Are you plagued with the constant anxiety that your house is going to get broken into by the dangers of the outside world? Burglars, raccoons, bugs, ghosts — it’s a wonder how any of us sleep at night, honestly. Getting rid of those fears completely may not actually be realistic, but there’s at least something you can do to keep some of them at bay: Turning your home into a literal fortress.
Have you ever wondered how your favorite band came up with its name?
What's the story behind Papa Roach, Jimmy Eat World, or My Chemical Romance, for instance. And as Twitter user @SiddiqRahamut wants to know, is Charlotte of Good Charlotte even good?
These are important questions, and the tweet above inspired fellow music lovers to reflect on some of their own favorite band's names. Turns out, most names are a mystery and if give them an ounce of thought you'll realize they're likely not meant to be taken literally.
As Hurricane Dorian looms ever closer to making landfall in Florida, everyone is strapping down or scrambling to get out of dodge — including the local fauna.
But some will find a more aesthetically pleasing place to hide out. Like, for example, wind chimes.
Floridian Twitter user Mac was putting away his chimes in anticipation of the hurricane when he discovered that the chimes had become prime free frog real estate. Read more...
If you live by the motto “go big or go home,” you need a TV that matches your personality. Don’t settle for a small television set when giant 85-inch TVs exist.
As you’d expect from a TV this size, the picture and sound quality are stunning. Movies and shows will feel totally immersive with the combination of Sony’s 4K HDR processor X1 and acoustic multi-audio. You’ll see enhanced depth, textures, and colors for an incredibly realistic picture. Read more...
Looks like absolutely no one on Twitter would do well in an armed robbery situation.
In a meme that's basically an extremely dark version of the Meryl Streep call-and-response pic, people are sharing the songs, movie lines, and wild statements that, if they hear them, they simply have to respond to.
Like, it's almost intuitive. Like, even if they were hiding under their bed during an armed robbery and the robber, skulking around their home in his robber mask, sang the little riff from Beyoncé's "Countdown," some force deep inside would compel them to belt "OHH, KILLNG ME SOFTLY" in return. Would this reveal their location and put them in grave danger? Yes. But Beyoncé is too powerful to resist. Read more...
The obsession with robot vacuums is obviously the fact that they make your life 100 times easier, but there's a hard part to the process: picking one.
"Roomba" and "robot vacuum" are essentially interchangeable terms at this point, but the robot vacuum market ain't what it was in 2005. Though we totally back nearly ever Roomba model, there's a whole new world of brands that you should be considering.
We know, we know: Keeping the Roomba's models straight is a headache in itself — comparing handfuls of models from competing brands makes sticking with your old, barely-working vac look not so bad. Read more...
While today's smartphones are loaded with Google Maps or Apple Maps, they are merely quick solutions for traveling short distances. Believe it or not, getting a dedicated GPS device for your car or truck is still the best way to get to your destination safely and with ease.
Companies like Garmin and TomTom specialize in safe car travel and update their maps and traffic reports whenever changes occur on the road. GPS devices also offer the peace of mind that you'll never get lost, even when you're in a new location — including remote areas. They can also help you find the nearest restaurants, shopping mall, rest area, and other locations that might be considered off-the-beaten-path. Read more...
JoJo Rabbit looks exactly like the ridiculous Nazi satire you'd expect from Thor Ragnarok director Taika Waititi.
Waititi himself plays Adolf Hitler, the imaginary friend of aspiring 10-year-old Nazi JoJo (Roman Griffin Davis). JoJo's Nazi training is going just swimmingly until he finds a Jewish girl, Elsa, hidden in the attic (Thomasin McKenzie), being protected by none other than JoJo's mother (Scarlett Johansson). JoJo and Elsa start to bond, forcing the young boy to question his allegiance and whether the whole Nazi thing is maybe – you know, bad.
The cast also features Rebel Wilson, Alfie Allen, Sam Rockwell, and Stephen Merchant. Waititi penned the screenplay based on Christine Leunens' Caging Skies. Read more...
Bluetooth speakers allow us to experience music no matter where we go. Whether it's listening to classical pieces from Mozart or the newest BTS song 10 times in a row, you shouldn't have to enjoy your favorites through your phone's speaker and a cupholder. But with so many great Bluetooth speakers to choose from, how do you know which ones are the best? Read more...
Listening to music is so much more than a distraction when you're alone in public. It can have a profound effect on your state of mind, and it's the reason we're willing to spend iPad-level cash on headphones instead of opting for a pair in the checkout line. Listening to music (or podcasts, or audiobooks) can be an integral part of getting through that daily commute or a restless transatlantic flight. Read more...
You may have thought that those Christmas lights you just hung up have upgraded your space to an HGTV-worthy home renovation, but sorry to say string lights are overrated. They’re actually considered a fire hazard.
Smart lighting takes home lighting to a whole different levelThe Philips Hue smart light starter kit instantly transforms your space by filling it with color. Create custom scenes through the Philips Hue app or choose from pre-set ones. Set daily routines that fit your schedule so you can fall asleep and wake up to your favorite colorsThe Philips Hue is even Alexa and Google Assistant compatible, allowing you to simply control the lights with your voice. Read more...
So you're in the market to buy a new laptop? We have some advice: Don't let big tech companies with multimillion dollar marketing campaigns fool you into thinking you have to pay upwards of $1,000 to get a quality notebook.
You can actually get a brand new one for less than half of that price. And we aren't talking about poorly made, subpar notebooks that run slower than your smartphone after the latest iOS update. We're talking about cheap laptops that are high-tech and responsive, helping you do the things that matter most, like writing, browsing the internet, storing files, and even gaming. Read more...
The Inspiron 11 3000 by Dell is a small, compact laptop created for personal use. With it, you get 100GB of cloud storage and two gigs of RAM, which stands for random access memory.
Storage: 32GB
Memory: 4GB, DDR4
Features: one USB 3.1, one USB 2.0, HDMI port, microSD slot, 11.6-inch HD (1366 x 768) Anti-Glare LED-Backlit Display, AMD A6-9220e Processor, Radeon R4 Graphics with AMD APU
This HP laptop is engineered without a fan, so it should be quiet and comfortable to use on your lap while you enjoy 10 hours of battery life.
Storage: 32GB
RAM: 4GB
Features: one USB 3.0, one USB 2.0, HDMI port, microSD slot, 11.6" diagonal HD sva Anti-Glare wled-backlit 1366 x 768, Intel Celeron N3060 up to 1.6GHz, Intel HD Graphics 400
The Ideapad 120s is a stylish modern take on the laptop computer, combining high performance processing power with a sleek exterior. It comes in two sophisticated colors and has an HD anti-glare screen so you can experience true visual clarity.
Storage: 64GB
RAM: 2GB
Features: two USB 3.0, one USB-C, HDMI port, microSD slot, 11.6” HD 1366 x 768 Anti-Glare, Intel Celeron N3350 Processor, Integrated Intel HD Graphics 500
The designers of the Acer Swift 1 created a simple but pleasing to look at laptop with some pretty impressive specs.
Storage: 64GB
RAM: 4GB/8GB
Featured: one USB 2.0, two USB 3.0, one USB-C, HDMI port, SD slot, 13.3-inch, 1080p with 1920x1080 resolution display, Intel Core 1.10 GHz processor, Intel HD Graphics 505
The Aspire E Series laptops by Acer have many appealing features for everyday use. This one has a thin, lightweight design so you can take Windows 10 with you on-the-go.
Storage: 1,000GB
RAM: 4GB
Features: two USB 3.0, one USB 2.0, one USB-C, HDMI port, SD slot, 15.6" Full HD Widescreen LED-backlit display, Intel Core i3-7100U Processor, Intel HD Graphics 620
The ASUS Transformer Mini is a ultra-thin and has wide display viewing angles so you can have a comfortable experience no matter where you find yourself.
Storage: 128GB
RAM: 4GB
Features: one USB 3.0, one MicroUSB, Micro HDMI port, MicroSD slot, 10.1-inch LED backlit HD 1280x800 glare touchscreen display, Intel Atom Quad Core x5-Z8350 Processor, Intel HD Graphics
The Dell Latitude works in Laptop, Tablet, or Tent Mode and is designed for use with a variety of Microsoft learning apps. A built-in webcam makes for easy photography or for making Skype calls.
Storage: 64GB
RAM: 4GB
Features: two USB 3.1, HDMI port, USD Card Reader slot, 11.6” HD IPS 16:9 1366 x 768 Touch with Corning Gorilla Glass NBT display, Intel Pentium Processor N4200
The HP Pavilion x360 2-in-1 touchscreen laptop is one of the best utility notebooks under $500. It's powerful, lightweight, and durable.
Storage: 500GB
RAM: 8GB
Features: two USB 3.1, one USB-C, HDMI port, SD card reader slot, 14-inch diagonal HD SVA anti-glare micro-edge WLED-backlit multitouch-enabled edge-to-edge glass 1366 x 768 display, Intel Pentium processor, Intel HD Graphics 620
Eating healthier doesn't have to require some rigid, miserable diet and counting calories in an appBlenders, air fryers, and juicers are simple appliance buys that can transform the way you eat. If you're big on the taste of fruits and veggies already, juicing is a great way to squeeze the most nutrients out of the stuff you already love. Taking a green juice is way faster than eating a salad in the car — not to mention those citrus drinks are so refreshing. Read more...
Welcome toDial Up, Mashable’s most excellent look at technology in the '90s, from the early days of the World Wide Web to the clunky gadgets that won our hearts.
For much of the 20th century, the western world seemed to mark progress through the design of its cars. From the 1910s through the 1980s, each decade offered radical new looks that defined their times, even now (think round rims in the '40s and sharp fins in the '50s).
But the 1990s were different. Cars became the same dull, dependable steel boxes they are today. If you wanted to understand a rapidly changing high-tech world at the end of the 20th century, you needed to watch what was happening to home computers. Read more...
Wondering what to read in between seasons of The Crown?
Obviously, there are tons of books about royalty. But while sitting down with a great biography or historical fiction about times long ago is always a treat (try Wolf Hall or anything by Philippa Gregory), THIS LIST is much more precise: Fictional stories set in modern times that are royal or royal-adjacent. Basically, the books that got written once everyone became obsessed with Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle.
I'm talking women discovering they are princesses! People inconveniently in love with a prince! A kidnapped princess discovering she maybe has feelings for her new protection officer! Give them all to me! Read more...
Generally speaking, if a device has dropped in price by a substantial amount, it's either a sign that it's outdated or unloved. It's not always the case, though.
Sometimes, just sometimes, a new and popular device goes on sale. When this happens, it's important that you make the most of this opportunity. These moments don't come along too often.
The LG 65-Inch UHD 4K HDR Smart LED TV was released in 2019, and is listed as an "Amazon's Choice" product. Amazon only recommends highly rated and well-priced products, and this TV definitely ticks those two boxes. You can pick up the LG 65-Inch UHD 4K HDR Smart LED TV for just £799 on Amazon. This is down by 39%, saving you over £500 on list price. Read more...
TL;DR: The advanced Apple MacBook Pro is on sale for £989 on Amazon, saving you 21% on list price.
Normally, when we present these deals, we try and tell you a little something about the product that's on sale. In this case though, it's probably not necessary.
When it comes to Apple and the MacBook Pro, there isn't really much we can say. Everyone knows that Apple is seriously cool, and that the MacBook Pro is just about the most powerful and best performing laptop available. What more can we say?
Well, we can tell you that the Apple MacBook Pro is currently on sale. You can pick up the celebrated device for just £989 on Amazon. This is down by 21%, saving you £260 on list price. That's a big saving, especially considering that we're talking about Apple here. These devices don't often come down in price, so when they do, you need to act fast. Read more...
Whenever a fire breaks out, the odds are there will be footage posted on social media almost immediately.
But now the London Fire Brigade is urging people to think before they start filming.
"We're urging people to #Call999BeforeYouFilm," they wrote in a recent tweet. "If you see no fire engines at the scene, never assume someone else has called the emergency services. Any delay in calling 999 could have devastating consequences."
Prince Harry has announced the launch of a global sustainable travel initiative, dubbed Travalyst.
