US citizens in Iraq have been told to leave the country immediately in the wake of the air strike which killed senior Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani amid concerns the situation could escalate into a full-blown war.
WORLD WAR 3 fears were triggered overnight by the killing of Iran military commander General Qasem Soleimani by the hand of US forces and former President Obama Middle East adviser warned a major military escalation could result from Donald Trump's latest move.
IRANIAN MAJOR-GENERAL Qasem Soleimani ignored a letter sent by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo holding him accountable for any attacks on US interest by forces under their control, according to a senior Iranian aide.
WORLD WAR 3 fears were sparked yet again by the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in a US airstrike, a move which has plunged America into a "state of war" with the Middle East again.
IRAN has vowed to seek revenge after the assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani, with a US-based expert warning it is only the timing in question.
WORLD WAR 3 fears have soared after the US carried out a strike on Iraq, killing Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. Shocking footage captured the aftermath of the attack which prompted Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to threaten a counterattack.
IRAN'S Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has issued a chilling warning to Donald Trump, after a US airstrike killed a top military commander in Iraq.
FEARS of a looming World War 3 are growing after the US killed Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force and architect of Iran's spreading military influence in the Middle East, in an air strike on Baghdad airport ordered by Donald Trump.
(JAKARTA, Indonesia) — The death toll from floods in Indonesia’s capital rose to 43 of Friday as rescuers found more bodies amid receding floodwaters, disaster officials said.
Monsoon rains and rising rivers submerged at least 182 neighborhoods in greater Jakarta and caused landslides in the Bogor and Depok districts on the city’s outskirts, which buried a dozen people.
National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Agus Wibowo said the fatalities also included those who had drowned or been electrocuted since rivers broke their banks Wednesday after extreme torrential rains throughout New Year’s Eve. Three elderly people died of hypothermia.
It was the worst flooding since 2013, when 57 people were killed after Jakarta was inundated by monsoon rains.
Floodwaters started receded in some parts of the city on Thursday evening, enabling residents to return to their homes.
Wibowo said about 397,000 people sought refuge in shelters across the greater metropolitan area.
Those returning to their homes found streets covered in mud and debris. Cars that had been parked in driveways were swept away, landing upside down in parks or piled up in narrow alleys. Sidewalks were strewn with sandals, pots and pans and old photographs. Authorities took advantage of the receding waters to clear away mud and remove piles of wet garbage from the streets.
Electricity was restored to tens of thousands of residences and businesses.
Jakarta’s Halim Perdanakusuma domestic airport reopened Thursday after its runway was submerged. Nearly 20,000 passengers had been affected by the closure.
The flooding has highlighted Indonesia’s infrastructure problems.
Jakarta is home to 10 million people, or 30 million including those in its greater metropolitan area. It is prone to earthquakes and flooding and is rapidly sinking due to uncontrolled extraction of ground water. Congestion is also estimated to cost the economy $6.5 billion a year.
President Joko Widodo announced in August that the capital will move to a site in sparsely populated East Kalimantan province on Borneo island, known for rainforests and orangutans.
(WASHINGTON) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday that President Donald Trump has “tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox” with the targeted killing of Iran’s top general in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport.
The former vice president joined other Democratic White House hopefuls in criticizing Trump’s order, saying it could leave the U.S. “on the brink of a major conflict across the Middle East.”
The Pentagon said the U.S. military killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, in Baghdad Friday at the direction of Trump. The attack is expected to draw severe Iranian retaliation against Israel and American interests. The Defense Department said Soleimani “was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.”
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders released a statement saying, “Trump’s dangerous escalation brings us closer to another disastrous war in the Middle East that could cost countless lives and trillions more dollars.”
When I voted against the war in Iraq in 2002, I feared it would lead to greater destabilization of the region. That fear unfortunately turned out to be true.
The U.S. has lost approximately 4,500 brave troops, tens of thousands have been wounded, and we’ve spent trillions.
Democrats acknowledged the threat posed by Soleimani, with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren calling him “a murderer, responsible for the deaths of thousands, including hundreds of Americans.”
However, she added, Trump’s “reckless move escalates the situation with Iran and increases the likelihood of more deaths and new Middle East conflict.”
Soleimani was a murderer, responsible for the deaths of thousands, including hundreds of Americans. But this reckless move escalates the situation with Iran and increases the likelihood of more deaths and new Middle East conflict. Our priority must be to avoid another costly war.
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang tweeted: “War with Iran is the last thing we need and is not the will of the American people. We should be acting to deescalate tensions and protect our people in the region.”
War with Iran is the last thing we need and is not the will of the American people. We should be acting to deescalate tensions and protect our people in the region.
The attack also drew criticism from Democrats who aren’t running for president. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the administration conducted the airstrike without consultation of Congress or an authorization for use of military force against Iran. She said it “risks provoking further dangerous escalation of violence.”
But Republicans on Capitol Hill stood behind Trump. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said: “I appreciate President Trump’s bold action against Iranian aggression. To the Iranian government: if you want more, you will get more.”
And Sen. James Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said: “America does not and should not seek war, but it will respond in kind to those who threaten our citizens, soldiers and friends — as the President has long promised. De-escalation is preferable and possible — but only if our adversaries choose it.”
Oil jumped close to $70 a barrel after a U.S. airstrike ordered by President Donald Trump killed a top Iranian general in Iraq, intensifying fears of conflict in the world’s most important crude-producing region.
In a turbulent start to the trading day marked by unusually heavy volumes, futures in London and New York surged by more than 4% to levels not seen since the attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil production in September. The strike near Baghdad airport killed Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian general who led the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds force, according to a Defense Department statement.
While no oil installations or production were impacted, the killing of one of Iran’s most powerful generals is a provocation that ratchets up tension between Washington and Tehran, heightening fears of an armed confrontation that could pull in other countries. As focus shifts to how Iran will react, the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowed that “severe retaliation” awaits the killers of Soleimani, according to a statement.
“This is a seismic event in the region,” said Jason Bordoff, a former Obama administration official who now works for Columbia University. “This is how US-Iran tit-for-tat spirals out of control. Iran’s response will be severe and deadly. And certainly may include escalating attacks on energy infrastructure.”
Crude prices had pared some of their immediate gains by midday in Singapore but remained at the highest levels since September. Brent crude for March settlement was up $1.94, or 2.9%, at $68.19 a barrel on the ICE Futures Europe exchange at 7:11 a.m. in London. It earlier jumped as much as 4.4% to $69.16 a barrel.
In New York, West Texas Intermediate for February delivery was 2.9% higher at $62.93 a barrel. The contract earlier advanced as much as 4.4% to $63.84, exceeding September’s levels to the highest since May. Total aggregate volume for Brent and WTI was about 17 times the 30-day average.
Tensions have been building between Washington and Tehran after an Iran-backed Iraqi militia stormed the American embassy in Baghdad to protest deadly U.S. airstrikes earlier this week. Saudi Arabia’s energy facilities as well as foreign tankers in and around the Persian Gulf have been the target of several attacks over the past year — a region that includes OPEC’s five biggest producers.
The U.S. and Iran are already facing off over Trump’s crippling economic campaign against Tehran and suspected Iranian reprisals. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Thursday that America was ready to deploy more force in Iraq after the attack on its embassy.
Soleimani, who led proxy militias that extended Iran’s power across the Middle East, was hit in a U.S. drone strike near Baghdad International Airport, according to a U.S. official. Details remained unclear, but a person familiar with the developments said an Iraqi militia leader, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, was also killed.
The attacks rattled other markets. U.S. equity futures fell and Asian stocks reversed earlier gains as the news broke. Gold and treasury futures climbed with the yen as investors sought safer haven assets.
The strike escalates an already tense three-way situation between the U.S. and major oil producers Iran and Iraq. The two Middle East countries combined pumped more than 6.7 million barrels a day of oil last month, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, more than one-fifth of OPEC output.
Energy exports from both countries also rely on the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow and crucial oil and natural gas shipping choke-point that’s always in focus when Middle East tensions flair, particularly with Iran.
“This is more than just bloodying Iran’s nose,” Stephen Innes, chief market strategist at AxiTrader Ltd. said in a note. “This is an aggressive show of force and an outright provocation that could trigger another Middle East war.”
The assassination by U.S. airstrike of Iran’s Gen. Qasem Soleimani on Friday immediately ignited concern that the asymmetrical warfare he famously championed would not only survive his death but also avenge it.
U.S. military facilities across the Middle East ramped up security as the Pentagon confirmed President Donald Trump had ordered the strike against Soleimani.
The killing was not like other attacks to eliminate enemies of the U.S.—the raids that killed Osama bin Laden or ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Soleimani was a major public figure in Iran, a Major General in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, who was easily the most popular official in an Iranian government that generally is not. Inside Iran, and on social media posts circulated globally, he was the frontman of, as well as chief architect for, Iran’s regional ambitions – in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and, most immediately in Iraq, where he met his end.
“Soleimani was the international face of resistance,” Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a statement, “and all lovers of resistance will be his avengers.” He promised that “harsh retaliation is waiting.”
After announcing his death, Iranian state television suspended all programming and displayed a photograph of Soleimani accompanied by mournful recitations from the Quran, signaling a major event. State TV also began airing footage of Iranian forces in combat, from the Iran-Iraq War— which Soleimani fought in—to Lebanon and Syria.
Iraqi Prime Minister Press Office/APA burning vehicle following an airstrike at Baghdad International Airport on Jan. 3, 2020. The Pentagon said the U.S. military killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, at the direction of President Trump.
Soleimani’s death, on a roadway in Baghdad’s international airport, threatened to sharply escalate U.S. hostilities with Iran. The airstrike was Trump’s second military response to Iranian measures that had grown steadily more audacious over the seven months they went unanswered. The current cycle began on Dec. 27, when a sustained rocket attack on a U.S. base in Iraq’s north killed a defense contractor working for the Americans.
Trump blamed the attack on a militia backed by Iran, Kataib Hezbollah, and on Sunday U.S. aircraft hit the militia, killing 24. Two days later, militia backers penetrated the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, burning outbuildings and chanting “Death to America.” In the crowd at the embassy was Kataib Hezbollah founder Abu Madhi Muhandis, who was killed in the strike along with Soleimani.
Soleimani, 62, commanded the Quds Force, the branch of the Revolutionary Guards responsible for operations abroad, from sabotage and terror strikes to supplying militias that operated as Iran’s proxy forces. In Afghanistan, he reportedly advocated cooperation with U.S. forces against the Taliban, a Sunni-fundamentalist group that had been a constant threat to Iran, which sees itself as the leader of the rival Shi’ite sect of Islam. But the tentative alliance did not survive President George W. Bush’s inclusion of Iran in his “axis of evil,” and then the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, which placed more than 100,000 American troops on Iran’s border.
Iran’s evolving response to the invasion may offer a clue to how it will respond to Soleimani’s assassination. At times when the U.S. has showed off military strength, the Islamic Republic has appeared cowed. Within hours of a 2003 U.S .cruise missiles strike on Ansar al-Islam, a Sunni terrorist group in northern Iraq that Iran had found it convenient to aid, Tehran closed the border over which it had supplied arms, and laid very low. And according to published U.S. intelligence estimates, it was after the fall of Saddam Hussein that Iran, apparently intimidated by the U.S. forces next door, abandoned work on an atomic warhead, while continuing the civilian side of its nuclear program.
Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/APGen. Qasem Soleimani, center, attends a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Revolutionary Guard commanders in Tehran in September 2016.
But when armed resistance rose against the U.S. during the Iraq War, Soleimani’s Quds Force joined the fight. Iran funded and armed militias that shelled American bases and diplomatic installations—and supplied enhanced booby traps capable of penetrating U.S. armor. The so-called EFPs (explosively formed penetrators) were responsible for at least 250 U.S. deaths in Iraq.
Soleimani was never one to hide his light. In 2008, an intermediary delivered a written message to Gen. David Petraeus, who then commanded the Multi-National Forces in Iraq. “General Petraeus,” it read, “you should be aware that I, Qassem Soleimani, control Iran’s policy for Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and Afghanistan.”
In the decade that followed, Soleimani was the face of an Iranian regime hugely empowered by the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which first toppled its longtime enemy, Saddam Hussein, then unleashed the electoral power of Iraq’s Shi’ite majority in a democratic system the U.S. established on sectarian lines. With the retreat of the U.S. from the region and the destabilization from the Arab Spring, Iran took advantage of the region’s descent into sectarian camps—Sunni against Shi’a— as national identities crumbled.
Into Syria, Iran sent both its own forces to save President Bashar Assad, and those of Hezbollah, the militia it had set up in Lebanon decades ago. It found a new client in the Houthi rebels of Yemen, who drew regional rivals Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates into a cruel war. And despite a $1 trillion U.S. investment, and thousands of American lives, Iran remained by far the most powerful country in Iraq.
When the extremist army of ISIS emerged there in 2014, and rolled over Iraq’s army, Soleimani beat the U.S. to the front lines, providing the first arms to the ethnic Kurdish forces who would halt the terrorist’s advance. In Baghdad, the government called for militias to mobilize against ISIS, another windfall for the Quds Force, as most fighters organized by sect. Among the posters published in Iran in the hours after his death was one reading, in English: “General Soleimani, Antiterrorism”
In a Twitter post, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif called Soleimani “THE most effective force fighting Daesh (ISIS), Al Nusrah, Al Qaeda et al” and called his assassination an “extremely dangerous & a foolish escalation.”
The US' act of international terrorism, targeting & assassinating General Soleimani—THE most effective force fighting Daesh (ISIS), Al Nusrah, Al Qaeda et al—is extremely dangerous & a foolish escalation.
The US bears responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism.
Iran, of course, had done most of the escalating over the previous year—steadily testing Trump in the realm of asymmetrical warfare as he tightened the screws on Iran’s economy in hopes of forcing Tehran to re-open negotiations on the nuclear agreement Trump had unilaterally quit.
But as Trump declined to react military, Iran’s attacks grew bolder—from attacking oil tankers (“very minor,” Trump told TIME, of one), to shooting down a U.S. drone (Trump ordered an counter-attack, thencalled it off), to, in September, bombing key Saudi oil facilities. Trump’s first military response came only this week, after the contractor’s death. And events quickly spiraled to an aerial assassination that brought gasps among those who knew Soleimani’s importance to Iran.
In 2017, when TIME included Soleimani on its list of the 100 most influential people, former CIA analyst Kenneth M. Pollackwrote that “To Middle Eastern Shi’ites, he is James Bond, Erwin Rommel and Lady Gaga rolled into one.” Inside Iran, his successes abroad evoke the past glories of the Persian empire that, in its early years, the Islamic Republic worked to downplay, because they predated Islam. But the ayatollahs have lately found an asset in nationalism; another poster memorializing Soleimani labels him “PERSIAN GENERAL.”
So popular was he with the Iranian public that Soleimani was envisioned—at least by some in Tehran—as a figure who might provide much-needed public faith in the regime after the eventual passing of the Supreme Leader, now 80—perhaps by becoming the public face of the Islamic Republic while a new top cleric found his feet. That notion, however real or plausible, was also destroyed on the Baghdad pavement.
“The US,” Iran’s foreign minister declared, “bears responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism.”
(TAIPEI, Taiwan) — Taiwan grounded its fleet of Black Hawk helicopters after a crash killed the island’s top military officer and other prominent personnel.
The official Central News Agency said Friday all 52 of the UH-60M aircraft belonging to the air force, army and National Airborne Service Corps have ceased flight operations while they are inspected for any problems with their structural, software, radar and other systems.
The one that crashed Thursday morning in forested mountains outside the capital was a model dedicated to search and rescue and had been delivered in 2018, according to the defense ministry.
The crash killed eight people including former air force Gen. Shen Yi-ming, who had taken over as chief of the general staff in July. Other victims included both pilots, the deputy head of the Political Warfare Bureau and the deputy chief of the General Staff for Intelligence, while two lieutenant generals and a major general were among the five survivors.
Memorial services were being held for those killed, and all three candidates in Jan. 11’s presidential election suspended their campaigns to observe a period of mourning.
The crash, which is under investigation, is not expected to affect the holding of the election but will require an urgent reshuffling of top military staff. Questions have also been raised as to why so many high-ranking officers were aboard a single flight.
Shen, 63, was responsible for overseeing the self-governing island’s defense against China, which threatens to use military force if necessary to annex what it considers part of its territory. He previously commanded Taiwan’s air force, which is undergoing a substantial upgrade with the arrival of the most advanced version of the U.S. F-16V fighter.
(BAGHDAD) — The Pentagon said Thursday that the U.S. military has killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, at the direction of President Donald Trump.
An airstrike killed Soleimani, architect of Iran’s regional security apparatus, at Baghdad’s international airport Friday, Iranian state television and three Iraqi officials said, an attack that’s expected to draw severe Iranian retaliation against Israel and American interests.
The Defense Department said Soleimani “was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.” It also accused Soleimani of approving the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad earlier this week.
A statement released late Thursday by the Pentagon said the strike on Soleimani “was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans.”
Iraqi Prime Minister Press Office/APA burning vehicle following an airstrike at Baghdad International Airport on Jan. 3, 2020. The Pentagon said the U.S. military killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, at the direction of President Trump.
The strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, or PMF, Iraqi officials said. The PMF media arm said the two were killed in an American airstrike that targeted their vehicle on the road to the airport.
Citing a Revolutionary Guard statement, Iranian state television said Soleimani was “martyred” in an attack by U.S. helicopters near the airport, without elaborating.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who was vacationing on his estate in Palm Beach, Florida, but sent out a tweet of an American flag.
Their deaths are a potential turning point in the Middle East and if the U.S. carried them out, it represents a drastic change for American policy toward Iran after months of tensions.
Tehran shot down a U.S. military surveillance drone and seized oil tankers. Meanwhile, the U.S. blames Iran for a series of attacks targeting tankers, as well as a September assault on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry that temporarily halved its production.
The tensions take root in Trump’s decision in May 2018 to withdraw the U.S. from Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers, struck under his predecessor.
A senior Iraqi politician and a high-level security official confirmed to The Associated Press that Soleimani and al-Muhandis were among those killed in the attack shortly after midnight. Two militia leaders loyal to Iran also confirmed the deaths, including an official with the Kataeb Hezbollah faction, which was involved in the New Year’s Eve attack by Iran-backed militias on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Thaier Al-Sudani—ReutersA portrait of Gen. Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, held at a Baghdad protest against the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen in March 2015.
The security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said al-Muhandis had arrived to the airport in a convoy along with others to receive Soleimani, whose plane had arrived from either Lebanon or Syria. The airstrike took place near the cargo area after he left the plane to be greeted by al-Muhandis and others.
Two officials from the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces said Suleimani’s body was torn to pieces in the attack while they did not find the body of al-Muhandis. Asenior politician said Soleimani’s body was identified by the ring he wore.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject and because they were not authorized to give official statements.
As the head of the Quds, or Jersualem, Force of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Soleimani led all of its expeditionary forces. Quds Force members have deployed into Syria’s long war to support President Bashar Assad, as well as into Iraq in the wake of the 2003 U.S. invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, a longtime foe of Tehran.
Soleimani rose to prominence by advising forces fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and in Syria on behalf of the embattled Assad.
U.S. officials say the Guard under Soleimani taught Iraqi militants how to manufacture and use especially deadly roadside bombs against U.S. troops after the invasion of Iraq. Iran has denied that. Soleimani himself remains popular among many Iranians, who see him as a selfless hero fighting Iran’s enemies abroad.
Soleimani had been rumored dead several times, including in a 2006 airplane crash that killed other military officials in northwestern Iran and following a 2012 bombing in Damascus that killed top aides of Assad. Rumors circulated in November 2015 that Soleimani was killed or seriously wounded leading forces loyal to Assad as they fought around Syria’s Aleppo.
Earlier Friday, an official with the Popular Mobilization Forces said seven people were killed by a missile fired at Baghdad International Airport, blaming the United States.
The official with the group known as the Popular Mobilization Forces said the dead included its airport protocol officer, identifying him as Mohammed Reda.
