President Trump: "The Hong Kong thing is a very tough situation, very tough. We'll see what happens but I'm sure it will work out. I hope it works out for everybody, including China, by the way" https://t.co/xTwo7cpwuMpic.twitter.com/o3nHFqNsE1
🇺🇸#US#Navy Interesting footage: View inside the cockpit of an E-2 Hawkeye while landing an aircraft carrier.✈️ Admires the professional calm of the pilots.✌️ pic.twitter.com/SKA8R5wbaf
A group of United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) stealthy Combatant Craft Medium Mark 1 boats were photographed at a Japanese port in Naha last week.
Ship spotter with posted numerous photos on its Twitter account of stealthy special operations boats, commonly known as CCM Mk1.
Photos posted on Twitter on Aug. 11 appear to show the load several stealthy boats onto the deck of the Runnymede-class large landing craft USAV Harpers Ferry (LCU 2022) at Naha port in Okinawa Prefecture. The Naha port facility, formerly the Naha Military Port, is a United States Forces Japan facility located in Naha, Okinawa, Japan, at the mouth of Kokuba River, which flows into the East China Sea.
According to open sources, the CCM Mk1 is a newest larger, but still stealthy combat boats of Naval Special Warfare fleet, come into initial service in late 2015.
Riot police use pepper spray to disperse anti-extradition bill protesters during a mass demonstration at the Hong Kong international airport, in Hong Kong China August 13, 2019. Police and protesters clashed at Hong Kong's international airport on Tuesday evening after flights were disrupted for a second day and the political crisis in the former British colony deepened. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks to soldiers from the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force after an exercise in Munster, Germany, on Monday. Photo: dpa via AP
STRALSUND, Germany (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday she was taking Berlin's commitment toward its NATO allies seriously to further increase defense spending toward the agreed target.
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized Germany's failure to raise defense spending to 2% of economic output as mandated by the NATO military alliance.
The U.S. ambassador to Germany said last Friday that Berlin's reluctance to spend more money on defense and its continued reliance on U.S. troops for protection were "offensive".
Speaking at a panel discussion organized by Ostsee Zeitung local newspaper in the Baltic Sea town of Stralsund, Merkel said she took seriously the 2% defense spending target, adding: "We said we want to achieve 1.5% by 2024. And that is our common will."
* Kim Jong-Un was wearing the IWC Portofino Automatic at a recent missile test * The United Nations has banned luxury goods from entering North Korea * The ban was imposed as a punishment for the state's nuclear weapons tests
Kim Jong-un has been photographed in a watch costing a staggering £10,000 in another brazen defiance of sanctions against his regime.
The UN banned luxury goods from entering North Korea to punish the rogue state for its nuclear weapons tests, with luxury watches among the specific items named.
But now watch specialists in neighbouring South Korea have identified a rare unisex watch on the dictator's wrist costing an eye-watering £10,000.
It comes as ordinary North Koreans face deepening food shortages, reportedly brought on by the worst drought in more than 35 years.
The person in the red circle in this photo taken on June 30, 2019, at the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone has been confirmed as Jang Kum-chol, new head of the United Front Department. (Yonhap)
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Intelligence chiefs from both North Korea and South Korea held a secret meeting in April after the no-deal summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi in February, local media reported on Tuesday.
South Korean National Intelligence Service Director Suh Hoon met his North Korean counterpart Jang Kum-chol, head of the North's United Front Department (UFD), the Yonhap News Agency said, citing a government source. During the meeting, Suh said that he hoped for better inter-Korean ties.
The sides, however, did not discuss the summit, the source added.
The second round of denuclearization talks between Trump and Kim concluded in Hanoi in late February. Though the meeting started on a high note, it ended abruptly, with no deal.
There is a corner of North Korea's nuclear program that we should take notice of. Hidden behind the distraction of the recent spate of tactical missile tests is a greater development with strategic implications: New submarines that will allow the Hermit Kingdom to improve the lethality and survivability of its nuclear arsenal.
On July 23, North Korean state media released images of Kim Jong-un inspecting a submarine. The boat (submarines are always called boats) was described as newly constructed, although it is likely an old boat that has been newly modified. The images, which do not show the entire submarine, can nonetheless be pieced together to reveal that it is a variant of the 1950s vintage Russian Project 633 submarine, known to NATO as the Romeo class. North Korea has operated as many as twenty of these submarines, with most being built locally with Chinese assistance. The last local construction was in 1996. The age of the underlying design notwithstanding, it appears to have a new capability that should energize strategists: it looks like a ballistic missile submarine.
The amphibious transport dock ship Green Bay is seen underway on Feb. 24, 2011, in the Pacific Ocean. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Trevor Welsh/Navy)
Amid ongoing unrest in Hong Kong, Chinese officials have rejected a US request to have two US Navy ships make port visits there in the coming weeks.
"The Chinese Government denied requests for port visits to Hong Kong by the USS Green Bay and USS Lake Erie, which were scheduled to arrive in the next few weeks," Cmdr. Nate Christensen, the deputy spokesman for the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, told CNN in a statement on Tuesday.
The amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay was scheduled to visit Hong Kong on August 17 and the guided missile-cruiser USS Lake Erie was scheduled to visit next month.
Protesters in Hong Kong seem undeterred by China's thinly veiled threat of sending in the armed forces. But Beijing would pay a steep price if it were to send in troops, says DW's Mathias Bölinger.
Earlier this week, footage surfaced on Chinese internet showing columns of armored vehicles heading south and converging on the city of Shenzhen. The videos seem to suggest that the Chinese People's Armed Police Force, a heavily armed paramilitary unit, is gathering on the Hong Kong border. It is Beijing's latest effort to project its power vis-a-vis the former British colony. The message is clear: We are ready to quell the Hong Kong protests with force.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Police and protesters clashed at Hong Kong's international airport on Tuesday after flights were disrupted for a second day as the political crisis in the former British colony deepened.
In Washington, U.S. President Donald Trump said the Chinese government was moving troops to the border with Hong Kong and he urged calm.
Trump said the situation in Hong Kong was tricky but he hoped it would work out for everybody, including China, and "for liberty" without anyone getting hurt or killed.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam warned that Hong Kong risked being "smashed to pieces".
Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 sits anchored after it was seized in July by British Royal Marines off the coast of the British Mediterranean territory on suspicion of violating sanctions against Syria, in the Strait of Gibraltar, southern Spain August 13, 2019. REUTERS/Jon Nazca
DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - The British territory of Gibraltar will not yet release an Iranian oil tanker seized by Royal Marines in the Mediterranean despite an Iranian report that it could do so on Tuesday, an official Gibraltar source said.
The commandeering of the Grace 1 on July 4 exacerbated frictions between Tehran and the West and led to retaliatory moves in Gulf waterways used to ship oil.
Britain accused the vessel of violating European sanctions by taking oil to Syria, a charge Tehran denies.
BISHKEK (Reuters) - The head of Kyrgyzstan's security forces on Tuesday accused ex-president Almazbek Atambayev on Tuesday of planning to stage a coup, state news agency Kabar said, following a deadly clash last week with police sent to his house to arrest him.
Atambayev surrendered on Thursday when police raided his home and detained him for questioning over a corruption case, laying bare a power struggle with his successor Sooronbai Jeenbekov that has pushed the Central Asian nation to the brink of political crisis.
Atambayev's supporters had repulsed a similar raid the previous day in which a deputy commander of a special forces unit was killed.
In an indictment related to the botched raid, prosecutors on Tuesday charged him with murder, hostage-taking and causing mass unrest, Kabar said.
NATO jets approached Russian aircraft to identify it, according to a NATO official
MOSCOW, August 13. /TASS/. NATO's F-18 jet tried to approach the plane of Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu over the international waters of the Baltic Sea only to be forced away by Russia's Sukhoi-27 fighters, a TASS correspondent reported from onboard the Russian defense minister's plane.
Shoigu's plane was on the way from Kaliningrad to Moscow with an escort of two Sukhoi-27s of the Baltic Fleet. NATO's F-18 tried to approach it over the international waters of the Baltic Sea but Russian fighters forced the jet away.
In February the Russian state news agency released a video claiming to show a test of the Burevetnik missile which the Kremlin says is designed to strike over 'unlimited' range and with with unprecedented ability to manoeuvre
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin boasted on Tuesday it was winning the race to develop new cutting edge nuclear weapons despite a mysterious rocket accident last week in northern Russia that caused a temporary spike in radiation levels.
Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear agency, has said that the Aug. 8 accident occurred during a rocket test on a sea platform in the White Sea, killing at least five and injuring three more.
It has pledged to keep developing new weapons regardless, portraying the men who died in the test as heroes.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Monday the United States was "learning much" from the explosion which he suggested happened during the testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile vaunted by President Vladimir Putin last year.
Experts were working on 'a nuclear isotope power source' for the weapon when the blast occurred at the Nyonoksa facility in north western Russia, officials say. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: 'In this particular case, it is important for us to remember those heroes who lost their lives in this accident'
Residents warned of 'planned activities of the military authorities' at site of secretive disaster
Russian authorities have told people in a village near the site of a deadly missile explosion involving a nuclear power test to "leave the territory", after the accident triggered a spike in radiation.
The country's state weather service said radiation levels spiked in the Russian city of Severodvinsk by up to 16 times last Thursday after what officials say was an explosion during a rocket engine test on a sea platform.
"We have received a notification ... about the planned activities of the military authorities. In this regard, residents of Nyonoksa were asked to leave the territory of the village from 14 August," authorities in Severodvinsk were quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
* The Trump administration announced Tuesday morning that is delaying tariffs on Chinese-manufactured goods like laptops and cell phones until Dec. 15 * Trump's trade office says that certain products 'will not face additional tariffs of 10 percent' due to health, safety or national security concerns * Some of the products it listed were cell phones, laptop computers, video game consoles, computer monitors, footwear and clothing * USTR said it will post a list of items that are being excluded on its website * It announced the postponement shortly after the the stock market opened, and the Dow jumped nearly 500 points within minutes of the news * Donald Trump has not commented directly but hinted n a tweet that the action was intended to get China to move forward with large agricultural orders
The Trump administration announced Tuesday morning that is delaying tariffs on Chinese-manufactured goods like laptops and cell phones until Dec. 15, when price hikes from the penalties won't drive up the price of popular Christmas presents.
Trump's trade office says that certain products 'will not face additional tariffs of 10 percent' due to health, safety or national security concerns.
However, the categories of goods that are being protected suggest that Trump was concerned about the consumer pricing index and the billions of dollars in value of this month's stock losses.
WNU Editor: The markets are euphoric with this announcement. As to what is my take. This is just a lull in a trade-war that is going to go on for a very long time.
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* Scuffles occurred in the evening after an injured person was taken out of the main terminal by medics * Hong Kong airport authority suspended all departure check-ins again today due to a new protest * The hub had re-opened hour earlier from a shutdown though hundreds of flights remain cancelled * Thousands of activists descended on the terminal building yesterday in unprecedented scenes * Pro-democracy demonstrators have rallied in the arrival hall for five days in a row to call for reforms * The city's flag carrier Cathay Pacific has suspended a second pilot in apparent relation to the protests * Beijing-backed leader Carrie Lam today warned violence was creating 'worrying, dangerous situation' * China also made ominous declarations suggesting there could be a brutal response to the ongoing unrest * President Trump said Hong Kong situation was 'tricky' but hoped it worked out without people being killed
Riot police clashed with pro-democracy protesters at Hong Kong's airport late Tuesday night, moving into the terminal where the demonstrators had shut down operations at the busy transport hub for two straight days.
Officers armed with pepper spray and swinging batons confronted the protesters who used luggage carts to barricade entrances to the airport terminal, as state media denounced the demonstrators as 'mobsters' and raised the possibility of mainland security forces coming in to crush the protesters.
Amid chaotic scene police took several people into a police van waiting at the entrance to the airport's arrivals hall and furious protesters at the airport tied up a man with cable ties and beat him after they accused of being an undercover agent.
* Protesters had accused man in terminal building of being an undercover security officer from mainland China * Small contingent of fully equipped riot police and elite officers from the Special Tactical Squad fought off protesters, using pepper spray and batons
Defiant anti-government protesters brought unprecedented violence to Hong Kong International Airport on Tuesday night, clashing with riot police after severely disrupting flights and ignoring a tearful warning from the city's leader that they were pushing the city "into an abyss" by attacking its institutions and "destroying the rule of law".
The People's Armed Police have been assembling in Shenzhen, a city bordering Hong Kong, in advance of apparent large-scale exercises, videos obtained by the Global Times have shown. https://t.co/3KgaXeHw3Cpic.twitter.com/YXAORMay0W
* Chinese military vehicles have gathered in Shenzhen, a city in mainland China bordering Hong Kong. * Several videos posted to social media show a long procession of military trucks entering Shenzhen on Monday morning, apparently "in advance of apparent large-scale exercises," according to the Chinese state tabloid Global Times. * The vehicles belong to the Chinese People's Armed Police Force, a paramilitary police force responsible for riot control and counterterrorism. * Though China has become more vocal about its ability to mobilize armed forces in Hong Kong, experts say that the military displays are part of a wider strategy aimed at intimidation and deterrence and that it is unlikely that China will actually intervene at this stage.
Chinese military vehicles have gathered in Shenzhen, a city in mainland China bordering Hong Kong — a warning sign from China in response to over 10 weeks of escalating protests in Hong Kong.
Several videos posted to social media show a long procession of military trucks entering Shenzhen on Monday morning. The Chinese state tabloid Global Times posted a compilation of footage showing the military trucks assembling in Shenzhen "in advance of apparent large-scale exercises."
* China has long wanted to extend its maritime reach and has major strategic interests in energy supplies that transit the Persian Gulf. * The U.S. call for nations to join Operation Sentinel, which would see naval escorts for commercial shipping, gives China an opportunity to do both — but Washington might not welcome Chinese participation, and China itself has reservations. * If tensions continue to escalate in the Persian Gulf, however, Beijing may find it has no choice but to have a security presence in the Middle East.
China has become the latest country to voice interest in becoming involved in the proposed U.S. naval security plan for the Persian Gulf. On Aug. 6, Chinese Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Ni Jian said China is considering having its navy escort its commercial ships in the region, and that Beijing is also looking at the U.S. proposal for Gulf escorts. Ni hedged that China would only move in this direction in the event of a "very unsafe situation" in the Persian Gulf. If the Chinese decide to proceed, this would mark a significant step forward in China's military and naval presence in the region.
WNU Editor: China is dependent on oil supplies from the Persian Gulf. Any disruption in oil shipments will be be a major disruption to the Chinese economy, with profound political implications to President Xi and his government. The question that needs to be asked is not "will the Chinese Navy set course to the Persian Gulf", but why have they not done so in the past year, and when will they be there in the future.
The United States is learning much from the failed missile explosion in Russia. We have similar, though more advanced, technology. The Russian "Skyfall" explosion has people worried about the air around the facility, and far beyond. Not good!
* President Donald Trump says the United States is developing a missile that's 'similar, though more advanced' than the one than the one Russia's working on * Scientists are believed to have been testing the weapons when a blast killed five * Trump said in a Monday evening tweet, 'The United States is learning much from the failed missile explosion in Russia' * 'We have similar, though more advanced, technology,' he said. 'The Russian "Skyfall" explosion has people worried about the air around the facility' * He did not disclose the details of the alleged U.S. military project in his message and it was not clear whether he was referring to a current or future project * U.S. is currently developing a hypersonic missile that could be operational 2022
President Donald Trump says the United States is developing a missile that's 'similar, though more advanced,' than the one Russian scientists are believed to have been testing when a blast killed five last week.
Trump said in a Monday evening tweet, 'The United States is learning much from the failed missile explosion in Russia.
'We have similar, though more advanced, technology,' he said coyly. 'The Russian "Skyfall" explosion has people worried about the air around the facility, and far beyond. Not good!'
