Erodgan, talking about northeast Syria with TRT yesterday, said: "The most suitable for this area are Arabs. These areas are not suitable for the lifestyle of Kurds."
Asked, in what way? "Because these are virtually desert regions."
But it follows in the footsteps of spy planes like the SR-71 and U-2.
* The U.S. Air Force's secretive new RQ-180 drone is flying from a base in Northern California. * The drone reportedly resembles the B-2 bomber. * The RQ-180 was designed and flown at Area 51 and is rumored to have flown to the North Pole as a graduation test.
The U.S. Air Force is secretly flying a huge new drone from a base in Northern California. The RQ-180 a high altitude, long endurance drone reconnaissance drone, is reportedly operating from Beale Air Force Base, the former home of the SR-71 Blackbird and U-2 spy planes. Unlike other drones, the RQ-180 is designed to evade radar, conducting its mission in secret.
AvWeek published a lengthy read on the RQ-180. The magazine, long known as "AvLeak", lived up to its reputation by revealing many previously unknown details about the secret aircraft. According to the article, the RQ-180 was built by Northrop Grumman and is based on an unmanned aerial combat vehicle (UCAV) design the company pitched to the U.S. Air Force in 2005.
Trump's embarrassed at how many countries the US military has a presence in. Pretty unusual stance for an American president, eh? pic.twitter.com/7oXmQTY9tQ
WNU Editor: This blog covers all things military, and over the years I have become quite knowledgeable on all things military. But here is a small confession. I do not know the exact number of countries the U.S. military has a military presence in, and this tells me on how out of control U.S. foreign/military policy has become. Bottom line. The U.S. does not have to be everywhere.
* The JEDI contract is worth up to $10 billion over 10 years. * IBM and Oracle are among the companies that also sought the contract but ended up getting ruled out. * Amazon has been a repeated target for President Trump, who announced in July that
Microsoft has emerged victorious in a dramatic competition for public cloud resources for the U.S. Defense Department, beating out market leader Amazon Web Services, the Pentagon said on Friday. The contract could be worth as much as $10 billion over a decade, according to a statement.
Microsoft stock rose as much as 3% in extended trading after the announcement, and Amazon stock dipped less than 1%.
The achievement highlights the emergence of Microsoft's Azure cloud as a challenger to AWS and represents the latest victory for Satya Nadella, who took over from Steve Ballmer as Microsoft chief in 2014. Microsoft has also won major cloud-infrastructure deals from companies like Walmart even as AWS has kept growing.
The US will suspend all scheduled flights to Cuba except to its capital Havana, as Donald Trump pushes to dismantle the rapprochement begun by his predecessor Barack Obamahttps://t.co/W9886nYNq5pic.twitter.com/R9yhqPeGYY
General Michael Flynn still awaits sentencing. Meanwhile his new lawyer, Sidney Powell, is tormenting the prosecutors and the FBI, uncovering corruption in the FBI and the Department of Justice that, she credibly alleges, included the framing of General Flynn.
Is that too strong? I don't think so. Yesterday Powell filed a reply brief in support of her motion to compel the production of more exculpating material by the prosecution, and to hold the prosecutors in contempt of court. Her recitation, which relies in part on text messages that I take it have come to light recently, makes a compelling case of FBI and prosecutorial misconduct. The reply brief is embedded below; I encourage you to read it in its entirety.
WNU Editor If half of what General Flynn's lawyer Sidney Powell is saying is true, and the documents that have been given to her from the Justice Department seems to prove her case that then National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was being deliberately set-up by the FBI, I do not see how the judge can sentence General Flynn to jail. In fact. I can easily see this case being dismissed. The sentencing of General Flynn is suppose to take place in December. I am willing to bet that it is going to be delayed. On a side note. Two years ago the main stream media was covering the case of President Trump's National Security Adviser Michael Flynn non-stop. Today, there is little if any coverage.
In a normally quiet House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness hearing yesterday, a prepared Congressional Representative Elaine Luria held two Navy shipbuilding and vessel sustainment leaders to account, demanding–and often not getting–answers about the Navy's Optimized Fleet Response Plan surface ship deployment scheme, the Navy's carrier maintenance infrastructure, and the Navy's brand-new $13 billion super-carrier, the troubled USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78).
It was a masterful performance by the first-term Congressional Representative from Virginia's Second District, and it earned accolades from her peers on the Committee.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - As many as a million Chileans protested peacefully late into the evening on Friday in the capital Santiago in the biggest rallies yet since violence broke out a week ago over entrenched inequality in the South American nation.
Protesters waving national flags, dancing, banging pots with wooden spoons and bearing placards urging political and social change streamed through the streets, walking for miles (km) from around Santiago to converge on Plaza Italia.Traffic already hobbled by truck and taxi drivers protesting road tolls ground to a standstill in Santiago as crowds shut down major avenues and public transport closed early ahead of marches that built throughout the afternoon.
By mid-evening, most had made their way home in the dark ahead of an 11 p.m. military curfew.
The biggest chunk of the earnings pie is increasingly split by fewer and fewer companies.
In the U.S. for example, Visual Capitalist's Jeff Desjardins points out that about 50% of all profit generated by public companies goes to just 30 companies — back in 1975, it took 109 companies to accomplish the same feat:
This power-law dynamic also manifests itself at a global level — and perhaps it's little surprise that the world's most profitable companies generate mind-bending returns that would make any accountant blush.
BREAKING: Sens. Grassley & Johnson have fired off a letter to FBI Director Wray demanding he turn over notes from Aug 2016 counterintelligence defensive briefings to Hillary Clinton & Trump b/c they suspect the FBI gave 2 different briefings --one to Hillary, and another to Trump
The FBI has had a rough go of it—and it's entirely their fault. Its former director, James Comey, decided to leak the contents of his meetings to a friend with instructions to turn them over to The New York Times in the hopes of launching a special counsel probe. Mission accomplished. And the Department of Justice's inspector general raked him over the coals for deviating from a long-standing policy on this front.
Former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok was one of the key people who signed off on the initial investigation into Trump-Russia collusion supposedly in July of 2016. Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was having an extramarital affair, exchanged tens of thousands of texts—the vast majority of which were anti-Trump. It embarrassed the FBI's image of integrity and impartiality, especially when it was handling two of the most politically sensitive investigations in recent memory: Russian collusion and Hillary Clinton's email server.
From YouTube: "Clemens Forell is a German Wehrmacht soldier who was captured by the Soviets in 1945. Forell is sentenced to 25 years hard labour for "crimes against the partisans" and sent as part of a large group of prisoners to a Gulag labour camp in the Siberian region of the Soviet Union. After a huge cross-continent railway journey on starvation rations, and a long-cross-country trek by foot into the bleak wilderness, they arrive at the gulag. This is run by a cruel commander, Lieutenant Kamenev. After one unsuccessful attempt, Forell ultimately does escape with the aid of the camp doctor, Dr. Stauffer. Stauffer had planned to escape himself, but is terminally ill with cancer, so he gives Forell warm clothes and a loaded pistol, and explains where he has hidden supplies for a long journey. Forell promises to visit the doctor's wife in Magdeburg and tell her that he is already dead. Forell heads north to avoid the guards, who would expect him to go west.
BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China's Communist Party leaders will on Monday start their most important meeting this year, with President Xi Jinping expected to champion the Chinese model of governance while fighting protracted economic and political crises at home and abroad.
The four-day conclave comes at a critical time, as Hong Kong grapples with anti-government protests for the fourth month, drawing Western criticism of Beijing for trampling on the rights and liberties of Hong Kong people in its handling of the violent demonstrations.
China's economy is also growing at its slowest pace in nearly three decades, hurt in part by a prolonged trade war with the United States. Stable growth has been fundamental to the Party's political legitimacy.
It is key for Beijing to use the occasion to cast the Chinese political system as meritocratic, unchallengeable and superior to Western democracy, said Wang Jiangyu, director of the Asian Law Institute at the National University of Singapore.
WNU Editor: This annual meeting is where the top brass in China get together for a few days to discuss the current economic and international situation. For this year the top issues are the economy, Hong Kong, unrest in some of China's outer provinces, trade war, border disputes, and the Asian arms buildup/race.
Demonstration against corruption and economic hardship was met with rubber bullets and teargas by police
At least 40 people were killed and dozens injured in Baghdad as police fired rubber bullets and teargas canisters in an attempt to disperse a protest on the streets of the Iraqi capital amid unrest sweeping the country.
Tens of thousands gathered in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on Friday morning to begin the march to the city's fortified Green Zone, where government buildings and foreign embassies are located, but were blocked by police on the al-Jumhuriya bridge.
The demonstrators, protesting against corruption and economic hardship, pushed back but were met with volleys of teargas, some canisters exploding in the air and others whooshing to a white arch in the middle of the crowd.
Sig Sauer responded to the U.S. Army's request for a battlefield upgrade for troops by supplying 6.8 mm hybrid ammunition, a lightweight machine gun, a rifle, and suppressors. The system is referred to as NGSW. (Image: Sig Sauer, press release, for the Next Generation Squad Weapons)
Brig. Gen. Dave Hodne: 'Those impossibilities are on the floor here today'.
U.S. Army leaders are one step closer to deciding on a supplier for its Next Generation Squad Weapon system after a who's who in weapons makers unveiled their progress.
The 2019 Association of the United States Army's annual meeting impressed officials with prototype 6.8mm rifles and automatic rifles by General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems inc., Textron Systems, and Sig Sauer Inc.
Each company is vying for the opportunity to replace the 5.56mm M4A1 carbine and the M249 squad automatic weapon used in combat units.
Military leaders essentially want a weapon that boasts the firepower — and range — of a machine gun with the precision of a rifle.
President Trump has ratcheted up his claim that the Obama White House spied on his 2016 campaign, charging in a new book that it was a "treasonous" act by the former Democratic president.
"What they did was treasonous, OK? It was treasonous," he told author Doug Wead for his upcoming book, "Inside Trump's White House: The Real Story of His Presidency."
"The interesting thing out of all of this is that we caught them spying on the election. They were spying on my campaign. So you know? What is that all about?" said Trump.
"I have never ever said this, but truth is, they got caught spying. They were spying," said Trump who then added, "Obama."
WNU Editor: If this book is any indication on the mindset of President Trump, it is clear that he is upset. But is the President right? I suspect that we are going to learn more in the coming months with this criminal investigation .... U.S. Department Of Justice's Russian Probe Review Is Now A Criminal Inquiry.
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Intelligence Committee at a hearing on the Office of Special Counsel's investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 24, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis
* A federal judge on Friday said that the U.S. Justice Deparment must turn over to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee normally secret grand jury material collected as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. * Judge Beryl Howell repeatedly noted that the House is conducting an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, which could be assisted with the material assembled by Mueller's probe. * The judge dismissed arguments by Trump supporters in and outside of Congress that the House's impeachment inquiry is illegitimate because the House has not held a formal vote to authorize such a probe.
A federal judge Friday said the Justice Department must give the House Judiciary Committee normally secret grand jury material collected as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
Judge Beryl Howell, in her ruling, repeatedly noted that the House is conducting an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, which could be assisted with the material assembled by Mueller's probe.
She gave the Justice Department until next Wednesday to send the material sought to the Judiciary Committee, which is for information collected by the grand jury which is referenced in or underlying the Mueller Report.
WNU editor: This ruling will be appealed. But here is some bigger news. This U.S. Senate resolution is a statement from the Senate to the House of Representatives that their impeachment efforts will be dead on arrival in the Senate .... Graham announces resolution condemning House impeachment inquiry process has 50 co-sponsors (CNN). The 3 Republicans who have not signed on are .... Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Romney's office, through a spokesperson, said the senator "would take a look at it, and that he'd like to see a vote in the House and a more open process." CNN has reached out to the offices of Collins and Murkowski with requests for comment on the resolution but has not received a response.
U.S. Judge Says U.S. Justice Department Must Give Congress Testimony From Mueller Grand Jury
Exclusive satellite imagery shows the base sustained relatively little damage in the airstrikes with many of its facilities being left intact.
Satellite imagery that The War Zone has exclusively obtained calls into question the scale, scope, and effectiveness of airstrikes the U.S. military carried out on its own key base in northern Syria. U.S. personnel had operated the facility alongside their predominantly Kurdish allies, the Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, up until being abruptly evacuated last week under very controversial orders.
Just days after apparently withdrawing US troops from Syria, much to the chagrin of the military-industrial-complex-sponsored Washington establishment, The Wall Street Journal reports that The White House is considering options for leaving about 500 U.S. troops in northeast Syria and sending dozens of battle tanks and other equipment to protect them.
The abrupt reversal, reportedly suggested to President Trump by military officials fits with his statement earlier today that he wanted to safeguard the oil fields (seen by Washington as potential leverage in future negotiations over Syria), tweeting:
"We will NEVER let a reconstituted ISIS have those fields!"
The Air Force is planning the first flight of its B-21 for December 2021, though that date could slip, the head of the service's Rapid Capabilities Office said. Staff photo illustration by Mike Tsukamoto.
Meanwhile, the X-37B robotic space plane has hit another record on its fifth mission, now having spent 777 days on orbit, says AFRCO Director Randall Walden.
WASHINGTON: Will the B-21 bomber make its first flight in December 2021, as the Air Force Vice-Chief announced last month? "I wouldn't bet on that date," Randall Walden, director of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (AFRCO).
While the end-of-'21 first flight suggested by Gen. Stephen Wilson is the "earliest" possible date, Walden told an Air Force Association audience this morning, the B-21 is unlikely to fly so soon.
