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New Delhi: The BJP on Sunday accused AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal of orchestrating hoax calls to mislead voters across constituencies, including the New Delhi constituency, claiming that their were “cancelled” by the BJP. Addressing a press conference, BJP MP Parvesh Verma played an audio recording of one such call, in which a person was heard saying, “Your vote has been cut by the BJP. AAP will ensure you get your vote back,” and urged the receiver to support the Aam Aadmi Party.

“Hoax calls are being made to the public, saying that BJP will end all AAP schemes. This is a blatant lie,” he said.

He also wondered how “confidential voter data” was accessed by the party.

“Other than the Election Commission of India, this data is not provided to anyone. How did Kejriwal get the voters’ contact list? This must be inspected,” Verma said.

The BJP’s New Delhi candidate for the Assembly election also alleged the AAP of distributing Rs 500 wrapped in a calendar in the slum areas. He claimed three people were arrested in this regard.

There was no immediate reaction from the AAP on the allegations, nor from Delhi Police.
He said he has filed a complaint with the Election Commission and his party demands an investigation into the matter. BJP leader and party spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi, who was also present at the press conference, welcomed the US Supreme Court’s decision to extradite to India Tahawwur Rana, an accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

“Under Modi’s leadership, the government remains committed to fighting terrorism. The decision to hand over Tahawwur Rana to India is a welcome one for all of us,” Trivedi said.

Trivedi accused the AAP and Congress of supporting activities that indirectly shield terrorism.

“Atishi’s parents were among those seeking a ‘shama yajna’ (forgiveness ritual) for Afzal Guru,” he alleged, referring to the mastermind of the 2001 Parliament attack.

Texas is emerging as the newest battleground in the fight for corporate America.

As the Texas Stock Exchange lands commitments for its first major corporate listings, New York Stock Exchange President Lynn Martin is pointing to the Lone Star State’s “pro-business environment” as a major reason companies continue to flock there.

Martin joined FOX Business’ Cheryl Casone on “Mornings with FOX Business” to discuss the growing competition in Texas and the strength of U.S. capital markets.

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The NYSE recently opened its NYSE Texas headquarters in Dallas, expanding its presence in a state where Martin said the exchange already has roughly 130 listed companies.

“We have about 130 listed companies with us, we’re extraordinarily excited about the opportunity in Texas as well as… The general pro-business environment that has really been created and fostered by Governor Abbott,” Martin said.

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The expansion comes as the newly launched Texas Stock Exchange begins landing major corporate listing commitments, adding another player to a market long dominated by established exchanges. The development puts Texas at the center of a growing competition for public companies and capital.

Martin’s comments also come amid renewed momentum in U.S. capital markets, with more companies looking to tap public markets for funding.

“There’s a sense of optimism, there’s a sense of optimism that our markets are open. Our markets are incredibly strong, resilient, deep liquid, and there are more and more companies that are looking to tap the best form of capital, which is the form of capital that is available uniquely in our U.S. capital markets,” Martin said.

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For the NYSE, the push into Texas positions the exchange to capitalize on the state’s growing corporate footprint while competing directly in an increasingly crowded market.

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Many leadership teams can recite their benefits package from memory, often listing things like subsidised food, wellbeing programmes and training budgets. On paper, these benefits look generous, and in many cases, they are, but the reality is often that most employees can’t use the benefits.

For example, in many workplaces, the canteen closes at 3pm which is perfect for employees who work traditional office hours, but it leaves those on the night shift often going without away. The same goes for lunchtime yoga sessions or mental health drop-ins that run throughout the day shift but aren’t accessible for employees who don’t work typical hours.

Employees can’t use these workplace benefits because there is a problem with how they have been designed and set up.

Offering a benefit is not the same as making it available

There is a meaningful difference between offering a benefit and making it practically available. For example, the subsidized canteen that shuts before the night shift arrives is, for that shift, not a subsidised canteen, it is just yet another inaccessible perk and the scale of this gap is often bigger than many leaders assume. The Office for National Statistics reported that in 2022, 4% of the UK workforce usually worked during the evening or night but not during the day, and a further 23% worked during both daytime and evening or nighttime hours. That is more than a quarter of working people whose hours fall at least partly outside the window most workplace services are built around.

So, when the leadership teams review the workplace benefits, the discussions should not be focused on “what do we offer?” but whether all employees can access it during their working hours, is it relevant to every site and is it realistically going to be used by the employees.

