When asked how she would respond to people saying marriage should be between a man and a woman during last night's LGBTQ Town Hall, Warren's response was a real zinger.
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At first, the blooming of the wellness movement gave me hope: If its intentions were mass adopted, it would mean more people were going to have more access to living healthier and more holistic lives. But as a black female practitioner and entrepreneur in the field, I've realized that this space, like many others, is not designed for me.
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Take a deep dive into one man's efforts to program an animated model of the most authentic clouds he possibly can — which is way harder than you'd think.
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Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman reportedly aided Giuliani's efforts to have Ukraine launch an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden. It is unclear if the charges are related to the Ukraine scandal.
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* A public relations staffer shut down a CNN reporter's attempt to ask Rockets stars James Harden and Russell Westbrook about the NBA's PR crisis in China * Houston Rockets general manager recently tweeted out his support for millions of protesters in Hong Kong, who openly oppose the Chinese government * Harden and Westbrook previously apologized to Chinese fans after the tweet * On Thursday, following a Rockets exhibition in Japan, CNN's Christina Macfarlane asked both players about any hesitation to speak out in the future * Recently NBA commissioner Adam Silver said the league will not censor players * Neither player responded. The question was followed by a shot exchange between Macfarlane and the PR staffer, who insisted: 'Basketball questions only' * The NBA has since released a statement saying that the PR staffer was wrong to prevent Macfarlane from getting an answer to her question
A Houston Rockets public relations staffer promptly shut down a CNN reporter's attempt to ask NBA All-Stars James Harden and Russell Westbrook about social activism amid ongoing friction between the league and China over team general manager Daryl Morey's support for anti-government protesters in Hong Kong.
'The NBA has always been a league that prides itself on its players and its coaches being able to speak out openly about political and societal affairs,' CNN's Christina Macfarlane said at Thursday's press conference following a Rockets exhibition in Japan. 'I just wonder after the events of this week, and the fallout we've seen, whether you both feel differently about speaking out in that way in the future?'
'Excuse me, we are taking basketball questions only,' a voice can be heard telling Macfarlane.
Cut off from US help, Kurds fighting a desperate battle against Turkey on their own, says a former commando who describes himself as 'disillusioned' and 'embarrassed' https://t.co/PFdQD9iwAApic.twitter.com/6OU9shCAnB
Pressure on Washington and Beijing to defuse their confrontation has mounted in recent weeks as signs increasingly show that the trade war - now more than a year old - poses a mounting danger to the global economy https://t.co/HDrOQWe0V0
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy took questions from reporters for 14 hours in a Kyiv food court in what his office billed as the world's longest news conference. https://t.co/ct3GMOAkLA
AFP map showing the countries on the EU's 'black list' of tax havens and those on the 'grey list', where commitments have been made to reform deficiencies in their tax systems@AFPgraphicspic.twitter.com/fDU12YRT33
President Trump's decision to pull back the U.S. military in Syria may be a policy even most Democrats can agree with.
In defending his Syria decision on Monday, the president declared, "It is time for us to get out of these ridiculous endless wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home. We will fight where it is to our benefit, and only fight to win." Fifty-eight percent (58%) of Likely U.S. Voters agree with Trump's statement, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey. Just 20% disagree, while 22% are not sure.
WNU Editor: When the President of the United States says he does not understand why the U.S. is fighting in never-ending wars like Afghanistan, the Middle East, etc., the question then asks itself .... why should we? Apparently a majority of Americans are now starting to feel the same thing.
Smoke rises over the Syrian town of Tel Abyad, as seen from the Turkish border town of Akcakale in Sanliurfa province, Turkey, October 10. Turkey pounded Kurdish militia in northeast Syria for a second day on Thursday, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee and killing at least dozens of people in a cross-border assault on U.S. allies that has turned the Washington establishment against President Donald Trump. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
Russia and Iran have troops in Syria and will see opportunities amid chaos of US impulsiveness.
Donald Trump's decision to give the green light – now seemingly turning amber – for Turkey to enter northern Syria has produced a torrent of criticism from European capitals to Washington Republicans, all pointing out that Ankara's move will revive Islamic State, cause untold civilian deaths and land the US with an indelible reputation across the Middle East as an unreliable ally.
But the west has been losing traction in Syria over the past two years, and it may be the reaction of Russia and Iran, who have forces on the ground in Syria, that will most concern the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Their reaction may also reveal more about the long-term future of Syria's eight-year civil war.
I just spoke to a distraught US Special Forces soldier who is among the 1000 or so US troops in Syria tonight who is serving alongside the SDF Kurdish forces. It was one of the hardest phone calls I have ever taken.
PENTAGON – A member of U.S. Special Forces serving alongside the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria told Fox News on Wednesday they were witnessing Turkish atrocities on the frontlines.
"I am ashamed for the first time in my career," said the distraught soldier, who has been involved in the training of indigenous forces on multiple continents. The hardened service member is among the 1,000 or so U.S. troops who remain in Syria.
"Turkey is not doing what it agreed to. It's horrible," the military source on the ground said. "We met every single security agreement. The Kurds met every single agreement [with the Turks]. There was no threat to the Turks -- none -- from this side of the border."
WNU Editor: I understand the geopolitical reasons why President Trump made the decision to acquiesce to Turkish demands that they wanted to occupy northern Syria. I also understand why President Trump is frustrated when he has to write a letter to a family who has lost a loved one in one of those never-ending wars in the Middle East. But the Kurds have been the only true ally to the U.S. in this part of the world, and they have paid for it in blood. That is why the U.S. decision to abandon northern Syria to a duplicitous person like Erdogan sucks. The intelligent thing to do when facing a superior force is to back away, which is what the U.S. is doing. But in your heart you know that you are deserting your friends who would not back away if you are in trouble. Feeling shameful does not even touch the surface on how these soldiers feel.
Kurdish authorities claimed last night's bombardments at the border town of Qamishli had struck a prison full of its 'most dangerous' ISIS inmates in a 'clear attempt' to liberate them (pictured: ISIS fighters lie in a cramped prison guarded by the Kurdish-led SDF in Qamishli)
* Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen warned of escaped ISIS fighters Wednesday * Turkey invaded northern Syria on Wednesday to drive out Kurdish militias * Kurds hold an estimated 10,000 ISIS fighters in prisons throughout the country * Kurds warned today they could not expect to hold them while fighting Turke
A US Senator has warned 10,000 imprisoned ISIS fighters could soon return to the battlefield as Turkey bombards the Kurdish forces that guard them.
The Kurdish-led SDF, who crushed ISIS earlier this year with US-backing, said today the jihadists could soon run free after President Donald Trump withdrew his support ahead of Turkey's invasion on Wednesday.
Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen told the Washington Post yesterday: 'We now face the very real prospect of 10,000 ISIS prisoners rejoining the battlefield.'
* Turkey's infantry are continuing their advance against Kurdish fighters as they bombard northern Syria * Operation Peace Spring began on Wednesday with barrages from artillery and war planes * President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims a 'safe zone' will push the Kurds out and allow for Syrian repatriation * Trump had agreed to withdraw US troops from Syria and hand control of the military operation to the Turkish * US President said Turkey's incursion into Syria was a 'bad idea' and that the US 'does not endorse this attack' * The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) claim bombing has already killed and wounded civilians * Jets and artillery targeted Kurdish positions in northern Syria before the ground operation started last night
Turkey's commandos moved against Kurdish fighters last night after the artillery and air force pounded northern Syria with a barrage of shelling, sending thousands fleeing.
Video footage released by Turkey's Defence Ministry shows 'hero' commandos moving through fields under cover of darkness and firing rounds after Operation Peace Spring was launched on Wednesday afternoon.
The invasion has been widely condemned around the world. Terrified residents were seen fleeing on foot, by car and piling rickshaws high with their possessions as they left their homes - a grim echo of how they sought refuge from the Islamic State only a few years before.
Eight uniformed officers were brought onto a stage and forced to address a crowd of thousands of activists but were not harmed
Indigenous protesters in Ecuador have paraded a group of captured police officers on stage in a brazen show of defiance to the government of Lenín Moreno, as protests against austerity-measures dragged into a second week.
Eight uniformed officers were brought onto a stage and forced to address a crowd of thousands of activists who have occupied the Casa de Cultura theatre in the capital Quito. A group of journalists, including the Guardian, were also temporarily prevented from leaving the theatre.
Not long ago, the U.S. entered the never-ending presidential election campaign, in which the next campaign begins the morning after Election Day. Americans have been groaning about the non-stop election cycle ever since.
Well, it appears we've entered the never-ending presidential impeachment campaign, as well.
President Trump's alleged quid-pro-quo offer to the Ukrainian president spurred the latest push for impeachment. This was the first time Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) greenlighted an impeachment inquiry. This time, there was enough support among Democrats in the House, where an impeachment action must be initiated.
WNU editor: I completely concur with the above analysis. When you change tradition and precedent it will come back to haunt you. When US Senator Harry Reid and Senate Democrats voted in 2013 to eliminate the filibuster for judicial nominees, excluding the Supreme Court, many people warned they would come to regret that move .... and it has happened. In just 3 years President Trump has not only appointed two Supreme Court justices, but he has also appointed over 150 judges in the lower courts. The same can be said about impeachment. When you criminalize political differences, the procedures and tactics that you used will be used against you. So why do it? So why is House Speaker Pelosi so determined to proceed with impeachment? The same question was asked to US Senator Reid when he changed the filibuster rule, and he responded that as far as he was concerned, he did not care what his opponents were saying. I guess he felt that the Republicans would not have the courage to do what he was doing, and if they did, the media would condemn them. He was wrong, and it has proven to be a very costly political mistake for the Democrats. The same will happen with these impeachment efforts.
* Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman assisted Giuliani's effort to get Ukraine to investigate his theory about the 2016 elections * Donated $325,000 to pro-Trump super PAC and are accused of breaking campaign finance laws and concealing foreign donations * The two men had dinner with President Trump and Donald Trump Jr. in 2018 * Giuliani has said both are clients of his and they appeared in a photo with the Trump lawyer and the president taken at the White House * The president claimed ignorance on Thursday and said he takes photos with everyone who comes to the White House * 'I don't know them,' he insisted as he left the White House for a campaign rally * House Intelligence committee called both men to testify about their work with Giuliani in Ukraine but lawyer declined to have them appear * They introduced Giuliani to Ukrainian figures as part of his effort to pursue his theory of foreign election interference * The men took steps to hide foreign donor as source behind contributions due to his 'Russian roots and current political paranoia about it'
Donald Trump claimed he was unfamiliar with a pair of businessmen who worked with his attorney and were indicted Thursday for alleged campaign finance violations, despite appearing in a photo with them last year at the White House.
'I don't know them,' he insisted as he left Washington for Minneapolis.
Trump noted that he apparently took a photograph with the men—Rudy Giuliani—but claimed he doesn't know anything about them.
'I have pictures with everybody. I don't know if there's anybody I don't have pictures with,' he said. 'I don't know them. I don't know about them. I don't know what they do.'
Reminded that they were clients of Giuliani, he again distanced himself from the men who donated $325,000 to a Super PAC supporting him.
'Maybe they were clients of Rudy. You'd have to ask Rudy. I just don't know,' he told journalists assembled on the South Lawn.
WNU Editor: Is it me, or is the timing of these arrests a little bit suspicious. They are claiming that they were not aware on how election financing works in the U.S.. I say .... ignorance of the law s no excuse. Bottom line, we will know their fate when they go to trial in a year or two.
More News On 2 Rudy Giuliani Associates Who Helped Him In Ukraine Are Arrested For Breaking Election Financing Laws
The 2020 Democratic candidate with whom the CIA whistleblower had a "professional" tie is Joe Biden, according to intelligence officers and former White House officials.
Lawyers for the whistleblower said he had worked only "in the executive branch." The Washington Examiner has established that he is a career CIA analyst who was detailed to the National Security Council at the White House and has since left. On Sept. 26, the New York Times reported that he was a CIA officer. On Oct. 4, the newspaper added that he "was detailed to the National Security Council at one point."
Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community's inspector general, told members of Congress that the whistleblower had a "professional tie" to a 2020 Democratic candidate. He had written earlier that while the whistleblower's complaint was credible, he had shown "some indicia of an arguable political bias ... in favor of a rival political candidate."
A retired CIA officer told the Washington Examiner, "From everything we know about the whistleblower and his work in the executive branch then, there is absolutely no doubt he would have been working with Biden when he was vice president."
WNU Editor: There is a lot of speculation in the above article. Bottom line. We will really not know who this person is until his name is disclosed by him, the New York Times (who claim they know who the whistle-blower is), or it is leaked by Congress.
Besides this blog I have a number of web projects. One of them is a free online library that has been online since 2002.
Someone decided to launch a massive DDos attack on the site and it is down right now. This is the first time that we have been down in 17 years for more than one hour. I am now putting up a mirror site that will circumvent this attack and bring everything back online. I calculate I will be finished in the next 3 or 4 hours, and I will then be free to start posting stuff on WNU.
Am I pissed with all of this. Definitely.
Bookyards is a free online library that students and teachers around the world use to download ebooks. We put up this site after 9/11 because we wanted to bring something positive to a world that needed it (and still needs it). Why anyone should attack this site is beyond me. (And no, it has nothing to do with WNU. I deliberately keep these web projects separate from each other).
So please be patient. This should not take me too long.
Update 19:44 EST: Blogging will return within the hour.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says there was "no blackmail" in the phone call with US President Donald Trump that helped spark an impeachment inquiry.
Responding to reporters' questions on Thursday, Mr Zelenskiy said he only learned after their July 25 phone call that the US had blocked hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine.
"We didn't speak about this" during the July call, Mr Zelenskiy said, saying the military aid was not the "theme" of the conversation.
He spoke during an unusual, all-day "media marathon" in a Kiev food court amid growing questions about his actions as President.
With a new missile-defense system, the two states grow bilateral unity against assertive US and its allies.
In the latest sign of Beijing's and Moscow's expanding strategic partnership, Russia is assisting China in creating a highly sophisticated missile-defense early warning system.
It follows arms sales of Russia's most high-tech military kit to China, and comes against a backdrop of expanding cooperation between the militaries of the two states, which are forging a new unity due to their respective animosities with the United States and its allies in Europe and East Asia.
The information about the missile-defense system became public knowledge when Russian President Vladimir Putin teased it to the Valdai Club, a conference of foreign-policy experts that convened in the Black Sea resort of Sochi last week.
WNU Editor: Russia assisting China in creating a highly sophisticated missile-defense early warning system was a heads-up to me that Russia is selling more than just high-tech weaponry to China. They are selling everything to China with the exception of their nuclear weapons secrets.
Just over half of voters want President Trump impeached and removed from office, according to a Fox News Poll released Wednesday.
A new high of 51 percent wants Trump impeached and removed from office, another 4 percent want him impeached but not removed, and 40 percent oppose impeachment altogether. In July, 42 percent favored impeachment and removal, while 5 percent said impeach but don't remove him, and 45 percent opposed impeachment.
Since July, support for impeachment increased among voters of all stripes: up 11 points among Democrats, 5 points among Republicans and 3 among independents. Support also went up among some of Trump's key constituencies, including white evangelical Christians (+5 points), white men without a college degree (+8), and rural whites (+10).
Originally intended as replacements for the Air Force's aging HH-60G Pave Hawks, they now exclusively support operations at the top-secret base
Almost everything about the U.S. military's Area 51 flight test facility, also known as Groom Lake, is shrouded in secrecy and mystery. This even extends to the base's small and unique fleet of HH-60U rescue helicopters, sometimes called Ghost Hawks, which at least help provide security, local search and rescue, and other types of utility support in and around the base.
The Air Force is understood to have a total of four HH-60Us, one of which is seen at the top of this story and all of which are modified examples of the U.S. Army's HH-60M Black Hawk medical evacuation (MEDEVAC), or "Dustoff," helicopter. Area 51 watchers have determined that the U models are likely assigned to a unit colloquially know as the "Ghost Squadron." This helicopter unit is one of a number of secretive elements associated with Detachment 3, Air Force Flight Test Center, which appears to be one of the main Air Force entities at Groom Lake. Detachment 3 also reportedly oversees operations involving other more traditional aircraft and so-called "Foreign Materiel Exploitation," or FME, examining non-American aircraft and systems at the secretive base, along with its other top-secret flight test duties.
Need to chaperone my 93 year old mother this morning for some medical tests. Nothing serious. She is taking part in a medical study on memory. Blogging will return in a few hours.
DONALD TRUMP is losing trust with allies throughout the world after abandoning the Kurdish forces in Syria, leaving Israel concerned over the dependability of Washington support and the President's "chaotic policy".
AN IRANIAN oil tanker has exploded after being struck by two missiles off the coast of Saudi Arabia with officials in Tehran claiming the attack was carried out by terrorists.
MELANIA TRUMP has been savaged by US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel who joked the First Lady had dug an "escape tunnel or shallow grave" in the White House lawns as she broke ground for a new tennis pavilion.
TYPHOON HAGIBIS, one of the strongest storms of the year, is closing in on Japan and is expected to hit wide areas of the nation this weekend. Here's how to stay safe as the cyclone hits.
NORTH KOREA has embarked on developing a strategy for a deadly new weapon capable of replicating the death toll of a nuclear bomb, according to reports
AUSTRIA is on a collision course with incoming president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen after reiterating its vehement opposition to the EU's insistence that each of the EU27 should pay a minimum annual contribution of 1.1 percent of GDP.
ELON MUSK's SpaceX plans could threaten alien life as sending humans to Mars risks contamination, according to lecturer in Astrobiology, Samantha Rolfe.
(TOKYO) — A powerful typhoon was forecast to bring 2 feet of rain and damaging winds to the Tokyo area this weekend, and Japan’s government warned people Friday to stockpile supplies and evacuate before it’s too dangerous.
The Rugby World Cup and other events were canceled for Saturday, and flights and train services halted.
“In order to protect your own life and your loved ones, please try to start evacuating early before it gets dark and the storm becomes powerful,” Meteorological Agency forecast department chief Yasushi Kajihara told a news conference.
Kajihara said Typhoon Hagibis resembled a typhoon that hit the Tokyo region in 1958 with heavy rains and left a half-million houses flooded. More than 1,200 people died in that storm.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet is to hold a disaster management meeting later Friday.
“The government is doing the utmost to prepare for the approaching typhoon,” disaster management minister Ryota Takeda told reporters, and urged people to prepare early and obtain food and water.
Economy Minister Isshu Sugawara urged hospitals and other public facilities to check their backup power.
Typhoon Hagibis was in the Pacific advancing north-northwestward toward Japan’s main island. Its winds were blowing 180 kilometers per hour (110 mph) with gusts to 250 kph (156 mph) at Friday, the weather agency said. It’s expected to weaken before landfall Saturday.
Up to 800 millimeters (30 inches) of rain was forecast south and west of Tokyo, while the capital region may see 600 mm (23.6 inches) of rain from Saturday morning to Sunday morning. It’s forecast to pass out to sea by Sunday afternoon.
The storm is expected to disrupt sports and holiday events on the three-day weekend that includes Sports Day on Monday. Two Rugby World Cup matches — England versus France, and New Zealand vs. Italy — that were to be played Saturday were canceled. Qualifying for a Formula One auto racing in Suzuka was pushed to Sunday. And the Defense Ministry cut a three-day annual navy review to just Monday.
All Nippon Airways grounded all domestic flights Saturday at Tokyo’s Haneda and Narita international airports, while Japan Airlines has canceled all but early morning flights at Tokyo airports.
Central Japan Railway Co. said it will cancel all bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka except for several early Saturday trains connecting Nagoya and Osaka in the west.
Residents in Tokyo were starting to stock up on bottled water, cup noodles and other food.
The typhoon is spreading fear especially in Chiba, near Tokyo, which was hit by Typhoon Faxai last month and where homes still have damage.
