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The Russian military says its new hypersonic weapon has become operational. The Avangard is capable of flying 27 times faster than the speed of sound, the military says. https://t.co/FeGmOUjlF0
More than one million people are expected to crowd Times Square in New York City on New Year's Eve to watch the crystal ball countdown to the new year pic.twitter.com/65a47cQ6XQ
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Russian Minister of Transport Yevgeny Dietrich look through the window in a railbus which is about to make its first trip across the Crimea Bridge.
* One Pentagon contractor was killed and several US troops were injured in a rocket attack on K1 military base in northern Iraq on Friday * It is the eleventh rocket attack targeting American forces in the Middle East within the past two months * While no one has claimed responsibility for Friday's incident, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blamed Iranian-backed groups for previous attacks * Both Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper have warned Iran that they will respond 'with decisive military force' to any further attacks * Tensions between Tehran and Washington have been building since President Trump pulled out of a nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions on the country
A Pentagon contractor has been killed and several US service members have been injured following a rocket attack on a coalition military base in Iraq.
Intelligence officials say 11 to 14 rockets were launched on the K1 military base, located near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, on Friday afternoon.
The United States is now looking into whether an Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslim militia group by the name of Kataib Hezbollah is responsible for the attack.
Friday's fatal incident is 'the eleventh rocket attack targeting an outpost housing American forces in the last two months,' according to Military Times.
While no group has yet claimed responsibility for the latest attack, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blamed Iranian-backed forces for previous rocket launches on bases in Iraq.
They are the military's "guardian angels." They are trained paramedics, paratroopers, and combat divers. This is the story of one such soldier, and the mission of a lifetime.
"RAMP DOOR!"
The jumpmaster screams the command over the roaring engine, and the back hatch of the HC-130 aircraft yawns open into night. A cold wind enters the cabin. It brushes past the seven soldiers seated in rows, sending stray pieces of paper, fabric, and tape fluttering in the thin air. In front, the team leader, Tech. Sgt. Jordan St. Clair* looks out past the ramp door. He can see nothing. A low blanket of clouds blots out the moon and stars and erases the distinction between the black sky and the black Atlantic Ocean beneath. He turns back to his men, each strapped with over a hundred-and-fifty pounds of gear. Their faces are lit only by the lambent glow of chemlights.
"STAND UP!"
The seven soldiers rise. At the next command—"HOOK UP!"—they clip their parachute line to a red steel cable running over their heads.
Fifteen hundred feet below, their target: the Tamar, a commercial shipping vessel two thirds into its voyage from Baltimore to Gibraltar. Earlier that morning, there had been an explosion onboard, some unknown ignition that had set fire to four sailors working inside the hull. In his distress message, the ship's captain wrote that the men had been burned from head to toe. They were in the middle of the Atlantic; the nearest land—the Azores Islands—was over five hundred miles to the east. They were out of range of both U.S. and Portuguese Coast Guard helicopters as well as rescue boats. The men's injuries were severe, requiring expert attention. The captain's message was routed from Lisbon to Portsmouth, then to Boston, and on to the soldiers in Long Island. Within hours of the explosion, two of the sailors died. The two other men—charred, skin flayed—wait now without pain medicine.
Sanctions-happy Washington continues to aid in a slow rapprochement between Russia and Ukraine. Ironically enough, at moment the US is demanding Nord Stream 2 contractors to lay down their tools and wind-down operations "immediately" or face further sanctions, there's been an unprecedented breakthrough in the standoff between Russian state energy giant Gazprom and Kiev:
Naftogaz confirms receipt of $2.9 bn outstanding compensation from Gazprom
Of course the other supreme irony is that Washington has claimed all along to be acting in Ukraine and Europe's best interest, but it appears no one is getting the message.
A U.S. Army base in South Korea accidentally blasted an emergency siren Thursday night instead of the somber notes of taps, officials said, igniting brief panic on the base amid North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's threats of an unwelcome "Christmas gift."
Taps, the melancholy bugler's song played at military funerals, was supposed to be sounded on Camp Casey's announcement system at 10 p.m., as is custom at Army installations to mark the end of the day, said Army Lt. Col. Martyn Crighton, a spokesman for the 2nd Infantry Division.
But Crighton said "human error" instead prompted the sounds of an emergency siren wafting through the freezing air throughout Camp Casey, the closest U.S. Army base to the North Korean border - and a likely prime target for missile strikes in the event of an attack.
The mistake bewildered service members on base, who said in a Reddit thread posted soon after the incident that soldiers were "riled up," and some ran through the halls in full uniform before the error was realized.
WNU Editor: I think I know how these soldiers must have felt. I have mentioned it before on this blog, but I experienced a nuclear attack emergency alert siren near my home when I was a teenager growing up in the former Soviet Union. The overwhelming feeling of fear and expectation that I am going to be in the middle of a nuclear attack within the next 30 minutes is something that I still vividly remember today.
What would the first 90 days after a hypothetical death of the head of state look like?
In recent years, there have been quite a few academic studies of power transition scenarios in long-lasting personalist regimes. More than 200 post-1945 dictatorships have been analysed. The objective is to examine the role of various institutions in the transition of power. The consequences are compared: what is the nature of transition when the regime changes during the lifetime of the leader? And after his death?
As we know, a long-lasting dictatorship eventually brings societal expectations of a leader's death. Anxiety starts to rise among the elites and rumors begin to swirl. Many of the changes awaited by large social groups get pushed back to an imagined point beyond the head of state's demise. Dissonant expectations and a general fear of destabilization take root. During a leader's lifetime, the most incredible ideas about the transformation are voiced. Beyond the threshold of his reign there lies a future which is undefined.
WNU Editor: The process of Russian Presidential succession is very straight forward. Power will be transferred to the Security Council that is headed by the Prime Minister, and a Presidential election must be called and held within 90 days. What will not be straight forward will be the election itself, and the results. Russian elections are organized well in advance, even the "fraud" part of it. A sudden election will throw everything into chaos, and I predict that it will become a free-for-all. In the current situation the front runner will be Russian Prime Minister Medvedev. He has the experience and the backing of the Russian establishment. But he is not an energetic politician, and he is not liked by the electorate. I also do not expect him to get 50% of the vote, thereby guaranteeing a second vote. As for that second vote, I have no idea on what may happen in that scenario. It will be a first for Russia, and If Russian PM Medvedev does win, it will be by a squeaker.
The Russian president, who is a well-known ice hockey fan, took part in a match with the Night Hockey League on Red Square this Wednesday, where he revealed some personal details about his daily routine of late.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he managed to sleep for only four to five hours lately, which was not "enough" for him, according to a broadcast on the Russia-24 tv Channel. The remarks were made during a break in the Night Hockey League match which took place on Red Square on 25 December and featured Vladimir Putin playing alongside the country's Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu and some legendary Russian hockey players.
WNU Editor: Why has he slept only 4 - 5 hours a night this week? My guess is that the Syrian war is now intensifying to a conclusion, and Turkey's military intervention in Libya is putting at risk the Kremlin's plans for that country.I am also surprised that he is in Moscow right now. During the holidays he is usually at Sochi and/or at an Orthodox monastery retreat north of Saint Petersburg.
Avangard capable of carrying 2-megaton nuclear weapon at 27 times the speed of sound
Russia has deployed its first hypersonic nuclear-capable missiles, with Vladimir Putin boasting that it puts his country in a class of its own.
The president described the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, which can fly at 27 times the speed of sound, as a technological breakthrough comparable to the 1957 Soviet launch of the first satellite.
Putin has said Russia's new generation of nuclear weapons can hit almost any point in the world and evade a US-built missile shield, though some western experts have questioned how advanced some of the weapons programmes are.
* The nations began joint naval drills in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Oman * Waters around Iran have become a focus for international tensions * Iranian flotilla admiral said the message was 'peace, friendship and security'
Iran, China and Russia began joint naval drills on Friday in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Oman, in what Moscow said was an unprecedented exercise in naval cooperation and training.
Waters around Iran have become a focus for international tensions, with the United States exerting pressure for Iranian crude oil sales and other trade ties to be cut off.
'The message of this exercise is peace, friendship and lasting security through cooperation and unity... and its result will be to show that Iran cannot be isolated,' Iranian flotilla admiral Gholamreza Tahani said on state television.
* Balfour Beatty was let go after more than 100 blueprints went missing from MI6 * They included details about the layout of new building and alarm systems * Building in Vauxhall Cross, London, is famous for being in James Bond films
A top construction firm was sacked from its refurbishment of the MI6 headquarters after a major security breach, it was reported last night.
Balfour Beatty was axed from the project after more than 100 blueprints outlining layouts and alarm systems went missing from the home of the Secret Intelligence Service.
The building, at Vauxhall Cross in south London, is famed for its appearance in several James Bond films.
Access to the sensitive papers was limited to supervisors and there were approximately 40 staff sub-contracted to the project, The Sun reported.
So serious was the security lapse that when the alarm was raised staff workers were not allowed to leave.
More than 235,000 people have fled from their homes in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province, the UN says, as government forces step up their offensive on the area.
The exodus happened between 12 and 25 December as fighting intensified.
Idlib in north-western Syria is the last major region held by rebels opposed to President Bashar al-Assad.
The Russian-backed Syrian government has been bombarding Idlib since late November.
An increase in air strikes and ground fighting since mid-December has accelerated civilian displacement from the area, UN humanitarian agency Ocha said in a report.
In a picture released by the British Ministry of Defence, UK ships and aircraft shadow the Russian Petr Velikiy (C) and the Russian Admiral Kuznetsov (top) as they pass through the English Channel January 24, 2017 (AFP Photo/L(Phot) Dave JENKINS)
Those following the news from Russia have probably heard that Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov (official name: Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov), was put into dry dock for major repairs and retrofits. Things did not go well. First, the dry dock sank (it was Russia's biggest) and then a huge crane came crashing down on the deck. And just to make it even worse, a fire broke out on the ship killing 2 and injuring more. With each setback, many observers questioned the wisdom of pouring huge sums of money into additional repairs when just the scheduled ones would cost a lot of money and take a lot of time.
Actually, the damage from the fire was not as bad as expected. The damage from the crane was, well, manageable. But the loss of the only huge floating dry dock is a real issue: the Kuznetsov cannot be repaired elsewhere and these docks cost a fortune.
But that is not the real problem.
The real problem is that there are major doubts amongst Russian specialists as to whether Russia needs ANY aircraft carriers at all.
Zhang Ming warned it would be 'disastrous' for EU countries not to promote free markets and open international competition.
The EU could face a backlash from "suspicious" Chinese entrepreneurs if it pursues its plans to limit foreign corporate ownership and China's involvement in 5G communications, the country's ambassador to the EU said.
In an interview with the Financial Times Zhang Ming warned that if EU countries do not promote international cooperation and free markets, "it would be disastrous for them," as it would impact Chinese investments in the bloc.
"What I hope to see is that the EU will keep to the principles of multilateralism and free trade, as well as the principles of openness, fairness, justice and non-discrimination," he said.
The comments come ahead of recommendations expected in January for EU countries to tighten security checks on 5G companies. China's Huawei, which has faced a backlash from the U.S., is a world leader in the sector.
