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Ten international partners and customers have committed to buying the jet, and eight of them have received their first F-35s.CreditAnne Rearick for The New York Times
The F-35 was once the Pentagon's high-profile problem child. Has it finally moved past its reputation of being an overhyped and underperforming warplane?
On the morning of June 23, 2014, an F-35 burst into flames just moments before its pilot was set to take off on a routine training mission. He heard a loud bang and felt the engine slow as warning indicators began flashing "fire" and other alerts signaled that systems in the plane were shutting down. Witnesses at Eglin Air Force Base near Pensacola, Fla., reported seeing the pilot escape from the cockpit and run away from the fighter jet, which was engulfed in thick plumes of black smoke. It was the first major mishap involving a F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and it couldn't have happened at a worse time.
In less than a month, the F-35, America's high-profile next-generation fighter jet, was poised to make its international debut in Britain at Farnborough Airshow, the second-largest event of its kind in the world. Officials from the Pentagon and the aircraft's manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, had eagerly anticipated the opportunity to show off a working, flying F-35 after a decade of delays and spiraling cost overruns.
The F-35 initiative is the Defense Department's most expensive weapons program ever, expected to cost taxpayers more than $1 trillion over its 60-year lifespan. It's also the United States military's most ambitious international partnership, with eight other nations investing in the aircraft's development. Its advocates promised that the jet would be a game-changing force in the future of war — so much was riding on its success that a program cancellation was not an option. And yet for years it seemed as if the F-35 might never make it beyond its development phase.
Christopher Bogdan, the Air Force lieutenant general in charge of the program at the time of the fire, received a call about the incident within the hour. His first reaction was relief that it had been detected before takeoff, a stroke of good fortune that allowed the pilot to escape uninjured. "If that engine problem would have occurred 30 seconds, 60 seconds, two minutes later, that airplane would have been airborne," Bogdan said in a recent interview. "Heaven knows what could have happened then."
WNU Editor: This New York Times post provides a good summary on the many problems that plague the F-35. Problems that regular readers of WNU have been well aware of for the past ten years.
A Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) interceptor launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California during a Missile Defense Agency test in 2010. The Defense Department said it would seek bids for a new version of the weapons system called the Redesigned Kill Vehicle
* The Pentagon announced Wednesday that it is terminating the troubled billion-dollar program to develop a ballistic missile interceptor, citing design problems * The Defense Department said it would seek bids for a new version of the Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) weapons system * The program was being led by Boeing * The system was supposed to work by firing off a 'kill vehicle' from an interceptor missile to defend the US against long-range ballistic missile attacks * In December 2018, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency concluded that 'certain critical components' failed to meet technical requirements * Five months later, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering Michael Griffin decided to suspend the contract and consider alternatives * The Pentagon finally concluded that the design problems were either insurmountable or too costly to fix
The Pentagon announced Wednesday that it is terminating a troubled billion-dollar program to develop a ballistic missile interceptor, citing design problems.
The Defense Department said it would seek bids for a new version of the weapons system called the Redesigned Kill Vehicle, or RKV. The program was being led by Boeing.
'Ending the program was the responsible thing to do,' said Michael Griffin, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.
'Development programs sometimes encounter problems. After exercising due diligence, we decided the path we're going down wouldn't be fruitful, so we're not going down that path anymore,' Griffin added.
'The drill is a real one because the battlefield, enemy, and the fighters are real'
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' ground forces kicked off a "massive" set of war drills Thursday as the country unveiled its own homemade version of Russia's advanced S-300 missile defense system in yet another showing of Tehran's growing readiness for a possible war.
Iranian military leaders said the war games will mix with actual fighting as the IRGC forces seek to cleanse what they described as "anti-revolutionary terrorist groups" from along the country's borders. The operations follow an attack on IRGC units in July that killed one and injured one other.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inspecting an Adir F-35 stealth fighter at the Nevatim Air Force Base on July 9, 2019. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
'We're acting in very many theaters against a state that seeks to annihilate us,' PM says, following similar statements earlier this week.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to hint on Thursday that Israel was behind attacks against Iran-backed militias in Iraq over the past month.
"I don't grant Iran immunity anywhere," he said to Channel 9. "Iran is a state, a power, that has sworn to annihilate Israel. It's trying to establish bases against us everywhere. In Iran itself, in Lebanon, in Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen."
US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper appeared to confirm Wednesday that the late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's son Hamza bin Laden is dead. "That's my understanding," Esper told Fox News in an interview when asked if Hamza bin Laden was dead.
Asked if the US had any role in his death, Esper responded: "I don't have the details on that. And if I did, I'm not sure how much I could share with you."
US officials told CNN last month that the US had assessed that Hazma Bin Laden was dead but provided few details.
Earlier this year, the US State Department called bin Laden, who was believed to be in his early 30s, an "emerging" leader in al Qaeda, offering a $1 million reward for information leading to his capture.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday expressed his support for reinstating Russia into the G7, and French President Emmanuel Macron has agreed with the President that Russia should be invited to the G7 conference in 2020, according to a senior administration official.
"I think it's much more appropriate to have Russia in" the group, he said during a meeting in the Oval Office with the Romanian President just days before the group of leading industrialized nations convenes for its annual summit in France.
"If somebody would make that motion, I would certainly be disposed to think about it very favorably," he added.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will highlight U.S. economic policies under his stewardship at meetings with other G7 leaders this weekend in France and encourage allies to follow the American model to stave off problems with the global economy, officials said.
Trump will attend the G7 summit in France from Saturday to Monday and plans to hold individual meetings with the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Japan, India and Canada during his trip, senior administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters on a conference call.
The president, who is irritated with the Federal Reserve for not reducing interest rates further as talk about a potential recession makes headlines, will tout the U.S. economic model he has pushed forward through tax cuts and deregulation, one official said.
KIEV/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Ukraine's president backed leading European powers on Thursday in opposing the readmission of Russia to the Group of Seven advanced economies, saying Moscow still occupied Crimea and was frustrating peace in eastern Ukraine.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday it would be "appropriate" to have Russia rejoin what used to be the G8. France will host a meeting of G7 leaders this weekend.
But Germany, France, Britain — all G7 members — quickly rebuffed Trump, noting that Russia was excluded after it annexed Ukraine's Crimea and then backed an anti-Kiev rebellion in the industrial region of Donbas in eastern Ukraine.
China is the Pentagon's "number one priority," and the United States is watching Beijing "very carefully" in order to safeguard America, Defense Secretary Mark Esper told Fox News in an exclusive interview Wednesday.
In his first interview since he was confirmed as Pentagon chief in July, Esper told Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin that China has engaged in the "greatest theft of intellectual property in human history" and is also expanding its military to "push the United States out of [the Indo-Pacific] theater."
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Wednesday that ISIS was not "in a resurgent state in Syria" despite a Pentagon inspector general report saying the terror group is re-surging in that country.
"I don't agree that ISIS is in a resurgent state in Syria, but that doesn't mean we haven't seen them spring up in places like Afghanistan," Esper said in an interview with Fox News, his first since becoming Defense secretary.
His comments appear to be at odds with a report from the Pentagon's Office of the Inspector General published earlier this month, which said ISIS was "re-surging" in Syria following President Donald Trump's decision to reduce troops there.
WNU Editor: ISIS is a shell of its former self, but ideology of radical Islam is still with us, and it is going to take generations (if not more) to defeat it.
Video footage very recently released from the northern countryside of Lattakia province suggests the involvement of Russian special forces at the front-line in ongoing offensive operations.
The Sputnik News Agency has released a minute of footage showing an Mi-28N attack helicopter in action against jihadist positions and movements amid clashes around the town of Kabani.
It should be understood that the Mi-28N is a specialized fire support platform, used specifically in Russian special forces operations rather than operations performed by standard army units. In this regard, Russian operators on the ground act as forward air controllers (FAC), identifying targets for the helicopter to engage and requesting fire missions.
Thousands take to streets as government buildings set on fire amid racism allegations
Indonesia has deployed more than 1,000 soldiers and blocked internet access in Papua where unrest has swelled over authorities' alleged mistreatment of students.
Thousands of protesters in the province and in neighbouring West Papua have taken to the streets, with some setting fire to a prison, government buildings and offices.
Jakarta deployed the soldiers in an attempt to stop the riots, which have been fuelled by claims of racial discrimination against Papuans.
Soldiers of the Air Defence Missile Squadron 2 stand guard with Patriot missile launchers in the background in Bad Suelze, northern Germany on December 4, 2012.
The Trump administration has formally withdrawn its offer for Turkey to purchase a Patriot missile system in retaliation for Turkey's receipt of the Russian-made S-400 missile system.
"We have consistently told Turkey that our latest offer of PATRIOT would be withdrawn if it took delivery of the S-400 system. Our PATRIOT offer has expired," a US State Department official tells CNN.
In December, the US State Department announced that it had approved the possible sale of a $3.5 billion Patriot missile system to Turkey.
The withdrawal of the Patriot missile defense system is just the latest US response to Turkey's acquisition of the S-400 system.
Both sides announce safe zone will be launched this week but questions remain on how deep it will be in northern Syria.
Turkey and the United States have agreed to launch the first phase of putting in place a safe zone in northern Syria after months of dispute over the depth of the zone and who would control it.
Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar and his US counterpart Mark Esper spoke over the phone on Wednesday and agreed to flesh out the first phase of implementing the zone, Anadolu news agency reported, adding that delegations from both sides are expected to meet in Ankara "soon".
The first phase is expected to be launched later this week and will see joint patrols of Turkish and US soldiers.
The northwestern region of Syria has been held by rebels over the last seven years. Damascus has said a humanitarian corridor will allow "civilians who want to leave areas controlled by terrorists" to flee the region.
Syria announced Thursday that it is to open a gateway for civilians to escape the opposition-held region of Idlib, where government bombardments have killed hundreds of people in recent months.
"The Syrian government announces the opening of a humanitarian corridor in Souran in the northern countryside of Hama province," state news agency SANA quoted a Foreign Ministry source as saying.
* The PM has returned from talks in Germany and France having made better progress towards leaving the EU with a deal than many had predicted * Boris was seen raising his hands over his head as he returned to Downing Street * Today in Paris Macron suggested he was open to hearing what the UK could come up with to replace an Irish backstop he called 'indispensable' * Yesterday Angela Merkel said if the UK could come up with a satisfactory alternative in 30 days a deal might still be possible
Boris Johnson raised his arms high in the air in an apparent expression of triumph this evening on his return from unexpectedly encouraging talks with European counterparts.
Both Emmanuel Macron today, and Angela Merkel yesterday, gave the British PM a glimmer of hope of pulling off his plan to leave the EU with a deal which does not include the hated Irish backstop.
Glimpsed as his ministerial car pulled up to Downing Street today following lunch with the French President in Paris the PM was seen to hold both raised fists aloft.
* Analysts fear a new arms race is looming with US withdrawal from cold war nuclear treaty
China and Russia have called on the United Nations Security Council to address US withdrawal from a landmark cold war-era nuclear treaty, citing "threats to international peace and security".
In a rare move, Beijing and Moscow requested that a meeting on Thursday of the 15-member council discuss "statements by US officials on their plans to develop and deploy medium-range missiles" in the wake of Washington's withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
UN undersecretary general and high representative for disarmament affairs Izumi Nakamitsu will brief the meeting, which follows Sunday's intermediate-range cruise missile test by the United States, its first since pulling out of the treaty which it signed with the former Soviet Union in 1987.
South Korea said Thursday it will end an intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan, a move that prompted immediate concern from U.S. military officials and comes in the wake of repeated North Korean missile tests.
A Pentagon spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Dave Eastburn, said intelligence sharing is key to a united defense strategy in the region. All three countries — the United States, South Korea and Japan — are stronger and safer when they work together, he said.
