WASHINGTON ― The U.S. and Iran stepped back from the brink of possible war Wednesday, but some lawmakers were left with questions about the administration's strategy toward Iran and whether or not the U.S. is safer for having killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
After Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley and CIA Director Gina Haspel briefed the House and Senate behind closed doors on Wednesday, lawmakers split on partisan lines over whether their concerns about Iran and the president's actions were addressed.
"Without commenting on content, my reaction to this briefing was it was sophomoric and utterly unconvincing, and I believe more than ever that Congress needs to act to protect the Constitution's provisions about war and peace," said Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly, who serves on the House committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Foreign Affairs.
WNU Editor: It is moments like this that I have trouble understanding what Congress is thinking. Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani is someone who is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of U.S. troops, and the wounding of thousands more. Congress should be applauding and cheering his demise, not complaining that the US intelligence that was provided in Wednesday's briefing was not convincing enough to prove that he was an imminent threat. Is his background and history coupled with his designation as a terrorist enough to justify being targeted by US forces? Apparently not.
Iran has improved the accuracy and maneuverability of its missiles, like the ones fired Tuesday at military installations in Iraq housing U.S. and coalition troops, in part with foreign help.
New guidance systems have increased the lethality of Iran's missiles, including the short-range Fateh that appears to have been used in the attacks. But many unknowns remain.
"We don't have a real good, high-fidelity count of the number of missiles that Iran has," said Michael Elleman, director of the Nonproliferation and Nuclear Policy Programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Ellerman estimates that Iran has between 200 and 300 Scud missiles and about 100 Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missiles.
"Once you get beyond 100, it probably doesn't matter because they have a limited number of launchers and launch crews," he said.
Burning debris seen on a road near Baghdad International Airport, which Iraqi paramilitary groups say were caused by three rockets, on January 3, 2020. Iraqi Security Media Cell via Reuters
Nearly half of American voters approve of President Trump's decision to order the airstrike that killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran's elite Quds Force, according to a new Morning Consult poll.
The survey, which was released on Wednesday but conducted before Iran responded to the strike by firing rockets at Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops, found that 47 percent of American voters supported Trump's move to authorize a drone strike on Soleimani outside the Baghdad airport last week. Forty percent of voters said they opposed the decision, while 14 percent said they did not have an opinion.
The opinions divided strongly along with partisan lines, with 70 percent of Democrats opposing the airstrike and 85 percent of Republicans supporting it. Sixty-one percent of Republican respondents said they strongly approved Trump's decision.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi group did not launch an attack on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities in September, according to a confidential report by U.N. sanctions monitors seen by Reuters on Wednesday, bolstering a U.S. accusation that Iran was responsible.
The United States, European powers and Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for the Sept. 14 attack on the Saudi Aramco (2222.SE) oil plants in Abqaiq and Khurais, dismissing a quick claim of responsibility by the Iran-allied Houthis. Tehran denied any involvement.
The report by the independent U.N. experts to the Security Council Yemen sanctions committee said, "That despite their claims to the contrary, the Houthi forces did not launch the attacks on Abqaiq and Khurais on 14 September 2019."
The findings of the U.N. report come amid escalating tensions in the region after the United States killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad and Tehran retaliated by firing missiles at military facilities housing U.S. troops in Iraq.
I saw my Iranian refugee friend Kaveh in church this morning and asked him what he thought of the killing of Qasem Soleimani.
"I'm a little unhappy with it," he said. "My wife's unhappy, too. So are our parents in Teheran."
"Why""
"Because he didn't suffer."
"You're a Christian, right?"
"Right."
"Trust me, brother, he's suffering," I said.
I'm an ex-pat living next door to the Middle East, and I don't think most Americans understand what a significant historic event this is. Most Iranians are completely fed up with the oppressive reign of the mullahs, and most Middle East countries are completely fed up with the organized terrorism being exported by Iran, which has been destabilizing the region for the last four decades.
WNU Editor: Montreal has a large Iranian community and I am lucky to know one of them as a good friend. To say that he was overjoyed when he heard that Soleimani was killed in a drone strike is an understatement.
The aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman could play a role in any military conflict with Iran. Leading its crew is Capt. Kavon Hakimzadeh, who fled Iran during the revolution.
As a child, Kavon Hakimzadeh fled the Islamic Revolution in Iran with his family and found refuge in small-town Mississippi. Now, 40 years later, he is back in the Persian Gulf region, this time as the commander of the United States aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman, which with tensions rising over the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani could play a role in any confrontation with his former homeland.
For many Iranian-Americans like Captain Hakimzadeh who serve in the United States armed forces, the oppression and turmoil of the Iranian Revolution cultivated an appreciation for the liberty that the United States military vows to uphold and defend, and inspired many to enlist.
"I think it is probably a lot to do with why I decided I wanted to serve and wanted to be in this line of work," Captain Hakimzadeh told The Virginian-Pilot in an interview when he took command in August.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Influential Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Wednesday the crisis Iraq was experiencing is over following de-escalation rhetoric from both Iran and the U.S. and called on militia groups not to carry out attacks.
A new strong Iraqi government able to protect the nation's sovereignty and independence should be formed in the next 15 days and usher in an early election, the populist cleric said in a statement, adding that Iraqis should still seek to expel foreign troops, however.
"I call on the Iraqi factions to be deliberate, patient, and not to start military actions, and to shut down the extremist voices of some rogue elements until all political, parliamentary and international methods have been exhausted," he said.
Satellite images show damage to hangars and buildings in what appears to be a series of precision missile strikes launched by Iran. Planet Labs Inc./Middlebury Institute
The Pentagon's top military adviser believes that when Iran launched missiles at two Iraqi coalition bases on Tuesday night, they were looking for casualties.
Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters Wednesday at the Pentagon that it's his assessment Iran missed its intended targets at the Al Asad and Erbil air bases, contradicting reports that the victimless strike was meant to make a point but offer Iran a chance to deescalate tensions.
Two rockets landed inside the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, home of the US Embassy in Iraq, on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Iraqi military.
The Iraqi joint military command told CNN in Baghdad that "two Katyusha rockets landed inside the Green Zone in Baghdad. No reports of casualties." The incident took place just after midnight local time.
The CNN team in Baghdad heard sirens from inside the Green Zone and two explosions. It was not immediately clear who had fired the rockets or where they were fired from.
The rockets landed a day after Iran fired more than a dozen missiles at Iraqi bases housing US troops. The attack on Tuesday from Iran did not cause any US or Iraqi casualties.
Iraqis say Iran's targeting of US bases on Iraqi soil is an 'assault' and call on parties to move battlefield elsewhere.
Iran's missile attack on Iraqi military bases hosting US troops has raised questions over Iraq's sovereignty and reflected Tehran's deep-rooted influence over Baghdad.
Iran fired more than a dozen missiles at two Iraqi military bases early on Wednesday morning. The US Pentagon confirmed that the missiles hit the Ain al-Assad airbase in Anbar Province and a facility near Erbil's airport in northern Iraq.
The missile attacks were in retaliation for the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, leader of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp's (IRGC) Quds Force.
WNU Editor: From the Iraqi perspective, two of their bases were hit by Iran, even though the international media's focus is on the few US and coalition troops that are there. We should also not forget that much of the unrest and anti-government protests that have been rocking Iraq for the past four months are also directed at the Iranian presence in the country. You can take this to the bank. This attack is only going to fuel the anti-Iranian resentment that already exists there.
* Beijing released rare footage of the missile being launched from a desert * Reports claimed DF-26 could strike a warship 3,728 miles away at Mach 18 * The missile is said to be able to carry a four-megaton nuclear warhead * It could reach Guam, a US territory 2,000 miles from the Chinese coast
China has released rare footage of its nuclear-capable, hypersonic missile DF-26 being launched during a military exercise.
The mighty weapon, commissioned to the People's Liberation Army in 2018, is able to reach US territory and destroy aircraft carriers, according to previous reports.
Beijing did not reveal the time or location of the exercise, but footage of the launch was recently released by the country's state broadcaster China Central Television Station.
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a statement about Iran flanked by U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, Vice President Mike Pence and military leaders in the Grand Foyer at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 8, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
* The president touted the U.S. missile arsenal even as he said Iran was standing down * He called U.S. missiles 'big, powerful' and accurate * He said 'many' hypersonic missiles were under construction * Russia announced late last year it had deployed the super-fast weapons
President Donald Trump told the nation Wednesday the U.S. was developing 'many' super-fast hypersonic missiles as he brandished U.S. missile capabilities even as he said Iran 'appears to be standing down.'
Trump boasted of the U.S. missile arsenal hours after Iran launched as many as 20 ballistic missiles toward Iraqi airbases, including facilities that house U.S. personnel. But according to the Pentagon the launches failed to cause casualties and Iraq was given advanced warning.
'Our missiles are big, powerful, accurate, lethal and fast,' Trump said during his speech to the nation from the Grand Foyer of the White House.
WNU Editor: Regular readers of WNU know this is nothing new. The US has been working on this technology for years, and Congress just endorsed the money for it .... Congress Endorses Hypersonic Weapons as Development Ramps Up (Air Force Magazine).
* The Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737 jet came down three minutes after take-off from Tehran today * President Volodymyr Zelensky said there were no survivors among the 168 passengers and nine crew * Ukraine's foreign ministry revealed there were 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians and three Britons on flight PS752 * Iran said the engine had caught fire and video appeared to show the plane already on fire as it fell from the sky * Ukrainian embassy in Iran initially said the crash had been caused by an engine failure but retracted the claim * The plane was less than four years old and had been checked just two days earlier, the Ukrainian airline said * It crashed hours after Iran attacked US bases in Iraq in retaliation for the killing of Qassem Soleimani
Iran has blamed technical failure and an engine fire for a plane crash which killed 177 people near Tehran today, but is refusing to hand over the recovered black boxes to Boeing or the US.
The Boeing 737 jet came down just minutes after take-off from Imam Khomeini International Airport early this morning, hours after Iran launched missile strikes on US bases in Iraq in revenge for Qassem Solemani's death.
Three Britons and 63 Canadians were among the 168 passengers and nine crew on board the Ukrainian International Airlines flight to Kyiv. There were no survivors.
