Focus on social media to raise public s awareness: BJP to workers
Solan, Feb 25 (UNI) Faced with mounting pressure of retaining power in the upcoming assembly and civic body polls in Himachal, the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) leadership asked the party’s rank and file to focus on social media to reach out to the masses and to effectively counter the negative propaganda of the opposition parties.
The party leadership felt that in the current scenario of growing significance of media in democracy, the party workers should be well versed in the use of all tools including social media to make people aware about the policies and programmes of the BJP government.
Whangārei District Council bylaw bans summer freedom camping in some areas
25 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Freedom campers will be banned from Kowharewa Bay, on the Tutukaka coast, over summer under a new Whangārei District Council bylaw. Photo / file.
Susan Botting is the Local Democracy Reporter for Northlandsusan.botting@northernadvocate.co.nz
Peak season summer freedom camping will be banned along Tutukaka Coast under Whangārei District Council s new Camping in Public Places Bylaw.
Freedom camping will be banned for almost two months annually at about five of the coast s dozen sites along one of the district s most demand-challenged coastal hotspots.
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Biotech Vividion lands $135M in crossover cash, paving a path to the public markets
Vividion Therapeutics has technology that enables it to develop drugs for “undruggable” disease targets. The Series C financing is a crossover round, an indication a biotech is preparing for an IPO.
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Vividion Therapeutics has technology that finds ways to hit promising disease targets that were previously deemed “undruggable.” Now it has $135 million that might allow it to find something else: a public stock listing.
The Series C round of financing announced Wednesday included so-called crossover investors, firms that invest in both public and private companies. Securing crossover investment is one of the steps companies take as they prepare for an IPO.
(Business in Cameroon) - The Cameroonian public treasury plans to raise XAF225 billion on the BEAC public securities market via the issuance of long-term securities in H1-2021. According to the official release published by the Directorate General of the Treasury, the funds will be raised through a series of 5 to 10-year maturity securities.
The country will open this long-term financing operation on February 24, 2021, with the issuance of 5-year bonds. With these bonds backed by a 5.5% interest rate, the government hopes to raise XAF50 billion in the said market.
Two new operations are scheduled for March 2021. The first will be carried out on March 10 and the second on March 24. During the first operation, the country will issue 7-year bonds backed by a 7% interest rate in a bid to raise XAF35 billion. For the second operation, the country will seek XAF40 billion via issuance of 5-year bonds backed by a 5.5% interest rate.