Up in the Arctic cold, frozen woolly-mammoth carcasses can be so well preserved that they still have blood in their veins. Their flesh is still pink — which means that, of course, yes, someone has thought about eating it.
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Amazon ignored or dismissed safety concerns about its delivery network to prioritize speed and explosive growth, according to new documents and interviews with insiders.
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These ads created during the years after WW2 were almost works of art and skillfully created by hand by wonderfully talented artists and illustrators who worked tirelessly for hours if not days to achieve almost perfect results.
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Incarcerated people who are dying can apply for "compassionate release" in some states — but very few of them get it. This is the story of one who did.
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"I knew there wasn't much there, but there was even less than I had imagined," Koopmans says. The closest town, Rachel, has a population of around 50 people. Other than one alien-themed restaurant and bar, the Little A'Le'Inn, there's little for outsiders to do — this isn't Roswell.
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Legend has it that the design was created by Abraham Lincoln, to ensure the mallet head would never loosen. Whether that's true or not, it's a cool design.
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Every year, millions of Americans purchase and decorate Christmas trees to ring in the holiday season. Whether they are bought at a lawn and garden store, pop-up lot, or harvested from a tree farm or national forest, a live tree is an integral part of the tradition for many families.
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Carolyn Kormann reports from Okuma and Fukushima, Japan, on the aftermath of the March, 2011, nuclear meltdown at the Daiichi power plant and how residents of the area have adapted to radiation levels.
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A New York woman worried that her sore throat might be strep, so she went to the doctor to have it checked out. Then came the bill — with a price tag similar to a small SUV.
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Caroline Eriksson, a sculpture artist from Oslo, Norway built a life-sized gingerbread Groot, the sentient tree-like creature from Guardians of the Galaxy. It's incredible.
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On December 23, 1927, a man dressed as Santa Claus walked into a bank and demanded money. Unfortunately, the bank was in Texas, and practically everyone in town was armed. Determining Santa was on the Naughty List, they opened fire.
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The household economy of cooking, cleaning, mending, washing, and grocery shopping has arguably changed more in the past 100 years than the American factory or the modern office. And its evolution tells an illuminating story about why, no matter what work we do, we never seem to have enough time. In the 20th century, labor-saving household technology improved dramatically, but no labor appears to have been saved.
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America may not be able to compete in future wars.
Key Point: It's been decades since the U.S. army has had to prepare to fight a peer competitor.
The U.S. Army once was superior to every potential adversary in terms of combat power, what it called overmatch. This is no longer entirely true. In the future battlefields, the Army will face enemies that will be extremely lethal, more numerous, fighting on home turf and able to exploit the advantage of getting in the first blow. Unless the Army takes a number of steps in the near-term, it is likely to find itself not merely outmatched, but at risk of defeat.
WNU Editor: If there is a war between the U.S. and China and/or Russia, I am one of those who believes that it will quickly escalate into a nuclear one. In such a scenario no one is going to be outmatched. Most of us would be dead.
Both the J-15 fighter jets and the new carrier are based on Soviet weapon design, which is also used in the Russian Armed Forces. This is the first carrier China has completely built on its own.
A new Chinese carrier, the Shandong, which entered service on 17 December this year, was shown in action in a report by Chinese CCTV7 channel. The report features Chinese J-15 4th-generation jets practicing takeoff and landing on the boat.
Both the J-15 and the Shandong are heavily based on Soviet design, with the J-15 based on the Su-33 jet and the Shandong based on the Project 1143, or 'Kuznetsov-class', carrier family. Currently, Russia has one Project 1143 ship – the eponymous Admiral Kuznetsov, which participated in Russia's military operation in Syria.
* As US financial support expires in 2023, Beijing could 'loosen the screws' on regional alliance with lucrative development deals * Independence vote in Micronesia's Chuuk state in March could raise the stakes, potentially allowing China access to strategically vital waters
In China earlier this month, David Panuelo, the president of the Federated States of Micronesia, climbed the Badaling section of the Great Wall. And, according to Huang Zheng, Beijing's ambassador to the Pacific nation, the countries' "great friendship rose to even greater heights" during Panuelo's visit.
Chinese investment in Micronesia reached similarly lofty levels in conjunction with Panuelo's trip, which marked three decades of diplomatic ties and included meetings with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. Beijing has committed US$72 million in economic development deals, almost as much as its total investment of the previous three decades.
WNU Editor: It is going to take more than just money for Micronesia to turn away from the U.S. and embrace China. A good percentage of its citizens work and live in the U.S..
As the deadline for Washington and Pyongyang's denuclearization talks draws near, the US Department of Defense has released various images and since-deleted videos of South Korean and US special forces service members
In an unprecedented move, the US Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) of the Pentagon released a collection of photos associated with an alleged routine training drill which took place last month at the Kunsan (Gunsan) Air Base in the South Korean town of Gunsan.
One of Russia's cutting-edge Su-57 fighter jets crashed during routing factory test flights near the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft plant.
The pilot ejected safely and was picked up by a Mi-8 rescue helicopter. The crashed jet's backboxes are yet to be recovered.
The aircraft involved in the incident belonged to the manufacturer and was undergoing a series of flight tests some 110 kilometers of Dzyomgi air base in Russia's Far Eastern Khabarovsk region.
China might soon shift the world naval balance and unseat the US as the modern master of the seas. The process appears to already be under way, and there is little that Washington can do about stopping it.
Visibly shaken by what it has seen on a photo showing just one of China's military shipyards near Shanghai, the business magazine Forbes recently told its readers an alarming story about the "impressive rate" and "vast scale" of Chinese naval modernization.
WNU Editor: I have been told by a contact that I trust in Beijing that China's ultimate goal is to have a 500 ship navy (this does not include its maritime militia). I do not know if this is possible, but their ship-building program is very aggressive.
France's armed forces said Monday it had carried out a drone strike for the first time, during operations in Mali at the weekend in which it said 40 "terrorists" were killed.
On Saturday, French President Emmanuel Macron had announced that French forces had "neutralised" 33 jihadists in the central Malian region of Mopti, in an operation that had started the previous night.
In a statement, the French military command said the drone strike happened during a follow-up operation Saturday in which another seven jihadist fighters were killed.
As French commandos were searching the combat zone in Ouagadou forest, 150 kilometres (90 miles) from the town of Mopti, "they were attacked by a group of terrorists on motorbikes," the statement said.
A Reaper drone and a French Mirage 2000 patrol opened fire to support the ground troops, it said.
"This is the first operational strike by an armed drone," the statement said, confirming an earlier report published in the specialist blog Le Mamouth.
The coming year is poised to be pivotal for U.S.-Russia arms control talks.
The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the last major treaty constraining the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, is set to expire in early 2021.
That means President Trump has to get serious in 2020 about engaging in arms control talks with Russia, supporters of renewing the treaty say.
Trump has said he wants a broader deal that also folds in China, a much heavier feat than just extending the existing treaty. But in 2020, Trump will also be focused on his reelection campaign. And his always controversial relationship with Russia is a wild card.
Libya has been divided since 2014 into rival military and political camps based in the capital Tripoli and the east The Russian mercenaries are fighting for Khalifa Hifter's forces against the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA)
The security chief of Libya's UN-backed government in Tripoli said Russian mercenaries backing eastern commander Khalifa Hifter are now spearheading a battle to capture the capital.
Fathi Bashagha, the interior minister for the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), said fighters with the Russian Wagner group, headed by a confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin, are leading the battle on the frontlines in Tripoli's outskirts, which has been accompanied by heavy shelling.
Western officials say more than 1,000 Wagner mercenaries have arrived since September to back Hifter's National Army in his nine-month offensive to capture Tripoli.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday slammed Democratic senators as well as Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over her decision to withhold House-passed articles of impeachment against President Trump from the upper chamber until Republicans guarantee a "fair" trial.
During an interview with "Fox & Friends," the GOP leader knocked the idea that Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) or Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would act as impartial judges during the president's Senate trial, claiming that it was an innately political exercise.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has spent her presidential campaign railing against the donor class, making it known she doesn't want their help.
She has publicly bashed millionaires, has sworn off high-dollar fundraisers and has refused large checks from Democratic bundlers.
But behind the scenes in recent months, former President Obama has gone to bat for Warren (D-Mass.) when speaking to donors reluctant to support her given her knocks on Wall Street and the wealthy.
And if Warren becomes the nominee, Obama has said they must throw the entirety of their support behind her.
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced five people to death for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year by a team of Saudi agents.
Khashoggi, an opinion writer for the Washington Post who was at one time a Saudi royal insider before becoming a critic of the leadership, was killed by lethal injection and then dismembered by a group of Saudi men sent from the kingdom.
Saudi Deputy Public Prosecutor and spokesman Shalaan al-Shalaan said the court dismissed charges against the remaining three of the 11 people that had been on trial, finding them not guilty. None of the defendants' names was immediately released.
ANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Turkish delegation was in Russia on Monday for talks on Syria, following reports that Russian-backed attacks there were forcing tens of thousands more Syrians to flee towards Turkey.
Turkey already hosts about 3.7 million Syrians - the world's biggest refugee population. Its President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday it could not handle a new influx and was urging Russia to stop the strikes in Syria's northwestern Idlib province.
The Turkey-based Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) said on Monday 120,000 Syrians were fleeing towards the Turkish border - higher than Erdogan's estimate of 80,000.
Chinese officials said Monday that the creation of a U.S. Space Force would overly weaponize outer space and endanger peaceful missions.
The Associated Press reported that Geng Shuang, a spokesman for China's foreign ministry, told reporters that Beijing is "deeply concerned" and "resolutely opposed" to the Trump administration's establishment of the sixth branch of the U.S. military.
"The relevant U.S. actions are a serious violation of the international consensus on the peaceful use of outer space, undermine global strategic balance and stability, and pose a direct threat to outer space peace and security," Geng said.
At his home in the mountains north of Kabul, former mujahideen fighter Shah Sulaiman closed his damaged eyes, took a sip of green tea and thought bitterly of Afghanistan's war against the Soviet Union that started four decades ago.
"When we fought against the Soviets, we were expecting a good future," said the 62-year-old father, who was blinded in one eye and suffered a leg wound when he trod on a landmine during the conflict in 1985.
"Unfortunately things turned out for the worst."
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the Soviet Union's "intervention" -- or invasion -- of Afghanistan, the beginning of a decade-long guerilla war that killed up to two million Afghans, forced seven million more from their homes and led to the deaths of more than 14,000 Soviet troops.
WNU Editor: They have the same issues that U.S. veterans from the Vietnam war must deal with. I have two cousins who served in Afghanistan. They only talk about the war when they are drunk. One of my uncles served as a senior officer in that conflict, and he was stationed in that country for a few years. He understood why the US had to invade Afghanistan in 2001 .... but he never understood why they decided to stay. To him it was a monumental mistake, that would cost untold lives and treasure. Unfortunately, with hindsight, he was right.
The US military did not provide further details on the attack but the Taliban claimed they were behind the roadside bombing in northern Kunduz province that killed the soldier
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - The U.S. military has announced that a U.S. service member was killed in action Monday in Afghanistan.
In making the announcement, the U.S. Forces-Afghanistan did not provide further details on where and how the casualty occurred.
The Taliban, in a statement sent to journalists, claimed the U.S. casualty occurred in the volatile northern Kunduz province.
The insurgent group said it targeted Afghan and American soldiers with a roadside bomb as they tried to conduct a joint raid against Taliban positions in the Char Dara district.
LEO VARADKAR'S days as Taoiseach are "numbered", with some within his government on the verge of panic as coalition partner Fianna Fail plots to collapse his administration within weeks, if not days, a former diplomat has said.
THE fragile coalition which keeps Leo Varadkar in power is on the verge of collapse after a senior minister accused opposition leader Micheal Martin of actively plotting against Ireland's Taoiseach in a bid to render him a "lame duck" leader.
THERE is mounting pressure in Spain for right-wing parties to back a Brexit-style departure from the EU, following widespread fury across the country at a ruling by the European Court of Justice .
NEW ZEALAND police said on Tuesday they were ending the search for the bodies of two people still missing following the deadly eruption of a volcano earlier this month.
SCIENTISTS have discovered a 300-million-year-old lizard in Canada that proves the first instance of animal parental care in a bombshell scientific revelation.
Since October, the Central African Republic (CAR) has been hit by the worst flooding in two decades, destroying over 10,000 homes and affecting an estimated 100,000 people across the country. Dozens of people have been killed and several hundreds of thousands more affected across the east and central African region.