Iran is blaming 'technical difficulties' and says the pilot lost control after a fire struck one of the plane's engines, but said the crew had not reported an emergency and is refusing to say what will happen to the black boxes.
Video footage appeared to show the plane already burning in the night sky before it crashed, while pictures at the crash site showed the fuselage peppered with holes.
* President said Iran can choose peace but warned of new weaponry that's ready to strike * He blamed the Obama administration for unfreezing $150 billion and delivering $1.5 billion in cash to jump-start a nuclear nonproliferation deal that has since fallen apart * 'As long as I am president of the United States, Iran will never be be allowed have a nuclear weapon,' he vowed, even before saying 'Good morning' * 'Our missiles are big, powerful, accurate, lethal and fast,' he said, sending a warning in nearly the same breath as an olive branch * 'Under construction are many hypersonic missiles,' he warned, standing amid a tableau of stern-faced military leaders * Iran fired 22 ballistic missiles at two Iraqi bases housing American troops early Wednesday local time * Strikes are not thought to have killed any U.S. or Iraqi personnel, though extent of damage is being assessed * Ayatollah Khamenei said U.S. was given a 'slap' but strikes alone are 'not enough' and wants troops kicked out * There are still fears for U.S. troops after Iran-backed militias in Iraq threatened to carry out their own strikes
Donald Trump blamed Barack Obama on Wednesday for supplying Iran with the money to purchase a torrent of missiles fired at American military positions Tuesday night.
'The missiles fired last night at us and our allies were paid for with the funds made available by the last administration,' he said, citing $150 billion in frozen assets that the previous president released and $1.5 billion flown by the U.S. to Tehran.
He began his speech to the world on Wednesday with a familiar ultimatum, even before saying 'Good morning.'
'As long as I am president of the United States, Iran will never be be allowed have a nuclear weapon,' he said.
And Trump backed up that vow with a threat:
'Our missiles are big, powerful, accurate, lethal and fast,' he said, sending a warning in nearly the same breath as an olive branch.
'Under construction are many hypersonic missiles,' he warned, standing amid a tableau of stern-faced military leaders.
Minutes later he offered an olive branch, urging European nations to make 'a deal with Iran that makes the world a safer and more peaceful place' and allows Iran to explore its 'untapped potential' as a mainstream trading partner.
'We want you to have a future, and a great future,' he told Iran's people, claiming its military 'appears to be standing down.'
WNU Editor: Only one thing went through my mind when I watched the above video. It is President Trump laying the groundwork for US forces to leave Iraq and Syria in the not to distant future..
More News On President Trump Making A Statement On Last Night's Iranian Missile Attack On US Forces In Iraq
* Iran fired more than a dozen missiles at the Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq and the Erbil base in Iraqi Kurdistan in the early hours of Wednesday local time * US troops were able to scramble to cover after 'early warning system' triggered * Meanwhile Iraqi PM said he received a call from Tehran about an imminent strike * US National Security Agency's base at Fort Meade, Maryland, is devoted to such detection, using a range of satellites, radar and heat detection to gather data * Pentagon reported no immediate casualties but searches continued last night
The Iraqi Prime Minister has revealed that Iran gave him a tip-off about last night's missile strikes while US troops were left to scramble to bunkers using warnings from America's advanced detection system.
Iran fired more than a dozen missiles at the Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq and the Erbil base in Iraqi Kurdistan in the early hours of Wednesday local time.
PM Adel Abdul Mahdi received a call from Tehran warning him an attack was imminent in retaliation for the US killing of its highest ranking general, his spokesman said.
It is not clear whether he relayed that information to the US, however, US troops were alerted to the danger using an 'early warning system,' an official revealed.
Satellite images show damage to hangars and buildings in what appears to be a series of precision missile strikes launched by Iran. Planet Labs Inc./Middlebury Institute
The photos show Iranian missiles damaged or destroyed a number of hangars and other aviation-related facilities at the U.S. occupied base Iraq.
Satellite imagery that The War Zone has obtained from Planet Labs shows damage to various hangars and other structures at Al Assad Air Base in Iraq following Iran's unprecedented missile strikes aimed at U.S. forces in that country overnight. U.S. and Iraqi officials have said that the strikes, which also involved missiles fired toward Erbil, the capital of Iraq's semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region, caused minimal damage and no U.S., coalition, or Iraqi casualties.
* Iran fired 22 ballistic missiles at two Iraqi bases housing American troops early Wednesday local time * Strikes are not thought to have killed any US or Iraqi personnel, though extent of damage is being assessed * Ayatollah said US was given a 'slap' but strikes alone are 'not enough' and called for troops to be kicked out * There are still fears for US troops after Iran-backed militias in Iraq threatened to carry out their own strikes
Iran has finally launched what it promised would be a 'crushing revenge' strike against the US over the death of General Soleimani - but succeeded only in damaging two airbases in neighboring Iraq.
The country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired 22 ballistic missiles at the Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq and Erbil International airport in the north in the early hours of Wednesday, but failed to kill a single US or Iraqi solider, according to initial reports.
The attacks mark a significant escalation of tit-for-tat blows exchanged between the US, Iran and their allies since last summer - but falls far short of fatal strikes on commanders and troops that had been feared.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaking on Iranian TV shortly after the missiles were launched, described the strikes as 'a slap' and said they are 'are not sufficient (for revenge)'.
* Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif insists they do not want a war after firing a dozen ballistic missiles at two military bases in Iraq housing American troops * He tweeted that 'Iran took & concluded proportionate measures in self-defense' * He warned that Iran did not 'seek escalation or war' but vowed to continue defending themselves if the U.S. chose to retaliate * Firing of the missiles on Tuesday was a major escalation between Iran and the U.S. and raised immediate fears that the two were inching closer to war * The response from the foreign minister is one of a few indicators that there might not be further retaliation on either side - at least in the short term * It comes after President Donald Trump calmly tweeted on Tuesday night that 'all is well' shortly after the missile attacks
Iran's foreign minister has insisted they do not want a war despite firing more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two military bases in Iraq housing American troops in a revenge attack for the U.S. drone strike that killed their top Iranian general.
Foreign minister Javad Zarif defended the missile strikes saying Iran 'took & concluded proportionate measures' and was only acting in 'self defense' when they struck back at the U.S.
But while Zarif suggested their retaliation was concluded, he warned that Iran did not 'seek escalation or war' but vowed to continue defending themselves if the U.S. chose to retaliate.
ran fired a number of missiles at two Iraqi bases housing US troops Wednesday local time in retaliation for the American strike that killed a top Iranian general last week -- presenting President Donald Trump with the biggest test of his presidency to date.
Trump will deliver a statement on Iran from the White House at 11 a.m. ET on Wednesday morning, the administration announced. Vice President Mike Pence will join Trump for his remarks.
The US has "100% accountability" of all its forces in Iraq, with no US casualties, according to a US defense official familiar with the latest assessment on Wednesday morning. The official added that there has been "no major damage" at either base.
There is a growing belief among administration officials that Iran deliberately missed areas populated by Americans, multiple administration officials told CNN on Wednesday.
Following Iran's decision to lob missiles at US-Iraqi bases last night, several major tanker operators have suspended sailing through the Straits of Hormuz, the site of several tanker attacks last year.
Petrobras, Bahri - Saudi Arabia's state-run tanker operator - and other tanker companies have suspended sailing through the Straits of Hormuz, WSJ reports, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter.
Meanwhile, Gulf officials are already trying to convince the world that there's nothing to worry about in what's essentially a tinderbox inside another tinderbox. United Arab Emirates' Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei said on Wednesday he saw no immediate risk to oil passing through the critical gateway through which 20% of the global supply of crude travels. al-Mazrouei made the comments on the sidelines of a conference in Abu Dhabi, the UAE capital.
POPE FRANCIS has made a desperate intervention into the escalating crisis between the US and Iran, urging the two countries to pursue "self-restraint" and avoid a full blown war.
WITH Brexit looming, new European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is facing a huge challenge to absorb the costs of the UK's departure from the bloc alongside a "whole range of problems" facing the bloc, from slow growth across the Eurozone to the behaviour of "rogue members" such as Poland and Hungary, a political analyst has said.
WORLD WAR 3 threatened to boil over when the Soviet Union shot down a Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul, via Alaska, on September 1, 1983, and the man who pulled the trigger revealed the shocking detailed in an archived interview.
FEARS ARE growing around the world following the assassination of Iranian general Soleimani and Wednesday morning's retaliation from Iran - but is World War 3 about to happen? Will there be another war?
WORLD WAR 2 relics were found in their droves following a dig by four keen historians who exposed a German bunker in the middle of a field after 70 years.
CANADIAN Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his Government was determined to uncover the causes of the Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 crash that killed 65 Canadians in Iran on Wednesday.
AUSTRALIA's devastating wildfires have been raging for months and have left some parts of the country completely destroyed. Now, a video has emerged showing wallabies fleeing from the raging fires.
(BEIJING) — China’s economy czar will visit Washington next week for the signing of an interim trade deal, the government said Thursday.
Vice Premier Liu He, Beijing’s chief envoy in talks with Washington over their tariff war, had been expected to attend the signing but the Commerce Ministry’s statement was the first official confirmation.
Washington postponed planned tariff increases following the announcement of the “Phase 1” deal in October. But earlier punitive duties imposed by both sides on billions of dollars of each other’s goods stayed in place, dampening global trade and threatening to chill economic growth.
Liu will lead a delegation to Washington from Monday through Wednesday, said ministry spokesman Gao Feng.
Under the “Phase 1” deal, Beijing agreed to buy more American farm goods and Washington’s chief negotiator, Robert Lighthizer, said it would make changes to respond to complaints about its industrial policies. Details have yet to be announced and Chinese officials have yet to confirm any regulatory changes or the size of purchases of American soybeans and other exports.
Both sides have soothed financial market jitters by announcing conciliatory steps including postponing planned tariff hikes. Beijing also has resumed purchases of soybeans, the biggest American export to China, and pork.
Washington, Europe, Japan and other trading partners complain Beijing steals or pressures foreign companies to hand over technology. Washington is pressing China to roll back plans for state-led creation of global competitors in robotics and other industries that its trading partners say violate its market-opening commitments.
