Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major Taliban leaders and, separately, the President of Afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at Camp David on Sunday. They were coming to the United States tonight. Unfortunately, in order to build false leverage, they admitted to..
* Trump said Taliban leaders and the President of Afghanistan were going to secretly meet with him at Camp David on Sunday * President said he canceled the meetings and has 'called off peace negotiations' after the Taliban admitted to the Kabul attack in order to build false leverage * Trump said they have only made their bargaining position worse and claimed 'they probably don't have power to negotiate a meaningful agreement anyway' * Sgt. 1st Class Elis A. Barreto Ortiz, 34, from Morovis, Puerto Rico was killed Thursday when a Taliban suicide car bomb detonated in Kabul * The detonation also killed a Romanian NATO service member and 10 civilians * It is the second major attack this week and comes as a U.S.-Taliban deal to remove troops is being worked out * On Friday, the U.S. envoy negotiating with the Taliban abruptly returned to Qatar for unexpected talks with the insurgents on the deal * It was announced without explanation that Afghanistan President Ghani had cancelled his US trip
President Donald Trump on Saturday tweeted that he had invited Afghanistan's Taliban leaders to secretly meet with him at Camp David on Sunday, but canceled the visit after the insurgent group said it was behind a recent attack in Kabul that killed an American soldier and 11 other people.
Had the meeting gone ahead, it would have come just days before the annual commemoration of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, carried out by Al Qaeda while they were sheltering under the protection of the Taliban.
A suicide blast car bomb killed Sgt. 1st Class Elis Angel Barreto Ortiz of Morovis, Puerto Rico, a Romanian service member and at least 10 civilians near the headquarters of Afghanistan's international military force and the American embassy on Thursday.
* Last year, then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis ordered the military to raise mission-capable rates for four key tactical aircraft: the F-16, the Navy's F/A-18 Hornet, the F-22, and the F-35. * Air Force Lt. Gen. Mark Kelly, deputy chief of staff for operations, said this week that only one of his branch's fighters that may reach the 80% mission-capable goal is the F-16.
The US Air Force won't meet the Pentagon's goal of boosting readiness across its fighter fleets before the fiscal year comes to a close this month, a top general said Wednesday.
Lt. Gen. Mark Kelly, deputy chief of staff for operations, told audiences at the 2019 Defense News Conference that the only fighter that may make the 80% mission capable (MC) rate — a standard set by then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis last year to achieve better aircraft performance — is the F-16 Fighting Falcon.
The B-1B may have to fight for its life in the not so distant future, but new upgrades could give it the ammo it needs to survive the budget ax.
The B-1B fleet may be tired and war wary after constant deployments overseas, but the USAF is continuing to look at how to improve the aircraft's combat punch as it enters the back end of its career. This goes far beyond adding new avionics to its flight deck, new sensors, and communications gear. The flying force is now exploring ways to give the heavy-hitting Bone even more magazine capacity than it already has and the ability to carry outsized hypersonic missiles in its internal weapons bay.
Iran announced Saturday that is has begun using advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium, further violating the 2015 nuclear pact it joined.
The announcement by Behrouz Kamalvandi of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran serves as the latest warning that European signatories to the deal are running out of time to convince Tehran to rein in its nuclear program.
Iran's announcement, which was reported by The Associated Press and Reuters, signifies another potential cut into the one-year timeframe experts say Iran would need to develop enough enriched uranium to develop a nuclear weapon, though Tehran maintains its ambitions are peaceful.
"I'd be very happy if there is peace but I'm not very optimistic," said a 38-year-old cell phone salesman. "There is fighting all over the country."
KABUL — Cellphone street vendor Fazluddin doesn't much care that presidents, diplomats and Taliban commanders are squabbling over the U.S.'s withdrawal from his country after some 18 years.
It's not that he wants more war — deadly violence has shaken Afghanistan each of his 38 years — he just doesn't think that talking will make a difference.
"I'm very afraid it is going to get me one day," said Fazluddin, who like many Afghans goes by one name. "I'm not very optimistic because there is fighting all over the country."
People near bullet casings at a crime scene after a shootout in the municipality of Tuzamapan, in the Mexican state of Veracruz, May 16, 2019. REUTERS/Yahir Ceballos
* Outside of active war zones, Latin America is the world's most violent region, despite some variations among countries there. * No single thing explains why there's so much bloodshed, but there are several factors common throughout the region.
Latin America is home to about 8% of the world's population but has about one-third of its homicides — in 2016, that meant some 400 homicides a day, or roughly 146,000 a year. But the bloodshed is not evenly distributed.
In Mexico, the region's second most populous country, 33,753 homicide victims in 2018 set a record for the second year in a row; 17,142 victims in the first half of this year likely means 2019 will set a new mark.
The Air Force's vision of the future of aerial combat has evolved greatly as of late and has moved away from plans for new, costly manned fighters.
The U.S. Air Force is still working to iron out just what it thinks air-to-air combat will look like a decade from now and what types of aircraft it will need to come out on top in any future fight. As part of its ongoing Next Generation Air Dominance program, or NGAD, the service is exploring a wide array of manned, unmanned, and pilot-optional concepts, as well as advanced associated technologies, including increased network connectivity and autonomous capabilities. At the same time, however, it has steadily moved away from plans for a once much-touted sixth-generation fighter jet.
A number of senior Air Force leaders have offered updates about NGAD recently, all of who stressed that the final force mixture will include a variety of different platforms, as well as munitions and other systems, all tied together at various levels. This could include manned aircraft networked together with "loyal wingman" drones, fully autonomous unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAV), swarms of low-cost unmanned aircraft, and more.
THE Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, which "went dark" off Syria earlier in the week, has been photographed by satellite off the Syrian port of Tartus, Maxar Technologies Inc, a US space technology company, said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Saturday said it now uses arrays of advanced centrifuges prohibited by its 2015 nuclear deal and can enrich uranium “much more beyond” current levels to weapons-grade material, taking a third step away from the accord while warning Europe has little time to offer it new terms.
While insisting Iran doesn’t seek a nuclear weapon, the comments by Behrouz Kamalvandi of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran threatened pushing uranium enrichment far beyond levels ever reached in the country. Prior to the atomic deal, Iran only reached up to 20%, which itself still is only a short technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
The move threatened to push tensions between Iran and the U.S. even higher more than a year after President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the nuclear deal and imposed sanctions now crushing Iran’s economy. Mysterious attacks on oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, Iran shooting down a U.S. military surveillance drone and other incidents across the wider Middle East followed Trump’s decision.
“So far, Iran has showed patience before the U.S. pressures and Europeans’ indifference,” said Qassem Babaei, a 33-year-old electrician in Tehran. “Now they should wait and see how Iran achieves its goals.”
Iran separately acknowledged Saturday it had seized another ship and detained 12 Filipino crewmembers, while satellite images suggested an Iranian oil tanker once held by Gibraltar was now off the coast of Syria despite Tehran promising its oil wouldn’t go there.
Speaking to journalists while flanked by advanced centrifuges, Kamalvandi said Iran has begun using an array of 20 IR-6 centrifuges and another 20 of IR-4 centrifuges. An IR-6 can produce enriched uranium 10 times as fast as an IR-1, Iranian officials say, while an IR-4 produces five times as fast.
The nuclear deal limited Iran to using only 5,060 first-generation IR-1 centrifuges to enrich uranium by rapidly spinning uranium hexafluoride gas. By starting up these advanced centrifuges, Iran further cuts into the one year that experts estimate Tehran would need to have enough material for building a nuclear weapon if it chose to pursue one.
“Under current circumstances, the Islamic Republic of Iran is capable of increasing its enriched uranium stockpile as well as its enrichment levels and that is not just limited to 20 percent,” Kamalvandi said. “We are capable inside the country to increase the enrichment much more beyond that.”
Iran plans to have two cascades, one with 164 advanced IR-2M centrifuges and another with 164 IR-5 centrifuges, running in two months as well, Kamalvandi said. A cascade is a group of centrifuges working together to more quickly enrich uranium.
Iran has already increased its enrichment up to 4.5%, above the 3.67% allowed under the deal, as well as gone beyond its 300-kilogram limit for low-enriched uranium.
While Kamalvandi stressed that “the Islamic Republic is not after the bomb,” he warned that Iran was running out of ways to stay in the accord.
“If Europeans want to make any decision, they should do it soon,” he said. France had floated a proposed $15 billion line of credit to allow Iran to sell its oil abroad despite U.S. sanctions. Another trade mechanism proposed by Europe called INSTEX also has faced difficulty.
Kamalvandi also said Iran would allow U.N. inspectors to continue to monitor sites in the country. A top official from the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency was expected to meet with Iranian officials in Tehran on Sunday.
The IAEA said Saturday it was aware of Iran’s announcement and “agency inspectors are on the ground in Iran and they will report any relevant activities to IAEA headquarters in Vienna.” It did not elaborate.
In Paris, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Iran’s announcement wasn’t a surprise.
“The Iranians are going to pursue what the Iranians have always intended to pursue,” Esper said at a news conference with his French counterpart, Florence Parly.
For his part, Trump has said he remains open for direct talks with Iran. A surprise visit by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to the Group of Seven summit in France last month raised the possibility of direct talks between Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, perhaps at this month’s United Nations General Assembly in New York, though officials in Tehran later seemed to dismiss the idea.
Meanwhile Saturday, Iranian state TV said the tugboat and its 12 crewmembers were seized on suspicion of smuggling diesel fuel near the Strait of Hormuz. The report did not elaborate. In Manila, the Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs said it was checking details of the reported seizure.
Also Saturday, satellite images showed a once-detained Iranian oil tanker pursued by the U.S. appears to be off the coast of Syria, where Tehran reportedly promised the vessel would not go when authorities in Gibraltar agreed to release it several weeks ago.
Images obtained by The Associated Press from Maxar Technologies appeared to show the Adrian Darya-1, formerly known as the Grace-1, some 2 nautical miles (3.7 kilometers) off Syria’s coast.
Iranian and Syrian officials have not acknowledged the vessel’s presence there. Authorities in Tehran earlier said the 2.1 million barrels of crude oil onboard had been sold to an unnamed buyer. That oil is worth about $130 million on the global market, but it remains unclear who would buy the oil as they’d face the threat of U.S. sanctions.
The new images matched a black-and-white image earlier tweeted by John Bolton, the U.S. national security adviser.
“Anyone who said the Adrian Darya-1 wasn’t headed to #Syria is in denial,” Bolton tweeted. “We can talk, but #Iran’s not getting any sanctions relief until it stops lying and spreading terror!”
U.S. prosecutors in federal court allege the Adrian Darya’s owner is Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. On Wednesday, the U.S. imposed new sanctions on an oil shipping network it alleged had ties to the Guard and offered up to $15 million for anyone with information that disrupts its paramilitary operations.
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Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Associated Press writers Robert Burns in Paris, David Rising in Berlin and Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, contributed to this report.
HONG KONG — Hong Kong police thwarted another disruption at the airport by pro-democracy activists but had to battle protesters at subway stations on Saturday, as the months-long unrest showed no signs of abating even after the government offered a concession days earlier.
Police mounted road checks and inspected passengers on trains and buses heading to the airport to weed out protesters. An Associated Press journalist at an area near the airport witnessed at least two bus passengers being handcuffed and taken away after police found face masks in their bags.
The express train service to the airport was limited, running to and from downtown Hong Kong but skipping all stations in between. Only people with plane tickets were allowed to enter the airport terminals, and those milling around an adjoining bus terminal were chased off.
Several hundred angry protesters, many in masks, converged at a subway station in the Tung Chung area adjacent to the airport. They chanted slogans and called police “murderers” amid widespread anger over alleged brutality against demonstrators during three months of protests in the city that have become increasingly violent.
Shops were shuttered and the station was shut down in the evening as the mood grew tense. Protesters spilled onto the street after riot police with batons confronted them, with several people detained.
Hong Kong’s airport, the world’s eighth busiest, has been a frequent target during a summer of protests sparked by an extradition bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial. Many saw the bill as a glaring example of the Chinese territory’s eroding autonomy since the former British colony was returned to China in 1997.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced Wednesday that her government would withdraw the bill, but that failed to appease protesters who have expanded their goals to include other issues.
The airport rail link was suspended last weekend after protesters threw objects on the track, blocked roads near the airport and damaged a nearby subway station. Last month, the airport was shut down for two days after protesters occupied the terminals, leading to violent clashes.
Airport operations ran normally Saturday following the security operation, although some travelers complained they had to get to the airport early.
Susan Reigel, from Denver, Colorado, said she arrived at the airport eight hours ahead of her flight back to the U.S.
“I don’t really have a feeling regarding the protests,” said Reigel, who spent three days in Hong Kong after a trip to mainland China. “It’s just been a little bit of an inconvenience.”
Another traveler at the airport, Jens Schlimmer of Germany, expressed support for protesters fighting for their rights, saying he would do the same if it was his country.
Apart from the Tung Chung subway stop, dozens of youths also rallied at malls belonging to rail link operator MTR Corp., accusing it of helping police during a violent raid at the Prince Edward subway station on Aug. 31.
MTR shut down the Prince Edward station later Saturday after some protesters started gathering again. They later placed white flowers and burned paper offerings at the station’s exit as a sign of mourning.
The station has been a focus this past week for protesters, who want the rail operator to release security camera footage to substantiate rumors that some people died during the police raid.
Police reiterated in a statement Saturday that there had been no deaths since the protests began in early June. It said online rumors of deaths were malicious and aimed at sowing deeper division in society.
As night fell, protesters outside the Prince Edward subway station turned their focus for a second straight night to the police station next to it. They pointed laser beams at officers and later set fire to a pile of plastic foam boxes and other debris across the road. Riot police chased them and were seen using pepper spray, but protesters kept regrouping in familiar cat-and-mouse battles. Several people were caught.
Late Friday, police fired volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets while protesters set off street fires, smashed traffic lights and vandalized three subway stations. Graffiti on walls read “Boycott China” and “Liberty or death.”
The persistent violence during the protests has hurt Hong Kong’s economy and sparked fears of a Chinese military intervention. Chinese officials have warned that Beijing will “not sit idly by” if the situation worsens.
Apart from the extradition bill’s withdrawal, protesters also have demanded an independent investigation into accusations of police brutality, the unconditional release of those detained during the demonstrations, no more labeling of the protests as riots and direct elections of Hong Kong’s leaders.
Lam, the Hong Kong leader, has rejected those demands.
The protests show no signs of receding, with plans to march to the U.S. Embassy on Sunday to drum up international support.
MOSCOW — Russia and Ukraine conducted a major prisoner exchange that freed 35 people detained in each country and flew them to the other, a deal that could help advance Russia-Ukraine relations and end five years of fighting in Ukraine’s east.
The trade involved some of the highest-profile prisoners caught up in a bitter standoff between Ukraine and Russia.
Among those Russia returned was Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, whose conviction for preparing terrorist attacks was strongly denounced abroad, and 24 Ukrainian sailors taken with a ship the Russian navy seized last year.
The prisoners released by Ukraine included Volodymyr Tsemakh, who commanded a separatist rebel air defense unit in the area where a Malaysian airliner was shot down in 2014, killing all 298 people aboard.
Dozens of Ukrainian lawmakers urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy against trading Tsemakh, who Dutch investigators probing the aircraft’s downing want to question.
Although critics saw the Ukraine president’s freeing of Tsemakh as an act of submissiveness to Russia, the exchange “allows Zelenskiy to fulfill one of his main pre-election promises,” Ukrainian analyst Vadim Karasev told The Associated Press.
Zelenskiy, who was elected in a landslide in April, has promised new initiatives to resolve the war in eastern Ukraine.