Read more .... WNU Editor: I am sure the U.S. and other countries are learning a lot from last week's nuclear accident in Russia. But his tweet has raised the following question .... Did President Trump had casually revealed the existence of a secret US nuclear program, or was his claim a baseless brag?
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Five Russian nuclear engineers who died in a rocket engine explosion have been buried in Sarov, a closed town 373km (232 miles) east of Moscow, where nuclear warheads are made.
The Russian state nuclear agency, Rosatom, said the experts had been testing a nuclear-powered engine. But it gave no further technical details.
The test was on an offshore platform in the Arctic, at a naval test range.
Russia has previously tested a nuclear-powered cruise missile, "Burevestnik".
But officials did not specify the system involved in Thursday's disastrous test.
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro looks on during a promotion ceremony for generals of the armed forces, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil August 9, 2019. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro warned on Monday that his country could see a wave of migrants fleeing Argentina if a presidential election there returns leftist politicians to power, after their strong showing in a Sunday primary vote.
Bolsonaro has cast himself as foe to the left-wing leaders around Latin America and celebrated his friendship with Argentine President Mauricio Macri, who faces long odds of winning another term in October.
The Brazilian president singled out as a "leftist scoundrel" Argentina's former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the vice-presidential candidate on the ticket confirmed as front-runner on Sunday. He compared her to ideological allies from Cuban President Fidel Castro to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Speaking in southern Brazil, Bolsonaro warned it could soon see migration on par with the north of the country, where waves of Venezuelans have fled an economic crisis.
WNU Editor: The first flight from Argentina will be capital (which we are witnessing now) The second flight from Argentina will be the entrepreneurs and businessmen who make the economy work. The third flight will be the professionals, followed by the young who will look for better prospects elsewhere. The last flight of people from a country is everyone else. This is a playbook that I have seen so many times, and I can only hope that Argentina does not follow that path. But my gut tells me that Brazilian President Bolsonaro is right on this one, and that Argentina is going to repeat its history of electing Peronists and their economic policies of the past.
WNU Editor: I have seen stock market crashes before, but never one where the exchange lost almost half of its value in one day. According to Bloomberg, this is the second biggest drop that I have seen in a stock market since 1950. As to what is my take. Considering the very real possibility that Populist Peronist candidate Alberto Fernández is most likely going to win the Presidency later this year, and who is already promising a doubling down of past policies that put Argentina where it is today, if I was an investor I would be bailing out of the country right now.
GERMANY economy shrank by 0.1 percent in the first quarter, gross domestic product figures revealed today sending Germany halfway towards recession as Angela Merkel faces economic contraction.
THE ROYAL NAVY warship HMS Kent has set sail to join an international force protecting oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz as the row with Iran intensified.
IRAN sparked fury within Western ranks after firing warnings at both the US and Israel over the current crisis in the Strait of Hormuz – but President Donald Trump must think twice before seeing Tehran as an easy target due to its airpower.
CHINA has warned of potential "terrorism" as it accused the US of playing a role in Beijing's violent clashes with pro-democracy protestors and police.
PHILIPPINES officials have gone into crisis over fears their own President is allowing Beijing to take over their own territory as the row over the South China Sea continues.
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan immigration agreement signed with the Trump administration won’t work because the Central American nation does not have the resources, the country’s new president-elect says.
Alejandro Giammattei, a conservative who was chosen overwhelmingly by voters in a weekend runoff election, said in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday that Guatemala is too poor to tend to its own people, let alone those from other countries.
The agreement signed in July by the outgoing administration of President Jimmy Morales would require migrants from other countries who cross into Guatemala to apply for asylum here rather than in the U.S.
“In order to be a safe country, one has to be certified as such by an international body, and I do not think Guatemala fulfills the requirements to be a third safe country. That definition doesn’t fit us,” said Giammattei, a 63-year-old doctor.
“If we do not have the capacity for our own people, just imagine other people.”
Guatemalans make up one of the largest groups emigrating from Central America because of poverty, unemployment and crime. Critics say it is hard to see how the country could offer a safe haven to migrants from other nations.
The agreement signed by the current Morales government is aimed at reducing the number of asylum seekers arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration pressured Guatemala to sign the deal by threatening to punish Guatemala with taxes.
Giammattei, who takes office Jan. 14, said that annexes to the agreement are still being negotiated with the United States and that he would ask Morales to include members of his transition team in those talks.
The president-elect also noted that the agreement would have to be ratified by the congresses of both nations to go into force. There has been widespread criticism of the deal in Guatemala.
Giammattei pledged to recognize the importance of Guatemalan migrants living in the United States by creating a Washington-based Cabinet-level position to attend to migrant affairs.
“It is about time we had a government that cared for the people,” he said. “It is these people (migrants) who are supporting us” with the remittance money they send back to relatives in Guatemala, he added.
“I do not think physical walls, or walls of weapons, can stop migration,” Giammattei said. “I think what can stop migration are walls of opportunities.”
On another matter, the incoming leader distanced himself from Morales’ unpopular decision to not renew the mandate of the U.N.-sponsored anti-corruption commission that has played a key role in sending high-ranking politicians, including ex-presidents, to jail. But Giammattei also indicated he wouldn’t work to bring back the commission, known as CICIG.
“The mandate has been terminated; the United Nations accepted that,” he said.
He said he has no legal capacity or any other authority to ask Morales to renew the commission. “The CICIG is disappearing and history will judge whether Morales’ decision was right or not,” he said.
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister assured Kashmiri people living in the Indian-administered part of the divided region that he supports them in their struggle for self-determination.
In his statement Wednesday, Imran Khan condemned New Delhi’s decision Aug. 5 to downgrade Kashmir’s status, as he began celebrations marking Pakistan’s independence day.
Khan is marking the day in Pakistan’s part of Kashmir to express solidarity with Kashmiris on the Indian-controlled side. He will make a speech in the Legislative Assembly to denounce Indian human rights violations in Kashmir.
India and Pakistan gained independence in 1947 when British colonialists left the subcontinent. The next year, they fought the first of two wars over control of Kashmir. It ended with the region divided between them though both claim it entirely.
India has maintained an unprecedented security lockdown to try to stave off a violent reaction to Kashmir’s downgraded status. Protests and clashes have occurred daily, thought the curfew and communications blackout have meant the reaction is largely subdued.
Pakistan has called for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council, saying the move by India’s Hindu nationalist-led government threatens international peace and could lead to ethnic cleansing and genocide. Poland holds the council presidency this month and Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz said members would discuss the letter.
The lockdown is expected to last at least through Thursday, when India celebrates its independence.
(SRINAGAR, India) — The main city in the India-administered part of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir has turned into a vast maze of razor wire coils and steel barricades as drones and helicopters hover overhead.
Wearing flak jackets and riot gear, paramilitary soldiers carry automatic rifles and shotguns to control the network of checkpoints and barricades across roads, lanes and intersections in Srinagar. The few vehicles and pedestrians allowed through are regulated through this maze.
Although the 4 million residents of the Kashmir Valley, where an insurgency has simmered for decades, are used to blockades, the one imposed after the Indian government’s surprise move last week to strip the region of constitutional privileges is something residents say they’ve never seen before. Amid the labyrinth whose entry and exit points are changed frequently, people find themselves disoriented in their own city, and struggle to memorize its frequently changing street map.
“This is so vast, so expansive,” resident Zameer Ahmed said as he prepared to enter one barbed passageway. “The entire Srinagar city has been knitted in razor wire to seek our silence and obedience.”
The lockdown in the Muslim-majority valley, the restive heart of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, has been in place since last week, when New Delhi scrapped the disputed Himalayan region’s special constitutional status, taking away the final vestige of the political autonomy and privileged rights to land ownership and public sector jobs it was granted when the region joined the newly formed republic of India after independence from the British in 1947.
Since then, India and Pakistan have fought two wars over rival claims to Kashmir, with each left controlling a part of the region.
The Indian side has seen several uprisings, including a bloody armed rebellion launched in 1989 to demand independence or a merger with Pakistan. About 70,000 people have been killed in that uprising and the subsequent Indian military crackdown that left Kashmiris exhausted, traumatized and broken.
Even before India’s Parliament voted Aug. 5 to strip Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood and split it into two union territories, the central government imposed a curfew, suspended telephone and internet services and deployed tens of thousands of additional soldiers to the region — already one of the world’s most militarized zones.
At checkpoints throughout Srinagar, police politely gave directions to a labyrinth whose entry and exit points are changed several times a day.
Mohammed Maqbool, an engineer, marveled at the blockade system, the most intricate he said he’s seen in 30 years in Srinagar.
“This time they’ve put in place the smartest blockade ever,” he said. “They aren’t aggressive compared to the public uprising of 2016. If you must, they also allow you to venture out of home, yet they’ve throttled our voice by such a sophisticated blockade.”
Razor wire divides neighborhoods, discouraging people from assembling. Some roads are blocked by perpendicularly parked armored vehicles or private buses. Because of the complexity of the security forces’ one-way system, it is impossible to use the same route and return home from any particular destination, even if it is within sight.
“They’ve changed the road map of our city, trying to make us like strangers in our own neighborhoods,” said Bashir Ahmed, a resident of downtown Srinagar.
“This is a drill about disciplining and regulating people’s movement. This is to psychologically break people and teach them that they’re not in control of their own bodies,” said Saiba Varma of the University of California, San Diego, who is in Srinagar for post-doctoral research in medical anthropology.
“In Palestine, the (Israeli) blockade has restricted food and medicine. But here it’s different. They’re letting people eat but trying to control Kashmiri bodies, minds and spirits,” Varma said.
Some of the restrictions have been lifted elsewhere in the region, such as the Hindu-majority area of Jammu, where people were seen cheering the move by the government in street celebrations last week.
Authorities have refused to share any details about the checkpoints or new methods used for the latest blockade. Government officials maintain that the situation is returning to normal, and that no one has died or been seriously injured in any of the sporadic protests that have broken out since the blockade began. Because of constraints on movement and communication, it was not possible to verify their claims.
Flights at Hong Kong International Airport mostly resumed on Wednesday morning, after violent clashes broke out between demonstrators and police on Tuesday night.
“We are trying to clear the backlog of passengers through flight rescheduling,” an Airport Authority representative told TIME. Around 50 flights remain cancelled according to the airport’s web site.
The partial resumption of operations follows several days of anti-government protests that culminated in the cancellation of hundreds of inbound and outbound flights at one of the world’s busiest aviation hubs.
A court order has been made ordering protesters to restrict future actions to designated areas, local media reports say. It is not yet clear if protesters plan to reassemble at the airport, but the Airport Authority announced measures on Wednesday that would make future large-scale protests more difficult. Only ticketed passengers will be allowed into the terminal buildings starting on Wednesday afternoon, according to a statement issued by the Airport Authority. Trains to the airport will also run at less frequent intervals than normal, and some car parks near the airport will be closed starting on Thursday.
Hundreds of flights were grounded on Monday after thousands of protesters invaded the airport terminal, blocking access to check-in desks and security and immigration checkpoints. Check-in services were suspended again late on Tuesday afternoon after protesters returned to the building.
By Tuesday night, the demonstration took an ugly turn when protesters detained a man they believed to be an undercover Chinese police officer and another man who is reportedly a journalist for the Beijing-backed newspaper Global Times. Violent clashes with police broke out when officers arrived to assist the men, who were held for several hours.
In one video circulated online, protesters could be seen taking a baton from a police officer and using it to beat him. News video showed the officer drawing his weapon but no shots were fired.
Protesters “detained, harassed and assaulted a visitor and a journalist, inflicting physical and mental harm on them,” the police said in a statement.
Five people have been arrested for offenses including unlawful assembly, possession of offensive weapons, assaulting police officers and breaching of the peace, the police said. They added that two officers were injured and sent to the hospital.
Increasingly violent unrest has gripped Hong Kong since June. A series of peaceful marches against a now suspended bill that would have allowed extradition to China for the first time has spiraled into a wider campaign for political freedom. Many protesters are repudiating Chinese sovereignty and calling for self-determination for the former British colony.
What began as a peaceful weekend sit-in at the airport turned chaotic on Monday when thousands of people showed up at the terminal building to protest what they say was heavy handed police containment of protests in downtown Hong Kong on Sunday night.
Local media reports said that night police fired tear gas into confined spaces such as subway stations, and also opened fire on protesters with non-lethal projectiles at close range. A young woman was blinded in one eye when hit by a projectile that protesters accuse police of firing.
On Tuesday, the United Nations High Commissioner said through her spokesman that there was “credible evidence” of law enforcement officials in Hong Kong using some anti-riot measures “prohibited by international norms and standards.”
Beijing has meanwhile condemned the unrest, and on Monday accused “radical protesters” of committing serious crimes and “starting to plant the seeds of terrorism.”
Hong Kong’s airport is one of the world’s busiest, with almost 73 million passengers annually. One aviation industry expert told local media that flight disruptions this week might cost the aviation industry $76 million in losses.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The United Nations refugee agency urgently appealed to European governments Tuesday to let two migrant rescue ships disembark more than 500 passengers who remain stranded at sea as countries bicker over who should take responsibility for them.
The people rescued while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa are on ships chartered by humanitarian aid groups that the Italian government has banned from its territory. The archipelago nation of Malta also has refused to let the ships into that country’s ports.
It’s unclear where they might find safe harbor, even though the Italian island of Lampedusa appears closest. About 150 of the rescued passengers have been on the Spanish-flagged charity ship the Open Arms since they were plucked from the Mediterranean 13 days ago.
“This is a race against time,” Vincent Cochetel, the International Red Cross special envoy for the central Mediterranean, said in a statement. “Storms are coming, and conditions are only going to get worse.”
While the number of migrants reaching Europe by sea has dropped substantially so far this year, the Red Cross says nearly 600 people have died or gone missing in waters between Libya, Italy and Malta in 2019.
The agency said many of the people on the ships “are reportedly survivors of appalling abuses in Libya.” Cochetel said the ships “must be immediately allowed to dock” and their passengers “allowed to receive much-needed humanitarian aid.”
“To leave people who have fled war and violence in Libya on the high seas in this weather would be to inflict suffering upon suffering,” the envoy said.
The captain of the Open Arms, Marc Reig, sent a letter Monday to the Spanish Embassy in Malta asking Madrid to grant asylum to 31 minors on his ship. A senior Spanish official said Tuesday that Reig’s request carries no legal weight because the captain doesn’t have authority to seek protection for the minors.
Two charity groups that are operating the Ocean Viking rescue ship — Doctors Without Borders and sea rescue group SOS Mediterranee — also formally asked Italy and Malta to allow the 356 migrants aboard that vessel to be allowed to disembark.
The limbo of the Open Arms and Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking is the latest in a string of standoffs that kept Europe-bound migrants at sea in miserable conditions.
Southern nations that have been the main arrival points since 2015 — notably Italy, but also Malta and Greece — have complained of feeling abandoned by their European Union partners to cope with the influx.
Italy’s hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, reiterated Tuesday his intent to ensure that the ships don’t enter Italian ports.
Differences among EU member nations over how to manage mass migration have sparked a political crisis in Europe, while attempts to reform the bloc’s asylum system have failed. The issue has been a vote-winner for far-right and populist parties.
The EU’s executive commission said it has urged member countries to take action to resolve the status of the recently rescued passengers and stands ready to offer national governments support but cannot act alone.
“There’s nothing more we can do,” a European Commission spokeswoman said Tuesday.
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Associated Press writers Giada Zampano in Rome and Barry Hatton in Lisbon contributed to this report.