Zhang also gave a cautions response to a proposed EU-wide carbon border tax, which French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said earlier this month is needed to curtail imports from countries with laxer environmental standards.
WNU Editor: I always find it entertaining to hear senior Chinese foreign ministry officials threatening other countries to not block Chinese exports while ignoring the inconvenient fact that China has some of the most restrictive import rules on the planet. In the case of China - EU trade, the Chinese are currently enjoying an almost $200 billion trade surplus. That is why their threats are hollow to me.
Fast sealift ship SS Algol, right, fast sealift ship SS Capella and the auxiliary crane ship SS Grand Canyon State at their homeport in Alameda, Calif. Part of the Ready Reserve Force, these ships are among those that need to be replaced in the coming years. (U.S. Navy photo by MC2 Billy Ho)
WASHINGTON – The White House wants the U.S. Navy to go back to the drawing board and find new ways to replace its aging sealift fleet, a move that could set back efforts that military officials see as vital to maintaining the military's ability to project power across the globe.
The Office of Management and Budget, in a December 16 memo to the Department of Defense obtained by Defense News, directed DoD to come up with a more cost-effective plan than the Common Hull Auxiliary Multi-Mission Platform, known as CHAMP, a hull that the Navy had planned to use as part of a sealift recapitalization program.
WNU Editor: These type of ships are necessary. What is the point of spending hundreds of billions on equipment that you cannot deploy in the event of a conflict?
The destroyer Thomas Hudner returns to Bath Iron Works after successfully completing acceptance trials. A new Navy proposal would cut destroyer construction by 40 percent over the next five years. (Bath Iron Works)
The service wants to scale back new production of ships and trim existing hulls as part of a new path to reaching a 355-ship fleet.
The U.S. Navy could scale back purchases of new destroyers, attack submarines, frigates, cargo ships, as well as retire early a number of cruisers and littoral combat ships, under a new budget plan taking shape in the Pentagon. The ostensible goal of the proposal is to free up funds for other shipbuilding efforts, including new fleets of unmanned surface and undersea vehicles, but the service is already finding itself in a battle with Congress over funding priorities before it has even finalized its pitch.
After years of domination in the South China Sea, Chinese submarines have started popping up somewhere new – and it's on our doorstep.
The Andaman Sea is fast becoming the latest target of Chinese expansionism. India says it has seen a surge of Chinese submarine activity in the strategically critical waterway.
And, last month, its navy booted a Chinese spy ship out of its waters. But Indian Navy sources say Chinese submarines have become a regular visitor to the region. And they're much harder to deal with.
In September, the Indian navy evicted the Chinese survey ship Shiyan-1 for intruding upon its exclusive economic zone. It was sailing among the Andaman and Nicobar Islands without permission. And such survey ships map the ocean floor for just two purposes: military or economic.
Broadcaster responds Thursday to complaints that edit was politically motivated
CBC confirmed Thursday it deleted a scene featuring Donald Trump from the movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, but the broadcaster says the cut occurred before he became president and was not politically motivated.
Several media outlets reported Trump's cameo in the 1992 movie was edited out of the CBC TV broadcast of the movie earlier this month.
In the uncut version, Trump appears for some seven seconds in a scene set at the Plaza Hotel in New York, when Macauley Culkin's character Kevin McCallister asks him for directions to the lobby.
WNU Editor: This is priceless. The CBC is getting trolled by Trump and they do not get it .... Trump trolls Trudeau after CBC cuts U.S. president's Home Alone 2 cameo (National Post). The parade of serious people that the CBC has had to explain this is hilarious (I live in Canada so I can't miss it).
ARGENTINA threatened to ramp-up World War 3 tensions when they sent a stark warning to the UK over its handing of nuclear weapons on the Falklands, documents seen by Express.co.uk reveal.
(MOSCOW) — Russia confirmed Friday that it will appeal its four-year Olympic ban for manipulating doping data.
The Russian anti-doping agency, known as RUSADA, sent a formal letter disagreeing with the sanctions imposed earlier this month by the World Anti-Doping Agency. The case is now heading to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Next year’s Olympics in Tokyo will be the third consecutive edition of the games preceded by a legal battle over Russian doping issues.
RUSADA said it “disputes the (WADA) notice in its entirety,” including the evidence of tampering with the data archive. The data was handed over in January and was meant to clear up past cover-ups, but has led to more legal tussles.
RUSADA’s own CEO, Yuri Ganus, attached his own note of protest to Friday’s letter. Ganus is critical of Russian officials and had disagreed with the decision to appeal. He was overruled by his agency’s founders, which include some of Russia’s most influential sports leaders.
The WADA sanctions ban the use of the Russian team name, flag or anthem at a range of major sports competitions over the next four years, including next year’s Olympics and the 2022 soccer World Cup.
However, Russian athletes will be allowed to compete as neutrals if they pass a vetting process which examines their history of drug testing, and possible involvement in cover-ups at the lab.
That has prompted anger from some Western athletes and organizations like the United States Anti-Doping Agency, which wanted a blanket ban on Russian athletes.
The appeal was widely expected with Russian President Vladimir Putin having branded the ban “unfair.”
RUSADA’s supervisory board voted Dec. 19 to file an arbitration case with CAS in Switzerland after WADA ruled Russia had manipulated doping laboratory data to cover up past offenses. Putin has said it was not fair to threaten Russia with more doping-related punishment, and that any sanctions should be on an individual basis. “I think it is not just unfair but not corresponding to common sense and law,” Putin said.
After a panel of three CAS arbitrators is chosen, a verdict will be issued within three months.
Putin added that WADA’s recommended four-year ban on Russia hosting major sports competitions would have little effect, pointing to the 2022 men’s volleyball world championships as an event Russia intends to keep.
WADA demands events are moved unless it’s “legally or practically impossible” to do so, which could create a loophole for event organizers who don’t want to break financial commitments.
That ban already doesn’t apply to next year’s European Championship soccer games in St. Petersburg or the 2021 Champions League final, both of which are exempt because they’re continental, not world, championships.
Russia handed over the lab’s doping data archive in January in return for having earlier sanctions lifted in 2018. WADA investigators found evidence that Russia was intensively editing the data in the weeks before the handover to remove signs of failed drug tests.
WADA said it found fake messages spliced into chat logs in an apparent attempt to smear former lab director Grigory Rodchenkov, who’s become a key witness for WADA since leaving Russia.
(WASHINGTON) — A U.S. Special Forces soldier who died in Afghanistan this week was seizing a Taliban weapons cache when he was killed, the U.S. military said Friday.
Sgt. 1st Class Michael Goble was with his unit when its members discovered an undisclosed amount of Taliban weapons in Kunduz Province, said Eric Pahon, a spokesman for the U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Pahon said Goble and others were clearing out the cache when an explosion happened.
Pahon said the Taliban wrongly claimed that the service members were in a convoy and targeted by a roadside bomb during a raid.
Goble, 33, of Washington Township in Bergen County, New Jersey, was killed Monday and an Afghan service member was wounded. Goble served with the 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group.
Details about what type of weapon or ammunition exploded are still under investigation.
A spokesperson with the U.S. State Department confirmed that an American citizen injured in the incident had passed away but did not release the victim’s identity. “We extend our sincerest condolences to the families of all those lost,” the agency said in a statement emailed to TIME.
U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand Scott Brown said in a public statement that supporting victims and their families continues to be the agency’s “primary focus.”
At least 17 people have died as a result of the deadly Dec. 9 eruption, New Zealand Police reported in an update on Monday. The search for another two missing victims has since been suspended. A spokesperson with the New Zealand Police said the agency was not yet in a position to to release the name of the victim.
White Island is a popular tourist destination off the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island.
Police previously said that 47 people appeared to be on the island at the time of the eruption. Of these 47, nine people were from the United States. Other Americans who died include teenagers Berend Hollander, 16, and Matthew Hollander, 13. The duo were Australian permanent residents but their family appeared to have moved from Chicago to Sydney several years ago.
The Caribbean still reigns supreme when it comes to cruising, but there’s a whole new world to explore. Classic ports such as the Bahamas are recovering, new itineraries are opening up in Japan for the 2020 Summer Olympics, and luxury options abound in the Seychelles. Here are eight places to prioritize in 2020.
Japan
Matteo Colombo––Getty ImagesTokyo, Japan
Remember when Olympic organizers in Rio de Janeiro slept on cruise ships and called them “floating hotels”? Tokyo will do the same for its turn in the spotlight. From July 24 to Aug. 9, the city is chartering at least one large ship to serve as a floating hotel in response to a shortage of rooms on dry land. But you’d be better off going a more traditional route: Two of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.’s Shanghai-based ships, Spectrum of the Seas and Voyager of the Seas, will offer itineraries that overnight at Tokyo’s new terminal. Passengers with tickets can easily get to events and then sail on to other, less frenetic parts of the country.
Windstar Cruises LLC is betting that the summer’s television coverage will drum up tourism interest for Japan in general, so it’s skipping the marquee games and sending its 312-passenger, all-suite Star Breeze to the country for a series of temple- and garden-centric sailings this fall. But the most peaceful way to sail might be a three-night trip on Guntû, a 38-passenger design ship that’s like a floating ryokan on the Seto Inland Sea, complete with traditional open-air onsen baths in some of its suites.
The Bahamas
Typically cruise lines have relied heavily on the Bahamas. Not only is Nassau, the capital, a frequent port of call, but several companies have organized sailings throughout the commonwealth around islands that they own. In the last year, however, the roles have changed. After Hurricane Dorian devastated Grand Bahama (also a cruise port) and the less-visited Abaco islands, cruise companies helped deliver recovery supplies and made major donations. In the storm’s aftermath, they’re helping revitalize the entire Bahamian tourism economy.
Royal Caribbean is opening the second phase of its $250 million Perfect Day at CocoCay island in January. The Coco Beach Club includes the first overwater floating cabanas in the region. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. has boosted the offerings at its Great Stirrup Cay, a chic, South Beach-style beach oasis where you can shell out as much as $1,100 a day for a private, air-conditioned villa conveniently located near a Moet & Chandon bar. MSC Cruises’ recently opened, 95-acre Ocean Cay offers a more tranquil experience that focues on spa treatments and underwater activities in its protected marine reserve. And when adults-only Virgin Voyages debuts its first ship in March, every sailing will stop at a swanky private resort—think Ibiza or St-Tropez—developed by Resorts World Bimini.
Cruise lines are jumping on the DNA tourism trend, and harbor towns in West Cork, including the historic fishing town of Kinsale, are trying to get a piece of the pie. Promotional efforts have focused on attracting small expedition and boutique ships, and they’re paying off. Last year, French line Ponant sent one ship; this year it’s sending four. Ultraluxury line Seabourn has been sniffing around, too. Nearby attractions include a 3.7-mile trail around the ocean cliffs of the Old Head of Kinsale, where the Lusitania was sunk just offshore by a German U-boat in 1915. There’s also a star-shaped fort built by Charles II. And if you find through an ancestry search that you’re related to the notorious 18th-century pirate Captain Anne Bonny, Kinsale is said to be where she’s from.
