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Deputy Minister for Digital Transition and Administrative Reform, Ms. Ghita Mezzour, and Chairman of Indian IT giant, Hindustan Computers Limited (HCL Technologies), Ms. Roshni Nadar Malhotr presided, on Saturday in Noida in India, the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding relating to the implementation of an investment project in Morocco.
The project aims to create thousands of high value-added jobs in the outsourcing sector, particularly in the field of coding, software and IT services.
The ceremony took place in the presence of the Ambassador of Morocco in India, Mr. Mohamed Maliki and representatives of the Moroccan Agency for the Development of Investments and Exports and MedZ (Moroccan leader in the planning and development of parks outsourcing).
This memorandum of understanding marks the installation in Morocco of an Indian outsourcing giant, which operates in fifty countries and employs more than 200,000 people worldwide with a turnover of more than 11 billion dollars. in 2022.
HCL Technologies thus plans to establish a “delivery center” in Morocco, with the aim of producing high value-added technological services for its global customers, said a press release from the Ministry of Digital Transition and Reform. Administration.
The company also intends to invest in the initial and continuous training of Moroccan talents in the digital field, the same source said.
This strategic initiative by HCL Technologies will enable it to extend its production and delivery capacities on a global scale, relying on the strategic position of the Kingdom through its geographical proximity to Europe, its status as a gateway to the rest of the African continent, as well as its connectivity and the wealth of Moroccan IT talent.
This new partnership is in line with the Royal Vision of HM King Mohammed VI, who called for promoting Morocco as a preferred destination for foreign investment in new markets such as India.
This memorandum of understanding marks an important strategic choice for the Indian market, which represents more than 52% of the global IT outsourcing market. For its part, Morocco is now among the top 3 outsourcing destinations in Africa.
This memorandum of understanding was concluded within the framework of the visit of a Moroccan economic delegation to the Republic of India, led by Ms. Mezzour.
The media office of the Minister of Interior and Municipalities in the caretaker government, Judge Bassam Mawlawi, issued the following:
The security forces prove once once more that they are on the lookout for all attempts to smuggle drugs and contraband. Today, in a qualitative operation, they managed to thwart an attempt to smuggle 18.3 kilograms of Captagon pills into the State of Kuwait, through Rafic Hariri International Airport.
Mawlawi points out that during the initial investigations, it was found that the arrested Saudi national is residing in Kuwait and in possession of Kuwaiti security papers.
In light of this, Mawlawi contacted the competent Kuwaiti authorities in the context of coordinating and continuing the necessary investigations, which denies what some are circulating that the arrested person is a Saudi security man.
Minister Mawlawi affirms that work is continuing to protect our Arab societies from all kinds of harm, stressing that Lebanon will not be a corridor or platform for the export of evil or smuggling.
In the morning, the Internal Security Forces at Rafic Hariri International Airport managed to arrest a person of Arab nationality, who was trying to smuggle a large quantity of Captagon pills to an Arab country.
An indication that the security and military services at the airport continue to play their role intensively to detect individuals and networks that attempt to smuggle or enter drugs and other contraband.
3 people were arrested in Adonis: Subsequently, LBCI information indicated that three Arab nationals were arrested in the Adonis area, a Jordanian girl and a girl and her brother of Iraqi nationality, on the grounds that they were suspected of arresting the Saudi and seized 18.3 kilograms of Captagon pills in his possession at the airport.
The information also revealed that the Saudi detainee, during his interrogation, denied his knowledge of the presence of Captagon pills in his bag.
Several United States media identified this Saturday Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, the police chief of the Uvalde School District (Texas) whose decision to delay the entry of the agents to the shooting classroom for almost an hour was branded by the authorities of “wrong.”
Both CNN and Fox News assured that the “police officer” whom the Texas Department of Public Safety accused on Friday of having made the decision not to enter the classroom is Arredondo.
The police chief of the School District acted as spokesman for the investigation before the media for a few hours just following the massacre on Tuesday, which left 19 students and 2 teachers dead, but since then he has not been seen since.
Yesterday, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Steven McCraw, acknowledged that not breaking down the door and waiting for the concierge to arrive with the key was a “wrong decision” and blamed it on the highest police officer who at that time was He was at school, whose name he did not give.
According to McCraw, following having heard multiple shots in the classroom and that they only went to the door when the agents tried to access, the aforementioned chief interpreted that there was no one left alive except the aggressor.
This interpretation led him to decide to change the protocol from “active attacker” to “entrenched suspect”, so instead of breaking down the door and breaking in, exposing his officers to the assailant’s shots, he opted to wait for the assailant to arrive. the key and the reinforcements with the appropriate equipment.
“(The police chief) considered that there was time and that there were no more children in danger. Obviously, there were and the attacker was still active. It was a wrong decision and there is no excuse that is worth, “Mcraw acknowledged.
The 21 fatalities of the shooting were in the same classroom, but when the police finally gained access, they also found children alive.
Alert calls to the Police were made even from within the classroom by some students.
During the hour in which the Police waited for reinforcements and made no attempt to enter the classroom by force, there were 19 officers in the school.
After entering the classroom, Salvador Ramos -as the aggressor has been identified- closed the door from the inside and fired indiscriminately at the students and teachers.
The actions of the Police are being the subject of numerous and angry criticisms by families and the general public on social networks and the media, considering that the Security Forces might have acted more quickly.
Yesterday, the governor of Texas, Republican Greg Abbott, pointed out that it is necessary to guarantee “a thorough investigation” of the police response to the shooting.
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