Last summer, it looked like things were finally about to change for Ashland, Ky. For two decades, the jobs that once supported this Appalachian outpost of 20,000 people on a bend in the Ohio River have been disappearing: 100 laid off from the freight-rail maintenance shop; dozens pink-slipped at the oil refinery; 1,100 axed at the steel mill that looms over the landscape. Then, on June 1, 2018, standing on a stage flanked by the state’s governor and business leaders, Craig Bouchard, the CEO of Braidy Industries, pointed across a vast green field and described a vision as though he could already see it.
In the little-used park just off I-64, Braidy would build the largest aluminum mill constructed in the U.S. in nearly four decades. The $1.7 billion plant would take aluminum slab and roll it into the material used in everything from cars and planes to soda cans. It would employ 600 full-time workers earning twice the average salary in the region, Bouchard said, and create 18,000 other jobs across the state. Gesturing at the empty space around him, the CEO described an employee health center, a technical lab, a day care and hundreds of employees walking around “carrying iPads.” More than just making aluminum, the plant would help “rebuild northeast Kentucky, and in fact all of Appalachia,” Bouchard told the crowd.
There was just one problem: Bouchard still needed a major investor to make the vision a reality. After months of searching, the only option was problematic. Rusal, the Russian aluminum giant, was tailor-made to join forces on the project. But it was under sanctions imposed by the U.S. Treasury Department. Its billionaire owner, Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s, was being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller for his potential involvement in the effort to swing the 2016 presidential election. The Treasury sanctions—punishment for the Kremlin’s “malign activities” around the world, including “attempting to subvert Western democracies”—made it illegal for Americans to do business with Rusal or its boss.
So Bouchard faced a dilemma. Keeping his promise to bring good new jobs—a project that had already been touted by the White House—would mean partnering with a firm that had deep ties to the Kremlin. Which mattered more, the economic needs of a depressed region, or the national-security concerns raised by the Mueller investigation? Hundreds of miles from the congressional hearings and think-tank debates over Russian influence in Washington, Braidy Industries and the surrounding community had to weigh whether Russia’s 2016 plot had caused enough damage to American security, or American pride, to spurn a chance at an economic miracle.
Bouchard concluded they had no choice. He knew it could be controversial, if not outright illegal, to work on a deal with Rusal while it was still fighting to free itself from U.S. sanctions, he told TIME in an interview. But after a long talk with his lawyers about the risks of even discussing such a partnership, he traveled to Zurich in January 2019 for what he calls a “meet and greet” with a Rusal sales executive. Over dinner at La Rôtisserie, a restaurant with a view of the city’s 12th century cathedral, the executive told Bouchard that the company was ready to do business. “They said, ‘If we get the sanctions off, let’s meet again,’” he recalls. “And I said, ‘Wow, that’s interesting.’”
By mid-April, an exuberant Bouchard was standing at the New York Stock Exchange, announcing that the Russian company had purchased a 40% stake in the Ashland plant for $200 million. Back in Kentucky, the news was met with celebration and relief. “People who were skeptical are seeing that it’s big time,” says Chris Jackson, a 42-year-old former steel-mill worker. When he enrolled in a training program for the Braidy plant, Jackson recalls, many in the community doubted the jobs would ever materialize. “The Rusal agreement just showed everybody this is legit.”
But to some observers, the story of how a Kremlin-linked aluminum giant offered an economic lifeline to Appalachia is an object lesson of the exact opposite. Critics of the deal, both Democrat and Republican, say it gives Moscow political influence that could undermine national security. Pointing to Moscow’s use of economic leverage to sway European politics, they warn the deal is a stalking horse for a new kind of Russian meddling in America, one that exploits the U.S. free-market system instead of its elections. “That’s just what the Russians do,” says veteran diplomat Daniel Fried, who shaped U.S. policy on Eastern Europe at the State Department from the late 1980s until 2017. “They insert themselves into a foreign economy and then start to influence its politics from the inside.”
What worries national-security experts is not that Rusal, Braidy or Deripaska broke any laws in the deal. It’s that they didn’t. A TIME investigation found that Rusal used a broad array of political and economic tools to fight the sanctions, establishing a foothold in U.S. politics in the process. “You cannot go against them in a policy decision, even though it’s in our national interest, when they have infiltrated you economically,” says Heather Conley, who served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under President George W. Bush. “They use our laws, our rules, our banks, our lawyers, our lobbyists—it’s a strategy from within.”
To free itself from sanctions, Rusal fielded a team of high-paid lobbyists for an intense, months-long effort in Washington. One of the targets was Kentucky’s own Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, who helped thwart a bipartisan push to keep the sanctions in place. Since May, two of McConnell’s former staffers have lobbied Congress on behalf of Braidy, according to filings. Ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, one of Rusal’s longtime major shareholders, Len Blavatnik, contributed more than $1 million through his companies to a GOP campaign fund tied to McConnell.
Deripaska denies he has interest in meddling in U.S. affairs. “If they didn’t touch me, I wouldn’t have to be so interested in U.S. politics,” Deripaska told TIME in February, after attending a panel with U.S. lawmakers in Munich. “But here I am,” he added with a smile.
Backers of the deal say its critics are playing politics or being paranoid. The U.S. benefits from economic ties to foreign powers, they say, as long as everyone plays by our rules. McConnell, who declined an interview with TIME, told reporters in May that his position on Rusal was “completely unrelated to anything that might happen in my home state.” Blavatnik’s company, Access Industries, told TIME his donations to both Democrats and Republicans over the years were driven “only by a desire to further a pro-business, pro-Israel agenda,” not a pro-Russia one. Rusal says its motives are purely financial. “Rusal keeps out of politics in all its markets,” the company told TIME. Industry experts agree that, apart from any political dividends, the plant in Kentucky will likely reap significant profits for its owners.
Since taking office, President Donald Trump’s Administration has tightened the rules on foreign investments that could pose a threat to national security. But in Ashland, as at the White House, few people want to see the deal undone. In the hilly towns around Ashland and Greenup, the nexus between Rusal, Braidy and national security matters little next to the jobs the deal would bring. Some 11,000 people have already applied to work at the future mill, according to Braidy.
In the end, one of the lessons of the pact may be that the U.S. has its hands tied when it comes to this brand of Russian influence. Fighting back would cost jobs that Americans need. Deripaska, who personally remains under sanctions, is glad to point out the dilemma. As he put it to TIME in February: “By hitting us, you hit yourselves.”
John FlavellA crowd gathers at the groundbreaking for the new Braidy aluminum plant on June 1, 2018
Back when Bouchard and Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin broke ground in June 2018, they shared a bottle of Korbel and plenty of optimism. That October, Trump touted the new aluminum mill at a rally at Eastern Kentucky University, heralding it as a symbol of blue collar revival. Back in Ashland, locals praised Bouchard’s commitment to the region, pointing to his investments in scholarships and promising playground equipment for local schools. In an area struggling with the twin crises of job losses and the opioid epidemic, the tall, genial CEO with a contagious grin has embraced an image of economic savior. When he walks around Ashland, Bouchard says, “Middle-aged women will just come up to me crying and hug me.”
Some in the region literally banked their future on the mill. More than 100 people, many of them middle-aged workers laid off from local steel and railroad companies, shelled out $15,000 for a two-year degree at a Braidy-partnered community college, spurred by the prospect of a job at the new plant. “You can finally see the gleam of hope in people’s eyes,” says Judge Executive Robert Carpenter, the top elected official in Greenup County. “I go to sleep every night with a smile on my face about it.”
But by late fall 2018, doubt had crept in. At the plant’s future site, fading Braidy Driven banners from the groundbreaking were the only sign of the economic renaissance Bouchard promised. Company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed that Braidy was still hundreds of millions of dollars short. Local newspapers began to question the project. Bouchard’s Facebook page became a community message board of sorts, where hundreds of commenters divided themselves into cheerleaders or “nay-sayers” who pressed him for answers. “A lot of people in this area had lost hope,” recalls Justin Turner, a 26-year-old father of two who enrolled in the community-college program in hopes of landing a job at Braidy.
Bouchard felt the pressure. He grew desperate enough to accept help from just about anyone, he told TIME. “If they’re running a whorehouse, I wouldn’t say yes,” he says. “But literally any upstanding businessman from any country, any nationality, any religion, I’d welcome them. Help me rebuild Appalachia.”
It’s not that Bouchard didn’t know the risks involved in working with Russian billionaires. In 2008, he and his younger brother, Jim, sold their U.S. steel assets to a firm controlled by Alexey Mordashov, a Russian metals tycoon, in a transaction valued at around $775 million at the time. While the deal helped make them wealthy, it also deepened Bouchard’s concern over the role of Russian oligarchs in strategic U.S. industries. The next year, he co-authored a book titled “America for Sale,” which warned that foreign investors pose a threat to America’s economic and national security.
“[If] Putin harbors a nasty wish to throw a wrench into the works of the U.S. economy, then he now has acquired the means to do so,” Bouchard wrote. When it comes to industries vital to defense, like steel and aluminum, “the bottom line is that we believe it is risky business to trust Russian oligarchs,” the book concluded.
Emile Ducke—The New York Times/ReduxOleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch, in a hotel suite in Moscow, on March 27, 2019.
Ten years on, Bouchard’s warning looms over the deal he cut in Kentucky. As Europe’s largest aluminum producer, Rusal employs over 60,000 people in 13 countries. “The company is indispensable,” says Jorge Vazquez, head of Harbor Aluminum, a market-intelligence firm. Rusal even had a green story to tell: its smelters in Siberia run on hydropower, so it pollutes less than most rivals.
But the company has a troubled past. In the 1990s, an array of mobsters, oligarchs and corrupt officials fought a bloody turf war for control of the aluminum assets privatized by the Russian state. Deripaska emerged from the struggle victorious. Still in his early 30s, he managed to consolidate Russia’s key aluminum assets and form Rusal in 2000. He developed close ties with the Kremlin, becoming a “more or less permanent fixture on Putin’s trips abroad,” a 2006 U.S. embassy cable reported. The cable, later published by WikiLeaks, describes Deripaska as “among the 2-3 oligarchs Putin turns to on a regular basis.”
As his empire grew, Deripaska enlisted U.S. lobbyists to support his interests. Among them was GOP political operator Paul Manafort, who offered Deripaska a lobbying strategy that he said would benefit “the Putin Government,” according to the Mueller report. Manafort and Deripaska fell out in 2009 over unpaid debts.
But in the summer of 2016, Manafort became the chairman of the Trump campaign. “He owed us a lot of money,” one of Deripaska’s close aides, the former Russian intelligence officer Victor Boyarkin, told TIME in 2018. “And he was offering ways to pay it back.” Through intermediaries, Manafort sent Deripaska internal polling data and offered “private briefings” about the campaign, according to Mueller. As the special counsel investigated their relationship, the Treasury Department announced sanctions against Deripaska and Rusal in April 2018. In explaining the decision to sanction Deripaska, the Treasury Department cited allegations that he had, among other alleged offenses, “bribed a government official, ordered the murder of a businessman and had links to a Russian organized crime group.” Deripaska has denied these accusations as “groundless, ridiculous and absurd.” In a lawsuit filed in March in the District of Columbia, he accused the Treasury Department of “irrationality” for relying on such claims, which his lawyers said “originate from decades-old defamatory attacks by Deripaska’s business competitors.”
The announcement of sanctions sent ripples through the global economy. As companies scrambled to find new suppliers, aluminum prices surged 12% in a week, the largest increase since the 1980s. Deripaska claims he lost more than 80% of his net worth, or around $7.5 billion. The ensuing turmoil in the metals market helped Rusal fight back, as major corporations and European governments urged the U.S. to ease sanctions on the firm. “The U.S. government had some leverage, but Deripaska had leverage, too,” says Joshua Kirschenbaum, a former sanctions official at the Treasury Department. “It turned into a game of chicken.”
Luke Sharrett for TIMEA Braidy sign looms over the future location of the company’s aluminum mill in northeastern Kentucky
The man in charge of lobbying against the sanctions was Lord Gregory Barker of Battle, a British aristocrat. Even while serving in the House of Lords, Barker had agreed in 2017 to chair Deripaska’s conglomerate. Soon it fell to the former U.K. minister for energy and climate change to draft a strategy to free Rusal from sanctions by distancing the company from its owner. Dubbed the “Barker Plan,” it enlisted the bipartisan U.S. lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs to help win over Washington, at a fee of $108,500 per month, according to filings.
Mercury handed the assignment to a team of D.C. insiders that included former GOP Senator David Vitter and former Trump campaign aide Bryan Lanza. (Barker, Lanza and Vitter declined interview requests from TIME.) In marathon talks with the Treasury Department, the lobbyists argued that the U.S. had made a mistake in going after Rusal, former Treasury officials say. Allies in Europe agreed. Ambassadors from Germany, France, the U.K. and other E.U. states urged U.S. officials to ease the sanctions on Rusal and its parent company. They argued in a January 2019 letter to Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer that “the livelihoods of 75,000 workers across the European Union” depend on it. “The sanctions hurt everyone,” Deripaska wrote in an email to TIME on Aug. 13.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin came around to this logic. Ahead of G-20 meetings in July 2018, he told Reuters the goal was “not to put Rusal out of business.” So Rusal dangled a deal, offering to “permanently remove” Deripaska’s control over the firm by lowering his ownership stake to less than 50%, according to documents reviewed by TIME. After some discussions, Deripaska’s stake in Rusal’s parent company was reduced from 70% to 45%, with some of the difference going to family members and professional associates. A few days before Christmas, the Trump Administration announced it intended to lift the sanctions.
To some experts, it was a logical end to the face-off. “It was a reasonable deal,” says Brian O’Toole, a former sanctions expert at the Treasury Department under President Obama, “because the collateral damage of keeping that company under sanctions was so dramatic.” Under the deal to lift sanctions on Rusal, Deripaska, his family, and his close associates are also barred from using their shares to influence the company or to benefit from it.
But opponents of the deal say it’s laughable to believe Deripaska’s influence is really gone. “Ownership is the wrong test,” says Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, arguing Deripaska maintains influence over Rusal. Led by Schumer, Senators from both parties moved to block Treasury from lifting the sanctions. Yet Rusal had a powerful ally in McConnell, who backed Treasury’s move.
In recent weeks, McConnell has been taunted by protesters in Washington, on social media and back home, who have labeled him “Moscow Mitch” for his refusal to bring election-security legislation to a vote. It’s a moniker that has stuck in Kentucky, where Democrats started selling “Just Say Nyet to Moscow Mitch” merchandise, including Cossack hats. McConnell has slammed critics and the media for “modern-day McCarthyism” and says his record proves he has been tough on Russia.
Critics also seized on McConnell’s links to Blavatnik, a dual U.S. and U.K. citizen who is one of Rusal’s biggest shareholders. Born in the Soviet Union and naturalized in the U.S. in 1984, Blavatnik earned most of his fortune, estimated by Forbes at $16.5 billion, as a partner to Deripaska and other Russian oil and metals tycoons. Blavatnik’s family has donated to both Republicans and Democrats. But in recent years, his companies have been especially generous toward the GOP. Those contributions have since included a total of $3.5 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC run by McConnell’s former chief of staff, according to Federal Election Commission data. The money helped Republicans keep control of the Senate in the 2018 elections, securing McConnell’s perch as the majority leader.
In a floor speech on Jan. 15, McConnell insisted the deal with Treasury “would continue limiting” Deripaska’s influence over Rusal and noted that Treasury can reimpose sanctions at any time. The Senate vote on Rusal came the next day. Eleven GOP Senators joined 46 Democrats in voting to uphold the sanctions, but it wasn’t enough. The critics needed a 60-vote supermajority to override the Trump Administration, but fell short by three votes—two of which were cast by McConnell and Kentucky’s Republican junior Senator, Rand Paul. The following day, 136 House Republicans broke ranks and joined House Democrats to oppose lifting sanctions, a rare but symbolic rebuke.
Ten days later, the sanctions on Rusal were formally lifted. Eleven weeks after that, Rusal announced its deal with Braidy.