Exceptionally heavy torrential rains have caused the Oubangui river, a major tributary of the River Congo that forms the border between CAR and the Democratic Republic of Congo, to overflow on about 372 miles of shoreline, according to UNICEF. Several riverside communities in CAR have been adversely affected, with reports from aid organizations that the flooding is so bad in the capital Bangui that the only way to get around is by canoe.
Adrienne Surprenant—GreenpeaceWater marks showing the flooding are seen in Georgine Kouangassam’s neighbor’s house on Nov.26, 2019. When the water rose in Kouangassam’s house at night, everyone struggled to get out in the dark. Her granddaughter Angela, 3, drowned.
Adrienne Surprenant—GreenpeaceA house is seen at night in a flooded neighbourhood of Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, on Nov. 22, 2019 during a night patrol.
Adrienne Surprenant is a Canadian photojournalist who has worked for several years in the Central African Republic, focusing on long-term projects with social and environmental themes. In recent weeks, Surprenant has documented the effects of the flooding in Bangui and the surrounding areas, in partnership with environmental organization Greenpeace. “This year, the climate change was stronger than before. We don’t even know what we can do anymore,” said 38-year-old plant cultivator Bruno Yamkomopanza. He lost his five hectares of sowing seeds, where he planted carrots, coleslaw and cucumbers, to the floods in Bimbo, near Bangui.
“While heavy rains are not unusual during the rainy season, their intensity was unprecedented,” says Safiatu Alabi, head of programmes in CAR for the Norwegian Refugee Council. “When asked, men and women in Bangui and Bimbo recalled flooding occuring in the past 10 to 15 years, but never to the extent experienced this season.” In late October, Prime Minister Firmin Ngrébada declared a national catastrophe in the country; two months on, the situation on the ground is still critical.
Adrienne Surprenant—GreenpeaceNina Yaeke, a 30-year-old mother of 8, used to live on Monkey Island, midway between the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She completely lost her home to flooding, and hopes to live in Bangui in the future.
CAR is one of the poorest countries in the world and the most food-insecure country in the world, and the recent flooding has exacerbated several underlying humanitarian problems. According to the Norwegian Refugee Council, 1 million people are currently displaced and 2.6 million are in need of urgent assistance due to ongoing conflicts in several parts of the country, which has been embroiled in a violent civil war between the government, rebels and militia groups since 2012. “These men, women, boys and girls simply do not have a safety net to fall back onto when faced with additional shocks and stresses, as has happened when these massive floods hit,” says Alabi.
Adrienne Surprenant—GreenpeaceAs the sun goes down, Guy Zegue distributes manioc in front of his shelter at the Socada camp on Nov. 23, 2019. The former member of the Central African army fled with his wife and children as all of Monkey Island was flooded.
Adrienne Surprenant—GreenpeaceBruno Yamkomopanza, a farmer in Bimbo near Bangui, lost his five hectares of sowing seeds to the floods, seen here on Nov. 24, 2019.
Several other countries across central and east Africa have also been affected by the flooding, including Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, Cameroon and Nigeria. While the region is susceptible to flooding during the second rainy season in October to December, a weather phenomenon known as a positive Indian Ocean Dipole has been linked to more extreme rainfall to east Africa. According to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, the dipole’s positive phase this year has been the strongest for six decades, resulting in warmer sea temperatures in the western Indian Ocean region. It’s uncertain whether the weather pattern, known as the Indian Niño, has directly caused the flooding, but it is thought to lead to enhanced rainfall across East Africa and droughts across Australia.
“What we’re seeing in Australia with the droughts and the fires at the moment is apocalyptic,” says Paul Johnston, head of the Greenpeace Science Unit. “East Africa has been seen less in the news, but it has affected a lot more people and potentially precipitated a serious food insecurity problem in the coming year. Those dimensions are pretty underrepresented.” According to predictions, the phenomenon will only become more extreme in the years to come. “There is evidence to suggest that under progressive climate change, we are getting more extreme dipoles and there’s also evidence to suggest that they are likely to increase in frequency, from once in about sixteen to seventeen years to once in six to seven years,” Johnston says.
Adrienne Surprenant—GreenpeaceDésiré Ndoumba, a 50-year-old father of 8, hosted around 50 of his neighbors in Bangui when the floods invaded their homes, seen here on Nov. 22, 2019.
In these quiet, intimate portraits, Suprenant captured the effects of the floods on local people, some of whom lost everything to the water and were forced to escape to safety during the night. Désiré Ndoumba hosted around 50 of his neighbors in his house to escape the rising floods. “I can’t just stare at the people staying homeless. That’s why I opened my doors to them, so that they can sleep well, and that everyone has at least a small space,” he told Suprenant.
“Living in the CAR, I find myself discouraged by this event once again hitting the population,” Suprenant writes on Instagram. “Some of them were displaced by the conflict, starting to rebuild, and find themselves with nothing once again.”
Adrienne Surprenant—GreenpeaceOn Monkey Island, located in the middle of Ubangi River between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic, almost all the houses fell to the floods, since they were made of mud-bricks. People fled during the night to the riverside.
And some aid workers say the worst may be yet to come — the damage to agricultural fields means an entire crop season will be lost, destroyed infrastructure will take a long time to rebuild and contaminated water sources could put families at risk of fast-spreading diseases such as cholera. “While the water is slowly retreating, this is bringing a whole range of health-related questions with it,” says Alabi.
She says that 2020 “will be the real test” in terms of response from the international community. In 2019, CAR received its lowest amount of relief and aid funding in six years, potentially because of the increased number of other crises in the region. The U.N. and humanitarian partners had appealed for $430 million for CAR this year, and so far only 67% has been funded. “People in the CAR are longing for peace and security. These are basic rights that many Central Africans have been deprived of for too many years.”
(CHENGDU, China) — Leaders from China, Japan and South Korea reiterated their commitment to ending North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs at a trilateral summit Tuesday that comes against the backdrop of increasing demands by Pyongyang for sanctions relief.
Free trade and economic cooperation were also at the forefront of the meetings between Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu between
Li said the three agreed that “dialogue and consultation is the only effective way to solve the issues of Korea Peninsula.”
“We three countries are willing to work together with the international community to solve the issue of Korea Peninsula in a political way,” Li said at a joint news conference following the meeting.
The North has threatened to take unspecified action if that relief is not forthcoming by the end of the year. Speculation has centered on the possibility of conducting a new missile test, possibly of an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead.
The North has said that what “Christmas gift” it gives the United States depends on Washington’s actions.
Li, Abe and Moon also said they discussed furthering regional cooperation on the economy, the environment and people-to-people exchanges.
“We all advocate for free trade and promote economic integration. China holds that safeguarding free trade benefits the protection of multilateralism, of world peace,” Li said.
In his comments, Moon said the sides agreed to support efforts to restart talks between Washington and Pyongyang so that “denuclearization and peace … could actually advance.”
Abe echoed that stance in his remarks, criticizing North Korean missile launches as violating U.N. resolutions and seriously threatening regional security.
“For that purpose, it was confirmed that full implementation of U.N. security council resolutions remains important, and we need to maintain the momentum of the U.S.-North Korea process,” Abe said.
Although China is Pyongyang’s most important source of investment, diplomatic support and economic aid, it has shown little success in convincing Kim Jong Un’s government to abandon its nuclear arsenal. The U.S. has demanded steps toward complete denuclearization before any sanctions can be lifted, while Beijing favors a multi-stage approach.
The trilateral summits between China, Japan and South Korea date back to the fallout from the 1997 Asian financial crisis, which devastated businesses across the region and prompted moves toward greater economic integration. The three countries account for about 24% of world trade and have tightly bound supply chains, with more than $720 billion in trade moving between them last year.
With the Trump administration’s abandonment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, China has led a push for an alternative 16-nation grouping, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. Momentum toward a final agreement hit a snag this year when Chinese rival India said it would not participate, and the future of the pact remains unclear.
There is friction among the three nations meeting Tuesday as well.
While Japan and China have lately set aside their historical differences, South Korea and Japan continue to feud over Japan’s colonization of the Korean Peninsula in the last century, a dispute now spilling over into their vital economic relationship.
Li, who is chiefly responsible for overseeing China’s economy, acknowledged the frictions between Japan and South Korea, but said that would not alter China’s commitment to free trade and open markets. Although China has been accused of “weaponizing” trade in political disputes and unfairly backing its major state companies, it has been a leading voice against protectionism amid its ongoing tariff war with Washington.
“We invite South Korean and Japanese enterprises to take an advantageous position, grasp the broad opportunities, win more business opportunities and better realize mutual success,” Li said.
Moon stressed how industrial transformation, climate change and trade protectionism require that the three countries strengthen cooperation.
“The three countries over the past 20 years have cooperated in various fields, including business, diplomacy, culture, people-to-people exchanges and the environment,” Moon said. “We now form a core cooperative body in Northeast Asia that contributes to international peace and prosperity.”
(BEIRUT) — Syrian government forces pressed ahead Monday with a new military assault on the country’s last rebel stronghold that began last week, an offensive that has set off a mass exodus of civilians fleeing to safer areas near the Turkish border.
Under the cover of airstrikes and heavy shelling, Syrian troops have been pushing into the northwestern province of Idlib toward a major rebel-held town, Maaret al-Numan. The town sits on a key highway linking the capital Damascus with the northern city of Aleppo, Syria’s largest.
The immediate goal of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces appeared to be reopening the highway, which has been closed by the rebels since 2012.
Idlib province is dominated by al-Qaida-linked militants. It’s also home to 3 million civilians, and the United Nations has warned of the growing risk of a humanitarian catastrophe along the Turkish border. The United Nations says over half of the civilians in Idlib have been internally displaced following continuing reports of airstrikes in the area.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is alarmed by the escalation of fighting and is calling for an immediate halt to hostilities, his spokesman said late Monday.
The spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said earlier that a U.N.-negotiated six-hour humanitarian pause had enabled safe passage for more than 2,500 people to flee.
Over the past three days, some 39 communities were reportedly been affected by shelling in northern Hama, southern Idlib and western Aleppo governorates, while 47 communities were reportedly hit by airstrikes, Dujarric said.
“The U.N. urges all parties to ensure the protection of civilians, and to allow sustained and unhindered access by all humanitarian parties to provide life-saving assistance to all in need,” the U.N. spokesman said.
Residents of villages and towns in southern parts of Idlib province have been fleeing with their belongings in trucks, cars and on motorcycles.
The government’s ground offensive resumed last week after the collapse of a cease-fire, in place since the end of August.
Before this latest bout of violence, the U.N. reported that some 60,000 Idlib residents had already been displaced since the government’s bombing campaign began late last month.
The pro-government Al-Watan newspaper said Syrian troops were a few kilometers (miles) away from Maaret al-Numan, adding that the town “might surrender to the army without fighting.”
The opposition’s Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, said Maaret al-Numan and the nearby town of Sarqeb were almost empty after tens of thousands of civilians left to escape heavy aerial and ground bombardment.
“As you can see the destruction is massive. Residents were forced to flee this area,” said a member of the White Helmets in a video as he walked through Maaret al-Numan. “They had to choose between death or fleeing to the unknown further north.”
Syrian troops have also nearly surrounded a Turkish observation post near the village of Surman in Idlib province, according to Al-Watan and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor.
Turkey is a strong backer of some rebel fighters, and has 12 observation posts in northwestern Syria as part of an agreement. The deal was brokered last year along with Russia, one of Assad’s main backers.
The Observatory, which has a network of activists in Syria, said government troops have captured approximately 35 villages and hamlets near Maaret al-Numan in the past few days.
Also Monday, a vehicle rigged with explosives blew up in a market in a northern Syrian town controlled by Turkey-backed opposition fighters, killing five people and wounding others, state media and opposition activists said.
State news agency SANA said the blast occurred in the village of Suluk near the Turkish border, putting the death toll at five people and reporting that several more were injured.
A similar death toll was also given by the Turkey-based Syrian National Coalition and the Observatory, which also said 20 people were wounded.
Suluk is near the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad in Raqqa province. Turkish troops and Turkey-backed fighters captured Tal Abyad and Suluk from Kurdish-led fighters in October. Turkey’s invasion of northeastern Syria pushed back Syrian Kurdish fighters from some border areas.
Explosions in north Syria areas controlled by Turkey-backed opposition fighters killed scores of people in recent weeks.
Turkey blames Syrian Kurdish fighters for these attacks, a claim that the Kurds deny.
