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Business Wire
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
MITER Brands to attend and sponsor Southeast Building Conference
KISSIMMEE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MITER Brands, a residential window and door manufacturer, recently announced its upcoming attendance at the Southeast Build Conference (SEBC), taking place at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Kissimmee, Florida, on July 24 - 25, 2025. "The Southeast Builders Conference has always provided a valuable platform for us to engage with our dedicated dealers and industry professionals," said Brian Covey, VP of Sales for MITER Brands. Share MITER Brands is exhibiting products from its PGT Custom Windows and Doors and MI Windows and Doors brands at the annual event. SEBC is the largest industry trade show in the southeast, attracting more than 6,000 individuals, and offers attendees the opportunity to connect with new customers who are experienced professionals and leaders in the building industry. PGT products have been exhibited in this show for more than 15 years, and for the 2025 event, MITER Brands will serve as a gold sponsor. "The Southeast Builders Conference has always provided a valuable platform for us to engage with our dedicated dealers and industry professionals," said Brian Covey, VP of Sales for MITER Brands. "We're thrilled to present our most sought-after products at the event this year, showcasing the innovative design and quality that PGT and MI are known for." Attendees are invited to stop by booth no. 707 to view a number of products from PGT, including the PGT 5540 Vinyl Casement Window, PGT HR5410 Roller Window, and the PGT SGD5470 Sliding Glass Door. Products from MI Windows and Doors will also be on display, including the MI 3540 Single-Hung Vinyl Window and MI 1620 Vinyl Single-Hung Window. Additionally, Brian and Mika Kleinschmidt, custom home designers featured on popular HGTV shows, including 100 Day Dream Home and Rock the Block, as well as brand partners of PGT, will also be in attendance. About MITER Brands Founded in 1947, MITER Brands is a residential window and door manufacturer that produces a portfolio of window and door brands for the new construction and replacement segments with an owner-operated, family-first approach. With more than 20 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States, MITER Brands is a nationwide supplier of precision-built and energy-efficient products. Through optimized manufacturing, valued relationships, and dedicated team members coast to coast, MITER Brands instills confidence and drives quality customer experiences. The name 'MITER' is an acronym reflecting five of our core strengths: Manufacturing, Innovation, Trust, Experiences, and Relationships. For more information, visit About PGT Custom Windows and Doors PGT Custom Windows and Doors, part of the MITER Brands portfolio, is America's authority in high-performance windows and doors. With decades of proven industry leadership and over 8+ million units installed, PGT Custom Windows and Doors has a consistent track record of leading the space with an unwavering focus on safety and innovation. Its product lines include WinGuard® aluminum and vinyl frames for impact resistant windows, ClassicVue Max™ aluminum frames for non-impact windows, and EnergyVue® vinyl frames for non-impact windows. PGT Custom Windows and Doors has a primary focus of protecting families' lifestyle choices with a commitment of delivering industry-best service. Backed by innovative technology, homeowners can enjoy their home life with greater peace of mind, wherever they choose to live, knowing they are protected from storms, noise, and intrusion. For more information, visit About MI WINDOWS MI Windows and Doors, part of the MITER Brands portfolio, is one of the nation's largest suppliers of precision-built and energy-efficient residential windows and doors. With four manufacturing plants located in the Central and Eastern United States, MI offers stylish, high-performance, and market-preferred products for both new construction and replacement applications. For more information, visit
Time of India
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Pleas of GSECL staff to retain jobs after invalid caste certificates junked
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has rejected a petition filed by 18 employees of the Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Ltd (GSECL) seeking to retain their jobs despite their caste certificates being declared invalid. The petitioners argued that they had served as Vidyut Sahayaks for 15 years and requested not to be terminated, but to instead be accommodated in the general category. They were originally appointed under the Socially and Economically Backward Class (SEBC) category, claiming to belong to the Sindha community. However, their services were terminated after a scrutiny committee found their SEBC certificates to be invalid. While dismissing the petition, Justice Sandeep Bhatt stated, "The petitioners are continued on the posts on which they were appointed on the basis of the caste certificates, which were held to be illegal by the scrutiny committee, because of which, the rights of the genuinely deserving persons of the said community were infringed. The persons who are possessing genuine caste certificates have been waiting for their turn to be appointed but due to the petitioners, whose caste certificates are held illegal, being continued, they could not be given a chance to be appointed i.e. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like An engineer reveals: One simple trick to get internet without a subscription Techno Mag Learn More Undo the wrong are given the benefit and the right are deprived of the benefit." You Can Also Check: Ahmedabad AQI | Weather in Ahmedabad | Bank Holidays in Ahmedabad | Public Holidays in Ahmedabad The high court did not find any illegality or arbitrariness in the govt's decision to terminate the petitioners' services. Notably, the petitioners' SEBC caste certificates were found invalid as early as 2012—two years after they joined service. There were multiple rounds of litigation, up to the Supreme Court. During the pendency of these legal proceedings, the petitioners were allowed to continue in their jobs. At one stage, a division bench of the high court suggested the govt consider accommodating them under the general category, but the administration found this unfeasible. The employees then filed a fresh petition earlier this year seeking continuation of service. In this regard, Justice Bhatt observed, "This plea is not available to the petitioners, as—actually speaking—deducting the period of litigation, they effectively worked only two years. For the rest of the years, they have been working on sympathy only."