"We encourage Japan and Korea to work together to resolve their differences," he said in a statement.
South Korea's presidential office announced the decision to nix the intelligence-sharing pact in retaliation for Japan's recent decision to downgrade South Korea's trade status.
The B-2 plane, Spirit of Missouri on display is the first operational aircraft. The B-21 bomber is now taking shape in these same Palmdale facilities, 30 years after the B-2's first flight. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times)
PALMDALE, Calif. — At the dawn of the stealth age, the technology involved in making a plane nearly invisible to radar was mysterious and, to some critics, dubious. There were concerns that the special coating on the U.S. Air Force's new stealth bomber would melt in the rain.
Nonetheless, 30 years ago the first B-2 bomber took to the air from the Plant 42 runway in Palmdale, Calif. Aviation visionary Jack Northrop's dream of a "flying wing" plane — one with no tail — was realized, Air Force Maj. Gen. James Dawkins Jr. recalled Tuesday at a commemorative event at Northrop Grumman Corp.'s factory here.
Today, Northrop is ramping up development of a replacement stealth bomber, the B-21. Dawkins spoke near two beige buildings, built in the last year, which are part of a contract likely related to that next generation of aircraft. Signs of expansion at the facility were visible Tuesday; behind the gathered crowd, a construction crew used equipment to move mounds of dirt into a dump truck.
Northrop Grumman officials and defense analysts say the defense giant will take advantage of lessons learned from the B-2 and use them in its work on the B-21 bomber, which will be assembled at the Palmdale site. That plane could fly for the first time in 2021 and is expected to enter service in the 2020s.
The Navy has fired five senior leaders so far in August – and the month isn't even over.
While the sea service is famous for instilling in officers that they are responsible for any wrongdoing by their sailors – whether they are aware of the infractions or not – the recent rash of firings is a lot, even for the Navy.
A Navy spokesman said there is no connection between any of the five officers relieved of command, adding that each relief is looked at separately.
"Senior leaders in the U.S. Navy, especially those in triad leadership positions – commanding officers, executive officers, and command master chiefs – are entrusted with essential responsibilities to their sailors, ships, and commands," said Cmdr. Jereal Dorsey.
A new generation of advanced and highly capable modular radar systems is going to be deployed across the Navy's fleet in many configurations.
A staple feature on Nimitz class supercarriers and America's "Gator Navy" of amphibious assault ships may begin to disappear in the not so distant future and in its place will be a very different looking system. The AN/SPS-48 three-dimensional air-search radar has been fielded across the Navy for over five decades. Today, a modernized version—the AN/SPS-48G—of the big, square, billboard-like, spinning array can still be found on Nimitz class carriers, San Antonio class landing platform docks, and Wasp and America class amphibious assault ships. But that is slated to slowly change as Raytheon's new SPY-6V2 radar hits the fleet.
The death of two more U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan on Wednesday brings to 14 the number of Americans killed in combat there this year – the highest annual combat death toll since 2014, and with more than four months of the year yet to run.
The Pentagon has yet to release details of the deaths reported by the NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan, withholding that information until families of the fallen are notified.
The 14 combat deaths this year compares to 13 in 2018, 11 in 2017, nine in 2016, and 11 in 2015. Forty U.S. personnel were killed in combat in Afghanistan in 2014.
Topline: A new front in the trade war between the United States and China has opened after the Trump administration approved the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan. China warned it would impose sanctions on U.S firms like Lockheed Martin if the deal went ahead.
* China urged the U.S. to cancel the sale of 66 F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan "at once" and to cut its military ties with the self-governing island. * "China will take all necessary measures to safeguard our interests including imposing sanctions on the U.S. companies participating in this arms sale to Taiwan," said Geng Shuang, China's foreign ministry spokesman. He added that the sale "is a serious interference in our internal affairs and undermines our sovereignty and security interests."
The decision is likely to be met with dismay in the United States, which fears weakened security cooperation on North Korea.
SEOUL — South Korea said on Thursday it will scrap an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, a decision that could further escalate a dispute over history and trade and undercut security cooperation on North Korea.
The decision is likely to be met with dismay in the United States, which fears weakened security cooperation. The accord is important for efforts to fend off North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.
The decision was announced after an hours-long debate within the presidential National Security Council. The pact was due to be automatically renewed on Saturday, unless either side decided to cancel it.
IRELAND and Brussels are holding secret talks on introducing new customs checks and controls as the threat of no-deal Brexit looms over the European Union.
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ITALY'S coalition crisis could be one step closer to being solved after Lega Party leader Matteo Salvini said he is open to reopening negotiations with with Five-Star Movement - but without controls from Brussels.
BRAZIL's controversial right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro has admitted farmers may be torching the Amazon rainforest as wildfires continued to rage - but ordered the international community to keep its noses out.
MICHELLE OBAMA and her husband Barack are splashing out on an extravagant and luxurious purchase that will cost the former White House couple millions.
The Canadian Consulate in Hong Kong said Friday it has suspended official travel for local staff, following the detention of a U.K. Consulate employee during a trip to mainland China.
A spokesperson for the Canadian mission confirmed the new measure in an email to TIME, but did not elaborate on its reasons or the scope of travel restrictions.
“At present, locally-engaged staff will not undertake official business travel outside of Hong Kong,” the spokesperson said.
China’s foreign ministry confirmed Wednesday that an employee of the U.K. Consulate, Simon Cheng, had been detained in Shenzhen, a city bordering Hong Kong.
Cheng had reportedly been on a one-day business trip to the mainland when he disappeared on Aug. 8. Chinese state media accused him of soliciting prostitutes, a claim his family dismissed as “a made-up crime,” according to Agence France-Presse.
Hong Kong, a semiautonomous territory of China, has been wracked by almost three months of antigovernment protests sparked by a proposal to allow the extradition of fugitives to the mainland.
The extradition bill has since been suspended, but the protests snowballed into a movement calling for more democratic freedoms.
Beijing has accused the U.S., U.K. and other Western countries of being behind the unrest, warning foreign governments against meddling in its internal affairs.
Chinese authorities have reportedly heightened inspections at the busy customs crossing in Shenzhen, including searching travelers’ mobile devices for media related to the protests.
(SAN FRANCISCO) — YouTube says it disabled more than 200 videos this week that appeared to be part of a coordinated effort to spread misinformation about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.
The video removals come just days after Twitter said it had suspended more than 200,000 accounts it linked to a Chinese government influence campaign against the protests. Facebook also said it had suspended accounts and removed pages after being notified by Twitter.
Google, which owns YouTube, did not explicitly implicate the Chinese government but said the videos were related to the similar disclosures from Facebook and Twitter.
Social media companies have faced criticism about the spread of misinformation on their sites and have taken actions to combat the spread in recent months.
(WARSAW, Poland) — Lightning struck across the Tatra Mountains in southern Poland and neighboring Slovakia on Thursday, killing five people and injuring over 100 others in an area popular with hikers and families, authorities said.
Witnesses said the thunderstorm came suddenly on a day that began with clear weather. The lightning strikes pummeled Poland’s Giewont peak, a trekking destination that is 1,894 meters (6,214 feet) high, as well as other locations across the Tatras.
Four people were killed on the Polish side, including two children, a spokeswoman for the Polish air ambulance service, Kinga Czerwinska, told the news broadcaster TVN24. The Slovak rescue service said a Czech was killed after lightning knocked him off Banikov peak. The tourist fell hundreds of meters (yards) down the side of a mountain.
The Tatras, part of the Carpathian mountain range, are the highest mountains in Poland and in Slovakia and attract tourists from near and far with scenic lakes and peaks that soar to 2,655 meters (8,710 feet).
Rescuers with the Polish Tatra emergency service, known as TOPR, said they believe the lightning probably hit some of the metal chains installed on Giewont peak to aid tourists in their climb.
Omar Marques—LightRocket via Getty ImagesA couple is seen hiking inthe Tatra Mountains National Park.
Some of the injured were brought by helicopter to a hospital in the Polish mountain resort of Zakopane and Krakow province governor Piotr Cwik told reporters that the death toll could certainly rise.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who went to Zakopane, said some among the over 100 injured were in very serious condition with severe burns or head injuries, as they fell after the lightning strikes or were hit by falling rocks. He extended his sympathies to their relatives.
Thursday’s lightning strikes were the worst accident in the Tatras since August 1937, when lighting killed four people on Giewont.
Footage on TVN24 showed rescuers racing to a helicopter to get to the peak in rainy, foggy weather and then a helicopter landing at the hospital in Zakopane with injured people. Rescue workers planned to keep checking the mountains for anyone else who might need help.
Tourist Grzegorz Pyzel told TVN24 he was halfway up Giewont peak with his wife in clear weather when suddenly they heard thunder and thought it was a jet overhead. “But soon lightning struck and we turned back. Suddenly it started pouring and you could hear thunder roaring from every possible direction,” Pyzel said.
The couple reached a shelter on Hala Kondratowa, at the foot of the mountain, and soon others started coming in, saying there were injured people further up the mountain, he said.
In another rescue operation in the Tatra Mountains, TOPR emergency workers have been searching for two spelunkers who went missing in a cave on Saturday after being trapped by rising water. Rescuers used small amounts of explosives to widen passages in uncharted parts of the Wielka Sniezna cave, Poland’s deepest and longest, to look for the missing cavers.
On Thursday, the body of one of the two was found, an official said.
(GENEVA) — Nations around the world moved Thursday to protect giraffes as an endangered species for the first time, drawing praise from conservationists and scowls from some sub-Saharan African nations.
Thursday’s vote by a key committee at the World Wildlife Conference known as CITES paves the way for the measure’s likely approval by its plenary next week.
The plan would regulate world trade in giraffe parts, including hides, bone carvings and meat, while stopping short of a full ban. It passed 106-21 with seven abstentions.
“So many people are so familiar with giraffes that they think they’re abundant,” said Susan Lieberman, vice president of international policy for the Wildlife Conservation Society. “And in Southern Africa, they may be doing OK, but giraffes are critically endangered.”
Lieberman said giraffes were particularly at risk in parts of West, Central and East Africa.
The Wildlife Conservation Society said it was concerned about the multiple threats to giraffes that have already resulted in population decline, citing habitat loss, droughts worsened by climate change and the illegal killings and trade in giraffe body parts.
The Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group, hailed the move, noting that giraffes are a vulnerable species facing habitat loss and population decline. A key African conservationist said it could help reverse drops in giraffe populations, as the move would help better track numbers of giraffes.
“The giraffe has experienced over 40% decline in the last 30 years, said Maina Philip Muruthi of the African Wildlife Foundation. “If that trend continues, it means that we are headed toward extinction.”
Still, not all African countries supported the move.
“We see no reason as to why we should support this decision, because Tanzania has a stable and increasing population of giraffes,” said Maurus Msuha, director of wildlife at the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism. “Over 50% of our giraffe population is within the Serengeti ecosystem, which is well protected. Why should we then go for this?”
CITES says the population of wild giraffes is actually much smaller than that of wild African elephants.
“We’re talking about a few tens of thousands of giraffes and we’re talking about a few hundreds of thousands of African elephants,” said Tom De Meulenaar, chief of scientific services at CITES. He said the convention was intended to specifically address the international trade in giraffes and their parts.
“With fewer giraffes than elephants in Africa, it was a no-brainer to simply regulate giraffe exports,” said Tanya Sanerib, international legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity.
The U.S. is the world’s biggest consumer of giraffe products, conservationists said. Sanerib said it was important for the U.S. to act on its own as well.
“It’s still urgent for the Trump administration to protect these imperiled animals under the U.S. Endangered Species Act,” she said in a statement.
