A view of North Korea's missile launch on Thursday, in this undated picture released by North Korea's Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 26, 2019. KCNA/via REUTERS
A group of military experts is proposing that the United States share its nuclear weapons with Japan and South Korea to answer the nuclear threat from North Korea.
The experts' comments appear in Joint Forces Quarterly, a publication of the National Defense University. It notes that the opinions expressed in the article are not the official policy or position of the U.S. government.
In talks with U.S. officials, North Korea agreed not to test nuclear arms and long-range missiles. Yet the country apparently launched short-range missiles on Wednesday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has met three times with U.S. President Donald Trump. Their most recent meeting took place in June in Panmunjom, along the border between North and South Korea.
The United States sanctioned Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Wednesday, following through on a weeks-old threat that is likely to elevate already heightened tensions with Iran.
Senior administration officials said that the designation was due to Zarif's actions on behalf of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whom the administration sanctioned in late June.
"Today President (Donald) Trump decided enough is enough," a senior administration official said on a call with reporters.
In a statement, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the outspoken Iranian foreign minister "implements the reckless agenda of Iran's Supreme Leader, and is the regime's primary spokesperson around the world."
"The United States is sending a clear message to the Iranian regime that its recent behavior is completely unacceptable," he said. Read more ....
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The officials would not provide details of how Hamza bin Laden died or if the U.S. played a role. It is unclear if Washington has confirmed his death.
WASHINGTON — The United States has obtained intelligence that the son and potential successor of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Hamza bin Laden, is dead, according to three U.S. officials.
The officials would not provide details of where or when Hamza bin Laden died or if the U.S. played a role in his death. It is unclear if the U.S. has confirmed his death.
Asked by reporters on Wednesday whether the U.S. had intelligence that Hamza is dead, President Donald Trump said, "I don't want to comment on that."
The photos are a reminder of just how much work goes into keeping the F-22's skin ready for combat and the amazing science behind its stealthy design.
The F-22 Raptor was a highlight of this year's EAA Airventure Air Show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The Raptor Demo Team flew in aircraft that were from Langely AFB in Virginia, where the team is based. One of those jets showed comparatively extreme signs of corrosion on the upper nose area, right before the canopy. In fact, the section was in such poor shape, that it offered a bizarre and fascinating view of what some of the F-22's most prominent surface areas are made up of.
A U.S. Navy single seater F/A-18E fighter jet has crashed in Death Valley, California, according to the Navy. There are reports that visitors at the park have suffered minor injuries, a spokesperson for Death Valley National Park said.
Commander Ron Flanders, a spokesman for U.S. Naval Air Forces, confirmed to ABC News that the aircraft had crashed near Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake at approximately 10 a.m. PT.
Flanders said the status of the pilot was unknown and that a search and rescue helicopter from China Lake, located in Ridgecrest, was en route to the crash area.
Israel has made three purchases of the F-35 in the past decade, 50 planes altogether, at $100-110 million per plane. Israel will have two squadrons of these aircraft by 2024. Lockheed Martin has supplied the air force with 14 of the planes so far, and the planned rate of supply in the future is six planes per year.
Israel's Globes says the country will decide by this summer what type of fighters it will acquire using U.S. defense aid money.
The report says the air force is keen to buy both the F-15 and F-35 if there are no budget constraints.
According to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Israel attacked a base in Ashraf, Iraq northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, targeting Iranian advisers and a shipment of ballistic missiles from Iran.
The first attack happened on July 19 at a base in Amerli in the Saladin province north of Baghdad. Iraqi and Iranian sources blamed Israel at the time, and Asharq Al-Awsat reported that "diplomatic sources" confirmed the attack, specifying that it was carried out by an Israeli F-35.
Al Arabiya television news reported that Iranian-made ballistic missiles were transported to the base shortly before the attack via trucks used to transport refrigerated food. The identity of the aircraft which conducted the attack was unspecified at the time, and the US denied any involvement. Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Hezbollah members were killed in the airstrike, according to Al Arabiya. However, the Iranian-backed al-Hashd ash-Sha'abi (Popular Mobilization Forces) denied that any Iranians were killed, according to Fars News Agency.
VIENNA, July 30 (Xinhua) -- The European Union(EU)-initiated payment system with Iran has seen the completion of its first transactions and is expected to be officially launched after related procedures are aligned, a Russian official said after a joint commission of the Iranian nuclear deal meeting in Vienna on Sunday.
The system, formally known as the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX), "is operating in a pilot mode. In order to make it operate in full mode some bureaucratic procedures between the INSTEX and the Iranian structure similar to INSTEX need to be finished," Russia Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov was quoted by Sputnik news agency as saying.
It was announced in January that the INSTEX, the European Union (EU)'s payment system to facilitate trade with Iran to get around U.S. sanctions, would secure trade with Iran and skirt U.S. anti-Iran sanctions after Washington pulled out of the 2015 landmark Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in May 2018.
Following a meeting of the joint commission of the Iranian nuclear deal in June, the mechanism became operational and available to all EU member states.
WNU Editor: EU companies will still be exposed to U.S. sanctions, but this new payment system will help those who want to do business with Iran. Here is a good description on how this payment mechanism is going to work .... How Instex, Europe's Trade Channel With Iran, Will Work (NPR).
Update: Russia now wants to join this EU system to circumvent U.S. sanctions .... Russia wants in on INSTEX (Al Jazeera).
GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, told lawmakers on Sunday that Iran will restart activities at the Arak heavy water nuclear reactor, the ISNA news agency reported.
ISNA cited a member of parliament who attended the meeting. Heavy water can be employed in reactors to produce plutonium, a fuel used in nuclear warheads.
Iran stopped complying in May with some commitments in the 2015 nuclear deal that was agreed with global powers, after the United States unilaterally withdrew from the accord in 2018 and re-introduced sanctions on Tehran.
The White House is monitoring the sudden gathering of Chinese forces at the border with Hong Kong, in a worrying sign of escalation.
The White House is monitoring the sudden "congregation" of Chinese forces at the border with Hong Kong, according to reports, following another night of unrest and clashes between protesters and police.
A senior US official who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity said a number of units had gathered, but it's unclear if they are security police or part of China's military, Bloomberg reports.
It comes as Beijing accused the United States of inciting the increasingly unruly protests in Hong Kong, which began two months ago over a proposed extradition bill that could see citizens sent to the mainland.
Since then, demonstrations have evolved into a statement against Beijing's influence in the operation of the relatively autonomous region.
WNU Editor: There is already a China military presence in Hong Kong. But to have a real impact on stopping the protests, the Chinese will need to deploy tens of thousands of soldiers, a deployment that will be quickly picked up by foreign intelligence services before it happens. What's my take. Beijing is not mentally prepared to send in military forces to crush the current protests in Hong Kong. But if these protests continue for another month, the option of using military force to crush the protests will be on the table, and they will use it.
THE United States has warned Germany of their "global responsibilities" and raged "billions of dollars" are spent on American troops stationed there every year after being left furious by Angela Merkel's refusal to take part in a mission to stamp out Iran's aggression.
BREXIT and international trade disputes have butchered the EU economy, which has grown by just half of what it had done the previous quarter, new figures indicate.
THE UK has been urged by Express.co.uk readers to turn its back on Angela Merkel and the EU to instead team up with Donald Trump in the fight to crack down on dangerous aggression from Iran.
CHINA sent shockwaves throughout demonstrations in Hong Kong after Beijing released a threatening military propaganda video showing armed troops crushing a protest.
TENSIONS between the EU pillars of France and Germany will rise inexorably after Brexit as the process will be "deeply favourable" for Emmanuel Macron whilst being Angela Merkel's worst nightmare, an expert has claimed.
THE FRANCO-GERMAN relationship at the heart of the EU was critically "unbalanced" and almost came undone during the Eurozone crisis, an expert has revealed.
(TEHRAN, Iran) — Iran’s president lambasted new U.S. sanctions by the Trump administration targeting the country’s foreign minister, describing the move on Thursday as “childish” and a barrier to diplomacy.
Hassan Rouhani’s remarks came after the Trump administration announced Wednesday it had imposed financial sanctions on Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as part of its escalating campaign of pressure against the Islamic Republic.
The highly unusual action of penalizing another nation’s top diplomat followed President Donald Trump’s executive order placing sanctions on Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“They have started doing childish things,” Rouhani said in a speech in the western city of Tabriz, in Azerbaijan province.
“Every day they claim: ‘We want to negotiate with Iran, without any pre-conditions’. and then they put sanctions on the country’s foreign minister,” he said.
These new sanctions come amid a spike in tensions between the U.S. and Iran. The U.S. has boosted its military presence in the Persian Gulf while Iran has begun openly exceeding limits on its nuclear activities set in a 2015 accord with world powers.
Trump withdrew the United States from that pact before imposing crippling sanctions on the country, targeting key industries like Iran’s oil exports and sending its economy into free fall.
Zarif, a relative moderate within Iran’s clerically overseen political system, was an architect of the nuclear deal, which offered Iran sanctions relief in exchange for internationally-monitored limits on its nuclear program.
U.S. sanctions targeting the foreign minister, however, do not inhibit Zarif’s travels to New York for official United Nations business, in accordance with America’s international obligations. They also have little impact on Zarif financially.
“It has no effect on me or my family, as I have no property or interests outside of Iran,” Zarif himself tweeted about the U.S. move.
A Chinese metals tycoon has been indicted in the U.S. over allegations that he avoided paying $1.8 billion in tariffs on aluminum imports, Agence France-Presse reported Thursday.
Liu Zhongtian is accused of disguising aluminum as other products to smuggle the material into the U.S. from 2008 onwards.
His company, China Zhongwang Holdings, as well as several other individuals and shell companies were named in the indictment, which was filed at the federal courthouse in Los Angeles.
“This indictment outlines the unscrupulous and anti-competitive practices of a corrupt businessman who defrauded the United States out of US$1.8 billion in tariffs due on Chinese imports,” prosecutor Nick Hanna said, according to AFP.
The smuggling scheme allegedly involved welding aluminum imports together to resemble pallets, which are not subject to tariffs. Once the metal was in the U.S., it was melted and resold in other forms, AFP reports.
Liu and his conspirators have been charged with nine counts of wire fraud, seven counts of passing false and fraudulent papers through customs and conspiracy. AFP reports that Liu could not be reached for comment.
According to the Wall Street Journal, an arrest warrant has been drawn up for Liu, who is believed to be in China. The U.S. does not have extradition treaty China.
The indictment comes amid a bruising trade war between Washington and Beijing. President Donald Trump has raised tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese imports. Beijing has responded by taxing $110 billion of U.S. products.
(SEOUL, South Korea) — Police say a 72-year-old South Korean man is in critical condition after setting himself ablaze in downtown Seoul, apparently to express his anger toward Japan amid worsening tensions between countries over trade and wartime history.
An official from Seoul’s Jongno Police Station said Thursday that the man was being treated at a Seoul hospital for burns over his entire body.