Announcing the project at an event in Amsterdam on Tuesday, the Duke of Sussex said Travalyst will partner with travel companies like SkyScanner, TripAdvisor, Booking.com, and Visa U.S. in order to promote sustainable tourism — although the details on this are pretty vague at this point.
"As you may know, I am not a tourism or business expert, but through my travels I have observed the unique relationship between community and environment, and have noticed something alarming," he said in a statement. Read more...
TL;DR: The gentle Braun Series 9 9390cc electric shaver is on sale for £199.99, saving you 60% on list price.
If shaving your face is something you do every day, you owe it to yourself to invest in the best. The problem with this is that you're probably going to end up spending a lot of money, unless of course, you find a deal.
The Braun Series 9 9390cc electric shaver is the latest device to come from the top grooming brand. It's an impressive device, with five synchronised shaving elements and two specialised middle trimmers, for a flawless shave that captures any type of hair. The problem is the cost. Read more...
They may have been engaged for half a year now, but that doesn't mean Orlando Bloom recognises Katy Perry's voice. At least not when she's putting on an English accent.
During an appearance on BBC Radio 1, Bloom took part in game where he had to judge callers based on their celebrity impressions. The third was "Gemma, from Hertfordshire", who apparently did an excellent Katy Perry impression.
The twist? It actually was Katy Perry on the phone. But she spoke in such an impressively dodgy accent that not even Bloom realised who he was speaking to. Read more...
TL;DR: The sensitive Oral-B SmartSeries 7000 CrossAction electric toothbrush is on sale for £69.99 on Amazon, saving you £180 on list price.
There are so many different electric toothbrush models on the market, that it can be difficult to pick one that is right for you. What exactly makes one model better than the next?
The answer to this question often comes down to small details. One device might have a better app than another, for example. You might get one or two more brushing modes with one model, but miss out on a travel case or charger. It's a really tricky decision to make, but one that can be made easier by checking out this deal. Read more...
Justin Bieber has posted a very long account on Instagram of the effect fame has had on his life.
Sharing a note to his 118 million followers on Monday, the singer described his drug use and the "terrible decisions" it resulted in.
"I started doing pretty heavy drugs at 19 and abused all of my relationships," Bieber wrote. "I became resentful, disrespectful to women, and angry. I became distant to everyone who loved me, and I was hiding behind, a shell of the person that i had become. I felt like i could never turn it around.
"It's taken me years to bounce back from all of these terrible decisions, fix broken relationships, and change relationship habits. Luckily god blessed me with extraordinary people who love me for me." Read more...
We're not sure what we have done to deserve all these treats, but Amazon keeps delivering little rewards for its customers.
We have only just had the "End of Summer Sale", and now we've got a bunch of deals on the best devices from Braun, Oral-B, and HP. This means you can walk away with a great deal on an electric shaver, toothbrush, laptop, printer, or monitor. We have lined up the very best offers, just for you.
If you are not in the market for any of these products, do not go away, because we have also tracked down the very best deals on everything else. This includes Apple AirPods, Fire TV sticks, Ring video doorbells, and more. Read more...
The eStroller is not a newfangled concept vehicle but a real product coming to parents (and babies) later this year.
Automotive and electronic parts supplier Bosch has developed an electric drive system (complete with a battery, electric motors, sensors, and app connectivity) for strollers — yes, the four-wheeled carriers babies sit in and parents push.
The battery and two motors on the back axle help push the stroller up a hill or make it easier to push along anywhere. Going downhill? The motors help with braking, and if the stroller is released, the parking brakes will go on — phew. The sensors on the stroller measure acceleration, speed, and road type to help make for a better ride. Read more...
According to my trusty calendar it's 2019, but a Catholic school in Nashville, Tennessee, is over here banning Harry Potter books like it's 2002 or something.
On Saturday, the Tennessean reported that the students of St. Edward Catholic School will no longer be allowed to check out books in the Harry Potter series from their school library on account of the "curses and spells" present within the J.K. Rowling texts.
The local publication states that Rev. Dan Reehil, a pastor at the school, explained the decision in an email to parents.
"These books present magic as both good and evil, which is not true, but in fact a clever deception," he wrote. "The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text." Read more...
For some people, the first day of fall arrives with the return of the Pumpkin Spice Latte. For others, the new season doesn't start until the official "first day of autumn" date that their Google search reveals has arrived.
I, however, feel it's truly fall when the annual SmokyMountains.com Foliage Predications Map is released. And baby? It's here.
Every year the tourism site shares an interactive map that acts as a guide to the upcoming foliage in the United States through September, October, and November. It's the perfect tool for planning fall outings, scenic road trips, and even seasonal Instagram photo shoots. Read more...
Some actors are more versatile than others. For scientific proof, please see the following meme.
After Reuters tweeted and deleted a post stating that Kirsten Dunst was "best known for her role as Spiderman's girlfriend" (have they ever even heard of Bring It On?), a discussion about the trulyversatile actors in our midst ramped up on Twitter.
Soon, it became a full-fledged meme, with people saying their faves could role-swap with basically any famous part. "Rachel Weisz could do James Bond but Daniel Craig couldn't do The Favourite,"reads one tweet from user @chastaen. Frankly, this is a great point. Read more...
The internet's number one crush of 2019, Keanu Reeves, is turning another year older, wiser, and hotter today and it's time to celebrate.
As Reeves turns 55 years old on this #ManCrushMonday (55? Breathtaking!) Twitter users are celebrating their good-haired, personal space-respecting, slow-mo strutting king by fondly looking back his career.
If we're being honest, the GIFs, threads, videos, and old photo collages of young Keanu are as much a gift to us all as they are to him, so please enjoy!
Twenty years ago, no company was flying higher than General Electric. The sprawling conglomerate, which sold everything from jet engines to mortgages to advertising on Seinfeld, was directed by a dynamic CEO, Jack Welch, and his unwavering faith in the power of Six Sigma.
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While we don't exactly condone speeding down highways at 100+ MPH, we can't deny that this guy's control to prevent a total wipeout is pretty impressive.
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In the beer industry, as any other, haters gonna hate. Still, there's a lot to love in beer. And so VinePair canvassed brewery employees and community leaders across the country to share what they love most about the industry right now.
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After Alabama lawmakers banned almost all abortions in May, with no exception for rape or incest, Jessica Stallings, a rape survivor from Fort Payne, was frustrated. But not for the reasons you might expect.
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Most academics, especially in the soft disciplines, are far from conservative. That doesn't mean they have any intent of forcing their students to think as they do.
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The Georgia Film Tax Credit brings hundreds of productions — and billions of dollars — to the state each year. But this past spring, a new anti-abortion law inspired a number of protests, and major Hollywood studios threatened to move their filming elsewhere. Will a boycott happen? Would it have any political effect? And what would it mean for the people who live and work in Georgia?
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With no true standard-bearers for the pitch in pro baseball, some are ready to declare it an endangered species. But if history is any indication, we haven't seen the last of it yet.
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Americans have built $3 trillion worth of property in some of the riskiest places on earth, so why do taxpayers have to pay for the hurricane damage to rich coastal communities?
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Germany's nudist movement, unique in the world, has survived Hitler, Communism and Instagram. It has everything to do with wanting to be free, say nudists, and zero to do with sex.
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For years, an enduring mystery has surrounded the Stuxnet virus attack that targeted Iran's nuclear program: How did the U.S. and Israel get their malware onto computer systems at the highly secured uranium-enrichment plant?
The first-of-its-kind virus, designed to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, effectively launched the era of digital warfare and was unleashed some time in 2007, after Iran began installing its first batch of centrifuges at a controversial enrichment plant near the village of Natanz.
The courier behind that intrusion, whose existence and role has not been previously reported, was an inside mole recruited by Dutch intelligence agents at the behest of the CIA and the Israeli intelligence agency, the Mossad, according to sources who spoke with Yahoo News.
President Trump rattled Wall Street when he demanded U.S. firms move production out of China. But many have already taken steps to do so, and, in earnings calls just over the past month, dozens of chief executives have signaled plans to further diversify their supply chains amid the intensifying trade war.
On Aug. 23, Trump took to Twitter, ordering American companies to "immediately start looking for an alternative to China" and urging them instead to start making their products in the U.S. In doing so, he cited the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) — passed in 1977 to deal with an "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States." The president's threat unsettled investors, sending stocks to session lows on a day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed more than 600 points.
A large blast in the Afghan capital of Kabul targeting a compound that is home to several international organizations killed at least five civilians and wounded around 50, an official says. https://t.co/MzsRQib2Ju
Hong Kong's embattled leader insists she has no intention of stepping down.
Carrie Lam's comments come after leaked audio recording of her telling business leaders last week she wants to quit and apologise for causing "unforgivable" havoc in Hong Konghttps://t.co/HrxtbjB9Zepic.twitter.com/Xzrzaox7Wh
Matt Snape agrees with the chief economist of Deutsche Bank that a No Deal Brexit is not the end of the world.
With the possibility of a no-deal Brexit fast becoming a reality, the mainstream media are doing everything in their power to warn people about how this will impact upon their lives. The BBC have produced numerous reports about how Brexit will disrupt rubbish collection and more.
The biggest fear commentators have is how a no-deal Brexit will impact upon the economy. Reuters UK reports that Britain's banks face a hit of up to 25 percent to their earnings if Britain crashes out of the EU without a deal. An economic slowdown, and the likelihood of interest rates and borrowers defaulting on their loans, would hit earnings per share by between 15 to 25 percent, analysts at Citigroup warned in a research note. This has caused Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom to urge banks to continue lending after October 31st.
However, Deutsche Bank, which is facing its own problems in Germany after a failed merger with Commerzbank and the German economy on the verge of a recession in general, does not seem to fear the prospect of no-deal. Their Chief Economist, David Folkers-Landau, appeared on Bloomberg and told them:
WNU Editor: The Bloomberg video with David Folkers-Landau is here .... No-Deal Brexit `Not the End of the World' for U.K.: Deutsche Bank (Bloomberg). As to what is my take. The Deutch Bank chief economist is correct. It may be tough in the beginning, but the U.K. will survive and IMHO will be better off within five to ten years.
Students boycott their classes as they take part in a protest against the extradition bill at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China September 2, 2019. Thousands of Hong Kong university and school students boycotted class and rallied peacefully for democracy on Monday, the latest acts of defiance in an anti-government movement that has plunged the Chinese-ruled city into crisis. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
An undated file photo of Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean and the site of a major US military base leased from Britain in 1966. Reuters
* In 1966, the UK leased the US the remote, 17-square-mile Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. * Diego Garcia is now a key US military base in the region, and it is used as a launchpad for Air Force missions in the Middle East. * About 5,000 service members and contractors are based on Diego Garcia, which has a bowling alley, a burger bar, and stores. * The British government evicted thousands of islanders from their homes on Diego Garcia and the surrounding area to make way for the base. * The UN's top court recently ruled that the British illegally gained possession of the island in 1965, placing the future status of the base in doubt.
On the remote tropical island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean lies a secretive, strategically vital US military base.
The base has served as a launchpad for US military operations in the Middle East and as a refueling point for Air Force patrols headed to the South China Sea, and it was even designated an emergency landing spot for space missions by NASA.
But this distant outpost of American power isn't located on US territory. Instead it occupies what used to be part of the British Empire — and its former owners want it back.
The night landing almost makes the aircraft look like it's hovering in the sky.
* Two B-2A bombers landed at RAF Fairford in the U.K. this week as part of the U.S. Air Force's efforts to conduct "joint and allied training in Europe to improve bomber interoperability." * The two bombers were captured by plane spotter Ben Ramsay, who caught their otherworldly approach to the English airfield. * The two bombers departed from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, where B-2 bombers usually carry out operations.
An impressive new video shows a pair of B-2A Spirit stealth bombers landing at a Royal Air Force base in the UK. The landing took place at night, and the photographer's perspective makes the flying wings appear to hover in midair, like a UFO.
The two big bombers, flying towards the videographer, briefly appear to hover in the sky. In reality the planes were traveling at more than a hundred miles an hour, on final approach to the air base.