President Donald Trump announced last month he would sign the “Phase 1” agreement Jan. 15 and travel to Beijing after that to start the second stage of talks.
Trump hailed the interim agreement as a step toward ending the tariff war, but Beijing has been more measured in its public statements.
Economists say concluding a final settlement could take years. Potential hurdles include Chinese insistence that U.S. tariff hikes be canceled once an agreement takes effect. The Trump administration says some must remain in place to ensure Beijing carries out any promises it makes.
(RIO DE JANEIRO) — A Brazilian judge on Wednesday ordered Netflix to stop showing a Christmas special that some called blasphemous for depicting Jesus as a gay man and which prompted a gasoline bomb attack on the satirists behind the program.
The ruling by Rio de Janeiro judge Benedicto Abicair responded to a petition by a Brazilian Catholic organization that argued the “honor of millions of Catholics” was hurt by the airing of “The First Temptation of Christ.” The special was produced by the Rio-based film company Porta dos Fundos, whose headquarters was targeted in the Christmas Eve attack.
Netflix told The Associated Press it would not comment on the ruling.
Porta dos Fundos also declined to comment on the judge’s decision, which contradicted an earlier decision rejecting censorship of the program. The ruling is valid until another court orders otherwise.
Abicair said the program’s withdrawal “is beneficial not only to the Christian community, but to Brazilian society which is mostly Christian.”
The ruling comes at a time when some civil groups say far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is waging a “cultural war,” cutting funding for arts projects that challenge “Christian values” and inveighing against flamboyant carnival celebrations.
Early on the day before Christmas, a group of hooded men attacked the headquarters of Porta dos Fundos with Molotov cocktails. No one was hurt. A video circulating days later on social media showed three men claiming responsibility for the attack.
“The First Temptation of Christ” depicts Jesus returning home on his 30th birthday and insinuates he is gay. Religious groups bristled at the depiction. Creators of the film have defended it as legitimate freedom of expression.
The newly elected treasurer of a small city in western Pennsylvania asserted in a lawsuit Wednesday that city officials plotted to block her from taking office because she is black.
Uniontown Treasurer-elect Antoinette Hodge alleged that a city councilman, Martin Gatti, took action to prevent her from being sworn in as scheduled this week and called her a “colored girl” in a discussion with officials at a bonding agency.
Gatti, a defendant in the lawsuit, has adamantly denied using racist language, saying at a council meeting Monday that he had legitimate questions about Hodge’s financial background.
The federal suit, which also names as defendants the city of Uniontown and its clerk, Kimberly Marshall — Gatti’s sister-in-law — seeks to force the city to seat Hodge and to prevent city officials from interfering with her ability to do the job, Hodge’s lawyer, Joel Sansone, said at a news conference Wednesday. The suit also seeks unspecified money damages.
“We will not allow the racist views of any person or persons to stand in the way of the will of the people, not now, not ever,” Sansone said.
Uniontown’s lawyer did not immediately return a phone message Wednesday. A message was also left for the defendants at Uniontown City Hall.
Hodge’s allegations center on the steps that Gatti allegedly took to prevent her from getting bonded. State law requires bonding of some municipal officials as a way to protect taxpayers against financial loss and malfeasance.
Hodge was approved for a bond last week, but Gatti subsequently contacted the bonding agency and canceled it, the lawsuit said. Gatti told officials at the company that “incriminating evidence” had been uncovered by Hodge’s background check, the suit said.
According to a company manager, Gatti also called the 50-year-old Hodge a “colored girl,” Sansone said Wednesday.
Sansone confronted Gatti with that accusation at the council meeting Monday night, saying: “What I’ve got to ask you, sir, is do you have any idea what century you’re living in?” according to the Herald-Standard newspaper. “Do you understand that calling a black woman a ‘colored girl’ is racist?”
Gatti, a Democrat like Hodge, vehemently denied it and said he planned to sue Sansone for defamation.
“I’ve never used that phrase in my life,” he told Sansone.
Gatti, the city’s finance director, acknowledged he called the bonding agency about Hodge, asserting that she had financial problems and that he was trying to protect city finances.
Sansone said Wednesday that Hodge, a Uniontown native, had no problem getting bonded in the past. He said that her identity was stolen nearly two decades ago, damaging her credit, but that nothing in her background would have prevented her from obtaining a bond. In fact, the Uniontown bond was approved Tuesday, he said.
Kenneth Huston, president of the Pennsylvania NAACP, joined Hodge and her attorney at the news conference and said Hodge had been subjected to “blatant racism.”
“It is absolutely appalling that she had to experience what she experienced, being a duly elected individual in in her hometown,” he said.
Uniontown, a city of about 10,000, is 45 miles south of Pittsburgh. Black people are about 15% of the population.
Hodge said she was “shocked, at first, because I ever expected anything like this would happen.” She said her shock turned to disgust.
“I just want folks to understand that it doesn’t matter, age, color, political party, we are supposed to stand united as one body to do what’s right for our city,” she said.
Hodge beat an incumbent in the Democratic primary and ran unopposed in the November general election.
Now that Tehran and Washington have openly exchanged fire, the conflict between the two nations will continue in the shadows where it has been fought for 40 years — and where Iran’s Revolutionary Guard still seeks to exact revenge for the U.S. killing its top commander.
But after the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, Iran now knows that any attack that even its proxies launch could trigger another American strike. President Donald Trump’s backers say the raised stakes have restored “big stick” deterrence that American enemies and allies had begun to doubt after Trump failed to respond militarily to repeated Iranian aggression. His critics say he has ushered in a new era that makes every American a target for kidnapping and assassination across the Middle East, and beyond.
Trump seemed satisfied on Wednesday that Tehran had learned its lesson, saying in a televised address that he was “ready to embrace peace with all who seek it,” after the overnight barrage of ballistic missiles fired harmlessly on U.S. bases in Iraq to avenge the U.S. drone strike that killed Soleimani.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the strikes a slap in America’s face and reiterated that his long term goal remains the ouster of U.S. forces from the region. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley told reporters he believed the Iranians intended to kill, but a senior U.S. official said Iran warned Washington via a European embassy ahead of the strikes, speaking anonymously to describe sensitive briefings.
In addition, three U.S. officials said, the Iranians prepared for the strikes in ways that American spy satellites and electronic eavesdropping were sure to detect them — which U.S. intelligence did in time to give the White House and American forces some three hours warning of possible attacks and their probable targets.
Iraqis on Al Asad Air Base even got a visit from a U.S. military officer before the attack, telling them when and where the missiles would land, said Ali Alfoneh, a senior fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. “This provided both sides an opportunity to de-escalate the conflict,” Alfoneah said. “Both sides can declare victory and move forward.”
The State Department declined to comment on whether Iran had provided a heads-up before the strike, and the White House and defense officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Reuters reported that an Iranian army spokesman denied “foreign media reports” suggesting there was some kind of coordination between Iran and the United States before the attack to evacuate bases.
And while both nations appeared more than ready to walk back from the brink of war, the conditions on the ground remain as volatile as ever. American and Iranian-backed forces operate in close proximity at several flashpoints throughout the Middle East in places like Bahrain, Yemen, Syria and Iraq, where a miscalculation or surprise attack could raise tensions again.
The missile attack was a rare Iranian claim of responsibility that could be an attempt to distinguish it from retaliatory actions by its vast proxy network. Unable to combat the U.S. military head-on, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has spent decades organizing a constellation of Shi’ite militias across the tumultuous region. These proxy fighters, which are trained, supplied and funded by Tehran, give Iran an asymmetric advantage over the U.S. as well as plausible deniability for some attacks the groups carry out.
“We see this big public attack carried out by Iran, but that was a show of strength to send a signal and it also plays to their own domestic audience,” says Phillip Smyth, a Shi’ite Islamist militarism expert and senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “Iran’s preferred method of operation is to pick a time and place of their choosing, using the proxies that they want, in order to have the most effective response.”
After all, it was not the Iranian military, but Iranian-backed forces — groups like Asab al-Haq and Kata’ib Hezbollah —that launched 11 rocket attacks against U.S. troops and personnel on Iraqi bases over the last two months, killing an American contractor and injuring four U.S. service members. The proxy groups were also responsible for the protests outside the U.S. embassy in Iraq.
The Trump Administration says both incidents pushed the U.S. toward the precipice of war — although some members of Congress who were briefed Wednesday on the decision to kill Soleimani said the Administration failed to support its claims that the strike was launched to prevent an “imminent” attack on American forces in Iraq.
Tehran doesn’t want to get into a conventional battle with the United States, says Afshin Molavi, a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Foreign Policy Institute. “The Islamic Republic of Iran has for four decades demonstrated an extraordinary skill for survival,” he says. “They do not want war with the most powerful military on the planet.”
Indeed, the overriding concern of the clerical regime is holding onto power in the face of rising public discontent over official corruption and the daily hardships of economic sanctions. As a result, the Iranians may use time, distance, and proxies to keep their fingerprints off any future terrorist acts, two counterterrorism officials and a senior U.S. military official told TIME.
But Iran’s religious leader may be more patient than members of the IRGC, now led by Soleimani’s successor, Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani, which still wants to exact pain equal to their leader’s loss, the U.S. official who spoke about the strike warning said.
U.S. forces inside Iraq are at particular risk, officials say. American troops on Iraqi military bases remain on an elevated state of alert, bracing for a longer campaign that may follow, defense officials say. U.S. intelligence has intercepted an apparent Iranian “hit list” inside Iraq, listing American and other allied officials as key targets for kidnapping or assassination, a separate security source briefed on the threat told TIME. Attacks could also come in the form of rocket, artillery or small drone attacks on U.S. positions inside Iraqi military compounds, multiple U.S. officials say. Two rockets landed inside Baghdad’s Green Zone on Wednesday, one within a few hundred feet of the U.S. Embassy.
American troops and contractors in Iraq are also watching for the militia groups to take revenge for the killing of the deputy commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces Abu Mahdi Al-Mohandes, who was killed in the same drone strike that killed Soleimani.
“The thing that worries us is what you saw at the Embassy,” said the security source, recalling the New Year’s Eve attack by militia groups that forced their way into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad, angry over U.S. missile strikes on their bases. Just about every Iraqi base housing Americans has militia bases nearby, the source said. “If they come at these guys with 200-300 fighters, they could brute force their way in.”