The exchange of prisoners also raises hope in Russia for the reduction of European sanctions imposed because of its role in the conflict, Karasev said.
Zelenskiy greeted the freed prisoners as they stepped down from the airplane that had brought them from Moscow to Kyiv’s Boryspil airport. Relatives waiting on the tarmac surged forward to hug their loved ones.
Most of the ex-detainees appeared to be in good physical condition, although one struggled down the steps on crutches and another was held by the arms as he slowly navigated the steps.
“Hell has ended; everyone is alive and that is the main thing,” Vyacheslav Zinchenko, 30, one of the released sailors, said.
He and 23 others were seized after Russian ships fired on two Ukrainian vessels on Nov. 25 in the Kerch Strait, located between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov next to Russia-annexed Crimea.
“Russia was not able to break me even though they tried hard to do this,” said Nikolai Karpyuk, who was imprisoned in 2016 after he was convicted of killing Russians in Chechnya in the 1990s.
At Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, the released prisoners remained on the plane for about 15 minutes for unknown reasons. When they came off, many toting baggage, a bus drove them to a medical facility for examination.
Another Ukrainian on the plane from Moscow was Kirill Vyshinsky, head of Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti’s Ukraine branch. He had been jailed since 2018 on treason charges.
Vyshinksy thanked Harlem Desir, the media freedom representative for the Organization for Security and Cooperation In Europe, for calling for his release.
Russia said it would release a full list of its citizens freed by Ukraine later Saturday.
The exchange comes amid renewed hope that a solution can be found to the fighting in Ukraine’s east that has killed 13,000 people since 2014. A congratulatory tweet from U.S. President Donald Trump called the trade “good news.”
“Russia and Ukraine just swapped large numbers of prisoners. Very good news, perhaps a first giant step to peace,” Trump’s tweet said. “Congratulations to both countries!”
However, reaching a peace agreement faces many obstacles, such as determining the final territorial status of rebel-held areas. Russia insists it has not supported the rebels and the fighting is Ukraine’s internal affair.
A Russian Foreign Ministry statement welcoming the exchange touched on those difficulties, calling the war an “intra-Ukraine conflict.”
“Obviously, the habit of blaming Russia for all the troubles of Ukraine should remain in the past,” the ministry statement said.
The prospect of progress nevertheless appeared to rise last month with the announcement of a planned summit of the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany – the four countries with representatives in the long-dormant “Normandy format,” a group seeking to end the conflict.
“We have made the first step. It was very complicated. Further, we will come closer to the return of our (war) prisoners,” Zelenskiy said of the prisoner exchange.
In July, a tentative agreement for the release of 69 Ukrainian prisoners and 208 held in Ukraine was reached by the Trilateral Contact Group of Russia, Ukraine and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; negotiations on fulfilling it continue.
Konstantin Kosachev, head of the foreign relations committee in the Russian parliament’s upper house, said the exchange represented a move “in the direction of crossing from confrontation to dialogue, and one can only thank those thanks to whose strength this became possible.”
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Yuras Karmanau in Minsk, Belarus, contributed to this story .
SEOUL, South Korea — One of the most powerful typhoons to ever hit South Korea swept along the country’s coast on Saturday, toppling trees, grounding planes and causing at least three deaths before moving on to North Korea.
Typhoon Lingling knocked out power to more than 127,000 homes across South Korea, including on the southern island of Jeju, which was lashed by the storm overnight, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said.
After hitting Jeju, the storm remained offshore as it moved up South Korea’s west coast on Saturday morning before making landfall in North Korea in the afternoon.
A 75-year-old woman in the central South Korean town of Boryeong was killed after strong winds blew her off her feet and crashed her into a wall 30 meters (yards) away, South Korea’s Ministry of the Interior and Safety said. A 39-year-old was killed in the western city of Incheon after being crushed by a collapsed wall at a hospital parking lot, while a 61-year-old Chinese national died in the border town of Paju after being hit by a blown-off roof tile.
The South Korean government said at least 10 people were being treated for injuries, including an elderly couple from Boryeong who were injured after steel scaffolding collapsed on their home.
South Korea’s weather agency said the storm was moving north at 48 kilometers (30 miles) per hour Saturday evening while passing over North Korea. Its strength was weakening, with winds measured up to 115 kilometers (71 miles) per hour, according to the agency.
Lingling packed winds of 196 kilometers (122 miles) per hour at around 6:30 a.m. on South Korea’s southern coast, making the typhoon the fifth strongest to hit the country since 1959.
Residents in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang were seen using umbrellas to shield themselves from wind and rain while struggling to walk through wet streets.
In South Korea, the storm toppled hundreds of trees and streetlamps, blew signboards off buildings and damaged traffic signs across the mainland and Jeju. More than 200 flights were grounded at airports nationwide, while 38 people were forced to evacuate from their flooded homes in Gwangju, a city near Seoul.
Ten cars were damaged in the southern town of Namwon when a roof plate blew off an apartment building and crashed into a parking lot. A similar incident in the eastern city of Wonju left five vehicles destroyed. A large spire was knocked off a church in a commercial district in Seoul.
“The spire collapsed after a sudden gust of wind, hitting a building nearby and a telephone pole and falling over a car. That caused electrical sparks,” Yeom Sang-min, a Seoul resident told, told TV news channel YTN.
Traffic to Incheon International Airport, one of Asia’s largest transport hubs, was disrupted by the closure of its gateway bridge and a power failure at a commuter rail network that links the airport with Seoul. Fire crews in Incheon responded to some 100 calls reporting typhoon-related damage, including destroyed walls, knocked-off signboards and fallen trees.
National parks were closed, as were southern ports on the mainland and major cross-sea bridges.
The storm could possibly inflict more serious damage as it passes through North Korea, an impoverished nation that for decades has struggled to deal with natural disasters. There were no immediate reports of weather-related injuries in North Korea, but state TV reported that an unspecified number of homes and buildings had been damaged and showed footage of flooded streets and toppled trees.
North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA, said leader Kim Jong Un “urgently convened” an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss disaster prevention efforts and scolded government officials who he described as “helpless against the typhoon, unaware of its seriousness and seized with easygoing sentiment.”
Kim called for his military to drive national efforts to minimize damage from the typhoon, which he said would be an “enormous struggle” that would require the entire country to step up, the report said.
North Korea, which suffers from severe food shortages, was paying “primary attention” to protect agricultural crops and prevent damage in dikes, dams and reservoirs, KCNA said. It said officials were also moving residents in areas vulnerable to flooding and deploying “watchmen” to monitor bridges, buildings and houses.
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Robert Mugabe will be buried at a hilltop shrine reserved exclusively for Zimbabwe’s ruling elite, an official said Saturday, as the southern African nation began several days of official mourning.
Mugabe, who was 95 when he died Friday in Singapore, will be laid to rest in Harare at the National Heroes Acre, which has been set aside for Zimbabweans who have made huge sacrifices during the war against white-minority rule and who dedicated themselves to the nation, which emerged from the ashes of colonial Rhodesia.
“Comrade Mugabe will be buried at the Heroes Acre,” deputy information minister Energy Mutodi said. “That is where he deserves to rest.”
Leo Mugabe, a nephew of Robert Mugabe and a family spokesman, told The Associated Press that the date of the funeral and other details, including when Mugabe’s body will arrive in Zimbabwe, weren’t yet available.
“Arrangements are not in place yet,” he said in a text message.
Located on a hilltop, and built with the help of North Korean architects, the plot has a commanding view of Harare, features a huge bronze statue of three guerrilla fighters and boasts black marble and granite flourishes.
Mugabe is viewed by many as a national hero despite decades of rule that left the country struggling. He was an ex-guerrilla chief who took power in 1980 when Zimbabwe shook off white minority rule and presided for decades while economic turmoil and human rights violations eroded its early promise.
Mugabe had been forced to relinquish power by a previously loyal military in November 2017.
Flags flew at half-staff Saturday, but there were no public activities to mark the death of a man who singularly shaped the once-prosperous country in his own image and created a repressive system that some say remains even today.
Reaction to his death was mixed, although praise ironically came mostly from ruling party officials and military leaders.
The state-run Herald newspaper, which vilified Mugabe when he was forced to resign and when he subsequently voiced support for the opposition, carried glowing tributes.
In a “commemorative edition,” the newspaper, which often acts as a mouthpiece of the government, carried a montage of his pictures with the headline: “Robert Mugabe-1924-2019” on its front page and glowing reports throughout.
In an editorial page, the newspaper praised Mugabe for “his uncompromising stance when it came to the rights of Africans.”
“Whatever happened towards the end of his leadership should not be used to rubbish the good things that he did during his life,” the commander of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces and one of the commanders who led the military campaign to oust Mugabe after years of propping his rule, was quoted as saying in a separate story in the newspaper.
Others were less charitable. “95 and out,” read the privately-owned Newsday newspaper.
“Despite his intellectual prowess, Mugabe’s failure to let go of power when it was time was his major undoing . In short, he was a liberator who turned villain. Leaders need to know when to draw the line,” said the newspaper in an editorial.
“End of an era as Mugabe dies, leaves Zim poor, divided,” read the front page headline of another privately-owned newspaper, the Daily News.
“Notwithstanding the many mistakes that he made, many Zimbabweans will probably agree that had he not held on to power beyond the 1990s, he would today be largely remembered as one of Africa’s best leaders in history,” the paper said in an editorial.
Both newspapers were major targets of Mugabe’s vitriol, with editors and reporters routinely arrested during Mugabe’s rule.
On the streets of the capital, Harare, few seemed bothered as people struggled to cope with biting economic problems largely blamed by critics on Mugabe’s rule and perpetuated by his successor and an ally who later turned foe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Mnangagwa took power in 2017 with the help of the military.
“Who cares?” said Percy Maute, a street vendor pushing a cart full of tomatoes along a busy street named after the former president. “I don’t care. I am too busy looking for money to mourn a man who put me in this position.”
A small group of people drank beer and sang pro-Mugabe songs outside a liquor outlet and wore T-shirts with Mugabe’s face. Although only a few people cared to join or commiserate with them, they danced vigorously and spoke glowingly of a man they said fought for the liberation of not just Zimbabwe, but “the rest of Africa.”
“Bob was our hero, he taught us that the white man is not a master,” they sang. Mugabe was popularly known by the nickname Bob.
BANGALORE, India — India’s space agency said it lost touch with its Vikram lunar lander on Saturday as it made its final approach to the moon’s south pole to deploy a rover to search for signs of water.
The fate of the lander — whether it crashed or landed — wasn’t immediately known. A successful landing would have made India just the fourth country to land a vessel on the lunar surface, and only the third to operate a robotic rover there.
The space agency said the lander’s descent was normal until 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the lunar surface.
“Let us hope for the best,” said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was at Mission Control in the southern city of Bangalore.
The entire control center was jubilant during the first 10 minutes of the lander’s descent, with scientists breaking out in occasional cheers. The mood suddenly turned somber and then dejected when the lander stopped sending data during its final minutes of descent.
“I can understand the sadness in your face,” Modi later told gathered scientists after being briefed by the space agency’s chairman. “I have lived the moment with you when communication with the spacecraft was lost.”
K. Sivan, the agency chairman, said the data was being analyzed to find out what happened.
The roughly $140 million mission, known as Chandrayaan-2, was intended to study permanently shadowed moon craters that are thought to contain water deposits that were confirmed by the Chandrayaan-1 mission in 2008.
India’s achievements in space have been hailed by Modi as a symbol of the country’s rising ambition as a global power.
Even after communication was lost, scientists at mission control chanted “Victory for Mother India” in response to Modi’s speech.
The space agency’s chairman had earlier called Chandrayaan-2 the “most complex mission ever” undertaken by the agency.
The mission lifted off on July 22 from the Satish Dhawan space center in Sriharikota, an island off the coast of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
After its launch, Chandrayaan-2 spent several weeks making its way toward the moon, ultimately entering lunar orbit on Aug. 20.
On Sept. 2, Vikram separated from the mission’s orbiter, and the lander began a series of braking maneuvers to lower its orbit and ready itself for landing.
Only three nations — the United States, the former Soviet Union and China — have landed a spacecraft on the moon.
Last January, China achieved the first landing on the far side of the moon. In April, an Israeli spacecraft attempting to land crashed moments before touchdown.
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Saaliq reported from New Delhi.
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BECIL Recruitment 2019 – Apply Offline for 47 JE & Maintainer Vacancies. New Job Notification has released for the Central Government Job Seekers. Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited administrative announced 47 Vacancies for the Junior Engineer (JE) and Maintainer Post. Aspirants can send their duly filled BECIL Application form with self-attested photocopies of educational and experience certificates to the concerned address from 29th August 2019.
Applicants are invited form the candidates who are having experience in Metro Rail or Indian Railway in the relevant filed. Candidates will be recruited on contract basis for deployment in Metro Rail based company in Delhi/NCR. The last date for the receipt of Application form for the BECIL Recruitment is 16th September 2019. Candidates under 40 years and completed Diploma/ ITI in relevant field with good experience can apply for the BECIL Recruitment.
BECIL Recruitment 2019 – 47 Openings for JE & Maintainer Posts
Name of the Organization
Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL)
BECIL Recruitment 2019 Notification – Apply Online for 3000 Vacancies. Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited is planned to engage 3000 eligible Candidates for Skilled and Unskilled Manpower Posts. This Notification is to fill vacancies in government project Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran N1gam Limited (PVVNL), Uttar Pradesh. Job seekers looking for Central Government Jobs can utilize this opportunity. Online Applications for the BECIL Jobs are invited from 06th September 2019.
The application should be submitted through Online Mode on or before 16th September 2019. Candidates will have a job on a contractual basis at PVVNL, Uttarpradesh. Interested Aspirants submit the Applications before the last date. BECIL Recruitment board invites application from the candidates having experience in Electrical stream.
Eligibility Criteria for Broadcast Engineering BECIL Recruitment 2019
Educational Qualification:
Skilled Manpower
ITI Certificate in Electrical Trade or Wireman as recognized by NCVT or SCVT/ Higher technical degree diploma in engineering and or with overhead Certificate for Electrical Safety.
Experience – 2 years in Electricals
Unskilled Manpower
Passed 8th from any state education board or equivalent institutional.
Experience – 1 Year in Electricals.
Essential Qualification
Should have Reading and Writing Knowledge of Hindi & English.
Age Limit
Minimum Age Limit – 18 Years
Maximum Age Limit – 45 Years
Application Fee
General/ OBC Candidates – Rs. 500/-
SC/ ST/ PH Candidates – Rs. 250/-
Application Fee is Not Refundable.
Pay the Fee through Demand Draft in favor of Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited, payable at New Delhi.
Account Holder’s Name
Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited
Name of the Bank
Corporation
Bank Account No.
510341000702746
IFSC Code
CORP0000371
Branch Address
Corporations Bank, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi -110003
HSSC Salary Details
Post Name
Salary
Skilled Manpower
Rs. 9,381.06/-
UnSkilled Manpower
Rs. 7,613.42/-
Selection Process
Interview
How to Apply Online for BECIL Recruitment 2019?
Click on the Apply Online link given below.
Select the desired post you want to apply.
Fill the Application form with the essential details that are asked in.
Upload the scanned copies of essential documents.
Pay the respective Application fee through Online mode.
Recheck the details entered in the Application form.
Submit the Application form and take a printout of it.
BECIL Recruitment 2019 – Apply Online for 199 Vacancies. Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited announced a Notification to engage candidates for 99 Vacancies. Job seekers looking for an opportunity in BECIL Careers can apply for the vacancies. The Vacancies for the Maintainer, Junior Engineer, and Assistant Posts in Noida Metro Rail Corporation. BECIL Recruitment 2019 Apply Online link is available from 22nd July 2019 to 21st August 2019. Selected candidates will have a job on contract basis for deployment in Noida Metro Rail Corporation office. Candidates selected for BECIL Recruitment have to sign a surety bond.