Chiba city distributed sandbags to shield against flooding and urged residents to make sure they have enough food, water and their phones are charged.
(TEHRAN, Iran) — Two missiles struck an Iranian tanker traveling through the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia on Friday, Iranian officials said, the latest incident in the region amid months of heightened tensions between Tehran and the U.S.
There was no word from Saudi Arabia on the reported attack and Saudi officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Oil prices spiked by 2% on the news.
Iranian state television said the explosion damaged two storerooms aboard the unnamed oil tanker and caused an oil leak into the Red Sea near the Saudi port city of Jiddah.
The state-run IRNA news agency, quoting Iran’s National Iranian Tanker Co., identified the stricken vessel as the Sabity. That vessel last turned on its tracking devices in August near the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, according to data from MarineTraffic.com. Iranian tankers routinely turn off their trackers as U.S. sanctions target the sale of Iran’s crude oil.
“The oil tanker named SABITY belonging to the company sustained damages to the body when it was hit by missiles 60 miles (96 kilometers) from the Saudi port city of Jiddah,” IRNA said.
The agency did not say whom Iranian officials suspect of launching the missiles.
Lt. Pete Pagano, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet overseeing the Mideast, said authorities there were “aware of reports of this incident,” but declined to comment further.
Benchmark Brent crude oil rose over 2% in trading Friday to reach some $60.40 a barrel.
The reported attack comes after the U.S. has alleged that in past months Iran attacked oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, something denied by Tehran.
Friday’s incident could 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.
The 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.
The latest assault saw Saudi Arabia’s vital oil industry come under a drone-and-cruise-missile attack, halving the kingdom’s output. The U.S. has blamed Iran for the attack, something denied by Tehran. Yemen’s Houthi rebels, whom the kingdom is fighting in a yearslong war, claimed that assault, though analysts say the missiles used in the attack wouldn’t have the range to reach the sites from Yemen.
(ANKARA, Turkey) — Turkey’s Defense Ministry says a Turkish soldier has been killed during action in Syria — Turkey’s first military fatality in Ankara’s cross-border offensive, now into its third day.
The ministry said Friday that three soldiers were wounded. It didn’t provide details.
Separately, the ministry said 49 more “terrorists” were “neutralized” in the incursion, in reference to Syrian Kurdish fighters. It said the total number of Kurdish fighters killed in the incursion now numbers 277.
Those numbers could not be independently verified.
Turkey considers the Syrian Kurdish fighters terrorists linked to a Kurdish insurgency within Turkey and has launched an invasion into northeastern Syria this week.
Ankara says the offensive is necessary for national security.
There have been civilian casualties on both sides: six civilians in Turkey and seven in Syria.
Ibrahim al-Asiri, a senior al-Qaeda bomb maker and terrorist coordinator, was killed two years ago in a United States operation in Yemen, the White House announced on Thursday.
Al-Asiri had been in hiding in Yemen for years and was the repeated target of U.S. drone strikes. The U.S. mistakenly believed they had killed him in a 2011 strike. They later targeted a man they believed was al-Asiri in a May 2012 strike, but he turned out to be another al-Qaeda leader.
As TIME wrote in 2013, the Obama administration believed al-Asiri was “the most dangerous terrorist in the world.” He was connected to the failed “underwear bomb” aboard a U.S.-bound flight on Christmas Day 2009, and allegedly built bombs that nearly detonated within two Chicago-bound international cargo planes in 2010. Al-Asiri also allegedly planned to blow up a U.S. airliner in 2012 around the anniversary of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s death, but was stopped when the member chosen for the suicide mission turned out to be a double agent for the U.S. Per the White House statement, Al-Asiri also built a device used in an assassination attempt of the former Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
“Al-Asiri’s death significantly handicapped al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula,” the statement reads. “The United States will continue to hunt down terrorists like al-Asiri until they no longer pose a threat to our great Nation.”
The reveal comes at a moment when the Trump administration faces pressure for their recent announcement to withdraw troops from Northern Syria, putting Kurdish forces — key U.S. allies in the fight against ISIS — at increased danger of attacks from Turkey. The Kurds, part of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, control facilities holding about 11,000 ISIS detainees. If the Kurds abandon the detention camps to fight the Turkish military, thousands of ISIS operatives could escape, U.S. officials worry.
President Donald Trump has faced criticism from members of his own party in Congress for his decision to withdraw troops from Syria’s border with Turkey. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, usually a staunch defender of the President, called the move “a major blunder” that “cuts against sound military and geopolitical advice.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned that “a precipitous withdrawal” of troops would benefit Russia, Iran and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and increase the risk that the Islamic State would “regroup.”
(LONDON) — Protesters in New York City brought traffic to a standstill in the city’s busiest hub and an activist in London climbed atop a plane as climate change demonstrators entered the fourth day of rallies around the world.
Protesters transported a green boat on a trailer into Times Square and then sat down and refused police orders to move.
The boat bore the logo of the activist group Extinction Rebellion. It also had the words “Act Now” written on it and a string of brightly colored flags.
Some of the demonstrators carried signs in the shape of orange rescue lifebuoys, with the words, “Save our Future.”
The New York Police Department made dozens of civil disobedience arrests and removed the vessel some time later, which led to re-opened area streets and brought the traffic back to normal.
In London, a climate change activist scaled a British Airways plane at London City Airport. Extinction Rebellion identified the activist as a former Paralympic cyclist. A video streamed by the group showed the activist clinging to the fuselage.
British Airways says that customers were booked onto alternative flights to Amsterdam.
In a separate incident, BBC Newsnight political editor Nicholas Watt tweeted that his flight from London to Dublin had been grounded after a protester stood up to deliver a lecture on climate change just as it was to take off.
Activists sought to shut down London City Airport on Thursday as part of their wave of protests worldwide.
The environmental protests have been taking place in cities around the world.
The group got its start in London last year, and has since spread to other countries.
Activists, politicians and economists are forever arguing over the best way to address climate change: carbon tax or Green New Deal; both or neither, or a mixture of elements from each. A new International Monetary Fund (IMF) report released Thursday cuts through that noise: any aggressive policy, it says, is better than nothing at all.
“We definitely want action to be taken,” says Paolo Mauro, deputy director of fiscal affairs at the IMF, who oversaw the report. “We’re not religious about any particular type of measure.”
The new report comes as a range of different climate policies are under consideration in the U.S. Proposals for a Green New Deal — an ambitious spending program aimed at eliminating emissions and funding social programs — have garnered the most attention in recent months. All the major Democratic presidential candidates have embraced some form of a Green New Deal, and activists have pushed aggressively for such a program. But proposals for a carbon tax have also been gaining momentum on Capitol Hill. U.S. lawmakers are currently considering drafts for several new carbon tax proposals.
The IMF report does not provide a specific policy prescription. Instead, it assesses a variety of different proposed climate policies, including a carbon tax, an emissions trading system, regulations and a so-called “feebate” system in which polluting is penalized and those who reduce emissions are rewarded. The IMF report concludes that lawmakers must craft rules that work within their own countries’ political context.
Still, while taking an even-keeled look at several policies that would effectively reduce emissions, the IMF report does put a thumb on the scale. It concludes unequivocally that a carbon tax is the most “single, most powerful and efficient tool” to drive a reduction in emissions. It would push polluters to reduce carbon emissions across all facets of the economy—and it’s easier to implement than some alternatives.
One of the benefits of a carbon tax, the report says, is that it’s easier to standardize across borders. More than 70 countries have committed to eliminating their carbon footprint by 2050, but many others — including the biggest emitters, like the U.S. and China — have lagged behind. A carbon tax offers a uniform approach to compare each country’s progress and to form coalitions across borders. “If a country has a straightforward carbon tax,” says Mauro, “it’s a lot easier to compute how much action has been taken.”
For those nations that don’t implement a carbon tax, economists will need to calculate an implicit carbon price, a tricky but doable proposition, report authors say. The IMF found that to keep temperatures from rising more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century, the price on carbon needs to reach $75/ton by 2030.
Authors behind the IMF report argue that activists need not choose between a carbon tax and a Green New Deal-type spending program: a carbon tax can — at least in part — help defray the cost of a Green New Deal. It’s an idea that has caught on in some policy circles, even if it hasn’t risen to the forefront of the climate policy discussion. TIME reported in July that dozens of members of Congress who support Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal resolution also back a carbon tax.
Democratic Rep. Salud Carbajal of California, who supports both the Green New Deal and a carbon tax, echoed the need for action of any kind. “I’m for anything and everything,” he told TIME in July, “that moves the ball forward.”
The report also addresses some of the common critiques leveled against a carbon tax, including that the policy would hit the poor hardest. The report authors emphasize the wide range of potential uses for revenue derived from a carbon tax, from potential tax breaks for low-income people to helping communities whose livelihoods will be damaged by the transition away from fossil fuels.
What’s clear is that the consequences of inaction will be severe. In a landmark report released last year, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that a rise in temperatures of just 1.5°C could lead to ecological, economic and humanitarian disaster with millions displaced and severe impacts altering human civilization as we know it. The IMF under Christine Lagarde has prioritized the issue citing the costs of inaction. “Many of the things that we are debating, whether it’s sustainability, whether it’s structural reform, whether it’s fighting inequalities,” said Lagarde at event in May, all “will be meaningless if in twenty years time essentially we have wasted the small window of opportunity we have.”
For the first time in the Nobel Prize for Literature’s 118-year history, two authors were announced Thursday as recipients of the award: Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke and Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. (Handke received the Prize for 2019. Tokarczuk received the Prize for 2018.)
Last year’s Nobel Prize for Literature had been cancelled in the wake of sexual assault allegations and significant resignations in 2017 that rocked the Swedish Academy administering the Nobel Prize.
Here’s what to know about the two central European authors.
Olga Tokarczuk
Tokarczuk received the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life,” the Nobel Academy said.