Separately, Russia’s military said insurgents used drones to attack its Hmeimeem air base on Syria’s Mediterranean coast a day earlier. The two drones were shot down and caused no damage or injuries, said Maj.-Gen. Yuri Borenkov of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Sides in Syri
The unprecedented bushfires devastating swathes of Australia have already pumped out more than half of the country’s annual carbon dioxide emissions in another setback to the fight against climate change.
Fires blighting New South Wales and Queensland have emitted a combined 306 million tons of carbon dioxide since Aug. 1, which is more than half of Australia’s total greenhouse gas footprint last year, according to Niels Andela, an assistant research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and collaborator with the Global Fire Emissions Database. That compares with the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service’s estimate of 270 million tons in just over four months.
Destructive blazes have erupted in 2019 from the Arctic to the Amazon and Indonesia in what scientists are calling an exceptional year for wildfires. As places like Australia grapple with extreme weather conditions such as severe droughts and frequent heatwaves — often aggravated by climate change — they’re likely to suffer from more persistent and ferocious fires that will typically start earlier and last longer.
“We have been closely monitoring the intensity of the fires and the smoke they emit and when comparing the results with the average from a 17-year period, they are very unusual in number and intensity, especially in New South Wales, for being so early in the fire season,” said Mark Parrington, a senior scientist at Copernicus, the European Union’s atmosphere observation program.
NASA uses satellite data to analyze the correlation between historic fire detection and modeled emissions from historic fires. That relationship is used to predict emissions based on active fire detection in almost real-time. Andela acknowledged that the methodology is still under development and that there is a large degree of uncertainty associated with the estimates, meaning they could be on the high side. It could take months for more accurate estimates to be generated by fresh satellite data, he said.
Around 200 blazes were burning across the world’s driest inhabited continent on Monday. New South Wales, the most populous state, remains at the forefront of the disaster with almost 800 houses lost since the fire season began unusually early in the midst of winter. The crisis has spread to South Australia state, where an estimated 86 homes were destroyed at the weekend.
Organic matter aerosol and carbon monoxide, good tracers of smoke, have already transported across the Tasman Sea to as far as South America, Copernicus said in an emailed response to Bloomberg.
And conditions are unlikely to improve anytime soon. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting above-average maximum temperatures for most of Australia for at least the first quarter of next year. Northern New South Wales and southern Queensland are experiencing record-breaking dryness, and very low levels of soil moisture threatens to slash national summer crop output for a second year by 52% to 1.24 million tons, according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences.
Wildfires across the globe have released approximately 6.38 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in the first 11 months of this year, according to Copernicus. These blazes can be responsible for far greater air pollution than industrial emissions and produce a combination of particulates, carbon monoxide and other pollutants, which can be hazardous to the health of all life on the planet, the European group said.
According to Andela, it’s not uncommon for Australia’s emissions from wildfires to exceed CO2 from fossil sources because large wildfires in savannas and grasslands, mainly in the northern regions of the country, are a natural part of ecosystems. But this year’s fires in New South Wales — largely occurring in forested areas — are exceptional as it can take much longer for the vegetation to recover.
“In savannas and grasslands, regrowth of burned vegetation typically absorbs the emitted carbon dioxide within a few years, but for forests, this may take several decades,” he said. “From a carbon cycle perspective, the key question for New South Wales would be how quickly the vegetation is able to recover, or if some forests may never fully recover at all.”
Australia’s conservative government in 2014 dismantled a carbon trading mechanism that put a price on emissions. Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the nation is on target to meet its Paris Agreement commitments, but at the same time wants to increase sales of coal — the biggest export earner last year.
(LONDON) — Queen Elizabeth II plans to acknowledge that both Britain and her family have endured a difficult year by saying during her Christmas message that it has been a “bumpy” time.
The pre-recorded message will be broadcast in Britain and the Commonwealth nations on Christmas Day. It was recorded before the queen’s husband, Prince Philip, was hospitalized in London as a precautionary measure.
Excerpts released by Buckingham Palace before the speech show the queen admits difficulties during the course of the year.
Talking about the need for reconciliation and forgiveness, Elizabeth says: “The path, of course, is not always smooth, and may at times this year have felt quite bumpy, but small steps can make a world of difference.”
She is thought to be referring both to Britain’s tortuous path out of the European Union, which led to a lengthy political stalemate broken only earlier this month when voters gave the pro-Brexit Conservative Party a comfortable majority in Parliament, and to the royal family’s setbacks.
The problems facing the queen’s family this year included Prince Andrew’s retreat from public duties because of a disastrous TV interview in which he defended his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The family has also endured a public rift between Prince William and Prince Harry, who has traveled with his wife Meghan and young son Archie to Canada rather than spend the Christmas holidays at Sandringham Estate — the queen’s rural retreat, as has long been customary for senior royals.
Both Harry and Meghan have complained about constant scrutiny by the media as they settle into family life with 7-month-old Archie.
The health of 98-year-old Philip has been a constant concern. He has been hospitalized in London for several days, but may still be able to return to Sandringham in time for Christmas. Details about his condition haven’t been made public.
When Prince Charles was asked about Philip’s health during a visit to a flooded visit in South Yorkshire, Charles said Monday his father was, “Alright. When you get to that age things don’t work so well.”
(SEOUL, South Korea) — A new satellite image of a factory where North Korea makes military equipment used to launch long-range missiles shows the construction of a new structure.
The release of several images from Planet Labs comes amid concern that North Korea could launch a rocket or missile as it seeks concessions in stalled nuclear negotiations with the United States.
North Korea has warned that what “Christmas gift” it gives the U.S. depends on what action Washington takes.
One of the satellite images taken on Dec. 19 shows the completion of a new structure at the March 16 Factory near Pyongyang, where North Korea is believed to be developing and manufacturing vehicles used as mobile launchers for long-range ballistic missiles.
Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia nonproliferation program at the Middlebury Institute, said in an email that the construction seemed to be an expansion of the factory, which would be “big news.”
North Korea used what appeared to be vehicles imported from China during its three flight tests of the Hwasong-14 and -15 intercontinental ballistic missiles in 2017, Lewis said. An increased capacity to produce mobile launchers would potentially help expand North Korea’s ICBM force and improve its survivability during nuclear conflict.
Lewis said, as far as he knows, North Korea only imported six of the vehicles that were used during the 2017 ICBM tests.
“I would think North Korea would want 50-100 such systems,” he said. “This would probably be some mix of ICBMs we have seen and the new system that North Korea claims is under development.”
Nuclear talks between the U.S. and North Korea have been stalled since a February summit between leaders Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un fell apart.
Earlier this month, North Korea carried out two major tests at its long-range rocket launch and missile engine testing site in the country’s northwest. Experts believe it tested a new engine for either an ICBM or a satellite launch vehicle.
The other images released by Planet Labs show that site before and after the Dec. 7 test.
(SYDNEY) — Australia’s drug regulator has fined a pharmaceutical company owned by the billionaire Sackler family over what it dubbed misleading advertising for one of its opioid painkillers, as the country grapples with surging rates of opioid prescriptions and related deaths.
Mundipharma Australia, the international affiliate of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, was ordered to pay penalties of 302,400 Australian dollars ($209,000) by the Therapeutic Goods Administration over its promotion of the opioid Targin, the drug regulator said in a statement.
The fine against Mundipharma comes as Purdue faces a barrage of lawsuits in the United States accusing it of deceptive marketing tactics that downplayed the addictive nature of its opioids.
In a statement last week, the TGA said it had issued 24 infringement notices against Mundipharma after determining that its advertising of Targin to health professionals “was misleading, imbalanced and otherwise inaccurate,” and thus breached the drug promotion requirements set out in the code of conduct by industry regulator Medicines Australia.
In Australia, drug companies are banned from directly advertising to consumers, though they are free to market their drugs to medical professionals — provided they abide by the code of conduct.
The TGA found fault with a sentence that appeared in the promotional materials that said: “Opioids should be used as part of multimodal pain management plan and in an ongoing trial, as they are associated with potential harms, including unsanctioned use, addiction and overdose.”
The TGA said the sentence “appeared to positively encourage the prescription of Targin medicines for chronic non-cancer pain.”
“The TGA considers that opioids should not be represented as a core component of the multi-modal management of chronic non-cancer pain, and the decision to prescribe opioids should be approached with significant caution,” the agency said.
Mundipharma Australia said it “respectfully disagrees” with the TGA’s assessment of the sentence, which the company said is no longer in use.
“Mundipharma’s intent with this statement was to proactively and voluntarily urge caution when healthcare professionals chose to prescribe an opioid, and to clarify that this should only be considered in specific circumstances and as part of an overall treatment program if deemed appropriate by healthcare professionals,” the company said in a statement.
The sentence the TGA found fault with appeared in various Targin materials, and separate infringement notices were issued for each instance.
“Mundipharma has comprehensive and robust systems and processes in place to ensure that all our materials and claims are supported by strong medical evidence and scientific guidelines and are in full compliance with all applicable laws and industry standards,” the company said.
Dr. Simon Holliday, an Australian addiction specialist, first complained about the marketing pamphlet for Targin in 2018. He initially filed a complaint with Medicines Australia. But membership to Medicines Australia is not mandatory, and Mundipharma declined to participate in the complaints process because it had dropped out as a member. Holliday then went to the TGA and got nowhere. So he wrote to the health minister and other lawmakers. He received no response.
Earlier this year, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners also complained to the TGA about the pamphlet.
Asked why it took so long to take action, the TGA told the AP in an emailed response that it assessed Holliday’s initial complaint in 2018 “and considered it to be a low priority” for several reasons, including that health professionals have the expertise to critically appraise advertising materials. Because of that, it did not launch an investigation into the ad. After the complaint received media attention earlier this year, the TGA decided to investigate, the agency said.
“Additional time was needed for TGA to get advice from Medicines Australia as well as facilitate two face to face meetings with Mundipharma as part of ensuring they received natural justice,” the agency told the AP.
Holliday said he was happy to have called attention to the issue, which he hopes becomes part of a broader discussion related to big pharma’s influence over health care — from the way the drugs are marketed to the money drug companies spend on medical conferences and influential research papers.
“We’ve got to look at the big picture about how does business and health services interact,” Holliday said. “There’s this covert — or overt — manipulation of the way healthcare is being developed, and I really do think we need to be thinking about that.”
(KYIV, Ukraine) — Two men with close ties to Rudy Giuliani leveraged their political connections to pursue a deal to export natural gas from the U.S. to Ukraine intended to benefit Republican donors and friends of President Donald Trump’s family.
The plan centered on replacing the head of Ukraine’s state-owned gas company Naftogaz with its No. 2, Andrew Favorov, in hopes that the dual U.S. Ukraine citizen would be more amenable than his boss to the proposal. To make that happen, they also pushed to eliminate the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, who was known for fighting corruption.
Favorov, in a series of interviews with The Associated Press in Kyiv, described his dealings with Giuliani’s associates, Soviet-born Florida businessmen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. His tale, corroborated with interviews with key witnesses, shows how Parnas and Fruman were able to use their contacts in Republican circles to suggest they had access to the people and money that could make a complex business and geopolitical deal happen.
The effort ran parallel to their work in Kyiv with Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, to push Yovanovitch aside and convince Ukraine’s leaders to investigate Trump’s political rival, Joe Biden, and his son Hunter’s business ties to another Ukrainian energy company called Burisma.
The story illustrates an essential backdrop of both the impeachment drama roiling U.S. politics and the criminal investigation of Giuliani and his associates: the decades-long tug of war between Russia and the West over Ukraine, in which geopolitical influence, natural resources and corruption are major themes.
With Western help, Ukraine has been working to wean itself from dependence on Russia. Anti-corruption reforms at Naftogaz were a key to that effort. The company built enormous capacity to store natural gas, just as the gas boom in the United States has left Texas producers with so little storage capacity that they’re burning off their excess.
Yovanovitch, who fought to keep those anti-corruption safeguards in place, is now a key witness in the impeachment inquiry, and federal prosecutors investigating Giuliani have interviewed both Favorov and Naftogaz CEO Andriy Kobolyev.
Parnas and Fruman were arrested Oct. 9 at an airport outside Washington carrying one-way tickets to Europe and are charged with conspiracy, making false statements and falsification of records in a case centered on alleged campaign finance violations. Fruman’s lawyer did not respond to requests for comment and Parnas’ lawyer did not immediately answer written questions posed by AP.
Favorov says Parnas and Fruman’s campaign started in March, on the fringes of an energy conference in Houston during a dinner with Harry Sargeant III, a billionaire from Florida who made his fortune in shipping and energy.
