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Posted: 27 Jun 2019 08:08 AM PDT

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Amazon Is Building A Surveillance State

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 07:40 AM PDT

The Internet giant is wiring homes, neighborhoods and cities with cameras and microphones, and powering the nation's intelligence services. Are we sure we can trust it?

The Bitter Sibling Rivalry Burning Up An $800 Million Louisiana Oil Dynasty

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 05:31 AM PDT

Looking back on it now, nearly five years later, Bryan can't readily pinpoint exactly when Mark turned on him.

Maniac Drives Seven Miles With The Hand Brake On Just To Find Out What Will Happen

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 07:40 AM PDT

The tire valiantly holds on as long as it can but its sacrifice only goes so far.

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Posted: 27 Jun 2019 04:36 AM PDT

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Impatient Truck Crashes After Cutting Into HOV Lane

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 05:31 AM PDT

A truck driver got sick of waiting in traffic and decided his luck by going into the HOV lane — big mistake.

How Running A Little Bit Every Day For Two Months Changed My Life

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 06:36 AM PDT

When a summer job left her with few other options for exercise, Emily Abbate taught herself to love the open road.

Supreme Court Rules 5-4 That Courts Cannot Police Partisan Gerrymandering

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 07:40 AM PDT

Choosing to keep the courts out of the politics of gerrymandering, the Supreme Court's conservative majority on Thursday said there is no manageable standard for judging when partisanship goes too far in the drawing of electoral maps.

Guy Gives His Dogs A Puzzle To Solve To 'Pay' For Treats, And Its Fascinating To Watch Them Learn

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 07:08 AM PDT

In what he terms "DogCoin Mining," YouTuber DogScientist.com has his Labrador figure out a puzzle to extract a ball, which the dog then uses to "pay" a machine for a treat. It's genius.

Dad Pulls Off An Amazing, Athletic Save To Prevent His Son From Drowning

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 04:35 PM PDT

When Albert Passavanti saw his 1-year-old son fall into his pool, he leaped over a tall fence and dived into the pool in the quickest of reflexes.

Winners And Losers From The Democratic Presidential Debate's First Night

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 05:02 AM PDT

The first night of the first debate of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary is over. Here are the winners and losers from last night.

Here's The First Trailer For The Upcoming 'Charlie's Angels' Reboot

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 06:53 AM PDT

Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and newcomer Ella Balinska star in the film.

Google's New reCAPTCHA Has A Dark Side

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 07:08 AM PDT

The latest version of the bot detector reCaptcha is invisible to users and has spread to more than 650,000 websites. It's great for security — but not so great for your privacy.

Inside The Deadly World Of India's Sand Mining Mafia

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 05:31 AM PDT

Sand is a lucrative commodity in India. It fuels a black market that is both preyed on and protected by goons.

Learn How To Be An Ethical Hacker With This Training

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 04:36 AM PDT

Hacking is a major security concern for most companies: this Ultimate Ethical Hacking A to Z Certification Bundle shows you how hackers launch attacks on different systems and what tools they use — so you can stop them in their tracks. Enroll in all the included courses for just $39.

Wayne Rooney Is Still Too Good For The MLS, Scores From Across Midfield

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 06:11 PM PDT

The former Premier League star still has a lot of power in his right leg.

The Making Of A Russian Spy

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 04:36 AM PDT

An ethnic Russian serving in Estonia's military had something to hide. Now he's in prison as a convicted traitor.

I Was Lured Into Monsanto's GMO Crusade. Here's What I Learned

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 06:36 AM PDT

It wasn't until long after I first met Vance Crowe, at the 2016 conference for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in Las Vegas, that I realized he was trying to win me over.

Hippo Harasses A Rhino, Quickly Regrets It

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 11:58 AM PDT

Safari-goers in South Africa's Kruger National Park got a spectacular view of a standoff between the two heavyweights.

Girl Brings Home A Dead Squirrel, Traumatizes Her Whole Family

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 05:41 AM PDT

​"CLAIRE, PUT THE DEAD SQUIRREL DOWN!"

AOC Responds To The Democratic Debates On 'Colbert'

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 06:32 AM PDT

Who does the representative believe distinguished themselves from the rest of the pack, in ways both good and bad?

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Posted: 27 Jun 2019 04:36 AM PDT

In celebration of the summer season, Huckberry's wide selection of travel bags are being discounted significantly for a limited time. Whether you're headed out camping or simply to the airport, these bags are a steal.

Millennials Are Finally Getting The Giant Roll Of Toilet Paper They Deserve

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 05:31 AM PDT

The inside story on how Charmin came up with a giant roll that lasts a month.

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How To Sous Vide Steak

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 06:19 AM PDT

This technique requires a good bit of expensive equipment but, based on looks of this steak, we're thinking it might be worth it.

FAA Discovers Another Potential Risk With The Boeing 737 Max

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 05:31 AM PDT

Reports suggest a microprocessor issue may cause the plane to point downwards.

Lamborghini Driver Shows Off His Acceleration, Crashes Into A Wall

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 09:06 AM PDT

The proud owner of a $330,000 Lamborghini Huracan became the embarrassed owner of a damaged Lamborghini Huracan.

How Idris Elba Became The Coolest Man In Hollywood

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 06:36 AM PDT

From prestige TV to tentpole franchises to the Coachella DJ tent, the British actor is a poster boy for 21st-century fame: multidisciplinary, omnipresent, engaging. So what does Idris Elba want to do next? And what do we want from him?

The Surprisingly Controversial History Of The Midi-Length Skirt

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 06:53 AM PDT

In the early 1970s, women protested the fashion industry for forcing long skirts on them.

Fisherman Tries To Reel In Fish, Loses To Hungry Killer Whale

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 03:28 PM PDT

Finders keepers rule don't really apply on the sea.

The Guy Who Bought A Monorail For $1,000

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 11:21 AM PDT

In 2015, Gabe Emerson called up the Minnesota Zoo and asked to buy their monorail.

A Gas Heist Gone Wrong, An Explosion And 137 Deaths In Mexico

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 05:31 AM PDT

A fatal fuel leak at a Pemex pipeline highlights the dangers of the illegal siphoning trade.

The Richest Person In Every State

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 05:02 AM PDT

While some states are home to multiple high-profile billionaires, you only need a nine-figure net worth to take the top spot in Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Vermont.

Desperate Incels Have Turned To 'Chadfishing' Women On Dating Apps

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 05:02 AM PDT

They're tricking victims into chatting up attractive men with supposedly horrible pasts, then sharing their nudes. Now, Reddit and Discord are cracking down.

This Horrifying App Undresses A Photo Of Any Woman With A Single Click

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 03:28 PM PDT

The $50 DeepNude app dispenses with the idea that deepfakes were about anything besides claiming ownership over women's bodies.

Can Industrial Farming Be A Force For Good?

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 05:02 AM PDT

Big Ag is ruining our air, water, and land. Where do we go from here?

Freighter Bids Adieu To The Surface World, Begins Its New Life As An Artificial Reef

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 11:34 AM PDT

The metal beast prepares to host an entirely different set of passengers.

Mark Cuban And 2 Chainz Check Out Some Of The Most Expensive Horses In The World

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 01:26 PM PDT

You're telling us that people are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on horses to win a few measly ribbons?

This Camera App Uses AI To Erase People From Your Photographs

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 05:02 AM PDT

Finally, you can take a selfie without yourself.

Slender Man For Boomers

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 05:02 AM PDT

QAnon email forwards have started to resemble a spontaneous boomer recreation of creepypasta.

Consumers Are Becoming Wise To Your Nudge

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 05:02 AM PDT

Any behavioral intervention can backfire if people think it is a cynical ploy.

Med Students Are Doing Vaginal Exams On Unconscious, Non-Consenting Patients

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 05:02 AM PDT

The practice is still legal in 42 states despite decades-long ethical concerns. In the #MeToo era, things are starting to change.

Julián Castro Calls Out Beto O'Rourke For Not Doing His Homework On Immigration Policy

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 07:28 PM PDT

The two presidential Democratic candidates clashed on Section 1325, a policy that criminalizes illegal entry into the US.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon And Nicholas Holt Compete To Bring Electricity To The World In 'The Current War'

Posted: 25 Jun 2019 01:30 PM PDT

They play Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla, respectively.

48 Years Ago Four Friends Set Off On A Road Trip. Three Returned

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 08:31 AM PDT

A reporter returns all these years later to the scene of a personal tragedy, and to the friends who have been living with the memory of that moment ever since.

The Best Book To Read At Every Age, From One To 100

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 04:35 PM PDT

Here are our picks for worthwhile books to read during each year of life, from one to 100, along with some of the age-appropriate wisdom they impart.

This Vintage Clip Of David Attenborough Explaining Termite Architecture Is As Fascinating As It Is Horrifying

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 02:21 PM PDT

We don't advise you watch this clip unless you are prepared to see the massive, wriggly monster that is a termite queen.

How A 'The Sims' Machinima About A Pregnant 16-Year-Old Spawned A Soap Opera Dynasty

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 05:31 AM PDT

These two sisters are rewriting the soap opera rulebook with "The Sims."

Why All World Maps Are Wrong

Posted: 21 Jun 2019 12:13 PM PDT

Greenland and Africa are not the same size. Not by a long shot.

The Problem With 'Most Livable' City Rankings

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:40 PM PDT

What does it really mean when certain kinds of cities keep getting ranked as the world's "most livable"?

Analysis Of The First 2020 Democratic Debate

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:55 PM PDT

Live updates and analysis from FiveThirtyEight on the first Democratic debate tonight.

How The Impossible Burger Became A Big Deal

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 04:35 PM PDT

How David Chang, Michael Symon and Chris Cosentino helped sell foodie types on the Impossible Burger.

Here's What It Looked Like To Watch The World's Most Powerful Rocket Launch

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 02:21 PM PDT

It all transpired directly above our heads — incredible power and brilliantly orchestrated engineering.

Let's Fix All The Bird Logos In Pro Sports

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 01:04 PM PDT

There are 12 teams across the Big Four leagues named after birds, and to be honest, it's a pretty raw deal for the birds.

Alanis Morissette On Pregnancy At 45, Childbirth, Postpartum Depression And #MeToo

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:40 PM PDT

In (vulnerable, emotional, ecstatic) conversation with the musical icon.

These Seven Bathroom Gadgets Will Give Your Grooming Routine Vim, Vigor And Sass

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 02:14 PM PDT

Cut your nails, listen to music and get ALL the toothpaste with these bathroom buddies.

This Board Game Changes Every Time You Play It

Posted: 25 Jun 2019 12:39 PM PDT

Risk Legacy is a reimagining of the classic board game Risk. Instead of starting over entirely for each new game, the fallout from the previous game will alter the world in the new one.

This All-Wood Safe Comes To You Broken Into 179 Pieces — On Purpose

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 01:55 PM PDT

It'll take six to seven hours and nary a drop of glue to put this working safe together.

Latest World News, World News, Current Affairs, Daily Current Affairs

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 04:25 AM PDT

Latest World News, World News, Current Affairs, Daily Current Affairs


A Look At China's 'Hidden Navy'

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 03:00 AM PDT

Yu Ruowang/CHINA NEWS SERVICE/VCG

Gregory Poling, Foreign Policy: China's Hidden Navy

The evidence shows that supposed fishing boats around contested islands are part of an extensive maritime militia.

The Spratly Islands, occupied by five different claimants, are the most hotly contested part of the South China Sea. Thanks to the harbors and supporting infrastructure Beijing constructed on its outposts there over the last five years, most vessels operating around the Spratlys are Chinese. And most of those are at least part-time members of China's official maritime militia, an organization whose role Beijing frequently downplays but that is playing an increasingly visible role in its assertion of maritime claims.

A small cohort of analysts continue to cast doubt on the existence and activities of the maritime militia. The best-intentioned offer alternative explanations for the curious behaviors of the Chinese fishing fleets, though those don't stand up to scrutiny. Other writers, especially those affiliated with Chinese institutions and state media, seek to present an alternate version of reality by artfully cropping satellite imagery, cherry-picking data, or simply ignoring the facts and attacking the motives of those presenting evidence of militia activities.

Read more ....

WNU Editor: This "hidden navy" is huge .... Expert: China's 'Sneaky' Navy Aims to Overpower South China Sea (Breitbart).

This Is What A Hard Helicopter Landing Looks Like

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 02:00 AM PDT


WNU Editor: Ouch!!!! am surprised that no one got hurt.

Tulsi Gabbard Kills It!!!!

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 01:00 AM PDT


WNU Editor: Regular readers of WNU know that I have been following her career since 2015 .... Tulsi Gabbard.

Tweets for Today

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 12:30 AM PDT











Picture Of The Day

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 12:00 AM PDT

T-80U tank fires during a demonstration at the international military-technical forum ARMY-2019 at Alabino range in Moscow Region, Russia June 25, 2019. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

WNU Editor: The above picture came from this photo-gallery .... Russia's military expo (Reuters).

Editor's Note

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 04:03 PM PDT

I have visitors from overseas staying at my home tonight. Regular blogging will return tomorrow morning.

World News Briefs -- June 26, 2019 (Evening Edition)

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 03:47 PM PDT



Reuters: U.S. aims to restart China trade talks, will not accept conditions on tariff use

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States hopes to re-launch trade talks with China after President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping meet in Japan on Saturday, but Washington will not accept any conditions around the U.S. use of tariffs in the dispute, a senior administration official said on Tuesday.

Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on another $325 billion of goods, covering nearly all the remaining Chinese imports into the United States - including consumer products such as cellphones, computers and clothing - if the meeting with Xi produces no progress in resolving a host of U.S. complaints around the way China does business.

Read more ....

MIDDLE EAST

Saudi-led coalition intercepted a Houthi drone launched toward the kingdom: SPA.

Iran's supreme leader Khamenei brands the US the 'world's most vicious regime' and warns his nation is unbowed by 'insults' from its 'cruel enemies'.

Iran's ultimatum on breaching nuclear deal puts EU3 on the spot.

Iran central bank: U.S. sanctions aren't harming oil exports.

UN asks Russia for answers about bombed Syria hospitals.

New Pentagon chief confronts Turkey on NATO debut.

US warns Turkey it faces sanctions if it buys Russian system.

Saudi Crown Prince MBS visits Seoul for trade deals.

Israel censures Chilean president for visiting Temple Mount with Palestinians.

ASIA

Australia media demand press freedom law reforms after raids.

Trump: China needs trade deal as economy 'going down the tubes'.

Hong Kong police under siege again as protesters surround headquarters after extradition bill rally.

South Korea president calls for summit with Japan.

Moon: Discussions for another U.S.-North Korea summit are in the works.

US, North Korea in talks to set up third Trump-Kim summit.

North Korea says it won't surrender to US-led sanctions.

US-India relations tense as Pompeo meets Modi in New Delhi.

China to lose its crown as the world's biggest gaming market to the US due to impact of approvals freeze.

Sri Lanka president signs death warrants to end moratorium. Sri Lanka planning executions after 43-year moratorium.

AFRICA

Opposition leader: Ethiopia, AU join forces in Sudan efforts.

Sudan's Mahdi rejects call for mass demos on June 30.

Uganda strains as thousands flee violence in DR Congo's Ituri.

Internet cut in Mauritania after disputed presidential vote.

Tens of thousands mourn slain leaders in Ethiopia.

Kenyan MP arrested after threatening foreign traders.

Gambia's Jammeh 'handpicked' women for rape, abuse.

'Most complex health crisis in history': Congo struggles to contain Ebola.

EUROPE

NATO weighs boost to air defenses over Russia missile system.

Germany's Merkel doesn't see G-20 resolving global conflicts.

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt divided over Brexit plans.

With ties frosty, Britain's May to meet Russia's Putin at G20.

No sign of progress at NATO in U.S.-Turkey dispute over Russian defenses.

German firms sent weapons-grade chemicals to Syria despite sanctions — report.

Denmark's youngest prime minister to lead new government.

Sea-Watch rescue boat enters Italian waters despite Salvini's threats.

Europe heatwave: Temperatures soar as heat nears record levels.

AMERICAS

Mueller to testify publicly on July 17.

Breakouts, burns and zingers: What to watch in Dem debates.

US Senator McConnell open to Iran war authorization vote.

Photo of migrant father and daughter who drowned crossing US border draws global attention.

Venezuela crisis: Military force still an option, says Guaidó.

UN opens new political mission for Haiti, ending 15-year peacekeeping mission.

Brazil's Supreme Court rejects request to free ex-president Lula.

Canada teams up with tech giants to counter extremist content online.

TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR

Egypt says 7 policemen killed in Sinai attack.

Islamic State group: Nicaragua arrests four suspected members.

Suspected ISIS members arrested in Nicaragua may have been headed to US, police say.

ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS

S&P 500 dips as healthcare declines counter tech gains.

Bitcoin soars past $13,000 as Facebook's Libra fuels demand.

New flaw discovered on Boeing 737 Max, sources say.

Google could be forced to pay out up to £28BILLION as Android users in France seek compensation for the search giant's 'invasion of privacy'.

Robots set to take 20m jobs globally by 2030, warns report.

US firms are still selling millions of dollars of products to Huawei after finding ways around Trump's sanctions that ban the Chinese telecom giant to use American suppliers, report claims.

Bordeaux winemakers cheer heatwave: 'It's magic!'.

Israel Says GPS Mysteriously Disrupted In Its Airspace

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 02:04 PM PDT

View from the control tower at Ben Gurion International Airport, on Novembe 15, 2018. Photo by FLASH9

Reuters: Israel says GPS mysteriously disrupted in its airspace but planes secure

JERUSALEM, June 26 (Reuters) - Israel is experiencing unexplained GPS disruptions in its airspace but measures are in place to allow safe landings and takeoffs at its main international airport, the government said on Wednesday.

The announcement by the Israel Airports Authority (IAA) followed a report on Tuesday by the International Federation of Air Line Pilots' Associations (IFALPA) that "many" pilots had lost satellite signals from the Global Positioning System around Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport.

Confirming there had been GPS disruptions for approximately the past three weeks, an IAA statement said these affected only airborne crews and not terrestrial navigation systems.

Israeli authorities had worked from the outset to locate the source of the problem and fix it, it added.

Asked if an explanation for the disruption had been found, an IAA spokesman said: "No. I don't know."

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WNU Editor: Someone is messing around with the satellite feed, and I doubt that it is someone in the Israeli military or intelligence community that is doing this. So the option is either Syria, Iran via through Hezbollah, or some other actor.