On-site provision is part of operational infrastructure

In shift-based environments, decent staff facilities are not a nice extra added on top of the operation, they are part of what keeps the operation running day to day and food and drink is the clearest example of this.In bus depots and industrial sites, drivers and engineers often start work before nearby shops open, and before any workplace catering is staffed. Breaks can also be short, and they are usually dictated by the timetable or the workload rather than by the clock. So, someone coming off a route at 5:40am with a 20-minute break doesn’t have the time or the option to go out and find something substantial to eat, which means they are limited to whatever is available on site.

Demand also changes depending on the shift times and an employee on the morning shift might reach for something different from an employee on the night shift. There is also a shift in demand between different sites within the same company as it all depends on the employee’s demographics. For provisions to be successful, they need to keep pace with the changing demands, which means reliable equipment and replenishment outside of office hours to ensure the machines don’t run out of stock.
There is a health aspect to consider as well, because the Health and Safety Executive recognises that shift work can affect health and safety and advises employers to assess and manage the risks that come with it.

The Society of Occupational Medicine also recommends that shift workers should have access to healthy, affordable food and drink throughout their shifts. That is not to say that a well-stocked staff area cures fatigue or delivers measurable health improvements on its own, but leaving people to work unsocial hours with no realistic access to food and drink is a choice and it is a poor one.

Replace assumptions with operational evidence

Vending machine operators, like Connect Vending, can use telemetry to analyse each individual site’s sales data to map out their usage and to highlight what time of day people rely on food and drink provisions the most. This sales data helps to inform restocking schedules and indicates when a machine may need servicing to prevent equipment downtime or from running out of stock.

An example of when this data has influenced the operational efficiency of a site comes from Connect Vending, who see this pattern regularly across the bus companies they work with. At one site, the consumption data showed a clear spike in sales at 1am as crews came off their final routes, which is hours after a traditional catering model would have closed and long before it would open again. If the provision had stopped at the end of the office day, that entire period of demand would have been missed, and those employees would have finished their shifts with nothing available to them.

Reviewing the data has also led to ranges and stocking schedules being changed at more than one site because what was being provided simply did not match when and how people were actually taking their breaks. None of this required a survey or a consultancy project, it just required looking at what the operation was already telling them.

A five-question audit for senior leaders

For any CEO or operations leader who wants a quick health check, five questions will highlight most of the gaps:

1. Which of our benefits become unavailable outside standard office hours?
   2. Which sites or shifts receive a different level of provision?
   3. Are our services designed around actual break patterns?
   4. What does our usage data reveal about unmet demand?
   5. Have employees on every shift, at every site, been asked what they need?

CIPD advises employers to make sure benefits are genuinely valued by employees and aligned with wider business and workforce objectives and there is no way to know what a night shift values without asking the night shift.
Conclusion

None of this means that every site needs identical facilities or that a small depot should mirror a head office. Differences are fine when they are deliberate and the real question for leaders is whether differences in location and working hours are unintentionally creating a poorer experience for parts of the workforce, which is usually the parts doing the least visible and least flexible work.

Getting this right also sends a signal to your employees because it shows that the business understands how its people work rather than just how the org chart says they do. Employees notice when their working patterns have been considered, and they notice just as quickly when they have not.

Twenty-five years ago today, the United States experienced the deadliest terrorist attack in its history when al-Qaida hijackers commandeered four commercial airliners and turned them into weapons, killing nearly 3,000 people in a span of roughly 102 minutes. The attacks unfolded in a precise, devastating sequence beginning in the early morning hours of Sept. 11, 2001, and the exact timeline remains one of the most studied chronologies in modern American history.

All times below are in Eastern Daylight Time, matching the time zone in which the attacks occurred.

The hijacked flights take off

The morning began ordinarily. American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 carrying 92 people, departed Boston’s Logan International Airport at 7:59 a.m., bound for Los Angeles. United Airlines Flight 175, also departing from Boston and headed to Los Angeles, took off shortly afterward at 8:14 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77 left Washington Dulles International Airport at 8:20 a.m. en route to Los Angeles, and United Airlines Flight 93 departed Newark International Airport at 8:42 a.m., also headed for the West Coast. All four aircraft were hijacked within the first hour after takeoff.