"There's a lot of things that have to happen between now and a couple of years, but in general terms that's what we're shooting for," Walden told an Air Force association breakfast this morning.
The shooting happened around 6.20pm local time during the changing of the guard at a military base in Siberia after the man suffered an apparent nervous breakdown
* Soldier opened fire with service weapon at 6.20pm local time at base in Siberia * Eight soldiers died at the scene while two were taken to hospital with injuries * He aimed for the head and finished people off with 'control shots', it is reported * Solider - named locally as Ramil Shamsutdinov, 20 - was suffering an apparent nervous breakdown and has been arrested
A Russian soldier has shot and killed eight colleagues and left two more wounded after a 'nervous breakdown' at remote military base in Siberia.
The gunman - named locally as Ramil Shamsutdinov, 20 - opened fire with his service weapon around 6.20pm local time during a changing of the guard at a 'repair and technical base' in the Transbaikal Region, the Russian Defence Ministry said.
Eight people died at the base, in the closed settlement of Gorny, while two more were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The shooter was arrested.
PSKOV, Russia — After a teenager blew himself up inside a branch of Russia's secret police near the Arctic Circle late last year, a freelance journalist hundreds of miles to the south drew what she thought was "an obvious and banal" conclusion in her weekly radio commentary.
Her conclusion — that relentless repression by Russia's security forces is radicalizing Russian youth — now has the journalist, Svetlana Prokopyeva, facing up to seven years in jail for "publicly inciting terrorism."
Even the Kremlin's own Human Rights Council, protested that Ms. Prokopyeva had done no such thing and, from her home office in the ancient Russian city of Pskov, had been merely trying to explain the forces that push people toward extreme acts, not to encourage them.
Yet, the case rolls on, adding a Kafkaesque twist to the increasingly assertive actions of a security apparatus seemingly bent on proving the Kremlin's harshest critics right when they say that Russia has taken a dangerous turn as President Vladimir V. Putin serves out what is supposed to be his final term.
WNU Editor: Russia's security apparatus still exists, and it has not shaken its Kafkaesque past. But the results of the current crackdown have been different. It is not instilling fear among the young, and it is only galvanizing the opposition. And as I mentioned in a July 30 post, this crackdown only proves to Russians on how out of touch the Kremlin has become to what its people want .... Has The Kremlin Lost Touch On What Russia Wants? (July 30, 2019).
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has given the green light to 21 major infrastructure projects between January and October this year. Photo: Xinhua
China doubles value of infrastructure project approvals to stave off economic slowdown amid trade war.
The South China Morning Post reports China Doubles Value of Infrastructure Project Approvals to Stave Off Slowdown.
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has approved 21 projects, worth at least 764.3 billion yuan (US$107.8 billion), according to South China Morning Post calculations based on the state planner's approval statements released between January and October this year.
The amount is more than double the size of last year's 374.3 billion yuan (US$52.8 billion) in approvals recorded over the same period, which included 11 projects such as railways, roads and airports.
* The research team from Anglia Ruskin University plotted more than 1,300 deaths * Conflict, uprisings, looting, riots and suicides were tracked across the globe * Venezuela was the hardest hit by violent unrest in 2017 and suffered 92 deaths
Deaths from violent unrest are set to spike in the coming years, according to researchers who have produced a 'Chaos Map' which lays bare the fallout of devastating famines and droughts.
The team from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, plotted more than 1,300 deaths between 2005 and 2017 which were caused unrest sparked by natural resource shortages.
Conflict, uprisings, looting, riots and suicides were tracked across the globe and investigated to ascertain if they had been triggered by food, water or fuel insecurity.
The number of fatalities was also unearthed, and detailed on an interactive map where readers can compare how each country fared across the 12-year time frame.
KIM JONG-UN is "terrifying close" to developing devastatingly powerful long-range missiles equipped with thermonuclear warheads, with the situation having the potential to deteriorate dramatically in the next few months, an expert has warned.
PROTESTS in Hong Kong have moved away in recent weeks from being about the controversial mainland China extradition bill to being about democracy in the city.
DONALD TRUMP'S decision to pull out of the landmark INF treaty risks triggering a new arms races which could have catastrophic consequences, Russia's defence minister Sergei Shoigu has claimed.
News that the 39 bodies found in a lorry in Essex are believed to be Chinese has sparked an outpouring of grief and anger across China. Chinese officials said they are still working to confirm the identifies of the eight women and 31 men discovered in the refrigerated lorry in Essex on Wednesday.
FRANCE'S border force has intercepted 30 people, including minors, who were trying to cross the English Channel into Britain from the northern French town of Calais, local officials said.
(HAVANA) — The Trump administration is banning U.S. flights to all Cuban cities but Havana in the latest move to roll back the Obama-era easing of relations, two people briefed on the matter said Friday. The people said the Transportation Department would announce that JetBlue and American Airlines flights to Santa Clara in central Cuba and Holguin and Camaguey in the island’s east would be banned starting in December.
Flights to Havana, which account for the great majority of U.S. flights to Cuba, will remain legal. Other banned destinations like the beach resort of Varadero do not currently have U.S. carriers serving them.
The stated reason for the move is to prevent tourism to Cuba, which is banned by U.S. law. But it is not clear how many people take the flights for tourism purposes. Many are used by Cuban-Americans visiting relatives in cities far from Havana by road.
“We plan to operate in full compliance with the new policy concerning scheduled air service between the U.S. and Cuba,” JetBlue said in a written statement. “We are beginning to work with our various government and commercial partners to understand the full impact of this change on our customers and operations in Camaguey, Holguin and Santa Clara.”
American Airlines said it was reviewing the U.S. decision. “We will continue to comply with federal law, work with the administration, and update our policies and procedures regarding travel to Cuba as necessary,” a company statement said.
The Trump administration has been regularly tightening the six-decade-old embargo on Cuba in recent months with the stated purpose of cutting off income to the Cuban government and forcing it to cut ties to Venezuela and grant more human rights to Cuban citizens. Washington has barred U.S cruise ships visiting Cuba, sanctioned oil tankers moving petroleum from Venezuela to Cuba and permitted lawsuits against foreign companies profiting from their use of properties confiscated from Americans or from Cubans who later obtained American citizenship.
The measures have contributed to the Cuban government’s chronic shortages of hard currency and were blamed for several weeks of fuel shortages on the island, but so far there is no indication that the Trump policy is having its desired effect. Cuba’s security services continue to detain and harass dissenters and human rights groups say freedom of expression, assembly and other rights remain highly curtailed.
The Cuban and Venezuelan government remain tightly aligned and both have declared their intent to become even closer allies in the face of the Trump measures.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Lee reported this story from Washington and AP writer Michael Weissenstein reported in Havana.
A Chinese orienteering team was disqualified for cheating this week during the 2019 Military World Games, which were hosted by China.
Orienteering is an endurance sport in which competitors navigate what is usually unfamiliar terrain using only a map and compass. While racing to the finish line, they must navigate to a series of check-points en route. In the women’s middle distance competition at the Games, Chinese orienteers had come close to sweeping the winners podium, with competitors in first, second, and fourth place. (A male Chinese orienteer placed second in the men’s race.) But an investigation into their conduct was kicked off after complaints from six other countries participating — Russia, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Poland and Austria.
After investigating the complaints, a jury decided to disqualify the competitors and void the results of their race from final tallies. In a statement, the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) decried that, “the middle fistance competition was unfortunately overshadowed by extensive cheating by the Chinese team.” Detailing the investigation, the statement explained that “it was soon discovered and proven that the runners had received illegal assistance both by spectators in the terrain, markings and small paths prepared for them and which only they were aware of.”
“I just don’t want to lose,” 20-year-old Li Meizhen, a member of China’s orienteering team, had said in a pre-competition profile on the Games’ website. “Orienteering is like life. You may feel fatigue and encounter obstacles. Yet you can always find surprises and joy,” she added.
The Chinese team was also disqualified from competing in the long distance race and a relay competition. The team appealed the jury’s decision with the International Military Sports Council (CISM), but their appeal was denied. Though the IOF’s statement noted that “the [revised] results are not yet official,” results currently listed on the Military World Games website do not list any Chinese participants as winning medals in the middle distance races (or in subsequent orienteering competitions).
Now the IOF, which governs the rules of the sport, is partnering with CISM to deliver sanctions to those involved. IOF will also be investigating Chinese teams participating in the Orienteering World Cup finals (a civilian event) that began Friday, also being hosted by China.
“The IOF takes the actions of the Chinese team very seriously and is pleased to see that the IOF rules regarding the fairness of competition were enforced by the jury and CISM and that the best solution was found for those athletes who compete within the regulations of the sport,” said IOF Secretary General Tom Hollowell in a public statement.
The Military World Games kicked off in China on Oct. 18 with a ceremony and declaration from Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Chinese President Xi Jinping declares the 7th CISM Military World Games open in Wuhan, China pic.twitter.com/crOXJACU9Q
The Games are “a multisports event organized every four years… based on the CISM and Olympic spirit, without political, religious and racial consideration nor discrimination,” the CISM’s website explains. “By organizing [the] Games, CISM has launched the most explicit and spectacular message of peace to the whole world… Those who had seemed to be forever divided by ideological and political barriers came together under the CISM flag in the name of friendship.”
Across the 2019 Games as a whole, as of Friday China is in first place on the medal table, with 193 medals total as of Friday evening. Russia and Brazil, with 136 and 74 medals respectively, are in 2nd and 3rd place. The Games conclude on Oct. 27.
(DHAKA, Bangladesh) — A court in eastern Bangladesh sentenced the principal of an Islamic school and 15 others to death on Thursday over the killing of an 18-year-old woman who was set on fire for refusing to drop sexual harassment charges against the principal.
Judge Mamunur Rashid of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal found Principal Siraj Ud Doula and the others guilty of either killing the woman or ordering her death in April.
The brutality of the death triggered nationwide protests. Tens of thousands of people attended Nusrat Jahan Rafi’s funeral prayers in her hometown, and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pledged that her family would get quick justice.
All of the defendants, including a local ruling party member and some students at the school, were in the court in handcuffs during the reading of the verdict. The principal, who had smiled as he was brought into the court, cried after the verdict was announced, local media reported. The defendants began shouting and screaming as they were taken away in a police van.
Defense lawyer Giasuddin Nannu said all 16 defendants would appeal the verdict.
Rafi said she was lured to the roof of her rural school in Feni town and told to withdraw the charges by five people clad in burqas. When she refused, she said her hands were tied and she was doused in kerosene and set on fire. She told the story to her brother in an ambulance as she was taken to a hospital and he recorded it on his mobile phone.
She died four days later with burns covering 80% of her body.
The violence shook Bangladesh, triggering protests and raising concerns over the plight of women and girls in the conservative Muslim-majority nation of 160 million people, where sexual harassment and violence are often unreported, victims are intimidated and the legal process is lengthy. Many avoid reporting to police because of social stigma.
Police also often show an unwillingness to investigate such cases and are accused of being influenced by local politics or bribes, according to human rights groups.
Days before Rafi was set on fire, she filed a complaint with police that the principal of her madrasa had called her into his office and repeatedly touched her inappropriately. Her family agreed to help her to file the complaint, which prompted police to arrest the principal, infuriating him and his supporters. Influential local politicians backed the principal.
Police told the court that the suspects told them during interrogations that the attack on Rafi was planned and ordered by the principal from prison when his supporters visited him. They said it was timed for daytime so it would look like a suicide attempt.
(MOSCOW) — The Russian Defense Ministry says a soldier killed eight of his comrades and wounded two others in a shooting outburst at a base in Siberia before being apprehended.
The ministry said the attack happened Friday at a military base in the town of Gorny, 150 kilometers (93 miles) north of the border with Mongolia. Two of those killed were officers and the others were enlisted men. The two wounded soldiers reportedly were in serious condition.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said it had opened a murder case against the suspect, whom it identified as 20-year-old Ramil Shamsutdinov.
APThis undated photo shows Ramil Shamsutdinov, a Russian soldier who went on a shooting spree in Siberia on Oct. 25, 2019 at a military base in the town of Gorny in the Baikal Lake region.
The Defense Ministry said the soldier apparently opened fire in a “nervous breakdown over personal problems unrelated to his military duties.” A deputy defense minister was heading to the base to conduct an investigation.
Shootings and other violent outbursts plagued the Russian military in the 1990s and early 2000s when it suffered from desperate cash shortages and low morale. They have become relatively rare in recent years as conditions in the Russian military have improved.
(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — A Russian gun rights activist who admitted being a secret agent for the Kremlin and trying to infiltrate conservative U.S. political groups while Donald Trump rose to power was released from federal prison on Friday, officials said.
Maria Butina left a low-security facility in Tallahassee, Florida and was placed in the custody of federal immigration authorities. She is expected to be immediately deported to Russia now that she has finished her 18-month sentence.
Butina pleaded guilty last December to conspiring to act as an unregistered agent. She admitted that she worked with a former Russian lawmaker to leverage contacts in the National Rifle Association to pursue back channels to American conservatives during the 2016 presidential campaign, when Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton.
She violated U.S. law because she did not report those efforts to the Justice Department, which requires the registration of lobbyists and others in the U.S. who do the bidding of foreign governments.
A report last month from Sen. Ron Wyden an Oregon Democrat, alleged that the NRA acted as a “foreign asset” for Russia in the run-up to the 2016 election, and that NRA insiders provided access to the American political system to advance personal business interests. The report said the NRA had engaged in a yearslong effort to facilitate the U.S.-based activities” of Butina and Alexander Torshin, the former lawmaker. The NRA called the report “politically motivated and contrived.”