Favorov recalls the group discussed the potential to export as much as 100 shiploads of liquified natural gas from the U.S. to Ukraine.
Chris Kise, Sargeant’s lawyer, said in an email to AP that the billionaire had no specific business in mind when he attended the dinner.
“Mr. Sargeant simply provided broad industry guidance and his expert view on the challenges presented by operating in foreign markets,” Kise said.
Later that evening, in a smoky Houston bar, Favorov says Parnas and Fruman proposed he replace his boss as CEO of Naftogaz.
“You’re a Republican, right?” Parnas asked. Favorov says he nodded.
“Then you’re our man,” Parnas replied.
They also casually informed him that Trump would soon be removing Yovanovitch, who was a key backer of the anti-corruption efforts at Naftogaz.
Favorov says he wasn’t inclined to take the men seriously. But then pieces of their puzzle began to fall into place.
Kobolyev’s leadership of Naftogaz was indeed in a precarious position. Ukraine’s leaders under then President Petro Poroshenko took steps to remove the authority of Naftogaz’s independent supervisory board to appoint key executives, including the CEO. They also pressed Kobolyev to forgive millions in loans to a Ukrainian oligarch, Dmitry Firtash, who is closely aligned with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to people familiar with the effort.
Yovanovitch was recalled to Washington in May, months before her tour was scheduled to end. The move put Favorov on alert.
Favorov and Kobolyev returned to Washington in late April, shortly after Volodymir Zelenskiy, a comedian who ran for president of Ukraine on an anti-corruption platform, defeated Poroshenko.
Once again Parnas and Fruman came calling. The pair arranged a lunch at the Pennsylvania Avenue steakhouse The Capital Grille, where Favorov pitched gas imports to the group which included an employee of Sargeant’s company. Kise, Sargeant’s lawyer, described it as a “social lunch.”
The following day, Favorov and Kobolyev went to the Trump International Hotel where Parnas and Fruman introduced them to Jeff Miller, a former political adviser to Perry and now vice finance chair for the 2020 Republican National Convention, and Tommy Hicks Jr., a private equity investor who is co-chairman of the Republican National Committee and a friend of Donald Trump Jr. Three people with direct knowledge of the meeting described it to AP on condition of anonymity.
The group discussed how much gas could be shipped to Ukraine and at what price, according to the people. And they talked about the major challenge: To move the quantity of natural gas envisioned, the pipeline from Poland to Ukraine would have to be expanded.
Parnas and Fruman, the people said, claimed to have connections who could take care of the bottleneck.
Hicks declined to comment. A person with direct knowledge of Miller’s account says he came to the meeting only because Parnas said he would be introduced to potential clients and left after a short time because he doesn’t represent foreign companies.
Three months later a U.S. delegation went to Poland, where Perry signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Polish and Ukrainian counterparts, pledging to build the infrastructure necessary to accommodate huge shipments of natural gas.
The dream of their gas deal died when Parnas and Fruman were arrested in October on campaign finance charges.
Favorov is left wondering what kind of influence they really had.
“I’m thinking, did Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman really play a role in advancing and shaping U.S. policy?” he asked.
(NEW YORK) — A chat app that quickly became popular in the United Arab Emirates for communicating with friends and family is actually a spying tool used by the government to track its users, according to a newspaper report.
The government uses ToTok to track conversations, locations, images and other data of those who install the app on their phones, The New York Times reported, citing U.S. officials familiar with a classified intelligence assessment and the newspaper’s own investigation.
The Emirates has long blocked Apple’s FaceTime, Facebook’s WhatsApp and other calling apps. Emirati media has been playing up ToTok as an alternative for expatriates living in the country to call home to their loved ones for free.
The Times says ToTok is a few months old and has been downloaded millions of times, with most of its users in the Emirates, a U.S.-allied federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula.
Government surveillance in the Emirates is prolific, and the Emirates long has been suspected of using so-called “zero day” exploits to target human rights activists and others.
Zero days exploits can be expensive to obtain on the black market because they represent software vulnerabilities for which fixes have yet to be developed.
The Times described ToTok as a way to give the government free access to personal information, as millions of users are willingly downloading and installing the app on their phones and blindly giving permission to enable features.
As with many apps, ToTok requests location information, purportedly to provide accurate weather forecasts, according to the Times. It also requests access to a phone’s contacts, supposedly to help users connect with friends. The app also has access to microphones, cameras, calendar and other data.
A security expert who said he analyzed the app for the Times, Patrick Wardle, said that ToTok “does what it claims to do” as a communications app, which is the “genius” of the app if it is being used as a spy tool. “No exploits, no backdoors, no malware,” he wrote in a blog post. The app is able to gain insights on users through common functions.
In a blog post Monday, ToTok did not respond directly to Sunday’s Times report, but said that with “reference to the rumors circulated today about ToTok,” the one goal of the app’s creators was to create a reliable, easy-to-use communications platform. The post said ToTok had high-security standards to protect user data and a privacy framework that complied with local and international legal requirements.
ToTok said the app was temporarily unavailable in the app stores from Google and Apple due to a “technical issue.”
The Times says that based on a technical analysis and interviews with security experts, the company behind ToTok, Breej Holding, is most likely affiliated with DarkMatter, an Emirati cybersecurity company that has hired former CIA and National Security Agency analysts and has close business ties to the Emirati government.
Emails sent to ToTok through its website and to the Emirates embassy in Washington were not immediately returned.
(PARIS) — France’s defense ministry announced Monday it had carried out its first armed drone strike, killing seven Islamic extremists in central Mali over the weekend.
France joins a tiny group of countries that use armed drones, including the United States.
The drone deployment came nearly one month after two French helicopters collided in Mali, killing 13 soldiers in the deadliest military loss for France in nearly four decades.
A defense ministry statement said the drone strike took place Saturday while French President Emmanuel Macron was visiting neighboring Ivory Coast, where France has a military base. Macron already had announced that French forces had killed 33 extremists that day.
The drone strike targeted jihadists in the Ouagadou forest, where a group known as the Macina Liberation Front is active. French commandos “were attacked by a group of terrorists who infiltrated on motorcycles,” the ministry said.
“Working in a difficult environment, in a densely wooded region, this action was made possible by the action of ground troops supported by the air component,” the ministry said.
The French military successfully tested its weaponized Reaper drone for the first time last week, and Defense Minister Florence Parly called the drones “protectors for our troops and effective against the enemy.”
She said they allow French troops more discretion and flexibility, and insisted that France will respect rules of armed conflict in using the drones. She had announced in 2017 that France would arm its surveillance drones after the country suffered a string of extremist attacks.
The use of armed drones has been somewhat sensitive in France, notably because of civilians killed by U.S. drones in Afghanistan and Somalia.
France, Mali’s former colonial ruler, led a 2013 military operation to oust Islamic extremists from power in northern Mali, where they had implemented a harsh version of Sharia law. Since then, however, Mali’s military has failed to stem the violence despite support from the French and a United Nations peacekeeping mission.
This year has been particularly deadly for Malian forces, prompting the president to reassign some soldiers in the most remote and vulnerable desert outposts.
The French military has 4,500 personnel in West and Central Africa. Macron is set to discuss the future of France’s military mission in Africa’s Sahel region at a meeting in France next month with presidents from the countries taking part in the regional G5 Sahel counterterror force.
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Larson reported from Dakar, Senegal.
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Here, we have updated the latest Jammu University Exam Results. Students can verify and download the results from the official website of the University as well as on this page they can check their results with the help of the link provided in the below table. University Provides Various Under Graduate (UG), Post Graduate (PG), Diploma, Certificate, Language and many other types of Courses, for all those Students can check their results on this page. Also, we will be providing the link for the Jammu University Result 2019, it will be work once the University will be announcing it officially. We advise the Students to keep in touch with our page to get the latest updated information about the Jammu University Results.
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Bangalore Urban District Recruitment 2019: Job Seekers!! Latest Bengaluru Urban District Civic Jobs 2019 Notification released!! The Bengaluru Urban District Officials have announced a Job Notification to hire 179 Candidates for Civic Posts. Applicants who are looking for the Karnataka Govt Jobs can apply for these Posts through Offline Process. The last date to apply for these jobs is 6th January 2020. Read the entire article for detail on Bengaluru Urban District Civic Vacancy 2019 Notification.
Bangalore Urban District Recruitment 2019-20
Applications are invited from eligible Indian citizens for filling up the 179 vacancies for the post of Civic in the Bengaluru Urban District. Candidates should check the eligibility details before applying for the Bangaluru Urban District Jobs 2020. To check eligibility, we have given all the important details below. Here we have provided a direct link to download the Bangalore Urban District Recruitment 2020 Notification and Application form.
There are a total of 179 vacancies for the post of Civic. The details of the vacancy as given in the Bangalore Urban District Recruitment 2019-20 is as below
Post Name
Total Vacancies
Civic
122
19
38
Total
179
Eligibility Criteria for Bangalore Urban District Civic Recruitment 2019-20
Candidates interested in the Bangaluru Urban District Jobs 2020 can check their eligibility with the details below to apply online.
Educational Qualification:
Applicants can refer to the Official notification for Educuational Qualification.
Age Limit:
Minimum Age Limit – 18 Years
Maximum Age Limit – 45 Years
Age relaxation is available as per rules
Refer to the Bangalore Urban District Recruitment 2020 Notification for more details on age limit and age relaxation.
Selection Process:
Written Test
Personal Interview
Pay Scale for Bangaluru Urban District Jobs 2020:
The hired candidates will get the salary according to the norms of the organization.
Bangalore Urban District Civic Recruitment Offline Application Fee:
Applicants can refer to the official notification for more information.
How to apply for Bangaluru Urban District Jobs 2019?
Click on the Bangalore Urban District Recruitment Notification PDF link below
Read the details carefully and make you are eligible
Download the Offline Application form using the link below
Fill the Application form with the required details
Attach photograph and documents, as required
Pay the application fee, if applicable
The candidates may take a print out of the same.
Send the duly filled application form to the following Registered Postal address along with required documents on or before the last date 6th January 2020.
Candidates should send their application in an envelope superscribing clearly the name of the post applied for on the cover of the envelope.
Postal Address
Candidates can get the Registered postal address from the Official Notification.
Important Dates :
Detail
Date
Starting Date of Online Application
Started
Closing Date of Online Application
6th January 2020
Important Links for Bangalore Urban District Recruitment 2019-20:
Frequently Asked Questions About Bangaluru Urban District Jobs 2019:
1. What is the mode of application form Bangalore Urban District Recruitment 2019-20? A. Applications for Bangalore Urban District Civic Recruitment 2019 will be accepted only in the Offline mode. Candidates can apply for Civic posts by following the steps given above.
2. Where will the candidates be placed after selection? A. The selected candidates can be placed in Bengaluruwhich has an office of Bangalore Urban District.
3. What are the important dates I must know for Bangaluru Urban District Jobs 2020? A. Candidates must make note of the following date
Starting Date of Application – Started
Last Date To Apply Online – 6th January 2020
4. What is the Age Limit for Bangalore Urban District Civic Recruitment 2019? A. The candidate must be below 45 years of age.
5. What is the selection process for Bangalore Urban District Vacancies? A. Candidates will be selected based on their performance in the Written Test, and Personal Interview.
6. How much will I be paid for Bangaluru Urban District Jobs 2020? A. Candidates will be paid as per organization norms.
About Bengaluru Urban District
Bangalore Urban district, also known as, Bangalore City district, is a district of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is surrounded by the Bangalore Rural district on the east and north, the Ramanagara district on the west and the Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu on the south. Bangalore Urban district came into being in 1986, with the partition of the erstwhile Bangalore into Bangalore Urban and Bangalore Rural districts. Bangalore Urban has five taluks: Yelahanka, Bangalore North, Bangalore East, Bangalore South, and Anekal. The city of Bangalore is situated in the Bangalore Urban district. The district has 17 hobbies, 668 villages, and 9 municipal corporations. There are five talukas; Electronics City is situated in Anekal Taluka.
Dept of Home Affairs & Justice Punjab Recruitment 2019: Job Seekers!! Latest Department of Home Affairs and Justice Punjab Recruitment Notification released!! The Department of Home Affairs & Justice Officials have announced a Job Notification to hire 42 Candidates for Law Officer Posts. Applicants who are looking for the Punjab Govt Jobs can apply for these Posts through Offline Process. The last date to apply for these jobs is 6th January 2020. Read the entire article for detail on the Dept of Home Affairs & Justice Punjab Law Officer Recruitment 2019 Notification.