The official says police at the scene found a bag that likely belonged to the man and contained a memo and leaflet criticizing Japan over its decision to tighten controls on high-tech exports to South Korea and vowing to fight Tokyo until Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apologizes.
A 78-year-old South Korean man died earlier this month after self-immolating near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul.
(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea said Thursday leader Kim Jong Un supervised the first test firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system that could potentially enhance its ability to strike targets in South Korea and U.S. military bases there.
The report by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency differed from the assessment by South Korea’s military, which had concluded Wednesday’s launches were of two short-range ballistic missiles.
The launches from the eastern coastal town of Wonsan were North Korea’s second weapons test in less than a week and were seen as a move to keep up pressure on Washington and Seoul amid a stalemate in nuclear negotiations. Pyongyang has also expressed anger over planned U.S.-South Korea military drills.
KCNA said Kim expressed satisfaction over the test firing and said the newly developed rocket system would soon serve a “main role” in his military’s land combat operations and create an “inescapable distress to the forces becoming a fat target of the weapon.”
The report didn’t directly mention the United States or South Korea, but experts say the rocket system, along with new short-range missiles the North tested last week, could potentially pose a serious threat to South Korea’s defense. North Korea places thousands of rocket launchers and artillery pieces near its border with South Korea, and its perceived ability to quickly devastate the Seoul metropolitan area, where about half of South Koreans live, has been a central part of its strategy to deter military action from its rivals.
The agency provided no specific descriptions of how the “large-caliber multiple launch guided rocket system” performed, but said the test confirmed the system’s “combat effectiveness.” North Korea’s state media didn’t immediately release images of the test.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Wednesday that the weapons it assessed as missiles flew about 250 kilometers (155 miles) at an apogee of 30 kilometers (19 miles), a range that would be enough to cover the region surrounding Seoul and a major U.S. military base just south of the city.
Kim Dong-yub, an analyst from Seoul’s Institute for Far Eastern Studies, said the North might have tested an improved version of its 300-millimeter multiple rocket launcher system or an entirely new system, such as 400-millimeter rockets.
When asked whether it failed to distinguish between multiple-rocket launchers and ballistic missiles, the JCS said South Korean and U.S. militaries shared an assessment that the flight characteristics from Wednesday’s launches were similar to North Korea’s new short-range missiles tested last week. JCS official Kim Joon-rak said further analysis was needed to identify the weapons.
South Korea’s military had said the flight data of the missile launched last week showed similarities to the Russian-made Iskander, a solid-fuel, nuclear-capable missile that is highly maneuverable and travels on lower trajectories compared to conventional ballistic weapons.
Choi Hyun-soo, spokeswoman of Seoul’s Defense Ministry, refused to answer when asked whether it’s possible that the North might have mixed in a ballistic missile launch while testing its new rocket system.
In a closed-door briefing to lawmakers, officials from South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said North Korea might extend its weapons tests into August. The spy agency believes the North would want to demonstrate its displeasure over the planned U.S.-South Korea military exercises and the South’s acquisition of advanced weapons such as F-35 fighter jets while also speeding up its own weapons development before it gets deeper in nuclear negotiations with the United States, lawmaker Lee Eun-jae said.
U.S. officials have downplayed the threat of the launches to the United States and its allies.
Analysts say North Korea, with its consecutive weapons tests, is demonstrating displeasure with the pace of nuclear diplomacy with Washington. The North’s testing activity could intensify if the negotiations do not proceed rapidly over the next few months, said Srinivasan Sitaraman, a North Korea expert at Clark University in Massachusetts.
By firing weapons that directly threaten South Korea but not the U.S. mainland or its Pacific territories, North Korea also appears to be dialing up pressure on Seoul and testing how far Washington will tolerate its bellicosity without actually causing the nuclear negotiations to collapse, other experts say.
Last Thursday, North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles that Seoul officials said flew 600 kilometers (370 miles) and as high as 50 kilometers (30 miles) before landing in the sea. North Korea said those tests also were supervised by Kim and were designed to deliver a “solemn warning” to South Korea over its purchase of high-tech, U.S.-made fighter jets and the planned military drills, which Pyongyang calls an invasion rehearsal. The North also tested short-range missiles on May 4 and 9.
Earlier last week, Kim visited a newly built submarine and expressed his satisfaction with its weapons system. North Korea said its deployment was “near at hand.”
In a private briefing to lawmakers Wednesday, South Korean military intelligence officers said they’ve determined that the submarine likely has three launch tubes for missiles. If confirmed, it would be North Korea’s first operational submarine with missile launch tubes, some experts said.
(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration on Wednesday extended waivers allowing foreign firms to work at Iranian nuclear facilities without U.S. penalties even as it hit Iran’s foreign minister with sanctions.
In a notice sent to Congress, the State Department said it had extended for 90 days waivers that permit European, Russian and Chinese companies to conduct civilian-nuclear cooperation at several Iranian sites. The waivers, which were due to expire on Thursday, had been the subject of heated internal debate with Iran hawks opposed to their extension but others arguing that more time was needed to allow companies to wind down their operations.
The waivers are the last remaining elements that the U.S. still recognizes from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal from which President Donald Trump withdrew last year.
At the same time, the administration announced that it had imposed financial sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as part of its escalating campaign of pressure against the Islamic Republic. The highly unusual action of penalizing the top diplomat of another nation comes a month after Trump signed an executive order placing sanctions on Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Those sanctions are largely symbolic as U.S. officials said Zarif’s travels to New York for official U.N. business will not be inhibited, in accordance with America’s international obligations, and the fact that he has little financial interest in American jurisdictions.
In response to that announcement, Zarif tweeted, “It has no effect on me or my family, as I have no property or interests outside of Iran.”
Shortly after the Zarif sanctions were announced, the administration notified Congress that it had decided to renew the civilian-nuclear cooperation waivers in the national security interest of the country. Ending the waivers would have been the next logical step in the maximum pressure campaign against Iran and it was favored by Trump’s allies in Congress. But it would have also escalated tensions with Iran and some European allies as fears of conflict in the Persian Gulf grow.
In its notification to Congress, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, the State Department said that extending the waivers would “continue to serve both our Iran strategy and broader non-proliferation goals by constraining Tehran’s nuclear capabilities for as long as possible while we work toward a new deal that addresses the totality of Iran’s malign behavior.”
Yet, deal critics, including Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, said the waivers should be revoked because they give Iran access to technology that could be used for weapons. In particular, they targeted a waiver that allows conversion work at the once-secret Fordow site. The other facilities are the Bushehr nuclear power station, the Arak heavy water plant and the Tehran Research Reactor.
Deal supporters said the waivers give international experts a valuable window into Iran’s atomic program that might otherwise not exist. They also say some of the work, particularly on nuclear isotopes that can be used in medicine at the Tehran reactor, is humanitarian in nature.
(KINSHASA, Congo) — A second person died Wednesday of Ebola in Congo’s major crossroads city of Goma, again raising fears the virus could spread beyond the country’s borders as the outbreak enters a second year.
The man may never have known he had Ebola and was contagious for days before the illness was confirmed, officials said — alarming some in the city of more than 2 million people on the Rwandan border that has an international airport.
The death “in such a dense population center underscores the very real risk of further disease transmission, perhaps beyond the country’s borders, and the very urgent need” for more global support, United Nations agencies said in a joint statement marking a year of the outbreak. More than 1,800 people have died — nearly a third of them children.
The man in his 40s was a miner returning home from an area of northeastern Ituri province where no Ebola cases in this outbreak have been recorded, World Health Organization officials told reporters. He was exposed to Ebola somewhere along the roughly 300-mile-long (490-kilometer) route from Komanda to Goma as he took motor taxis over a number of days through the densely populated region at the heart of the outbreak, WHO emergencies chief Dr. Michael Ryan said.
The man arrived in Goma on July 13 and started showing symptoms on July 22. He was isolated at an Ebola treatment center on Tuesday. He had spent five days being treated at home and then went to a health facility, where Ebola was suspected.
“He may not even have been aware of the exposure that he had,” Ryan said, adding that the man’s potential contacts were being identified and given an experimental but effective Ebola vaccine. Symptoms such as fever can be confused with malaria, which is endemic in the region.
Congo’s new Ebola response coordinator, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, said the man died on Wednesday morning, a day after his case was announced.
“Yesterday he was in a critical state,” Muyembe told The Associated Press. Ebola symptoms can start to occur between two and 21 days from infection, health experts say.
Muyembe has said there appears to be no link between the case and the previous one in Goma that was announced two and a half weeks ago.
The second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history was declared a rare global health emergency days after the first case was confirmed in Goma, a scenario that health officials had long feared.
Muyembe, in announcing Goma’s second case, told reporters that the man’s house and the health center he first visited were being disinfected.
“There is no need to panic,” he said. On Wednesday he told reporters that he believes this outbreak can be ended in three or four months.
But WHO’s regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, said the concern as Ebola enters its second year is that the virus again will spread into one or more of Congo’s nine neighboring countries.
In June, three people died in Uganda before other family members were taken back to Congo for treatment and Ugandan officials declared the country was again free of the disease.
WHO says the risk of regional spread remains “very high.” Rwanda, Uganda and South Sudan began vaccinating health workers weeks or months ago.
The declaration of a global health emergency — the fifth in history — brought a surge of millions of dollars in new pledges by international donors but some health workers say a new approach is needed to combat misunderstandings in the community.
There is no licensed treatment for Ebola, which is spread by close contact with bodily fluids of those infected, and survival can depend on seeking treatment as quickly as possible. And yet many people in the region that had never experienced an Ebola outbreak before don’t believe that the virus is real, health workers have said.
The joint U.N. statement called Ebola relentless and devastating as it is passed “from mother to child, husband to wife, patient to caregiver, from the dead body of a victim to the mourning relative. The disease turns the most mundane aspects of everyday life upside down.”
The first confirmed Ebola case in Goma was a 46-year-old preacher who managed to pass through three health checkpoints on the way from Butembo. The city is one of the communities hardest hit by this outbreak, which is second only to the 2014-16 Ebola epidemic in West Africa that left more than 11,300 people dead.
(LONDON) — The dispute between Dubai’s ruler and his estranged wife is set to be heard before a British court in November.
A full hearing of the case regarding the welfare of the two children of Princess Haya, 45, and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 70, has been set for Nov. 11.
Princess Haya, daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan, applied Tuesday for protective orders using laws intended to safeguard victims of forced marriage and domestic abuse. The forced marriage protection was for her children.
The sheikh’s lawyers requested that the children be returned to Dubai.
The names, ages and gender of the children are not allowed to be published under British law.
Princess Haya attended the court hearings Tuesday and Wednesday in London. The sheikh did not appear.
We Americans have been confronted by devastating images from our southern border and increasingly polarized views on how to address this untenable situation.
At times I wonder if we are retreating from the ideal of America as a country founded by and for brave, bold, freedom-seeking rebels, and becoming instead inward-looking and fearful.