Butina has contended that she was not a spy and that her actions took place out in the open. Her lawyers have said that she was simply a student interested in American politics and better U.S.-Russian relations.
“I love both countries, and I was building peace,” Butina said in an interview with NPR in May. In the same interview, she said she knew that Torshin was providing the information she gathered to Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She said that she was honored to help and believed that her notes and analysis would be valuable to Russian officials.
In April, she told reporters in Moscow in a conference call that “I didn’t expect such a severe punishment.” Russia’s embassy has also said that its diplomats visited her.
The case was separate from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into ties between Russia and the Trump campaign. Butina has said she knew nothing about Russia’s efforts to interfere in the presidential election.
Butina also said in the NPR interview that has no concerns about returning to Russia because people who know her “know as a matter of fact that I am not a spy nor do I have any secret information.”
“I don’t think I have any problems or I could have any concerns about my safety,” she said. “I don’t see that happening.”
For the past week, the streets of Chile’s capital, Santiago have resounded with the sound of banging metal pots, the rallying call of more than 400,000 protesters taking part in demonstrations across the country. Protesters clashed with police firing rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds.
The demonstrations, which began on Oct. 18 in defiance over an increase in subway fares, have spilled over into their eighth day. Chilean truck and taxi drivers on Friday brought gridlock to Santiago’s highways in protest against high road tolls, Reuters reports.
In an attempt to calm the protests, Chile’s President made a televised apology for his government’s failure to respond to long-standing frustrations. But the apology hasn’t quelled the protests, which have so far led to at least 18 deaths. This the most violent unrest Chile has witnessed since the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in 1990. Here’s what to know.
Marcelo HernandezDemonstrators display flags and banners during a protest against President Sebastian Piñera on Oct. 21, 2019 in Santiago, Chile, as protests continue into eighth day.
How did the protests start?
The unrest was triggered by an increase in subway fares of 4% in Santiago. In response, high school pupils and university students jumped over ticket barriers to evade paying the increased fares. The local police took action and confronted the students in metro stations and violent clashes ensued.
The young protesters, who are also experiencing the strain of an underfunded education system, were joined in a mass demonstrations by many other Chileans who are frustrated with rising living costs, low wages and one of the worst rates of inequality in Latin America. Protesters across the country, including striking workers and trade unions, continued to defy the government’s curfews to pour on to the streets for the eighth day.
But, the demonstrations against the government quickly turned violent in some areas of Chile, with some masked protesters throwing rocks at police, arson and lighting barricades, and looting.
Marcelo HernandezA man uses a slingshot to throw a projectile on Oct. 24, 2019 in Santiago, Chile.
What do the protesters want?
The proposed subway fare hike was scrapped two days after the protests started and Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera announced social reforms, including an increase in the minimum wage, but demonstrations continued.
Amid the anti-government unrest in Venezuela and Brazil, Chile has been a good-news story for Latin America, with a stable economy. The World Bank describes the country’s economy as “one of Latin America’s fastest-growing economies in recent decades”, due to its solid macroeconomic framework. But this prosperity has fallen into the hands of a lucky few, as Chile has the highest rate of income inequality among a group of 35 of the world’s wealthiest nations. The country suffers from large pay gaps between men and women and low levels of employment for women, youth and low-skilled groups, according to a 2018 OECD report. With one of the highest rates of economic inequality in the region, in Santiago, Chile’s capital, luxury apartments and private schools and hospitals sit close to overcrowded schools, underfunded public schools and shantytowns.
The protesters are frustrated and demanding significant change to living standards, poor quality health care and education, and how the country is governed, with some demanding the president resigns.
18 people have been killed and thousands arrested
Since the protests erupted, at least 18 civilians have been killed, according to officials. The military and Chile’s national police force, known as the Carabineros, are currently detaining 2,840 people across the country — 305 of whom are children and teenagers — and 584 people have been injured, Chile’s human rights commission, INDH, reported.
Marcelo HernandezProtester is arrested by armed police in Santiago, Chile on Oct. 20, 2019
The INDH confirmed it has compiled 67 legal cases against both police and military agents, related to five homicides and 12 complaints of alleged sexual violence, including stripping and threats of rape and touching. The cases will be investigated by Chile’s public prosecution service.
The organization has also recorded reports of torture, shooting at civilians, verbal and physical abuse including beatings, as well as police delaying driving detainees to the police station, leaving them in overcrowded vans for hours with poor ventilation.
Javier Torres—AFPAerial view of demonstrators during the fifth straight day of protests against a now suspended hike in metro ticket prices in Valparaiso Chile, on Oct. 22, 2019.
The protests have prompted the UN High Commissioner and former Chilean president, Michelle Bachelet to take action and send a team to Chile to investigate allegations of human rights abuses against demonstrators.
“Having monitored the crisis in Chile since it began, I have decided to send a verification mission to examine the allegations of human rights violations,” Bachelet announced on Twitter on Oct. 24. Earlier in the week on Oct. 21, Bachelet said: “I’m deeply disturbed and saddened to see violence, destruction, deaths and injuries in Chile”.
Having monitored the crisis in #Chile since it began, I have decided to send a verification mission to examine the allegations of #HumanRights violations. Parliamentarians and the Government have both expressed a desire for a @UNHumanRights mission.
Chile’s right-wing president, Sebastián Piñera, has come under intense criticism after he announced, on television, that Chile was “at war with a violent enemy”. The government declared a state of emergency on Oct. 19, and set curfews in the country’s largest cities.
Sebastian Brogca—Anadolu AgencySANTIAGO, CHILE – OCTOBER 24: Security forces intervene in protests in Santiago, Chile on Oct. 24, 2019.
On Oct 23, Piñera, apologized for the government’s “lack of vision”. “We humbly accept legitimate social demands and messages that Chileans have delivered,” he said. “It is true that problems were accumulating for decades and the different governments were not able to recognize the situation in all its magnitude. I recognize and apologize for that lack of vision.”
Pinera has since pledged to introduce social reforms, including increasing the basic pension by 20% as well as the minimum wage — but the reforms haven’t quelled anger among Chileans as thousands have again taken to the streets to protest.
How does this demonstration fit in with Chile’s history of protests?
Students have been pivotal in forming mass demonstrations in the past. Violent protests, albeit on a smaller scale, erupted in Chile in 2016 after students called for education reforms. Police deployed tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowds of demonstrators.
Claudio Reyes—AFPRiot police arrest a student during a march held to protest the slow pace of educational reform, in Santiago, on May 26, 2016
Similarly, in 2017, thousands of students returned to the streets to march across the country to demand improvements to the nation’s higher education system. The students argued that the then President Michelle Bachelet had not improved access to higher education or its quality.
This week’s protests are larger and have spread across the country, with many Chileans joining the protest over general fears over inequality and living standards.
As Argentina heads into its presidential election Sunday amid economic crisis, voters are mulling a dramatic change of course for their country.
Four years ago, Argentina shocked the international community by turning its back on Peronism, the divisive political movement that had ruled the South American country of 44 million consistently since 2001, — most recently under former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. At the 2015 elections, voters shunned Kirchner’s protégé, who promised to continue her mix of protectionist economic policy and subsidized living costs. Instead, they elected Mauricio Macri, a slick millionaire businessman who promised reforms that would open Argentina up to international investment.
Two decades of economic dysfunction and state intervention made the country a pariah on global capital markets, and, Macri argued, severely limited the country’s growth. Economists around the world rejoiced about the measures he was taking.
But today, with the value of the peso plummeting, inflation soaring and several million Argentines falling into poverty in a single year, many inside the country say Macri’s experiment with economic liberalism has failed.
Kirchner, currently a senator, is back to capitalize on Argentina’s dissatisfaction, this time as a vice-presidential candidate to Alberto Fernández (no relation), a little-known former adviser from the moderate wing of her Peronist Justicialist party. The pair promise to reverse Macri’s economic overhaul and restore standards of living for a suffering working class. The president, meanwhile, is urging voters to give him a second term so his reforms can bear fruit. Here’s what to know about Argentina’s elections.
President Mauricio Macri, the son of a real estate tycoon and former head of Boca Juniors football club, leads the centre-right Republican Proposal party (PRO by its Spanish initials), which is part of an electoral coalition called Commitment to Change.
Macri says the solution to the country’s current economic crisis is not a return to protectionism, but more jobs. He wants to create a million and a half of them in the private sector by stimulating tourism, agriculture and the creative industries, as well as cutting taxes for younger workers and regulating more of the informal sector — which accounts for roughly a third of jobs in Argentina. Macri has also pledged to crack down on the sale of drugs, touting his record so far in office, with an unprecedented 80,000 drug-related detentions nationwide.
Macri’s rival Alberto Fernández served as cabinet chief to his running mate’s husband, Néstor Kirchner (president from 2003 to 2007) and then in the early months of Cristina’s first term. Like the Kirchners, Fernández belongs to the Justicialist Party, the formal home of the ideologically complex Peronist movement. But he hails from the party’s moderate wing, while Kirchner is from the center-left. After leaving Kirchner’s administration, Fernández became a fierce critic of her more divisive political choices — which included extensive new taxes on the powerful agricultural sector (which in 2015 became one of Macri’s strongest support bases) and an attempt to increase political control over the judiciary.
By working with Fernández, Kirchner is trying to rally her base while also appealing to voters who dislike her — and the fact that she’s in the midst of a long series of trials for alleged corruption. (She denies any wrongdoing and claims the cases are politically motivated. As a sitting senator, she is immune from incarceration.)
The Fernández-Kirchner ticket, representing the Victory Front electoral coalition, promises to undo a highly controversial pension reform — pushed through by Macri in 2017 in a bid to reduce a budget deficit — and add an extra 20% to pension packets. Fernández also wants to expand public healthcare and housing programs.
What is Peronsim?
Former President Juan Domingo Perón initiated the Peronist movement in the 1940’s. A populist, he built his support base among trade unions and the working class, advocating state intervention in the economy, strong labor rights and generous public welfare schemes for the poor. But his politics also incorporated elements like nationalism, and an authoritarian strain.
Several generations of politicians have moulded themselves on Perón. From the end of Argentina’s last military dictatorship in 1983 to Macri’s election in 2015, the country spent 24 out of 36 years with a president from the Peronist movement.
But just what Peronism stands for ideologically is extremely complicated. The movement today is sprawling and diverse, containing politicians on both the left and the right. During her two terms from 2008 to 2015, Kirchner pursued welfare programs and subsidies on services. But another nominally Peronist president, Carlos Menem, carried out large-scale privatizations of public assets and reduced budgetary spending during the 1990’s.
Many analysts say Peronists today are united by little more than their invocation of patriotism and Perón’s legacy.
How is Argentina’s economy factoring into the election?
The pitfalls of Macri’s reform program has proved a defining factor in this election.
In an effort to reduce public debt and make the country more appealing to foreign investors, the president has scrapped protectionist policies on industry, cut public spending and cancelled subsidies on gas, electricity and public transport.
He also floated the peso, which had been artificially over-valued during the Kirchner era, and removed currency controls that limited the amount of U.S. dollars and other foreign exchange businesses and individuals could buy. In 2016 analysts hailed Argentina’s “triumphant return” to capital markets and in 2017 it successfully floated $2.75 billion worth of long-term ‘century bonds,’ indicating high investor confidence in the state.
But in 2018, inflation began to spike and the peso’s value started to fall rapidly — it lost half of its value against the dollar in 2018 — making the cost of living untenable for many Argentines and driving companies out of business.
Last year Macri was forced to ask the international Monetary Fund (IMF) for a record bailout of $56 billion. That decision enraged many in Argentina, who blame mismanagement by the IMF for exacerbating the country’s catastrophic economic collapse of 2001. Under the terms of the loan, Argentina will have to implement austerity measures, affecting an already struggling working class.
Economic hardship under Macri has made it easy for Kirchner and Fernández to promise a return to the good days under Peronism. They did far better than predicted at a king of primary election in August, winning a 15 point lead over Macri.
The pair’s success, indicating a possible return to protectionist Peronist economics in Argentina, has spooked financial markets, accelerating the peso’s fall. In September, as Argentines rushed to convert their savings into foreign currency, Macri was forced to reinstate the Kirchner-era currency controls.
Who’s likely to win?
Fernández’s ticket has maintained a strong lead over Macri since August and some polls suggest he will win up to 54% of the vote. To win an Argentine election in the first round, a candidate needs to win 45%, or at least 40% with a 10 point lead over their nearest rival. If no candidate reaches that mark, a second-round run off will pit the two top candidates against each other on November 24.
Macri is currently polling at around 33%. If he does defy the odds and make it to a second round, some pollsters say he would have a chance to turn things around.
This is a lightly edited transcript of remarks by J.K. Rowling at the One Young World global forum in London on Oct. 24. The author was speaking at the launch of #HelpingNotHelping, a campaign led by her children’s charity Lumos intended to educate young people about the potential harms of orphanage tourism and volunteering.
In 2004, I read a story about a 6 or 7-year-old boy who was being kept 24 hours at a time in a cage bed, which is effectively a cot with chicken wire around it.
I saw this very disturbing image, and I was pregnant at the time with my third child and think I was feeling particularly hormonal and vulnerable, and Ient to turn the page. I’m not particularly proud of that impulse but it’s important to acknowledge that as humans, some situations are so distressing that you flinch. And so I went to turn the page and I thought ‘no, you have to read the story and if the story is as bad as the picture looks, you have to do something about it.’
So I read the story, and it was actually even worse than the picture looks. It talked about an institution where young people with disabilities were being kept, effectively confined to small cells, in an Eastern European country.