The meeting in Geneva comes after President Donald Trump’s administration last week announced plans to water down the U.S. Endangered Species Ac — a message that could echo among attendees at the CITES conference, even if the U.S. move is more about domestic policy than international trade.
(COPENHAGEN, Denmark) — A former Danish prime minister on Thursday lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump for his tweet about military spending, saying defense willingness is not just about the amount of money spent.
Lars Loekke Rasmussen’s comment is the latest in an escalating spat between the U.S. and Denmark after Trump scrapped a visit to the country, saying current Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was “nasty” when she rejected his idea of buying Greenland as an absurdity.
Loekke Rasmussen, who led the country until June, tweeted Thursday to Trump: “We have had (proportionally) exactly the same numbers of casualties in Afghanistan as US. We always stands firm and ready.”
Trump, who has urged NATO members to do more to meet the alliance’s goal of committing 2 percent of gross domestic product to defense, earlier tweeted that “Denmark is only at 1.35%.”
“We will not accept that our defense willingness is only about percentages,” Loekke Rasmussen tweeted. “I told you at the NATO Summit in Brussels last year.”
In January, Denmark agreed to increase its long-term defense spending after a coalition in Parliament agreed to add 1.5 billion kroner ($223 million) to the already agreed-upon defense budget for 2023, which would put defense spending at 1.5 percent of gross domestic product for that year. The U.S. spends about 3.4% of its GDP on defense.
Trump abruptly canceled his planned Sept. 2-3 visit to Denmark on Tuesday, after Frederiksen had called Trump’s idea to buy Greenland “an absurd discussion.”
Trump said her comment “was nasty. I thought it was an inappropriate statement. All she had to say was say, ‘No, we wouldn’t be interested.'”
Frederiksen said the U.S. remains one of Denmark’s close allies.
The political brouhaha over the world’s largest island comes from its strategic location in the Arctic. Global warming is making Greenland more accessible to potential oil and mineral resources. Russia, China, the U.S., Canada and other countries are racing to stake as strong a claim as they can to Arctic lands, hoping they will yield future riches.
Frederiksen has said that Denmark doesn’t own Greenland, which belongs to its people. It is part of the Danish realm along with the Faeroe Islands, another semi-autonomous territory, and has its own government and parliament, the 31-seat Inatsisartut.
The sparsely populated island, which is four times zones behind Copenhagen, became a Danish colony in 1775 and remained that way until 1953, when Denmark revised its constitution and made the island a province.
In 1979, Greenland and its 56,000 residents, who are mainly indigenous Inuits, got extensive home rule but Denmark still handles its foreign and defense policies, as well as currency issues.
Denmark pays annual subsidies of 4.5 billion kroner ($670 million) to Greenland whose economy otherwise depends on fisheries and related industries.
On Wednesday, the U.S. State Department said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke with his Danish counterpart and “expressed appreciation for Denmark’s cooperation as one of the United States’ allies and Denmark’s contributions to address shared global security priorities.”
Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said Pompeo and Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeppe Kofod “also discussed strengthening cooperation with the Kingdom of Denmark — including Greenland — in the Arctic.”
“Appreciate frank, friendly and constructive talk with @SecPompeo this evening, affirming strong US-DK bond,” Kofod tweeted Wednesday evening. “U.S. & Denmark are close friends and allies with long history of active engagement across globe.”
One of New Zealand’s top lawmakers is getting international acclaim after he was filmed cradling a fellow lawmaker’s new baby during a debate in Parliament.
Trevor Mallard, the speaker of New Zealand’s House of Representatives, smiled as he held the baby and fed him with a bottle while presiding over a parliamentary session. The baby makes gurgling noise at one point when Mallard announces that one lawmaker’s time to speak in the debate has expired.
Mallard posted a photo of himself on Twitter holding lawmaker Tāmati Coffey’s one-month-old boy. “Today a VIP took the chair with me,” he tweeted. He congratulated Coffey, a fellow Labour lawmaker, and his partner on the new member of their family.
It was Coffey’s first day back from paternity leave. Another lawmaker posted a photo of Coffrey holding his newborn, to which Coffrey responded, “I JUST LOVE HIM!!”
Normally the Speaker’s chair is only used by Presiding Officers but today a VIP took the chair with me. Congratulations @tamaticoffey and Tim on the newest member of your family. pic.twitter.com/47ViKHsKkA
The photos have since gone viral, and Twitter users across the world have applauded both Mallard and New Zealand: “More of this in world politics, please,” one person tweeted in response to the photo.
“This is sending a great message that men can take care of babies too,” replied another.
Gareth Hughes, a lawmaker from the Green Party, tweeted: “Lovely to have a baby in the House, and what a beautiful one.”
In 2018, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern became only the second elected leader ever to give birth while in office. Her partner, Clarke Gayford, stayed at home to take care of their daughter Neve while Ardern returned to work running the government.
In September 2018 she became the first female politician to bring a child to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. “I have the ability to take my child to work, there’s not many places you can do that,” Ardern said, according to the Guardian.
How does one measure the greatness of a place—in miles covered, dollars spent, or visitors captivated? Such metrics can play a part, but also important is something that many travelers aspire to experience: the sense that one has stumbled upon the extraordinary.
To compile our second annual list of the World’s Greatest Places, TIME solicited nominations across a variety of categories—including museums, parks, restaurants, and hotels—from our editors and correspondents around the world as well as industry experts. Then we evaluated each one based on key factors, including quality, originality, sustainability, innovation and influence.
The result: 100 new and newly noteworthy destinations to experience right now, from America’s hottest hometown pizzeria to a Tokyo museum bringing digital art to life.
The economic warning signs are flashing yellow. In Germany, the U.K., Italy, Brazil and Mexico, growth has stalled. In Japan, business confidence has turned negative for the first time since 2013. China’s industrial output is growing at its slowest pace in 17 years. An inverted yield curve has U.S. economists on recession watch.
But the real uncertainty is coming from the biggest surge in decades of the kind of political volatility that is relevant to markets. Politically motivated trade fights are under way between countries that make up half the global economy–from the U.S. and China, to the U.S. and Europe, to South Korea and Japan. The most worrisome of these economically damaging political fights is the ongoing trade war between Washington and Beijing, which shows no signs of easing. President Trump wants to avoid any appearance of a climbdown in this fight. So does China’s Xi Jinping, who must also signal strength in the growing confrontation with pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
There are other sources of politically induced economic trouble. The IMF noted in July that “the projected recovery in growth between 2019 and 2020 in emerging market and developing economies relies on improved growth outcomes in stressed economies such as Argentina, Turkey, Iran, and Venezuela, and therefore is subject to significant uncertainty.”
At the moment, there’s little sign of recovery in any of these four countries. In Argentina, voters have turned on President Mauricio Macri ahead of October elections. His likely successor, Alberto Fernández, may not prove as economically reckless as his choice of former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as running mate might suggest, but he’s hardly reassuring to investors. In Ankara, embattled President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues trying to manipulate Turkey’s economy to protect his political popularity. Iran, facing renewed U.S. sanctions, is lashing out at Europe for not helping ease its economic pain. And Venezuela’s slow-motion catastrophe continues with little hope for a breakthrough to spare its people further pain.
In Asia, a bitter dispute over Japan’s colonization of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945 has triggered a fight with dangerous consequences for both countries. The result is an escalating conflict between Asia’s second and fourth largest economies–at a time when the U.S.-China trade war is already weighing on both.
In Europe, the political stakes rose once again on Aug. 20 as Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte abruptly announced his resignation. Market jitters continue, and expectations grow that far-right leader Matteo Salvini will lead the country’s next government. Salvini has been much more confrontational with the E.U. over questions of Italy’s budget, and even if the top job forces him to moderate his tough talk, the fear of market-moving political turmoil–inside Italy and between Italy and the E.U.–will intensify.
Finally, new Prime Minister Boris Johnson insists Britain will leave the European Union by an Oct. 31 deadline with or without a deal on the future U.K.-E.U. relationship. His demands that the E.U. renegotiate the Brexit deal continue to meet strong resistance in Brussels, and indications that he might answer a no-confidence move against his government with a call for national elections after Oct. 31 have set teeth (and markets) on edge.
A decade ago, world leaders managed to cooperate their way out of danger during the financial crisis. But in a world of “my country first,” all this political friction will make that much harder.
This appears in the September 02, 2019 issue of TIME.
A fight is brewing over the lungs of the planet. Since taking office in January, Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has overseen a surge in logging in the vast Amazon rain forest–and on Aug. 15, Norway suspended a $33 million donation to a Brazilian sustainability fund because Bolsonaro had interfered in it; Germany froze its payment five days earlier. Bolsonaro responded with mockery, telling the Europeans to go “reforest Germany” instead, but what may lie ahead is no laughing matter.
Under Siege
Bolsonaro has delivered on campaign promises to weaken protections for the environment and indigenous communities, freeing up more land for cattle. Over 870 sq. mi. of the Amazon was cleared in July–a 278% increase from July 2018–according to satellite monitoring by Brazil’s space-research agency. Scientists say the rain forest, which helps slow climate change by absorbing massive amounts of carbon dioxide, is nearing a “tipping point” after which its ecosystems cannot recover.
Green Intentions
The governors of Brazilian states that contain the rain forest have vowed to bypass Bolsonaro and negotiate directly with European embassies to save the Amazon funding. But the rapid deforestation is also fueling European opposition to a long-awaited trade deal between the E.U. and a South American trade bloc of which Brazil is the largest member. The deal would need to be ratified by the E.U.’s member states and Parliament, where green parties won a significant 69 seats in May.
Climate Divide
Europe’s environmentalists hope their leaders will use “climate diplomacy” to force Bolsonaro to protect the Amazon. But it’s unclear if he’d listen. On July 29, he canceled a climate-policy meeting with France’s Foreign Minister in order to get a haircut. The next day, President Donald Trump–who is trying to free the U.S. from its climate obligations–said he’d pursue a Brazil trade deal. Unlike the Amazon, the obstacles to climate action show no sign of shrinking.
This appears in the September 02, 2019 issue of TIME.
(SEOUL, South Korea) — South Korea said Thursday it is canceling an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan amid a bitter trade dispute, a surprise announcement that is likely to set back U.S. efforts to bolster mutual security cooperation with two of its most important allies in the Asian region.
The South Korean decision will also further aggravate its ties with Japan, which are already at their lowest point since the two countries established diplomatic ties in 1965. Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945.
Many experts had predicted that South Korea would be unlikely to spike the 3-year-old intelligence-sharing deal for the sake of its relations with the United States. South Korea has been seeking U.S. help in resolving the trade dispute, and Seoul and Washington have also been working together to restart stalled talks on stripping North Korea of its nuclear weapons.
South Korea’s presidential office said it decided to terminate the intelligence deal because Japan’s recent decision to downgrade South Korea’s trade status caused a “grave” change in security cooperation between the countries.
“Under this situation, the government has determined that maintaining the agreement, which was signed for the purpose of exchanging sensitive military intelligence on security, does not serve our national interests,” Kim You-geun, the deputy director of South Korea’s presidential national security office, said in a nationally televised statement.
In recent weeks, Japan has imposed stricter controls on exports to South Korea of three chemicals essential for manufacturing semiconductors and display screens — key export items for South Korea — and decided to remove South Korea from a list of countries granted preferential trade status.
South Korea accuses Japan of weaponizing trade to punish it over a separate dispute linked to Japan’s brutal colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. Japan denies that, saying its steps were taken because of unspecified security concerns.
The Japanese trade curbs triggered an outburst of anti-Japan sentiment in South Korea. Many South Korean citizens rallied in the streets, canceled planned holiday trips to Japan and launched widespread boycotts of Japanese beer, clothes and other products. The South Korean government, for its part, decided to downgrade Japan’s trade status.
