On Wednesday, the German taxi drivers are planning a protest against Uber. They are saying that this will help in generating unfair competitions from taxi-sharing services.
BZP, The German Taxi and Rental Car Association have urged the taxi drivers in around 30 German cities to take up protest plans to liberalize the taxi market.
BZP said that a rally in Berlin was the largest action in Germany. In this 5,000 taxis are critisized to drive at walking speed from three starting points – Tegel Airport, Olympisches Dorf and Ostbahnhof – to the Brandenburg Gate, reported the Berliner Morgenpost.
Newspapers reported the words of a taxi driver as “I’ve done my job for 20 years and I would like to do it for another 20 years, but I’m skeptical about whether that will be possible with the current situation”.
BZP demands that every person who commercially transports people with their vehicle should be qualified verifiable to do so. Also they demands commercial passenger transport vehicles must have coloured vehicle registration plates, for identification. The electronic central register for goods and passenger transport companies by bus should also be included to taxi and rental car operators.
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According to ecologists, the wolves returns to Netherlands after 140 years. Out of many European countries, the wolves were hunted, over a century ago. But they are gradually migrating back across the continental mainland.
The researchers found out that the wolves aren’t just passing by through months of tracking and collecting DNA samples. These wolves are back as permanent residents.
Reports said that occasional wolf sightings have been arranged in the Netherlands since 2015. Ecologists had been following two females in the Veluwe area. They are collecting the wolf prints and scat (droppings) from which they can identify DNA.
Mirte Kruit, an ecologist said, “It’s like Tinder. It can say if it’s a male or female, are they single and looking for a mate and about their family”. A male wolf had also been identified in the area.
A cohabitation plan had been formed by the French Government in February last year set a target wolf population of 500 by 2023. It is supposed that this number may be reached or surpassed by this Winter. If that is confirmed, France is proposing to increase the cull rate from 12% to 17%.
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The leaders of EU had taken decisions to grant permissions to Theresa May for Brexit delay. France urges for conditions to limit Britain’s ability to undermine the bloc.
Prime Minister Theresa May dashed to Berlin and Paris for a meetup with Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron to ask for permission to allow UK to put off its divorce from April 12.
It is not yet clear about what Merkel and Macron had agreed with May. A draft seen by reuters read, “The United Kingdom shall facilitate the achievement of the Union’s tasks and refrain from any measure which could jeopardise the attainment of the Union’s objectives”.
A Brexit delay to June 30 was asked by May to the EU. But the draft left the end-date blank pending a decision by the other 27 national leaders on Wednesday evening in Brussels.
May had said that she fears Brexit might never happen as she battles to get a divorce deal ratified by a divided parliament, more than a week after Britain was originally supposed to leave the EU.
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Beat well the eggs and milk with a fork or beater. Add into it salt, pepper and nutmeg. Add the flour gently into it in small amounts and mix well with a fork. Add the whole flour till the mixture becomes thick and elastic. Let stand for 5 minutes while bringing a 3 qt pot filled with water to boil.
Add the prepared dough into a spatzle maker and press through. Let the dough hang into the water (be patient, it will fall off by itself, no need to cut it off).
When the noodles rise into the top, the recipe is ready. Strain it well. Transfer it into a bowl. Heat 1 tbsp butter in a large pan. Add chopped onions into it and simmer for 7 minutes. Add spatzle and sprinkle swiss cheese on top. Stir well until all cheese is melted. Garnish it with coriander leaves and serve hot.
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PM Theresa May will be meeting Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor and French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday to have a discussion for Brexit delay while her ministers hold crisis talks with the opposition to try to break the deadlock in London.
May’s proposal for Britain to leave the EU had been declined already. But, Theresa May is asking for yet more time as she courts veteran socialist Jeremy Corbyn, whose opposition Labour Party wants to keep Britain more closely tied to the bloc after Brexit.
Jeremy Corbyn, ahead of further talks between his team and government ministers have said, “The prime minister has not yet moved off her red lines so we can reach a compromise”.
May is due to visit Berlin and Paris ahead of an emergency EU summit in Brussels on Wednesday. The UK lawmakers are planning to hold a 90-minute debate on her proposal to delay Britain’s EU departure date to June 30 from April 12.
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A powerful surveillance app, which was first designed for Android is now targeting the iPhone users, says techcrunch. This spy app, dubbed ‘Exodus’ was discovered by the research team at mobile security firm Lookout. They said that its developer abused their Apple-issued enterprise certificates to bypass the tech giant’s app store to infect unsuspecting victims.
Once installed, this carrier assistance app will take the owner’s personal information, contacts, audio recordings, photos, videos and other device information. The real-time lactation data can also be hacked by this app. The calls may also be leaked. There was no data regarding who might have been targeted.
Zack Whittaker, the security editor at TechCrunch said “Security researchers have discovered a powerful surveillance app first designed for Android devices can now target victims with iPhones”.
“Although the Android version was downloadable directly from Google’s app store, the iOS version was not widely distributed. Instead, Connexxa signed the app with an enterprise certificate issued to the developer by Apple, said Bauer, allowing the surveillance app maker to bypass Apple’s strict app store checks”, said Whittaker.