Poll: Third Of Britons Do Not Support The Military

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 01:00 PM PDT

Forces Network: Third Of Britons Do Not Support The Military, Claims New Survey

The lack of support seems to be linked to a widespread lack of awareness.

The Armed Forces Charity SSAFA is targeting a third of people in the UK who say they do not actively support the armed forces.

The research found one in five people in the UK would never support a military charity and almost 50 percent of those aged 16 to 34 said they do not actively support the armed forces.

The lack of support seems to be linked to a widespread lack of awareness of who the Forces are and what they do.

More than 2,000 people took part in the survey that was conducted in May this year.

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WNU Editor: These poll numbers are shocking.

Poll: A Third Of Americans Would Support A Preemptive Nuclear Strike On North Korea If They Resume Long-Range Missile Tests

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 12:01 PM PDT

Earlier North Korea unveiled 'game-changer' ballistic missiles during a display of the country's military might

UPI: Poll: A third of Americans favor nuclear strike in North Korea scenario

June 25 (UPI) -- A new survey has shown about a third of Americans would support a preemptive nuclear strike on North Korea, if it resumes long-range missile testing.

The research by YouGov and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was based on a fictional news article showing North Korea resuming the tests and gave respondents a choice on how the United States should respond, including the probability each response might provoke retaliation from Pyongyang.

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WNU Editor: The poll is here.

Poll: Americans Are Split On President Trump's Decision To Not Launch A Military Strike Against Iran

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 11:48 AM PDT

Politico: Poll: Voters back Trump decision to nix Iran strike

Most voters agree with President Donald Trump's decision to call off airstrikes in Iran last week, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll that also shows little public support for U.S. military action in the Persian Gulf.

According to the poll, just over a third of voters, 36 percent, support military action in Iran after the Iranians shot down an unmanned U.S. drone aircraft — fewer than the 42 percent who oppose it. Roughly two-in-10 voters, 22 percent, said they have no opinion.

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Update: Majority supports Trump's decision to halt retaliatory strike on Iran: poll (The Hill)

WNU Editor: 42 percent opposed military action in the country, 36 percent support military action in Iran, and 22 percent said they have no opinion.

Would U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers Lose A War To Iran?

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 11:40 AM PDT


John Bird, National Interest: Would U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers Lose a War to Iran?

Do we even have enough carriers?

The recent oil tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman reinforce the need to reestablish a highly visible U.S. naval deterrent in the Middle East. For eight months last year, no aircraft carrier strike group plied the region, the longest such interruption this millennium. With the United States needing a more robust posture against Iran and confronting renewed challenges in Asia and Europe, several immediate measures and concerted longer-term efforts are critical to ensure America has the carriers it needs.

The requirement to maintain carrier presence in the Middle East is a critical part of a broader national security strategy, in which U.S. global security interests necessitate a worldwide force presence. Indeed, the Navy's mission demands remain as high as those of the Cold War, calling on ships to be everywhere seemingly at once, but today's fleet is less than half the size it was 30 years ago.

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WNU Editor: It all comes down to how many anti-ship missiles Iran has, and how good are the U.S. Navy's anti-missile defense systems.

US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) Director: Iran Is At An Inflection Point

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 11:35 AM PDT

Lieutenant General Robert Ashley Jr, director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, warned the recent drone and oil tanker attacks were a bid to push back against sanctions

FOX News: Iran likely at 'inflection point,' launching attacks to change 'status quo,' Defense Intelligence Agency director tells Fox News

EXCLUSIVE – Iran is likely at "an inflection point," and the recent attacks on tankers and the downing of a U.S. surveillance drone appear to be part of an effort to change "the status quo," the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) told Fox News exclusively.

"I'd say that they're probably at an inflection point right now," the director, Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley Jr., explained in his first national TV interview as the leader of the nearly 17-thousand strong agency. Director Ashley said, based on their activity over the last several years, the Iranians would probably say they were in a "favorable" position with their influence over the Iraqi government and the likelihood their longtime regional ally -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad -- will remain in power.

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WNU Editor: I concur .... Iran is at an inflection point. And in turn a lot of people are now worried about this .... Experts fear 'snowball effect' as Iran abandons nuclear deal (AP).

More News On The US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) Director's Remarks That Iran Is At An Inflection Point

Iran drone and tanker attacks are part of a bid to fight back against the 'status quo' as economic sanctions start to bite, warns US Defense Intelligence Agency chief -- Daily Mail
DIA Director Ashley: Trump's Pressure Has Pushed Iran to an 'Inflection Point' -- NewsMax
US Defence Intel Chief: Iran Likely at 'Inflection Point,' Seeks 'Status Quo' Change -- Sputnik

Did The U.S. Cyber Attack against Iran Succeed?

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 11:26 AM PDT

US media reported Washington launched cyber attacks against Iranian missile control systems and a spy network after Tehran downed an American surveillance drone on June 20

AFP: US cyber attack on Iran shrouded in digital 'fog of war'

A claim by US officials that a retaliatory cyber attack ordered by the White House crippled Iranian missile launching systems will remain almost impossible to substantiate, experts say.

Citing unnamed sources, US media reported last week that the attack launched by the US Cyber Command disabled computers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard unit responsible for shooting down an American surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz on June 20.

But Tehran denied the reports, saying "no succesful attack has been carried out" by the United States against the Islamic republic.

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WNU Editor: The Pentagon Is Not Talking. Iran is saying that the U.S. cyber attacks have failed .... Iran says U.S. cyber attacks failed, hints talks are possible (Reuters). In the meantime U.S. officials are warning that Iran is going to launch cyber attacks against U.S. targets .... DHS cyber director warns of surge in Iranian "wiper" hack attacks (Ars Technica).

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Has Ordered 25 Military Bases To Be Moved Out Of Cities

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 10:58 AM PDT

Iranian soldiers march during the Army Day parade in Tehran on April 17, 2015. (File photo: AFP)

Radio Farda: Khamenei Orders 25 Military Bases To Be Moved Out Of Cities In Iran

Iran's ministry of roads and urban development has announced that Islamic Republic Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has ordered 25 military bases to be moved out of cities.

The website of the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development has reported that the military bases will receive alternative venues and the current properties they occupy will be used for urban development.

The website says Iran's parliament approved a law nine years ago to move military bases and barracks out of urban centers, but the full implementation of the law has faced problems, especially in the capital Tehran.

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WNU Editor: The timing and size of this move is what caught my eye.

World News Briefs -- June 26, 2019

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 02:58 PM PDT

US President Donald Trump (centre) is expected to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan on Saturday. Photo: AFP

SCMP: US-China trade war deal '90 per cent complete', US Treasury chief says

* Steven Mnuchin says this week's meeting of the leaders of the world's two biggest economies will be 'very important'
* Chinese president calls a meeting of the Communist Party's inner circle in preparation for talks with Donald Trump

A trade deal between China and the United States is "90 per cent completed", US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said just three days before a high-stakes meeting between the countries' two top leaders.

In an interview with CNBC on Wednesday, Mnuchin said this week's Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, where Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump are expected to meet, would be "a very important G20".

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MIDDLE EAST

Iran's supreme leader Khamenei brands the US the 'world's most vicious regime' and warns his nation is unbowed by 'insults' from its 'cruel enemies'.

Iran's ultimatum on breaching nuclear deal puts EU3 on the spot.

Iran central bank: U.S. sanctions aren't harming oil exports.

UN asks Russia for answers about bombed Syria hospitals.

New Pentagon chief confronts Turkey on NATO debut.

Saudi Crown Prince MBS visits Seoul for trade deals.

Israel censures Chilean president for visiting Temple Mount with Palestinians.

ASIA

Trump: China needs trade deal as economy 'going down the tubes'.

Hong Kong police under siege again as protesters surround headquarters after extradition bill rally.

South Korea president calls for summit with Japan.

Moon: Discussions for another U.S.-North Korea summit are in the works.

US, North Korea in talks to set up third Trump-Kim summit.

North Korea says it won't surrender to US-led sanctions.

US-India relations tense as Pompeo meets Modi in New Delhi.

China to lose its crown as the world's biggest gaming market to the US due to impact of approvals freeze.

Sri Lanka president signs death warrants to end moratorium. Sri Lanka planning executions after 43-year moratorium.

AFRICA

Sudan's Mahdi rejects call for mass demos on June 30.

Uganda strains as thousands flee violence in DR Congo's Ituri.

Internet cut in Mauritania after disputed presidential vote.

Tens of thousands mourn slain leaders in Ethiopia.

Kenyan MP arrested after threatening foreign traders.

Gambia's Jammeh 'handpicked' women for rape, abuse.

'Most complex health crisis in history': Congo struggles to contain Ebola.

EUROPE

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt divided over Brexit plans.

With ties frosty, Britain's May to meet Russia's Putin at G20.

No sign of progress at NATO in U.S.-Turkey dispute over Russian defenses.

German firms sent weapons-grade chemicals to Syria despite sanctions — report.

Denmark's youngest prime minister to lead new government.

Sea-Watch rescue boat enters Italian waters despite Salvini's threats.

Europe heatwave: Temperatures soar as heat nears record levels.

AMERICAS

Mueller to testify publicly on July 17.

Breakouts, burns and zingers: What to watch in Dem debates.

US Senator McConnell open to Iran war authorization vote.

Photo of migrant father and daughter who drowned crossing US border draws global attention.

Venezuela crisis: Military force still an option, says Guaidó.

UN opens new political mission for Haiti, ending 15-year peacekeeping mission.

Brazil's Supreme Court rejects request to free ex-president Lula.

TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR

Egypt says 7 policemen killed in Sinai attack.

Islamic State group: Nicaragua arrests four suspected members.

Suspected ISIS members arrested in Nicaragua may have been headed to US, police say.

ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS

Google could be forced to pay out up to £28BILLION as Android users in France seek compensation for the search giant's 'invasion of privacy'.

Robots set to take 20m jobs globally by 2030, warns report.

US firms are still selling millions of dollars of products to Huawei after finding ways around Trump's sanctions that ban the Chinese telecom giant to use American suppliers, report claims.

Bordeaux winemakers cheer heatwave: 'It's magic!'.

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- June 26, 2019

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 09:46 AM PDT



CNBC: Russia threatens military response to any NATO action over nuclear-ready missile

* NATO has said Russia's SSC-8 missile violates terms of a 1987 missile treaty.
* The alliance has said it will act to mitigate the Russian threat.
* Russia has in turn said it would take "countervailing military measures."

Moscow has said it will take "countervailing military measures" should NATO fulfil any threat related to Russia's nuclear-ready cruise missile system.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that Russia must dismantle the short-range system, or the alliance will be forced to respond, adding that NATO-member defense ministers would now look at next steps "in the event that Russia does not comply."

No detail is yet known over what NATO might do although Stoltenberg said the alliance would not engage in any arms race.

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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- June 26, 2019

NATO gives Russia 5 weeks to destroy missiles violating INF Treaty -- UPI

NATO chief threatens response if Russia doesn't comply with nuclear treaty -- Defense News

Russian Federation Council to Discuss Withdrawal from INF Treaty on Wednesday -- Sputnik

Russia Shows Off New Military Technology at 2019 Army Forum, in Photos -- Moscow Times

Russian Military Aware of Preparations for Info Warfare Against Top Brass - MoD -- Sputnik

Russia says plane in Venezuela carried rotation of military specialists: TASS -- Reuters

Russia Launches Military Drills Due to U.S.-Iran Tensions and Trump Sending Troops Near Border, Expert Says -- Newsweek

Leadership changes could test durability of US Army's modernization overhaul -- Defense News

More U.S. Navy Personnel Deployed to Middle East Than Anywhere Else -- USNI News

Navy eyes shipyard in Philippines as repair and maintenance facility -- Stars and Stripes

As US Navy orders more P-8A Poseidon surveillance planes, Orion squadron flies final mission -- Defense Post

Congress Wants the Navy to Prove it Can Fight Off Enemy Drone, Boat Swarms -- Military.com

US Senate panel advances bill to restrict emergency arms sales -- The Hill

Top Democrats demand State Department's legal analysis on potential Iran military action -- The Hill

Navy Pilot Recounts The Secret Stalking Of North Korea's Missile Laden Cargo Ship So San -- Warzone/The Drive

The Navy Would Love to 'Sink' The Littoral Combat Ship. Here's Why. -- The National/Task & Purpose

Is the Air Force Serious about Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance? -- Robert Stiegel, War On The Rocks

Trade deal with China or not, the US must bolster Taiwan's defense -- Bradley Bowman and Mikhael Smits, Defense News

Trump reassures Tokyo he will stick with security pact: Japan government -- Reuters

President Donald Trump bestows Medal of Honor on David Bellavia, the first living Iraq War recipient -- Military Times

Prosecution rests in SEAL Eddie Gallagher's military murder trial -- CNN

Defense To Present Testimony in Navy SEAL Murder Case -- Military.com/AP

Graves of 30 US Servicemen Found on Pacific WWII Battlefield -- Military.com/AP

Canada's military feeling the strain responding to climate change -- CBC

Canadian military allows F-35 to be promoted at fighter jet base in midst of $19B competition -- National Post

U.K. Confirms Joint F-35 Jet Fighter Exercise With Israel for First Time -- Haaretz

France's New Fighter Jet Has 1 Thing In Common with the F-35 -- National Interest

Eurofighter crash leads to calls to end military exercises -- DW

'We'll Do What's In Our National Interest' - Indian Minister on Sanctions Over S-400 Sale -- Sputnik

We Don't Need Airstrikes to Restore Deterrence in the Strait of Hormuz -- Defense One

A New Era In Nuclear Weapons And Submarine Warfare Is Beginning

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 07:45 AM PDT

The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Rhode Island Gold crew returns to homeport at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Bryan Tomforde)

FOX News/Warrior Maven: 'First-cut-of-steel' begins new era in nuclear weapons, submarine warfare

Almost nobody knows where they are at any given time, yet nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines quietly patrol dark domains of the undersea realm in strategically vital waters around the globe, bringing the prospect of unprecedented destruction upon potential enemies -- all as a way to keep the peace.

It would not be an exaggeration to call the first "cut of steel" for the lead ship in a class of new nuclear-armed Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines a historic occasion, as the boat is intended to usher in a new era in firepower-reliant strategic deterrence.

A "cut-of-steel" for advanced construction of the first boat took place at Newport News Shipbuilding June 17 -- three weeks early -- marking the formal beginning of a long and carefully labored process of building the most technically advanced ballistic missile submarine ever to exist.

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WNU Editor:  The Columbia submarine program's budget is at $128 billion .... Pentagon To Audit The Cost Of The U.S. Navy's Columbia Class Of Nuclear-Armed Submarines (April 17, 2019).

The Battle For Tripoli Grinds On

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 12:10 PM PDT



Mustafa Fetouri, Al-Monitor: Battle for Tripoli appears destined to grind on in Libya

Despite repeated diplomatic setbacks and heavy fighting among rival forces near Tripoli, UN envoy Ghassan Salame‬⁩ met over the weekend with Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Gen. Khalifa Hifter in al-Rajmeh in suburban Benghazi. The men discussed possible diplomatic solutions to the country's crisis — but to no avail.

Libya has been in turmoil since 2011, when longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi was ousted. Since launching Operation Karama (Operation Dignity) in Benghazi in May 2014, Hifter's group in the east has fought for control of the country against the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli in the west.

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More News On The Libyan War

LNA Deploys More Troops to Tripoli's Vicinity for Final Offensive -- SPutnik
In Libya's anti-Haftar bastion, a resolve to fight hardens -- Reuters
Libya's liberal alliance proposes ceasefire in Tripoli -- Middle East Monitor
Egypt, UAE send military support to Libya's Haftar -- Middle East Monitor
US Air Force veteran released from captivity in Libya -- CNN
'Mercenary' pilot captured by Libya's Haftar forces identified as a US Air Force vet after release -- RT
Post-Gadhafi Libya: Crippled by continuous clashes, political instability -- Daily Sabah

This U.S. Air Force Weapon Can Take Out Swarms Of Drones

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 06:40 AM PDT



The Verge: The US Air Force has a new weapon called THOR that can take out swarms of drones

Ding, the drone is done

In recent years, small drones have made their way onto battlefields where they've been used to surveil US forces or drop bombs on them, prompting the US military to develop new ways to take them down. This week, the US Air Force unveiled a new tool that can be stationed at bases around the world: a high-powered microwave system called Tactical High Power Microwave Operational Responder (THOR), which is designed to protect bases against swarms of drones.

The Air Force Research Laboratory at the Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, developed the system, which uses short bursts of high-powered microwaves to disable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). According to local TV station KRQE, the system was developed quickly (18 months) for about $15 million. It runs off of a generator and is stored in a shipping container, meaning it can be transported almost anywhere and set up within a couple of hours

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WNU Editor: This weapon appears to be ideal for protecting bases. But troops on the ground will need something more mobile when they are involved in operations.

Hat tip Fred for this link.

U.S. Navy Warns China That Provocations By Chinese Militia Vessels Would Be Treated The Same As Those Carried Out By Chinese Navy Warships

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 12:11 PM PDT

US Navy destroyers. US Navy

Business Insider: It looks like the US has been quietly lowering the threshold for conflict in the South China Sea

* The US has been putting increased pressure on the Chinese maritime militia, a paramilitary sea force disguised as a fishing fleet, in an effort to deter provocations in the South China Sea.
* The US Navy's top admiral told his Chinese counterpart earlier this year that provocations by militia vessels would be treated the same as those carried out by Chinese navy warships.
* Last week, the US ambassador to the Philippines told reporters that US defense obligations to its ally could be triggered by maritime militia attacks.
* Troubling incidents involving Chinese fishing vessels are not uncommon in the South China Sea, and while this rhetorical shift in the US position could deter aggression to encourage stability, it could also signal a lower threshold for confrontation and, possibly, conflict in the disputed waterway.

The US has been steadily ratcheting up the pressure on China's sea forces in a way that could lower the threshold for conflict in the South China Sea, which is already a hotbed of tension.

The US is signalling a tougher stance toward the Chinese maritime militia, a paramilitary sea force disguised as a fishing fleet that is known to sometimes harass foreign rivals to enforce China's vast sovereignty claims in the contested waterway.

The Chinese maritime militia "thrives within the shadows of plausible deniability," according to Andrew Erickson, a leading expert at the US Naval War College, but it can no longer hide like it once could.