In the wider region, the U.S. military and Gulf allies are on the lookout for more mysterious explosions that could, for example, cripple commercial shipping in the Gulf.
“The concern is that all militias are on standby to attack,” wherever U.S. troops are stationed, a senior congressional staffer said. Those attacks could be staged by groups of small, hard-to-combat commercial drones, technology provided by Iran. “There aren’t enough jammers or low-level air defenses to push back commercial unmanned aerial devices with improvised explosive devices,” the congressional staffer said. “And they could be dangerous to supporting (helicopters) as well.”
However, three U.S. officials said, an attack using drones would risk an American counterattack, perhaps on targets in Iran, because the drones have Iranian fingerprints “all over them.”
Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters Wednesday at the Pentagon that he fully expected Shi’a militias to continue to carry out attacks on U.S. forces in the Middle East. And, because Iran and its proxy forces are so tightly intertwined, he acknowledged the difficulties with discerning who launches attacks against U.S. forces and how to respond. “Our challenge will be to sort through that, to understand who’s doing it, who is motivating it,” Esper said, adding that the U.S. military must “react forcefully” to ensure the attacks don’t persist.
According to two U.S. counterterrorism officials, current U.S. and allied intelligence indicates that Iranian proxy groups in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province, and as far afield as Afghanistan and Western Europe are preparing to act, perhaps with direction from Tehran, or in some cases independently.
“The chatter continues, the dark web is still buzzing, people are still active, and the weapons are all still there,” said the first official, declining to describe the intelligence in detail on Wednesday. “The fact that Soleimani is not (still alive) doesn’t change our calculations, and our people and our allies are still on high alert, and they probably will be for the foreseeable future.”
Multiple officials also said they were concerned about cyberwarfare, in particular a “combination blow” on an important U.S. government, financial, energy, or communications target facilitated by an insider planted by Iran or one of its allies. “All he, or better yet she, would have to do is click on a piece of malware,” a second U.S. military official said.
Republican Congressman Mike Waltz of Florida predicted Iran will return to covert war, with one key difference: “Do they attack Americans when this president has made it clear, ‘If we’re taking American casualties, whether they are your proxies or you, we’re holding you accountable?’ That’s how deterrence works.”
A reserve U.S. Army Green Beret and former Cheney staffer, Waltz was briefed on the intelligence that led Trump to order Soleimani’s killing, describing “an escalation on the part of Soleimani and his attention to use his proxies to attack and kill American assets and ongoing plotting and planning, with a window of time…in days and weeks not months.”
The greatest danger of escalation may not lie in Tehran, but in Washington, some U.S. officials say. If the Iranians are patient, strategic, and to some extent predictable, Trump is none of those things, they say. Chaos and unpredictability may have served him well in his business dealings, but it has left his subordinates in the military, the diplomatic corps, and the intelligence community — not to mention America’s allies — unsure how he might respond to the next terror attack.
GUATEMALA CITY — Outgoing Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales said Wednesday his government has not agreed to receive Mexicans who had sought asylum in the United States.
Morales, whose presidency ends next week, said he had told U.S. officials the issue would have to be negotiated with his successor.
“It’s more than clear; in the agreement it only lays out Salvadorans and Hondurans,” Morales said. “The United States has talked about the possibility of including Mexican nationals, but that they have to discuss it with the next government. In the last visit we made to the White House with President Trump we were clear saying that that negotiation had to be done with the new government.”
The U.S. government had moved aggressively last year to curb the number of asylum seekers arriving at its southwest border. The majority came from Central America. The U.S. began making many of those requesting asylum wait out their cases in Mexico. Then it forged agreements with Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador that would allow it to send some asylum seekers there. The U.S. government argued that migrants should request asylum in the first country they entered, not wait until they arrived at the U.S. border.
To date, the U.S. has sent 94 asylum seekers from El Salvador and Honduras to Guatemala. Only six of them decided to seek asylum there while the rest returned to their countries.
Mexicans do not pass through any other countries to arrive at the U.S. border. But in recent days, guidance was sent to U.S. asylum officials that said Mexicans would now be included under the bilateral agreement with Guatemala.
Pedro Brolo, who has been designated foreign affairs minister by President-elect Alejandro Giammattei, and his spokeswoman did not immediately answer requests for comment.
On Dec. 19, Morales’ interior minister, Enrique Degenhart, suggested that talks were underway to expand the program to Mexicans because it had yielded such strong results with Central Americans.
Mexico has expressed its unhappiness with the plan. Mexican Interior Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero said via Twitter Tuesday night that “it would be an action contrary to international law and the bilateral relationship.”
A majority of people surveyed in 32 countries across the world, from Argentina to Australia and Canada to the Czech Republic, have “largely negative views” of President Donald Trump, and do not trust him “to do the right thing” when making decisions on international affairs, according to a new survey from the non-partisan Pew Research Center, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
Furthermore, more respondents viewed Trump with “no confidence” than they did Russian President Vladimir Putin or Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Inversely, Trump received a vote of confidence from 29% of respondents to Xi’s 28%.)
The survey, published on Jan. 8, was conducted from May to October of 2019. It found that more than two-thirds of the respondents said they don’t trust Trump when it comes to world affairs, in contrast to the 64% who expressed confidence in former President Barack Obama in a survey published in June 2017.
“In nearly all nations where trends are available, Trump receives lower ratings than his predecessor,” said the report. “International confidence in the U.S. President plummeted after Trump’s inauguration, while favorable ratings for the United States also declined.”
Pew Research Associate Janell Fetterolf tells TIME the survey can be useful to policymakers, “especially those who work in diplomacy and foreign policy for their decision making.”
Western Europe was especially anti-Trump; about three out of four people surveyed in Germany, Sweden, France, Spain and the Netherlands said they don’t trust the U.S. President. In Mexico, attitudes were especially negative; 89% said they didn’t trust Trump and only 36% gave the U.S. a favorable rating.
Still, Trump had distinct “pockets of support” in parts of the world. A majority in the Philippines, Israel, Kenya, Nigeria and India said they trust the American President.
The President tended to be viewed more positively in countries with conservative or right wing governments, and among those respondents who identified ideologically with the political right in their countries.
In the Philippines, where President Rodrigo Duterte has ruled with increasingly authoritarian tendencies, Trump has a 77% approval rating. In Israel, where Trump has enjoyed a close relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and decided to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, Trump’s confidence rating was 71%.
56% viewed Trump with confidence in India, where right-wing Hindu nationalism has surged under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In Poland, where the right-wing populist Law and Justice Party has attacked the independence of the judiciary since taking control of parliament in 2015, 55% of respondents expressed confidence in Trump. (The report noted that Polish President Andrzej Duda visited the U.S. in June 2019, while the survey was in the field, and the two leaders announced a plan to strengthen the military relationship between their countries.)
Supporters of right-wing parties in Europe — from the National Rally party in France from UKIP in Britain — were more likely to support Trump’s wall along the US-Mexico border and his tariffs, despite overall global opinions being negative.
Certain Trump administration policies were clearly unpopular. The strongest disapproval was recorded against the U.S. increasing tariffs on imported goods, withdrawing from international climate change agreements, building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and restricting immigration into the country.
Opposition toward Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change — which he announced in June 2017 and made official in November 2019 — were strong in Europe (78%), South Korea (82%) and Australia (78%).
The policy that was viewed most positively was Trump’s direct negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (Still, only a median of 41% said they approved of this move, while 36% opposed it.)
As trust in Trump has fallen, favorable attitudes toward the U.S. have dropped and remain low among key allies, although 54% still held generally favorable attitudes towards America. In Europe, the least favorable views were found in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and Russia.
Israelis gave the U.S. its highest rating of 83%, but there was a sharp ethnic split — 94% of Israeli Jews see the U.S. favorably, compared to only 37% of Israeli Arabs.
In 1981, at the outset of the Iran-Iraq War, Qassem Soleimani witnessed his country’s first use of human wave-style tactics. That costly practice would become one of the hallmarks of a conflict that would claim nearly a million lives on both sides and would see a return to First World War style trench warfare and the widespread use of chemical weapons. When the UN eventually negotiated a ceasefire, both sides claimed victory. A key result of the conflict was Iran’s adoption of a national security strategy that relied on the more economical practice of asymmetric warfare (terrorism, wars by proxy). The Revolutionary Guards Quds Force, led by Soleimani for more than twenty years, played a crucial role in the implementation of this strategy, which ensured that Iranian society would never again experience such a bloodletting. For leaders in Tehran, the Iran-Iraq War would become “the war to end all wars”—sort of.
Now Soleimani is dead. A lot has been written in recent days about “war with Iran” while far less has been written about what that war might look like. Or acknowledging that, on the battlefields of America’s “forever wars,” a “war with Iran” has been going on for decades. During my time in the Marines, I brushed up against Iranian militias in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, helped Americans evacuate the embassy in Beirut in 2006 when Hezbollah threatened our presence, and then fought Quds Force-supported elements of the Taliban in western Afghanistan in 2008. Nearly a decade at war left me with many dead friends and, when tallying up how they died, I can trace more of their deaths to the barrel of an Iranian-supported Shia militiaman, or an Iranian-developed armor piercing IED, than to card-carrying members of al-Qaeda.
In many respects, both America and Iran have pursued similar national security strategies over the past two decades, enabling the populations of both countries to remain at “peace” while our cadres of military professionals have engaged in wars by proxy and other special operations around the globe. Soleimani’s replacement, Esmail Ghaani, as well as the entire high command, are not only the architects of our low-intensity ‘forever war’ with Iran but they are also veterans of the Iran-Iraq War. Their experience will factor prominently into crafting a post-Soleimani strategy for the region and whether that strategy will lead them into an escalatory spiral that could, ultimately, precipitate a more costly conventional war, upending “peace” at home.
Ay-Collection/Sipa/APQasem Soleimani during the Iran-Iraq war in the early 1980s.