Luke Sharrett for TIMECSX Transportation Inc. railroad tracks run past the idled blast furnace on the grounds of AK Steel’s Ashland Works mill on May 15.
A month after the sanctions were lifted, one of Rusal’s U.S-based executives, Andrey Donets, arrived in Ashland with three of his colleagues. They spent two days discussing strategies, touring schools, dining at the local country club and meeting community leaders. At the end of their trip, Bouchard pulled out some Kentucky bourbon, poured it into plastic cups and raised a toast. “In what we do, you dream big,” he recalls telling his new partners. “Or you go home.”
Bouchard remains buoyant about the deal. In interviews with TIME, he said the U.S. has nothing to worry about. The new aluminum plant will serve civilian customers, carmakers and the food and beverage industry, he says. (A company website says its aluminum alloys could have “military applications” in the future.) Few in Kentucky are focused on geostrategic concerns. “Rusal is a company. It’s not a country,” says Carpenter, the judge executive in Greenup County. “That kind of an investment, I don’t care who it’s with.”
But not everyone in Kentucky was excited about the Russians’ arrival. After Donets’ visit, a red billboard funded by a liberal group was erected on a busy stretch of I-75: “Russian mob money . . . Really, Mitch?” “The only reason Oleg is here is because Mitch McConnell opened the gate,” says Representative Kelly Flood, a Democrat from Lexington. “We are now all aligned with this criminal.” The deal created unease among some Republicans too. “I would not have taken the Russian money,” James Comer, the GOP Congressman representing Kentucky’s First District, said on the day the partnership was announced.
Yet even critics of the deal were leery of the fallout from killing it. In 2017, Governor Bevin had cut an unusual agreement in which the state directly invested $15 million in the new aluminum mill. At least 750 investors, most from Kentucky, put in money as part of the “crowdfunding” portion of Braidy’s common stock offering, Bouchard said. In effect, Kentucky taxpayers were partners in the project. “To pull out as a state now is to pull out on the people of Ashland,” says Flood.
Other Western democracies have learned that such bonds can carry consequences. Oligarch-owned companies have helped the Kremlin influence politics across Europe. Since Putin came to power in 2000, Russia has used economic leverage to “force a change in policy” or undermine governments in at least 19 European countries, Laura Rosenberger, a former National Security Council official under Obama, told a House committee last May.
On rare occasions, Russian oligarchs have even described how this strategy works. “What is a factory in a one-factory town? It’s what all life revolves around,” the billionaire Dmitry Firtash, a longtime ally of the Kremlin in Ukraine, told TIME in a 2017 interview. “We don’t just pay wages. We provide the social safety net. So people believe us.” When he and his factories put their support behind a political cause or candidate, “that influences people,” Firtash explained. “That’s what ensures electoral support.”
Only in the context of the Mueller investigation have U.S. policymakers begun to worry whether the tools of economic influence that Russia honed in Europe could work just as well on American politics. Russia’s direct investments in the U.S. amounted to less than $4 billion in 2018—a relatively minor sum—although its billionaires have long had an outsize presence in some industries, including the tech sector. “The Obama Administration was slow in general to recognize the problem,” says Fried, the former State Department official. “We’ve come to realize we’re not so special in that regard. We’re just targets like everybody else.”
The fight is not over in Washington. Treasury “needs to take potential harm to national security from Rusal’s proposed investment seriously,” Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Committee on Finance, said in an Aug. 11 statement to TIME. Wyden has been pushing for a review of the deal. Other Democrats say if Rusal is banking on its investment in American jobs to protect it from future sanctions, that highlights a bigger problem. “The situation with Rusal broadly raises concerns that entities may in effect be ‘too big to sanction’ given the inter-connectedness of the global economy,” says a Senate Democratic aide.
It’s not as if the U.S. has no protections against malign foreign investment. But thanks to a regulatory loophole, the Rusal–Braidy deal skated past the agency that vets foreign investments for threats to national security. According to the mandate of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the agency does not investigate so-called greenfield projects, which are built from the ground up. And brand-new plants like the one in Ashland might just fit through that loophole, says Aimen Mir, who ran the agency for four years until 2018. As a general rule, he tells TIME, the agency tries to keep the U.S. as open as possible to legitimate foreign capital. “All other things being equal,” Mir says, “we should be welcoming of investment.”
That attitude has begun to shift under the Trump Administration. Through legislation passed last summer, CFIUS will get expanded powers to collect data on foreign investments and block the ones it deems to be a threat. In April, the agency pressured the Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman to sell his fund’s stake in a U.S. cybersecurity firm, Cofense Inc.
Those powers may soon be tested, because there are signs Rusal is not done investing in the U.S. Soon after the Kentucky deal was announced, Lord Barker sent a letter to the governors of eight more U.S. states. In the April 18 note, he touted the benefits of the Rusal investment and said the company was “eager to evaluate other opportunities around the country and your state in particular.”
To critics of Russian economic influence, the letter sounded one particularly ominous chord. “As part of our international growth strategy, we see significant opportunities across the whole industry value chain in North America,” Barker wrote. The investment in Kentucky, he added, “is just the beginning of our long-term ambitions.”
(HONG KONG) — Riot police clashed with pro-democracy protesters at Hong Kong’s airport late Tuesday night, moving into the terminal where the demonstrators had shut down operations at the busy transport hub for two straight days.
Officers armed with pepper spray and batons confronted the protesters who used luggage carts to barricade entrances to the airport terminal.
Police took several people into a police van waiting at the entrance to the airport’s arrivals hall.
Police said they tried to help ambulance officers reach an injured man whom protesters had detained on suspicion of being an undercover agent.
Protesters also detained a second man who they suspected of being an undercover agent. After emptying out his belongings, they found a blue T-shirt that has been worn by pro-Beijing supporters that they said was evidence he was a spy.
Earlier in the day, authorities were forced to cancel all remaining flights as the city’s pro-Beijing leader warned that the protesters had pushed events onto a “path of no return.”
After a brief period when flights were able to take off and land, the airport authority suspended check-in services for departing flights as of 4:30 p.m. Departing flights that had completed the process were able to continue to operate.
It said it did not expect arriving flights to be affected, although dozens were already canceled. The authority advised people not to come to the airport, one of the world’s busiest.
More than 200 flights were canceled Monday and the airport was effectively shut down with no flights taking off or landing. Passengers have been forced to stay in the city while airlines tried to find other ways to get them to their destinations.
For Grace Bendal, a 43-year-old contractor from the Philippines, Tuesday was the second straight day she came to the airport only to learn flights were canceled. She spent the weekend in Hong Kong with her primary school-age children, who were eager to return to classes.
She said they have already missed two days of school and the extra day in the city has cost her around 3,000 Hong Kong dollars ($400). Though there were no airline employees at check-in counters Tuesday evening, Bendal said she and her children planned to stay at the airport all night.
“I cannot blame them, because they are fighting for something,” Bendal said of the protesters. “But then it’s not right if we are the ones suffering.”
The airport disruptions are an escalation of a summer of demonstrations aimed at what many Hong Kong residents see as an increasing erosion of the freedoms they were promised in 1997 when Communist Party-ruled mainland China took over what had been a British colony.
The protests have built on an opposition movement that shut down much of the city for seven weeks in 2014 before it eventually fizzled and its leaders were jailed on public disturbance charges.
The central government in Beijing has ominously characterized the current protest movement as something approaching “terrorism” that poses an “existential threat” to citizens.
While Beijing tends to define terrorism broadly, extending it especially to nonviolent movements opposing government policies in minority regions such as Tibet and Xinjiang, its use of the term in relation to Hong Kong raised the prospect of greater violence and the possible suspension of legal rights for those detained.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said the instability, chaos and violence have placed the city on a “path of no return.”
The black-clad demonstrators have shown no sign of letting up on their campaign to force Lam’s administration to respond to their demands, including that she step down and scrap proposed legislation under which some suspects could be sent to mainland China, where critics say they could face torture and unfair or politically charged trials.
Lam has rejected all calls for dialogue, part of what analysts say is a strategy to wear down the opposition movement through police action while prompting demonstrators to take more violent and extreme actions that will turn the Hong Kong public against them. At the airport, protesters discussed among themselves whether they should simply block all access to the facility.
Meanwhile, paramilitary police were assembling across the border in the city of Shenzhen for exercises that some saw as a threat to increase force against the mostly young protesters who have turned out by the thousands in the past 10 weeks.
While China has yet to threaten sending in the army — as it did against pro-democracy protesters in Beijing in 1989 — the Shenzhen exercises were a sign of its ability to crush the demonstrations, even at the cost to Hong Kong’s reputation as a safe haven for business and international exchange. Images on the internet showed armored personnel carriers belonging to the People’s Armed Police driving in a convoy Monday toward the site of the exercises.
The People’s Liberation Army also stations a garrison in Hong Kong, which recently released a video showing its units combating actors dressed as protesters. Hong Kong police also put on a display of water cannons.
Police have arrested more than 700 protesters since June and say they have infiltrated the demonstrators, leading to concerns that officers were inciting violence. Scores of protesters and police have been hurt, including a woman reported to have had an eye ruptured by a beanbag round fired by police during clashes Sunday.
Police said they are investigating the incident, which protesters have taken up as a rallying cry. Some in the airport occupation wore gauze bandages dyed with artificial blood over one eye.
The U.N.’s top human rights official condemned violence around the protests and urged both sides to settle their dispute through “open and inclusive dialogue.”
Rupert Colville, spokesman for U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, said her office had reviewed evidence that police are using “less-lethal weapons in ways that are prohibited by international norms and standards.” That includes firing tear gas canisters into crowded, enclosed areas and directly at individuals, “creating a considerable risk of death or serious injury,” Colville said in a statement.
In a sign of rising tensions, protesters in the evening detained a man they claimed was a police officer from mainland China. They tied his wrists using plastic strips and poured water over his head. Airport security guards were present but did not appear to be able to stop the crowd.
Sally Tong, an 18-year-old protester, said they needed to keep holding him as evidence that mainland Chinese authorities are in Hong Kong to monitor the demonstrations. Tong said the man was dressed in black and wore a mask to look like one of them.
“We want to keep him here and investigate,” Tong said. Protesters said the man dropped his wallet when he was running away from them, and they found ID cards from mainland China and also found his name on a list of police officers online.
The Associated Press could not independently verify his identity.
After two months, the protests have become increasingly divisive and prompted clashes across the city.
Demonstrators have recently focused on their demand for an independent inquiry into what they call the police’s abuse of power and negligence. That followed reports and circulating video of violent arrests and injuries sustained by protesters.
Some protesters have thrown bricks, eggs and flaming objects at police stations. Police say several officers have suffered burns, bruises and eye damage from protesters.
Lam said dialogue would only begin when the violence ended. She reiterated her support for police and said they have had to make on-the-spot decisions under difficult circumstances, using “the lowest level of force.”
“After the violence has been stopped, and the chaotic situation that we are seeing could subside,” Lam said. “I as the chief executive will be responsible to rebuild Hong Kong’s economy … to help Hong Kong to move on.”
She did not elaborate on any conciliatory steps her government will take.
The early protests were in specific neighborhoods near government offices. However, the airport protest has had a direct impact on business travel and tourism. Analysts said it could make foreign investors think twice about setting up shop in Hong Kong, which has long prided itself as being Asia’s leading business city with convenient air links across the region.
“I don’t think I will ever fly to Hong Kong again,” said Kerry Dickinson of South Africa.
The protesters held signs in Chinese and English to appeal to travelers from mainland China and elsewhere. “Democracy is a good thing,” said one sign in simplified Chinese characters.
Adding to the protesters’ anger, Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways told employees the carrier has a “zero tolerance” for them joining “illegal protests” and warned they could be fired.
(KINSHASA, Congo) — Doctors in Congo say that two Ebola patients who were treated with new anti-Ebola drugs in Goma in eastern Congo have been declared “cured.”
Doctors fighting Ebola quickly used the case on Tuesday to press the message that people with Ebola can recover if they seek proper care.
Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe, director of Congo’s National Institute for Biomedical Research, said Ebola is dangerous but it is also curable with proper treatment.
Muyembe said two new drugs are now being used to treat Ebola patients because tests have shown they are effective.
He said there is less danger that Ebola will spread through Goma, the capital of North Kivu province with more than 2 million inhabitants, because about 200 contacts and suspected cases have been identified and have received proper medication.
(SEREMBAN, Malaysia) — Malaysian police said Tuesday the family of a missing 15-year-old London girl has positively identified a naked body found near the nature resort where she disappeared over a week ago.
Police said rescuers earlier Tuesday found the body of a female Caucasian beside a small stream in steep terrain about 2 ½ kilometers (1 ½ miles) from the Dusun eco-resort in southern Negeri Sembilan state, where Nora Anne Quoirin went missing Aug. 4. The body was airlifted to a hospital for identification and an autopsy.
“The family members have been brought here to identify the body that we recovered earlier and the family has confirmed that the body is Nora Anne,” Negeri Sembilan police chief Mohamad Mat Yusop told reporters at the hospital morgue.
Quoirin’s family arrived Aug. 3 for a two-week stay at the Dusun, a small resort located in a durian orchard next to a forest reserve 63 kilometers (39 miles) south of Kuala Lumpur.
Police believe the teen, who has learning and physical disabilities, climbed out through an open window in the living room of the resort cottage. They listed her as a missing person but said the investigation included possible criminal aspects of the case. The girl’s family says she isn’t independent and wouldn’t wander off alone, and was likely to have been abducted.
Mohamad said a senior pathologist will conduct a post mortem Wednesday morning to determine the cause of death.
National deputy police chief Mazlan Mansor earlier told a news conference that the body, which “was not in any clothing,” was found by volunteers registered with the rescue team Tuesday afternoon in an area that had previously been searched by rescuers. He didn’t explain how long the body had been there or why rescuers apparently missed it.
Nearly 350 people have been involved in a massive search operation that included sniffer dogs, elite commando forces and thermal detectors, but no evidence had been turned up until the discovery of the body on Tuesday. Police from Ireland, France and the U.K. are also on site to assist in the investigation. The girl’s mother is from Ireland and her father is French, but the family has lived in London for 20 years.
On Monday, the mother, Meabh Quoirin, announced a 50,000 ringgit ($11,900) reward, donated by a Belfast-based business, for information leading to the recovery of her daughter.
Mass demonstrations have pushed the Chinese-ruled territory of Hong Kong into its most serious crisis in decades. The international airport has been at a standstill since Monday, while an increasing number of shops have been shuttered and thoroughfares blockaded.
In 1997, Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule under a “one country, two systems” mode of governance, guaranteeing the city a high degree of autonomy, an independent judiciary and freedoms not allowed in mainland China. The fifty-year agreement is due to expire in 2047.
Nearly two million people have taken to the Hong Kong streets since June to protest a proposed extradition bill, which would have allowed suspected criminals to be sent to mainland China for trial. Critics have said it would threaten Hong Kong’s legal freedoms, and could be used to silence political dissidents.
Hong Kong’s last British governor says protestors are up standing up for their freedoms, which have been “whittled” away under the Chinese President Xi Jinping. Chris Patten, a former Conservative Party minister who governed Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997, helped push through constitutional reforms in the final years of U.K. rule that were later dismantled by the Chinese government. Now retired from politics, he is Chancellor of Oxford University.
Patten spoke with TIME by phone on Aug. 7 about what’s at stake for Hong Kong and China as the unrest continues. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
What is your sense of Hong Kong’s identity?
Most residents in Hong Kong are ethnically Chinese but have a strong sense of citizenship. That’s not surprising because it’s been a great international trading city, it has the rule of law, some fine universities, it did have a completely free press. It had all the freedoms associated with a plural and open society except the ability to elect its own government. That is what people regard as defining who they are. While they don’t deny their Chineseness, they do say that they’re Hong Kong Chinese.
How has China leveraged influence over Hong Kong?