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WNU Editor: Their maritime militia follows the rules and guidelines as outlined by the Chinese government via through their Navy. This change in U.S. policy is long overdue.

Here Are 3 Big Mistakes The U.S. Made In Afghanistan

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 06:15 AM PDT

Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division recover fuel at Forward Operating Base Waza K'wah in the Paktika province, January 29, 2011. The fuel was delivered by air drop, the task force's only means of resupply. US Air Forces Central Command/Master Sgt. Adrian Cadiz

Donald C. Bolduc, Business Insider/Military Times: The US's 3 biggest mistakes in Afghanistan

* At the tactical level, the US military has performed well in Afghanistan.
* But their political leaders and general officers on the ground and in Washington have failed them, argues retired Army Brig. Gen. Donald C. Bolduc.

War is often filled with its share of mistakes and errors in judgment. It's the nature of this lethal business.

Some are the result of changing circumstances on the ground, while others are more systemic. The United States has committed more than a few during its 18 years in Afghanistan.

Indeed, the entire war is a story of one mistake after another, putting success or "victory" as we typically define it further out of reach.

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WNU Editor: I would add a few other mistakes. (1) Not getting a handle on the culture of corruption that exists in almost every aspect of Afghanistan life. (2) The role of Pakistan in providing safe havens and permitting its madrassas to be used as recruiting centres. and (3) limiting military operations against the Taliban with rules of engagement that do not make sense (my favourite one was the one that did not permit the raiding of homes of suspected Taliban fighters at night).

Pentagon: Two U.S. Service Members Were Killed In Afghanistan On Wednesday

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:45 AM PDT

Daily Mail: Two US service members are killed in Afghanistan, a day after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Kabul

* Two US service members were killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday
* The identities of the soldiers will not be released until their families are notified
* It's not clear if the deaths were the result of the war, which has gone on 18 years

The U.S. military says two service members have been killed in Afghanistan. It did not offer any details surrounding the circumstances of their deaths.

The statement says the killings occurred Wednesday, a day after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a quick visit to the Afghan capital of Kabul where he said Washington was hopeful of a peace deal before September 1.

It's not clear if the deaths were the result of the war, which at nearly 18 years is America's longest running.

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More News On Two U.S. Servicemen Killed In Afghanistan Today

US military says 2 service members killed in Afghanistan -- AP
Two U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan -- Reuters
2 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan in What Taliban Call an Ambush -- The New York Times
Two US Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan -- TOLO News
Two US service members killed in Afghanistan -- Stars and Stripes

U.S. Navy's Newest Littoral Combat Ship Damaged After Hitting Into A Moored Ship In Canada

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:32 AM PDT



Warzone/The Drive: Navy's Newest Littoral Combat Ship Damaged After Smacking Into A Moored Ship In Canada

The future USS Billings is now tied up in Montreal while the Navy assesses the full extent of the damage and investigates what happened.

The future USS Billings, a new Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship that the U.S. Navy recently took delivery of, sustained damage after hitting another vessel in Montreal, Canada yesterday. The warship had been on its way to future homeport in Mayport, Florida ahead of its formal commissioning and the hope is that this incident will not delay its entry into service.

The incident reportedly occurred on June 24, 2019, after two tugs assisting the future Billings in Montreal harbor cast off their two lines. For still unknown reasons, the LCS lost control and smacked up against the side of the Rosaire Desgagnes, a bulk cargo ship, which was moored nearby, according to First Coast News. A spokesperson for Naval Surface Force Atlantic told The Maritime Executive that the Navy ship's starboard bridge wing had been damaged, as a result, but also that a full damage assessment is underway.

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Update: New LCS USS Billings Makes Contact with Moored Bulker (Maritime Executive)

WNU Editor: The accident happened on June 24, a big national holiday in Quebec that every takes time off from work to enjoy the celebrations. I am willing to bet that the crews that were on those tugs were the "B Team".

World News, World News Updates, World News Headlines, Latest World News, Current Affairs

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 03:17 AM PDT

World News, World News Updates, World News Headlines, Latest World News, Current Affairs


Trade, Climate Change and Iran Are in Focus as G-20 Leaders Arrive in Japan

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 02:03 AM PDT

(OSAKA, Japan) — Trade and geopolitical tensions, and the looming threat of climate change, are on the agenda as Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders gather in Osaka, Japan, for a summit of the Group of 20 major economies.

While prospects for detente in the trade war between the United States and China are in the spotlight, many participating are calling for a broader perspective in tackling global crises.

“This will be a difficult G-20, there are global challenges to be met, we need to step up to avoid the climate threats, … reform the World Trade Organization and prepare for the digital revolution,” Donald Tusk, president of the European Union Council, said at a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

The summit comes at a time of growing international tensions, for example, over Iran’s nuclear deal and trade between the United States and China.

President Donald Trump was due to arrive later Thursday, and to meet with Xi on Saturday as the G-20 meetings conclude.

Xi was also expected to hold talks with Abe, seeking a breakthrough after years of strain over territorial disputes. It is his first visit to Japan since he became China’s top leader in 2013.

A visit by Xi to North Korea last week raised hopes for some movement in the impasse with the U.S. over the North’s nuclear program. Trump also is due to visit South Korea after leaving Japan, raising speculation there may be more news on Korean issues during his Asian travels.

Trump has at times found himself at odds with other leaders in such international events, particularly on issues such as Iran, climate change and trade.

Abe has sought to make the Osaka summit a landmark for progress on environmental issues, including climate change. French President Emmanuel Macron reinforced that message on Wednesday during a state visit to Tokyo, where he described climate change as a “red line” issue for endorsing a G-20 communique.

“It’s the moment to be truly in time in the face of history and to fulfill our responsibility,” Macron said. “I will not sign if we don’t go further in our ambition about climate change. That would mean all those summits are for nothing.”

On the periphery of the Osaka meetings, activists belonging to a coalition of 50 environmental groups protested outside a coal-fired power plant in the nearby port city of Kobe.

They chanted “No coal Japan!” while raising an inflatable depicting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, taking aim at his efforts to promote such projects across the globe. They also want more aggressive efforts by the Japanese government to help curb climate change.

Japan is one of the largest funders of coal-fired power stations overseas, having ramped up their use inside the country after most nuclear power plants were idled following the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima. The effort to offset the loss of the generating capacity has slowed Japan’s own progress in curbing the carbon emissions that contribute to global warming.

“We made this balloon and organized this protest to make him feel embarrassed, have him feel the pressure inside and outside Japan,” said Hanna Song of the Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society. “We want him to stop funding coal and not to make climate change worse.”

The leaders, arriving steadily throughout the day under heavy monsoon rains, were well insulated from such protests by the security blanketing Osaka, a business center of 2.7 million in western Japan.

The authorities closed roads and brought in platoons of extra police.

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Associated Press journalists Joeal Calupitan in Kobe, Japan, and Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo contributed to this report.

Australia Is Looking Into Reports That One of Its Citizens Has Been Detained in North Korea

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 11:45 PM PDT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government said Thursday it was “urgently seeking clarification” on reports that an Australian had been detained in North Korea, which the attorney-general described as a “matter of the utmost seriousness.”The family of Alek Sigley said they had no confirmation that the 29-year-old Pyongyang university student had been detained. But the family’s statement said Sigley had not been in digital contact with family and friends since Tuesday morning which was unusual for him.Attorney-General Christian Porter, who is based in Sigley’s hometown of Perth, told Perth Radio 6PR: “It is a very unusual set of circumstances.”

“This particular jurisdiction, most Australians’ common sense would tell them, makes this a matter of the utmost seriousness,” Porter said.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it was providing consular assistance to the family of an Australian man who has been reported as being detained in North Korea, but did not confirm his identity.

“The department is urgently seeking clarification. Owing to our privacy obligations, we will not provide further comment,” a department statement said.

Sigley said on social media that he was studying Korean literature at Kim Il Sung University and ran guided tours through a travel company he founded, Tongil Tours.

He told Australian Broadcasting Corp. two years ago that he wanted to break down negative stereotypes about the country.

“If we thought it was unsafe, we would stop doing these tours,” Sigley said. “We wouldn’t be able to bear the moral and legal responsibility of bringing people to North Korea if it was dangerous.”

Official media in North Korea haven’t mentioned the reported arrest.

South Korean television station Channel A cited an unidentified source in reporting the arrest but the source told the network it wasn’t immediately clear why Sigley had been detained.

Australia does not have an embassy in North Korea, but consular assistance can be provided to Australians by the Swedish Embassy on a limited basis.

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, the country’s main spy agency, said it cannot confirm the report.

In March this year, Sigley wrote for Guardian Australia about living in North Korea, saying that as a long-term foreign resident on a student visa he had “nearly unprecedented access to Pyongyang.”

“I’m free to wander around the city, without anyone accompanying me,” he wrote. “Interaction with locals can be limited at times, but I can shop and dine almost anywhere I want.”

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Associated Press journalist Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.

President Trump Heads to Asia for Global Talks on Trade, Iran and More

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 07:51 PM PDT

(WASHINGTON) — The fun and flattery are largely over for President Donald Trump as he embarks on his third overseas trip in a month, this time facing a flurry of international crises, tense negotiations and a growing global to-do list.

Trump heads first to Osaka, Japan, for the annual Group of 20 summit, then on to South Korea for consultations on North Korea’s nuclear program. The agenda for his four-day trip is as laden with hazards for the president as it is light on the ceremonial pomp that marked his recent state visits to Japan and the United Kingdom.

The showdown between the U.S. and Iran, a trade war with China and the threat of fresh election interference by Russia are just some of the issues confronting the American leader who has shown little patience for the subtleties of global interactions and whose administration has struggled to grapple with simultaneous challenges.

The president will meet one-on-one with at least eight world leaders on the summit’s sidelines as he faces mounting pressures to deliver results on a lengthy roster of global concerns. But White House officials are playing down prospects of specific accomplishments in what will almost certainly be Trump’s most consequential trip of the year.

Trump said before departing Wednesday that he’d be meeting “competitors” from other nations, adding, “That’s OK. We’re doing great. We’re doing better than any of them.”

His calendar includes sit-downs with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Turkey’s Recep Teyyip Erdogan and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, all of whom have authoritarian tendencies, as well as disquieted allies including Germany’s Angela Merkel and more contented ones such as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

The president left Washington days after pulling back from the brink of armed conflict with Iran and as he trades threats over its nuclear program and support for terror groups. With Iran threatening to breach uranium enrichment limits set in the 2015 nuclear accord as soon as Thursday, Trump will be asked to articulate his strategy for containing Iran to skeptical world leaders after pulling the U.S. from the deal last year.

“The leaders are going to be pressing the president for clarity and then to get into a unified allied approach to the challenge, and it’s just simply unclear to me whether we have that policy or that approach,” said Heather Conley, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Europe program.

Trump will also find himself face-to-face with Putin for the first time since special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation ended without finding evidence that the Trump campaign criminally conspired with Russia during the 2016 election. It will also be their first meeting since their summit in Helsinki in July 2018, when Trump declined to side with U.S. intelligence agencies over Putin on the question of election interference, leading to an uproar at home and abroad.

Trump told reporters as he left the White House that he expects a “very good conversation” with Putin but added that “what I say to him is none of your business.”

White House officials said Trump would warn Putin to refrain from interfering in U.S. elections, though Trump has been criticized for joining with Putin in attacking Mueller’s probe, and advisers worry he may do so once again.

Last November, Trump canceled a planned meeting with Putin at the G-20 in Argentina after Russia seized two Ukrainian vessels and their crew in the Sea of Azov, but the continued detention of the crew members does not appear to be deterring the leaders from meeting this time. Aside from Iran, the leaders are expected to discuss hotspots in Syria and Venezuela, as well as nuclear weapons.

With Xi, a senior administration official said, Trump’s top aim will be rebooting trade negotiations between the two countries after they collapsed earlier this year. In an interview with Fox Business Network on Wednesday, Trump threatened again to impose even stiffer tariffs on Chinese imports to the U.S. if talks remain stalemated. But officials in both nations are looking for an off-ramp as concerns mount about the economic impact of the yearlong trade war.

Trump’s meeting with Erdogan will be his first since announcing, and then backing off, a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria. There also is a growing rift between the two NATO allies over Turkey’s planned purchase of a Russian surface-to-air missile system and a U.S. threat to suspend planned deliveries to Turkey of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Trump will also meet with Crown Prince Mohammed, who U.S. intelligence services concluded ordered the grisly killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S. resident. Trump has long been loath to scold authoritarian leaders for human rights abuses. He has continued to pursue a close relationship with Saudi Arabia, a lynchpin to the U.S.’ Middle East strategy to counter Iran, despite its role in furthering humanitarian disaster in Yemen’s civil war.

White House officials said there are no plans for a meeting in South Korea between Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, with whom the president has restarted diplomacy-by-correspondence since their failed Hanoi summit in March. But Trump is to speak with South Korean President Moon Jae-in about efforts to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table as the American holds out hope for an elusive legacy-making nuclear deal. Moon told The Associated Press and other news agencies Wednesday that the U.S. and North Korea are holding “behind-the-scenes talks” to arrange a third summit between the two leaders.

Never fully willing to pass up domestic politics, even when overseas, Trump will have to divide his attention between affairs of state and his reelection effort as Democrats are set to face off Wednesday and Thursday in their first debates in the process to select their nominee to challenge him next fall.

Trump, who was aboard Air Force One during the first matchup Wednesday evening, gave it a succinct review on Twitter: “BORING!”

But he will be in meetings with world leaders when Democratic front-runner Joe Biden and others take the stage on the second night. Trump aides believe the scheduling fluke will highlight the signature advantage of incumbency — that the president already occupies the job the Democrats want.

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Lemire reported from Osaka, Japan.

North Korea Urges the South to Stop Mediating Between It and Washington

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 07:41 PM PDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Thursday South Korea must stop trying to mediate between Pyongyang and Washington.The North’s Foreign Ministry also repeated its demand that the United States must work out mutually acceptable proposals to salvage a deadlocked nuclear negotiations by the end of December.The statement was an apparent expression of displeasure with Seoul and Washington over stalled nuclear diplomacy. There have been no public official meetings between the United States and North Korea since the breakdown of the second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi in February.The Hanoi summit fell apart after Trump rejected Kim’s calls for sweeping sanctions relief in return for a limited disarmament step. The summit’s collapse was a blow to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a liberal who shuttled between Washington and Pyongyang to facilitate talks between the countries.

Talks of revival of diplomacy, however, has flared after Trump and Kim recently exchanged personal letters. Moon said earlier this week that U.S. and North Korean officials were holding “behind-the-scene talks” to try to set up a third summit between Trump and Kim. Moon also said talks between the two Koreas have been under way through unspecified “various channels.”

On Thursday, Kwon Jong Gun, chief of the North Korean Foreign Ministry’s U.S. affairs department, said it will “never go through” South Korea when it deals with the United States. Kwon said relations between the United States and North Korea are not an issue that South Korea should meddle in.

He also dismissed as false the comments by Moon and other South Korean officials that there are various exchanges and unofficial talks between the two Koreas.

The statement came two days before Trump visits South Korea for a two-day trip.

There Is No Sign That the Notre Dame Fire Was of Criminal Origin, the Paris Prosecutor Says

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 06:52 PM PDT

PARIS (AP) — A preliminary investigation found no evidence to suggest that a fire that gutted large parts of Notre Dame Cathedral was criminal, the prosecutor’s office said Wednesday.The prosecutor’s office said in a statement that several hypotheses about the cause of the April 15 blaze include a malfunctioning electrical system or a smoldering cigarette — to be further investigated in a new probe.The prosecutor’s office announced the opening of a judicial investigation led by three judges for “involuntary degradation by fire through manifestly deliberate violation” of security rules or simple imprudence. It targets “X,” meaning anyone or any entity suspected.

The 13th-century cathedral was under renovation at the time of the fire and scaffolding crisscrossed the back of the edifice where the spire was once located.

The fire tore through the roof, destroying the spire which toppled in flames and vast sections of the interior. It has left the crippled monument, once a major tourist attraction, barricaded to the public and the faithful.

In the preliminary investigation, judicial police examined more than 1,200 clues and heard testimony from around 100 people.

“If certain deficiencies, by which the size of the disaster could be the consequence, were made clear, the investigations have not thus far allowed us to determine the causes of the fire,” the prosecutor’s office said.

As the detective work continues, workers are taking on what officials have said it one of the most complex operations — cutting down the 50,000 tubes of scaffolding erected for the initial pre-fire renovation. The tubes reached more than 800 C (1,472 F) during the fire, according to a statement Wednesday by the Notre Dame Foundation.

French President Emmanuel Macron has said he wants the renovations completed in five years. Paris hosts the Summer Olympics in 2024, but numerous experts question whether the cathedral can be operational by then.

The costs of the gargantuan task of renovating the monument won’t be known until Spring 2020, but they are bound to be as colossal as the cathedral — and current headaches over payments. However, some relief was in sight.

The Notre Dame Foundation announced Wednesday that major French donors, Bernard Arnault, his family and luxury giant LVMH Group have made an initial payment of 10 million euros on a pledge of 200 million as have Francois and Francois-Henri Pinault who pledged 100 million. No funds had previously been forthcoming.

The Notre Dame Foundation said the initial payments were made “at the initiative” of the foundation. However, word that two of France’s richest men were finally issuing funds came after The Associated Press and others reported this month that major French donors weren’t paying into their pledges but instead waiting to see how the funds would be used.

The Notre Dame Foundation’s Cathedrale de Paris Fund has so far raised 396 million euros in donations and pledges. But pure donations to pay companies working on the site total 38 million euros — coming from 42,000 individuals plus 60 companies and public authorities, the foundation said.

An ‘Unprecedented’ Early Summer Heatwave Grips Europe as Scientists Warn More Are on the Way

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 02:26 PM PDT

Europeans are bracing for an intense early-summer heatwave, with record-breaking temperatures forecast in parts of France and Germany before the weekend — less than a year after the region’s last extreme heatwave.

Temperatures are expected to break 104°F in much of western Europe, far outstripping the comfortable weather normally enjoyed in the region at this time of year.

The warmest temperatures are expected on Thursday and Friday. But 51 German weather stations have already recorded temperatures never seen before in June, the World Meteorological Organization said Wednesday.

French news station LCI says temperatures in France will be 57 – 64°F higher than the average for June over the coming days.

“We’re talking about an exceptional, even unprecedented heatwave,” says Guillaume Woznica, a meteorologist at LCI. “Temperatures are going to be near 104°F for most of the country and because it’s arriving at a particularly humid time of the year, it feels particularly unpleasant.”

