.A. Mir said. PDP president Mehbooba Mufti criticised Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for failing to address the reservation issue. “Open merit students are losing opportunities as reservation policies sideline hard work and capability. CM Abdullah must act decisively and ensure fair treatment for all. Relying on court decisions alone is not enough. The government must rationalise quotas and restore hope for deserving students who feel abandoned and ignored,” Ms. Mufti said. She said the promise of six months’ time “is too much”. “Recruitments of lecturers, and sub-inspectors etc. are scheduled. I sincerely request that Mr. Abdullah, who has the backing of 50 MLAs and three MPs, to help students like the PDP government did in 2018 by bringing SRO (special order) 49, which put 75% seats for Open Merit aspirants,” Ms. Mufti added. In Jammu, BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh warned against tampering with the current reservation policy. “The country is run according to the Constitution and nobody will be allowed to fiddle with the rights of the Dalits, Gujjars, Paharis and other underprivileged classes of society. In the NC government, members of the Valmiki Samaj could not get a government job and the BJP gave the constitutional right of reservations to these people. NC is working on politics of revenge,” Mr. Chugh said. Published - December 24, 2024 10:12 pm IST Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit Jammu and Kashmir / Jammu / India / Jammu and Kashmir National Conference / bjp
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