That’s how Lumos started. Our NGO is named after the light-giving spell in Harry Potter, which we decided was appropriate because what we’re trying to do is reveal children who are often very hidden away and isolated in these so-called orphanages around the world, and work together to release them.
The reason we don’t have orphanages in the developed world is we know they do often irreparable harm. We understand that institutionalisation is one of the worst things that you can possibly do to a child. We understand it renders children very vulnerable to abuse and trafficking, it has huge effects on their normal development, and it massively impacts their life chances.
One of the facts that most stunned me when I started listening to this seriously is that eight out of 10 children living in so-called orphanages – and this statistic applies globally – are not orphans. Eight out of 10 will have one living parent at least, and overwhelmingly the family did not want to give up the child.
So why are they in the so-called orphanage? Overwhelmingly, the number one reason is poverty. Then you have natural disasters, and you have disability. Disabled children are greatly over-represented in institutions worldwide, and that will be again not because parents want to give that child up, but because the only hope they have for education and healthcare for that child in that community, is to put them into the so-called orphanage.
And then we come to the part that I think we really want to talk about today. The West has, often with the best intentions, funded huge amounts to these so-called orphanages. But another key pillar propping up the orphanage business—and I have to call it that—is people volunteering and visiting orphanages.
In other words, ‘volun-tourism’ and orphanage tourism, where you’re taken to see children in an orphanage as part of your travel experience, or when you go believing – which overwhelmingly people of course believe they’re doing good – they volunteer for a couple of weeks, or a month.
And often these young people will come away believing they did good, and are appalled when the facts are laid out in front of them, and they realize that they may have contributed to the perpetuation of abuse.
They’ve brought foreign money into the country and we do know that some orphanages are set up literally to exploit children. The children are the bait for foreign donations and a volunteer experience, and the money is going into the pockets of the people running the orphanages.
However, we do have some hope.
There seems to be a tipping point being reached where governments are acknowledging now that institutionalisation is profoundly damaging to children, which is wonderful. And we are thrilled that the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office has amended its travel advice to warn people of the harms of ‘volun-tourism’. It’s massive.
Lumos is thrilled to have partnered with Hope and Homes for Children and with the Association of British Travel Agents. We have made an orphanage tourism taskforce and what we are doing there is trying to shift the travel industry from supporting orphanage tourism, and that’s also a big breakthrough.
I suppose I would say there are three big things that people can do watching this.
The first is and I’m sure by now very obvious, don’t volunteer in orphanages. Don’t give your time to propping up a system that we know does real, serious harm.
And then there’s the financial aspect. If you have money to give when you are travelling, put it into local businesses because that helps communities. That’s something real you can do when travelling. Don’t go and visit orphanages.
If you want to support charities or projects, just do a bit of due diligence and make sure you’re dealing with the root causes here: look at poverty and building community services and so on.
The last thing I’d say, and what we would love to see as an organisation, is to see businesses amending their social responsibility policies. We’d love to see those corporate policies changed to make sure they’re not supporting so-called orphanages or child institutions. That is something hugely powerful that everyone can do.
I know I said three things but I’m going to say a fourth thing. We are looking to educate people because changing the mindset is what is ultimately going to make the difference. If everyone in this hall went out today and spoke to their university, their college, their place of work and friends and family and said ‘we need to not support this.’
We know that millions and millions and millions of children are trapped and they are voiceless. The world needs to hear what orphanages are doing to children globally.
(LONDON) — A fourth person was arrested in connection with the deaths of 39 people found in the back of a container truck in southeastern England, British police said Friday as the investigation into one of the country’s worst human smuggling cases geared up.
Police said a 48-year-old man from Northern Ireland was arrested Friday at England’s Stansted Airport on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people. The arrest came after police arrested a man and a woman, both 38 and from northwestern England, earlier Friday on the same charges. The 25-year-old driver of the truck remains in custody on suspicion of murder.
The new arrests came as police began the grim process Friday of conducting post-mortem examinations of the dead. The remains of 11 people from the truck were transported Thursday by ambulance from the Port of Tilbury to a mortuary under police escort.
Essex Police said 31 men and eight women were found dead in the truck early Wednesday at an industrial park in Grays, a town 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of London.
Although U.K. police said they believed the dead were Chinese citizens, Chinese officials told reporters in Beijing the nationalities and identities of the victims had not yet been confirmed.
The Vietnamese Embassy in London confirmed Friday that it contacted police about a missing woman feared to be one of the dead. An embassy spokesman said it was contacted by a family in Vietnam who says their daughter had been missing since the truck was found.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said China was working in cooperation with local authorities.
“No matter where these victims come from, this is a great tragedy which drew the attention of the international community to the issue of illegal immigration,” she said. “The international community should further strengthen cooperation in this area, strengthen sharing of information and intelligence … to prevent such tragedies from happening again.”
Hua said Chinese authorities were also seeking information from police in Belgium, since the shipping container in which the bodies were found was sent to England from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.
Human smuggling from China is believed to have fallen drastically in recent years amid the country’s rapidly growing domestic economy. However, some Chinese, particularly those with lesser education, continue to be drawn to Europe and North America by the promise of much higher wages than they can earn at home, despite the considerable risks involved.
Parts of China, especially the southeastern province of Fujian, have long histories of sending migrants abroad.
The issue is a difficult one for China’s ruling Communist Party, which is intensely sensitive about China’s international image and has staked much of its legitimacy to rule on improving living standards for the bulk of China’s 1.4 billion people.
In an editorial Friday, the party newspaper Global Times said authorities in Britain and elsewhere hadn’t done enough to crack down on people smuggling.
“Such a serious humanitarian disaster occurred under the eyes of the British and Europeans,” the newspaper said. “Britain and the related European countries have not met their responsibility for protecting these people from dying in such a manner.”
British police believe the truck and container took separate journeys before ending up at the industrial park. They say the container traveled by ferry from Zeebrugge to Purfleet, England, where it arrived early Wednesday and was picked up by the truck driver and driven the few miles to Grays.
The truck cab, which is registered in Bulgaria to a company owned by an Irish woman, is believed to have traveled from Northern Ireland to Dublin, where it caught a ferry to Wales, then drove across Britain to pick up the container.
Global Trailer Rentals Ltd told Ireland’s national broadcaster RTE the trailer it owns was leased Oct. 15 in County Monaghan, in Ireland, at a rate of 275 euros ($299) per week. The Dublin-based company said it will make the data from its tracking system available to investigators.
The company’s directors told RTE it was “shell-shocked” at the news.
Groups of migrants have repeatedly landed on English shores using small boats to make the risky Channel crossing, and migrants are sometimes found in the back of cars and trucks that disembark from the massive ferries that link France and England.
But Wednesday’s macabre find in an industrial park was a reminder that criminal gangs are still profiting from large-scale trafficking.
The tragedy recalls the deaths of 58 Chinese migrants who suffocated in a truck in Dover, England, in 2000 after a perilous, months-long journey from China’s southern Fujian province. They were found stowed with a cargo of tomatoes after a ferry ride from Zeebrugge, the same Belgian port featured in the latest tragedy.
In February 2004, 21 Chinese migrants — also from Fujian — who were working as cockle-pickers in Britain drowned when they were caught by treacherous tides in Morecambe Bay in northwest England.
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Bodeen reported from Beijing. Raf Casert in Brussels and Shanshan Wang in Beijing contributed.
A new report analyzing 10 million social media and online posts in the U.S. and U.K. over three and a half years found 1.5 million transphobic posts, highlighting the level of cyber-abuse targeting transgender people.
Anti-bullying charity Ditch the Label and consumer intelligence company Brandwatch partnered on the study, which found that in the U.S., race was the leading driver of transphobic online comments. In the U.K., politically-driven abuse was the most prominent topic in conversations including transphobic comments. Other themes found within transphobic comments included parenting, religion, gender, sports and healthcare. “Education is key to stem the stream of transphobic abuse online, especially when we consider the breakdown of themes surrounding transphobic abuse,” said Liam Hackett, CEO and founder of Ditch the Label. “There needs to be greater governance of online communities, and a tougher stance and zero tolerance approach towards transphobia online.” The study analyzed platforms including social media services like Twitter and Instagram, as well as YouTube, forums and news websites.
“Unfortunately these findings don’t surprise me. For someone who is in the public eye, I experience abuse on a daily basis,” British transgender model and activist Munroe Bergdorf said in a statement, adding that she had seen most of the transphobic comments included in the report on her own social media timeline, ranging from memes to threats to her safety. “I was interested to see the relationship between transphobia and racism and do feel that racist people see transphobia as a tool to legitimize their racism. I’ve had transphobic comments on photos of me mixed in with Nazi speech on a number of times.”
Across the platforms surveyed, high percentages of transphobic comments appeared on news sites and web forums. The study also noted a large volume of abusive commentary on YouTube. The study furthermore looked at transphobic comments in the context of world events, noting a spike in abusive comments in the U.S. before and after President Trump proposed a ban on transgender people serving in the military in July of 2017. However, the study also noted that spikes in transphobic conversation in the U.K. “was simply due to an anti-trans joke being shared lots of times.”
“As a trans woman of color, being subjected to these comments is extremely difficult to navigate,” said Bergdorf. “You have to be dead inside to not let it bother you and it’s made even harder when you experience it all the time and the people perpetrating it don’t seem to be sanctioned for their behavior.”
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UP BTE Revaluation Result
UPBTE Re-evaluation / Scrutiny/ Re-checking Result for all semesters 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th will be available provided here. Board of Technical Education Uttar Pradesh, last year, had announced results for the UPBTE Regular Annual Results for All Semesters. Now, the students who got fewer marks than expected, are applied for UPBTE Scrutiny. Candidates who applied are eagerly looking for the Polytechnic Semester Exam Result. BTEUP Exam Result 2019 will go to be released in Month 2019.
Download UPBTE Scrutiny Result
Students can check their UPBTE Scrutiny result either on the official website or in the College. Mark Sheets will be available after the change in marks & overall Performance. There is always a chance for an increase in marks through Scrutiny. Students have to contact their Exam Cell for Scrutiny Result.
Download BTEUP Polytechnic Diploma Scrutiny Result
Board of Technical Education Uttar Pradesh Polytechnic Diploma Scrutiny Result 2019 BTEUP Scrutiny Result 2019 Check Scrutiny Process Filling of Scrutiny Form 2019 UP Polytechnic Annual Exam Copy Re-Check result.
Download BTEUP Scrutiny Merit List 2019
Below we have enclosed the BTEUP Results & Merit List for all zones. People can check their marks from the below links.
Now you can check the BTEUP Scrutiny Final Result. BTEUP Exam 2014 Incomplete Result for Absent (AB)/ Incomplete (MW)Candidates Corrected Marks has been Announced by Board on 9 March 2019. Hence, Please Click On Given below Link.
BTEUP Scrutiny Result Download Links
Get BTEUP Scrutiny Result 2019 Zone 1 (Western Region)
NOTICE– Special Back Paper Exam will be Conducted on 23.12.2014 (Tuesday)
Important Note:
Board of Technical Education Uttar Pradesh has recently announced Result for the Polytechnic Diploma. Furthermore, After the Result, some students get fewer marks than expected. So they have to fill scrutiny Form for Re-Checking of their Answer books. So, there will be an increase in marks.
Scrutiny Form:
Candidates can get Scrutiny Form from their respective Colleges. Students have to contact their Exam Cell for Scrutiny form.
There is always a chance for an increase in marks through Scrutiny. So Candidates need to fill the form for Subjects in which they are sure that they will have a chance of increment in marks.
However, The Process of Scrutiny is live. Candidates need to be very choosy about the Selection of Exam Paper. It is free to fill scrutiny of any paper.
KUHS Results 2019 released for Final Year BSc. Medical Microbiology Regular/Supplementary Examinations, August 2019. Check out your Kerala University Results Declared on 24th October 2019.
Dear Folks!!. Kerala University of Health Sciences announced the course wise results through its official website i.e., kuhs.ac.in. Here on this page, we provide the result for various KUHS courses like Nursing, Ayurveda, Pharmacy, Paramedical, Medical, Homoeopathy, Unani, Siddha, Dental. Students who are looking for KUHS can find the results on our page. Hence, go through the information of Kerala University of Health results in sections below. We recruitment.guru moderated this page with the most recent results given by the KUHS for various courses. Students of KUHS can find both regular and supplementary exam results on our page. And this article is completely enclosed with the updated Kerala University of Health Sciences Results 2019.
KUHS Results 2019
Students studying at the Kerala University of Health Sciences (KUHS) used to check their exam results this month. Here on this page, we have provided a direct link to get the KUHS Results from the below table. We update the results on our page immediately when the official website updates. By this student who is eager to check the result can find without any delay. Also, reduces the confusion in finding their performance in the examinations. Students of KUHS can find both Undergraduate, Postgraduate of regular and supplementary exam results on our page. Apart from this, we used to update the latest information regarding the KUHS Exam Time Table, Admit Card, Syllabus, Previous Paper, and others. So, we advise the students of KUHS to check results through our website.
Latest KUHS Exam Results 2019
Name of the Exam
Release Date
Download Link
First Semester B Pharm Degree Supplementary Examinations, August 2019
Withheld Release of Third MBBS part I Supplementary Examinations, July 2019 of SUT Medical College, Aeezia Medical college, MES Medical College, GMC Ernakulam
The Kerala University of Health Sciences (KUHS) was established in the year 2010. The university is located on the government medical college, Thrissur campus. It was established on the basis of the Kerala University of Health Act 2010. There are 282 professional colleges of Kerala affiliated under this university. All affiliated colleges imparting professional education in health care in Kerala. All branches of treatment would come under the university and medical and para-medical colleges now functioning under different Universities.
