* Mike Flynn, a former three-star general, was Trump's first national security advisor until he was fired less than a month after the inauguration * He pleaded guilty in a plea bargain cut with prosecutors from the Mueller special counsel probe and is now waiting to be sentenced * But his new defense team are accusing federal prosecutors of 'egregious misconduct' claiming Flynn was not given all the facts before making a deal * Among the missing information, they claim, were the notorious anti-Trump texts exchanged by FBI lovers Lisa Page and Peter Strzok * Flynn's attorney Sidney Powell said the whole prosecution should be dismissed * U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan set a Dec. 18 sentencing date for Flynn * Prosecutors had previously offered a probation recommendation but that now appears to be in jeopardy
A lawyer for Michael Flynn accused federal prosecutors of misconduct on Tuesday as a judge set a December sentencing hearing for President Donald Trump's former national security adviser.
The arguments from Flynn attorney Sidney Powell were the latest in a series of aggressive attacks on the foundations of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
They represented yet another step in Flynn's evolution from a model cooperator - he was the first and only White House official to cut a deal with prosecutors - to a defendant whose newly combative and unremorseful stance may cost him a chance at the probation sentence prosecutors had previously recommended.
Al-Qaeda's leaders are dead or ailing and Islamic State has stolen the mantle as the world's most feared terrorist organisation.
But it would be a mistake to write off the fanatical group behind the September 11 attacks 18 years ago this week, which is going through a slow and steady rebuild, counter-terrorism experts warn.
Al-Qaeda group was virtually unknown outside counter-terrorism circles before hijackers ploughed four passenger jets into the World Trade Centre in New York, the Pentagon in Washington DC and a Virginia field on September, 11, 2001, bringing down two of the world's most recognisable skyscrapers and killing nearly 3,000 people.
WNU Editor: The ideology still lives. And there are still millions of Muslims who support it. So yes. Al Qaeda and its affiliates are still a threat, and will be for a very long time.
* Tuesday is the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. * The day after the attacks, newspapers around the world reacted by capturing the sadness, shock, and horror people felt. * We compiled front pages from American and international newspapers to show what people woke up to on September 12, 2001.
The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks happened exactly 17 years ago Tuesday.
For many people, the attacks were the biggest news story of their lifetime. Almost all who experienced it can remember where they were when they heard of the attacks.
Many people who remember that day also recall the following morning, when newspapers around the world captured the horror, shock, and sadness people felt.
The Newseum, a museum in Washington, DC, that chronicles the history of media, archived more than 100 newspapers from September 12, 2001, the day after the attacks. The front pages of these newspapers, bearing headlines like "ACT OF WAR" and "AMERICA'S DARKEST DAY," underscore the impact the attacks had on the American psyche.
Here is what newspapers looked like the day after September 11, 2001.
Born in Hayle, Cornwall, May 27, 1939, to a working-class family, Rescorla joined the British Army in 1957, serving three years in Cyprus. Still eager for adventure, after army service, Rescorla enlisted in the Northern Rhodesia Police.
Ultimately finding few prospects for advancement in Britain or her few remaining colonies, Rescorla moved to the United States, and joined the US Army in 1963. After graduating from Officers' Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia in 1964, he was assigned as a platoon leader to Bravo Company of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, Third Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). Rescorla's serious approach to training and his commitment to excellence led to his men to apply to him the nickname "Hard Corps."
Justin Trudeau on Wednesday will officially kick off what is set to be a grueling campaign for a second term as he takes on surging rivals in Canada's October 21 national elections https://t.co/YJYlycRzvs
South Korea is implementing the biggest defense spending increase in a decade, and the high-tech weapons on its shopping list has North Korea worried. A look at how Seoul is talking peace, but stocking up on arms https://t.co/TqUPt8BWvh
Apple has unveiled the iPhone 11, a cheaper model that comes in new colors and starts at $699. The iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max are higher-end models that boast three cameras on the back and advanced video tools, and start at $999 and $1,099, respectively. https://t.co/rc7EQN8lDHpic.twitter.com/6XlUENGhdq
A US Army soldier fires a Javelin anti-tank missile during a training exercise in Estonia in 2016. Credit: Minnesota National Guard by Sgt. 1st Class Ben Houtkooper
A recent Chicago Council survey shows the Trump administration out of step with public opinion.
Most Americans want the United States to maintain strong alliances overseas, but not through foreign arms sales, a key tactic used by the Obama and Trump administrations..
Those findings from a recent Chicago Council survey arrive as the White House has worked to loosen export restrictions on military drones and circumvented Congress to sell weapons to allies in the Middle East.
"Americans don't like selling weapons to other countries," said Ivo Daalder, president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and former U.S. ambassador to NATO under President Obama. They are more supportive to allied countries with one exception, he said. "Bipartisan majorities think that selling arms to Taiwan is a bad idea," and the poll similarly found low support (38 percent) for using U.S. troops "if China invaded Taiwan."
WNU editor: The American people overwhelmingly share the same opinion when it comes to arms sales. 70% say it is making America less safe, but only 9% say it does. But last year the U.S. government authorized more than $180 billion in foreign arms sales, and it is probably going to be even larger this year. So even if 70% are against these sales, it is not going to change anything. There is just too much money in this business, and no one in Washington wants this spigot to be closed.
The second tower of the World Trade Center bursts into flames after being hit by a hijacked airplane in New York September 11, 2001. REUTERS/Sara K. Schwittek
Today's active duty military is smaller and more racially and ethnically diverse than in previous generations. The gender dynamics also have changed over the course of the past 50 years, with more women serving in the military – and as ranking officers – in 2017 than ever before.
These demographic changes in the active forces also have been reshaping the profile of the veteran population. (For more, see our new report on veterans, "The American Veteran Experience and the Post-9/11 Generation.")
Repressive governments use sophisticated digital censorship and surveillance alongside more traditional methods to silence independent media. A special report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Eritrea is the world's most censored country, according to a list compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The list is based on CPJ's research into the use of tactics ranging from imprisonment and repressive laws to surveillance of journalists and restrictions on internet and social media access.
Under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone has the right to seek and receive news and express opinions. These 10 countries flout the international standard by banning or severely restricting independent media and intimidating journalists into silence with imprisonment, digital and physical surveillance, and other forms of harassment. Self-censorship is pervasive.
According to Bout's spouse, the US government refused the offer, stating that those citizens "are of little interest" to them
NEW YORK, September 10. /TASS/. Russian officials have offered the US to exchange Viktor Bout, a Russian national currently serving a prison term at a US correctional facility for up to 15 US residents serving sentences in Russia, his wife Alla Bout said during a press conference held at the Russian Consulate General building in New York.
"They offered 14 or 15 people to be swapped," she said. "The Russian government has made attempts to conduct an exchange. They offered 14 or 15 people," Alla Bout noted. According to her, the US government refused the offer, stating that those citizens "are of little interest" to them. She added that the US stresses that Viktor Bout "will serve his sentence as a warning to others."
In response to Donald Trump's decision to cancel negotiations, the Taliban have said they will carry on fighting. The group has continued to gain territory in Afghanistan, as Trump said he plans to pull out US troops.
The Taliban said on Tuesday that they would continue to fight against US forces in Afghanistan. The group's spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said to AFP, "We had two ways to end occupation in Afghanistan, one was jihad and fighting, the other was talks and negotiations."
"If Trump wants to stop talks, we will take the first way and they will soon regret it," he added.
The remarks come as a potential peace deal between the Taliban and the US unraveled this week, after US President Donald Trump canceled a secret meeting between the two sides at Camp David, outside of Washington, DC.
WNU Editor: The past few weeks have been incredibly bloody in Afghanistan. This Taliban vow to continue fighting is going to make no difference for what is already a high body count.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will visit Rideau Hall on Wednesday morning to launch the 2019 federal election.
OTTAWA — Let the races begin, in all 338 ridings from coast to coast to coast.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will visit Rideau Hall Wednesday morning to launch the 2019 federal election, with voting day set for Oct. 21.
Informally the campaign has been well underway for months, as the party leaders have been criss-crossing the country to get their messages out and attack their opponents. But Wednesday will mark the formal start of the writ period as Trudeau visits Governor General Julie Payette to start the process to dissolve Parliament.
The Liberals emerged from the 2015 campaign with 184 seats and 39.5 per cent of the popular vote, giving them a sizeable majority over the Conservatives, who finished with 99 seats and 31.9 per cent of the vote. But this will be a much different election for the Liberals, as they'll now be defending their own record in government and searching for ways to recapture the energy that vaulted Trudeau to a majority.
WNU Editor: Polls show Prime Minister Trudeau with a slight edge to win a majority government right now. But for the past two years in every provincial election in Canada, polls were always underestimating Conservative support. I am expecting the same to happen in this election. As to who do I think will come ahead when the final votes are tallied next month. My money is on a Conservative minority government, but this could quickly change in the coming weeks.
Trump's anti-interventionist instincts likely to come to the fore in flashpoint countries
Donald Trump's abrupt dismissal of John Bolton, his national security adviser, may reflect the near breakdown in personal relations between the two men, as well as Bolton's rivalry with the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, but it will also have implications for US foreign policy in a range of flashpoints.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Bodyguards rushed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu off the stage at an election campaign rally in southern Israel on Tuesday after sirens sounded warning of a rocket attack from Gaza.
Netanyahu was unhurt and several minutes later he was able to continue his speech, which was broadcast live on social media by his right-wing Likud party.
However, the spectacle of the prime minister being forced off the podium, with an election just a week away, added fuel to accusations by political opponents that he has not done enough to halt frequent cross-border rocket strikes against southern Israel.
Naval chiefs say they have a right to sail to the area as Beijing tells the UK not to do a "dirty job for somebody else".
China has warned Britain against sailing ships through disputed waters in the South China Sea, saying that such a move would be "hostile" and hinting that Beijing would be forced to responded militarily.
Reacting to a suggestion that the UK might send its aircraft carrier close to the contested Spratly Islands, with US jets onboard, China's Ambassador to the UK said Britain "should not do this dirty job for somebody else".
The captain of Iran's national soccer team has renewed his criticism of a ban on female spectators following reports a young Iranian woman set herself alight after being sentenced to prison for trying to attend a men's soccer match.
Masoud Soleimani Shojaei -- who is considered a national hero -- said on September 6 that the ban was the result of "rotten and disgusting thinking."
Women are banned from attending male sporting events in Iran. In past years, only selected groups of women have been allowed into stadiums to watch soccer matches or other men's sporting events.
Devoted female soccer fans have managed to defy the ban on rare occasions by disguising themselves as men.
Chinese President Xi Jinping voiced distrust of U.S. President Donald Trump during his meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in June amid the U.S.-China trade dispute, a source close to the matter said Tuesday.
"I can't believe what President Trump says" concerning trade negotiations, Xi was quoted as telling Abe during a meeting on the fringe of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka.
Although Abe told Xi that Trump trusts the Chinese president, Xi continued to air his grievances about his U.S. counterpart, the diplomatic source told Kyodo News.
WNU editor: It is moments like this when I think of Buddha. When you are pointing a finger at someone, you are actually pointing three fingers at yourself.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee said on Monday it will consider steps this week to formalize an investigation that could lead to the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
The panel, which hopes to decide whether to recommend Trump's impeachment to the full House by year-end, will meet on Thursday to consider a resolution that Democratic panel aides said would better align the inquiry with formal ones of the past.
House Democrats have broadly ramped up investigation of Trump as they returned from summer recess on Monday and unveiled an inquiry into reports that he pressured Ukraine's government into assisting his re-election campaign.
The measure to be considered at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT) on Thursday would authorize panel Chairman Jerrold Nadler to designate committee and subcommittee hearings as impeachment proceedings.
WNU Editor: The reason why they are stumbling on their message is that the proof that they are offering for impeachment is only convincing their die-hard supporters, not anyone else .... Dems stumble on impeachment messaging (Politico). If they had concrete evidence, this House probe would have been finished a long time ago, and President Trump will be in the Senate right now facing trial.
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....I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning. I thank John very much for his service. I will be naming a new National Security Advisor next week.
* Trump fired Bolton by tweet two minutes before midday Tuesday in a dramatic and unexpected move * He said he 'disagreed strongly' with Bolton 'as did others in the administration' hinting at internal fallouts between Bolton and Mike Pompeo * But within minutes Bolton himself tweeted, apparently from the White House's own network, that he had tried to resign last night and been blown off * The two had clashed on Iran and North Korea and most recently on peace talks with the Taliban, with Bolton opposing attempts for an Afghan peace deal * Bolton, 70, had been in Trump's national security aide since April 2018 after the president dispensed with three-star Army general H.R. McMaster
Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has fired his national security adviser, John Bolton saying he 'disagreed strongly' with him - and was immediately contradicted by Bolton, who said he had tried to quit first.
'I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House,' the president said in a tweet two minutes before midday, and an hour before Bolton was supposed to give a briefing to reporters at the White House.
'I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning.'
Trump said he would name a new national security adviser next week.
WNU Editor: The media is going nuts over this story, but no one really knows what transpired on Monday between President Trump and National Security Adviser Bolton when he offered to resign. John Bolton's differences with President Trump and members in his administration have been well known for a long time, but it never resulted in him being fired. My guess is that it was over the fall-out of the Taliban - Camp David meeting that President Trump cancelled at the last minute that broke the "camel's back" between these two men. My gut tells me that John Bolton was upset over the prospect of the Taliban showing up at Camp David, and he made his opinion widely known, even threatening to resign. I give it a couple more days before the true details come out.
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Russian media have identified the alleged CIA spy in the Kremlin as Oleg Smolenkov, an aide to former ambassador to the U.S. Yury Ushakov (pictured in April this year)
A top U.S. spy who was reportedly evacuated from Russia could have been a senior Kremlin official's aide who now lives in the Washington, D.C., area, the Kommersant business daily has reported.
The United States had allegedly extracted one of its highest-level moles in the Russian government in 2017 over fears he could be caught, CNN reported Monday, citing multiple Trump administration officials. The New York Times later reported that the alleged CIA informant had been spirited away after helping the U.S. intelligence community's investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race.
WNU Editor: Russian media is saying that the "spy" is Oleg Smolenkov, an adviser to Putin's foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov. If this report is true, I would be surprised if he had access to the Kremlin let alone Russian President Putin's office. Foreign policy officials work at the Foreign Ministry, not in the Kremlin. And aides to an aide will certainly not have that type of access.
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It's undoubtedly better to leave some stories alone, and this may be one of them. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov perhaps put it best when he called it "pulp fiction" (and what's more American than that?). But this one is so exemplary of how the news is cooked up for you these days, let's have a go anyway.
What makes this story so ideal for its purpose is that it involves intelligence and state secrets, so the news outlet that runs it doesn't have to prove a thing; it can simply say it's not authorized to divulge what it doesn't write, while hinting it does know. Plus, it can use any number of covert sources.
WNU Editor: How the media has been covering this story has truly been an eye-opener. CNN ran with a story quoting one source who stated that the reason why this Russian spy was extradited to the U.S. was because the intelligence community did not trust President Trump. This story was then picked-up by virtually every news network in the world. What we have learned since yesterday is that this claim is bogus. The planning for the extradition of this spy was happening before Donald Trump was even President. But even now (I am watching CTV News in Canada), there is a panel discussing this story and the reasons why the intel community does not trust President Trump. Can anyone say Fake News. The above Zero Hedge post is the best summary that I have read so far on this story.