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TNPSC Group 4 Previous Papers Pdf is available to download for free on our page. Job Seekers who applied for the Tamil Nadu PSC group 4 vacancies can find the exam question paper on our page. We have given the direct link in the section below. Also, check the exam pattern and exam date details in the article below. Interested aspirants can also go through the official TNPSC website for more details.
TNPSC Group 4 Previous Question Papers Pdf
TNPSC previous year question paper with answers in Tamil is given in the section below. Referring to the old question paper helps the applicants in understanding the way the question and answers are given in the examination. However, to help the applicants of Tamil Nadu group 4 vacancies, we have given the official group 4 previous year papers altogether.
Every year Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission releases vacancies under Group 4 i.e. the Combined Civil Services Examination-IV and VAO. This year also a total of 6491 vacancies is released. Get all other related information of TNPSC Group IV Notification 2019 here. Go through the below sections to get an overview of the exam pattern and also download the TNPSC Group 4 Exam Paper pdf and start your exam preparation.
TNPSC Group IV Previous Year Question Papers in Hindi Pdf Download
Tamil Nadu PSC announces the exam date and other related details in its Official Website. Aspirants can keep checking our page as we update the details immediately when the board announces. Check the complete exam pattern details for TNPSC group 4 examination 2019 below.
TNPSC Group 4 last 10 years Question Papers with Answers in Tamil Pdf
Direct download link for TNPSC group 4 last 10 years question paper with answers in Tamil is given below. Practice more TNPSC group 4 previous papers for scoring good marks in the examination. Only those who are in the merit list are shortlisted in the final selection list. Hence, practice more and share the page URL with your friends who are looking for group 4 previous papers. With a just one click, you can get these papers in your hands. So don’t waste your time and start your preparation for cracking the exam.
Download TNPSC Group 4 Exam Previous Question Papers in Tamil Pdf
Tamil Nadu PSC selects the applicants based on their performance in the written examination. Hence, we advise the applicants to check the exam pattern before starting your preparation. Knowledge of question paper pattern helps to understand the way paper is going to be. List out the sections need to concentrate to score marks.
Written examination of TNPSC group 4 will be having objective type questions. Where the applicants need to answer 300 questions in a time duration of 3 hrs. Check the complete exam pattern details in the tabular section below. Later, find the direct download links for the previous question papers in the section below. Comment in the section below for any queries regarding the exam pattern. Aspirants can find the complete topic wise syllabus in our TNPSC group 4 syllabus page.
RMLAU Results 2019 – Students of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University its time check out your examination results. The RMLAU University, Ayodhya has released the semester exam results for the Under Graduate and Post Graduate Courses. Colleges affiliated under the Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University can check out the semester examination results from the below section. Students can also download the RMLAU Results with Mark Sheet in Pdf format from the Official Website. We have attached the direct links to download for the Results 2019-20.
RMLAU Results 2019-20 | Avadh University Results 2019
Here is great news for those who are studying under the Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Ayodhya. The University board has released the examination results according to the semester wise. This article is a complete attachment of RMLAU Results with Mark Sheet. Students can download the complete set of 1st, 2nd & 3rd year semester exam results from the below section. RMLAU Results 2019 is listed out for M.P.ED, MBBS, MA, BCA, BBA & Other Courses. However, check exam wise latest results from the below sections of this page.
Updated RMLAU Exam Results 2019-20
Name of the Examination
Release Date
Download Link
B.Tech.4th year 8th Semester FINAL YEAR ( Electronics & Communication Engg.) EXAMINATION 2019
About Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Ayodhya
Dr. Rammanohar Lohia Avadh University was established in the year 1975 by the government of Uttar Pradesh. It is also known for Avadh or Awadh University. The university is spread over an area of 112.24 acres in the National Highway in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh. It has a total of 23 buildings including Administrative & others. As per the recent scenes, The university has more than 400 affiliated colleges spread over in the 10 districts of Faizabad, Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Ambedkarnagar, Barabanki, Baharaich, Balrampur, Shravasti, Amethi and Gonda. The honourable Governor of the Uttar Pradesh will act as Chancellor of the University & there are 15000+ students has been studying in the university.
For further more details applicant can visit the official website i.e, rmlau.ac.in.
Regular/Supplementary Results for RMLAU
Students, those who have not cleared/ got low marks the University examinations can apply for the Revaluation. This is is a chance for the Students to increase their marks in subjects in which they have scored low marks. If students have written the main exam well and still got a low score or having doubt in the correction of the exam paper it is a choice to increase their marks. Currently, the University has released the revaluation results for UG, PG with all-region Students. So Students can check the Revaluation results from the official website as well as on this. We have provided a direct link to get the Supply/Revaluation Results.
TSPSC Result 2019 is OUT!!!. Telangana State Public Service Commission has announced the Results for Various Posts. Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) has conducting Examination to recruit the right candidates. A huge number of Applicants have completed the TSPSC Exam for various Posts. Here on this page, we have provided complete information about TSPSC Result 2019. As we know, everyone is waiting for the TSPSC Results and anyone can check your results from this page. As well as can check the results from the official website i.e, tspsc.gov.in.
TSPSC Field Assistant Result 2019 – Telangana State Public Service Commission has released the Field Assistant Result on 21st August 2019. Applicants those who have attended the Field Assistant Examination can check your result from the official website tspsc.gov.in. Also, Here we have provided a direct link to check your results from the below table. Check your results via the link mentioned below!! Applicants can get the Field Assistant Exam Result here.
TSPSC Bill Collector Result 2019 & CV Date – Telangana State Public Service Commission has released the Bill Collector Result & Certificate Verification Date on 18th July 2019. Applicants those who have attended the Examination can check your result from the official website tspsc.gov.in. Also, Here we have provided a direct link to check your results from the below table. Check your results via the link mentioned below!! Applicants can get the Bill Collector Exam Result & CV Dates here.
TSPSC Professor, Asst & Associate Professor Result 2019 – Telangana State Public Service Commission has released the Professor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor Result on 18th July 2019. Applicants those who have attended the Examination can check your result from the official website tspsc.gov.in. Also, Here we have provided a direct link to check your results from the below table. Check your results via the link mentioned below!! Applicants can get the Professor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor Exam Result here.
TSPSC Professor, Asst & Associate Professor Result 2019
Organization Name
Telangana State Public Service Commission
Post Name
Professor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor
TSPSC Professor, Asst & Associate Professor Result 2019 – Click Here
TSPSC SGT Result 2019 – Telangana State Public Service Commission has released the Secondary Grade Teacher SGT (Telugu) [Withheld Result] on 29th June 2019. The Certificate Verification for SGT (Telugu) conducted on 08th May 2019. Finally, the TSPSC has announced the SGT Withheld result. Applicants those who have attended the Document Verification can check their result from the official website. Also, Here we have provided a direct link to check your results from the below table. Check your results via the link mentioned below!!
TSPSC MPSO/ASO Result 2019 – TSPSC has released the result of 474 Mandal Planning Statistical Officer (MPSO) & Assistant Statistical Officer (ASO) on 01st June 2019. Thousands of eligible aspirants have applied during the application period. The organization shortlists the aspirants based on the candidate's merit in written test and interview rounds. Currently, TSPSC has released the Final Result of MPSO & ASO Posts. Here we have provided a direct link to check your results from the below table. Check your results via the link mentioned below!!
TSPSC MPSO/ASO Result 2019
Organization Name
Telangana State Public Service Commission
Post Name
Mandal Planning and Statistical Officer / Assistant Statistical Officer
Here on this page, the individuals can find the detailed info regarding TSPSC Assistant Statistical Officer Result 2018-19. To Check the TSPSC Telangana MPSO/ASO Result 2018-19, Candidates need to submit their Hall Ticket Number and Password details. However, the Telangana MPSO/ASO result 2018-19 can be accessed at the official website @ www.tspsc.gov.in Also, See the Category Wise TSPSC MPSO/ASO Cutoff Marks 2018-19 in the following section.
Candidates who have successfully appeared for Online Written Examination can check TSPSC MPSO/ASO Cutoff Marks 2018-19 here. Here in this section, we have specified the Category Wise Telangana Mandal Planning Statistical Officer Qualifying Marks 2018-19. The Telangana PSC will announce the cutoff marks along with results. Candidates have to score the requisite cutoff marks/qualifying marks to clear the written test round. Soon after the organization announce the result date, and cutoff marks details, here we will update on our page. Candidates can stay checking our portal for more details.
TSPSC MPSO/ASO Merit List 2019 | tspsc.gov.in
The Telangana State Public Service Commission Board officials published the TSPSC MPSO/ASO Results 2019 on the official website. Along with the TSPSC Asst Statistical Officer Result 2019, the candidates can find the Telangana PSC MPSO/ASO Merit List 2019 here. The TSPSC MPSO Final Merit List 2019 defines the qualified candidates roll numbers for the written examination. Aspirants need to check TSPSC MPSO Exam Final Merit List 2019 to know their availability for further rounds.
Steps to download TSPSC MPSO/ ASO Result
Visit the official website of Telangana State Public Service Commission i.e, tspsc.gov.in
In the Home page click on the Results/Keys/OMR Download tab
In that click on the Result link -> selection Preamble for the post of MPSO/ASO
Then a new Result page will be open
Download or take a Print out of the TSPSC MPSO/ ASO Results for further reference.
BMTC Result 2019 – The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) will soon announce the BMTC Result 2019. Applicants those who have appeared in the Security Guard and Technical Assistant Examination can check your result from the official website. BMTC Driver Recruitment 2019 Notification will soon release for 2225 Posts of Technician, Driver, Conductor, and others. Candidates waiting for their BMTC Result 2019 can check their result on our page. We are giving the direct link to check BMTC result 2019 in our page to make you easy. Hence, click on the respective BMTC Result list and check your result.
BMTC Recruitment Details
Organization Name
Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Company
Post Name
Technicians, Driver, Conductor, Security guard, Supervisor and Craftsman
The Bangalore Metropolitan Trasport Corporation given the Provisional/Merit List of the candidates who applied for BMTS Recruitment 2017. However, the applicants of BMTC Technician, Driver, Conductor and Other Vacancies 2017 can check the BMTC Result in the section below. Here we have given all the BMTC Provisional List direct download link post wise in the table below. Hence, download the BMTC Merit List Pdf and check the Result.
Candidates who got BMTC Cut off marks will be declared as qualified to in the written exam. The Cut Off is the minimum marks the applicant needs to score. So, check the minimum BMTC Cut Off given for respective posts. To make you easy we have given the separate Cut Off marks links below. Hence, Just Click on the link and download the BMTC Cut Off 2019. Keep visiting we will update if the Bangalore Metro corporation Recruitment Board announces any Revised Cut Off and other related details.
You may get confused to check results with some doubts. Now, you don’t need to worry about that. Here we are giving the steps to check BMTC result 2019 for driver post. Just by following these simple steps you can check your BMTC Driver result 2019 easily.
Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) is a Government agency that operates the public transport service in Bangalore, India. BMTC has the highest number of Volvo buses operated by a public transport company in India. It provides various special services like Suvarna, Atal Sarige, Metro Feeder, Pushpak, etc apart from ordinary services. It releases recruitment notifications in the month of May. My BMTC opens a total of 2225 vacancies for Technicians, Driver, Conductor, Security guard, Supervisor, and Craftsman Posts.
Rajasthan High Court Result 2019 | Get Junior Personal Assistant Result, Merit List here @ hcraj.nic.in – Candidates those who applied for the High Court of Rajasthan Recruitment for Junior Personal Assistant can check your result from the below link. Rajasthan High Court will soon announce the Jr. Personal Assistant Result. Here we will be updating the latest Result link, it will activate at the time of official announcement. Moreover, Visit the Official Website for more details about Rajasthan High Junior Personal Assistant Result.