A security official confirmed that seven people were killed in the attack on the airport, describing it as an airstrike. Earlier, Iraq’s Security Media Cell, which releases information regarding Iraqi security, said Katyusha rockets landed near the airport’s cargo hall, killing several people and setting two cars on fire.
It was not immediately clear who fired the missile or rockets or who was targeted. There was no immediate comment from the U.S.
The attack came amid tensions with the United States after a New Year’s Eve attack by Iran-backed militias on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. The two-day embassy attack which ended Wednesday prompted President Donald Trump to order about 750 U.S. soldiers deployed to the Middle East.
It also prompted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to postpone his trip to Ukraine and four other countries “to continue monitoring the ongoing situation in Iraq and ensure the safety and security of Americans in the Middle East,” State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said Wednesday.
The breach at the embassy followed U.S. airstrikes on Sunday that killed 25 fighters of the Iran-backed militia in Iraq, the Kataeb Hezbollah. The U.S. military said the strikes were in retaliation for last week’s killing of an American contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base that the U.S. blamed on the militia.
U.S. officials have suggested they were prepared to engage in further retaliatory attacks in Iraq.
“The game has changed,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Thursday, telling reporters that violent acts by Iran-backed Shiite militias in Iraq — including the rocket attack on Dec. 27 that killed one American — will be met with U.S. military force.
He said the Iraqi government has fallen short of its obligation to defend its American partner in the attack on the U.S. embassy.
The developments also represent a major downturn in Iraq-U.S. relations that could further undermine U.S. influence in the region and American troops in Iraq and weaken Washington’s hand in its pressure campaign against Iran.
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Karam reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Zeke Miller in Washington, Jon Gambrell in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran, and Bassem Mroue in Beirut contributed reporting.
Auto industry experts say that Carlos Ghosn has a long history of beating the odds. During his tenure as the head of Nissan, he managed to step inside a company entrenched in the insular world of Japanese automakers and lead the company from the brink of bankruptcy to financial success.
Now, Ghosn seems to have pulled off a feat that seems even more improbable: escaping 24-hour surveillance in Japan to fly to Lebanon, apparently to avoid prosecution for alleged financial crimes.
Here’s what you need to know about the strange escape of Carlos Ghosn, the disgraced former head of one of the world’s biggest automobile groups.
Who is Carlos Ghosn?
Carlos Ghosn was long regarded as one of the titans of global auto industry. During his tenure as the head of Nissan and the French automaker Renault, he earned the nickname “Le Cost Killer” for closing factories and laying off employees. But he was credited for modernizing Nissan by bringing it back from the brink of bankruptcy and building what was regarded as the world’s largest automobile group.
Late in his tenure, however, Ghosn, who has French, Lebanese and Brazilian citizenship, reportedly started to butt up against Japanese corporate culture, where CEOs are generally paid less than in other countries and executive humility is valued.
In November of 2018, Nissan announced that an internal investigation into Ghosn and another executive found Ghosn’s compensation had been underreported. There was also evidence that Ghosn committed other misconduct, including personal use of company assets, the investigation found. Japanese authorities arrested Ghosn in Tokyo on Nov. 19 of that year, according to Bloomberg.
What are the charges against Ghosn?
Ghosn faces up to 15 years in prison on charges of financial misconduct.
The indictments against him include accusations that another former executive underreported Ghosn’s income, and that Ghosn transferred an investment loss to Nissan during the 2008 financial crisis, according to the Associated Press.
Ghosn has denied all of the allegations against him. After fleeing the country, he said in a statement that he left because he faced “injustice and political persecution,” according to the Associated Press.
Ghosn also appears to have broken Japanese law by jumping his bail and traveling to Lebanon.
How did Ghosn end up in Lebanon?
It’s not much of a surprise that Ghosn decided to go to Lebanon, a country where he is a citizen and has a home, and that does not have an extradition treaty with Japan. The bigger mystery is how he managed to escape 24-hour manned and video surveillance and travel out of Japan — even after his passports had been revoked.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghosn’s associates and his wife, Carole, had worked for months to form a plan to spirit the executive out of Japan. The Journal and other outlets reported that a private jet flew Ghosn from Japan’s Kansai International Airport to Turkey, and he was later moved to Lebanon. Various reports have suggested that he arrived in Lebanon using an ID card, a French passport, or a forged passport.
The Lebanese Foreign Ministry says that he arrived in the country legally, according to the Associated Press.
Can Ghosn be deported back to Japan?
After Ghosn fled Japan, Interpol, which fosters international cooperation among police departments, sent Lebanon a “red notice” for Ghosn, meaning he’s wanted for arrest. However, Lebanon is not obligated to send Ghosn back because it doesn’t have an extradition treaty with Japan.
Membership in Interpol is voluntary, and Lebanon doesn’t face any legal ramifications if it decides to ignore the red notice, says Michelle A. Estlund, a lawyer who specializes in Interpol criminal defense work.
“There are countries that don’t take any action, even if they know a person is the subject of a red notice and they know that the person is in their country,” Estlund says. Although ignoring the order may threaten Lebanon’s democratic relationship with Japan, it’s “not going to be penalized by Interpol or part of Interpol” if it chooses not to extradite Ghosn, she adds.
Estlund notes that a country may decide not to extradite someone for a variety of reasons. Extradition can be especially unlikely if officials are concerned that a prosecution may be politically motivated — as Ghosn alleges is the case in Japan.
In an interview with the Associated Press, Lebanese Justice Minister Albert Serhan seemingly cast doubt on whether Lebanon would return Ghosn to Japan. “Lebanese authorities have no security or judiciary charges against him,” Serhan said. “He entered the border like any other Lebanese using a legal passport.”
(PERTH, Australia) — Prime Minister Scott Morrison was confronted by angry residents who cursed and insulted him Thursday as he visited a wildfire-ravaged corner of the country.
Locals in Cobargo, in New South Wales, yelled at him, made obscene gestures and called him an “idiot” and worse, criticizing him for the lack of equipment to deal with the fires in town. They jeered as his motorcade drove off. In the New South Wales town of Quaama, a firefighter refused to shake hands with him.
Scott Morrison has hastily left a meeting with bushfire victims after angry residents began yelling furiously. #9Newspic.twitter.com/q0iqmBp7to
“Every single time this area has a flood or a fire, we get nothing. If we were Sydney, if we were north coast, we would be flooded with donations with urgent emergency relief,” a resident said in Cobargo.
The outpouring of anger came as authorities said 381 homes had been destroyed on the New South Wales southern coast this week. At least eight people have died this week in New South Wales and the neighboring state of Victoria. More than 200 fires are burning in Australia’s two most-populous states. Blazes have also been burning in Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania.
“I’m not surprised people are feeling very raw at the moment. And that’s why I came today, to be here, to see it for myself, to offer what comfort I could,” Morrison said, adding, “There is still, you know, some very dangerous days ahead. And we understand that, and that’s why we’re going to do everything we can to ensure they have every support they will need.”
Morrison, who has also been criticized over his climate change policies and accused of putting the economy ahead of the environment, insisted that Australia is “meeting the challenge better than most countries” and “exceeding the targets we set out.”
Jenny Evans—Getty ImagesA mural by artist Scott Marsh depicting Prime Minister Scott Morrison on holiday in Hawaii is seen on Dec.26, 2019 in Sydney, Australia.
Cooler weather since Tuesday has aided firefighting and allowed people to replenish supplies, with long lines of cars forming at gas stations and supermarkets. But high temperatures and strong winds are forecast to return on Saturday, and thousands of tourists fled the country’s eastern coast Thursday ahead of worsening conditions.
New South Wales authorities ordered tourists to leave a 250-kilometer (155-mile) zone. State Transport Minister Andrew Constance called it the “largest mass relocation of people out of the region that we’ve ever seen.”
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian declared a seven-day state of emergency starting Friday, which grants fire officials more authority. It’s the third state of emergency for New South Wales in the past two months. “We don’t take these decisions lightly, but we also want to make sure we’re taking every single precaution to be prepared for what could be a horrible day on Saturday,” Berejiklian said.
The early and devastating start to Australia’s summer wildfires has led authorities to rate this season the worst on record. About 5 million hectares (12.35 million acres) of land have burned, at least 17 people have been killed, and more than 1,400 homes have been destroyed.
The crisis “will continue to go on until we can get some decent rain that can deal with some of the fires that have been burning for many, many months,” the prime minister said.
In Victoria, where 83 homes have burned this week, the military helped thousands of people who fled to the shoreline as a wildfire threatened their homes in the coastal town of Mallacoota. Food, water, fuel and medical expertise were being delivered, and about 500 people were going to be evacuated from the town by a naval ship.
“We think around 3,000 tourists and 1,000 locals are there. Not all of those will want to leave, not all can get on the vessel at one time,” Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Smoke from the wildfires made the air quality in the capital, Canberra, the worst in the world, according to a ranking Thursday.
Prince William has announced a multi-million pound prize for “visionaries” working to solve “Earth’s greatest environmental problems,” from climate change to air pollution. The Earthshot Prize will be awarded to five winners, every year, for the next 10 years. The initiative’s goal is to provide “at least 50 solutions to the world’s greatest problems by 2030.”
The prize was designed by and will initially be handled by the Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge — headed by Prince William and Kate Middleton. More than 60 organizations and experts were consulted in the process; in time, the Earthshot Prize will likely become an independent organization that continues to involve environmental NGOs, according to a press release from Kensington Palace.
This year, the initiative will debut a series of “Earthshot challenges,” according to its website, with a goal of “[seeking] answers to the biggest issues currently facing the planet, including: climate and energy, nature and biodiversity, oceans, air pollution and fresh water.”
The prize aims to encourage transformative environmental solutions — especially for communities most vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change. Earthshot Prize winners will involve a significant cash-prize, as well as public recognition at an annual ceremony. Submissions will be accepted from “individuals, teams or collaborations — scientists, activists, economists, leaders, governments, banks, businesses, cities, and countries,” the press release notes, with a goal of sparking a global movement by inspiring “collaborative projects that would not otherwise have been pursued.”
In a statement, Prince William said that humanity now faces a “stark choice” between maintaining the status quo — which, he argues, will “irreparably” damage the planet — or cultivating innovative solutions. “The next ten years present us with one of our greatest tests, William said, framing the Earthshot Prize as part of “a decade of action to repair the earth.”
"The earth is at a tipping point and we face a stark choice: either we continue as we are and irreparably damage our planet or we remember our unique power as human beings and our continual ability to lead, innovate and problem-solve." — The Duke of Cambridge @EarthshotPrizepic.twitter.com/SfGaKY9qsG
"People can achieve great things. The next ten years present us with one of our greatest tests – a decade of action to repair the Earth." — The Duke of Cambridge @EarthshotPrize
The prize is inspired by the concept of moonshots — a phrase first coined in the aftermath of the 1969 lunar landing to refer to pioneering projects and initiatives. “Just as the moonshot that John F. Kennedy proposed in the 1960s catalyzed new technology such as the MRI scanner and satellite dishes, the Earthshots aim to launch their own tidal wave of ambition and innovation,” a press release for the initiative states.
A promotional video for the Earthshot Prize comes narrated by David Attenborough — the British nature documentarian well-known for his distinctive voice. “Ours is a world of wonder. Every day it reminds us of its beauty. It touches us, teaches us and astounds us but it also warns us that what we throw away does not go away, that higher temperatures mean a lot more than longer summers, that we can no longer take life as we know it for granted,” Attenborough says over a montage of different animals — polar bears, fish, butterflies.
In recent years, Attenborough has been an activist for climate change, too — making his case before audiences at the 2018 U.N. climate talks in Katowice, Poland, and at the 2019 World Economic Forum at Davos, in Switzerland. Also in 2019, he narrated Our Planet, a Netflix documentary series that examines the impact of climate change on threatening various environments and wildlife species.
(JERUSALEM) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he would seek immunity from corruption charges, likely delaying any trial until after March elections, when he hopes to have a majority coalition that will shield him from prosecution.
Netanyahu was indicted in November on charges of accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust. After failing to assemble a governing majority following back-to-back elections last year, he will get a third shot at remaining in office in March.
Wednesday’s announcement essentially turns the upcoming election into a referendum on whether Netanyahu should be granted immunity and remain in office, or step down and stand trial. A recent poll indicated that a majority of Israelis oppose giving him immunity.
In a nationally televised address, Netanyahu repeated his assertion that he is the victim of an unfair conspiracy, lashing out at prosecutors, the media and his political enemies. Claiming credit for a series of economic and security achievements on his watch, he said he would seek to invoke the law that would protect him from prosecution as long as he remains in office.
“In order to continue to lead Israel to great achievements, I intend to approach the speaker of the Knesset in accordance with chapter 4C of the law, in order to fulfill my right, my duty and my mission to continue to serve you for the future of Israel,” he said.
Normally, a request for immunity would need to be approved by the parliament’s House Committee and then submitted to a full vote. But the House Committee doesn’t exist because a government was never formed after September’s election. Court proceedings cannot begin until the question of immunity is settled.
The opposition Blue and White party said it will seek to form the House Committee before the March election to take up the question of immunity. But it remains unclear whether it will be able to move forward. Parliament Speaker Yuli Edelstein, a member of Netanyahu’s Likud Party, said he would hold talks on the matter next week.
The Blue and White leader, former military chief Benny Gantz, said it was a “sad day.”
“I never imagined that we would see the day that the prime minister of Israel would avoid standing before the law and the justice system,” he said. “Today it’s clear what we’re fighting for. Netanyahu knows he’s guilty.”
Netanyahu said he was not evading justice and still plans to go to court to fight the “fabricated accusations.”
“The law is meant to ensure that elected officials can serve the people according to the will of the people,” he said.
Should Netanyahu succeed in assembling a 61-seat majority in favor of immunity, he would avoid prosecution.
But that still appears unlikely after the March vote, with most polls predicting another split decision that would leave Likud and Blue and White deadlocked, with neither able to secure a parliamentary majority. The uncertainty means it could be many months before a new government is formed, leaving the question of immunity on hold with Netanyahu remaining in office.
The indictment, on charges of trading political and regulatory favors for positive press coverage and accepting lavish gifts from wealthy supporters, marked the culmination of three long-running investigations. Netanyahu has dismissed the allegations as an “attempted coup” and has vowed to battle them from the prime minister’s office.
Netanyahu is desperate to remain in office while he fights the charges. The powerful position would allow him to rally public opposition to what he says is an unfair witch hunt. He can also use the office to grant political favors to allies who agree to vote in favor of immunity.
The question of immunity is just one of the hurdles Netanyahu faces.
While Israeli law does not require a sitting prime minister to resign after being charged with a crime, it is vague about whether an indicted politician could be tapped to form a new government after new elections.
On Tuesday, Israel’s Supreme Court began discussions on the matter. If the court decides Netanyahu is ineligible, it could potentially bring his three-decade political career to an abrupt end after the March election. The court gave no indication on when it would issue a ruling on the politically sensitive case. Disqualifying Netanyahu would deeply divide the nation and precipitate a legal crisis over separations of power.
The prime minister has long accused judicial and law enforcement officials of trying to drive him from office and repeated his claim Wednesday night that only the voters can choose who will lead the country.
He received a boost last week when he easily defeated a senior Likud member in a primary election for the party leadership. The vote shored up his base, but he faces a much greater challenge going into the general elections.
An opinion poll conducted this week by the iPanel and Midgam research firms found that 51% of respondents oppose granting Netanyahu immunity, with 33% in favor. The poll questioned 507 people and had a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.
Netanyahu has been in power for more than a decade and is Israel’s longest-serving leader. His refusal to make concessions to the Palestinians and his tough stance toward Iran have made him a hero of the political right, which regularly wins more than half the vote.
But after April elections, Avigdor Lieberman, the secular right-wing leader of the Yisrael Beitenu party, refused to join Netanyahu’s coalition. Lieberman has since emerged as a kingmaker, demanding a national unity government with Likud and Blue and White. The three parties held several rounds of talks after September’s vote, but were unable to reach an agreement on a power-sharing deal.
Netanyahu’s legal problems were at the heart of the deadlock. Blue and White refuses to sit in a government led by an indicted prime minister.
The crisis has had little if any impact on daily life, as Netanyahu has continued to lead a caretaker government that provides public services. But the Trump administration has delayed the release of its long-anticipated Mideast peace plan until the political uncertainty is resolved.
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WB Police Staff Officer Admit Card 2020 – The West Bengal Police Department has issued the admit card for the post of Staff Nurse cum Instructor. Hence, the exam date has been tentatively declared in the month of January 2020. Thus, the WB Police Admit Card will be available in the month of January 2020.
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West Bengal Police SI Admit Card 2019 Available Soon. The recruitment process will be closed on 09th September 2019. Therefore, the board has released the admit card for the post of Police Sub Inspectors. The West Bengal Police Hall Ticket is now available in the below section. Eligible aspirants can download the admit card before the exam date.
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WB Police Excise Constable Admit Card 2019 Released. The West Bengal Police Department has issued the admit card for the post of Excise Constables. Hence, the board has released the admit card on 11th November 2019. Thus, the Police Department decided to conduct the examination on 24th November 2019. Therefore, the admit card must be downloaded by providing valid login details.
WB Police Warder Admit Card 2019 will be released on 02nd September 2019. The West Bengal Police Warder exam will be held on 15th September 2019. Candidates can download the West Bengal Police Admit Card from the below section.
West Bengal Police Excise Constable Admit Card 2019 is yet to release. The Excise Constable exam has been tentatively declared as September 2019. Therefore, the admit card will be released 01 Week before the exam date. The Police Department will release the admit card and the exam date on its official website. So, Aspirants are suggested to keep track of the official website to get the latest updates.
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WB Police Constable Admit Card 2019
Candidates who submitted the Online or Offline Application on time can get the Admit Card Link. Thus, Aspirants can get the West Bengal Police Constable Admit Card for the Preliminary Examination. And hence, the upcoming Admit Card will be issued to the candidates who have cleared the Preliminary Examination. Applicants can follow the steps given below to download the WB Police Constable Admit Card 2019. Below listed contents should be filled in the West Bengal Police Admit Card.
Name of the Candidate
Roll Number
Father's Name
Category
Gender
Exam Venue
Exam Date and Time
Photograph
Signature
Instructions at the back
WB Police Constable Prelims Exam Pattern 2019
Candidates must know the Exam Pattern of West Bengal Police Constable Recruitment 2019. The WB Police Constable exam will be on 30th June 2019. Hence, the detailed instruction has been given in the below section. So, read it completely before appearing at the examination. The examination will be conducted in the Offline Mode. The duration to complete the examination will be 1 hour. The exam will be of Objective Type Questions. And the Exam can be conducted in the language of Bengali and Nepal.
Subject Name
Marks Distribution
General Awareness and General Knowledge
50 Marks
Elementary Mathematics (Madhyamik standard)
30 Marks
Reasoning
20 Marks
Total
100 Marks
There will be a negative mark of 1/4th (one-fourth) marks for each wrong answers.
The above table explains the Subject wise details about WB Police Prelims Exam.
Download West Bengal Police Admit Card 2020
After downloading the Admit Card check the details given in that. Moreover, Candidates need to mention the Application number as well as DOB while the time of downloading. Provide any one of the ID Proof which is mentioned below to the Invigilator. Take your WB Police Constable Admit Card without fail.
Aadhar Card
College ID
Ration Card
Driving License
PAN Card
Voter ID
Any Valid ID Proof Issued By Gazetted Officer
Bank Passbook
Passport
How to Download WB Police Admit Card 2020-21
Click on “WB Police Constable Admit Card” Link.
A new page will open.
Enter the Application Number and DOB to log in.
Now, the Admit Card will appear on the screen.
Fill all the details.
Finally, Submit the Admit Card and Download it.
Take a print out and carry with you for the exam.
Direct Links to download WB Police Admit Card 2019
SPMCIL Syllabus for Officer Exam 2020 – Competitors who have applied for the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited Recruitment and now getting ready for the Officer Written Exam check the Exam Syllabus and Exam Pattern to get the best score in the test. You can download the and Exam Pattern and Syllabus for the Officer Exam on this page. We give the most recent data of SPMCIL Supervisor Syllabus alongside the Exam Pattern and SPMCIL Officer Recruitment 2020 Exam Date on this page for contenders reference.
Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited is looking for skilled competitors who show enthusiasm for this SPMCIL Officer Recruitment. The individuals who will qualify in the Written test are required the following round of the SPMCIL Officer Selection procedure. So up-and-comers are encouraged to try sincerely and perform well in the Written Test. Here we help you with giving Latest SPMCIL Syllabus and Exam Pattern alongside the past papers.
SPMCIL Syllabus 2020 & Exam Pattern is here for download. Applicants can check the syllabus, exam Pattern, Exam Date and previous papers.
SPMCIL Syllabus 2020
Candidates who have applied for the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited recruitment are now preparing for the Supervisor Written Exam. So, those candidates are keen to check the Exam Syllabus and Exam Pattern to get a good score in the written exam. You will find the and Exam Pattern and Syllabus 2020 on this page free of cost. We provide the latest info of SPMCIL Supervisor Syllabus along with the Exam Pattern on our recruitment.guru website for reference. The people who will crack the Written exam are only called for the next round of the selection process. So, candidates are advised to work hard and perform well in the Final Written Test. Here we help you with providing Latest SPMCIL Syllabus and Exam Pattern along with the previous papers.
Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited has recently issued a recruitment notification and looking for skilled and talented candidates who show interest in this recruitment. Applicants who are going to apply for this recruitment can check the official website to view the details of Eligibility, exam pattern, and Test Syllabus, etc. Interested candidates who are going to apply for it should submit the application form on or before the last date mentioned in the recruitment notification. After successful completion of the Written Exam, the candidates who have appeared in the Test will be shortlisted based on their performance and the Shortlisted candidates will be called for the next level of selection process i.e personal Interview or GD. Here you may find the Syllabus and Exam pattern and Last 10 year Solved papers with detailed Explanations.
Brief Info of Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited Syllabus
Organization Name: Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited.
Post Name: Supervisor Posts.
Job Location: India.
Category: Syllabus.
Official Website: www.spmcil.com
SPMCIL Supervisor Exam Pattern – www.spmcil.com
The SPMCIL Exam pattern is tabulated here for the guidance of the candidates. The exam pattern tells about the information like Subject name, No of questions, and Total Duration for the test and total marks, etc. This SPMCIL Test will be conducted in 2 hours duration for a total of 240 Marks. The Main Points related to the BNPS are listed here.
The exam consists of Objective type Questions i.e it contains MCQs.
The duration of the test will be 2 Hours.
The Exam consists of 200 questions.
Total Marks will be 240 marks.
S.No
Subject Name
No of Questions
Marks
Duration
(Minutes)
1.
Logical Reasoning
40
40
120
2.
General Awareness
40
40
3.
English Language
40
40
4.
Professional Knowledge Basic Mathematics, Basic Physics, and Basic Chemistry common subjects of the First-year Diploma course
40
80
5.
Quantitative Aptitude
40
40
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We have provided the syllabus is attached here for the guidance of candidates. The syllabus included topics are as follows
Logical Reasoning Syllabus
Mirror Images.
Decision Making.
Visual Memory.
Syllogistic Reasoning.
Statement Conclusion.
Analogies.
Non-Verbal Series.
Coding-Decoding.
Arrangements.
Alphabet Series.
Number Ranking.
Number Series.
Clocks & Calendars.
Arithmetical Reasoning.
Cubes and Dice.
Directions.
Blood Relations.
Embedded Figures etc.
General Awareness Syllabus
Scientific Research.
General Polity.
Culture & Heritage.
History – India.
Geography – India.
Sports.
Economic Scene.
Indian Constitution.
Current Events – International & National etc.
English Syllabus
Error Correction.
Passage Completion.
Sentence Rearrangement.
Vocabulary.
Theme detection.
Subject-Verb Agreement.
Word Formation.
Unseen Passages.
Antonyms.
Fill in the Blanks.
Synonyms.
Grammar.
Idioms & Phrases.
Comprehension.
Sentence Completion.
Mech Syllabus
Thermodynamics.
Vibrations.
Applied Mechanics and Design.
Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering.
Engineering Mechanics.
Design.
Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences.
Applications.
Heat-Transfer.
Production Planning and Control.
Theory of Machines.
Metrology and Inspection.
Joining.
Forming.
Metal Casting.
Machining and Machine Tool Operations.
Operations Research.
Computer Integrated Manufacturing.
Strength of Materials.
Inventory Control.
Engineering Materials.
Electronics Engineering Syllabus – spmcil.com
Electronics and Communication Engineering.
Networks.
Electronic Devices.
Analog Circuits.
Digital circuits.
Signals and Systems.
Control Systems.
Communications.
Electromagnetics.
Chemical Engineering Syllabus
Process Calculations and Thermodynamics.
Chemical Reaction Engineering.
Mass Transfer.
Heat Transfer.
Fluid Mechanics and Mechanical Operations.
Plant Design and Economics.
Instrumentation and Process Control.
Chemical Technology etc.
Quantitative Aptitude
Number Systems.
Computation of Whole Numbers.
Decimal & Fractions.
Fundamental Arithmetical Operations.
Percentages.
Ratio & Percentages.
Square Roots.
Averages.
Interest (Simple &Compound).
Profit & Loss.
Discount.
Partnership Business.
Mixture and Alligation.
Time and Distance.
Time and Work.
Algebra.
Geometry.
Mensuration.
Electrical Engineering Syllabus
Network Analysis.
Control Systems.
Electronics Devices.
Electrical Instrumentation.
Analog and Digital Electronics.
Utilization of Electrical Energy.
Electrical Machines.
Power System Protection.
Power System Analysis & Control.
Electromagnetic Theory.
Power Electronics & Drives.
Power Systems.
Switch Gear and Protection etc.
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Dr.B.R. Ambedkar Open University Released BRAOU Results 2020 forUG/PG Courses. Recently the University has let out B.Com, B.Ed, BCA, BSC, BBA, MA, MBA, M.Com, MSc and Other Courses. To get the direct link to check out your Dr. BR Ambedkar Open University Results get down the below section. Students who are studying under Dr.B.R. Ambedkar Open University can check their results from the official website of the University i.e, braou.ac.in. We have attached the main sever links for BRAOU UG/PG Results 2020. Here, we have updated all the information about the UG, PG and other Course results. Know more details about Dr. Ambedkar Open University Results 2020 in the below sections of this page.
Students who have undertaken the Semester Exams its time to check out the Dr. BR Ambedkar Open University Results 2020 announced by the board. We people from recruitment.guru have gathered the updates about the University Results here. Once the board releases the Semester Results Students can check here to know the Exam Results. We have also included the BRAOU Revaluation Results in this article. Also, we have provided a direct link to get the BRAOU Results 2020 from the below table. It will help the students to get the results without any hesitation. We advise the Students to regularly check the official website to know more information about the Dr. Ambedkar Open University Results 2020.
The university was established in August 1982 by Act of the State Legislature. The principal aim of the University is to provide an opportunity for those who are not in a position to avail themselves of the facilities for higher education through regular on-campus study at conventional colleges/universities. It adopts a flexible approach to eligibility, age of entry, method of learning, choice of courses, the conduct of exams and operation of educational programs. The University makes use of a variety of learning media including Radio, TV, film, audio cassette and printed study material, besides arranging contact and counseling programs and Sc ‘Practicals’ which makes for the traditional teacher-student interaction.
BRAOU Supply/Revaluation Results
Students have a chance to apply for the revaluation, if the students may get low marks in the examination, they can apply for the Dr.B.R. Ambedkar Open University Revaluation Results. So again the head of the Examiner will review the answer paper. After revaluation, students may get high marks. Still, if anyone got low marks, they can apply for the Supplementary Examinations. For Revaluation and Supplementary, students should pay the fee. Students can get all the results from this page Regular, Revaluation and Supplementary Results. Students can also get Dr.B.R. Ambedkar Open University Results. We are advising the students to frequently visit our recruitment.guru page to get the latest BRAOU Results 2020.
Saraswat Bank Recruitment 2020 Notification for 100 Junior Officer Vacancies on Saraswat Bank Careers @ www.saraswatbank.com: Saraswat Bank is the largest Bank among the Co-operative Banks in India. The Bank is looking for energetic and dynamic candidates, residing in the following regions (Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Greater Mumbai, Pune). Candidates fulfilling prescribed eligibility criteria are requested to apply Online. The link will be LIVE from 01st January 2020 to 15th January 2020.
Saraswat Bank Recruitment 2020
Candidates who are residing in Mumbai and Pune only should apply. The number of vacancies published is subject to change as per the need. Candidates can apply only ON-LINE on the Saraswat Bank website www.saraswatbank.com between 01st January 2020 and 15th January 2020. Before applying, candidates should read all the instructions carefully and ensure that they fulfill all the eligibility criteria for the post. Here we have provided the complete details of Saraswat Bank Jobs.
Eligibility Criteria for Saraswat Bank Junior Officer Recruitment 2020
Candidates who are interested in applying for Saraswat Bank Recruitment Process must fulfill all the below-listed eligibility conditions without fail. Check Educational Qualification, age limit, selection process, examination pattern, Salary for Saraswat Bank Jobs for Graduates 2020.
Educational Qualification:
Junior Officer – Marketing & Operations – Graduate – First Class/Grade A or equivalent (B.Com., BCA, B.E. or BMS only) from a recognized University.
Age Limit – Saraswat Bank Recruitment Process:
As on 1st January 2020, Age Limit for Saraswat Bank Recruitment 2020 for Junior Officer is as follows,
Frequently Asked Questions About Saraswat Bank Recruitment 2020:
1. What is the mode of application form Saraswat Bank Junior Officer Recruitment 2020? A. Applications for Saraswat Bank Bharti will be accepted only in the Online mode. Candidates can apply for Junior Officer posts by following the steps given above
2. Where will the candidates be placed after selection? A. The selected candidates can be placed in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Greater Mumbai, Pune which has an office of Saraswat Bank.
3. What are the important dates I must know for Saraswat Bank Jobs 2020? A. Candidates must make note of the following date
Starting Date of Application – 01st January 2020
Last Date To Apply Online – 15th January 2020
4. What are the eligibility criteria for Saraswat Bank Recruitment Process? A. Candidate should have Graduated – First Class/Grade A or equivalent (B.Com., BCA, B.E. or BMS only) from a recognized University to be eligible for Saraswat Bank Vacancy 2020. The candidate must be below 27 years of age.
5. What is the selection process for Saraswat Bank Careers? A. Candidates will be selected based on Online Tests and Interview.
6. How much will I be paid for Saraswat Bank Jobs 2020? A. Candidates will be paid Basic pay as per organization norms.
7. What is the application fee that I will have to pay for Saraswat Bank Junior Officer Recruitment? A. Candidates will have to pay – Rs. 600/- as application fee.
About Saraswat Bank (Saraswat Cooperative Bank Ltd.):
Saraswat Bank About this sound pronunciation (help·info) is an urban co-operative banking institution based in Maharashtra, India and operates as a co-operative society since 1918. The Founding Members of the society were Mr. J.K. Parulkar as Chairman, Mr. N.B. Thakur as Vice Chairman, Mr. P.N. Warde as Secretary, and Mr. Shivram Gopal Rajadhyaksha as Treasurer.
In 1988, the Bank was conferred with the “Scheduled” status by Reserve Bank of India. It is the first co-operative bank to provide merchant banking services. The bank got a permanent license to deal in foreign exchange in 1979. Presently the bank has a correspondent relationship in 58 countries covering nine currencies with over 162 banks.
The beginning of the 21st century has been a giant leap forward for the bank. The bank chose a path of organic/inorganic growth and its pace of growth accelerated. The bank’s total business which was around Rs.4000 crore in 2000 almost tripled to Rs.15295 crore in 2007.
SBI Clerk Syllabus 2020 Pdf Download: SBI Clerk Syllabus is updated here. State Bank of India is going to conduct SBI Clerk Prelims Examination in the month of June. Candidates who have applied for the exam and looking for SBI Clerk Prelims Syllabus 2020, here is the important information. We have given all the SBI Clerk 2020 Prelims Syllabus and Exam Pattern in a detailed manner. Aspirants can prepare for the Exam by using this SBI Clerk Syllabus Pdf. Applicants can also download SBI Clerk 2020 Syllabus Pdf by clicking on the link provided here.
SBI Clerk Syllabus 2020
The State Bank of India every year releases vacancies for the posts of Clerk. This year also a total of 8653 posts has been released. It can be estimated how high the competition will be as the number of vacancies released is more.
So, in order to prepare well for the SBI Clerk Examination 2020, we are providing here the complete Syllabus and Exam Pattern details. Also, download the SBI Junior Associate Syllabus and Pattern Pdf from the below links.
Until then, candidates are advised to prepare for the SBI Clerk Exam referring the SBI Clerk Syllabus 2020 Pdf. To become a clerk, candidates should pass the SBI Prelims Exam, so here we are providing the SBI Clerk 2020 Prelims Syllabus. Referring to the SBI Clerk Syllabus Pdf will guide you through your exam preparation. Hence, the applicants are advised to SBI Clerk Syllabus 2020 Pdf and Exam Pattern here. Moreover, for aspirants convenience, we have given the SBI Clerk Syllabus 2020 Pdf download links here.
SBI Clerk Exam Pattern 2020
SBI Clerk Prelims Exam Pattern 2020
Subjects
No. of Questions
Marks
Duration
English Language
30
30
20 minutes
Numerical Ability
35
35
20 minutes
Reasoning Ability
35
35
20 minutes
TOTAL
100
100
1 hour
The prelims exam consists of three subjects include English, Quantitative Aptitude, and Reasoning Ability.
The total number of questions is 100.
Total marks are 100 and the exam duration is 60 minutes.
SBI Clerk Mains Exam Pattern 2020
Subjects
Questions
Marks
Duration
General/Financial Awareness
50
50
35 minutes
General English
40
40
35 minutes
Quantitative Aptitude
50
50
45 minutes
Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude
50
60
45 minutes
TOTAL
190
200
2 hrs 40 mins
SBI Clerk Main Exam consists of 5 subjects include Reasoning, English language, Quantitative Aptitude, General Awareness, and Computer Knowledge.
Total marks for the exam is 200 and the exam duration is 2 hours.
SBI Clerk Syllabus 2020 Pdf Download – SBI Clerk Syllabus in Hindi
Syllabus of State Bank of India Clerk Exam has provided below. Aspirants who wish to write State Bank of India Clerk Prelims Examination have to Download SBI Clerk 2020 Prelims Syllabus Pdf. Checking this syllabus will help you in knowing the topics to cover for the exam.
SBI Clerk 2020 Prelims Syllabus Topics
Reasoning.
Data Interpretation.
English.
The State Bank of India conducts the SBI Prelims & Mains examination for selected candidates. There is substantial competition for bank jobs. So Prepare well with SBI Clerk Syllabus 2020 Pdf.
Download SBI Clerk Syllabus Pdf – State Bank of India Clerk Prelims Reasoning Syllabus
Reasoning
Syllogism.
Seating Arrangement – Circular table and Line (North & South).
Puzzle.
Blood Relation.
Inequality or Decision Making.
Data Sufficiency.
Logical Reasoning.
Input-Output
Number series.
Statement and Argument.
Passage and Conclusion.
Coding and Decoding.
Order and Ranking.
Making Judgments.
SBI Clerk Data Interpretation Syllabus – SBI Clerk Syllabus 2020 Pdf
State Bank of India Clerk Prelims Arithmetic Syllabus
Arithmetic Syllabus
Tables.
Pie – Charts.
Bar Graphs.
Data Analysis.
Line Graphs.
Case Lets.
Combined Data Sets.
Probability/ Series.
Roots.
Average.
Ratio.
Time & Work.
Time & Separation.
Rate.
Benefit & Loss.
Mixture.
Stocks & Shares.
Partnership.
Clocks.
Volume.
Surface Area.
Height & Distances.
Permutation & Combination.
Simple & Compound Interest.
Equations and Probability.
SBI Clerk 2020 Syllabus Pdf for English
The State Bank Of India Clerk Prelims English Language Syllabus
General English
Reading Comprehension.
Spotting Error.
Fill in the blank.
Cloze Test.
Para-Jumbles.
State Bank of India Clerk JA JAA Computer Syllabus 2020
SBI Clerk General Awareness Syllabus
General Awareness
Current Events.
Sports.
History.
Geography.
Culture.
Indian Constitutions.
Technology & Research
State Bank of India Marketing Aptitude Syllabus – SBI Clerk Prelims 2020 Syllabus
Economy Syllabus
Economy.
Banking.
Finance.
SBI Clerk JA JAA Computer Awareness Syllabus
Computer Awareness
Computer Hardware.
MS Word, Excel.
MS Powerpoint, Access.
Internet & Networks.
Basic Security Concepts.
Shortcut Keys.
Latest technologies.
Operating System Concepts.
SBI Clerk Exam Preparation Tips
Download the SBI Clerk Syllabus 2020 Pdf from the below section.
Prepare timetable based on the topics available in SBI Clerk Exam Syllabus.
A habit of reading regularly
Spend some of your valuable time for reading newspapers and magazines. Allocate your time wisely. One another important thing is to note down the points and new words as you read.
Update yourself with formulas
Revision to be done regularly
Time management is very important. Allocate some of the time for revision.
Download SBI Clerk Exam Syllabus 2020 and Preparation Books
Therefore, from the provided SBI Clerk Syllabus 2020 Pdf and Exam Pattern, candidates can start their exam preparation. Refer to the official website www.sbi.co.in for further more details about Clerical Examination 2020.
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State Bank of India Bank clerk exam books – English
Book Name
Author Name
Vocabulary: Word Power Made Easy
Norman Lewis
Grammar: Objective General English for Bank Clerk Exam
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The results will appear on the screen.
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Delhi Looking for DSSSB Syllabus for Statistical Assistant, Assistant Teacher, Jr Engineer, Librarian, Stenographer, LDC, Grade 4 DASS, GRade 2 DASS, Junior Engineer, Assistant Sanitary Inspector, Patwari, AE/JE, Nursing Officer, & other posts. Then welcome to our Page. Here we updated all Latest syllabus details for various DSSSB Exams 2020. However, the candidates who applied for the various posts can check the Syllabus & Exam Pattern details in the sections following. Hence, just click on the respective link below and check the DSSSB Syllabus for PRT, PGT, TGT, Nursing Officer & Other Posts.
Applied for the DSSSB PRT Recruitment 2020. And starting the preparation for DSSSB Exam 2020? Then, you are in the right place. We gave you the details about the DSSSB PRT Syllabus and Exam Pattern in the sections below. However, go through the Syllabus below. Also, download the DSSSB Teacher (Primary) Syllabus PDF. Furthermore, check the Official Notification of DSSSB Recruitment 2020. Also, visit the Official Website www.dsssbonline.nic.in for more details.
Syllabus for DSSSB PGT, TGT, PRT 2020 Exam – Details
Check the DSSSB Exam Pattern 2020 for PRT Exam from the following table. Check the test pattern completely and start preparing for the examination. However, refer to the DSSSB Teacher Recruitment Test Pattern. Also, know the Important Subjects included in the examination below. Once when you get to know about the DSSSB online exam pattern
Exam Type
Papers
Subject Name
Objective Type Questions
Section-A
General Awareness
General Intelligence & Reasoning Ability
Arithmetic & Numerical Ability
Hindi
English
Section-B
Subject Related Questions(Subject Applied for)
The questions will be Objective Type only.
Section-B is completely related to the Subject you applied for.
The Negative Marking will be as per the Recruitment Rules
The DSSSB Statistical Assistant Job Aspirants can easily download DSSSB Statistical Assistant Syllabus 2020 here at free of cost. Also, Candidates can check each and every topic in the DSSSB Statistical Assistant Syllabus here. Many Aspirants who are interested in DSSSB Statistical Assistant Jobs have applied for this DSSSB Statistical Assistant Recruitment and eagerly preparing for the DSSSB Statistical Assistant Examination. So, Candidates who are interested in Government Jobs in Delhi can grab this opportunity by seriously preparing well for the DSSSB Statistical Assistant Examination.