VIDEO: Here's what it looks like when @USAFCENT#F15 and #F35 jets drop 36,000 Kg of bombs on a Daesh infested island. 🛩💥 هكذا تبدوا الجزيرة الموبوءة بداعش بعد أن أسقطت عليها الطائرات المقاتلة #أف-15 و #أف-35 36,000 كغم من الذخيرة pic.twitter.com/2v6FAEL9Rn
The Spokesperson for Operation Inherent Resolve, the 81-member coalition to defeat ISIS wrote that this is what it looks like when CENTCOM Air Force jets bomb a "Daesh infested island."
US Air Force F-35s and F-15s dropped 36,000 kilograms of bombs on an ISIS "infested" island in Iraq, leading to massive explosions and plumes of smoke that rose into the air just before dawn on Tuesday.
In one of the most explosive videos to come out of the war against ISIS the US tweeted film of massive explosions rocking an island. Spliced between aerial shots of the same explosions, and video from the ground with Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service members looking on, the island was pulverized. The Spokesperson for Operation Inherent Resolve, the 81-member coalition to defeat ISIS wrote that this is what it looks like when CENTCOM Air Force jets bomb a "Daesh infested island."
* The top Russian spy was pulled out and brought to America by the CIA in 2017 * Plans to retrieve them were underway before Donald Trump had taken office * Their initial reluctance to move sparked concerns they could be a double agent
A spy at the heart of the Kremlin was pulled out of Russia because of CIA leaks and not because President Donald Trump had compromised them, officials have said.
Despite providing vital intelligence from Vladimir Putin's inner circle, the spy was pulled out of Moscow in 2017 amid fears for their safety.
Plans to extract the source were underway well before Trump sparked alarm over his use of intelligence during an Oval Office meeting with Russian officials in 2017, it has now emerged.
In fact, the spy's initial refusal to move to America had sparked concern that they might be a double agent.
WNU Editor: Many outlets are still running with the story that this American spy was taken out of Russia because the intel community did not trust President Trump. But even the New York Times is now acknowledging that the decision to extradite this spy was done before Donald Trump took the office .... C.I.A. Informant Extracted From Russia Had Sent Secrets to U.S. for Decades (The New York Times). As this blogger pointed it out yesterday. There were just too many inconsistencies in the CNN report.
CHINA has made efforts to restrict foreign ships and exploration of resources in the South China Sea in tense talks with other Southeast Asian countries.
IRANIAN authorities have detained two British-Australian women and an Australian man after they were arrested in two separate incidents, with the trio currently held in a notorious jail in Tehran.
FOOTAGE of US jets bombing an ISIS-"infested island" in northern Iraq on Tuesday was released and confirmed by a statement for the US-led coalition battling the terrorist group.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU has vowed to annex territory in the West Bank in a last-ditch attempt to appeal to right-wing voters and parties ahead of elections next week.
DONALD TRUMP continues to taunt his critics after he again hinted he would stand for a third term in office - despite being only halfway through his first. But why would a third term be so controversial?
EU bosses were last night accused of lurching to the "far-right" after appointing a bureaucrat as the overlord for "protecting our European way of life".
SEPTEMBER 11 is a date ingrained in the memories of millions around the globe - the day the Twin Towers fell. As the world marks the anniversary of the horror attack today, what year was 9/11 and how many people died?
DONALD TRUMP's decision to remove John Bolton from his role as National Security Advisor has been defended on BBC Newsnight by a member of his 2020 campaign advisory board.
(BEIJING) — China announced Wednesday it will exempt American industrial grease and some other imports from tariff hikes in a trade war with Washington but kept in place higher duties on soybeans and other major U.S. exports ahead of negotiations next month.
The move adds to suggestions both governments might be settling in for extended conflict by fine-tuning import controls and trying to find alternative export markets and suppliers.
Sixteen products including lubricants, fish meal for animal feed and some other chemicals will be exempt from penalties of up to 25% imposed in response to President Donald Trump’s tariff hikes on Chinese imports, the Ministry of Finance said. Punitive duties on soybeans, the biggest U.S. export to China, and thousands of other imports were left unchanged.
Negotiators are preparing for talks in Washington aimed at ending the tariff war over trade and technology that threatens global economic growth. The plan for talks has helped to calm jittery financial markets, but economists warn there has been no sign of progress and neither government has offered concessions aimed at breaking a deadlock.
Imports on Wednesday’s list are raw materials for farming or manufacturing, suggesting Chinese leaders want to limit damage to their own industries at a time of slowing economic growth.
Beijing’s earlier tariff hikes avoided processor chips and other U.S. technology required by Chinese industry.
Chinese leaders are resisting U.S. pressure to roll back plans for government-led creation of global competitors in robotics and other industries.
Washington, Europe, Japan and other trading partners say those plans violate China’s market-opening commitments and are based on stealing or pressuring companies to hand over technology.
Washington and Beijing have raised tariffs on billions of dollars of each other’s imports. That has battered farmers and manufacturers on both sides and fueled fears a global economy that already was showing signs of a slowdown might tip into recession.
Trump has imposed or announced penalties on about $550 billion of Chinese imports, or almost everything the United States buys from China. Tariffs of 25% imposed previously on $250 billion of Chinese goods are due to rise to 30% on Oct. 1.
China has raised duties on about $120 billion of U.S. imports, economists estimate. Some have been hit with increases more than once, while about $50 billion of U.S. goods is unaffected, possibly to avoid disrupting Chinese industries.
In their latest escalation, Washington imposed 15% tariffs on $112 billion of Chinese imports on Sept. 1 and is planning to hit another $160 billion Dec. 15. Beijing responded by imposing duties of 10% and 5% on a range of American imports.
Products covered by Wednesday’s exemptions include lubricants, insecticides and whey and fish meal for animal feed.
Chinese imports of U.S. goods tumbled 22.5% in August from a year earlier and exports to the United States, China’s biggest foreign market, fell 16%.
Beijing has agreed to narrow its politically sensitive trade surplus with the United States but is reluctant to give up development strategies it sees as a path to prosperity and global influence.
Talks broke down in May over how to enforce any agreement.
China insists Trump’s punitive tariffs must be lifted once a deal takes effect. Washington says at least some must stay to make sure Beijing carries out any promises.
Some analysts suggest Beijing might be holding out in hopes Trump will feel pressure to make a more favorable deal as his campaign for the 2020 presidential election picks up. Trump has warned China will face a tougher U.S. negotiating stance if he is reelected.
(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea said Wednesday leader Kim Jong Un observed the test-launch of a super-large multiple rocket launcher, the latest in a series of weapons tests performed amid stalled diplomacy over the North’s nuclear program.
Tuesday’s rocket launcher test was made hours after North Korea said it was willing to resume nuclear negotiations with the United States in late September. While offering talks, North Korea still warned its dealings with the U.S. may end if Washington fails to come to the negotiating table without new acceptable proposals.
Some experts said North Korea aims to wrest concessions from the United States once their diplomacy resumes.
The North’s Korean Central News Agency said Kim, accompanied by top military and ruling Workers’ Party officials, supervised the two rounds of test-firings at an unidentified place on Tuesday.
It was the second known test of a super-large multiple rocket launcher that North Korea says is needed to cope with outside military threats. The first test of the weapon occurred on Aug. 24.
Tuesday’s test fulfilled its purpose and allowed authorities to decide “the next-stage orientation to complete the weapon system,” KCNA said. It quoted Kim as saying what remains to be done is “running fire test.”
Tuesday’s weapons test was the eighth round of launches by North Korea since late July. Other weapons tested include at least three other newly developed short-range missile and rocket artillery systems that experts say would potentially expand its capabilities to strike targets throughout South Korea. South Korea’s military said the two North Korean projectiles fired Tuesday flew about 330 kilometers (205 miles) in the direction of the waters off the North’s east coast.
U.S.-led diplomacy aimed at stripping North Korea of nuclear weapons collapsed after the second summit between Kim and President Donald Trump in Vietnam in February ended without any agreement due to disputes over U.S.-led sanctions on the North. Kim and Trump met again at a Korean border village in late June and agreed to resume talks.
The North Korean weapons tested in the past weeks were all short-range, and the country is still keeping its promise not to carry out nuclear and long-range missile tests. This suggests North Korea is trying to maintain the momentum for dialogue with the United States, experts say.
(SINGAPORE) — A vehicle believed to be carrying the body of former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe left a Singapore funeral parlor Wednesday morning to be returned to his homeland for burial in the African nation he ruled for decades.
Police escorting the vehicle Wednesday morning said the convoy was heading to the airport.
Mugabe died Friday in a Singapore hospital at age 95. Zimbabwe’s Vice President Kembo Mohadi was seen arriving at the funeral parlor Tuesday afternoon, and a Zimbabwe state newspaper said his body would return to the country on Wednesday.
Mugabe was an ex-guerrilla chief who took power in 1980 when Zimbabwe shook off white minority rule. He enjoyed strong backing from Zimbabwe’s people in the initial years, but that support waned following repression, economic mismanagement and allegations of election-rigging.
He is still regarded by many as a national hero, though, with some even beginning to say they missed him after his successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa, failed to revive the economy and used the army to crush dissent
The Sunday Mail quoted presidential spokesman George Charamba in reporting Mnangagwa and family members will receive the body at the airport named after the former president in the capital, Harare. The body will be taken to his rural home before being placed in a giant stadium for public viewing.
Mnangagwa declared Mugabe a national hero and said official mourning will only end after the burial at the National Heroes Acre, a hilltop shrine reserved exclusively for Zimbabweans who made huge sacrifices during the war against white-minority rule.
Zimbabwe’s information minister said Mugabe’s body will lie in state at two stadiums in the capital for three days. His burial is scheduled on Sunday.
Russian liberals are celebrating the relative success of the Communist Party and other Kremlin-friendly quasi-opposition parties in the elections to the Moscow city council on Sunday as an almost revolutionary breakthrough — but it takes some unpacking to explain why. Candidates from these parties gained around 20 out of 45 seats in the council; meanwhile the ruling United Russia party, which supports Russian President Vladimir Putin, only just retained a majority, losing about 13 seats in the city council (from the current 38 down to just 25).
But the Communists & co would be fooling themselves if they credited this victory to themselves. The real winner is Smart Voting — an electoral strategy promoted by the indisputable leader of the Russian liberal opposition, Alexei Navalny. Smart Voting essentially asked voters in the Moscow election to back anyone who might be able to defeat a United Russia candidate. The strategy was based on the fact that United Russia candidates tend to win elections with just 30-35% of the votes, while the majority of votes are scattered among candidates.
Smart Voting helped draw away from pro-government parties toward the Communist Party and others who don’t make up the traditional liberal opposition. (Such parties are still largely aligned with the government.) But the Smart Voting strategy wouldn’t have been necessary, had the candidates nominated by Team Navalny and its liberal allies been allowed to run against Kremlin candidates. Earlier this summer, these opposition figures overcame seemingly insurmountable hurdles designed to prevent anyone unapproved by the Kremlin from participating in the election. But electoral commissions managed to find just enough highly dubious technical “errors” (as simple as avenue abbreviated to Ave.) in the lists of voter signatures collected in their support to disqualify them at the last stage of registration. At least some of these candidates would have easily crushed Kremlin nominees, according to polls.
The Kremlin’s stubborn refusal to let its opponents run even in a local election sparked a major wave of protests in the Russian capital, which continued almost every weekend throughout July and August and resulted in brutal clampdowns, mass arrests (over a thousand people in a single day, on two occasions) and surreal charges brought against some of the participants. One of them faced a prison sentence for throwing a paper cup at the police, though he was eventually released. But in the end, Smart Voting helped the activists win a small victory — by showing that Putin can be undermined. “We can say clearly that in Moscow this result is a triumph for Smart Voting,” Navalny reportedly said, as the results were released.
To understand how we got here, it helps to look at the past. This summer’s events often felt like a remake of Bolotnaya Square protests of 2011 and 2012. Also sparked by a rigged election, that wave of unrest precipitated a dramatic political cycle which saw Putin embark on military expeditions in Ukraine and Syria, as well as meddle in the U.S. presidential elections in 2016.
While the Soviet Union was — at least in theory — a dictatorship of the proletariat, Putin’s Russia is truly a spin doctor dictatorship. Having grown out of the weak democracy of the 1990s, this increasingly authoritarian regime is obsessed with propping up a genuinely high popularity rating of its leader, thus ensuring the regime’s perceived legitimacy. This is achieved by the means of the latest political technology imported from the West as well as incessant propaganda, which has infinitely more in common with Fox News infotainment than Soviet TV.
For Putin to maintain his grip on power, ensuring the loyalty of business and security elites, his popularity ratings must be exceptionally high. Back in 2012, they were sliding. But the Maidan Revolution in Ukraine helped Putin to outsource his domestic conflict to a neighboring country by showing Russians what might happen to them if they chose to rebel. For the next six years, grotesquely exaggerated or outright fake horror stories from Ukraine formed the bulk of Russian television news, contrasting sharply with highly glossed over domestic stories.
When Putin annexed Crimea on the grounds of protecting the peninsula’s Russian-speaking majority from Ukrainian nationalists (pictured as bloodthirsty neo-nazis by Russian TV), his ratings soared to a whopping 89%. The annexation demoralized and split the opposition, giving Putin a much needed breather.
The logic of that drastic move triggered a dramatic chain of events. To ensure returning Crimea to Ukraine was off the table, the Kremlin fomented a conflict in the eastern region of Donbas. To shift the West’s focus from Ukraine and create additional leverage on the U.S. and its allies, Moscow successfully intervened in Syria, rescuing Assad’s regime from downfall. And to deter the U.S. from meddling in Russian internal politics the way it did in Ukraine — at least from Kremlin’s point of view — it attempted to attack the U.S. electoral system, achieving perhaps a more dramatic result than it ever envisaged.
All of that was supposed to showcase Russia’s newly acquired assertiveness and vigor, to its own citizens more than anyone else. It worked that way for some years. But today Putin is back to square one. His popularity ratings are down to the levels they were in 2011, while the capital is once again engulfed in mass protests. Except this time they are manned by a much younger crowd, many of whom remember nothing before Putin’s Russia, and led by an entirely organic opposition which — thanks to Putin’s own draconian legislation on “foreign agents” — is reliant neither on Western funding nor endorsement.
In fact, it is even worse for the Kremlin than 2011, when the liberals made up little more than a dissenting minority. A Levada Center poll published on Aug/ 6 showed that a relative majority of Muscovites supported the protests (37% in favor, versus 27% against). A nationwide poll released by the Levada Center on Sept. 3 showed that a majority of Russians (58%) don’t believe the government propaganda line about Moscow protests being fomented by the West. A relative majority of Russians also say that the clampdown on the protests was exceedingly heavy-handed (41% versus 32%).