I suspect many of us will refuse to retreat. We grew up in this beautiful, free country, in all its diversity. We know nothing good ever came of fear, and that our own history — including the shameful mistreatment of Native Americans — should incline us to humility and respect when considering the question of migration.
I’m not a lawyer, an asylum seeker, or one of the people working every day to protect our borders and run our immigration system. But I work with the UN Refugee Agency, which operates in 134 countries to protect and support many of the over 70 million people displaced by conflict and persecution.
We in America are starting to experience on our borders some of the pressures other nations have faced for years: countries like Turkey, Uganda and Sudan, which host 6 million refugees between them. Or Lebanon, where every sixth person is a refugee. Or Colombia, which is hosting over 1 million Venezuelans in a country slightly less than twice the size of Texas. There are lessons — and warnings — we can derive from the global refugee situation.
The first is that this is about more than just one border. Unless we address the factors forcing people to move, from war to economic desperation to climate change, we will face ever-growing human displacement. If you don’t address these problems at their source, you will always have people at your borders. People fleeing out of desperation will brave any obstacle in front of them.
John Moore—Getty ImagesU.S. Border Patrol agents watch over immigrants after taking them into custody on July 02, 2019 in Los Ebanos, Texas.
Second, countries producing the migration or refugee flow have the greatest responsibility to take measures to protect their citizens and address the insecurity, corruption and violence causing people to flee. But assisting them with that task is in our interest. Former senior military figures urge the restoration of U.S. aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, arguing that helping to build the rule of law, respect for human rights and stability is the only way to create alternatives to migration. The UN Refugee Agency is calling for an urgent summit of governments in the Americas to address the displacement crisis. These seem logical, overdue steps. Our development assistance to other countries is not a bargaining chip, it is an investment in our long-term security. Showing leadership and working with other countries is a measure of strength, not a sign of weakness.
Third, we have a vital interest in upholding international laws and standards on asylum and protection. It is troubling to see our country backing away from these, while expecting other countries, who are hosting millions of refugees and asylum seekers, to adhere to a stricter code. If we go down this path, we risk a race to the bottom and far greater chaos. An international rules-based system brings order. Breaking international standards only encourages more rule-breaking.
Fourth, the legal experts I meet suggest there are ways of making the immigration system function much more effectively, fairly and humanely. For instance, by resourcing the immigration courts to address the enormous backlog of cases built up over years. They argue this would help enable prompt determination of who legally qualifies for protection and who does not, and at the same time disincentivize anyone inclined to misuse the asylum system for economic or other reasons. The American Bar Association and other legal scholars and associations are calling for immigration court to be made independent and free from external influence, so that cases can be fairly, efficiently and impartially decided under the law.
There are also proven models of working with legal firms to provide pro-bono legal assistance to unaccompanied children in the immigration system without increasing the burden on the U.S. taxpayer. Expanding these kinds of initiative would help to ensure that vulnerable children don’t have to represent themselves in court, and improve the effectiveness, fairness and speed of immigration proceedings. Approximately 65% of children in the U.S. immigration system still face court without an attorney.
We all want our borders to be secure and our laws to be upheld, but it is not true that we face a choice between security and our humanity: between sealing our country off and turning our back to the world on the one hand, or having open borders on the other. The best way of protecting our security is by upholding our values and addressing the roots of this crisis. We can be fearless, generous and open-minded in seeking solutions.
Over last weekend, the decision by Russian electoral authorities to bar independent and opposition candidates from running in Moscow City Council elections prompted protests that turned violent as Moscow police cracked down hard on those that turned out, leading to the arrests of nearly 1,400.
Meanwhile, the opposition figure and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny—who had urged people to turn up at the protests and had been jailed for 30 days in the run-up to them as a result—mysteriously developed an “allergic” reaction while in police custody. He has since been treated at a hospital and returned to his jail cell.
Why It Matters:
Protests are not new to Moscow. But the intensity with which these protests were met by Moscow police caught many political observers off guard. Why? A couple of reasons. The first is that the stakes were low, as Moscow City Council elections have little impact on national, let alone international, politics. And yet the police responded as if these protests directly threatened the Russian state—this was the most arrests at a Russian protest in more than a decade. Secondly, the Kremlin had seemed more responsive in recent months to public outcry—see the decisions to release an investigative journalist who was arrested on suspicious charges, or to pause plans to build a church on park grounds in Yekaterinburg. The Kremlin under Putin is not known for backing down, so the recent moves seemed to be an acknowledgement that a struggling economy, falling salaries, an unpopular pension reform plan, higher taxes, continued corruption and declining living standards hit Russians hard; some have gone so far as to hope a degree of political liberalization was forthcoming. The response to the protests this weekend—as well as that mysterious “allergy” that opposition-leader Navalny developed while in custody—put an end to any such optimism.
What Happens Next:
The intensity with which the protesters were put down is a troubling sign that rather than allowing some space for liberalizations, the Kremlin has decided to go full-bore on repression, signaling its approach ahead of the 2021 national elections. In the more immediate term, Moscow is looking at a City Council packed with Kremlin loyalists—they’re in too deep to do anything else at this point.
More interesting is what happens between now and those Duma elections in 2021, especially as a Russian economy propped up by energy exports faces serious headwinds. Putin and his United Russia party will win those elections—it’s possible that the Kremlin will introduce electoral changes to make sure its preferred candidates win. But it’s getting harder for them to use the same tools to stay in power that they used to. Moscow understands the daily lives of citizens are becoming harder, which makes increased social spending to satisfy the public more likely, but that just causes bigger economic problems down the line.
The Key Statistic That Explains It:
Putin’s party, United Russia, is polling at 33 percent—still ahead of its political rivals, but far below the 54% it won in 2016 elections. Why is that so important? Because…
The One Major Misconception About It:
That the fall of Putin’s popularity is driving the harsh crackdown. Putin’s popularity, while having tumbled some from its summer 2015 high of 89 percent, is still relatively strong at 68 percent, according to the independent Levada Center. More concerning to the Kremlin are those plummeting United Russia numbers. Given the party’s current standing, some party members opted to run as independents in City Council elections. The party’s lackluster polling is a particular problem for the Kremlin as Putin needs a successful United Russia to control both the parliament and the regional governments.
The One Thing to Say About It at a Dinner Party:
In a world without a properly functioning geopolitical order, rogue states and non-state actors have the fewest constraints on their domestic behavior; Putin has been taking advantage of that for years. But he also loved being able to free outspoken critics like Mikhail Khodorkovsky and letting Navalny walk the streets; it was a sign of his power, the generosity and goodness of spirit of the all-powerful Putin. But when his popularity starts sinking, the economy starts stalling, and demonstrations start appearing, even Putin starts to feel the heat. And while still powerful, it turns out Putin has a thinner skin than he typically presents to the world. If it’s proven that Navalny was poisoned—which, to be fair, is pretty much impossible to prove—it means there’s more instability at home that people had presumed.
The One Thing to Avoid Saying About It:
The only thing worse than being in a democracy with just one party? Being in a one-party democracy when that one party starts collapsing.
Huang Shunjie might just have the best job in the world. The 24-year-old spends each day caring for 18 panda cubs at the Giant Panda Protection and Research Center outside China’s central city of Chengdu. He prepares their meals of bamboo and milk formula, checks on their growth and health, and carries these two-tone fluff-balls between their sleeping pens and the cooing of their public enclosure.
“The best part is that I can get very close to the baby pandas, which makes many people jealous,” he says. “I get to hug them all the time.”
Among the brood are two record-breaking recent additions. He-He and Mei-Mei — a brother and sister whose names translate as “harmony” and “happiness” respectively — celebrated their first birthdays on July 25 as the only twin pandas born from a wild father and captive mother. It’s a vital breakthrough that broadens the genetic pool and thus longterm sustainability for the bears, which were among the world’s most threatened animals until recently.
“Mei-Mei is very cute and clingy,” says Huang, a native of Sichuan province who graduated in construction engineering before finding work as a panda photographer and then zookeeper. “But her brother is very naughty. He is one of the wild kids and loves making trouble.”
There are, of course, downsides to any job. In Huang’s case, it’s the regular bites and scratches he receives from 45-55 pound bears still exploring their own strength — as well as the lingering pong of panda poo. But it’s a small price to pay to dote daily on these epitomes of roly-poly cuteness up close. Every shift is a succession of tumbling off toys, balancing on heads, or generally lolloping around like furry toddlers.
“I’m a full-time daddy for these fluffy baby pandas,” says Huang. “If I take some days off to go home, I feel empty inside. If I can’t hear them bleating, if I can’t see them, it feels like life is not real.”
For many years, giant pandas, which are native to China, were one of the world’s most endangered creatures as unbridled development decimated their natural habitats in bamboo forests. These famous vegetarians must eat 30 to 85 pounds of bamboo every day.
But population numbers have recovered in recent years thanks to intensive breeding programs using artificial insemination. In 2016, pandas were downgraded by the International Union for Conservation of Nature from “endangered” to the less acute “vulnerable” category. Today, there are 1,864 pandas in the wild up from only 1,114 in the 1970s, according to China’s State Forestry and Grassland Administration, two-thirds of which live across 67 dedicated nature reserves.
Swelling numbers have also allowed China to send more pandas overseas, earning Beijing soft power points. “Panda diplomacy” began in the 7th century when China’s Tang dynasty Empress Wu Zetian dispatched a pair of pandas to Emperor Tenmu of Japan. Today, over 50 pandas live in 18 different countries.
Most famously, Mao Zedong sent a pair of pandas — Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing — to the U.S. following Richard Nixon’s historic visit to China in 1972. More recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping presented his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin with two pandas for Moscow Zoo just last month. “When we talk about pandas, we always end up with a smile on our faces,” Putin said.
Panda diplomacy is typically a 10-year loan, costing the host nation some $1 million annually, with the proviso that any offspring remain the property of the People’s Republic. The loans often coincide with trade deals but, if bilateral relations deteriorate, don’t expect these ambassadors to stick around. In 2013, China threatened to reclaim pandas lent to Austria after Vienna welcomed the Dalai Lama.
The vicissitudes of geopolitics are of little concern to Huang, though. His greatest joy comes from the fact the pandas he cares for end up raising environmental awareness and bringing joy to millions of adults and children around the globe. “I’m really proud of that,” he says.
—With reporting and video by Zhang Chi/Chengdu
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DU Entrance Exam Result 2019 Released – The University of Delhi has declared the 06th Cut Off list for admissions to various Undergraduate Courses (based on merit) for the academic year 2019-2020 on 28th June 2019. The details of the minimum cut off percentage of marks (admission list) at which Delhi University UG Admission 2019 to various courses have been offered by different colleges are given. The applicants those who have been appeared for the DU Entrance Exam can check their result from the official website i.e, www.du.ac.in. Students can verify their result just by clicking the link provided below in the table.