Aspirants who have applied for DSSSB Statistical Assistant Vacancies candidates have to prepare well for the Written Examination. So, here in order to benefit the Aspirants, we have provided the complete information regarding DSSSB Statistical Assistant Syllabus 2020. Here, we have also provided the DSSSB Statistical Assistant Exam Pattern and the Syllabus for reference purposes. So, We advise Aspirants to firstly check out the Delhi SSSB Syllabus and start Exam Preparation immediately. Scroll down to know more information about DSSSB Statistical Assistant Syllabus 2020.
DSSSB Statistical Assistant Exam pattern is very important for Statistical Assistant Examination. So, Contenders have to go through each topic in DSSSB Statistical Assistant Exam Pattern. Competition for DSSSB Statistical Assistant Examination is very high. Contenders have to check the DSSSB Exam pattern before starting the Statistical Assistant Exam Preparation. Check DSSSB Statistical Assistant Exam Pattern 2020 in the following table.
DSSSB Statistical Assistant Exam Pattern 2020
Type of Examination
Name of the Subject
Number of Marks
Objective Type Examination
English Language
100
General Awareness & Aptitude
150
Mathematics
100
Total
350
Selection Procedures:
Candidates who are applied for DSSSB Statistical Assistant Recruitment 2020 will be selected on the basis of their performance in the following selection rounds. So, all the candidates must know the DSSSB Selection Procedures given below
Written Examination
Personal Interview
Document verification
Download DSSSB Statistical Assistant Syllabus 2020-20 PDF
DSSSB Statistical Assistant Syllabus for General English
English Language
Verb
Adjectives
Subject-Verb Agreement
Tenses
Error Correction
Adverb
Articles
Sentence Rearrangement
Fill in the Blanks
Comprehension
Grammar
Vocabulary
Synonyms
Prepositions
Unseen Passages
Idioms & Phrases
Antonyms etc.,
Delhi SSSB Statistical Assistant Syllabus for Aptitude
Whole numbers
decimals fractions and relationships between numbers
Percentage
Ratio & Proportion
Square roots
Averages
Interest
Profit and Loss
Discount
Partnership Business
Mixture and Alligation
Time and distance
Time & Work
Basic algebraic
Algebra & Elementary surds
Graphs of Linear Equations
Triangle and its various kinds of centers
Congruence and similarity of triangles
Circle and its chords
Tangents
Angles subtended by chords of a circle
common tangents to two or more circles
Quadrilaterals
Regular Polygons
Circle
DSSSB Statistical Assistant General Awareness Syllabus
General Knowledge
Current Affairs
Book
Sports
Authors
Abbreviations
Awards
International & National Organizations
Budget
History
Geography
Culture
Environment
Indian Economy
General Science
Mathematics Syllabus for DSSSB Statistical Assistant
On this page, we have uploaded the DSSSB Assistant Teacher Syllabus 2020 for the job seekers. Aspirants are you interested to crack the most competitive DSSSB Assistant Teacher & Junior Engineer Exam with top marks then without any late can download the Delhi Assistant Teacher Syllabus 2020 on this page. The higher officials of the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board will conduct the Written Examination. Before that applicants download the syllabus and start your preparation with the help of the exam pattern. For your convenience, here at the end of the page, we attach the DSSSB Syllabus and Exam Pattern it is very useful in the preparation time.
The aspirants who had applied for the DSSSB Assistant Teacher & Junior Engineer posts can check the DSSSB Assistant Teacher Exam Pattern 2020 over here. The Exam pattern gives you the details of some questions, marks allotted, negative marks (if any), time duration and so on. This will be a crucial time for the candidates to make the proper preparation.
DSSSB Assistant Teacher Exam Pattern 2020
Tier-I
Name of the Subject
Number of Marks
Time Duration
General Awareness
20
2 Hours
Reasoning
20
Numerical Ability
20
English Language Test
20
Hindi Language Test
20
Total
100
2 Hours
Tier-I
Name of the Subject
Number of Marks
Time Duration
Subject / Qualification Related Paper
150
2 Hours
English Language & Comprehension
50
Total
200
2 Hours
Selection Procedures:
The selection shall be made through Tier I and Tier II examination scheme and Skill Test wherever applicable
Written Examination
Personal Interview
Document verification
Download DSSSB Syllabus 2020-20 PDF
DSSSB Assistant Teacher Syllabus 2020 – General Awareness
Indian Economy
Artists
Tourism
Famous Places in India
General Science
Sports
Indian Parliament
Literature
Inventions and Discoveries
Countries and Capitals
Geography
Indian History
Famous Days & Dates
Heritage
Famous Books & Authors
Rivers, Lakes, and Seas
Civics
Indian Politics
Environmental Issues
Biology
Current Affairs
Delhi Assistant Teacher Syllabus 2020 – Reasoning
Non-Verbal Reasoning
Verbal Reasoning
Puzzles
Data Sufficiency
Number Series
Analogies
Letter and Symbol Series
Logical Reasoning
Data Interpretation
Analytical Reasoning
Verbal Classification
Essential Part
Making Judgments
Logical Problems
Artificial Language
Matching Definitions
Statement and Conclusion
Theme Detection
Statement and Argument
Logical Deduction
Cause and Effect
DSSSB Verbal Reasoning Syllabus 2020
Statement and conclusions Syllogism
Analogy, Classification
Word formation
Statement and assumptions
Coding-Decoding
Blood Relations
Statement and arguments
Passage and conclusions,
Ranking and time sequence
Alphabet Test
Assertion and Reasoning
Sitting Arrangement
Series Test
Direction Sense Test
Decision-making test
Figure series
Input/output
Non-Verbal Reasoning
Analogy
Series test
Odd figure Out
Miscellaneous Test
DSSSB Syllabus – Numerical Ability
Time and Work
Percentage
Profit and Loss
Discount
Simple & Compound Interest
Ratio and Proportion
Time and Distance
Partnership
Average
Mensuration
Number System
GCF & LCM
Simplification
Decimals & Fraction
Square roots
Use of Tables and Graphs
Miscellaneous etc
Data Sufficiency etc
DSSSB Assistant Teacher Syllabus – English
Spelling Test
Sentence Arrangement
Error Correction (Underlined Part)
Transformation
Passage Completion
prepositions
Sentence Improvement
Spotting Errors
Antonyms
Homonyms
Synonyms
Word Formation
Direct and Indirect speech
Active and Passive Voice
Para Completion
Idioms and Phrases
substitution
Joining Sentences
Theme Detection
Topic rearrangement of passage
Error Correction (Phrase in Bold)
Fill in the blanks
Data Interpretation
Spelling Test
Sentence Completion
Sentence Arrangement
Hindi Language & Comprehension | English Language & Comprehension
Candidate's understanding and comprehension of the English and Hindi Languages
DSSSB Syllabus 2020: The Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board officials are going to organize the Computer Based Examination to fill up the Skilled applicants to work as a Librarian. The seekers who wanted to procure this chance must download the DSSB Syllabus 2020 at this moment. Sincere contenders have already saved the copy of the syllabus and commenced their preparation work. Those who are not yet started the learning process can do it now. DSSSB Librarian Syllabus 2020 covers all the topics related to the technical subject as well as the General Knowledge and Aptitude, other topics. The detailed information of the DSSB Syllabus is given clearly in the below section.
To crack the DSSB Examination 2020 reading of all these topics should be done by the candidate along with DSSB Librarian Previous Papers. Also, You can download the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board Librarian Exam Syllabus 2020 for free of cost from the direct link available on this page. Applicants have to make a proper Exam preparation schedule to participate in the Librarian Examination. Start your Exam preparation from now with DSSB Librarian Exam Syllabus 2020 as well as the Exam Pattern. For Further Information like Exam Pattern & Selection Process Collect as given below.
Aspirants who have successfully applied for DSSSB Librarian Examination might be looking for exam scheme details. Don't worry, we will share the complete information about Delhi SSSB Librarian Exam Pattern 2020 helps to get an idea about exam strategy such as Type of Examination, Number of Questions to be answered, Marks to be scored for each section, duration for the examination, etc. Hence, we suggest the applicants download the DSSSB Librarian Exam Pattern 2020 available on this page for better preparation.
DSSSB Librarian Exam Pattern 2020
Name of the Subject
Number of Questions
Number of Marks
Mental ability and reasoning ability
20
20
General Awareness
2o
20
English Language & Comprehension
20
20
Hindi Language & comprehension
20
20
Numerical Aptitude & Data Interpretation
20
20
Questions from the Concerned Subject
200
200
Total
300
300
Selection Procedures:
Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board will be selected the candidates based on their performance in
Computer-Based Examination
Interview
Document Verification
Download DSSSB Syllabus 2020-20 PDF
All the candidates start your Exam preparation by downloading the topic wise DSSB Exam Syllabus 2020 as well as the Exam Pattern 2020. It is necessary to know about the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board Syllabus and Exam Pattern before appearing the Exam. If you have an idea about the Syllabus and Exam Pattern, you can perform well in the Exam.
Mental ability and reasoning ability
Logical Venn Diagrams
Inserting Missing Characters
Analogy
Sitting Arrangements
Classification
Coding-Decoding
Alphabet test
Mathematical Operations
Blood Relations
Direction sense test
Series
Eligibility Test
Number, Ranking and Time Sequence Test
Athematic Reasoning
General Awareness
Tourism
Indian Economy
Sports
Rivers, Lakes, and Seas
Civics
Famous Places in India
Current Affairs
General Science
Indian History
Famous Days & Dates
Biology
Countries and Capitals
Artists
Indian Politics
Indian Parliament
Literature
Geography
Environmental Issues
Heritage
Famous Books & Authors
Inventions and Discoveries
English Language & Comprehension
Phrase Replacement
Idioms & Phrases
Verb
Reading Comprehension
Articles
Unseen Passages
Meanings
Synonyms
Word Formations
Missing Verbs
Cloze Test
Antonyms
Error Spotting/Phrase Replacement
Sentence Corrections
Adjectives
Fill in the Blanks
Sentence Rearrangement
Grammar
Adverb
Subject-Verb Agreement
Para Jumbles
Numerical Aptitude & Data Interpretation
HCM as well as LCM
Time & Speed
Inequality or Decision Making
Simplification
Problems on Ages
Order and ranking
Statement and Argument
Also, Profit and Loss
Besides, Data Interpretation
Compound Interest
Input-Output
Number series
Time & Work
Pictorial Graph as well as Pie Chart
Passage and conclusion
Coding as well as decoding
Percentages
Time and Distance
Puzzle
Making Judgments
Blood Relations
Syllogism
Averages
Investment
Logical Reasoning
Data Sufficiency
Bar Graph
Simple Interest
Seating Arrangement – Circular table as well as Line (North and South)
Library and Society
Laws of Library Science
Types of Libraries
Library Associations, Systems, and Programmes
Library Movement and Library Legislation in India
Organizations and Institutions involved in the development of Library and Information Services-UNESCO, IFLA, FID, INIS, NISSAN, etc.,
Library Management
Types of Documents and Selection Principles
Acquisition Procedure
Acquisition of Journals and Periodicals
Preparation of Documents for use
Personnel and Library Committee
Library Rules and Regulations
Library Finance and Budget
Principles of Library Management
Library Organisation and Structure
Use and Maintenance of the Library – Circulation
Maintenance
Shelving
Stock Verification
Binding and Preservation
Weeding out, etc.,
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Delhi Subordinate Service Selection Board Officials are going to conducting the Written Examination from 14th December 2019 t0 19th January 2020 for recruiting various vacancies of the Stenographer Grade IV Posts. So, the candidates who are searching for the DSSSB Stenographer Syllabus 2020 can get the Syllabus on this web page easily and clearly. Also, we have provided the Delhi SSSB Stenographer Exam Pattern 2020 to know more about the Delhi SSSB Examination. Aspirants can also download the DSSSB Stenographer Syllabus 2020 PDF through the direct link given on this web page.
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DSSSB Medical Record Clerk Syllabus 2020 – Overview
Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board conducting recruitment for DSSB Patwari posts. The candidates who are applying for this post can get all the details related to the syllabus & exam pattern on our page. Also, get the direct link of Exam Pattern, syllabus pdf to check the complete details related to DSSSB Patwari Recruitment 2020. However, check the syllabus & exam pattern details in the below sections.
Delhi SSSB Patwari Exam Details
Description
Details
Organization Name
Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board
Post Name
Patwari
Vacancies
Various
DSSSB Patwari Exam Date 2020-20
16th & 18th of June 2020
Category
Syllabus
Official Website
delhi.gov.in
Check the DSSSB Patwari exam pattern & syllabus that are given in the below table. Further, Read the syllabus and exam pattern details carefully and prepare for the exam accordingly.
DSSSB Patwari Exam Pattern 2020-20 – Tier I
Subject
Questions
Marks
General Awareness
20
20
General Intelligence & Reasoning Ability
20
20
General English
20
20
Numerical Ability
20
20
General Hindi
20
20
Concerned Subject
100
100
DSSSB Patwari 2020 Exam Pattern – Tier II
Subject
Questions
Marks
Subject/ Qualification related paper
150
150
English Language & Comprehension
50
50
The exam consists of Tier I & Tier II Papers.
The candidates who qualify Tier 1 only appear for Tier 2.
Each section marks depends on weightage.
The Download link of syllabus pdf is given in the below section, where the syllabus and exam pattern details are given in detail. check it for your additional reference.
The Delhi Subordinate Service Selection Board Released the Notification for the Post of Nursing Officer, Pharmacist, Radiographer & Others. Interested candidates can check the Official Notification below. However, Aspirants who applied for the post can check the DSSSB Syllabus & Exam Pattern details below. Also, download the DSSSB Nursing Officer Syllabus 2020 from the link below.
Check the DSSSB Nursing Officer, Pharmacist & Other Exam Pattern 2020 from the following mentioned table. Go through the Exam pattern completely and Plan for the preparation of the exam. However, Candidates can check the Syllabus details below. Also, download the DSSSB Nursing Syllabus Pdf from the link given below.
Section
Subjects
Marks
Time Duration
A
General Awareness
20
2 Hrs
Numerical Ability
20
Reasoning
20
Hindi and English Language Test
40
B
Subject Concerned
100
Total
200
According to the pattern, Section A Questions are Objective Type Questions.
Section B is also an Objective type of Subject related Question.
Section B Questions will be as per the qualification prescribed in the Recruitment Rules of the post.
Click on the link below to get DSSSB Staff Nurse Syllabus. The Syllabus in the Pdf is given in detail so all you have to check the DSSSB Syllabus 2020 Pdf. I hope for the best for your exam.
The applicants searching for the DSSSB PGT, TGT Syllabus 2020 can check here. We have uploaded the syllabus as per the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board notification. Interested candidates can check and download the Delhi SSSB Teaching Syllabus along with the Exam Pattern. The syllabus is very important for the aspirants going to appear for the exam. Therefore, download the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board Exam 2020 Syllabus from the link provided and start your preparation.
Selection process:
The applicants need to seat for the following rounds,
Written Examination (Tier 1 and Tier 2)
Skill Test.
DSSSB Syllabus 2020 | Teaching and Non-Teaching Posts
Name of the Board
Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board
Name of the Posts
Teaching & Non-Teaching Posts
Apply Mode
Online
Category
Syllabus
Delhi SSSB Tier I Exam Pattern | DSSSB Syllabus
Name of the Subjects
Maximum Marks
Total Duration
General Awareness
20
2 Hours
Numerical Ability
20
Reasoning
20
English and Hindi Language & Comprehension Test
40
Subject Concerned
100
Total
200
DSSSB Tier II Exam Pattern 2020
Name of the Subjects
Maximum Marks
Total Duration
General Awareness
20
2 Hours
Numerical Ability
20
Reasoning
20
Hindi Language
20
English Language
20
Subject Concerned
100
Syllabus for DSSSB Teaching & Non-Teaching
Syllabus of DSSSB for General Awareness:
History.
Indian Constitution.
Srt & Culture.
Economics.
Scientific Research.
Polity.
Sports.
Geography.
Everyday Science.
National and International Organizations/ Institutions.
DSSSB DASS Grade 2 Syllabus 2020 Pdf is obtainable to everyone. Interested aspirants who would like to prepare for the written test can acquire the DSSSB Exam Syllabus 2020 and Test Pattern here in the Pdf format. Furthermore, you can also download the Syllabus of DSSSB 2020 along with Test Pattern, Exam Dates @ www.dsssbonline.nic.in.
DSSSB DASS Grade 2 Exam Pattern 2020 – DSSSB Test Pattern
The following section explains the exam pattern for the DSSSB exam. Check the pattern for various posts here.
Pharmacist
Subjects
Marks
Time
General Awareness
20
2 hours
General Intelligence & Reasoning
20
Arithmetical & Numerical Ability
20
Test of Hindi Language & Comprehension
20
Test of English Language & Comprehension
20
Objective type multiple choice Ques on the subject concerned
100
Total
200
2 hours
DSSSB DASS Grade 2 Tier 1 Exam Pattern 2020
Subjects
Marks
Total Marks
General Awareness, General Intelligence &Reasoning, Arithmetical & Numerical Ability, Test of Hindi Language & Comprehension, Test of English Language & Comprehension
40 Marks Each
200
DASS Grade 2 Tier 2 Exam Pattern 2020
Paper
Subject
No of Questions
Marks
1
General Awareness
75
75
Mental Ability & Reasoning Ability
75
75
2
Numerical Aptitude & Data Interpretation
50
50
English Language & Comprehension
75
75
General Computer Knowledge
25
25
Total
300
300
For Legal Assistant
Tier
Time
Total marks
Syllabus
Two Tier (Technical)
Tier 1: 2 Hours
200
A) General Awareness, General Intelligence &Reasoning, Arithmetical & Numerical Ability, Test of Hindi Language & Comprehension, Test of English Language & Comprehension (20 marks each): 100 marks) Subject/Qualifying related paper: 100 marks
Tier 2: 2 hours
200
A) Subject/Qualifying related paper : 150 marksB) English Language & Comprehension: 50 marks
For Asst Superintendent Matron Warder
Tier
Syllabus
Marks
Time
One Tier (General)
General Awareness, General Intelligence &Reasoning, Arithmetical & Numerical Ability, Test of Hindi Language & Comprehension, Test of English Language & Comprehension (40 marks each)
200
2 hours
Total
200
2 hours
The exam pattern for each post might vary and most probably, the syllabus for every post is the same. The questions will come from subjects like General Awareness, General Intelligence, Reasoning, Numerical Ability, English language, and much more.
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It’s quite important to prepare for the DSSSB Exam with the help of DSSSB Exam Syllabus 2020. Hence, here we have gathered the topics to be covered under various subjects and listed out for your further reference. Hence, read the DSSSB Syllabus 2020 here and score maximum marks.
General Intelligence and Reasoning
The syllabus of General Intelligence & Reasoning Ability includes questions of both verbal and non-verbal types. The test may include questions on
analogies
similarities
differences
space visualization
problem-solving
analysis
judgment
decision making
visual memory
discrimination
observation
relationship
concepts
arithmetical reasoning
verbal and figure classification
arithmetical number series
Semantic Analogy
Punched hole/pattern – folding & unfolding
Figural Pattern – folding and completion
Embedded figures
Critical Thinking
Symbolic/Number Analogy
Semantic Series
Number Series
Figural Series
Problem Solving
Word Building
Figural Analogy
Semantic Classification
Symbolic/Number Classification
Figural Classification
Coding and decoding
Numerical operations
Symbolic operations
Trends
Space Orientation
Venn Diagrams
Drawing inferences
Emotional Intelligence
Social Intelligence
Other sub-topics
General Awareness
This section is to test the ability of the individual’s General Awareness knowledge. Hence, the questions will be designed based on current events and some questions related to the following,
The test of Arithmetical and Numerical Abilities will cover Number Systems including questions on Simplification
Decimals
Data Interpretation
Fractions
L.C.M.
H.C.F.