Latest Update:The Rajasthan High Court will soon announce theJunior Personal Assistant Exam result. Hence, the exam appeared candidates can check their RHC Result directly from our page.
Rajasthan High Court Result 2019 @ hcraj.nic.in
Are you searching for the RHC Junior Personal Assistant Result? We know all the candidates who appeared for the exam are very curious to know your results. Hence for the sake of the candidates, we update the direct link for Rajasthan High Court Result 2019. The Rajasthan High Court released the recruitment notification to fill up 69 Junior Personal Assistant (JPA) Vacancies with eligible candidates. Many contenders have applied for this recruitment and appeared for the examination on the scheduled dates. Now, those individuals are very anxious to check their Rajasthan High Court JPA Result 2019. So, candidates can download this merit list to verify if their roll number is present in the Merit List or not.
Rajasthan High Court Junior Personal Assistant Result 2019 – Overview
Rajasthan High Court JPA Result 2019 – Cut Off Marks, Merit List
The contenders who are going to write the JPA exam are browsing many sites with anxiety for knowing the Rajasthan High Court Junior Personal Assistant Syllabus & Previous papers. All the applicants can get the Rajasthan High Court Junior Personal Assistant Recruitment 2019 details, Syllabus from recruitment.guru this site. Applicants can prepare for the examination and attend the exam well. Hence, the officials of the Rajasthan High Court will activate the link for Results on its official website www.hcraj.nic.in. Hence, we also provide the RHC Junior Personal Assistant Result 2019 link on our page. So, tap on this link to know your result.
To get qualify in the Junior Personal Assistant Examination, the candidate must get the cutoff marks. The cutoff score is very important to know if the individual is qualified in the examination or not. Hence, every contender must refer to the Rajasthan High Court Cut Off Marks 2019. Since the cutoff score varies according to the categories, candidates must check the cut off as per their category. We also displaced the Category wise RHC Junior Personal Assistant cut off marks.
High Court of Rajasthan Junior Personal Assistant Merit List 2019
The High Court of Rajasthan will update the Raj HC JPA Result 2019 link on its official website i.e., www.hcraj.nic.in. The Merit List of the RHC holds the selected candidates Roll Numbers and Names. Applicants can also get the scorecard by entering the admit card number and date of birth. Here, we provide the easy steps to obtain your High Court of Rajasthan JPA Score Card from the official web portal. So, follow these steps and then check your Rajasthan High Court JPA Result 2019.
How to check Raj HC Clerk Result 2019?
First, visit the Rajasthan High Court official website of i.e., www.hcraj.nic.in.
A list of latest recruitment notifications will display on the homepage.
Find for the Rajasthan High Court Junior Personal Assistant Recruitment 2019 and then click on the particular link.
There, you can see the Rajasthan High Court JPA Result 2019 link.
Select it. Then, a new window will open.
A pdf file will be opened which contains all the exam attended candidates list and their marks.
Direct link to download Rajasthan High Court Result 2019
Download Rajasthan High Court Junior Personal Assistant Result 2019
Bhoj University Result 2019 – Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University (MPBOU) has conducted the various UG and PG Courses Examination for all semester. The Bhoj Open University has released the MPBOU Exam Results 2019 for final year and first-year semester examination as a recent update. Students those who have written the semester examination can just click on the link and download the University exam results. Students can check their results by the university official website i.e, bhojvirtualuniversity.
Bhoji University Result 2019 @bhojvirtualuniversity.com
Check out Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University has released the exam results for all the semester examination. As a recent notification, the University has released the results regarding the Final and First Year Semester Exam 2019. We have attached the direct link to download the University Exam Result. Students those who have any correction or wants to apply for the revaluation do contact the examination cell of the university. The University also releases the Revaluation Results – Available MP Online – Portal just for the convenience of the students. The Revaluation / Retotalling form should be submitted within 30 days after the declaration of the result. Revaluation or Retotalling will be done for theory paper only. Check the links for downloading MP Bhoj Open University Result 2019.
Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University, or simply Bhoj University, is a public university in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The university provides higher education mainly through open and distance learning. It was named after the renowned maharaja of India, Raja Bhoj. This university aims to spread and promote higher education among the underprivileged and has set up study centres in remote rural areas. It has collaboration with institutes like the Rehabilitation Council of India, Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management and Indian Institute of Material Management, etc. The university aims to provide an easily accessible system of teaching and learning through education inputs like practical classes, distance teaching, satellite communication teaching, etc.
Courses Offered by MP Bhoj Open University
Master of Commerce (Management)
PG Diploma in Disaster Management
Master of Commerce (Account)
Diploma in Business Administration
Bachelor of Business Administration
PG Diploma in Management
Bachelor of Commerce
PG Diploma in Tourism and Hotel Management
Master of Business Administration (Material Management).
Master of International Business
PG Diploma in Company Secretaryship
PG Diploma in Heritage Management
Regular/Supplementary Results for Bhoj Open University
Candidates of Bhoj University those who have undergone the Semester Examination for the courses conducted by the Bhoj University it time for you check out exam results. Students those who failed in the regular examination can go for the second chance which is called as Revaluation Results. This revaluation results will also help in increasing the scorecard obtained in the regular examination. This Revaluation is only for those who wish that their examination paper should be evaluated once again. As soon as the main exam results are released the University Board will announce the revaluation dates. Students those wish can apply for the revaluation. Do have a regular update with the official website of the Bhoj University, as that the Board releases the Revaluation Results within a few weeks interval gap.
BU Bhopal Result 2019 – Barkatullah University released for MA MSc PG Diploma & Other Courses Semester on 22nd August 2019. Get the latest update about the Barkatullah University Results for all the Under Graduate and Post Graduate Degree courses. Latest Barkatullah University Results 2019 Released for all Bachelor and Master Degree Examinations announced @ bubbhopal.ac.in. Live and Upcoming Updates of BU Bhopal Online Result 2019 Available here.
BU Bhopal Result 2019-20 @bubhopal.ac.in
Students those who are doing their UG, PG and Diploma Courses under the Barkatullah University its time to check out your exam results. Barkatullah University has released the examination results for Bachelor Degree semester wise exam results. Students just click on the Result link to download the results. Correct Roll Number should be entered to get your BU Bhopal Exam Results 2019. As the University conducts semester exam twice a year. Once the examination results are out by the Bhopal University, students can check out our webpage to gather the result details. During the period of the announcement of results, students will not be able to access the official site. But provide you with the direct link to download the BU Bhopal Results without any hurdles. Scroll the entire article to gather the necessary details about the Barkatullah University Bhopal Results 2019-20.
Barkatullah University was established in 1970 as Bhopal University is a public university situated at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. In the year 1988, it was renamed in as Barkatullah Vishwavidyalaya (University) after the name of freedom fighter Prof. Barkatullah who belong to the state of Madhya Pradesh. University campus covers an area of nearly 400 acres that include the academic buildings, residential building, and other necessary infrastructure. University is focused on interdisciplinary teaching and research.
The funding of the university is done by the Government of MP and the Barkatullah Vishwavidyalaya has a residential campus and serves as an affiliating university for 494 colleges in seven other districts of Madhya Pradesh. Apart from Bhopal District, the university has affiliated colleges in Vidisha, Raisen, Betul, Hoshangabad, Harda, and Rajgarh.
BU Bhopal Revaluation Results 2019-20
Those students who have attended the regular examination under Barkatullah University and still failed. Here comes one more opportunity to clear the examination. To increase your scoring along with those students who have failed in the previous examination will get a chance to clear through Revaluation Exams at Barkatullah University Bhopal Results. For every semester examination conducted by the Barkatullah Bhopal University, Students can apply for the revaluation after the announcement of the main examination results. Barkatullah University will take a week or more to process the exam papers to announce the Revaluation results. Do stay updated with this webpage to know about the BU Bhopal Revaluation Exam Results 2019.
The Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University has released GGSIPU Results for the UG, PG, Ph.D., PG diploma, integrated, dual degree programs, certificate, and diploma programs courses of GGSIPU University. Recently the Indraprastha University has released the results for all MBBS Courses as per batch-wise. Students can get the GGSIPU Regular and Supplementary Results through this article. Soon the GGSIPU will announce the result on his website for other courses. And we will update the result here on this page so all the Candidates regularly visit this page. Get the detailed information about the GGSIPU Exam Results @ www.ipu.ac.in
GGSIPU Exam Result 2019 @ www.ipu.ac.in
Students who have attended the semester examination conducted by the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, its time check out the results. As a recent update by the Indraprastha University has released the MBBS Supplementary Programming Results according to the Batch wise. Students who have undergone the Supplementary examination can get the updated Semester Results through Pdf format. We have attached the direct links of GGSIPU Exam Results 2019-20 from the official website. We request the candidates who are pursuing under Delhi GGSIPU can evaluate their performance by getting the results through our website i.e, Recruitment.Guru
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) is the first University established in 1998 by Govt. of NCT of Delhi under the provisions of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Act, 1998 read with its Amendment in 1999 The University is recognized by University Grants Commission (UGC), India under section 12B of UGC Act. It is a teaching and affiliating University with the explicit objective of facilitating and promoting "studies, research and extension work in emerging areas of higher education with focus on professional education, for example, engineering, technology, management studies, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, education, law, etc. and also to achieve excellence in these and connected fields and other matters connected therewith or incidental thereto."
GGSIPU Revaluation/ Supplementary Result 2019
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University conducts regular as well as supplementary examination for those who are studying under the University. Those students who have failed in the main semester examination has one more chance of getting passed in the exam. Those who wish that their examination paper should be evaluated once again to improve their scoring can use up the revaluation opportunity. For each and every semester Students can apply for the revaluation after the announcement of the main examination results.
The Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University will take a week or more to process the exam papers to announce the GGSIPU Revaluation Exam Results. To get the updated revaluation results to check out the Official Website @ipu.ac.in. Students requested a stay in touch with our website as that we announce the updated Regular and Revaluation Results of the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University as soon as released in the Website.
RPSC Result 2019 – RPSC Rajasthan Public Service Commission has recently uploaded RPSC Sr Teacher (TSP & Non- TSP) Provisional List – Sanskrit, English, Hindi & Urdu. All Enrolled Candidates can download Provisional Selection list now from the below link. Also, applicants can check and download the RPSC Result 2019 from the official website i.e, rpsc.rajasthan.gov.in. Here we have provided a direct link to download the RPSC Sr Teacher (TSP & Non- TSP) Provisional List – Sanskrit, English & Hindi. Moreover, we have given some steps to download the RPSC Result 2019. Applicants can get the complete details of Rajasthan Public Service Commission Result.
RPSC Senior Teacher (Grade II) Result 2019Released @ rpsc.rajasthan.gov.in | Check RPSC 2nd Grade Teacher Result 2019 through this article. Aspirants those whoever is willing to check their results can go through this post. The officials conducted the written exam from 22nd October 2018 to 2nd November 2018. The Rajasthan Public Service Commission released the Result for RPSC 2nd Grade Teacher Result (TSP & Non-TSP) for Social Science, Hindi Punjabi Subject on 21st August 2019. At the below of this table, we have given a direct link to check the Result Status.
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RPSC Assistant Engineer Result 2019 – Combined Assistant Engineer Pre Exam Result & Marks @ rpsc.rajasthan.gov.in | Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) has announced the Prelims Examination marks for the Post of Combined Assistant Engineer in Various Department Recruitment on 08th August 2019. Candidates, those who have appeared for the Prelims Examination on 16 -18th December 2018 can check and download your marks right now from the below table. Here we have provided a direct link to analyze your results with Marks.