DU UG Sixth Cutoff 2019– Delhi University has recently uploaded Sixth Cutoff, DUET Result for the Admission of Under Graduate UG in Various Courses 2019 on 01st August 2019. Those candidates who have applied for this Exam can download 06th Cutoff and DUET Result now. We have given the separate links for each subject i.e, Science, Art & Commerce, BA Prog. Applicants can get the 06th Cutoff by clicking the direct link provided below in the table. Applicants can click the appropriate link to check and download your DU UG 06th Cutoff and DUET Result 2019.
DU UG Fifth Cutoff 2019– Delhi University has recently uploaded Fifth Cutoff, DUET Result for the Admission of Under Graduate UG in Various Courses 2019 on 20th July 2019. Those candidates who have applied for this Exam can download Fifth Cutoff and DUET Result now. Applicants can get the Fifth Cutoff by clicking the direct link provided below in the table. We have given the separate links for each subject i.e, Science, Art & Commerce, BA Prog. Applicants can click the appropriate link to check and download your DU UG Fifth Cutoff and DUET Result 2019.
DU JAT 2019 Result – National Testing Agency (NTA) has declared the DU JAT Result 2019 for BBA (FIA), BMS and B.A Business Economics (H) today. Candidates who appeared for these exams can now access the result from the official website. The result has been declared in online mode for the convenience of the candidates. The DU JAT Result 2019 is available on the official website du.ac.in and nta.ac.in. Alternatively, a direct link to check the result has also been given below.
DU B.Tech Entrance Exam Result 2019 – Delhi University will soon declare the result of B.Tech Entrance Exam. Those Candidates who have given the Entrance Exam are eagerly waiting for the Exam Result. So We want to suggest all the students have some patience as the Exam Result will be upload on the Official Website. Candidates can check their result from the link which is given below. The University of Delhi Conduct Entrance Exam for B.Tech in the month of June 2019. Students those who have been appeared this Examination can check their result here. Check your results via the link mentioned below. Hence, all those might be looking for the DU B.Tech Entrance Exam Result now!
DU Entrance Exam Result 2019 – The University of Delhi has declared the First Cut Off list for admissions to various Undergraduate Courses (based on merit) for the academic year 2019-2020 on 28th June 2019. The details of the minimum cut off percentage of marks (First admission list) at which Delhi University UG Admission 2019 to various courses have been offered by different colleges are given. Students those who have been appeared this Examination can check their result here. Check your results via the link mentioned below. Hence, all those might be looking for the DU Entrance Exam Result now!
The University of Delhi provides admission into Undergraduate, Postgraduate & Ph.D. courses on the basis of merit list & entrance exam. DU releases the cut off at its official website and its notice board. The results for all the courses will be released on different dates. The cut off of Shri Ram College of Commerce is at 98.5%. Hans Raj College has also released the cut off list. The candidates who get their name in the DU’s first cut off list are required to appear for admission process between 28th June to 01st July 2019. The first Cut Off List available on the DU’s Official website by today i.e, 28th June 2019.
There are about 90 colleges and 16 faculties affiliated to the University of Delhi, spread across Delhi, North Campus and South Campus which serve as the two main campuses of the University. The University shortlists candidates for admission in UG and PG courses such as BMS, BA (Honours) Business Economics, B.Sc (Physical Education, Health Education & Sports), MA Hindi, MA Philosophy, etc. Candidates those will appear in the entrance exam can check it through online mode from the official website. Delhi University Entrance Result 2019 will be notified on the admissions portal as well as the allotment of college & course (where applicable).
After result announcement, the university will publish the admission list for UG entrance based & PG admission. Candidates who qualified the entrance test will complete the admission formalities. DU 2019 Cut-Off has been released on today. A separate cut-off list for Science, Arts & Commerce & other courses will be released online. The cut-off is the minimum marks which candidates have to score in the entrance test & qualifying examination. The cut-off is the minimum marks which candidates have to secure in the examination. The university publishes it according to the colleges & categories. The cut-off list is comprised of college name, course name, category wise cut-off, etc.
DU Top Courses & Cutoffs
Maximum candidates have opted for the BA program courses this year with highest numbers of applications being filed for the B.A. (Hons.) English. A total of 142970 applicants have shown interest in this course. This is followed by B.A. (Hons.) Political Science (130240 applications), B.A. Programme (125519 applications), B.A. (Hons.) Economics (124538), B.A. (Hons.) History (120590), B.A. (Hons.) Psychology (112312), B.A. (Hons.) Journalism (112233) and B.Com (106549) among other courses. The colleges affiliated to the University of Delhi have released the cut-off yesterday late evening for the candidates who have applied for the different courses offered by the university. Candidates are advised to keep the documents ready for the purpose of verification.
Steps to check DU Entrance Result 2019
Visit the official website of University of Delhi i.e, www.du.ac.in
In the home page click on the First Cut Off 2019 link
A new page will be open with pdf file
Applicants can check the DU Entrance Result 2019 details
They can log in to their appropriate college, and get the results
Download or take a print out of the result for further reference.
Important links to download DU Entrance Exam Result 2019
MRPL Result 2019 | Get MRPL Apprentice Result 2019 here @ mrpl.co.in – Candidates can make use of this page to check their MRPL Exam Result 2019. The Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) has released MRPL Apprentice Recruitment 2019 for 195 (Graduate & Technician) Posts. The applicants those who are going to appear for the MRPL Apprentice Exam 2019 can check your result from this page. However, the result is released by the authorized people and hence there would be no ambiguity. Moreover, the result will be here to download as it was released by the officials at mrpl.co.in. Appeared contenders can make use of the link given below to check their results.
MRPL Apprentice Results 2019
The Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) will announce the MRPL Apprentice Trainee Examination Results. Before that, we will receive the official information for MRPL Apprentice Exam Date 2019. Until that applicants can prepare for the Written Examination. After the MRPL Apprentice Trainee Examination, candidates may wait for the result. Here on this page, we have provided a direct link to download your MRPL Apprentice Exam Results 2019. In addition to this, we have given MRPL Trade Apprentice Cut Off Marks 2019, MRPL Apprentice Merit List and others. Also, we have provided some steps to download your MRPL Apprentice Trainee Qualifying Marks 2019.
Applicants can get the complete details regarding the MRPL Apprentice Trainee Examination from the above table. Also, applicants are advised to wait for a few days to receive official information regarding the Examination Date. After the announcement of Exam Date applicants can check for the MRPL Apprentice Admit Card. Currently, candidates can refer to this site of Syllabus and Pattern for the MRPL Trade Apprentice Exam 2019. And the applicants can start preparing for the Examination.
After announcing the MRPL Apprentice Exam Results 2019, candidates can check for the Cut off Marks. If the candidates has referred to the MRPL Previous year cut off marks, can get a clear idea about the Marks. Anyone can find the MRPL Answer Key from the official website. Through the answer key, applicants can expect their www.mrpl.co.in Apprentice Trainee Cut Off Marks 2019. According to the previous year Cut off marks, a number of questions, difficulty level and a number of vacancies the MRPL Apprentice Trainee Cut Off Marks 2019 will be decided.
MRPL Apprentice Merit list 2019 | www.mrpl.co.in
The MRPL Apprentice Merit List contains the Registration number, Applicants name, Marks achieved by the Candidates and others. The merit list is decided by the MRPL Apprentice Trainee Qualifying Marks 2019. Anyone can get the MRPL Apprentice Merit list by online. After the MRPL Apprentice 2019 declaration, the officials will announce the Merit list. The MRPL Merit list will play an important role in the applicants MRPL Career. Because the applicants will be prioritized by the Merit list. It will help the candidates at the time of the interview process.
How to check the MRPL Apprentice Result 2019?
Visit the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) official website @ mrpl.co.in
On the home page select, the careers section then a new page will open with a list of links.
Find the MRPL Apprentice Result 2019 link.
Click and fill the hall ticket number and date of birth details.
Submit the details.
Now, we can find MRPL Apprentice Result 2019 on the screen.
AFCAT Admit Card 2019. Candidates who are in search of Common Admission Test Admit Card will get the admit card at the end of the section. Moreover, the board will release the admit card on 02nd August 2019 on the Official Website. Each and every aspirant must download the AFCAT Hall Ticket for the examination process. Hence, Candidates can download the admit card from the direct link stuffed at the below page. The board has decided to conduct the examination on 24th & 25th August 2019. This article will provide you with all the information related to AFCAT Admit Card 2019. Read on to find out.
AFCAT Admit Card 2019
After 02nd August 2019, click on AFCAT Admit Card Direct Link to download your Admit Card from the official portal of Indian Air Force i.e. afcat.cdac.in and you will also receive admit card on your registered email ID. If the candidate does not receive his/her admit card in their registered email id or is not able to download the same from the mentioned website, he/she is required to enquire from AFCAT Query Cell at C-DAC, Pune. [Contact Number: 020-25503105 (or) 020-25503106]. Contenders will be able to download the admit card by entering the unique User ID and Password. Candidates will not get the Air Force AFCAT Hall Ticket. Indian Air Force will not provide the AFCAT Call Letter by post to any of the candidates.
Important Details to be Check-in Air Force Admit Card 2019
Once you entered the details in the Air Force AFCAT Admit Card, get a clear view of below-mentioned particulars. if there is any mistake found with the admit card contact the Higher Official of Indian Air Force through the contact number highlighted in the above section. Make sure to carry the authentic AFCAT Exam Admit Card 2019.
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
Air Force Common Admission Test 2019
Indian Air Force will conduct the examination on 24th August & 25th August 2019. Moreover, Candidates have to download the admit card to take down the examination. Get the required information about the AF Common Admission Test from the Air Force Official Portal. Download the AFCAT Previous Papers 2019 to get an idea about the examination. Hence, get the required details from the official website and start your preparation according to that.
Important Documents along with Air Force AFCAT Hall Ticket
Aspirants should carry any of the listed documents for the examination. All the documents must be original and the Photocopy of the documents will be rejected from the verification process.
Original Photograph
Voter Card
Pan Card
Employee ID
College ID
PAN Card
Passport
Driving License
Any other ID proof issued by a Gazetted Officer
Bank Pass Book with the photograph
AFCAT Hall Ticket Download Steps 2019-20
Make a click on “AFCAT Admit Card” link.
Enter the unique Login credentials to get the admit card page.
Then login to the AFCAT Hall Ticket page.
The Admit Card page will be available on the screen.
Enter the Air Force AFCAT Admit Card details.
Finally, Submit the admit card.
Get to the Download option to get the Admit Card.
Take a print out of the admit card and carry for the examination.
OPSC Judicial Service Result 2019 Declared Today | Get OJS Preliminary Result 2019 @ opsc.gov.in – Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) has recently declared the OPSC Judicial Service Prelims Result 2019 on 31st July 2019. The Odisha Judicial Service (OJS) Preliminary Exam has conducted on 13th January 2019 for Civil Judge Posts. Most of the candidates have appeared for this Prelims Examination. For those applicants here we have provided a quick link to check and download your result from this page. Moreover, applicants can view the official website for more information opsc.gov.in result 2019.