WNU Editor: When you look at a plane approaching you at night, and if it has its front lights on and it is far away, it would like it is stationary in the sky. The B-2 is not the only jet that can do this.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan listens while meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington July 22. REUTERS
Pakistan would not use nuclear weapons first, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday, amid tensions with arch-rival India after New Delhi revoked the special status of its part of the disputed Kashmir region.
"We both are nuclear-armed countries. If these tensions increase, the world could be in danger," Khan said, addressing members of the Sikh religious community in the eastern city of Lahore. "There will be no first from our side ever," he said.
The foreign ministry's spokesman subsequently said on Twitter that the comments were being taken out of context and did not represent a change in Pakistan's nuclear policy.
"PM was simply reiterating Pakistan's commitment to peace and the need for both nuclear states to demonstrate responsible behaviour," spokesman Mohammad Faisal said on his official Twitter account.
Israeli paramedics and soldiers evacuate a supposedly mock wounded comrade at a helipad in Ramban hospital in the Mediterranean city of Haifa, Israel. AFP
Israel claims injuries reported by Hezbollah from Sunday's attack were staged
A Hezbollah attack on an Israeli military vehicle on Sunday has caused confusion as Israel claimed that the reported injuries sustained by their forces were staged.
On Sunday, Hezbollah fired two or three anti-tank missiles at a battalion headquarters and a military ambulance, hitting both.
After the attack, the Iran-backed group said there were "dead and wounded" soldiers and Lebanese media announced several Israeli soldiers were injured and flown by helicopter to Haifa's Rambam hospital.
The Israeli army denied the reports, claiming that the vehicle had been empty at the time and the casualties were staged with fake blood and bandages.
The supposedly wounded soldiers were released without receiving any medical care, local reports said.
Iran on Monday acknowledged a rocket explosion at its space center and blamed a technical malfunction for the incident, the Associated Press reported.
Satellite photos had originally shown the explosion at the Imam Khomeini Space Center last week.
President Trump was criticized by experts after tweeting out a detailed photo of the site of the failed satellite launch which may have been classified.
Trump denied that the U.S. played any role in Iran's failed attempt to launch a satellite into space, while appearing to sarcastically wish Tehran "good luck" in determining the cause.
The Trump administration and military officials may be in disagreement over the choice to keep C.I.A presence in Afghanistan if troops are pulled from the nation, according to a Monday New York Times report.
The Times reports that some White House advisers have proposed secretly expanding the agency's presence in the nation — a move that some current and former officials have expressed skepticism about.
The C.I.A. and White House did not comment for the story, but the newspaper said it based the report off interviews with a half-dozen of current or former officials briefed on the discussions. The Hill reached out to the White House for comment.
Some officials told the paper they want C.I.A-backed forces in the country as part of a counterterrorism force. They claim it could quell worries that the U.S. will be left with little ability to prevent terrorist groups from using Afghanistan as a base of operations in the U.S. pulls troops, as President Trump suggested will happen last week.
GROZNY — A 45 minute drive outside of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Russia is building a special forces university in Ramzan Kadyrov's Chechnya. Tsarizm was given a private, first look tour of the impressive site.
When completed in the near future, a sprawling campus of over 420 hectares will provide unprecedented training opportunities for elite soldiers of the Russian Federation's Spetsnaz forces. The facility will have the capability to train 1,500 personal at the same time; many of these students will be from foreign nations allied with Russia.
The staff was most gracious and proud to show Tsarizm the training grounds with a complete, day-long tour, replete with weapons firing and specialized procedures.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has announced his resignation after little more than a year in the position, saying he had fulfilled the mandate he was given.
"The purpose and main mandate of my nomination for the post of prime minister of Georgia in 2018 was to create and implement a strategic development framework for the country," Bakhtadze wrote in a Facebook post on September 2.
"A strategic development framework has been created, implemented, and therefore I decided to resign because I believe I have fulfilled my mission at this point," he added.
The foreign ministers of Russia and Iran have met in Moscow in a show of solidarity against what Moscow termed "unacceptable" American provocation over the Iran nuclear deal, which remains at risk of collapse.
Javad Zarif traveled to meet Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Monday, as the two leaders sought to breathe life into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—otherwise known as the Iran nuclear deal—in the face of continued U.S. sanctions on Iran, state news agency Tass reported.
President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the JCPOA in May 2018, arguing the agreement was too lenient on Iran. The agreement—which was also signed by Russia, China, the U.K., Germany, France and the European Union—lifted tough economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program.
Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has asked for Poland's forgiveness 80 years after the start of World War II.
"I stand before you, those who have survived, before the descendants of the victims, the old and the young residents of Wielun, I am humbled and grateful," Steinmeier said during a ceremony in the Polish city of Wielun, the site of one of the first Nazi bombings in the country on September 1, 1939.
"I bow to the victims of the attack in Wielun, I pay tribute to the Polish victims of German tyranny and I ask for forgiveness," he said.
Nearly 6 million Poles died during World War II, which remains the bloodiest conflict in history.
Bangkok (AFP) - The United States and ten Southeast Asian countries kicked off maritime drills on Monday, as part of a joint exercise extending into the flashpoint South China Sea with eight warships, four aircraft and more than a thousand personnel.
The first ASEAN-US Maritime Exercise (AUMX) between the regional bloc and Washington will last for five days, starting at the Sattahip Naval Base in Thailand and ending in Singapore.
The drills come at a time of stepped-up US engagement in the region and tensions between Beijing and Southeast Asian nations over the South China Sea, parts of which are claimed by ASEAN members Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines.
WNU Editor: China's aggression and uncompromising position on territorial claims is bringing these nations together in a manner that I do not think Being ever predicted.
Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong continued Monday with a general strike and a school boycott. It was the start of a new semester for students in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory, but protest organizers told CBS News correspondent Ramy Inocencio that as many as 10,000 students from 200 schools were skipping class.
High school students at one rally told CBS News they were grateful for the support they've received from other Hong Kongers. But the demonstrations over China's perceived efforts to curtail the city's unique freedoms come after a weekend of chaos.
Thousands of protesters swarmed Hong Kong's airport Sunday in an effort to shut it down again, and force the world to pay attention to their demands.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said she has caused "unforgivable havoc" by igniting the political crisis engulfing the city and would quit if she had a choice, according to an audio recording of remarks she made last week to a group of businesspeople.
At the closed-door meeting, Lam told the group that she now has "very limited" room to resolve the crisis because the unrest has become a national security and sovereignty issue for China amid rising tensions with the United States.
"If I have a choice," she said, speaking in English, "the first thing is to quit, having made a deep apology."
Lam's dramatic and at times anguished remarks offer the clearest view yet into the thinking of the Chinese leadership as it navigates the unrest in Hong Kong, the biggest political crisis to grip the country since the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
WNU Editor: She says that she cannot quit. Which tells me that she is being threatened, and that it is Beijing that is pulling the strings. Is anyone surprised?
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OPEC's production increased in August thanks to Iraq and Nigeria a Reuters survey found on Friday.
OPEC's August production has been estimated at 29.61 million barrels per day, which is 80,000 barrels per day over July's production level.
The production increase is surprising, given that Iran and Venezuela are producing less not by choice, and continue to face uphill battles when it comes to maintaining their oil production. Saudi Arabia, too, over complied with the production cut deal again as expected, but it raised production for August slightly over July. Overall, the group is still over complying with the production quotas.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani meets with U.S. special representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad in Kabul, Afghanistan September 2, 2019. Afghan Presidential Palace/Handout via REUTERS
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has been briefed on a draft accord between the United States and the Taliban and will look at details of the deal before giving an opinion, his spokesman said on Monday, after meetings with the chief U.S. peace negotiator.
The draft accord, reached after months of negotiations, agrees a ceasefire and a phased withdrawal of U.S. forces from their longest ever war in exchange for a Taliban commitment that they will not allow Afghanistan to be used by militants to plot attacks on the United States and its allies.
Adrian Darya 1 pauses in eastern Mediterranean; US maintains Tehran-flagged vessel intends to sell crude oil to Assad regime.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian oil tanker pursued by the United States across the Mediterranean Sea slowed to a near-stop Sunday off the coast of Syria, where America's top diplomat alleges it will be unloaded despite denials from Tehran.
The ongoing saga of the Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as the Grace 1, comes as tensions remain high between the US and Iran over its unraveling nuclear deal with world powers. Tehran is set to send a deputy foreign minister and a team of economists to Paris on Monday for talks over ways to salvage the accord after a call between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Iran has warned Europe it needs to offer new terms before a deadline set for later this week or Tehran will "take a strong step" away from the nuclear accord it signed with world powers in 2015.
Speaking ahead of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif's meeting on September 2 in Moscow with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, government spokesman Ali Rabiei was quoted by the official government news agency IRNA as saying that "the points of views have become closer on many issues and now technical discussions are being held on ways to carry out the Europeans' commitments [in the nuclear deal]."
The Army is in the midst of a reorientation—planning and preparing for conflict with peer and near-peer adversaries, as directed by the 2018 National Military Strategy. This reorientation will involve changes big and small, with the Army embracing both new technologies and concepts—such as unmanned systems and Multi-Domain Operations—and dusting off and updating old ones—such as camouflage and electronic warfare.
But one thing is strikingly absent: Army leaders are not giving sufficient consideration to the threat of nuclear weapons.
For nearly two decades, the U.S. military has been focused on combat against non-nuclear nation-states in which post-conflict counterinsurgency operations took significantly more time and resources than planned. As a result of these engagements, U.S. military readiness for conventional operations against a near-peer state has measurably degraded. A 2016 RAND Corp. report suggested Russia could overrun the Baltics before NATO could respond, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested he would resort to limited nuclear weapons use to stop NATO offensives.
Read more .... WNU Editor: Frankly speaking .... no one can ever be properly prepared for any nuclear exchange.
A map showing some US military bases alongside the possible track of Hurricane Dorian as of early morning on Monday, September 2, 2019. Google Crisis Map
* Hurricane Dorian is approaching the US, with devastating power and an unpredictable path. * The US military has taken precautions to defend its assets, by readying base personnel and moving planes and ships out of the way. * The task is especially difficult given how wide an area the storm could potentially hit. * It came as more than 1 million US civilians were ordered to evacuate their homes.
Hurricane Dorian continued to flummox weather forecasters and military officials Monday as they struggled to predict where the dangerous and unpredictable storm might hit the mainland.
The storm, which was recorded over the weekend blasting out winds in excess of 200mph, has provided unusually difficult to predict, defying many common models used by forecasters.
This has forced military planners to either shut down or take action to protect bases ranging from Florida to southern Virginia.
We finally have an official accounting of the F-117s, nearly all of which remain at Tonopah, but that is still set to change over the coming years.
More than a decade after the F-117 Nighthawk stealth attack jet's official retirement, it remains a hot topic of discussion and speculation, especially given that some of the aircraft are still flying. The War Zone can now confirm that the Air Force still has 51 of the aircraft in its inventory and has not destroyed any of the aircraft since 2008, despite a Congressional mandate two years ago to dispose of four of them annually. We can also explain what happened to an F-117 that bystanders recently spotted on a flatbed semi-trailer on a road near the Air Force's Plant 42 complex in southern California.
The head of Hong Kong Court Prosecutors Association has reportedly taken the extraordinary step of accusing the police of lying, potentially opening a unprecedented rift in the legal and security establishment as unrest in the territory enters its 14th week.
According to government broadcaster RTHK, the chairman of the association, William Wong, sent an email to all staff at the Department of Justice claiming that it was clear that police lied when they described the arrests of activists and lawmakers a day before a mass rally as a “coincidence.”
In his extraordinary communication, Wong said that “No court or reasonable jury properly directed would believe what police said” and, according to RTHK, added that police had also lied in “recent months.” He then called on the justice minister to ensure that the police maintained “honesty in doing their job.”
The apparent rift between prosecutors and police is a sign of the strain felt by the Hong Kong authorities as they try to contain what Beijing has called a “color revolution.”