Olga Tokarczuk, awarded the 2018 #NobelPrize in Literature, never views reality as something stable or everlasting. She constructs her novels in a tension between cultural opposites; nature versus culture, reason versus madness, male versus female, home versus alienation.
Tokarczuk, 57, was born in 1962 in Sulechów, Poland. She now lives in Wrocław. She was immersed in literature from a young age. Her parents were teachers and her father was also a school librarian. In the library, “she read pretty much everything she could get hold of,” the Academy says in a biography of the author.
Her “real breakthrough,” it notes, was with her third novel, Primeval and Other Time — a family saga set in a mythical place. And what the Nobel Academy described as her “magnum opus” to date was the historical novel, The Books of Jacob — a story about an 18th century sect leader whose followers saw him as the new Messiah. That book won The Nike Prize, a prestigious Polish literary award that has been described as “Poland’s Booker equivalent” and an English translation is expected to release in spring of 2021.
Tokarczuk is not new to international acclaim either. Last year, she became the first Polish writer to win the Man Booker International Prize for her novel Flights, about travel in the 21st century, borders and human anatomy. This year, her newly translated book, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, has been short-listed for the same prize; the story is a thrilling murder mystery in which horoscopes help solve homicides.
Tokarczuk said in a phone interview with the Academy shortly after winning the prize that she was “surprised” and “cannot find the right words” to express how she feels. She added that she was happy to know that both awards went to authors from central Europe, noting the region’s challenges with democracy.
"Such a prize will, in a way, give us a kind of optimism."
We spoke to Olga Tokarczuk just after she received news of her #NobelPrize – listen to the telephone interview to hear her reaction, and more:https://t.co/6jzREDUWBn
Tokarczuk is not well liked by Polish conservatives and her criticism of the country’s past, including its anti-semiticepisodes has sparked death threats, the Associated Press reported.
“She is uniquely insightful” when it comes to “figuring out a person’s psychology,” Jennifer Croft, a translator for two of Tokarczuk’s novels, tells TIME. “She is really fascinated by people’s quirky eccentricities.” Croft says that she has always been “100% sure” that Tokarczuk would win the Nobel Prize for Literature one day. “I always told publishers that,” Croft says. She describes Tokarczuk’s style as “rhythmic, lyrical, clear” and one that aims to “reinvent the novel” by connecting seemingly unconnected fragments of stories. “The reader is supposed to connect it however he or she sees fit,” Croft says.
Peter Handke
Handke received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience,” the Academy said.
More than fifty years later, having produced a great number of works in different genres, 2019 Literature Laureate Peter Handke has established himself as one of the most influential writers in Europe after the Second World War.#NobelPrize
The Academy characterizes his work as possessing “a strong adventurous spirit” and a “nostalgic inclination” — especially in the drama, Walk About the Villages, and the novel, Repetition. His writing “shows and unending quest for existential meaning,” it says. The Academy also praises A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, the “short and harsh, but deeply affectionate book” written about his mother’s suicide.
Handke, 76, was born 1942 in a southern Austrian village named Griffen. His mother was part of the Slovenian minority and his father was a German soldier who he would only meet as an adult, according to a biography of the author from the Academy. He grew up with his mother and her new husband and spent his early years in war-torn Berlin before they moved back to Griffin.
Handke studied law at Austria’s University of Graz but dropped out a few years later after his first novel, Die Hornissen, was published in 1966.
Since 1990, Handke has been based out of a French city, southwest of Paris.
Handke’s work is not limited to one form of literature. It includes novels, essays, note books, dramatic works and screenplays, the Nobel Academy says.
Handke has not shied away from politics, either. He protested NATO’s airstrikes against Serbia during the Kosovo War in the 1990s and spoke at former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic’s funeral, the Associated Press reported, noting that he has “faced criticism for his vigorous defense of the Serbs” during the war.
Austria’s president congratulated Handke on the Prize, praising his “fascinating” works, the AP reported.
Around noon on Wednesday, a 27-year-old German man drove to a synagogue in the city of Halle in eastern Germany with the aim of killing as many Jews as possible. It was Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. The attacker failed to get past the perimeter gate of the synagogue, and then allegedly shot and killed a passerby before driving off while apologizing for his incompetence to his livestream audience: “Sorry guys … like the loser I am … One time loser, always a loser.” He continued to a nearby kebab shop where he killed one person before making an escape. Police later arrested him following a car chase.
What at first sight may appear as an isolated attack in an obscure German city is anything but. The manifesto the attacker posted online — as well as his comments during the livestream — make clear that this is just the latest in a series of interconnected far-right terrorist attacks that have taken place across the world. It follows on from attacks in Pittsburgh (United States), Christchurch (New Zealand), Poway (United States), El Paso (United States) and Bærum (Norway), attacks that have killed 85 people in total over the last year. All of them speak to the same audience of white nationalists online, hoping to inspire them to commit their own acts of violence.
Of those, the March 2019 Christchurch massacre in New Zealand — which left 51 worshippers dead in two mosques — has proven to be most influential. Wednesday’s attack in Germany featured many of the same hallmarks: the use of a livestream, thestated aim of a mass-casualty attack with “high score” kill counts, the posting of an online manifesto, the use of meme music and the language of relatively obscure internet image boards.
Beyond the similar modus operandi, the Halle shooter also invoked the unifying grand narrative of white-nationalist terrorism today: the “white genocide” conspiracy theory. This is the idea that a Jewish conspiracy is orchestrating the mass immigration of non-whites into Europe and North America with the ultimate aim of destroying the white population. Euphemistically labeled “the great replacement,” this was cited as motivation by the Christchurch, Poway, and El Paso shooters. And the Halle attacker explicitly referred to this in his live stream, blaming Jews for feminism, declining birth rates, and mass immigration, as well as denying the Holocaust.
There are, however, differences. While the Christchurch shooter wanted to kill as many Muslims as possible, he also had secondary and tertiary aims: for New Zealand and the United States to ban guns (the reaction), causing people to rise up (the counter-reaction). He said he hoped to have “accelerated” that process. New Zealand did ban assault rifles following the Christchurch massacre, though there was no popular uprising as Tarrant anticipated. The Halle attacker, meanwhile, had no such secondary or tertiary aims. His manifesto makes no mention of possible government reactions or counter-reactions. Instead, he only hoped to inspire more mass-casualty attacks by white nationalists on Jews, Muslims, and other “enemies.”
The Halle attacker had constructed an arsenal of improvised weapons, including a submachine gun and hand grenades. In his manifesto he explicitly states he wanted to prove the viability of such improvised weapons, and therefore inspire others to do the same. Yet much to his frustration, his firearms jammed throughout the attack, giving several people a chance to escape. Had his weapons proved more reliable, and had he managed to enter the synagogue, the attack would have been deadlier. His failure to do so has already become the subject of ridicule among white nationalists online.
The trend of livestreaming attacks leads to difficult questions for tech companies, particularly over whether more can be done to stop them. The Christchurch shooter used Facebook Live, while Wednesday’s attack was streamed on the gaming-platform Twitch. For its part, Twitch said that it had shared the video’s hash with the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, a partnership of leading tech companies formed in 2017 that uses hashing technology to automate content takedown. While the audience for these livestreams is relatively small — the Halle attacker’s stream was only viewed live by a handful of people — members of an online subculture quickly downloaded and shared this content on more obscure platforms. Tackling those may prove more difficult.
The wife of a U.S. diplomat allegedly involved in a fatal car accident will not return to the U.K. for further questioning, according to “secret” briefing notes accidentally shown by U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday at a press briefing.
The briefing notes, marked “secret”, revealed that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab that the “spouse of the U.S. Government employee will not return to the United Kingdom.” They were captured in a photo by a Washington Post photographer during a press conference on Oct. 9.
U.K. officials, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, have urged the U.S. to waive diplomatic immunity for the wife of the U.S. diplomat, named in British media as Anne Sacoolas, after she fled the U.K. following a car crash on Aug. 27 this year which killed British teenager Harry Dunn. The vehicle was driving on the wrong side of the road when it crashed into Dunn’s motorbike head-on, Northamptonshire police said in a statement. Sacoolas was allegedly behind the wheel in the crash which killed the Dunn, 19.
Northamptonshire Police Superintendent Sarah Johnson confirmed in a statement on Oct. 5 that the suspected driver, a 42-year-old American woman, left the country despite telling the police she had no plans to leave the country in the near future. Police want her to return to “enable Northamptonshire police to complete their investigations and justice to be served for Harry Dunn and his very distraught family,” Stephen Mold, the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire, told TIME.
President Trump’s briefing notes also said that it is up to the diplomat’s wife to consider whether to speak to British investigators. It read: “(If raised) Note that the spouse of the U.S. Government employee will have to consider, based on the advice or her legal counsel, whether to make herself available for questioning by British authorities.”
Despite having the notes at the press conference, when asked about the case, President Trump did not read from the notes. Instead he said: “It’s a very complex issue as you know. So a young man was killed. The person that was driving the automobile has diplomatic immunity. We’re going to speak to her very shortly and see if we can do something. It was an accident… We’re going to speak to her and see what we can come up with so there can be some healing.”
President Trump added: “The woman was driving on the wrong side of the road. That can happen.”
U.K. Foreign & Commonwealth Office sources confirmed to TIME that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had a discussion with U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, but they declined to discuss the detail of that conversation. Nor would they comment on the leaked notes, arguing that it was unclear whether President Trump had read them and, if he had done, whether he agreed with them.
A State Department official told TIME in a statement: “While we are in close consultation with the appropriate British officials, we cannot comment on private diplomatic conversation with the British Government.”
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke to President Donald Trump on the evening of Oct. 10 to urge President Trump to reconsider the U.S. position so that the diplomat’s wife can return to the U.K., cooperate with police and allow Harry’s family to receive justice, a Downing Street spokesperson said.
But U.K. officials may not be successful in their attempts to bring the diplomat’s wife to the U.K. A State Department official told TIME in a statement that diplomatic immunity is “rarely waived”.
According to the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, foreign diplomats and their family are given certain protections that allow them to avoid arrest for most crimes unless the diplomat’s home country decides to waive immunity.