OPSC Judicial Service Prelims Result 2019
OPSC Civil Judge Prelims Result has been declared by the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) on 31st July 2019. The huge number of the candidates have appeared for the OPSC Judicial Service Civil Judge Prelims Exam on 13th January 2019. All those applicants waiting time is over now. All the applicants can check your Civil Judge Preliminary Exam Result from the direct link provided in the table. Also, the OPSC Board will soon announce the OPSC Civil Judge Mains Exam Date. We advise the candidates to keep track on this page to get the latest information about OPSC Civil Judge Prelims Result 2019.
OPSC Judicial Service Civil Judge Result 2019 – Overview
Candidates can get the OPSC Civil Judges Result 2019 by just clicking the below link. And to check OPSC Civil Judges Result 2019 Online, we have provided some easy steps to download your result easily. The OPSC Recruitment team has been invited for the 43 Civil Judge Posts. If the applicants will qualify all the rounds can get the Civil Judge Jobs. The Civil Judge Posts Recruitment process consists of Preliminary Examination, Main Examination, and Interview. By referring to the above table, contenders can get an overview of the Odisha PSC Civil Judge Preliminary Result.
The Odisha Public Service Commission authority soon declares the OPSC Civil Judge Prelims Cut off marks 2019. The Cut off marks will be decided by the officials based on some categories. The OPSC OJS Cut off marks depends on Previous year Cut off marks, number of questions asked in the Prelims Exam, Difficulty level and number of vacancies. If the candidates will get the minimum or maximum Cut off Marks they will qualify to attain the OPSC Civil Judge Prelims Cut off marks 2019.
OPSC Civil Judge Prelims Merit list 2019 | opsc.gov.in result 2019
The Merit list contains the Registration number, Applicants name, Marks achieved by the Candidates and others. The merit list is decided by the applicant’s performances. Anyone can get the OPSC OJS Prelims Merit list by online. After the OJS Result 2019 declaration, the officials will announce the Merit list. The OJS Civil Judge Prelims Merit list will play an important role in the applicants OPSC Career. Because the applicants will be prioritized by the Merit list. It will help the candidates at the time of the interview process.
How to check the OPSC Civil Judge Result?
Visit the official site of the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) @ opsc.gov.in.
Now, go to the Results section and search for the OPSC OJS Result 2019 link.
Click on the link and enter login details.
Hit on Submit button.
Your Odisha Judicial Service Result 2019 will be displayed.
Check the OPSC Civil Judges Result 2019 and download it for further reference.
Direct link to download OPSC Judicial Service Result 2019
Download OPSC Judicial Service Civil Judge Result 2019
Bank of Maharashtra Jobs 2019 – Apply Online for 46 Vacancies. BOM Recruitment announced a notice to fill up eligible candidates for the Manager, Fire Officer, and Other Posts. Individuals looking for BOM Careers grab this opportunity and make use of it. BOM Online Application form will be available from 05th August 2019. Interested can check with BOM Official Notification and apply for the vacancies.
BOM Recruitment Notification for 46 job vacancies regarding Manager, Fire Officer, and Other Posts. The last date to submit the application form is 14th August 2019. Candidates having a suitable qualification and eligibility for the vacancies can apply for Bank of Maharashtra Careers. Individual willing to apply for the Bank of Maharashtra Jobs can get detailed information about the BOM Recruitment for Manager and Other Posts below.
Eligibility Criteria for Bank of Maharashtra Recruitment 2019
Bank of Maharashtra is providing job opportunities through Bank of MaharashtraDepartment Jobs 2019 Notification, which has 46 Vacancies for Manager, Economist, and Other posts. Accordingly, interested job aspirants should meet following eligibility conditions in order to be a part of BOM Vacancy 2019. Below listed are the complete details of BOM Recruitment 2019.
Educational Qualification for Bank of Maharashtra Jobs 2019
Graduate/ Postgraduate in relevant stream from a recognized institution.
Refer Official Notification for further details.
Age Limit:
Kindly refer to BOM Recruitment 2019 Official Notification.
Selection Process:
The selection procedure includes the following steps
Written Examination
Interview
Pay Scale for BOM Recruitment 2019
Salary for selected aspirants is as follows
Name of the Post
Pay Matrix Level
Fire Officer
Grade II
Security Officer
Grade II
Information Systems Auditor
Grade III
Law Officer
Grade II
Manager
Grade II
Economist
Grade II / IV
Application Fee for Bank of Maharashtra Jobs 2019
Refer Official Notification for Application Fee Details
How to Apply for Bank of Maharashtra Recruitment 2019
Initially, check out Bank of Maharashtra Official website i.e. www.bankofmaharashtra.in
Download Official notice from Bank of Maharashtra Notice and read it wholly.
Make sure that, you fulfill all the eligibility criteria provided in the above sections.
Now, hit on Apply Online Link.
Enter all necessary information.
Upload your photograph and attach necessary certificates.
Pay the relevant application fee.
Finally, press submit button before the deadline of Online application.
Important Dates for Bank of Maharashtra Career
Starting Date to Apply
05th August 2019
Closing Date to Apply
14th August 2019
Important Links for BOM Recruitment Notification 2019
Bank of Maharashtra is a noteworthy open segment bank in India. Administration of India holds 87.74% of the complete shares. The bank has 15 million clients over the length and expansiveness of the nation served through 1897 branches starting at 5 April 2016. It has the biggest system of branches by any open part bank in the province of Maharashtra. The bank was established by V. G. Kale and D. K. Sathe and enrolled as a financial organization on 16 September 1935 at Pune. The bank accomplished self-sufficient status in 1998. Accordingly, the bank has restricted obstruction of Government administration in its basic leadership process and inside issues.
The bank was enlisted on 16 September 1935 with an approved capital of ₹ 1 million and started a business on 8 February 1936. Bank’s money related help to little units has brought forth a large number of the present modern houses. After nationalization in 1969, the bank extended quickly. Narendra Singh who had accepted the workplace of Chairman and Managing Director from 1 February 2012, left his office on 30 September 2013 on accomplishing superannuation. Sushil Muhnot was the Chairman and Managing Director before Ravindra Prabhakar Marathe. Ravindra Prabhakar Marathe was the MD and CEO before A.S. Rajiv. A.S.Rajiv turned into the overseeing executive and CEO on first December 2018
SSC Constable GD Admit Card 2019 has been released on 30th July 2019. Hence, the Commission has issued the admit card for PET Examination. Candidates can download the SSC Constable Admit Card at the end of the section. This article helps you to get complete information about the SSC Constable PET and PST Examination. Candidates can check out the SSC Admit Card for the exam date. Get down to get the Region wise Admit Card link.
SSC Constable GD Admit Card 2019
Those who applied for the Post of Constable GD can download the SSC Constable Admit Card from the below section. Most of the candidates will get confused to download the admit card. We Recruitment. Guru will direct you for such aspirants to get a clear view of downloading the SSC Admit Card 2019. Participants make sure to download the hall ticket before the exam date. Takedown the SSC PET exam along with the SSC Constable Hall Ticket 2019. Therefore, Download the admit card by providing the valid login credentials generated at the time of the recruitment process.
Particulars mentioned on ssc.nic.in 2019 Admit Card
These are the important details which have to be filled in the SSC GD Admit Card 2018-2019. So, Aspirants have to check the details in the hall ticket before downloading it. SSC GD Admit Card download direct link has been at the below segment. Candidates can Bookmark our page to get the latest updates for various Government Job Admit Cards 2019.
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
SSC Constable GD PET Exam 2019
Staff Selection Commission PET Exam date will be printed on SSC GD Constable Physical Admit Card. Aspirants are suggested to download the admit card soon to get the exam details. Start your ground practices and prepare for the Physical Examination of SSC Constable. Make sure that the participating competitors should undergo the eligible scoring of Staff Selection Commission. Get the eligibility details from this session and get ready to get placed. We Recruitment. Guru wishes you for SSC Constable Physical Exam 2019. Aspirants go through the SSC GD Syllabus 2019 while preparing for the PET Examination.
Physical standards laid down for the post of Constable are:
a) Height :
For Male: 170 cms
For Female: 157 cms
NOTE:Height Relaxation details have been explained in the Official Notification
b) Chest :
For Male – UnExpanded: 80 cms.
For Male – Expanded: Minimum of 5 cms.
NOTE: Participants can check out the Chest Relaxation details in the Official Notification PDF.
c) Weight:
For Male and Female: Proportionate to height and age as per medical standards.
Documents to be carried for SSC Constable Exam 2019
Candidates should carry the SSC Constable Hall Ticket 2019 along with the original Government documents. Hence, SSC GD Admit Card is available on the official portal and as well as in our Webpage. Candidates can get the SSC Admit Card in Region wise. Scroll down to get the SSC GD Admit Card direct link for download.
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
SSC Constable Admit Card Download Steps 2019
Firstly, Click on the required region admit card link.
Then the SSC Constable GD Admit Card page opens.
From that page choose the particular post that you have applied.
After that, the SSC GD Hall Ticket Home Page will appear.
Enter the Login credentials in the admit card.
The SSC GD Admit Card page will appear on the screen.
Enter all the needed details for SSC GD Admit Card Download.
Get a glance at the details entered in the Hall Ticket.
Lastly, Submit the SSC Constable Admit Card 2019.
After submission, click on Download option.
Download the SSC Constable GD Admit Card.
Take a Print out and carry for the upcoming selection rounds.
Direct Links to Download SSC Constable GD Admit Card 2019-20
BCECE Result 2019 | Expected to release by Today i.e, 31st July 2019 @ bceceboard.bihar.gov.in – Hello folks!! The Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board is all set to release the BCECE Lateral Entry Result. students those who are eagerly waiting to know your BCECE LE 2019 Status, can download your result from the below link. As per the report, We are expected the BCECE LE Result 2019 will declare by the end of the Day. Along with this, here we have included the BCECE Lateral Entry Merit List and Cut off marks in this article. Here we have provided the result link, it will be activated after the result declaration by officially.
BCECE Lateral Entry Result 2019
Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board has conducted the Lateral Entry Examination on 29th June 2019. All those candidates those who have attended the Examination are waiting for the BCECE LE Rank Card. For those students, we have updated the latest result link from the bottom of the table. We are also expecting the BCECE Lateral Entry Result to be released by today. Once the result announced, here we will be notified to all the candidates. Also, students who have appeared for the Entrance Examination by various departments can get the Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Lateral Entry Results 2019 as soon as possible.
All those candidates can check and view your BCECE LE Rank Card as soon as possible. BCECE has almost ready to announce the result, so we have advised the students to keep track on this page. Because we have dedicated this page to update all the latest information regarding the BCECE LE 2019. As soon as received the result, we will be updating the Result link here. Also, students can check the above table to get a clear idea about the BCECE Lateral Entry Result 2019. Candidates can select the appropriate results from the below link.
Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Lateral Entry is mainly because of the Counselling process. If the Students get qualified in the examination they will be eligible to get the BCECE Lateral Entry Cut Off Marks 2019. This will be decided by the Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board. Based on some categories the applicants will get the Cut off marks.
BCECE Lateral Entry Merit List 2019
Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board will announce the BCECE Lateral Entry Merit List along with the BCECE LE Result 2019. Students those who have got high cut off marks then a name will appear on the Merit List. This will help the Students at the time of Counselling process. The top 5 or 10 students will call for the Counselling process and they can choose the colleges as per those Choices. We wish all the students to get the Merit list and select your dream Colleges.
How to check the BCECE LE Result 2019?
Students should open the Official website of the Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board @ bceceboard.bihar.gov.in
On the Home Page, you will find various sections such as Latest News and Notice Board on the right-hand side.
Search for the link of BCECE Lateral Entry Result 2019 for all the courses.
Choose your desired course and click on the link.
Download the BCECE Result 2019 displayed on the screen.
Assam Petrochemicals Ltd Recruitment 2019- Apply offline for 31 vacancies. The Job Notification is proposed by the Assam Petrochemicals Ltd Recruitment for the Junior Technician, Peon, Cook, and Other posts. 31 eligible candidates are required for filling up the Vacancies in Assam Petrochemicals Ltd. Candidates looking for jobs in Assam can apply for these posts. Interested can get the Offline Application form and begin to apply from 31st July 2019. Eligible Applicants will be recruited for 3 years of Contractual work.
Job Seekers looking for Assam Government Jobs are suggested to use this opportunity released by Assam Petrochemicals Ltd Recruitment. Aspirants have to submit their application on or before 19th August 2019. Applications reached after the last date will not be considered. Candidates will have training for 3 months after recruitment. If the performance during the training period is unsatisfactory the candidates will be terminated without assigning any reasons at the sole discretion of the Management.
Assam Petro-Chemicals Limited is a semi-government Indian organization with significant stakes held by Government of Assam, Oil India Limited and Assam Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC). The organization was consolidated in 1971 and by 1976 had begun creation at their little methanol plant situated at Namrup alongside Formaldehyde and a couple of urea-formaldehyde gums like a urea-formaldehyde paste and urea-formaldehyde embellishment powder.
Post-development in 1989 and 1998, the organization extended the methanol plant to the limit of 100TPD (tons every day) and formaldehyde plant to 100TPD. The organization reported in September 2017 that it would contribute ₹1,337 crore (US$190 million) and grow to deliver 500TPD methanol and 200TPD formalin and become the biggest maker of methanol in India. The required feedstock for these plants is flammable gas, urea and carbon dioxide. Petroleum gas, provided by Oil India Ltd, is utilized as feedstock for methanol production. Urea and carbon dioxide are provided by Namrup Fertilizer Plant
BHEL Result 2019 – Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited is going to release the results for Engineer Trainee & Executive Trainee Posts in July 2019. BHEL conducted the CBT test for the BHEL Notification 2019 of Engineer Trainee & Executive Trainee. Many Candidates have appeared the Examination and waiting for the BHEL Executive Trainee Result 2019 now. Here we have provided a direct link to download your BHEL Executive Trainee Result 2019. The result link will work after the announcement of BHEL Results 2019.
BHEL Result 2019 Expected Date
Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL) has successfully conducted Examination for Engineer Trainee, Executive Trainee on 25th & 26th May 2019 for 145 vacancy posts. In this article, we provide BHEL Engineer, Executive Trainee Result 2019 along with the Cut Off Marks and Merit List. The Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL) authorities are planning to announce the Results of Engineer, Executive Trainee in the month of July 2019. Everyone can check their results from the official web portal @ www.bhel.com. BHEL official will soon announce the BHEL Result 2019 Date.
BHEL Engineer Trainee, Executive Trainee Result 2019 Details
Now all candidates those who have attended the Examination may be waiting to hear the announcement of BHEL Results 2019 Expected Date. Through the BHEL Results, Engineer Trainee applicants will know their status. In this article, we provided a direct link to download the BHEL Results 2019 Executive Trainee & BHEL Engineer Trainee Results 2019. So candidates keep in touch with our page recruitment.guru for latest updates about the BHEL Engineer Trainee result 2019.
Applicants will give importance to the BHEL Engineer Trainee Cut Off Marks 2019 Because this is the main role of their BHEL Career. In this page, the applicant can get the BHEL Results 2019 Expected Cutoff. Cut Off marks are the minimum marks of the BHEL Engineer Trainee, Executive Trainee Exam, whether the candidate qualified or not for the next process of selection. So the candidates who attend the BHEL Engineer Trainee, Executive Trainee exam those candidates must check Cut off marks whether they get passed or not. Officials will decide the Cut Off Marks based on some categories. Such as the number of candidates attend the exam, difficulty of the exam, the number of vacancies, previous year Cut Off marks analysis. So the candidates must check their BHEL Engineer Trainee Cut Off Marks 2019 to get into the BHEL Career.
BHEL Executive Trainee, Executive Trainee Merit List 2019
BHEL Engineer Trainee Merit List 2019 contains the names and roll numbers of the candidates who got top or highest marks in the examination. The candidates whose names are in the merit list all they are qualified for the next process of selection rounds. Aspirants check the BHEL Engineer Trainee Final Selection List 2019 through online mode at the official web portal of the BHEL @ www.bhel.com. So all the exam takers check their exam result after the official announcement.
Steps to check BHEL Engineer, Executive Trainee Results 2019
Candidates first visit the official website of the Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL) @ www.bhel.com
BHEL home page will open. In the career, section click on to the recruitment link.
A new page will open in that search for the link BHEL Engineer Trainee Result 2019.
Now to access the result page enter your Name/ Roll Number and Date Of Birth/ password.
Next, you will get your results on your computer screen.
Finally, download and take a print out of your result for future reference.
Important links to download BHEL Result 2019
Download BHEL Engineer Trainee, Executive Trainee Result 2019
TNTET Result 2019 – Tamil Nadu Teachers Recruitment Board (TN TRB) is going to announce the TNTET Result 2019 Paper 1 & 2. All the Aspirants those who have appeared for the Tamil Nadu TET Exam can check your result from the official website, TNTET Result trb.tn.nic.in. The Teacher Recruitment Board, Tamil Nadu has conducted the TET Examination for Paper 1 and Paper 2 on 08th & 09th June 2019. Here on this page, we have provided a direct link to check and download your TNTET Result in 2019. However, applicants can check your TNTET Result 2019 Answer Key, Tamil Nadu TET Exam details and Tamil Nadu TET Latest News from this article.
TNTET Result in 2019 | Tamil Nadu TET Exam Date
Every year Tamil Nadu Teachers Recruitment Board will conduct the Tamil Nadu Teacher Eligibility Test for the aspirants those who are interested in the Teachers Posts. Likewise, this year TN TRB conducted the TNTET Examination on 08th & 09th June 2019 for Paper 1 & 2. Paper 1 is for Primary Class I to V and Paper 2 is for Secondary Class i.e, VI to VIII. As we know all those applicants are waiting to know your TNTET Result April 2019. We are here to help you out with the Tamil Nadu TET Latest News. Because here on this page, we will update the latest result link and it will work once the result announces it by officially. TRB, TN will likely release TNTET Result 2019 in the next few days. The result can be checked on the official site of TRB at trb.tn.nic.in. Steps to check result and other updates are given here.
From the above table, applicants can get the Tamil Nadu TET Exam details. In the table, we have mentioned the Tamil Nadu TET Exam Date 2019, TNTET Result 2019 Date and TNTET Result trb.tn.nic.in link. Applicants can get a clear idea about the TNTET Result. Applicants can write the Tamil Nadu TET Exam as per your interest. Because of the Primary and Secondary Examination conducted on a different date. Candidates can get TNTET Result in 2019 by soon. We advise the applicants to keep track on this page to get the Tamil Nadu TET Latest News and direct link.
Applicants should qualify for the Tamil Nadu TET Exam and get the High marks in the Examination. So applicants can achieve the TNTET Cut off Marks from the Marks. To get the Teachers Post, candidates should cross the Higher level Cut off marks. Also, we have provided the Expected TN TET Cutoff Marks 2019 Category-wise. Applicants can check the below table to get a piece of clear knowledge. www.tntet result Cut off marks are given below.
TN TET Cutoff Marks 2019 Category-wise [Expected]
Category
Minimum Passing marks for Paper I & II
UR
60%
OBC
55%
SC
55%
ST
55%
PwD
55%
TNTET Merit List 2019
TNTET Merit list will be announced soon. Applicants will get the TNTET Merit list along with your TNTET Result 2019. The Tamil Nadu Teachers Recruitment Board (TN TRB) officials are going to announce the TNTET Result 2019 for Paper 1 & Paper 2. Also, add to these applicants can get the TNTET Merit list individually (Paper 1 & 2). Merit list will help the applicants at the time of Interview. As per the TNTET Merit list, applicants will receive the Interview call. We are wishing you all the best for your TNTET Result 2019 and get select in the Tamil Nadu Teachers Post.
Steps to check TN TET Result 2019 for Paper 1 and Paper 2
Visit the official website of the Tamil Nadu Teachers Recruitment Board (TN TRB), trb.tn.nic.in
On the homepage, the update regarding TN TET Result 2019 will be published.
Click on the link and enter the details such as register number, password, etc.
TN TET Result, score, cutoff marks, and merit list will appear on the screen.
Check the result and take a printout of it for further reference.
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By Pratik ParijaIndia's second-biggest sugar producing region is facing an unusual situation: Attractive returns in the cattle-feed market are prompting farmers to sell sugar cane as fodder.That may cause sugar output in Maharashtra to drop below an earlier estimate of 6.44 million tons for the year starting in October, said Shekhar Gaikwad, the state's sugar commissioner. He declined to give a new forecast. That compares with 10.7 million tons produced a year earlier, he said. 70465614 "A lot of cane got cut for fodder in the last one month," Gaikwad said by phone. "Farmers are more than willing to sell cane for cattle feed as it's more profitable for them."Sugar cane prices, which are fixed by the government, generally stay above fodder prices, except in some unusual years when poor rains boost prices of cattle feed ingredients. India, which jostles with Brazil as the biggest producer, swings between being a sugar importer & exporter, depending on the size of local output.A setback in the western state could further hurt the country's total output. India is expected to see its sugar production dropping to a three-year low of 28.2 million tons from a record of 32.95 million tons this year, according to the Indian Sugar Mills Association. A bigger drop in production may reduce the country's record surplus, potentially curtailing exports and supporting global prices.Weather WoesMaharashtra is facing a shortage in fodder after several months of dry weather. The arrival of the monsoon brought some relief, but several areas are still suffering from scant rains.The Marathwada region's rainfall since June has been 29% lower than normal, while Vidarbha saw rains that were 19% below average, according to the India Meteorological Department. Total rainfall across the state has been 7% more than normal since June 1.Sugar cane crushing in Maharashtra is likely to be delayed by a few weeks as the mills may wait for the plants to mature further for the chance of a better sugar recovery, Gaikwad said.