For the first ten years after 1997, I think Hong Kong did pretty well. China by and large kept its side of the bargain on the “one country, two systems” agreement.
Things have changed since Xi Jinping came became President in 2013. I think that just as he’s cracked down on any sign of dissidence in mainland China, he’s been keen to exert greater control through the joint liaison office in Hong Kong and through United Front activists in Hong Kong. There’s been whittling away of free speech and the autonomy of universities, and an undermining of the rule of law.
It’s a terrible error for the Beijing authorities to have behaved in a way that makes people in Hong Kong fear the Chinese government. And it’s appallingly bad for China’s image. But for the last few years, the Chinese Communist Party hasn’t cared very much [about their image] as they’ve been tightening their control over everything. If China breaks its word over Hong Kong, how can you trust China anywhere else?
Why has there been such strong public opposition?
The extradition law built on people’s anxieties in Hong Kong because over the last few years they’ve gradually seen their freedoms whittled away.It would haveknocked down, dismantled the firewall between the rule of law in Hong Kong, and put in laws that are determined by the Communist Party in mainland China.
But it was handled terribly by Hong Kong’s Chief Executive (Carrie Lam). After the first big demonstrations, the government didn’t back off, it didn’t bury the bill. Instead, officials said they were postponing the bill. They tried to find a way of appearing to back down without actually doing so. The second thing that has triggered the protests is the violent way that the demonstrations were handled.
How do you think the government will respond to continued protests?
I imagine that the Hong Kong government and the people who pull the strings in Beijing think that if they do nothing the fire will burn out – the demonstrations will stop – and they’ll use the courts to send as many to prison as possible.
I don’t think China will intervene militarily. That would bring back a lot of memories of Tiananmen and it would be extremely bad for China’s relations with other countries, and of course calamitous for Hong Kong.
If China can only accept the sovereignty of Hong Kong on the basis of sending in troops and tanks, it would be an appalling error.
China is a very powerful nation with no notion of the importance of human rights and the rule of law. When you see what’s happening in Xinjiang with the development of a totalitarian, surveillance state – it’s obviously a worry that China – a very important country in the world – doesn’t share the same view of human rights, due process and accountable government that the rest of us have.
What’s is the future of Hong Kong’s pro democracy movement?
Since almost two million people have protested against the extradition agreement, there is clearly a huge part of Hong Kong opinion that feels very strongly about these matters.
The government must begin a process of reconciliation. Before things get totally out of control, before someone gets killed or very badly injured, the officials need to find a way to talk to not just the demonstrators who they have accused of violence, but the overwhelming majority of people in Hong Kong.
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Intelligence Bureau Result 2019 – Get MHA IB Security Assistant Tier 1 Result 2019 here @ mha.gov.in – Dear Folks!!!!! Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is ready to upload the Security Assistant (Executive) Result. Candidates those who had taken part in the MHA Security Assistant (Executive) Examination on 17th February 2019 can verify your result from the below link. Aspirants who applied for the MHA Intelligence Bureau can check the exam result, names of candidates who are shortlisted for interview, and the final selection list details here.
MHA IB Security Assistant Result 2019 @ mha.gov.in
MHA IB Security Assistant Result 2019 will be released shortly. As we know a huge number of candidates are Expected date IB Result 2019. Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Intelligence Bureau Result 2019 will upload on the official website by this month August (Tentatively). The Security Assistant Post has been announced for 1054 Vacancies. Along with these applicants can get the direct link for the Intelligence Bureau PA Result 2019 So applicants can keep track on this page to receive the Live Updates regarding the MHA IB Security Assistant Tier 1 Result 2019. Also, we have provided a direct link for the MHA IB Security Assistant Cut Off Marks 2019 & MHA IB Security Assistant Merit List 2019.
MHA IB Security Assistant Tier 1 Result 2019 – Overview
Also, all the applicants can get IB Security Assistant Answer Key 2019 before the Result announcement. Through the Answer Keys, candidates can get an idea about their Result. Candidates can refer to the above table through this, anyone can find the complete details about the MHA IB Security Assistant Result. If you analysis the MHA IB security assistant tier 1 exam held recently, it is clear that there were 100 marks and candidates were given two hours to answer the paper. Out of the 100 questions in the question paper, 40 questions on general awareness, 20 questions on quantitative aptitude, 20 questions on logical/ analytical ability and 20 questions on the English language.
Each question carried one mark. There was negative marking of 0.25 marks for each wrong answer. According to the media reports, the level of the questions asked in tier 1 written exam indicates that for General category candidates, cut off marks is expected to be between 75-80, while the cut-off for OBC candidates is expected to be between 65-75. The Authorities of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had given the MHA IB Security Assistant Cut Off Marks 2019 before the release of the IB Security Assistant Result 2019.
Category of candidate
Total marks (Maximum marks)
Cut off Marks/ Minimum Qualifying Marks
UR (General)
100
35
OBC
100
34
SC /ST
100
33
Ex-serviceman- UR
100
35
Ex-Serviceman- OBC
100
34
Ex-Serviceman- SC/ ST
100
33
MHA IB Security Assistant Merit List 2019: Get Direct link for MHA IB Result 2019
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) will soon announce the MHA IB Security Assistant Merit List 2019 along with the Results. Because the officials will decide the Merit list based on the Results, that the Students which have scored in the Maximum marks in the Examination. And also, note that the availability of Merit List will be only on the Official website @ mha.gov.in. Hence, based on the Merit List of the MHA IB Security Assistant Tier 1 Exam, candidates will be qualified for the Tier II (Descriptive) Examination. Candidates should achieve good marks in the Tier II Exam in order to get placed in the post of Security Assistant (Executive) in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
How to check the MHA IB Security Assistant Result?
Initially visit the Official website of MHA @ mha.gov.in.
There on the Home page of the Ministry of Home Affairs, if you scroll down, you will find the What's New column.
Over there, search for the link of the IB Security Assistant Result 2019.
Make a click on it, a new page opens.
Then, fill all the details for login purpose such as the Registration Number, Date Of Birth, Password, Verification Code (if necessary).
Submit all given details.
Hence, the MHA IB Security Assistant Result 2019 will be displayed on the screen.
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Are you searching for Indian Post Office GDS Syllabus & Exam pattern Pdf? Then, you are in the right place for your search. Indian Post Office GDS Syllabus for Gramin dak Sevaks, Staff Car Driver is given on this page along with exam pattern details. Applicants who are applying for Indian Post Office Jobs 2019 from any region, can make use of this syllabus & exam pattern to score better marks in www.indiapost.gov.in Exam 2019. for much more details read further sections of the article.
Indian Post Office GDS Syllabus Pdf
The candidates who are looking for Indian Post Office Recruitment 2019 jobs here is a golden opportunity for you. Indian Post Office officials released recruitment notification for various Gramin Dak Sevak & Staff Car Driver posts. All the interested & eligible aspirants are hereby informed to apply for the job before the last date commenced. Here we are providing a free download link of Indian Post Office GDS Exam syllabus & exam pattern pdf.
It takes a bit of hard work to crack the postal circle exam successfully. The officials of the postal circle will announce the Indian Post Office GDS exam date 2019 on their official website. We will update it on our page as soon as it is released by the Board. Stay connected to our page for much more updates. We have also given Indian Post Office Previous Papers that would help in the preparation of the exam.
Indian Post Office Gramin Dak Sevak (GDS) Syllabus – Overview
Indian Post Office (Postal Circle) Exam Pattern 2019
Having knowledge of the Indian Post Office GDS exam pattern, syllabus helps candidates in understanding the structure of the exam along with the type of questions asked in the exam. Thus, check the below table to understand the exam pattern in a better way.
(All Regions) Indian Post Office Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS) Exam Paper Pattern 2019
Subject
Marks
Duration
Mathematics
100
1 1/2 Hour (90 Minutes)
General Intelligence
Reasoning Ability
General Science
General Awareness
The exam will be of Online Test / Written Exam
It will consist of Objective Type Questions
The language of the question paper will be in English or Any languages depending on particular regions.
Telangana Post Office Staff Car Driver Exam Pattern 2019
Sl. No
Topics
1
Simple Arithmetics
2
Removal of minor defects in the vehicle
3
Driving Test to assess the competency of candidates to drive the vehicles
The date & Venue of the test will be intimated separately to eligible candidates.
Indian Post Office GDS Exam Syllabus Pdf
The syllabus of Gramin Dak Sevak (All regions) Exam of Indian Post Office Board is given below subject wise.
Karnataka Post Office Syllabus & exam pattern pdf – General Knowledge
Geography of India
National news
Indian Culture
Scientific observations
History of India
International issues
Economic issues in India
World organizations
Countries and capitals
Science and innovations
Important Dates
Famous Places
National Dance
Music & Literature
Tourism spots of Historical Importance
Sculptures
Musical Instruments etc
Political Science
Famous Places in India
About India and it's neighboring countries
New inventions
National and international current affairs
Books And Author
Handicrafts
Tribes, Artists
Gujarat Post Office Syllabus & Exam Pattern Pdf – Reasoning Ability
Spatial Orientation
Analysis
Judgment
Arithmetic Reasoning
Similarities & Differences
Decision Making
Non-Verbal series
Verbal and Figure Classification
Syllogistic Reasoning
Analogies
Arithmetical Number Series
Observation
Visual Memory
Relationship Concepts
Coding & Decoding
Statement Conclusion
Spatial Visualization
Mathematics
Trigonometric functions
Solutions of triangle
Matrices and determinants
Probability
Discrimination
Problem Solving
Mathematical induction
Complex numbers
Exponential and logarithm series
Mathematical logic
Boolean Algebra
Logarithm
Statistics
Assam Post Office Syllabus & Exam Pattern Pdf – Mathematics
Exponential and logarithm series
Solutions of triangle
Matrices and determinants
Probability
Trigonometric functions
Mathematical induction
Complex numbers
Mathematical logic
Boolean algebra
Logarithm
Statistics
Bihar Post Office Syllabus & Exam Pattern Pdf – Numerical Ability
Time & Distance
Ratio and proportion
Time & Work
Interest
Profit & Loss
Discount
Decimals
Percentages
Number Systems
Fractions
Punjab Post Office Syllabus & Exam Pattern Pdf – General English
BTEUP Result 2019 Released Today i.e 13th August 2019 (12.30 PM) @ bteup.ac.in | UP Diploma Polytechnic 2nd, 4th, 6th Semester Results – UP Board of Technical Education conducts Diploma Exams. Many candidates have attended for these exams. The candidates who have attended for these exams are eagerly waiting for BTE UP Result 2019. Now it is time to release UP BTE Polytechnic Result 2019. We update the direct link for UP BTE Diploma 1st, 2nd, 3rd-year Result 2019 here. You can also check UP BTEDiploma Result on board of technical education official website.
BTEUP Result 2019 – 2nd, 4th, 6th Semesters
Organization Name
Uttar Pradesh Board of Technical Education (BTEUP)
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UP Board Of Technical Education
UP Board Of Technical Education and Training was established in the month of May 1958. The Board conducted its first examination in 1960. It conducts exams for courses of diploma level and also for Draughtsman Certificate Course. state Board of Technical Education And training is changed as “Board Of Technical Education” in 1962. In the same year, the UP Pravidhic Shiksha Adhiniyam – 1962was enacted awarding the Board statutory status. In the year 1962, year of its inception, the Board held the examination of about 2500 students, in three major disciplines of Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at 25 different Centers/Institutions.
UP BTE Diploma 1st, 2nd, 3rd-year Result 2019
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BTE UP Results Details
Organization Name: UP Board Of Technical Education.
Name of the Exam: Diploma Exams
Category: Results.
Web site name : www.bteup.in.
Status: Declared.
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Arunachal Pradesh PSC Result2019 | PGT Final Result Announced @ appsc.gov.in | Cut Off Marks, Merit List – The APPSC Board generally announces the Result online. So, the candidates who appeared for the Arunachal Pradesh PSC TGT, PGT Result can check the Result online. However, we help you in finding the Arunachal Pradesh PSC Result easily here. Also, we provide a direct link for respective Arunachal Pradesh PSC Result 2019 below. Furthermore, check the Cut Off, Merit List and the Final Result details and links in the sections below. Moreover, visit the official website for any queries regarding the Arunachal Pradesh PSC Result 2019.
Arunachal Pradesh PSC PGT Result 2019 – Click Here
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Arunachal Pradesh PSC TGT, PGT Exam Result Download 2019
The APPSC Board announces the Result generally after the month or twice for the date of Examination. So, we can expect the APPSC TGT, PGT Result in the month of September/October 2019. However, candidates can check other details like Cut Off Marks, Merit List, and the Final Result in the sections below.
TGT, PGT Cut Off, Merit List & Final Result @appsc.gov.inn
The Cut Off is the minimum marks the candidates have to get in the written examination. The Merit List is generally prepared by the APPSC Authorities with the list of aspirants who score minimum marks in the TGT, PGT Written Examination. So, check the Merit List in the links below when announces. Similarly, the Final Result or the Final selection List is given at the end of the selection process. The Selection Process is ended after the final selection announces. Keep visiting we update all Arunachal Pradesh PSC Result details here.
Steps to check the Arunachal Pradesh PSC Result 2019
Click on the link APPSC Result given below.
We Redirect you to the Official APPSC Result page.
Look for the respective result link and open
Later, enter the login details if required or download the PDF Directly.
The Arunachal Pradesh PSC Result is displayed on a new page.
Keep the result copy safe until the end of the selection process.
TANCET Result 2019 – Anna University is going to release the Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test Result 2019 in the month of July. The test takers can check their result status from the TANCET Official website i.e, tancet.annauniv.edu/tancet19/. The exam qualifiers will be eligible for admissions to MBA/ MCA and ME/M.Tech./ M.Arch/ M.Plan degree programs. This year, TANCET 2019 has been conducted on 22&23rd June 2019. TANCET Marksheets can be downloaded from July 5 onwards (tentatively) using the Login ID & Password generated at the time of registration.
TANCET Exam Result 2019
Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test (TANCET) 2019 conducted by Anna University, Chennai on behalf of the Government of Tamil Nadu from candidates who seek admission to M.B.A., M.C.A., and M.E. / M.Tech. / M.Arch. / M.Plan. Degree Programmes for the academic year 2019 – 2020. Anna University releases 3 separate TANCET Rank Lists viz. GATE Category Rank List, TANCET Category and Sponsored Category. TANCET 2019 Exam Date, TANCET Result date we have mentioned in the below table. Here on this page applicants can get the direct link to download their www.annauniv.edu tancet 2019 Result.
Candidates are advised to keep their result safe until the completion of the counseling process. On the basis of TANCET rank list, candidates will be called for counseling. Candidates will have to show their scorecard at the time of verification of documents. Candidates qualifying the cutoff will participate in the counseling rounds, expected to begin on July 2019. Shortlisted candidates need to fill a separate application form for the counseling. Tamil Nadu Common Admission (TANCA) will hold the counseling rounds and admit candidates to various colleges in Tamil Nadu.
Highlights of TANCET Result 2019
TANCET 2019 Result Date
July 5, 2019 (tentative)
Official Website
annauniv.edu
Announcing Body
Anna University
Details required to check TANCET Result
User ID & Password
Applicability of TANCET Score
M.E., M.Tech, MBA, MCA, M.Arch and M.Plan
The validity of TANCET Result 2019
1 year
TANCET Helpline
2220 0303
Merit list of the qualified and successful candidates will be prepared by the Anna University on the basis of score obtained in TANCET 2019. Merit List is prepared on the basis of marks obtained by candidates in TANCET 2019. Anna University prepares 3 separate TANCET Rank Lists for admission viz, GATE 2019 Category Merit List, TANCET 2019 Category Merit List and Sponsored Category Merit List.