KUHS Supply/Revaluation Results
Students have a chance to apply for the revaluation, if the students may get low marks in the examination, they can apply for the Revaluation results. So again the head of the Examiner will review the answer paper. After revaluation, students may get high marks. Still, if anyone got low marks, they can apply for the Supplementary Examinations. For Revaluation/Supplementary, students should pay the fee. Students can get all the results from this page Regular, Revaluation and Supplementary Results. Students of Kerala University of Health Sciences can also get all Results Also. Just we are advising the Students to frequently visit this page to get latest updates of all KUHS Result 2019.
Durg University Result 2019 – Hello Folks!! Here we have good news for you. Durg University has published the Results for various Courses. It announced by Annual/ Semester vice for all the Students who have appeared for the Examination. Currently, the University has released the results for B.A./B.Sc. B.Ed. Part-01 (Annual Exam Session 2018-19) and also various others. Students can check the Results from the official website of the University i.e, durguniversity.ac.in. Also, we have provided a direct link from the below table to get the Durg University Result, without any confusion. Moreover, Students can download the Results at the University online web portal.
Durg University Result 2019
The Durg University UG & PG Results are released on the official website. We update this Durg University Result 2019 page with the latest Result that is released on the official website by the official DUD board. So to know more about the DUD degree Result and other Result candidates must bookmark this page. Currently, the University has published the results for M.A 1st & 3rd Semester and also others by every day. It announced by annual and Semester wise for all Courses. Students those who have appeared for these Examinations can check this from this page recruitment.guru. Because here we used to update the latest Examination Results. Apart from this Students may get the detailed information regarding the Admit Card, Syllabus, Time Table and others.
Latest Durg University Exam Result 2019
Name of the Exam
Announcement Date
Download Link
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) (UG) Second Semester (Sem – 2) REVAL
The Government of Chhattisgarh, exercising its powers and bringing Chhattisgarh ACT, The Chhattisgarh Vishwavidyalaya (Sanshodhan) Adhiniyam, 2015, dated 24th of April, 2015, an Act further amending the Chhattisgarh Vishwavidyalaya Adhiniyam, 1973, has established Hemchand Yadav Vishwavidyalaya, Durg. The Hemchand Yadav Vishwavidyalaya has come into existence after the division/bifurcation of the existing Pt. Ravishankar Shukla Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur (C.G.) and the jurisdiction of the Vishwavidyalaya comprise 116 affiliated colleges situated in the districts of Durg, Bemetara, Balod, Rajnandgaon, and Kabirdham.
Durg University Supply/Revaluation Results
Students are waiting for the Results if they scored well they will lead to next year. But if they will not get more marks they can apply for the revaluation Results. Once they applied for the Examination, the higher level Examiner will check the paper again. They can get the revaluation Result within the time. Also if they still get fail marks, they can apply for the supplementary examination. For each and every semester Students can apply for the revaluation after the announcement of the main examination Results. Durg University will take a week or more to process the exam papers to announce the Revaluation Results. Do stay updated with the University to know about the Revaluation Exam Results.
Mumbai University Results 2019 declared for Master Of Engineering on 25th October 2019. Check out the updated Mumbai University Semester wise Exam results 2019-20 details from the below section. We have updated the University Exam Results from the official website. As the University Board has released the first half 2019 results. The current page is fully equipped with the results of all courses like MBA, MCA, MA, M.E, B.Tech, BBA, B.Sc and so on. Hence, Check other information on Mumbai University Results in the below sections of this page. Check out more information on the official website i.e,mu.ac.in.
Latest Results Update: University of Mumbai (MU) has Declared Result of M.A in German Studies by Semester I, II, III and Other Various Courses' Exam Results
Mumbai University Exam Results 2019-20
As that the University of Mumbai has released the semester wise examination results through Pdf format. Those candidates who wish to check down their results can check it out here. The Mumbai University has updated the results for T.Y.B.A. in the M.E Electronics of II semester on 22nd October 2019 as a recent update. Students of Mumbai University check the updated and previously released examination results from the below section. Also, stay in touch with our page to get the recent updates about Mumbai University.
Mumbai University is one of the oldest universities in Maharashtra & Mumbai city as well. It was established on 18th July 1857. The Mumbai University is also known for MU. Most of the people usually called it as MU. It offers Bachelor’s, Master & Doctoral courses. along with these courses, it also offers Diploma courses, Certificate courses in multiple disciplines like Arts, Commerce, Science, Medical & Engineering. The Mumbai University has 3 main campuses across Mumbai city and one it out of the city. wherein the Fort campus carries out only administrative works. There are 711 colleges affiliated to the university as per the 2011 census. But it increased to 762 now.
When we discuss Key people of the university, The Honorable Governor of Maharashtra giving services as Chancellor of the university. While Mr.Suhas Pednekar is Vice-Chancellor of the Mumbai University. get more information related to Mumbai University here.
Mumbai University Revaluation Exam Results 2019-20
Candidates of Mumbai University those who have undergone the Semester Examination for the courses conducted by the University it time for you check out exam results. Students who failed in the regular examination can go for the second chance which is called Revaluation Results. This revaluation results will also help in increasing the scorecard obtained in the regular examination. This Revaluation is only for those who wish that their examination paper should be evaluated once again. As soon as the main exam results are released the University Board will announce the revaluation dates. Students those wish can apply for the revaluation. Do have a regular update with the official website of the University as that the Mumbai University Board releases the Revaluation Results within a few week’s interval gaps.
IOCL Recruitment 2019 – Apply Online for 131 Technical & Non-Technical Apprentice Vacancy. Indian Oil Corporation Limited is looking for the eligibles to fill up the 131 Apprentice Vacancy under various categories. Suitable candidates can apply to fill up the vacancies of Accountant Apprentice, Technician Apprentice & Trade Apprentice. Eligible aspirants who are willing to apply for the Apprentice Vacancy in Indian Oil Corporation Limited can apply online from 24th October 2019. Application form with completely filled details must be submitted on or before 26th November 2019.
The place of posting will be in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, and Dadra & Nagar Haveli. Read the further section to know eligibility, educational qualification, experience, salary, and other details.
Overview of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd Recruitment 2019
IOCL Recruitment 2019 – Apply Online for 1574 Apprentice Post. Indian Oil Corporation Limited is inviting application for the Apprentice Vacancy. Recent Notification for IOCL Careers has released to engage eligible candidates as Apprentices in its Refineries under Apprentices Act, 1961/1973. Online registration starts on 23rd October 2019.
Candidates will be recruited on contractual basis for a fixed-term period. IOCL Recruitment 2019 Apply Online Link will be disabled after 15th November 2019 for the 1574 Apprentice Vacancy. Candidates met with the eligibility requirements of the IOCL Recruitment Board can apply for this IOCL Job Openings. Scroll down for more details about the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd Career 2019.
IOCL Recruitment 2019 – Apply Online for 38 JEA Vacancies. Indian Oil Corporation Limited invites application from the bright, young and energetic personnel for the Junior Engineering Assistant post in the IOCL refinery unit at Vadodara. Online Application opens for the eligibles from 10th October 2019. Interested Indian National can check for the eligibility details and then apply on or before 30th October 2019. Apprentices who have completed IOCL apprenticeship training in any of IOCL Refineries are also eligible to apply for IOCL Vacancy 2019.
Candidates make sure that you are medically fit as per Indian Oil’s pre-employment medical standard before applying for the IOCL Careers. Applicants who get qualified in the Written Test and Skill/ Proficiency/ Physical Test will get recruited for IOCL Job Vacancies. Aspirants possessing higher professional qualifications like Engineering Graduates/ MBA/ MCA/ CA/ CS/ ICWA/ LLB or equivalent are not eligible for the IOCL Recruitment 2019 for the Junior Engineering Assistant Vacancy. Go through the below page and know more details of IOCL Notification.
Overview of IOCL JEA Recruitment 2019 Notification
Eligibility Criteria for Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) Careers 2019
IOCL JEA Job 2019 – Educational Qualification:
Diploma (3 years regular) in Chemical/ Refinery & Petrochemical Engineering or B.Sc. (Maths/ Physics/ Chemistry/ Industrial Chemistry) from a recognized Indian Institute/ University with a minimum of 50% marks in aggregate for General, OBC and EWS candidates & 45% in case of SC/ST candidates against reserved positions.
Experience – Minimum 1 year of post-qualification experience in operation (rotating shift) of Pump House, Fired Heater, Compressor, Distillation Column, Reactor, Heat exchanger, etc. in a Petroleum Refinery/ Petrochemicals/ Fertilizer/ Heavy Chemical/ Gas Processing Industry.
Age Limit for IOCL Recruitment JEA Job:
Minimum Age Limit – 18 Years
Maximum Age Limit – 26 Years
Age Relaxation:
OBC Candidates – 03 Years
SC/ ST Candidates – 05 Years
IOCL JEA Salary:
Rs. 11,900 – Rs. 32,000/-
Application Fee:
Candidates willing to apply for the IOCL Recruitment should pay the Non Refundable Application Fee through SBI E Collect.
For General/ EWS/ OBC Candidates – Rs. 150/-
IOCL Recruitment Selection Process:
Written Test.
Skill/Proficiency/Physical Test (SPPT).
IOCL Recruitment 2019 Apply Online Steps for JEA Vacancy:
Click on the Apply Online link provided below.
Read the given instructions and click on the ‘Next’ option.
Start filling the personal details asked on that page.
Upload the scanned copies of photograph & signature.
Enter the qualification and experience details properly.
Pay the respective application fee (if applicable).
After filling the application form, submit and take a print for the further process.
Post the hard copy of the duly filled online application form to the below-mentioned address.
Postal Address:
Dy. General Manager (A&W), Indian Oil Corporation Limited, P.O. Jawahar Nagar, Vadodara, Gujarat -391320.
ImportantDates for IOCL Vadodara Recruitment 2019
Starting Date to Apply Online
10th October 2019
Last Date to Apply Online
30th October 2019
Last Date for the receipt Hard Copy of Online Application
Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) is one of the largest public sector companies which meet entire country energy demands. IOCL has been functioning since 1959. Headquarter of IOCL has been located in New Delhi, India. Indian Oil Corporation produces products such as fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals, and etc. Currently, there are more than thirty thousand employees are working. They have more than 47,800 customers are there. Because of its performance, IOCL is being a Maharatna Company.
Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) (NSE: IOC, BSE: 530965), better known as IndianOil, is an Indian oil and gas company headquartered in Mumbai and based in New Delhi. This is the largest commercial oil company in the country, with a net profit of SEK 19,106 (2,848 million dollars) for the 2016-2017 fiscal year. Ranked # 1 on the Fortune India 500 list for 2016 and ranked # 168 on the Fortune Global 500 list of top global companies in 2017. As of March 31, 2017, IndianOil had a staff of 33,135, of which 16,545 were in the Officers Group. This is the largest oil company in India, with a workforce of more than 33,000 people, a turnover of 506,428 crores and a net profit of Rs 21 346 crores in 2017-18.
MGU Results 2019 released by Mahatma Gandhi University. Aspirants who had written the semester exam can check out for the direct links from the below section of this page. Candidates can get the Mahatma Gandhi University UG/ PG Semester Exam Results. The direct links provided below will take you at the official site of the university without any confusion. Hence, Check other information of MGU Kerala Results in the below sections of this page. Also, visit the official website i.e, mgu.ac.in to know about admissions & course details.
MGU Exam Results 2019 @mgu.ac.in
Students of Mahatma Gandhi University here is great news for you all. Get the updated Regular, Supplementary, Revaluation results for the Mahatma Gandhi University. As the university offers all kinds of courses like UG/PG/Ph.D. and other courses people from all over Kerala are studying. Candidates can evaluate their performance through below attached links. Make sure you get down the full section. Also, find the latest updates about MG University Results included with MGU PG 4th Sem Results 2019.
MGU Result 2019-20 Released
Examination Name
Result Link
II Semester M.Sc Fishery Biology and Aquaculture Degree Examinations (2017 Admission Regular) February 2019
Mahatma Gandhi University was established on 2 Oct 1983 in Kerala State. The university has 100 affiliated colleges over 5 districts in central Kerala. It is also known as MG University. MGU is one of the top 50 Universities in India. It is only the university from south India. This university offers maximum of 299 academic programs like Bachelor's, Masters, Doctoral degrees in the fields of Pure and Applied Sciences, Technology, Paramedical Studies, Nursing, Management, Engineering, Gandhian Thought, International Relations, Politics, Physics, Nano Science, Disability Studies, Rehabilitation Sciences, Special Education, Psychology, Behavioral Medicine, Tourism, Journalism, Chemical Sciences, Polymer Engineering, Hospital Administration, Environmental Sciences, Disaster Management, Business Studies, Commerce, Economics, Arts, Pedagogical Studies, Hotel and Hospitality Management, Catering Science etc.
Regular/ Supplementary Results for MGU
Students of MGU should get to know the details regarding the Revaluation Results. Once after the main examination is conducted, the University will give you one more chance. In case you fail or score low marks in the semester exam, the university will give you a second chance called Revaluation mode. Applicants do check with the Official Website to know about the Revaluation procedure. Students can get the Regular, Revaluation and Supplementary Results for the MGU here. This Revaluation process may take a few weeks to process the results.
Through the process of revaluation, students can increase their semester exam ranking or those who failed in the examination will get a chance to pass. The exam paper will be evaluated once again for those who have applied for the Revaluation process. So, we advise the candidates to stay updated with our webpage or with the Official website to gather more information about the MGU Revaluation Results.