Ratio & Proportion
Discount
Simple & Compound Interest
Time & Distance
Tables & Graphs
Ratio and Proportion
Percentage
Number Series
Number System
Mensuration
Time & Work
Average
Problems on Ages
Speed Time & Distance
Profit & Loss
Algebra
English Language & Comprehension
In addition to the testing of candidate's understanding and comprehension of the English and Hindi Languages, questions on the following would also be covered.
Reading Comprehension
Idiom & Phrase
Synonyms & Antonyms
One Word Substitution
Fill in the Blanks
Spellings
Sentence Correction/Improvement
Error Spotting
हिंदी भाषा और गद्यांश
गद्यांश
अलंकार और समास
रस, छंद और संधि
रिक्त स्थान की पूर्ति
विलोम और पर्यायवाची शब्द
उपसर्ग और प्रत्यय
मुहावरेऔर एकार्थी शब्द:
हिंदी व्याकरण (वचन,कारक, संज्ञा, लिंग, सर्वनाम आदि)
DSSSB DASS Grade 2 syllabus 2020 & Exam Pattern – Click Here
CGPSC State Service Syllabus 2020 PDF is available here at free of cost. The Chattisgarh Public Service Commission has recently released the Notification for State Service Examination 2020. However, it is a good opportunity for the aspirants who are eagerly waiting for the CGPSC State Service Recruitment 2020. Hence, here all the applicants can get the details for CGPSC State Service Exam Syllabus 2020 and also the Exam Pattern for Prelims and Mains 2020 on this page.
CGPSC State Service Prelims Syllabus and the Exam Pattern details are updated for the year 2020. The aspirants who are appearing for the examination must know the CGPSC State Service Exam Pattern 2020. Also, we have provided the CGPSC Previous Year Papers to prepare well for the examination. However, let’s check the CGPSC State Service Exam Prelims Syllabus and the Exam Pattern. Scroll down to know more information about CGPSC State Service Exam Syllabus 2020.
CGPSC State Service Exam Syllabus 2020 – Overview
Description
Details
Name of the Organization
Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission
No of Vacancies
Various
Name of the Post
State Civil Services, State Police Service, Chhattisgarh State Finance Service, Food Officer/ Asst Director, District Women and Child Development Officer, Child Development Project Officer, Chhattisgarh Subordinate Service, Asst Superintend, Nayab Tehsildar, Exercise Sub Inspector, Deputy Register, Commercial Tax Inspector, Cooperative Inspector/ Cooperative Extension Officer, Asst Jail Officer
Part-1: Economics of India & Chhattisgarh Part-2: Geography of India Part-3: Geography of Chhattisgarh
Paper-VI: General Studies-IV
Part-1: Philosophy Part-2: Sociology Part-3: Social Aspect of Chhattisgarh
Paper-VII: General Studies-V
Part-1: Welfare, Development Programme & Laws Part-2: International & National Sports, Events & Organisation Part-3: International & National Educational Institute & their Role of Human Development
Get Latest CGPSC Scientific Officer Syllabus 2020 here. Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission recently announced a notification to recruit 31 Scientific Officer vacancies. Aspirants who applied for this post can get CGPSC exam Syllabus & Exam pattern here for free of cost. Read this article to know more about the Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission exam 2020.
CGPSC Scientific Officer Syllabus 2020 PDF
The applicant who is eagerly searching for Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission Scientific Officer is landed in the perfect site. Here we have updated all the CGPSC Syllabus 2020 and Exam Pattern. Referring to Syllabus will reduce your browsing time and preparation of unwanted topics. Candidates must prepare Syllabus for better performance in the written exam. Of-course, Syllabus and also the Exam pattern plays a major role in all kinds of competitive and entrance examinations.
An aspirant must have a little knowledge of Syllabus. By this, the candidate may know the stander level of examination along with the subject knowledge. Anyhow, we have updated all the required Chhattisgarh PSC Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2020 here. Get more recruitment details Employment News here. Scroll down to know more information about CGPSC Syllabus.
The question paper consists of General Knowledge, Concerned Subjects and other Subjects.
The time duration for this exam is 3 hours.
The candidates who applied for Chhattisgarh PSC Scientific officer post can check the Exam Pattern for Scientific officer post. Candidate must prepare a lot to get placed in the CGPSC Scientific Officer Exam 2020. The candidate must be in a position to understand the concepts and have good knowledge of examination pattern & syllabus. Applicants can Download all the syllabus here at free of cost. To see more Similar Jobs like Chhattisgarh PSC Jobs Click on this link CGPSC Jobs.
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Here you can find the subject wise Syllabus for Chhattisgarh PSC Scientific Officer exam 2020. Make one preparation table and prepare according to the subject vise. Candidates are advised to download the Chhattisgarh PSC Scientific Officer Syllabus 2020 here. Anyhow, The CGPSC Syllabus is given below.
CGPSC Scientific Officer Syllabus 2020 – General Knowledge
Geography
Panchayat Raj and local government
History of India
Indian national moments
Culture of India
Indian Economy
Current events
General Science
Indian politics
Chhattisgarh PSC Syllabus for Scientific officer – Physics
TNPSC Group 1 Result 2020 Expected Date on Released @ tnpsc.gov.in. Welcome to our TNPSC Group 1 Result Page. Here we will help you find all the TNPSC Group 1 Latest News. The Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission released the TNPSC Group 1 Mains Result on the official website.So all those exam participants can check and download your result from this page. Here we will update the latest Result link once the Result released by the Officials.
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Here on this page all the Registered candidates can check and download your TNPSC Group 1 Online Test Result. As well as here we will be updating the latest TNPSC Group 1 Exam Result and the link will activate at the time of Result announcement. A huge number of applicants have written the TNPSC Group 1 Exam on 12th, 13th, 14th July 2019. Also, candidates can get the TNPSC Result 2020 from the direct link. So all those applicants may be waiting for the qualified candidate’s list from the Mains Exam. The Qualified candidates will invite for the next round of Interviews.
TNPSC Group 1 Mains Result 2020 – Overview
தமிழ்நாடு பொது சேவை ஆணையம் Group 1 Result 2020 | TNPSC Cut Off, Merit List
Description
Details
Organization Name
Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission
Post Name
Group I (Deputy Collector, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Assistant Commissioner, Deputy Registrar of Co-operative Societies, District Registrar, Assistant Director of Rural Development, District Employment Officer, District Officer)
The Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission has conducted the Group 1 Examination to recruit 181 applicants for Deputy Collector, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Assistant Commissioner, Deputy Registrar of Co-operative Societies, District Registrar, Assistant Director of Rural Development, District Employment Officer, District Officer Posts. Candidates who are looking for the தமிழ்நாடு பொது சேவை ஆணையம் Group 1 Result 2020 can check it from this website.
TNPSC Group 1 Cut off Marks 2020
The TNPSC officials will select the qualified candidate’s list based on the Cut off Marks and Merit List. So all the applicants must check your Cut off Marks from the official website. The TNPSC Group 1 Cut off will be decided by the officials with a group of categories. TNPSC Group 1 Cut off 2019 will finalize by the number of vacancies, previous year cut off, category of the Candidates & Others.
Expected Cutoff Marks by Category Wise (Male/Female)
Category
Male
Female
General
129
126
BC
125
123
MBC
123
120
BC (Muslims)
121
115
SC
119
116
SC(A)
116
116
ST
110
106
TNPSC Group 1 Merit List
Applicants can check your TNPSC Group 1 Merit List 2020 from the official website tnpsc.gov.in. Normally the Cut off marks and the Merit list will publish after the Result announcement. The Merit list is more important for the candidates to select in the qualified candidates. The TNPSC Group 1 Merit List contains the applicant’s name and Marks achieved in the examination. So here we have provided some easy steps to check your TNPSC Group 1 Result, Merit List from the official website. Candidates can get the direct link here to check your TNPSC Group 4 Result 2020.
How to check the TNPSC Group 1 Mains Result 2020?
Initially, applicants can visit the official website of Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission, tnpsc.gov.in
On the home page, click on the Latest Results tab
A new page will open with Various Results
Click on the TNPSC Group 1 Mains Result from the top of the Results
Finally, check and download your TNPSC Group 1 Exam Result pdf.
Direct link to download TNPSC Group 1 Result 2020 -21
BU Bhopal Result 2020 [Released]:Dear Students !!!Barkatullah University released UG and PG Semester Exam Results on 02nd January 2020. Get the latest update about the Barkatullah University Results for all the Under Graduate and Post Graduate Degree Courses. Latest Barkatullah University Results 2020 released for all the Bachelor and Master Degree Semester Examinations @ bubbhopal.ac.in. Students can get the Live and Upcoming Updates of BU Bhopal Online Results 2020 Available Here.
Students those who are doing their UG, PG and Diploma Courses under the Barkatullah University its time to check out your exam results. Barkatullah University has released the BU Bhopal Result for UG and PG semester wise exam results on 02nd January 2020. Students just click on the Result link to download the BU Bhopal Results. Once the examination results are out by the Bhopal University, students can check out our recruitment.guru webpage to gather BU Bhopal Results 2020. We provide you with the direct link to download the BU Bhopal Results without any hurdles. Scroll the entire article to gather more detailed information about the latest updated Barkatullah University Bhopal Results 2020-21 Here.
Barkatullah University was established in 1970 as Bhopal University is a public university situated at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. In the year 1988, it was renamed in as Barkatullah Vishwavidyalaya after the name of freedom fighter Prof. Barkatullah who belongs to the state of Madhya Pradesh. University campus covers an area of nearly 400 acres that include academic buildings, residential buildings, and other necessary infrastructure. University is focused on interdisciplinary teaching and research. The funding of university is done by the Government of MP and the Barkatullah Vishwavidyalaya has a residential campus and serves as an affiliating university for 494 colleges in 7 other districts of Madhya Pradesh. Apart from Bhopal, it has affiliated colleges in Vidisha, Raisen, Betul, Hoshangabad, Harda, and Rajgarh.
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Those students who have attended the regular examination under Barkatullah University and still failed. Here comes one more opportunity to clear the examination. To increase your scoring along with those students who have failed in the previous examination will get a chance to clear through Revaluation Exams at Barkatullah University Bhopal Results. For every semester examination conducted by the Barkatullah Bhopal University, Students can apply for the revaluation after the announcement of the main examination results. The University will take a week or more to process the exam papers to announce the Revaluation results. Do stay updated with this page to know about the BU Bhopal Revaluation Result 2020.
KOLKATA | BENGALURU: Retailers and consumer goods companies said sales in the October-December festive quarter had been the best in past four years on account of 'pent-up demand', a buoyant stock market, wider availability of consumer credit at 0% interest, and the harsh winter in the North that triggered sales of heating products and winter wear.While industry executives said some 'green shoots' were visible, they added that they would observe sales over the next one-two quarters before announcing a revival in consumption."Some green shoots can be seen, but the upcoming summer will tell us whether the momentum is sustained," said Panasonic India CEO Manish Sharma.According to industry executives, sales of white goods grew 7-8% in October-December 2019 compared with a contraction of 2-4% during the same period in 2018 and 2017, and 3-4% growth in 2016. The only exception was TVs, which saw sales shrink 9-10% due to a shift in consumption habit to smartphones. Counterpoint Research, which tracks smartphone shipments, said last quarter of 2019 was the best for the category in four years.The October-December quarter is crucial for consumer-oriented companies, and accounts for 35-40% of their annual sales. The pace of sales growth during the last festive quarter is still less than the pre-demonetisation period, when companies used to widely report double-digit growth. Sales were severely impacted by demonetisation during the festive quarter of 2016, and by the implementation of GST in 2017, and industry executives believe the lingering effect of these two events dampened overall sentiment in 2018.But the likes of Reliance Retail, Lifestyle, Puma, LG, One-Plus, Panasonic, Vijay Sales and Great Eastern Retail said sales in the last quarter of 2019 grew beyond expectation, with good demand during Dussehra-Diwali in October and a pickup in December wiping out the slow sales in November.Puma India managing director Abhishek Ganguly said consumer spending had picked up in the festive quarter with buyers thronging malls and ecommerce marketplaces, and discounts coming down.LG Electronics India vice president Vijay Babu said the company registered 18% growth in the last quarter. "Due to good festive sellout, current channel inventory is quite low and we expect 30% growth in the current quarter," he said. LG is the largest white goods maker in India.Counterpoint Research associate director Tarun Pathak said preliminary data shows smartphones sales grew in double digits in the festive quarter. "Due to a good last quarter, smartphone sales growth in calendar year 2019 would be 9-10%, and we expect double-digit pace of growth in 2020," he said.Smartphone maker OnePlus India general manager Vikas Agarwal said any product targeting the youth, like smartphones, will do well in an aspirational country like India.India's GDP growth rate fell to 4.5% in the September quarter from 5% in April-June. This has been attributed to poor consumer spending, weak private investments and the impact of a global slowdown. International Monetary Fund has forecast India's economy will grow at 6.1% in 2019, but will pick up pace to expand at 7% in 2020.Reliance Retail's CEO of fashion and lifestyle business, Akhilesh Prasad, said there has been some recovery for the fashion retail industry in the October-December quarter. "If everything is so bad, why is the stock market rocketing? I don't think there is any real slowdown," he said, adding the retailer is targeting 70% growth in 2020.Electronics retailer Great Eastern Retail director Pulkit Baid said sales were sluggish in the July-September quarter but had bounced back in October-December due to pent-up demand and wider availability of consumer credit at 0% interest.Vijay Sales director Nilesh Gupta said the sales growth could be partially attributed to the harsh winter in the North, and said air purifiers and heating products were out of stock. "It has been an extraordinary quarter with sales growing at 12-13% compared with a decline during the same period in the previous three years," he said.
MUMBAI: Indian banks could be staring at bad-debt provisions of an estimated Rs 30,000 crore against loans to Dewan Housing Finance Corp (DHFL), the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Home Finance, KKR-backed Coffee Day Enterprises and CG Power. Resolution hasn't been finalised in any of these accounts, which means the December quarter could possibly see a reversal in the brief fall in provisioning that occurred in the preceding three-month period.The bulk of the provisions will be on account of DHFL, which entered the bankruptcy process in December.The Reserve Bank of India stipulates that once an account is referred to the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), a provision of 40% has to be made within the financial year. Provisions against nonperforming assets (NPAs) by the banking sector contracted about 11% to Rs 62,754 crore in the September quarter from Rs 70,458 crore in the year earlier. State-run banks recorded a contraction of 15.6% in their provisions at the end of the September quarter.While the financial system has an exposure of Rs 87,000 crore to the mortgage lender, most banks have only set aside 10-15% of their exposure. DHFL alone could pose a system-level provision burden of more than Rs 25,000 crore, which banks will have to absorb over the December and March quarters. Banks have an exposure of over Rs 5,000 crore to Reliance Home Finance, Rs 4,970 crore to Coffee Day Enterprises and more than Rs 4,000 crore to CG Power. Lenders are in the process of negotiating resolution plans in the latter three companies under the inter-creditor agreement (ICA) process."It's discretionary upon banks to take the provisioning hit but considering that most lenders have worked towards a higher provision coverage ratio regime, the markets would expect them to set aside more against these stressed accounts," said Yes Securities lead analyst Rajiv Mehta. 73077766 Another big account is Vodafone Idea Ltd where lenders will have to take a call on the safety net they want to create after the top management recently cautioned lenders that timely repayments may not be possible without urgent relief from the government if the telecom department decides to invoke bank guarantees to recover dues.Lead lender State Bank of India has an exposure of Rs 12,000 crore to Vodafone Idea. The company has a total debt of Rs 1.17 lakh crore. It has also got a severe blow following a Supreme Court ruling on adjusted gross revenue in October.SBI got Rs 12,160 crore following the acquisition of Essar Steel by an Arcelor Mittal-Nippon Steel consortium last month through the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) resolution process."Due to slow resolutions, the worry is that almost all the gain on the Essar account would be used to cover the provisioning loss in the December and March quarter," said a senior bank official on condition of anonymity. "We were hoping that the tide has turned but the March quarter especially looks very crucial for the sector."A recent RBI financial stability report had said that the Indian banking system was not yet out of the woods and that there was a likelihood of bad loans increasing as a percentage of advances after the first annual decline in eight years.
Bengaluru: Swiggy is progressively raising its commissions from restaurants in regions where its service is nearing maturity, while aggressively pushing partners to advertise on its platform, as the company shifts focus to monetising its core food ordering business, restaurateurs and others with knowledge of the matter said.The Bengaluru-based company has also increased delivery fees it charges the customer, to control its losses on a per delivery level, the people told ET.This comes in at a time when the food delivery industry is moving towards consolidation with Zomato in talks to buy UberEats. In December, ET reported that Uber was likely to invest at least $100 million in Zomato in exchange for the latter buying out the firm's India food delivery operations.Swiggy chief executive Sriharsha Majety had claimed the company leadership in the food delivery market with a 60% share. ET could not independently verify this number."On streets where there is already a high density of restaurants, they (Swiggy) have started charging higher commission from new and even some existing restaurants," said a fast-food chain owner that lists exclusively on Swiggy. "In upcoming cities and areas where they don't have too many restaurants on their platform, they continue to charge lower fees."The move also ties in with the company's focus on getting restaurants to fund a larger chunk of promotions and explore other value added B2B services.The company typically engages restaurants on a 11-month contract and has been seen as increasing commissions when these contracts come up for renewal.It has raised its charges to 18-23% of the total order value, up from 12-18% it used to charge earlier, people told ET."This is nothing but business as usual in a marketplace such as ours," Swiggy said in a statement to ET, while denying any unusual increase in commissions for any specific restaurant partner base."Commissions at Swiggy are not based on the category or market maturity/geography. It is worked upon at an individual restaurant level and is in line with factors like average order value, delivery costs and other costs that are incurred," a Swiggy spokesperson said.Another person said the commissions Swiggy charged from restaurants in new regions were far higher than what it did when the company was growing its service in the major metros."There is an increased focus on monetisation, cutting burn rates, profitability, unit economics by companies across the consumer Internet space," said Ankur Pahwa, who leads EY India's ecommerce and consumer Internet practice. "Food tech companies have created an ecosystem from scratch in the past five years which has significantly benefited the suppliers these platform work with. An increased commission structure addresses the value they are creating." 73077747 Swiggy has already started charging restaurants on a pay-per-click model for ads they run on its platform, rather than a fixed fee like earlier, people in the know said. It has also made visible moves to improve monetisation in the past few months by increasing its delivery fee to ₹35 in select regions for orders below ₹98 and ₹25 for orders above that limit.Rival Zomato has more than halved its burn to under $20 million a month, from $45 million in March. Investors in Swiggy said the cash burn on its food delivery business continued to be about $30 million a month and that there was an intent to progressively get it down by the first quarter of 2020."The two companies have very different growth paths which will become clearer in the coming year. However, unit economics focus in the core food delivery business is very real in the overall sector," said an investor in the space.
Mumbai: A day after India's broadcasting regulator announced new caps on pricing and bouquet discounts, Indian television stations have sought reversal of these changes that some broadcasters believe are "negative" for the entire value chain."The authorities have been talking about not micro-managing every part of the business, but that's what they are doing with these amendments," said a top executive at a large broadcast network. "They have failed to give any logic behind the price cap of Rs 12, or the capping bouquet discount at 33%."In the amended rules, announced after three-and-a-half months of consultation, the Telecom regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has reduced the cap on MRP of TV channels that are part of a bouquet by 37% to Rs 12 from Rs 19.The industry regulator has also brought back the analogue-era 'twin conditions', which limit broadcasters from offering more than 33% discounts on channel bouquets. Broadcasters have been asked to submit the revised rates of individual channels and bouquets on their websites by January 15.However, to voice their opposition, the top four broadcasters - Star, ZEE, Sony and Viacom18 - have withdrawn their existing reference interconnect offers (RIO) and rates, giving the mandatory 30-day notice.RIO is the contract between broadcasters and cable/ DTH networks, detailing matters relating to price and other service quality terms."The top four networks have agreed to withdraw their existing RIOs and send the 30-day notice," said the chief executive of a broadcasting network. "We are not acknowledging Trai's new amendments. The regulator may not like this but we are forced by it to take extreme steps."Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEE) has mentioned on its website that all previous versions of RIO and interconnection agreements of the company up to December 31, 2019, stand withdrawn."Any RIO or interconnection agreement(s) received by ZEE after close of business hours on December 31 shall be invalid," the broadcaster mentioned on its website.Similarly, Star India and Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) have also said that existing packages are valid only until January 31. "The new regime is far more restrictive than the earlier one and appears to be negative for the broadcasters. Larger broadcasters with multiple driver channels could mitigate the impact by smart pricing of their bouquets or channels," said Rohit Dokania, senior VP at IDFC Securities.Some of the executives ET spoke with said that they might agree on removing most popular channels from bouquets and price them higher, at Rs 25 per month. "If things don't work out, we may take this decision collectively and allow the cable and DTH industry to keep those channels in their bouquets instead," said an executive.Executives told ET that the Trai move would not help consumers, the intended beneficiaries of the latest amendments."India is lowest ARPU TV market in the world. Why is Trai trying to control the price? More money is good for the entire sector as we will be able to invest in quality content. What Trai is talking about are rates of 2004-05. The cost of content alone has gone up 10 times since then," said one executive.