TANCET 2019 cut off score is the minimum marks a candidate must obtain in order to qualify the exam. TANCET 2019 cut off score is based on many factors such as, After the declaration of TANCET 2019 Result, Anna University will release the qualifying cutoffs for each course and subsequently students will be called for the counseling process.
Total number of candidates appearing in TANCET 2019 Examination
Total number of candidates who passed the examination
Total number of seats
The difficulty level of question paper
TANCET 2019 Result Date
TANCET 2019 Exam Date
22nd & 23rd June 2019
Publication of TANCET Answer Keys 2019
Last week of June 2019
TANCET 2019 Result Date
05th July 2019 (Tentative)
TANCET 2019 Counselling Date
08th July 2019 (Tentative)
TANCET 2019 Rank Card/Marksheet is one of the most important documents. It will carry the following information. Make sure your personal details are correct and true.
TANCET Rank
Roll Number
Normalized Score
Nationality
TANCET 2019 Counselling
Candidates, who clear TANCET 2019 Cut off will be called to appear in the counseling process to get admission into Anna University, Government, private and Self-financing Colleges in Tamil Nadu. TANCET 2019 Counselling procedure will take place after the declaration of the result. It will tentatively start in the month of July 2019. The admission will be based on the merit list position and marks secured by the candidates in the examination. There will be a different counseling process for each course. Candidates are required to register for TANCET 2019 Counselling Procedure at the official site of Anna University.
Steps to check Anna University TANCET Result 2019?
Initially visit the official website of Anna University i.e, www.annauniv.edu
Click on the link "TANCET 2019 Result"
After clicking on the link, candidates have to provide their User ID & Password
After furnishing all the details, candidates will be redirected to their Scorecard.
TANCET 2019 Result will be displayed on the screen in the form of mark sheet
Candidates are advised to check all the particulars mentioned in the result and take a print out of it.
UP ITI Result 2019 – Get UP ITI 02nd Round Seat Allotment here @ admissionscvtup.in 2019 – Uttar Pradesh UP SCVT/ VPPUP ITI has recently uploaded the First Round Allotment Result for the ITI Govt. and Private Admission in Various Trades 2019 on 27th July 2019. Those candidates who have applied for this Exam Can Download Result from the below link. Applicants can find the quick link to access your UP ITI First Round Seat Allotment. The result link has activated for both Government and Private colleges, applicants need to enter the Registration number and Date of Birth.
UP ITI 02nd Round Seat Allotment Result 2019 – SCVTUP will soon announce UP ITI Second Merit List/List of selected candidates for the 2nd round counseling. All candidates who will participate in 2nd round counseling will be able to check their name in 2nd round college allotment result are now waiting for the 2nd Merit List. As per the latest update, UP ITI 2nd Round Seat Allotment Result 2019 will be announced on August 2019. All candidates are advised to stay in touch with this page for more latest updates. All those Students can check UP ITI Counselling 2019 Result from the direct link. Students are just by clicking one direct link UP VPPUP ITI Result 2019 to know your status.
UP ITI 01st Round Seat Allotment Result 2019 – To get an Admission for UP ITI Students have appeared for the Counselling process of UP ITI Seat Allotment. And currently the UP SCVT ITI Admission 2019 officials have released the UP ITI Seat Allotment Result 2019 for First round. The UP ITI Admission 2019 Team has released the UP ITI Seat Allotment 2019 for the Government and Private Colleges on 27th July 2019. All those Students can check UP ITI Counselling 2019 Result from the direct link. Students are just by clicking one direct link UP VPPUP ITI Result 2019 to know your status.
Candidates those who have appeared for the UP ITI Counselling 2019 can check your First round seat allotment result from the below link. Moreover, applicants can get the complete UP ITI Seat Allotment 2019 from the official website admissionscvtup.in 2019. Addition to this here we have mentioned the UP ITI Merit List 2019 Date, UP ITI First Round Seat Allotment result date, UP ITI Registration @www.vppup.in link. We advise the Students to keep track on this page to get the Second, Third, Fourth & other Round Seat Allotment Result. Because we will update the latest result link it will activate after the announcement of the Result.
UP ITI Cut off 2019 will play an important role in the UP ITI Admission 2019, because based on the UP ITI Cut off marks students will get the seat allotment. If the Students get the UP ITI Cut off 2019 then students can select the colleges by their choice. The officials will announce the Cutoff marks and which is based on some categories. All those students may get the UP ITI Merit List. This will be based on the cut off marks. If the applicants get the high Cut off marks, applicants name will attain into the Merit list.
UP ITI Merit List | UP VPPUP ITI Result
Students will be called for the Counselling process based on the UP ITI Merit List 2019. If the applicants get secured top 10 UP ITI Merit List 2018-19, they can attend the Counselling process. Also, Students can choice filling the application form for the Colleges. Applicants can get the UP ITI Admission 2019 easily with the UP ITI Merit List. Students should attend the counseling process with the UP ITI Merit List 2018-19. Although here we have given some steps to download UP ITI First Round Seat Allotment Result.
How to check the UP ITI First Round Seat Allotment?
Initially visit the official website of the State and Private I.T.I. Entry i.e, admissionscvtup.in
On the home page click on the Seat allocation process
A new page will be open, in that click on the link UP ITI Seat Allotment Result 2019
UP ITI First Round Seat Allotment page will be open,
Enter the registration number and Date of Birth to get यूपी आईटीआई परिणाम 2019
Applicants can check and download the results for further reference.
TSRTC Result 2019 – Junior Assistant Result Released. The Candidates those who appeared for the TSRTC Exam 2019 can check the result. The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation announces the Result in its official page. However, as the official page will be busy on the day of result, we help you find the TSRTC Result easily. Also, we provide you a direct link to check your TSRTC Result 2019. Furthermore, check the Cut Off, Merit List and the Final Result details in the sections below. Also, Aspirants can visit the official website i.e., www.tsrtconline.in for more details about TSRTC Result 2019.
TSRTC Result 2019 – Overview
Name of the Organization
Telangana State Road Transport Corporation Limited
The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation Limited generally, announces the result after the month or twice from the date of TSRTC Exam. However, the TSRTC Recruitment Notification for Junior Assistant mentioned the Exam date as 7th October 2019. The Expected date for TSRTC Result 2019 in November/December 2019. So, the candidates need to wait few more days to check the TSRTC Result. Also, keep visiting our page we update the link immediately when the result is out.
The Cut off Marks announces along with the result or after 3-4 days from the date of result. Moreover, the cut off is the minimum marks the candidates need to score to get qualified for the next round. so, check the cut off along with the TSRTC Cut Off Marks 2019. Also, get the TSRTC Merit list and final result details in the section below.
Telangana State RTC Jobs Merit List & Final Resul 2019
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CISF Result 2019 – Board ofCentral Industrial Security Force authorities has been announced the Final Results of CISF Constable Driver Result 2019. We know that those who are appeared for the CISF Constable Driver Result 2019 for Written Exam, Physical Endurance Test (PET), Physical Standard Test (PST), Medical Standards are waiting for the Result. Now, CISF has been released the results and everyone can get the CISF Result 2019 from the official website i.e, cisfrectt.in. Here we have provided a direct link to download List of Shortlisted Candidates for Medical Examination of Constable/Driver & DCPO from the below table.
CISF Constable (Driver) Result 2019
Those Candidates who will get the Qualifying Marks in the CISF Constable Driver Result, they will be forwarded to Participated in the Interview Rounds. At the time of the Interview rounds, candidates have to carry the Central Industrial Security Force Driver Result card along with the Testimonials, that the candidates have attached in the time of filling the Application Process for the CISF Constable Driver Recruitment 2018-19.
Central Industrial Security Force has earlier invited Online Applications for recruitment of 447 Constable Driver Posts in CISF DCPO-2017 under direct recruitment. CISF has released all the results for the Constable Driver Posts like Written Exam, Physical Endurance Test (PET), Physical Standard Test (PST), Medical Standards and the finally shortlisted list will be declared. Applicants can get the Complete results from this article and they can download the CISF Result with the help of the Direct links provided below in the table.
The exam organizer board is going to release CISF Constable Driver Cut Off Marks 2019. In general, board officials will prepare the Central Industrial Security Force Constable Driver Cut Off 2019 based on some factors like Number of Vacancies, Performance of the Candidates in the Exam, Question Paper Difficulty… etc. The cut-off marks in each post and each category with reference to the number of vacancies in each post and each category. The minimum percentage of marks for qualification for the next stage will be as under General /ESM: 35 % | SC/ST/OBC: 33 %.
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The number of candidates to be called for the 2nd stage would purely depend on merit in the written examination for which qualifying marks would be 35% for General and Ex-Serviceman and 33% for SC/ST/OBC. After completion of the written examination, a single combined and common merit list would be drawn for Constable/Driver post. However to help individuals easily get their results we have provided direct links and steps. Only those contenders name mentioned in the CISF Constable Driver Merit List 2019 can attend for further rounds. However, get ready with your hall ticket and follow the steps to check your results.
Steps to Check CISF Constable (Driver) Results
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A new page will be open with Pdf file
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Important Links for CISF Results 2019
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ECIL Recruitment 2019 – Walk in Interview for 21 Technical Officer & Scientific Assistant-A Vacancies. Electronics Corporation of India Limited has announced career notification for 21 vacancies to fill the Technical Officer & Scientific Assistants – A posts. Individuals completed Engineering Degree and having experience in a relevant field can apply for the Electronics Corporation of India Limited Job vacancies through ECIL Recruitment. Walk-in-Interview will be conducted on scheduled dates for the specific posts of ECIL Careers.
Aspirants should appear for the interview with the application form and original documents. Selected candidates will be recruited for the project requirements of the Security System and Projects Division. Aspirants selected for Scientific Assistant-A Post will have work in ARIES, Nainital, Uttarakhand and Technical Officers will be placed at New Delhi. Interested candidates can check vacancy details and other related details regarding ECIL Careers @ careers.ecil.co.in Recruitment 2019.
Overview of ECIL Technical Officer Recruitment 2019
Eligibility Criteria for Electronics Corporation of India Ltd Recruitment 2019
Applicants those who wish to apply for the ECIL Recruitment Technical Officer and Scientific Assistants-A Jobs should check the eligibility details and then apply for the posts. We have listed important details regarding the ECIL Recruitment eligibility criteria in the below section. Read the complete educational and age limit details that are given on this page about the ECIL Recruitment. You can also find the pay scale details, selection process, and application fee for the respected posts under other details category. For detailed information, candidates can check for the Official Notifications of ECIL Recruitment 2019
Educational Qualification
First-class or minimum 60% of marks in Diploma (for Scientific Assistant-A)/ Engineering in Electrical and Communication/ Computer Science/ Mechanical/Electrical and Electronics/ Electronics and Instrumentation/ Mechanical from any recognized institution.
Experience – Minimum 1 Year in a relevant field.
Age Limit:
Maximum Age Limit
Scientific Assistant-A – 25 Years
Technical Officer – 30 Years
Age Relaxation:
SC/ ST – 5 Years
OBC – 3 Years
PWD – 5 Years
Application Fee:
Applicants who all are applying for ECIL Jobs 2019 can refer to the official notification for the application fee.
Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) || भारत इलेक्ट्रॉनिक्स निगम लिमिटेड ( ईसीआईएल is a Government of India Enterprise under the Department of Atomic Energy, built up on April 11, 1967, by A. S. Rao at Hyderabad, to make a solid indigenous base in hardware. ECIL is a multi-item, association with a spotlight on indigenous Nuclear vitality, space, and Defense divisions. ECIL additionally has a solid nearness in indigenous Electronic Security, Communications, Networking, and e-administration areas.
ECIL has submitted associations with atomic vitality foundations of India, especially Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) and Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research (IGCAR). ECIL likewise effectively bolsters other key divisions, for example, indigenous Defense Indian Ordnance Factories, (Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO)), Space (Department of Space (India))Civil Aviation, Information and Broadcasting, Telecommunications, Insurance, Banking, Police and Para-military Forces, Oil and Gas, Power, Space Education, Health, Agriculture, Steel and Coal
Uttarakhand DCB Result 2019 – Uttarakhand Cooperative Bank Limited is all set to upload the Result for the Group 1 2 3 of Clerk, Manager & Other Posts. The officials have announced the Uttarakhand District Cooperative Bank 2019 Result. Applicants those who have appeared for the Uttarakhand District Cooperative Bank Exam can check and download your results from this page. Here we will be updating the latest result link and it will work after the announcement of result. Moreover, candidates can get the complete details from the Uttarakhand District Cooperative Bank Website i.e, ukcoorperative.in.
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Uttarakhand District Cooperative Bank 2019 Exam date has been announced and the applicants have appeared for the Examination in various Centers on 17th & 19th June 2019. Now all those candidates will be waiting for the announcement of Uttarakhand District Cooperative Bank Exam Result. Almost the officials are ready to upload the Uttarakhand DCB 2019 Result. Before that applicants should keep track on this page to get the Uttarakhand Cooperative Bank Clerk Result 2019 Latest news Here.
Uttarakhand District Cooperative Bank Result 2019 – Overview
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Organization Name
Uttarakhand Cooperative Bank Limited
Post Name
Group-3 (Clerk-cum Cashier), Group-2 (Junior Branch Manager), Group-1 (Senior Branch Manager) and Deputy General Manager
Uttarakhand District Cooperative Bank Vacancy 2019
Uttarakhand District Cooperative Bank Exam Date 2019
17th & 19th June 2019
Result Date
07th August 2019 – Link Available below
Official Website
ukcoorperative.in
Applicants should refer to the above table to know the overview of Uttarakhand District Cooperative Bank Result 2019. Because in this table, we have clearly mentioned the Uttarakhand DCB Recruitment 2019 complete details. Everyone can make avail of this page to get more knowledge regarding the Uttarakhand District Cooperative Bank Exam Result 2019. Also here we have given some steps, please follow the few steps to get the Uttarakhand District Cooperative Bank Result 2019.
The officials have followed the Common Recruitment Process for all to select the Group 1, 2 and 3 Posts. It Consists of Group-3 (Clerk-cum Cashier), Group-2 (Junior Branch Manager), Group-1 (Senior Branch Manager) and Deputy General Manager. Applicants those who have completed the Uttarakhand DCB Examination can check the Answer Key to analyze your Cut off Marks. Based on the Uttarakhand Cooperative Bank Cut Off 2019, applicants name will appear on the Merit List. However, applicants can refer to the Uttarakhand District Cooperative Bank Previous Year Cut off to get some idea about Cut off marks.
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Candidates are advised to wait for some time to get the Uttarakhand DCB Merit list. Because of the Uttarakhand, DCB officials will announce Merit list along with the Uttarakhand District Cooperative Bank Exam Result. So Applicants will be called for the Next round of Interview very soon. So those who have analyzed your Marks with the Answer Key can start your preparation for the Interview. From the bottom of this page, we will be updating the latest result link, it will work once the result announces it by officially.