Harry Dunn’s mother, Charlotte Charles spoke to Sky News about President Trump’s note today. She said: “I don’t see the point in Boris Johnson talking to President Trump or President Trump even taking a call from Boris Johnson if he’d already made his decision. It’s just beyond any realm of human thinking.”
(TEHRAN, Iran) — Thousands of flag-draped Iranian women cheered, blew horns and celebrated inside a Tehran stadium Thursday as they watched the first FIFA soccer match they’ve been allowed to freely attend in decades.
The 2022 World Cup qualifier between the Iranian national team and Cambodia at Tehran’s Azadi Stadium marks a decades-long push by Iranian women to be able to watch soccer matches, something hard-liners in Iran’s Shiite theocracy to this day still oppose.
Iran allocated only 4,000 tickets for women in a stadium that seats about 80,000 people, keeping them separated from men and under the protection of female police officers. That’s even though face-painted Iranian women have cheered for their team abroad for years, despite the 1981 ban that followed the country’s Islamic Revolution.
“We are so happy that finally we got the chance to go to the stadium. It’s an extraordinary feeling,” said Zahra Pashaei, a 29-year-old nurse who has only known soccer games from television. “At least for me, 22 or 23 years of longing and regret lies behind this.”
Holding our tears back as women in #Iran attend a football game in Azadi Stadium.
The majority of Azadi, or “Freedom,” Stadium was empty except for the raucous crowd of women who could be heard chanting and cheering amid the match. Iran in the second half was up 10-0 over Cambodia. Iranian state television, which long has been controlled by hard-liners in the Islamic Republic, aired footage of women cheering and commentators even acknowledged their presence.
While Iran for years has considered letting women into soccer matches, the decision to allow them in Thursday came as part of intense pressure from FIFA, the world body governing the sport. Iran faced a potential ban if it didn’t allow women into the match.
That pressure has grown both with FIFA and Iran’s soccer-loving public since September, when an Iranian woman detained for dressing as a man to sneak into a soccer stadium to watch a match died after setting herself on fire upon learning she learned she could spend six months in prison.
The self-immolation death of 29-year-old Sahar Khodayari, who became known as the “Blue Girl” for her love of the Iranian team Esteghlal, shocked Iranian officials and the public, becoming an immediate hashtag trend across social media in the Islamic Republic.
Iran is the world’s last nation to bar women from soccer matches. Saudi Arabia recently began allowing women into soccer matches in the kingdom.
Hard-liners and traditional Shiite clerics, citing their own interpretation of Islamic law, believe in segregating men and women at public events, as well as keeping women out of men’s sports. They’ve maintained tight control on social mores in the times since the Islamic Revolution, which saw women required to cover their hair and also wear the black, all-encompassing chador while working in government jobs.
The effort to allow women back into stadiums has gone through fits and starts since the revolution. Iran even barred a woman from hold a sign for the country when it attends its first Summer Olympics in 1986 in South Korea. A group of Irish women received special permission to attend a qualifier between Iran and Ireland in Tehran in 2001.
In 2006, former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he wanted women to attend matches to “improve soccer-watching manners and promote a healthy atmosphere.” However, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all matters of state, opposed the decision.
Then, last year, Iranian authorities allowed a select group of women into Azadi Stadium by invitation only to watch the Asian Champion League final.
Activist groups outside of Iran, however, remain suspicious of Tehran. Amnesty International called the decision “a cynical publicity stunt by the authorities intended to whitewash their image.”
“Instead of taking half-hearted steps to address their discriminatory treatment of women who want to watch football, the Iranian authorities should lift all restrictions on women attending football matches, including domestic league games, across the country,” said Philip Luther, Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa research and advocacy director.
Still, many in Iran embraced the move, like shopkeeper Amir Ali Bagheri, who sold the nurse Pashaei a new Team Melli jersey ahead of the match.
“They (women) are so excited they are going to the stadium,” he said. “God willing, there will be freedom sooner so that they can attend all matches, not just the national team matches. That will be much better.”
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Karnataka High Court Typist Test Intimation Letter 2019 – Karnataka High Court is going to conduct the Typing Test for the Post of Typist on 14th September 2019. A huge number of Interested Job searching aspirants from the Karnataka State have applied for this job and waiting for the Typing Test Date. Karnataka High Court has announced the Typing test date now. We advise the applicants to keep track on this page to get the complete details about the Posts. Applicants can get their result by just clicking the link provided in the below table.
Karnataka High Court Typist Test Intimation Letter 2019
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Karnataka High Court District Judges Result 2019 – Karnataka High Court has invited the online applications to fill up 26 Backlog posts of District Judges. Totally 09 candidates are qualified for selection as District Judges in the order of Merit on the basis of aggregate of the marks obtained in the written examination and Viva-voce. We advise the applicants to keep track on this page to get the complete details about the Posts. Applicants can get their result by just clicking the link provided in the below table.
Karnataka High Court District Judges Result 2019 – Click Here
Karnataka High Court Group D Result 2019 – Karnataka High Court is going to conduct the viva voce for the Post of Group D (Peon, Watchman, Sweepers, Housekeeping). A huge number of Interested Job searching aspirants from the Karnataka State have applied for this job and waiting for the Viva Voce Date. Karnataka High Court will be announcing the Viva Voce Date soon. We advise the applicants to keep track on this page to get the complete details about the Group D Posts. After the Viva Voce Process, Applicants can get their result by just clicking the link provided in the below table.
Karnataka High Court Group D Result 2019 – Click Here
According to the Karnataka High Court Group D 2019 Notification, to apply for the 95 Group D (Peon, Watchman, Sweepers, Housekeeping) Vacancies, contenders must have completed their 10th or 12th Standard. Apparently, the Karnataka High Court Officials are going to conduct the Viva-Voce, to hire the candidates. A huge number of candidates registered for the Group D vacancy all over Karnataka. Getting a government job in Karnataka is not that much easy. So Applicants should ready for the Viva-voce process to get placed in the Karnataka High Court.
After the Viva-voce process, applicants will be waiting for the result. We are here to help you out with the results. Also, they will fully concentrate on the Karnataka High Court Group D Merit List. Karnataka High Court announces the merit list details after the week or two from the date of result. Merit list is nothing but the list of candidate who is eligible for the further rounds of selection. Board shortlists the candidates based on the cut-off marks set by the officials. Keep checking our page for regular updates on Karnataka High Court Group D Result 2019.
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After successful completion of the Viva Voce process, Applicants will get the Selection list. The Higher officials will announce the selection list from the official website. The officials will consider Age limit, category, qualification, and the Merit List to select a Candidates for the Group D Post. Participants can know their performance status with the help of the Karnataka High Court Group D Cut Off Marks. Moreover, the Group D Cut Off Marks 2019 is the minimum no. of marks that the candidates must score in the written exam.
Steps to download Karnataka High Court Group D Result 2019
Visit the official website of Karnataka High Court i.e, karnatakajudiciary.kar.nic.in
In the home page view the Notification tab and click on the Recruitments
A new page will be open in that, Many links will be available
Applicants can click the appropriate link to check the results
Karnataka High Court Group D Result 2019 pdf will be open
Download or take a print out of the file for further reference.
Important links to download Karnataka High Court Result 2019
NRHM MP Admit Card 2019 will be available from 17th October 2019 Onwards. The National Health Mission Madhya Pradesh has announced the exam date from 02nd November to 17th November 2019. Thus, the admit card will be issued on its official website on the declared date. Though, the Officials of the NRHM MP will schedule the exam center to conduct the examination. The exam center details will be printed on the NRHM MP Hall Ticket.
NRHM MP Admit Card 2019
Candidates who have applied for the post of 1479 Dental Surgeon, Nutrient Tester, Ayurvedic Medical Officer, Homeopathy Medical Officer, Unani Medical Officer, Senior TB Laboratory Supervisor, Laboratory Technician, Senior Treatment Supervisor must download the NRHM MP Admit Card from the below section. The detailed information about the hall ticket will be available on the upcoming page. So, Aspirants are suggested to go through the complete article to get the exam details.
NRHM MP Hall Ticket 2019 – HighLights
Name of the Board
National Health Mission Madhya Pradesh
Name of Post
Dental Surgeon, Nutrient Tester, Ayurvedic Medical Officer, Homeopathy Medical Officer, Unani Medical Officer, Senior TB Laboratory Supervisor, Laboratory Technician, Senior Treatment Supervisor
Check to the below stated details in the admit card after downloading it. The National Health Mission will issue the hall ticket to the applicants who submitted the applications at the time of registration. Moreover, Aspirants are suggested to keep the application in one hand to fill the admit card details.
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
NHM MP Exam 2019
The National Health Mission has declared the exam date to be held from 02nd November to 19th November 2019. The Board will allocate the exam centers and the exam center details will be printed on the NRHM MP Admit Card. Thus, Examiners can download the syllabus and the previous papers from the official website. It will help the users to make the preparation in an easy manner. Make sure to download the admit card from the official portal and carry it for the examination. Thus, Contenders are suggested to follow the general instructions in the examination hall which are printed on the Hall Ticket.
Documents to be carried along with NRHM MP Call Letter 2019
Aspirants must carry the Government ID proof along with the NRHM MP Admit Card. Carry any one of the documents to the exam hall.
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
NRHM MP Admit Card Download Steps 2019-20
Click on the direct Admit Card Link.
Fill the Login details to get the admit card page.
Enter the Captcha shown on the page.
The NRHM MP Hall Ticket will appear on the screen.
Enter the valid credentials in the admit card.
Check the details in the hall ticket before submitting it.
Finally, Submit the NRHM MP Admit Card.
Download the hall ticket after submission.
Take a photocopy of the admit card.
Carry for the exam and upcoming selection rounds.
Direct Links to Download NRHM MP Hall Ticket 2019-20
University of Calicut Result 2019 is one of the famous university in Kerala which releases the examination results by the board. The Calicut University Results released on 10th October 2019 for Semester wise Bachelor & Master Degree Exams. Here we provide all the Courses Results according to the semester wise. Candidates do check complete section to know the Updated Calicut University Exam Results 2019.