NEW DELHI: Tata Power will be forced to stop operating its imported coal-based Mundra ultra-mega power project after February unless its five consumer states allow pass-through of additional fuel cost to consumers, the company has told the Union power ministry.The ministry, in turn, told Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Punjab and Maharashtra, which buy power from the Rs 18,000-crore plant, to decide on the matter latest by January 15, or deal with power shortage without Centre's support, people aware of the development told ET.Tata Power managing director and CEO Praveer Sinha declined to comment on the development.The company had said it would be difficult to operate the plant beyond February 29 due to extreme liquidity crunch at a meeting held by Union power secretary Sanjiv Sahai last month. Industry sources said the 4,000-MW Mundra plant — one of the first four ambitious UMPPs in the country — has not been able to generate working capital for operations, and made cumulative losses of about Rs 11,000 crore, which has been funded by Tata Power and equity financing of Rs 5,000 crore.Sahai advised the five states to expedite their decision-making on revising power purchase agreements (PPAs) to allow the plant to recover fuel costs through consumer tariffs as the Centre does not have excess capacity from its share of electricity from central power plants to help them overcome an electricity shortage, said the sources cited earlier.Representatives of Haryana, Rajasthan, Punjab and Maharashtra expressed willingness to rework the PPAs, but they have not yet obtained approvals from their Cabinets, they said. Only the Gujarat government has approved the revised PPA. The five states need to approach the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) once they approve the revised PPAs.A senior bureaucrat in Maharashtra told ET that the state was keen on allowing pass-through to Mundra plant due to the low cost of power. A decision was delayed due to assembly elections. He said electricity from the project will be cheaper at about Rs 3.10 per unit against the average power price of the state at Rs 3.80 per unit.At the power ministry meeting, a Maharashtra representative had said the new government is yet to take up the issue for discussion, while officials from Haryana and Punjab said their governments are actively considering the matter, sources said.Tata Power's Coastal Gujarat Power that operates the Mundra plant has offered additional concessions to the Punjab government that are being studied by the state. The Supreme Court had in October 2018 asked the CERC to decide on changes to the PPAs for three imported coal-based plants in Gujarat to let them pass on fuel costs.CERC had in April last year approved compensation by Gujarat and Haryana for imported coal costs to Adani Power's 4,620-MW plant. The three projects, including Essar Power's Salaya plant, have been fighting for compensation since 2010 after Indonesia introduced benchmark sale price, raising prices of imported coal.In 2017, the three companies had even offered majority stakes in their plants in Gujarat to the state government at Rs 1 each.
NEW DELHI: Vaccine manufacturer Bharat Biotech International has proposed to partner with the government to revive the country's largest integrated vaccine complex in Tamil Nadu that is struggling to start operations due to cash crunch.The Hyderabad-based biotechnology company has offered to invest in the Rs 600-crore Integrated Vaccine Complex (IVC) at Chengalpattu, set up by HLL Biotech (HBL), a subsidiary of condom maker HLL Lifecare, in a recent letter to Union health minister Harsh Vardhan."The objective of this communication is to convey our deep interest and commitment to work with HLL Lifecare to manufacture and market several of our vaccines," it said. "We would work on a phasewise technology transfer to achieve this goal."ET has seen a copy of the letter.73077830 IVC was conceived in 2008 as a project of national importance to produce vaccines for the National Immunization Programme and make the country self-sufficient. With a planned annual capacity of 585 million, the project proposed to make pentavalent, or five-in-one, combination vaccine, BCG vaccine, and vaccines to prevent measles, hepatitis B, human rabies, Hib (haemophilus influenzae type b) and Japanese encephalitis (JE) in the first phase, which was to be commissioned by 2010.However, the project is still struggling to kick start, following shortage of funds."The situation is such that even the employees have not been paid their salaries for the last several months," said a person aware of the matter. "The project needs a fresh infusion of funds."People familiar with the development said HBL has been struggling financially as it awaits the proposed disinvestment of HLL Lifecare, pending which decisions on its requirement of additional funds have been halted.A government official said the health ministry is looking at various options including Bharat Biotech's proposal to revive IVC. "Once the ministry takes the decision, it will be taken to the cabinet for approval," the person said.Bharat Biotech has proposed four vaccine candidates to start with for the collaboration — rotavirus vaccine, JE, rabies vaccine and hepatitis B vaccine. "Our company is ready to engage in a dialogue with HLL Lifecare on all aspects of the collaboration, both commercial and technical," the company said in its letter to the health minister.
As the stock market continues its record-breaking spree, the search is on for trading ideas that will beat the benchmark indices. The new year has brought in many such opportunities, particularly in the midcap space where stocks are starting to see a pick-up after a long period of under-performance. Among sectors, metals is being viewed as a good trading bet with the possibility of a resolution to the US-China trade war. Here's a look at eight such trading bets by technical analysts for the first quarter of 2020.SUDARSHAN CHEMICAL INDSCMP: Rs 413.35Last 1-Year Change: 19.9%Target by March 31: Rs 470Sudarshan's shares are likely to gain nearly 14% in the next three months, according to IIFL, given the brokerage's target of Rs 470 by March 31. The brokerage has a positive view on the stock on a fundamental basis. Having steadily gained market share and become the world's 4th-largest colour pigment producer, Sudarshan is well-placed to continue its rapid growth in the context of the imminent exit of its two largest global competitors BASF and Clariant, said IIFL.EXIDE INDUSTRIESCMP: Rs 189.05Last 1-Year Change: -27.6%Target by March 31: Rs 208IIFL sees the stock touching Rs 208 by the end of the quarter, which implies an upside of 10% from current levels. Fundamentally, the brokerage is positive on the stock as it stands to benefit from auto replacement demand recovery, technology upgradation and launches, emerging opportunities in solar and e-rickshaws space, cost control as well as technology upgradation measures. The brokerage expects a 17% compounded growth in earnings per share over FY19-FY22 period.LARSEN & TOUBROCMP: Rs 1,345Last 1-Year Change: -5.7%Target by March 31: Rs 1,420L&T is well placed to navigate the weak investment environment, backed by a healthy balance sheet and strong technical execution capabilities, as per IIFL's view. There could be a near-term overhang due to uncertainty regarding the high speed rail ordering post the change of government in Maharashtra, which could impact order inflows in FY21. However, technical charts suggest the stock is headed higher in the next 3 months & IIFL expects it stock to rise to Rs 1,420 in this quarter.GRASIM INDUSTRIESCMP: Rs 766.60Last 1-Year Change: -6.06%Target by March 31: Rs 920Swapneel Mantri, technical analyst at Sushil Finance, views Grasim Industries as one of his top ideas for the quarter and expects the stock to touch Rs 920 in the next three months. "The scrip has been in an intermediate downtrend since the highs of 820 levels. The scrip has been in consolidation near the 720-740 zone and is showing signs of bottoming out," said Mantri. He recommends buying the stock at the current level with a stop loss of Rs 735 on weekly closing basis.HINDALCO INDUSTRIESCMP: Rs 220.20Last 1-Year Change: 2.7%Target by March 31: Rs 260-280Sushil Finance expects the stock to touch Rs 260 in the next three months. This means a potential gain of 18% by the March quarterend. "It has been in a downtrend since Rs 270 levels and now it has crossed its 200-DMA (day moving average) level of Rs 198 recently. It is showing signs of bottoming out," said Swapneel Mantri of Sushil Finance. Chandan Taparia of Hindalco, said the stock has formed a bullish harmonic pattern on the monthly chart. "Looking at the technical evidences, we are advising to buy the stock for an upmove towards 260-280 with a stop-loss of 200 levels," he said.TATA STEELCMP: Rs 484.95Last 1-Year Change: -1.8%Target by March 31: Rs 560"The stock has been consolidating in the range of Rs 390-Rs 400 levels for a long time. Post Brexit clarity, it has given a breakout and we expect the upward trend to continue," said Swapneel Mantri of Sushil Finance. Mantri expects the stock to rise to Rs 550-Rs 560 by the end of the quarter. 73055837 TATA MOTORSCMP: Rs 193.85Last 1-Year Change: 15%Target by March 31: Rs 225The Nifty Auto index has given a trendline breakout on the daily chart and is sustaining well above the same, said Chandan Taparia of Motilal Oswal. "Tata Motors rallied sharply in the last three months with healthy volumes, which is a positive sign for the stock. Looking at the current price structure, we won't be surprised to see an upmove towards Rs 215-225 levels soon. Thus, any decline towards Rs 185 shall be used as a buying opportunity with a stop-loss of Rs 174 levels," said Taparia.JUBILANT FOODWORKSCMP: Rs 1687.75Last 1-Year Change: 36.2%Target by March 31: Rs 1,830The stock is forming higher top-higher bottom formation over the last four months, said Taparia of Motilal Oswal. "The stock is sustaining above its consolidation phase of the last 9 weeks. RSI oscillator is sustaining above 60 levels on daily and weekly charts and it is showing strength in the counter. Looking at the chart structure, we are expecting an upmove towards Rs 1,830 levels," said Taparia. He recommends buying the stock with a stop loss below the Rs 1,605 level.
Timing, size and pricing with a clear strategy are essential for any non-banking finance company to raise funds overseas as the business faces many headwinds from banks with lower cost of funds, says Amrish Baliga, managing director at Deutsche Bank India. The appetite for high-yield Indian papers has gone up for global investors, Baliga told Saikat Das in an interview. Edited excerpts:What is your outlook for offshore loans and bonds in 2020?I am pretty confident going into 2020 on the back of a strong 2019. Our projected loan and bond pipeline looks strong. Markets continue to evolve. Heightened volatility levels are the new normal and our advice to clients has always been: Stay prepared. We will advise caution in the face of unforeseen volatility, which is more a function of how international markets play out to reams of relevant information.Are lower-rated NBFCs able to access overseas market amid risk aversion?A significant number of NBFCs are evaluating offshore liquidity taps. Roadshows are planned and investor education ongoing. Timing, sizing and pricing with a clear elucidation on business mix and growth may make a difference.What are global investor reactions to Indian high-yield paper?We saw a strong risk-on approach to Indian paper across sectors in 2019. Deutsche Bank brought landmark offerings in terms of novel structures and issuers from sectors that were relatively unknown to international investors. The response was overwhelming, depicting a risk-on mindset. The risk appetite for high-yield Indian paper has improved, subject, of course, to appropriate credit matrix.That would play out at least into the first quarter of 2020. You could see phases of caution where investors will wait and watch. Local companies need to tap the overseas market opportunistically.How do you compare the cost of borrowing between global and local markets?Evaluating fundraising via debt and equity is a function of access to liquidity; pricing of the instrument and pricing for the hedge (currency cover). Business mix also is a key factor. Whether entities have dollar revenues that act as a natural hedge goes into an evaluation. So, it is not just the cost of borrowing locally. Access to and availability of liquidity pools offshore will be factored in. There are various criteria that go into play when issuers evaluate a liquidity pick-up.How does the global rate trajectory look like?That is an interesting question. Even as economies the world over soften , the ability or tools for central banks appear limited. We have negative rates in many developed parts of the world, but that doesn't mean that investors in those jurisdictions will be pro-high-yield without a necessary track record and rationale.The share of negative yields may fall… But any improvements to pockets of global growth augur well for emerging markets with more inflows.The DB house view is that the repo rate in India will be cut by 65 bps to 4.5% over the course of 2020.Will the Essar judgement bring any change in India's distressed asset market?Absolutely. And that's very beneficial for Indian markets as we will see novel and deeper pools of liquidity, alternative sources of capital and expertise being brought to bear.This could also mean a quicker pace in turnaround and distribution of such risk to many participants. It's a fantastic outcome. As you are aware, we have significant presence in these type of funding/s and will look to partner newer entrants as the markets evolve.What is the way out for long-term funding in the Indian infrastructure sector? Banks now shy away from long-term loans.Indian issuers are moving more from momentum to project-related grading and issuances. A landmark issue that we helped bring to market was Adani Solar restrictive group project funding. The tenor and price was a first on many levels. What that did was to remove project risk from the bank market and introduce it to bond market.The Adani Group is a sophisticated issuer of such type of risk and our ability to work with them on landmark trade/s was a different experience, where project fundamentals were evaluated compared to plain momentum-driven issuance.For DB, how has the year 2019 been in arranging issues?The year (2019) has been a landmark year for a lot of our businesses. The depth and variety of our financing platforms were all put into play for our various clients and issuers.Whether it be our strong debt capital market team or our best-in-class financing and fixed income funding or our diverse equity-linked financing… there were many firsts and that's largely due to the faith that our clients and partners reposed in us.
NEW DELHI: Data network solutions provider Sterlite Technologies Ltd (STL) on Thursday said that it has won the mandate to create a high-speed rural broadband network from Telangana Fiber Grid Corporation Ltd (T-Fiber).The multi-year deal worth about Rs 1,800 crore requires STL to design, build and manage a rural broadband network across 3,000 gram panchayats in Telangana.STL said that it will work with T-Fiber for enabling affordable and high-speed broadband connectivity to 60 lakh people in Telangana."The uniqueness of T-Fiber project is that it will connect every household across the rural part of the state through optical fiber and provide them high-speed internet connectivity," K.S. Rao, CEO, Network Software and Services, STL, said in a statement.STL was awarded the work order for about Rs 1,100 crore for phase-1 of the project, while the total project value is worth about Rs 1,800 crore.This turnkey project, which entails managing the network for an additional seven years, has a significant operations and maintenance revenue stream, close to 30 per cent of the overall project value.The scope includes rolling out end-to-end network connectivity by deploying 64,000 km of OFC (optical fibre cable) network, as well as deploying IP MPLS (multiprotocol label switching), a routing technique and GPON (gigabit passive optical network), a point to multipoint access to create seamless network connectivity.
If you know nothing else about particle accelerators, you probably know that they’re big — sometimes miles long. But a new approach from Stanford researchers has led to an accelerator shorter from end to end than a human hair is wide.
The general idea behind particle accelerators is that they’re a long line of radiation emitters that smack the target particle with radiation at the exact right time to propel it forward a little faster than before. The problem is that depending on the radiation you use and the speed and resultant energy you want to produce, these things can get real big, real fast.
That also limits their applications; You can’t exactly put a particle accelerator in your lab or clinic if they’re half a kilometer long and take megawatts to run. Something smaller could be useful, even if it was nowhere near those power levels — and that’s what these Stanford scientists set out to make.
“We want to miniaturize accelerator technology in a way that makes it a more accessible research tool,” explained project lead Jelena Vuckovic in a Stanford news release.
But this wasn’t designed like a traditional particle accelerator like the Large Hadron Collider or one at collaborator SLAC’s National Accelerator Laboratory. Instead of engineering it from the bottom up, they fed their requirements to an “inverse design algorithm” that produced the kind of energy pattern they needed from the infrared radiation emitters they wanted to use.
That’s partly because infrared radiation has a much shorter wavelength than something like microwaves, meaning the mechanisms themselves can be made much smaller — perhaps too small to adequately design the ordinary way.
The algorithm’s solution to the team’s requirements led to an unusual structure that looks more like a Rorschach test than a particle accelerator. But these blobs and channels are precisely contoured to guide infrared laser light pulse in such a way that they push electrons along the center up to a significant proportion of the speed of light.
The resulting “accelerator on a chip” is only a few dozen microns across, making it comfortably smaller than a human hair and more than possible to stack a few on the head of a pin. A couple thousand of them, really.
And it will take a couple thousand to get the electrons up to the energy levels needed to be useful — but don’t worry, that’s all part of the plan. The chips are fully integrated but can be put in series easily to create longer assemblies that produce larger powers.
These won’t be rivaling macro-size accelerators like SLAC’s or the Large Hadron Collider, but they could be much more useful for research and clinical applications where planet-destroying power levels aren’t required. For instance, a chip-sized electron accelerator might be able to direct radiation into a tumor surgically rather than through the skin.
Tech reporters’ inboxes are filled with garbage pitches from misguided founders who assume that the smallest milestone warrants a write-up.
Founders dream of seeing their company’s name in headlines without knowing how that might help or hurt them. But with the proper intentions, strategy and timing, they can score press that makes their imagined future look inevitable.
Step one: accept the fact that you don’t get to decide what’s newsworthy.
Inside your company, you may have total control, but working with reporters requires abdicating that iron grip. They can’t be intimidated or paid off, but you can collaborate with them — take their success into account alongside your own, recognize their duty to serve the public, and you’ll learn to pitch like a pro.
Here we’ll discuss different reasons why you might want press, why maybe you shouldn’t, and how to understand what reporters consider newsworthy. You’ll learn about the three big benefits of coverage, what’s changed about readership over the past decade, the most common mistake in startup PR and how to combine your milestones into a compelling story.
In part two of this ExtraCrunch guide, I’ll explore how to pick specific publications and reporters to work with. Future posts will examine how to hire help with PR, formulate a pitch, deliver it to reporters, prepare for interviews and conduct an announcement. If you have more questions or ideas for ExtraCrunch posts, feel free to reach out to me via Twitter or elsewhere.
Why should you believe me? I'm editor-at-large for TechCrunch, where I've written 4,000 articles about early-stage startups and tech giants. For a decade, I've reviewed startup pitches via email and Twitter, at demo days for accelerators like Y Combinator and on stage as a judge of startup competitions. From warm introductions to cold calls, I've seen what gets reporters' attention, why some pitches are immediately rejected and how stories become enduring narratives supporting companies as they grow.
Let's start with why you should want startup press in the first place.
Three realistic goals for press coverage
What’s your objective? It won’t matter to the reporters or the readers, and it won’t get you written about. But you need goals to work towards even if you never speak them aloud in an interview.
First, you should know what you're giving up. To run an effective PR process, you'll be distracted from building product and running your business. An agency can help, but founders and key employees must still put in time to meet with the PR team to define and refine positioning and messaging, offer product updates and set priorities.
Talking to the public will expose your secrets to potential competitors who could use the info to copy what's working, learn from your mistakes and exploit the markets and opportunities you're not. It can also bring in new users or customers before you're ready, or before there's enough adoption around them to make your product work. If press exposes you to a scattered cadre of early adopters around the world who have no one to use your app with, they might never give you a second chance, so you have to grow thoughtfully.
There are three big benefits you can get from startup press, but perhaps not in the ranking you'd assume.
If 2018 was when the industry was shocked into sobriety, 2019 would be a year when pragmatism and the challenges of trying to develop and scale a technology got a lot more real. The upshot: the industry is in the midst of its adolescent years, where change can occur suddenly, causing confusion and awkward encounters. It’s a time when others develop far faster than their peers.
And this coming year promises some of the same.
Cracks in the autonomous vehicle industry — concealed by quixotic zeal and a seemingly bottomless bucket of venture and corporate capital — became too conspicuous to ignore in the opening months of 2018.
A high-profile trade secrets case that pitted Waymo against Uber revealed a cutthroat and reckless side of the burgeoning industry. Just a few weeks later, a self-driving Uber vehicle killed a pedestrian while testing on public roads in Tempe, Arizona, leading Uber to immediately halt all testing. And while other companies only temporarily paused testing of their own, the incident cast a pall over an industry that aspires to make roads safer.