France’s national weather agency, Météo-France predicts a peak of 113°F is forecast in the southern towns of Nîmes and Carpentras on Friday.

The highest temperature ever recorded in France was 111°F, during a heatwave in August 2003. The record for June was of 107°F, set in the same year.

That 2003 heatwave killed 15,000 people in France and authorities are urging the public to take the heat seriously. Most of the country’s regions are on an orange alert – the second highest weather warning.

Three northern regions of France have ordered schools to close because of a lack of air conditioning. In Paris and Lyon, city governments have banned all but the least polluting vehicles to avoid the increased risk of smog in hot weather.

Woznica says the timing of the heatwave also makes it “historic” “We’re only one week into summer officially. To have such a widespread, long-lasting, intense heatwave before July is simply unheard of.”

Early summer heatwaves have been found to be more lethal, the World Health Organization said in a 2015 report, because people are less acclimatized to the heat and less prepared to deal with it than they would be in July or August.

The French health ministry has advised parents to keep children indoors during the hottest parts of the day, warning of the risk of dehydration and heatstroke. The ministry also called on citizens to check on the elderly and homeless people, making sure they have access to air-conditioned spaces.

As global temperatures rise as a result of climate change, scientists say extreme heatwaves like this one are becoming more likely.

“Globally, these extreme temperatures are five times more likely to occur now as they would be in an unchanged climate [in pre-industrial times],” says Dim Coumou, a scientist at Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

“There’s never a single cause for an extreme weather event. But we have very strong evidence from many types of studies — based on both observations and climate models — that these heat waves are strongly on the rise as a result of climate change.”

In Europe, the five warmest summers since 1,500 have all taken place in the last twenty years — 2018, 2010, 2003, 2016 and 2002.

Coumou says Europe is experiencing a faster increase in the number of heatwaves than the global average. “One reason for that is that we’ve seen that the jet stream – which normally brings cool, wed and windy weather systems from the Atlantic to [Europe] – has been weakening in the summer.”

Another possible factor, he adds, is that soil on the continent may be becoming drier, leaving less water to evaporate into the atmosphere and cool the continent down. The heat in turn further dries out the soil, creating feedback loops.

The frequency of extreme heatwaves in the future will depend a lot on our ability to cut greenhouse gas emissions and limit global warming, scientists say.

Global temperatures have risen by 34°F since the industrial era. The Paris Agreement, signed by world leaders in 2015, sets a goal of limiting future temperature increase to 2°C (35.6°F), while the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year called for that target to be reduced to 1.5°C to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change. Both targets would require rapid and drastic changes to industry and lifestyle around the world.

“Just from the increase we have seen a very strong increase [in the frequency of extreme heatwaves and other weather events],” Coumou says. “If we get to a world that is 2°C warmer —and that will require rapid cutting of emissions – heatwaves will further intensify. But not as much as they would in a three or four degrees world.

If emissions continue at their current rate, the U.N. says the earth is on track for a 3–5 degree increase by 2100.

“Right now what’s happening in Europe is still an extreme,” Coumou says. “But this new type of very hot heatwaves are part of the new climate we’re entering.”

Barbados Police Searching for New Jersey Couple Who Disappeared on Jet Ski

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 01:30 PM PDT

Police in Barbados are searching for a New Jersey couple who went out to sea on a jet ski and never returned.

Oscar Suarez, 32 and Magdalena Devil, 25, were staying at the Discovery Bay Hotel about nine miles from the capital of Bridgetown, according to the Royal Barbados Police Force.

Police said that on Monday afternoon, the couple rented a jet ski from an operator at nearby Holetown Beach. According to the operator, the pair were both wearing life jackets when they boarded the jet ski. When the couple did not return after half an hour, the operator became worried and contacted other operators in the area to carry out a search, police said.

The Barbados Police Marine Unit and the Barbados Coast Guard performed a search of the area, but did not find the couple or the jet ski, police said.

Police also checked the couple’s room at the Discovery Bay Hotel and found that they had not returned. Police said Suarez and Devil arrived on the island on June 22 and had been scheduled to return home a week later.

Barbados police confirmed to TIME that they have contacted at least one family member and are working with the U.S. Embassy. Police added that they are still conducting aerial and sea search in an attempt to find the pair.

The Royal Barbados Police Force are asking anyone with information to contact the nearest police station or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIPS (8477).

Iran’s Supreme Leader Says Country Won’t Change Stance Following New U.S. Sanctions

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 10:28 AM PDT

(TEHRAN, Iran) — Iran’s supreme leader said Wednesday that Iranians will not budge or change their stand following new U.S. sanctions targeting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his associates, the latest in a torrent of sharp verbal responses from Tehran in the wake of the measures.

President Donald Trump enacted the new sanctions against Khamenei and others on Monday and U.S. officials also said they plan sanctions against Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

The sanctions followed Iran’s downing last week of a U.S. surveillance drone, worth over $100 million, over the Strait of Hormuz, sharply escalating the crisis.

The top Iranian cleric’s website quoted Khamenei as calling the Trump administration “the most sinister” U.S. government, adding that Washington’s calls for negotiation with Iran are deceitful and amount to “obvious cruelty.”

“The most hated figures of such an administration accuse and insult the Iranian nation,” Khamenei said. “The Iranian nation will not budge and will not withdraw because of the insults.”

The crisis gripping the Middle East stems from Trump’s withdrawal of the United States a year ago from the nuclear deal between Iran and other world powers and then imposing crippling new sanctions on Tehran.

Recently, Iran quadrupled its production of low-enriched uranium to be on pace to break one of the deal’s terms by Thursday, while also threatening to raise enrichment closer to weapons-grade levels on July 7 if European countries still abiding by the accord don’t offer a new deal.

Iran warned on Tuesday that the new U.S. sanctions targeting Khamenei and other officials meant “closing the doors of diplomacy” between Tehran and Washington. President Hassan Rouhani derided the White House as being “afflicted by mental retardation.”

Trump called that a “very ignorant and insulting statement,” tweeting that an Iranian attack on any U.S. interest will be met with “great and overwhelming force … overwhelming will mean obliteration.” His secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said the Iranian statement was “immature.”

After the downing of the U.S. drone last week, Trump pulled back from the brink of retaliatory military strikes but continued his pressure campaign against Iran.

The drone shootdown was only the latest in a series of attacks in the region in recent months. The U.S. has blamed Iran for the suspected attacks on two oil tankers, alleging that used limpet mines to target the tankers, pointing to black-and-white footage it captured that American officials describe as Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops removing an unexploded mine from a Japanese-operated tanker.

Similarly, four oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates were apparently targeted in acts of sabotage, which U.S. officials have also blamed on Iran. Tehran denied the charges. And in mid-May, Iranian-allied Yemeni rebels claimed they were behind a drone attack on a Saudi oil pipeline.

Late Tuesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi told reporters that American officials contacted the Iraqis recently, alleging the drones used in that Saudi pipeline attack, which took place on May 14, may have taken off from Iraq.

Iraqi military and intelligence have not confirmed such claims, Abdul-Mahdi said, without elaborating. There was also no immediate comment from Washington.

According to an Iraqi intelligence official, the Americans allege the drones took off from the area of Jurf al-Sakhar in Iraq’s southern Babel province that’s home to Iran-backed militias.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters, said there have been nine attacks on U.S. interests in Iraq over the past weeks — including rocket and mortar attacks on Iraqi bases where American trainers are based, and another that struck near the American Embassy in the Iraqi capital.

Last month, the U.S. ordered the evacuation of nonessential diplomatic staff from Iraq amid unspecified threats from Iran.

Iraq is trying to walk a fine line — it has good relations with both the U.S. and Iran, hosts more than 5,000 U.S. troops, and is also home to powerful Iranian-backed militias.

“We are trying to distance Iraq from any danger, this is a main concern for us,” Abdul-Mahdi said. “We should distance Iraq from the dangers of a conflict.”

Beauty Pageant Winner Accuses Former Gambia President Yahya Jammeh of Rape

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 09:03 AM PDT

(DAKAR, Senegal) — A Gambian beauty pageant winner has accused the country’s former dictator Yahya Jammeh of raping her four years ago, the latest allegation of human rights abuses committed by the ex-president now living in exile in Equatorial Guinea. Fatou “Toufah” Jallow, now 23, made an announcement to journalists Tuesday and said she plans to testify later this year before Gambia’s truth and reconciliation commission, which is investigating abuses committed under the Jammeh regime.

The dictator of 22 years is accused of ordering opponents tortured, jailed and killed. The sexual abuse allegations raised by Jallow and others directly implicate him in personally committing violence against Gambians.

Jallow and other young women interviewed by Human Rights Watch say the president was a sexual predator who coerced young women into sexual relationships by promising scholarships and even putting some on the state payroll.

Jammeh is reportedly living a lavish but reclusive life in exile in Equatorial Guinea, where he is protected from extradition by the dictator in charge of the oil-rich country.

Jallow, who wanted to come forward publicly, said the president began lavishing gifts on her and her family after meeting her when she was crowned queen of the Miss July 22 Pageant as an 18-year-old back in 2014. Jammeh took a special interest in her, she said, ordering the utility company to install running water at her mother’s home, and having his cousin purchase the family expensive furniture.

While initially he expressed interest in funding her charity project, she said that Jammeh, a married man that she considered a mentor, asked for her hand in marriage. After she declined, he told her that as the pageant winner she had to attend an event at his official residence, State House, ahead of the holy month of Ramadan.

Once there, she said she was locked in a room and drugged by the president himself. “He told me, ‘No woman has ever rejected me. And who do you think you are?'” she said. “His face changed, his eyes were so red, different from the man before. He said, ‘No woman rejects me. You think you can get away with it?'”

As she tried to leave, Jallow said the president told her: “If you make any move, I will kill you with my own hands.”

The president shoved his genitals in her face and raped her before she blacked out, she said. Several days later she told her family she was going to the market to shop, and then fled to neighboring Senegal.

Jammeh later lost the 2016 election to now President Adama Barrow. After initially refusing to accept his defeat, Jammeh succumbed to international pressure, stepped down from office and fled to Equatorial Guinea. Gambia’s new administration has estimated that Jammeh and his associates fled with up to $1 billion in funds from the state coffers.

The truth and reconciliation commission does not have the powers to prosecute but will make recommendations for the Attorney General Chambers to act on a number of cases that may be taken up with the court. Jammeh for now remains untouchable in exile.

“It’s going to take a lot of heavy political lifting to pry him out of Equatorial Guinea,” said Reed Brody, counsel at Human Rights Watch who led the investigation into the allegations of sexual abuse.

Jallow, who later received asylum in Canada, says she is undergoing therapy and hopes other young women victimized by Jammeh will come forward. “Nobody discusses rape and yes, I am scared,” she said. “I am scared. But I want the next person after me to be a little less scared than me.”

Here’s How Much British Taxpayers Pay for the Royal Family’s Travel

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 08:39 AM PDT

The latest royal accounts have revealed that taxpayers in the UK paid £2.4 million towards the renovation of Frogmore House, which has become the official residence of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The 18th century house near Windsor castle was a gift from the Queen but it required extensive renovation to make it habitable for Prince Harry and Meghan, along with their newborn son Archie.

The accounts also showed the cost of air and rail travel for members of the royal family with the most expensive trips documented in the following infographic. The biggest bill came from Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall’s 11-day trip to the Caribbean islands and Cuba. They flew there on an RAF VIP Voyager aircraft and the bill came to £416,576. Taxpayers paid £216,312 for Charles and Camilla to visit Gambia, Ghana and Nigeria, as well as another £159,820 for their trip to France and Greece.

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“EU treats us worse than China does!” Trump lashes out at Brussels anti-Americanism

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 01:01 AM PDT



DONALD Trump has accused the European Union of treating his country worse than China does in a scathing attack ahead of the G20 summit in Japan.

Angela Merkel health fears: German leader seen shaking again ahead of G20 summit - VIDEO

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 12:48 AM PDT



ANGELA MERKEL was spotted shaking for the second time in less than two weeks as she met with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday morning.

Bahamas shark attack: Woman, 21, killed by group of sharks - first in a decade

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 10:34 PM PDT



A VICIOUS shark attack has killed a 21-year-old woman in the Bahamas.

North Korea vows to ‘pull the trigger’ and attack the US after its ‘reckless remarks’

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:39 PM PDT



NORTH KOREA has launched a stunning attack on the US, claiming it "will not hesitate to pull a muscle-flexing trigger" if required to defend itself.

Iran warns US of reaction if Washington violates its borders

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 12:49 AM PDT



TENSIONS between Iran and the US have been ramped up after Tehran warned its reaction will be "stronger" if Washington violates its borders.

Russia horror plane crash leaves two dead as An-24 smashes into side of Siberian building

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 10:29 PM PDT



AT least two people are believed to have died and dozens more injured after a plane crash in Nizhneangarsk, Eastern Siberia.

Democratic debate organisers NBC humiliated as technical issues mar chaotic event

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 09:03 PM PDT



THE Democratic Presidential nomination debate broadcast by NBC was marred this morning as a technical glitch forced the broadcasters to cut to an impromptu ad break.

Democratic debate viewers mock O’Rourke for speaking Spanish and not answering question

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 07:10 PM PDT



DEMOCRATIC Presidential nominee hopeful, Beto O'Rourke has been attacked for speaking Spanish and not answering the question during NBC's live debate.

‘BORING!’ Trump snubs Democratic debate to meet service personnel as crowded field bickers

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 06:45 PM PDT



DONALD TRUMP snubbed the crowded Democratic debate to greet service personnel in Alaska.

‘We'll fight World War 3' - Trump issues bold warning to enemies ahead of G20 summit

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 06:11 PM PDT



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Haryana Police Constable Admit Card 2019 – Download HSSC Hall Ticket @ hssc.gov.in

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 10:01 PM PDT

Haryana Police Constable Admit Card 2019 – It is hereby informed that Haryana Service Selection Commission 6000 Police Constable examination will be held on 13th July to 18th October 2019. Candidates need to provide their valid credentials for the exam. The most important factor is Haryana Police Constable Admit Card 2019. Without the Admit Card candidates will not be allowed for the examination.Haryana Police Constable Admit Card 2019   Download HSSC Hall Ticket @ hssc.gov.in

 HSSC Admit Card 2019

Candidates who want to appear in the written stage must carry the print out of the HSSC Police Constable Admit Card well in advance. A lot of times they have a minor error in the personal details and sometimes major mistakes like photo misplace. Hence, download the Haryana Police Admit Card 2019 and cross check all the details in that. Follow the instructions given in the admit card. The Haryana Police Admit Card will be released according to the Exam Date.

Haryana Police Constable Hall Ticket 2019 – Overview

Description  Details 
 Name of the Board Haryana Sevice Selection Commission
 Name of the Exam SI Mains Written Examination
Exam Date 13th July to 18th October 2019
 Category Admit card
 Admit Card Release Date Available Soon
Official Website hssc.gov.in

Required Information to Check-in HSSC Hall Ticket 2019

The Haryana Service Selection Commission will release the admit card on the Official Website. Hence, all the Candidates who applied for the post of Police Constable can download the HSSC Admit Card once it released. Moreover, Applicants can get the direct link to download the admit card from the end of the section.

  • Name of the Applicant.
  • Exam Date, Time & Centre.
  • Post Applied for.
  • Application or Registration Number
  • Father Name and
  • Important Instructions.

Haryana Police Constable Exam 2019

Haryana Service Selection Commission has announced the Haryana Police Constable Exam Date from 13th July to 18th October 2019. However, Candidates go through the exam pattern given by the board. Get Haryana Police Constable Syllabus from the below section.

  • The written test will be multiple choice objective type.
  • There shall be one composite paper carrying 100 questions.
  • The medium of examination shall be Hindi except for knowledge of the English language.
  • Each question shall carry 0.80 marks. So paper will be of total 80 marks.
  • The duration of the test will be 01:30 hours (90 minutes).
  • There shall be at least 10 questions relating to computer basic knowledge.

{Haryana Police Constable Syllabus 2019 – Download Here}

Prerequisites to download HSSC Call Letter 2019

To download the HSSC Admit Card candidates have to carry their registration number and password received at the time of making the application. Therefore, Aspirants are suggested to keep the registration details safe during the whole process of recruitment. Moreover, while downloading the HSSC Hall Ticket candidates may find mistakes. At that time Aspirants can contact to the higher officials without delay. Appear for the exam along with the corrected Haryana Police Constable Admit Card.

  • College ID
  • Driving License
  • 2 or 3 latest photographs
  • PAN Card
  • Aadhar Card
  • Voter ID
  • Passport
  • Bank Passbook
  • Ration Card
  • Employee ID
  • The photograph on any ID Proof declared by the State or Central Government
  • Any Authorised ID Proof Announced by Gazetted Officer

How to Download Haryana Police Constable Admit Card 2019?

  1. Click on “HSSC Admit Card” Link.
  2. Enter the Registration Number and Password.
  3. Enter the Date of Birth.
  4. Fill the Captcha appeared in the image.
  5. Log in to get the HSSC Hall Ticket.
  6. An Admit Card page will be available on the screen.
  7. Fill all the mandatory details.
  8. Click on to the download option and download the admit card.
  9. Take a print out and carry for the exam.

Direct Links to download Haryana Police Constable Hall Ticket 2019

HSSC Mains Admit Card Download Here
Official Website Click Here

UPSSSC Junior Assistant Previous Papers – Download Model Exam Question Paper Pdf

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 08:45 PM PDT

UPSSSC Junior Assistant Previous Papers are available here for Junior Assistant/Junior Clerk Posts. Aspirants can download pdf for free of cost on our page. However, go through the article and find the junior assistant exam pattern, written exam dates, number of vacancies along with previous year question paper pdf.

UPSSSC Junior Assistant Previous Papers

Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Service Selection Commission releases the Junior assistant vacancies every year. This year UPSSSC has released 1186 vacancies. Interested candidates can apply from 26th June to 20th July 2019. However, to help all those applicants in their preparation we have given the UPSSSC Jr Asst exam question paper pdf here. Also, check the exam pattern details in the article below.

Candidates who are applying for the Junior Assistant posts need to go through the full article and start practicing the model papers. As there is a huge competition between the contenders. Hence, to face the competition refer all the UPSSSC Junior Assistant Previous Paper Pdf given below. We will update here the UPSSSC Exam dates once it is released from the official website.