BENGALURU: With growth slowing in India's larger ride-hailing market, commuters seem to be flocking to scooter rental platforms such as Vogo and Bounce. The Bengaluru-based scooter sharing apps claim they are doing a little more than 1,00,000 rides a day combined, even as their presence is limited outside the city.While Bounce claims it has achieved 60,000 trips a day, its rival Vogo said it was doing around 50,000 trips. They also claim to have done 5 million rides each in total so far. To be sure, both companies have grown extremely quickly, fueled by investments in growing their fleets.Bounce is still largely present in Bengaluru, with 7,000 scooters on the city's roads. However, after recently raising $72 million in funding led by B Capital, the company says it will expand into several new cities in the next few months.Vogo, on the other hand, operates in Bengaluru, Mysuru & Hyderabad, with around 11,000 scooters already on the roads. The rise of scooter sharing comes at a time when India's ride hailing industry is witnessing sluggish growth.ET reported earlier that the on-demand cab industry did 3.65 million rides daily on average in the six months to June, rising 4% over the 3.5 million rides a day in 2018.This is, however, a drastic decline in growth. Rides registered 90% growth in 2016, 57% in 2017 and 20% in 2018, according to estimates by multiple analysts.Experts have pegged the slowdown to an increase in cost of trips for customers and a decrease in incentives paid to drivers.Both Bounce and Vogo seem to have solved some teething problems, the biggest of which was in persuading investors to debt finance the vehicles on their platforms. Vogo has clinched a $100 million equity and debt deal from Ola to fund as many as 1,00,000 scooters for its platform, while Bounce has found partners such as Flipkart's Sachin Bansal, banks and automakers to loan vehicles for its platform.
By Nilanjan MukhopadhyayThere are two facets to the debate over the anti-instant triple talaq (ITT) law enacted in Parliament on Tuesday. One, it was easy peasy for the government getting the Bill passed, courtesy walkouts and absence of Opposition parties and MPs superficially opposed to the legislation. There was little bipartisan scrutiny of the Bill.Two, BJP's larger political objective. The party's strategy left adversaries either on the horns of dilemma, or unsure of which way to slink away when faced with BJP's atypical concern for Muslim women.In contrast, opposition to the Bill was founded on denial about the genuine grievances against ITT, & also lacked purpose, direction and sincerity.Under the present dispensation, BJP initiates no action unless assured of victory. On subjects crucial to its political charter, the leadership wouldn't risk bipartisan re-evaluation since it could have resulted in the 'dilution' of the proposed law.The behaviour of various parties and lawmakers who ensured that BJP's minority became majority in the House, showed their inability to counter BJP's accusation of them being 'pro-minority'. Blindsided, they did not realise that siding with BJP would mark a major step in their eventual political demise. Hereafter, an ally like Janata Dal (United) leader and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar will find it tougher to retain his core base, already chipped by BJP.On ITT, BJP took the high moral ground. A ceaseless campaign was mounted, and the claim was made that the initiative was aimed at ameliorating the lot of gender-oppressed Muslim women. The Opposition had little reasoned counter.BJP's success has been two-fold. First, it successfully conveyed to supporters within the majority community that even 'secular' opponents of the anti-ITT Bill were aligned with the Muslim orthodoxy.Second, BJP successfully 'revitalised' the impression that Muslims as a community commit 'gender wrongs'. So, in the absence of Muslim men — and non-Muslim secular supporters of Muslim women's cause — it became the duty of 'Hindu men' to 'rescue' Muslim women.If the script runs as planned, law criminalising ITT is likely to be considered by future historians as India's first post-secular legislation — due to BJP's success in obfuscating the fact that in India, it is hardly the Muslim woman who need more empowerment and justice. Women in other communities, too, continue being denied rights and discriminated against. Destitution and desertion are cruel realities Indians of almost all faiths refuse to confront.While pursuing the anti-ITT 'project', BJP secured the support of some Muslim women, especially among the underprivileged, already impressed by the non-discriminatory egalitarian programmes initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A very small portion of this group may have voted for BJP. But widespread support for the party is unlikely, since Muslim women will still perforce 'make peace' with the patriarchal norms that are hardly limited to Islam in India.Let's be clear about one thing — like all political parties, BJP 'cares' for a section only because, and till the point, this section serves its purpose. In the ITT issue, 'Muslim women' serve this function of concern. Muslim feminist groups were the original spearheads of the anti-ITT campaign. They, willy-nilly, provided BJP with an easy opening. Yet, the vocabulary of the Hindu Right was in contrast to these feminists, who couched their arguments for gender parity within distinct personal laws, a matter tactically skirted by BJP.After stepping down as attorney general, when the Supreme Court declared ITT to be unlawful two years ago, Mukul Rohatgi described the verdict a step towards the 'ultimate goal' of legislating a Uniform Civil Code (UCC). But UCC is something unlikely for the BJP government to pursue in the near future because such a law would also dismantle Hindu patriarchal institutions, reopen the debate on property rights, and question the fairness of the Hindu United Family, an entity that exists despite discriminating in favour of Hindus against other communities.Seeking 'revenge', not justice, for wronged Muslim women was the driving spirit behind BJP's campaign and legislation for outlawing ITT. This falls under the panoply of Muslim men who commit crimes — those who wage 'love jihad', engage in 'cow slaughter' and 'instantaneously' divorce their wives.Many Muslim women backed the BJP campaign in the belief that the new law will act as a deterrence. The fear is this may not hold true and, instead, we may be witness to a new wave of majoritarian elation, making Muslim women, ironically, 'doubly' vulnerable.
KOLKATA | NEW DELHI: Amazon is in exploratory talks with Reliance Retail to acquire up to 26% in the country's largest brick-andmortar retailer, two senior industry executives said. However, they made it clear that there is no certainty that the initial discussions will result in any deal.Talks began after Reliance's negotiations with China's Alibaba Group to sell a stake in the retail entity fell through due to differences over valuation, they said. Amazon approached Reliance as it wants a toehold in all the country's large brick-and-mortar chains for a long-term, omni-channel setup in India, where shopping is still heavily skewed toward physical outlets, they said. Its widely reported talks with the Future Group are ongoing, although these are said to be proceeding slowly.An Amazon spokesperson said: "We do not comment on speculation about what we may or may not do in future."A Reliance spokesperson said: "Our company evaluates various opportunities on an ongoing basis. We have made and will continue to make necessary disclosures in compliance with our obligations under Securities Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations 2015 and our agreements with the stock exchanges." 70474469 Treading CautiouslyAmazon is treading cautiously as it wants any deal to be compliant with the revised foreign direct investment (FDI) norms for ecommerce that came into effect in February, said the people cited above.The Seattle-based firm wants a stake that's less than 26% so that Reliance Retail can become a seller on its Indian marketplace. As per the revised FDI norms, no seller should be more than 26% owned by the platform as it will then be deemed a group company and barred, one of the executives said.Amazon is drawn by Reliance Retail's market-leading position in consumer electronics and mobile phones, said the people cited above. Also, its wide network of grocery stores could potentially act as fulfilment points for Amazon's food and grocery play in the long run.Executives said the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is warming up to a deal with a global retailer or strategic investor to help reduce its outstanding debt that stood at Rs 2.88 lakh crore ($41.8 billion) at the end of June. Reliance Retail is a subsidiary of RIL."Reliance too is keen in case valuations match. Both sides have realised it is better to collaborate rather than fight," one of the executives said. However, another senior executive said the two sides aren't communicating over the matter."There are no talks," he said. "What does Amazon bring to the table that Reliance Retail doesn't have or doesn't know? Also, selling equity is not the only way to raise money."While ecommerce accounts for about 3% of India's total retail market, Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart are growing at a healthy clip and sales haven't slowed despite FDI policy changes that imposed several curbs on the country's two largest marketplaces. Apart from the convenience of online ordering, the surge in smartphone possession and broadband penetration has also fuelled the trend.The contribution of ecommerce to total retail in India is expected to rise to 7% by 2021 from 3% now, according to a study by Deloitte and the Retailers Association of India. Organised retail is set to double from 9% to 18% during that time."If the deal goes through, Reliance Retail will become a seller on Amazon India's hyperlocal food and grocery platform, Prime Now, just like other retailers and also a seller of electronics and fashion in the Amazon.in marketplace," said one of the people cited above.As of June, Reliance Retail operated 10,644 retail stores in more than 6,700 cities covering an area of over 23 million square feet. Of the total revenue that Reliance generates under the broader retail umbrella, the pureplay business comprising consumer electronics, grocery and fashion and lifestyle accounted for 56.3% in FY19 at Rs 73,508 crore. The rest came from petroleum retailing and the connectivity business, which includes revenue from sales of Reliance Jio connections and recharges.India allows 51% FDI in multibrand retail but the government has decided not to allow any foreign company to own and operate either brick-and-mortar stores or online stores fearing a backlash from traders and kirana stores. It allows 100% overseas investment in cash-and-carry or wholesale stores and online marketplaces, which function only as a facilitator for third-party sellers.Amazon recently acquired a 49% stake in Witzig Advisory Services, the company that bought the More supermarket stores from the Aditya Birla Group. Of this, Amazon has a 17% stake in Witzig through Class A voting shares and a 32% stake through Class B shares that have no voting rights, ensuring that it complies with the rules. More is now a seller on the Prime Now platform.
NEW DELHI: The Digital Communications Commission (DCC), which met last week, was split on the decision to impose cumulative penalties of Rs 3,050 crore on Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea. Of the seven members present at the meeting, two opposed the levy while a third backed an extended tenure for paying the penalty, said people familiar with the matter.As reported by ET, the DCC — an inter-ministerial panel — went with the majority view and backed the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (Trai) proposal to levy penalties on the two telcos. In the absence of a mechanism for graded payments, the DCC made no recommendation on this. All decisions by the DCC have to be formally approved by the telecom minister.Trai had recommended the penalties on the grounds that in 2016, when Jio had launched its services, Airtel as well as Vodafone and Idea Cellular (which were two separate companies then) had denied the new company adequate points of interconnection (PoIs), thereby adversely impacting the services of the RIL-owned telco.Two members of the inter-ministerial panel who are said to have opposed the levies are former finance secretary SC Garg and telecom department's member (services) Debatosh Manna. 70474421 Meet a Day Before Garg Shifted to PowerThe meeting took place on July 24, a day before Garg was transferred from economic affairs to the power ministry. Text messages to both the officials elicited no response till the time of going to press.Garg is believed to have argued that the onus of ensuring quality of services lay on Jio, and not Airtel or Vodafone Idea. "He (Garg) said the responsibility of ensuring quality of service lies solely with the service provider — in this case, Reliance Jio — and if any fine should be imposed, it should be on that carrier," the person said. The former finance secretary was of the view that given the health of the sector, the quantum of the fine should be reduced, the person added.Manna, in his dissenting view, said that due to lack of clarity over Jio's launch date, older telcos weren't obliged to give it points of interconnection. "Telecom service providers were in the dark about the commercial launch of Jio," Manna is believed to have said. The member (services) objected to the three-year-old Trai-recommended penalty on the grounds that the obligation on carriers to provide PoIs even during the testing phase is not clearly established. He is believed to have said that operators were responsible for providing adequate PoIs only after the launch of commercial services and not during the trial phase. Hence, he said, Airtel, Vodafone and Idea shouldn't be held responsible for any wrongdoing. His position is similar to that taken by Airtel and Vodafone Idea, which have contended that since they didn't know the date of Jio's launch, they weren't obliged to provide PoIs in such large numbers to it. The two insisted that they had provided adequate PoIs. The five members in favour of the penalties were telecom secretary Aruna Sundararajan, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, IT secretary Ajay Sawhney, telecom department's member (finance) Anuradha Mitra and member (technology) Shiwa Shankar Singh. Of these, one official was in favour of a graded payment schedule.