Many victims were trapped by the Android app, dubbed Exodus, either by installing it or having it installed. According to ‘Security Without Borders’, this spy app has a larger feature set and expanded spying capabilities by downloading an additional exploit designed to gain root access to the device, giving the app near complete access to a device’s data, including emails, cellular data, Wi-Fi passwords and more. Exodus is reportedly made an in Italian company called eSurv.
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Downing Street has said that the Ministers and their shadow counterparts will go on cross-party talks on Tuesday, as they try to break the Brexit deadlock.
The Prime Minister had not accepted the demand of Labour’s customs union, sources said. But, there occurred a move to change the non-binding political declaration.
Jeremy Corbyn, the labour leader said there had been no change in the government’s “red lines”. A spokesman of Downing Street said, government was “committed to finding a way through” which requires both sides “to work at a pace”.
The UK is currently due to leave the EU at 23:00 BST on Friday. The MP’s have not accepted the withdrawal agreement of Theresa May so far.
It has been reported that May would be attending an emergency summit in Brussels on Wednesday. The leaders of EU are expecting fresh plans aimed at ending the impasse in Parliament.
Apart from this, Theresa May will be meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron in Berlin and Paris on Tuesday, to have a discussion regarding this.
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The finance ministry of Mexico plans to tax the digital platforms like Netflix. A senior government official said that the tax plan will be executed in its budget plan for next year.
Arturo Herrera, the Deputy Finance Minister said that Mexico’s total tax take was very much less when compared to other Latin American countries and that it needed to increase the public revenues.
Herrera, on mentioning Netflix said that there so far was no international agreement regarding how to tax digital services, given that their servers may be based in countries such as the United States, but there are customers in other parts of the world.
There was international agreement that countries should be able to levy “interim” taxes on such companies while a broader consensus on the issue is forged, said Herrera.
Herrera said, “And these interim measures are what we’re going to be working on in the coming months”.
Another digital platform that have emerged rapidly in Mexico is ‘Uber’, the online ride service.
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The Romanian police are on massive search along the country’s Black Sea coast after 130kg (286lb) of cocaine was found washed ashore. A large group containing around 300 officers and 14 coastguard ships are patrolling the coastline after finding packets of cocaine along several parts of the seashore.
Police warned the public not to open the packets of narcotics if found. The drug thus found are said to be dangerous to the human health. As per police reports, the cocaine is worth hundreds of millions of euros. The police had arrested two Serbian men in connection with the case. Prosecutors said that the cocaine’s purity is 90%.
The packets are expected to be a part of a cargo of an estimated tonne of cocaine that was present in a deserted ship over two weeks in the past.
The natives who found these packets of cocaine are found to be using these. Police spokesman Georgian Dragan warned the people not to use these drug as it may cause sever damage to health. “These medicine have a excessive focus, greater than 90%, and will pose a menace to life”, he said.
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The yummy scene of White Witch’s ‘Turkish Delight’ is never forgettable by the ‘Narnia’ fans. The Chronicles of Narnia – The Lion, The Witch, The Wardrobe and of course, The ‘TURKISH DELIGHT’ ! Here comes the delicious recipe of ‘Turkish Delight’, from the evergreen movie ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’.
Ingredients:
Sugar : 2½ cups
Cornstarch : 1¼ cup
Water : 2¼ cups
Lemon juice : 3 tablespoons
Pistachios : 3½ oz.
Hazelnuts : 3½ oz.
Orange blossom water : 1 tablespoon
Rose water : 1 tablespoon
Liquid food coloring
Cornstarch : 1 cup
Icing sugar : 1 cup
Preparation:
Before the preparation of the dough itself, take two 6×6 inch molds or boxes with parchment paper (or wax paper). Brush the paper lightly with oil. Spread cornstarch at the bottom of each mold or box lined with parchment paper. Roast the pistachios and hazelnuts seperately for a few minutes in a hot pan. Put them aside.
Boil 1 cup of water and add into it the sugar and lemon juice. Keep a medium flame. wait till the foam forms. Continue cooking until the sugar mixture reduces and thickens but before it changes to a caramel color.
Check on the sugar syrup. The syrup should not cover the bottom of the pan back too quickly as it should not be too liquid. In a bowl, mix 1¼ cup of corn starch with 1¼ cup of cold water and stir well to completely dissolve the cornstarch in the water. Then add this mixture to the syrup prepared above. Reduce heat to low and stir constantly. The mixture will slowly thicken and become more difficult to mix. Stir continuously.
The preparation is ready when it is completely detached from the bottom of the pan. It can take between an hour and an hour and a half. Divide dough into two equal parts. In the first, add a tablespoon of orange blossom water, the roasted pistachios and desired coloring and stir well.
In the second, add a tablespoon of rosewater, roasted hazelnuts. Divide each dough into molds or boxes and smooth the surface as much as possible.
Cover with aluminum foil. Let it dry for 24 hours. Turn the dough over and cut into squares with a large smooth knife. To facilitate cutting, coat the knife with oil with a brush before each slicing.
Pour the small cups of powdered sugar and cornstarch in a dish and mix well. Roll each cut square in this mixture once, then again. You can also put the sugar and cornstarch mixture in a freezer bag and add the squares of Turkish delights in small quantities and mix well to coat completely. Since we are covering the Turkish with a mixture of icing sugar and cornstarch, the color will fade quite a bit. So adding a bit of color will be a good option.
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