University of Calicut Results 2019-20
Calicut University (CU) is one of the top universities in India. Around 373 colleges are affiliated to the University of Calicut which has an annual intake of 100000 students. The University conducts exams for the students who are pursuing their UG, PG Programme, Ph.D. Programming Courses. Candidates can get the updated University results from the below page which will direct you to the official site. Earlier CU had declared LLB, B.Pharma, B.P.Ed. B.Com. SSE results. Candidates can check their results of all exams from the direct link given below. Here you will find the direct link to check Calicut University Exam Result 2019.
The University of Calicut is the largest University in Kerala. Established in the year 1968, it is the second university to be set up in Kerala. The University aims to nurture excellence in education and research in its catchment areas of Northern Kerala, historically consigned to the periphery of Kerala's academic map. Calicut University lays its emphasis on fostering quality human resource and promoting productive research that benefits both local communities and wider humanity. The University created through a Government plan bifurcating Kerala University. As per the plan, the four post-graduate departments of the University of Kerala operating in Calicut annexed to the new University along with fifty four constituent colleges spread across seven northern districts.
University of Calicut Regular/ Supplementary Result
Students, those who have not cleared or got low marks in the University examinations can apply for the Revaluation. This is is a second chance for the students to increase their marks in subjects in which they have scored low marks. If students have written the main exam well and still got a low score or having doubts in the correction of the exam paper it is a choice to increase their marks. Currently, the Calicut University has released the revaluation results for UG, PG with all-region Students. So Students can check the Revaluation results from the official website as well as on this. We have provided a direct link to get the Supply/Revaluation Results.
TNPSC Group 4 Result Date 2019 Announced | Get Tamil Nadu PSC Exam Result for Group 4 Services Result@ tnpsc.gov.in – The Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission is going to release the Group IV Services Examination Result. The Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission has conducted the Group 4 Combined Civil Services Exam on 01st September 2019 and the Applicants those who have written the Exam can get the Result link from the below section. All the exam participants will soon receive the TNPSC Group Exam Result Date. We advise the applicants to keep track of this page to get TNPSC CCSE Exam Updates.
Latest Updates:The Result of TNPSC Group 4 Exam will be announced in December 2019.
TNPSC Group 4 Result 2019 @ December 2019
Here on this page, we will help you out with the TNPSC Group 4 Combined Civil Services Result 2019. A huge number of candidates are waiting for the TNPSC Group Result latest updates. We will constantly update all the latest news and TNPSC Group Result link on this article. Along with the Results, we will update the direct link for the TNPSC Group cut off Marks and provided some steps to download TNPSC Group IV Result @ tnpsc.gov.in. All the applicants can check and download your results with the help of Admit card details like Registration number wise and Name wise Results. TNPSC Group 4 2019 Selection process consists of Written Test and Personal Interview.
TNPSC Group 4 Results 2019 – Overview
TNPSC Group 4 Updates | Check Combined Civil Services Cut Off Marks, Merit List
Description
Details
Organization Name
Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission
Exam Name
Combined Group IV Civil Services Exam 2019
Post Name
Village Administrative Officer, Junior Assistant (Non – Security), Junior Assistant (Security), Bill Collector Grade I, Field Surveyor, Draftsman, Typist, Steno-Typist (Grade – III))
Minimum Qualifying Marks for selection (All Communities) Minimum Qualifying Marks for selection (All Communities)
90 Marks
Official Website
tnpsc.gov.in
Applicants who are searching for the TNPSC Group 4 Result link can get the direct link from the below table. Also from the above table applicants can get the complete details of TNPSC Group 4 Updates. Here we have mentioned the Exam details, Result date, and the TNPSC Group 4 Results official website link tnpsc.gov.in result. Also, we will mention the TNPSC Group 4 Certificate Verification Date, Interview Schedule date after the Result announcement. Therefore, candidates are advised to keep their admit cards or hall tickets ready in advance before trying to check or access the results online. Also, applicants should check the TNPSC CCSE Group IV Cut Off for the Next round.
TNPSC Group 4 Exam will play a major role in the Selection process. The applicants should get the TNPSC Group Result 2019 Cut off Marks and should attain into the TNPSC Group IV Merit list. So the candidates will get a higher priority at the time of the interview process. TNPSC Group IV Result login page is hosted on the official website of the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission i.e. TNPSC, to ensure easy accessibility to it for the candidates. However, candidates who are not familiar with the online checking process for the TNPSC Group IV Result name list can follow the steps provided below. Along with the CCSE Group 4 result, candidates can check your TNPSC Group 4 Answer Key from the below table.
TNPSC Group 4 Cut off Marks 2019
Applicants can check the TNPSC Group 4 Cut Off Marks here. The Department will be announcing cut off marks in the last week of September 2019. The Tamil Nadu PSC Group IV service expected the Cut Off list which is announcing by the commission before the declaration of result. Each contender who will participate in the exam can download your TNPSC Group 4 Cut Off Marks 2019. Here cutoff list is called a scorecard of an exam. The cut off marks are a very important part of the exam, through this a contender can check the minimum required marks to qualify for an examination.
(Previous Year) TNPSC Junior Assistant Cut off Marks
Category
Male
Female
GENERAL
184
183
BC
182
181
MBC
182
182
BC(M)
174
172
SC
178
177
SC(A)
175
174
ST
176
173
Click Here To Check TNPSC Group IV service Expected Cut Off Marks [Available Soon]
Also, applicants should check the TNPSC Group 4 Minimum Qualifying Marks 2019 Details and Tamil Nadu PSC Group IV Cut off Marks 2019 to get more knowledge about the Results. Applicants can check TNPSC Group Result Current news on this page.
TNPSC Group 4 Minimum Passing Marks for Typist Jobs (Previous Year)
Category
Male Marks
Female Marks
Unreserved
172
171
BC
169
167
MBC
168
167
How to check the Tamil Nadu PSC Group IV Exam Result?
Visit the official website of Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission i.e, tnpsc.gov.in
On the home page search for the Tamil Nadu PSC CCSE Gr IV Results link
Find and click on Group 4 Result login
Then it will be redirected to a new page and click on 'Tamil Nadu PSC Group IV Exam Result' option
Enter your Registration number in the provided fields
Click on the search button, Then TNPSC Group IV Exam Result displayed on the screen
Download or take a print out of the result for further reference.
EPFO Results 2019 To Be Out Soon!! EPFO Assistant Prelims Result, Cut Off Marks, Merit List @ epfindia.gov.in – Hello Guys!!! Here we have good news for you Because Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is going to announce the EPFO Assistant Prelims Results. Also as per the announcement, EPFO Assistant Prelims Exam Results 2019 will declare in October 2019. The EPFO Organization has conducted the EPFO Assistant Prelims Examination on 30 & 31st July 2019. Applicants can check and download EPFO Assistant Results from the official website @ epfindia.gov.in.
New Update: EPFO will soon release the EPFO Assistant Result 2019 for the Prelims exam.
EPFO Results – 280 Assistant Vacancies
As we know all of you are waiting for the EPFO Assistant Pre Results now!!. Applicants can keep track of this page to get the latest updates regarding the EPFO Assistant Results. As per the advertisement, recently the EPFO Recruitment 2019 Notification out for 2233+ SSA & other Vacancies. All the applicants can get the EPFO Assistant Results Date, EPFO Results 2019 Cut off & others from this article. Getting a Jobs in EPFO is not an easy process. So Applicants should clear the EPFO ASO Prelims Examination. After the EPFO Pre Exam Results, based on the performance in the test can attend the Mains Examination.
EPFO Assistant Prelims Results 2019– Overview
EPFO Assistant Prelims Exam Result 2019 | Cut off Marks, Merit List
All the candidates those who have appeared for the EPFO Assistant Prelims Exam can get the latest updates and the Result details from the above table. Here we have mentioned all the details like EPFO Assistant Results Date, Exam date, and others. Also, applicants can keep track of this page to get your results on time. Here we will be updating the latest EPFO Assistant Prelims Results link at the time of the official announcement. We will help you out with the EPFO Exam Results 2019.
So all the applicants those who have appeared for the EPFO Assistant Prelims Exam can start preparing for the Mains Examination. Because the Result will be published within two days. So Candidates can get the EPFO Previous Years Papers Pdf from this link to prepare the Mains Examination.
Qualifying Marks: – Qualifying Marks in Phase-I (Preliminary Exam.) and Phase – II (Main Exam) will be decided as per discretion of EPFO.
EPFO Results 2019 Cut off
Applicants should concentrate on the EPFO Result 2019 Cut off Marks to attain the Merit List. So for these reasons, everyone can analyze the Syllabus for the Mains Examination. Here all the applicants can check EPFO Syllabus 2019 Pdf to get more knowledge about the Question Pattern. By referring to the Syllabus, applicants can understand the Question Pattern and giving more importance to some related topics. The EPFO Cut off marks and Merit list depends on some factors. Check Phase I Score Card Merit List & Cut Off details here.
EPFO Assistant Prelims Expected Cut off 2019
Categories
Expected Cut off
General
78-85
EWS
73-77
OBC
70-75
SC
68-70
ST
65-69
How to check EPFO Assistant Prelims Results 2019?
Visit the official website of Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) i.e, epfindia.gov.in
On the home page, click on "Miscellaneous Tab"
In Recruitments Tab, find all the latest updates of the EPFO.
Search for the link related to EPFO Assistant Result 2019.
Enter the details of the registration number, password, and date of birth of the participant and click on the submit button.
Then, EPFO Assistant Exam Result 2019 of the candidate appears on the screen.
BU Bhopal Result 2019 Barkatullah University released UG & PG results on 09th October 2019. Get the latest update about the Barkatullah University Results for all the Under Graduate and Post Graduate Degree courses. Latest Barkatullah University Results 2019 Released for all Bachelor and Master Degree Examinations announced @ bubbhopal.ac.in. Live and Upcoming Updates of BU Bhopal Online Result 2019 Available here.