Seven pro-democracy figures were arrested on August 30—including high-profile members of the Demosisto political party Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow, three legislators, and a former university student union president. The roundup was believed to be an attempt to discourage participation in an Aug. 31 march planned by the Civil Human Rights Front, a coalition of pro-democracy groups that has organized several mass rallies this summer.
Police continued the crackdown on Tuesday morning with several more arrests. Demosisto’s chairperson, Ivan Lam, who had been out of Hong Kong over the weekend, was detained on arrival at the city’s airport, according to the party.
Student leader Keith Fong was also arrested in the early hours of Tuesday, on theft charges that the Baptist University student union claimed were “fabricated” by police. Activist Michael Mo was also arrested on Tuesday morning, according to local media, and charged on suspicion of organizing an illegal assembly.
The round-up followed a day of student strikes and another night of unrest in the city, with protesters clashing with police outside the offices of Hong Kong’s embattled top official, Chief Executive Carrie Lam. Late on Monday night, Demosisto’s vice chairperson Isaac Cheng, was attacked by three men, according to a spokesperson for the party.
Protests have gripped Hong Kong since early June, sparked by the government’s proposal of a bill that would have allowed China to request fugitives be sent to the mainland to face trial in Communist Party controlled courts. Although the bill is now suspended, the movement has snowballed into a wider campaign for greater political freedom, with some protesters calling for self-determination or independence for Hong Kong.
China has doubled down on what it has termed a “color revolution” in the restive enclave of Hong Kong, dismissing a hardline minority of protesters as “thugs” attempting to turn the territory into an “independent or semi-independent political entity.”
At a press conference in Beijing Tuesday carried on live news feeds, spokesman Yang Guang, of the Chinese central government’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, said that the Hong Kong protests “far exceeded the scope of normal assemblies and rallies” and added that they would be considered “violent crimes” in “any country, any region, or under any legal system.”
He also underscored Beijing’s persistent claim that foreign powers are behind the uprising. Radical protesters, he said, were “foot soldiers of external forces and anti-China forces,” bent on “making Hong Kong chaotic and paralyzing the [local] government.”
The unrest, he added, “gravely endangered the interests of Hong Kong,” and was “not at all about expressing any political demands” but instead “political intimidation and hijacking, through and through.”
The stern rhetoric is sure to exacerbate tensions in Hong Kong, where a three-month push for greater political freedom shows no sign of abating. Originating as opposition to a divisive extradition bill, the movement has since broadened into a rebellion against the unrepresentative local government, with many protesters demanding self-determination or independence for the semi-autonomous territory, whose 7.2 million inhabitants are culturally and linguistically distinct from mainland Chinese.
The notion of full political freedom for Hong Kong is anathema to Beijing, which resumed sovereignty over the former British possession in 1997, marking the end of 156 years of colonial rule.
Yang’s remarks come after weeks of intensifying unrest in the territory. Over the weekend, protesters lobbed petrol bombs at Hong Kong’s main government office, set fire to barricades on major streets, and fought running battles with police, who responded with tear gas and water cannon. At one point, police fired live rounds as warning shots in the prime retail and tourist district of Causeway Bay.
On Sunday, protesters severely disrupted operations at Hong Kong International Airport, forcing the suspension of train and bus services, leaving arriving passengers with no way of making it into the city center. Yesterday, thousands of high school and university students marked the first day of the new educational year with a class boycott. In the evening, masked radicals briefly clashed with police outside the offices of Hong Kong’s embattled top official, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, and waved a defaced Chinese flag outside the headquarters of the Chinese garrison in a dangerous provocation.
Lam also held a press conference broadcast live Tuesday and said that Beijing had faith in her administration “to handle this difficult matter, and we are also trying our best to do so.” She also stressed that lawbreakers would be brought to justice.
“Hong Kong is a society of law,” she said “so we must use the means of law to handle the illegal activities that have taken place.”
The Hong Kong government has rounded up several prominent activists and democratic legislators in recent days, including the high profile campaigner Joshua Wong, his colleague in the Demosisto party Agnes Chow, and party chairman Ivan Lam.
Wong, who was bailed on charges of unlawful assembly, has vowed never to surrender. “This is the fight of our lives. And we’re going to win. Whatever it takes,” he posted on Twitter.
—With reporting by Aria Hangyu Chen and Hillary Leung / Hong Kong
(YANGON, Myanmar) — Plans announced by Myanmar’s military to prosecute soldiers for actions at a village where security forces reportedly killed as many as 400 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority drew skepticism Monday from the New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch.
The military announced over the weekend that investigations had determined that orders were not properly followed at a village in Rakhine state. It gave no dates or other details of the offense, but said a court martial is being convened to act “in accordance with the military discipline due to the weakness in following the instructions in some of the incidents at Gutabyin village.”
The Associated Press reported in January last year that evidence indicated that security forces had carried out a massacre in the village, also known as Gu Dar Pyin, and that the victims were buried in at least five mass graves. The military — known in Myanmar as the Tatmadaw — denied the report, and it is unknown if the new announcement is related to the same incident.
Human Rights Watch said Monday that the announcement did not indicate a change of attitude by the military, which denies carrying out abuses in a self-proclaimed counter-insurgency campaign two years ago that resulted in more than 700,000 Rohingya fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh. It has said its military operations in Rakhine were justified in response to attacks by Rohingya insurgents.
Many human rights groups have accused Myanmar of carrying out genocide or ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya. A U.N. fact-finding mission has documented major abuses in Rakhine since 2016, including widespread killings and torching of villages, and said its findings warrant prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity in a forum such as the International Criminal Court.
“The Tatmadaw’s decision to court-martial a few soldiers is hardly enough when we’re talking atrocities that included murder, torture, rape and arson that destroyed people and their communities. This court-martial looks like just another game to divert international attention by sacrificing a few low-level scapegoats,” Phil Robertson, deputy director of the Asia division of Human Rights Watch, said in an email, urging that it should be the military’s top commanders who face punishment.
“You can tell the Tatmadaw are not serious since they refuse to review their overall operation and hide these court-martial proceedings behind closed doors, out of sight of the public and media,” Robertson said. “No one should be fooled to think this action marks any change of attitude in Myanmar’s military, which is still denying they violated the rights of the Rohingya in the first place, and seeking to evade all international accountability for their crimes.”
Myanmar has rejected the legitimacy of the U.N.’s fact-finding mission and asserted it is carrying out its own investigations. The announcement of the planned prosecutions came after what it said was investigations carried out by the military’s own Court of Inquiry.
Radhika Coomaraswamy, a Sri Lankan lawyer who is one of the U.N. mission’s three international experts, last month told an informal Security Council meeting on accountability in Myanmar that they believe a domestic judicial process is not possible at this time.
She pointed to seven soldiers who were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison with hard labor for the killings of 10 Rohingya villagers but then were released after just nine months “because of the national and political pressure.” The arrests followed an investigation by two Reuters journalists who were imprisoned for their reporting on the killings.
Last year’s Associated Press report said the existence of five mass graves in the village under investigation had been confirmed through multiple interviews with more than two dozen survivors in Bangladesh refugee camps and through time-stamped cellphone videos. It said its reporting showed a systematic slaughter of Rohingya civilians by the military, with help from Buddhist neighbors.
The story said it was unclear just how many people died, but that community leaders in the refugee camps compiled a list of 75 dead up to that point, and villagers estimated the toll could be as high as 400, based on testimony from relatives and the bodies they’ve seen in the graves and strewn about the area.
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson shot down the notion that he wanted an early election to secure Brexit, insisting Monday that it wasn’t the way to get a deal done.
Johnson decried parliamentary action set for Tuesday that is meant to delay Britain’s departure from the European Union, arguing that it would “chop the legs” out of the U.K. position. He spoke moments after lawmakers posted a copy of the proposed bill on Twitter, making clear that they would press the government to seek a delay if there’s no deal.
“Let’s let our negotiators get on with their work, without that sword of Damocles over their necks, and without an election, without an election,” he said. “I don’t want an election, you don’t want an election. Let’s get on with the people’s agenda.”
Opposition parties are pledging to challenge Johnson’s policy that the U.K. will leave the EU on Oct. 31 even if there is no deal. A no-deal Brexit is considered dangerous because it will sever decades of seamless trade with the EU single market of 500 million, Britain’s largest trading partner.
Despite Johnson’s comment, Downing Street said later Monday night that Johnson would call an early election if his opponents in Parliament manage to pass legislation that would block his plans for a departure from the EU by the Oct. 31 deadline. His goal would be to gain a majority in a new Parliament that would back his Brexit stance.
The febrile atmosphere came after Johnson got tough with members of his Conservative Party who opposed his Brexit plans. The so-called rebels were being warned Monday that they will be expelled from the party if they supported the parliamentary efforts.
Johnson insists the potential for a no-deal Brexit must remain an option in negotiations with the EU. The bloc is adamant it will not renegotiate the agreement struck with former Prime Minister Theresa May on the terms of Britain’s departure and the framework of future relations.
The deal was defeated in Britain’s Parliament three times, largely because of opposition to clauses related to keeping open the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Time is short for lawmakers to block a no-deal Brexit. With 59 days before the withdrawal date, and a lengthy parliamentary suspension in the middle, this week is crunch time.
Johnson, who took power in July with a pledge to go no matter what, insisted that he was not backing down on the promise.
“There are no circumstances under which I will ask Brussels to delay,” Johnson said. “We’re leaving the 31st of October, no ifs or buts.”
Some of the most important votes are those of Johnson’s own party — particularly those who can’t stomach the notion of a no-deal exit. Conservative former justice secretary David Gauke accused Johnson of “goading” party members to vote against the government so that they can be ousted in favor of lawmakers who support the prime minister’s more extreme version of Brexit.
“It’s obviously a particularly confrontational approach and, I think, designed, frankly, to realign the Conservative Party, to transform the Conservative Party very much in the direction of a Brexit party,” Gauke told the BBC.
Rumors had swirled that Johnson might try to trigger a no-confidence vote — taking his message directly to the people to seek their support. But because of a largely untried law passed in 2011, he needs the support of two-thirds of Parliament to seek an election.
In this case, that means getting the support of the Labour Party.
Labour might see such support as a trap — even though the party has been pressing for a general election since Jeremy Corbyn was elevated to leader in 2015. Corbyn urged opposition parties to join together, saying the events in Parliament this week may be the last opportunity to stop a no-deal Brexit.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has warned that politicians are at a critical juncture.
“In modern history, there’s never been a more important moment for politicians to put country before tribe and national interest before self-interest,” Blair said in remarks at the Institute for Government on Monday.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran acknowledged for the first time on Monday that a rocket at its Imam Khomeini Space Center exploded after satellite photos showed the blast last week, with an official saying a technical malfunction during a test caused the explosion.
The comments by government spokesman Ali Rabiei were the first explanation offered by Iran for Thursday’s explosion, which came ahead of a planned satellite launch by the Islamic Republic that the U.S. has criticized.
Rabiei also criticized President Donald Trump for tweeting what appeared to be a surveillance photo of the aftermath of the explosion shot by a U.S. spy satellite.
The explosion marked the third failure involving a rocket at the Iranian center, which has raised suspicions of sabotage in Iran’s space program.
However, Rabiei dismissed that, saying that “this has been a technical matter and a technical error. Our experts unanimously say so.”
“The explosion happened at the launchpad and no satellite had yet been transferred to the launchpad,” Rabiei said. “It happened at a test site, not at the launch site.”
Commercially available satellite images by Planet Labs Inc. and Maxar Technologies showed a black plume of smoke rising above a launch pad Thursday, with what appeared to be the charred remains of a rocket and its launch stand. In previous days, satellite images had shown officials there repainted the launch pad blue.
The photo released Friday by Trump appeared to be a once-classified surveillance photo from American intelligence agencies. Analysts said the black rectangle in the photo’s upper-left-hand corner likely covered up the photo’s classification.
The image showed damaged vehicles around the launch pad, as well as damage done to the rocket’s launcher. It also clearly showed a large phrase written in Farsi on the pad: “National Product, National Power.”