BECIL Recruitment 2019 for NMRC – Job Overview
Organization Name
Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL)
Applicants undergone a Lasik surgery are not suitable for Junior Engineer Post. Individuals check with the eligibility conditions before starting the registration process. Applicants will have a Phsyco Test, Medical Examination, and Skill test regarding the post. Candidates have to qualify in each stage successfully. Last Date to submit your BECIL Online Application is 21st August 2019. Scroll down to get more details about BECIL Recruitment for Noida Metro Corporation.
BECIL Vacancy 2019 Details
Name of the Post
No. of. Vacancies
Station Controller/ Train Operator.
09.
Customer Relation Assistants.
16.
Account Assistant.
03.
Office Assistant.
01.
Junior Engineer
Electrical.
12.
Mechanical.
04.
Civil.
04.
Electronics.
15.
Maintainer
Fitter.
09.
Electrician.
29.
Electrical and Mechanic.
90.
Refrigerator and AC Mechanic.
07.
Total
199.
Eligibility Criteria for BECIL Recruitment 2019
Educational Qualification
ForJunior Engineer
Possess BE/ B. Tech/ Diploma(3 years) in Electrical/ Mechanical/ Civil/ equivalent from a government recognized institution.
For Station Controller/ Train Operator
Hold a Degree (Science) or Diploma(3 years) or B.Tech in Electrical/Electronics/Electronics and Telecommunications /Civil/Mechanical /IT/CSE from a government recognized institution.
For Customer Relation Assistants
Possess Graduate in any stream from a government recognized institution.
Hold a degree in B.com/ ICWA/ CA(Inter) from a government recognized institution.
For Office Assistant
Completed BBA/ BCA in a government recognized institution.
Age Limit:
Minimum Age – 18 Years
Maximum Age – 32 Years
Age Relaxation:
SC/ ST Candidates – 5 Years
OBC Candidates – 3 years
Application Fee:
Applicant should pay through Online mode using Net Banking/ Debit Card/ Credit Card.
General/ OBC Candidates – Rs. 675/-
SC/ ST/ Ex-Servicemen/ PWD Candidates – Rs. 500/-
Jobs Salary :
Post Name
Salary
Station Controller/ Train Operator
Rs. 35,000/-.
Junior Engineer
Rs. 35,000/-.
Customer Relation Assistants
Rs. 30,000/-.
Account Assistant
Rs. 30,000/-.
Office Assistant
Rs. 30,000/-.
Maintainer
Rs. 25,000/-.
BECIL Jobs Selection Process:
Candidates applying for BECIL Recruitment have to undergo the following tests regarding specific posts to get placement in Noida Metro Rail Corporation.
Written Test
Psycho Test
Personal Interaction
Skill/Trade Test
Medical Examination
How to Apply Online for BECIL Careers 2019?
Visit the Official Website @becil.cbtexam.in
Click on View Advertisement Option
Read the given details completely
Ensure that you are eligible under the conditions provided
Fill the registration form with valid mail ID and mobile number
Done with the registration process
Login to the BECIL Online Application page
Start filling your application form with your personal, educational details and others
Upload copies of the essential document
Pay the Application Fee through Online mode
Do a check with the details filled in the form
Finally, submit the Application form to complete the BECIL application process
BECIL Recruitment 2019 – Recruitment for 2684 Skilled and Un-skilled Manpower Vacancies: The Applicants who are waiting for central government job notifications to apply, here is the latest notification for Skilled and Un-skilled Manpower post vacancies under BECIL Organization. The candidates who are applying for Skilled and Un-skilled Manpower Jobs 2019 should send the filled application forms from 11th July 2019. The last date to submit your BECIL Online application forms is 25th July 2019Extended to 14th August 2019.
The vacancies for this post is purely on a contract basis. The application forms that are incomplete or sent after the due date will be rejected. Forms should be downloaded from the official website. Read the entire article to get details of Vacancies in BECIL Recruitment, age limit, salary & application process.
BECIL Recruitment 2019 – Exam Details
Name of the Board
Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL)
BECIL Vacancy 2019 for Skilled and Unskilled Manpower
Name of the Post
Vacancies
Skilled Manpower
1336
Un-Skilled Manpower
1342
Consultant (Electrical Engineers)
04
Accounts Executive
02
Total
2684
Eligibility Criteria for BECIL Jobs 2019
Refer the below sections for BECIL Skilled and Un-skilled Manpower eligibility criteria.
Terms and Conditions:
The candidates applying for the job must be of sound physical and mental health
Should not be under the influence of any drug or liquor during the duty and have full knowledge and experience to competently complete the job assigned to them.
In case it is found that any loss has occurred to the property/interest of the employer due to such employee, the same shall be recovered from him and he will be discontinued from his job immediately.
Preference will be given to the candidates who are already engaged in similar assignments.
Educational Qualification
Post Name
Qualification
Skilled Manpower
Qualification: ITI Certificate in Electrical Trade or Wireman as recognized by NCVT or SCVT or higher technical degree diploma in engineering, And or with shall possess Overhead Certificate for Electrical Safety.
Should have Reading and Writing Knowledge of Hindi and English
Experience: At least 02-years experience in Electricals.
Un-Skilled Manpower
Qualification: 8th Pass any state education Board or equivalent institutional
Should have reading and writing knowledge of Hindi and Englis.
Experience: At least one year experience preferably in Electrical System
Consultant (Electrical Engineers)
Qualification: B. Tech (Electricals) from a recognized University
Experience: At least 05 years experience in the field of Electrical System
Accounts Executive
Qualification: B. Com/M.Com/MBA (Finance)
Experience: At least five years of experience in the field of EPF, ESI, and Taxation
Age Limit
Post Name
Age (Max)
Skilled Manpower
18 to 45 Years
Un-Skilled Manpower
18 to 45 Years
Consultant (Electrical Engineers)
Preference will be given to the person retired from Vidyut Vitran Nigam.
Accounts Executive
As per the norms
Salary:
Post Name
Salary (Per Month)
Skilled Manpower
Rs. 9,381/-Per Month
Un-Skilled Manpower
Rs. 7,613/-Per Month
Consultant (Electrical Engineers)
Rs. 30,000 – Rs. 50,000/-Per Month
Accounts Executive
Rs. 16770/-
Selection Process
Written Examination
Interview
Application Fee
General and OBC candidates – Rs.500/-
SC/ST/PH candidates – Rs.250/-
By NEFT/RTGS in favor of Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited.
Details:
Account Holder's Name: BROADCAST ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS INDIA LIMITED
Name of the Bank: CORPORATION BANK
Account No.: 510341000702746
IFSC: CORP0000371
Branch Address: CORPORATION BANK, CGO COMPLEX, LODHI ROAD, NEW DELHI-110003
Roles and Responsibilities:
Skilled Manpower – Operation and Maintenance of 33/11 KV Substations and LT/HT distribution lines and its other related work round the Clock in three relay shift of 8 hours Shift.
Unskilled Manpower – Operation and Maintenance of 33/11 KV Substations and LT/HT distribution lines and its other related work round the Clock in three relay shift of 8 hours Shift.
Consultant (Electrical Engineer) – Operation and Maintenance of 33/11 KV Substations and LT/HT distribution lines and its other related work around the Clock in three relay shift of 8 hours Shift.
Accounts Executive – Good exposure in handling of payroll, EPF, ESI and Taxation of the employees and their accounting in Tally.
How to apply for BECIL Recruitment 2019 for Unskilled and Skilled Manpower posts?
Click on BECIL Official Notification pdf provided below
Download the pdf and read it carefully
Ensure that you are eligible in all the criteria specified
Now, go to the official website using the link given below.
Click “careers” and select vacancies under it.
Find the relevant advertisement for “Technical & Non-Technical vacancies” and click on it.
Download the application form and take a print out of it
Enter the necessary details and attach all the prerequisite documents
Pay prescribed application fee by DD as mentioned above
Send it to the address given below.
Address:
Corporation Bank, CGO Complex,
Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Important Dates for Broadcast Engineering Jobs 2019
BECIL Recruitment 2019 – Recruitment for 1100 Un-skilled and Skilled Manpower Vacancies: Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited, Noida released a notification for recruiting 1100 Skilled & Unskilled Manpower Posts. The Candidates who are interested in this post and are applying for the BECIL Jobs 2019 can finally make your dreams come true. Eligible candidates should send the filled application forms before 24th June 2019.
BECIL Recruitment for this post is for contract basis for which applicants need to be completed 8th OR ITI from recognized Board. The applications that are received after the last date prescribed or incomplete will be rejected. Aspirants who have cleared BECIL Recruitment process will be posted anywhere in India. For more details related to BECIL Recruitment 2019 like the number of vacancies, eligibility criteria, age limit & other details read the entire article.
BECIL Jobs 2019 – Exam Details
Name of the Board
Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL)
All applicants shall verify their Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited Recruitment eligibility criteria by referring below sections.
Educational Qualification
Skilled Manpower
ITI Certificate in Electrical Trade or Wireman as recognized by NCVT or SCVT or higher technical degree diploma in engineering, And or with shall possess Overhead Certificate for Electrical Safety.
ITI Certificate (Electrical Trade / Wireman) recognized by NCVT or SCVT or higher technical degree (diploma in engineering) or has an overhead certificate for Electrical Safety.
Must have At least two years experience in Electricals.
Un-Skilled Manpower
Passed 8th by recognized state education Board or equivalent Institute.
Must have at least one year experience in Electricals.
Age Limit
Skilled Manpower
Maximum Age – 45 Years
Un-Skilled Manpower
Maximum Age – 55 Years
Salary:
Skilled Manpower – 9,381.06
Un-Skilled Manpower – 7,613.42
Selection Process
Interview
Roles and Responsibilities:
Skilled Manpower & Un-Skilled Manpower
Operation of 33/11 KV Substations and LT/HT distribution lines and its other related work around the Clock in three relay shift of 8 hours Shift each comprising of the following manpower.
For Urban Substations where ESI facility is available.
Skilled Manpower & Un-Skilled Manpower
Maintenance of Line around 33/11 KV Substation round the clock in three relay shift of 8 hours shift each comprising of the following manpower.
For live LT Lines, HT Lines (in shutdown or breakdown} gangs in urban areas were ESI Facility is available.
Application Fee
General and OBC candidates – Rs.500/-
SC/ST/PH candidates – Rs.250/-
By only Demand Draft drew in favor of BROADCAST ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS INDIA LIMITED payable at New Delhi.
How to apply for BECIL Unskilled and Skilled Manpower posts 2019?
Click on BECIL Official Notification pdf provided below
Download the pdf and read it carefully
Ensure that you are eligible in all the criteria specified
Now, click on Apply Online link provided below.
Enter the necessary details and attach all the prerequisite documents
Pay prescribed application fee by DD as mentioned above
Send it to the address given below.
Postal Address:
Ahri Awadhesh pandit Dy. General Manager (F & A) Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited, BECIL Bhawan, C-56/A-17, Sector-62, Noida – 201307 Uttar Pradesh
NOTE:The duly filled in application form along with self-attested photocopies of educational/ experience certificates, two passport size photograph, PAN Card, Aadhar Card, and non-refundable registration fee must be sent to the address mentioned above.
Important Dates for Broadcast Engineering Jobs 2019
Latest BECIL Recruitment 2019 Notification – Apply Online for 08 Call Center Executive and Project Manager Posts. New Central Government Jobs alert!! Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited is ready to receive online applications from intending candidates for 08 vacancies. However, the vacant positions are for Call Center Executive and Project Manager posts. Eligible candidates can apply for BECIL Careers 2019 from 17th May 2019. Check the below webpage to know the last date of BECIL application form. In addition to this, check details about eligibility, application procedure, www.becil.com 2019 Application online link, selection process, BECIL Salary, and others are specified in the following sections. Make efficient use of it and be a part of BECIL Vacancy 2019. Also, check out – www.becil.com Vacancies 2019 to know additional information about BECIL Recruitment 2019 for Call Center Executive and Project Managers.
BECIL Recruitment 2019 Notification
Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL) has released job notifications from the 17th May 2019 to 31st May 2019. As this is an Online recruitment candidate can go through the official notification carefully and then apply for BECIL Recruitment 2019. Make sure you follow up the Application steps for registration. Important Dates and notified links that are necessary to apply for the Call Center Executive and Project Manager Jobs are listed below. Check the below section for registering the Call Center Executive and Project Manager Jobs 2019-20.
Overview of www.becil.com Recruitment 2019
BECIL Recruitment 2019 for Call Center Executive and Project Managers
Name of the Board
Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL)
Eligibility Criteria for BECIL Recruitment 2019-20
Candidates those who want to register for the BECIL Recruitment should possess to be under the certain eligibility criteria. Eligibility details cover the educational qualifications and age limit for the candidates. Candidates can refer to the official notification link given in the below section to have a detailed explanation about the 08 Call Center Executive and Project Manager Posts.
Educational Qualification:
Call Center Executive:
Minimum Post Graduate with 3 years' experience
Graduate with 5 years' experience
Experience in handling projects and leading and managing teams of 15 or more junior members
Experience in project implementation and co-ordination with state/ central government will be given preference (Fresh candidates will not be considered)
Experience in the field of data analysis will be preferred
Experience in supervising, leading and managing 15 or more junior staff members.
The candidate should have experience of working directly with the client to ensure deliverables
Candidates having experience of working in sports and related areas will be given preference
Proficiency in computer operations in particular MS-Office Package is mandatory
Project Manager:
Minimum graduate
10+2 with 2 years' experience
Well conversant in understanding and communicating in English
Able to speak, read and write in any one OR more languages as required by SAI (as per column D)
Able to communicate confidently and politely, with good speaking skills
Candidates with knowledge of multiple languages (as specified) will be preferred
With prior experience in inbound/ outbound call centers will be given preference
Candidates with sports background will be given preference
Proficiency in computer operations in particular MS-Office Package is mandatory
Age Limit:
As per the norms
www.becil.com Recruitment 2019 Notification
Pay Scale:
Name of the Posts
Salary Details
Call Center Executive
Rs.21,533/- per month
Project Manager
Rs.42,160/- per month
Application Fee:
For General/ OBC Candidates – Rs. 500/-
For SC/ ST Candidates – Rs. 250/-
Selection Process:
Candidates to fill the available BECIL Vacancies selected based on the performance in
Written Examination
Interview Process
BECIL Recruitment 2019 – www.becil.com
In this section, candidates can check for the application processing steps. Make sure you follow the given step by step procedure to apply. Before registration please make a note that you are under the eligibility criteria and then apply for the posts. Candidates can be requested to go through the official notification to know the terms and conditions of the PCM & PCC Posts of BECIL Recruitment 2019-20
Collect the syllabus from the BECIL Website link which is provided on this page.
Prepare a time schedule for the PCM & PCC exam depending upon the syllabus
Check the topics and manage the time in accordance
Take a mock test about BECIL exam which is provided in the official website
Don’t follow more books, which may lead you to a lot of confusion.
BECIL Recruitment 2019
Government employment is now availing for the Job Seekers who want to get enrolled in BECIL Careers. Around 08 candidates can register for the PCM & PCC Posts. Candidates can check the eligibility details and other important details such as selection process, application fee, pay scale details. Candidates those who register for the BECIL Jobs should have the age limit at a maximum of 35 years for both the PCM & PCC Posts. 08 Vacancies for Patients Care Manager Posts and Patients Care Coordinator Posts are vacant. Interested can register before the last date closes.
As this is an Online application selection process is done accordingly with the written examination process and interview process. They will select those who pass these two process for the BECIL Recruitment 2019. Candidates send the application along with attached with your CV and other documents copy to the postal address mentioned above. Enroll in BECIL Careers with the best pay.
About Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited
Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL) an ISO 9001:2015, ISO 27001:2013 and ISO/IEC 20000:2012 confirmed, Mini Ratna, Central Public Sector Enterprise of Government of India was set up on 24th March 1995. BECIL gives venture consultancy administrations and turnkey arrangements incorporating the whole array of radio and transmission designing viz; content creation offices, earthbound transmission offices, satellite and link broadcasting offices in India and abroad. It likewise gives related administrations like structure plan and development identified with broadcasting, human asset-related exercises like preparing and giving labor. BECIL likewise embraces the supply of specific correspondence, checking, security and reconnaissance frameworks to resistance, police and paramilitary offices. BECIL has its head office in Delhi and corporate office in Noida. The provincial office is in Bangalore.
HSSC Recruitment 2019 –Apply Online for 754 vacancies. Haryana Staff Selection Commission decided to recruit 754 candidates to fill up vacancies of Operator, Accounts clerk, and Others. Interested and eligible can register for the Haryana Staff Selection Commission Jobs 2019 through Online Mode. Haryana HSSC Recruitment 2019 Apply Online Link will be open from 26th August 2019.
HSSC Login for 2978 Vacancies will close on 10th September 2019Extended to 22nd September 2019. The selection process will be done on the basis of Direct Recruitment. Applicant should pay the Applicant fee before the last day 26th September 2019. There are 754 vacancies available at various Departments/ Boards/Corporations. Get more details regarding HSSC Recruitment in this article.
Overview of Haryana SSC Recruitment 2019
Name of the Board
Haryana Staff Selection Commission (HSSC)
Number of Vacancies
754
Name of the Posts
Operator, Accounts clerk, and Other
Apply Mode
Online Mode
Starting Date to Apply
26th August 2019
Last Date to Apply
10th September 2019Extended to 22nd September 2019
Hindi/ Sanskrit as one of the subject in Matriculation/ Higher Bachelor’s Degree in relevant stream from a recognized university/ institution.
Assistant Accountant
Assistant Programmer
Accounts Clerk
Sub Divisional Clerk
Tubewell Operator
Matric with ITI Certificate/ Diploma from Polytechnic in Electrical/ Mechanical
Pipe Fitter
Matric with ITI Certificate
Legal Assistant
Hindi/ Sanskrit as one of the subject in Matriculation/ Higher Graduation and LL.B Professional with experience
Assistant Manager (Electrical)
Hindi/ Sanskrit as one of the subject in Matriculation/ HigherDiploma (First Division)/ Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering in a relevant stream/ AMIE (Electrical) with Experience
Assistant Manager (Utility)
Assistant Manager (IA)
Tracer
Matric with 2 years ITI Certificate/ Diploma
Assistant
Hindi/ Sanskrit as one of the subject in Matriculation/ Higher Bachelor’s Degree with experience in relevant filed.
Senior Account Clerk
Assistant Revenue clerk
Zilledar
Draftsman Planning
2 years Draftsmanship certificate in (Civil)/ Diploma (Architecture)
Chargeman Mechanical
Matriculation with I.T.I. Certificate & experience in the respective trade
Blacksmith
Welder
Turner
Mason
Artificer
Fitter
Electrician
Plumber
Operator
Earth Work Mistry
Matriculation with 2 years experience in relevant field
Supervisor
Matriculation with 3 years Diploma in Civil Engineering with Experience
Draftsman (Civil)
Matriculation/ 10+2, Diploma
Junior Draftsman (Architect Wing)
Hindi/ Sanskrit as one of the subject in Matriculation or Higher
Assistant Draughtsman
Hindi/ Sanskrit as one of the subject in Matriculation or Higher Diploma in Architectural Assistantship
Age Limit:
Minimum Age Limit – 17 Years
Maximum Age Limit – 42 Years
HSSC Jobs Salary Details:
Post Name
Salary
Grade Pay
Assistant Manager
Rs. 9300 – Rs. 34800/-
Rs. 4000/-
Assistant Accountant
Assistant Programmer
Legal Assistant
Assistant
Draftsman Planning
Tubewell Operator
Rs. 5200 – Rs. 20200/-
Rs. 2400/-
Pipe Fitter
Tracer
Senior Account Clerk
Draftsman (Civil)
Rs. 9300 – Rs. 34800/-
Rs. 3200/-
Accounts Clerk
Rs. 35400 – Rs. 112400/-
–
Sub Divisional Clerk
Rs. 25500 – Rs. 81100/-
Chargeman Mechanical
Blacksmith
Rs. 19900 – Rs. 63200/-
Supervisor
Welder
Turner
Mason
Artificer
Fitter
Earth Work Mistry
Electrician
Plumber
Operator
Assistant Revenue clerk
Rs. 25500 – Rs. 81100/-
Zilledar
Rs. 35400 – Rs. 112400/-
Junior Draftsman (Architect Wing)
Pay Matrix Level-6
Assistant Draughtsman
Rs. 35400/-
Application Fee:
There is No Application Fee for Ex-Servicemen/ PWD Candidates of Haryana.
Category of the Post
General
SC/ BC candidates of Haryana state
Male/ Female
Female of Haryana Resident only
Male
Female
1, 2, 3, 6 to 9, 11, 13, 14, 29, 30, 31 & 33
Rs. 150/-
Rs. 75/-
Rs. 35/-
Rs. 18/-
4, 5, 10, 12, 15 to 28 & 32
Rs. 100/-
Rs. 50/-
Rs. 25/-
Rs. 13/-
Selection Process:
Written Examination.
Interview.
How to Apply Online for HSSC Jobs 2019?
Visit Official Website of Haryana Staff Selection Commission.
Register for the desired Post.
Fill the required details asked in the application form.
Upload scanned copies of photograph and signature.
Enclose the copies of relevant documents regarding education and experience.
Finish the Online Payment process for the HSSC Recruitment.
HSSC Recruitment 2019 Notification – Apply Online for 3864 PGT Posts. HSSC Job Alert Notification has announced for the PGT job vacancies. Candidates looking for Teaching jobs check the HSSC Notification for the PGT – H.E.S II posts. HSSC PGT Apply Online link is available from 02nd September 2019. HSSC Recruitment board invited the applications from the eligible for the Group B post.
The last date for the submission of application is 05th September 2019Extended to 18th September 2019. Candidates under 42 years who have completed their Master Degree in the respective discipline given in the HSSC Notification can apply through the link given below. Aspirants should complete the HSSC Jobs application procedure before the closing date.
Highlights of HSSC PGT Recruitment 2019 Notification
HSSC Recruitment 2019 – Apply Online for 588 Patwari Job Vacancies. The Online Application Link for Haryana Patwari Posts gets active from 13th August 2019. Job Seekers waiting to enter HSSC Careers can use this Chance to fill 588 Vacancies. HSSC Apply Online Link Closing Date Extended to 16th September 2019.
Candidates are selected through Written Examination. Extra marks are allocated for socio-economic criteria and experienced candidates. Interested check with HSSC Recruitment 2019 Patwari Notification before starting the registration process. Scroll down to get more details Educational Qualification, Age Limit, Pay Scale, Application Fee & Other HSSC Jobs details.
Highlights of HSSC Recruitment 2019 for Patwari Notification
HSSC Recruitment 2019 Notification – Apply Online for 3206 Vacancies. Haryana Staff Selection Commission is planned to engage 3206 eligible Candidates for Various Posts. This HSSC Job Alert Notification is to fill vacancies in Skill Development and Industrial Training Department. Job seekers looking for Government jobs in Haryana Staff Selection can use this great opportunity. Aspirants start to apply for the Vacancies without waiting for the last date of submission of the online application form. Online Applications are invited from 28th August 2019.
The application should be submitted through Online Mode. Applications from other mode are not acceptable. candidates will have a job on a regular basis at Haryana. The online application link will be disabled after 14th September 2019. Submit the Applications before the last date. Candidates completed 10th, 12th, Diploma, and Degree can register for the HSSC Vacancy.
Overview of HSSC Recruitment 2019 for 3206 Jobs at Haryana
Group Instructor In-Charge (Women) / Group Instructor (Women) for TTC in Fashion Technology, Cutting and Sewing, Embroidery and Needle Work, Dressmaking
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Group Instructor In-Charge (Women) / Group Instructor (Women) for TTC in Hair & Skin Care
Eligibility Criteria for Haryana Staff Selection Commission Recruitment 2019
Educational Qualification
For Theory Instructor (Surveyor, Mechanic Diesel, Machinist Grinder, and Other)
Bachelor Degree in relevant stream from AICET recognized institution/ university or Institutions established by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)
Experience – One year in a technical/ practical field or
Diploma in Engineering /equivalent in relevant stream from State Board of Technical Education of any State Government Experience – Two years in a technical/ practical field.
For Practical Instructor (Turner, Architectural Assistant, Fitter, and Other)
Possess a National Trade Certificate / National Apprenticeship Certificate in the relevant field with minimum 70% marks and NCVT approved POT course.
Hindi/ Sanskrit up to higher education.
Experience – 8 years practical/ teaching experience including training period.
For Librarian
Possess Bachelor degree in Library Science from a recognized university
Experience – Two years as a Junior Librarian
Refer Official Notification for further Details
Age Limit
Minimum Age Limit – 17 Years
Maximum Age Limit – 42 Years
Application Fee
There is No Application Fee for Ex-Servicemen/ PWD Candidates of Haryana.
Haryana Staff Selection Commission (prior Subordinate Services Selection Board) is comprised according to the stipulation of Article 309 of the constitution of India, vide Haryana Government Notification No.523-3GS-70/2068, dated 28.01.1970. Through it was conceded statutory status of Haryana Staff Selection Commission vide Haryana Govt. Journal Notification dated 28.02.2005.
The Commission conducts assessments/interviews for arrangements to Group ‘C’ benefits and might be called up on to lead assessment/meet for arrangement to Group ‘B’ and ‘D’ administrations whenever required by the State Government. The Commission gadgets the method of determination and fixed criteria for choice to posts as though may esteem suitable divisions send demands to the Commission which are appropriately publicized.
Bihar Police Result 2018 are available for various Bihar Police vacancy. The candidates those who attended the Bihar Police Exams can check the result. A huge number of Contenders attend for the Bihar Police Exams, the result page will be busy on the day of Results. So, here we provide you a direct link to check the Bihar Police Result. Also, we provide results in PDF. Furthermore, get other details like Exam Pattern, Cut Off Marks, Merit list in the sections below. Also, check the official website of Bihar Police www.bpsssc.bih.nic.in for more details.
Bihar Police Subordinate Service Commission has conducted the Steno Assistant Sub Inspector Exam on the month of August 2019. And Now the BPSSC Board has conducted the Typing Test and released the BPSSC Typing Test Results on 07th September 2019. Applicants those who have attended the Typing Test for Sub Inspector Post can check out the BPSSC Results 2019 here in the below section.
The Bihar Police Constable Result 2018 and Bihar Police Fireman Result 2018 will soon be out. Candidates have to wait until the Bihar Police Exam is done. The Bihar Police exam will be conducted soon in the month of November and December 2018. The number of posts for Bihar Police Constable is 9900 and there are 1965 posts for the Bihar Police Fireman. Candidates who will sit for this exam will be able to access their Bihar Police Results via the link below. The Bihar Police Result 2018 will be declared on the official site.
Bihar Police Result 2018 Details
Name of the Organization
Central Selection Board of Constable (CBCS), Bihar
Bihar Police Result 2018: for the Post of Subinspector Mains Exam is available now. However, the applicants who appeared for the Bihar Police SI Mains Exam can check the Result below. Hence, check the Bihar Police Result for SI 2018 in the link given below. Furthermore, if you find any errors while checking your Bihar Police Result visit the official website for queries.
Bihar Police Constable Final Result 2018 is available now. The Candidate those who are eagerly waiting for the Bihar Police Constable Result can check from the link given below. However, we provide you with a direct download link for Bihar Police Constable Final Result below. Also, check the other details about Bihar Police Recruitment for Constable 2017.
Bihar Police Result 2018: Looking for the Bihar Police Sub Inspector Recruitment Result 2018. Here is the link to download the Bihar Police Result 2018. However, candidates those who all attended the Bihar Police Subordinate Service Commission (BPSSC) exam 2018 can check their Result. BPSSC Result is out on 4th May 2018. Moreover, Download the BPSSC Result from the direct links below. The BPPSC Official link will be busy today i.e., www,bpssc.bih.nic.in. So, we providing you with a direct download for BPSSC Result 2018 here.
Bihar Police Result 2018: Hey guys here we have provided the great news for all the Bihar Police Driver Constable, Fireman Driver Result 2018. Candidates can check their Bihar Police Exam Result 2018 here. With the help, Bihar Police Merit List 2018 applicants can check out if they are qualified or not. The result will be here to download when released by the officials at biharpolice.bih.nic.in. To know your performance we have provided some of the steps to check your exam results.
Bihar Police Exam Result 2018
Applicants those who appeared for the examination are very eagerly waiting to check their Bihar Police Result 2018. Moreover, aspirants can access the official website to check their Bihar Police Merit List 2018. Since a huge number of contenders had applied for the post and the official website would be busy. However, applicants can make use of the links and follow the steps given below to check Bihar Police Results 2018.
A few days ago the Bihar Police Department had released its recruitment notification for the post of Driver Constable, Fireman Driver. As per the official notification the board had announced a total of 1669 vacant seats to be filled. The mode of application for the post was through online mode. Hence those applicants who have appeared for the post and attended the examination are now eager to check their Bihar Police Result 2018. Hence get ready with your hall ticket number to check your results.
The officials first release the cut off marks before the declaration of result. Hence, applicants, those who have dreamed of going to the further levels must acquire the Bihar Police Cut Off Mark 2018 for the post of Driver Constable, Fireman Driver. As cut off marks is the minimum qualifying marks contenders must score to get qualified for further rounds. However, the Bihar Police Cut off marks will be prepared by the examiners based on some aspects like
Previous Year cut off marks.
Exam paper toughness.
No of vacancies that are available
Performance of the exam participants in the written exam.
Bihar Police Merit List 2018
As the exam was held for 1669 posts lakhs of interested candidates have appeared for the exams. So the exam controllers will take some time to release the Bihar Police Result 2018. Moreover, the Bihar Police Exam Result 2018 is released by the officials and hence there can be no ambiguity. Follow the steps given below to check your results.
How to check the Bihar Police Exam Results 2018
First of all, log on to the official website of Bihar Police Department i.e. biharpolice.bih.nic.in
Now check for the new updates on the home page.
Search for the Bihar Police Exam Result 2018 online link.
Check whether it is the proper link or not.
After confirming, enter the required details like name, hall ticket number, password etc.
Cross check your details and click on the submit button.
Now Bihar Police Result 2018 will available on the screen.
Check your result and take the print out of the result if necessary.
Bihar Police Result 2018 – Lady Constable: The officials of Bihar Police have released its Lady Constable result. Candidates those who have attended the examination can check their results now. The Bihar Police Exam Results 2018 is released by the officials and hence there would be no ambiguity. The Bihar Police Lady Constable Exam Results can be viewed only by those aspirants who have attended the examination. For more details refer the link given below.
Bihar Police Lady Constable Result
Board Name: Bihar Police Post Name: Lady Constable Result Status: Released
Bihar Police Result 2018 out. Aspirants who had applied for the post of constable are no eagerly waiting to check their results. A huge number of applicants had taken up the examination and waiting for their results. And moreover, results can be viewed only by those candidates who have taken up the examination. Bihar Police Exam Result 2018 contains the names of qualified aspirants for further rounds. Candidates can check their Bihar Police Examination Results 2018on our page once when available at biharpolice.bih.nic.in.