US and Chinese negotiators wrapped up a brief round of trade talks on Wednesday that both sides described as "constructive," including discussions over further Chinese purchases of American farm goods and an agreement to reconvene in September.The first face-to-face talks since a ceasefire was agreed to last month in the trade war between the world's two largest economies amounted to a working dinner on Tuesday at Shanghai's historic Fairmont Peace Hotel and a half-day meeting on Wednesday, before U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin flew out."The meetings were constructive, and we expect negotiations on an enforceable trade deal to continue in Washington ... in early September," White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in a statement."Both sides, according to the consensus reached by the two leaders in Osaka, had a candid, highly effective, constructive and deep exchange on major trade and economic issues of mutual interest," China's Commerce Ministry said in a statement shortly after the U.S. team left Shanghai.It was not immediately clear what, if any, further agricultural products China agreed to buy from the United States and when - an issue that had become a bone of contention after U.S. President Donald Trump said China had not made good on promised purchases."The Chinese side confirmed their commitment to increase purchases of United States agricultural exports," the White House's Grisham said, offering no other details.Representatives for the U.S. Trade Representative's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The Chinese statement said negotiators discussed more Chinese purchases of agricultural products from the United States, but did not say there was any agreement to buy more.The talks began amid low expectations. Trump on Tuesday warned China against waiting out his first term to finalise any trade deal, saying if he wins re-election in the November 2020 U.S. presidential contest, the outcome will be worse for China.Fresh fears over the trade war and concerns about a protracted fight with little near-term progress weighed on global markets on Wednesday.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Wednesday that she was not aware of the latest developments during the talks, but that it was clear it was the United States that continued to "flip flop"."I believe it doesn't make any sense for the U.S. to exercise its campaign of maximum pressure at this time," Hua told a news briefing in response to a question about the tweets."It's pointless to tell others to take medication when you're the one who is sick," she said.EARLY FINISHThe U.S.-China trade war has disrupted global supply chains and shaken financial markets as each side has slapped tariffs on billions of dollars of each other's goods.An official Chinese government survey released on Wednesday showed factory activity shrank for the third month in a row in July, underlining the growing strains the dispute has placed on the No. 2 economy.The Shanghai talks were expected to centre on "goodwill" gestures, such as Chinese commitments to purchase U.S. agricultural commodities and steps by the United States to ease some sanctions on Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, a person familiar with the discussions told Reuters earlier.Those issues are somewhat removed from the primary U.S. complaints in the trade dispute such as Chinese state subsidies, forced technology transfers and intellectual property violations - all topics the White House in its statement said were discussed. China's account of the discussions did not mention any of the non-agricultural issues.Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed in June at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, to restart trade talks that stalled in May, after Washington accused Beijing of reneging on major portions of a draft agreement. The collapse in talks prompted a steep U.S. tariff hike on $200 billion of Chinese goods.The U.S. Commerce Department put Huawei on a national security blacklist in May, effectively banning U.S. firms from selling to Huawei, a move that enraged Chinese officials.Trump said after the Osaka meeting that he would not impose new tariffs on a final $300 billion of Chinese imports and would ease some U.S. restrictions on Huawei if China agreed to make purchases of U.S. agricultural products.But so far, U.S. semiconductor and software makers are still mostly in the dark about the administration's plans.In Sao Paulo on Tuesday, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said decisions on license applications by U.S. firms to resume some sales to Huawei could come as early as next week.Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of China's nationalistic Global Times tabloid, run by the ruling Communist Party's People's Daily newspaper, wrote on Twitter that the negotiators had "efficient and constructive" exchanges."The two sides discussed increasing purchase of U.S. farm products and the U.S. side agreed to create favourable conditions for it. They will hold future talks," Hu said, without elaborating.
Foreign investors are questioning the direction in which the government is headed after it announced an increase in taxes on the highest income bracket in the budget, said Rahul Chadha, co-chief investment officer at Mirae Asset Global Investments which has $135 billion worth of assets under management. We need to watch what the government does over the next 6-9 months to restore confidence, said Chadha. In an interview with Sanam Mirchandani, Hong Kong-based Chadha said he is bullish on insurance companies and the hospitals space in India besides select consumption stocks. Edited excerpts:Foreign investors seem to be upset because of the tax proposals in the budget.Post the budget particularly we have seen FII flows turn negative to the extent of $1 billion-1.5 billion. The question most foreigners are grappling with is what direction the government is going. If the government comes and does the tough measures which improves competitiveness and productivity, the slowdown will be taken in stride. Those top measures can be on labour reforms and divestments. The government needs to revive housing. We saw the FM talk about the rental policy. That needs to come out in the next 3-4 months. That will boost the housing sector which will then boost construction.Has the surcharge on some foreign funds impacted India's standing? This taxation is just one of the issues and when people do a change in stance its never only on one issue. Over this year we have seen the government take a more socialist approach. We need to see more stress from the government on creating a level playing field for businesses, staying out from the business itself and attracting more investments whether it is from the domestic private sector or from foreigners. In the near term there would be markets like China, particularly the Hong Kong listed-stocks, and market like Korea which would be attractive. In the medium term, India is a very powerful story and the economy is at a cyclical bottom. When India comes out of this slowdown would be contingent on what the government does over the next 5-6 months. Some of the stocks were genuinely expensive. We have been reducing consumer-focused stocks (exposure) including staples and consumer-focused banks. In quite a few of these, the market was paying peak multiple for peak profitability. Those multiples cannot be sustained.Do you see a revival in sentiment soon?Let's look at what the government is trying to do over the last 2-3 years. Parts of 2 018 and 2017 were marked by GST implementation pangs. Parts of 2016-17 were marked by demonetisation pangs. The economy could not really recover from it. That kind of explains what we are seeing in the system where you have corporate defaults at a record high, NBFCs have liquidity and asset quality issues and then the liquidity started tightening from August-September.The market is going through a painful cleansing. When things were a bit slow in let's say 2016-18, they were compensated by the easy availability of consumer financing. That had to run its course some day. Consumer financing took a breather and suddenly what we have is a pronounced slowdown in the economy. The gloom has been more post the budget because all the corporates are coming and admitting that there is a pronounced slowdown. What we have seen from the government is that we have had handouts or support for the poor families which is good from an economy perspective and mitigating the social divide. In the budget, the government further increased taxation on the highest (income) bracket.That's what led to this bit of a despair and frustration that look, is the government taking the easy path to growth or easy path to remaining in power? From a medium-term perspective this is extremely negative, and this is not what global investors bought India for. They bought it for the individual leadership of Prime Minister Modi, productivity improvement, and reforms.Do you see the RBI cutting rates further?We will easily see 50 bps of cut from here. Unlike the historic number of 2-2.5%, the India-US real rate differential is standing at about 3-3.5%. We will easily see rate cuts and with the kind of slowdown we are seeing in the economy, and with inflation not being an issue anywhere in the world, lot of these rate cuts would be front-ended. I would not be surprised if we see 50 bps over next six months.Which sectors should investors look to buy in this uncertain market?Great companies may not be great investments if one buys them at exorbitant valuations. We like the insurance space. Then there is value in hospitals. I am looking at sectors which were out of favour, have not done much in the last 2-3 years, and which are seeing demand coming back so there will be positive operating leverage. We like pharma selectively and hospitals in particular offer deep value. We are going selectively into some of these consumption names, if the franchise is strong enough, it is not impacted by ecommerce or technological disruption. One should be a buyer on dips over the next 6-9 months in some of these consumer franchises.Are risks to India more domestic than global currently?Globally, it is a fragile situation. We have seen the peak of US growth rate so towards the end of the year the sense is US GDP growth will go more towards 1.5-1.75%. Globally things are slowing but with proactive central bankers you are not going to see the collapse of growth. On the trade war, US growth is slowing and incrementally the pain of all the tariffs is being borne out by the US consumer; both US and China are going to be sensible not to escalate the trade war. We have seen the peak of globalisation. That's a reality we as investors have to live with. That takes away some of the growth but doesn't really pose a threat. Because of slower global growth, oil has not really spiked up.As long as the situation doesn't go out of hand, I don't think it is a significant negative from an India perspective. The concern only is valuations are not cheap. Investors are happy to deal with a mild near-term slowdown but if they see the government going in the other direction — not working on attracting investments, not working on improving productivity in the economy and focusing more on the easy handouts and taxing rich — that's where investors may lose confidence and their belief in India would be shaking. We need to watch what the government does over the next 6-9 months to restore confidence. India remains a big overweight for us in our Asian portfolio.
MUMBAI: Tech Mahindra chairman Anand Mahindra said on Wednesday that the company had to improve profitability, after shareholders pointed out its huge margins gap with larger peer TCS. "You talked about TCS having a higher margin, I am glad you said it loudly, it's a good thing for him (CP Gurnani) to hear," Mahindra told shareholders at the annual general meeting. Gurnani is CEO at Tech Mahindra. Margins for TCS, the country's largest software exporter, stood at 24.2% in the June quarter, the highest in the IT services industry globally. In contrast, Tech Mahindra reported margins of 15.2%. "I would be very happy if we can move our margins up, I cannot argue with you. I'm sure the board will drive the management to excel every year," Mahindra said. Analysts said improvement in margins and revenue performance were key concerns for the IT services provider. The company has seen attrition spike to over 20%, which raised queries from shareholders on its efforts to retain talent. Mahindra said the IT service provider was doing a good job in a volatile period, but would try to improve upon the metric.Rivals such as Infosys and Wipro have seen higher attrition as global firms — which are expanding their captive centres in India — poach trained engineers in digital skills. As the industry faces a talent crunch in newer digital skills, Indian IT services firms have become a hunting ground for recruiters. Mahindra also said that group companies collaborate with each other and crosssell services to clients across the world. "If Tech Mahindra is dealing with some overseas companies and that company could be a client for Tech Mahindra' services, that's where we do cross selling and try and find inter linkages between all our group companies." The company has filed for 111 patents, of which 52 have been granted so far, he said.
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