BU Bhopal Result 2019-20@bubhopal.ac.in
Students those who are doing their UG, PG and Diploma Courses under the Barkatullah University its time to check out your exam results. Barkatullah University has released the BU Bhopal Result for UG & PG semester wise exam results on 09th October 2019. Students just click on the Result link to download the BU Bhopal Result. Correct Roll Number should be entered to get your BU Bhopal Exam Result 2019. As the University conducts semester exam twice a year. Once the examination results are out by the Bhopal University, students can check out our webpage to gather the Sarkari Result BU Bhopal details.
During the period of the announcement of results, students will not be able to access the official site. But provide you with the direct link to download the BU Bhopal Results without any hurdles. Scroll the entire article to gather the necessary details about the BU Bhopal Result 2019-20 Barkatullah University.
Barkatullah University was established in 1970 as Bhopal University is a public university situated at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. In the year 1988, it was renamed in as Barkatullah Vishwavidyalaya (University) after the name of freedom fighter Prof. Barkatullah who belongs to the state of Madhya Pradesh. University campus covers an area of nearly 400 acres that include academic buildings, residential buildings, and other necessary infrastructure. University is focused on interdisciplinary teaching and research.
The funding of the university is done by the Government of MP and the Barkatullah Vishwavidyalaya has a residential campus and serves as an affiliating university for 494 colleges in seven other districts of Madhya Pradesh. Apart from Bhopal District, the university has affiliated colleges in Vidisha, Raisen, Betul, Hoshangabad, Harda, and Rajgarh.
BU Bhopal Revaluation Result 2019-20
Those students who have attended the regular examination under Barkatullah University and still failed. Here comes one more opportunity to clear the examination. To increase your scoring along with those students who have failed in the previous examination will get a chance to clear through Revaluation Exams at Barkatullah University Bhopal Results. For every semester examination conducted by the Barkatullah Bhopal University, Students can apply for the revaluation after the announcement of the main examination results. Barkatullah University will take a week or more to process the exam papers to announce the Revaluation results. Do stay updated with this webpage to know about the BU Bhopal Revaluation Exam Result 2019.
CCS University Results 2019 – Chaudhary Charan Singh University has announced the results for B.Sc Home Science I Sem, B.P.E.S I & II Sem, BCA I Sem, BBA I Sem, MBBS III Sem and other Semester Exam Results. Students who have appeared for the Examination can check the results from the official website of the University i.e, ccsuniversity.ac.in. Also here on this page, we have provided a direct link to get the results from the below table. Students need to just click on the link provided below. Apart from this, we have provided instructions on how to check the CCS University Results 2019. We advise the Students to keep connected to this page to know more about the CCS University Results.
Latest Results Update: Get all CCSU Results available here
CCS University Results 2019 @ccsuniversity.ac.in
Students can check their Chaudhary Charan Singh University Exam Results 2019 from the official website of the University as well as on this page recruitment.guru. Because we used to update all the latest information regarding the Examination results on this page. Apart from this, we have provided the Exam Schedule, Admit Card, Syllabus, Previous Paper, and others. Chaudhary Charan Singh University has published the CCS University Results for B.Sc Home Science I Sem, B.P.E.S I & II, BCA I, BBA I, MBBS III and others. The University has published the CCS University Exam Results for some Courses, still, any Course results will be announced by May/ June Month. We will be updating the Upcoming CCS University Results link, it will work once the University will be released officially. Students can check the University website regularly to get more latest updates related to the CCS University Exam Results 2019
MD/MS & Diploma & D.M., BABED-IV Year, B.Sc.(Optometry)-I, M.Sc.(Zoology)-II Sem, M.Sc. (Chemistry) – II Sem., M.A.(English, Sociology)-II & IV Sem, M.Sc.(Microbiology)-II Sem, B.Sc.(Biotechnology)-I, B.Sc.(Home Science)-I Sem
Chaudhary Charan Singh University (formerly, Meerut University) was established in 1965, to cater to the needs of higher education in western Uttar Pradesh. The University celebrated its silver jubilee in 1991. Presently, it is one of the premier educational institutions of the country encompassing a vast, botanical garden, the beautiful and pollution-free campus which sprawls over 222 acres of land having vast playgrounds and experimental fields, a rose garden with a life-size statue of the late Prime Minister Ch. Charan Singh, Indoor Stadium, Gymnasium, well-equipped Library, Hostels for both girls and boys, Administrative Block, Spacious Auditorium, Guest House, Community Center, Medical Center, Residential
CCS University Supply/Revaluation Results
Students have appeared for the Chaudhary Charan Singh University Semester Examination can check their results, if they got low grades, still Students can apply for the Revaluation. The higher level Examiner will check the results and announce the 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 CCS University Revaluation Results.
ET Intelligence Group: Reliance Jio's move to pass the burden of interconnect usage charges (IUC) to its subscribers through the newly introduced top-up vouchers has stumped analysts, who might now struggle to compute the fair value of the telco that has upended India's sectoral leader-board in less than three years through record subscriber additions.Analysts want to know whether the move is to be construed as an indirect tariff increase, helping Jio gradually enhance the profitability dimension to the frenetic pace of growth it has achieved in less than three years. Some others believe the measure might be aimed at pressuring the regulator to abolish IUC by its original deadline of December 2019.The Street has so far been building the case of an increase in Jio's tariffs in the next two years after it reached a subscriber market share of 45%. The telecom venture already accounts for about a fourth of the total enterprise value at Reliance Industries, India's biggest company by market value. 71532370 Jio has attracted a record subscriber base in the shortest span of time due to two factors: Simplicity in the pricing of its tariffs, and reasonable discount on tariffs compared with peers.Some analysts believe subscribers may find it difficult to assess the benefits of a top-up voucher, and the effective bundled payments could narrow Jio's tariff differential with peers.Based on the effective increase in tariffs after the introduction of top-up vouchers, Jio's 84-day plan could be on a par with those of Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea.At present, Jio is 13% less expensive, and is a clear value leader.To be sure, the top-up voucher may lift average revenue per user (ARPU) by .`15-19. Some analysts believe that this could be an ideal opportunity for Jio to gain subscriber market share by highlighting zero IUC for users of its own network. Jio is a net payer of IUC as 64% calls are outgoing, while for Bharti and Vodafone, these figures are at 45% and 41%, respectively.Jio carried 271 billion off-out minutes in the first quarter of FY20 and six paise per minute would add incremental gross revenue of Rs 1,790 crore and net revenue of Rs 1,070 crore, according to Kotak Institutional Equities.Jio's move could ease competitive intensity in the telecom sector, raising expectations of the 'rule of three' in the space.
Mumbai: Minority stakes in Indian companies, purchased by several offshore funds through the foreign direct investment (FDI) route, now face uncertainty after the capital markets regulator put a 10 per cent minimum ownership threshold to classify equity holdings below that level as portfolio investments.The change in classification by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) will now require the affected overseas funds and private equity companies, which have already made such investments as FDI, to compulsorily secure licences as foreign portfolio investors (FPI). Obtaining such a licence increases their compliance and regulatory burden. By contrast, FDI investments don't need any licence.Although estimates vary, market participants believe that about 10-15 per cent of annual FDI inflows would need reclassification under the new rules that took effect late last month.In FY19, inflows through the FDI route amounted to $62 billion, central bank data showed.Earlier, classification of an investment was determined by the route through which the investment was made. With the change in rules, if a foreign fund buys less than 10 per cent stake in a company, such an investment will be considered FPI regardless of the route chosen. Conversely, if the ownership of an FPI in a company crosses 10 per cent, such an investment would be considered FDI.A global custodian told ET that if the FPI licence is compulsory for foreign funds owning less than 10 per cent, it could create more problems. "Under the FPI regime, an entity is not allowed to hold unlisted shares, while a large portion of FDI investments are in the unlisted space," the custodian official said, on the condition of anonymity.71532709 The Reserve Bank of India, which regulates the FDI space, has also said that classification is more a function of ownership threshold than the purchase route used to own the stock."FDI and FPI are agnostic from the point of view of the schedule under which investment has been made. It is the percentage which defines whether it is direct or portfolio investment," RBI said in a note on its website.So, overseas private equity firms are now being advised to obtain an FPI licence from Sebi to continue holding less than 10 per cent in local assets. Furthermore, FPIs are subject to higher disclosures, including know-your-customer (KYC) documentation for a fund's key management officials."We have already made representations to both Sebi and RBI seeking clarity on the issue since it would be unfair on several private equity investors," said the legal advisor of a leading PE fund. "The classification of an investment should be based on the purpose of such investment rather than how much stake is being bought."FDI and FPI routes are used by foreign funds for entirely different purposes. Investments through the FDI route are strategic in nature, and meant for the long term. Several FDI investors also get a say in the management of the investee company, including board seats.By contrast, portfolio investments are short-term in nature, with investors having the liberty to buy or sell stock on the bourses. Also, FPIs are allowed to invest only in listed securities, while FDI investments can be made even in unlisted assets."The change appears to be an unintended consequence of the new FPI and FDI classification," said Rajesh Gandhi, partner, Deloitte. "This would have other implications such as the need to open a local Indian bank account and get separate KYC as an FPI investor, and obtaining a licence from a custodian — all of which are otherwise not required for investing under the FDI route."To be sure, experts believe some of the FPI investors, too, will be affected. Sebi has said that if the holding of an FPI group exceeds 10 per cent of the total equity of a company, an FPI has to cut the excess stake within five working days, and failure to do so will lead to the investment being classified as FDI."The way exchange control regulations are worded, any fresh investment amounting to less than 10 per cent of equity in an Indian company would be required to be carried out through the FPI route," said Tejesh Chitlangi, partner, IC Universal Legal.