Despite nationalist anger at the death of Soleimani, Iran’s internal politics are as fractious as our own, and those divisions will soon re-emerge, just as our own will if (or when) Iran launches attacks that are more spectacular than their immediate response against Al-Asad air base and Irbil. Both of our nations have little appetite for a protracted conventional war, with anxious Google search terms such as “World War Three” and “the draft” surging in the United States last weekend and widespread protests across Iran throughout this past fall. If there’s a shared appetite for anything, it is de-escalation.
Navigating that de-escalation will be challenging. It will require pragmatism and moderation on the part of Iranian leaders who are enraged, and in mourning. And it will require moderation and precision on the part of an American president who is not known for either of those qualities. However, our decades-long limited war with Iran has yet to spiral out of control. That the formative experience of Iran’s generals was a futile conventional war with few parallels in history, except perhaps the First World War, cannot be emphasized enough. That experience, more than any other, may allow us to avoid further escalation.
Despite the best of intentions and the clearest of strategies, luck always plays a role on the path to war. The days ahead might very well prove as precarious as that calamitous summer of 1914, which led to the First World War. Like with Soleimani, that conflict began with an execution, that of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. The assassin happened to be sitting in a café armed with a pistol when the Archduke’s car took a wrong turn. The Archduke’s fatal mistake seemed so simple, and common, in retrospect: he found himself on a road he never should’ve traveled in the first place.
In a statement shared on their official Instagram page Wednesday, the Sussexes announced they will be transitioning away from their roles as “senior” royals and will begin splitting their time between the U.K. and North America in 2020.
“After many months of reflection and internal discussions, we have chosen to make a transition this year in starting to carve out a progressive new role within this institution,” the Duke and Duchess said in the statement. “We intend to step back as roles as “senior” members of the Royal Family, and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen.”
Shortly after the statement was shared, Buckingham Palace also posted its own short response.
“Discussions with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are at an early stage,” the statement read. “We understand their desire to take a different approach, but these are complicated issues that will take time to work through.”
“This geographic balance will enable us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter, including the launch of our new charitable entity,” the statement read.
They ended the announcement with a promise to share the full details of this next step in their lives “in due course.”
What could this mean for the future of the royal family?
“A lot of questions still have to be answered,” historian and British royals expert Marlene Koenig tells TIME. The biggest difference is in how the Sussexes will provide support — both now and in the future — to Prince Harry’s grandmother Queen Elizabeth II and father Prince Charles when he ultimately succeeds to the throne. Traditionally, “you’d have the second son carrying on more official duties and adopting more patronages” as time went on, Koenig explains. For reference, Princess Anne — Queen Elizabeth’s second-oldest child after her heir Prince Charles — has been the hardest-working royal over the last two years, even though her own children do not have royal titles of their own.
But this step back from the Sussexes suggests a new and different tactic. “I think they’re looking to focus on certain issues as opposed to what would have been the bread and butter of the royal family,” which are the traditional patronages, she says. “They’ll still be Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, but they want a more private life,” she predicts.
Why Canada?
Technically, the statement from the Sussexes says they’ll be splitting their time between “North America” and the United Kingdom. But based on their most recent ventures to Canada over the holidays, Koenig feels confident that’s where they’ll set up their second home base. “In the U.S., once you step outside your house there’s no privacy. You can be followed with a camera all day and there’s nothing you can do about it,” she says. In contrast, they have been able to operate in relative privacy during their excursions to Canada — which may appeal to their taste for less press coverage. Canada is where the pair met and where the Duchess of Sussex previously lived, too.
How will the Duke and Duchess of Sussex attain “financial independence?”
On their website, the Sussexes have laid out explanations of the source of their current income, which primarily consists of the Sovereign Grant and provisions from the Duchy of Cornwall. The Sovereign Grant is derived from revenue of the Crown Estate; a portion of these public funds are issued as a grant to cover the royal family’s work in support of the Queen, helping pay for things like maintenance of official residences and offices. The Duchy of Cornwall, meanwhile, is the land managed by Prince Harry’s father, Prince Charles, who is the current Duke of Cornwall. Historically, the male heir apparent is able to reap the financial benefits of being the figurehead of the Duchy; in 2018, Charles’s public accounting statements showed that income to be over £21 million. On their website, the Sussexes note that “95% of the funding received for their Office expenditure” came from this bucket, as an allocation from Prince Charles to his younger son and his family. (Koenig notes that Prince William and Prince Harry both are also recipients of an inheritance from Princess Diana totaling around £21 million.)
Now, the Sussexes intend to release themselves from the Sovereign Grant, which is about 5% of their funding. They currently do not receive an income from charitable events or engagements. “Will they show up for events and get a check directly? Will they come to Trooping [of the Colour]? Will [Prince Harry] be made a Knight of the Garter when his father becomes king? We don’t know,” Koenig says about the remaining questions.
Have other royals set a precedent for “stepping back,” historically?
The short answer: no. In 1936, Edward VIII — Queen Elizabeth’s uncle — gave up his throne to marry the American woman he loved, Wallis Simpson. At the time, this was scandalous enough to require his abdication; he lived in exile as the Duke of Windsor after handing over his rights to the crown. “You can’t just renounce your right to the throne; it has to be done by an act of Parliament, because succession is governed by several laws,” Koenig explains of those unusual circumstances. But the Sussexes are facing a very different situation. “They’re not being kicked out; they’ve made a decision to take what they do as royals, but do it on their own terms,” she says. Where Edward was no longer part of the working royal family, it remains unclear to what extent Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will retain some of the working royal duties. And while there has long been a push to streamline the working royal establishment, no current working royal has “stepped back” in quite this way.
That said, in their website the Sussexes make it clear there are currently members of the royal family who both hold titles and earn incomes. “Yes, there is precedent for this structure and it applies to other current members of the Royal Family who support the monarch and also have full time jobs external to their commitment to the monarchy,” they note.
What about their relationship with the media?
In another section, the Sussexes laid out revised media policies as well. Their focus is to broaden their interactions with media, calling out an interest in “grassroots” and “young, up-and-coming” journalists, and eschewing the official “Royal Rota” system of British journalists that’s currently in place. “I think they’re really, really tired of all these articles condemning Meghan for everything,” Koenig says. The Sussexes filing lawsuits against multiple British tabloids, claiming they have printed “untrue” stories.
On their site, the Sussexes amplify that sentiment: “Regrettably, stories that may have been filed accurately by Royal Correspondents are, also, often edited or rewritten by media editorial teams to present false impressions,” they say. Koenig suggests this fraught relationship has “absolutely” played a part in their decision now. The media outlets at the center of these suits have stood by their reporting and denied the allegations.
Australian actress Yael Stone announced on Tuesday that she plans to give up her United States green card to reduce the environmental impact of living in two countries simultaneously.
Stone starred in Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black — which was shot in the U.S. — and lived primarily in New York between 2012 and 2019. She most recently performed in the play The Beauty Queen of Leenane in Sydney, Australia.
Stone tells TIME in an email that, while living in the U.S. she flew back home to Australia roughly twice a year. “When you live a long way from home you fly often to maintain some kind of connection,” she explains, adding that she’s felt “sick about the gap between my beliefs and my behavior.”
“Living across two continents is environmentally unethical. At this time, while my country is on fire… I must put some skin in the game,” Stone tells TIME, citing Greta Thunberg as a particular inspiration. While describing it as both a personal and professional sacrifice, Stone says she is prepared to lose acting roles as a result of her decision. “Though I received my Green Card in September 2019 it seems I will never use it to set up a life in the USA with my family as I imagined.”
Stone adds that, while she will continue to travel internationally “when the right job presents itself,” she plans to invest 50% of her earnings from roles that involved flying into “groups that actively target emission reductions,” such as the Australian non-profit FEAT.
In a video earlier posted to Twitter and Instagram, Stone shared her decision to give up her U.S. green card with her followers. “This is my way of kicking off real 2020 change in my life,” she captioned the video.
Stone said she would begin the process of giving up her U.S. green card and moving back to Australia full time. (According to the U.S. embassy in Australia, an individual must submit a I-407 form to voluntarily abandon their status as a lawful permanent resident in the U.S.)
Stone says she will now dedicate herself to fighting climate change in Australia, and that she’s returned to school to study sustainability. “I hope to be able to use the knowledge in concert with my work as a creative person to make change,” she explains.
In another video shared with her Instagram followers, Stone put it simply: “We’ve only got ten years. So let’s make these sacrifices.”
The United Nations has set a goal of reducing greenhouse emissions by 45% by 2030. A landmark reportpublished by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2018 warned that global carbon emissions must be reduced by that amount by 2030 otherwise the world’s climate world will suffer irreversible damage, including rising sea levels, extreme heat, extreme flooding and extreme drought.
As Greta Thunberg said in her speech before the United Nations Climate Action Summit in September, “The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50 percent chance of staying below 1.5 degrees and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.”
Australia is currently suffering from catastrophic bushfires that experts say have been exacerbated by climate change. At least 24 people have died, more than 12 million acres of land have burned and 480 million animals could die, according to scientific estimates. Stone has asked her followers to donate to the Australian Red Cross.
In a separate video posted to Instagram, Stone spoke out against Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison. “Our country is on fire. We’ve lost 14.5 million hectares and our Prime Minister has done absolutely nothing,” she said. Morrison was widely criticized for going on vacation during the early stages of Australia’s bushfire crisis, which he layer apologized for. Morrison has also repeatedly downplayed the role climate change plays in the bushfires and is a public defender of the coal industry.
“We have to step up, because this is war. This is a climate war,” Stone said. “Our enemy is our own behavior.”
“Let’s pressure governments that refuse to act by taking the lead,” she tells TIME. “Because the future needs big movements of people with big imaginations to create a world we haven’t seen yet.”
Iran launched a barrage of missiles at two military bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq early Wednesday morning local time, in an operation a top diplomat in Tehran said “concluded” Tehran’s retaliation after the U.S. killed the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force Qasem Soleimani on Jan. 3. Soleimani was the Islamic Republic’s most important figure after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini.
U.S. President Trump told reporters Wednesday that there were no casualties. While that presents the Trump Administration an off-ramp from the warpath, a closer look at Iran’s history of responding to its enemies’ aggression suggests it’s too early to say whether this is, in fact, the end of its retaliatory moves.