First impact: North Tower

At 8:46 a.m., Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, striking between the 93rd and 99th floors. The impact killed everyone aboard the aircraft and hundreds of people inside the building instantly. Initial news coverage in the moments afterward described the event as a possible accident, with many assuming a small aircraft had strayed off course.

That assumption was shattered 17 minutes later. At 9:03 a.m., Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower, striking between the 77th and 85th floors, in an impact captured live on television by news crews that had already converged on Lower Manhattan to cover the first crash. The scene, broadcast to millions of viewers in real time, made clear within seconds that the United States was under a coordinated attack.

The Pentagon is struck

At 9:37 a.m., American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the western side of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, killing all 64 people aboard the aircraft and 125 people inside the building. The attack on the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, underscored that the assault was targeting the core symbols of American military and financial power.

Eight minutes later, at 9:45 a.m., the Federal Aviation Administration made the unprecedented decision to ground all civilian aircraft in the United States, ordering more than 4,500 planes then in the air to land at the nearest airport as quickly as possible. At the same time, the U.S. Capitol and the White House’s West Wing began evacuating, with the House of Representatives and Senate both in session at the time.

The South Tower falls

At 9:59 a.m., after burning for 56 minutes, the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed, sending a massive cloud of dust and debris through Lower Manhattan. The collapse came as a shock even to rescue personnel who had assumed the structure could withstand the fire, and it dramatically increased the death toll among first responders who were still inside or near the building.

Flight 93 crashes in Pennsylvania

Passengers and crew aboard United Airlines Flight 93, who had learned via phone calls of the earlier attacks in New York and Washington, attempted to storm the cockpit and retake control of the aircraft from the hijackers. At 9:58 a.m., passenger Edward P. Felt managed to hide in a bathroom and place a call to 911, reporting the hijacking in progress. Shortly afterward, at 10:03 a.m., Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, in Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania, killing all 44 people aboard. Investigators later concluded the plane had likely been intended for the U.S. Capitol or the White House, and that the passengers’ revolt prevented a fifth strike on a national landmark.

The North Tower collapses

At 10:15 a.m., a damaged section of the Pentagon’s E Ring, an outer ring of the building, collapsed. Thirteen minutes later, at 10:28 a.m., after burning for 102 minutes, the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed as well, completing the destruction of the twin towers and marking the end of the main phase of the attacks.

Toll and aftermath

By the time the smoke cleared, the attacks had killed 2,977 people, not including the 19 hijackers, making it the deadliest act of terrorism in world history and the deadliest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor 60 years earlier. The World Trade Center attacks alone claimed 2,753 lives, including 343 New York City firefighters and rescue workers who died attempting to evacuate the towers and assist survivors.

That evening, President George W. Bush addressed the nation from the White House. “Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts,” Bush said in his address.

A quarter-century later

The attacks, carried out by 19 hijackers affiliated with al-Qaida under the direction of Osama bin Laden, reshaped American foreign policy, domestic security infrastructure and daily life in ways that persist today, from airport screening procedures to the broader war on terrorism that followed in Afghanistan and beyond. The 9/11 Commission Report later described the day as the moment “the United States became a nation transformed.”

Twenty-five years on, memorial ceremonies are being held Friday at all three attack sites — the World Trade Center site in New York, the Pentagon in Virginia, and the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pennsylvania — as survivors, victims’ families and public officials gather to mark the anniversary. A recent survey found that the vast majority of Americans who lived through the day still recall with vivid clarity exactly where they were and what they were doing when the attacks unfolded, a testament to how deeply the events of that Tuesday morning remain etched in the national memory.

New Delhi: The Election Commission’s ‘Special Intensive Revision’ of Bihar’s electoral rolls has sparked a major political debate. However, this is not the first time that the poll panel has ordered an ‘intensive’ revision of electoral rolls — at least nine such revisions were held from 1952 to 2004, several of which came with similar house-to-house verification and even a ‘de novo’ electoral roll in some cases. However, the EC has seldom ordered a full state intensive revision in a state 4-6 months ahead of assembly elections, as is the case with Bihar.

Factor the last such instances: In June 2004, ECI ordered ‘Intensive Revision of Electoral Rolls‘ in seven northeastern states and J&K.

Alongside, it ordered a ‘special summary revision‘ in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, West Bengal, and Union Territories of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Daman & Diu, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, NCT of Delhi, Lakshadweep and Pondicherry.Prior to that, ‘intensive revision’ of the electoral rolls was conducted in 20 other states/UTs, including Bihar, in two phases during 2002 and 2003, except the northeastern states and J&K.