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RPSC Senior Grade II Teacher TGT Result (Sanskrit) 2019 – Rajasthan Public Service Commission, RPSC has Recently Uploaded Result for the Senior Teacher Grade II and Special Education Teacher Recruitment (Sanskrit) on 02nd August 2019. Those Candidates who have Appeared in this Recruitment Exam can Download your Result now. Here we have provided a direct link to download your RPSC TGT Result (Sanskrit). Applicants just by clicking one direct link to get your all RPSC Senior Grade Teacher Grade II Result 2019. Moreover, candidates can visit the official website rpsc.rajasthan.gov.in to get complete information.
RPSC Senior Grade II Teacher TGT Result (Sanskrit) 2019
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Sr Teacher (TSP & Non-TSP) (Provisional List- English & Urdu) 2019 – Hello Folks!! The Rajasthan Public Service Commission has announced the Senior Teacher (TSP & Non-TSP) (Provisional List- English, Hindi & Urdu) on 05th August 2019. Applicants can check your Senior Teacher (Non -TSP) Provisional List from the direct link provided below in the table. Moreover, candidates can get the complete details from the official website rpsc.rajasthan.gov.in. Here all the candidates can get the RPSC Result 2019 from this article.
Sr Teacher (TSP & Non-TSP) (Provisional List- English & Urdu)
RPSC Senior Teacher (TSP) (Provisional List- English) 2019 – Hello Folks!! The Rajasthan Public Service Commission has announced the RPSC Senior Teacher (TSP) (Provisional List- English) 2019 on 01st August 2019. Applicants can check your Senior Teacher (TSP) Provisional List – English from the direct link provided below in the table. Moreover, candidates can get the complete details from the official website rpsc.rajasthan.gov.in. Here all the candidates can get the RPSC Result 2019 from this article.
RPSC Senior Grade Teacher Grade II Result 2019 – Rajasthan Public Service Commission, RPSC has Recently Uploaded Result for the Senior Teacher Grade II and Special Education Teacher Recruitment 2018 on 30th July 2019. Those Candidates Who have Appeared in this Recruitment Exam Can Download Result now. Here we have provided a direct link to download your RPSC TGT Result (Social Science). Applicants just by clicking one direct link to get your all RPSC Senior Grade Teacher Grade II Result 2019. Moreover, candidates can visit the official website rpsc.rajasthan.gov.in to get complete information.
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RPSC PGT School Lecturer Result 2019 – Rajasthan Public Service Commission has invited 13098 Candidates for the Post of PGT School Lecturer. The Organization has conducted the Examination on 17, 26-27th July 2016. Finally, RPSC has announced the RPSC Reserve List/ Pick Up List on 09th July 2019. Applicants those who have appeared the Examination can verify their results from the quick link provided below in the table. The applicants can see the result by individual language Staffs from the direct link.
The written Examination was organized for PGT School Lecturer Posts of Rajasthan based government Schools. The notification out in 2015 and it was a historic entry. They invited Teaching Faculty from the state as a total of 13908 Posts. After a huge gap of almost 3 years commission has uploaded the Non-Joiners Pick Up/Reserve List. RPSC School Lecturer/Teacher Pick Up List 2019 has released now.
The examination was for the recruitment of 13,098 teachers across a number of subjects including Rajasthani, Hindi, English, Sanskrit, Geography, Sociology, Political Science, Drawing, History, Philosophy, Physics, Mathematics, Biology, Commerce, Home Science, Chemistry, Economics, Music, and Sindhi. (Reuters). Candidates are picked up from the reserve Criteria and finally uploaded in the official website. Candidates can check the result from the direct link section. And they can download it for their further use and other stages of RPSC PGT Hiring 2015.
Almost all recruitments in the State of Rajasthan normally carried out by the RPSC. It will find the perfect candidates for recruitment from the initial stage. Then finally will select the right candidate for the Perfect Jobs which is in the Rajasthan State. So, the same happened for the recruitment of school lecturer posts right from the stage of sending the notification.
Steps to check RPSC Reserve List/ Pick Up List
Initially visit the official website of Rajasthan Public Service Commission i.e, rpsc.rajasthan.gov.in
Home page applicants can see the Candidates information, in that click on the results
A new page will be open with all the results
Applicants can check and download the appropriate result
Download or take a print out of the RPSC Reserve List/ Pick Up List for further reference.
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Pick Up List against Non-Joiner/Reject Candidates for School Lecturer(School Education Deptt.) Exam 2015(Commerce) for Boys 08/07/2019
NHPC Recruitment 2019 – Apply Offline for 30 Trade Apprentice Vacancies. Great News for candidates who are looking for Central Government Jobs. National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) has recently published an official advertisement for the Trade Apprentice posts. NHPC Recruitment invites application form from the Domicile of Himachal Pradesh. A total of 30 vacancies has been available. Candidates willing to apply for NHPC Apprenticeship 2019 should register themselves on Apprenticeship Portal. Interested can submit or send their application form with the essential credentials as preferred in NHPC Notification from 21st August 2019.
NHPC Limited invites eligible candidates to apply before the last date 15th September 2019. Aspirants will be shortlisted for the NHPC Jobs in Himachal on the merit basis. Selected applicants will be provided training for 1 Year in relevant trade. Candidates who are thinking to apply for the apprentice post make sure to satisfy all the eligibility criteria for NHPC Career that we have mentioned below.
National Hydroelectric Power Corporation is a Public Company possessed by Government of India. It has a place with an Electric industry which advances and make improvement in the hydroelectric power framework. NHPC Limited (A Government of India Enterprise) offers a difficult and remunerating vocation to youthful and dynamic Engineer Graduates in the control of Electrical, Civil and Mechanical Engineering and Post Graduates in Geology. NHPC Limited, a Govt. of India Enterprise, was joined in the year 1975 with an approved offer capital of Rs. 2,000 million and with a goal to design, advance and arrange a coordinated and effective improvement of hydroelectric power in all angles.
Later on, NHPC extended its items to incorporate the improvement of intensity in the entirety of its viewpoints through traditional and non-regular sources in India and abroad. NHPC is positioned as a chief association in the nation for the improvement of hydropower. At first, on consolidation, NHPC assumed control over the execution of Salal Stage-I, Bairasiul and Loktak Hydroelectric Projects from Central Hydroelectric Project Construction and Control Board. From that point forward, it has executed 20 tasks with an introduced limit of 6507 MW on possession premise including undertakings executed by NHDC Limited, a Subsidiary Company of NHPC Limited. NHPC has additionally executed 5 undertakings with an introduced limit of 89.25 MW on a turnkey premise. NHPC Recruitment offers many openings for work to freshers.
By Neeraj KaushalIf millions of Indians simply went on vacations, visiting domestic tourist destinations, would that energise India's slowing economy? Could the economy bounce back not because people were working harder, but because they decided to take a break from work and instead went on a 'Char-Dham Yatra'?Believe it or not, the answer to both questions is yes. We increase our incomes by working overtime. We contribute to the nation's GDP by also spending what we earn.The contribution of domestic tourists and tourism to the Indian economy has remained largely unsung. Domestic tourist visits have been growing at an astonishing pace in recent decades. In 2000, there were 220 million domestic tourist visits. The number has grown almost nine-fold to 1.82 billion in 2018. A substantial proportion of this is religious tourism. But whether you spend on a pilgrimage to Kedarnath or skiing in Kufri, it all adds to the same GDP.Tourist's Own CountryForeign tourist arrivals have also grown, but by a much modest proportion in comparison: from six million in 2000 to 24.7 million in 2016. While a typical foreign tourist spends much more than a domestic tourist, the sheer volume of domestic tourism points to its enormous contribution. Between 2011 and 2016, the number of domestic tourist visits almost doubled from 865 million to 1.61 billion. Foreign tourists arrivals increased by only a quarter from 20 million to 25 million during this period.As an aside: economist and former chief economic adviser to the ministry of finance Arvind Subramanian used foreign tourist arrivals as a factor in his Harvard paper on GDP 'misestimates'. I wonder if his GDP estimates would be higher had he used domestic tourists arrivals.In an earlier Economic Survey, Subramanian documented internal travels to be vastly greater than what was known from survey data — which also points towards increased GDP growth, even though traditional indicators related to manufacturing do not suggest 7% growth.Back to domestic tourism, in his Independence Day speech from the Red Fort in Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked his countrywomen and men to travel to 15 tourist destinations within India by 2022 and energise domestic tourism. A good call, yet a tall order. A good call because tourism is a highly labour-intensive industry. A substantial amount of money spent on tourism will go directly into creating jobs and raising incomes. A tall order because Modi wants us to make five trips a year, up from 1.5 in 2018. Even if 20% of Indians listen to Modi, it will double domestic tourist visits.Travel for tourism is a luxury. It is one of those things you do only if you can afford it. People rarely borrow to go on vacations as they often do to build or renovate homes or finance education.In household budgets, tourism-related expenditure is consumption, and not investment — even though a growing body of research shows vacations improve productivity, increase creativity, reduce stress and improve mental health.Attitudes towards vacations differ across nations. Continental Europe takes the notion that vacations reduce stress, improve physical and mental health and increase productivity very seriously. So, vacation days are mandatory. In many European countries, businesses simply close for a full month in July or August when their employees go away on vacations. In overworked US, according to a 2019 US Travel Association-Oxford Economics-Ipsos study, unused vacations cost businesses $151.5 billion a year.Of History & GeographyDespite the astounding growth, Indian tourism has a substantial untapped potential. The question remains: why, despite India's rich heritage, diversity of cultures, exotic cuisines and long history of civilisation, do we get such a small pie of global tourists and tourism revenue? The World Economic Forum's 2017 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index, provides some answers.Out of a groups of 136 countries, India ranked 40th in the tourism competitiveness index, 55th in international openness, 112th in information and communication technology readiness, 110th in tourist service infrastructure, 114th in safety and security, 104th in health and hygiene, and 89th in business environment. Tourism has not been a high priority in India. WEF ranked India 104th in prioritisation of travel and tourism.On the positive side, the potential for increasing tourism is immense.India is ranked 10th in price competitiveness, ninth in cultural resources and 24th in natural resources, and sixth in Unesco's world heritage sites.But, for now, countries that are much behind India in price competitiveness and cultural and natural resources are much ahead in domestic and foreign tourism.There are so many Indian historical sites that have not even been excavated.And then there are those that exist but it is just impossible to get there. The real problem is the sole responsibility of restoring them and that falls on the Archeological Survey of India (ASI). Because ASI has no funds, these monuments are simply left to decay. The Agha Khan Foundation and Tata Trust, in collaboration with ASI, have done outstanding restoration of many monuments, including Humayun's Tomb in Delhi. But such initiatives need to be expanded hugely.The writer is professor, social policy, Columbia University, US
by Farhad ManjooIt isn't the potential of downturn itself that has them alarmed — downturns come and downturns go, but whatever happens, chief executives, like cats, tend to land on their comfortably padded feet.Instead, the cause of their fear appears to be something more fundamental. As Alan Murray, the CEO of Fortune, writes in a cover story chronicling the C-suite anxiety: "More and more CEOs worry that public support for the system in which they've operated is in danger of disappearing." They're worried that when the next recession breaks, revolution might, too. This could be the hour that the ship comes in: The coming recession might finally prompt the masses to sharpen their pitchforks and demand a reckoning.Company executives are right to worry. A downturn will mark the end of a record period of uninterrupted economic expansion. The U.S. economy has been growing for more than a decade, stock indexes recently hit new highs, and the unemployment rate is at a 50-year low.And yet the vast majority of Americans will not look back on the past decade as years of fat and plenty. This was a gilded expansion, a decade of creaking wage growth and profoundly unequal outcomes. The number of Americans receiving food stamps is 40% higher now than in 2008, yet we have twice as many billionaires as we did a decade ago.This was an expansion driven by outsized gains to a handful of "superstar" firms in "superstar" cities. Economic devastation reigned in rural areas alongside catastrophic success in urban ones — an expansion marked by housing crunches and infrastructure nightmares that every level of government seems incapable of addressing. Corporate profits grew as if there were no tomorrow, but they didn't trickle down to everyone else. Instead, dividends and stock buybacks got bigger while CEO pay went through the rose-gold roof. The rest of us got smartphones, money-losing conveniences — Uber, WeWork, Netflix and meal delivery apps — and mountains of student debt.And so, when recession comes, we'll be right to ask: Was that it? Is this the best it gets? And if so, isn't it time to go full Elizabeth Warren — to make some fundamental, radical changes to how the U.S. economy works, so that we might prevent decades more of growth that disproportionally benefits the titans among us?But the CEOs now have a plan to head off revolution. They want you to know: Actually, they really do care about the world. Like, a lot.This week, in a statement widely feted by well-meaning Davos types, the Business Roundtable — an association of chief executives of nearly 200 companies, including Apple, Amazon, General Motors and Walmart — declared that the era of soulless corporatism was over. The Business Roundtable once held that a corporation's "paramount duty" was to its shareholders. Now, the Roundtable is singing a new, more inclusive tune. A corporation, it says, should balance the interests of its shareholders with those of other "stakeholders," including customers, employees, suppliers and local communities.In other words: no more Mr. Terrible Guy. Corporations are people, my friend, and it turns out that they're really nice people, both interesting and interested, and we really must have them over for dinner sometime.I spent a tedious few minutes this week trying to come up with an analogy to convey how thoroughly empty I found the Roundtable's gesture to be. I think I got one: Imagine a co-worker has been stealing your lunch from the office fridge for years. Then, one day, he strolls in with a big grin and grand announcement. Maybe he unfolds a scroll and blows a trumpet. He has realized that "lunch maximization" might not have been the best approach after all, and he will now try to be aware of the wider consequences of some of his actions. Yes, he still really wants your lunch. Yes, he will probably still fight any efforts to prevent him from taking your lunch. But you should know that he also feels a tinge bad about how it's all worked out. So, no hard feelings?I mean: Yay? It's nice that CEOs have vowed to turn over a new leaf. But their statement lacks any call for greater structural changes in the U.S. economy — changes to how companies are taxed or regulated, or how executives are paid, or how they should be judged.And because a public corporation's most direct incentives — including the CEO's pay — remain tied to stock performance, there's no reason to believe that corporations will voluntarily move away from pleasing shareholders alone, despite the new, high-minded ideals. In fact, the fanfare surrounding the Roundtable's empty statement could be read as an effort to stave off structural economic reform rather than accelerate it. It's a way for the CEOs to tell us that they're on the case, so we don't have to resort to something unthinkable, like a Warren presidency.If I sound cynical, it's only because I'm not a complete idiot. In the Donald Trump era, America's CEOs have become masterful at talking out of both sides of their mouths. They'll rush to issue virtue-signaling denunciations of the latest outrage from Trump in order to please their woke, restless customer bases, while on the down low, they'll champion his tax cuts and regulatory dismantling. And when the president gets too rowdy, they'll tell him to knock it off over a friendly dinner.It's all a game to the moguls in charge. Their greatest fear is that we'll stop playing.