Bihar Police Exam Result Date 2018
Hello, Guys here is a good news for those aspirants who have taken the exam. The long wait for results has come to an end. The Bihar Police Department has decided to release it’s Bihar Police Constable Results 2018. So candidates can check their results on our page when released by the board. And, aspirants get ready with your hall ticket and check your Bihar Police Result 2018. So, you can check your score within minutes. Keep an eye on this page to get your results in a single click and for more information regarding Bihar Police Constable Exam Merit list 2018, applicants can go through the below section.
The Bihar Police Department has released its notification. A large number of applicants had applied for posts issued by the organization. It had a total number of 9900 vacancies for the post of constable. Candidates interested in police jobs made use of this opportunity. The eligible candidates had submitted the application form before the given deadline. The selected candidates get a respectable pay from the organization. The job location for these post is in all over India and the mode of application was online. The selection process for these posts was written the examination, physical test etc. So interested candidates had grabbed this opportunity. Stay tuned to our page to get more updates on admit card and we have provided steps to help them easily download.
Cut off mark is the base marks candidates must score to get qualified. Furthermore, the Bihar Police Cut0ff Marks 2018 is the average marks obtain by all the candidates. This is because the Bihar Police Constable Cut off 2018 Marks is very necessary for all those who had attended for the tests conducted. Candidates failing to meet the cut off issued by the board cannot take up further rounds. so guys go to the official website and find which section has more cut off and prepare accordingly.
Bihar Police Exam Merit List 2018
Every year, the Bihar Police Department prepares the Bihar Police Merit List 2018 to help candidates to evaluate their performance in the exam. And, the board prepares the list based on the performance of the applicants for their respective job positions in the exam. So, the applicants are waiting for checking the Bihar Police Constable Results 2018 since from the time of exam completion. The results are prepared by the authorized people of Bihar Police Department so there will be no ambiguity. However, the candidates can check all Exam Results here.
Steps to Check Bihar Police Results 2018
First, applicants have to visit the official website i.e biharpolice.bih.nic.in
Then check the Bihar Police Results 2018.
The result page appears.
Enter your hall ticket number carefully and click on submit button.
A result page appears.
Check your name in the Bihar PoliceMerit List 2018.
Download the results.
Finally, take the printout of the Bihar Police Exam Results 2018.
IDBI Call Letter 2019 – Industrial Development Bank of India issued the Interview Call Letter on its official portal. Candidates those who cleared the prelims and mains exams can download the admit card from the below section. The Interview Letter has been issued on 07th September 2019.
IDBI Assistant Manager Interview Letter 2019 – Download Here
IDBI Admit Card 2019 – IDBI has yet to release the IDBI Grade A exam admit card 2019. Download from the direct link given below once it released by the reputed Bank. Visit frequently to our website to get all the updated IDBI Bank Admit Cards. Moreover, Candidates can find the exam date, starting and closing date of Online registration from this page.
Thus, we update you the overall information about the IDBI Bank Admit Cards for various posts. Download the admit card by following the steps given below. Go through the article completely to get a clear view of the admit cards. Hence, we direct you to the official website to get an answer for your queries regarding IDBI admit cards 2019.
IDBI AM Interview Call Letter 2019
Industrial Development Bank of India has issued the Interview Call Letter for the Post of Assistant Manager AM and Executives. Those who cleared the Prelims and Mains Examination can download the Interview Letter from 30th July 2019. Thus, Download the Interview Schedule and can appear to the Interview along with the IDBI Interview Call Letter 2019.
IDBI Assistant Manager & Executive Call Letter 2019 – Download Here
IDBI AM PET Admit Card 2019
Candidates who submitted their application form for the post of Assistant Manager Pre Examination Training can download the admit card from the below section. IDBI Admit Card can be downloaded from 20th July 2019 onwards. Hence, the IDBI Assistant Manager Pre Examination Training will be held on 28th July 2019. Applied and eligible candidates can download the IDBI Assistant Manager Admit Card 2019.
IDBI Assistant Manager PET Call Letter 2019 – Download Here
IDBI Call Letter 2019
Aspirants who are seeking for the bank job can now apply at Industrial Development Bank of India. Hence, Applying Candidates will be called for the examination process. Moreover, Aspirants have to appear for the exam along with the admit card. So, Candidates have to download the official IDBI Admit Card from 13th July 2019. Hence, the IDBI Call Letter is an important factor for the IDBI exams and interview. The online application to apply for IDBI Assistant Manager Grade A is given below.
IDBI Assistant Manager Call Letter 2019 – Download Here
Required Things to Check in IDBI Call Letter 2019
Candidates have to check and fill in the IDBI Call Letter 2019. Hence, the candidates keep the application form along with you while downloading the admit card. Moreover, the admit card is the entrance ticket to write the exam. IDBI Call Letter will be uploaded in the Official Website. Hence, we will direct you to download the IDBI Admit Card. Candidates make use of the steps to download the hall ticket.
Name of the Applicant.
Exam Date, Time & Centre.
Post Applied for.
Application or Registration Number
Father Name and
Important Instructions.
Required Things to download IDBI Admit Card
Download IDBI Grade Exam hall tickets here. Carry the admit card for IDBI Garde exams. While in the absence of the admit card, Invigilators will not allow you to write the examination. However, Candidates are suggested to download the admit card in prior for the exams. Thus, Aspirants are suggested to follow the instructions stated in the admit card. Maintain the exam hall decorum. Check to the printed details in the hall ticket. Do not overwrite any texts in the admit card except the Candidate’s Signature.
DBRAU Result 2019 – Dear Students!! Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University has announced the DBRAU Agra University Result 2019 for Medical, Semester & Main Examination. The University has released the DBRAU Result for Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Regular/ Supplementary Students. Everyone can check the DBRAU Result 2019 from the official website of the University i.e, dbrau.org.in. Here on this page, we have provided a direct link to check the results from the below table. Currently, the University has released the results for B.Com II, I, III, B.Pharma I, II, III CBCS, M.A, M.Phil, B.A Voc I, III, V, MBA, and other Semester Exams. We advise the Students to read the entire article to get more information.
DBRAU Result 2019
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University has declared the Agra University Result 2019 for various Courses. The University has conducted the Semester Examination successfully and announced the DBRAU Result 2019. Here Students can check the Agra University Results for all Graduate Students including UnderGraduate, Postgraduate and Regular/ Supplementary Students. We used to update all the information regarding the DBRAU Result, Time Table, Score Card and others. We are here to help you out with the latest updates related to Examination Results. After verifying the results anyone can find the individual Students performance. We have provided a direct link to download the DBRAU Result 2019. We advise the Students to keep in touch with our webpage or bookmark this page recruitment.guru to get all the details.
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, formerly Agra University, is a state university located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. The Institute of Engineering and Technology Khandari, Agra(I.E.T. Khandari, Agra), situated at the Khandari campus in the city of Agra, was established in 1998 and is the engineering institute of the university. Initially, there were only four faculties in the University viz. Arts, Sciences, Commerce and Law. Faculties of Medicine, Agriculture, Home Science, Basic Sciences, Fine Arts and Management were added subsequently. The University is steadily surging ahead as a centre for higher scientific vocational and job oriented education and innovative research.
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University Supply/Revaluation Results
Students have appeared for the Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar 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 DBRAU Result and announce the Agra University 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 each and every semester Students can apply for the revaluation after the announcement of the main examination results. Students can keep in touch with the University website to know more information about the DBRAU Revaluation Result 2019.
LIC ADO Mains Admit Card 2019 – Life Insurance Corporation of India has announced the rescheduled exam date on 22nd September 2019. Thus, the board will issue the admit card before 1 week of the exam date. So, Aspirants are suggested to download the admit card from the direct link given below.
LIC ADO Admit Card 2019 – Life Insurance Corporation of India has issued the admit card for Apprentice Development Officers (ADO). Firstly, the board has released the admit card for Preliminary Examination Today. Candidates can start downloading the admit card for the prelims exam. The LIC Admit Card for prelims exam has been issued on 29th June 2019.
LIC ADO Admit Card 2019
Applicants who successfully registered the Online Application can now download the Prelims admit card. LIC Admit Card download is only possible if he/ she enters the application number. The Board will release the admit card for both the prelims and mains admit card. Candidates who got eligible scoring in the prelims exam will only get the mains exam admit card. The LIC Mains Exam admit card will be released before 10 days of the exam date. Therefore, the Mains Exam will be conducted on 10th August 2019.
01st July 2019 | Available at the end section of this page
Official Website
www.licindia.in
Required Information to Check-in LIC ADO Exam Admit Card 2019
Life Insurance Corporation of India has now issued the prelims admit card. LIC Online Preliminary Examination Call Letter is a very important factor for the prelims exam. Hence, Candidates can get the details about the LIC Pre Exam Admit Card from the upcoming page. Scroll down to get the LIC admit card download steps. Below mentioned contents are mandatory to fill in the admit card.
Name of the Applicant.
Exam Date, Time & Centre.
Post Applied for.
Application or Registration Number
Father Name and
Important Instructions.
LIC ADO Prelims Exam Pattern 2019
The LIC Apprentice Development Officer Preliminary Exam has been scheduled on 06th July to 13th July 2019. Hence, Contestants get ready for the exam by preparing according to the exam pattern given by the board. The Exam Pattern has been released separately for Agents and Employee category. Candidates make use of the exam pattern and prepare accordingly.
For Agents Category :
Name of test
Number of Questions
Maximum Marks
Medium of exam
Duration
Reasoning Ability & Numerical Ability
10
10
English & Hindi
Composite 120 Minutes
General Knowledge, Current Affairs and English Language with Special Emphasis on Grammar and vocabulary
15
15
English & Hindi
Elements of Insurance and Marketing of Insurance.
125
125
English & Hindi
Total
150
150
For Employee Category :
Name of test
Number of Questions
Maximum Marks
Medium of exam
Duration
Reasoning Ability & Numerical Ability
25
25
English & Hindi
Composite 120 Minutes
General Knowledge, Current Affairs and English Language with Special Emphasis on Grammar and vocabulary
25
25
English & Hindi
Practice and Principle of Insurance Marketing
100
100
English & Hindi
Total
150
150
Required Things to download LIC ADO Hall Ticket 2019
Check before downloading the LIC ADO Admit Card. Moreover, Carry the Original ID proof along with the admit card for the exam. Participants should download the valid call letter for the examination. Invalid hall ticket will be strictly rejected. And the examiners carrying the invalid LIC Call Letter will not be allowed to write the ADO Prelims Exam.
College ID
Driving License
2 or 3 latest photographs
PAN Card
Aadhar Card
Voter ID
Passport
Bank Passbook
Ration Card
Employee ID
The photograph on any ID Proof declared by the State or Central Government
Any Authorised ID Proof Announced by Gazetted Officer
How to Download LIC ADO Admit Card 2019?
Click on “LIC ADO Admit Card” Link.
Enter the Registration Number and Password.
Fill the Captcha appeared in the image.
Log in to get the LIC Admit Card.
An Admit Card page will be available on the screen.
Fill all the mandatory details.
Click on to the download option and download the admit card.
Take a print out and carry for the Interview.
Direct Links to download LIC ADO Call Letter 2019-20
OSSC CPSE Admit Card 2019. Odisha Staff Selection Commission has issued the admit card for the Preliminary examination. The board has declared the exam date to be held on 08th September 2019. As the Commission has completed the recruitment process to recruit the Sub Inspectors. Now, the board is going to conduct the prelims exam in this month. Therefore, Aspirants can download the OSSC CPSE Admit Card from the below section.
OSSC CPSE Admit Card 2019
Candidates who have submitted the application for the vacancies should download the OSSC Admit Card. The hall ticket is an important document to take down the examination. Though, Examiners can get brief information about the examination from the OSSC Hall Ticket. So, every individual must download the admit card via Online mode. Thus, Contenders are suggested to go through the complete article to get more details about the exam.
The Commission will issue the admit card along with the details present below. So, Candidates are suggested to download the admit card from the below section. Check with the details in the OSSC CPSE Admit Card before downloading it. No candidates will be allowed inside the exam hall without the admit card. Therefore, Aspirants make sure to download the hall ticket in prior.
Candidates Name
Name of the Candidate's Father
The venue of the Exam Centre
Date & Time of the Test
Reporting Time to the Exam Hall
Gender (Male/ Female)
Roll Number
Duration of the Online Test
Space for Invigilator's Signature
Registration Number
Name of the Test Centre
Category of the candidates
Space for Applicant's Signature
Name of the Exam Conducting Board
Photograph of the Candidate
Applicant's Date of Birth
Name of the Written Test
Important Guidelines for the Exam Takers
Full Name of the Applicant
Examination Centre Code
Signature of the Board Counselor
OSSC CPSE Prelims Exam 2019
Odisha Staff Selection Commission has scheduled the Prelims exam on 08th September 2019. Here candidates can get the OSSC Sub Inspector Syllabus here to make the exam preparation. Follow the rules and regulations stated on the OSSC CPSE Admit Card. Thus, the exam centers have been allocated by the officials. Aspirants are suggested to reach the exam hall earlier because he/ she will not be allowed inside the exam hall after the scheduled time.
OSSC CPSE Exam Centers:
Bhubaneswar
Balasore
Sambalpur
Berhampur
Documents Along with OSSC CPSE Admit Card 2019
Aspirants must carry the original Government ID proofs along with the admit card. Aspirants check with the details entered in the hall ticket before downloading. If there is any mistakes done with the admit card inform to the board immediately to get the corrected OSSC CPSE Admit Card.
Original Photograph
Voter Card
Pan Card
Employee ID
College ID
PAN Card
Passport
Driving License
Any other ID proof issued by a Gazetted Officer
Bank Pass Book with the photograph
OSSC Hall Ticket 2019-20
First Click on the OSSC Admit Card link.
Fill the Login details to get the admit card page.
Enter the Captcha shown on the page.
An admit card page will appear on the screen.
Enter the valid credentials in the admit card.
Check to the details in the hall ticket before submitting.
Mumbai University Results 2019 declared for B. Sc Degree on 06th September 2019. Check out the updated Mumbai University Semester wise Exam results 2019-20 details from the below section. We have updated the University Exam Results from the official website. As the University Board has released the first half 2019 results. The current page is fully equipped with the results of all courses like MBA, MCA, MA, B.Tech, BBA, B.Sc and so on. Hence, Check other information of Mumbai University Results in the below sections of this page. Check out more information on official website i.e,mu.ac.in.
Latest Results Update: University of Mumbai (MU) has Declared Result of BE Degree and Other Various Courses' Exam Results
Mumbai University Exam Results 2019-20
As that the University of Mumbai has released the semester wise examination results through Pdf format. Those candidates who wish to check down their results can check it out here. The Mumbai University has updated the results for T.Y.B.A. in German Studies of V Semester Exam on 09th August 2019 as a recent update. Students of Mumbai University check the updated and previously released examination results from the below section. Also, stay in touch with our page to get the recent updates about Mumbai University.
Mumbai University is one of the oldest universities in Maharashtra & Mumbai city as well. It was established on 18th July 1857. The Mumbai University is also known for MU. Most of the people usually called it as MU. It offers Bachelor, Master & Doctoral courses. along with these courses, it also offers Diploma courses, Certificate courses in multiple disciplines like Arts, Commerce, Science, Medical & Engineering. The Mumbai University has 3 main campuses across Mumbai city and one it out of the city. wherein the Fort campus carries out only administrative works. There are 711 colleges affiliated to the university as per 2011 census. But it increased to 762 now.
When we discuss Key people of the university, The Honorable Governor of Maharashtra giving services as Chancellor of the university. While Mr.Suhas Pednekar is Vice-Chancellor of the Mumbai University. get more information related to Mumbai University here.