The Douro River, Portugal
Lisbon is a popular port, but attention has also shifted north to the quieter Portuguese city of Porto, famous for its sweet red fortified wine. It’s also becoming a popular starting point for cruises on the Douro River. Hillsides covered in terraced vineyards and historic quintas reflect 2,000 years of winemaking in the valley, with itineraries that include stops for tastings and time to cross the border toward the medieval city of Salamanca in northwestern Spain. Luxury tour operator Tauck Inc. and luxury brand Uniworld River Cruises are each debuting ships in the spring: Uniworld’s 100-passenger S.S. São Gabriel has butler-serviced suites, Douro-influenced decor, and locally sourced cuisine; Tauck’s 84-passenger MS Andorinha features an infinity-style pool, outdoor dining, and Balinese daybeds on the sun deck. Dinner at a family-owned wine estate near the sleepy village of Pinhão is included.
Raja Ampat Islands
Mike lyvers––Getty Images Raja Ampat, Indonesia
Far from the fancy resorts in Bali—in miles, scenery, and style—this Indonesian archipelago occupies an enviable position in the center of the Coral Triangle. Cruises here lead to fascinating cultural encounters, but the big attraction is the warm sea, home to about 75% of known coral species and about half of all the world’s marine tropical fish. Typically the best way to see it all has been on small dive boats, but upscale expedition cruise ships from Ponant and Australian line Coral Expeditions have recently moved in. Joining them is Aqua Expeditions, best known for its top-notch Amazon River sailings. It transformed a naval vessel into its first ocean ship, the 15-suite yacht Aqua Blu, on which it offers a culinary program designed by Aussie superstar chef Benjamin Cross and sailings that stretch through the winter.
Subantarctic Islands
These islands in the Southern Ocean, which are on the way to Antarctica from Australia and New Zealand, are protected nature preserves, where only researchers live among birds and marine mammals. On Macquarie Island, beaches may be covered with royal penguins and fur seals. The island also has a weird geologic feature: Some of its shores are piled up with exposed green rocks from the Earth’s mantle that look eerily like they’re covered in snakeskin. And the Snares, one of several chains of New Zealand islands, feature crested penguins endemic to the islands. Cruise passengers visit on zodiacs that hug the shoreline or make a landing for guided walks, all in places where the number of visitors is tightly controlled. Get here on expedition ships from Silversea Cruise Holding Ltd. or Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic, which have new itineraries traversing the region.
The Seychelles
Levente Bodo––Getty Images Seychelles
Luxurious options abound in this Indian Ocean paradise off of East Africa. Crystal Cruises’ 62-passenger superyacht, Crystal Esprit, has suites with butler service and a private submarine. Ponant’s 184-passenger Le Bougainville has a snazzy, underwater Blue Eye Lounge, somewhat like a submarine with a panoramic view and where you can get a martini. But the real beauty of sailing here is taking tiny zodiacs to islands with uninhabited beaches, where you may snorkel among coral reefs or wander past tortoises in lush forests. Keep an eye out for the Seychelles warbler and other native birds, as well as Vallée de Mai, a rare palm forest little changed since prehistoric times.
Nile River
In January, Uniworld Boutique River Cruises launches the new 84-passenger, all-suite S.S. Sphinx, and because it will only sail in Egypt, its look will have an authentic sense of place. (Think Egyptian fabrics and artworks.) Similarly, Viking River Cruises in September adds the 82-passenger Viking Osiris, done up in Scandinavian design despite her Nubian name. Standard 12-day sailings on both ships start and end in Aswan, usually after a hotel stay in Cairo and a flight to Luxor. For DIY types, there are also four-night sailings to Aswan on Sanctuary Retreats’ elegant, recently upgraded, 64-passenger Sanctuary Nile Adventurer. Its shorter sailings aren’t packaged with pre- and post-cruise land experiences and are a little more flexible. This year, especially, a must-do is drinks on the terrace of Aswan’s Old Cataract Hotel, where Agatha Christie wrote parts of her 1937 novel Death on the Nile. Kenneth Branagh’s film based on the book will debut in theaters in the fall.
Wearing a white cotton bodysuit, a helmet and a respirator to protect against radiation, tour guide Beata Jevsejeva walks briskly up the stairs to the reactor hall at the decommissioned Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) in the Lithuanian town of Visaginas. It’s late November and sparks fly out of the ground as mechanics saw metal to remove a refueling machine, once used to top up uranium levels. Tenyears ago, on Dec. 31 2009, the INPP’s final nuclear reactor was shut down shortly before midnight. By 2038 the entire plant will be dismantled.
The room will look familiar to anyone who’s watched the HBO Chernobyl series, which was filmed at the Ignalina power plant in August 2018. The hugely popular series, watched by over 8 million people, shows the catastrophic nuclear explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near the town of Pripyat in Ukraine in 1986, which killed some 40,000 people and contaminated the surrounding area. Since the series was released in May, tourism to Ignalina has “massively increased,” says Natalija Kravchenko, head of communications at INPP.
That’s partly because, more than 30 years on, Chernobyl’s radiation levels remain too high for tourists to walk around the plant. Instead, tourists from around Europe, the U.S. and Australia have poured into the Ignalina plant in Visaginas for the unique experience of being able to walk on nuclear reactors, something that’s too dangerous to do in Chernobyl. Tickets to tour the Ignalina plant, priced at 60 euros ($66) each, are booked up months ahead. In 2019 alone, 4,025 people visited the plant, says Kravchenko.
The rise in tourism has breathed new life into a town that has faced an identity crisis since the Ignalina plant was decommissioned in 2009. The closure led to the loss of thousands of jobs and a surge in young people leaving Visaginas; Kravchenko says that the plant will be fully closed off to visitors in eight years. The mayor and residents are instead finding ways to move the town away from its nuclear identity and develop other industries to keep people from leaving, and to attract more visitors. “Our city will always be a nuclear age monument, but it will not support the life of our residents,” says Pavel Kostenko, a 36-year-old Visaginas resident who runs a small steel production company, Viri Technologija.
Madeline Roache for TIMEThe Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Visaginas, Lithuania on Nov. 29, 2019.
Situated among pine forests and on the shores of the Visaginas lake, some 80 miles from the capital Vilnius, the town of Visaginas was built in 1975 to accommodate plant workers. Technicians and nuclear physicists came from around the USSR and then-Communist countries like Poland; they were housed along 14 streets in this town with an area of 5.6 miles. By 1983, people of 43 different nationalities had built one of the world’s most powerful nuclear power stations, providing 70% of Lithuania’s electricity and pumping energy throughout the Baltics and Russia. “It was intended to be a window of Soviet progress to the West,” says Olga Cernovaite, who directed the 2017 documentaryButterfly City, shot in Visaginas. (Seen from the air, Visaginas’ design resembles a butterfly cut in half, with each wing representing the INPP reactors.)
But a lot has changed since the Soviet Union fell in 1991, cutting off the flow of money from Moscow. The newly-independent, cash-strapped country of Lithuania sought to join the European Union. Attached to the conditions for its accession was the dismantling of the Ignalina plant due to safety concerns. Ignalina’s reactors were three times as powerful as the RBMK reactors in Ukraine’s infamous Chernobyl plant. In 2004, Lithuania became an E.U. member; with that came a multi billion euro package to close the plant. But in doing so, the country lost a major export commodity and is now dependent on73% of its energy being imported (well above the E.U. average of 52%) fromNorway and the United States.
Launching and expanding new industries is now seen as a way of connecting more closely with other parts of Lithuania. In this mostly Russian-speaking town, where more than half of the population are Russian, many residents have felt disconnected from the rest of the country. “We were living in the past, now we need to think about the future,” Kostenko says.
The closure of Ignalina, which began in 2004, was a huge shock to the country. “No one could believe they would do that and cut thousands of jobs,” says Kostenko, whose parents, now retired, were INPP engineers. Some 5,000 people were employed at the plant; today, only about 1,900 are left, according to Kravchenko.
The town has also shrunk. Over the past 20 years, a third of the population, mostly young people, have migrated to Russia and other cities in Europe; the town is now home to about 18,700 people, with an average age of 55, according to Visaginas mayor Erlandas Galaguz. “There was an identity crisis. The city was built for the plant. Without the plant, there is no city,” says Galaguz, who worked as a reactor engineer for over a decade. “Residents thought that there won’t be life here.”
The crisis was compounded by the language barrier. “To be Lithuanian you need to speak the language,” says documentary producer Cullinane. Many people from Visaginas’ older generation can’t speak Lithuanian and that “doesn’t go over so well” in modern Lithuania, Cullinane adds.
“Life in Visaginas was like a bubble and when it burst, the town began searching for its identity. This is something that is probably happening in many former Soviet republics—not just in Visaginas,” says Cernovaite, the Butterfly City director. Under Soviet rule, Moscow’s policies of Russification — the spreading of Russian culture and language throughout the republics — sought to control a diverse population by suppressing ethnic national identities. The strength of national identity varied across Soviet states. But in Lithuania and their Baltic neighbors Latvia and Estonia — the last states to join the USSR and the first to leave — it was strong.
Madeline Roache for TIMEAn apartment block in Visaginas, Lithuania on Nov. 29, 2019.
Many residents of Visaginas have said they’re disappointed with how the Lithuanian media tends to portray the town. When Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in 2014, under a pretext of safeguarding Russians and Russian speakers, several Lithuanian outlets grew suspicious of Visaginas. In March 2016, a major news platform in the Baltics described Visaginas as a threat to Lithuania’s security. The headline claimed that the homeland security department had found an active “death battalion” in Visaginas, which turned out to be teenagers playing with air guns and wearing old Soviet military uniforms that belonged to their grandparents.
Even residents who are fluent in Lithuanian have struggled to integrate. Speaking through her respirator in a muffled voice as we walk through a long, brightly lit corridor Jevsejeva says: “I understand, talk and work in Lithuanian and with Lithuanians, but unfortunately I don’t feel fully Lithuanian, and other Lithuanians don’t recognize me as one of them.” The 31 year old worked in London at two major banks for four years before deciding to move back.
“I thought I would die of loneliness in London,” she says, adding that she’s one of a handful of her classmates who decided to settle in Visaginas, where the average salary is 700 euros a month.(The national average is 1,300 euros.)
“We need to go back to a state where people believe in the town’s perspective and potential,” says Visaginas mayor, Erlandas Galaguz. And to do that, he says, Visaginas needs jobs. “But things are getting better,” he adds. A new factory that will produce medical equipment is currently being built by the U.K. based Intersurgical in Visaginas, to be launched next year. It’s expected to give an economic boost to the town, with the factory planning to employ about 200 people initially and to eventually increase the workforce to 1,500.
Another potential area for development is ecotourism, because Lithuania has rich national parks, coastal scenery, lakes and rivers. In January 2018, Visaginas residents Anton Jevtiuchov, 28, and his wife Anastasija, 27 launched a Visaginas-based travel company, LitWild Travel, organizing daily and weekly trips around Lithuania’s lakes and forests. They had previously studied and worked in recruitment and engineering in the U.K., Spain and Russia, before returning home to set up the company. Last year, they conducted 86 tours with up to 30 participants, most of which start in Visaginas or in nearby towns. That work earned them a “Heroes Among Us” award from the President of Lithuania last January, given to Lithuanians who return home after living abroad to start their own civic initiative.