NEW DELHI: Billionaire metal tycoon Anil Agarwal-promoted Twin Star Technologies is learnt to have pulled out as a bidder for telecom assets of debt-ridden Reliance Communications due to unknown reason, a source privy to the development said on Thursday.Twin Star Technologies, a holding company under Agarwal's Volcan Investments Ltd, had earlier shown interest in buying assets of Anil Ambani-led RCom which is going through insolvency proceedings."Twin Star Technologies will not bid for RCom assets. The company is likely to make a formal announcement in the regard shortly," the source said.Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio, Sunil Bharti Mittal-led Bharti Airtel, and TPG Asia, among others, have also expressed interest in buying assets of RCom.The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in May superseded RCom board and appointed a resolution professional to run the company and also allowed the SBI-led consortium of 31 banks to form a committee of creditors.RCom lenders have claimed dues of around Rs 49,000 crore on the company till May 2019.Reliance Jio in December 2017 had signed a mega deal with RCom for buying wireless spectrum, tower, fibre and media convergence nodes assets.RCom announced completion of sale of its media convergence nodes and related infrastructure assets, worth Rs 2,000 crore to Jio in August 2018. Later, Jio called off several deals that were under process.
ET Intelligence Group: While Indian pharmaceutical companies have been manufacturing and marketing drugs across continents for the past several decades, the boards and top management of most of them do not have any representation of overseas talent.Among the leading companies, only a handful of them – Dr Reddy's Labs, Lupin, Glenmark and Biocon – have expat representation on their boards as well as at the top management level. As headwinds in every drug market have intensified, a geographically diversified board and senior leadership have become an imperative. Expats at the helm can help in improving corporate governance and transparency, shaping the strategy and in adopting industry best practices – the much highlighted aspects of Indian pharma companies.Dr Reddy's Labs has the most globalised leadership amongst Indian pharma companies. The company, in June, promoted its COO Erez Israeli, a former Teva executive, to be its CEO. It has two expats on its board and has expats heading its North America generics and biologics businesses, respectively.Lupin too has expats heading its Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia Pacific & Japan, Latin America and Specialty USA businesses, besides a few serving on the board. Biocon has expats on its board and it recently roped in an expat to head its biologics business. Glenmark Pharma has two expats, respectively, on its board as well as in the senior management.Except for having a former CEO of Teva as non-executive chairman of its board, Sun Pharma does not have an expat in its senior management. Similarly, Cipla -- a late entrant in the US generics market -- does not have any expat presence in its senior management. Data from Bloomberg show Aurobindo Pharma, Cadila Healthcare and Torrent Pharma neither have expats on their boards nor in their senior management ranks.Smaller Indian pharma companies such as Ipca Labs, Divi's Labs and Natco Pharma too have no representation of global talent on their boards or top management.Indian pharma can take a leaf from the Indian IT industry. The export-oriented sector in India whose success preceded that of the pharma sector, has managed to diversify its boards and in some cases senior management, too. Companies such as Infosys, Wipro and HCL Technologies have expats on their boards as well as senior management.
ET Intelligence Group: While Indian pharmaceutical companies have been manufacturing and marketing drugs across continents for the past several decades, the boards and top management of most of them do not have any representation of overseas talent.Among the leading companies, only a handful of them – Dr Reddy's Labs, Lupin, Glenmark and Biocon – have expat representation on their boards as well as at the top management level. As headwinds in every drug market have intensified, a geographically diversified board and senior leadership have become an imperative. Expats at the helm can help in improving corporate governance and transparency, shaping the strategy and in adopting industry best practices – the much highlighted aspects of Indian pharma companies.Dr Reddy's Labs has the most globalised leadership amongst Indian pharma companies. The company, in June, promoted its COO Erez Israeli, a former Teva executive, to be its CEO. It has two expats on its board and has expats heading its North America generics and biologics businesses, respectively.Lupin too has expats heading its Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia Pacific & Japan, Latin America and Specialty USA businesses, besides a few serving on the board. Biocon has expats on its board and it recently roped in an expat to head its biologics business. Glenmark Pharma has two expats, respectively, on its board as well as in the senior management.Except for having a former CEO of Teva as non-executive chairman of its board, Sun Pharma does not have an expat in its senior management. Similarly, Cipla -- a late entrant in the US generics market -- does not have any expat presence in its senior management. Data from Bloomberg show Aurobindo Pharma, Cadila Healthcare and Torrent Pharma neither have expats on their boards nor in their senior management ranks.Smaller Indian pharma companies such as Ipca Labs, Divi's Labs and Natco Pharma too have no representation of global talent on their boards or top management.Indian pharma can take a leaf from the Indian IT industry. The export-oriented sector in India whose success preceded that of the pharma sector, has managed to diversify its boards and in some cases senior management, too. Companies such as Infosys, Wipro and HCL Technologies have expats on their boards as well as senior management.
MUMBAI: HDFC Bank's board reshuffled the role of its top management personnel in what is speculated as a step in preparing the lender for life after the retirement of founder chief executive Aditya Puri in October next year.The bank's announcement, terming veteran banker Sashidhar Jagdishan as a "change agent" and making him the head of all important portfolios of the bank, is being seen as a signal that he might well be the candidate to succeed Puri if the board chooses an internal candidate. The other contender earlier, Paresh Sukthankar, a deputy managing director, quit the bank last August."Sashidhar Jagdishan would continue to head the finance function, and shoulder additional responsibilities as in charge of the verticals of legal & secretarial, human resources, corporate communications, infrastructure, administration, corporate social responsibility and 'Change Agent of the Bank'," HDFC Bank said in a statement.Jagdishan has been with the bank since 1996. He has been involved in its finance, business strategy and strategic initiatives. Despite the high-profile role, he had been keeping a low public profile and remained to work in the background leaving Sukthankar and Puri as the public faces all these years.Jagdishan holds a BSc degree in physics from the University of Mumbai and a master's in economics of money, banking and finance from the University of Sheffield, UK. He is also a chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.The management intended to start the process of identifying a successor for Puri 18-24 months ahead of his retirement. The bank plans to have a 12-month overlap period during which the successor will work with Puri.The bank has also elevated Srinivasan Vaidyanathan as its chief financial officer. He would report to Jagdishan and ultimately take over the finance functions from him. Vaidyanathan is a chartered accountant and a qualified company secretary. He had earlier been with Citibank for more than a decade and worked in various capacities and geographies. Both of them would be the "key managerial personnel" for all legal purposes.
NEW DELHI: Shares of Maruti Suzuki might have recouped 7 per cent in the past one week, but analysts do not see an end to the dismal performance in the short term. Car sales have slumped, the competition has risen and the market leader is being forced to offer discounts. Maruti-specific problems too are at play. Credit Suisse noted that the automaker has increased discounts on all models except Ertiga. Company-specific concerns are cropping up, it said, adding that depreciation in the rupee against the yen could add to the pressure. Industry watchers noted that drop in utility vehicle sales in July was somehow arrested by good demand for the newly launched Hyundai Venue, which sold 9,585 units for the month. Mahindra & Mahindra's XUV300 also sold 4,464 units. The numbers hurt Maruti's Vitara Brezza sales, which fell 62.6 per cent to 5,302 units. "Maruti's personal vehicle market share declined by 350 bps to 48.9 per cent for July. On a year-to-date basis, the carmaker's market share is down 200 bps to 50.5 per cent," said Nirmal Bang Institutional Equities. As per reports, Maruti is offering as much as Rs 70,000 discount on Ciaz sedan. On S-cross, Ignis and Baleno there are maximum discounts of Rs 60,000, Rs 55,000 and Rs 45,000, respectively. On Maruti Suzuki Dzire petrol model, Rs 20,000 of cash discount is available along with Rs 20,000 exchange bonus. Its diesel variant is reportedly offered at a cash discount of Rs 25,000 of cash discount and an equal amount on exchanging one's old vehicle. Average discounts for the June quarter stood at Rs 16,941 per unit, up 12 per cent on a yearly basis. As a stock, Maruti Suzuki still trades higher on core PE basis, Credit Suisse said while recommending a target of Rs 5,700. This target was 8 per cent lower than Wednesday's closing price of Rs 6,222.95. In a July-end note, Phillip Capital cut the scrip's target to Rs 4,927 from Rs 6,012 as it saw risks to volume growth and margin estimates. The brokerage, which attended the company's conference call said the management was unwilling to give volume guidance for the full year. Earlier, it had guidance of beating SIAM's guidance of 3‐5 per cent growth for FY20. This is after the company reported a 17.9 per cent drop in volumes to 4,02,594 units in the June quarter. "Higher consumer offers increased incentives to dealers for wholesale billing, adverse operating leverage due to ramp up at SMG (Gujarat plant) and a subdued demand environment will negatively impact profitability going forward and does not leave much room to fully pass on costs related to the BS6 transition," Phillip Capital said. Other brokerages though feel that near-term weakness may persist , but their targets on the stock suggest upside potential. Over the next few months, Maruti's new model launches and benign raw material trends/cost controls will come into play and offer some respite, said JP Morgan in an August note. "Our March 2020 target of Rs 7,000 is based on 24 times FY21E P/E, which is in line with last five-year average," the brokerage said. Global brokerage firm CLSA slashed the target price of Maruti Suzuki citing weak demand. While maintaining a 'Buy' call on Maruti Suzuki, CLSA cut the target price to Rs 7,200 (from Rs 7,400 earlier). It also cut FY20-21 EPS by 8-10 per cent on lower volumes.