Time of India
26-06-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
SC to hear plea on Maratha reservation in Maharashtra in July
The Supreme Court on Thursday decided to hear in July a plea over the issue of Maratha reservation in Maharashtra . The matter came up for urgent listing before a bench of Justices K V Viswanathan and N Kotiswar Singh. The counsel appearing in the case referred to a June 11 order of the Bombay High Court deciding to hear afresh the pleas against the constitutional validity of the law providing Maratha reservation from July 18. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Klang: Unsold Furniture Liquidation 2024 (Prices May Surprise You) Unsold Furniture | Search Ads Learn More Undo The lawyer informed the bench that the apex court had previously asked the high court to constitute a bench and hear the matter on interim relief. He said the high court declined to grant any interim relief in the matter and would continue to hear the matter. Live Events The top court posted the matter for the July 14 week. A special bench of the high court was constituted last month to hear and decide the pleas related to the Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) Act, 2024. The 2024 law, which provided 10 per cent reservation in education and government jobs to the Maratha community , constituting nearly one-third of Maharashtra's population, had been at the forefront of political discourse last year during the Lok Sabha and the assembly elections. Last year, a full bench headed by then High Court Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya commenced hearing the challenge to the law on the ground that the Maratha community was not a backward one that requires benefits of reservation. The pleas also claimed that Maharashtra has already crossed the 50 per cent cap on reservation. However, the hearing came to a standstill after Chief Justice Upadhyaya was transferred to the Delhi High Court in January. On May 14, the apex court directed the high court to constitute a special bench and urgently hear the matter. In March last year, when the petitions against the reservation were filed, the high court in an interim order said that applications for NEET 2024 admission to undergraduate medical courses, in which a 10 per cent reservation granted to members of the Maratha community was applicable, would be subject to further orders in the pleas challenging the law. On April 16, 2024, the full bench also clarified that till further orders, any applications for admissions to educational institutions or jobs at government authorities taking benefit of the Act will be subject to further orders in the present proceedings. The SEBC Act was passed on February 20 last year. It was formulated by then chief minister Eknath Shinde-led government based on a report of the retired Justice Sunil Shukre-led Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission (MSBCC) that found "exceptional circumstances and extraordinary situations exist" to grant reservation to the Maratha community in excess of 50 per cent total reservation in the state. In December 2018, a batch of petitions was filed in the high court challenging the earlier SEBC Act of 2018 that granted Marathas 16 per cent reservation in government jobs and education. In June 2018, the high court upheld the 2018 Act but reduced the quota to 12 per cent in education and 13 per cent in government jobs. This was challenged in the apex court, which in May 2021 struck down the entire Act. A review petition filed by the Maharashtra government was also rejected by the Supreme Court in May 2023.