Flashy self-driving car demos slowed to a trickle and some grumbled to TechCrunch about raising capital. Timelines for commercial deployments of robotaxis got fuzzier. Research and advisory firm Gartner released its annual Hype Cycle chart and autonomous vehicles were shown entering into the trough of disillusionment.
And so the chatter and announcements at CES 2019 — the giant tech show held each January in Las Vegas — shouldn’t have surprised anyone. It did anyway. Suddenly, or so it seemed, buzz words weren’t “driverless” and “robotaxis,” they were “safety” and “advanced driver assistance systems,” a less-capable level of automation that is found in new sedans, SUVs and pickup trucks.
This renewed focus on ADAS, along with flurry of partner-swapping, strategic deals and the beginning of consolidation in the industry would be the overarching themes in 2019. This year, with CES 2020 just days away, the ADAS love story will continue along with consolidation and a slow march towards limited robotaxi deployment.
ADAS resets industry expectations
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang set the stage for one of the themes at CES and the rest of 2019 when he introduced a Level 2+ system called Nvidia Drive AutoPilot. The new product was introduced as a reference platform that automakers and suppliers like Continental and ZF would be able to use to bring more sophisticated automated driving features — not full self-driving — into their production vehicles.
The reveal felt like whiplash to some industry watchers.
Just two years before, Jensen was on the CES stage touting how Nvidia’s tech would lead to Level 4 autonomy by 2020. Level 4 is a designation by the Society of Automobile Engineers (SAE) that means the vehicle can handle all aspects of driving in certain conditions without human intervention. Level 2 systems, in which two primary functions are automated, still have a human driver in the loop at all times.
“The idea of full autonomy went a bit behind the curtain in 2019 and ADAS took more of center stage,” Jeremy Acevedo, senior manager of insights at Edmunds told TechCrunch in a recent interview.
Nvidia was hardly alone. The shift was driven partly by technical and regulatory challenges for self-driving car developers. It was also in response to demand from automakers looking for nearer-term solutions that would improve the technical capabilities of consumer passenger vehicles.
It was a vindication of sorts for Intel, which had spent more than $15 billion back in 2017 to acquire Mobileye, a leading automotive developer and supplier of sensor systems that help prevent collisions. Mobileye, which operates as a subsidiary within Intel, believes that Level 4 or Level 5 (completely driverless in any and all conditions) can’t be reached without going through lower levels of automation first.
“You started to see a lot of Level 2+ kind of talk from players that were looking at platforms that were supposed to be for full autonomy now being repurposed for higher end ADAS,” said Jack Weast, a senior principal engineer at Intel and vice president of autonomous vehicle standards for Mobileye. “I think it was both a reflection of the realization that ‘hey, this is a little harder than we thought, to make something good enough to remove the human,’ and public perception.”
As a result, Weast thinks 2020 will be the year that ADAS-equipped vehicles will become the new normal. Customers will become more familiar with automated driving technology, which will hopefully lessen fear around fully autonomous vehicles, Weast added.
There’s already evidence that this has started. Consumers are opting to pay more for driver assistance and other “content” features in vehicles, according to Edmunds’ Acevedo.
In 2019, consumers spent on average $10,042 more than the base price of a vehicle, a 10.4% increase from the previous year. Look back a few more years and the gap is even wider. Consumers in 2019 spent 36.2% more on “content” add-ons in vehicles like ADAS compared to 2014.
And that’s been a boon for suppliers. Bosch generated 2 billion euros in sales from driver assistance systems in 2019, a 12% increase from the previous year, according to Kay Stepper, vice president at Bosch who heads the company’s driver assistance and automated driving regional business unit.
“That doesn’t even include what we’ve seen a renewed interest in, which is the Level 2 and Level 3 systems that will be rolled out in the next several years,” Stepper said.
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The CCPA is now officially the law in California, although there’s a grace period of six months before regulators penalize any tech companies that sell your personal data without your permission.
The law requires, among other things, that companies notify users of the intent to monetize their data, and give them a straightforward means of opting out of said monetization. Sounds simple, but it will probably take years before its implications for businesses and regulators are completely understood.
Danny Crichton looks at some of the bigger implications behind the resignation of Ross LaJeunesse, who was head of international relations at Google and served for more than a decade in various roles at the company.
The company’s Lucy vacuum includes a pair of cameras, which combine 1080p color images with depth sensing to provide home surveillance and mapping in light and dark settings. (Whether or not that appeals to you will depend on your views about privacy.)
The Pallone-Thune TRACED Act, a bipartisan bit of legislation that should make life harder for the villains behind robocalls, was signed into law by the president on Tuesday.
The hope for Lowkey is that it can connect adult gamers with one another to get the most out of their gaming experience. Everyone playing through Lowkey must be 18 years of age or older and have a full-time job.
Our editorial and events teams work hard throughout the year to ensure that we bring you the most dynamic and diverse group of speakers and judges to our event stages. And finally, at the tail end of 2019, we bring you … 2018 data.
Travelex, a major international foreign currency exchange, has confirmed it has suspended some services after it was hit by malware on December 31.
The London-based company, which operates more than 1,500 stores globally, said it took systems offline “as a precautionary measure in order to protect data” and to stop the spread of the malware.
Its U.K. website is currently offline, displaying a “server error” page. Its corporate site said the site was offline while it makes “upgrades.” According to a tweet, Travelex said staff are “unable to perform transactions on the website or through the app.” Some stores are said to be manually processing customer requests.
Other companies, like Tesco Bank, which rely on Travelex for some services, have also struggled during the outage.
Travelex’s U.K. website is currently offline (Screenshot: TechCrunch)
The company said no customer data has been compromised “to date,” but did not elaborate or provide evidence for the claim.
The company declined to identify the kind of malware used in the attack, citing an ongoing forensic investigation. In the past year, several high-profile companies have been increasingly targeted by ransomware, a data encrypting malware which only unscrambles the data once a ransom has been paid. Aluminum manufacturing giant Norsk Hydro and the U.K. Police Federation were both hit in March, then Arizona Beverages and Aebi Schmidt in April, and shipping company Pitney Bowes in October.
Several local and state governments have also been attacked by ransomware. New Orleans declared a state of emergency last month after its systems were hit by ransomware.
A Travelex spokesperson would not comment beyond the statement.
Mobility mavericks, get ready to strut your stuff at TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 on May 14. Don't miss our second annual day-long conference devoted to technologies that move people and parcels around the world in new, exciting ways.
More than 1,000 of the industry's mightiest minds, makers, innovators and investors will converge in San Jose for a mobile mind meld. That spells opportunity for early-stage mobility startup founders. Buy an Early-Stage Startup Exhibitor Package and plant your company in front of the influencers who can drive your mobility dreams to the next level.
Whether you're racing to perfect autonomous vehicles or flying cars, developing AI-based applications, focused on improving battery technology — or you want to recruit a few brilliant engineers — exhibiting at TC Sessions: Mobility offers invaluable exposure and opportunity.
Your exhibitor package includes a 30-inch high-boy table, power, linen and signage. Even better — it includes four tickets to the event. That's four times the networking power. And it gives you time to take in some of the show's many panel discussions, fireside chats and workshops.
Because, of course, the day will be loaded with top-notch speakers who, along with TC editors, will discuss the opportunities and challenges — social, economic and regulatory — that come from creating new mobile paradigms.
We're building our slate of speakers for this year's event, and we'll be announcing them on a rolling basis in the coming months. Know someone who should be onstage at this event? You can nominate a speaker here. In the meantime, here are just a couple of examples of what went down at last year's Session.
Alisyn Malek, co-founder and COO of May Mobility, an autonomous transportation startup, talked about making transportation easier and accessible for everyone, and Jesse Levinson, Zoox CTO and co-founder, shared specifics on the company's autonomous vehicle hardware design.
And here are just a few more of the speakers who graced the TC Sessions: Mobility 2019 stage:
Seleta Reynolds, head of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation
Caroline Samponaro, Lyft, head of Micromobility Policy
Ted Serbinski, Techstars, founder and managing director of The Mobility Program
Sarah Smith, Bain Capital Ventures, partner
You get the idea. And you can expect more high-caliber technologists, policy makers and investors to be in the house when TC Sessions: Mobility takes place May 14, 2020.
Plenty of reason to attend — and even more reason to exhibit. But don't wait. Exhibition space is limited, and so are the number of packages available. Reserve your demo table here, and get ready to move your early-stage mobility startup in a whole new direction.
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The first deliveries of Tesla Model 3 sedans made in China will begin January 7, one year after the U.S. automaker began construction on its first factory outside the United States.
The deliveries to customers — which Reuters was first to report based on confirmation from a Tesla representative — is a milestone for Tesla as it tries to carve out market share in the world’s biggest auto market, as well as lessen the financial pain caused by tariffs. Deliveries to customers will occur at the Shanghai factory. Earlier this week, more than a dozen Tesla employees took delivery of the Model 3.
"We believe China could become the biggest market for Model 3," the company said in its third-quarter earnings report.
Producing vehicles in China for Chinese customers allows Tesla to bypass tariffs, but it’s no guarantee that this will be the revenue-generating boon the company needs to push itself into sustained profitability. EV sales have been sluggish for other automakers in China over the past several quarters as the government has rolled back subsidies on new-energy vehicles.
The company and its CEO Elon Musk are jumping into the market with gusto, despite gloomy EV sales. Tesla has said the production line at the factory in China will have a capacity of 150,000 units annually and will be a simplified, more cost-effective version of the Model 3 line at its Fremont, Calif. factory.
Aerial photo of Tesla factory in New Lingang District, Shanghai. The number of Model 3 cars in the parking lot is about 500.
Tesla also said this second-generation Model 3 line will be at least 50% cheaper per unit of capacity than its Model 3-related lines in Fremont and at its Gigafactory in Sparks, Nev.
Tesla struck a deal with the Chinese government in July 2018 to build a factory in Shanghai. It was a milestone for Tesla and CEO Elon Musk, who has long viewed China as a crucial market. And it was particularly notable because China agreed for this to be a wholly owned Tesla factory, not a traditional joint venture with the government. Foreign companies have historically had to form a 50-50 joint venture with a local partner to build a factory in China.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has pushed forward plans to phase out joint-venture rules for foreign automakers by 2022. Tesla was one of the first beneficiaries of this rule change.
The opening of the China factory comes at a time of rising trade tensions between China and the United States. Tesla has been particularly exposed to relations between China and the U.S., and the resulting rising tariffs. Tesla builds its electric sedans and SUVs at its factory in Fremont, Calif. and ships them to China, which subjects the vehicles to an import tariff.
CES is a magical place full of gizmos, gadgets and communicable diseases.
TechCrunch is hosting another pitch-off event this year. Called Pitch Night, select early-stage companies will take the stage and have 60 seconds to present their wares to TechCrunch editorial and industry experts.
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This Vegas Pitch Night isn't a polished show with massive screens, celebrity guests and life-changing cash prizes. This event is quick and efficient, held in a co-working event space outside of downtown Vegas. There will be coolers of beer, sodas and whatever snacks we can find at a 7-11.
We've held these events for years and they're among our favorite to host. There are countless startups in town for CES and we just want to hang out away from the noise of the Vegas strip.
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The company had grown quickly by taking advantage of cloud infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS), but when you grow rapidly, infrastructure costs can skyrocket, especially when approaching the scale Dropbox was at the time. The company decided to build its own storage system and network — a move that turned out to be a wise decision.
In a time when going from on-prem to cloud and closing private data centers was typical, Dropbox took a big chance by going the other way. The company still uses AWS for certain services, regional requirements and bursting workloads, but ultimately when it came to the company’s core storage business, it wanted to control its own destiny.
Storage is at the heart of Dropbox’s service, leaving it with scale issues like few other companies, even in an age of massive data storage. With 600 million users and 400,000 teams currently storing more than 3 exabytes of data (and growing) if it hadn’t taken this step, the company might have been squeezed by its growing cloud bills.
Controlling infrastructure helped control costs, which improved the company's key business metrics. A look at historical performance data tells a story about the impact that taking control of storage costs had on Dropbox.
In March of 2016, Dropbox announced that it was "storing and serving" more than 90% of user data on its own infrastructure for the first time, completing a 3-year journey to get to this point. To understand what impact the decision had on the company's financial performance, you have to examine the numbers from 2016 forward.
There is good financial data from Dropbox going back to the first quarter of 2016 thanks to its IPO filing, but not before. So, the view into the impact of bringing storage in-house begins after the project was initially mostly completed. By examining the company's 2016 and 2017 financial results, it’s clear that Dropbox’s revenue quality increased dramatically. Even better for the company, its revenue quality improved as its aggregate revenue grew.
2019 was a breakout year for the podcast industry with major shifts in industry dynamics.
In my October 2018 post "What's next for podcasting?" I argued that Hollywood's surging interest in podcasts would bring greater investment in high-production quality shows and gradually realign the podcast industry around paid subscriptions and exclusive deals.
That's still the direction the industry is heading but it's not happening overnight and it may look a little different than I initially expected. Here's a review of the state of podcasting as we conclude 2019.
Corporates vs. entrepreneurs
It is clear that the major music streaming platforms will dominate podcast distribution as well. The crowded landscape of startup podcast streaming apps will fade into 3-5 top platforms, much the same as music streaming consolidated. The top music streaming platforms have the user base and resources to promote podcasts to mass audiences, and Spotify has shown people are fine with both music and spoken audio in the same app. As with songs and videos, the consumer experience with podcasts is defined by the content so minor feature differences between the apps distributing the content are not going to pull consumers away from the audio apps they already use.
This makes podcasting a tough market for VC investment; the incumbents are capturing the big tech platform opportunities and likely to own most of the advertising, infrastructure, and analytics tools as well through a mix of internal product development and acquisitions. The best position for entrepreneurs to be in podcasting is either a bootstrapped startup whose tool set can get acquired for tens of millions of dollars or a production company creating popular content in this boom.
Spotify's breakout performance
The most important player in the industry is now Spotify, even though Apple's Podcasts app remains the largest by global and US market share. In just three years, Spotify went from not being a destination for podcasts to being the first or second most used podcast service across dozens of countries and most US states. 2019 was its breakout year.
Spotify redesigned its app to give podcasts nearly equal footing as songs and it bought two of the leading podcast production companies (Gimlet, Parcast) and one of the most popular production tools (Anchor), positioning it at the heart of the podcast ecosystem and fueling investment interest in the sector more broadly.
For Spotify, podcasts are a rapidly growing new category of content that's still small enough that they as a $28 billion company could make a play to dominate. The company is battling to differentiate itself from Apple Music and other music streaming competitors who all have the same libraries of songs, and it's battling to improve its gross margins. Since 70% of all money earned from music on Spotify must be shared with music rights holders, expansion beyond music can improve the company's profitability. Its CEO Daniel Ek envisions over 20% of listening on Spotify to be non-music audio content within a few years.
Most importantly for the industry, Spotify is expanding the overall pie and pushing more podcasts into mainstream pop culture by promoting shows to demographics of music listeners who weren't meaningfully engaged with podcasts before. The company is proactively recommending specific podcasts to users it predicts will like them and made a point to include podcasts in its popular year-end summaries of users' listening habits.
Justine Moore and Olivia Moore at VC firm CRV summarized the diversification of podcast listening in their TechCrunch op-ed in August:
"As podcasting grows, the listener base is diversifying. Edison Research looked into data on "rookie" listeners (listening for six months or less) and "veteran" listeners (listening for 3+ years), and found significant demographic differences. Only 37% of veterans are female, compared to 53% of rookies. While the plurality of veterans (43%) are age 35-54, 54% of rookies are age 12-34. Rookies are also 1.6x more likely to say they most often listen to podcasts on Spotify, Pandora or SoundCloud (43% versus 27% of veterans)."
It will be surprising if Spotify doesn't make multiple podcasting-related acquisitions in 2020. It may buy more studios to bolster its in-house production team and its library of in-demand content that could eventually be made exclusive to the platform, but the primary acquisition targets are likely to be on the technology side. Tech solutions it may want are a programmatic advertising network for podcast ads, natural language processing tools that make podcast audio more easily searchable, and a flexible solution for media companies with subscriber-only podcasts to still have those podcasts available on Spotify. Fellow Stockholm-based company Acast seems like a natural, though still bold, potential target here.
California’s new privacy law is now in effect, allowing state residents to take better control of the data that’s collected on them — from social networks, banks, credit agencies and more.
There’s just one catch: the companies, many of which lobbied against the law, don’t make it easy.
California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) allows anyone who resides in the state to access and obtain copies of the data that companies store on them, and the right to delete that data and opt-out of companies selling or monetizing their data. It’s the biggest state-level overhaul of privacy rules in a generation. State regulators can impose fines and other sanctions for companies that violate the law — although, the law’s enforcement provisions do not take effect until July. That’s probably a good thing for companies, given most major tech giants operating in the state are not ready to comply with the law.
Just as companies did with Europe’s GDPR, many companies have sprung up new privacy policies in preparation, as well as new data portals, which allow consumers access to their data and to opt-out of their data being sold on to third-parties, such as advertisers. But good luck finding them. Most companies aren’t transparent about where their data portals are, often out of sight and buried in privacy policies, near-guaranteeing that nobody will find them.
Just two days into the new law, and some are already fixing it for the average Californian.
Damian Finol created a running directory of company pages that allow California residents to opt-out of their data being sold and request their information. The directory is updated frequently, and so far includes banks, retail giants, airlines, car rental services, gaming giants and cell companies — to name a few.
caprivacy.me is a simple directory of links to where California residents can tell companies not to sell their data, and request what data companies store on them (Screenshot: TechCrunch)
The project is still in its infancy, but relies on community contributions (and anyone can submit a suggestion), he said. In less than a day, it already racked up more than 80 links.
“I’m passionate about privacy and allowing people to declare what their personal privacy model is,” Finol told TechCrunch.
“I grew up queer in Latin America in the 1990s, so keeping private the truth about me was vital. Nowadays, I think of my LGBTQ siblings in places like the Middle East, where if their privacy is violated, they can face capital punishment,” he said, explaining his motivations behind the directory.
There’s no easy way — yet — to opt-out in one go. Anyone in California who wants to opt-out has to go through each link. But once it’s done, it’s done. Put on a pot of coffee and get started.
Our goal in tracking the companies in this high-flying cohort is to keep tabs on the private firms (often unicorns, it should be said) that could go public if needed. While not every unicorn will or could go public, companies with nine-figure ARR have a clear path to the public markets provided that their economics are in reasonable shape.
But let’s add a few more members to the club today. Please meet our new centurions, centaurs, or whatever we end up calling them.
Sisense: more than $100 million ARR
Sisense is a business intelligence company that merged with Periscope Data earlier this year. The combined firm has raised just over $200 million, according to Crunchbase, with the lion’s share of that landing in Sisense’s column (about $175 million).
What’s notable about the combination is that the two firms were public about saying that, when brought together, they would have combined ARR of $100 million. That was back in May. Today, Sisense has crested the $100 million mark by itself, according to an interview with TechCrunch. With Periscope added to the mix the company’s total ARR is naturally higher.
Sisense had a few original goals according to CEO Amir Orad, including helping businesses “take complex data and bring it together to get insights.” Its second focus is helping companies “take complex data sets and build [them out] as an analytical application in their products,” he said.
Periscope came into the picture when Orad and the smaller company’s CEO Harry Glaser (now Sisense’s CMO) started talking as friends about their respective markets. According to Orad, Glaser outlined a new sort of organization being built inside some companies that “were not traditional BI teams” or “traditional product teams,” but instead brought together “data engineers and data scientists and very capable individuals who [wanted] to make sense of [the] data sitting in the cloud.” Periscope had built “a very impressive business” supporting those new organizations, with “many hundreds of customers,” Orad said.
That meant that Sisense’s pair of focuses were somewhat two of out three, making the corporate combination an obvious bet.
Regarding what changed as Sisense grew, cresting the $50 million ARR mark and later the $100 million ARR mark, Orad told TechCrunch that what differed was “scale,” saying that at its size “what you do impacts more people, more individuals, more companies, [and] more customers.” (I have interesting notes on how the two companies managed their combination from a culture perspective, let me know if you’d like to read them.)