The trajectory of public opinion quite clearly points towards Putin’s eventual decline. His main problem is there is no second Crimea in sight. No other foreign policy adventure can consolidate Russians in the same way as this chunk of subtropical paradise which has a clear pro-Russian majority and which evoked a major sense of historical injustice ever since the collapse of the USSR. People are now squarely focused on stagnating economy, rampant corruption, and Russia’s international isolation. And soon, more and more will set their sights on the figure of the lame duck leader who will face fierce resistance should he decide to somehow prolong his stay in the Kremlin when his final constitutional term runs out in 2024.
(JERUSALEM) — Israel’s prime minister on Tuesday vowed to annex the strategic heartland of the West Bank if he wins national elections next week, offering a vision that would likely end any remaining hopes for establishing a Palestinian state.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would annex the Jordan Valley, an area seen as the breadbasket of any Palestinian state, shortly after forming a new government and move later to annex remaining Jewish settlements. Such action would gobble up most of the West Bank territory sought by the Palestinians, leaving them with little more than isolated enclaves.
“Today I am announcing my intention to apply, with the formation of the next government, Israeli sovereignty on the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea,” he said. Unveiling a map, he called the strategic area “Israel’s eastern border.”
Netanyahu’s announcement was the latest in a series of frenetic moves he has made in recent days aimed at rallying his hard-line voters ahead of the Sept. 17 election, and his plan would hinge on a number of factors, most critically whether President Donald Trump would support him. Nonetheless, it was the most detailed vision for the region that Netanyahu has presented during more than a decade in power.
Appearing some 90 minutes late at a hastily called news conference, Netanyahu said that it was important to act as Trump prepares to unveil his Mideast peace plan after Israeli elections.
“This is a historic opportunity, a one-time opportunity, to extend Israeli sovereignty on our settlements in Judea and Samaria, and also on other important regions for our security, for our heritage, and for our future,” he said, using the biblical terms for the West Bank.
He gave no indication on whether he had discussed his plans with Trump, but said he would wait for Trump’s peace plan and coordinate all steps with the president, whose team of Mideast advisers is dominated by supporters of the settlements.
U.S. officials said Netanyahu had told them about his proposal ahead of time and had not raised any objections because they do not think it will affect prospects for an eventual agreement. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
The Palestinians seek the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip — areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war — for a future independent state. A mass annexation of parts of the West Bank would likely end any remaining hopes for establishing a viable Palestinian state. Israel already has annexed east Jerusalem in a move that is not internationally recognized.
Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said Netanyahu’s annexation plan is “manifestly illegal.”
“Israel’s unprecedented culture of impunity, enabled by international inaction, is the only explanation for Mr. Netanyahu’s audacity in using annexation as an election ploy,” he said, calling on the international community to block the Israeli leader’s plan.
The international community, along with the Palestinians, overwhelmingly considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem illegal. Nearly 700,000 settlers live in the two areas, in addition to over 2.5 million Palestinians.
Netanyahu was not clear about the fate of the Palestinians. But for the first time, he unveiled a map showing his plan for annexing the Jordan Valley.
The plan would turn Palestinian population centers into isolated enclaves that he said he would seek to link to neighboring Jordan. Unlike Israeli settlers, West Bank Palestinians are not Israeli citizens and do not have the right to vote.
Opposition politicians alike criticized Netanyahu for proposing West Bank annexation as part of his campaign. On Twitter, Ayman Odeh, leader of the Joint List of Arab parties, called Netanyahu’s statement “not just election spin” but “a vision of apartheid.” Ehud Barak, a former prime minister who is campaigning to oust Netanyahu, said the prime minister “has no public or moral mandate to determine things so fateful to the state of Israel.”
Locked in a tight race, Netanyahu has resorted to a series of stunts in recent days aimed at drawing attention to his campaign and, critics say, diverting attention from a looming corruption case.
Alleging fraud in Arab voting areas, Netanyahu has been pushing an unsuccessful campaign to place cameras in polling stations on election day. He also claimed to have located a previously unknown Iranian nuclear-weapons facility, and later this week, flies to Russia for a lightning meeting with President Vladimir Putin.
(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — An Iranian woman detained for dressing as a man to sneak into a soccer stadium to watch a match has died after setting herself on fire upon learning she could spend six months in prison, semi-official news outlets reported Tuesday.
The self-immolation death of 29-year-old Sahar Khodayari has shocked Iranian officials and the public, becoming an immediate hashtag trend across social media in the Islamic Republic.
It also comes as FIFA is working with Iranian authorities to overcome a ban on women entering stadiums for men’s games, a ban in place since the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. FIFA wants the issue resolved before Oct. 10 when Iran — the top-ranked team in Asia — hosts its first home World Cup qualifier against Cambodia.
FIFA said Tuesday it was “aware of that tragedy and deeply regret it.”
“FIFA convey our condolences to the family and friends of Sahar and reiterate our calls on the Iranian authorities to ensure the freedom and safety of any women engaged in this legitimate fight to end the stadium ban for women in Iran,” FIFA said in a statement.
Khodayari died on Monday at a Tehran hospital after suffering burns across 90% of her body. She had been on a respirator since dousing herself with gasoline in front of Tehran’s Ershad Courthouse on Sept. 2, according to the Iranian news website Rokna, which publishes in Iran with government permission.
She had just learned she could be tried by a Revolutionary Court in Iran and be put in prison for six months, her father told the website.
Khodayari’s sister told Iran’s pro-reform Shahrvand newspaper that her sister suffered from bipolar disorder. Her father said she had stopped taking medication a year ago.
In March, Khodayari tried to sneak into Tehran’s Azadi Stadium to watch her favorite team, Esteghlal, take on the United Arab Emirates team Al Ain. As in other matches, she disguised herself as a man by wearing a blue wig and a long overcoat, gaining the nickname the “Blue Girl.” However, police arrested her after an altercation and detained her.
She spent three nights in jail before being released pending the court case. She reportedly returned to the court to retrieve her seized mobile phone and heard she could face prison time.
News of her death ricocheted across Iran on Tuesday, with tributes hashtagged “BlueGirl.”
Former Bayern Munich midfielder Ali Karimi — who played 127 matches for Iran and has been a vocal advocate of ending the ban on women — urged Iranians in a tweet to boycott soccer stadiums to protest Khodayari’s death.
Iranian-Armenian soccer player Andranik “Ando” Teymourian, the first Christian to be the captain of Iran’s national squad and also an Esteghlal player, said in a tweet that one of Tehran’s major soccer stadiums should be named after Khodayari “in the future.”
Female lawmaker Parvaneh Salahshouri called Khodayari “Iran’s Girl” and tweeted: “We are all responsible.”
There was no report on Khodayari’s death from Iranian state media, nor its prominent semi-official news agencies. The conservative Shafaqna news agency acknowledged her death in a brief item Tuesday, noting that the case had drawn international attention and caused “counterrevolutionary media” to cry over the case.
FIFA has been trying to push Iran to allow women in for matches. A partial exception came in November when hundreds of Iranian women, who were separated from male supporters, were allowed into the Azadi Stadium in Tehran to watch the Asian Champions League final.
However, local matches have continued the restriction. Volleyball, another popular sport, similarly sees officials bar women from attending men’s games in the capital, Tehran, though women were allowed in some matches in other Iranian cities.
Hard-liners and traditional Shiite clerics, citing their own interpretation of Islamic law, believe in segregating men and women at public events, as well as keeping women out of men’s sports.
However, that has drawn criticism from human rights activists abroad, as well as at home.
“The stadium ban is not written into law or regulation but is ruthlessly enforced by the country’s authorities,” wrote Mindy Worden, the director of global initiatives at Human Rights Watch.
She added that Khodayari’s suicide underscores “the need for Iran to end its ban on women attending sports matches — and the urgency for regulating bodies like FIFA to enforce its own human rights rules.”
Amnesty International separately said that as far as it knows, “Iran is the only country in the world that stops and punishes women” seeking to enter soccer stadiums. Saudi Arabia, a longtime holdout, recently started allowing women to attend matches under a push from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
“What happened to Sahar Khodayari is heart-breaking and exposes the impact of the Iranian authorities’ appalling contempt for women’s rights in the country,” said Philip Luther, Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa research and advocacy director.
“Her only ‘crime’ was being a woman in a country where women face discrimination that is entrenched in law and plays out in the most horrific ways imaginable in every area of their lives, even sports,” Luther added.
The United States reportedly extracted a high-level CIA informant from Russia in 2017, CNN first reported Monday.
Citing “multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge,” CNN reports the “previously undisclosed secret mission” to extract the Russian spy.
A spokesperson for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declined to comment to CNN. White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham told CNN, “CNN’s reporting is not only incorrect, it has the potential to put lives in danger.”
The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence officials first thought the informant might be in danger in late 2016 after the U.S. government revealed the severity of Russia’s election interference and the media began following up on details about the CIA’s Kremlin sources. The Times reports that the informant first declined the extraction, citing “family concerns,” but agreed months later after media inquiries increased.
According to CNN, the Russian spy had been a crucial asset for the United States government, having access to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The spy had reportedly been providing information for more than a decade.
The Times reported that the informant was crucial to the U.S.’s understanding of the scope of the Russian government’s interference in the 2016 election, and the extraction “effectively blinded” American intelligence officials to “the view from inside Russia as they sought clues about Kremlin interference in the 2018 midterm elections and next year’s presidential contest.”
The information the informant provided during his time in Russia was so sensitive the Times reports, that even prior to the Trump Administration, CIA John O. Brennan sent President Obama the intelligence reports in separate sealed envelopes to the Oval Office.
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NIMHANS Admit Card 2019: NIMHANS had published the notification to recruit the Nursing Officers and JSA Officers. In recent, the board has announced to release the admit card and the Exam Date for the respective posts. Moreover, the Officials will publish the admit card and exam date on its Official Website. Hence, Candidates must download the NIMHANS Staff Nurse Admit Card from the below section.
NIMHANS Nursing Admit Card 2019
As per the Notification, National Institute Of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences which recently comes out is the NIMHANS Staff Nurse Admit Card 2019 will be released on soon on their web portals and the links of NIMHANS Junior Secretarial Assistant Hall Ticket will open on the given dates in the below. Very recently, the crew has completed the registrations and making arrangements to offer the exam admit cards to the applicants
NIMHANS Admit Card 2019 – Overview
Description
Details
Name of the Board
National Institute Of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences
Details on NIMHANS Nursing Officer Admit Card 2019
Applicants must provide the details in the NIMHANS Nursing Officer Admit Card 2019 which are mentioned below. Moreover, Aspirants can download the Hall Ticket through the direct link provided below. However, Candidates who are eligible to participate in the exam can download the NIMHANS Hall Ticket. Check with the printed details in the admit card before downloading it.
Candidate’s Name
Date of Birth
Exam Venue and Address
Exam Timing
Date of examinations
NIMHANS Nursing Officer & JSA Exam 2019
NIMHANS Nursing Officer and JSA Exam Date will be scheduled by the Officials in soon. Hence refer all the previous papers and syllabus of NIMHANS Staff Nurse Exam for easy preparation. Get all the important details about the NIMHANS Nursing Officers Exam in the NIMHANS Call Letter. Hence, get the NIMHANS Hall Ticket in prior. Therefore, Aspirants must check the exam date on the NIMHANS official portal. Download NIMHANS Nursing Officers Previous Papers from this webpage.
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Important Things to Download NIMHANS Hall Ticket 2019
Get How to Download Steps from the upcoming page to download the NIMHANS Admit Card. Carry any of the document for the exam. Original Identity Proofs are very important to participate in the examination. Hence, Crosscheck all the details in the NIMHANS Admit Card after downloading it.
Original Photograph
Voter Card
Pan Card
Employee ID
College ID
PAN Card
Passport
Driving License
Any other ID proof issued by a Gazetted Officer
Bank Pass Book with the photograph
How to Download NIMHANS Nursing Admit Card 2019?
Visit the “NIMHANS Admit Card 2019”
Enter the Login details
Click on to the Submit Button.
A Call Letter page will arise on the screen.
Enter all the valid details in that.
Check once for the clear view of the details you entered.
Now go to the Download option to get the Admit Card.
Take a photocopy of it.
Direct Links to Download NIMHANS Hall Ticket 2019-20
DHS Maharashtra Recruitment 2019 – Apply Online for 153 Civil Surgeon and District Health Officer Cadre Job Vacancies. Maharashtra Medical & Health Service Recruitment Board invites application for the Medical Job Vacancy in Maharashtra Arogya Vibhag Bharti. Application form for DHS Maharashtra Recruitment is accepted from 04th September 2019. Aspirants willing to apply for the Medical Cadre Jobs check the eligibility conditions given in this page as per the DHS Maharashtra Notification.
Candidates who have completed MBBS or PG Degree in the relevant field can apply for the vacancies. The final date for the receipt of application form for the DHS Medical jobs is 25th September 2019. Aspirants who want to place in DHS Careers should satisfy the eligibility conditions like Educational qualification, the experience of minimum 3 years, age limit and to get qualify in the selection process of DHS Maharashtra Recruitment 2019.
Maharashtra Arogya Vibhag Bharti Recruitment 2019
Organization Name
Maharashtra Medical & Health Service
Name of the Posts
Civil Surgeon Cadre and District Health Officer Cadre
The college was built upon 3 June 1998 by the state Government of Maharashtra through a mandate. The State Legislature passed Maharashtra University of Health Sciences Act 1999 and got the consent of the Governor, in the Maharashtra Government Gazette on 21 January 1999. All schools and organizations granting training in wellbeing science in the province of Maharashtra have been associated with this new college under Section 6(3) of the Act. The college was built up to guarantee legitimate and orderly guidance, educating, preparing and inquire about in present-day prescription and Indian frameworks of the drug in the State of Maharashtra.
A board of trustees was framed in 2000 by the Government Of Maharashtra to audit the advancement of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences and to prescribe measures for adjusting its capacities and duties in the light of the new difficulties looked by the college. MUHS offers undergrad and postgraduate investigations including Ph.D. in all parts of wellbeing sciences. Undergrad projects of five and a half years, Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) and Bachelor of Unani Medicine and Surgery (BUMS)) are led by MUHS. Postgraduate courses granted are adaptable including Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) in different regions, Master of Surgery (M.S.), just as Master of Science (M.Sc.) courses and other PG confirmations
HP Police Constable Result 2019 – The Himachal Pradesh Police Recruitment Board authority has conducted the HP Police Constable Re-Exam on 8th September 2019. Aspirants those who have participated in the Rescheduled Examination can check all the information in this article regarding HP Police Constable Result 2019. The authority is going to release the HP Police Constable Result 2019 on October 2019 (Tentatively). Moreover, candidates can get the Get Himachal Pradesh Police Constable Exam Merit List, HP Police Dept Constable Cut off Marks from this article.
HP Police Constable Result 2019 @ hppolice.gov.in | Cut off Marks, Merit List: The Himachal Pradesh Police Recruitment Board authority has conducted the HP Police Constable Re-Examination on 8th September 2019. Aspirants those who have appeared for the HP Police Constable Re-Exam can check and download your results from this page. The authority is going to release the HP Police Constable Result 2019 on October 2019 (Tentatively). Furthermore, we have given a link to download the HP Police Constable Result 2019 from the below table.