Hans India
26-06-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
SC agrees to hear plea against Maratha quota law in July
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear, in July, a plea challenging the decision of the Bombay High Court, which had directed that the interim order passed last year, allowing the Maratha community to avail 10 per cent reservation in educational institutions and public employment, will continue to remain in force. After a lawyer mentioned the matter for urgent listing, a Bench of Justices K.V. Viswanathan and N.K. Singh assured of listing the plea on the re-opening of the top court (i.e. after July 14). In an order passed on June 11 this year, the Bombay High Court allowed the Maratha community to provisionally avail the benefit of 10 per cent reservation, subject to the final outcome of the petitions challenging the validity of the contentious Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backwards Classes (SEBC) Act, 2024. The SEBC Act, allowing 10 per cent quota for the Maratha community, was passed by the previous Eknath Shinde-led government in February last year after the Justice (retd) Sunil Shukre-led Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission (MSBCC) opined that "exceptional circumstances and extraordinary situations exist" to grant benefit of quota to Maratha community beyond the 50 per cent threshold. Notably, the Supreme Court had struck down a similar quota law enacted by the Maharashtra legislature in 2018 for having breached the 50 per cent cap fixed in the 1992 landmark Indra Sawhney case (Mandal Commission case). A five-judge Constitution Bench, in its judgment passed in May 2021, had opined that it could not find any exceptional circumstances or extraordinary situation for allowing a 12-13 per cent quota for the Maratha community and struck down the Maharashtra Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) Act, 2018. Further, the Supreme Court had declared that states do not have the power to prepare lists for socially and educationally backward classes and ruled that the President had the sole power to identify a community as backward. It had also declined to entertain the review plea moved by the Maharashtra government seeking a relook at the judgment. Before this, the apex court had dismissed a plea by the Union government seeking reconsideration of the May 5, 2021, judgment.
Hans India
24-06-2025
- Business
- Hans India
Make sports a career, CM urges youth
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Monday said the students and youths can now think of making sports a career apart from getting employment in industries by availing various skill training imparted by the State government. Majhi said this while addressing the State-level 'Yuva Shakti Samabesh' (Youth Power Congregation) at Aska where he laid the foundation stone for various development projects valued at Rs 550 crore for Ganjam district. Describing Odisha as a State having endless possibilities, Majhi said his government has been giving much importance to sports and therefore spending a lot for developing sports infrastructure across the State. The State has been constructing stadiums in all 314 blocks of Odisha and for the purpose, Rs 4,124 crore has been earmarked to be spent in four years, he said. With facilities available in blocks and gram panchayat levels, the Chief Minister said the village youths can also get opportunities and exhibit their talent in sports. 'They can easily make sports as a career, earn name, fame along with money,' Majhi said, adding that apart from cricket, hockey and football, the State is also promoting Kabaddi and other games. Encouraging the youth, Majhi said that one should know his or her own talent and work for its development. He said of the 4.5 crore population of Odisha, around 1.70 crore people are in the age group of 15-35 years. 'When more than one and a half crore youth become successful, then Odisha will become the growth engine of India, developed as the best State in the country,' he said. Highlighting the industrialisation of the State, he said 13 lakh employment opportunities will be created when an investment of Rs 17 lakh crore is grounded in the State. The investment intents have come through Make In Odisha Conclave and the State government has not wasted a single moment to implement the proposals, the Chief Minister said. Majhi said his government, during one year, has already provided government jobs to 28,346 youths and committed to give jobs to 1.5 lakh youths in five years. The Chief Minister said the State has set a goal of becoming $500 billion economy by 2036 and $1.5 trillion economy by 2047. Therefore, the youths will have a key role in achieving this goal of Odisha, he said. On this occasion, Majhi laid the foundation stone for various development projects which include those for irrigation and road widening. He asked officials to prepare a revised detailed project report for the development of Maa Tara Tarini temple. The Chief Minister said the State will provide for a world-class industrial training institute at Polsara. Attacking the previous BJD regime, the Chief Minister said the BJP government, within one year, has already provided 11.25 reservations for the students belonging to the Socially and Economically Backward Class (SEBC) category. 'The previous BJD government failed to give justice to SEBCs in 24 years, while we have done it in one year,' Majhi claimed. Steel and Mines Minister Bibhuti Bhushan Jena, Sports and Youth Services Minister Suryabanshi Suraj and others attended the programme.