Mumbai University Revaluation Exam Results 2019-20
Candidates of Mumbai University those who have undergone the Semester Examination for the courses conducted by the University it time for you check out exam results. Students those who failed in the regular examination can go for the second chance which is called as Revaluation Results. This revaluation results will also help in increasing the scorecard obtained in the regular examination. This Revaluation is only for those who wish that their examination paper should be evaluated once again. As soon as the main exam results are released the University Board will announce the revaluation dates. Students those wish can apply for the revaluation. Do have a regular update with the official website of the University as that the Mumbai University Board releases the Revaluation Results within a few weeks interval gap.
Vikram University Results 2019 – Candidates studying under the Vikram University, Ujjain it time for you people to check down the examination result details. The University has released the examination results for the previously conducted semester examination. Students can get the complete set of Under Graduate, Post Graduate and Dual Degree Courses Exam Results from this webpage. Below provided are the direct links to access the Vikram University Examination Results 2019-20 page.
Vikram University Results 2019-20 @vikramuniv.ac.in
Checking out for the Vikram University Semester Exam Results 2019-20 from the official site. The University has conducted the examination on January 2019 month. And here is the results for those exams. We people from Recruitment.Guru has updated this page with the recent Vikram Uni Result. We have also the Revaluation Exam Results updation on our webpage. Applicants can get a clear view of the University updates regarding results. We advise the candidates to stay updated to our webpage to get all the recent updates about the Vikram University.
Vikram University was established in the year 1957 by the then Home Minister of India "Govind Vallabh Pant". the university opted for a rigorous evaluation by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) of the University Grants Commission. The Apes Council of NAAC awarded the grade of A to the university. The interesting part is, The Vikram University school & administrative blocks are connected to the satellite. His excellency inaugurated the Ethernet connectivity network to make the University Global. The Governor of Madhya Pradesh act as Chancellor of the university & S.S.Pandey is the Vice-Chancellor of the Vikram University.
Regular / Supplementary Results for Vikram University
Those students who have attended the regular examination under Vikram University and still failed. Here comes one more opportunity to clear the examination. To increase your scoring along with that students to fail in the previous examination will get a chance to clear through Revaluation Exams Vikram University Results. For each and every semester Students can apply for the revaluation after the announcement of the main examination results. Vikram University will take a week or more to process the exam papers to announce the Revaluation results. Do stay updated with the University to know about the Revaluation Exam Results.
At an entrepreneurship event in Bengaluru in September, Kunal Shah was treated like a veritable celebrity. The hackathon for wannabe financial technology entrepreneurs was meant for some 100-plus startups to showcase their technical chops. Instead, young engineers & managers milled about around Shah, curious about his secret sauce for startups.Having sold his previous venture, Freecharge, to Snapdeal for $400 million in 2015, the serial entrepreneur took some time off to turn angel investor, venture advisor and also to mentor dozens of startups for a little over a year.It was only so long before the entrepreneurial bug bit him again. In April 2018, Shah got started again, this time with Cred, which rewards credit card users for paying their bills on time. It seems to have taken off.In barely 10 months, the valuation of Cred has crossed $500 million and appears on course to become India's next startup unicorn. Marquee investors, including Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global, have scrambled to jump aboard India's hottest fintech venture in years.Shah is today aware that the stakes are high. Having shown off his skills in building one venture, scaling it and, most vitally, scoring a blockbuster exit, the ecosystem is watching his every move. In August 2019, he added to the speculation around Cred's fortunes when he raised $120 million in the venture's latest round of funding, taking the total to $176 million.During a conversation on the sidelines of ET Startup Awards, he brushed off the contention that serial entrepreneurs like him were cornering a chunk of investments in the space, queering the pitch for newbies. Booting up a start-up, whether as a first-timer or a veteran, feels the same, he reckons. "There is nothing like the thrill of starting up," he says.A number of such successful entrepreneurs who sold their first or second ventures and struck pay dirt are finding that they have become startup junkies — can't sleep well too long away from the crushingly stressful life of a founder. Many who thought once they exit for the big bucks, they will retire and play golf, travel or pursue gardening, discover within weeks that leisure doesn't bring much fulfilment. So they swing right back and start a new venture. Now that India has a significant number of successful entrepreneurs who have profitably sold their first ventures, there is now a recognisable phenomenon of rebounding founders, and the ecosystem comprising funders, rivals and customers are reacting to this tribe in interesting ways."After a while, you can't resist the urge. You can only garden and potter about so long," says Saurabh Kochhar, founder and CEO of Meddo, an end-toend medical services provider, who earlier founded online printing service Printvenue and food delivery platform FoodPanda. Ola later purchased Food-Panda India for $250 million.While some markets such as foodtech have waxed and waned (leaving behind just three large players), others such as fintech have evolved from segments such as digital wallets to wider digital lending opportunities.As these enabling factors have strengthened, investors, executives and entrepreneurs have flocked to the market. "The market has become a lot more competitive and cluttered, even if there is a lot more capital," says Ashish Kashyap, founder of IND Wealth, an AI-driven financial advisory platform, which counts marquee investor Tiger Global among its backers. Nearly three years ago, his previous venture, Ibibo Group, was acquired by Makemytrip for $720 million."The enablers are in place to build out a multi-billion dollar business," says serial entrepreneur Thirukumaran Nagarajan, CEO and cofounder of Ninja Cart, a B2B grocery delivery venture. Thus far, the venture has raised around $150 million (and may raise $100 million more) as it seeks to grow its business. The founders are thinking big for this business: at least a 10-fold growth from 500 small and 150 big trucks to ferry agri produce.The market has grown and become more conducive from the time these founders seeded and grew their first ventures. Compared with the time Shah founded Freecharge, mobile data has gone mainstream, handsets have got cheaper and the Jio revolution that has seen the addition of 300 million users and an effective 90% reduction in rates has catalysed a new wave of opportunities. Opportunities in regional languages and video have boomed, and startup funding has also expanded.In 2015, the year Freecharge was sold, risk capital investors ploughed $7 billion into Indian startups. In 2018, that number was $11 billion. Investors ET Magazine spoke to say that early rounds are expanding too — $2 million is the new $500,000 — and the source of this capital has expanded too. "The ecosystem is far more developed," says serial entrepreneur K Ganesh, founder of ventures such as Tutorvista and Big Basket. "Almost everything is more organised and supportive. Both the time required and costs are lower."With co-working spaces, software on the cloud, differentiated angel and seedstage investors, various accelerators and incubators and availability of talent, it is a much more conducive environment today. An investor ecosystem that seeks to minimise risks loves the second coming of successful entrepreneurs. While one in 10 investments usually survive and thrive, investors hope that signing up with seasoned entrepreneurs will somewhat even these odds. Accel Partners has launched Rebound, an investment programme focused on second-time entrepreneurs, as has several other VCs.While there are murmurs of disenchantment about serial entrepreneurs cornering chunks of investments, it doesn't mean they are necessarily cutting into what is available to the first-timers, because the overall pie is expanding as well. A more mature ecosystem has emboldened a raft of bankers, for example, to start up, even as well-heeled founders ranging from Flipkart's Sachin Bansal to Makemytrip's Deep Kalra are providing money and mentorship to them. "Despite the headlines, your odds of being noticed are much better today as a first-timer," says Vinay Bagri, founder of online lender Niyo.But there is no denying that serial entrepreneurs enjoy greater access to networks that are crucial to startup success. Consider the jostle for Jitendra Gupta's latest venture Amica — a slew of top VCs are pouring money into a venture that is yet to be launched. They bet that a past founder of a fintech success story — he sold his venture Citrus to Naspers — knows the contours of the market best and can, therefore, yield the best returns. "We are seeing founders becoming more thoughtful and deliberate.Hence, they are raising a larger amount to account for greater runway so that once they raise, they can focus on taking the product to market and rapidly scale up sales," says Sanjay Nath, managing partner, Blume Ventures, an early-stage investor.His peers, too, are happy to back the skills of serial entrepreneurs. "Where serial entrepreneurs score significantly is the execution chops and a network that allows them easier access to financiers," says Sanjay Swamy, managing partner of Prime Ventures.Serial Successes 71028155 "The market has changed massively since I last started up, and adapting will be a challenge"Jitendra GuptaPreviously- Founder of Citrus PayIs now Cofounder of Amica PayStar power Sold Citrus Pay, his previous fintech venture, to Naspers for $130 mn; has reportedly raised $24 mn for new venture.What has changed - More early-stage capital - Blockbuster exits led by Flipkart-Walmart deal - More experienced talent available - Jio has transformed segments such as video and regional languages - Access to the hinterland is much easierWhat hasn't changed -Regulatory flux around startups -Few startups have made profits - Limited exit options for investors - Investors tend to chase opportunities in herds - Investor focus on returns hasn't dimmed"More people are willing to back them. It is a rare group of people who can maintain the hunger and passion the second time around." He contends that it isn't only the entrepreneurs who've scored big that are sought after. Instead, it is the hunger of those who have failed but have the drive (or seemingly a blockbuster idea) that are worthy of backing.Among Prime's portfolio, Swamy points to Moneytap and Mfine as examples of having backed people who have had successful startup stints. In Moneytap's case, the founders include a team of successful entrepreneurs (they sold Snapfish to HP for $300 million in 2005) and people like Anuj Kacker and Kunal Verma who had failed with their previous ventures. 71028308 Ashutosh LawaniaPreviously Cofounder of Myntra, online fashion sold to FlipkartIs now Founder of medtech venture MfineStar power Able to raise money in a tough segment; lined up $17 mn-plus in June"Our previous experience with Myntra was certainly helpful while raising capital with Mfine"Similarly, Vijay Arisetty, the founder of gated community tech platform Mygate, stuttered with previous attempts. Mygate has fared better, raising $9 million, led by Prime Venture in less than two years from launch, and expansion is underway to at least a dozen cities.Gupta isn't revealing too much about his new venture, even though there is a constant constant buzz around how much funding he has raised and how he may upend existing fintech players. However, he candidly admits that serial entrepreneurs like him also have to keep up with a fast-changing market. "The market has changed massively since I last started up, and adapting will be a challenge," he says. 71028371 Thirukumaran Nagarajan-"The enablers are in place to build out a multi-billion dollar business"Previously Cofounder of ShoutIs now CEO and cofounder of B2B venture NinjacartStar power Raised $100 mn in latest round of funding led by AccelIn May 2014, Myntra, an online fashion platform, was acquired for $300 million by Flipkart. Since that deal, both Ashutosh Lwania and Mukesh Bansal have flourished as serial entrepreneurs, founding medtech venture Mfine and fitness chain Cure Fit, respectively. Both have raised millions of dollars in funding and growth has blossomed."Our previous experience with Myntra was certainly helpful while raising capital with Mfine," says Lwania. Mfine today has some 600 doctors and 150-plus hospitals on its platform and over 100,000 patients have used its AI-driven service. 71028346 Ashish Kashyap- "The market has become a lot more competitive and cluttered, even if there is a lot more capital"Previously Ibibo Group Is now Founder of IND Wealth SStar power Previous venture acquired by online travel industry leader MakemytripEven as investors chase these serial entrepreneurs, they are also acutely aware of the dangers of herd mentality, which has seen investment bets blowing up in their faces in recent years. Nath of Blume, for one, points to sectors such as food tech that a couple of years ago saw a bubble, with some 30 to 40 startups trying to outdo each other, funnelling millions of dollars in VC money to back unrealistic expectations, only to see almost all of it disappear. "Investors have also been burnt and have learnt the hard way¡K 2015-17 saw a period of over-investment, whereas by 2018 you saw us enter a period of rationalisation," he argues. "Now with the growth and hedge funds - and Softbank back in - we are seeing an abundance of capital available, but mainly for category leaders (or those getting there)." 71028398 Kunal Shah- "There's nothing like the thrill of starting up"Previously Sold Freecharge for $400 mn to SnapdealIs now Founder of Cred, a fintech venture that has seen its valuation hit $500 mn in under 12 monthsStar power Between ventures, was an aggressive angel investor and advisor to Sequoia CapitalEven then, veterans such as Ganesh warn against complacency from serial entrepreneurs. "Sometimes overconfidence and complacency can hurt you... each venture is a new start and as they say, past performance is not indicative of future returns."Even as serial entrepreneurs gather in strength for another go with their latest ventures, they have a new world order to deal with.
NEW DELHI: States will have to become key agents of growth to help achieve India's target of becoming a USD 5 trillion economy, Niti Aayog Chief Executive Officer Amitabh Kant said on Saturday.Speaking at an event organised here by industry chamber PHDCCI, Kant said states have to work together and learn from each other to radically transform India.Kant said one of the things which PM Narendra Modi has been focusing on in recent times is the target of becoming a USD 5 trillion economy by 2024 and subsequently a USD 10 trillion economy by 2030."...therefore, our challenge really is that it will not be possible for India to achieve this till states do not aim to double and triple their GDPs. And this would require major structural reforms and structural reforms over a vast range of sectors," he said.He underlined sectors like agriculture and labour where structural reforms are required.The current size of the Indian economy is estimated at USD 2.7 trillion. The central government has announced and initiated several steps to make India a USD 5 trillion economy over the next few years.PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) organised the 'States' Policy Conclave 2019' conceptualised with the mission of empowering states to strengthen India's federal structure of governance and contribute in making India a USD 5 trillion economy.
Visitors to a village called Khodad, about 80 km north of Pune, can easily spot a series of giant dishes that rise against the sky. These are part of a network of radio telescopes called the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). Built by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) in Pune, GMRT looks deep into space and back in time, at events in the universe not easily accessible to optical telescopes.A set of radio astronomers at NCRA are especially interested in events soon after the Big Bang, with which the universe is supposed to have been born, 13.8 billion years ago. Optical telescope can only look back to about 500 million years after the Big Bang. Radio telescopes alone can peer into the secrets beyond that. But radio telescopes like GMRT are running into a problem on the earth — interference from mobile towers and other electronic equipment.Sometime in the near future, when the moon opens up for scientists to set up experiments, radio astronomers will be among the first set of scientists to exploit the radio-quiet zones there. A network of radio telescopes on the moon can peer deep into space without electrical interference. With proven expertise in telescope-building, India will be an automatic partner for international projects to build radio telescopes on the moon.When the GMRT was built 20 years ago, Khodad was a quiet village. Now mobile towers have sprouted everywhere, and radio astronomers at NCRA have had to develop clever ways to weed out the noise. Now no place on the earth is free from signal interference.The echo of electrical signals from the earth can reach even the near side of the moon, but telescopes on its far side will be completely free from interference. "The far side of the moon is completely shielded from the earth," says Yashwant Gupta, director of NCRA. "Setting up a telescope there is like a dream."Radio astronomers have been watching the moon keenly for a few decades, hoping to set up their telescopes on the satellite one day. Powerful and sensitive radio telescopes, free from interference, can probe deep questions about the evolution of the universe. Optical telescopes can look back only to a point after the first stars were born. Radio waves carry information about early structures in the universe like the first stars and galaxies. They are also supposed to carry information about the first atoms in the universe, which may have formed 380,000 years after the Big Bang. But these signals are so feeble — less than a trillionth of the energy of a mobile phone signal — that astronomers need to weed out all noise. While radio astronomers want to use the moon to figure out events in the early universe, planetary scientists want to explore it to figure out how the solar system was formed, and how the earth evolved into its present state. The composition of the moon and the earth are so similar that it is sometimes hard for a geologist to figure out where a rock or soil sample has come from. But there is a crucial difference.The moon is supposed to have been hived off from the earth when both were still hot, some 4.4 billion years ago, by the impact of a body roughly the size of Mars. It is the reason why the earth and the moon are so similar. However, the earth has evolved while the moon is frozen in time.The earth has plate tectonics that gradually erases history from its surface. The moon died geologically a billion years ago. Or, so we thought. Recently, scientists have noticed some geological activity on the moon, but it is not of the kind that will erase history on the surface. The moon has had large volcanic eruptions like the earth, but the last major set of eruptions happened 3.2 billion years ago.Lacking an atmosphere, the moon does not have weather, and so the surface remains largely intact. Looking at the moon is like looking at the earth a long time ago. "The moon is the closest image of the ancient earth," says Deepak Dhingra, assistant professor at IIT Kanpur. Dhingra, who had worked on Chandrayaan-1 while at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad, is a planetary scientist who studies lunar crust evolution. Our understanding of the moon has improved in recent times. The most important in the last decade was the presence of water on the moon. Scientists have detected a small layer of water all over the moon. Multiple missions, including Chandrayaan-1, have confirmed the presence of water on the poles. Recent research has also indicated that there is water inside the moon. 71027664 If there are large amounts of water on the moon, it may become easier to set up a base there. Apart from sustaining life, water can be split to generate hydrogen and oxygen, and they can serve as fuel during the long lunar night (one lunar night lasts about two earth weeks). It also removes the need to carry water from the earth when setting up bases.The Apollo missions brought back 380 kg of samples, of which 50% was preserved for five decades. This was because NASA knew that technology to analyse the samples will improve in the future, & so didn't want to waste them. These samples were opened and distributed this year to scientists who wanted to study them. "There will be a lot of discoveries soon," says Dhingra.The Indian moon missions have been driven by a combination of scientific and strategic factors. The moon will be a base for planetary exploration, and being present there will be of strategic value for any country. It is the reason why the US, Europe, Russia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and a few other countries are all planning moon missions in the future. Scientists will continue to piggyback on many of these technology-led missions. And hope for exciting discoveries over the next few decades.