“The United States of America was not involved in the catastrophic accident during final launch preparations for the Safir SLV Launch at Semnan Launch Site One in Iran,” Trump wrote in his tweet, identifying the rocket used. “I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened at Site One.”
Rabiei criticized Trump’s decision to tweet about the rocket explosion.
“We don’t understand why the U.S president tweets and posts satellite pictures with excitement. This is not understandable,” he said. “Maybe this is because lack of Iran-related subjects that they raise such issues.”
The blast followed two failed satellite launches of the Payam and Doosti in January and February. A separate fire at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in February also killed three researchers, authorities said at the time.
Over the past decade, Iran has sent several short-lived satellites into orbit and in 2013 launched a monkey into space.
Iran is preparing to launch the Nahid-1, a communication satellite, into space.
The U.S. alleges such satellite launches defy a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on Iran to undertake no activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
Iran, which long has said it does not seek nuclear weapons, maintains its satellite launches and rocket tests do not have a military component. Tehran also says it hasn’t violated the U.N. resolution as it only “called upon” Tehran not to conduct such tests.
The tests have taken on new importance to the U.S. amid the maximalist approach to Iran taken by President Donald Trump’s administration. Tensions have been high between the countries since Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from Iran’s nuclear deal over a year ago and imposed sanctions, including on Iran’s oil industry. Iran recently has begun to break the accord itself while trying to push Europe to help it sell oil abroad.
(TEHRAN, Iran) — Iran will “take a strong step” away from its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers if Europe cannot offer the country new terms by a deadline at the end of this week, a government spokesman said Monday as top Iranian diplomats traveled to France and Russia for last-minute talks.
The comments from Ali Rabiei reinforced the deadline Iran had set for Friday for Europe to offer it a way to sell its crude oil on the global market. Crushing U.S. sanctions imposed after President Donald Trump withdrew America from the deal over a year ago have halted those sales.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was in Moscow, while his deputy was to travel to Paris with a team of economists Monday in a renewed diplomatic push.
The developments come after French President Emmanuel Macron surprised the Group of Seven summit in France by inviting Zarif last week.
Rabiei described Iran’s strategy to journalists at Monday’s press conference in Tehran as “commitment for commitment.”
“Iran’s oil should be bought and its money should be accessible to return to Iran,” Rabiei said. “This is the agenda of our talks.”
It’s unclear what the terms of negotiation are. In theory, anyone caught buying Iranian crude oil would be subject to U.S. sanctions and potentially locked out of the American financial market.
Already, Iran has gone over limits set by the deal. The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed last week that Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium still exceeds the amount allowed by the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA as the deal is known.
The U.N. agency also said Iran continues to enrich uranium up to 4.5%, above the 3.67% allowed.
Enriched uranium at the 3.67% level is enough for peaceful pursuits and is far below weapons-grade levels of 90%. At the 4.5% level, the uranium can help power Iran’s Bushehr reactor, the country’s only nuclear power plant.
It remains unclear what further step Iran will take, though it could involve restarting advanced centrifuges prohibited by the deal or further bumping up its enrichment of uranium. Iran insists the steps it has taken so far are easily reversible.
“We will announce implementation of the third step in a letter to the Europeans if the Europeans do not impalement necessary measures by Thursday,” said Zarif in a Sunday interview with Iran’s parliament news agency, ICANA.
The nuclear deal is meant to keep Tehran from building atomic weapons in exchange for economic relief. It has been complicated by the unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the deal and Washington’s increased sanctions on Tehran, which have been taking a toll on the Iranian economy.
That has left the other signatories — Germany, Britain, France, Russia and China — struggling to come up with enough incentives to keep Iran in the deal.
Meanwhile Monday, an Iranian oil tanker pursued by the U.S. that has been traveling across the Mediterranean Sea is now off the coast of Tripoli in northern Lebanon. The ship-tracking website MarineTraffic.com showed the Adrian Darya 1 moving slowly just outside the Lebanese territorial waters, after it had stood off the coast of Syria a day earlier.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has alleged the ship is bound for a refinery in Syria, which was the reason that authorities had seized the vessel off the coast of Gibraltar in July. The U.S. has warned countries not to accept the Adrian Darya, which carries 2.1 million barrels of Iranian crude oil worth some $130 million.
(Bloomberg) — Taiwan denied interfering in Hong Kong’s affairs to support protesters, rejecting such claims by Beijing as “talking nonsense.”
The Taipei-based Mainland Affairs Council said in a statement Sunday that unrest in the former British colony stemmed from the Communist Party’s refusal to consider protesters’ democratic demands. The agency was responding to comments by a top mainland representative on Taiwan affairs accusing the island’s leadership of using the crisis to attack Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” model.
“You can’t solve problems by talking nonsense,” the council said. “The CCP should boldly face up to its mistakes, carry out political reform, put in place democracy and respect human rights. Only then can they ease China’s internal and external contradictions.”
Although China and Taiwan have been governed separately for 70 years, the Communist Party maintains unification as its ultimate goal and Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this year reaffirmed “one country, two systems” as his preferred framework. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, whose Democratic Progressive Party supports independence, has stepped up her criticism of Beijing as the Hong Kong protests fuel new skepticism about unification.
Tsai’s critiques have led Chinese officials to list Taiwan, along with the U.S. and the U.K., among the “black hands” it says are behind almost three months of historic protests. On Saturday, Sun Yafu, vice president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait accused Tsai of taking advantage of the unrest to undercut the idea of Hong Kong-style autonomy for the island.
“The DPP instigated and supported riots in Hong Kong and then used the chaos in Hong Kong to attack ‘one country, two systems,’” Sun told a gathering in Meishuan city, Sichuan, according to China Review News. “Instead of picking up a gun or cannon, Tsai is actually making these weapons to attack at the mainland.”
Tsai has angered Beijing by refusing to accept her predecessor’s negotiating framework that both sides belong to “one China.” Still, even Taiwan’s China-friendly opposition has rejected the “one country, two systems” approach, which was originally devised for bringing the island back under Beijing’s umbrella.
“The government is concerned about Hong Kong’s freedom and democracy, but won’t interfere in Hong Kong affairs,” the Mainland Affairs Council said, adding that Taiwan “would never accept Beijing’s ‘one country, two systems’ and would never bow to threat of a hegemony.”
Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has threatened to pursue libel charges against the editor of an online publication that ran allegations about the city-state’s founding family.
In a letter to Terry Xu, the Chief Editor of the Online Citizen, Lee’s press secretary requested the immediate removal of an article from the outlet’s website and Facebook page, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The letter also asked for a “full and unconditional apology” from the Online Citizen, a blogging platform that is known as one of the few alternative political news sources in Singapore.
If the editor does not comply by Wednesday, “PM Lee will have no choice but to hand the matter over to his lawyers to sue,” the letter, says, while accusing the site of spreading “false” and “libelous” allegations.
The Online Citizen article in question is a commentary about why Lee’s wife shared a Facebook post about “toxic family members,” reports AFP.
According to AFP, Lee has been mired in a public feud with his siblings over the future of a family home following the death of their father, Singapore’s founder Lee Kuan Yew. The late Lee had wanted the house destroyed after his death. But the current Prime Minister’s siblings accuse Lee of blocking the demolition to capitalize on their father’s legacy for his own political aims, reports AFP.
Wealthy Singapore places strict limitations on civil liberties and freedom of speech, and public figures have previously been accused of using criminal defamation suits to silence critics.
Last year, the government charged Xu with criminal defamation over a separate article alleging corruption among the city’s highest officials.
The city-state ranked 151st out of 180 countries—below Myanmar and the United Arab Emirates— on the Reporters Without Borders’ 2019 World Press Freedom Index.
In May, Singapore passed controversial legislation against fake news which Human Rights Watch called a “disaster for online expression.” The law is expected to come into force later this year.
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DONALD Trump has sent a team of diplomats to Brussels but in an apparent snub, the European Union's old guard of Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk will not be involved in any meetings as Washington orders the EU to "reset" its relationship.
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UPPSC Admit Card 2019: Download All Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission Exam Admit Card 2019 here. Aspirants who applied for UP Public Service Commission vacancies can find the direct link to check & download the hall ticket online on our page. Also, find the exam date 2019 details along with the admit card/call letter below.
UPPSC Exam Admit Card 2019
Welcome to our UPPSC Admit Card 2019 page. Applicants can make use of this page to acquire their UPPSC Exam Hall Ticket. The Candidates who applied for the UPPSC Vacancies can find the direct link for respective vacancies in the table below. Hence, find the link you looking for and download the admit card online.
Generally, Uttar Pradesh PSC allows the applicants to download the admit card 15-20 days before the date of examination. However, keep checking our page, once the exam date is announced. will update the direct link in the sections below when the board allows the app[licants to download the admit card. Also, visitors can check the official website i.e., uppsc.up.nic.in for any queries.
UPPSC Assistant Forest Conservator Call Letter 2019
Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission has announced the Interview Call Letter and the Interview Schedule on its Official Portal on 31st August 2019. Candidates who have cleared the prelims and mains examination can download the Interview Letter from the below section. The Interview for the post of Assistant Forest Conservator will be held on 06th September 2019.
UPPSC Assistant Forest Conservator Interview Letter
UP Public Service Commission has announced the exam date on 01st September 2019. Hence, the admit card will be released soon on its official website. So, Aspirants can download the UPPSC Admit Card from the below section. The hall ticket will be available from August Last Week 2019.
Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission has declared the date for examination from 18th October to 22nd October 2019. UPPSC will issue the admit card to the aspirants who applied for the post of 917 Assistant Conservator of Forest, Range Forest Officer. Applicants can download the admit card from the direct link in the upcoming table.
UPPSC ACS, RFO Exam Admit Card 2019
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Assistant Conservator of Forest, Range Forest Officer
Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission has recently announced the Mains Exam date on its official website. Thus, the UPPSC PSC Exam will be held from 18th October to 22nd October 2019. Hence, Candidates can download the UPPSC Admit Card from the below segment. Aspirants are suggested to download the UPPSC PCS Exam Notice here.
In recent, Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission has conducted the exam for 610 Judicial Civil Judge PCS J. Candidates who have qualified in the examination have to clear the Interview process going to be conducted by the board. The Interview has been scheduled from 21st June to 17th July 2019. The schedule is according to the Roll Number of the applicants. All the eligibles can download the Interview Letter released on 20th June 2019. Candidates can get the direct link from the below table.
The UPPSC Admit Card Download Link for UPPSC Assistant Statistical Officer Admit Card 2019. The Uttar Pradesh PSC issued the admit card. UPPSC Hall Ticket link is given below all the candidates can proceed to download the Hall Ticket.
RFO & Asst Conservator of forest Examination is going to be held next month. The Aspirants who are looking for UPPSC Asst Conservator of Forest/ Range Forest Officer Services (Pre) Hall Ticket can download here. However, the UPPSC Asst Conservator of Forest/ Range Forest Officer Services Examination hall is available to download until the exam date. Hence, click on the UPPSC Hall Ticket link below and download the Admit Card. Moreover, carry UPPSC Admit Card to the exam center without failure.
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Asst Conservator of Forest/ Range Forest Officer Services
UP P.C.S Primary Examination is released. The Aspirants who are looking for UPPSC PCS Hall Ticket can download here. However, the UPPSC Prelims Examination hall is available to download until the exam date. Hence, click on the UPPSC Hall Ticket link below and download the Admit Card. Moreover, carry UPPSC Admit Card to the exam center without failure.
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Combined State Upper Subordinate Services PCS Examination 2019
Medical Officer & Other Various Posts direct recruitment is available below. The UPPSC Online Examination is going to be held on 30-09-2019. Hence, download the UPPSC Hall Ticket from the link below.
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Homeopathy Medical Service, State Medical (Ayurvedic) Service UP & Other
UP GIC Lecturer Recruitment 2016 is finally available here. The Aspirants who are eagerly waiting for UPPSC GIC Lecturer Exam Admit Card can download below. However, we providing a direct link for UPPSC Admit Card for Lecturer Recruitment. Just click on the link and download the UPPSC Hall Ticket 2019.