HP Police Constable PET Result 2019 – Himachal Pradesh Police Department conducted the Physical Standard Test/ Physical Efficiency Test for the candidates. The PST/ PET exam has been conducted all the district headquarters in Himachal Pradesh. The candidates who have passed this PST/ PET are eligible for the written Examination conducted by the HP Police Board. The HP Police Department has recently uploaded the District Shimla & Una PET Qualified/Disqualified List on 01st July 2019. Here we have provided a direct link to check and download your HP Police PET Result 2019. Apart from this, we have given the steps to download the HP Police Constable PET Result.
HP Police Constable Result 2019 – Himachal Pradesh Police Department conducted the Physical Standard Test/ Physical Efficiency Test for the candidates. The PST/ PET exam has been conducted all the district headquarters in Himachal Pradesh. The candidates who have passed this PST/ PET are eligible for the written Examination conducted by the HP Police Board. The HP Police Department has recently uploaded the District Shimla & Una PET Qualified/Disqualified List on 01st July 2019. Here we have provided a direct link to check and download your HP Police PET Result 2019. Apart from this, we have given the steps to download the HP Police Constable PET Result.
Selection Process for HP Police Constable Post is Physical Standards Test, Physical Efficiency Test, Written Test, Personality Test, Medical Examination and Verification of Character & antecedents. Through these interview process applicants will get select for the HP Police Constable Driver Posts. A huge number of applicants has been applied for this PET written Examination. And those candidates are waiting to know their Result. Everyone can get the HP Police Constable PET Result now from the official website i.e, hppolice.gov.in.
Himachal Pradesh P0lice Board will release the official cut off marks to the candidates who are done with the exam soon. The cut off marks are the minimum marks that the candidate needs to pass the examinations. The HP Police Cut Off Marks for the Constable posts depends upon the various factors like the no of candidates attended the examination, the difficulty of the paper, etc and much more.
For the general category, the Himachal Pradesh Police Constable Exam cut off marks for the male will be in between 67% to 87% whereas for females in between 61% to 77%. OBC category the Himachal Pradesh Police Constable Exam cut off marks for the male were between 62% to 76% whereas for the females were between 59% to 68%.
HP Police Constable Marking Scheme 2019
Name of the Test
Marks
Physical Standard
05
Physical Efficiency Test
00
Written Exam
80
Personality Test
15
Total
100
Steps to check HP Police Constable PET/ PST Results 2019
Applicants initially visit the official website of Himachal Pradesh Police Department i.e, citizenportal.hppolice.gov.in:8080/citizen/login.htm
In the home page, Notice board applicants can click the link to get the results
Applicants should click on the first five links to get the HP Police Constable Dist Shimla, Una PET Results
Check the HP Police Constable Result 2019 with the roll number
Download or take a print out of the result for further use.
Important links to download HP Police Constable Result 2019
Chamba Distt Revised PET Candidates.pdf 07/07/2019
TN TRB Result 2019 to be Released soon | Get Direct link for TN TRB Computer Instructor Result @ trb.tn.nic.in – The Tamil Nadu Teacher Recruitment Board (TN TRB) has almost ready to announce the TN TRB Exam Result. All the candidates those who have Participated in the TN TRB Computer Instructor Grade 1 Examination can check your result from the direct link provided below in the table. The TN TRB officials will soon announce Computer Instructor Results, Selection List tentatively in the month of September 2019. Along with the Direct link of TN TRB 2019 result we have given some steps to download your result from the official website at trb.tn.nic.in.
Latest Update: TN TRB Computer Instructor Result 2019 will be released in the month of September 2019.
TN TRB Result 2019 @ trb.tn.nic.in
Tamil Nadu Teacher Recruitment Board (TN TRB) will release the result for the Direct Recruitment of the Post of Computer Instructors Grade 1 (PG Cadre) for the year 2019-20. On the basis of the Merit List candidates will be appointed in the respective areas. All the applicants can get the TN TRB Computer Instructor Result 2019 from this page. The TN TRB has conducted the Computer Instructors Grade 1 Examination on 23rd June 2019. Here on this page, we used to update all the latest updated information regarding the TN TRB Computer Instructor Results. Also, we will be updating the result link and it will activate after the official announcement of TN TRB Computer Instructor Results.
All the candidates who have appeared for the Examination can get overview details from the above table. We advise the candidates to keep track on this page to get your TN TRB Result 2019 on time. The TN TRB Recruitment 2019 has announced on a few months back and interested candidates have appeared for this Examination. The Tamil Nadu Teacher Recruitment Board will announce the recruitment every year. This year applicants have appeared for the Examination by 23rd June 2019. All those applicants are eagerly now waiting for the results, we are here to help you out with the TN TRB Computer Instructor 2019.
Along with the Results, the applicants will receive the TN TRB Cut off Marks. After announcing the TN TRB Results, applicants will get the Cut off Marks. The marks will decide by the TRB officials based on the TN TRB Examination marks, Number of questions, difficulty level, and others. The officials will be called for the Interview process based on the TN TRB Cut off Marks and TN TRB Merit List.
TN TRB Computer Instructor Merit List 2019
Applicants those who have completed the exam well and getting the High Cut off marks can get the Merit List. The Merit List will be based on the score which the applicants have got from the Examination. Although the Merit list will help the applicants at the time of the interview process. The candidates will call for the Interview based on the TN TRB Merit List. After attending the Interview, if the applicants will get select in all the rounds of interview process they will get an appointment for Tamil Nadu Teacher Recruitment Department.
How to check TN TRB Computer Instructor Result 2019?
Applicants can visit the official website of Tamil Nadu Teacher Recruitment Board (TN TRB) i.e, trb.tn.nic.in
On the home page, candidates can view the TN TRB Result 2019
Click on the TN TRB Result Link
The result page will open, applicants can enter the required details
TN TRB Exam Result pdf will display on your screen
Download or take a print out of the result for further reference.,
RPF Admit Card for various Railway Police Security Force like Constable, Sub Inspector etc will be available soon enough. Candidates, those who applied for the RPF Recruitment can start to download RPF Admit card once it is out. However, we provide you with an individual link for respective RPF vacancy. Also, we provide you important dates and details of the respective RPF Vacancy. Furthermore, get other details like RPF Recruitment selection process, Admit Card Details & valid Id Proof details in the section below. Also, visit the RPF Official Website for more details.
RPF Tradesman Admit Card 2019 – railway Protection Force has issued the admit card for the post of Tradesman. Hence, the Group C exam date is printed on the admit card. Therefore, the admit card can be printed only through Online Mode. Thus, RPF Admit Card will be available at the bottom of the section.
RPF Constable Admit Card is now available here. The Admit Card has been released on 12th June 2019. Candidates who have applied for the post of Constable Ancillary posts now can download the Admit Card published by RPF. Hence, the Candidates can get the RPF PET/ PMT Hall Ticket from the direct link.
RPF Sub Inspector Admit Card will soon be available. All the candidates need to have a bit of patience to download the RPF SI Hall Ticket 2019. The Admit Card will be out a few days before the RPF Sub Inspector Examination is held. Hence, the candidate can either check the official site or the click on the link below to download the RPF Sub Inspector Admit Card 2019.
RPF Constable Admit Card 2019: will soon be out. The candidates waiting for the release of RPF Constable Hall Ticket 2019 can get from here once it is out. The RPF Constable Exam is in the month fo November 2019. Candidates will be able to access the Constable Admit Card soon. Once the Admit Card link is available on the main site @ indianrailways.gov.in we will also update a link here to download the RPF Admit Card 2019.
RPF Constable Admit Card 2019 Details
Name of Organization
Railway Protection Security Force
Name of the Post
Constable
Number of Vacancies
8619
Category
Admit Card
Starting Date to Apply
18th May 2018
Ending Date to Apply
30th June 2018
RPF Admit Card Date
Available Soon
Exam Date
Update Soon
Official Website
indianrailways.gov.in
Constable Admit Card Link
Click Here↓
RPF Exam Date 2019
The RPF Exam date 2019 for the post of Sub Inspector and Constable will be updated soon enough. The RPF Exam will most likely be held in the month of October & November 2019. However, candidates who are waiting for the RPF Exam details and RPF Admit Card 2019 can relax. Because we will be updating with all the related information you are seeking.
RPF Admit Card 2019
The RPF Admit Card will soon be updated on the page. Both the links for RPF SI Admit Card 2018 and RPF Constable Admit Card 2019 will be available here. The RPF Exam Date is probably in the month of October or November. Hence, Just a few days before the RPF Examination we will provide a link through which you will be able to download the RPF Sub Inspector Hall Ticket & RPF Constable Admit Card 2019.
Here are the steps to download the RPF Admit Card
Visit the official website of Railway Protection Force i.e www.indianrailways.gov.in
It redirects to home page.
Click on the download link.
Enter the application number, date of birth and password details.
Then, click on the submit button.
Now, the Hall Ticket will display on the screen.
Download the RPF admit card 2019.
Finally, take a print out of the Hall Ticket and carry the admit card while attending the examination.
RPF Syllabus 2019
As there is a ton of rivalry for the Railway Exams. Thus, applicants, it is smarter to begin your planning now itself to show signs of improvement result. To kick your exam readiness, hopefuls can check the Latest RPF Syllabus 2019 PDF Download connect first. By alluding the RPF Railway Constable Syllabus, competitors can think about the on which subjects based that the inquiry paper will make. you can check the RPF Syllabus in detail.
RPF Exam Pattern
S.No
Exam
Subject
Marks
Duration
1
Written Test
General Intelligence & Reasoning
50
2 Hours
General Knowledge
50
Numerical Aptitude
50
General English
50
Total
200
Download RPF Exam Admit Card
The Railway Protection Force has released it’s RPF Admit Card. Candidates those applied for the post can download their RPF Exam Admit Card 2019 here. As hall ticket is important for contenders to take up the exams. The admit card will be available through online mode. Moreover, we have provided steps to help contenders easily get their RPF Hall Ticket 2019. Refer to the steps given below and download the hall ticket and carry them to the exam hall without fail. Those applicants failing to carry admit card will not be allowed to take up the examination. Stay connected and get admit card here as soon as possible.
SSC CHSL Result 2019 | Check SSC CHSL Result 2019 Tier 1 @ ssc.nic.in |TheSSC CHSL Result will be declared on today. Here on this page, all the applicants can check your SSC CHSL 2019 Result of Tier 1. The candidates who have attended the Exam are eagerly waiting to check their SSC CHSL Result 2019. This is the right place to check your results, here we have provided a direct link to check your results. We will update the SSC CHSL Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 Results on this page.
SSC CHSL Tier 1 Result Update: Staff Selection Commission is ready to declare today the SSC CHSL Paper 1 2018 result on its official website i.e, ssc.nic.in.
SSC CHSL Result 2019 @ ssc.nic.in
As we know all the candidates will think about When SSC CHSL Result 2019 will be declared? Because The Staff Selection Commission or SSC has been one of the most desirable organizations for Government exams in India. The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) conducts the Combined Higher Secondary Level (CHSL, 10+2) Exam for recruitment to various posts. The candidates who have passed the Tier 1 exam are eligible to write the Tier 2 Examination. Candidates can check their results below and know that they have qualified for the next round or not. Candidates can check your SSC CHSL Result by Registration number. Also, applicants can get the SSC CHSL Result with marks on the official website as well as on this page.
SSC CHSL Result 2019 – Overview
SSC CHSL Exam Result 2019 | CHSL Tier-I Merit List, Cut Off Marks
The SSC Board has conducted the Online exam for the candidates. The candidates who have completed their Tier 1 Exam which is computer-based exam are waiting to check their results. The Tier 1 exam consists of the four sections where each section has 25 questions. The total duration of the examination is 60 minutes. The Total marks for the exam are 200. Candidates who have passed the Tier 1 exam will be qualified to the Tier 2 & Tier 3 exam. Where Tier 2 is a descriptive exam and Tier 3 is a typing ability test or skill test.
Selection Process for SSC CHSL Recruitment
Candidates will be selected for the various posts in the Staff Selection Board based on
Tier 1 Exam (Written Examination)
Tier 2 Exam (Descriptive Exam)
Tier 3 Exam (Skill Test)
Document Verification
SSC CHSL Result 2019 for Tier 1
SSC CHSL 2019 Tier 1 exam is a computer-based exam (CBT)
The exam is scheduled to be conducted from July 1st to 26th July 2019.
The exam consists of mainly 4 sections i.e General Intelligence, English Language, Quantitative Aptitude and General Awareness.
The total marks weightage of the exam is 200, students who qualify the tier I will appear for tier II of the exam.
The result for Tier 1 is expected in the month of August 2019.
SSC CHSL Tier 2 Result 2019
The SSC CHSL Tier 2 exam will be descriptive in nature.
The examination is a paper-based exam.
The exam is scheduled for September 29, 2019.
The tentative date for declaration of the SSC CHSL Tier 2 result is October 2019.
The total weight of the exam is 100 marks.
A minimum of 33% marks is required to qualify for the exam.
Marks obtained in this exam will be added for preparing the merit list.
Only candidates qualifying Tier 2 will be shortlisted for the skill test/typing test.
SSC CHSL Result 2019 for Tier 3
Tier 3 exam is a typing test based on the post for which candidate has applied.
It will be conducted for only those candidates who have been shortlisted on the basis of merit.
The marks obtained in this stage will not be added but is important to qualify this exam.
A minimum of 33% is required to be scored in this exam, in order to qualify this exam.
Students must make sure that they qualify for this exam, if the candidates fail in this exam, then he/they are not eligible for the final selection process.
AWES Admit Card 2019. Army Welfare Education Society has released the official notification for 8000 Trainee Graduate Teachers & Post Graduate Teachers. Hence, TGT & PGT exams will be held on 19th & 20th October 2019. Moreover, the admit card will be available on the 02nd Week of October 2019. Therefore, exam appearing candidates must download the hall ticket from the below given direct link.
AWES Admit Card 2019
Applicants of AWES Recruitment process must download the admit card from the official website. Make sure to download the hall ticket before the exam date. Contenders are suggested to stick to the official portal to download the AWES Admit Card. Those who applied for the posts can get the direct link to download the admit card. The AWES Hall Ticket contains the details of examiners and the TGT & PGT exam.
AWES Admit Card Download – Overview
Description
Details
Name of the Board
Army Welfare Education Society
Name of the Post
Trainee Graduate Teachers & Post Graduate Teachers
The Hall Ticket must be filled by the details of candidates. Thus, Candidates have to download the admit card by entering the details as in the application form. Hence, Applicants are suggested to take down the exam along with the AWES Admit Card to the exam hall. Make sure to download the hall ticket without mistakes.
Candidates Name
Name of the Candidate's Father
The venue of the Exam Centre
Date & Time of the Test
Reporting Time to the Exam Hall
Gender (Male/ Female)
Roll Number
Duration of the Online Test
Space for Invigilator's Signature
Registration Number
Name of the Test Centre
Category of the candidates
Space for Applicant's Signature
Name of the Exam Conducting Board
Photograph of the Candidate
Applicant's Date of Birth
Name of the Written Test
Important Guidelines for the Exam Takers
Full Name of the Applicant
Examination Centre Code
Signature of the Board Counselor
AWES TGT & PGT Exam 2019
The TGT & PGT Exam is going to be held on 19th & 20th October 2019. Thus, after completing the registration process the aspirants will be conducted by the written examination. Start making your preparations for the exam. Exam details like exam date, exam time and center details are printed on the AWES Admit Card. Get the AWES Exam Pattern to make the preparation easy. Download the AWES Syllabus 2019 from here.