Madeline Roache for TIMELake Visaginas in Lithuania on Nov. 29, 2019.
LitWild has been able to bring in visitors, Anastasija says, because of improvements in infrastructure in Visaginas. These new pavements, street lights and regular trains connecting the town to the capital are largely the result of E.U. funds from 2007-2013. But she says the company needs more support. “At the moment, it’s all in our hands. Our business, like other local businesses, needs more support from local authorities,” says Anastasija. LitWild wants to set up a local camping site and an information center, which require a greenlight from local politicians. But Anastasija says they’ve been waiting for concrete action for over a year.
Residents are also keen to develop the creative industries. Alex Urazov greets me with a smile outside his art residency “Tochka” (“Point”) in central Visaginas, barefoot and in cut-off cargo pants even though it’s snowing. The 35 year old was born in Russia and moved to Visaginas in 1988 at the age of 4, when his parents found work at the plant. Twenty years later, when Urazov was working as a DJ, he says he felt he had “hit a ceiling” and needed to get out. That’s when he moved to Britain, spending time in London and Leeds. “Work, drink, party and the cycle continues. A destructive time,” he says. After four years of life in the U.K. he moved back to his hometown to set up an art residency. “I found my purpose,” he says.
Tochka, which occupies a 5 story building in the center of town, welcomes young Visaginas residents and visiting artists.Urazov’s only rule is that alcohol and drugs are banned. “I won’t turn them away if they come here drunk, but they can’t take anything in here,” he says. Tochka looks like a big bric-a-brac shop. Masks, sci-fi figurines and other crafts — some made by the visitors — crowd the dimly lit rooms. One of the rooms is decked out in dream catchers and hand-made key-chains, which they sell online and at local markets. At Tochka, people draw on the walls, engage in heated debates or read Urazov’s collection of books on philosophy. It’s also a rare safe space in Visaginas for LGBT people. “A lot of people who don’t feel like they fit in come here,” he says.
Urazov says he wants Visaginas to move away from its “Soviet” past and become more “European.” “I want to bring Lithuania and the world closer to Visaginas, attract diverse people and make it contemporary,” he says. Various artists and photographers have begun migrating from the capital to Visaginas, according to Urazov, because “property is cheap, it’s peaceful with the surrounding nature and has all the necessities of a city.”
Other residents see a huge potential in the plant’s leftover infrastructure. One afternoon, Kostenko and Igor Davidyuk, a member of the city council, drive to a large 3-story administrative building in the Ignalina power plant that’s been abandoned and closed off to the public since 2009. As we pull up to the rusted gates, Kostenko proudly shows me a frame from the Chernobyl trailer featuring this exact gate and tells me how camera crews took over the site for four days.
But attracting more production companies is not what they have in mind for the future. Davidyuk, a member of the “Visaginas is Us”, a public election committee led by seven other young professionals from the town, envisions Visaginas as an IT hub that hosts data centers—and hopes to transform the Ignalina power plant facilities into a data center.
Madeline Roache for TIMEIgor Davidyuk, a member of Visaginas city council, on the ground floor of an abandoned administrative building at the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Visaginas, Lithuania, Nov. 30, 2019.
Lithuania has become increasingly attractive to both technology companies and businesses that need tech expertise. It is home to 13 of the 20 largest IT companies in the Baltics, has Europe’s fastest and most affordable internet connection, and a highly developed IT infrastructure. In 2015, Google established a sales office and Nasdaq, an American stock exchange, opened a center of excellence in Vilnius.
“Visaginas is Us” says politicians in Vilnius could help the town attract investors and encourage companies to expand by introducing a free economic zone in Visaginas (an area where companies are taxed very lightly or not at all) or by offering corporate tax concessions. In 2019,This year they secured the lifting of the sanitary protection zone, which bans certain businesses operating within a 2 mile radius of the plant. The relaxed restrictions, expected to be implemented from January 2020, will allow businesses to set up shop in this building and six others around the plant.
If successful, the administrative buildings in the Ignalina plant wouldn’t be the first former nuclear facility to be transformed into a data center. In 2008, a building that was part of an ex nuclear plant in Hanau in central Germany was turned into a data center by 1&1 Internet, one of the world’s largest web hosting companies. By 2021, Rostelecom Data Centres, Russia’s largest digital service provider will launch commercial services in a disused plant in the western Russian city of Tver. And a former Google executive suggested in 2016 that a defunct power station in Vermont be used as a data center.
In one of the building’s rooms at Ignalina, old fire extinguishers and barrels of oil are scattered on the ground, and a large industrial hook hangs from the ceiling. A railway track, once used to transport materials, runs through the room and around the Ignalina plant; “the plant’s artery” is what Kostenko calls it. Old signs that read “Danger! Keep out” hang below red rubber gloves coated in white dust. In a room that occupies the entire third floor, a few shelves are stacked with files, and black and white photos of former plant employees. “Think how many offices and people could be here,” says Kostenko. “So much potential”.
On the roof, we get a view of hundreds of yards of the Ignalina plant, its dozens of remaining electrical grids, and even more foundations of those that were dismounted. “If we could only get the young generation to build something as big and impressive in such a short amount of time as the older generation did,” says Kostenko, “the town will do well.”
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Dr.B.R. Ambedkar Open University Released BRAOU Results 2019 forUG/PG Courses. Recently the University has let out B.Com, B.Ed, BCA, BSC, BBA, MA, MBA, M.Com, MSc and Other Courses. To get the direct link to check out your Dr. BR Ambedkar Open University Results 2019 get down the below section. Students who are studying under Dr.B.R. Ambedkar Open University can check their results from the official website of the University i.e, braou.ac.in. We have attached the main sever links for BRAOU UG/PG Results 2019. Here, we have updated all the information about the UG, PG and other Course results. Know more details about Dr. Ambedkar Open University Results in the below sections of this page.
Students who have undertaken the Semester Exams its time to check out the Dr. BR Ambedkar Open University Results 2019 announced by the board. We people from recruitment.guru have gathered the updates about the University Results here. Once the board releases the Semester Results Students can check here to know the Exam Results. We have also included the BRAOU Revaluation Results in this article. Also, we have provided a direct link to get the BRAOU Results 2019 from the below table. It will help the students to get the results without any hesitation. We advise the Students to regularly check the official website to know more information about the Dr. Ambedkar Open University Results 2019.
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The university was established in August 1982 by Act of the State Legislature. The principal aim of the University is to provide an opportunity for those who are not in a position to avail themselves of the facilities for higher education through regular on-campus study at conventional colleges/universities. It adopts a flexible approach to eligibility, age of entry, method of learning, choice of courses, the conduct of exams and operation of educational programs. The Univ makes use of a variety of learning media including Radio, TV, film, audio cassette and printed study material, besides arranging contact and counseling programs and Sc ‘Practicals’ which makes for the traditional teacher-student interaction.
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Bangalore University Results 2019 for UG/PG Semester Examination is released on 18th November 2019 at bangaloreuniversity.ac.in. As recently the Bangalore University has conducted the Semester Examination for all the Under Graduate and Post Graduate Courses. Those Students who have attended the Semester Examination do stay in touch with our webpage. We will give you the regular updates regarding the Bangalore University Exam Results 2019-20 for all Semester. Moreover, we have included steps to download the Bangalore University Results 2019 in this article. Students can make use of this article and can also check the Bangalore University Revaluation Results without any confusion.
Bangalore University has successfully conducted the Last Semester Examination. Currently, Students are waiting for the results, Yes, now Bangalore University has released the result for Bachelor of Education Exam March 2019. Also, this is an opportunity to predict the students’ individual performance. With the help of the Results, Students will lead to the next Semester. Bangalore University has published the Results and Time Table for the upcoming Examination. We have updated all the information regarding the Bangalore University Results here. Students can check Results, News and any updates from this page recruitment.guru.We advise the Students to keep checking on this page to get all the latest updates.
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Bangalore University, or BU, is a public state university is located in Bengaluru in the state of Karnataka, India. Bangalore University is thelargest university in South-Asia. Faculties of the Civil Engineering, Geology, Geography, Mathematics, Zoology, Botany and Microbiology have been involved in making Bio-park a reality. Rainwater harvesting and groundwater recharging are a part of Bio park as also aquaculture and ornithology. It has 43 Post Graduate Departments, a Postgraduate Centre at Kolar, (Started during 1994-95), three constituent colleges, 665 affiliated colleges (of which 115 have PG Courses) and several other Centres and Directorates of higher learning and research under its purview. At present, the university offers 50 Post Graduate Courses and Employment Oriented Diploma and Certificate Courses.
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Punjabi University Result 2019 Released: Check out Punjabi University Result New here for M.Sc, B.Sc, MA, MBA, BCA, and Other Courses. Students can get Punjabi University Results 2019 with a direct link. And now, PBI UNI has declared the Punjabi University Results 2019 for various Courses under Punjabi University. Recently the University has published the results of Diploma, UG, PG and other Courses results are available here. We have provided a direct link to the Students to download the Punjabi University Results from the below table. Keep in touch with our page to get the latest PU Results 2019.
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RCUB Result 2019 Released: Students who are pursuing their degree under the Rani Channamma University Belagavi have great news here. RCUB University Examination Results are released for all the courses. Candidates can get all UG/PG RCUB Examination Results from the below section. Students can get the complete details regarding the Exam dates and Result dates from this site easily. Students can check out the Rani Channamma University Belgavi Results 2019 at the rcub.ac.in. official website.
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Before the Rani Channamma University came into being in 2010, Karnataka University KRCPG Centre of Karnatak University, Dharwad was functioning at Belagavi. The said Karnatak University PG Centre was established at Belagavi in the year 1982, to provide an opportunity to develop access to the students for higher education hailing from North Karnataka Region. At present, the Rani Channamma University is offering 9 PG courses at Vidyasangam Campus Belagavi, in the school of Arts, Education, Social Science, Science, Commerce, and Management. The courses in Social Science include Economics, Sociology, Social Work and Arts includes Kannada and Marathi. In Science the university offers M.Sc in Physics, Mathematics, and chemistry and in Applied it offers Geography, Library and information science. School of Business and Economics offers a Master's Degree in Commerce and Management.
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RDVV Result 2019Released: Dear Folks !!! Students of Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya, we have really good news for you all. The Semester examination results are released by the University. Check out the below section to get the Annual and Semester wise Exam Results for the RDVV. Students can also get the Regular and Supplementary results along with the mark sheet. You can also obtain your MBA, BCA, B.Ed, M.A., B.Sc, B.Com, LL.B., and also several other courses RDVV Exam Result 2019 here.
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Select for the course and enter your Roll Number & hit on Submit.