Asst Conservator, RFO Mains Examination 2019. The Board is now allowing the aspirants who Qualified in the UPPSC Result for Prelims Examination 2019. Hence, Click on the UPPSC 2019 Mains Admit Card Link below and download the RFO, AC Hall Ticket 2019.
Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission Admit Card 2019: for the post of LT Grade Assist Teacher 10,768 Vacancies 2019. However, aspirants who applied for the UPPSC LT Grade Assist Teacher Posts can download the Admit Card below. Also, visit the official website for any queries.
RRB Staff Nurse Result 2019 LIVE | Get RRB Paramedical Staff Result Expected Cut off here @ indianrailways.gov.in – Hello Folks! The Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) is almost ready to release the RRB Paramedical Result 2019 Pdf. According to the report, the RRB officials will announce the Result through online by end of this week. A huge number off applicants have applied for the RRB/ CEN 02/2019 of (1937) Paramedical Staff Posts. All those candidates have appeared for the Computer Based Test (CBT) on 19th to 21st July 2019 are waiting for the Result now. Here we will be updating the latest result link and live updates, so Applicants can get the active links from this article.
RRB Paramedical Staff Nurse Result, Final Answer Key 2019 LIVE: The final answer key will be available to download till 31st August 2019 at respective RRB websites along with cut-off and individual score.
New Update: The officials of RRB have released the RRB Paramedical Final Answer Key. Candidates can download the RRB Paramedical Final Answer till 31st August 2019 from their respective official RRB websites. List of candidates who have been shortlisted for document verification and cut-off marks for each post will be published on the official websites after the release of RRB Paramedical Staff Results.
RRB Staff Nurse Result | RRB/ CEN 02/2019
Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) has announced the Centralized Employment Notice 02/2019 for the RRB Paramedical Staff Nurse Recruitment 2019. After that RRB has announced the RRB Paramedical Admit Card 2019 to attend the Online Test. Now everyone has attended the Examination and waiting for the RRB Staff Nurse Result 2019 Date. Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) is going to declare the result of RRB Paramedical 2019 in online mode at the zonal websites of the RRBs. For each phase, RRB Paramedical Staff Result 2019 will be announced separately. The result will be available to the candidates in the form of merit list and scorecard. Candidates can get the RRB Staff Nurse Result link from the end of this article.
RRB Paramedical Staff Result 2019 (CEN 02/2019)
RRB Paramedical Staff CBT Result 2019 | Cut Off Marks, Merit List
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Paramedical Staff (Dietician, Staff Nurse, Dental Hygienist, Dialysis Technician, Extension Educator, Health And Malaria Inspector Grade III, Lab Superintendent Grade III, Optometrist, Perfusionist, Physiotherapist, Pharmacist Grade III, Radiographer, Speech Therapist, ECG Technician, Lady Health Visitor, Lab Assistant Grade II) Posts
We have dedicated this page to update all the latest news regarding the RRB Paramedical Results. All the registered applicants can get the RRB Paramedical Result 2019 Pdf from this page. Normally it will take 10 to 15 days to announce the result and now RRB is almost ready with the RRB Staff Nurse Results. Apart from this, candidates can get an overview of RRB Paramedical Staff Nurse Merit list 2019 by referring to the above table. Candidates who pass the RRB Paramedical CBT Exam will be called for the next stage exam. More information related to the selection process can be obtained by visiting the official website of the candidate’s department www.rrbcdg.gov.in. The appointments of candidates to be selected on the posts of RRB paramedical will be done in different zones of the railway.
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According to the reports, 60 to 65 questions were resolved with ease in the RRB Paramedical Staff CBT. Therefore, it is expected that RRB CBT cut-off can go up to 85 marks for General category, 80 marks for OBC, 65 marks for SC and 55 marks for ST class. In the examination of the Indian Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) Paramedicals, a total of 100 questions were asked 1-1. On answering any question incorrectly, 1/3 mark will be deducted from the correct question. Even Applicants can refer to the RRB Staff Nurse Previous Year Cut off to get an idea. Moreover, candidates can get RRB Paramedical Results and estimated cut off at www.rrbcdg.gov.in.
RRB Paramedical Staff Nurse Merit list 2019
All the Applicants can check your Merit list from the official website. But the RRB Paramedical Staff Nurse Merit list 2019 will release after the announcement of the RRB Staff Nurse Results. Because based on the Merit list the officials will calculate the Merit List. RRB Paramedical Staff Nurse Merit list contains the Names and Roll Numbers of the candidates who got top or highest marks among all the exam appeared candidates. The officials of the RRB release the Staff Nurse Merit List 2019 on their official web portal that is rrbcdg.gov.in. If the applicants will secure top Merit List, they will qualify for the Document Verification process.
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How to check the RRB Paramedical Result 2019 Pdf?
All the exam participants can check the official web site of the RRB i.e, rrbcdg.gov.in.
RRB official home page will open, where applicants can search the Results Section.
Then search for the link RRB Paramedical Staff CBT Result 2019.
Enter your details like Hall Ticket Number and Date of Birth.
Now you will get your RRB Paramedical Staff Result 2019 on your Screen.
Check whether you have qualified for the further rounds or not.
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SBI Clerk Result 2019 Declared – State Bank of India (SBI) released Junior Associate Exam Results on its official website. Here we have provided a direct link to check your SBI Results. And now officially the State Bank of India has declared the Jr Associate Results @sbi.co.in. Moreover, the SBI Clerk Exam Results 2019 are yet to be released on the Official Website. Those who appeared for the SBI Clerk Result 2019 Preliminary Exam can visit the official website sbi.co.in to check and download the results. Participants can get the complete details of State Bank of India Prelims & Mains exam Updates from this page. Applicants can check the SBI Clerk 2019 Prelims Result from the below sections.
SBI Clerk Mains Exam Third Waiting List 2019 – State Bank of India (SBI) Are Recently Uploaded Mains Exam Third Waiting List for The Recruitment Post of Junior Associate, Clerk Examination 2018 on 31st June 2019. Those Graduate Passed Candidates Who have Appeared in this Recruitment Exam Can Download Mains Exam Third Waiting List now. Check your results via the link mentioned below. Hence, all those might be looking for the SBI Clerk Mains Exam Third Waiting List now!
SBI Clerk Mains Exam 3rd Waiting List Release Date
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SBI Clerk Prelims Result 2019 – State Bank of India is going to release the SBI Clerk Prelims Result 2019 by Today 23rd July 2019. The SBI Officials have conducted the Preliminary Examination on 22 & 23rd June 2019. As per the report, a huge number of applicants have been applied for this post. Those who are waiting for your Result can check this page to Get SBI Clerk Prelims Result Live Updates. Here we will be updating the latest Result link, it will work once the result publishes it officially. Check your results via the link mentioned below. Hence, all those might be looking for the SBI Clerk Preliminary Examination result now!
SBI Jr Associate Result 2019 – State Bank of India has released the SBI Jr Associate Pre Exam Result 2019. The SBI Officials have conducted the Preliminary Examination on June 2019. As per the report, a huge number of applicants have been applied for this post. Those who are waiting for your Result can check this page to Get SBI Jr Associate Result Live Updates. Here we will be updating the latest Result link, it will work once the result publishes it officially. Check your results via the link mentioned below. Hence, all those might be looking for the SBI Jr Associate Examination result now!
The officials of State Bank of India had released its notification for the post of clerk. A good number of contenders had appeared for the examination. The candidates appeared for the SBI Clerk Recruitment exam are waiting for the announcement of Results. Aspirants now check the SBI Clerk Result 2019 Prelims on the official website www.statebankofindia.com or www.sbi.co.in. Also, candidates stay tuned to our page for the latest updates on SBI Clerk Merit List 2019.
The result has declared on the official website of SBI or candidates can check their result on this page from the below-attached link. Therefore, The SBI Clerk Result 2019 Prelims Results released in the form of main exam call letter. SBI releases the Clerk results in three phases. The first result would be of Preliminary Exam. The second result is the Main Exam. SBI Clerk Mains Exam Date has officially released and the date is 10th August 2019. After the Main Examination, SBI will conduct the Interview for the selected candidates in the Main Examination.
This is good news for all exam attended people that the SBI Prelims Result/Merit list published on www.sbi.co.in website. This Official website may become down due to the number of hits when the SBI Clerk Prelims Exam Result 2019 declared. Candidates can also check the SBI Clerk Result 2019 Cut off marks on our page. So Don't be tensed, We have given the direct link to check State Bank of India Clerk Result 2019 on recruitment.guru.
SBI Clerk Pre Exam Merit List | SBI Clerk Result 2019 Prelims Expected Cut off
The State Bank of India exam result is the crucial thing to the exam takers. So we gave continuous updates about the SBI Clerk result here. So stay and tune with www.recruitment.guru. Friends, you need to check the SBI Clerk Pre Exam Merit List to know your status. So to check it, you need to enter your hall ticket number/registration number and Password/DOB. So, candidates check your SBI Clerk Merit List 2019 by entering the hall ticket number through online on the official website www.sbi.co.in. The following are the steps to download SBI Clerk Prelims Exam Result 2019 & SBI Clerk Result 2019 Prelims Analysis.
Steps to check SBI Clerk SBI Clerk Result 2019 Prelims
Log on to the official website at sbi.co.in
Click on the SBI Clerk result link on the page.
A login page will open.
Login by entering your credentials in the provided fields.
Your result will appear on the screen.
Download and take a print out of it for future use.
By Abheek BarmanOne day Raja Krishnachandra, the 18th-century zamindar of Krishnanagar, Nadia, in today's West Bengal, decided he wanted a Lake of Milk to be spun into sweetmeats for his people to eat and sell far and wide, spreading happiness and wealth. Earthworks complete, Krishnachandra said that on new moon night, each householder should pour one pot of milk into the excavation. Everyone agreed. But on the given night, Chaturanan thought it would be smart for him to pour a pot of water into the lake. With everybody else pouring milk, who'd be the wiser? Well, next morning, Krishnachandra was aghast: his lake was full, but with water, not milk. Everybody had reasoned the same way as Chaturanan, and the king's grand project was a flop.The brilliant economist Mihir Rakshit told us this tale long ago, to illustrate something called 'the paradox of composition'. Sometimes, decisions that are rational for one person, lead to disastrous outcomes if everybody acts likewise.John Maynard Keynes never met Raja Krishnachandra. But the heart of the economist's diagnosis and cure for the Great Depression of 1929-40 hewed closely to this story. He reckoned that in shrinking economies, belt-tightening and 'save more' strategies would fail. If everybody became tight-fisted together, demand would crash, jobs lost, businesses bust and hopes — or 'expectations' — for a better tomorrow evaporate. At the heart of Keynes' diagnosis was the supreme role played by our expectations about the future: the optimism of a salaried person that led her or him to take a mortgage on a home, the 'animal spirits' that impelled business to invest for higher returns, etc.If this spirit left an economy, the outcome is a death spiral — falling demand, sales and inventory pileups, unpaid debt, bank distress, finances drying up, layoffs across sectors, repeat ad infinitum. Keynes had lived through all this in the interwar years.Then, it was said, New York hotel clerks booking guests would ask, 'For the night, sir? Or just for jumping?'The New AbnormalHere, folk theorem on the streets is gloomy. Manufacturing and farm growth have dropped off a cliff, construction, the largest employer of 'contract' workers — more than 90% of labourers — is stalled. Many of our largest builders and shadow-banking lenders are technically belly-up.Even the government has wearied of trying to conceal unwelcome numbers. Last week, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) released pan-economy growth numbers for the April-June quarter. We are now crawling at 5%, the lowest growth since 2014-15, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi first stormed to power.Credit Suisse (CS) is a global financial giant that publishes the state of bad debt in Indian companies. From 2012, when it circulated its first report, 'House of Debt', these reports illuminate the murky landscape of corporate debt, dispute settlement & lenders' health.These papers have appeared more or less every year since. They show how companies borrowed to build projects that never materialised — either because of sarkari apathy, tardy policy implementation or managements' eagerness to bite off more than they could chew — and pushed financial markets into a corner.Loans from banks, insurers, shadow banks and so on have to be repaid with interest, otherwise, underperforming shareholders have to exit, companies taken over and assets sold off. Today, India has a mechanism to clean up. It's called the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), to shake out non-performers and get stalled companies back on their feet. On August 22, CS published its 'India Corporate Health Tracker'. This says that between April 2018 and April 2019, companies' bad loans fell from 12% of total debt to 9.5%, a good thing. But between April 2019 and now, it has gone up to 9.6%. Worryingly, another 3% of debt will soon turn sour unless lenders carve up their burden of woe and share it.This mechanism is called inter-creditor agreements (ICAs) and is the only so-so option now left to recover a few paise from every rupee lent. Assume lenders can't agree to ICAs, of which 70% is anyway unrecoverable. Then, total corporate bad debt climbs to more than 12% of all loans. Remember, the corresponding number for China, around 4%, is about a third of ours.Three years ago, the government brought IBC into law. Assumed to be a silver bullet to resolve debt and management hassles at the time, it has proved to be anything but. CS shows the IBC now takes 450 days to get through a case, compared to 250-odd days in March 2018. After all that struggle, the system manages to recover about 15 paise from every rupee lent, compared to 70 paise last March.The Keynes to SuccessToday's crisis is the grinding fallout from the destruction of positive expectations after the notebandi of November 2016 and policy blunders afterwards. Keynes would have told New Delhi to revive public funding for programmes like the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) scheme, pump funds into healthcare and other areas where it can make a difference.The alternative is gloom, belt-tightening — and Raja Krishnachandra's horror on finding a lake of water instead of one brimming with milk.