RPSC Admit Card 2019 for the various Rajasthan Public Service Commission Recruitment 2019 is available here. Therefore, all the applicants who had applied for the respective job positions at the RPSC Careers can rely on this page to download RPSC Admit Card 2019. Furthermore, only those applicants who applied for Jobs can be able to download the Rajasthan PSC Hall Ticket 2019 @ rpsc.rajasthan.gov.in. For further details regarding the RPSC Admit Card 2019 and download link click on the respective links given below.
RPSC JLO Admit Card 2019 – The admit card is going to be issued in the month of November 2019. The exam is going to be held in the month of November 2019. The hall ticket will be available at the end of the section. Aspirants are suggested to download the admit card from the table.
RPSC PRO Admit Card 2019 – The Rajasthan Public Service Commission has issued the admit card for the post of 23 Public Relation Officers. Candidates who have applied for the posts should download the hall ticket from the below section. Thus, Aspirants are suggested to enter the valid details to get the hall ticket. The RPSC PRO Exam will be held on 22nd October 2019.
RPSC FSO Admit Card 2019 – Rajasthan Public Service Commission has announced the exam date notice for the post of Food Safety Officers. Hence, the admit card will be issued in the month of November 2019. Thus, the exam date has been declared as 25th November 2019. So, Aspirants can stick to the official website to download the RPSC Hall Ticket.
RPSC AE Admit Card 2019 – Rajasthan Public Service Commission has declared the exam date for the post of Assistant Engineer (AE). Hence Candidates, who applied for the post can download the hall ticket from the below section. Therefore, Aspirants can get the direct link to download the hall ticket from the below section.
RPSC FDO Admit Card 2019 – Rajasthan Public Service Commission has issued the exam notice for the post of Fisheries Development Officer (FDO) and Assistant Fisheries Development Officer (AFDO). Hence, Candidates will get the admit card for the exam in the month of November 2019. The direct link to download the hall ticket will be activated once the board releases it.
RPSC SSO Admit Card 2019 – Rajasthan Public Service Commission has recently announced the Exam Notice for 23 Senior Scientific Officers Post. Likewise, candidates can download the RPSC admit card from October 2019. Thus, the exam date has been scheduled from 09th October to 12th October 2019. Download the exam notice pdf and also the RPSC Admit Card from the below table.
RPSC Assistant Engineers Admit Card 2019: Rajasthan Public Service Commission is mandated to release the admit card for 916 Combined Assistant Engineers. Hence, Candidates can download the admit card from the below section once the board releases on their Official Website. Moreover, the examination will be held from 09th October to 11th October 2019.
Latest RPSC Special Education Teacher Admit Card 2019 is now available. The Aspirants who are eagerly looking for the RPSC Special Education Teacher Hall Ticket can download here. However, we have given the direct link for RPSC Special Education Teacher Hall Ticket in the table below. Hence, Click on the RPSC Special Education Teacher Call Letter and download the Admit Card.
New RPSC Protection Officer Admit Card 2019 is now available. The Aspirants who are eagerly looking for the RPSC Protection Officer Exam Hall Ticket can download here. We have attached the direct link to download the RPSC Protection Officer Call Letter from the below table. Candidates click on the RPSC Protection Officer Hall Ticket to download the Admit Card.
Latest RPSC SI Admit Card 2018 is now available. The Aspirants who are eagerly looking for the RPSC Sub Inspector Exam Hall Ticket can download here. However, we have given the direct link for RPSC SI Hall Ticket in the table below. Hence, Click on the RPSC SI Call Letter and download the Admit Card.
Rajasthan RPSC Headmaster Admit Card is available now. The Rajasthan Public Service Commission is now allowing the applicant of Headmaster Vacancies to download the Hall ticket. However, the aspirants can download the RPSC Admit Card from the link given below.
Rajasthan PSC Admit Card 2018: For State Service Commission RAS, RTS Pre-Exam 2018 is available here. The Aspirants who are eagerly waiting for the RPSC RAS, RTS Pre-Exam Call Letter 2018 can download from the link given below.
Rajasthan Public Service Commission is conducting the test for the lecturer post. Therefore, the RPSC has released the call letter on the RPSC Official Website. Candidates who had applied for the Teacher jobs in Rajasthan can now download RPSC Admit Card from the direct link given below. The RPSC Call letter released is for Electrical, Civil and Computer Engineering Lecturer Posts only. So, all the candidates who had successfully applied can now check their hall tickets.
RPSC Lecturer Call Letter for Civil Engineering – Click Here
RPSC Admit Card Electrical Engineering Call Letter – Click Here
Interview Call Letter for RPSC Lecturer Computer Engineering – Click Here
The RPSC Admit Card 2018 is now issued for the College Lecturer posts in many disciplines. Like Zoology, Law, and Sociology, etc. And it is the time for all the applicants of the above-mentioned disciplines to download the RPSC Exam Admit Card 2018. Below we have provided the necessary links to download your Rajasthan Public Service Commission Admit Card 2018 @ www.rpsc.rajasthan.gov.in. Also, the applicants can stay tuned to get the Examination dates and other information.
RPSC College Lecturer Zoology Admit Card 2018 – Click Here
Rajasthan PSC College Lecturer (Law) Hall Ticket 2018 – Click Here
RPSC College Lecturer (Sociology) Exam Admit Card 2018 – Click Here
RPSC Admit Card 2018
The Rajasthan PSC Admit Card 2018 for the Agricultural officer posts. For all those applicants who had applied for this post and waiting for the RPSC Hall Ticket 2018. So, now all the applicants can click on the link below and download the RPSC Call Letter 2018 through online mode.
RPSC Agricultural Officer 2018 Written Exam Admit Card – Click Here
According to the recent news, theRPSC Admit Card 2018 is released for the Lecturer-Sindhi Posts. So, applicants for the Lecturer Sindhi jobs what are you waiting for download your RPSC Hall Ticket 2018 for the above posts. After downloading, take the print out of your RPSC Call Letter 2018 and attend the RPSC Examinations. That is conducted by the Rajasthan Public Service Commission Board @ rpsc.rajasthan.gov.in.
RPSC Lecturer – Sindhi Admit Card 2018 – Click Here
The Authority of Rajasthan PSC has sent the RPSC Admit Card 2018. For all the applicants who had applied for Junior Hydro Geologist posts. Furthermore, only the applicants having the RPSC Call Letter 2018 with them will be able to apply for the RPSC Exams. Therefore, candidates download your Rajasthan PSC Hall Ticket 2018 as soon as possible. And appear for the Rajasthan Public Service Exams @ rpsc.rajasthan.gov.in.
RPSC Hydro Geologist Hall Ticket 2018 – Click Here
Bihar Police Result2019 is available for various Bihar Police vacancies. The candidates who attended the Bihar Police Exams can check the result. A huge number of Contenders attend for the Bihar Police Exams, the result page will be busy on the day of Results. So, here we provide you a direct link to check the Bihar Police Result. Also, we provide results in PDF. Furthermore, get other details like Exam Pattern, Cut Off Marks, Merit List in the sections below. Also, check the official website of Bihar Police www.bpsssc.bih.nic.in for more details.
Bihar Police Excise Sub Inspector Final Result 2019 @ bpssc.bih.nic.in – The Bihar Police Subordinate Service Commission has announced the Bihar Police Excise Sub Inspector Final Result on 25th October 2019. Applicants who have appeared for the Excise Sub Inspector Posts can download Final Result now. Here we have provided a direct link to access your Bihar Police Excise Sub Inspector Final Result 2019.
Bihar Police Excise Sub Inspector Final Result 2019
BSSC Bihar Police Excise Sub Inspector Final Result 2019 – Click Here
Bihar Police Steno Assistant Sub Inspector Final Result 2019 – The Bihar Police Subordinate Service Commission has recently uploaded the final result for the Post of Steno Assistant Sub Inspector on the 19th September 2019. Those who have appeared for this recruitment can check and download your result from the below link, Along with this, applicants can check the complete details about Steno Assistant Sub Inspector Recruitment from the official website i.e, bpssc.bih.nic.in.
Bihar Police Steno Assistant Sub Inspector Final Result 2019
Name of the Organization
Bihar Police Subordinate Service Commission
Name of the Post
Steno Assistant Sub Inspector
No of Vacancies
174
Typing Test Result
07th September 2019
Final Result Release Date
19th September 2019
Official Website
bpssc.bih.nic.in
Bihar Police Steno Assistant Sub Inspector Final Result 2019 – Click Here
BSSC Bihar Police Excise Sub Inspector Mains Result 2019 @ bpssc.bih.nic.in – The Bihar Police Subordinate Service Commission has announced the Bihar Police Excise Sub Inspector Mains Result on 12th September 2019. Applicants who have appeared for the Excise Sub Inspector Posts can download Mains Exam Result now. Here we have provided a direct link to access your Bihar Police Excise Sub Inspector Mains Result 2019.
Bihar Police Excise Sub Inspector Mains Result 2019
BSSC Bihar Police Excise Sub Inspector Mains Result 2019 – Click Here
Bihar Police Subordinate Service Commission has conducted the Steno Assistant Sub Inspector Exam on the month of August 2019. And Now the BPSSC Board has conducted the Typing Test and released the BPSSC Typing Test Results on 07th September 2019. Applicants who have attended the Typing Test for Sub Inspector Post can check out the BPSSC Results 2019 here in the below section.
The Bihar Police Constable Result 2018 and Bihar Police Fireman Result 2018 will soon be out. Candidates have to wait until the Bihar Police Exam is done. The Bihar Police exam will be conducted soon in the month of November and December 2018. The number of posts for Bihar Police Constable is 9900 and there are 1965 posts for the Bihar Police Fireman. Candidates who will sit for this exam will be able to access their Bihar Police Results via the link below. The Bihar Police Result 2018 will be declared on the official site.
Bihar Police Result 2018 Details
Name of the Organization
Central Selection Board of Constable (CBCS), Bihar
Bihar Police Result 2018: for the Post of Subinspector Mains Exam is available now. However, the applicants who appeared for the Bihar Police SI Mains Exam can check the Result below. Hence, check the Bihar Police Result for SI 2018 in the link given below. Furthermore, if you find any errors while checking your Bihar Police Result visit the official website for queries.
Bihar Police Constable Final Result 2018 is available now. The Candidate those who are eagerly waiting for the Bihar Police Constable Result can check from the link given below. However, we provide you with a direct download link for Bihar Police Constable Final Result below. Also, check the other details about Bihar Police Recruitment for Constable 2017.
Bihar Police Result 2018: Looking for the Bihar Police Sub Inspector Recruitment Result 2018. Here is the link to download the Bihar Police Result 2018. However, candidates who all attended the Bihar Police Subordinate Service Commission (BPSSC) exam 2018 can check their Result. BPSSC Result is out on 4th May 2018. Moreover, Download the BPSSC Result from the direct links below. The BPPSC Official link will be busy today i.e., www,bpssc.bih.nic.in. So, we providing you with a direct download for BPSSC Result 2018 here.
Bihar Police Result 2018: Hey guys here we have provided the great news for all the Bihar Police Driver Constable, Fireman Driver Result 2018. Candidates can check their Bihar Police Exam Result 2018 here. With the help, Bihar Police Merit List 2018 applicants can check out if they are qualified or not. The result will be here to download when released by the officials at biharpolice.bih.nic.in. To know your performance we have provided some of the steps to check your exam results.
Bihar Police Exam Result 2018
Applicants who appeared for the examination are very eagerly waiting to check their Bihar Police Result 2018. Moreover, aspirants can access the official website to check their Bihar Police Merit List 2018. Since a huge number of contenders had applied for the post and the official website would be busy. However, applicants can make use of the links and follow the steps given below to check Bihar Police Results 2018.
A few days ago the Bihar Police Department had released its recruitment notification for the post of Driver Constable, Fireman Driver. As per the official notification the board had announced a total of 1669 vacant seats to be filled. The mode of application for the post was through online mode. Hence those applicants who have appeared for the post and attended the examination are now eager to check their Bihar Police Result 2018. Hence get ready with your hall ticket number to check your results.
The officials first release the cut off marks before the declaration of result. Hence, applicants, those who have dreamed of going to the further levels must acquire the Bihar Police Cut Off Mark 2018 for the post of Driver Constable, Fireman Driver. As cut off marks is the minimum qualifying marks contenders must score to get qualified for further rounds. However, the Bihar Police Cut off marks will be prepared by the examiners based on some aspects like
Previous Year cut off marks.
Exam paper toughness.
No of vacancies that are available
Performance of the exam participants in the written exam.
Bihar Police Merit List 2018
As the exam was held for 1669 posts lakhs of interested candidates have appeared for the exams. So the exam controllers will take some time to release the Bihar Police Result 2018. Moreover, the Bihar Police Exam Result 2018 is released by the officials and hence there can be no ambiguity. Follow the steps given below to check your results.