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About Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya
Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya, also known as the University of Jabalpur, is a government university in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. The university was constituted and established on 12 June 1956 under the Jabalpur University. The UGC-Academic Staff College (Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma Bhawan) is one of the best in the country. It has so far conducted 73 orientation programs and 195 refresher courses. Over 7600 teachers have been benefited from these courses. It accommodates an Administrative Block, Art Faculty building, Teaching and Research buildings of Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Bio-Science, System Science and also the Physical education departments.
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Jammu University Results 2019 Released: Hello Students !!! This is the right time to check your results, those who have appeared for the Jammu University Examination. Students those who are studying under the Jammu University can check their result from the official website of the University i.e, Jammu university.in. Currently, Jammu University has announced the results for various examinations. Students can check the JU Exam Results 2019 with the help of the below Details. Here we have provided a direct link to verify the Exam Results. Students can click the direct link to know their Exam Results.
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. Also, we will be providing the link for the Jammu University Result 2019, it will be work once the University will be announcing the results officially. We advise the Students to keep in touch with our recruitment.guru page to get the latest updated information about the Jammu University Supplementary/Revaluation Exam Results 2019.
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RE-EVAL RESULT OF LLB 3 YEARS 2ND SEM EXAM – HELD IN JULY 2019
The University of Jammu also known as Jammu University was established in 1969 by the Government of Jammu & Kashmir. It was established by the act of state legislature which split the Jammu and Kashmir University into the separate University of Jammu & University of Kashmir. Jammu University is the first university that received the ISO-9001 Certification. At the initial stage of this university has 7 campuses even now it is the same. The university provides all kinds of Graduate, Post Graduate & Doctoral courses to its students. The main campus of Jammu University is located at Baba Saheb Ambedkar Road in Jammu. The university has affiliated with 157 colleges which offer all kinds of Graduate & Post Graduate Courses.
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Students have appeared for the Jammu University Examination can check their results, if they got low grades, still Students can apply for the Revaluation. The higher level Examiner will check the results and announce the JU Revaluation Results. Still, if any students will get low marks again they can write the exam. For that, they should apply for the Supplementary Examination. For every semester Students can apply for the revaluation after the announcement of the main examination results. Students can keep in touch with the official website to know more information about the Jammu University Revaluation Results.
TNPSC Hall Ticket 2019: The Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission will release it’s TNPSC Exam Hall Ticket 2019 for various examinations. Admit card is a mandatory document to be carried while attending the examinations. However the TNPSC Exam Admit Card 2019 will be here to download when released by the officials at www.tnpsc.gov.in. Stay tuned to our page and download TNPSC Admit Card 2019 here. Moreover, the Admit Card contains important information like the examination date, timings, and venue that help contenders to reach the exam hall on time.
TNPSC Archaeological Officer Hall Ticket 2020 – The Tamilnadu Public Service Commission will release the TNPSC Archaeological Officer Admit Card on 2nd Week of February for the 114 vacancies. Only the candidates who had applied for the Archaeological Exam are eligible to download the Admit Card from the Official portal through the below link. TNPSC board advised the aspirants to download the Archaeological Officer Hall Ticket before the last date ends. The candidates who carry the admit care allowed to enter the exam hall. The Archaeological Officer Hall Ticket will have the complete details of Exam Date, Exam Center and more other required details. The correct exam date and admit card date will be updated on our website when it is released officially.
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TNPSC Veterinary Assistant Surgeon Hall Ticket 2020 – Tamilnadu Public Service Commission will issue the admit card on the 01st Week of February 2020. Thus, the Veterinary Assistant Surgeon exam will be held on 23rd February 2020. So, Aspirants who have applied for the post are suggested to get ready to download the TNPSC Hall Ticket from the official site.
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TNPSC Departmental Hall Ticket 2020 Released – The Tamilnadu Public Service Commission has issued the hall ticket for the Departmental Exam on 27th December 2019. Moreover, the exam is going to be held from 05th January to 12th January 2020. Thus, candidates are suggested to download the TNPSC Hall Ticket within the last date. Hence, Download the TNPSC Departmental Test Hall Ticket from the quick link given below.
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TNPSC Exam Hall Ticket 2019 will be released on 17th December 2019. Hence, Aspirants can download the admit card from the below section. Therefore, the Commission has announced the exam date from 22nd December to 30th December 2019. Thus, Make sure to download the TNPSC Departmental Hall Ticket 2019.
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Child Development Project Officer (CDPO), Departmental Officer
TNPSC Jailor Admit Card 2019 is yet to release. Hence, the admit card will be available soon on its official website. Moreover, the exam date will also be declared by the officials of the Tamilnadu Public Service Commission. Therefore, Eligible candidates can download the TNPSC Hall Ticket from the below section.
MGVCL Jobs 2020 Notification released @ www.mgvcl.com. Job Seekers!! Madhya Gujarat Vij Company Limited (MGVCL) has recently announced a Job Notification to hire 246 Candidates for Vidyut Sahayak (Junior Assistant) Vacancies. MGVCL offers a challenging and rewarding career to young and dynamic Graduates. Applicants who are searching for the Gujarat Govt Jobs can apply for this MGVCL Jobs through Online. The link will be LIVE from 26th December 2019 to 15th January 2020.
MGVCL Jobs 2020 – 246 Openings
Madhya Gujarat Vij Company Limited is a Power Distribution Company of erstwhile Gujarat Electricity Board having Offices at different locations in Gujarat State. Applications are welcomed for the Posts of Vidyut Sahayak Junior Assistant from General (UR), SC, ST, SEBC, EWS, and PWD Candidates. Before applying for the Posts, candidates should read all the instructions carefully and ensure that they fulfill all the eligibility criteria for the post. Here we have provided the complete details of MGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Junior Assistant Vacancies.
Vacancies & Reservation for the post of Vidyut Sahayak (Junior Assistant)
Cadre
Roster wise vacancies are as under
SC
ST
SEBC
EWS
UR
PWD
Total
Vidyut Sahayak (Junior Assistant)
M
F
M
F
M
F
M
F
M
F
15
246
11
03
28
13
54
19
54
25
18
06
Eligibility Criteria for MGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Recruitment Notification 2020
Candidates who are interested in applying for MGVCL Junior Assistant Recruitment 2020 must fulfill all the below-listed eligibility conditions without fail. Check Educational Qualification, age limit, selection process, examination pattern, Salary for MGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Recruitment for Graduates 2020.
Academic Qualification for MGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Jobs:
Vidyut Sahayak (Junior Assistant) – A candidate should have Full-time Graduate in B.A., B.Com., B.Sc., B.C.A., and B.B.A. in regular mode from recognized University duly approved by UGC with minimum 55% in the final year can eligible to apply for MGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Jobs.
Age Limit – MGVCL Recruitment 2020:
As on 26th December 2019, Age Limit for MGVCL Jobs for Vidyut Sahayak (Junior Assistant) is as follows,
For Unreserved Category – 30 Years
For Reserved Category (Inclusive EWS) – 35 Years
Age Relaxation:
Female Candidate – 5 Years
A person with Disability (PH) candidate – 10 Years
Ex. Armed force Personnel – 10 Years
Dependent on Retired Employee of Erstwhile GEB & MGVCL – Up to 40 Years
Selection Process for MGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Recruitment 2020:
Written Examination
Interview
MGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Junior Assistant Salary:
Fixed Remuneration for 1st Year Rs. 17500/- per month. – Incremental Remuneration for 2nd year to 5th year shall be as per rules. – No other allowances or benefits would be admissible. – Reimbursement of TA/DA as per GSO-332 dated 03.02.2003.
Frequently Asked Questions About MGVCL Recruitment 2020:
1. What is the mode of application form MGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Recruitment 2020? A. Applications for MGVCL Junior Assistant Recruitment will be accepted only in the Online mode. Candidates can apply for Vidyut Sahayak (Junior Assistant) posts by following the steps given above
2. Where will the candidates be placed after selection? A. The selected candidates can be placed anywhere in Gujarat which has an office of Madhya Gujarat Vij Company Limited (MGVCL).
3. What are the important dates I must know for MGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Jobs 2020? A. Candidates must make note of the following date
Starting Date of Application – 26th December 2019
Last Date To Apply Online – 15th January 2020
4. What are the eligibility criteria for MGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Vacancy 2020? A. Candidate should have passed Full-time Graduate in B.A., B.Com., B.Sc., B.C.A., and B.B.A. in regular mode from recognized University to be eligible for MGVCL Vacancy 2020. The candidate must be below 35 years of age.
5. What is the selection process for MGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Junior Assistant Vacancies? A. Candidates will be selected based on Written Examination and Interview.
6. How much will I be paid for MGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Jobs? A. Candidates will be paid Basic pay of 17500/- p.m.
7. What is the application fee that I will have to pay for MGVCL Junior Assistant Recruitment 2020? A. UR, EWS & SEBC candidate (Inclusive GST) will have to pay – Rs. 500/- as application fee and ST & SC candidate (Inclusive GST) have to pay Rs. 250/-.
About Madhya Gujarat Vij Company Limited (MGVCL):
Madhya Gujarat Vij Company Ltd. is an electricity company that was incorporated on 15th September 2003 by Gujarat Electricity Board (GEB). The Company obtained the Certificate of the Commencement of Business on 15th October 2003. The company was one of several created as a part of efforts towards restructuring of the power sector in the state of Gujarat in India.
The company is involved in electricity sub-transmission distribution and retail supply in the State of Gujarat or outside the State. Their mandate is to establish and use a power system network and to buy and sell electrical energy, and to collect information with an eye towards further system improvements.
DGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Jobs 2020 @ www.dgvcl.com. Apply Online|| 482 Vidyut Sahayak (Junior Assistant) Vacancies. Dear Job Seekers!! Dakshin Gujarat Vij Company Limited (DGVCL) offers a challenging and rewarding career to young and dynamic Graduates. Applicants are invited to hire 482 Candidates for the Post of Vidyut Sahayak (Junior Assistant) Vacancies under DGVCL. Applicants who are searching for the Gujarat Govt Jobs can apply for this recruitment through Online. The link will be LIVE from 26th December 2019 to 15th January 2020.
DGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Jobs 2020
Dakshin Gujarat Vij Company Limited is a Power Distribution Company of erstwhile Gujarat Electricity Board having Offices at different locations in Gujarat State. Applications are welcomed for the Posts of Vidyut Sahayak Junior Assistant from General (UR), SC, ST, SEBC, EWS, and PWD Candidates. Before applying for the Posts, candidates should read all the instructions carefully and ensure that they fulfill all the eligibility criteria for the post. Here we have provided the complete details of DGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Junior Assistant Vacancies.
Vacancies & Reservation for the post of Vidyut Sahayak (Junior Assistant)
Cadre
Roster wise vacancies are as under
SC
ST
SEBC
EWS
UR
PWD
Total
Vidyut Sahayak (Junior Assistant)
M
F
M
F
M
F
M
F
M
F
54
482
16
06
142
71
73
37
21
11
33
16
Eligibility Criteria for DGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Recruitment Notification 2020
Candidates who are interested in applying for DGVCL Junior Assistant Recruitment 2020 must fulfill all the below-listed eligibility conditions without fail. Check Educational Qualification, age limit, selection process, examination pattern, Salary for DGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Recruitment for Graduates 2020.