NEW DELHI: Maruti Suzuki, the country's largest carmaker, will make all the small cars in its portfolio available in compressed natural gas (CNG) variants to reduce dependence on imported oil and cut down on vehicular pollution. The company expects the increase in sales of CNG and hybrid vehicles to pick up the slack after its planned stoppage of diesel vehicle manufacture."All small cars in our portfolio will get converted to CNG," Maruti Suzuki chairman RC Bhargava told ET. "There is an acceptance from the government that CNG is a cleaner fuel, and it is being accepted for transportation. They are setting up 10,000 CNG distribution outlets."The country's No. 1 carmaker has borne the brunt of the drop in auto sales that's part of the broader slump in the Indian economy. Maruti Suzuki posted a 35.9% decline in domestic sales to 94,728 units in August.Currently, the CNG option is available for eight Maruti Suzuki models, including Alto, Alto K10, WagonR, Celerio, DZire Tour S, Eeco, and Super Carry mini truck. The company has 16 models in its portfolio. 70953269 'Encourage India-made CNG Kits'CNG-powered vehicles currently constitute around 7% of overall sales of the company.In states where CNG distribution outlets are available, variants running on the fuel account for about 30% of the sales of each model, company executives said.Maruti Suzuki sold 31,000 CNG vehicles in the first four months of the current fiscal year. CNG distribution outlets currently are mostly located in Delhi, Mumbai and Gujarat. The company increased production of CNG-powered vehicles by 40% last fiscal and is in the process of raising it by another 50% this year.Bhargava said factory-made CNG vehicles cost substantially more than those retrofitted with kits because of taxes and manufacturing costs but pointed out that they are also safer. "Retrofitment is done with imported parts — this is not Make in India," he said. "To promote Make in India, the government must encourage factory-fitted CNG vehicles… We should make CNG kits in India. Safety levels of CNG cars should go up."In a bid to push adoption of CNG vehicles in the personal mobility space, the petroleum and natural gas ministry had last year announced plans to set up 10,000 CNG distribution outlets in 10 years. It is estimated that the country will save nearly?2 lakh crore in oil imports if personal car users switched to CNG vehicles. Maruti Suzuki said earlier this year that it will discontinue production of diesel vehicles due to the steep increase in costs related to the transition to BS VI emission standards from April 1, 2020.
BENGALURU | KOLKATA: Six in 10 Indian executives are overweight, reveals the Corporate India Fitness Report 2019 by health and fitness platform HealthifyMe, shared exclusively with ET.Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Fit India movement', rolled out last week, has therefore come at an opportune time as corporate India is struggling with physical fitness and lifestyle diseases.Companies are responding to the challenge by making physical fitness a priority like never before & increasingly taking the app route to help employees tackle these problems. Organisations such as Cognizant, Godrej, Accenture, Infosys and American Express are either launching their own mobile applications or tying up with external providers to better engage with employees on fitness as well as measure the outcomes."Long working hours, irregular meals, intake of junk food, and lowered physical activity have made India Inc employees unhealthy and prone to diseases related to cardiovascular problems, cancer, high cholesterol, strokes, etc," said Dr Sandeep Budhiraja, group medical director at Max Healthcare. 70952041 Health apps not only catch the attention of the predominantly younger workforce but also provide specific data for actionable insights, he said. The Corporate India Fitness Report 2019, compiled after reviewing the diet and activity levels of nearly 60,000 working professionals in more than 20 companies over a period of 12 months, reveals that 63% executives were overweight, with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 23. BMI measures body fat among adults based on height and weight.HealthifyMe has partnered with more than 75 companies in India, including Infosys, Nestle, HSBC, Asian Paints and P&G, said CEO Tushar Vashisht. The app includes Ria, an AI nutritionist, and more than half the app's users send messages to Ria about what to eat, how to work out and how to smoke less.Accenture has launched the Zoojoobe app, offered by external provider RoundGlass, as part of its 'Truly Human' programme, to help employees create better micro habits towards a healthier lifestyle. Within a year, the number of users has more than doubled."The app nudges employees towards doing things as basic as drinking more water and staying more active to forming better habits towards healthy eating and fitter living. There are more than 350 habits that employees can choose from," said Rohit Thakur, lead of human resources, Accenture in India.The company's employees are also competing with each other to count daily steps taken and forming groups on similar interests such as running and biking.Till date, more than 18,780 health challenges have been taken up by the employees.American Express India has partnered with digital medicine platform Doctor Insta to provide round-theclock healthcare consultation services to employees and dependents. Over the past six months, active downloads of the app have increased more than 20% and the number of users has increased 30-40% year-on-year, said Kabir Jhulka, chief human resources officer, American Express India.At Godrej, employees can track daily physical activities and teams can collectively achieve their fitness goals through the Feet2Fit app."The current trends of people subscribing to health-on-the-go apps and using their smartphones to track steps, record running mileage and monitor their calorie intake, encouraged us to roll out a fitness app. It also made it easier for team members to join activities on the app from across geographies," said Sumit Mitra, head of group HR and corporate services, Godrej Industries Limited and Associate Companies.HealthifyMe also has an ongoing partnership with Cognizant for Cognizant Health Challenge, a gamified digital programme that focuses on physical activities such as number of steps, hydration and dietary habits.More than 40,000 employees participated in one of the recent 12-week programmes, recording about two billion steps taken, 184 million calories burned and a total weight loss of 9,840 kg, said Satish Jeyaraman, vice president of human resources at Cognizant.
NEW DELHI: Google's plan to recruit from the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) this year got stalled after it asked for at least two weeks to decide on candidates following campus interviews. Google, known to be a top paymaster at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), had reached out to at least three NITs — Surathkal, Trichy and Warangal — seeking to be a Day 1 campus recruiter in the final placement season for undergraduates that kicked off last month.Companies participating in the final placement typically announce results on the day of the interview, giving candidates the chance to participate in the selection process run by other recruiters. The NITs refused to make an exception for Google, which is known to offer compensation packages of upwards of Rs 1 crore at engineering campuses for international roles."Google was asking for a long time, almost a couple of weeks, to reveal the results. This really does not work in placements at any of the IITs, then why should this happen at NITs?" said AK Bakthavatsalam, head of placements at NIT-Trichy.If the company decided not to hire a person, the student would lose a chance with other top recruiters, placement officials said."There has never been a long gap between the interview and the results," Bakthavatsalam said. Like most NITs, the school at Trichy started its placement mid-August and the list of top recruiters on Day 1 included Amazon, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, DE Shaw and Uber. In the past, Google has offered hires at engineering colleges including the IITs annual pay of around Rs 25 lakh for domestic roles and up to Rs 2 crore for international ones, including stock options, relocation allowance and joining bonus.NITs Refuse to Change Policy for GoogleGoogle said it plans to hire engineers this year as well."We hired from tech campuses across India last year and are looking to hire again in the coming year. Our guiding criterion is great talent, regardless of which college they come from. All candidates who successfully clear Kickstart are invited to interview with us," said Jayashri Ramamurti, people partner, tech, Google India. Kickstart is one of the screening tests at the entry level initiated by the company.At Warangal too, Google sought a Day 1 slot with the condition that it got a few weeks to decide on candidates."We were willing to accommodate on Day 1 but due to the company's internal policy, things did not work out," said Chintham Venkaiah, head of placements at NIT-Warangal. Trichy, Warangal and Surathkal are among the most sought-after NITs among recruiters."Google wanted to visit for final placement but we did not want to make any changes in our placement policy," said Vijay Desai, chairman, Career Development Centre, NIT-Surathkal. "We would follow our own policy and make no changes."NIT-Warangal's Venkaiah said: "Google is a top recruiter at campuses and despite our best efforts it would not be part of final placements at our campus this year."In 2016, Google had chosen to bypass the placement process at IITs after almost a decade of hiring from the campuses, then made a comeback in 2018 at the premier engineering schools.Day 1 at Warangal on August 13 had the same set of companies as Trichy. The placement season at the NITs starts in July-August and goes on until early into the New Year.Google did not approach NITs in Jaipur and Jalandhar for final placements. "Google has not approached this year," said S Ghosh, placement in-charge at BR Ambedkar NIT, Jalandhar. Like most institutes, the school decides Day 1 slots according to pay packages on offer.
NEW DELHI: Maruti Suzuki, the country's largest carmaker, will make all the small cars in its portfolio available in compressed natural gas (CNG) variants to reduce dependence on imported oil and cut down on vehicular pollution. The company expects the increase in sales of CNG and hybrid vehicles to pick up the slack after its planned stoppage of diesel vehicle manufacture."All small cars in our portfolio will get converted to CNG," Maruti Suzuki chairman RC Bhargava told ET. "There is an acceptance from the government that CNG is a cleaner fuel, and it is being accepted for transportation. They are setting up 10,000 CNG distribution outlets."The country's No. 1 carmaker has borne the brunt of the drop in auto sales that's part of the broader slump in the Indian economy. Maruti Suzuki posted a 35.9% decline in domestic sales to 94,728 units in August.Currently, the CNG option is available for eight Maruti Suzuki models, including Alto, Alto K10, WagonR, Celerio, DZire Tour S, Eeco, and Super Carry mini truck. The company has 16 models in its portfolio. 70953269 'Encourage India-made CNG Kits'CNG-powered vehicles currently constitute around 7% of overall sales of the company.In states where CNG distribution outlets are available, variants running on the fuel account for about 30% of the sales of each model, company executives said.Maruti Suzuki sold 31,000 CNG vehicles in the first four months of the current fiscal year. CNG distribution outlets currently are mostly located in Delhi, Mumbai and Gujarat. The company increased production of CNG-powered vehicles by 40% last fiscal and is in the process of raising it by another 50% this year.Bhargava said factory-made CNG vehicles cost substantially more than those retrofitted with kits because of taxes and manufacturing costs but pointed out that they are also safer. "Retrofitment is done with imported parts — this is not Make in India," he said. "To promote Make in India, the government must encourage factory-fitted CNG vehicles… We should make CNG kits in India. Safety levels of CNG cars should go up."In a bid to push adoption of CNG vehicles in the personal mobility space, the petroleum and natural gas ministry had last year announced plans to set up 10,000 CNG distribution outlets in 10 years. It is estimated that the country will save nearly?2 lakh crore in oil imports if personal car users switched to CNG vehicles. Maruti Suzuki said earlier this year that it will discontinue production of diesel vehicles due to the steep increase in costs related to the transition to BS VI emission standards from April 1, 2020.