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By Kala S Sridhar & Vishal RThe phenomenon of 'ghost cities' — underoccupied or unoccupied property developments — in China has been quite controversial, many pointing out that cities such as Pudong, a district of Shanghai, earlier described as a ghost city, are today bustling, 'normal' urban habitations. Be that as it may, China's ghost city phenomenon has been a result of policy, over-urbanisation and unbridled loans from State-run banks to the urban development infrastructure corporations (UDICs), the special purpose vehicles (SPVs) set up for every city, with not enough residents willing to move in there.There are a large number of ghost cities in India as well: Ross Island (Andaman & Nicobar Islands), Fatehpur Sikri (Uttar Pradesh), Dhanushkodi (Tamil Nadu), Mandu (Madhya Pradesh), old Goa and Vijayanagar (Karnataka). Causes for these ghost towns include natural calamities such as earthquakes, cyclones or epidemics, and historical reasons such as invasions or wars.Dhanushkodi was declared unfit for living by the Madras government in 1964, following a devastating cyclone that submerged many parts of the town underneath sand dunes. The 2011 District Census Handbook of Ramanathapuram district mentions that just before the tsunami that struck the Indian Ocean in December 2004, the sea around the town receded, and parts of the submerged town were visible to some local fishermen.The most recent ghost city to consider here is Amaravati, the capital of the newly carved Andhra Pradesh. Investors set aside huge investments, farmers sold land and bought equipment (read: earthmovers) in the hope that they would get a stake in the booming town's success — none of which has happened, as the new government is apparently not interested in continuing, even though substantial investments have already been made.Ghosts Don't LiePolicies leading to such situations arising in India have been deindustrialisation, such as the case of the shut Ideal Jawa motorcycle factory in Mysore that closed and never reopened. This could be quite similar to 'Motown' Detroit's downfall in the US. The case of Ideal Jawa also points to the general decline in manufacturing in Indian cities, which have increasingly come to depend on the service industry.November 2016's demonetisation drive also has reportedly led to the decline of some towns such as Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu, which depended on the now liquidity-starved knitwear industry. The well-intentioned goods and services tax (GST) also added to the town's slowdown.While there is a lot of literature on how cities add to the macroeconomic growth and GDP of a country due to their scale and agglomeration economies, there is much less research on how they can solve problems associated with the slowing of macroeconomic growth/GDP. When there is a general business slowdown, economists talk about monetary policy cutting down interest rates, and increasing government expenditure. Because of their scale and agglomeration effects, cities should be an important driver of resurgent macroeconomic growth in countries battered by slowdown. Yet, very little is talked about cities as important drivers of growth during a slowdown.The story of ghost cities in India should teach us some lessons on how to make cities engines of growth even during slowdowns. Indian cities have been hubs of services, primarily, following trends in the national economy. However, they have to industrialise and manufacture, to enable faster commuting, facilitate to access the internet easily, and electrify the powerless.There were many older cities built around manufacturing — Jamshedpur, Durgapur, Bhilai, Bokaro, etc — that continue to be economically vibrant till this day. States should compete, and offer incentives for manufacturing plants to be located in their cities, and not just software firms, hospitality chains and retail outlets.Dhanushkodi should teach us how we should employ manufacturing or artificial intelligence (AI) to power information about impending disasters, such as cyclones & earthquakes. Weather forecasting has to be further improved to prevent and mitigate urban flooding and its significant after-effects.Be Good CityzensAbove everything, policy certainty is needed for cities to enable them to function efficiently as effective land and labour markets. Currently, our cities are constrained with regulations in each of these factor markets. Land regulations are archaic and urban labour markets are nearly dysfunctional, which are problems essentially for manufacturing firms. Entrepreneurial skills, manifesting themselves as startups (focusing on both manufacturing and services), should be encouraged at the city level, as startups are concentrated primarily in urban areas.One hopes that India's ghost cities are temporary, and will be converted into economically vibrant nerve centres to support the rest of the economy. The 'Make in India' initiative should be actively supported at the city level by unleashing land and labour markets. With these policy initiatives, cities can serve as channels by which economic slowdown can be redressed.
MUMBAI: Reliance Industries Ltd will invest Rs 1.08 lakh crore through a rights issue in a newly formed, wholly owned subsidiary, which in turn will use the proceeds to invest in Reliance Jio Infocomm with the aim of making the telco a virtually net debt free company by March 31, 2020."Identified liabilities" of a corresponding amount of Jio will be transferred to RIL and the parent's equity stake worth Rs 65,000 crore in the telco will be transferred to the wholly owned unit.In addition to the three-year-old carrier Jio, all the other digital businesses of the group such as JioCinema, JioTV, JioSaavn and other platforms such as education, healthcare and gaming will be housed in the new subsidiary. "Given the reach and scale of our digital ecosystem, we have received strong interest from potential strategic partners," RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani said in a statement. "We will induct the right partners in our platform company, creating and unlocking meaningful value for RIL shareholders."Ambani described the new company as a truly transformational and disruptive digital services platform. "It will bring together India's No. 1 connectivity platform, leading digital app ecosystem and world's best tech capabilities, to create a truly digital society for each Indian," he said.After the transaction, Jio, with over 355 million users, will have about Rs 40,000 crore of mainly spectrum-related debt on books. "RJIL (Jio) will become virtually net debt free by 31st March 2020, with exception of spectrum-related liabilities," RIL said.RIL's latest move is an attempt to mirror the structure of companies such as Alphabet-Google, Alibaba and Tencent and attract comparable valuations in the future as it moves to monetise its digital assets, analysts said.Alibaba's market cap stands at over $455 billion while Alphabet is worth nearly $878 billion. 71768923 "It's a great move to attract investments. The holding and capitalisation structure is in line with global platform companies," said Rohan Dhamija, director, Middle East and South Asia, at consultancy firm Analysys Mason.People familiar with the matter said any potential investor has the choice of putting money in the platform, through which it will get a holding in Jio, or owning a direct stake in the telecom company. Jio has already reduced its debt by over Rs 1lakh crore by hiving off its fibre and tower assets into two separate infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs). Its tower InvIT has already drawn investment from Canada's Brookfield of more than Rs 25,000 crore."Like global technology peers, the digital platform company with negligible leverage makes a compelling investment proposition for both strategic and financial investors, many of whom have evinced strong interest in partnering with us," said Jio. "It will have significant financial strength to address the digital services opportunity in India."The optionally convertible preference shares (OCPS) that the wholly owned unit will issue to RIL will be redeemed when a new investor enters the subsidiary, said people familiar with the matter. Jio will also be issuing OCPS on a rights basis to the wholly owned unit.The newly formed unit "will subscribe to the rights issue of OCPS aggregating up to Rs 1,08,000 crore for the purpose of payment of consideration for transfer of identified liabilities" to RIL, the company said.A person aware of the development said there will be no changes in spectrum licences, which will remain with Jio. Besides monetisation of its digital assets, RIL said the transaction won't impact any shareholder or the consolidated debt of RIL."Consolidation of liabilities in RIL creates an efficient structure to manage debt and cash. It does not impact RIL's standalone credit profile given its robust cash flows and conservative leverage," RIL said. RIL's standalone debt is Rs 28,000 crore and it can easily take on debt of up to Rs 1.36 lakh crore or so, said people with knowledge of the matter. RIL's cash and treasury investments are worth Rs 1.3 lakh crore and it's throwing up cash of Rs 1 lakh crore every year, so Jio's debt won't be a big burden, they said.
Over the course of its 15 year history, Facebook has variously ignored news organizations while eating their advertising revenue, courted them for video projects it subsequently abandoned, and then largely cut their stories out of its newsfeeds .Now it plans to pay them for news headlines -reportedly millions of dollars in some cases.Enter the ``News Tab,'' a new section in the Facebook mobile app that will display headlines _ and nothing else _ from the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, Business Insider, NBC, USA Today & the Los Angeles Times, among others. Local stories from several of the largest U.S. cities will also make the grade; headlines from smaller towns are on their way, Facebook says.Tapping on those headlines will take you directly to publisher websites or apps, if you have any installed. Which is more or less what publishers have been requesting from Facebook for years.It's potentially a big step for a platform that has long struggled with both stamping out misinformation and making nice with struggling purveyors of news. Though media watchers remain skeptical that Facebook is really committed to helping sustain the news industry.Facebook declined to say who is getting paid and how much, saying only that it will be paying ``a range of publishers for access to all of their content.'' Just last year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he wasn't sure it ``makes sense " to pay news outlets for their material.But now, as Zuckerberg told The Associated Press in an interview, ``there's an opportunity to set up new long term, stable financial relationships with publishers.''The Associated Press is not participating in the initiative.News executives have long been unhappy about the extent to which digital giants like Facebook make use of their stories _ mostly by displaying headlines and short summaries when users post news links. A bipartisan bill introduced in Congress this year would grant an antitrust exemption to news companies, letting them band together to negotiate payments from the big tech platforms.``It's a good direction that they're willing for the first time to value and pay for news content,'' said David Chavern, head of the News Media Alliance, a publisher trade group. ``The trouble is that most publishers aren't included.''Zuckerberg said Facebook aims to set up partnerships with a ``wide range'' of publishers.``We think that this is an opportunity to build something quite meaningful here,'' he said. ``We're going to have journalists curating this, we are really focused on provenance and branding and where the stories come from.''In a statement, the Los Angeles Times said it expects the Facebook effort will help expand its readership and digital subscribers.Facebook killed its previous effort to curate news, the ill-fated Trending topics, in 2018. Conservatives complained about political bias, leading Facebook to fire its human editors and automate the section until it began recycling false stories, after which the social giant shut it down entirely.But what happens when the sprawling social network plays news editor? An approach that sends people news based on what they've liked before could over time elevate stories with greater ``emotional resonance'' over news that ``allows public discourse to take place,'' said Edward Wasserman, dean of the graduate journalism program at the University of California-Berkeley.``It deepens my concern that they'll be applying Facebook logic to news judgment,'' he added.The social network has come under criticism for its news judgment recently. In September, it removed a fact-check from Science Feedback that called out an anti-abortion activist's video for claiming that abortion is never medically necessary. Republican senators had complained about the fact check.Facebook says a small team of ``seasoned'' journalists it employs will choose the headlines for the ``Today's Story'' section of the tab, designed to ``catch you up'' on the day's news. The rest of the news section will be populated with stories algorithmically based on users' interests.That sounds similar to the approach taken by Apple News , a free iPhone app. But Apple's effort to contract with news organizations has been slow to take off. Apple News Plus, a $10-a-month paid version, remains primarily a hub for magazines; other news publishers have largely sat it out.Apple's service reportedly offered publishers only half the revenue it pulled in from subscriptions, divided according to how popular publishers were with readers.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has instructed telecom companies to deposit the dues sought by the government in three months in accordance with the court's Thursday order backing a broader definition of adjusted gross revenue (AGR). "We give (telecom companies) three months' time to deposit the amount, which is due and compliance be reported," said the court order uploaded on its website Friday.Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel, the two telcos affected most by the SC order with pending licence fee and spectrum usage charge (SUC) dues of Rs 39,000 crore and over Rs 41,000 crore, respectively, declined to comment on the three-month deadline. Tata Teleservices, which sold its loss-making consumer mobility business to Airtel, faces dues worth nearly Rs 13,000 crore. Queries emailed to a spokesperson of the company remained unanswered as of press time Friday.The government will soon issue demand notices to telecom companies for additional licence fees and spectrum usage dues. "With this Supreme Court judgment, our hands are tied. We have no choice in the matter," a senior government official told ET. Officials however told ET the authorities could explore ways to soften the blow on the industry saddled with over Rs 7 lakh crore of debt. The options being considered include reducing the interest and penalty, besides long-term measures like lowering licence fees and spectrum usage charge, and fixing a floor for tariffs. But this would be a tightrope walk, as the government would want to avoid vigilance action in future.Another official said the sector was in a fragile state and the government was thinking of providing relief. "But it can't be confused with the issue of AGR. We have been fighting for this for 15 years," he said. He acknowledged that while the judgment was in favour of the government, the timing was not 'opportune'.Vodafone Idea, which analysts warned could be headed for bankruptcy unless granted some relief, said Friday that it would seek reprieve from the department of telecom (DoT), including waiver of interest and penalty.A DoT official said a decision on a waiver could only be taken at the "topmost levels" of the government. But officials said they would have to tread carefully, since it may set a wrong precedent.71769003 The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that AGR for telcos should include all revenue accrued to the carriers, including from non-core activities, backing the telecom department's stance. The order paved the way for the DoT to seek more than Rs 1.3 lakh crore in dues, penalty and interest from the sector.Reliance Jio, the latest entrant in the sector that is the only profitable telco, faces licence fee and SUC dues of Rs 41 crore.Vodafone Idea is already struggling with falling revenue, a shrinking user base, combined quarterly losses of nearly Rs 5,000 crore, and a negative free cash flow along with debt of more than Rs 99,000 crore."The judgment represents a significant event with respect to the company… we will evaluate our next steps. The judgment has financial implications, which we are reviewing," Vodafone Idea said. It said Thursday that it may file a review petition in the apex court.Besides waiving off or lowering penalty and interest, the government is working out a broader relief package for the industry that could include reassessing moratorium on payment for spectrum installments, offsetting input tax credit worth Rs 36,000 crore against future payments, and reducing licence fee by two percentage points to 6% by decreasing the contribution to the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF). Recently, telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had said the government was working on spectrum pricing reforms.