Post
Paper
Contents
Marks
PGT/TGT
Part A
General Awareness, Mental Ability, English Comprehension, Educational Concepts, and Methodology
90
Part B
Specific to Subject
90
PRT
Part A
General Awareness, Mental Ability, English Comprehension, Educational Concepts, and Methodology
90
Documents Along with AWES Hall Ticket 2019
Carry the Government original ID proofs to participate in the exam. If any mistakes are done with the admit card inform the board immediately to get the corrected one. Check to the details in the AWES TGT Admit Card.
Original Photograph
Voter Card
Pan Card
Employee ID
College ID
PAN Card
Passport
Driving License
Any other ID proof issued by a Gazetted Officer
Bank Pass Book with the photograph
AWES Admit Card Download 2019-20
First Click on the AWES Admit Card.
Fill the Login details to get the admit card page.
Enter the Captcha shown on the page.
The Hall Ticket page will appear on the screen.
Enter the valid credentials in the admit card.
Check to the details in the hall ticket before submitting.
AWES Teacher Syllabus 2019 for the Post of TST, PGT & PRT is available here. The Army Welfare Education Society announced the huge number of vacancies for TGT, PGT, PRT Posts. However, the aspirants check the more AWES Recruitment 2019 details in our notifications page. Furthermore, let’s check the AWES Teacher Syllabus and Exam Pattern details in the section below. Also, check the AWES Previous Question Papers for PGT, TGT, PRT details from the link given.
The AWES is going to conduct the Online Written Examination for the post of PGT, TGT, PRT 2019. Hence, the AWES TGT, PGT, PRT Written Exam Syllabus and Test Pattern 2019 are updated below. Let’s have a look at the complete AWES Teacher Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2019 for TGT, PGT, PRT. Also, download the AWES Teacher Syllabus for PGT, TGT, PRT Pdf for free from the link given. Furthermore, aspirants can visit the official Army Public School Website i.e., aps-cbs.in Syllabus for more details.
AWES PGT, TGT, PRT Exam Pattern 2019
Post
Paper
Subjects
Marks
Duration
PGT/TGT
Part A
General Awareness
90
3 Hrs
Mental Ability
English Comprehension
Educational Concepts & Methodology
Part B
Specific to Subject
90
PRT
Part A
Same as Part A for PGT/TGT
90
1Hr 30 Mins
The questions paper will be Objective Type MCQ’s.
The PGT/TGT Candidates who fail in Part B But Qualified in Part A may opt to take a scorecard for PRT.
1/4th Negative for each wrong answer.
Candidates have to Score 50% marks to qualify in each part.
The Candidates those who are appearing for the AWES Oline Written Test 2019 can check the Previous Papers here. The Aspirants can download the Free AWES Old Question papers, Sample Papers pdf here. As we uploaded the Study Material and Model Question papers for AWES CBS Recruitment 2019.
AWES Teacher Syllabus 2019 Pdf here. Check Army Welfare Education Society PGT TGT PRT Syllabus and Exam, AWES Exam Dates, Timings, Exam Centers and furthermore details @ www.awesindia.com.
PGT TGT PRT Exam Syllabus 2019 for AWES
Candidates who are searching for the Army Welfare Education Society PGT TGT PRT Syllabus they can get AWES Teacher Syllabus and Exam Pattern here. We have given the direct link to download the AWES Syllabus and Exam Pattern on our site. For the latest updates regarding the Syllabus and Exam Pattern here.
Army Welfare Education Society has recently released the employment notification to fill up the 8000 vacancies of PGT, TGT, PRT Posts. Candidates who are searching for the Teaching Jobs can apply before the last date. Here we are providing latest Central Government Jobs on our page. For further details regarding the AWES Recruitment click on the below-provided link. The last date to apply online is 22nd September 2019.
Selection Process:
The candidates are hired based on their performance in the following rounds. Only when they qualify in the first round, they are allowing to attend the next consequent rounds.
Screening Test
Main Exam
Evaluation of Teaching Skills and Computer Proficiency
AWES Teacher Syllabus 2019 Details
Name of the Society
Army Welfare Education Society
Name of the Posts
PGT, TGT, PRT
No. of Vacancies
8000 Vacancies
Apply Mode
Online
Starting Date
01/09/2019
Last Date
22/09/2019
Exam Date
19th October & 20th October 2019
Category
Syllabus
Official website
www.awesindia.com
AWES Teacher Exam Pattern – PGT TGT PRT Test Pattern
Post
Paper
Subject
Duration
Marks
PGT/TGT
Part A
GK, English
3 Hours
90
Part B
Specific to subject
90
PRT
Part A
Same as Part I for TGT/ PGT
1 Hr 30 Mins
90
Aspirants can check AWES Teacher Syllabus and Exam Pattern for Teacher Posts. Candidates can check exam topics which are given below.
The written test question will be of objective type.
The written test consists of part A & B.
Exam Scores will be normalized to 100 Marks.
There is no negative marking.
Part A & Part B will be available together, and candidates can answer in the order they prefer.
The candidate must score minimum 50% for each section to qualify for the post.
Download Army Welfare Education Society Teacher Syllabus 2019 Pdf
Candidates can get AWES Teacher Syllabus for PGT, TGT and PRT Posts in Army Schools. The Syllabus Topics for AWES Teacher Exam are given below.
AWES Teacher Syllabus For PGT/TGT
Part A
General Awareness.
Mental Ability.
English Comprehension.
Educational Concepts & Methodology.
Part B
Specific to Subject
General Awareness Syllabus for AWES Teacher Post
Sports.
History.
Culture.
Geography.
Economic Scene.
General Polity including Indian Constitution
Scientific Research etc.
AWES Teacher Syllabus for Mental Ability
Analogy.
Classification.
Series.
Coding-Decoding.
Blood Relations.
Direction sense test.
Logical Venn Diagrams.
Alphabet test.
Sitting Arrangements.
Mathematical Operations.
Athematic Reasoning.
Inserting Missing Characters.
Number, Ranking and Time Sequence Test.
Eligibility Test.
English Comprehension for AWES Teacher Syllabus
Verb.
Preposition.
adverb.
subject verb agreement.
Error Correction/ recognition.
Tenses.
Sentences rearrangement.
Fill in the blanks with articles etc.
Comprehension.
Answering questions based on the unseen passage.
Vocabulary.
Synonyms and antonyms usage.
vocabulary & grammar.
Proficiency in the language.
AWES Teacher Syllabus for Educational Concepts & Methodology
Materials development and syllabus design.
Teacher education and critical pedagogy.
Technology and language teaching.
Sociocultural Theory of language learning.
Classroom Management.
English for Specific Purposes (ESP)/ English for Academic Purposes (EAP).
Strategies-based instruction.
Integrated language skills.
Reflective language teaching.
Needs Analysis.
Army Welfare Education Society Teacher Syllabus for PRT
Part A
Same as for AWES Teacher Syllabus for PGT/TGT Part A.
Direct Link to Download AWES Teacher PGT TGT PRT Syllabus
It is the direct link to download AWES Teacher PGT, TGT, and PRT Exam Syllabus. Hence, download the syllabus and start your preparation. We hope that the above information will help you to score a good mark on your exam. All the best!!!
Army Welfare Education Society AWES Teacher Syllabus
AWES Teacher Syllabus is available on our site. Army Welfare Education Society has released the recruitment notification for Teacher Posts. The huge number of applicants has utilized this opportunity. Now the applicants are browsing for AWES Teacher PGT Syllabus on the internet. Those candidates can download AWES Teacher Exam Syllabus & Exam Pattern Pdf on our site. The AWES Teacher Syllabus Provided on our site is useful for the candidates. We have updated AWES PGT TGT PRT Exam Syllabus Topics on our site. It will become an easy way for the aspirants to prepare well for the Exam. AWES Teacher Syllabus is also available on official website. The direct link to the Official site is given below.
Army Welfare Education Society is also known as AWES. It was established to meet the needs of the children of Army employees. It has 135 Army Public Schools and 235 Army Pre-primary Schools. Jan 15, 1980, is a red-letter day in the Indian Army. The Army Schools are administered by the Local Station Commanders through the School Administration and Management Committee (SAMC). Every year it will release recruitment notifications to fill the teacher posts in Army Schools.
The candidates who are seeking for the teacher jobs has utilized this opportunity. The organization will recruit the candidates based on the merit list in the examination. So, candidates have to prepare well for the exam. We have provided the AWES Teacher Syllabus topics on our site. It will become an easy way for the candidate to prepare well for the exam. For any other details about the AWES Teacher Exam Syllabus, you can check it from the official site.
AWES Teacher Exam Pattern
Aspirants can check AWES Teacher Syllabus and Exam Pattern for Teacher Posts. Candidates can check exam topics which are given below.
The written test question will be of objective type.
The written test consists of part A & B.
Exam Scores will be normalized to 100 Marks.
There is no negative marking.
Part A & Part B will be available together, and candidates can answer in the order they prefer.
The candidate must score a minimum of 50% for each section to qualify for the post.
Post
Paper
Subject
Duration
Marks
PGT/TGT
Part A
GK, English
3 Hours
90
Part B
Specific to subject
90
PRT
Part A
Same as Part I for TGT/ PGT
1 Hr 30 Mins
90
AWES Teacher Syllabus
Candidates can get AWES Teacher Syllabus for PGT, TGT and PRT Posts in Army Schools. The Syllabus Topics for AWES Teacher Exam are given below.
PGT/TGT for AWES Teacher Syllabus
Part A
General Awareness.
Mental Ability.
English Comprehension.
Educational Concepts & Methodology.
Part B
Specific to Subject
AWES Teacher Syllabus for General Awareness
Questions will be designed to test the ability of the candidate's general awareness of the environment around him and its application to society. These questions will be such that they do not require a special study of any discipline. This is a topic is huge so applicants are advised to go through Newspaper daily and read good GK books and other notes. The test will also include questions relating to India and its neighboring countries especially about
Sports.
History.
Culture.
Geography.
Economic scene.
General Polity including Indian Constitution
Scientific Research etc.
AWES Teacher Syllabus for Mental Ability
Analogy.
Classification.
Series.
Coding-Decoding.
Blood Relations.
Direction sense test.
Logical Venn Diagrams.
Alphabet test.
Sitting Arrangements.
Mathematical Operations.
Arthematic Reasoning.
Inserting Missing Characters.
Number, Ranking and Time Sequence Test.
Eligibility Test.
English Comprehension for AWES Teacher Syllabus
Verb.
Preposition.
adverb.
subject verb agreement.
Error Correction/ recognition.
Tenses.
Sentences rearrangement.
Fill in the blanks with articles etc.
Comprehension.
Answering questions based on the unseen passage.
Vocabulary.
Synonyms and antonyms usage.
vocabulary & grammar.
Proficiency in the language.
AWES Teacher Syllabus for Educational Concepts & Methodology
Materials development and syllabus design.
Teacher education and critical pedagogy.
Technology and language teaching.
Sociocultural Theory of language learning.
Classroom Management.
English for Specific Purposes (ESP)/ English for Academic Purposes (EAP).
Strategies-based instruction.
Integrated language skills.
Reflective language teaching.
Needs Analysis.
Teacher Syllabus for PRT
Part A
Same as for AWES Teacher Syllabus for PGT/TGT Part A.
Download AWES Teacher Syllabus 2019
Name of the Organization: Army Welfare Education Society.
Name of the post: Teacher Posts.(PGT,TGT,PRT).
Official Site: www.awesindia.com
No of vacancies: 7000.
Category: Syllabus.
Direct Link to Download AWES Teacher Syllabus
It is the direct link to download AWES Teacher PGT, TGT, and PRT Exam Syllabus.
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MUMBAI: Housing Development Finance Corp (HDFC Ltd), the country's largest mortgage lender, is considering a plan to link interest rates to external benchmarks, although the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) hasn't mandated this for housing finance companies (HFCs).The home financier is looking to link both loans and liabilities as this will protect interest margins, HDFC vice chairman Keki Mistry told ET. For liabilities, it may engage in aggressive trades in interest-rate swaps, a market mechanism in which a trader exchanges fixed-rate payments for floating rates."We will still examine such loan products in our next asset liability committee (ALCO) meeting to be held in the next two weeks," Mistry said. "We would come up with external benchmark-linked loan products only when we are able to match the same mechanism on our liabilities side."AUM Increases 13%He pointed out the latest move on linking bank interest rates to external benchmarks does not apply to HFCs.HDFC's total assets under management rose 13% to Rs 4.76 lakh crore as of June 30. Home borrowers account for about three-fourths of the loans while construction finance, lease rental discounting and corporate loans make up the rest of the loan book. 71073380 The company raises money through a combination of bonds, public deposits, overseas credit and vanilla term loans. The home financier meets nearly half of its fund requirement through debt securities. Public deposits form 31% of the borrowing book."Swapping part of our liabilities should be with external benchmarks to which all other HFC loans are linked," Mistry said. "If we raise money via bonds we should be able to swap it."RBI MandateLast week, the RBI mandated that banks should link home, auto and micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) loans to external benchmarks such as the repo rate, at which banks borrow shortterm money from the central bank, and treasury bills. The faster transmission of RBI rate action is the primary motive behind the move that will be effective October 1. The central bank has cut its policy rate by 110 basis points this year in a bid to push credit expansion to spur investment and help with economic revival. A basis point is 0.01 percentage point.Banks face the threat of contracting interest rate margins if they only link assets to external benchmarks and not deposits. State Bank of India cut deposit and lending rates on Monday.The No. 1 mortgage lender is better placed than some of its peers."HDFC is better placed with about 50% of borrowings linked to floating rates than LICHF's (LIC Housing Finance)--about 22%," said Emkay Global analyst Jignesh Shial in a note. "However, margin pressure on both companies is inevitable. We appreciate HDFC's diversified asset and liability franchise, consistency in spreads, and healthy provision coverage that smoothen risks of any future defaults."According to the Emkay report, standalone lending for HDFC contributes 53% to the total value, providing further comfort. The lender continues to see rising credit demand from buyers looking for homes to stay in, as opposed to speculators. The government has set a target of Housing for All by 2022.