Thanks and wishes came pouring in for Bhaskar Bhat during Titan Company's earnings conference call in early August to discuss its first quarter numbers. This would, after all, be his last as managing director of the company before he retires on September 30. Among those who spoke was billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, who with his wife owns 7% of Titan. "First of all, a very emotional byebye. We would not be having Bhaskar on the calls again. I'll really miss him," Jhunjhunwala said.It is no secret that investors love Titan. And Bhat has played a key role in making the company a titan on and off the bourses. The Tata group company has been one of the storied stocks of the past decade and a half. Since Bhat took charge as MD on April 1, 2002, its shares have risen a remarkable 400 times, compared with an increase of nearly 11 times in the Sensex.At the end of the hour-long call, Bhat — who speaks multiple languages, including Tulu, Kannada, Tamil and Gujarati — thanked everyone and said, "From an anpadh (illiterate) I became quite savvy at answering your questions." 71027380 The 65-year-old, who has often ditched his car for the airport shuttle, is known for his modesty. In an interview with ET Magazine at the company's airy headquarters in Bengaluru's Electronic City a couple of weeks later, the IIT-Madras and IIM-Ahmedabad alumnus continued in the same vein. "I don't ascribe anything to myself. A company's achievement is ascribed to its MD, unfortunately." But it is difficult not to give him some of the credit for Titan's growth, especially considering how big Titan has become in the last two decades.When he took over the reins of Titan, the company's market value was a mere Rs 220 crore, a 10th of Tata Power's and around a 15th of Tata Steel's and Tata Motors'. Now Titan is valued at Rs 95,000 crore — more than all those companies combined. It is the second biggest listed Tata company, after Tata Consultancy Services. Moreover, between 2001-2002 and 2018-19, Titan's revenues and profits grew at an annual rate of over 20% and 30%, respectively. "We feel good, certainly, when the stock does well. At the same time, we don't feel bad if the market cap goes from Rs 1 lakh crore to Rs 95,000 crore," says Bhat.However, Bhat's legacy goes beyond numbers. He turned a watchmaker with a jewellery business (Tanishq) into an enviable lifestyle company with brands in eyewear, accessories, perfumes and now sarees. The company even has a precision engineering subsidiary called Titan Engineering & Automation, a spin-off that caters to industries like aerospace, defence and electronics. The jewellery vertical contributed 83% to Titan's standalone revenues of Rs 19,250 crore in 2018-19, with watches accounting for 13% and eyewear 3%, according to the company. Bhat was the first hire of the predecessor to Titan, The Watch Project of Tata Press led by Xerxes Desai, in May 1983, according to a recent book on Titan by Vinay Kamath, a journalist. 71027386 Bhat moved from Ahmedabad, where he was with Godrej & Boyce, to Mumbai, where he grew up, to take up the new job in sales. He saw the birth of Titan Watches a year later as a joint venture between the Tatas and the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (Tidco), which was one of the few entities with a licence to manufacture watches back then. The company's first plant was in Hosur in Tamil Nadu, around 40 minutes from Titan's headquarters in Bengaluru. Titan was an acronym of Tata Industries and Tamil Nadu. Tidco owns around 28% and the Tatas 25% in Titan. The chairman of the board is nominated by Tidco. Interestingly, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Shaktikanta Das, an IAS officer from the Tamil Nadu cadre, was chairman of Titan between 2006 and 2008.After it started selling quartz watches in 1987, Titan went on to eclipse the then market leader Hindustan Machine Tools, a state-owned company. Looking for new avenues of growth for the company, Desai led Titan into the jewellery business under the banner of Tanishq in the mid-1990s. But the foray would turn out to be more difficult than anticipated, as Titan found it difficult to prise Indians from their family jewellers. Things started improving slowly for Tanishq after it encouraged prospective customers to come to its stores to check for free the purity of the gold jewellery they own. This way, it was able to show the customers if their trusted jewellers were cheating them or not.By the time the Titan mantle passed from Desai to Bhat in 2002, the jewellery unit was profitable. But there were still questions about the future of the business. In his book, Kamath quotes a senior executive saying the then Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata wondered whether Titan was a watch company with a jewellery business or the other way round. But after an external assessment of the business, Tata decided to give it some more time. Bhat and his team made the most of it. Now Tanishq is the country's largest jewellery chain. "That we would succeed in this manner was impossible to dream of," says Bhat, sitting in his office overlooking a lake. His cabin — and the most of the campus — is not air-conditioned. But it is kept pleasant using air cooled by evaporating water.Rama Bijapurkar, a management consultant who was an independent director on the board of Titan in the early 2000s, credits Bhat for his perseverance. "Success does not come from just being a visionary leader and envisioning the future. It comes from getting there, which requires patient, calm and resilient leadership, which Bhaskar has shown." Bijapurkar was a batch ahead of Bhat at IIM-Ahmedabad and remembers him as a "confident IIT boy whom everyone loved". She, like anyone who knows Bhat, attests to his abilities as a mimic. 71027394 It was under Bhat that Tanishq pioneered a strategy to guard itself against volatility in the price of gold. Instead of buying gold, Titan leased it from international banks for a fee and bought the gold from the banks at the same time it sold it to a customer. Some of Tanishq's competitors also use this risk-mitigation tactic. This ensured Titan's valuable capital was not tied up as stock in stores. Other challenges that Bhat had to deal with as MD of Tanishq included handling a lockout at the Hosur plant in 2003 and winding down Titan's loss-making European operations in 2004. The European operations had saddled the company with debt.However, he has also guided Titan to identify market segments that are unorganised or underpenetrated. As a result, it launched the Fastrack watches in 2003, Titan EyePlus in 2007, accessories in 2010, Skinn perfumes in 2013 and Taneira, its saree chain, in 2017. "There was no hoo-haa when Titan got into a new business like eyewear," says Bijapurkar. "They quietly did it. Individually, these businesses may be small but together they add up to a nice jewel string that is valuable." Eyewear brought in revenues of around Rs 510 crore in 2018-19 and other businesses Rs 270 crore. Watches, which accounted for 13% of the standalone revenues, notched up Rs 2,440 crore.Titan has also launched and acquired new brands to widen its offerings — for example the purchase of 62% in online jewellery seller CaratLane in 2016 for Rs 360 crore. "We focus on those businesses where there can be a design-led differentiation," says Ajoy Chawla, senior vice-president of business incubation at Titan.The focus now is to do to the saree business what Titan did to jewellery. Bhat says the saree business is largely unorganised like the jewellery market and the company can put its knowledge of managing the supply chain for Tanishq to good use in Taneira. Chawla says the special-occasion women's wear market is Rs 35,000-40,000 crore. There are five Taneira stores spread across Bengaluru, New Delhi and Hyderabad and Titan plans to take it to 60-70 in five years. Taneira came out of an internal programme that invited ideas from employees around 2015, as did EyePlus earlier. Of the many ideas that were received, three were finalised. The teams that submitted these were given six months to hone their ideas and make a final pitch. Of the three ideas, the one on sarees was chosen.Chawla is loth to disclose the other two finalists, which could be possible future diversifications for Titan. CK Venkataraman, CEO of the jewellery business who has been named Bhat's successor, says one of Bhat's strengths has been harnessing the collective potential of the workforce. "Modern-day managers are focussed on shareholders to the exclusion of other stakeholders. Bhaskar was never a slave to that." Venkataraman points to Bhat's constant queries about Titan franchisees' profitability as proof of that. Titan has 1,700 exclusive outlets across India covering 2.1 million sq ft.Besides Titan's stellar numbers, what has endeared the company to investors is its transparency. "Titan has been upfront about negative developments and Bhat's overall communication with investors has been exemplary," says Abneesh Roy, executive vicepresident at Edelweiss Securities. He adds that Titan's practise of releasing a preview before announcing the results for the quarter is uncommon among companies in the consumer space. Despite the immediate concerns over a drop in demand for the company's products, he remains upbeat on Titan's long-term prospects.Smooth TransitionWhile the departure of a leader of Bhat's stature usually results in some hand-wringing at a company, the transition at Titan has been smooth. That could be because Bhat is being replaced by someone who has been with the company since 1990 and has built Titan's biggest business, the jewellery segment. "When a leader leaves, you see a ship with many holes. But at Titan, the system will not skip a beat as it moves on. That is what Bhaskar has done," says Das Narayandas, a professor at Harvard Business School and former independent director at Titan. 71027399 So what after September 30 for Bhat? He jokes that he is only relevant as long as he is running a company. "I'm happy to have all the time in the world now. I'm still on several boards. It was impossible to manage all these responsibilities but I still managed with sleepless nights and extreme strain. Now that will reduce." Bhat is on the boards of Tata Sons, Tata Chemicals, Trent and Bosch. He is also the chairman of Vistara and Rallis India. For now, Bhat is bidding goodbye to his employees in groups of 50-60 each. Most sessions are spent exchanging anecdotes with the employees of the company he helped grow.His lauded stint at Titan has not been without its missteps, including Titan's delayed entry into the smartwach segment, which Bhat says the company has made up for. Titan's smart products clocked Rs 100 crore in revenues in 2018-19. "The company's fundamental urge to continuously explore adjacent categories in the personal lifestyle space will impel it forward." His successor may be inheriting a stronger company than Bhat did, but Bhat is certainly a tough act to follow.
Thanks and wishes came pouring in for Bhaskar Bhat during Titan Company's earnings conference call in early August to discuss its first quarter numbers. This would, after all, be his last as managing director of the company before he retires on September 30. Among those who spoke was billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, who with his wife owns 7% of Titan. "First of all, a very emotional byebye. We would not be having Bhaskar on the calls again. I'll really miss him," Jhunjhunwala said.It is no secret that investors love Titan. And Bhat has played a key role in making the company a titan on and off the bourses. The Tata group company has been one of the storied stocks of the past decade and a half. Since Bhat took charge as MD on April 1, 2002, its shares have risen a remarkable 400 times, compared with an increase of nearly 11 times in the Sensex.At the end of the hour-long call, Bhat — who speaks multiple languages, including Tulu, Kannada, Tamil and Gujarati — thanked everyone and said, "From an anpadh (illiterate) I became quite savvy at answering your questions." 71027380 The 65-year-old, who has often ditched his car for the airport shuttle, is known for his modesty. In an interview with ET Magazine at the company's airy headquarters in Bengaluru's Electronic City a couple of weeks later, the IIT-Madras and IIM-Ahmedabad alumnus continued in the same vein. "I don't ascribe anything to myself. A company's achievement is ascribed to its MD, unfortunately." But it is difficult not to give him some of the credit for Titan's growth, especially considering how big Titan has become in the last two decades.When he took over the reins of Titan, the company's market value was a mere Rs 220 crore, a 10th of Tata Power's and around a 15th of Tata Steel's and Tata Motors'. Now Titan is valued at Rs 95,000 crore — more than all those companies combined. It is the second biggest listed Tata company, after Tata Consultancy Services. Moreover, between 2001-2002 and 2018-19, Titan's revenues and profits grew at an annual rate of over 20% and 30%, respectively. "We feel good, certainly, when the stock does well. At the same time, we don't feel bad if the market cap goes from Rs 1 lakh crore to Rs 95,000 crore," says Bhat.However, Bhat's legacy goes beyond numbers. He turned a watchmaker with a jewellery business (Tanishq) into an enviable lifestyle company with brands in eyewear, accessories, perfumes and now sarees. The company even has a precision engineering subsidiary called Titan Engineering & Automation, a spin-off that caters to industries like aerospace, defence and electronics. The jewellery vertical contributed 83% to Titan's standalone revenues of Rs 19,250 crore in 2018-19, with watches accounting for 13% and eyewear 3%, according to the company. Bhat was the first hire of the predecessor to Titan, The Watch Project of Tata Press led by Xerxes Desai, in May 1983, according to a recent book on Titan by Vinay Kamath, a journalist. 71027386 Bhat moved from Ahmedabad, where he was with Godrej & Boyce, to Mumbai, where he grew up, to take up the new job in sales. He saw the birth of Titan Watches a year later as a joint venture between the Tatas and the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (Tidco), which was one of the few entities with a licence to manufacture watches back then. The company's first plant was in Hosur in Tamil Nadu, around 40 minutes from Titan's headquarters in Bengaluru. Titan was an acronym of Tata Industries and Tamil Nadu. Tidco owns around 28% and the Tatas 25% in Titan. The chairman of the board is nominated by Tidco. Interestingly, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Shaktikanta Das, an IAS officer from the Tamil Nadu cadre, was chairman of Titan between 2006 and 2008.After it started selling quartz watches in 1987, Titan went on to eclipse the then market leader Hindustan Machine Tools, a state-owned company. Looking for new avenues of growth for the company, Desai led Titan into the jewellery business under the banner of Tanishq in the mid-1990s. But the foray would turn out to be more difficult than anticipated, as Titan found it difficult to prise Indians from their family jewellers. Things started improving slowly for Tanishq after it encouraged prospective customers to come to its stores to check for free the purity of the gold jewellery they own. This way, it was able to show the customers if their trusted jewellers were cheating them or not.By the time the Titan mantle passed from Desai to Bhat in 2002, the jewellery unit was profitable. But there were still questions about the future of the business. In his book, Kamath quotes a senior executive saying the then Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata wondered whether Titan was a watch company with a jewellery business or the other way round. But after an external assessment of the business, Tata decided to give it some more time. Bhat and his team made the most of it. Now Tanishq is the country's largest jewellery chain. "That we would succeed in this manner was impossible to dream of," says Bhat, sitting in his office overlooking a lake. His cabin — and the most of the campus — is not air-conditioned. But it is kept pleasant using air cooled by evaporating water.Rama Bijapurkar, a management consultant who was an independent director on the board of Titan in the early 2000s, credits Bhat for his perseverance. "Success does not come from just being a visionary leader and envisioning the future. It comes from getting there, which requires patient, calm and resilient leadership, which Bhaskar has shown." Bijapurkar was a batch ahead of Bhat at IIM-Ahmedabad and remembers him as a "confident IIT boy whom everyone loved". She, like anyone who knows Bhat, attests to his abilities as a mimic. 71027394 It was under Bhat that Tanishq pioneered a strategy to guard itself against volatility in the price of gold. Instead of buying gold, Titan leased it from international banks for a fee and bought the gold from the banks at the same time it sold it to a customer. Some of Tanishq's competitors also use this risk-mitigation tactic. This ensured Titan's valuable capital was not tied up as stock in stores. Other challenges that Bhat had to deal with as MD of Tanishq included handling a lockout at the Hosur plant in 2003 and winding down Titan's loss-making European operations in 2004. The European operations had saddled the company with debt.However, he has also guided Titan to identify market segments that are unorganised or underpenetrated. As a result, it launched the Fastrack watches in 2003, Titan EyePlus in 2007, accessories in 2010, Skinn perfumes in 2013 and Taneira, its saree chain, in 2017. "There was no hoo-haa when Titan got into a new business like eyewear," says Bijapurkar. "They quietly did it. Individually, these businesses may be small but together they add up to a nice jewel string that is valuable." Eyewear brought in revenues of around Rs 510 crore in 2018-19 and other businesses Rs 270 crore. Watches, which accounted for 13% of the standalone revenues, notched up Rs 2,440 crore.Titan has also launched and acquired new brands to widen its offerings — for example the purchase of 62% in online jewellery seller CaratLane in 2016 for Rs 360 crore. "We focus on those businesses where there can be a design-led differentiation," says Ajoy Chawla, senior vice-president of business incubation at Titan.The focus now is to do to the saree business what Titan did to jewellery. Bhat says the saree business is largely unorganised like the jewellery market and the company can put its knowledge of managing the supply chain for Tanishq to good use in Taneira. Chawla says the special-occasion women's wear market is Rs 35,000-40,000 crore. There are five Taneira stores spread across Bengaluru, New Delhi and Hyderabad and Titan plans to take it to 60-70 in five years. Taneira came out of an internal programme that invited ideas from employees around 2015, as did EyePlus earlier. Of the many ideas that were received, three were finalised. The teams that submitted these were given six months to hone their ideas and make a final pitch. Of the three ideas, the one on sarees was chosen.Chawla is loth to disclose the other two finalists, which could be possible future diversifications for Titan. CK Venkataraman, CEO of the jewellery business who has been named Bhat's successor, says one of Bhat's strengths has been harnessing the collective potential of the workforce. "Modern-day managers are focussed on shareholders to the exclusion of other stakeholders. Bhaskar was never a slave to that." Venkataraman points to Bhat's constant queries about Titan franchisees' profitability as proof of that. Titan has 1,700 exclusive outlets across India covering 2.1 million sq ft.Besides Titan's stellar numbers, what has endeared the company to investors is its transparency. "Titan has been upfront about negative developments and Bhat's overall communication with investors has been exemplary," says Abneesh Roy, executive vicepresident at Edelweiss Securities. He adds that Titan's practise of releasing a preview before announcing the results for the quarter is uncommon among companies in the consumer space. Despite the immediate concerns over a drop in demand for the company's products, he remains upbeat on Titan's long-term prospects.Smooth TransitionWhile the departure of a leader of Bhat's stature usually results in some hand-wringing at a company, the transition at Titan has been smooth. That could be because Bhat is being replaced by someone who has been with the company since 1990 and has built Titan's biggest business, the jewellery segment. "When a leader leaves, you see a ship with many holes. But at Titan, the system will not skip a beat as it moves on. That is what Bhaskar has done," says Das Narayandas, a professor at Harvard Business School and former independent director at Titan. 71027399 So what after September 30 for Bhat? He jokes that he is only relevant as long as he is running a company. "I'm happy to have all the time in the world now. I'm still on several boards. It was impossible to manage all these responsibilities but I still managed with sleepless nights and extreme strain. Now that will reduce." Bhat is on the boards of Tata Sons, Tata Chemicals, Trent and Bosch. He is also the chairman of Vistara and Rallis India. For now, Bhat is bidding goodbye to his employees in groups of 50-60 each. Most sessions are spent exchanging anecdotes with the employees of the company he helped grow.His lauded stint at Titan has not been without its missteps, including Titan's delayed entry into the smartwach segment, which Bhat says the company has made up for. Titan's smart products clocked Rs 100 crore in revenues in 2018-19. "The company's fundamental urge to continuously explore adjacent categories in the personal lifestyle space will impel it forward." His successor may be inheriting a stronger company than Bhat did, but Bhat is certainly a tough act to follow.