SiteMinder: AU$100 million ARR
The first Australian member of the nine-figure ARR club is SiteMinder, which we’re letting in on a technicality; the firm’s ARR figure is in Australian dollars, which works out to around $70 million USD. However, its growth curve appears steep so we’re not too worried about including it a little early from a domestic dollar perspective.
Google’s ex-head of international relations, Ross LaJeunesse — who clocked up more than a decade working government and policy-related roles for the tech giant before departing last year — has become the latest (former) Googler to lay into the company for falling short of its erstwhile “don’t be evil” corporate motto.
Worth noting right off the bat: LaJeunesse is making his own pitch to be elected as a U.S. senator for the Democrats in Maine, where he’s pitting himself against the sitting Republican, Susan Collins. So this lengthy blog post, in which he sets out reasons for joining (“making the world better and more equal”) and — at long last — exiting Google does look like an exercise in New Year reputation “exfoliation,” shall we say.
One that’s intended to anticipate and deflect any critical questions he may face on the campaign trail, given his many years of service to Mountain View. Hence the inclusion of overt political messaging, such as lines like: “No longer can massive tech companies like Google be permitted to operate relatively free from government oversight.”
Still, the post makes more awkward reading for Google. (Albeit, less awkward than the active employee activism the company continues to face over a range of issues — from its corporate culture and attitude toward diversity to product dev ethics.)
LaJeunesse claims that (unnamed) senior management actively evaded his attempts to push for it to adopt a company-wide Human Rights program that would, as he tells it, “publicly commit Google to adhere to human rights principles found in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, provide a mechanism for product and engineering teams to seek internal review of product design elements, and formalize the use of Human Rights Impact Assessments for all major product launches and market entries.”
“[E]ach time I recommended a Human Rights Program, senior executives came up with an excuse to say no,” LaJeunesse alleges, going on to claim that he was subsequently side-lined in policy discussions related to a censored search project Google had been working on to enable it to return to the Chinese market.
The controversial project, code-named Dragonfly, was later shut down, per LaJeunesse’s telling, after Congress raised questions — backing up the blog’s overarching theme that only political scrutiny can put meaningful limits on powerful technologists. (Check that already steady drumbeat for the 2020 U.S. elections.)
He writes:
At first, [Google senior executives] said human rights issues were better handled within the product teams, rather than starting a separate program. But the product teams weren't trained to address human rights as part of their work. When I went back to senior executives to again argue for a program, they then claimed to be worried about increasing the company's legal liability. We provided the opinion of outside experts who re-confirmed that these fears were unfounded. At this point, a colleague was suddenly re-assigned to lead the policy team discussions for Dragonfly. As someone who had consistently advocated for a human rights-based approach, I was being sidelined from the on-going conversations on whether to launch Dragonfly. I then realized that the company had never intended to incorporate human rights principles into its business and product decisions. Just when Google needed to double down on a commitment to human rights, it decided to instead chase bigger profits and an even higher stock price.
Reached for comment, a Google spokesman sent us this statement, attributed to a Google spokeswoman: “We have an unwavering commitment to supporting human rights organisations and efforts. That commitment is unrelated to and unaffected by the reorganisation of our policy team, which was widely reported and which impacted many members of the team. As part of this reorganisation, Ross was offered a new position at the exact same level and compensation, which he declined to accept. We wish Ross all the best with his political ambitions.”
LaJeunesse’s blog post also lays into Google’s workplace culture — making allegations that bullying and racist stereotyping were commonplace.
Including even apparently during attempts by management to actively engage with the issue of diversity…
It was no different in the workplace culture. Senior colleagues bullied and screamed at young women, causing them to cry at their desks. At an all-hands meeting, my boss said, "Now you Asians come to the microphone too. I know you don't like to ask questions." At a different all-hands meeting, the entire policy team was separated into various rooms and told to participate in a "diversity exercise" that placed me in a group labeled "homos" while participants shouted out stereotypes such as "effeminate" and "promiscuous." Colleagues of color were forced to join groups called "Asians" and "Brown people" in other rooms nearby.
We’ve asked Google for comment on these allegations and will update this post with any response.
It’s clearly a sign of the “techlash” times that an ex-Googler, who’s now a senator-in-the-running, believes there’s political capital to be made by publicly unloading on his former employer.
“The role of these companies in our daily lives, from how we run our elections to how we entertain and educate our children, is just too great to leave in the hands of executives who are accountable only to their controlling shareholders who — in the case of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Snap — happen to be fellow company insiders and founders,” LaJeunesse goes on to write, widening his attack to incorporate other FAANG giants.
Expect plenty more such tech giant piñata in the run up to November’s ballot.
Well, we got to January 2nd before the latest angry resignation published by a tech executive on Medium.
Today's installment comes from Ross LaJeunesse, who was head of international relations at Google and served for more than a decade in various roles at the company. He denounces what he sees as Google's increasingly failed ambitions to be a company principled on human rights, and poses a series of questions about the future of tech and capitalism:
I think the important question is what does it mean when one of America's marque' companies changes so dramatically. Is it the inevitable outcome of a corporate culture that rewards growth and profits over social impact and responsibility? Is it in some way related to the corruption that has gripped our federal government? Is this part of the global trend toward "strong man" leaders who are coming to power around the globe, where questions of "right" and "wrong" are ignored in favor of self-interest and self-dealing? Finally, what are the implications for all of us when that once-great American company controls so much data about billions of users across the globe?
The whole read is interesting, and covers Google's China operations, its Project Dragonfly censored search crisis, Saudi Arabia's apps in Google Cloud and his own personal experience with Google HR.
It's a manifesto of sorts, and perhaps that isn't surprising, given that LaJeunesse is also running for the Democratic primary in Maine's senatorial election to compete against Republican incumbent Susan Collins. His critiques of Big Tech seem to be channeling Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), and that makes it a fascinating political strategy.
But let's focus in on the key question at the heart of this debate: does Google have the ability to be "good" or "evil" when it comes to tech's influence on society? Does it have agency to make a difference on human rights in countries around the world?
My answer is: Google used to have a lot of agency, which is unfortunately declining very, very rapidly.
I've talked about the fracturing of the internet into different spheres of influence for quite literally years. Countries like China in particular, but also Russia, Iran and others, are seizing more and more exacting control of the internet's plumbing and applications, subsuming the original internet's spirit of openness and freedom and placing this communications medium under their iron fists.
As this fracturing has occurred, companies like Google, or Shutterstock, or even the NBA, have increasingly faced what I’ve called an "authoritarian straddle" — they can either work with these countries and follow the local rules, or they can just get out, with serious ramifications for their home markets.
Those are the extent of the choices these companies have. Shutterstock is not going to change China's policy toward photos of the Tiananmen Square protests any more than Google can try to launch a search engine on the mainland or change Saudi Arabia’s deplorable women’s rights.
To have any agency here at all, you need a monopoly on a product or service so important that the dictatorship has to accept the terms you offer. In other words, these companies need extreme leverage, essentially the ability to go to the regimes and say, "No, fuck you, here's how it is going to work, we're going to follow human rights, and you have no choice in the matter."
What tech companies are discovering — even massive giants like Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft — is that they really, truly don't have that kind of leverage in these countries anymore. Not even Apple, which employs hundreds of thousands of manufacturing workers through its subcontractors in China, can move the needle in that country anymore. Iran shut off the internet for a period of time to dampen the intensity of political protests in that country. Russia last week tested shutting off the internet to make sure it can just pull the plug when it wants.
If whole countries can just flip the switch and turn off "tech," exactly what leverage do any of these companies have in the first place?
And that diminution of power is a trend that tech companies, and particularly American tech companies, haven't fully grappled with. They don't really get a choice anymore in the decisions here. China has its own search engine, and increasingly, its own mobile phone ecosystem unencumbered by U.S. patents — and therefore U.S. policy. If Azure leaves Saudi Arabia, Alibaba Cloud is more than willing to step into the gap and make the money instead.
So when you get to LaJeunesse's comments that he pushed Google internally to formalize some of its values:
My solution was to advocate for the adoption of a company-wide, formal Human Rights Program that would publicly commit Google to adhere to human rights principles found in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, provide a mechanism for product and engineering teams to seek internal review of product design elements, and formalize the use of Human Rights Impact Assessments for all major product launches and market entries.
… one can't help but feel solace for an optimistic world where a better product design review process might have once improved global human rights.
The issue is far simpler though than it was in the past. You don't need a human rights protocol, or some sort of review process for market entry. You are either in, or you are out. You either launch in these countries and deal with the inevitable human rights abuses and concomitant consumer protests in the home market, or you maintain your values and you walk away, ignoring the profit mirage from these regimes in the process.
That's why I recently argued that Google and the NBA should just walk away. I still hold that belief. It's also why I called on Shutterstock to leave China and return to its more open and free values. No U.S. tech company today has the leverage to make a dent on human rights the way they did a decade ago. The internet has fractured, data sovereignty is on the rise and there's a binary choice to be made whether to engage or to flee. Ultimately, I take LaJeunesse's side — these companies should walk, because there really isn't much choice otherwise.
It’s tough to be a competitive gamer once you’re an adult. Simply fitting tournament time into a busy schedule is challenge enough, but even if you can make the time, where do you go to find other adults who are competitively playing the games you love?
That’s where Lowkey.gg comes in. Lowkey.gg is a tournament platform for adult gamers. The company is particularly focused on helping professional organizations set up their esports squads just like company basketball or softball teams.
One of the challenges here is that it’s incredibly difficult for adult gamers to find each other. Most of them don’t usually broadcast their affinity for video games. Searching for other competitive gamers who are above the age of 18 is a bit of a lost cause.
The hope for Lowkey is that they can connect adult gamers with one another to get the most out of their gaming experience. Everyone playing through Lowkey must be 18 years of age or older and have a full-time job.
Users can register as a solo gamer for $39, plus a subscription fee of $13/month, and get automatically matched with a team. Lowkey takes into account things like location, job, alma mater and other bits of information (all shown on your public Lowkey profile) to create teams with like-minded players. The company says this transparency reduces the toxicity around teammates. Conversely, users also can form a squad in real life and sign up as a pre-made team for $195/month.
Thus far, Lowkey has signed up teams from Google, Apple, Robinhood and Twitch.
Lowkey is launching with League of Legends as its first game, and Season 1 starts on January 13.
Seasons last a minimum of eight weeks, with players scheduled to play for one hour one night a week. Lowkey has also built a relatively sophisticated Discord chatbot that lets users check in to say they’re ready for a game and automatically puts the teams in a chat together to coordinate the match.
Like many startups, Lowkey is actually the result of a pivot. The company was originally called Camelot.
In March of 2017, Camelot launched out of YC to allow YouTube and Twitch audiences to pay to see what they want. Users could submit bounties to see their favorite YouTuber play a game with pistols only, or to play a game while standing on a skateboard.
Turns out, there were two big issues. Co-founder Jesse Zhang explained that it wasn’t sustainable to build a platform on top of a platform, particularly a platform that is incredibly top heavy and potentially overhyped.
“Sometimes hype can be misaligned with the size of the market, and it felt like streaming was one example of that,” said Zhang. “Even after we organically got several really large streamers using it, and the product performed almost perfectly, the volume is still not nearly the scale that you could turn into a real business.”
Which brings us to the second issue. The money that flows through Twitch from viewers to streamers is almost always based on altruism and emotion. It’s exciting to hear your favorite streamer thank you for a $5 donation or gifted sub. Viewers aren’t paying for the content; they’re paying for a connection.
So Camelot quickly went back to the drawing board and came out on the other side as Lowkey.gg.
Lowkey has raised capital but declined to share the amount. After the launch of League of Legends, the company plans to launch seasons for other titles, including Overwatch, TFT, DotA and Smash Ultimate.
In Marc Benioff’s book, Trailblazer, he tells the tale of how Steve Jobs planted the seeds of the idea that would become the first enterprise app store, and how Benioff eventually paid Jobs back with the gift of the AppStore.com domain.
While Salesforce did truly help blaze a trail when it launched as an enterprise cloud service in 1999, it took that a step further in 2006 when it became the first SaaS company to distribute related services in an online store.
In an interview last year around Salesforce’s 20th anniversary, company CTO and co-founder Parker Harris told me that the idea for the app store came out of a meeting with Steve Jobs three years before AppExchange would launch. Benioff, Harris and fellow co-founder Dave Moellenhoff took a trip to Cupertino in 2003 to meet with Jobs. At that meeting, the legendary CEO gave the trio some sage advice: to really grow and develop as a company, Salesforce needed to develop a cloud software ecosystem. While that’s something that’s a given for enterprise SaaS companies today, it was new to Benioff and his team in 2003.
As Benioff tells it in his book, he asked Jobs to elucidate on what he meant by an application ecosystem. Jobs replied that how he implemented the idea was up to him. It took some time for that concept to bake, however. Benioff wrote that the notion of an app store eventually came to him as an epiphany at dinner one night a few years after that meeting. He says that he sketched out that original idea on a napkin while sitting in a restaurant:
One evening over dinner in San Francisco, I was struck by an irresistibly simple idea. What if any developer from anywhere in the world could create their own applications for the Salesforce platform? And what if we offered to store these apps in an online directory that allowed any Salesforce user to download them?
Whether it happened like that or not, the app store idea would eventually come to fruition, but it wasn’t originally called the AppExchange, as it is today. Instead, Benioff says he liked the name AppStore.com so much that he had his lawyers register the domain the next day.
When Benioff talked to customers prior to the launch, while they liked the concept, they didn’t like the name he had come up with for his online store. He eventually relented and launched in 2006 with the name AppExchange.com instead. Force.com would follow in 2007, giving programmers a full-fledged development platform to create applications, and then distribute them in AppExchange.
Meanwhile, AppStore.com sat dormant until 2008, when Benioff was invited back to Cupertino for a big announcement around iPhone. As Benioff wrote, “At the climactic moment, [Jobs] said [five] words that nearly floored me: ‘I give you App Store.”
Benioff wrote that he and his executives actually gasped when they heard the name. Somehow, even after all that time had passed since that the original meeting, both companies had settled upon the same name. Except Salesforce had rejected it, leaving an opening for Benioff to give a gift to his mentor. He says that he went backstage after the keynote and signed over the domain to Jobs.
In the end, the idea of the web domain wasn’t even all that important to Jobs in the context of an app store concept. After all, he put the App Store on every phone, and it wouldn’t require a website to download apps. Perhaps that’s why today the domain points to the iTunes store, and launches iTunes (or gives you the option of opening it).
Even the App Store page on Apple.com uses the sub-domain “app-store” today, but it’s still a good story of how a conversation between Jobs and Benioff would eventually have a profound impact on how enterprise software was delivered, and how Benioff was able to give something back to Jobs for that advice.
Just over two years ago, PerceptIn announced an $8 million Series A. The funding followed a $2 million seed round, and found the startup essentially coming out of stealth to showcase the sensors it was building for a wide range of form factors, from cars to robot vacuums.
The company's been quite busy in the meantime. In fact, it even went so far as changing its name. PerceptIn is now "Trifo" — a punchier name, if not quite as memorable. The company's currently on its third robotic vacuum, announced today and set to be officially unveiled at CES in a few days.
Along with the arrival of "Lucy" comes some more big funding from the Samsung Ventures-supported startup. Trifo has just raised a $15 million Series B, bringing its total funding up to $26 million. The round includes backing from Yidu Cloud, Tsinghua AI Fund and Matrix Partners, with a focus on producing more hardware and software solutions in the home robotics space, additional hiring and pushing into the U.S. and European markets.
For now, robot vacuums appear to be the company's primary public-facing output. It's a tough market — one that's traditionally been dominated by one player (iRobot). Still, there's no shortage of alternatives from players big and small looking to crack it.
As for what sets Lucy apart, there are a pair of cameras on board — that could either be a plus or minus, depending on where you land on matters of privacy. The pair combine 1080p color images with depth sensing to provide home surveillance and mapping in light and dark settings. The robot can also be designed to "patrol" the home in predefined routes.
Lucy also features built-in obstacle avoidance for objects as short as one inch, room-by-room cleaning and and a 5,200 mAh battery for up to two hours of cleaning on a charge. Pricing is $799, putting it in line with iRobot’s offerings. It’s set to arrive at some point in Q1.
It would be hard to top the 2018 enterprise M&A total of a whopping $87 billion, and predictably this year didn’t come close. In fact, the top 10 enterprise M&A deals in 2019 were less than half last year’s, totaling $40.6 billion.
Contributing to this year’s quieter activity was the fact that several typically acquisitive companies — Adobe, Oracle and IBM — stayed mostly on the sidelines after big investments last year. It’s not unusual for companies to take a go-slow approach after a big expenditure year. Adobe and Oracle bought just two companies each with neither revealing the prices. IBM didn’t buy any.
Microsoft didn’t show up on this year’s list either, but still managed to pick up eight new companies. It was just that none was large enough to make the list (or even for them to publicly reveal the prices). When a publicly traded company doesn’t reveal the price, it usually means that it didn’t reach the threshold of being material to the company’s results.
As always, just because you buy it doesn’t mean it’s always going to integrate smoothly or well, and we won’t know about the success or failure of these transactions for some years to come. For now, we can only look at the deals themselves.
The business of selling consumer goods and services online is a relatively young endeavor across Africa, but e-commerce is set to boom.
Over the last eight years, the sector has seen its first phase of big VC fundings, startup duels and attrition.
To date, scaling e-commerce in Africa has straddled the line of challenge and opportunity, perhaps more than any other market in the world. Across major African economies, many of the requisites for online retail — internet access, digital payment adoption, and 3PL delivery options — have been severely lacking.
Still, startups jumped into this market for the chance to digitize a share of Africa’s fast growing consumer spending, expected to top $2 billion by 2025.
African e-commerce 2.0 will include some old and new players, play out across more countries, place more priority on internet services, and see the entry of China.
But before highlighting several things to look out for in the future of digital-retail on the continent, a look back is beneficial.
Jumia vs. Konga
The early years for development of African online shopping largely played out in Nigeria (and to some extent South Africa). Anyone who visited Nigeria from 2012 to 2016 likely saw evidence of one of the continent’s early e-commerce showdowns. Nigeria had its own Coke vs. Pepsi-like duel — a race between ventures Konga and Jumia to out-advertise and out-discount each other in a quest to scale online shopping in Africa’s largest economy and most populous nation.
Traveling in Lagos traffic, large billboards for each startup faced off across the skyline, as their delivery motorcycles buzzed between stopped cars.
Covering each company early on, it appeared a battle of VC attrition. The challenge: who could continue to raise enough capital to absorb the losses of simultaneously capturing and creating an e-commerce market in notoriously difficult conditions.
In addition to the aforementioned challenges, Nigeria also had (and continues to have) shoddy electricity.
Both Konga — founded by Nigerian Sim Shagaya — and Jumia — originally founded by two Nigerians and two Frenchman — were forced to burn capital building fulfillment operations most e-commerce startups source to third parties.
That included their own delivery and payment services (KongaPay and JumiaPay). In addition to sales of goods from mobile-phones to diapers, both startups also began experimenting with verticals for internet based services, such as food-delivery and classifieds.
While Jumia and Konga were competing in Nigeria, there was another VC driven race for e-commerce playing out in South Africa — the continent’s second largest and most advanced economy.
E-tailers Takealot and Kalahari had been jockeying for market share since 2011 after raising capital in the hundreds of millions of dollars from investors Naspers and U.S. fund Tiger Global Management.
Jumia went on to expand online goods and services verticals into 14 Africa countries (though it recently exited a few) and in April 2019 raised over $200 million in an NYSE IPO — the first on a major exchange for a VC-backed startup operating in Africa.
Jumia’s had bumpy road since going public — losing significant share-value after a short-sell attack earlier in 2019 — but the continent’s leading e-commerce company still has heap of capital and generates $100 million in revenues (even with losses).
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Covering each company early on, it appeared a battle of VC attrition. The challenge: who could continue to raise enough capital to absorb the losses of simultaneously capturing and creating an e-commerce market in notoriously difficult conditions.