KOLKATA | NEW DELHI: India Inc is unlikely to curtail or delay payout of festival bonus to employees despite the slowdown, raising hope among consumer goods companies and retailers that the move might boost sentiment & drive up purchases in the festive season.Leading employers across sectors such as Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Godrej Group, Axis Bank, Future Group, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India, Maruti Suzuki, RPG Group, BigBasket, Grofers, Puma, Panasonic and Dixon Technologies are handing out bonuses to employees, several company and industry executives said.The incentive includes either a special bonus for the festive season or a sales incentive or bonus payout for white-collar executives and managers in September-October. The blue-collar workforce, mostly in factories and on shop floors, too will receive the statutory bonus that is a portion of their basic pay.Onam Payouts Boosted SalesFirms and consumer goods makers pointed out that the payouts for Onam in Kerala — made in the first week of September — had led to a 3-4% rise in sales over last year, tempering initial fears of a washout during the festival season. 71073424 Asked about the impact of festive payouts, ITC executive director B Sumant said the upcoming season will provide opportunities for consumption to expand.Others said more steps were needed to revive consumption. Godrej Appliances business head Kamal Nandi said festive bonus alone may not be sufficient to boost sentiment unless the government announces a bigger stimulus package. "A big stimulus can bring positivity among consumers, which will then boost consumption. Otherwise, the festive payout will go into conservation."Companies are also sceptical about a pick-up in rural demand, which has slipped into a trough in the past few years. India Inc, however, is hoping that the first good monsoon in five years will revive rural sentiment. Marico MD Saugata Gupta said that while some categories could see an uptick in demand, the overall slowdown in sales will take some more time to improve. "Consumption continues to be soft, but we expect the monsoon and government steps may boost consumption after 2-3 months," he said.Indian consumers are cutting down purchases amid an economic slowdown and volatile stock markets. The GDP growth rate fell to six-year low of 5% in the June quarter. International Monetary Fund and Asian Development Bank have lowered growth forecasts for FY20 to around 7% on a weaker-than-expected outlook for domestic demand and concerns around fiscal shortfall."There is no change to our intent to pay, quantum to pay or schedule to pay," said S Venkatesh, president, group HR, at RPG Enterprises.Axis Bank's HR head Rajkamal Vempati said the bank will make incentive payouts to its white-collar sales force around October. "The quantum of incentives will be in line with other years," he said.Recruitment and staffing firm CIEL HR Services' CEO Aditya Narayan Mishra said most companies would pay out sales incentives and statutory bonuses around October. The larger ones, he said, will not delay payouts to keep negative sentiment at bay.'Auto sector in trouble'"However, the auto sector is likely to face trouble, given that companies are shutting production lines for a few days. Some of these companies may defer bonuses to the blue-collar workforce. Some smaller companies may also delay payouts, since they are more likely to face liquidity issues," Mishra said.Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) said the Diwali bonus is a part of the wage agreement which the company inks with permanent workers and that the payouts will not be held back."It is a legal compliance. Besides, automotive is a cyclical business, there are ups and down in the industry. We do not want to affect the morale of our workers by holding back or cutting down on any such incentive," said Harbhajan Singh, director general, corporate affairs, HMSI.A spokesperson for Maruti Suzuki India said that despite "the current tough situation, the company will keep the same payment policy for festivals as usual".Mahindra & Mahindra declined to comment.Several HR experts said senior management employees are unlikely to get any payouts this year and a clutch of companies are instead thinking of rewarding them with employee stock option plans (Esops).India's festive season — which begins with Ganesh Chaturthi — is the biggest shopping period, accounting for 35-40% of the annual sales of consumer-facing companies.While FMCG, apparel and retail segments have been battling a slowdown in consumption for over three quarters now, smartphone and home appliances industries saw a dip in sales beginning July. Car sales fell to a twodecade low in August.
Mumbai: Investors in mutual fund debt plans, especially liquid schemes, may have to brace for more uncertainty with regard to returns as the Securities and Exchange Board of India may make it mandatory for these debt products to assign the latest market price to all their bond investments from April 1.Currently, only debt papers with a maturity of over 30 days need to be valued on a mark-to market basis. Most fund houses value the rest of the papers based on amortisation.The shift is being undertaken to ensure the net asset value (NAV) of the fixed income schemes reflect the portfolio's fair value. All categories of debt MFs including liquid funds and ultra short-term funds, which predominantly invest in debt papers with maturity below 30 days, will be impacted by the new method of calculation."Valuation of debt and money market instruments based on amortisation shall be dispensed with and shall completely shift to mark-to-market valuation with effect from April 1, 2020," said minutes of the Sebi board meeting held on August 21. The move is aimed at boosting transparency in bond funds and aligning their values to the market prices.For investors in fixed income schemes, this change in valuation method would mean NAV would fluctuate more frequently as prices could swing in the event of uncertain markets or changes in credit ratings.Capturing market risksThe move could dim the popularity of products such as liquid schemes, where investors usually park their idle money. The assets managed by the liquid category of mutual funds was Rs 5.49 lakh crore as on August 31. Ultra short-term schemes managed money worth Rs 90,293 crore."Until now, in the case of securities with maturity less than 30 days, interest used to be amortised over the remaining period," said a fund manager with a domestic mutual fund. "But now every day prices are released by the rating agencies. Those prices will be used for valuing securities and calculating NAV." 71073829 Daily bond prices in India are provided by credit rating agencies in the absence of an active corporate debt market. The NAV of an equity fund is calculated daily based on the closing price of the shares. MFs use amortisation method to determine the daily price of the bonds.Consider a mutual fund which has invested Rs 100 crore in debt papers of a company 'A' with a coupon rate of 10% and the tenure of the bond is 30 days. Since the fair market price of these bonds isn't available, the fund house would divide the total interest receivable during maturity with the tenure of the bond, i.e. in this case 0.33%, and then accrue it daily. Hence, the value of the bond would be Rs 100.33 crore on the 30th day, Rs 100.66 crore on the 29th, Rs 100.99 on 28th and so on."In the event of a credit deterioration, a fund should mark down the value of security to reflect its true picture. In the current scenario that does not happen till the security defaults," said the fund manager of another domestic fund house.The current methodology doesn't capture the real market risks. For instance, consider if the bonds of 'A' have been downgraded from AAA to say B+. In the current method, the NAV of the funds which have exposure to this paper will not be able to capture the impact of the downgrade in the NAV. Instead, they would add the interest for NAV calculation. However, in the mark-to-market valuation method, the downgrade will be captured in the price calculation and hence NAVs of the funds having exposure to 'A' will take a hit. Until last year, only debt papers with maturity of over 60 days were required to value the investments on a mark-to-market basis.
CUPERTINO (CALIFORNIA): Apple has announced India pricing of newly-launched iPhones - available in the country from September 27 - and the starting iPhone 11 model (64GB) with dual camera rear setup will cost you Rs 64,900.iPhone 11 will be available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB models in purple, green, yellow, black, white and PRODUCT (RED), starting at Rs 64,900.iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max with triple camera set-up will be available in 64GB, 256GB and 512GB models in midnight green, space gray, silver and gold, starting at Rs 99,900 and Rs 109,900 respectively. 71073552 Apple Watch Series 5 (GPS) starts at Rs 40,900 and Apple Watch Series 5 (GPS + Cellular) starts at Rs 49,900.Apple TV+ will be available on the Apple TV app for Rs 99 per month with a seven-day free trial. Starting from Tuesday, customers who purchase any iPhone can enjoy one year of Apple TV+ for free. 71073576 The gaming service Apple Arcade on the App Store will be available with iOS 13 as a subscription for Rs 99 per month and is launching with a one-month free trial.Users get unlimited access to the entire catalog of over 100 new, exclusive games, all playable across iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac and Apple TV.iOS 13 will be available on September 19 as a free software update for iPhone 6s and later. Additional software features will be available on September 30 with iOS 13.1, announced Apple. 71073562
Mumbai: CVC Capital and Carlyle could make the shortlist for the 30 per cent Shriram Capital stake that Piramal Enterprises and private equity fund TPG are selling, multiple people aware of the bids told ET. Five PE funds, including Advent, Blackstone and Brookfield, had submitted initial offers."CVC Capital and Carlyle are likely to be shortlisted for the stake sale by PEL and TPG," said a source close to the development. "Advent has invested in another NBFC. So, it may not go ahead with this deal."Advent International has invested Rs 1,000 crore via its affiliate Jomei Investment in Aditya Birla capital last week.CVC Capital and Carlyle declined to comment. Other private equity funds in the race and the two sellers could not be immediately reached.Existing investors in TPG Capital and Piramal Enterprises are looking to exit the financial services firm. The transaction is likely to value the unlisted Shriram Capital at around Rs 18,000-20,000 crore, sources said, pegging the combined holding of TPG and Piramal group at around Rs 6,000-7,000 crore. 71074285 "The due diligence process is on and now PE funds are getting into details of these unlisted companies," said another source. "Investors want to know their role in the organisational structure after the companies are merged. The merger discussions are in an early stage and currently potential synergies are being evaluated."The new investments will depend on the management width that Shriram Capital will be able to offer, said another source. Over the last six years, Piramal has not been able to take full management control despite his initial investment of Rs 4,600 crore in the Chennai-based Shriram group.Shriram Capital Limited is the holding company for the financial services businesses. These include Shriram Transport Finance and Shriram City Union, and insurance entities Shriram Life and Shriram General.In 2014, the Mumbai-based Piramal group bought a 20 per cent stake in Shriram Capital for Rs 2,014 crore. TPG Capital holds a 9 per cent stake in Shriram Capital, while South Africa-based Sanlam Group owns 26 per cent, and the Shriram Ownership Trust has as much as 45 per cent in the company.Piramal, which first backed Shriram Transport Finance in 2013, sold its entire 9.96 per cent stake in the company for Rs 2,300 crore. It has another 10 per cent stake in Shriram City Union Finance, which is presently valued at Rs 8,763 crore.
Mumbai: The current crisis in the automobile industry in the country is largely due to "overproduction and stocking" by companies and to a small extent to the economic slowdown, and there's no need for a GST cut, Bajaj Auto managing director Rajiv Bajaj has said.His statement comes days before the GST Council is scheduled to convene on September 20 when, among other things, it is expected to take a call on the industry's demand for a cut in goods and service tax on automobiles.The industry is now rapidly correcting the stock levels for Bharat Stage-VI emission norms and the problem will be sorted by November, Bajaj said."There's no industry that keeps growing forever without correction, so no point chasing that mirage," Bajaj said in an interaction with ET. "The answer lies in being global so that the company doesn't fall sick if one market catches flu."Bajaj Auto, the country's third largest motorcycle maker, exports one out of every two motorcycles it produces.Automobile sales have declined by over 30 per cent in certain categories during July and August, of which only 5-7 per cent decline in sales volumes is due to economic reasons, over which companies have little control, Bajaj said. 71073636 "Every industry has its up and down cycles. It may take a year, maybe two, for it to correct," Bajaj said. "Nobody knows how long this will last, but it certainly doesn't deserve a GST cut."According to him, automakers in the country caused the current situation upon themselves due to overproduction of vehicles based on growth forecasts."They roll the dice sans any logic," Bajaj told ET. "The result is a matter of luck-by-chance. We don't waste time or money on forecasts. We simply expand capacity once we're close to full."If a GST relief is to be given, it should be limited to vehicles compliant with the cleaner BSVI emission norms, he said, reiterating his earlier stance.Most players in the automobile industry have been lobbying for an immediate reduction in GST levied on vehicles to 18 per cent from 28 per cent to boost demand, but the Bajaj Auto boss had voiced concern that such a move will result in a blockage of dealers' money.Dealers had already paid GST at the higher rate while purchasing their existing inventory from manufacturers and customers would not want to pay the same post any announcement on GST cut, he had said last month. Hence, Bajaj had argued, a GST cut should be limited to BS-VI compliant vehicles to avoid such a scenario. It would also partially absorb the sharp increase in the prices of vehicles as they become compliant to the new emission norms, he had said.
Wealth managers believe investors looking to taken an exposure to gold in their portfolio could consider the 2019-20 Series IV of sovereign gold bonds which is open for subscription till September 13, at a price of Rs 3,840 per gram for digital payments and Rs 3890 per gram for payments through physical mode."The US markets are in its 10th year of bull run and look overvalued. Globally we are in an environment where there are negative interest rates in many countries. Investors should have an allocation of 5-10% gold in their portfolio as an insurance against global uncertainty and rupee depreciation," says Ashish Shanker, head (Investment Advisory), Motilal Oswal Wealth Management. Financial planners also recommend gold due to its low correlation with traditional asset class like equity and debt.Gold prices have moved up sharply in the last one year going up by 25% and it has been one of the best performing asset class. The S&P BSE Sensex has lost 3.22%, while an investment in a liquid fund earned 6.73%. However over a 3 year and 5 year period, the yellow metal has gained only 5.93% and 5.92% respectively.Sovereign gold bonds are a good option to take exposure to gold as an asset class, believe financial planners. "Gold bonds do not have any expense and investors earn an additional 2.5% interest every year and is one of the best way to take exposure to gold," says Amol Joshi, Founder, Plan Rupee. Gold bonds score on the taxation front as they do not attract capital gains tax if held till maturity. He advises investors to hold them till maturity as even though they are listed on the BSE and NSE liquidity could be low and prices could get a lower price in the secondary markets. Sovereign gold bonds have a tenor of eight years with investors having the option to exit after the fifth year on interest payment dates. The redemption price will be the simple average of the closing price of gold for the previous three days.
Goldman Sachs has lowered its forecast on 2019 oil demand growth, citing reduced demand from India, Japan, other non-OECD Asian regions, the Middle East and Latin America. The Wall Street bank revised its forecast down to 1 million barrels per day (bpd), from 1.1 million bpd but left its 2020 demand growth estimate broadly unchanged at 1.4 million bpd. However, it stuck to its 2020 price forecast for Brent crude at $60 a barrel, flagging the willingness of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to sacrifice market share. "Our oil supply-demand outlook for 2020 calls for additional OPEC production cuts to keep inventories near normal," Goldman analysts wrote in a note dated Sept. 9. "We continue to expect OPEC will sacrifice market share in line with leadership commentary at its June meeting, which we believe will lead to Brent prices of around $60/bbl." Crude oil prices have shed nearly 20% from 2019 highs hit in April, partly because of an escalating trade war between the United States and China, which is expected to hurt the global economy and, in turn, demand for oil. Other banks, including Morgan Stanley and Barclays, have also flagged risks to oil demand as a result of economic uncertainties. Morgan Stanley last month lowered its oil price and demand forecasts for the rest of the year, citing a weaker economic outlook, faltering demand and higher shale oil output.
BENGALURU: India's linguistic diversity made it one of the most challenging markets for Alexa, but pushed Amazon's voice assistant to also become a fundamentally better product, a senior executive at the US-based technology giant told ET.India has an incredible diversity of languages, vocabulary, dialects and pronunciations. Besides, Indians tend to pose mixed language queries to Alexa – a behaviour that is unique to India."Developing Alexa for India was the most challenging experience for language processing, but also the most rewarding experience," said Prem Natarajan, Vice President, Alexa AI & Head - Natural Understanding. "Awesome thing is that when you are challenging problems for a diverse country like India, it turns out you are developing techniques that benefit others across the world."India was the fourth country after the US, the UK and Germany in which the voice assistant was launched, back in October 2017. Amazon wants artificial intelligence-driven Alexa to be an extension of its product offerings of ecommerce, cloud, music and entertainment."A language can exhibit variations in dialects, vocabulary, accent, pronunciation. In most parts of the world, you see broad clusters of these. In India, language is individual. It is far more granular. This means, the learning challenge in India is much greater," Natarajan said.In other parts of the world, Alexa looks at natural language understanding as single language modelling or processing, but in India it thinks of it as multi-lingual modelling or processing for every component of the system.Every time Alexa is asked a question, it converts the question into text to search for an answer. Once Alexa gets the answer, it converts the text back into speech."The underlying technology is neural text to speech, but instead of using a single language model during generation we have to use multiple language models and shift back and forth between different language models," Natarajan said.Another challenge that Alexa specifically faces in India is a lack of standard English spelling for regional words. There are multiple spelling and pronunciations for names, movies, songs and places. To solve for this, Alexa had to develop a deeper directory of phonetic search for India."In the West, there is a lot of standardisation. Search problem in India becomes a science problem because I have to come up with ways for search techniques to be robust with variation. In India, you can't have a complete vocabulary," he said.