UP Subordinate Service Jr Assistant Question Paper in Hindi Pdf Details

Description Details
Board Name Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Service Selection Commission (UPSSSC)
Post Name Junior Assistant
No. of Vacancies 1186
Category Previous Papers
UPSSSC Exam Date Update Soon
Official Website upsssc.gov.in

UPSSSC Junior Assistant syllabus exam question pattern previous are given here. Download the pdf for free from the section below. Before, starting your preparation we advise checking the exam pattern and syllabus details. The UPSSSC JA exam pattern for written test is given in the section below.

UPSSSC JA Written Test Pattern 

Aspirants those who are planning to apply for the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Service Junior Assistant posts need to attend the written examination for selection. The board is going to test the applicant on general intelligence and general awareness. Along with comprehension and writing ability in Hindi.

Here is the detailed UPSSSC junior assistant exam pattern in the tabular column below. Check the details like the number of questions, marks and time duration and start your preparation. Prepare your own plan and stick to your plan for good results.

Junior Assistant Exam Question Paper Pattern 

Subjects Questions Marks
Hindi insight & writing ability 40 20
General intelligence 20 10
General Awareness 20 10
Total 80 40
  • The UPSSSC JA Question paper will be bilingual (Hindi/English)
  • The total time duration for the written exam is 1 Hr
  • For topic wise Jr Asst, exam syllabus pdf check link at end of the article

UPSSSC Junior Assistant Previous Year Question Paper Pdf

Candidates can download the UPSSSC Junior Assistant model question paper in Hindi Pdf under this section. The Jr Assist exam paper given in the table below are free to download. Check the official website for UPSSSC junior assistant question paper 2019 updates. Applicants can download the pdf just by one click. Refer all the model question paper for scoring good marks. Also, to improve time management at the main examination.

UPSSSC Junior Assistant Previous Year Paper Pdf

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FACT Hall Ticket 2019 – Download MT, AGM Exam Admit Card @ www.fact.co.in

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 03:34 AM PDT

Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Limited (FCAT) Admit Card 2019: Aspirants applied for director (technical) & other recruitment can download the admit card here. Aspirants can find the direct link to download the FACT admit card on our page. Also, check the exam date 2019 and other important details.

FACT Admit Card 2019

Applied for the Fertilizers and Chemical Travancore Limited recruitment 2019. Then download the admit card for the written test going to conduct by the FACT. Admit Card is an important document which the applicants need to carry to the exam center on the day of examination. Candidate without admit card is not allowed to enter the exam hall.

Generally, FACT allows its applicants to download the admit card online 15 to 20 days from the date of examination. The board allows the candidates to download the admit card online. Hence, we have given the direct link for FACT admit card for assistant finance, assistant general and other vacancies. Hence, go through the exam date details and check the steps to download the admit card and download it today.

Fertilizers and Chemical Travancore Limited AGM Admit Card 2019

FACT admit card has been released in June 2019. The Exam will be held in the month of July 2019. Hence, the admit card is available in the below table. Drag down to download the FACT Admit Card for various posts.

Description Details
Post Name AGM & Others
No of Vacancies 274
Category Admit Card
Exam Date 07th July and 08th July 2019
Admit Card Date 26th June 2019 Available to download at end of the page
Official Website www.fact.co.in
FACT AGM Admit Card – Download Here

FACT Technician Admit Card 2019

FACT has released the admit card for the post of Management Trainee, Assistant Managers and more. Hence, Candidates who have applied for the post now can download the FACT Hall Ticket. The examination will be held on 07th July and 08th July 2019.

Description Details
Post Name Management Trainee, Technicians& Others
No of Vacancies 262
Category Admit Card
Exam Date 07th July and 08th July 2019
Admit Card Date June 2019
Official Website www.fact.co.in
FACT Technician Admit Card – Download Here

FACT Exam Hall Ticket 2019

Are you guys in search FACT Admit Card 2019 then here is the great news for such contenders. The officials of Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Limited will release its FACT Exam Hall Ticket 2019 soon. Admit card plays a major role for those applicants who are attending the examination. However, the FACT Exam Admit Card 2019 contains important information like the examination date, timings, venue which help aspirants to reach the exam hall on time. Moreover, we have provided direct links to help applicants easily acquire their FACT Hall Ticket 2019. Moreover, the admit card can be downloaded only by those contenders who had applied for the post. Applicants can make use of the link given below to acquire their admit card.

Recently the officials had released its FACT Recruitment to fill candidates for the post of Trade/Diploma or Technical Apprentices. A huge number of aspirants had applied for the post. Interested and eligible contenders had made use of this opportunity and had applied on or before the last date. Moreover, the mode of application for the post is through online. However, contenders are selected based on their performance in the written examination. The job location for the selected aspirants is in India.  Moreover applied applicants are eagerly waiting to acquire their FACT Exam Hall Ticket 2019. Hence don’t waste your time and get ready with your application number to acquire hall ticket.

Download FACT Exam Hall Ticket 2019

Candidates can make use of this page to acquire their FACT Admit Card 2019. As admit card is an important document to be carried while entering the examination hall. Those applicants failing to get their FACT Exam Hall Ticket 2019 will not be allowed to attend the examination. However, aspirants can acquire the admit card here when released by the officials. Moreover to help aspirants easily get their hall ticket we have provided direct links and steps. Hall ticket contains important information like the examination date, timings and venue details which help contenders to easily acquire their FACT Exam Admit Card 2019. Here we have provided some information present in admit card.

  • Name
  • Category
  • Test date and session timing
  • Test City and center address
  • Entrance Test Seat Number

Steps to Download FACT Hall Ticket 2019

  1. First, visit the official website of Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Limited i.e www.fact.co.in
  2. It redirects to the home page.
  3. Click on the download link.
  4. Enter the application number, date of birth and password details.
  5. Then, click on the submit button.
  6. Now, the FACT Hall Ticket will display on the screen.
  7. Download the admit card 2019.
  8. Finally, take a print out of the Hall Ticket and carry the admit card while attending the examination.

Download FACT Hall Ticket

OPSC Civil Services Previous Question Papers – Prelims, Mains @ opsc.gov.in

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 03:28 AM PDT

OPSC Civil Service Previous Papers Download Pdf links enclosed below. The applicants can download the last 10 Years OPSC Previous Year Question Papers Pdf along with the Solutions for free. In this article, we have given the direct download link. Hence, go through the details and find the respective links and start your preparation.

OPSC Civil Services Previous Question Paper

Odisha Public Service Commission has given the official notification for Civil Service Examination 2018. The Notification reveals the vacancies for Group A and Group B Posts. Hence, the Job Seekers who are waiting for the Civil Service Examination is Odisha can start applying. Interested aspirants can find the application details and a direct link to apply online in our OPSC CSE Notification 2018 page.

Lakhs of candidates are applying online for the OPSC Civil Services Examination 2018, now they are waiting to download the OPSC Previous Question Papers Pdf. For the ease of them, here we are providing the Odisha Public Service Commission Civil Services Model Papers along with Solutions. Download the OPSC Previous papers from below links and begin preparation. Therefore, while practicing you can also check for solutions here. Therefore, candidates who applied for Civil Service Examination can make use of OPSC OAS Prelims and Mains Last 10 Years Question Papers. Also, check the OPSC CSE Old Question papers with Answers on www.opsc.gov.in

OPSC Civil Services Previous Year Question Papers Pdf

Description Details
Board Name Odisha Public Service Commission
Post Name Group A and Group B
Exam Name Civil Sevice Examination 2018
No of Vacancies 218
Category Previous Papers
Prelims Exam Date 25th November 2018
Mains Exam Date 5th to 29th July 2019
Official Website opsc.gov.in

OPSC CCE Mains Exam Date Details – Click Here

Odisha Public Service Commission announces the prelims and mains exam dates on their official website. However, download the OPSC Civil Services Question Paper below and refer the complete exam pattern in the section following.

OPSC Civil Service Previous Papers Download Pdf

Therefore, the candidates who are participating in the Odisha State Civil Services Group A Examination can make use of these links to get the OPSC CIVIL SERVICES Previous Question Papers PDF. The Previous Papers act as a Preparation material for any exam preparation. That too for more competitive exams, Previous papers play a vital role. So, download the Odisha Public Service Commission OAS Old Question papers Pdf and prepare will to score good marks.

Below are the free download links to opsc.gov.in Civil Service Old Question Papers. Just by clicking on the links download last 5 Years OPSC Previous Question Paper of Civil Services Prelims or Mains Exams. Get the Odisha State Civil Services Preparation Materials Pdf for free of cost. Furthermore, to improve your knowledge try the Mock Tests in Online and also check Daily GK. Read the Newspaper daily for more updates.

OPSC Civil Services Previous Question Papers   Prelims, Mains @ opsc.gov.in

Download OPSC Civil Services Previous Question Papers – Prelims, Mains Exam

Year Prelims Mains
OPSC Civil Service Question Paper 2017 Download Download
2006 OPSC Civil Services Question Papers Download Download
2011 OPSC Civil Services Question Papers Download Download
2015 OPSC Civil Services Question Papers Download Download
2016 OPSC Civil Services Question Papers Download Download

Odisha PSC Civil Service Exam Pattern Details

Check the complete Odisha Civil Service Prelims and Mains examination pattern below. We updated the latest exam pattern details in the tabular section in order to make the applicants understand it easily. However, go through the details and list our the subjects need to concentrate more to score marks.

Odisha Civil Services Prelims Pattern

Papers Subjects Marks
I General Studies I 200
II General Studies II 200
Total 400

Odisha Civil Services Mains Pattern

Paper Subject Marks
I Odia Language 300
II English 300
III English Essay 300
IV General Studies I 300
V General Studies II 300
VI Optional Subjects 300
VII 300
VIII 300
IX 300
Total 2700
Interview/Viva-Voice 250
GRAND TOTAL 3,350
  • OPSC Selection Process for Civil Services includes Preliminary, Mains, and Interview.
  • Prelims and Mains are Objective Type Tests.
  • Civil Services Selection is done totally for 3,350 Marks.
  • In the Prelims Exam, General Studies questions will be asked.
  • Mains Exam consists of Questions from different subjects like Odia, English, etc.
  • For complete latest Odisha PSC Civil Service Exam Syllabus and Test Pattern click on the link below.

{OPSC Civil Services Syllabus}

Indian Navy Result 2019 – Check Indian Navy Exam Result, Merit List 2019 @joinindiannavy.gov.in

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 03:03 AM PDT

Indian Navy Result 2019 for various posts is available here. A good number of contenders appears for the Indian NavyEexaminations 2019. However, the aspirants can check out Indian Navy Exam Result 2019 here. To help applicants easily get their result we have provided direct links in the sections below. Also, The Indian Navy result consists of Merit List, Final Shortlist, Revised Result, and Cut Off Marks. Moreover, find the relevant link and just click on the link below to check your Indian Navy Exam Result 2019.

Indian Navy Result

Exam Name Result Release Date Indian Navy Result Link
SSR, AA 21-06-2019 SSR AA Result
 10+2 BTech Entry Available Soon Indian Navy BTech Entry Result
MTS 3-11-2018 Indian Navy MTS Result
AA, SSR  21-06-2018 Merit List
MR Released Indian Navy Merit List
AA, SSR  Released AA SSR Result
SSC PC Logistics3 Released Navy Result

Sailor SSR, AA Result 2019 – Indian Navy has finally released the Sailor SSR, AA Final Merit List on 21st June 2019. Candidates those who have appeared for the Recruitment of Sailor SSR, AA Posts, can check their result from the official website. Also, Here we have provided a direct link to check the Sailor SSR, AA Final Merit List. The exam for the Indian Navy Sailor SSR, AA Post have conducted on 26th – 28th February 2019. Check your results via the link mentioned below.

Indian Navy Sailor SSR, AA Result 2019

Post Name Sailor SSR, AA
No of Vacancies 3000
Category Sarkari Result
Exam Date 26th – 28th February 2019
Result Status 21st June 2019
Official Website joinindiannavy.gov.in
Indian Navy Sailor SSR, AA Result 2019 – SSR Final Merit List | AA Final Merit List

Indian Navy 10+2 Cadet B.Tech Entry Result 2019 is going to be available on the official site. Candidates can check on this page the result of the Indian Navy 10+2 Cadet B.Tech Entry Result for 2019. Here we have provided a direct link to check the results, the link will be work once the result may announce it by officially. The exam for the Indian Navy BTech Entry post was conducted on 02 – 21st June 2018. Check your results via the link mentioned below.

Indian Navy BTech Entry Result 2019

Post Name 10+2 Cadet B.Tech Entry
No of Vacancies Various
Category Sarkari Result
Result Status Available Soon
Official Website joinindiannavy.gov.in
Indian Navy BTech Entry Result 2019 – Check Here

Indian Navy MTS Result 2018 is available now on the official site. The result was declared on the 3rd of November 2018. The exam for the Indian Navy MTS post was conducted on 12th October 2018. Check your results via the link mentioned below.

Indian Navy Result 2018

Indian Navy MTS Result 2018
Post Name MTS
No of Vacancies various
Category Result
Result Date 3rd November 2018
Official Website joinindiannavy.gov.in
Indian Navy MTS Result 2018 – Download

Indian Navy (Nausena Bharti) announced the Merit list for Artificer Apprentice (AA) and Senior Secondary Recruits (SSR) Recruitment 2018. The Candidates those who appeared the Join Indian Navy Exam for AA & SSS 2018 can check the Merit List below.

Indian Navy AA, SSR Merit List 2019

Name of the Organization Join Indian Navy
Name of the Posts Artificer Apprentice & Senior Secondary Recruits
Indian Navy Vacancies Various
Category Sarkari Results
Join Indian Navy Apply Date 27th November 2017
Last Date to Apply 13th December 2017
Exam Date February/March 2018.
AA Result Date 6th March 2018
AA, SSR Merit List 2018 22nd June 2018
Official Website joinindiannavy.gov.in
Indian Navy AA 144Batch Merit List Click Here.
Navy SSR Merit List 2018 Click Here

Indian Navy Result 2019: Check out latest released Indian Navy Merit List 2018 for the post of MR. A huge number of contenders had applied for the post and attended the examination. Hence such applicants are eagerly waiting to check their Indian Navy Results 2018. However appeared candidates can make use of the link given below.

Indian Navy MR Exam Result – Click Here


Indian Navy AA Result 2019

Join Indian Navy Result 2019 released for the exam SSR and AA-143. Great news for those contenders in search of Indian Navy Exam Result 2019. The result plays an important role for those applicants who have attended the examination. Moreover, the Indian Navy Merit List 2019 can be viewed only by those aspirants who have appeared for the exams. However, we have provided direct links to help aspirants easily check their results. Refer the link given below to know your performance in the exams.

Indian Navy SSR Exam Result 2019 – Click Here

Indian Navy AA-143 Merit List 2019 – Click Here


The Indian Navy Result 2019 to be declared. All the applicants of Indian Navy Jobs successfully attended the written exam of SSC (Education) & PC (Logistics) conducted at various examination centers. Now, aspirants are eagerly searching for their Indian Navy Exam Result 2019. The Board officials will release the Indian Navy Result 2019 on the official website www.indiannavy.nic.in.  However, read through the article given below to get your results.

Indian Navy Exam Results 2019

Are you searching for Indian Navy Results 2019? Then you are at the right destination. The officials can make use of this page to check your Indian Navy Exam Results 2019. The results are released by the officials and hence there would be no ambiguity. By checking results applicants can evaluate their performance in the examination. However, we have provided direct links and steps to help contenders easily get their Indian Navy Exam Result 2019. However, the result consists of the name of shortlisted applicants and only such individuals can take up further rounds. For more details refer the link given below.

Recently the officials of Indian Navy had released its notification to fill in applicants for the post of SSC (Education) & PC (Logistics). A huge number of contenders had made use of this opportunity and had applied for the post on or before 10th February 2018. Those contenders who met the eligibility criteria had applied for the post. The mode of application for this post was through online mode. However, candidates are selected based on their performance in written exam, medical standards, eyesight and SSB interview. Selected candidates will receive respectable pay from the board. However, the job location for such applicants is in Bangalore, Bhopal, Coimbatore, Visakhapatnam.

Indian Navy Result 2019  @ www.indiannavy.nic.in

Indian Navy Recruitment Details
Name of the Board Indian Navy
Name of the posts SSC (Education) & PC (Logistics)
Number of vacancies  38 vacancies
 Exam Date Update Soon
Category  Sarkari Result
Result Date Will available soon
Indian Navy Result Status will update soon
Official Website www.indiannavy.nic.in

Indian Navy Cut off  Details

Most of the organizations conduct the written examination before hiring the candidates. Because the Indian Navy Recruitment Board will check their performance for selecting the aspirants. Above we provided the qualifying marks subject wise. Because these cut-off/qualifying marks will give an idea to the participants regarding the minimum marks required to get qualify for the written exam. Those applicants failing to meet the required qualifying marks will not be allowed to attend further rounds. However, it is important for aspirants to prepare well to meet the expected cut off marks.

Indian Navy Merit list 2019

After the completion of a written exam, everyone is tensed and searching on the internet for Indian Navy Result 2019. But the officials will take few days time to release the Indian Navy Exam Result 2019. When the Result appear candidates can download your Indian Navy  Merit List 2019 at the official website www.indiannavy.nic.in. The merit list contains the names/roll numbers of the qualified candidates. Only these aspirants are only eligible to appear for the next rounds of the recruitment process.

How to Download Indian Navy Exam Result 2019 online

  1. At first, visit the official website of Indian Navy i.e., www.indiannavy.nic.in
  2. The home page will appear.
  3. There click on the click here for SSC (Education) & PC (Logistics).
  4. Then, search for the Indian Navy Result 2019  and click on the results link.
  5. Then the result window asking for the candidate details will appear.
  6. Next, enter the registration number and other essential details on the candidate.
  7. After verifying the entered details, click on the submit button.
  8. Now, your Indian Navy Merit List 2019 will appear on the screen.
  9. Check your name on the Merit list.
  10. Download the Indian Navy Result 2019.
  11. Finally, take the print out of the Result for future use.

Indian Navy Merit List 2019 – Click Here


SSC CGL Question Paper: Download Tier 1, 2 Previous Year Papers in Hindi Pdf

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 02:01 AM PDT

SSC CGL Question Paper of both Prelims and Mains Examination is available here. The Candidates who are in search of SSC CGL Previous Year Papers can find in this article for Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3. However, we have given all the important details about Staff Selection Commission CGL 2019 Examination in the section below.