Dept of Home Affairs & Justice Punjab Recruitment 2019-20
Applications from qualified advocates/applicants are welcomed for commitment as law officials in the workplace of Advocate General, Punjab at Chandigarh, to shield the cases for and in the interest of the State of Punjab. The details of the category of lawyers sought to be engaged, the eligibility and other criteria are as given below. Candidates should check the eligibility details before applying for the Dept of Home Affairs Jobs 2019. Here we have provided a direct link to download the Department of Home Affairs and Justice Punjab Recruitment 2019 Notification and Application form.
Overview of Dept of Home Affairs Jobs 2020
Name of the Organization
Government of Punjab – Department of Home Affairs & Justice (Judicial Branch – 1)
There are a total of 42 vacancies for the post of Law Officer. The details of the vacancy as given in the Dept of Home Affairs & Justice Punjab Law Officer Recruitment 2019 is as below
Category of Law Officers to be Engaged
No of Vacancies
Additional Advocate General
06
Senior Deputy Advocate General
11
Deputy Advocate General
07
Assistant Advocate General
18
Total
42
Eligibility Criteria for Dept of Home Affairs & Justice Punjab Law Officer Recruitment 2019-20
Candidates interested in the Dept of Home Affairs Job Vacancies can check their eligibility with the details below to apply online.
Eligibility Conditions:
A citizen of India and registered with a Bar Council under the Advocates Act, 1961.
An advocate who has been practicing in any Court of Law within the jurisdiction of India
should have standing as a practicing advocate for a number of years mentioned against the respective category and should be income tax payee with minimum gross annual income from professional in the last three years.
Age Limit – Dept of Home Affairs Jobs:
Refer to the Dept of Home Affairs & Justice Punjab Law Officer Recruitment Notification for more details on age limit and age relaxation.
Selection Process:
Written Examination
Interview
Pay Scale for Dept of Home Affairs Jobs 2019:
Category of Law Officers to be Engaged
Minimum annual gross income from the profession in the last three years
Additional Advocate General
Rs. 15,00,000/-
Senior Deputy Advocate General
Rs. 10,00,000/-
Deputy Advocate General
Rs. 7,00,000/
Assistant Advocate General
Rs. 3,50,000/-
Dept of Home Affairs & Justice Punjab Recruitment Offline Application Fee:
Applicants can refer to the official notification for more information.
How to apply for the Dept of Home Affairs & Justice Punjab Recruitment 2019?
Click on the Dept of Home Affairs & Justice Punjab Law Officer Recruitment Notification PDF link below
Read the details carefully and make you are eligible
Download the Offline Application form using the link below
Fill the Application form with the required details
Attach photograph and documents, as required
Pay the application fee, if applicable
The candidates may take a print out of the same.
Send the duly filled application form to the following Registered Postal address along with required documents on or before the last date 6th January 2020.
NOTE: The applicants may apply either by sending their application along with scanned copies of relevant supporting documents at e-mail ID pblorec@punjab.gov.in or send/give an application through post or in-person to the following Postal Address.
Postal Address
To the Secretary to Government of Punjab, Department of Home Affairs & Justice (Judicial-1 Branch), 9th Floor, Punjab Civil Secretariat-1, Chandigarh.
Important Dates :
Detail
Date
Starting Date of Online Application
Started
Closing Date of Online Application
6th January 2020
Important Links for Department of Home Affairs and Justice Punjab Recruitment 2019-20:
Frequently Asked Questions About the Dept of Home Affairs & Justice Punjab Recruitment 2019:
1. What is the mode of application form Dept of Home Affairs & Justice Punjab Law Officer Recruitment 2019? A. Applications for the Department of Home Affairs and Justice Punjab Recruitment 2019 will be accepted only in the Offline mode. Candidates can apply for Law Officer posts by following the steps given above.
2. Where will the candidates be placed after selection? A. The selected candidates can be placed in Punjab which has an office of Department of Home Affairs & Justice.
3. What are the important dates I must know for the Dept of Home Affairs Jobs 2019? A. Candidates must make note of the following date
Starting Date of Application – Started
Last Date To Apply Online – 6th January 2020
4. What is the Age Limit for Bangalore Urban District Law Officer Recruitment 2019? A. The candidate must be below 45 years of age.
5. What is the selection process for the Dept of Home Affairs Job Vacancies? A. Candidates will be selected based on their performance in the Written Examination, and Interview.
6. How much will I be paid for the Dept of Home Affairs Jobs 2019? A. Candidates will be paid from Rs. 7,00,000 – 15,00,000/-.
About Bengaluru Urban District
The Government of Punjab also known as the State Government of Punjab, or locally as State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Punjab and its 22 districts. It consists of an executive, led by the Governor of Punjab, a judiciary and a legislative branch.
Like other states in India, the head of state of Punjab is the Governor, appointed by the President of India on the advice of the Central government. His or her post is largely ceremonial. Chandigarh is the capital of Punjab and houses the Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) and the secretariat. Chandigarh also serves as the capital of Haryana and is a union territory of India. The Punjab & Haryana High Court, located in Chandigarh, has jurisdiction over the whole state.
Kerala High Court Result 2019 Declared @ highcourtofkerala.nic.in. Kerala High Court has conducted the Kerala High Court Judicial Service Mains Exam from 31st August & 1st September 2019. Many aspirants completed the Judicial Service Mains Exam successfully. And after completing the examination, candidates are looking for the Kerala High Court Judicial Service Mains Exam Result 2019. This is the best place to get your Results easily. Therefore, the Kerala High Court announced the Kerala High Court Exam Results 2019 on 21st December 2019. So, all the candidates can check and download the Result from this page. And also, download the Kerala High Court Judicial Service Cut Off Marks, Merit List 2019 from this portal.
Kerala High Court Result 2019 – Available here
Kerala High Court Official has released the Kerala HC Mains Results 2019 at its official website on 21st December 2019. Hence, all the eligible candidates can check the Kerala HC Results 2019 from the official website. However, we have given the direct link to download the High Court Judicial Service Exam Result 2019 from this portal. And the link is activated now. Hence, you can get the Kerala High Court Judicial Service Results 2019 on this page itself by just clicking on the link. The Selected candidates will get posting in Kerala location.
Kerala High Court Judicial Service Mains Result 2019 – Overview
Above all the details like the organization name, post name, Number of vacancies available, category of Results, the exam date, the result declaration date, the Selection process, job location and the official website to check the High Court Result 2019. While checking the Results candidates must have the login details like roll number, password, the Date Of Birth of the candidates along with them to check the Kerala HC Result 2019. The aspirant’s name should be in the Merit List to go for the further levels. Here, we have attached Bombay High Court Result to upcoming Results
Kerala HC Judicial Service Cut Off Marks 2019
The Cut Off Marks plays an important role in shortlisting the candidates for further rounds. The aspirants must score a minimum qualifying Kerala High Court Cut Off Marks 2019. Moreover, the Board has released the Kerala HC Mains Result 2019. The Higher Authority will decide the Cut Off Marks based on some factors as given below.
The number Of candidates appeared for the exam.
The number of vacancies available.
Previous year Cut Off Marks Analysis.
Category of the exam participant.
The difficulty level of the Question Papers.
Judicial Service Mains Exam Merit List 2019 @ highcourtofkerala.nic.in
Participants who secure high marks or top marks will be shortlisted in the Kerala HC Merit List 2019. The candidates in the Kerala High Court Judicial Service Mains Exam Merit List 2019 will get high priority in upcoming levels. Hence, candidates must concentrate more on the Cut Off marks and the Merit List. These two plays an essential role in the selection process. Further, we can see how to access the Kerala HC Results 2019.
How to check the Kerala HC Results 2019?
Initially, applicants can visit the official website of the Kerala High Court @ highcourtofkerala.nic.in.
The homepage of Kerala High Court will display on the screen.
On the main page, click on the Recruitment section.
In that section, search for the link related to the Kerala High Court Judicial Service Exam Result 2019, which is present on the What's New section
Then click on the related link.
And you will get a PDF of the Kerala High Court Judicial Service Result 2019.
Candidates can check the sequence wise roll number of selected candidates in the PDF.
Finally, download and save the results for further reference.
Direct links to download Kerala High Court Result 2019
From this article, aspirants can get all the Central Industrial Security Force Admit Card. However, Candidates will appear for the exam along with the admit card only. Most of the applicants who are in search of admit card after the registration process can utilize our webpage. Moreover, Admit Card is an important document to take down the examination. So, Each and every participant must take down the examination along with the CISF Hall Ticket and also with the required documents which are mentioned below.
Aspirants who are going to take down the written examination in Central Industrial Security Force must download the CISF admit card. Hence, the board will conduct the examination on 16th February 2020. Therefore, Candidates can get a direct link to download the hall ticket from the upcoming table. Get the details from the overview table and download the admit card once it got released.
Central Industrial Security Force is going to conduct the examination on 03rd January 2020. Hence, Aspirants can download the admit card from the upcoming table. The CISF Admit Card is now available on this webpage which is released by the officials of CISF. The hall ticket is released in the month of December 2019.
CISF Constable Tradesman Admit Card 2019
Post Name
Constable Tradesman
No of Vacancies
914
Category
Admit Card
Admit Card Date
December 2019
Exam Date
03rd January 2020
Official Website
cisf.gov.in
CISF Constable Tradesman Stage I Admit Card 2019 – Download
Details on CISF Admit Card 2019-20
The hall ticket carries the details of candidates and the exam. We have provided information about the CISF Hall Ticket. Contenders are suggested to take down the admit card for the written examination and all the selection rounds.
Candidates Name
Name of the Candidate's Father
The venue of the Exam Centre
Date & Time of the Test
Reporting Time to the Exam Hall
Gender (Male/ Female)
Roll Number
Duration of the Online Test
Space for Invigilator's Signature
Registration Number
Name of the Test Centre
Category of the candidates
Space for Applicant's Signature
Name of the Exam Conducting Board
Photograph of the Candidate
Applicant's Date of Birth
Name of the Written Test
Important Guidelines for the Exam Takers
Full Name of the Applicant
Examination Centre Code
Signature of the Board Counselor
Documents to be Carried for the CISF Exam 2019
Get the document details for the CISF Entrance Examination. All Aspirants are suggested to carry the following ID proof to the exam hall to clear the verification process.
Original Photograph
Voter Card
Pan Card
Employee ID
College ID
PAN Card
Passport
Driving License
Any other ID proof issued by a Gazetted Officer
Bank Pass Book with the photograph
How to Download CISF Exam Admit Card 2019-20?
Firstly, Click on the direct admit card link.
Enter the valid credentials to log in to the hall ticket page.
Now Fill the CISF Hall Ticket page with needed requirements.
Recheck the details entered in the admit card.
Finally, Submit the CISF Exam Admit Card to download.
Download the hall ticket and carry it for all the selection rounds.
Carry the required Government Documents along with the CISF Admit Card.
West Bengal Previous Papers for Excise Constable, Lady Excise Constable, Jail Warder, Sub Inspector (Armed & Unarmed Branch) for both prelims and mains are available here. Aspirants who applied for the WB police Constable vacancy 2019-20 can find the previous year question paper here. Also, check the exam pattern for both prelims and mains examinations. Find the direct download links for the WBP Excise Constable previous papers pdf in the post below.
West Bengal Police Previous Papers
WB Police Sub Inspector (Armed Branch & Unarmed Branch) previous year question papers help the aspirants in the preparation. Previous papers give an overview of the exam paper and the way questions are going to be. However, aspirants who are going to appear for prelims and mains examinations can get the previous papers pdf for free. Also, check the exam pattern and syllabus details before going to the WB Police question papers.
WBP Constable, SI prelims and mains exam model question paper are here. Also, we provided study material for police exams to help the applicants in their preparation. Hence, check all the related details like exam pattern and exam dates given. Aspirants can find the respective download links for West Bengal Police Previous Papers Pdf. check the latest WB police recruitment details on our page. Here is the overview of notifications.
West Bengal (WB) Police Constable PMT, PET Exam Date 2019-20
03rd Dec 2019 to 7th January 2020
WB SI Exam Date 2019
Update Soon
Official Website
wbpolice.gov.in
Complete exam pattern details for both prelims and mains constable written examinations are given below. Find the subjects need to cover to crack the prelims and mains examinations in our WBP Syllabus page. Later, download the previous year Paper given below and start your preparation.