To contest or not to contest, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leaves cadre guessing As Assembly polls near, functionaries confused over uncertainty surrounding party's future
J&K: CRPF helpline receives 34K calls During the security clampdown that came into effect with the abrogation of special status to Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) through its Madadgaar app handled 34,274 calls (both incoming and outgoing) to let the people in the valley know about the well-being of their loved ones, claimed CRPF on Tuesday.
Incessant rains bring Ahmedabad to its knees Waterlogging was reported in several areas; vehicular traffic and pedestrian movement was disrupted due to flooding of roads
Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu oppose advance power payments State-run electricity distribution companies (discoms) of Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu have opposed the central government panel's recommendation to make advance payments to power producers.
Joint panel to be formed: India, Asean to review free trade agreement India and the 10-member bloc of South-East Asian nations have decided to review their free trade agreement (FTA) in goods that was signed in 2009.
Being under depression, woman kills six-year-old US-born daughter in Pune The girl was born in the United States, and hence a citizen of the country, because of which the news of her death has been shared with the US embassy
Sonia Gandhi meets Sharad Pawar ahead of Maharashtra Assembly polls The meeting between two went on for around half-an-hour to check on the preparedness of upcoming election
A lawn edger is a tool that you can use to trim the grass on the very edge of a lawn or flowerbed that the lawnmower may not be able to reach. Having a well-trimmed edge around your lawn or flowerbed will make it look well cared-for and can prevent unruly weeds from invading your lawn. Lawn edgers are fairly diverse tools that can be used to create a neat edge around your flower beds, to expand an existing flower bed, or to mark out the edges of a new flowerbed or vegetable bed.
[Edit]Choosing the Best Edger for Your Type of Lawn
Purchase an electric stick edger for a simple, straightforward model. Electrically powered stick edgers are the most popular type for a reason: they are relatively lightweight and well suited for clearing up the edges around average-sized lawns, gardens, and flower beds. Some electrical edgers do need to be physically plugged into an outlet (so plan to invest in extension cords), but others are powered by a small rechargeable battery.[1]
Electrical edgers are also a budget-friendly option. You can find them at hardware stores or home-improvement stores, and they typically cost as little as $30–40 USD.
Opt for a gas-powered stick edger to clear heavier brush. As you'd expect, gas-powered stick edgers are much heavier and louder than their electric counterparts. However, they are also quite a bit more powerful. If your lawn is covered in weeds, hedges, and other rough brambles—or if you just have a very large lawn to clean up—you may need the power of a gas edger to get the job done.[2]
Gas edgers come with either 2- or 4-cylinder motors; the larger 4-cylinder motors run cleaner than the smaller engines but weigh more and are more pricey.
You can find gas edgers at hardware stores for around $150–180 USD.
Use a manual blade edger if you have a small lawn to edge. A manual lawn edger comprises a wooden or metal pole with a semi-circular blade at the end. If you have a small lawn or are planning to edge around 1 or 2 small flower beds, a manual edger is the practical choice. Manual edgers come with either a flat blade, which are ideal for cutting along lawn edges, or blades with scoop-cut edges, which are great for edging around delicate flower beds. [3]
Manual edgers are the cheapest, since they have no motor and require no fuel. You can find manual edgers at home-improvement or hardware stores for around $20 USD.
You'll get quite a workout using a manual edger, too, which could be a positive or negative thing depending on the region you live in and the season in which you're edging the lawn.
Choose a walk-behind wheeled edger if you have a large lawn. If you have a huge expanse of grass that you want to trim up, a large walk-behind edger is your best bet. These tools—which you'll use just like a lawnmower—are a good choice for edging around large trees and substantial flower beds. Walk-behind wheeled edgers are also great for trimming the grass along a long stretch of sidewalk.[4]
Keep in mind that wheeled edgers only work on flat ground. If you have a sloped or rolling backyard, avoid using a walk-behind edger.
These large edgers can cost as much as $400 USD. If the large price tag deters you, consider renting one from your local hardware or landscape-supply store.
Wear protective clothing and ear plugs to keep yourself safe. Before you start working on the lawn, put on a pair of long pants and heavy boots or shoes. These will protect you in case you accidentally hit your leg or foot with the edger. Also put in a pair of protective earplugs or wear sound-blocking earmuffs to block the loud sounds of the edger if you're using a gas-powered model.[5]
Also wear protective goggles or eyewear, to keep your eyes safe from any flying debris the edger may kick up. If you don't already have a pair of protective goggles or ear plugs, purchase them at a local hardware store.
Mow the entire lawn before you start trimming the edges. Mowing your lawn before cleaning up the edges will save you time and effort in the long run. If you trim the edges of your lawn first and mow second, you could end up with edges dramatically longer or shorter than the majority of the lawn. This would give your lawn an unfinished, sloppy look.[6]
Cleaning up the edges after you mow also gives you the opportunity to trim any patchy spots you may have missed while mowing.
Mark out the path you'll cut along with a rope or hose. Take a long piece of rope or section of hose and lay it out along the path you'll be edging. Leave a space of about between your marker and the edge of the sidewalk or flower bed. When you're trimming the grass, you'll aim the edger's blade for that patch of exposed grass.[7]
Marking out the path will help keep you on track while you cut trim the edges. Once you've edged the lawn 3 or 4 times and have gotten some experience, you won't need to mark the path.
Remove large roots and other obstacles from the path you'll edge. Before you begin to edge around your lawn or flower bed, take a walk along the path your just marked and pull up any rocks, stones, or other firm obstacles. A rock could easily dent or damage the blade of your edger, so make sure the path is clear before you start trimming the grass.
If you're edging along a well-manicured yard, there probably won't be stray rocks. However, there could be rocks if you're trimming near a sidewalk or vegetable patch.
Also make sure you aren't going to be digging where there are power or water lines or where there needs to be manhole access to sewer pipes.
Position the edge of your tool right against the cement. You want the edger to always be within about of the edge of the lawn, flower bed, or vegetable patch you're edging around. If you veer off course while you're edging and come more than away, you'll end up cutting a eyesore of a line through the grass.[8]
This is where your marking will come in handy. Follow the guide closely and you'll cut right along the edge of the lawn!
Press the blade down with your foot for a manual edger. If you're using a manual edger, use your leg strength to push the blade down into the soil. Hold the stick firmly and set your foot on the edger tool. Push down with your foot to cut through the soil, and rock the blade gently to cut through the turf. It's also helpful to pry the cut area open slightly by twisting the blade a little to the right and left. This lets you see the line you just cut.[9]
Then, pick up the blade and move it a few inches, and make your next incision.
Turn on the engine and walk slowly forward with a motorized edger. If you're using a gas or electric edging tool, turn on the engine to activate the cutting blades. Walk slowly forward as the tool cuts into the ground, and make sure to cut along the exact path that you marked out earlier. Engage your core muscles as you push to maintain control over the edger.[10]
It's important to walk slowly, especially the first few times you use a lawn edger. The faster you walk, the more likely you are to inadvertently wobble or go off course.
Cut about deep to maintain an even cut. When you're new to landscape edging, aiming for a deep channel is a good rule of thumb. A line of this depth will be deep enough to control the spread of grass roots, but not deep enough to be easily visible and disrupt the appearance of the lawn.[11]
Most motorized lawn edging tools will have a knob or switch you can adjust to change the depth to which the blade cuts.
If you're using a manual edger, of course, you can cut deeper than this. There's not much reason to dig a deeper line, though; you're only trying to clear grass away from the edge of the yard, not dig a trench.
Clear away cut grass and check that you're edging straight. Every , take a quick break to brush the trimmings off of the line you just cut. Once the line is clearly visible, check to make sure that the line is straight and that you haven't deviated at all from the path you marked out earlier.[12]
If you're edging through heavy brush or undergrowth, you could use a strong rake to clear a lot of debris off at once.
Trim back the grass on the edges of the lawn with hand shears. Once you've cut along the entire edge of the lawn or flower bed, all that you need to do is to trim up any long, unkempt grass blades. Go along the route that you just edged, and use a pair of hand shears to cut back the grass so it fades into the lawn. This will give the edge a natural, groomed look.[13]
If you don't have a pair of hand shears, you could also use an electric weed whacker or lawn trimmer.
Edgers are commonly used to cut the grass along the edge of a sidewalk. Large lawnmowers typically cannot trim the right next to the sidewalk, but an edger can easily trim this grass.
It's best to edge around the outskirts of your lawn or flower bed when the ground is fairly moist, as it will be easier to cut through than dry earth. If you live in a cold climate, avoid edging your beds in winter when the ground is likely to be frozen hard and difficult to work.
Avoid marking your edging path with spray paint. While some people use paint, it can create a problem if you accidentally spray along the wrong patch of grass or if the wind blows the spray away.[14]
Having a friend who you believe to be considering suicide is not to be taken lightly. Being suicidal is a temporary state that appears as an answer to severe depression, and the act of taking one's own life is preventable when the correct measures are taken.[1] As a friend, you can potentially save a life by paying attention to warning signs of suicide (in addition to the ones you already know about), making your friend feel supported, and knowing when and how to get outside help. If your friend is in immediate danger call 911, or 1-800-SUICIDE to talk to professionals and access necessary resources.
Spot patterns of suicidal thought.[2] The most important part of prevention is recognition of warning signs. Suicidal thoughts usually include two or more of the following patterns:[3]
Frequent dwelling on a thought obsessively
Believing that there is no hope, and no way to end the pain other than committing suicide.
Viewing life as meaningless, or out of control.
Feeling as though one's brain is in a fog that makes concentration difficult
Recognize suicidal emotions. Many emotional changes accompany suicidal thought, and the following changes are common warning signs[4]:
Extreme mood swings
Feelings of loneliness and isolation, even in the presence of others
Feelings of worthlessness, shame, guilt, self-hatred, and the sense that no one cares.
Becoming sad, withdrawn, tired, apathetic, anxious, irritable, or prone to angry outbursts.
Watch for suggestive comments. Be alert to statements that echo the patterns of thoughts and feelings that accompany suicidality. The following are common to hear from a suicidal person[5]:
"Life isn't worth living."
"You (or another friend or family member) would be better off without me."
"Don't worry, I won't be around to deal with that."
"You'll be sorry when I'm gone."
"I won't be in your way much longer."
"I just can't deal with everything — what's the point?"
"I won't be a burden much longer."
"There's nothing I can do to change anything."
"I'd be better off dead."
"I feel like there is no way out."
"I never should have been born".
Be wary of sudden improvement in mood. Many people who go through with suicide do so when they appear to be feeling significantly better than they have been.[6] You may be seeing the peaceful resoluteness of making the decision to end their life, and should take preventative steps immediately.
Notice unusual behavior. You can observe many behavioral changes in suicidal individuals. If you see at least a few of the following, you may have cause for concern.[7]:
Declining performance in school, work, or other activities (or occasionally the opposite, filling up time with extra duties and responsibilities)
Social isolation
Little or no interest in sex, friends, or previously enjoyable activities
Carelessness about personal welfare and deteriorating physical appearance
Alterations in either direction in sleeping or eating habits. Look for extremes like self-starvation, poor dietary management, or inattention to medical orders (especially in the elderly)
Drastic changes to established routines.
Lethargy and withdrawal.
Recognize signs of suicide planning.[8] Having a plan already in place can mean that a successful attempt could happen soon. Watch for all of the following actions:[9]
Tying up loose ends (i.e. saying goodbye to loved ones, giving away valuable belongings, arranging finances)
Making reckless or passive decisions about important things
Gathering the means to commit suicide, like pill bottles, medications, and weapons
Set a comfortable scene. Talking about possible suicide can be a very tense subject, especially for your friend who may also have feelings of guilt and shame associated with their suffering. Initiate a conversation without the presence of distractions. Choose a relaxed and familiar environment if possible.
Broach the issue of suicide. The following are good questions that you can use to start the conversation:[10]
"How are you coping with what's been happening in your life?"
"Do you ever feel like just giving up?"
"Do you think often about dying?"
"Are you considering hurting yourself?"
"Are you thinking about suicide?"
"Have you ever tried to harm yourself before?"
Speak clearly and openly. Be as specific as possible to avoid sounding accusatory. For example, instead of saying something like "You always talk about how impossible everything is", try detailed observations like "I have noticed in the past few months that things you used to enjoy, like spending time with your kids, does not seem to improve your mood much."
Openly embrace the topic as another way to show how much you care. If you are direct about your concern, you will give off a sense of a justified sense of urgency.
It is a common myth that bringing up suicide will put the idea into a person's mind. In fact, speaking openly about suicide can help your friend realize that there are other options available.[11]
Stay on topic as best you can. Your friend might try to dismiss your concern by looking at you with confusion or making you feel silly for bringing it up. But, don't be afraid to be persistent in your concern--especially in light of recognizing warning signs.
Avoid stigmatizing suicide.[12] Keep an open mind that does not judge the friend's feelings or decisions. You may think your friend is incorrect in their reasoning or that their situation is not bad enough that they should want to commit suicide. However, understand that you can't fully understand.
The belief that suicide is selfish, crazy, or morally defective is widely circulated in our culture. Be aware that suicidality is the result of a treatable condition for which your friend is not at fault.[13]
Stay away from statements that can hurt. It's easy to think that we can help by offering our perspectives or opinion, but this isn't always the case. Be sure to avoid the following responses:
Statements that dismiss feelings, like "things aren't really that bad."
Superficial comments that prompt feelings of shame and isolation, like "you have so much to live for," or "think about how much your suicide will hurt your family and friends."
Instead, show compassion by saying, "things must really be awful if you are feeling that way."
Listen empathically. Let your talk be an opportunity for your friend to feel loved and supported. Try as best you can to non-judgmentally listen to your friend, putting yourself in their shoes. This will help you accept their feelings with warm, personal understanding. Make eye contact and use body language to show that you are really there to listen.[14]
Let them talk for as long as they need. Even if you can think of many words of encouragement or reasons why they should cheer up, hold off. Create space for your friend to express themselves without cutting in to give your own opinion.
Validate feelings. It can be hard to come out and express feelings that you don't expect others to understand. Make your friend feel less alone by showing understanding and affirmation of these feelings.[15]
Relay how much you care. Emotional support is a powerful suicide deterrent. Let your friend know that they are loved, thought about, and is an important part of your life. Project an attitude of respect and love to your friend throughout the conversation.
This is your opportunity to tell your friend your perspective. Mention that suicide is a permanent solution to a solvable problem and that you and others are more than willing to help realize other possibilities.
Ask about means for self-harm. See if your friend has access to weapons or other methods for committing suicide. Try to ask without sounding patronizing or judgmental. This is an important question, since having a plan means the situation may be even more pressing than you may have believed.[16]
Eliminate potential means.[17] All guns should be removed from your friend's home. Using a gun is the most common method of committing suicide, and attempts are more likely to lead to deaths in homes with guns.[18] Also, be sure to throw out all prescription and nonprescription medicines that are not currently being used.