New Delhi: Samsung does not see the economic slowdown impacting its smartphone business -- both online and offline -- and the outlook is only healthy and positive to grow further, a top company executive has stressed.According to Asim Warsi, Senior Vice-President, Mobile Business, Samsung India, there has been no change either internally or during the meetings with e-commerce players on lowering down expectations."We base our discussions on business and solid facts. Till date, we are on a healthy growth rate. In fact, online business has seen triple-digit growth as we speak, and this will only grow as we enter the festive season," Warsi told IANS."We do not see any letting up either in our internal plans or in discussions with our ecommerce partners in India. The outlook continues to be positive and I see growth across channels, not just online," Warsi added.The India smartphone market saw its highest-ever shipment of 36.9 million in the second quarter (Q2) of 2019 -- with 9.9 per cent year-on-year (YoY) and 14.8 per cent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) growth, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC).According to Warsi, intelligent consumers are today visiting both the virtual world and brick and mortar stores to get a holistic experience."Both online and offline are equally important for the business and growth in India and we are addressing both the segments with our Galaxy 'M' and 'A' series smartphones," said Warsi.In the second quarter (Q2) this year, Samsung closed the gap with Xiaomi on the back of its India-first strategy and a strong portfolio refresh, with Galaxy 'A' and 'M' series.The South Korean giant plans to sell over two million smartphones led by its upcoming Galaxy 'M' devices before Diwali.According to Warsi, the most exciting part is selling the device-plus experience."Samsung offers smartphones, smartwatches, Bluetooth-enabled buds (Galaxy Buds), fitness bands and so much more to provide its customers a true connected experience. We have been doing it for the past 3-4 years and will continue to launch smart devices across our ecosystem," the Samsung executive noted.According to him, while the online smartphone industry is growing at 20 per cent (year-on-year) in value terms, Samsung India's online smartphones business is doing extremely well, ."We're growing at 2x (triple digits) year-on-year when in comes to online sale of smartphones in the country," informed Warsi.
In the week gone by, the domestic equity market did not make any directional move on either side. Nifty oscillated back and forth in a defined range and went on to end the week on a flat note. The India Volatility Index – INDIAVIX, also remained flat losing just 0.01 points (-0.05 per cent ) during the week. In the previous weekly note, we had mentioned that the 11,100-11,200 zone will act as a stiff resistance area. The headline index was not able to move past this zone and ended with a weekly loss of 77.05 points (- 0.70 per cent ).Nifty has managed to keep its head above the 100-week moving average (MA), which is currently at 10,901. On the other hand, the next immediate resistance point lies at the 50-week MA, which currently stands at 11,111. On the weekly charts, it would be critically important for the market to maintain above the 100-week MA at 10,901. Any slip below this crucial level will infuse more weakness in the market.While expecting a quiet start to the week, we expect the 11,100 and 11,190 levels to act as resistance, while supports are expected to come in at 10,800 and 11,640. The weekly RSI stands at 40.83; it remains neutral and does not show any divergence against the price. The weekly MACD stays bearish and remains below its signal line.On the candles, a Hanging Man pattern has occurred. Since it has emerged during a downtrend, it is called a Bullish Hammer. When it occurs during a downtrend, it indicates the formation of a support area, which signals a potential trend reversal. However, this will require confirmation on the next bar.If we correlate the formation of a bullish candle with pattern analysis, the previous week's low of 10,746 is crucial to watch in the coming days. For a Bullish Hammer to be confirmed, and for the market to form a potential base, the previous week's low needs to be protected.If one were to summarise the aforementioned technical setup, 10,746 on an intra-week basis and 10,900 on a closing basis become key levels to watch.Any violation of these levels will be detrimental to the short-term trend of the market. On the higher side, Nifty will need to take out the 11,100-11,290 zone for any sustainable directional uptrend to occur. 71023957 Given the above setup, unless any of the levels are taken out in the directions discussed, we expect Nifty to oscillate in a broad range just like it did during the previous week. We recommend avoiding excessive exposures on either side and vigilantly protecting profits with any move that the market makes during its range-bound oscillations.In our look at Relative Rotation Graphs, we compared various sectors against CNX500 (Nifty500 Index), which represents over 95 per cent of the free float market-cap of all the listed stocks. The review of Relative Rotation Graphs (RRG) depicts a picture similar to that of the previous week, albeit with some minor improvement. The FMCG and the IT indices are firmly in the leading quadrant and are seen improving their relative momentum when compared against the broader market. These groups are likely to relatively outperform in the coming week. Apart from these groups, the consumption index is almost about to move into the leading quadrant while remaining in the improving quadrant at present.The Auto index has moved into the improving quadrant, indicating some respite from the prolonged weakness that it has been seeing. We expect some stock-specific performance from this group along with the Pharma index, which is also placed comfortably in the improving quadrant.Besides these groups, we have Bank Nifty, Infrastructure, Financial Services, Metal, Energy, Nifty Mid50, PSE, and CPSE indices and PSU banks in the lagging and weakening quadrants. These groups, collectively, may underperform the broader market on a relative basis.
By DK AgrawalHave Indian equity indices stopped reflecting the true characters of the economy? That was the talk among some market watchers in recent times.But we feel it is not that Indian equity indices have stopped reflecting the true picture of the economy. Instead, there is a lag because of a host of reasons, including but not limited to investor perceptions, money flow, global economy and policy decision.When the market is roaring and soaring, it is usually in an anticipation of future earnings growth potential or because of investors flocking towards riskier assets when other investment opportunities dry up.When investing or trading, one has to look beneath the basis of the market move and perception and gauze that basis to access whether things are moving in line with the market perception or not. Any distortion caused by fall or rise in the market happens when the underlying belief is misaligned.Generally speaking, if one looks at the boarder market indices, Nifty and Sensex, it becomes very difficult for the average investor to assess the situation of the economy from the index movements. The indices are a composition of various stocks and sectors that have weightage assigned to them on a free float basis, meaning thereby, that if there are two companies having same market capitalisations, the company which have higher free float will move index with higher intensity.Let's take the example of banking stocks in Nifty. Now look at the performance of Nifty Bank and that of its constituents in general. In the ongoing quarter, three big names i.e. HDFC bank, ICICI bank and Kotak Bank fell on an average 8 per cent and contributed about 2 per cent of Bank Nifty's 8 per cent overall fall. On the surface, things may look normal, but there is a much bigger story playing out in the underneath i.e. banking stocks as a whole have fallen more than 20% on an average while Nifty Bank has fallen 13 per cent.This makes it evident that a broader index may not be giving you the right picture of the sector/industry's performance. The true picture lies in individual stocks, and not in the performance of sectoral and thematic indices.
NEW DELHI: Dating apps and security experts have raised privacy concerns about social network giant Facebook's foray into the world of online dating. Facebook on Thursday launched a new dating service in the US and 19 other countries, and said it will be extended to Europe by early 2020. The company, though, didn't specify when it is planning to launch the product in India. Most global dating apps such as Tinder, Hinge, Bumble and Indian apps like TrulyMadly and Woo have been using Facebook accounts for user logins. But TrulyMadly and Woo said they have also introduced new ways of user logins this year after getting some user feedback on privacy concerns. "Signing up with Facebook does provide us with some sort of social credibility, but from our own experience, earlier we just had Facebook logins but we were forced by our user feedback to allow people to login without Facebook," said Snehil Khanor, cofounder of TrulyMadly. "There is this concern even in India, which is not a very privacy focused market as of now. I can assume what would it be like in the US." Facebook, however, claimed safety, security and privacy are at the forefront of its dating product. In a blog post, the company said it will allow people to integrate their Instagram posts directly into their Facebook dating profile and will give people the ability to add Instagram followers to their secret crush lists in addition to Facebook friends.Users can choose to opt into Facebook dating and create a dating profile separate from their main profile if the person is 18 years or older and has downloaded the most recent version of Facebook. By the end of this year, it plans to make it possible to add Facebook and Instagram stories to the dating profile of users. The dating service is available in Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam among other places. Sumesh Menon, cofounder of Woo, said unlike Facebook where users need to be "tied into the ecosystem" to use the dating feature, Woo users can log in with a phone number besides the Facebook credentials. "Phone number allows for maximum privacy while ensuring that we onboard trustworthy users and can continue to curate our user community," Menon said. "I believe that the dating industry is very personalised and Facebook as an application is quite social." Woo has 7.8 million downloads across Google and Apple app stores. TrulyMadly, which has around five million users, too, started providing an option to login with phone numbers three to four months ago, Khanor said. It also uses facial recognition technology to match selfies with photos to ensure user authentication, although 70% of its logins are still through Facebook. Solene Paillet, marketing specialist at women-focused French online dating service Gleeden, said Facebook being a social media platform has a lot of user data which is public. "Recently, they were tangled in the data security issue which raised many eyebrows around the globe," she said. "The dating market segment is a whole new domain for them and here the user data and privacy are of utmost concern. Online dating users don't like their data being public and it's the responsibility of the platform to secure the data of their consumers so that it does not affect their private lives."
1 crore people to use Metro by 2024: Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Hybrid Metro rail to be a game changer as it will cover narrowest of roads in areas like Kalyan, Dombivali
In science, small setbacks are stepping stones to big success Chandrayaan 2 has been an extremely ambitious endeavour with a long list of mission objectives to be realised.
'Cutting-edge science from Orbiter' In the last stage snag, the communication link between India's moon lander Vikram and the moon orbiter got snapped as the former was descending towards the moon's South Pole.
'Not just young Krishna, entire India loves to play with Moon' On July 22, 2019, when the GSLV Mark III rocket of the ISRO soared to the sky with the intent to lead the mission Chandrayaan-2 to the Moon, with it travelled over a billion dreams too.
ISRO's journey from first baby step in 1960s to Chandrayaan-2 Under an ambitious Sarabhai, INCOSPAR grew and became ISRO in 1969 and in 1972, Government of India set up a Space Commission and the Department of Space (DOS), thereby bringing ISRO under the DOS.
'Await new dawn, best yet to come', says Prime Minister Narendra Modi PM Modi promises to stay the course on Moon mission, asks citizens to learn from ISRO
UP CM Yogi Adityanath, ministers head to IIM for Management training This will be the first time in UP when the head of government will take a class of good governance and management at IIM along with members of its cabinet.
In PM Narendra Modi's presence, Sena-BJP romance is back Despite driving a hard bargain for a seat-sharing formula, Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray hinted that the party's alliance with BJP for ensuing assembly election is a foregone conclusion.
BECIL Recruitment 2019 – Apply Offline for 47 JE & Maintainer Vacancies. New Job Notification has released for the Central Government Job Seekers. Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited administrative announced 47 Vacancies for the Junior Engineer (JE) and Maintainer Post. Aspirants can send their duly filled BECIL Application form with self-attested photocopies of educational and experience certificates to the concerned address from 29th August 2019.
HSSC Recruitment 2019 – Apply Online for 754 vacancies. Haryana Staff Selection Commission decided to recruit 754 candidates to fill up vacancies of Operator, Accounts clerk, and Others. Interested and eligible can register for the Haryana Staff Selection Commission Jobs 2019 through Online Mode. Haryana HSSC Recruitment 2019 Apply Online Link will be open from 26th August 2019.
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