West Bengal Police Department released recruitment notification to fill various Excise Constable & Lady Excise Constable posts. Candidates who are interested in this post start applying for West Bengal Police Constable exam 2019 before last date commenced. On this page, you can get WB Police Excise Constable Previous year question papers with solutions pdf link that help in the exam preparation. Also, check for West Bengal Police Lady Excise Constable syllabus & exam pattern for more exam details.
West Bengal Police Department Exam Paper – Details
Description
Details
Organization Name
West Bengal Police Department
Post Name
Excise Constable, Lady Excise Constable
Vacancies
Various
Category
Previous Papers
WB Police Exam date 2019
Update Soon
Official Website
wbpolice.gov.in
Selection Process:
Prelims Exam
PMT (Physical Measurement Test)
Physical Efficiency Test (PET)
Written Test
Final Interview
Medical Test
WB Police Excise Constable Prelims Exam Paper Pattern 2019 Pdf
West Bengal Police Recruitment Board (WBPRB) relased notification for 816 Warder/Female Warder WB Police Jobs 2019. The Board will be conducting Written exam in the upcoming months. Candidates who are interested in this post can get complete WBP Warder exam model question papers on this page. Also check for direct download links for downloading West Bengal Police Warder solved last year papers and start using it in preparation of WB Jail warder exam 2019.
West Bengal Police Warder Syllabus 2019 – Overview
WB Police Constable Previous Year Question Paper Pdf
West Bengal Police recruitment gave the notification for the 8419 constables (male) vacancy. Aspirants can find the recruitment details in our WB Police recruitment page and apply online. However, find the overview of the constable selection process in the tabular column below. Find the direct download links for previous papers in the sections following.
The selection process of West Bengal constable, SI & other police vacancies will be having prelims and mains examinations. Candidates who clear the prelims will be having PMT and PET tests. However, applicants who qualified are only eligible for the mains examinations. Hence, find the West Bengal Exam Pattern for both prelims and mains examinations below.
West Bengal Police Constable Prelims Exam Pattern 2019
Subject
Questions
Marks
General Awareness & General Knowledge
50
50
Elementary Mathematics (Madhyamik Standard)
30
30
Reasoning
20
20
Total
100
100
The question paper will have objective type MCQ’s in Bengali & Nepali.
The time duration for the written examination is 1 hr.
1/4th negative mark for each wrongly answered question.
WBP SI Prelims, Mains Exam Model Question Paper Pdf
West Bengal Police Sub Inspector prelims and mains exam model question papers are given in this section. Aspirants who appearing for the written test can download the pdf and start your preparation. Candidates are advised to refer the exam pattern for both prelims and mains in the section below. Where the complete prelims and mains exam pattern is given in the tabular columns. This gives an easy and clear overview of SI written examination.
Sub Inspector (Armed & Unarmed Branch) selection process is having a written examination. Where applicants are tested on general knowledge, general mathematics, reasoning, languages (English, Bengali, Nepali, Urdu).
WB Police SI Prelims Exam Pattern 2019
Subjects
Questions
Marks
General Studies
50
100
Logical & Analytical Reasoning
25
50
Mathematics
25
50
Total
100
200
200 objective type multiple choice questions are given.
The maximum time duration for the written test is 90 mins.
There will be negative marking of -0.25 marks for each wrong answers.
West Bengal Police Sub Inspector Main Exam Pattern 2019
Subjects
Marks
Time
Paper 1:
General Studies & Arithmetic
Logical & Analytical Reasoning
100
2 hrs
Paper 2:
English
50
1 hr
Paper 3:
Bengali/Hindi/urdu/Nepali
50
1 hr
Total
200
4 Hours
SI Mains exam is of conventional type.
The total time duration for mains is 4 hrs.
However, for topic wise syllabus details visit our WBP syllabus page. Also, find the pdf and download for further reference.
Direct download links for the West Bengal Police (WBP) Sub Inspector (SI) prelims and mains exam are here. The material given below is only for reference. Applicants can use this material in their preparation. Hope our WBP SI study material helps you in scoring marks.
WBPSC Previous Year Question Papers for Clerk, Accountant, SI & other posts recruitment test conducted by the board is available here. Applicants of Miscellaneous Services Recruitment Exam, Accountant, SI, JE, Fire operator, Motor Vehicle Inspector, Groups, etc might be searching for previous year question paper with answers pdf. Hence, we upload the WBPSC model question paper pdf free download link in this article.
WBPSC Previous Year Question Papers Pdf
Aspirants who applied for the WBPSC jobs 2019-20 can find the related previous year question papers on our page. To make it easy for the visitors of our page, we given the previous papers in pdf format.
Hence, find the direct link for the respective WBPSC exam previous year question paper pdf in the section below. For more latest West Bengal Public Service Commission jobs visit our WBPSC Recruitment 2019-20 page.
WBPSC Exam Previous Year Question Paper Pdf – Details
Candidates are advised to refer the complete WBPSC syllabus and exam pattern details before going to previous question papers. Knowledge of syllabus and exam pattern helps the applicants in understanding the way question and answers are given. Also, improves the scope of scoring marks and time management during the main examinations.
West Bengal PSC Clerk Previous Year Papers Pdf
West bengal Public Service Commission (WBPSC) released recruitment notification for various clerk posts. Candidates who are interested in this WBPSC Clerk Jobs 2019-20 can start applying for the exam. apply before the commenced last date. To score better in the exam, candidates need to work hard. for this purpose, we have given WB PSC Clerk Exam Model Question papers with solutions that helps in exam preparation. Also, check for WBPSC Clerk Syllabus & exam pattern 2019-20. It helps in understanding the structure of the exam and also type of questions asked in the exam.
WBPSC Clerk Exam Question Paper – Details
Description
Details
Organization Name
West Bengal Public Service Commission (WBPSC)
Post Name
Clerk
Vacancies
Various
Exam Name
Clerkship Exam 2019-20
Category
Previous Papers
WBPSC Clerk Exam Date 2019-20
25th January 2020
Job Location
West Bengal
Official website
pscwbonline.gov.in
Selection Process:
Prelims Exam
Mains Exam
WBPSC Clerksip Exam Paper Pattern Pdf
Part I (CBT – Objective Type)
Subjects
No of Questions
Marks
Duration
English
30
30
1 Hour 30 Minutes
General Studies
40
40
Arithmetic
30
30
Part II (Conventional Type – Written)
Sections
Subjects
Marks, Duration
Group A
English
50 Marks, 1 Hour
Group B
Bengali/Urdu/Hindi/Nepali/Santali
Download West Bengal PSC Clerk Previous Year Exam Papers Pdf
WBPSC Miscellaneous Previous Year Question Papers Pdf
West Bengal Public Service Commission has given the notification to fill various Miscellaneous Services Vacancies this year i.e. 2019. Applicants can fill their application forms from 10th June 2019. Candidates who are interested in this sector and are applying for the post can find previous exam papers in this section. Hence, find the WBPSC previous year question papers for the written test in the below table and start your preparation.
It is Stated that the Preliminary exam will be conducted in the month of September 2019 (Tentatively). or much more details related to exam visit the official site of WBPSC.
West Bengal PSC has given the notification to fill 74 Motor Vehicle Inspector (Non-Technical) in the month of Feb 2019. However, the board has now given the exam date for the written test as 07th April 2019. Hence, find the WBPSC previous year question papers for the written test below and start your preparation.
Applied for the Works Accountant WB PSC Recruitment 2019-20. Then you can get West Bengal Accountant Exam Model Question Papers for the purpose of practice. Aspirants who are going to appear for accountant written examination this month can download the pdf below. Hope our material will help you in your preparation and in scoring the marks.
Description
Details
Post Name
Works Accountant
No of Vacancies
Various
Category
Previous Papers
WBPSC Accountant Exam Date 2019-20
11th January 2020
Official Website
www.pscwbonline.gov.in
WBPSC Previous Year Question Papers Pdf – Download
The West Bengal Public Service Commission announced the SI Vacancies 2019-20. Hence, here are the WBPSC Previous Years Questions Papers and Study material for the post of Sub-Inspector Written Examination. The Aspirants who appearing the SI written Examination can check the WB PSC Old Papers with Answers below. Also, download the free PSC WB Question Papers for Sub Inspector Exams below.
Description
Details
Post Name
Sub-Inspector
No of Vacancies
Various
Category
Previous Papers
WBPSC SI Exam Date 2019-20
2nd January 2020
Download West Bengal PSC SI Old Question Papers Pdf
The applicants of WBPSC Jobs can check the WBPSC Previous Papers of Fire Operator. We have updated the direct links to download the West Bengal PSC Fire Operator Question Papers in the Pdf format. Hence, candidates are requested to check the WB PSC Previous Year Question Papers and prepare accordingly. Also, refer to the WBPSC Fire Operator Sample Papers uploaded here.
Have you applied for WBPSC Jobs? Are you preparing for the Govt Jobs? Then, you must be looking for WBPSC Forest Services Question Paper with Solution. So, here in this article, you can find the complete study material for WBPSC Exam. Therefore, read the following article carefully. The WBPSC Previous Question Paper can help the candidates with question topic, important topics, time management, etc. Hence, it is advised to all the contenders to practice all the provided WBPSC Model Question Papers for the better preparation.
WBPSC Civil Judges Previous Papers are provided here to download. Hence the candidates who applied for the Civil Judges Exam can refer the WBPSC Previous Papers for better preparation. Download the WBPSC Civil Judges Exam Question Papers for free of cost from the below links. Also, refer the official website of the West Bengal PSC i.e. www.pscwb.org.in for more details about the Civil Judges Exam.
The WB PSC Veterinary Officer Previous Papers is uploaded here. Hence, applicants looking for the papers can check here. The WBPSC Previous Papers Pdf is important for the aspirants who have applied for the West Bengal PSC Veterinary Officer Jobs. Go through the following article and download the WB PSC Model Question Papers Pdf. Interested and eligible applicants can also visit the official website of West Bengal Public Service Commission @ pscwbonline.gov.in for detailed WB Public Service Commission Previous Papers with Solutions. Also, check WBPSC Exam Pattern 2018 here.
Description
Details
Total Vacancies
156
Name of the Posts
Veterinary Officer
Category
Previous Papers
Download WB Public Service Commission Model Papers
West Bengal PSC Veterinary Officer Previous Papers
WBPSC Asst Director of Agriculture Previous Papers
Are you searching for WBPSC Previous Papers, then you reached the right page. Therefore, click on the given links and download the WB PSC Assistant Director of Agriculture Papers. Eligible candidates are requested to go through the entire page to get detailed information about the test papers. Here, we have updated WBPSC Previous Question Papers for your reference. Also, you can refer the official website to check the West Bengal PSC Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2018 @ pscwbonline.gov.in.
TNMGRMU Results 2019 Released: Dear Folks !! Here we have a piece of good news for you. Yes, The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University has published the results for various Courses. The University recently released the results for Diploma in various departments, Pharm.D, B.P.T, B.Sc, B.O.T, M.D/M.S, and other results are available here. Students who are studying under the Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University can check their TNMGR Medical University Results 2019 from the official website of the University i.e, tnmgrmu.ac.in. Moreover, you can obtain your Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University Results regarding the Dental, Medical, Allied Health Sciences, and the Distance Education Result all Here.
Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University – Overview
Description
Details
Name of the University
The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University
Courses Offered
Medicine, Dental, Nursing, and Indigenous Medicine
Dr. MGR Medical University Results in 2019 of Dental, Indian Medicine and Homoeopathy, Allied Health Sciences and Ph.D. announced. All the candidates who have attended these examinations can check out this website. Here, on this page, we have included all the regular, supplementary and revaluation exam results easily. Here on this page, we have provided the direct link to download and verify the TNMGRMU Results from the below table. Also, we will be updating the Upcoming TNMGRMU Results link, it will work once the University will announce the results officially. Furthermore, refer to our recruitment.guru web page to know more about the Dr. MGR Medical University Result Details all in one place.
Visit the official website of the Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University i.e tnmgrmu.ac.in
In the home page, you will find the Results tab
Then click on the result link which you need, then a new page will be open
In the result page, recent results will be available, click the direct link given above table.
And enter the Registration number and Year of the Course
The results will appear on the screen.
Take the printout of the result until the official marks card is released by the TNMGRMU Board.
About Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University
The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, or TNMGRMU for short, is a government medical university centered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is named after the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Dr. M.G.Ramachandran (M.G.R.) and is the second-largest health sciences university in India. The University offers undergraduate qualifications in medicine (MBBS), dentistry (BDS), Nursing, Allied health professions, and Indigenous Medicine. It also provides postgraduate courses in various medical and dental subspecialties. The university is planning to set up a 500-bedded hospital on four acres of land on the outskirts of the Raj Bhavan campus, with 300 beds set to be installed in the first year.
TNMGRMU 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 the Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University can also get all Results Also. Just we are advising the Students to frequently visit this page to get the latest updates of all TNMGRMU Results 2019.
UPSSSC Admit Card 2019 for various Posts is available. The Candidate who applied for the UPSSSC Vacancy can download their Admit Card. The UPSSSC Recruitment 2019 Board only allows those who applied to download the Admit Card. However, we provide you with an individual direct link to download UPSSSC Hall Ticket for respective UPSSSC Vacancy. Also, we provide information like details on UPSSSC Admit Card, and Exam Pattern in the article below. Furthermore, the candidate needs to have his/her login details to download the UPSSSC Admit Card 2018. Also, check the upsssc.gov.in latest news about UPSSSC Exam Admit Card here.
UPSSSC Combined Computer Operator Admit Card 2019. Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Service Selection Commission has announced the exam date for the Combined Computer Operators on 07th December 2019. Thus, Candidates will get the admit card soon on the official portal. Therefore, the exam date has been declared as 26th December 2019.
UPSSSC Junior Assistant Admit Card 2019 for 1186 Junior Assistant Posts. Candidates who want to take down the examination must download the UPSSSC Admit Card 2019. Moreover, the exam is going to be held on 04th January 2020. Therefore, the admit card is released on 23rd December 2019. Check with the Exam Date Notice for the detailed information.
UPSSSC Tubewell Operator DV Admit Card 2019 Released for Tubewell Operator Document Verification. Thus, the admit card is now available at the bottom of the section. Hence, Aspirants can download the hall ticket from the direct link. Find the document verification date after printing the admit card.
UPSSSC Nakhshanavish Draftsman Interview Letter 2019 Available now to download. Thus, Candidates are suggested to download the admit card from the below section. Make sure to get the Interview Letter before the last date. The UPSSSC Admit Card link will disappear on 11th November 2019. Check the Interview Date after downloading the UPSSSC Hall Ticket.
UPSSSC ASO Admit Card 2019 – The Commission will release the hall ticket for the post of Assistant Statistical Officers. The admit card will be available soon on its official website. Hence, the exam date will be printed on the hall ticket. Candidates who are going to appear for the exam can download the hall ticket from the upcoming section.
UPSSSC Assistant Admit Card 2019 – Uttarapradesh Assistant Boring Technician Admit Card will be released soon on the official website. Each and every individual must download the hall ticket for on their own. Thus, the direct link will be activated once the board releases the hall ticket on the official portal.
UPSSSC Assistant Boring Technician Hall Ticket 2019
RTMNU Results 2019 is released on23rd December 2019 for M.A, BCom, LL.B, BA, BSc, MSc, and also various other courses @ nagpuruniversity.org. Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur announces the Semester Exam results for the B.Sc, M.A, M.Tech and other exams. Those who are checking out for the updated semester wise results for Supplementary and the Regular Examination can get it here. The Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur offers all kinds of UG & PG Results. Hence, Check other information of RTMNU Results in the below sections of this page.
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University – Overview
Get the updated and lastest Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University Results of Nagpur Branch. Here is the RTMNU Results Hub listed for the M.A, LLM, M.Tech, MSC, and other Graduate & Post Graduate programming courses. The Students of Nagpur City who are pursuing their degree under RTM Nagpur University can check out the complete semester examination results from the below section of this page. For detailed information and to know the previously released the RTMNU Results 2019 candidates can get on the official website @nagpuruniversity.org for both the supplementary and regular results.
Updated RTMNU Results Summer 2019-20
Examination Name
Release Date
Results Link
M. A. (Rashtrasant Tukadoji Thoughts) First Semester [CBCS]
Visit the Official Website of RTMNU @nagpuruniversity.org
On the home page, find the Results Tab.
The results page will open up on the screen.
Do check for the Results by Selecting the Examination Type and Enter your Roll Number.
Then hit on the “View Marksheet” Tab to check out your results for the particular semester.
Results that appear on the screen can be taken a print out for future use.
About Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University is also known as Nagpur University which located in the city of Nagpur in the central Indian state of Maharashtra. RTMNU is one of the oldest universities and the second oldest in Maharashtra. It is named on the Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj, who was a spiritual leader, orator, and musician from Vidarbha. It is a member of the Association of Indian universities and the association of Commonwealth universities. It was established in the year 1923 with 6 affiliated colleges and 927 students. By 1947 the number of students increased to 9,000. This year even Library & Sports activities were drastically increased. The Governor of Maharashtra state will act as the Chancellor of the university. While Mr. Siddharthavinayaka P. Kane is the Vice-Chancellor of the university.
RTMNU 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 results within the time. Also if they still get fail marks, they can apply for the supplementary examination. For every semester Students can apply for the revaluation after the announcement of the main examination results. RTMN University will take a week or more to process the exam papers to announce the RTMNU Revaluation Results. Do stay with this recruitment.guru page to know about the RTMNU Revaluation Exam Results.
MUMBAI: The government may shortly reduce licence fees of telecom companies from 8% to either 5% or 6%, in what would be a second major step to revive an industry struggling with high debt amid intense competition which has dragged revenue and profitability.According to two senior government officials, a meeting at the highest levels of the government is scheduled for this week to discuss scaling down the licence fees which, industry experts say, will save the three telcos a combined Rs 4,000-5,000 crore annually.Industry experts said that while a licence fee cut will give some relief, it won't be enough to stave off the balance sheet dangers of the likes of Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel. These two telcos face statutory dues of over Rs 53,000 crore and Rs 35,500 crore, respectively, due to a Supreme Court order widening the definition of adjusted gross revenue (AGR). 72947862 "The government cannot do anything about the AGR dues, which has been decided by the Supreme Court. From the initial suggestions of relief measures, a licence fee cut will be taken up now following the two-year spectrum moratorium already announced," said a senior official, who did not want to be named.Another person aware of the developments said that once a decision is taken, it will be sent to the Cabinet to be ratified.The Committee of Secretaries (CoS), which was set up to suggest measures to improve the health of the sector, had last month recommended a reduction in the licence fee paid by telecom companies and allowing a two-year moratorium on spectrum payments. While the moratorium was approved by the Cabinet, giving a Rs42,000 crore cash flow relief to the three private telcos, the licence fee reduction issue is being taken up now.Telcos annually pay 8% of their adjusted gross revenue (AGR) as licence fees. The industry has been long calling for a reduction in that fee, besides also in the spectrum usage charge (SUC), which is paid at 3-5% of AGR.USOF OBLIGATION"So, the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) component of licence fee could be cut to 3% or 4%, from 5%, and the pure licence fee component to 2% from 3%," said one of the officials. USOF comprises 5% of the 8% of AGR that telcos pay as licence fees annually.Analysts said if this licence fee gets reduced to 5%, Bharti Airtel will save around Rs 2,000 crore, Jio some Rs1,500 crore and Vodafone Idea around Rs 800 crore in the next fiscal year starting April 2020."If this (licence fee cut) happens, then this would be a step in the right direction since Indian licence holders are on the higher side of regulatory charges. However, it will not be enough to address the near-term balance sheet concerns pertaining to the AGR issue," said Rajiv Sharma, head of research at SBICap Securities.The government has said it won't be able to give any relief to telcos on the AGR dues unless the court directs it to. Airtel and Vodafone Idea have both filed limited review petitions, but they haven't been heard as yet.Prashant Singhal, global technology, media and telecommunications (emerging markets) leader at EY, said that AGR is a much bigger concern and industry is "hopeful that the top court looks into the review petition."But any cut in levies — coupled with the two-year moratorium on spectrum payments, recent price hikes by the telcos and any move by the regulator to set a floor for tariffs — will add to the outlook towards the sector turning positive, say analysts.And this will help attract investors for telcos such as Bharti Airtel, who has announced a $3 billion fundraising programme via equity and debt. Vodafone Idea in the near future too will need to raise funds, not just for AGR but also for capex to take on Airtel and Jio in the market.The sector has been long calling for levies such as the licence fees and SUC to be cut, saying the Indian telecom industry is among the highest taxed in the world, with Rs30 of every Rs100 earned going to the government.
A family trust of Aditya Puri, HDFC Bank's Managing Director, has partly sold its stake in HDB Financial Services, the unlisted NBFC arm of the private lender, people aware of the development said. Vistra ITCL sold shares at Rs 800-825/share to a South based family office recently for around Rs 200 crore taking advantage of the high demand for the shares and its rising valuation. An HDFC Bank spokesperson declined comment on the issue while Shyamala Gopinath, chairperson of the bank and Deepak Parekh, chairman, HDFC did not respond to ET's email questionnaire sent on December 18. HDB Fin Services which is considering an IPO is valued at Rs 90,000 crore in the unlisted market, ET reported on December 12. Its stock is trading at Rs 1,100 apiece against Rs 600-700 a year earlier. The Investors have bought HDB Financial shares over the past year on expectations that Puri will steer the company once he leaves the executive corner room role at HDFC Bank, the financier's parent company, expected in October 2020. Puri was inducted as chairman of HDB's board effective from May 1, 2016. 72947593 But HDFC Group watchers feel Puri's continuation as the chairman of the NBFC even after his retirement from HDFC Bank might destabilise the parent, and have implications for the bank's new CEO who is slated to come in as Puri's successor.HDB Financial has now emerged as the 4th most valuable NBFC in the country with a strong retail franchise that has expanded in consumer durable financing, digital products loans across metros and even non metros at a time when the entire sector is battling severe bad loans and liquidity concerns.The allotment of equity shares in HDB Financial Services was made to a few HDFC Bank employees, including Puri in 2007. The quantity and rationale were approved by the board of directors of the bank, said the bank's spokesperson in an earlier correspondence with ET in July this year. Ruling out any potential conflict of interest in respect of the roles and operations of these employees in the bank, he said, "This was at a time when HDB had just come into being and employees were allotted small quantity of shares in it," the spokesperson added. "The shares were allotted at par to both the Bank and the said employees. The point of allotting these was to align the interests of senior management of the Bank with the growth of the then newly formed subsidiary. As part of oversight over the Bank's subsidiary, three officers who are part of the senior management of the Bank are directors on the Board of HDB."Puri, as on date has no direct shareholding in HDB, as per the bank's spokesperson. In 2013, he transferred his shares to his family as part of the succession planning. The family's shareholding was transferred to the Trust, namely, Vistra ITCL (India) Ltd. in December 2017. The annual report of FY2016-17 of Vistra shows Amrita Puri Puri's daughter, as the largest individual shareholder with 14.81 lakh shares worth 0.19 per cent stake in the company.As on 31ST March 2019, Vistra ITCL (India) Limited owned 14.8 lakh shares or 0.189 per cent of HDB as per regulatory filings. In its annual report for 2018-2019, Vistra is number 3 in the list of top 10 shareholders of the shadow lender other than directors, promoters, ADR and GDR holders.The bank held 95.53 per cent in HDB.HDB had Rs 55,425 crore of assets under management and posted a profit of Rs 1,724 crore at the end of March 2019. Revenue more than tripled to Rs 8,725 crore. Its overall loan portfolio expanded 22 per cent to Rs 56,287 crore. Return on assets was about 2.3 per cent in FY19, aided by a healthy net interest margin and low credit cost, while return on equity was at17.2 per cent. Investors are optimistic about the NBFC's growth as it has access to cheap sources of funds through its parent and generates higher margins.The loan book has also diversified, with increased presence in commercial vehicle/construction equipment (CV/CE) financing and business loans. As a result, the share of loans against property (LAP) declined to 35 per cent as on June 30, 2019, as compared to 60 per cent as on March 31, 2016. Whereas, that of CV/CE loans and business loans rose to 34 per cent and 21 per cent, respectively, from 21 per cent and 15 per cent, respectively.In its assessment as on August, Crisil had rated loan facilities worth Rs 25,000 crore and NCD programme to the tune of Rs 15,000 crore at AAA. The rating agency in its rationale had credited HDFC Bank's support and constant fund infusion as one of the prime reasons for the top-notch rating."Return on managed assets was 2.3 per cent for the full year ended March 31, 2019. It has been stable for the past three years, aided by healthy net interest margin of over 6.5 per cent and low credit cost of 1.3 per cent for fiscal 2019. Operating expenses, which had increased to 7.7 per cent (as a percentage of average total assets) in fiscal 2017 on account of amalgamation of its business process outsourcing (BPO) operations fell to 6 per cent during fiscal 2019, but continue to be relatively high," the ratings agency said in August.