Academic Qualification for DGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Jobs:
Vidyut Sahayak (Junior Assistant) – A candidate should have Full-time Graduate in B.A., B.Com., B.Sc., B.C.A., and B.B.A. in regular mode from recognized University duly approved by UGC with minimum 55% in the final year can eligible to apply for DGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Jobs.
Age Limit – DGVCL Recruitment 2020:
As on 26th December 2019, Age Limit for DGVCL Jobs for Vidyut Sahayak (Junior Assistant) is as follows,
For Unreserved Category – 30 Years
For Reserved Category (Inclusive EWS) – 35 Years
Age Relaxation:
Female Candidate – 5 Years
A person with Disability (PH) candidate – 10 Years
Ex. Armed force Personnel – 10 Years
Dependent on Retired Employee of Erstwhile GEB & DGVCL – Up to 40 Years
Selection Process for DGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Recruitment 2020:
Written Examination
Interview
DGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Junior Assistant Salary:
Fixed Remuneration for 1st Year Rs. 17500/- per month. – Incremental Remuneration for 2nd year to 5th year shall be as per rules. – No other allowances or benefits would be admissible. – Reimbursement of TA/DA as per GSO-332 dated 03.02.2003.
Frequently Asked Questions About DGVCL Recruitment 2020:
1. What is the mode of application form DGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Recruitment 2020? A. Applications for DGVCL Junior Assistant Recruitment will be accepted only in the Online mode. Candidates can apply for Vidyut Sahayak (Junior Assistant) posts by following the steps given above
2. Where will the candidates be placed after selection? A. The selected candidates can be placed anywhere in Gujarat which has an office of Dakshin Gujarat Vij Company Limited (DGVCL).
3. What are the important dates I must know for DGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Jobs 2020? A. Candidates must make note of the following date
Starting Date of Application – 26th December 2019
Last Date To Apply Online – 15th January 2020
4. What are the eligibility criteria for DGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Vacancy 2020? A. Candidate should have passed Full-time Graduate in B.A., B.Com., B.Sc., B.C.A., and B.B.A. in regular mode from recognized University to be eligible for DGVCL Vacancy 2020. The candidate must be below 35 years of age.
5. What is the selection process for DGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Junior Assistant Vacancies? A. Candidates will be selected based on Written Examination and Interview.
6. How much will I be paid for DGVCL Vidyut Sahayak Jobs? A. Candidates will be paid Basic pay of 17500/- p.m.
7. What is the application fee that I will have to pay for DGVCL Junior Assistant Recruitment 2020? A. UR, EWS & SEBC candidate (Inclusive GST) will have to pay – Rs. 500/- as application fee and ST & SC candidate (Inclusive GST) have to pay Rs. 250/-.
About Dakshin Gujarat Vij Company Limited (DGVCL):
Dakshin Gujarat Vij Company Ltd. is an electricity company that was incorporated on 15 September 2003 by Gujarat Electricity Board (GEB). The Company obtained the Certificate of the Commencement of Business on 15 October 2007. The company was one of several created as a part of efforts towards restructuring of the power sector in the state of Gujarat in India.
DGVCL, Surat. The company is involved in electricity sub-transmission distribution and retail supply in the State of Gujarat or outside the State. Their mandate is to establish and use a power system network and to buy and sell electrical energy, and to collect information with an eye towards further system improvements.
PSPCL Result 2020 will soon declare on its official Website @ pspcl.in. The Officials of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited has announced the Online Test on 18th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, 30th, 31st December 2019 and 3rd, 4th January 2020. Candidates who appeared for the online Examination can go through this complete article. Aspirants can get enough information regarding the PSPCL Exam Results 2020 from this page. Hence, check this page regularly. Moreover, the Authority will release the PSPCL LDC, RA, SDA, AO, JE, EG, IA, Steno Typist Results 2020 in the month of January 2020 (Tentatively). So, all the aspirants can get the PSPCL LDC, Junior Engineer, Steno Typist Final Result 2020 from this portal. Additionally, contenders can also check and download the JE, Steno Typist, Other Posts Cut Off, Merit List 2020 using this site.
PSPCL Result 2020 – Download here
The Punjab State Power Corporation Limited will announce the Punjab SPCL Result 2020 as soon as possible on its official Web portal. The PSPCL Department has announced this recruitment process to fill 1798 vacancies of Lower Division Clerk, Junior Engineer (Electrical & Civil), Revenue Accountant, Electrician Grade II, Divisional Supdt. Accounts, Steno typist, Internal Auditor, Accounts Officer posts. Here, we will update the direct link to download the final PSPCL LDC, RA, SDA, AO, JE, EG, IA, Steno Typist Results 2020 from our page. And the link will activate at the time of the official declaration. Hence, applicants need not go to any other sites to check the Results.
PSPCL LDC, Junior Engineer, Steno Typist, Other Post Result 2020 – Overview
18th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, 30th, 31st December 2019 & 3rd, 4th January 2020
Result Release Date
January 2020 (Tentatively)
Selection Process
Online Test, 1st Language Test, Steno-Typing Test, Document Verification
Location
Punjab
Official Website
pspcl.in
Above all the details appeared in the table will give the information like the organization name, the Post name, number of vacancies available, the Exam date, the Result declaration date, Selection process, the Job location, and the Official site to check the PSPCL LDC, RA, SDA, AO, JE, EG, IA, Steno Typist Result 2020. To get selected for those posts candidates must face four levels of the selection process. They are Online Test, 1st Language Test, Steno-Typing Test, Document Verification. Therefore, Aspirants who get shortlisted in the first three-stages will be eligible for the final round of Document Verification. Here, we have attached the PSPCL Previous Paper for upcoming examination
PSPCL LDC, JE, Steno Typist, Other Posts Cut Off Marks 2020
All the applicants must go through the Previous PSPCL Cut Off Marks to score the maximum cut off Marks in the PSPCL Examination 2020. The applicants must score qualified cut off marks to move for further levels. Generally, the Board will reveal the Cut Off Marks after the announcement of the PSPCL LDC, Junior Engineer (Electrical & Civil), Steno Typist, Other Post Result 2020. However, the higher authority will decide the Punjab SPCL Cut Off Marks 2020 based on the category of the Candidates.
The expected cut-off marks for the General Catagory such as BC, OC is 45 % and for the Reserved category such as SC, ST is 35 %
LDC, JE, Steno Typist, Other Posts Merit List 2020 @ pspcl.in
From this section, aspirants can have detailed information regarding the PSPCL LDC, JE, Steno Typist, Other Posts Merit List 2020. A candidate who secures the top score will be listed in the Punjab SPCL Merit List 2020. The contenders in the PSPCL LDC, Junior Engineer, Steno Typist, & Other Posts Merit List 2020 will be called for the Document Verification. The candidates in PSPCL Merit List 2020 will get higher priority in the upcoming rounds of the interview process. Further, we can have the stepwise procedure to check and download the PSPCL LDC Result 2020.
How to check the Punjab SPCL LDC and Other Posts Result 2020?
Initially, visit the official of PSPCL @ pspcl.in.
On the home page of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited look for About Us – Recruitment and click on it.
The recruitment page will open on the screen.
Then under that search for the PSPCL LDC, RA, SDA, AO, JE, EG, IA, Steno Typist Results 2020 links.
Click on the related links and download the PDF.
Direct links to download PSPCL Result 2020
PSPCL LDC, RA, SDA, AO, JE, EG, IA, Steno Typist Result 2020
MUMBAI: The Economic Offences Wing of the Mumbai Police filed an over 32,000-page chargesheet in connection with the multi-crore scam at Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative Bank on Friday, charging HDIL promoters Rakesh and Sarang Wadhawan as well as former bank chairman Waryam Singh, managing director Joy Thomas and director SS Arora.The EOW charged the former management of PMC Bank with failing to report an account of Rakesh Wadhawan with an outstanding amount of Rs 1,671.88 crore as the top borrower from the HDIL Group and filing false statements with the Reserve Bank of India to avoid regulatory scrutiny.Of 43 accounts with an outstanding amount of Rs 5,027.33 crore in FY18, only 21 loan accounts of the HDIL Group with dues of Rs 333.14 crore were reported to the RBI, according to the chargesheet reviewed by ET. The group's total outstanding amount accounted for more than half of PMC Bank's entire credit exposure.The chargesheet says Rakesh and Sarang Wadhawan hatched a criminal conspiracy to cause wrongful gains for their company by taking loans from PMC Bank against mortgage facilities without providing any security.To support its findings, the EOW attached a statement of Rupali Raut, an executive of the bank's credit department who prepared statements submitted to the RBI during FY15 to FY17.'Rakesh Wadhawan not Named Top Borrower'Raut told the EOW that "the practice of hiding loan liability of HDIL Group company's account dates back from almost 2008".Rakesh Wadhawan should have been reported as the top borrower from HDIL Group in 2018, according to the EOW. However, bank officials, acting under instructions from superiors, excluded his name. The acts of concealing material facts of the total credit exposure of HDIL Group companies in PMC Bank and the preparation of false statements filed with the RBI fall well within the ambit of forgery and criminal conspiracy of the Indian Penal Code, the EOW said in the chargesheet.Similarly, irregularities were observed in other statements submitted to the RBI that dealt with segment-wise analysis and the bank's exposure to the real estate sector."As the main business of HDIL and its group companies is construction and development of the properties, all accounts have to be classified under commercial real estate (CRE) category… Instead, PMC Bank has shown additional counts of fictitious accounts and amounts," the EOW said.PMC Bank showed 59,675 accounts with outstanding dues of Rs 5,528.38 crore. These accounts included 21,049 fictitious accounts purportedly prepared over the years to conceal 22 loan accounts of HDIL with outstanding dues of Rs 4,638.46 crore and 22 other loan accounts with outstanding dues of Rs 3,815.82 crore, according to the chargesheet.The probe revealed that HDIL and associate companies availed of mortgage against overdraft/ mortgage loan type credit from PMC Bank between 2008 and 2014, while Sarang and Rakesh Wadhawan availed of similar loan facilities from 2009 to 2013. While awarding these mortgage facilities, PMC Bank did not follow the rules.In the case of Sarang Wadhawan, the memorandum of deposit limit of Rs 10 crore was sanctioned in 2009 and by 2018, this limit had been renewed to Rs 91 crore. The enhanced amount was disbursed without any security. The required loan documents were invalid and the amount wasn't repaid, which were a full-fledged breach of the RBI's norms and conditions, the EOW said."All facilities are mortgage loans. However, officials have not obtained security against facilities awarded... facilities have been enhanced periodically without taking into consideration the actual performance of borrowers," it said.The bank officials, instead of classifying these loans as non-performing assets, kept charging interest on these outstanding dues to keep them alive and present them as financially sound, it was stated in the chargesheet.The alleged modus operandi involved falsifying the bank's advances master dump Excel sheet, which required details of each loan account to be provided. The bank started to conceal select non-performing exposures by replacing the information with dummy accounts. The largest outstanding balance among the fictitious accounts mentioned in the advance master indent of FY18 was only Rs 42.83 lakh, the chargesheet stated."The same have been missed by the previous RBI inspecting team because the balance outstanding in these fictitious accounts was considerably small in amount," the EOW said. 73002592 According to the chargesheet, PMC Bank included 2,500 accounts in the advance master file in 2014-15 and while adding them, only the outstanding amount was mentioned. In 2015-16, a new set of accounts was included. For 2016-17, an additional 4,969 new fictitious accounts were included for a total of 17,469. For 2017-18, 3,580 fictitious accounts were added, taking the total to 21,049 fictitious accounts, according to the chargesheet."This exercise was done for the purpose of concealing huge outstanding of HDIL Group accounts... the practice of creating fictitious accounts was applied to meet with compliance of RBI instruction regarding providing details of all borrowers of bank," it said.The EOW said the bank maintained three notebooks containing details of the money paid and received by HDIL and its associate companies, Rakesh and Sarang Wadhawan, Waryam Singh and Joy Thomas. The money belonged to public depositors. The statements of over 40 depositors were attached with the chargesheet."In some instances, they have paid cash to these people against cheques furnished by them and in some instances cash was paid to them without any cheque or any other instrument," the EOW said.The chargesheet states that between 2014 and 2019, Rs 65.29 crore was paid in cash to HDIL Group which returned Rs 55.28 crore. The balance has not yet been repaid.
