Author: Bakava

From May 1, JSC “KazTransOil” has raised tariffs for oil export and transit through Kazakhstan, the company’s press service reported. From May 1, the tariff for filling oil into railway tanks at the station named after T. Kasymova is 1213.20 tenge per ton (previously the tariff was 409.57 tenge). At the station named after T. Kasymov, the cost of pouring oil into the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (KPC) system without heating is 263.49 tenge per ton (previously 122.91 tenge). And the heating of oil into the KPC system will cost 320.09 tenge per ton (previously 128.43 tenge). At the “Makat”…

An aid worker in Turkey helping earthquake survivors said the amount of support needed made his team “feel helpless”. Junaid Butt, from Birmingham, arrived at Adana airport on Wednesday with other members of Mercy Relief. They are taking food and blankets to thousands of people left homeless. “The amount of need here is just immense and overwhelming, especially for a small charity of our size,” he said. They have helped prepare and distribute more than 1,500 meals a day. “But it’s not enough, it’s not even remotely enough,” Mr Butt said. He said huge amounts of money and manpower are…

A small Indian IT company provides hacking services and has hacked over 10,000 email accounts in eight years. Delhi-registered BellTroX InfoTech Services attacked European government officials, Bahamas casino moguls and high-profile US investors, including companies such as KKR and Muddy Waters. This was reported to Reuters news agency by three former employees of the company and third-party researchers. BellTroX attacks on US targets are currently under investigation, but the Justice Department has not commented on the situation. In a telephone conversation with Reuters reporters, BellTroX owner Sumit Gupta declined to name the company’s customers, but said it was not doing…

Dozens of Lebanese teachers demonstrated in front of the headquarters of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Beirut on Friday (20 January) to demand better wages and pay them in dollars, Anadolu News Agency reports. The teachers of Syrian refugee children working in the afternoon classes have been paid by UNICEF, in addition to their salary from the Lebanese government. One of the protesters, teacher Shahira Zaiter, who comes from Baalbek province in eastern Lebanon, said the Ministry has been paying their wages for about eight years without any problems, but that the wages have become very low due…