New Delhi: The centre is staring at a Rs 63,200-crore shortfall in goods and services tax compensation cess for FY20 as revenues slow down. Delay in release of compensation to states has already emerged as a bone of contention between Centre and states.As per a presentation made to the GST Council, the compensation requirement for states is expected to be about Rs 1.6 lakh crore for the ongoing fiscal, at a growth rate of 5%. However, compensation cess collections are expected to be about Rs 96,800 crore, leading to a huge shortfall.The required collections have more than doubled over the previous fiscal - from Rs 69,275 crore - while actual collections have remained almost flat on the back of slowing economy.Compensation cess collection for FY 2018-19 was Rs 95,081 crore, just marginally lower than Rs 96,800 crore that is expected this fiscal ending March 2020.The centre had released Rs 35,298 crore as compensation to states for August and September period just two days ahead of the GST Council meeting on December 18. Payment was released after some opposition ruled states including Kerala, West Bengal threatened to approach the Supreme Court over the delay in release.The issue was discussed in detail at the meeting and a detailed presentation waa made before the Council, an official said.Rating agency ICRA has estimated a shortfall of Rs 2.2 lakh crore for all states. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman had stated in Rajya Sabha that in 2017-18, the total cess collected was Rs 62,596 crore, of which Rs 41,146 crore was released to states. The rest Rs 15,000 crore was accumulated in the Cess Fund. In the next year, Rs 95,081 crore was collected and Rs 69,275 crore released to states but "cess accumulated was zero," she had said.
By P R SanjaiIt's been a good year for Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani.The Indian tycoon added almost $17 billion to his wealth as of Dec. 23, the most in Asia, taking his net worth to about $61 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. In comparison, Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma's net worth grew $11.3 billion, while Jeff Bezos lost $13.2 billion.The surge in Ambani's fortune this year was fueled by a 40% jump in the shares of his Reliance Industries Ltd., a conglomerate that's pivoting more toward consumer offerings than its core oil refining and petrochemicals businesses. The rally in the stock is more than double the gains for India's benchmark S&P BSE Sensex index during the period.Investors are piling money on Reliance, betting newer businesses such as telecommunications and retail could soon unlock value. With a goal of building a local e-commerce giant to challenge the likes of Amazon.com Inc. in India, Ambani has spent almost $50 billion -- mostly debt -- on a wireless carrier that's become India's No. 1 within three years of debut."Mukesh Ambani changed the narrative for Reliance Industries" as a leader not just in oil and gas but also in telecom and retail, and possibly soon in e-commerce as well, said Chakri Lokapriya, chief investment officer at TCG Asset Management, which oversees $3 billion in assets in Mumbai."He successfully identified, invested and executed rapidly to create this new narrative," Lokapriya said. "We believe this can potentially double shareholder value over the next four years."The newer businesses are likely to contribute 50% of Reliance's earnings in a few years, from about 32% now, Ambani said in August. A representative for Reliance didn't reply to an email seeking comment on Ambani's wealth.Zero Net DebtWhile the success of the phone operator was a cause for cheer, the business mogul's plans to pare Reliance's debt has sent Reliance's stock soaring to a record.Ambani, 62, has vowed to slash the group's net debt to zero by early 2021. Plans include a stake sale in Reliance's oil-to-chemicals business to Saudi Arabian Oil Co., listings of the telecommunications and retail units within five years, sale of tower assets and strategic partners for a digital platform linked to Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd., the phone company.The value of Reliance's shares have almost tripled since the end of 2016, when Jio entered the Indian market with free calls and cheap data and forced some heavily indebted incumbents to exit or merge with rivals. With more than 350 million users, unlisted Jio reported a net income of 9.96 billion rupees ($140 million) for the September quarter while the other two private sector operators amassed record losses.Still, investors have been wary of the ballooning debt at the group that spent about $76 billion in the last five years. Reliance Industries had a net debt of 1.54 trillion rupees at the end of March 31, Ambani told shareholders in August.Aiding Reliance's efforts to cut debt would be:72947756 The proposed transaction with Aramco has run into a hurdle, threatening Ambani's debt paring plans. An Indian court has sought details of Reliance's assets after the Indian government petitioned to stop the proposed sale in an unrelated arbitration lawsuit.Indian Court Asks Reliance to List Assets in Dispute With StateAmbani, however, has a proven record in keeping his promises that investors are relying on."Ambani created value in Jio, which he deleveraged by hiving off his infrastructure assets to Brookfield," said Sandeep Gupta, managing director, Protiviti India. "He can further deleverage the company from a debt point of view by bringing in strategic investors, which will raise the value further."
NEW DELHI: Developers are racing to complete the tallest residential building in the Delhi-National Capital Region, which will have four skyscrapers measuring more than 190 metres by 2025. The region is witnessing demand for flats overlooking the entire city, developers say.Gurgaon-based Raheja Group is the latest to join the race with its 190-metre tall residential tower where Leela Hotels will be the service provider. The uber-luxury project, The Leela Sky Villas, is being developed in Patel Nagar and will have 42 floors. It is expected to be tallest residential building in central Delhi, more than double the height of the Qutub Minar.72947449 "A lot of policies were modified to make way for the high-rises that can accommodate an increased number of people. A lot of developers and engineers saw it as an opportunity to innovate and explore designs that attract many eyeballs," said Nayan Raheja, Executive Director, Raheja Group."Tall buildings are a way to properly allocate resources and helps in the best utilisation of available space," he added.72947459 In Gurgaon, Trump Towers is competing with another Raheja project, while Supertech is racing towards completion of its 300-metre Supernova building in Noida.Gurgaon-based M3M, which is constructing Trump Towers, is competing with the Raheja Group for the tallest building tag within the city, as both are close to 200 metres in height. "Skyscrapers have redefined the skyline of Gurgaon, and they exemplify luxury and stature. We wanted to offer our customers a global statement of magnificent luxury, therefore, we decided to bring Trump brand into North India that is also among the tallest buildings in NCR," said Pankaj Bansal, Director, M3M Group.72947460 M3M's strategy to offer signature luxury with skyline views in Gurgaon was accomplished in the first phase of development of the M3M Golfestate in Sector 65, he added.
NEW DELHI: Religare Health Trust has got a 12-month extension from the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) to decide on its winding up plans.The Singapore-based trust had cancelled an extraordinary general meeting that was scheduled for December 3 to vote on its closure after the Supreme Court of India sought an inquiry into the purchase of assets from the trust by Fortis Healthcare using money from IHH Healthcare.The Supreme Court had stalled IHH's acquisition of Fortis, originally promoted by Malvinder and Shivinder Singh, in December 2018. However, Fortis told the court that IHH had already paid Rs 4,600 crore by way of a preferential share allotment in November that year.Last month, the court questioned Fortis for using the Rs 4,600 crore to buy the assets from RHT. This had been done in a "hurried and clandestine manner" and is "required to be gone into," the court had said.The court, which is hearing Daiichi Sankyo's complaint against the Singh brothers for non-payment of an arbitration award of more than Rs 3,500 crore, then stopped any further payments.Following the court order, the trust decided to defer shareholder vote, based on legal advice."The trustee-manager is hopeful of being in a better position to make a more informed decision on whether to proceed with the voluntary winding up after the hearing of the contempt proceedings on February 3, 2020, depending on the outcome thereof," the trust disclosed in a regulatory filing on Monday.While the trustee-manager considers options for RHT, including identifying possible new business that satisfies SGX requirements for a new listing, the EGM will be convened once there is clarity from the Supreme Court. "Once there is clarity from the Supreme Court and in the absence of any other extenuating circumstances, such as any discussions or negotiations on the injection of a suitable business into RHT, the trustee-manager intends to reconvene the EGM for the proposed voluntary winding up," it added.The trusteemanager had applied to the SGX on December 12 for an extension of six to 12 months for RHT to meet the requirements for a new listing.Following the Supreme Court's order last month, Fortis had written to the trustee-manager of RHT on November 25 to "immediately revoke the winding-up process." The Indian legal counsel had advised that the trust should not proceed with the voluntary windingup in the current circumstances and it would not be in the interests of unitholders as a whole to do so, it said.
Investors seeking double-digit returns in the fixed income space could consider a small investment in the non-convertible debentures (NCD) of IFCI Ltd, offering yields of 11 per cent."The government has a 56 per cent holding in the company and has been giving timely support that is comforting for investors despite the weak rating of BBB-," says Vikram Dalal, managing director, Synergee Capital.As a sovereign-owned entity, IFCI has received equity capital from the Centre in the past. It last received Rs 100 crore by way of equity capital in 2018, increasing government shareholding in the financier to 56.42 per cent from 55.53 per cent as on December 31, 2017.Given an environment where traditional instruments, like fixed deposits of the State Bank of India, are yielding just 6.25 per cent, the IFCI secured NCDs offer an additional 475 basis points. 72947848 Two series of IFCI bonds paying an annual interest are recommended by wealth managers to investors. The IFCI -NH series trades on the National Stock Exchange at a price of Rs 960.5; it pays an annual interest of 9.9 per cent every year in December and matures on December 1, 2024, yielding 11.14 per cent. IFCI -NL trades at a price of Rs 1,025, with an annual interest of 9.4 per cent every year in February and matures on 13 February 2025, giving investors a yield of 10.9 per cent.To be sure, some financial planners believe that given the current environment, conservative investors with no appetite for risk should stay away."The rating of BBB- from ICRA and weakening financials do not inspire confidence in such an environment," says Jignesh Shah, founder, Capital Advisors.A note by ICRA says the ratings continue to be supported by the majority GoI ownership with demonstrated capital support in the past.It adds that given the sizeable debt levels in relation to standard advances and the value of non-core investments, IFCI will need sizeable capital infusion to improve its solvency profile. Further, given the large repayment obligations in the coming years, it will need to divest its non-core assets continuously, step up NPA recoveries, and reduce its standard advances to ensure timely repayments.While infusion of Rs 200 crore was announced in December 2018 and approved in the Union Budget for FY20, the money is yet to be invested.
BENGALURU: Google Pay, a dominant player in the United Payments Interface (UPI)-based payments space, has come out with an advisory, detailing ways in which users can avoid being subject to fraud on the platform.Google Pay has urged users to keep their UPI PIN a secret, download only trusted apps, and use the payment app to reach customer care.The advisory comes in the backdrop of increased cases of fraud, where money from bank accounts of users have been swindled using UPI."As UPI has grown in India, it has brought into the fold many users who are new to digital payments. The key to the continued success of the rails is user education, to ensure that users transact digitally in a way that's aware and secure," said Ambarish Kenghe, director - Product Management, Google Pay.The recent communication is part of a larger user education drive that Google announced for India earlier this year in collaboration with the Data Security Council of India and several ecosystem partners, including banks and fintech companies, it said. It will continue to invest in the outreach over the coming months, Google Pay said.In July, the UPI platform said it would send app notifications as well as SMS to inform users about the direction of money flow – underscoring that users are sending money from their accounts when they approve a UPI collect request. 72947783 As UPI transactions grow, frauds are becoming commonplace.The National Payments Corporation of India, which built the railroad, said UPI has hit a landmark one billion transactions in October. In addition, UPI recently crossed 100 million users. The Reserve Bank of India, Paytm, Phone-Pe, ICICI Bank, CitiBank and HDFC Bank are among the entities that have warned users, while NPCI had come out with warnings in regional languages as well.There is no official data of frauds on the UPI platform, but there have been reports of users across the country losing money after being asked to share their PIN by scamsters."PhonePe closely works with NPCI to understand the most common fraud trends and what can be done at an ecosystem level (versus just an app level) to bring the frauds down. We hold monthly risk meetings to see what checks and balances can be brought in to reduce the number of frauds," said Anuj Bhansali, head - Fraud & Risk Prevention, PhonePe.
Youth Congress activists detained for attempting to show black flags to Yediyurappa The activists were protesting against the recent "illegal" detention of Kerala journalists at Mangalore when they went to cover death of two persons in suspected police firing during the protest over the controversial amended Citizenship Act
US welcomes Saudi Khashoggi verdicts as 'important step': Official The court exonerated two top aides to Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Queen Elizabeth stresses reconciliation after bruising Brexit year Britain's regional and political divisions have been exacerbated in the 3-1/2 years since it voted to leave the EU.
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