Codenamed “Operation Martyr Qasem Soleimani”, Iran’s fusillade of more than a dozen rockets struck Al Asad Air Base in Iraq’s Anbar province. Another barrage beginning at about 1:30 am local time hit an airbase in northern Iraq’s Erbil. U.S. and European government sources familiar with intelligence assessments told Reuters on Wednesday they believed Iran had deliberately sought to avoid U.S. military casualties.
“Iran took & concluded proportionate measures in self-defense under Article 51 of UN Charter,” the Republic’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter soon after the strike. He added that Iran did not seek “escalation or war, but will defend ourselves against any aggression.”
“Iran appears to be standing down,” Trump said during a short address at the White House on Wednesday morning. He also boasted of the U.S. military strength and said he would immediately impose further sanctions on Iran.
But in a Twitter post issued only hours after Zarif’s, Iran’s Supreme Leader Khameini seemed to contradict his foreign minister, casting doubt on whether Iran’s retaliation has indeed concluded. “[The Americans] were slapped last night, but such military actions are not enough,” he said.
In past instances where Iran has faced acts of military aggression, Tehran has sometimes declined to respond; at other times, it has retaliated with incredible violence, weeks later and thousands of miles from its borders. Here’s how the latest strikes on U.S. air bases in Iraq fit into Iran’s strategic playbook and what we could expect next.
Win McNamee—Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump speaks from the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 8, 2020.
The Hostage Crisis and the Tanker War
In 1953, the CIA orchestrated a coup d’etat to depose Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadeq. The U.S.’s first military intervention against the Islamic Republic started just months after the overthrow of the American-backed Shah in 1979, when Islamist revolutionaries stormed the U.S. embassy, taking 52 American diplomats and citizens hostage. In April 1980, the Carter Administration launched a failed military operation called Eagle Claw in a thwarted bid to retrieve the hostages.
In 1988, towards the end of the Iran-Iraq war, the U.S. launched its second military intervention in the Islamic Republic: Operation Praying Mantis. In the one-day operation, retaliation after an Iranian mine damaged an American ship, the U.S. Navy destroyed two Iranian surveillance platforms, sank two of their ships, and severely damaged another.Months later, the U.S.S. Vincennes missile cruiser shot down an Iranian airliner, killing all 290 passengers on board in an incident the U.S. characterized as an accident.
That neither operation Eagle Claw nor Praying Mantis provoked a military response from Iran was a function of the Republic’s lack of resources at the time, says Ali Vaez, director of the Iran Project at the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank that seeks to prevent and resolve deadly conflict. In 1980, the nascent regime was too weak to confront America, and at the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988, its forces were too depleted to open a new front. Although the Trump Administration’s “Maximum Pressure” campaign of economic sanctions has placed Tehran under increasing strain, “Iran in the 1980s is nothing like Iran in 2020,” Vaez says. “It is much more confident and much stronger in terms of both conventional military capabilities and the unconventional asymmetric means it has for defending itself.”
Assassinations and asymmetric warfare
Washington has not launched an overt military operation in Iran since the 1980s but U.S. military force directed at both Iran’s allies and adversaries have at times prompted Tehran to reassess its activities in the region. In 2003, within hours of a U.S. cruise missile strike on a Sunni terrorist group Tehran had aided in Iraq, Iran shuttered the border over which it had supplied the group with arms. It also scrapped efforts to develop a nuclear warhead soon after U.S. troops toppled Saddam Hussain, according to U.S. intelligence agency assessments.
But looking at Iran’s relations with another adversary, Israel, can provide an insight into Tehran’s playbook. Israel, which traditionally maintains a policy of silence over its overseas military operations, is widely believed to have conducted a series of assassinations inside the Islamic Republic. It has fought a war against Iranian proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon and clashed with various Iran-allied groups in Syria. In 1992, the Israel Defense Force’s killing of Hezbollah’s secretary-general Abbas al Moussawi outside his home in Beirut was followed a month later by a suicide attack that killed 29 civilians at the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires. Hezbollah called the bombing revenge for its leader’s death. An attack at a nearby Jewish community center two years later killed a further 85 people.
Like Hezbollah, Iran has appeared to attack soft targets thousands of miles from its borders. In 2012 Khameini vowed to “punish the perpetrators” of a hit against an Iranian nuclear chemist, the fourth Iranian nuclear scientist Israel was believed to have assassinated over a two-year span. Amid fears of retaliation in Israel or on U.S. soil, attacks instead took place as far afield as Georgia, India, and Thailand—where a series of bomb blasts wounded nine Israeli diplomats—and in Bulgaria, where another explosion killed five Israeli tourists, the Wall Street Journal reports. Iran has denied that it perpetrated any of the bombings.
Iran’s global network of proxies and partners—many cultivated by Soleimani—gives it a variety of options to retaliate around the world. Nevertheless, experts note that the kind of terrorist attacks seen in the 1990s and 2000s have become less frequent since the establishment of effective deterrents between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006.
Still, Iran’s policy of using proxies to attack its adversaries will likely endure beyond Soleimani’s killing, Ariane Tabatabai, an Iran expert at the RAND Corporation told TIME on Jan 4: “Let’s not kid ourselves. [Soleimani’s death] is not going to be a devastating strategic blow. Iran’s policy of cultivating non-state actors actually predates Soleimani. That should tell you that there is going to be a lot more continuity than we assume going forward.”
Maximum Pressure and Maximum Patience
At least since President Trump took office in 2017, Iran’s leadership has believed its regional adversaries are seeking to push Tehran into direct confrontation with the U.S. as a means of curbing its influence in the region, says ICG’s Vaez. “The Iranian leadership has tried not to play into the hands of its enemies. During the first year of Maximum Pressure, it basically pursued a policy of maximum patience,” he tells TIME. Iran’s carefully calibrated response to Soleimani’s killing represents another attempt not to take the bait, demonstrating Iranian resolve while providing the Trump Administration a means of saving face.
Still, that does not mean the Tuesday strikes are where Iran’s retaliation ends. “The Iranians might choose the time for doing this in a way that it would minimize the risks for backlash,” says Vaez. “If the U.S. is bogged down in another confrontation, in another crisis with North Korea, for example, that might be the time Iran would choose to take an eye for an eye.”
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Institute of Banking Personnel Selection has conducted the IBPS Clerk preliminary exam successfully across all the shifts. However, the IBPS Board has released the Clerk Prelims Results only through the online mode. So, all the participants can check the IBPS Clerk Preliminary Result 2020 from the official site using candidates roll number and password. Candidates who got shortlisted in the preliminary examination will be called for the further levels of the selection process. Here on this page, we have given the direct link to download the IBPS Clerk Results 2020 For Prelims Examination. Also, Applicants can also check the IBPS Cut Off Marks and also the IBPS Merit List 2020 from our recruitment.guru website.
Prelims Exam, Mains Exam, Provisional Allotment, Document Verification, and Interview
Official Website
www.ibps.in
Above all the details in the table will give the information like the organization name, Post name, category of Results, Exam Date, Results in Date, the selection process and the official site to check the IBPS Clerk Results 2020. IBPS conducts two stages of Examination. They are the preliminary examination and the mains examination. Aspirants who got shortlisted in the preliminary will be eligible for the Clerk mains examination. The Release of call letters for Clerk’s main exam is in the month of January 2020. The Clerk main exam will be on 19th January 2020. So, all the eligible candidates can start preparing for the clerk’s main examination. Here, attached with IBPS Clerk Syllabus for the upcoming examination.
Institute of Banking Personnel Selection Cut Off Marks 2020
In this section, Candidates can have detailed information about the IBPS Clerk Cut Off Marks 2020. The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection will decide the Cut Off Marks based on some factors like the total number of vacancies available, the total number of candidates appearing for the exam, etc. In addition, the Cut Off Marks are of two different types namely Sectional Cut Off Marks and Overall Cut Off Marks. The sectional marks will be similar to all the states and the Overall cut off marks will vary. Also, Aspirants can go through the previous year cut off marks before appearing for the IBPS Examination.
Clerk Merit List 2020 @ www.ibps.in
The IBPS will consider only the marks obtained in the IBPS Clerk Main Exam for preparing the IBPS Clerk Merit List. The total marks allotted for the main examination are 200 marks and it will convert to 100 marks. Candidates can check the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection Merit List 2020 at the official web portal. The aspirants must secure top marks in the Clerk main examination to get shortlisted in the Clerk merit list 2020. And after clearing the Mains Examination will give the final allotment order for the candidate. Further, we can see how to get the IBPS Exam Results 2020 in the below section.
How to check the IBPS Exam Results 2020?
Initially, visit the official site of IBPS @ www.ibps.in.
Click on the link related to the IBPS Clerk CRP Result For Prelims and you will be taken towards the login page.
Enter the login details such as the Register number and the password/Date Of Birth.
Hit on the login and you will get the IBPS Clerk results with IBPS Cut Off details.
Finally, download your IBPS Clerk results/ scorecard and take a printout for future reference.
IGMCRI Staff Nurse Previous Papers PDF available here. Hence, candidates can directly download IGMCRI Question Papers for free of cost. Applied contenders can also get the Last 5 Years IGMCRI Nurse Model Papers with Solutions from the official website www.igmcri.com.
IGMCRI Staff Nurse Previous Year Papers Pdf
Are you in search of the IGMCRI Staff Nurse Old Papers? Don’t get worried. You reached the right page. Here, we displaced the IGMCRI Nurse Model Papers with Answers. The Indira Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute Old Papers are very helpful for boosting your preparation. Hence, candidates can make use of these papers for gaining more marks in the examination.
The Indira Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute issued the recruitment notification for appointing eligible candidates to fill various Staff Nurse & Ward Attendant Posts. A huge number of candidates who are eligible for these Government jobs can apply for this recruitment before the last date. And, the individuals who already completed their online registrations can download IGMCRI Solved Question Papers for practice purposes.
IGMCRI Staff Nurse, Ward Attendant Model Exam Papers – www.igmcri.com
Name of the Institute
Indira Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute
Individuals should have an idea of Exam Pattern before they start preparation. Hence, candidates must refer to the exam pattern for planning the exam schedule. For the sake of the contenders, we have presented the Indira Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute Nurse Test Pattern. Refer to this Examination Scheme and then begin your preparation. You can also get the IGMCRI Previous Year Question Papers here.