SSC CGL Question Paper Pdf

Applicants who are in search of SSC CGL Tier-I and Tier-II Question Papers with Solution can find here. As there will be a huge competition for the SSC CGL Recruitment 2019. Job Seekers who are going to appear the exam need to prepare well. Hence, to help you in your preparation, we are providing the free SSC CGL Question Paper Book Free Download Pdf below.

Refer all the SSC CGL Previous Year Question Paper. Practicing more papers helps the aspirants in gaining good marks. Also, helps the applicants of CGL Exam 2019, with there time management in the exam hall. Practice well and list out the negatives and positives. Hence, check the details and download the  SSC CGL Previous Year Question Papers with Answers Pdf  Prepare well and get your dream job.

SSC CGL Previous Year Question Papers  with solution Pdf

Description Details
Name of Board Staff Selection Commission (SSC)
Exam Name Combined Graduate Level (CGL)
Post Names Assistant Section Officer, Assistant Enforcement Officer, JSO, Sub Inspector & Other posts.
Category Previous Papers
Tier 1 Exam Date 4th June to 13th June 2019
SSC Tier 2 Exam Date 11th September to 13th September 2019
SSC CGL Tier 3 Exam Date 29th December 2019
Official Website ssc.nic.in

Staff Selection commission releases the CGL Notification every year. As this year it is going to be announced soon. As there will be a huge of job seekers waiting for the notification. We provide you all updates along with SSC CGL Previous Question Paper on our page. Go through the article and find more details.

SSC CGL Exam Papers 2019

Candidates who are interested can check the complete SSC CGL Exam Syllabus and Test Pattern 2019. Just click on the link and find the latest and updated Syllabus and download the free Pdf from the link given at the end of the article.

SSC CGL Exam Pattern 2019

Stages Type Mode
Tier I Multiple Choice Questions Online
Tier II Multiple Choice Questions Online
Tier III Descriptive Paper in English and Hindi Offline (Pen and Paper Based)
Tier IV Skill Test/ Computer Proficiency Wherever applicable

Staff Selection Commission CGL Tier I Exam Pattern

Selection No of Question Marks Time Duration
General Intelligence and Reasoning 25 50 Cumulative time of 60 Mins
General Awareness 25 50
Quantitative Aptitude 25 50
English Comprehension 25 50
Total 100 200

SSC Combined Graduate Level Tier-II Exam Pattern

Section No of Question Total Marks Time Duration
Quantitative Ability 100 200 2 hours
English Language and Comprehension 200 200 2 hours
Statistics 100 200 2 hours
General Studies (Finance and Economics) 100 200 2 hours

Staff Selection Commission CGL Tier III Exam Pattern

Mode of Exam Subject Marks Time Duration
Pen & Paper Descriptive paper in Hindi/English
(Essay & Letter Writing)
100 60 Minutes (80 minutes for students suffering
from disabilities like Visual Handicap & Cerebral Palsy)

SSC CGL Tier IV Exam Pattern

The SSC CGL Tier IV exam consists of two tests include Data Entry Skill & Computer Proficiency Test.  This Tier IV stage is only for few posts like TA (Tax Assistant), CSS, MEA, and Inspector.

  • Word Processing Test on MS Word: 2000 Key Depressions
  • Test in Microsoft Excel or Spreadsheets: 15 minutes
  • Test in Microsoft PowerPoint: 15 minutes

SSC CGL Previous Year Paper in Hindi – Tier 1, Tier 2 Exam 2019

Common Graduate Level Test Tier 1 Examination is going to be held in the coming months. However, aspirants who are going to appear can download the free SSC CGL Previous Year Papers with Answers Pdf in Hindi below. Also, share the details with your friends who are in search of SSC Papers.

Staff Selection Commission CGL Tier 2 Exam Model Question Paper with Solution is also available on our page. The candidates who cleared the Tier 1 are eligible for Tier2 examination. If you are the one among them, then just by clicking on the link and download SSC CGL last 10 Year Question Paper with Answers Pdf.

SSC CGL Question Paper: Download Tier 1, 2 Previous Year Papers in Hindi Pdf

Last 10 Years SSC CGL Question Paper – Question Paper with Answers Pdf

SSC CGL Tier-I Previous Papers Pdf Download links
Get SSC CGL 08-AUG-2017 (Shift-I) Reasoning 
English
Mathematics
SSC CGL previous year GK questions
SSC CGL 09-AUG-2017 (Shift-I) Reasoning
Check SSC CGL 10-AUG-2017 (Shift-I) Get Reasoning
Get SSC CGL 11-AUG-2017 (Shift-I) Reasoning
SSC CGL 08-AUG-2017 (Shift-2) Reasoning
English
Mathematics
 General Awareness
SSC CGL 09-AUG-2017 (Shift-2) Question Papers Reasoning
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Get SSC CGL 11-AUG-2017 (Shift-2) Model Paper Reasoning
SSC CGL 08-AUG-2017 (Shift-3) Exam Paper Reasoning
English
 Mathematics
General Awareness
SSC CGL 09-AUG-2017 (Shift-3) Previous Paper Reasoning
Get SSC CGL 10-AUG-2017 (Shift-3) Question Paper Get Reasoning
Get SSC CGL 11-AUG-2017 (Shift-3) Model Paper Reasoning

CGL Previous Year Papers with Solution Pdf (2016 – 2007)

Year Download links
2016 CGL 31-AUG-2016 (Morning Shift)
SSC CGL 30-AUG-2016 (Afternoon Shift)
Get SSC CGL 29-AUG-2016 (Morning Shift)
CGL 29-AUG-2016 (Afternoon Shift)
Download SSC CGL  28-AUG-2016 (Morning Shift)
CGL 28-AUG-2016 (Afternoon Shift)
2015 SSC CGL 16-AUG-2015 (Morning Shift)
CGL 16-AUG-2015 (Afternoon Shift)
2014 SSC CGL 26-OCT-2014 (Shift-1)
SSC CGL 10-OCT-2014 (Shift-1)
Get SSC CGL 10-OCT-2014 (Shift-2)
2011 Download SSC CGL 2011 (Shift-2)
2012-2007 Check SSC CGL 2012 to 2007

SSC CGL Question Paper in Hindi – Tier II Examination

Year Download links
2017 SSC CGL 17-FEB-2017 – Quantitative Aptitude
Download SSC CGL 17-FEB-2017 – English
2016 SSC CGL 02-DEC-2016 – Statistical Investigator
SSC CGL 01-DEC-2016 – Quantitative Aptitude
Get SSC CGL 01-DEC-2016 – English
SSC CGL 30-NOV-2016 – Quantitative Aptitude
Check SSC CGL 30-NOV-2016 – English
2012 Download SSC CGL 16-SEP-2012 – Quantitative Aptitude
SSC CGL 16-SEP-2012 – English
2011 CGL 04-SEP-2011 – Quantitative Aptitude
SSC CGL 04-SEP-2011 – English
2010 SSC CGL 01-AUG-2010 – Quantitative Aptitude
Download SSC CGL 01-AUG-2010 – English

Related links to SSC CGL Previous Year Question Paper Pdf Download

  • Staff Selection Commission CGL Notification – Click Here
  • SSC CGL Exam Syllabus – Click Here
  • Official Staff Selection Commission Website – Click Here

SSC CGL Previous Papers Book Free Download Pdf

A good handful book is what we need when we are preparing for one of the top examinations in the country. For SSC CGL, there are various books that you can get in the market. So, to remove this confusion we have updated here the best SSC CGL Books 2019

Subjects Name of the Books
Quantitative Aptitude
  • Quantitative Aptitude by RS Aggarwal
  • Arihant’s Fast Track Objective Arithmetic
Reasoning Ability
  • Reasoning by RS Aggarwal
  • A New Approach to REASONING Verbal & Non-Verbal by Arihant
English Language & Comprehension
  • Quick Learning Objective General English by RS Aggarwal & Vikas Aggarwal
  • Objective General English by SP Bakshi (Arihant)
General Awareness
  • Manorama Yearbook 2018 (English)
  • Daily Newspaper

The given SSC CGL Books will help the aspirants to prepare well for the examination. As the methodologies and techniques mentioned in these books are the updated ones, it will help the candidates to prepare in lesser time. Also, get the SSC CGL previous year question paper with solution free download links and practice well to crack the examination.

SSC MTS Result 2019 | Check SSC MTS Result Date For Tier-1 & Tier-2

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 01:48 AM PDT

SSC MTS Result 2019 – Staff Selection Commission is going to conduct the SSC MTS Tier I Exam on 02nd August – 6th September 2019. Also, Tier II Exam will be conducted on 17th November 2019. The SSC MTS Result will declare for both Tiers I and II Examination. Also, we can expect the SSC MTS 2019 Tier I & II Examination Result by October/December 2019. Once the SSC MTS Result 2019 Date will announce it by officially, we will update in this page, of exact SSC MTS Result Date. Applicants can get the complete details of SSC MTS Result, Important Dates, SSC MTS Total Marks, SSC MTS Cut Off, etc.

SSC MTS Result 2019 | Check SSC MTS Result Date For Tier 1 & Tier 2

SSC MTS Result | SSC MTS 2019 

As per the SSC MTS Notification, there are two age groups, i.e 18 to 25 years and 18 to 27 years, State, Category Wise Cut Off will be considered in the SSC MTS Final Result. The vacancies will be filled first the 18-25 Years age groups. SSC MTS Final Result will be finalized by the officials of the Staff Selection Commission after normalizing the marks for all slots and regions across India. Here on this page, we have provided a direct link to download MTS Exam Result 2019, the result link will work once the result announces it by officially. Apart from this, we have given SSC MTS Expected Cut Off 2019, SSC MTS Result 2019 Date and others.

SSC MTS Result 2019 Date – Overview

Name of the Organization Staff Selection Commission
Exam Name SSC MTS
Number of Posts 8300
Category Sarkari Results
 Last Date of SSC MTS Recruitment Application Form   29th May 2019
 Last Date of Online Payment of Application Fee   31st May 2019
SSC MTS Recruitment Admit Card for Paper 1 July 2019
 SSC MTS Recruitment Admit Card for Paper 2   October 2019
 SSC MTS Recruitment Exam Paper 1   02nd August – 6th September 2019
 SSC MTS Recruitment Exam Paper II 17th November 2019
 SSC MTS Recruitment Exam Paper 1 Result  October 2019
 SSC MTS Recruitment Exam Final Result   December 2019
SSC Official Website ssc.nic.in

SSC will be declaring the result for SSC MTS 2019 after the exam for each phase has been conducted by the Staff Selection Commission of India. The Result of Paper-1 will decide the number of candidates eligible to give the descriptive paper (Paper-2) of SSC MTS 2019 Exam. The result of SSC MTS exam indicates roll numbers of selected candidates. The candidates must have their roll numbers. For all the candidates roll numbers were provided in their admit card of SSC MTS 2019.

  • SSC MTS Recruitment 2019 comprises of computer-based exam paper I and descriptive test paper II.
  • After successful completion of Paper I, Answer key will announce it in the official website i.e, ssc.nic.in. 
  • Those candidates who obtain marks equal to or more than cut off as per their category, state, age group, are declared as qualified in MTS Exam Result 2019 of Tier 1.
  • Then those qualified candidates are issued admit card for SSC MTS 2019 Tier 2.
  • SSC MTS final result 2019 will be deduced on the cumulative score obtained by a candidate in Paper-I and Paper-II. It is, therefore, necessary for every candidate to score really well in both the levels of SSC MTS 2019 exam to guarantee his/her final selection in SSC MTS Exam.

Thereafter qualified candidates appear in SSC MTS 2019 tier 2 / Paper II which is a descriptive test of 50 marks. So those candidates who get qualifying marks in paper 2, and had cut off marks in paper 1, are called for document verification as per SSC MTS Result 2019 of Tier 2. So those who are qualified, and can show all documents, are finally recommended for SSC MTS Recruitment 2019.

SSC MTS Cut Off | SSC MTS Expected Cut Off 2019

The cut-off for SSC MTS 2019 will be declared once the examination for the same is conducted and the result has been declared. The cut-off will depend upon the level of difficulty of the SSC MTS 2019 Exam as well as the number of candidates appearing for the exam. To know more about SSC MTS Cut-Off 2019, let's have a look at previous years' cut-off. Staff Selection Commission publishes SSC MTS Cut Off along with results. Candidates can check all cut-offs in result write-ups which will be updated on this page as soon as result is announced. To know about the upcoming and SSC MTS Expected Cut Off 2019 we must look at the previous years’ cut off for SSC MTS Exam. This will give us an insight into the score required for scaling Paper-I & Paper-II of SSC MTS 2019 Exam.

Category Cut Off
SC 100.50
ST 87.00
OBC 101.00
Ex.S 49.50
OH 93.00
VH 76.00
HH 49.50
UR 110.50

Steps to check SSC MTS 2019 Result

  1. Visit the official website of Staff Selection Commission i.e ssc.nic.in
  2. In the home page should click on the results tab
  3. A new page will be open, in that we can select the categories
  4. Search for the SSC MTS Result 2019 link
  5. Click on the result link, it will open with a pdf file
  6. Download or take a print out of the result for further use.

Important links to download SSC MTS Result 2019

Download SSC MTS Result 2019 Click Here
Official Website Click Here

Check the Expected Region Wise SSC MTS Cutoff

SSC Region SSC Regionwise Cutoff
SSC Northern Region (NR) www.sscnr.net.in
SSC Eastern Region (ER) www.sscer.org
SSC Karnataka Region (KKR) www.ssckkr.kar.nic.in
SSC Southern Region (SR) www.sscsr.gov.in
SSC North Eastern Region (NER)  www.sscner.org.in
SSC Western Region (WR) www.sscwr.net
SSC Madhya Pradesh Region (MPR) www.sscmpr.org
SSC Central Region (CR) www.ssc-cr.org
SSC North Western Region (NWR) www.sscnwr.org

CWC Admit Card 2019 Released | Download Mains Call Letter @ cewacor.nic.in

Posted: 25 Jun 2019 11:39 PM PDT

CWC Admit Card 2019 – The higher officials of CWC , New Delhi had announced the exam date for the Management Trainee, Assistant Engineer, Accountant, Superintendent, Junior Superintendent, Hindi Translator, Junior Technical Assistant Exam on their official site. They had conducted the prelims examination also. Recently, they have released the Central Warehouse Corporation Mains Exam admit card on 25th June 2019. 

CWC Admit Card 2019 Released | Download Mains Call Letter @ cewacor.nic.in

Central Warehouse Corporation Mains Admit Card 2019 

Recently, Central Warehouse Corporation has released the Official Notification for 571 Junior Superintendent Posts. Before a few days back, the board releases the Prelims admit card. Now, its time to release the Mains Admit Card on the Official Website. So, Candidates who qualified the Prelims Exam can download the Mains admit card. Download the CWC Admit Card before the exam date.

CWC Hall Ticket 2019 – Overview

Description  Details 
 Name of the Board Central Warehouse Corporation
 Name of the Exam CWC Mains Exam
Exam Date 06th July 2019
 Category Admit card
 Admit Card Release Date 25th June 2019
Official Website cewacor.nic.in

Required Information to Check-in CWC Admit Card 2019

Hall Ticket is an important document to attend any government exam. It is an Identity Proof for the candidates. So, to attend the CWC Exam. Hence, Candidates who qualified the Prelims examination conducted by the board can download the mains exam admit card. The admit card for Junior Superintendent will be available up to 06th July 2019.

  • Name of the Applicant.
  • Exam Date, Time & Centre.
  • Post Applied for.
  • Application or Registration Number
  • Father Name and
  • Important Instructions.

Central Warehouse Corporation Exam 2019

The Board has conducted the Prelims exam on 30th May 2019. Moreover, all the candidates who applied for various posts attended the Prelims Exam. Hence, Aspirants who completed the prelims exam can check their results from the below-given link. After that, Candidates can download the CWC Admit Card. To check the result of Prelims Examination enter your Registration or Roll Number, Date of Birth, and Captcha. Then Sign in to the page to get the Central Warehouse Corporation Junior Superintendent Prelims Exam Result 2019.

The Mains Exam is going to be held on 06th July 2019. Hence, Candidates who got the eligible scoring in the prelims exam download the admit card from the below-provided link.

Structure of the Online Examination will be as follows:

Name of the Position No of Questions Maximum Marks
Management Trainee (General, Technical), Assistant Engineer (Civil/Electrical) and Accountant 200 235
Superintendent (General) 150 185
Junior Superintendent (Prelims) 100 100
Junior Superintendent (Mains) 200 200
Junior Technical Assistant 200 200
Hindi Translator 152 200

Required things to Download CWC Admit Card 2019

Whenever candidates are appearing for the examination they must carry theCentral Warehouse Corporation Jr. Superintendent Admit Card. Invigilators will not allow the candidates who failed to bring the CWC Admit Card. Make sure to bring the original Identity Proof along with the Admit Card. Candidates can directly download Central Warehouse Corporation Junior Superintendent Main Exam 2019 Admit Card by clicking on the below link

  • College ID
  • Driving License
  • 2 or 3 latest photographs
  • PAN Card
  • Aadhar Card
  • Voter ID
  • Passport
  • Bank Passbook
  • Ration Card
  • Employee ID
  • The photograph on any ID Proof declared by the State or Central Government
  • Any Authorised ID Proof Announced by Gazetted Officer

How to Download CWC Call Letter 2019-20?

  1. Click on “CWC Admit Card” Link.
  2. Enter the Registration or Roll Number.
  3. Enter the Password or Date of Birth.
  4. Fill the Captcha appeared in the image.
  5. Log in to get the admit card
  6. An Admit Card page will be available on the screen.
  7. Fill all the mandatory details.
  8. Click on to the download option and download the admit card.
  9. Take a print out and carry for the exam.

Direct Links to download Central Warehouse Corporation Admit Card 2019

CWC Admit Card Download
Official Website Click Here

SSC CHSL Previous Year Question Papers Pdf in Hindi – Download @ ssc.nic.in

Posted: 25 Jun 2019 10:34 PM PDT

SSC CHSL Previous Year Papers for tier 1, tier 2 examinations are available here. In this article, aspirants can find the SSC CHSL (10+2) Previous Year Question Paper Pdf for LDC, DEO & other posts. Hence, go through the page and find the SSC CHSL (10+2) exam paper pattern, syllabus and tier 1 & 2 exam date 2019 details. Interested aspirants can check the official website of ssc.nic.in for more regular updates.