If your friend is taking prescription medication, you may want to offer to keep it for them and give doses as needed.
Request to be actively involved. Make an agreement with your friend that they will inform you if they are tempted to move forward with the act. Inform them of the actions you will take to carry out your part of the agreement, like calling for professional help. Absolutely do not make any commitments to your suicidal friend that you cannot keep for certain.
Before doing this, ask yourself about the reality of how much you can manage to get involved, knowing that involvement can be a drain on emotions and time.
Help gather resources. Know about support groups in the area, as well as information that will help you get a better sense of what drives people to suicide so that you can be as supportive as possible.
There are many support groups available online and in-person. Search here for groups that address various problems that can contribute to suicidal feelings and provide information about other resources.[19]
Be attentive. If your friend is at high, immediate risk for suicide, do not leave them alone until professional help arrives. Make sure that you or someone else stays with them at all times.[20]
Offer ongoing support. This can include time to talk and check in on how your friend is feeling or devoting more time to shared hobbies and activities. This sort of support will help your friend feel important to someone while they are recovering from the depression that causes suicidal thoughts.
Call 911. If your concern for your friend is immediate, do not hesitate to call 911. Do not try to handle suicide threats on your own, and absolutely do not assume that a friend talking about harming themselves is not serious.[21]
Call a suicide hotline.[22]A suicidal person needs immediate assistance from qualified mental health professionals. Again, call 911, 1-800-SUICIDE, or 1-800-273-TALK to avoid the need for you or other untrained individuals to act as the sole counselors to your friend.
Suggest therapy. Having regular sessions with a therapist about suicidal thoughts, feelings, and what triggers them can help prevent suicide attempts in depressed individuals. And, for those who have already attempted suicide, talk therapy can reduce risks of subsequent attempts by up to 50%.[23]
Inform others on a need-to-know basis. Enlist the help of other important people in your friend's life. If others are aware of the problem they will be able to be sensitive and stay on the lookout for warning signs. Make sure you only inform others of your friend's risk for suicide if you think they are capable of helping.[24]
Make sure you're coping, too. Playing a helping role in such a serious matter can be exhausting, stressful, and also frustrating. Make an effort to ensure that your own physical and emotional needs are being met. Talking about your feelings to people you trust will help you process the situation and understand your experience.[25]
Be aware that committing your friend involuntarily should only be a last resort used if you see the person using actual violence towards themselves or towards others.
Be careful when calling law enforcement. They are trained to protect others and themselves with lethal force if necessary. If the individual you are with has a tendency for violence or angry outbursts, a suicide by cop situation could occur.
Stenciling is a popular way to spruce up a plain T shirt, but it tends to work best on white shirts. If you have a colored T shirt, then you can still make it look interesting using similar techniques. Instead of using paint, however, you'll use bleach instead! Once you know the basics, you can create all sorts of designs, such as reverse tie dye, galaxy, or splatter!
Choose a blank T shirt in a bright or dark color. You can choose any color you want, but dark or bright colors, such as red, black, blue, or gray will work the best. You can try a light color as well, such as pink, but the bleach may not show very well. Make sure that the shirt is clean and ironed.[1]
Choose a design to use as a stencil. Simple designs, such as hearts, stars, and silhouettes work the best. You can also create a more intricate one, such as an owl or tree, but you will need to do more cutting. The image needs to be small enough to fit on your shirt.[2]
You will be spraying the area around the stencil to create a reverse stencil effect. Something about the size of your hand would be ideal.
You can try using store-bought stencils, but make sure that they are reverse stencils, where it is just a solid shape, and not a cut-out.
Trace your design onto the matte side of a sheet of freezer paper. Cut a sheet of freezer paper that's big enough for your design. Draw your design onto the matte (not shiny) side of the freezer paper with a pen. Alternatively, place your freezer paper over an image on the computer, and trace it with a pen; the paper is translucent enough for the image to glow through it.
You can find freezer paper in a grocery store alongside the wax paper, parchment paper, aluminum foil, etc.
If you can't find freezer paper, use contact paper instead. Do not use wax paper or parchment paper; they are not the same thing.
Cut your design out of the paper with a craft blade. Once the design is cut out, discard the rest of the paper. Tape the freezer paper to a cutting mat, then cut the design out. If you have a very intricate design, cut the smaller shapes out first, then do the larger ones. Discard the rest of the paper and keep the cut out design.[3]
Cut out any inside shapes, if desired. You don't have to do this, but it will make your stencil more interesting. For example, if you cut an owl out of the freezer paper, you could cut some feather, beak, and eye shapes out of it. If you cut a heart, you could cut a lacy design into it.[4]
Iron the shiny side of your stencil to the front of a T shirt. Place the stencil on your shirt with the shiny side (not the matte, papery side) facing down. Press the stencil with an iron for a few seconds until it sticks to the shirt. Pull the iron away, add any inside shapes, such as pupils in an owl's eyes, and press again.[5]
Do not iron contact paper, or you will melt it. Instead, peel the backing off, then press the contact paper to the shirt.
Tuck a sheet of cardboard inside the T shirt. The cardboard needs to be larger than your stencil, but also small enough to fit inside the shirt without stretching it. This will prevent the design from transferring to the back of your T shirt.[6]
Prepare a solution of bleach and water. Fill a spray bottle halfway with bleach, then fill it the rest of the way with water. Close the spray bottle, then shake it to mix the solution.
If you want a more drastic effect, use 70% bleach and 30% water instead.
Work in a well-ventilated area, and protect your work surface against stains and spills.
Spray the stencil with your solution. If your stencil is a solid shape, like a silhouette, focus on the edges of the stencil. If you cut additional shapes out of the stencil, like feathers and eyes on an owl, then spray the inside of the stencil first. You can extend the bleach spray as far from the stencil as you want.[7]
Hold the bottle closer to the shirt to make the bleach more saturated, and further away to make it fainter.
Bleach the areas closest to the outline of your stencil the most. This will create a nice outline in the end.
Be careful with contact paper. If you spray too much bleach, the solution will melt the glue holding the contact paper to the T shirt.
Wait for the bleach to lighten the shirt. How long you wait depends on the color of the shirt and how light you want it to get. Some colors lighten much faster than others, so you could wait as little as 5 minutes to as long as 20 or 30 minutes. Keep in mind that some colors will never turn a true white. For example, black and gray tend to turn brown or orange.[8]
You don't have to wait for the bleach to turn white. Once you are happy with the effect, you are ready for the next step.
Peel the stencil off of the shirt. Put your gloves back on, then peel the stencil off. If you are careful not to rip the stencil, then you may be able to reuse it 1 or 2 more times. Keep in mind that each time you iron the stencil, the glue in the back will weaken.
Save the stencil if you wish to reuse it. Discard it if you don't want to reuse it.
You won't be able to reuse contact paper stencils; there will be too much fuzzy stuff on the back for it to stick again.
Take the cardboard out, then rinse the shirt in plain water. Take the cardboard out first. Next, fill a tub or sink with cool tap water. Dip the shirt into the water and swirl it around. This will neutralize the bleach.[9]
Wash the shirt to remove any traces of bleach. You can do this in the sink with detergent meant for hand washing garments, or you can do this in the washer. If you are using a washer, do not put any other garments into it, or you will risk staining them.[10]
Do not wash the shirt with other white garments from this step. Many colored T shirts contain dyes that may come off in the wash and stain white garments.
Allow the shirt to dry. You can dry the shirt in a dryer or you can hang it up to dry. Once the shirt is dry, you can wear it as you like.
Do a reverse tie dye effect with a colored T shirt and bleach. Choose a blank T shirt in a bright color, and tie it with rubber bands. Soak the shirt in a solution of bleach and water for 5 to 10 minutes, then lift it out. Rinse the shirt in fresh water, then remove the rubber bands. Wash the shirt, then hang it up to dry.
Use a ratio of 1 part bleach and 1 part water.
Flick bleach on a shirt for a splatter effect. Spread a blank, brightly-colored T shirt on a flat surface. Prepare a solution of 1 part bleach and 1 part water. Flick the solution onto the shirt using a stiff bristle brush until you get the look you want. Wait 5 to 10 minutes, then rinse the shirt with plain water. Wash the shirt, then let it dry.
Tuck a piece of cardboard into the shirt if you don't want the design to transfer to the back. Remove the cardboard before rinsing the shirt.
Create a galaxy effect by spraying a T shirt with diluted bleach. Spread a blank, brightly-colored T shirt on a flat surface. Fill a spray bottle with 1 part bleach and 1 part water, then mist the T shirt in it until you get your desired effect. Wait 5 to 10 minutes, then rinse the shirt in fresh water and hang it up to dry.[11]
Tuck a sheet of cardboard into the shirt first if you don't want the design to transfer to the back. Remove the cardboard before you rinse, wash, and dry the shirt.
Create "stars" by flicking bleach onto the shirt with a stiff bristle paintbrush.
The closer you hold the spray bottle to the shirt, the more saturated the bleach effect will be. The further you hold the bottle, the lighter the bleach effect will be.
Draw designs onto a shirt with a bleach pen. Choose a plain T shirt in a bright color. Tuck a piece of cardboard into the shirt, then write or draw on the shirt using a bleach pen. Wait 5 to 10 minutes, then remove the cardboard. Rinse the shirt in plain water, then wash and dry it.
You can find bleach pens in the laundry or cleaning department of a grocery store. They are typically used to clean between tiles.
Use painter's tape and bleach to create a striped design. Tuck a sheet of cardboard into a blank, brightly-colored T shirt. Place strips of painter's tape across the front and back of the T shirt to create stripes. Spray the T shirt with a solution of bleach and water. Wait 5 to 10 minutes, then remove the tape and cardboard. Rinse the shirt in plain water, then wash and dry it.[12]
Use a solution of 1 part bleach and 1 part water. Make sure that you coat both sides of the shirt evenly, or the stripes won't come out right.
Place 2 to 3 strips of painter's tape together to create thicker stripes.
A piping bag, also known as a pastry bag, is a cone-shaped bag that you fill with icing, frosting, or sauce. You apply pressure to the bag to dispense frosting, icing, or sauce in a specific pattern to make your dish beautiful and tasty. You can make a piping bag by filling a resealable plastic bag and cutting the corner off. If you don't have a plastic bag, you can cut a triangle out of parchment paper and fold it into a cone. If you want to store any left-overs, use a plastic bag since it can easily be packed away. If you have a lot of different icings that you need to use, opt for parchment paper since it's cheap and disposable.
Get a resealable plastic bag and a pair of scissors. Resealable plastic bags make excellent piping bags because the frosting or sauce won't come out from anywhere but the point that you want it to. Select a plastic bag based on the amount of frosting or sauce that you need to apply to the top of your dish.[1]
Most packages list the interior volume of the plastic bag. This can make it easy to determine whether a bag is big enough for the recipe.
A thicker resealable bag, like a freezer bag, is a good choice if you have a thicker frosting that will require a lot pressure to be applied to the bag.
You can use a non-sealable plastic bag if that's all you have available, but you'll need to twist it at the top once you fill it to close it. These bags also tend to explode when you squeeze them, so they're not great for thicker frostings.
Open your plastic bag and add your icing or sauce with a spoon. Set your bag and other materials out on a cutting board or flat work surface. Open the resealable plastic bag and start scooping your sauce or frosting into the bag.[2]
One of the advantages of using a plastic bag is that the sauce or icing won't leak out of the bottom while you're adding it.
You can make a nozzle for your bag by cutting out a flexible strip of matboard or aluminum and wrapping it into a cone before cutting the points out with scissors. Insert the nozzle from the inside before filling your bag if you want one. The pattern that comes out may not be perfect though.[3]
Seal the bag at the top to close it. Once you've added your frosting or sauce, seal your bag by running your fingers on the opposite sides of the seal and pressing it together. If you have a plastic bag with a zipper, all you need to do is slide it to the other end of the bag. Push the frosting, icing, or sauce down towards the corner that you're going to cut.[4]
You can push the air out before sealing it if you want. It'll make it easier to dispense the icing or sauce but it will also come out quicker.
Use scissors to snip a corner of the bag off. Open your scissors and place the blades around the corner of the bag. Line your scissors up so that there is of plastic sticking out past the line that you're going to cut. Close the scissor blades to snip a section of the bag off and make the spout for your piping bag.[5]
The size of the cut that you make will determine the amount of sauce or frosting that dispenses as you squeeze your bag. The bigger you make the hole when you cut the bag, the more icing or sauce that will come out.
Lift your bag up with the opening pointing upwards so that your sauce or frosting doesn't spill out.
Hold the bag over your dish and squeeze the bag to use it. Put your nondominant hand around the top of the bag to control the pressure in the bag and move it. Place your dominant hand lightly around the bottom of the bag to control where the icing or sauce comes out. Keep the opening of your piping bag from the surface of the dish to apply your sauce or frosting.[6]
If you want to stop dispersing the sauce or frosting, all you need to do is stop squeezing the bag and tilt the opening of the bag upwards.
Cut a large triangle out of a sheet of parchment paper. Pull out a sheet of parchment paper and cut an isosceles triangle out. The size of your sheet will determine the size of your bag. A triangle with a base of is a good general size for applying sauce or frosting.[7]
You can buy parchment paper from a pharmacy, grocery store, general goods store, or some corner stores.
The advantage of using parchment paper is that it's extremely cheap and easy to cut. It also comes in rolls, so you can pull out any length to adjust the size of the bag.
Fold 1 corner over the middle of the opposite side. Hold 1 side in front of you with your nondominant hand. Grab the opposite point in your dominant hand and fold your dominant hand over the side that you're holding. Angle it slightly to any side to make one of the openings smaller than the other. Pinch the junction where your side and point meet your nondominant hand.[8]
Continue wrapping the corner around the side until the sheet forms a cone. Keep the side and point pinched lightly together and continue pulling the point around the parchment paper at an angle. Continue pulling it until the narrow opening at the bottom is wide.[9]
The size of the opening will determine how much sauce or frosting comes out of the bag when you're using it.
Staple the junction where the corner folds over your sheet if you want. You can use the bag without stapling it by simply holding the junction with your nondominant hand as you're using it. If you want to ensure that the paper stays folded though, use a stapler to put a few staples over the area where it overlaps so that it doesn't unfold.[10]
You can make multiple piping bags ahead of time if you need to use multiple bags while you're baking or cooking.
Fill the bag with icing, sauce, or frosting by scooping it in with a spoon. Hold the bag on its side and start scooping sauce or icing into the middle of the bag. If the material that you're adding is particularly thin, pinch the opening at the bottom of your cone to keep it closed as you add your icing or sauce.[11]
You can't really add a nozzle to the tip of your paper pastry bag. It's kind of unwieldy as it is, and the seal won't be airtight around the nozzle.
Fold the top of your bag over to close it. Once you've added a decent amount of icing or sauce, fold the opening at the top over itself to close it. Fold it multiple times to ensure that nothing spills out. Lift the bag and squeeze it to apply your icing or sauce.[12]
Discard your bag after you've used it. You can't really store it for a long period of time without anything leaking out.
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