BIHAR 2025- A unique case
The 2025 SIR in Bihar is different on several counts. While an ‘intensive’ revision mostly involves a ‘de novo’ exercise, drawing up a fresh electoral roll from the scratch, the Bihar SIR is using the 2002-03 electoral roll as a base to build upon. At the same time, it involves a new pre-printed enumeration form included in the usual house-to-house verification format and document submission, associated with an ‘intensive’ revision. It is, also, very different from previous intensive revision exercises in terms of timing.

EC has seldom ordered a full state and full-scale intensive revision in a state 4-6 months ahead of scheduled assembly elections, as is the case with Bihar. Bihar saw its last intensive revision in 2002, a good three years away from the assembly polls held in October 2005.
Similarly, when the EC, on June 29, 2004 announced an intensive roll revision in eight states, it chose to leave out two states which were pending a similar intensive roll revision. These were Arunachal Pradesh & Maharashtra where assembly polls were due in October 2004.
“In Arunachal Pradesh and Maharashtra, general elections to the assemblies are to be held in the latter half of 2004. Therefore, the programme in these two states will be announced after the completion of the elections,” the EC press note on 29.06.2004 read.
Instead, a ‘special summary revision of rolls’ was announced for Maharashtra ahead of the October 2024 assembly polls with house-to-house enumeration, as per the September-December 2004 EC newsletter.

The EC has, in fact, often conducted ‘intensive’ revision in certain areas of a state. In Tamil Nadu- after inquiry reports indicated ‘shortcomings in the conduct of different levels of election officers at the time of intensive revision of electoral rolls in 2002’- the poll panel on October 19, 2004 ordered a ‘special revision of intensive nature with house-to-house enumeration’ in six municipal corporation areas across 33 constituencies, spanning parts of Chennai, Salem, Coimbatore, Tiruchirappalli, Madurai, and Tirunelveli.

In the aftermath of Gujarat riots, the ECI on August 16,2002, announced a repeat of the 2002 ‘special revision of intensive nature’.

Types Of Electoral Roll Revisions

Intensive Revision: It’s usually a de-novo process without reference to earlier existing roll; involves at least 2 household verification visits by booth-level officer

Summary Revision: Roll is simply updated; no house-to-house enumeration but objections are addressed before final roll publication

Special Summary Revision: EC can order so if it finds inaccuracies or poor coverage of any area. EC can adopt changes in existing procedure

Partly Intensive and Partly Summary Revision: Existing electoral rolls are published in draft and checked through household verification and put through claims/objection process

Roll revision chronology

1950
Originally Section 23 of Representation of the People Act, 1950 provided for annual revision with March 1 as qualifying date

1952
After first gen election in 1952, EC directed that from 1952 to 1956, annual revision of electoral rolls should cover 1/5th of entire state area so that every locality might have its electoral roll intensively revised at least once before 2nd gen polls

1956
EC directed intensive revision of rolls every year in some areas where electoral rolls were likely to become inaccurate: (i) Urban Areas (ii) Areas with floating labour population (iii) Areas where fairly large movements of population had taken place

1957
Post 1957: Lok Sabha polls: EC directed that during each of the three following years, the electoral rolls of 1/3rd of the entire state area be revised intensively, while during 1961 the revision would be intensive only in urban areas, areas with floating, migratory population and service voters

1960
Following amendments to RP Act, 1950, EC ordered annual revision of rolls between January 1 and Jan 31 of the year

1962
Post 1962 LS Polls: EC directed ‘summary revision’ adequate for 1963 and 1964. In 1965 intensive revision conducted again in 40% of the country; the rest 60% was done in 1966

1966
Post 1966: District Election Officer appointed in each district and summary roll revision conducted in 1969-70 and 1975

1976
Emergency: no Lok Sabha polls in 1976; EC held summary roll revision

1983
1983 on: Staggered intensive revision of all rural constituencies ahead of 1985 LS polls

1987-88
All constituencies revised intensively; special revision in 1989

1992
Summary revision ordered followed by intensive revision in 1993 along with introduction of EPIC card

1995
Intensive Revision comes in

1999-2000
Amid computerisation electoral rolls, no intensive revision in 1999, 2000

2002
Special intensive revision in 20 states; intensive revision in 7 states in 2003-04