The contenders who applied for the Staff Nurse Jobs can download IGMCRI Staff Nurse Previous Papers for practice purposes. By solving the model question papers, you can improve your problem-solving speed. Also, by practicing the IGMCRI Staff Nurse Sample Papers, the individuals can learn time management. Therefore to score high marks in the examination, practice the old question papers.
IGMCRI Staff Nurse Exam Pattern Pdf
Subjects
Exam Type
Marks
Nursing Foundation
Objective Type MCQ’s
100
Anatomy & Physiology
Nutrition
Medical & Surgical Nursing
Psychiatry Nursing
Obst. & Gyanc Nursing
Paediatric Nursing
Community Health Nursing
Ophthalmology
ENT & Orthopaedic Nursing
Geriatric Nursing
Check IGMCRI Ward Attendant Test Pattern Pdf
Subject Name
Exam Type
Marks
General Knowledge
Objective Type MCQs
100
English
General Science
Mathematics
IGMCRI Solved Question Papers Pdf
Most of the applied candidates might have started their preparation for the Staff Nurse, Ward Attendant Exam. And, some of the aspirants are still in confusion about how to start exam preparation. For those candidates, we provide the IGMCRI Staff Nurse, Ward Attendant Sample Papers with Answers Pdf. These old question papers can help to score good marks in the examination. Along with IGMCRI Question Papers, we also provide the Syllabus here.
All the applicants need to refer to the syllabus before they begin the exam preparation. For getting a high score in the exam, the individuals must prepare all the topics in the Staff Nurse Syllabus. So, prepare according to the syllabus. Here, we gave the direct link to download IGMCRI Nurse Syllabus 2020 here. After complete preparation of the syllabus, practice IGMCRI Staff Nurse Solved Question Papers.
Free Download Indira Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute Old Papers PDF
The applied candidates can download the Last 5 Years IGMCRI Ward Attendant Previous Papers from the enclosed links given below. All these old question papers are given only for the purpose of reference. Hence, individuals must utilize the Indira Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute Solved Papers only for practicing and to test their knowledge. You can also download the practice papers from the official website. Bookmark our site recruitment.guru for getting the latest updates of Sarkari Naukri Jobs.
The LMRCL Previous Question Papers Pdf for Junior Engineer, Asst Manager, Publuc Relations Asst Posts is updated here for download. Hence, applied candidates can check the Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation Previous Papers here. The previous year papers are very important to read. This Last 5 Years LMRC JE Exam Papers will help the aspirants to understand the difficulty of the questions. Also, read the LMRC PRA Previous Question Papers with Solutions for the better understanding of the question paper. Interested and eligible applicants can visit the official website of Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation @ www.lmrcl.com for more details regarding the LMRCL AM Previous Papers, LMRC Exam Dates, etc.
Download LMRC Previous Year Papers Pdf
If you are among the candidates who are looking for the LMRCL Previous Question Papers, then here you can find it. In the following section, we have updated the LMRC JE Model Papers. Applicants can also check the Answer Keys updated here. The LMRCL Jr Engineer Solved Question Papers will be helpful the aspirants applied for the exam. The officials are conducting written exam for various Posts. Therefore, applicants need to prepare well to score good marks and make themselves eligible for the next round. Hence, refer the following Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation Sample Papers with their Answers. Also, practice questions from the attached LMRCL Sample Papers.
The Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation Limited has recently circulated the employment notifications for the Junior Engineer, Assistant Manager, Public Relations Assistant & other various posts. There are various vacancies available for this post as per the LMRC 2020 Notification. Interested candidates can apply for the LMRC exam before the last date. As per the LMRCL Recruitment Notification, the board is selecting candidates based on their performance in Computer Based Test and Interview. Candidates who pass the CBT can attend the interview. Hence, it is important to practice the LMRCL Old Question Papers. To help the candidates, here we have also mentioned the LMRC Exam Pattern and LMRC 2020 Asst Manager Syllabus Pdf.
The selection process for Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation Limited is as follows,
Computer Based Test (CBT).
Interview.
Medical Exam.
Exam Pattern for the LMRCL Exam 2020 | JE, Asst Manager, PRA
Exam Type
Name of the Subjects
No of Questions / Marks
Duration
Objective Type Questions
English language
140
2 Hours
General Awareness & Computer Applications
Logical Ability
Quantitative Aptitude
Knowledge of the discipline/trade
Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation conducts exam in the upcoming months. Hence, it is important to check the LMRC Exam Pattern 2020. Here are the details of the LMRC Exam and we listed out the LMRC 2020 Syllabus & Exam Pattern. The detailed description of the LMRC Exam is as follows,
The LMRC exam conducted for 2 hours.
Maximum Marks for this exam is 140.
The total number of questions for the Lucknow Metro rail Corporation Exam is 140.
The exam type is objective.
The subjects for the exam includes English, General language, Logical Ability, Quantitative Aptitude, Knowledge of the discipline/trade.
Download Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation Sample Papers Pdf
The Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation Previous Papers is updated here in the following section. Hence, interested and eligible applicants can check the previous year papers here. Also, read the LMRC Syllabus to get the important topics. Practice well by referring the LMRCL Previous Question Papers with Solutions.
Direct Links to DOwnload the LMRCL Previous Question Papers in PDF format
TANGEDCO Notification 2020: Job Vacancies in Tamilnadu. TNEB TANGEDCO Job notice has been advertised recently to hire 600 candidates for Assistant Engineer posts. Eligible candidates who are willing to apply for TANGEDCO Jobs can apply via online mode. Candidates must know that the TANGEDCO Recruitment Apply Online Link will be LIVE from 24th January 2020. Interested candidates apply now to fulfil your dream career through TANGEDCO Latest Notification 2020. The last date to apply is on 24th February 2020.
TANGEDCO Assistant Engineer Recruitment 2020-21
TANGEDCO Recruitment 2020 is released to fulfil the sufficient vacancies of Assistant Engineers in the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board. Interested candidates who desire to apply for TANGEDCO TNEB Jobs must be eligible for the same. Scroll down to gather more details about TANGEDCO Recruitment Notification and also how to apply through the online application link.
Overview of TANGEDCO AE Jobs 2020
Name of the Organization
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO)
There are 600 vacancies for Assistant Engineer posts. These posts are divided according to the department. The department details of the vacancy as given in the TANGEDCO Recruitment 2020 is as below
Name of the Post
Number of Posts
Electrical
400
Mechanical
125
Civil
75
Total
600
Eligibility Criteria for TANGEDCO TNEB Recruitment 2020
Candidates interested in TANGEDCO Jobs can check their eligibility with the details below to apply online. Candidate must have completed Bachelors Degree and must be above the age of 50 to be eligible for TNEB Careers.
Academic Qualification:
Candidate must have completed Bachelors Degre in Engineering or must have passed in AMIE for relevant field
Read the official notification for more details on TANGEDCO Careers.
TANGEDCO Notification 2020: Good News!!! 1300 Job Vacancies in TNEB. TANGEDCO Job notice has been advertised recently to hire 1300 candidates for Accountant posts. Eligible candidates who are willing to apply for TANGEDCO Jobs can apply via online mode. Candidates must know that the TANGEDCO Recruitment Apply Online Link will be LIVE from 10th January 2020. Interested candidates apply now to fulfil your dream career through TANGEDCO Latest Notification 2020. The last date to apply is on 10th February 2020.
TANGEDCO Accountant Recruitment 2020-21
Interested candidates can get all details regarding TNEB Recruitment below. They can also refer to the official notification using the direct link given below. Candidates who are interested to apply can click on the TNEB TANGEDCO Apply Online Link provided below. Start applying now for TNEB Careers.
Overview of TANGEDCO Jobs 2020 | ஆன்லைனில் விண்ணப்பிக்கலாம்
Name of the Organization
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO)
About Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO):
The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO) which came to existence on 15th June 1983 is a Central Armed Police Force in India. It was set up under an Act of the Parliament of India on 10 March 1969 with a strength of 2,800. TANGEDCO was subsequently made an armed force of the Republic of India by another Act of Parliament passed on 15 June 1983. Its current active strength is 1,44,418 personnel. In April 2019, the government raised the sanctioned strength from 145,000 to 180,000 personnel. It is directly under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and its headquarters is in New Delhi.
The TANGEDCO provides security cover to 300 industrial units, government infrastructure projects and facilities and establishments located all over India. Industrial sectors like atomic power plants, space installations, mints, oil fields and refineries, major ports, heavy engineering, steel plants, barrages, fertiliser units, airports and hydroelectric/thermal power plants owned and controlled by Central Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), and currency note presses producing Indian currency are protected by TANGEDCO. It thereby covers installations all over India straddling a variety of terrain and climatic conditions.
Know more about TNEB TANGEDCO:
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited has three branches, the executive branch, Ministerial branch, and Fire Service branch. Each branch headed by Director General, the enrolled personnel and Supervisory officers. Central Industrial Security is highly specialized, trained & well-equipped for providing internal security services. The Gazette rank officers in the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO) are the Director-General, Additional Director General, Deputy Inspector General, Inspector General, Additional Deputy Inspector General, Assistant Commandant, Commandant, Deputy Commandant.
Other than them all other non-gazette officers are in the equal ranking as other Indian Police Forces. The non-gazette officers are Inspector, Subeditor major, Sub-Inspector, Head Assistant Sub Inspector, Assistant Sub-Inspector, Assistant Sub Inspectors and followers. Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited offer a wide spread of opportunity to the candidates who are searching for the central government job in the internal security sectors.
TNFUSRC Syllabus – Are you looking for TN Forest Guard Syllabus 2020? At that point, you are in the correct place to get completed details about Tamil Nadu Forest Watcher Syllabus. Here we have experience the whole article to help the candidates better check about the Syllabus & Exam Pattern for the Forest Guard post. Tamil Nadu Forest Uniformed Services Recruitment Committee will announce the exam date in the upcoming months. Interested applicants keep in track with this article to get every update.
Hopeful candidates who have passed in 10+2 examination can try out for this TN Govt Job. Further, check the below section to know the test subtitles of the Tamil Nadu Forest Guard Exam. Go through the entire page to score better marks in the exam and get selected for the Forest Guard Post.