SSC CHSL Previous Year Paper in Hindi

SSC Combined Higher Secondary Level (CHSL) Previous Year Paper for LDC, DEO, Assistant & other posts are helpful for the applicants in the preparation. Also, helps in knowing the exam question paper pattern for tier 1 and tier 2. We advise the candidates who are going to apply for SSC CHSL notification 2019 to check the previous year question paper below. Analyze the old question paper and prepare a plan for preparation which helps in scoring marks in SSC CHSL examination 2018-19.

Staff Selection Commission has given the notification for CHSL examination 2018 on 5th March 2019. The candidates who applied might be looking for CHSL previous year question papers pdf. Hence, find the free download link for the CHSL question paper in the sections below. Also, check the syllabus and exam pattern details before starting your preparation for CHSL (10+2) examination 2018. Here is a brief overview of the CHSL exam 2018 notification 2019.

SSC CHSL Previous Year Question Papers in Hindi Pdf Details

Staff Selection Commission CHSL (10+2) Notification 2018-19 Details
 Board Name Staff Selection Commission (SSC)
Post Name Combined Higher Secondary (10+2) Exam 2018
Category Previous Papers
CHSL Tier 1 Exam date 2019 1st to 26th July 2019
CHSL Tier 2 Exam date 2019 29th September 2019
Official Website ssc.nic.in

Knowledge of exam pattern helps the candidates a lot in understanding the way question and answers are given. Hence, go through the exam pattern before referring to the SSC CHSL previous papers. However, the SSC recruitment board has given the exam date for CHSL tier 1 and tier 2 (tentative) exams 2019. Hence, applicants are advised to start the preparation today as there will be a tough competition this year.

SSC CHSL Previous Year Paper – Model Question Paper Pdf

Applied for CHSL (10+2) exam 2018 notification 2019. Then you are in the right place where last 5 Years SSC CHSL Previous Year Question Paper Pdf is available. Aspirant just needs to click on the link below to download the free SSC CHSL Last 5 Years Solved Question Papers Pdf.
SSC CHSL Previous Year Question Papers Pdf in Hindi   Download @ ssc.nic.in
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SSC CHSL Exam Pattern and Syllabus 2019

Aspirants will be hired based on the performance in the different levels of the selection process. SSC is going to select candidates based on three levels of selection. Level 1 is Tier I (Online Written Examination), Level 2 is a descriptive paper (Tier II) and level 3 is Tier III (Typing Test/Skill Test)

Check the complete exam pattern details for tier 1, tier 2 & tier 3 selection process of CHSL Examination 2018 below. Knowledge of exam paper pattern is helpful in the preparation.

SSC CHSL Syllabus 2018 PDF – LDC, DEO, Postal Asst

Staff Selection Commission is a government body. It releases recruitment notification every year in various fields such as lower division clerk recruitment notification, Combined Graduate Level Examination(CHSL). Now it releases the CHSL Notification to hire candidates who have completed their graduation. Staff Selection Commission board conducting a common written exam called SSC CHSL Examination for the applied candidates.

SSC CHSL Tier I Exam Pattern 2018

Parts Subjects No of Questions Marks
I General Intelligence 25 25
II General English 25  25
III Quantitative Aptitude 25 25
IV General Awareness 25  25
Total 100 100
  • Exam Type: Objective Type Multiple choice Question(MCQ’s).
  • Each Question Carries one Mark.
  • Total time duration is 60 Mins.

SSC CHSL Tier 2 Exam Pattern 2018 -19

Type of Exam Subjects Marks Duration
Descriptive Type Essay and Letter Writing 100 1 hr

SSC CHSL Tier 3 Exam Pattern 2018-19

Exam Type Subjects Duration
Typing Test 2000 key depressions for a duration of 15 minutes 15 mins

Complete Staff Selection Commission Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2019 is updated in our syllabus page. So, make your preparation easy and effective by knowing the exact SSC CHSL LDC Syllabus and Test Pattern. Applicants can get the Combine Higher Level Exam Syllabus Pdf from the below free downloading link. Here we have provided  Exam Pattern details in a tabular form for an easy view. Therefore Aspirants can have a look at the below tabular form to get details like Subjects covered in the exam, Duration, No.of Marks, etc.

{SSC CHSL Syllabus 2019 PDF}

FACT Previous Year Question Papers Pdf – MT, Manager, Technician & Other Exam Papers

Posted: 25 Jun 2019 10:30 PM PDT

FACT Previous Year Question Paper is available here for the post of Management Trainee, Craftsman, Technician, Helper & Other. Candidates who have applied for FACT Jobs can download here the FACT Management Trainee previous papers pdf. Also, go through the below sections to get an idea of the exam pattern along with syllabus.

FACT Management Trainee Previous Papers

Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Limited (FACT) has recently released 274 vacancies for the Management Trainee, Craftsman, Technician & Other posts. Go through the FACT Recruitment 2019 for related details. Applicants can get here the detailed FACT previous year question paper pdf for both managerial and non-managerial posts. Before that go through the FACT exam pattern given below to get an idea of the examination.

FACT Previous Year Question Paper Pdf – Details

Name of Organisation Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Limited
Name of the Post Management Trainee, Craftsman, Technician & Others
No of Vacancies 274
Category Previous Papers
FACT Exam Date 2019 Update Soon
Official Website www.fact.co.in

Know the syllabus and exam pattern before you start the preparation so that you will know what to prepare and how to prepare for the examination. Hence we provide the FACT syllabus and Exam pattern in the below section. The applicants who have applied for the fertilizer and chemicals jobs will be selected based on the performance in the online exam, group discussion, and interview.

FACT Exam Pattern 2019

FACT Management Trainee Exam Pattern (Managerial) – Deputy Manager, Officer & Other

Parts Subjects Total Marks
Part-1 Management Aptitude 100
General English
General Knowledge
Part-2 Technical Aptitude
Subject Knowledge
  • The examination will consist of Objective Type Questions
  • The total duration of the examination is 1 Hour

FACT Exam Pattern for Non-Managerial Post – Technician, Draughtsman & Other

Test Parts Subjects
Online Written Test Part-I Aptitude & Reasoning
Part-II Subject Knowledge
  • The question paper will be in Hindi & English
  • There will be negative marking for every wrong answer

Download FACT Management Trainee Previous Year Question Papers

FACT Management Trainee Model Papers Civil
Last 5 years Previous Papers Mechanical
Fertilizer and Chemicals Travancore Sample papers Instrumentation
Last 10 years Old Papers Aptitude
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Posted: 26 Jun 2019 07:50 PM PDT

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Three possible answers to PM Modi's $5 trillion question

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At recent, non-Arvind Subramanian-estimated rates of GDP growth, India's economy will double in 10-12 years.Prime Minister Narendra Modi's target of a $5 trillion economy by 2024 — he called it challenging but achievable — means the $2.8 trillion economy will have to nearly double in five years. That means from a current GDP growth trend of 6-7%, the economy will have to grow at an annual average of 10-11% over 2019-24 (all growth figures are in real, not nominal, terms).Commentators have either dismissed this as unrealistic, or listed a large number of difficult policies necessary for sustained double-digit GDP growth. The latter, given the Indian State's many shortcomings, essentially arrives at the same conclusion as the former, although more politely.Neither set of analyses is wrong. But a more useful way of looking at the PM's 'challenging target' would be to frame it like this:1. Acknowledge all current negatives, from a slowing economy in the short term to historically established policy incapacity, from fiscal constraints to constraints imposed by a federal polity that hosts angry politics, from low human capital indices to regulatory failings in high finance.2. Ask, given all this, what can the government do quickly to change the economic status quo.3. The status quo is defined by a set of somewhat-same broad policies, in place since the mid-1990s, that will continue to produce GDP growth of around 7%.4. Since all, or even most, current negatives can't be turned around any time soon, GoI will have to find a workaround in the short term.5. If this can be found, it could create the enabling context for double-digit GDP growth, a must for Modi's 'challenging target'.The good news is that there's a workaround: 1. Identify key areas, each of which will have a well-understood big, defining problem.2. Start, and quickly implement, a few signature projects in each area that squarely address the big, defining problem. 3. The reasonable assumption will be that these projects will act as motivators and drivers for broader change in each area.Plant a PlantInstead of attempting to solve many complex problems, create a few standout solutions. If outcomes are remarkable, incentives for replication will be high for State actors. Let's explain this with examples.'Make in India' didn't quite work when the Modi 1.0 administration sought to incentivise a countrywide manufacturing resurrection, that too having given up earlier on land acquisition reform. The Modi 2.0 government should reorient.The big, defining problem is lack of land for industry. This will act as a constraint even after the current excess industrial capacity is exhausted. So, the work-around should concentrate on this.Identify the easiest way to make a few very large parcels of land available for manufacturing hubs, for example, by using land assets of big public sector companies. Then, in those few designated hubs, put all administrative energy to incentivise manufacturing.Target companies, Indian or foreign, with product lines that have assured large domestic demand base or cast-iron export demand.These manufacturing centres will only be a few in a continent-sized country. But if they take off, they should act as exemplars for State and private sector actors. Then, there may finally be a buy-in for larger reforms across the polity.Take agriculture, the albatross around the economy's neck. Even if terms of trade facing farmers improve and all monsoons till 2024 are good, the big, defining problem of inefficient farming on small plots will always make Indian agriculture a sad, third world story. A democracy where elections are won or lost in villages can't — and mustn't — mandate large farming by China-like fiats.What is doable, though, is to set up very few but very, very large farm enterprises and demonstrate through them what efficient farming can do for the economy. Land for those few giant farming enterprises could be taken on short-term lease at super attractive rates and farmer/landowners can be offered employment. To do this nationally in a federal structure, especially given emotive and political issues around smallholding ownership, is impossible. To do this in a very limited scale is entirely possible.Once the gigantically positive outcome from large, efficient farming is visible, it's entirely plausible that even in a country where the poor kisan is romanticised to his own detriment, the political-administrative class may find reasons to finally, truly reform agriculture.Take banking. Or, rather, take the question of who will finance sustained high growth. Banking, as it currently is, can't do the job. That will be true even after the non-banking financial companies (NBFC) crisis works itself out, and even if the bankruptcy resolution process and/or a one-time balance sheet clean-up take(s) care of the bad loans problem. The big, defining problem here is that India has too few banks — especially too few small, nimble banks — that will lend to small enterprises that comprise the bulk of entrepreneurship.Bank on BankThe work-around? Work with RBI and quickly issue a few banking licences for small private banks specifically mandated to lend to small industry.The unmet demand for credit finance from small entrepreneurs is huge.These new private banks will have no shortage of borrowers. And once the positive impact of such lending becomes clear, the appalling conservatism that has held back the expansion of the banking system may finally crack.These are just three of what can be done around a dozen work-arounds aiming to break the policy status quo.GDP growth won't hit double digits even after all work-arounds produce their desired outcomes. But a crystal clear message will be delivered.If GoI can do that, it will put India on the road Modi — rightly — wants it to be.

DHFL may have found a way to avert crisis

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Debt-laden Dewan Housing Finance Corporation (DHFL) on Wednesday said it has received the Securities and Exchange Board of India's (Sebi) approval to exit its mutual fund business by selling its 50 per cent stake to Prudential Financial.The company had entered an agreement with Prudential Financial to divest its 50 per cent holding in DHFL Pramerica Asset Managers (DPAMPL) -- 17.12 per cent held directly and 32.88 per cent held by its wholly-owned subsidiary, DHFL Advisory & Investments. "We wish to inform you that Sebi vide its letters June 25, 2019 addressed to DPAMPL has granted its prior approval for proposed change in controlling interest of DPAMPL and for amendment in trust deed under the applicable provisions of Sebi (Mutual Funds) Regulations, 1996 subject to certain conditions," DHFL said in an exchange filing.On Tuesday, DHFL could barely meet 40 per cent of a Rs 375 crore repayment commitment towards commercial papers, highlighting the cash flow stress at the embattled mortgage lender, which has been selling assets to repay debt. "Out of the aggregate amount of Rs 375 crore, 40% has been paid on a proportionate basis, and the balance amount of Rs 225 crore shall be paid in the next couple of days," DHFL said in a statement late Tuesday.

How India is building cities of the future

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By HARDEEP S PURIIn 1933, at the height of the great depression, noted British economist John Maynard Keynes wrote an open letter to the President of the United States, Franklin D Roosevelt, encouraging him to enact what came to be known as the New Deal, where investment in infrastructure became the silver bullet to pull the world out of the great depression.The Indian Economic Survey 2017-18 estimated that the country will require $4.5 trillion infrastructure investment by 2040. Much of this infrastructure investment will need to be focused on urban India, as by 2030, 40% of the country's population, or 600 million people, will reside in cities. Even more importantly, India requires 700 to 900 million square meters of residential and commercial space (equivalent to Chicago) to be built every year from now till 2030 to accommodate this 600 million i.e. 70% of India of 2030 will be built in the next decade.Taking cognisance of the growing need and importance of urban development, PM Narendra Modi embarked on the world's most ambitious planned urbanisation programme. In June 2015, he launched three flagship missions, namely, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), Smart Cities Mission, and Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT).PMAY (U) is predicated on the vision of providing each Indian a home he/she can call his/her own. To meet this objective, we need to build 1crore dwelling units in urban spaces as had been assessed by the states and UTs. 81 lakh homes have already been sanctioned, 48 lakh grounded for construction, and 26 lakh homes have been completed and handed over.I am confident that by the end of 2021, all the beneficiaries will receive their homes, a full one year before the target date. A crucial aspect of the Mission is that the title of the home will be in the name of the lady of the house or co-jointly, providing a major fillip to women's empowerment.The scheme through its four verticals— In Situ Slum Redevelopment (ISSR); Affordable Housing in Partnership (AHP); Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) and Beneficiary Led Construction (BLC)—offers a bouquet of options to the beneficiaries and states/UTs . The Mission looks at the daunting issue of slums; it focuses on affordable housing; it provides for a very attractive interest subsidy for those wanting to avail a housing loan; and it provides assistance to those who already own land but find it difficult to raise the necessary resources to construct ahouse.The objective of the Smart Cities Mission is to build the next generation of Indian cities, where infrastructure is easy accessible and affordable, and where citizen-government engagement is efficient and effective.It aims to achieve this by adopting the latest in technological advancement — whether it is RFID tags that make garbage collection easier or integrated traffic management systems that ease road congestion—technology offers 'smart' solutions to many of our infrastructure challenges. Simply put, technology allows urban governance systems to do more with less, thereby easing the resource-deficit burden.The total investment in the Smart Cities Mission is envisaged to be over Rs 2,05,000 crore through 5,151 projects. 896 projects worth approximately Rs 15,000 crore have been completed and another 1,895 projects worth Rs 75,000 crore are under implementation. The mission works closely with private players, including international firms, to leverage their capital, expertise, human resource, and technology. So far, under public-private participation model, 65 projects worth over Rs 2,000 crore in 26 cities have been completed. 116 projects worth over Rs 10,000 crore in 45 cities are being implemented; and 91 projects worth over Rs 9,600 crore in 36 cities are in advanced stages of tendering. Moreover, 10 leading international companies are participating in at least 40 of the 100 selected Smart Cities.AMRUT complements the efforts of both PMAY and the Smart Cities Mission. It seeks to provide water supply, sewerage, urban transport, and safe public spaces to residents of urban centers in 500 cities with populations over 1,00,000. The total mission outlay is expected to be Rs 1,00,000 crore. Projects worth Rs 4,263 have already been completed and contracts worth another Rs 61,093 crore have been awarded.AMRUT is predicated on the PM Modi's motto of 'cooperative federalism', i.e., state governments take the lead in all three aspects of infrastructure development: (a) designing schemes based on the needs of their respective cities; (b) creating State Annual Action Plans (SAAP) for execution of programmes; and (c) monitoring the progress once funds are released.The SAAP are submitted to the central government only for broad concurrence and the center provides funding for these schemes as per guidelines. This is a marked departure from past practices where the central government in New Delhi retained all control, using their power for political purposes.India's planned urbanisation programme can be termed the 21st century's New Deal. It is for the first time that a democratically elected government, in a federal framework, in partnership with the private sector, is quite literally 'building' a nation from bottoms-up. Add to this the imperative of building green and resilient infrastructure; what we get is a development model that is a first of its kind. Put another way, what India is doing today in its urban spaces, the rest of the world will do tomorrow.(The writer is Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs (IC))

Coca-Cola sits down for stake talks with CCD

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Coca-Cola is in exclusive talks to pick up a significant stake in Café Coffee Day (CCD) as the soft drinks giant looks to gain a foothold in the rapidly growing space and hedge risks associated with its core carbonated drinks business, said executives with knowledge of the matter.Talks are in the early stages and may not lead to a deal, they said. "The potential stake acquisition is being driven by Coca-Cola's headquarters in Atlanta and officials from the beverage maker's global team are engaged in active talks with the Coffee Day management," said one of the persons. "It would give Coca-Cola significant scale in the fast-growing café business, compared to aerated soft drinks, which have been slowing down."ET broke the story in its online edition on Wednesday.A Coca-Cola spokesperson said, "This news is absolutely speculative in nature. As a matter of company policy, we do not have any comments to offer at this point." Coffee Day Enterprises didn't respond to queries.Promoted by VG Siddhartha, the country's largest coffee chain is owned by Coffee Day Global, a subsidiary of Coffee Day Enterprises. With a footprint of 1,752 cafés as of March 2019, CCD is market leader in the organised café space. It competes with Starbucks and smaller chains such as Barista and Costa Coffee. In India, Starbucks operates through a venture with the Tatas and has 146 stores.CCD's expansion plans have slowed over the past two years on the back of rising debt.'Coca-Cola Can Play A Good Role'Café Coffee Day is also facing fresh competition from tea shop chains such as Chaayos and Chai Point and boutique coffee shops. It shut 90 small format stores in FY18.Coffee Day Enterprises reported standalone net sales of Rs 76.9 crore for the March quarter, up 43.64% from the year earlier. Losses widened to Rs 22.28 crore from Rs 16.52 crore. It has been reporting same-store sales growth of 10-11% over the past three quarters."Cafe Coffee Day introduced India to the café culture back in 1990s and has been able to build a massive footprint," said Jaspal Sabharwal, veteran private equity professional and cofounder of online product review platform TagTaste. "But the chain badly needs some innovation and facelift. There has been plenty of innovation in the café industry in recent years, but not enough of it has come from giant brands. Coca-Cola can play a very good role in this space."While Coca-Cola had announced the global acquisition of British coffee chain Costa Coffee in August 2018 from parent company Whitbread Plc for $5.1 billion, the deal had little significance for India. Costa Coffee, which is operated by RJ Corp-promoted Devyani International in India, has less than 50 stores. Globally, however, Costa Coffee has close to 4,000 stores and another 8,000-plus Costa Express vending machines.Siddhartha had sold a 20.32% stake held by him and two CCD affiliate firms (Coffee Day Enterprises and Coffee Day Trading) in software services company Mindtree to Larsen & Toubro in March for Rs 3,200 crore, which was largely seen as a move to pare debts and focus on his consumer-facing café business.The listed Coffee Day Enterprises, with a market cap of Rs 4,732 crore, closed 3.87% up on the BSE on Wednesday.The Chikkamagaluru-based Coffee Day Enterprises is Asia's largest producer of Arabica coffee beans.It grows coffee on 20,000 acres of self-owned estates and set up the first Café Coffee Day in 1996 in Bengaluru. Internationally, CCD has a presence in Vienna, the Czech Republic, Malaysia, Nepal and Egypt.The café chain business is an attractive channel for traditional beverages and foods makers. In the middle of last year, Swiss food giant Nestlé struck a $7.1-billion deal with Starbucks to license and sell its packaged coffees and teas across global markets.While the global market for packaged coffee and drinks is estimated at $83 billion by Euromonitor, compared with the $513 billion market for soft drinks, it is growing significantly faster.