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NEW DELHI: The slowdown-hit economy may soon get a booster dose from the government with Finance Ministry working on a stimulus package for the industry may include a slew of financial measures ranging from tax cuts, subsidies and other incentives.Official sources said the package would not only aim to reduce the cost for the industry but would also lay out procedures that would further provide impetus to ease of doing business.This could also include measures by the revenue department to ensure honest taxpayers are not harassed and those who commit minor or procedural violations are not subjected to excessive action. The Prime Minister has indicated about these measures in a recent media interview.As concerned voices rise in India Inc over a consistent fall in demand, the measures would also try to address the issues of raising consumption by providing more money into the hands of consumers & reducing the prices of consumables by reducing indirect tax rates of a host of consumption items."The economy requires a critical intervention by introducing a stimulus package. We have suggested a package of over Rs 1 lakh crore," said B.K. Goenka, president Assocham.Already, a separate package is being looked for the auto sector that met Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman last week. The industry has sought lower GST rates on automobiles and introduction of a scrappage policy that incentivises new purchase. This is expected to beat the slowdown that has resulted in passenger car sales plunging 35.95 per cent in July.The collapse of some large NBFCs has been cited as a major factor for the sales downturn as these companies used to provide the bulk of automobile financing."We hope the government would come out very soon with a revival package of a sort to arrest the de-growth and to bring the industry back to growth path," SIAM's Director General Vishnu Mathur said.The Government will, however, have to weigh the size of the stimulus package given less than encouraging revenue position and a fiscal deficit that has risen to 3.4 per cent in FY19 due to expansionary policies of the previous governments. It has also been kept at a high of 3.3 per cent of GDP in FY 20 as well meaning that this number would again have to be breached to offer a stimulus."The Finance Minister has held meetings with different segments of the industry to understand their concerns and get inputs on path to be taken to come of slowdown. Based on these, a package is being considered that may be announced soon," sources quoted earlier said.The stimulus is also likely to cover the financial markets that have shown big volatility in recent weeks and particularly after the presentation of Union Budget on July 5 that raised tax surcharge on FPIs.While Finance Ministry officials are not indicating what changes could be made, sources said the matter has been discussed internally and certain changes in taxation on share markets could be announced. Sitharaman met representatives of the financial sector on Friday.In the financial sector, there is a possibility to relook at the long-term capital gains tax (LTCG). Sources said Finance Ministry is studying implications of withdrawing LTCG after the three year holding period. The other taxation on the market transactions such as tax on dividend distribution may also rejigged and so is the case with tax on share buybacks introduced in Budget this year.The Finance Ministry is working overtime to see that economy does not shrink any further as it might lead to a crisis situations where lakhs may lose their jobs. Already, auto sector is seeing job losses and this might soon spread to other sectors that are on the brink of a recession.
MUMBAI: The rupee is turning volatile, mirroring the movements in yuan, even as emerging market currencies face the likelihood of capital flight after the Argentine Peso's record 25% fall in a single trading session.The surge in gold imports last month could also weaken the local unit ahead of the festival season.The one-month Bloomberg Implied Volatility Index has surged 227 basis points since the beginning of the month, reflecting wild swings in the currency market. The gauge is now at 7%."Currency traders are in a tizzy," said K N Dey, founder of United Financials, a Mumbai-based forex firm. "Chinese Yuan and Argentine peso are going to weigh on other EM currencies, including the rupee. While companies are rushing to cover their offshore exposures, punters are exploiting market swings."Reliance Industries on Monday decided to sell 20% stake in its chemical business to Aramco. The company is expected to receive about $15 billion from the Saudi Arabian oil major. But details of the inflows are not yet known.The rupee lost 0.86% to the dollar Tuesday to close at 71.40 to a dollar, its lowest since February 7 this year. The Reserve Bank of India is said to have intervened, checking the rupee's sharp fall, as some state-owned banks were seen selling dollars in the spot market, dealers said."Speculators are already seen going short on the rupee amid increasing volatility," said Anindya Banerjee, currency analyst at Kotak Securities. "Global investors are seeking safety of investments. Foreign fund outlfows from equities are also weighing on the rupee."Foreign portfolio investors have net sold Rs 24,300 crore worth of equities in July & August, show data from National Securities Depository.The rupee is seen trading in the range of 72-70 per dollar in the next few weeks.The Argentine peso tumbled as much as 25% to a record-low 60 per dollar Monday, Bloomberg reported. Argentina is likely heading into an economic crisis."The rupee cannot remain immune when emerging market currencies are sliding against the dollar," said M S Gopikrishnan, an independent forex expert. "Volatility is on the rise with speculative bets likely going up in the offshore rupee market. The yuan is charting out the future path of EM currencies."The Chinese yuan is plunging fast against the dollar.Beijing on Monday allowed the yuan to fall past 7, a key level defended by the local authorities in the past.
NEW DELHI: New Delhi: India has operationalised a partial guarantee scheme announced in the budget for non-banking and housing finance companies (NBFCs and HFCs), which will allow state-run banks (PSBs) to purchase their assets.It is aimed at providing liquidity support to avoid distress sale of assets in a sector facing a shortage of cash due to asset-liability mismatch. The stress on NBFCs and HFCs is seen as a key reason for a slowdown in the economy, as it has caused reduced credit flow to small businesses and consumers.The government is putting in a mechanism to ensure the scheme takes off on ground. It will elicit information on a real-time basis on the working of the scheme and has sought real-time reporting of transactions under it. 70668311 As per the guidelines of the scheme announced in the budget, the Department of Economic Affairs will provide government guarantee of up to 10% of the fair value of assets purchased by a bank from a stressed NBFC or HFC. The scheme is capped at Rs 1 lakh crore and will be open for up to six months.The Department of Financial Services will obtain information on transactions in a prescribed format from PSBs and send a copy to the budget division of the Department of Economic Affairs. The government will settle claims by banks within five working days.NBFCs will have to pay a fee to the government, at 0.25% per annum of the fair value of assets sold to banks. They will be able to sell 20% of standard assets, worth up to Rs 5,000 crore, as on March 31.Assets sold must be at least AA or equivalent rated and the NBFC/HFC selling assets should have appropriate capital, net NPAs of less than 6% and been profitable for the last two financial years.NBFCs will also have to rework the asset-liability structure within three months to have a positive asset liability management in each bucket for the first three months and on cumulative basis for the remaining period.The one-time guarantee on the pooled assets will be valid for 24 months from the date of purchase and can invoked in specified circumstances. The guarantee shall cease earlier if the purchasing bank sells the pooled assets to the originating NBFC or HFC or any other entity before the validity of the guarantee period, the government said."The purchasing bank can invoke the guarantee if interest and/or instalment of principal remains overdue for more than 90 days (that is, when liability is crystalised for underlying borrower) during validity of such guarantee, subject to the condition that the guarantee is for the first loss up to 10%," it added.
NEW DELHI: The finance ministry may soon consult the law ministry on how best to provide relief to foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) from the super-rich surcharge that was announced in the July 5 budget.The government is exploring various options and the one considered most effective and legally feasible will be taken up, said people with knowledge of the matter. The surcharge has taken effect after presidential assent to the Finance Bill.Among the options on the table are relief via a circular, an announcement to be followed up with an amendment later, or an ordinance to immediately amend the Finance Act."These would have to be taken to the law ministry for examination to assess effectiveness and doability," said a government source.In the past, the government has issued beneficial circulars to provide relief to taxpayers that have been upheld by the Supreme Court.Precedents for ExemptionsBut whether a circular under Section 119 can be stretched to imposing an embargo on tax rates or surcharges needs to be examined. This section empowers the Central Board of Direct Taxes to issue such circulars.With regard to an announcement and subsequent amendment in the winter session of Parliament, officials need to weigh the effectiveness of this as tax rates for the financial year will be levied from April 1. Amending the Finance Act via ordinance is seen as a likelier method.Some tax experts said the best legal option for the government would be to consider an amendment to exempt all FPIs and alternate investment funds (AIFs) registered with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) from the enhanced surcharge."For now, the government should bring an ordinance to this effect or at least a definitive announcement — which will give a great deal of comfort to investors and capital markets — followed by a formal amendment proposal before Parliament," said Sudhir Kapadia, national tax leader, EY.Kapadia pointed out that there are precedents for allowing exemptions — such as that of minimum alternate tax (MAT) on foreign institutional investors (FIIs) and the applicability of the lower rate of withholding tax of 5% on masala bonds. Definitive announcements were made first, followed by amendments in the law."If the intention is to reduce the surcharge for the current year itself, then my view is that it might not be possible to do this simply by way of issuing a circular or notification since the change in surcharge will require an amendment in law and would not be a mere clarification of law," said Rajesh H Gandhi, partner, Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP. "The government might have to issue an ordinance duly promulgated by the President to change the rates effective April 2019. The amendment will then have to be approved in the next session of Parliament."Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman held a meeting with market participants, including FPIs, on Friday to take stock of the issues they face. FPIs pitched for rollback of the increased surcharge and removal of long-term capital gains tax on equities to perk up market sentiment. 70668323 LOSING STREAKThe Indian stock markets have lost nearly 5% since the presentation of the budget, with FPIs pulling out as much as $1.8 billion. On Tuesday, the Sensex fell 1.7% to close at 36,958.16 points.The finance minister had in the budget increased the surcharge levied on top of the applicable income tax rate to 25% from 15% for those with taxable incomes between Rs 2 crore and up to Rs 5 crore, and to 37% for those earning Rs 5 crore and more, taking the effective tax rate on them to 39% and 42.74%, respectively. This increased surcharge impacts individuals, Hindu Undivided Families (HUFs), trusts and associations of persons.FPIs, sovereign wealth funds and AIFs structured as trusts or AoPs are covered by this. As many as 40% of FPIs are said to have been impacted by the increased tax.Sitharaman had subsequently told ET that the surcharge was not aimed at FPIs."No, to be honest, I don't think it was an intent; we didn't aim to touch the FPIs," she had said in an interview published on July 29."The intent was more to look at putting in a surcharge from the point of view of incomes above Rs 2 crore and Rs 5 crore and within them, make sure we calibrated," she had said. "But of course, it has touched those FPIs that are registered as trusts. Although I don't want to be tempted to repeat the dialogue, it is possible, and we are, as a government, willing to even help out if FPIs registered as trusts want to come over to being companies."
MUMBAI: The Indian subsidiary of French car maker Renault is planning to target rural markets and have new product interventions to improve its sales in the midst of the ongoing slowdown in the automobile industry to achieve its midterm target of doubling domestic sales volumes.The company will undertake specific marketing strategies for rural markets and expects to get 50% of its total sales volume from there in the coming years, Venkatram Mamillapalle, managing director for Renault India Operations, told ET. Presently, rural markets contribute only 10% to the company's total sales. Mamillapalle is confident of doubling sales volumes in the domestic market to 200,000 units annually in the next three years."A couple of new products which will be coming in the future will take us where we want to go volume wise in the midterm," he said.70668722 The company is targeting sales of up to 20,000 units of its upcoming people mover Triber by the end of 2019, following which it expects average sales of about 7,000 units of the car per month, Mamillapalle said.The company in an investment mode and will refrain from workforce downsizing despite the sales slowdown, Mamillapalle said. The European car maker will instead leverage the slowdown to re-skill employees, he said.This is in contrast to its partner company Nissan, which is on a global cost-saving exercise and giving pink slips to over 12,500 employees the world over, including 1,710 in India.In FY-19, Renault India sold a little less than 80,000 units in the domestic market, a decline of 22% over the preceding year. Its market share contracted 75 basis points to 2.35%. The company had achieved peak annual sales of 135,000 units in FY-17 and sales have been declining since.
NEW DELHI: Malls and restaurant owners have said they are wary of diversified conglomerate Reliance Industries' "first-day first-show" movies plan announced on Monday by chairman Mukesh Ambani, which they said could have a spiralling impact on the mall economy and may jeopardise revenue streams."We expect the first-day firstshow movies plan would impact business at food courts by about 10%," said Sameer Lamba, director at Kwal's Group, which operates the food court in Gurgaon's DLF Mega Mall.RIL announced at its 42nd annual general meeting on Monday that its first-day first-show movies service will be launched mid-2020 for its premium Jio Gigafiber customers.70668640 "This (Reliance's plan) will have some impact on the shelf life of the movie as well as the number of people coming to multiplexes and malls," said Rajneesh Mahajan, CEO of InOrbits Malls, which operates malls in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Vadodara."As a mall developer, we cannot control the external environment. The impact will depend on what pricing Reliance offers, and the kind of movies they get rights to show first day," Mahajan said.Restaurant companies, which are engaged in a battle of sorts with food aggregators over steep discounting and cloud kitchens, too expressed caution."With almost half of our restaurants located inside malls, we have witnessed a spike in sales around big releases. With multiple shows a day across hundreds of multiplexes, malls are reaping the benefits of high footfall," said Samir Menon, MD of KFC India, which has a national restaurant footprint of 400 outlets across hundred plus cities.
Mumbai: There is an urgent need to restore confidence among the business and investor community, said Navneet Munot, CIO – SBI Funds Management.The business sentiment has taken a beating following GDP growth hitting multi-quarter lows and various high frequency data points hinting at a slowdown and loss of confidence."The animal spirits (for both lenders and borrowers) must revive, and that can only happen by two set of forces; buoyancy in the global growth or by stability and predictability in fiscal policy environment," Munot urged.Munot pointed that amid the current environment, one shouldn't ignore structural strength factors.The government, with significant political capital, can leverage on the bold policy actions taken during the last regime."Moderating global growth aside, global situation favors India. Global investors are in hunt for markets with macro and political stability and prospects for economic growth," he said. While revisiting the recent policy moves, concerted efforts are needed to attract foreign savings. The efforts of financial inclusion, financialisation of savings and access to credit were key positives in the last couple of years. Policy actions should not allow strength of those factors to be eroded, and Indian backdrop is such that low penetration and rising aspirations of the youth bodes well for structural consumption story, said Munot.He believes that the government, in the present environment, should focus on those infrastructure segments, which are shovel ready, can create jobs and have a multiplier effect on growth.Indian businesses had seen capacity utilisation improve and were also balance-sheet ready to undertake capital formation, he said."Ironing out the cyclical challenges can catalyse the investment cycle pick-up in India. We are hopeful of conducive policy actions to leverage on inherent structural strengths of Indian economy," said Munot."Dark clouds are always followed by a shining sun. This time will not be any different," he added.
The recently-announced tax surcharge on foreign portfolio investors has added a hurdle for foreign investments into India, said Glen Baptist, chief executive officer, US-based PGIM Global Partners. In an interview with Prashant Mahesh, Baptist said he is neutral on India at this point. Edited excerpts:What is your outlook for India? The budget seems to have disappointed investors... From a long term perspective every investor believes India is a place to be. However as of now, the sentiment is somewhat negative on India because there is uncertainty on two things. One is real estate, what is the impact on NBFCs and banks and how that will play out. Secondly, there is nothing earth shattering in the budget and there are some confusing statements made on sovereign bonds. These are creating some doubts in investor minds on what are the real policies of the government and can we rely on them. These are early pains of an administration coming in and trying to focus on policies that will drive the country forward. The government needs to focus on two things: fiscal prudence, and the second thing is to focus on improving productivity within various aspects of the economy be it the agriculture side or the manufacturing side. If investors see a government focused on these things, money will flood in. There is lot of money across the world.How has the new tax surcharge on various foreign investors registered as trusts, impacted the perception on India? The recently-announced FPI tax surcharge is certainly not welcome as it adds an additional hurdle for foreign investment into India. Ordinarily, investors would take a small surcharge in stride considering the significant long-term opportunities in both the equity and fixed income markets in India. However, in the current environment of slowing growth, credit stress and geopolitical tensions, this surcharge is likely to dampen the near-term enthusiasm for foreign investment in India. I hope the authorities can address this issue soon.So where is India in the pecking order?Last year there was more excitement about India and it ended outperforming other markets. More recently, in the last couple of months, the markets have fallen a little bit out of favour. However that looks temporary. It could easily come back, If corporate profits improve, it could give confidence to people and sentiment could improve. We are relatively neutral on India at this point of time.Do you expect the Fed to cut rates further?The rate cut from the Fed was anticipated for the last six months ever since they changed their perspective on economic growth and outlook after December 2018. This cut has come in after a substantial period of rate hikes. The Fed is trying to say that they want to cut rates in order to prolong the economic expansion. With the economic cycle slowing down and considering its been 10 years since the last recession, they felt there was no reason for them to maintain a tight stand. It looks like the last rate hike that was put in place in mid 2018 was what they wanted to reverse. US GDP growth is expected to be in the 2.5% range. Given its huge size this is better than a Europe or Japan and some of the other developed markets, so we are not looking at a recession in the near future. We don't expect a long series of rate cuts going forward, as the economy is not in recession. Our expectation is after this one rate cut, there could be one more but towards the end of this year and that depends on how the economic cycle develops. A lot of it is dependent on the trade discussions between US and China.The trade war between US and China does not seem to be showing signs of easing. What's your reading?This is not a very short term trade war, nor will the solution be a short term one, but this will be a long term process. This is now really a war for the future of the world powers. US has been a world power, while China is coming to be a credible second world power. The war is really on technology, who uses it to control the world and its not about soybean and oil. Its about intellectual property and protection of that. These things are not being resolved and talked about in the current discussions. In our opinion this war will continue for a long time. Interestingly our feeling is that with the Chinese economy slowing down due to this trade spat with the US, there is an opportunity for India somewhere to take advantage of it. This trade war between the two countries has an impact on business sentiment, which makes planning difficult and that's why there is some amount of pessimism in the world.Do you expect more money to return to US markets?Valuations are high in the US with PE in the 19-20 range which is above average and certainly not cheap. The question to ask is despite these valuations can investors be interested in the US -- for which the answer is yes. This is because the US looks like the best place in a tough world. You have a Fed that is accommodative and economic growth that is better than other places. The economy is large, strong and steady. Unemployment is low, corporate earnings are expected to recover next year, and we don't see a huge amount of over-leveraging in the corporate landscape. Overall we are comfortable with US markets. When there is a bit of a defensive view on the overall global economy and markets, people tend to go back to the US as an area of safety. Global managers based in the US will bring back money home.