MUMBAI: Hindustan Unilever will split the role of current chairman and managing director Sanjiv Mehta, who will retain the second post, said top officials close to the development. A top Unilever executive will become non-executive chairman at the India unit in order to meet the March 2020 Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) deadline for separating the two roles. The measure is aimed at improving corporate governance at Indian companies.Insiders are betting that the maker of brands such as Dove and Sunsilk may appoint Unilever chief operating officer and former HUL CEO Nitin Paranjpe, 56, as non-executive chairman. Paranjpe used to be the president of Unilever's homecare business and executive vice president for the South Asia region encompassing businesses in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal in 2008-13."We are conscious of this requirement of the regulation and we will take steps to meet it," a Hindustan Unilever spokesperson said without elaborating. The company is expected to make an announcement early next year, said the people.While the CEO or managing director is directly responsible for operations, the chairman's remit is governance. Harish Manwani was non-executive chairman of HUL before he retired in 2018."While the board comprises external corporate stalwarts, Unilever is generally comfortable with having a company person at the helm because there is a lot of coordination that the chairman has to do with the parent company," said one of the persons. 73002724 'Paranjpe seems to be the best bet'"And like Harish Manwani earlier, Nitin Paranjpe seems to be the best bet for that role." Mehta has been CMD of HUL since June 2018. He'd been appointed CEO and MD of the company in 2013 and has headed Unilever's businesses in the rest of South Asia since then.Paranjpe was made global chief operating officer in March as part of a leadership recast that also saw Mehta being appointed president of South Asia and a member of the Unilever Leadership Executive (ULE).HUL's independent directors include Aditya Narayanan, Leo Puri, S Ramadorai and OP Bhatt. Sebi wants chairman and managing director roles to be separated with effect from April 1, 2020. This had been recommended by the report of the Uday Kotak committee on corporate governance.
NEW DELHI: The data collected for the National Population Register (NPR) will not confer a right to Indian citizenship, says the new 2020-21 manual of instructions issued for enumerators by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. It also cautions enumerators against getting into arguments over nationality with individuals in households across the country."Nationality recorded is as declared by the respondent and does not confer any right to Indian citizenship," says the manual, a copy of which has been seen by ET.The manual instructs enumerators that in cases where the nationality of persons in the same household is different, they must "probe this question for each individual carefully to get the correct information". However, it says, "Do not get into any argument with the respondent regarding this (nationality). Please inform the respondent to give correct nationality of each person in the household."Data for NPR updation will be collected between April 1 and September 30, 2020, as per a notification issued by the Registrar General of India on July 31 this year.People will be asked 21 questions this time, up from 14 when NPR was introduced in 2011 by the then Congress government along with the Census. A pretest for NPR was held between August and September and responses of 3 million individuals were recorded.The new categories introduced for 2020 NPR are Aadhaar (voluntary), mobile number, date and place of birth of parents, place of last residence, passport number, voter identity cards, permanent account number (PAN) and driving licence number.Resistance by StatesIn 2011, details such as name, date of birth, sex, marital status, educational qualification, occupational activity, father and mother's names and nationality (as declared) were among the questions posed to respondents.Union minister Prakash Javadekar had said on Tuesday after a cabinet meet, "No documents or biometrics will be taken during the NPR process. Whatever people will say will be accepted."NPR is a database of "usual residents" of the country and the government has said that it will not be used for the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC), which is meant to be an official record of legal Indian citizens.Several states government including West Bengal, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab have stopped work on NPR despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah clarifying that the NPR data will not be used for NRC. 73002638 Protests against NRC have been raging in parts of the country ever since the government introduced the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, which sought to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, in Parliament earlier this month.On Friday, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that as long as she is alive the Citizenship (Amendment) Act will not be implemented in the state. The West Bengal government was first to halt the work on NPR.Congress leader Rahul Gandhi compared NPR and NRC with demonetisation. "Whether NPR or NRC, it is a tax on poor people of the country," he told media persons in Chhattisgarh on Friday. "Poor people will have to go to officers and show their documents and give bribe. They will have to give bribe if there is a slight mistake in their names. Crores of rupees will be pulled out of the pockets of the poor and will be given to the same 15 people. This is the truth. It is an attack on the people."NPR was updated in 2015-16 in all states and Union territories, except Assam and Meghalaya, leading to an electronic database of more than 1.19 billion usual residents of the country.
MUMBAI: India's slowing economy could cause gross bad loans in the financial system to rise again after the first annual decrease in eight years, even as a seventh of non-bank lenders faced the risk of failing capital adequacy tests if gross nonperforming assets (NPA) were to increase 3%, the central bank said Friday.The slowdown could cause the gross non-performing ratio of local lenders to increase to 9.9% in September 2020 from 9.3% in September 2019, the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Financial Stability Report showed."This is primarily due to change in macroeconomic scenario, marginal increase in slippages and the denominator effect of declining credit growth," the RBI said in the report. Credit growth remained subdued at 8.7% until September 2019.The bi-annual report said that banks saw stable asset quality in the first half to September, and 24 banks had gross NPA (GNPA) ratios below 5%. But four banks had GNPA ratios higher than 20% in September 2019. The share of large borrowers in Indian banks' total loan portfolios stood at 51.8% as on September 30, and their share in gross NPA was 79.3%.NPAs of Private, Foreign BanksStress tests on public sector banks showed that GNPA may rise to 13.5% by September 2020 from 12.7% in September 2019 in a severe stress scenario.Private sector banks could see increase in gross NPAs to 5.4% from 3.9% during the same period and foreign banks from 2.9% to 4.2%. The central bank conducts stress tests to assess the resilience of the Indian banking system against macroeconomic shocks for credit risks. These tests included a baseline and two adverse (medium and severe) macroeconomic risk scenarios.73002549 Capital Adequacy ConcernsThe central bank said that capital adequacy for 53 banks is projected to come down to 14.1% by September 2020 from 14.9% in September 2019. Three banks may have capital adequacy below the minimum regulatory level of 9% by September 2020 without considering any further planned recapitalisation. If macroeconomic conditions deteriorate, five banks may see capital adequacy fall below 9% under a severe stress scenario.For banks with high bad loans, availability of growth capital, or Tier-I capital, appears to be limited.The Financial Stability Report assured that in case of failure of a non-banking finance company (NBFC) or a housing finance company (HFC), no bank will fail. Failure of an NBFC with the maximum capacity to cause solvency losses to the banking system will cause a loss of 2.5% of the total tier-I capital of the banking system, while failure of an HFC with the maximum capacity to cause solvency losses to the banking system will lead to a loss of 4.6%.On NBFCs, the report said that under a severe stress test scenario, 14.2% of the NBFCs will not be able to comply with the minimum regulatory capital norms if the gross NPA rises by 3%. The report showed that consumer credit portfolio of NBFCs and HFCs had relatively higher delinquency rates as compared to banks.Delinquency in home loans and loans against property rose for NBFCs and HFCs, while it remained stable for banks.NBFCs have seen stress in their asset quality during the first half of the fiscal. The gross NPA ratio of the NBFC sector increased from 6.1% as at end-March to 6.3% as at end-September.
BENGALURU: Allen Solly Women reported about 70% surge in its average sales a month ago when the women's clothing brand introduced 70-80 styles meant for four different Indian body types, from slender to generously built women."There was a need to move beyond the standard one-size-fitsall and…complement Indian body types," said Vishak Kumar, CEO at Madura Fashion & Lifestyle that owns apparel brands such as Allen Solly, Louis Philippe, Van Heusen and Peter England. "Majority of the Indian body types fall into the category of apple, pear and hourglass shapes; we moved to create dresses which are all about silhouettes that embrace different body shapes and not just standard sizes."Madura Fashion is now trying to decode body blocks regionally to customise store assortment.It is not the only one. Top fashion retailers such as Aditya Birla Fashion, Levi Strauss & Co, Arvind Fashions and Myntra have already begun adopting 'India Size'. Till now most apparel brands in the country have been following size charts meant for global countries, especially the US and UK, with a slight tweak. For instance, larger sizes are more popular in Punjab and Andhra Pradesh than the rest of the Indian markets, industry insiders said. Now, top brands are investing aggressively in sizing divisions and hiring data scientists to decode tailoring, and, in turn, reduce wastage and returns due to poor garment fit.73002812 Denim maker Levi Strauss has introduced a laser technology that allows jeans to be finished at distribution centres instead of centralised manufacturing facilities, a move that can help initiate custom orders. "Our CEO Chip Bergh has commented that 'sizes will go out of the window 10 years from now'," said Sanjeev Mohanty, managing director – South Asia, Middle East and North Africa at Levi Strauss & Co. "So we are thinking about sizing as the next breakthrough for apparel business."Earlier this year, the government launched an initiative to measure a group of people and prepare a comprehensive 'India Size' chart, which can be adopted by the country's apparel industry. The 'Size India' project undertaken by Clothing Manufacturers Association of India (CMAI) jointly with textiles ministry and National Institute of Fashion Technology seeks to develop a standardised India size chart, officials said."The India size chart should be ready by the end of 2020 or mid-2021," said Rahul Mehta, chief mentor at CMAI.Online fashion retailer Myntra recently roped in local tailors to deliver clothes and alter products at customer's doorstep.