Tata Global seeks new captain to power its FMCG ambitions

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The Tata Group has shortlisted a few candidates to become the new chief executive of its beverages company Tata Global Beverages (TGBL) to help build a scalable FMCG business in India, people familiar with the development said.Senior Unilever executives Sanjiv Kakkar, JV Raman and Hemant Bakshi and the CEO of a leading Indian foods company are among those being shortlisted for the job. Current CEO Ajoy Misra will handhold the new hire until his one-year term ends in March 2020, they said.TGBL declined to comment on the CEO hiring. "We will make the necessary announcements at the appropriate time," a spokesperson said.Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran had acknowledged at TGBL's AGM recently that the company's financial metrics were inadequate, and that tea and water businesses cannot provide the required scale to grow the maker of Tata Tea, Tetley, Eight O'Clock coffee and Himalayan mineral water brands.The Kolkata-based company has transformed from a plantations company to a branded beverages company and will soon change into a foods company due to the proposed transfer of the consumer products business of Tata Chemicals. TGBL will be renamed Tata Consumer Products after completion of the transfer of the salt, spices and pulses businesses."The company wants to ensure the CEO has the right experience to build global brands," said an official close to the development.Former Unilever director Harish Manwani is an independent member on the board of Tata Sons.TGBL reported consolidated revenues of Rs 7,251 crore for FY19 with a net profit of Rs 408 crore. The company's topline and bottomline have largely remained flat in recent years. Raw material burden on revenues has been rising steadily. Its international business has been a drag on its performance. The coffee business in the US is sluggish and the black tea market in the UK has been declining. The company has been exiting non-performing international operations in Russia, Sri Lanka and China.For a FMCG company, TGBL has very low return on capital employed and return on net worth at 9.3% at 6.6%, respectively, for fiscal 2019. Typically, foods businesses need a 10-15 year plan to scale it up and build a presence in the country.Top officials close to the development said internally there is no business clarity yet among TGBL executives about the plan to grow the pulses portfolio acquired from Tata Chemicals. The FMCG business would require a massive overhaul to stay relevant and competitive, they said. 69966961 "The back-end of TGBL, such as supply chain, product development and warehousing, is lagging behind compared to competitors," one of the sources said. Also, the company would need to scale up its core tea, coffee and water businesses to support the acquisition of the pulses business from Tata Chemicals, the sources said.A TGBL spokesperson said the company would absorb Tata Chemicals' consumer products division and its food science technology team at the innovation centre, which will continue to work on the food business. "The combined business reach (Including food business) will be 200 million households," he said. "We have a strong sales and distribution network in place and clear plans to strengthen and scale it up further. A digitally enabled sales, distribution and supply chain transformation initiative is well underway to further enhance reach and improve channel efficiency."TGBL has a complex structure with 39 subsidiaries. The management has been restructuring its operations, and consolidation of arms is one of the agendas, company insiders said. However, the merger of Tata Coffee, a listed subsidiary, with TGBL has been ruled out for now, they said.

Coca-Cola sits down for stake talks over coffee with CCD

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Coca-Cola is in exclusive talks to pick up a significant stake in Café Coffee Day (CCD) as the soft drinks giant looks to gain a foothold in the rapidly growing space and hedge risks associated with its core carbonated drinks business, said executives with knowledge of the matter.Talks are in the early stages and may not lead to a deal, they said. "The potential stake acquisition is being driven by Coca-Cola's headquarters in Atlanta and officials from the beverage maker's global team are engaged in active talks with the Coffee Day management," said one of the persons. "It would give Coca-Cola significant scale in the fast-growing café business, compared to aerated soft drinks, which have been slowing down."ET broke the story in its online edition on Wednesday.A Coca-Cola spokesperson said, "This news is absolutely speculative in nature. As a matter of company policy, we do not have any comments to offer at this point." Coffee Day Enterprises didn't respond to queries.Promoted by VG Siddhartha, the country's largest coffee chain is owned by Coffee Day Global, a subsidiary of Coffee Day Enterprises. With a footprint of 1,752 cafés as of March 2019, CCD is market leader in the organised café space. It competes with Starbucks and smaller chains such as Barista and Costa Coffee. In India, Starbucks operates through a venture with the Tatas and has 146 stores.CCD's expansion plans have slowed over the past two years on the back of rising debt.'Coca-Cola Can Play A Good Role'Café Coffee Day is also facing fresh competition from tea shop chains such as Chaayos and Chai Point and boutique coffee shops. It shut 90 small format stores in FY18.Coffee Day Enterprises reported standalone net sales of Rs 76.9 crore for the March quarter, up 43.64% from the year earlier. Losses widened to Rs 22.28 crore from Rs 16.52 crore. It has been reporting same-store sales growth of 10-11% over the past three quarters."Cafe Coffee Day introduced India to the café culture back in 1990s and has been able to build a massive footprint," said Jaspal Sabharwal, veteran private equity professional and cofounder of online product review platform TagTaste. "But the chain badly needs some innovation and facelift. There has been plenty of innovation in the café industry in recent years, but not enough of it has come from giant brands. Coca-Cola can play a very good role in this space."While Coca-Cola had announced the global acquisition of British coffee chain Costa Coffee in August 2018 from parent company Whitbread Plc for $5.1 billion, the deal had little significance for India. Costa Coffee, which is operated by RJ Corp-promoted Devyani International in India, has less than 50 stores. Globally, however, Costa Coffee has close to 4,000 stores and another 8,000-plus Costa Express vending machines.Siddhartha had sold a 20.32% stake held by him and two CCD affiliate firms (Coffee Day Enterprises and Coffee Day Trading) in software services company Mindtree to Larsen & Toubro in March for Rs 3,200 crore, which was largely seen as a move to pare debts and focus on his consumer-facing café business.The listed Coffee Day Enterprises, with a market cap of Rs 4,732 crore, closed 3.87% up on the BSE on Wednesday.The Chikkamagaluru-based Coffee Day Enterprises is Asia's largest producer of Arabica coffee beans.It grows coffee on 20,000 acres of self-owned estates and set up the first Café Coffee Day in 1996 in Bengaluru. Internationally, CCD has a presence in Vienna, the Czech Republic, Malaysia, Nepal and Egypt.The café chain business is an attractive channel for traditional beverages and foods makers. In the middle of last year, Swiss food giant Nestlé struck a $7.1-billion deal with Starbucks to license and sell its packaged coffees and teas across global markets.While the global market for packaged coffee and drinks is estimated at $83 billion by Euromonitor, compared with the $513 billion market for soft drinks, it is growing significantly faster.

Crude oil may slump to $30 if China devalues yuan: BofAML

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By Dan Murtaugh and Livia YapA further deterioration in relations between the US and China could set off a chain of events that would push oil down more than 50 per cent to as low $30 a barrel, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.President Donald Trump may decide to raise tariffs on the remaining $300 billion of Chinese imports if he doesn't like what he hears from Chinese President Xi Jinping at this weekend's G-20 summit in Osaka, Francisco Blanch, the bank's global head of commodities, said in an interview in Singapore.That may cause Chinese authorities to let the yuan weaken, making oil that's priced in dollars more expensive in the world's largest importer and stunting demand growth, he said. Beijing might also decide to ignore Washington's sanctions against Iran and resume crude imports from the Persian Gulf country, Blanch said."The trade issue and the Iran issue become the same issue, and that ends up creating a $30-a-barrel scenario for oil prices," he said. "You get an extra 2 million barrels from Iran and demand collapses, where do you think prices are going to go?"Blanch said the scenario wasn't particularly likely, but wasn't crazy either. BofAML's base-case scenario is for Brent and West Texas Intermediate to average $63 and $56 a barrel, respectively, in the second half of the year.69958798 Brent crude fell 20 per cent from a high in late April to a low on June 12, largely as a result of the worsening trade war. It has rebounded about 10 per cent since then as tensions in the Persian Gulf rose to boiling point, and is currently trading just below $66 a barrel.To offset the impact of the US putting tariffs on the remainder of Chinese imports, Beijing would have to let the yuan weaken to 7.3 per US dollar, Citigroup Inc. analysts including Sun Lu wrote in a note last month. That's around 6 per cent weaker than current levels.

India’s a thriving economy, but too expensive in global context

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As head of research at $382-billion Swiss wealth manager, Julius Baer, Christian Gattiker-Ericsson has a good view of the world economy and how money moves across the globe. In an interview with Joel Rebello, he spoke about falling global yields, flow of money and the Swiss bank's preferred investments. Edited excerpts:Global yields are on the way down. What is causing this?There are two factors for yields falling across the globe. The monetary policy in the US and the trade tensions which made investors more risk averse and less growth friendly. Possibly the two are intertwined because we might see a reaction due to the fact there is uncertainty about trade. Therefore, there has been a recalibration about rate expectations. Twelve months ago, the US economy was super strong, wages were going up. The low-income bracket was making double-digit increase in wages, so inflation was pumping up. Then suddenly these trade tensions rose and then we got an escalation. Perception shifted — we almost saw a 100 basis points in US treasuries which is quite a massive move.What's your view on the Indian market?In the global context, we are neutral on Indian equities. There is a sound structural background and it's a thriving economy but in the global context the market is very expensive. If you follow the money and look at the currency markets, the money was moving back into the US market in the last three to four years. The US is a structurally deficit economy which they need to be in order to hold the global reserve currency. If you see such a currency going up against all odds, then you see that the capital is actually moving back into the dollar territory and that's where the money went.Then there was this on-off relationship with Chinese stocks with the hot money going back and forth. The way we have been handling this is whenever there was a sizeable risk premium on emerging market bonds, we would go back and buy them. At this stage of the cycle, your strategy is to go into fixed income instead of equity because when rates rise, emerging markets are forced to deleverage which means you get a better risk as a bond investor because financial risk is lowered but it cuts the upside for the equity investors. We think the next decade will belong to the Chinese market because it is still sizeable.So money will move towards emerging markets then?There is potential, particularly on the fixed income side. There are even possibilities on the currency. We have been conservative and going into hot currency emerging market bonds but there is also very generous risk premium in some of the local currency fixed income. But this is so much like the late '90s — you never know when the cycle will end because nobody rings the bell at the end of the cycle.At the beginning of the year, lots of investors were reading the prospects of a first rate cut which is priced by December 2018. We are not so sure. We think it will be a longer protracted thing. So, there are hardly any 'buy and hold assets' in emerging markets for now. It will change in the next cycle. I expect in the 2020s there will be a major easing cycle of the US monetary policy. This will start when recession will hit the US and our guess is it is 2021. So it will take another 12 to 18 months for the markets to price in an easing cycle and then we could see a major emerging markets boom similar to what we saw in 2002 and 2003.Which assets is money moving towards?We have had two major risk-off waves — first in the fourth quarter and now in May, so we think risk appetite will recover and lots of those juicy risk buckets will be revisited and all these high-yielding bonds will make sense in the global context. With the 10-year treasury at 2.10%, people will have a hard time to go to 30-year treasury against this backdrop because they have had a major run.Gold is at a very interesting crossroads. We have been promoting gold for the whole year. It seems that there might be further inflation risks at some stage and gold will benefit. Investors will hold gold against the uncertainties of the cycle. Equity investors should also be fully invested at this stage because equities have some catching up to do.

Mindtree CEO Rostow Ravanan likely to resign: Sources

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New Delhi: Mindtree Chief Executive Officer Rostow Ravanan is likely to resign in the coming weeks with infrastructure major L&T becoming a majority shareholder in the mid-sized IT company, according to sources. Larsen and Toubro (L&T) had initiated a hostile takeover of Mindtree Ltd in March and has since then expanded its shareholding to a majority stake with large investors, like Nalanda, selling their shares in the ongoing open offer. Mindtree founders had resisted the bid and had tried rallying support from Singapore-based Nalanda Capital and others. One of the sources said Mindtree founders had supported Ravanan's continuation to ensure business continuity but given the developments over the past few weeks, Ravanan will expected to step down from his role in the coming weeks. E-mails sent to Mindtree did not elicit any response. Another source said the founders, which include Subroto Bagchi, N S Parthasarathy and Krishnakumar Natarajan (who together hold about 13 per cent), may look at selling their shares as well in the open offer that concludes on June 28. Interestingly, L&T has recently secured three board positions at Mindtree that has eight members on the board (of which four were independent directors). Mindtree co-founder Subroto Bagchi did not offer being considered for re-appointment to the board. The IT firm remained silent on how it plans to accommodate the three new L&T representatives. In March, L&T had said it will buy 20.32 per cent stake in Mindtree from VG Siddhartha and his coffee enterprise for over Rs 3,000 crore, marking India's first-ever hostile takeover bid in the IT space. Since then, L&T has steadily increased its holding in the Bengaluru-based tech firm to about 30 per cent. L&T is currently in the process of an open offer to buy an additional 31 per cent stake. The open offer, with an offer price of Rs 980 per share, opened on June 17 and is slated to close on June 28. If the offer of 5.13 crore shares is subscribed fully, the engineering behemoth will end up with a 66.32 per cent holding in Mindtree. As of June 26, L&T's open offer had received bids for 4.83 crore shares or 94.16 per cent of the offer.

Gujarat High Court unhappy with state govt's approach on manual scavengers

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:39 PM PDT

Gujarat High Court unhappy with state govt's approach on manual scavengers
The government was supposed to file a detailed reply on Wednesday clarifying whether manual scavenging is still prevalent in the state, or not, and what actions have been taken by it to curb the inhumane practice.

Source: DI

VVIP Chopper Scam: Apex court nixes foreign visit of ailing Rajeev Saxena

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:39 PM PDT

VVIP Chopper Scam: Apex court nixes foreign visit of ailing Rajeev Saxena
MORE CASES: CBI told Supreme Court probe in two more cases against him at crucial stage

Source: DI

DNA SPECIAL: Maharashtra govt to launch its own river-linking projects

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:39 PM PDT

DNA SPECIAL: Maharashtra govt to launch its own river-linking projects
Govt plans to opt out of 'pending' joint river-linking projects with Gujarat

Source: DI

Plan waste treatment in 180 days: Gujarat Pollution Control Board

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:39 PM PDT

Plan waste treatment in 180 days: Gujarat Pollution Control Board
Plastic manufacturers from state who got closure notice for violating plastic waste management rules get relief

Source: DI

World Cup 2019: Chris Gayle postpones retirement

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:38 PM PDT



Source: FPJ

MS Dhoni’s previous knock one-off: Sourav Ganguly

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:38 PM PDT



Source: FPJ

PM Narendra Modi arrives in Japan for G20 Summit

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:33 PM PDT

PM Narendra Modi arrives in Japan for G20 Summit
This will be Prime Minister Modi's sixth G20 Summit which is being held at Osaka on June 28-29.

Source: TFE

Nagpur hospital’s prescription for mentally ill: work, wage, welfare

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:32 PM PDT

Nagpur hospital's prescription for mentally ill: work, wage, welfare


Source: TIE

BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya held for thrashing civic official, bail denied

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:29 PM PDT

BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya held for thrashing civic official, bail denied
The FIR against Akash, son of senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya, was registered after he was caught on camera thrashing the Municipal Corporation officer with a cricket bat

Source: DI

Uttar Pradesh police involved in seven encounters in 24 hours

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:29 PM PDT

Uttar Pradesh police involved in seven encounters in 24 hours
No policemen suffered any injury in any of the operations

Source: DI

G20 Summit: PM Modi arrives in Japan, will hold bilateral talks with world leaders

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:29 PM PDT

G20 Summit: PM Modi arrives in Japan, will hold bilateral talks with world leaders
This will be Prime Minister Modi's sixth G20 Summit which is being held at Osaka on June 28-29.

Source: DI

World Cup 2019: Is vintage Carlos here to stay?

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:28 PM PDT



Source: FPJ

World Cup 2019: Babar Azam ton helps Pakistan to 6-wicket win over Kiwis

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:28 PM PDT



Source: FPJ

Agriculture department to farmers: Grow maize at your own risk

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:27 PM PDT

Agriculture department to farmers: Grow maize at your own risk


Source: TIE

Finally! Monsoons bring relief to south, central Gujarat

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:19 PM PDT

Finally! Monsoons bring relief to south, central Gujarat
The weather department predicts that widespread but light to moderate rains are likely across the state till Sunday.

Source: DI

Water shortage woes deluge Parliament

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:19 PM PDT

Water shortage woes deluge Parliament
Rivals AIADMK and DMK, and Left parties joined hands in highlighting the crisis faced by states; Shiv Sena MP urges priority for irrigation projects in Marathwada

Source: DI

Congress MLA Bhaga Barad plea sent to lower court, again

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:19 PM PDT

Congress MLA Bhaga Barad plea sent to lower court, again
The Gujarat High Court once again remanded the matter back to the lower court, directing it on Wednesday to hear it afresh.

Source: DI

Education is the basic human right: Priyanka Chopra Jonas

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:17 PM PDT

Education is the basic human right: Priyanka Chopra Jonas


Source: TIE

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