NEW DELHI: Swiss luxury watch manufacturer H. Moser & Cie has entered the Indian market through a retail partnership with luxury watch stores chain Ethos Watch Boutiques. H. Moser & Cie, whose timepieces are priced Rs 9.40 lakh upwards, will be available through at least four selling points in major metro cities across the network of Ethos Watch Boutiques within the next few years, according to a statement by the company. Its collections Heritage, Endeavour, Pioneer, Swiss Alp Watch and Venturer will now be available here, it added. H. Moser & Cie Chief Executive Officer Edouard Meylan said, "For our brand H. Moser & Cie, the Indian market is interesting and unchartered. We are looking forward to venturing out to a new territory and making investments in India. This country has a rich history in luxury, which is an intrinsic part of the culture and heritage here." Ethos Watch Boutiques Chief Executive Officer Pranav Saboo said, "The Indian market has witnessed an increase in demand for bespoke luxury watch brands in the recent years. Watch enthusiasts are better informed and educated, looking for rare timepieces. This is where H. Moser & Cie has great potential." H. Moser & Cie manufactures watches in Switzerland. Its all movements are manufactured in-house, and every watch is built and finished by hand. The company was created by Heinrich Moser in 1828. Based in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, it currently employs around 60 people and produces more than 1,500 watches a year. Founded in 2003, Ethos Watch is the country's largest chain of luxury watch boutiques and currently has 53 stores across over 16 cities.
NEW DELHI: India's passenger vehicles sales are set to fall for a tenth consecutive month in August, forcing analysts to slash their 2019 sales forecasts and strengthening the automakers' case for tax cuts to boost demand.Sales data from India's top six car makers, including Suzuki Motor Corp's and Toyota Motor Corp's Indian businesses, shows that passenger vehicle sales for August fell 34% compared with the same period a year ago. These six manufacturers make up more than 90% share of the market.Data from Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra , which together account for about two-thirds of the commercial vehicles market, show that sales of trucks, an indicator of economic activity, fell by almost 40%.The steep decline in sales to dealers is worrying industry executives who are renewing calls for a tax cut on cars, two-wheelers and trucks while auto analysts are cutting their sales forecasts for the year.The crisis in the autos sector is a huge problem for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government which last week announced a series of measures to boost bank lending for car buyers and dealers. The government is expected to provide further stimulus especially after data released on Friday showed that India's GDP growth fell to a six-year low in the April-June quarter."The (latest sales numbers) only highlight the need for the government to consider reducing the GST (goods and services tax)," said Rajan Wadhera, president of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), adding that cutting taxes to 18% from 28% at present would lower the cost of vehicles and create demand.Wadhera said the government's recent measures have done little to boost sales growth and buyers are still cautious of spending while there is a trust deficit in lending money to dealers.The dismal sales numbers come in a week when company executives and government officials are expected to discuss the stress in the sector at SIAM's annual conference in New Delhi on Thursday - one of the industry's biggest gatherings in India.Analyst IHS Markit has slashed its 2019 growth forecast for India and expects car sales to fall by 11% for the year."It is not just lack of buyer interest but a loop of negative sentiment with automakers cutting jobs and production," said Puneet Gupta, associate director at IHS Markit, noting that his initial forecast for 2019 had been growth in sales of 5%.Maruti Suzuki, India's biggest car maker by market share, reported a 36% drop in passenger vehicle wholesales for August and has also slashed production for the month by about a third.Tata Motors, which reported a 58% decline in sales of passenger vehicles and 45% decline in sales of trucks to dealers to help them reduce their inventory, plans to offer discounts in the festive season starting this month to boost sales.
By Ksenia GalouchkoNow is finally the time to buy risk assets, with global stocks set to advance into the year-end, strategists at JPMorgan Chase & Co. said.Positive technical indicators and monetary easing will likely outweigh the uncertainty of the U.S.-China trade war and the "wild card" of developments in tariff negotiations, according to JPMorgan.After August's sell-off, the strategists last week signaled that the time to buy stocks was approaching, and today finally acted on their impulse. JPMorgan joins others on the sell-side like Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which said on Friday it's bullish on risk assets, including equities, for 2019.70948634 "We now advise to add risk back again, tactical indicators have improved," JPMorgan strategists led by Mislav Matejka said in a note to clients. "Admittedly, the next trade move is the wild card to all of this, but we think that the hurdle rate for any positive development is quite low now."The MSCI World Index tumbled 2.2% last month, posting the second monthly decline of this year, as an escalation in the U.S.-China trade spat sent traders into a profit-taking mode. The Trump administration slapped tariffs on roughly $110 billion in Chinese imports on Sunday, signaling that the conflict is far from over.JPMorgan's bullish view contrasts with that of many major buy-side investors. UBS Global Wealth Management last week went underweight on equities for the first time since the euro-area crisis while Legal & General and Manulife Investment Management have taken profit on their risk assets and entered a wait-and-see mode.Here are some of the potential global equity drivers cited by JPMorgan analysts:U.S. Federal Reserve is easing, but high-yield spreads or jobless claims aren't spikingGlobal activity momentum is likely to improve going into the end of 2019Profit margins in the second half could surprise positivelyEquity valuations on a price-to-earnings basis are "undemanding"Investor positioning remains defensive without inflows, which is a contrarian bullish signal
NEW DELHI: The electronics ministry may come up with a report on non-personal — community, anonymised and ecommerce — data held by companies, including Uber, Google and Amazon, to be used to chalk out a policy on nonpersonal data regulation.A senior official told ET the government may also consider leaving it to the ministries or regulators to define which kind of data should come under the purview of such a policy. This comes after the latest round of select stakeholder consultation over the draft Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, in which the government has also sought opinions on the contours of a policy for non-personal data, besides feedback on issues such as data localisation.The official cited earlier said the ministry of electronics and IT (MeitY) had sought the views of 10-15 stakeholders on non-personal data. "The views received through this consultation can form the ground for a white paper that can be opened for wider public consultation before a policy is formed," said the official, adding that "it's a grey area" and no country has so far been able to come up with a policy on how to deal with public data.In its latest feedback sent on Friday, MeitY had asked if there was a case to mandate free access to community, anonymised or ecommerce data, among others. It also asked whether the Data Protection Authority (DPA) should be the regulator in respect of all non-personal data. "The ministries or the regulators say health or ecommerce can only take a call on this, how can we define it for others," said the official, adding that MeitY can only come up with a broader framework for such data.Rama Vedashree, chief executive, Data Security Council of India (DSCI), said the government should not complicate the PDP Bill with non-personal data, but first focus on protection of people's privacy, since the Bill has some way to go before being enacted.Vedashree was a member of the Justice BN Srikrishna Committee which was constituted to draft the PDP Bill. The panel submitted its report and the Bill last July. She, however, refused to divulge if DSCI has given an official submission to MeitY in its latest round of consultation."Companies invest hugely towards getting the data, its processing and analysis. The framework has to respect the commercial business operations and IPR of the companies," Vedashree said, adding that there needs to be an industry and public consultation by the government on what could be the reasonable monetisation of such data and which could be shared on a voluntary basis. However, she was categorical that PDP Bill should not expand to non-personal data.Globally, there's debate on who owns data of the public held by companies such as Uber or Google Maps, and whether, if released in the open in an anonymised fashion, it can help policy makers and researchers to frame better policies in areas like traffic management or urban mobility.Stakeholders were given a week's time to respond to the letter which also sought feedback on storing personal data in India. ET has learnt that a section of the stakeholders have responded, reiterating their earlier position that India doesn't need to have hard localisation."Our stand on data localisation remains the same," said an official of an organisation which has sent its feedback to MeitY on request. "Even though the intent of the government is good, we believe any kind of data localisation can be easily bypassed. What is important is that companies which operate in India have to follow the Indian law. There has to be a proper consent regime which is tight, and in case of an incident, the government should have access to the data irrespective of where it resides."
NEW DELHI: Google's plan to recruit from the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) this year got stalled after it asked for at least two weeks to decide on candidates following campus interviews. Google, known to be a top paymaster at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), had reached out to at least three NITs — Surathkal, Trichy and Warangal — seeking to be a Day 1 campus recruiter in the final placement season for undergraduates that kicked off last month.Companies participating in the final placement typically announce results on the day of the interview, giving candidates the chance to participate in the selection process run by other recruiters. The NITs refused to make an exception for Google, which is known to offer compensation packages of upwards of Rs 1 crore at engineering campuses for international roles."Google was asking for a long time, almost a couple of weeks, to reveal the results. This really does not work in placements at any of the IITs, then why should this happen at NITs?" said AK Bakthavatsalam, head of placements at NIT-Trichy.If the company decided not to hire a person, the student would lose a chance with other top recruiters, placement officials said."There has never been a long gap between the interview and the results," Bakthavatsalam said. Like most NITs, the school at Trichy started its placement mid-August and the list of top recruiters on Day 1 included Amazon, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, DE Shaw and Uber. In the past, Google has offered hires at engineering colleges including the IITs annual pay of around Rs 25 lakh for domestic roles and up to Rs 2 crore for international ones, including stock options, relocation allowance and joining bonus.NITs Refuse to Change Policy for GoogleGoogle said it plans to hire engineers this year as well."We hired from tech campuses across India last year and are looking to hire again in the coming year. Our guiding criterion is great talent, regardless of which college they come from. All candidates who successfully clear Kickstart are invited to interview with us," said Jayashri Ramamurti, people partner, tech, Google India. Kickstart is one of the screening tests at the entry level initiated by the company.At Warangal too, Google sought a Day 1 slot with the condition that it got a few weeks to decide on candidates."We were willing to accommodate on Day 1 but due to the company's internal policy, things did not work out," said Chintham Venkaiah, head of placements at NIT-Warangal. Trichy, Warangal and Surathkal are among the most sought-after NITs among recruiters."Google wanted to visit for final placement but we did not want to make any changes in our placement policy," said Vijay Desai, chairman, Career Development Centre, NIT-Surathkal. "We would follow our own policy and make no changes."NIT-Warangal's Venkaiah said: "Google is a top recruiter at campuses and despite our best efforts it would not be part of final placements at our campus this year."In 2016, Google had chosen to bypass the placement process at IITs after almost a decade of hiring from the campuses, then made a comeback in 2018 at the premier engineering schools.Day 1 at Warangal on August 13 had the same set of companies as Trichy. The placement season at the NITs starts in July-August and goes on until early into the New Year.Google did not approach NITs in Jaipur and Jalandhar for final placements. "Google has not approached this year," said S Ghosh, placement in-charge at BR Ambedkar NIT, Jalandhar. Like most institutes, the school decides Day 1 slots according to pay packages on offer.
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INX Media case: No jail of P Chidambaram for now after SC gives partial relief Justice Banumathi again said these were questions for the competent court to consider. Not willing to give up, Sibal said there was a recent order of the apex court setting aside a remand order.
Manufacturing activity dips to 15-month low Some survey members also reported cash flow problems and a lack of availability of finance, IHS Markit noted.
Broadband battle: Jio Fiber likely to hit ailing BSNL hard, Bharti Airtel not much Currently, only BSNL is a pan-India player for wired broadband with presence in all the cities and towns of the country, barring Delhi and Mumbai where MTNL is present.
Cut GST before festival season, auto industry body to government Siam said even commercial vehicle and two-wheeler sales are significantly negative, indicating that the market has still not responded to the various steps initiated by the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman last month.
Less taxing: New legacy dispute resolution scheme may fetch government Rs 20,000 crore The scheme, which was kicked off on Sept 1, will be valid till Dec 31 and will waive all interest, fine and penalty on the disputed amount
IAS officer apologises over his remarks on attire of BSP leaders The apology came after the officer was trolled by Dalits and Ambedkarite social media users.
Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy tweets his protest as ED quizzes DK Shivakumar Earlier in the day, Shivakumar appeared before the ED officials for the third time in connection with his alleged involvement in a money laundering case.
Ayodhya Dispute: 'Wrongs by Mughals not relevant to case', says Muslim side in Supreme Court The bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justices SA Bobde, DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer asked Dhavan if he would begin submissions on the substantial issues of the suit from Tuesday.
Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) has announced the Centralized Employment Notice 02/2019 for the RRB Paramedical Staff Nurse Recruitment 2019. After that RRB has announced the 