By Chandan Taparia NSE Nifty opened negative and remained under selling pressure throughout the session on Thursday. The index formed a Bearish Marubozu on the daily scale as bears are holding a tight grip on the market. The headline index continued its formation of lower lows and lower highs from the past three trading sessions and broke its recent swing low of 10,782. Now, till Nifty holds below 10,900, it could drift towards 10,650-10,600 while on the upside hurdles are seen at 10,950 and then 11,000. On the Options front, maximum Put open interest was at 10,700 followed by 10,500 strike while maximum Call open interest was at 11,000 followed by 11,100 strike. We have seen meaningful Call writing at 11,000 followed by 10,800 strike while minor Put writing was seen at 10,700 and then 10,500 strike. Option data suggests a shift in lower trading range between 10,650 and 10,950 levels. India VIX rose 4.89 per cent to 17.84. Rising volatility is putting sustained pressure at every bounce. Bank Nifty opened negative and corrected nearly 700 points to closed at day's low near 27,000. It has been forming lower highs and lower lows from the past three sessions. The index formed a bearish candle on the daily scale as sustained selling pressure was seen at higher levels. It has given breakdown from its consolidation band after 11 sessions. Now till it holds below 27,250, weakness could be seen towards 26,750 then 26,500 while on the upside hurdles are seen at 27,500 and then 27,750. Nifty futures closed with a loss of 1.84 per cent at 10,731. Builtup of long position were seen in Britannia, Voltas, Petronet and Tata Power while Shorts were seen in LIC Housing Finance, Amara Raja Batteries, IGL and Hero Motocorp. (Chandan Taparia is Technical & Derivative Analyst at MOFSL. Investors are advised to consult financial advisers before taking an investment calls based on these observations)
BENGALURU: Indian regional language social media platform ShareChat was forced to take down TikTok videos uploaded by its users after the Chinese short video app sent notices saying it had exclusive rights over this content.TikTok made the exclusivity claims based on contractual arrangements between the app and creators. It also said it has the sole right to initiate and control legal action including takedown requests. ET has a copy of these takedown notices and partly redacted contracts between TikTok and some creators."We can confirm ShareChat has received multiple takedown notices from ByteDance Technology and have complied with them as they have shared legal contracts stating their ownership to this content," a ShareChat spokesperson told ET in an email. Questions sent to TikTok were not answered.Facebook and YouTube users also have posted of TikTok video compilations. It is not clear whether these two platforms received takedown notices as well. Questions sent to Facebook didn't receive any response. YouTube said it doesn't mediate copyright claims and it is between the parties involved.70796787 Some technology experts are asking whether TikTok's exclusivity claim could affect the intermediary status social media platforms enjoy under the IT Act. This status is used by platforms to argue they have no legal liability arising out of content posted by users. TikTok had used this status to argue against its ban in Madras High Court in April for allegedly hosting content dangerous for children.Tieups with Creators Under Watch"The minute you become a partner with a user, you stop being an intermediary. You are an active participant in that content creation. However, your ownership status is restricted to that piece of content, not the whole platform," said a technology and policy lawyer who did not want to be named.TikTok, owned by Chinese startup ByteDance, has 200 million users in India, of which 120 million are active on a monthly basis. It competes primarily with Facebook and ShareChat in India.Exclusive partnerships with creators is not a new concept in the industry.Platforms such as YouTube and Facebook have exclusive content partnerships with creators in order to attract loyal viewership. These partnerships are getting a closer look from governments and law enforcement agencies, experts said."If you are claiming exclusivity, that (legal safe harbours) protection falls away," said another senior technology lawyer, requesting anonymity as he has social media firms as clients. "If something goes wrong, how do we know it (content) is user generated or it was created on behalf of Tik-Tok."Eshika Phadke, a legal risk analyst at Inflawence, said the impact exclusive contracts with creators has on TikTok's intermediary status would depend on whether they have editorial control over these creators.
He may not know the phrase, but the "gig economy" is not a new idea for 33-year-old Syed Javed Moinuddin. He's hustled and worked at odd jobs all his life. He dropped out of school in class 4, after his father died, and started supporting his mother, from helping at a bakery, to plumbing, to assisting a mason, being a cleaner on a commercial truck and, finally, driving vehicles for a travel and tourism firm in Hyderabad.Four years ago, he started driving a friend's car for Uber and Ola. Since last year, he has been driving a leased Ola cab, paying a daily Rs 1,035 to the company. Then, Ola began charging Rs 4 per km for anything over the daily limit of 200 km. "Now, I work at least 15 hours, and after paying the company, fuel and meals, I take home around Rs 500 a day. How does one eat and educate one's children in this situation?"These are the talked-up new jobs of the platform economy, where technology companies link those who need services with those who need work. In the West, this app economy has been blamed for destroying stable industries, for turning workers into freelancers and labour transactions into one-night stands, ending the era of workplace benefits and unions. It has also been celebrated as the flexible future of work, where workers will increasingly be independent contractors rather than employees.But if you look away from the technology — which is just a medium — the world of work hasn't changed much. "The gig economy is just another way of saying casual labour. In the West, where they have been used to regular jobs, it means something. In India though, formal work is only for a few and 35% of the workforce has always been in casual labour," says economist Ajit Ghose.While platform-based work is very visible in our cities, where you can use an app to find a mechanic or a yoga instructor, or get someone to deliver your food, there are no overall jobs numbers so far. "It's hard enough to get a measure of the informal economy. There are no reliable numbers for platform-based jobs, even in the US," says Vidhya Soundararajan, professor at IIM-Bangalore. The US Bureau of Labour Statistics recently said that only 10% of the workforce was in non-traditional, alternative arrangements, down a little from 11% in 2005.In India, when confronted with dismal employment data, Niti Aayog officials claimed that Uber and Ola alone created over two million jobs that did not show up in the data (an empty claim, since household surveys capture all such jobs). In March, a platform called BetterPlace pegged the number in India at 1.4 million, totting up Zomato, Ola, Uber, and so on. "In a labour force of nearly 500 million, several thousand jobs, or even one or two million, are not statistically significant yet," Ghose points out. The entire "personal services" boom, he says, is a function of inequality — as the consumption of the more affluent segment of the population grows, so does the demand for these jobs that employ another class of people.Take the company Urban Clap — one of the most visible platforms in Indian cities — it wants to be the Amazon or Alibaba for services. Urban Clap aims to create a million jobs by 2024, and right now they have about 25,000 professionals across India, in areas like beauty and wellness, home repair and maintenance. "I used to earn Rs 15,000 working at a salon, but now I can make up to Rs 60,000-70,000 a month, and take home around Rs 45,000 after paying for the commission, products, etc" says Sana Siddiqui. Mother of a 7-year-old, she also values the flexibility of the work as it lets her choose the rhythm of her own day.In the beauty industry, the middlemen take the bulk of the money without adding value, says Himanshu Arora, vice-president at Urban Clap. "A beautician may do Rs 1 or Rs 1.5 lakh worth of work, but most of it goes to the salon as maintenance or profits. At Urban Clap, we flip the equation, we take 20% and the rest goes to the professional," he says.While Urban Clap started out as a pure aggregator, connecting customers and professionals, it has now realised the value of consistency, and is moving towards a more stable relationship with workers. It trains professionals and standardises operations with its own beauty products in one-use sachets. It also encourages worker loyalty with insurance schemes, says Arora.At a beautician training session, a class of 20 women is being schooled in voice modulation and politeness, on how to pitch products, how to deal with sticky situations like if they drop hot wax on a client. "If there's a conflict with the client, or if things are getting difficult, then what do you do?" the trainer asks. "Call the helpline," say all the women in one voice.Urban Clap, like other such companies, manages professionals and clients through its call centre and app, rather than specific supervisors. Disconnected from each other and without a formal workplace, there is no avenue for collective bargaining by the partner professionals. The recent fracas of Zomato deliverypersons in West Bengal's Howrah refusing to ferry beef and pork for religious reasons drew much attention, but the main plank of their protest was reportedly about a fall in pay. "I remember some people tried a hartal in Gurgaon after a driver died: nothing happened, the movement fizzled out," says Moinuddin. "Ola says it has a Rs 5 lakh accident cover for drivers, but then they should give us the papers to keep, in case something happens," he adds.This depersonalised arrangement works fine for Siddiqui, though. She accepts the precarity and is glad for the autonomy that she now has. "I don't have any impressive degrees, but I know my haath ka kaam, which will stay, even if this company fails," says Siddiqui. "The gig economy works better for people with special skills," adds Soundararajan."Even as the rate of employment generation fell in the last six years, services employment has gone up, from 127 million in 2011-12 to 144 million in 2017-18," says economist Santosh Mehrotra. Many new jobs are in this "modern services" sector, in computer services, telecom, financial intermediation, hotels and restaurants. "But what is the quality of these jobs, what are the wages," he asks. "It is no one's case that jobs are not being created. It is just that not enough jobs are being created to keep up with the number of people looking for them," he says.Meanwhile, Moinuddin also accepts his naseeb, but wistfully remembers his days at the tourism company. "Everything was fixed there. There was a steady salary, a weekend. You could call in sick if you had to. Here, it is all up to you, and you work all the time just to subsist. They say you are khud ka boss, but what does that even mean?"
In a bind, Congress turns to late Rajiv Gandhi for help Her refrain comes at a time when Congress veteran leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram has been sent to CBI custody for four days on money laundering charges in INX Media case.
Punjab: Ferozepur water poses health risk Adding to the misery of these residents, the water level has been drastically increased as wastewater from tanneries in Kasur, Pakistan has been discharged into the river.
Directorate General of Civil Aviation to probe Uttarkashi chopper crash A team of the DGCA has already reached the state to initiate a probe into the matter.
Punjab govt seeks Rs 1,000-Cr flood relief package The request from the CM came amid reports that 326 villages across the state had been adversely impacted, with loss of standing crops on nearly 1.20 lakh acres of area submerged underwater.
Nirav Modi's judicial custody extended till September 19 The 48-year-old businessman appeared before the court via video link from Wandsworth prison in south-west London, where he is currently lodged
Jawan's son, farmer's daughter top Indian Police Service list Interestingly, 57 engineering graduates and 11 medicine graduates are among the 92 probationers.
Jyotiraditya Scindia to head Maharashtra Congress screening panel The screening committee will finalise the candidates for the assembly polls and make its recommendations to the party's Central Election Committee
Ayodhya Dispute: 'Muslim faction has accepted a temple stood before masjid' First petitioner had produced about 20 affidavits from local Muslims who said there was a temple at the site
Triple life: Man holds 3 govt jobs for 30 years in Bihar Suresh Ram lived a triple life as an Assistant Engineer in the Office of Building Construction of Kishanganj, the Department of Water Resources in Banka district's Belhar block and in Bhimnagar East Embankment of Supaul.
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