MUMBAI: The Economic Offences Wing of Mumbai Police is keen to explore the possibility of auctioning at least 18 assets of 'depreciating value' seized from HDIL promoters arrested in connection with Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative Bank fraud case.The city police recently discussed the matter with JB Bhoria, the Reserve Bank of India-appointed administrator of the bank, saying the proceeds raised from the auctions could be infused in the bank and be made available to the beleaguered depositors on a pro rata basis, at least two sources told ET.The move will help provide quick relief to the depositors even as the probe into alleged criminal conspiracy between some officials of PMC Bank and Housing Development Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL) promoters Rakesh and son Sarang Wadhawan is underway, they said."A sizeable chunk of the depositors are from the lower income group and an early auction will ease their financial load," one of the sources said. "We are awaiting clarity from RBI administrator on it."Bhoria refused to comment.An RBI spokesperson in a text reply to ET said, "Only the administrator can say, we will not have any information on this."The Wadhawans have already given their consent to selling the 18 attached assets, including two private jets, a speed boat and a fleet of high-end cars. In a letter dated October 16 to the finance ministry, RBI and probe agencies including EOW and Enforcement Directorate (ED), they requested the agencies to monetise the attached assets whose value could depreciate at "fair market value"."We further give our unconditional consent for the appropriation of the money received from the sale of these assets to be adjusted and appropriated towards the principal loan amount procured by us and the respective companies," the letter said. "We undertake and assured to extend full cooperation and assistance in the process." ET reviewed a copy of the letter.Probe agencies expect to raise a few hundred crores from the sale.The persons cited earlier said the auction will have to be carried under certain provisions of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Securities Interest (SARFAESI) Act, 2002 that allows banks and financial institutions to auction residential or commercial properties of defaulters to recover loans."In this case, since the accused has already agreed to give their consent to the auction, the list of the same could be provided to the administrator and the auction can be carried out as per the provisions of the Act," one of the officials said.The fraud at PMC Bank came to light after RBI discovered that the bank had allegedly created over 21,000 fictitious accounts to hide over Rs 4,300 crore of loans extended to almost-bankrupt HDIL.A manager of the bank on behalf of the RBI-appointed administrator then filed a case with the EOW. HDIL promoters, suspended PMC Bank managing director Joy Thomas, its former chairman Waryam Singh and director SS Arora have been arrested by EOW in the course of the probe. While EOW is probing the alleged criminal conspiracy between the promoters and accused bank officials, ED is probing the allegations of money laundering. The Wadhawans are currently in judicial custody and are lodged at Mumbai's Arthur Road jail.
MUMBAI: Loans growth remained tepid in the fortnight ended October 11 signalling that the loan melas that kicked off this month are yet to lead to a significant impact on disbursals.Aggregate loans disbursed by the commercial banks in the country rose Rs 21,645 crore during the fortnight ended October 11, to Rs 97.9 lakh crore, according to the latest data released by the Reserve Bank of India in its weekly statistical supplement. Credit growth on a year-on-year basis works out to 8.8 per cent compared to 14.4 per cent same period a year ago.Significantly the data reflects the period during which the government has announced a loan mela on October 1, covering 250 districts across the country to boost consumption and revive demand. The finance secretary Rajeev Kumar had said that state-run banks had disbursed Rs 81,781 crore in the nine days of 'loan mela' from October 1-9, at a media conference in mid-October. The measures announced by the government was expected to push loan growth of the banking sector as well as the sector was seeing a sharp contraction in loan demand through-out the first half of the fiscal.Since the RBI data released by the Reserve Bank is net of loan repayments, it is likely that entire disbursement is not fully captured in the data say bankers. Besides, much of the disbursals during the period were made from previous sanctions according to bankers.The sectoral data on bank lending until August indicate a slowdown in many sectors including small and medium enterprises, unsecured loans and vehicle loans among others.Interestingly, deposits have grown at a faster pace despite interest rate cuts and contraction in returns. Deposits grew 9.8 per cent year-on-year as of October 11, compared to 8.9 per cent in the same period a year ago.
While top quality private banks are going to lead in the next one year, if we project the outlook three years down, then it would be the broader capital goods sector, says Sunil Subramaniam, MD & CEO, Sundaram MF. Excerpts from an interview with ETNOW. Let us start off by getting your new year wish list. We are watching out for some of the multibaggers. What should we pick for the new year?In the new year, the big will get bigger and the biggest multiplier next year will be the high quality private sector banks if you want to take a one-year outlook. If you project the outlook down to three years, then I would say the broader capital goods sector. Big are going to get bigger and you are still looking at private sector banks and so forth. You are not going in for any kind of risk taking?No, this is a year of takeoff. I think 2020 is probably the most crucial year in our country's stock market history because this is going to be the turnaround year. So in the first year of a turnaround, the big will get bigger because I see all the investments being made on a very good future. Risk will add on by the end of next year. During the process of the investment cycle kickstarting, which is what is being hoped for next year, if you want the return by the end of one year, then it is still going to be from the safer, bigger players. What are the kind of returns that one could hope for in a best case scenario even if you are not looking at immediate one-year scenario? Let us say over the next two years, if you are looking at a slightly more longer-term investment?From the larger cap segment, I would say low to middle double digit return and for the broader market, I would expect high double digit return. That is the range. I would expect the broader market to outperform the larger market over three years by about 3-4 percentage points. You can basically put it as a band of 12-15 and 15-18 percentage points for the largecaps and the broader market. You were one of the first ones to say that the time has come to buy the broader markets. Is it going to be a very selective recovery when it comes to mid and smallcaps, albeit the entire space is actually moving up in one go?Mid and smallcap probably has much more drivers, whereas the largecap is concentrated in banking and financial services and IT. Those three sectors account for about 55-60% of the index. But the broader market is much broader. That is why it is the broader market. We see that there are three or four compounders there. The first compounder is consumer discretionary. We believe that is the story in the broader market where consumer durables, recovery in auto and all of those which are going to drive the next big thing. The second thing which we are going to see and which is probably slightly towards the later half of next year but full-fledged in 2021, would be the capex cycle. Though the government's efforts have been essentially on boosting the supply side, those require time to get into action. Next year, with the announcements on FDI and the actual order books being announced, the flow will start to build. By the end of next year, I would see a full-fledged blowout of broader capex cycle where the midcap and smallcap segments have heavy exposure. That is the reason we have been bullish on the broader market because we think the capex cycle will be ripe for take off by the end of next year . A lot of things have changed from last Diwali to this. The entire fundamental dynamics is a complete contrast to where they were in the year gone by, a case in point is autos for instance. Are there certain sectors investors should stay off for the next one year?The one thing which is clear is that the global trade war has actually enhanced the possibility of recession in many countries and definitely a slowdown. So global cyclicals, where I would count both ferrous and non-ferrous metals would be under pressure. Commodities also would be under pressure because it includes the core minerals. You will see demand easing off so I would say people are better off staying away from the global cyclicals.. Second, in a slowdown, highly export-oriented services sectors, where I count pharma and IT to some extent. IT has a cushion that is an existing business model which is going on. So there is a safety element to IT, but I would not see IT really jumping up and growing their businesses as a multiplier effect in the coming years. So, global-oriented businesses are probably going to underperform the domestic-oriented businesses in the coming year. I would encourage investors to shift their focus towards the domestic economy because whatever the government is doing in terms of the supply side, will have a long-term lasting impact on the domestic economy. Anything from the earnings that has surprised you or anything that has disappointed you?It has been a mixed bag. I don't want to get company specific, but even within sectors, we have seen very mixed results. I would rather wait for a couple of weeks where we will get sector-wise clarity. But every sector has seen some companies disappoint and some companies surprise on the positive side. That has been a little bit of surprise because we thought the market has factored in a GDP slowdown, leading to some kind of consumption slowdown involving a lot of stocks. Some positive surprises have indeed come through, but we would rather wait for a couple of more weeks before passing out more definitive judgements. Do you feel we could see momentary pain two-three months down the line?I would say there could be disappointing earnings surprises which the market has not factored in but I do not expect that to severe market corrections because we see that domestic mutual funds continue to get strong SIP flows. So, there is buying power with the domestic participants. So, putting buying power where there is future value will prevent the market from falling very deeply. I do not think that will be a sharp fall, but at the same time, there are not really any causes for a great rise in the short run. Expect a sideways movement for at least the next couple of months. Within segments like private sector banks, are you watching out for any triggers or domestic cues? Even within that pack, there have been select cases where leverage and overexposure has been a problem. Would you be very stock specific or would you still bet on the whole theme as a whole?We bet on the theme as a whole. The only filter we would use would be corporate governance structure in the private sector banks. The reason is that whether there is a general revival in the consumption or there is a capex side thing, there is a rate transmission going on. The banking system is bound to expand and the good quality private sector banks are sitting in a sweet spot for business as a whole. A large number of PSU banks are going to go through merger pangs and so their ability to lend is going to be constrained. At the same time, apart from the crème de la crèmes of the NBFCs, the broader pack is going to see liquidity situation turning tough for them. So, the absence of the PSU banks and the wider NBFCs from the market would help private sector banks.So even if there is stock-specific bad news for a particular quarter, overall over the next year, their business volumes and their net interest margins are going to expand because of the absence of competition. That's why I think of them as the biggest bet for next year. The top five banks are accounting for 35% of the market and that is already too high. Banking is one sector where a typical prevention of a monopolistic situation does not arise and the larger banks are free to become larger in many economies. We believe for India, the potential exists for them to increase their market share in the country.
By Chandan TapariaNifty50 opened positive on Friday but oscillated in a wide trading range between 11,500 and 11,650 levels. It formed a Hammer pattern on the daily scale and a small-bodied candle on the weekly chart, as buying emerged at lower levels while the hurdles remains intact.The index has been stuck between 11,500 and 11,700 levels for last five sessions and now needs to hold its support to aim for the upper band of the trading range at 11,700, while a decisive hold below 11,550 can negate the current short-term bullish setup and take Nifty to its downside support in the 11,480 – 11,450 zone.On the monthly options front, maximum Put open interest was at 11,000 followed by 11,500 levels, while maximum Call OI was at 12,000 followed by 11,700 levels. There was Call writing at 11,600 and then 11,550 levels, while Put writing was seen at 11,500 and then 11,550 level. Options data suggested a trading range between 11,450 and 11,750 levels.India VIX fell 5.70% to 15.31.Bank Nifty remained volatile and traded in a broad range of 500 points for most part of the session. It formed a Hammer pattern on daily scale, as dips got bought into while a long-legged Doji on the weekly scale suggested a tug of war between the bulls and the bears.The index is finding multiple supports near 28,800 mark, while supply pressure remained intact at higher levels. Nifty has to hold above 29,200 to witness a bounce towards 29,700 level, while a hold below the same level may make it drift towards 29,000 and then 28,800 levels.Nifty futures closed flat at 11,604 level. There was long buildup in Star, Glenmark, UBL, Sun TV and Cipla while shorts were seen in Cummins, Torrent Power, Bharti Infratel, GAIL and Marico.(Chandan Taparia is Technical & Derivative Analyst at MOFSL. Investors are advised to consult financial advisers before taking an investment calls based on these observations)
Over the course of its 15 year history, Facebook has variously ignored news organizations while eating their advertising revenue, courted them for video projects it subsequently abandoned, and then largely cut their stories out of its newsfeeds .Now it plans to pay them for news headlines -reportedly millions of dollars in some cases.Enter the ``News Tab,'' a new section in the Facebook mobile app that will display headlines _ and nothing else _ from the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, Business Insider, NBC, USA Today & the Los Angeles Times, among others. Local stories from several of the largest U.S. cities will also make the grade; headlines from smaller towns are on their way, Facebook says.Tapping on those headlines will take you directly to publisher websites or apps, if you have any installed. Which is more or less what publishers have been requesting from Facebook for years.It's potentially a big step for a platform that has long struggled with both stamping out misinformation and making nice with struggling purveyors of news. Though media watchers remain skeptical that Facebook is really committed to helping sustain the news industry.Facebook declined to say who is getting paid and how much, saying only that it will be paying ``a range of publishers for access to all of their content.'' Just last year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he wasn't sure it ``makes sense " to pay news outlets for their material.But now, as Zuckerberg told The Associated Press in an interview, ``there's an opportunity to set up new long term, stable financial relationships with publishers.''The Associated Press is not participating in the initiative.News executives have long been unhappy about the extent to which digital giants like Facebook make use of their stories _ mostly by displaying headlines and short summaries when users post news links. A bipartisan bill introduced in Congress this year would grant an antitrust exemption to news companies, letting them band together to negotiate payments from the big tech platforms.``It's a good direction that they're willing for the first time to value and pay for news content,'' said David Chavern, head of the News Media Alliance, a publisher trade group. ``The trouble is that most publishers aren't included.''Zuckerberg said Facebook aims to set up partnerships with a ``wide range'' of publishers.``We think that this is an opportunity to build something quite meaningful here,'' he said. ``We're going to have journalists curating this, we are really focused on provenance and branding and where the stories come from.''In a statement, the Los Angeles Times said it expects the Facebook effort will help expand its readership and digital subscribers.Facebook killed its previous effort to curate news, the ill-fated Trending topics, in 2018. Conservatives complained about political bias, leading Facebook to fire its human editors and automate the section until it began recycling false stories, after which the social giant shut it down entirely.But what happens when the sprawling social network plays news editor? An approach that sends people news based on what they've liked before could over time elevate stories with greater ``emotional resonance'' over news that ``allows public discourse to take place,'' said Edward Wasserman, dean of the graduate journalism program at the University of California-Berkeley.``It deepens my concern that they'll be applying Facebook logic to news judgment,'' he added.The social network has come under criticism for its news judgment recently. In September, it removed a fact-check from Science Feedback that called out an anti-abortion activist's video for claiming that abortion is never medically necessary. Republican senators had complained about the fact check.Facebook says a small team of ``seasoned'' journalists it employs will choose the headlines for the ``Today's Story'' section of the tab, designed to ``catch you up'' on the day's news. The rest of the news section will be populated with stories algorithmically based on users' interests.That sounds similar to the approach taken by Apple News , a free iPhone app. But Apple's effort to contract with news organizations has been slow to take off. Apple News Plus, a $10-a-month paid version, remains primarily a hub for magazines; other news publishers have largely sat it out.Apple's service reportedly offered publishers only half the revenue it pulled in from subscriptions, divided according to how popular publishers were with readers.
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