New Delhi: A shortage of employees skilled in technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, Internet of Things, cybersecurity and data analytics that India is facing would become acute next year, say recruitment experts.If the shortage was in thousands in 2019, it is going to be up to 2 lakh in 2020, according to estimates by headhunters such as TeamLease, Randstad, Magna Infotech and ABC Consultants. The demand for new tech talent is across all sectors, as businesses become digitised and automated. 73002720 "…for every skilled candidate in technologies like digital, data and analytics, AI, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, etc., there are about three companies who have a role to offer in their organisations," said Ratna Gupta, a senior director at ABC Consultants.Vijay Sivaram, the chief executive of Magna Infotech, concurred with this view, saying that there were plenty of opportunities for those skilled in new technologies, at a time when the economy is slowing down and most IT employees are facing job insecurities.The estimated demand in 2020 would be 4.4 lakh for new-age tech professionals, while the supply is projected to be 2.4 lakh, according to Team-Lease Services.The profiles in demand include information security analysts, cloud engineers, network analysts, cybersecurity experts, digital transformation consultants, data governance experts, digital marketing specialist, data scientists, blockchain developers and AI specialists."The shortage would increase to 2 lakh by 2020, thus pushing up the (salary) hikes from 35% to 60%, and some outliers will even command 100%-plus in certain skills like data science and ML (machine learning) in 2020," said Rituparna Chakraborty, a co-founder of TeamLease.The shortage is creating a vacuum for the companies who fail to get the candidate with the required skills. This is resulting in a delay in closing the job postings with almost 50% of the demand going unfulfilled, said Sivaram of Magna Infotech.It is the new-age companies and startups that are luring the tech talent with over 100% salary jumps.It took two months for Bharatpe to close its search for a chief technology officer who was offered a twofold jump in fixed salary. "It is difficult to get tech talent especially with new technologies know-how," said Ashneer Grover the chief executive and cofounder of Bharatpe.There is another recent example of a global in-house centre (GIC) offering a 100% jump in salaries to attract cybersecurity professionals from the Big 4 professional services companies. "This GIC was setting up its cybersecurity arm for the first time and they were behind the deadline," said the founder of a search firm who did not wish to be named."The talent skilled in new technologies are providing breakthrough gains and transformation for companies across sectors, especially given the current crisis pervasive across all sectors," said Suresh Raina, the managing partner at Hunt Partners.Hunt Partners, which conducts searches for CXOs, is struggling with the limited talent pool at the top as the demand from traditional sectors like manufacturing, pharma, BFSI and consumer has been on a rise."Our customers are keen on embracing the new technologies in their business operations … hence many roles in new technologies are in high demand but the supply for many new-age digital skills is limited," said Suresh Bethavandu, a vice president and the global head of talent acquisition at Cognizant.The IT services firm is hiring talent for cloud, data, digital engineering and IoT."To stay ahead in the war for talent and build a digitally skilled workforce, Cognizant expects to increase hiring from colleges in 2020, continue to go all out for experienced talent skilled in digital technologies and expand our pool of digital talent via our reskilling and upskilling programmes," said Bethavandu.
By Tom Metcalf and Jack WitzigThe leveraging of a giant social-media presence, a catchy tune about a family of sharks and a burgeoning collection of junkyards are just a few of the curious ways that helped make 2019 a fertile year for fortunes to blossom around the world.Kylie Jenner became the youngest self-made billionaire this year after her company, Kylie Cosmetics, signed an exclusive partnership with Ulta Beauty Inc. She then sold a 51% stake for $600 million.It has been almost two months since the Washington Nationals captured their first World Series championship, but people around the world are still singing along to the baseball team's adopted rallying cry: "Baby Shark, doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo." The Korean family that helped popularize the viral earworm are now worth about $125 million.Even car wrecks proved to be a treasure trove. Willis Johnson, the gold-chain-wearing Oklahoma native who founded Copart Inc., has amassed a $1.9 billion fortune by building a network of junkyards to sell damaged autos.The emergence of atypical fortunes underscores just how much money the uber-rich accumulated in 2019.And the richer they were at the start of the year, the richer they got. The world's 500 wealthiest people tracked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index added $1.2 trillion, boosting their collective net worth 25% to $5.9 trillion.72998899 Such gains are sure to add fuel to the already heated debate about widening wealth and income inequality. In the U.S., the richest 0.1% control a bigger share of the pie than at any time since 1929, prompting some politicians to call for a radical restructuring of the economy."The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples' lives," Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described democratic socialist, said in a Dec. 12 tweet as the U.K. began to vote.Still, the defeat of Britain's socialist opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, whose campaign included attacks on billionaires and calls to "rewrite the rules of our economy," gave an added boost to mega-fortunes.Leading the 2019 gains was France's Bernard Arnault, who added $36.5 billion as he rose on the Bloomberg index to become the world's third-richest person and one of three centibillionaires -- those with a net worth of at least $100 billion.In all, just 52 people on the ranking saw their fortunes decline on the year.Amazon.com Inc.'s Jeff Bezos was down almost $9 billion, but that drop is because of his divorce settlement with MacKenzie Bezos. The e-commerce titan is still ending the year as the world's richest person after Amazon shares jumped on Thursday. The company reported a 'record breaking' holiday season with billions of items shipped and "tens of millions" of Amazon devices like the Echo Dot sold.Here's what the year looked like for the 0.001%:2019 WinnersThe 172 American billionaires on the Bloomberg ranking added $500 billion, with Facebook Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg up $27.3 billion and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates rose $22.7 billion.Representation from China continued to grow, with the nation's contingent rising to 54, second only to the U.S. He Xiangjian, founder of China's biggest air-conditioner exporter, was the standout performer as his wealth surged 79% to $23.3 billion.Russia's richest added $51 billion, a collective increase of 21%, as emerging-market assets from currencies to stocks and bonds rebounded in 2019 after posting big losses a year earlier.2019 DeclinesRupert Murdoch's personal fortune dropped by about $10 billion after proceeds from Walt Disney Co.'s purchase of Fox assets were distributed to his six children, making them billionaires in their own right.Interactive Brokers Group Inc.'s Thomas Peterffy saw his wealth slump by $2.1 billion as investors weighed a reshaped competitive landscape for brokerage businesses after rival Charles Schwab Corp. eliminated commissions and agreed to buy TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.WeWork's Adam Neumann saw his fortune implode -- at least on paper -- as the struggling office-sharing company's valuation dropped to $8 billion in October from an estimated $47 billion at the start of the year. Still, SoftBank Group Corp.'s rescue package left Neumann's status as a billionaire intact.New BillionairesWhite Claw, the "hard seltzer" that was the hit of the summer among millennials, helped boost Anthony von Mandl's net worth to $3.6 billion.Mastering the art of fast-food deliveries proved rewarding for Jitse Groen, whose soaring Takeaway.com NV lifted his wealth to $1.5 billion.The popularity of soy milk gave eight members of Hong Kong's Lo family a combined $1.5 billion.Despite the widespread gains, plenty of the world's richest people may be happy to wave farewell to 2019. The year included messy details of the Bezos divorce and the Jeffrey Epstein saga, which enveloped a who's who of financiers and entrepreneurs, after the convicted pedophile arrested in July by federal agents after stepping off his private jet at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.Through it all, their bank balances remained robust, as a record bull market got a December kick with an easing of trade tensions between the U.S. and China, a resolution to Britain's political stalemate and a blowout U.S. jobs report.
NEW DELHI: Nifty50 climbed 1 per cent on Friday to close near the 12,250 mark. In the process, it formed a bullish candle on the daily chart and an indecisive candle on the weekly chart. A follow-through buying may instill confidence among traders, analysts said. "Nifty rebounded sharply after a minor degree correction in the last few sessions. This shows that the underlying tone of the market continues to be bullish. Participation was seen in the broader market as well, which augurs well for the overall market rally. Traders can initiate fresh long positions once the swing high of 12,294 is taken out," said Gaurav Ratnaparkhi of SharekhanRatnaparkhi believes the levels around the 12,350-12,400 zone will be a key short-term target area to watch out for. He sees support in the 12,150-12,100 zone.For the day, Nifty rose 119.25 points, or 0.98 per cent, to 12,245."Nifty50 made a strong comeback, as it erased all the losses of Thursday's F&O expiry session, but formed a Doji candle on the weekly charts, which is a cause for concern. Hence, it can be too early to say that a short-term bottom is in place at last Thursday's low of 12,118 level, but the outlook for the next few sessions remains positive as long as Nifty sustains above 12,157," said Mazhar Mohammad of Chartviewindia.in."On sustaining above the said level, Nifty may aim to retest its recent high at 12,293. In case it breaches the 12,157 level, the recent low of 12,118 shall once again come under threat," he said.
PUNE: India has doubled its artificial intelligence (AI) workforce to 72,000 in 2019 from 40,000 in 2018, but 2,500 positions are still vacant, according to a study by ed-tech company Great Learning. About 3,000 companies said that they were working on AI projects of some nature in 2019, a growth of 200% over 2018. According to the study, Indian AI industry has also doubled in size with revenues of $415 million in 2019, compared to $230 million a year ago. Most of this growth has been powered by experienced professionals who have transitioned into a career in AI by upskilling themselves over the last few years, with 65% of AI professionals in India transitioning to their current role from other fields in the last 2 years. The number of freshers joining the field has also grown to 6,000 in 2019 from 3,700 last year. Large scale adoption of business intelligence, rising AI-based optimization of enterprise processes, improved data management across Indian organizations, increasing use of chatbots and NLP voice assistants, and bigger AI budgetary allocations from the government are the major factors contributing to this growth. Hari Krishnan Nair, Co-founder, Great Learning said, "It is great to see that in just 1 year, 3 times more organizations in India are working on AI related projects. We expect this momentum to continue. Also, the fact that the number of vacancies in AI has again trumped the number of available professionals despite the industry doubling its talent pool shows the immense employment potential that the sector holds for those willing to upskill and learn AI. We expect to see a large number of experienced professionals transitioning to careers in AI in 2020 as well." Bengaluru created over 23,000 jobs, followed by Delhi (17,000) and Mumbai (9,000). The median salary package for AI professionals is Rs 14.7 lakh across all experience level and skill sets. This year, almost 39% of AI professionals in India were employed with large-sized companies (more than 10,000 employees while female participation continues to remain low – only 26% of AI professionals in India are women). IBM India, Accenture, 24/7 Customer, Nvidia Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Ernst & Young, Genpact, Amazon, eClerx Services and Capgemini emerged as the top 10 organizations that have contributed to the demand for AI professionals this year.
ONGC stock: Maintain 'buy' with target price of Rs 190 The stock is trading at 5.0x FY21E consolidated EPS of Rs 27.3. We value the company at 8x FY21 standalone EPS of Rs 19.9
Cement on sliding track; sell on UTCEM, SRCM Cement demand was down 1% YTD till October and we do not see signs of demand recovery in 2HFY20E against market expectations of 5-6% growth.
Reviving consumption and investment critical challenge: RBI Over the last year, uncertainties such as delay in the Brexit deal, trade tensions, 'a whiff of impending recession', oil market disruptions and geopolitical risks, have been on the rise.
Coming soon: Fraud reporting integration of NBFCs and urban co-operative banks Under the initiative, banks are also required to set up specialised units to make use of market intelligence and data analytics, and also put a transaction monitoring system in place.
Bad news for banks! RBI says loan losses for lenders could rise in 2020 The RBI projection of an increase in GNPAs comes at a time when industry was expecting reversal of the cycle.
Bharat Stage VI norms for quadricycles likely In 2016, the government announced that it will skip BS V norms altogether and move from BS IV to BS VI by 2020.
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