New Delhi: India smartphone market saw its highest-ever shipment of 36.9 million in the second quarter (Q2) of 2019 -- with 9.9 per cent year-on-year (YoY) and 14.8 per cent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) growth, a new report said on Tuesday.According to the International Data Corporation's (IDC) "Asia/Pacific Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker" report, Chinese handset maker Xiaomi saw its shipment volume grow by 4.8 per cent (YoY) in Q2 while Samsung registered a strong 16.6 per cent (YoY) growth fueled by low and mid-price segments. "Despite the efforts towards multi-channel retailing by almost all vendors, the online channel continued its growth momentum fueled by multiple new launches, attractive offers and affordability schemes like EMIs/cashbacks," Upasana Joshi, Associate Research Manager, Client Devices, IDC India, said in a statement."This resulted in the YoY growth of 12.4 per cent for the online channel with an overall share of 36.8 per cent in 2Q19," Joshi added.A total of 69.3 million mobile phones were shipped to India in Q2, which was up 7.6 per cent over the previous quarter.Handset maker Vivo saw a strong YoY growth of 31.6 per cent whereas Realme saw multi-fold growth, driven by newly-launched model C2 and 3/3Pro series. India smartphone market will continue its growth trajectory in the second half of this year but the consolidation of top few brands will continue, said IDC. "This will make it much more challenging for smaller players to find niches of growth. A very strong 2H19 is essential to bring double-digit YoY growth in the fastest-growing smartphone market of this size globally," noted Navkendar Singh, Research Director, Client Devices and IPDS, IDC India.
MUMBAI: Any talk of the rockstar in the room has always split the tech community. And it did again when Accel Ventures partner Shekhar Kirani issued a tweet thread last month highly recommending the rockstar 10x engineer, especially for startups. Many in the industry, including in Silicon Valley, were riled.A 10x engineer is one who can cram in several hours of work, more than an average engineer, with 10 times their productivity. S/he has a rich tool set of techniques for everything from front-end to back-end, and learns new frameworks and languages ahead of others. S/he knows how to apply these in the right context. And, as Kirani put it, knows every line of code that has gone into production, and if a quality assurance or support person alerts an issue, knows precisely where the fault (or bug) is and can fix the same in hours, versus days that ordinary engineers would take. 70651505 Kirani said a 10x engineer increases the odds of a startup's success. Many believe that. Software-as a-service venture Clappia says it has four 10x engineers and pays them double or triple the salary it pays other engineers. "In early-stage startups, where founders would generally be busy in acquiring customers or investment, these techies who can work as individual contributors are assets. They also have foresight while developing the product, rather than just focus on the current issue," says Clappia CEO Ashutosh Kumar. 70651506 Subhendu Panigrahi, founder of Skillenza, an HR firm that hires through hackathons, says they are currently calling out 10x engineers for a month-long hackathon challenge. "One can spot the 10x engineer when he walks in as an individual participant and cracks the challenge that teams take longer to solve," he says. But 10x engineers also have plenty of critics. Kirani's tweet was met with a barrage of them. One said he is describing the "brilliant jerks that the rest of us spend our careers cleaning up after". The suggestion was that these engineers have poor team skills and are unwilling to document code or mentor others. So, often when they leave, others have to figure out everything from the beginning.New York-based developer Aaditya Talwani, who took on Kirani on Twitter, told TOI: "The best software products are built through collaboration, and engineers that are poor collaborators should not be celebrated, even if they seem efficient on the surface." Gaurav Kamboj, a cloud architect with Hotstar, says a 10x engineer may get your work done, but that's not enough. "Rohit Sharma can keep hitting a century but if the bowlers don't perform, then India will lose," he says.Kamal Karanth, CEO of HR firm Xpheno, says there's demand for 10x engineers, but cautions that they exhibit maverick behaviour, "which is not good for a company that relies on teams". And then there are those who think a 10x engineer is a mythical creature. A Chennai-based software entrepreneur, who did not want to be named, says the 10x engineer Kirani describes exists mainly in movies, like Hugh Jackman in Swordfish. And to the extent there is a brilliant loner, the person will usually develop code that will not scale. "It will work for a given value of work. However, to handle scalable code, you need to work with others. So I'll have a conscientious, dedicated team of 10 1x developers to a 10x developer any day," he says.Bharani Subramaniam, market technology principal in software consulting company ThoughtWorks, also says the 10x engineer is more myth than reality. He notes that the term 10x is typically associated with time — how quickly can the engineer complete tasks. In reality, a huge percentage of that time is spent in getting a handle of the context, domain, and understanding the problem statement. "This is reason to believe that effective communication is the real black hole that sucks in a significant portion of time when it comes to software development. When context is established, accelerated development is a matter of familiarity with tools, platforms and framework — capabilities that every engineer should consistently sharpen," Subramaniam says.
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation on toes; vector-borne diseases rise Authorities have identified close to 600 construction sites with the likelihood of waterlogging, where medicines are being sprayed at regular intervals.
BMC's hand of help to flood-ravaged districts in Maharashtra As per the doctors, though there have been no reports of an epidemic, cases of viral fever, gastroenteritis and other monsoon-related diseases are on rise.
Ahmedabad: Four more arrested in RTO hacking scam The accused issued illegal license from RTO to the customers and were arrested by the officials on August 12.
Underground parking on Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's mind again As per the proposal, open plots, recreational grounds, playgrounds, gardens, and open plots can be used for developing parking lots.
J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik, Rahul Gandhi engage in war of words I have invited Rahul Gandhi to come here. I will send you a plane, to observe the situation and then speak up, says Malik
Maharashtra floods: Carcasses pile up as water recedes, officials struggle with disposal As per the government estimates, it is very difficult to tell how many animals died during the deluge.
Election Commission meets to discuss J&K delimitation Poll body's move to mull delimitation of Assembly constituencies in region comes after abrogation of Article 370
DNA EXCLUSIVE: Centre's aid sought for flood relief To avoid foul play, cash component of the compensation to be paid based on Aadhaar and ration cards
ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ మాజీ ముఖ్యమంత్రి నారా చంద్రబాబు నాయుడిపై నెటిజన్లే కాదు సామాన్యులు కూడా వ్యంగ్యాస్త్రాలు సంధిస్తున్నారు. చంద్రబాబు నాయుడి ఐదేళ్ల పాలనను తన వ్యాఖ్యలతో ఎండగడుతున్నారు. ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ ను ఐదేళ్లు ఏలిన చంద్రబాబు నాయుడు రాష్ట్రానికి అప్పులు మిగిల్చి వెళ్లిపోయారని మండిపడుతున్నారు. మంగళవారం ఓ ఛానల్ నిర్వహించిన చర్చాగోష్ఠిలో టెలిఫోన్ ద్వారా తమ అభిప్రాయాలు చెప్పిన సామాన్యులు “ముఖ్యమంత్రిగా చంద్రబాబు నాయుడు తన ఐదేళ్ల పాలన తర్వాత గుడ్డు చేతిలో పెట్టి పిల్లను ఇవ్వండని నూతన ప్రభుత్వాన్ని అడుగుతున్నారు” […]
నిజమైన మానవత్వానికి నిలువెత్తు నిదర్శనం వారణాసి లో చోటు చేసుకుంది. 19 ఏళ్ల హిందు యువతి అంత్యక్రియలను ముస్లింలు నిర్వహించి మతతత్వ వాదులకు ఓ మంచి మెసేజ్ ఇచ్చారు. ఐ ఎ ఎన్ ఎస్ రిపోర్ట్ ప్రకారం… ఈ సంఘటన వారణాసి లోని హర్హువా దీహ్ ప్రాంతం లో జరిగింది. సోనీ అనే ఓ హిందు బాలిక మలేరియా వ్యాధితో పోరాడుతూ ఆదివారం రాత్రి చనిపోయింది. ఆ అమ్మాయి తండ్రి హొరిలాల్ విశ్వకర్మ కొద్ది సంవత్సరాల క్రితం […]
‘మహర్షి’ సినిమాతో తన కెరియర్లో 25 సినిమాలు పూర్తి చేసుకున్న టాలీవుడ్ సూపర్ స్టార్ మహేష్ బాబు ఇప్పుడు అనిల్ రావిపూడి దర్శకత్వంలో ‘సరిలేరు నీకెవ్వరు’ అనే సినిమాలో నటిస్తున్న సంగతి తెలిసిందే. నాగశౌర్య, విజయ్ దేవరకొండ వంటి యువ హీరోలతో రొమాన్స్ చేసిన రష్మిక మందన్న ఇప్పుడు ఈ సినిమాతో సూపర్ స్టార్ తో స్క్రీన్ షేర్ చేసుకోబోతోంది. గత కొంత కాలంగా సినిమాలకు దూరంగా రాజకీయాల్లో బిజీ అయిపోయిన విజయశాంతి ఈ సినిమాతో టాలీవుడ్ […]
‘స్వామి రారా’ సినిమాతో దర్శకుడిగా టాలీవుడ్ కి పరిచయమైన సుధీర్ వర్మ ‘దోచేయ్’, ‘కేశవ’ వంటి సినిమాల తో తన అదృష్టాన్ని పరీక్షించుకున్నారు. కానీ ఆ సినిమాలు పెద్దగా హిట్ అవ్వలేదు. అయితే తాజాగా శర్వానంద్ హీరోగా నటిస్తున్న ‘రణరంగం’ సినిమాకి సుధీర్ వర్మ దర్శకత్వం వహిస్తున్నాడు. కల్యాణి ప్రియదర్శన్, కాజల్ అగర్వాల్ హీరోయిన్లుగా నటించిన ఈ సినిమా ఆగస్టు 15న విడుదల కాబోతోంది. అయితే ‘రణరంగం’లో రవి తేజ నే హీరోగా నటించాల్సిందట. ఈ విషయాన్ని స్వయంగా […]
రాజోలు నియోజకవర్గంలోని మలికిపురంలో పేకాట ఆడుతున్న తొమ్మిది మందిని పోలీసులు అరెస్ట్ చేయడంపై ఆగ్రహించిన జనసేన ఎమ్మెల్యే రాపాక వరప్రసాద్…. జనసేన కార్యకర్తలతో కలిసి వెళ్లి స్టేషన్పై దాడి చేశారు. జనసేన కార్యకర్తలు స్టేషన్పై రాళ్లు రువ్వి, పర్నిచర్ ధ్వంసం చేశారు. స్టేషన్పై దాడి పట్ల సీరియస్గా స్పందించిన పోలీసు ఉన్నతాధికారులు ఎమ్మెల్యేతో పాటు మరో 15 మందిపై కేసులు నమోదు చేశారు. ఈ నేపథ్యంలో ఎమ్మెల్యే రాపాక స్వయంగా వెళ్లి స్టేషన్లో లొంగిపోయారు. ఇలా పేకాట […]
తెలంగాణ సీఎం ఎస్కే జోషి నొచ్చుకున్నారు. సచివాలయం తరలింపు ఆలస్యంపై సీఎం కేసీఆర్ ఉన్నతాధికారుల సమావేశంలో కోప్పడడంతో సీఎస్ అలకబూనారు. ఉన్నతాధికారుల సమక్షంలోనే కేసీఆర్ తనను మందలించడంపై ఆయన తీవ్ర అసంతృప్తితో ఉన్నారు. నాలుగు రోజుల క్రితం సచివాలయం తరలింపుపై ఉన్నతాధికారులతో సీఎం సమీక్ష నిర్వహించారు. సచివాలయం తరలింపు ఇంత జాప్యం అవుతున్నా? ఏం చేస్తున్నారని సమావేశంలో సీఎస్పై కేసీఆర్ ఆగ్రహం వ్యక్తం చేసినట్టు చెబుతున్నారు. పాత సచివాలయం ముఖం కూడా తాను చూడబోనని సీఎస్ తన […]
ఒడిషా లోని కుసుమ పురం గ్రామానికి చెందిన ఒక వ్యక్తి చెట్టు పై అడ్డం గా కర్రల తో నిర్మించుకున్న వేదిక పై నివాసం ఉంటున్నాడు. ఇదేదో సరదా కోసం చేసుకున్న ఏర్పాటు కాదు. తప్పనిసరి పరిస్థితుల్లోనే చెట్టుపై కాపురం ఉంటున్నాడు. అసలేం జరిగిందంటే… ఈ గ్రామం పై ఏనుగులు తరచుగా దాడి చేస్తూ ఉంటాయి. వాటి బాధ పడలేక జనం చెట్లను ఆశ్రయిస్తున్నారన్న మాట. ఇటీవల ఎ ఎన్ ఐ వార్తా సంస్థ ఈ గ్రామాన్ని […]
పేకాట ఆడుతున్న వారిని అరెస్ట్ చేయకుండా అడ్డుకోవడంతో పాటు, పోలీస్ స్టేషన్పై దాడి చేసి చివరకు జనసేన ఎమ్మెల్యే రాపాక వర ప్రసాద్ తీవ్ర విమర్శలు ఎదుర్కొంటున్నారు. ఆయనపై పోలీసులు కేసు నమోదు చేశారు. దాంతో రాపాకే స్వయంగా స్టేషన్కు వెళ్లి లొంగిపోయారు. రాజోలు నియోజక వర్గం మలికిపురంలో పేకాట ఆడుతున్నారన్న సమాచారంతో స్థానిక ఎస్ఐ తన సిబ్బందితో కలిసి వెళ్లి కుమార్ గెస్ట్హౌజ్లో 9 మందిని అరెస్ట్ చేశారు. అక్కడికి చేరుకున్న ఎమ్మెల్యే రాపాక … ఎస్ఐపై […]
MHA IB Security Assistant Result 2019 will be released shortly. As we know a huge number of candidates are Expected date IB Result 2019. Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Intelligence Bureau Result 2019 will upload on the official website by this month August (Tentatively). The Security Assistant Post has been announced for 1054 Vacancies. Along with these applicants can get the direct link for the 
ECIL Recruitment 2019 – Walk in Interview for 21 Technical Officer & Scientific Assistant-A Vacancies. Electronics Corporation of India Limited has announced career notification for 21 vacancies to fill the Technical Officer & Scientific Assistants – A posts. Individuals completed Engineering Degree and having experience in a relevant field can apply for the Electronics Corporation of India Limited Job vacancies through ECIL Recruitment. Walk-in-Interview will be conducted on scheduled dates for the specific posts of ECIL Careers.