By Rahul SatijaA $20 billion tax cut and the lowest borrowing rates in almost a decade may not be enough to bolster the credit metrics of Indian firms, top raters in the country say, putting pressure on policymakers to take additional steps to kick start the flagging economy."A meaningful and broad-based improvement in credit quality may not be on the horizon yet," analysts at Moody's Investors Service's local unit ICRA Ltd. said in a note. Indian authorities may need to consider other demand and supply-side measures if they are to turn around the economy and improve credit profiles in the near term, ICRA said.A 15-month long cash crunch in the shadow banking sector and a sharp slowdown in economic growth has dragged the financial health of Indian firms to multi-year lows. Crisil Ltd.'s credit ratio -- the number of upgrades to downgrades -- dropped to 1.21 in the six months to September, the lowest in three years, while a Care Ratings index shows that credit metrics of Indian companies fell to the lowest in at least seven years. 71518130 Meanwhile, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had slashed its economic growth projection for the year through March 2020 to 6.1% down from a previous estimate of 6.9%, the biggest reduction in its forecast in at least five years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have to come up with more short-term measures to jump-start the economy.The government has already announced a slew of steps, including mergers of state-run banks and tax benefits on vehicle purchases, while RBI has cut benchmark interest rates five times this year and promised further easing if needed. 71518147 "The ability of the measures to improve sentiment and liquidity will be crucial to the credit outlook of corporates in fiscal 2020," according to a Crisil note. "The credit outlook continues to be cautious."
The Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority (UP-RERA) has issued a show-cause notice to 22 builders and have threatened to impose fine of Rs 371 lakh for not following order of giving possession on the given date. UP RERA has identified 397 projects in the NCR region of several promoters where the compliance of the court orders regarding possession are not being followed. "These promoters have missed their deadlines to give possession to the complainants as stated in their affidavit in the Court. In the first phase, 22 projects have been identified and called for a meeting with Secretary UPRERA on 23rd October, 2019 at Greater Noida Regional Office," a RERA official said. The promoters have been issued a show cause notice asking the reasons of non-compliance of the court order and to submit reply to the Authority. Under Section 63 of the RERA Act, if the replies are deemed to be inappropriate then penalty of 5 percent of the total project cost will be levied on them.
NEW DELHI: Crisis-ridden Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) on Thursday asserted that a plan for revival of the state-owned company is under active consideration of the government. The plan entails giving suitable package comprising components like voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) and 4G spectrum and allowing monetisation of assets available with BSNL, the company said. "...it is clarified that there is a plan under active consideration for revival of BSNL by Government of India by giving suitable package in terms of VRS/4G spectrum and allowing monetisation of assets available with BSNL," it said in a statement. BSNL said it has served the nation especially during difficult times of natural calamities, and provides affordable services throughout India even at remote corners. "We shall continue to do so in future," it added. Distressed telecom firms Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) and BSNL have been incurring losses and have been facing problems in clearing staff salaries in the recent past. BSNL's loss is estimated to be around Rs 14,000 crore with a decline in revenue to Rs 19,308 crore during 2018-19. The public sector firm's provisional loss was Rs 4,859 crore in 2015-16, Rs 4,793 crore in 2016-17, Rs 7,993 crore in 2017-18 and is estimated to swell to Rs 14,202 crore in 2018-19, according to information presented in Parliament. The number of employees in BSNL stood at about 1,65,179.
The US Food and Drug Administration officials who inspected a manufacturing facility of Aurobindo Pharma have observed that several documents, provided during the inspection, were incomplete or inaccurate or potentially misleading.Aurobindo, on October 7 said it received seven observations from the US health regulator for its unit-7 formulation plant in Telangana. "The responsibilities and procedures applicable to the quality control unit are not fully followed Several lists of documents requested were either provided as incomplete, inaccurate and or explained with potentially misleading statements through out the inspection," the FDA inspection report said in one of the observations."The corporate quality personnel who answered our questions were later found not to have undergone training on the apparent results investigation SOP," it said. Equipment and utensils are not cleaned at appropriate intervals to prevent contamination that would alter the safety, identity, strength, quality or purity of the drug product, it's report further said.Reacting to the FDA observations, Aurobindo Pharma had earlier said, "The inspection ended with 7 observations. We believe none of the observations are related to data integrity. The Company is confident of addressing these issues within the stipulated timeline." The FDA conducted a cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practices) inspection at the Unit 7 manufacturing facility from September 19-27 this year.The FDA recently issued a warning letter to Aurobindo Pharma's Unit X1 (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) in Srikakulam District of Andhra Pradesh for deviations from CGMP. Aurobindo shares closed at Rs 465.15 piece on BSE down 1.93 per cent.
Indian retail inflation probably reached a 12-month high in September, but still leaving room for further interest rate cuts because it's expected to remain below the Reserve Bank of India's target, according to a Reuters poll. An extended monsoon has delayed harvests and interrupted the supplies of vegetables like onions, a key ingredient in Indian kitchens. That probably pushed retail inflation higher last month; food prices account for over half the inflation basket. Any previous sharp rise in onion prices has been painful for Indian policymakers. To keep that price surge from spiraling out of control, as it did a few years ago, the government has banned onion exports. The Oct. 4-9 poll of over 40 economists predicted India's annual consumer inflation rose to 3.7 per cent in September, its highest in a year. Forecasts ranged from 3.10 per cent to 3.92 per cent. Only two economists expected inflation to be lower than August's 3.21 per cent. If the consensus is right, inflation will come in below the RBI's medium-term target for 14 months in a row. The inflation data are due on Oct. 14. "Headline consumer price inflation likely jumped in September on the back of a surge in onion prices. But that will hardly bring tears to the eyes of the RBI, as it is likely to have stayed below the 4.0 per cent target," said Shilan Shah, senior India economist at Capital Economics. "Another rate cut in December seems likely." Subdued inflation and an economic slowdown have allowed the RBI to cut interest rates by a total of 135 basis points this year, including a 25-basis-point cut last week, making it the most aggressive central bank in Asia. Economists in a separate Reuters poll said the central bank was not yet done with rate cuts. "The RBI has been quite vocal about the fact that they would continue to support growth and they have left the door open for more policy cuts," Sakshi Gupta, senior India economist at HDFC Bank.
LONDON: A deeper cut in oil supplies is among options for OPEC and its allies to consider in December, its secretary general said on Thursday as the producer group's forecasts pointed to slower global growth and lower demand next year.OPEC, Russia and other producers, an alliance known as OPEC+, have since January implemented a deal to cut oil output by 1.2 million barrels per day to support the market. The pact runs to March 2020 and the producers meet to set policy on Dec. 5-6."The conference will take appropriate, strong, positive decisions that will set us on the path of heightened and sustained stability for 2020," Mohammad Barkindo told reporters at a briefing in London."All options are open," he said, when asked about the prospect of a deeper oil supply cut.Oil prices have failed to gain a lasting boost from supply disruptions this year, including the attack last month on Saudi Arabian oil installations that briefly shut down more than half of production in the world's top exporter.Brent crude was trading near $58 a barrel, down from a 2019 high near $75 in April. Concern about weaker economies and demand due to uncertainties such as Brexit and the U.S.-China trade dispute have overshadowed lower supply.While the last meetings of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies in July decided on supply for the next nine months, the next meeting in Vienna will likely take a longer view."As we approach December, we will be faced with real data for 2020 which will enable us to probably review the current arrangement and come up with a decision that probably will cover the whole of the year," Barkindo said.OPEC separately released its October monthly oil market report on Thursday in which it trimmed its forecast for world economic growth in 2020 to 3% from 3.1%, saying "it seems increasingly likely that the slowing growth momentum in the U.S. will carry over to 2020".Barkindo, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the annual Oil & Money conference, sounded a more upbeat tone, saying data on 2020 was preliminary and could surprise to the upside.LOWER 2020 DEMANDIn a forecast that could press the case for further supply restraint in 2020, OPEC continues to see a drop in demand for OPEC crude next year due to higher supply from rivals such as the United States.Global demand for OPEC crude will average 29.6 million bpd, OPEC said in the report, a drop of 1.2 million bpd from 2019. Should OPEC keep pumping at August's rate - the level before the Saudi attacks - that implies a surplus of about 200,000 bpd.OPEC said that in September the group's production was 1.32 million bpd lower month-on-month at 28.49 million bpd, largely due to the Saudi attacks.Saudi Arabia has stressed that it restored output quickly, but told OPEC that its production in September fell by 660,000 bpd from August to 9.13 million bpd.Secondary sources that OPEC uses to monitor its output said Saudi production was even lower, falling by 1.28 million bpd to 8.56 million bpd.OPEC left unchanged its 2020 forecast that global oil demand would grow in 2020 by 1.08 million bpd.Supply from non-OPEC producers will expand by a much faster 2.2 million bpd even after a downward revision in Thursday's report, keeping up the pressure on OPEC and its allies to avoid a larger surplus next year.
Bazaarvoice has announced the expansion of its global software engineering operations to India, said a company statement issued today. The digital marketing company is establishing a new presence in Bengaluru, focused on increasing its innovation capacity beyond the corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas. By the end of 2020, approximately 30 per cent of the company's engineers will be based out of Bengaluru.To lead the expansion into India, the firm has appointed Srini Basava to the position of vice-president, software engineering and India country head. Basava has more than 20 years of experience in software development, most recently serving as vice-president of research and development and India site leader for PTC. He will be leading the innovation from the Bengaluru office."We want to increase our global brand presence by launching in a strong market that has become known as the Silicon Valley of India. Bengaluru has exceptional talent and a robust ecosystem that is a great match for our complex technology needs and creative and collaborative global culture. We believe this choice will enable us to scale and grow at a high rate," said Fritz Hesse, chief technology officer at Bazaarvoice.Over the last two years, Bazaarvoice has boosted the scale of its engineering department by launching its first international R&D lab in Belfast. The new move into India marks the next chapter of growth and evolution for the company's business, highlighting the importance of strategic product innovation.
Asian shares firm as "very good" trade talks boost risk appetite The more bullish market mood came after a first day of trade talks between top U.S. and Chinese negotiators that Trump characterised as "very, very good."
US left Syria after defeating Islamic State, says Donald Trump Refraining from answering directly to the question if Turkey has gone beyond the limits he has set up so far, Trump said the Turks knows where he stands.
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