Tamil Nadu Forest Guard Exam – Overview
Organization Name
Tamil Nadu Forest Uniformed Services Recruitment Committee (TNFUSRC)
Commissionarate of Health & Family Welfare, Andhra Pradesh Board released recruitment notification to fill various Mid Level Health Provider posts. Applicants who have applied for AP MLHP exam 2020 need to start preparing for the exam as soon as possible. The Board has released the exam date and it is scheduled to be conducted in the upcoming months. Candidates can go through entire article to know more information about CFW AP MLHP previous year papers and also exam papers pdf. Also, check for AP MLHP syllabus & exam pattern pdf.
Aspirants can download Andhra Pradesh CFW MLHP solved papers to sole as many papers as possible. Solving many papers helps in improving time management skill. Before starting to prepare for the exam, Get to know about exam pattern that helps to understand structure of the exam and the type of questions asked in the exam.
AP MLHP Model Exam Paper – Details
Description
Details
Organization Name
Commissionarate of Health & Family Welfare, Andhra Pradesh
The selection process of the Commissionarate of Health & Family Welfare, Andhra Pradesh comprises two successive stages. All the aspirants must know the CFW AP MLHP Selection Procedures given below.
Written Examination
Interview
CFW AP Mid Level Health Provider Exam Pattern 2020
Name of the Subject
Number of Questions
Time Duration
Anatomy
200
180 minutes
Sociology
Physiology
Pharmacology
Nutrition
Pathology and Genetics
Biochemistry
Medical-Surgical Nursing
Nursing Foundation
Psychology
Communication and Educational Technology
Microbiology
Midwifery and Obstetrical Nursing
Introduction to Computer
Community Health Nursing
English
Nursing Research and Statistics
Management of Nursing Services and Education
Child Health Nursing
Mental Health Nursing
Type of Examination: Multiple Choice Questions
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Andhra Pradesh Mid Level Health Provider Exam Paper
VTU Results 2020 DeclaredDear Students !!! The Visvesvaraya Technological University has released the VTU Result 2020 @ vturesults.ac.in. Get Ph.D. course work, M.Tech (Viva-Voce) and recently released VTU Results 2020 here. Students who have appeared for the Exams can check the results from the official website of the University i.e, vtu.ac.in. Here, we used to update all the regular, supplementary exam results for various courses that are offered by the Visvesvaraya Technological University. Students can get all the updated information regarding the University Examination Results from this page recruitment.guru. All the students keep connected with this page to get the Latest VTU Results 2020.
The Visvesvaraya Technological University has conducted various Examinations for the students, currently, the Visvesvaraya Technological University has published the Ph.D. course work and M.Tech (Viva-Voce) Result. Here we have provided a direct link to download the VTU Results 2020. Also on the official website Students can get the results for CBCS and Non-CBCS. Apart from the result links applicants can find the steps to check the VTU Results 2020, VTU CBCS Results, VTU Non-CBCS Results and More.
Visvesvaraya Technological University is a collegiate Public State University in Karnataka State of the Republic of India, established by the Government of Karnataka. Apart from a few notable exceptions, VTU has authority over engineering education all over the state of Karnataka. It is a statutory requirement for colleges offering any program in engineering in the state to be affiliated with the university. VTU is one of the largest universities in India with 212 colleges affiliated to it with an intake capacity of over 467,100 undergraduate students, 12,666 postgraduate students and also 1800 Ph.D. Candidates. The university encompasses technical and management fields that offer 30 undergraduate, 71 postgraduate courses.
VTU Revaluation Results
Students, those who have not cleared/ got low marks the University examinations can apply for the Revaluation. This is is a chance for the students to increase their marks in subjects in which they have scored low marks. If students have written the main exam well and still got a low score. Then you can go for the revaluation process where your exam papers re-evaluated. Currently, the University has released the revaluation results for UG, PG with all-region Students. So Students can check the Revaluation Results from this page. We have attached the direct link to get the Supply/Revaluation Results.
WBSSC Asst Teacher Syllabus 2020 Pdf is available here to download. Candidates who have applied for the West Bengal School Service Commission Recruitment can get the West Bengal SSC Asst Teacher Class V-VIII, IX – X & XI-XII Syllabus on this Page. Download the WBSSC Syllabus 2020 Pdf for Assistant Teacher Jobs from the below Sections.
WBSSC Asst Teacher Syllabus 2020 Pdf
The West Bengal SSC Recruitment candidates will be searching for the West Bengal School Service Commission Syllabus. The WBSSC Asst Teacher Syllabus is provided here. Download WBSSC Syllabus 2020 on this page at a free cost. Check the Assistant Teacher Class V-VIII, IX-X & XI-XII Syllabus, and Exam Pattern before starting your preparation for the Exam. Without proper preparation, you cannot perform well in the Examination. Therefore the West Bengal V-VIII, IX-X & XI-XII Assistant Teacher Syllabus is mandatory & very important for theExamination. With the Provided West Bengal SSC Exam Syllabus & Pattern, Aspirants can score good marks. Everyone knows written Examination is the main part for the Assistant Teacher selection. For this Purpose, we provided the West Bengal School Service Commission SLST Syllabus 2020 & Previous Papers for proper preparation.
The West Bengal School Service Commission has released a Recruitment Notification to fill Various Assistant Teacher Posts for Class V-VIII, Class IX – X & Class XI-XII. Candidates who are Interested in Teaching Jobs have used this Notification. All Eligible Candidates applied for this West Bengal SSC SLST Exam before the Last Date. To know more details regarding this Exam visit the Official Site – www.westbengalssc.com
West Bengal SSC V-VIII (Upper Primary) Syllabus 2020
The various subjects that are included under the Upper Primary Level are mentioned below.
First Language
Second Language (English)
Bioscience
Pure Science
History
Geography
Physical Education
Work Education
WBSSC IX – X Class/ Secondary Level Syllabus for Asst Teacher Post
The various subjects of West Bengal SSC Secondary Level written test are enclosed here. Please Check the given WBSSC syllabus and also topics once before going to start your Exam preparation.
WBSSC Syllabus Bengali Hons – BENGALI (GRAD)
School Service Commission Syllabus English Honours – ENGLISH (GRAD)
West Bengal School Service Commission Syllabus – HINDI (GRAD)
WBSSC Syllabus – NEPALI (GRAD)
WBSSC SLST Asst Teacher Syllabus – ORIYA (GRAD)
West Bengal SSC SLST Syllabus – SANTHALI (GRAD)
West Bengal SSC Syllabus – TELEGU (GRAD)
Urdu (Grad)
History (Grad)
Geography(Grad)
Mathematics(Grad)
Physical Science(Grad)
Life Science(Grad)
WBSSC Class XI-XII/ Higher Level Syllabus 2020
The various subjects of West Bengal SSC Higher Level written test are enclosed here. Please Check the given syllabus and also topics once before going to start the test preparation.
Bihar Police Syllabus 2020 Pdf: Bihar Police Department is going to conduct written examination for various posts in the upcoming months. In the article, you can get the details of Sub Inspector (SI), Forest Guard, Steno Assistant Sub Inspector & Other Syllabus and Exam Pattern. Candidates can get here the subject wise topic details of every post, so go through the below-mentioned links
Great news for the aspirants who are residing in Bihar as they can apply for the various posts released. And to get into these posts candidates need to undergo the Written Examination for which we have provided here the detailed syllabus. Aspirants can download the Syllabus Pdf at the end of every post, also you can get the download links for the Previous Papers.
Here is important news for the candidates looking for Bihar Police Constable Syllabus Pdf. We have updated here the latest syllabus for Constable posts. Therefore, interested applicants are requested to go through the complete article and download the Bihar Police Constable Exam Syllabus 2020 for better preparation. We have also provided the Latest Bihar Police Constable Exam Pattern 2020. Hence, without wasting time check the entire details here.
Bihar Police Constable Exam Details
Name of the Board
Bihar Police Department
Name of the Posts
Constable
No. of Vacancies
11880
Category
Syllabus
Job Location
Bihar
Bihar Police Constable Exam Date 2020
12th January to 19th January 2020
Official Website
bpssc.bih.nic.in
Selection Process:
Written Examination.
Physical Test.
Bihar Police SSC Police Constable Exam Pattern 2020 Pdf
Subjects
No. of Questions
Total Marks
Time Duration
Hindi
50
50
2 hours
English
General Knowledge
Current Affairs
Choose any two subjects from the following
Maths
25 + 25
50
Physics
Chemistry
Zoology
History
Geography
Political Science & Economy
Questions are Objective Type Multiple-choice Questions.
Each Question Carries 1 Mark.
Total Maximum marks are 100 marks.
There is no negative marking in the exam
Therefore, after checking the Exam Pattern subject wise syllabus is available to check and use them in the preparation of the exam.
CSBC Bihar Police Constable Syllabus – English:
Synonyms and Antonyms.
Spelling.
Tense: Kinds of tense and their usages.
Adverb
Preposition
Interjection.
Subject: Verb Agreement.
Pronoun.
Reading Comprehension.
Adjective.
Idioms & Phrases.
Parts of Speech.
Common Errors.
Gender: Masculine and Feminine.
Singular & Plural.
Bihar Police Constable Syllabus – Hindi:
पर्यायवाची.
अलंकार, रस.
तत्सम एवं तद्भव.
वाक्याशों के लिये एक शब्द निर्माण.
विलोम,समास.
वाक्यसंशोधन- लिंग, वचन, कारक, काल, वर्तनी, त्रुटि से संबंधित.
Looking for the BPSSC Sub Inspector (SI) Syllabus? If yes, you’ve come to the right place. As you know, the Bihar Police Department conducts a written exam to recruit eligible candidates for the post of Sub Inspector. Hence, the candidates have to start their exam preparation as early as possible, so that you can organize a study and complete the topics given in the Bihar Police Daroga SI Syllabus before the exam. Refer this article to get the complete details of Bihar Police Sub Inspector (SI) Syllabus and Exam Pattern. Moreover, you can also get the exam dates, links for BPSSC Bihar Police SI Previous Papers.
BPSSC SI Syllabus 2020 – www.bpssc.bih.nic.in
Description
Details
Board Name
Bihar Police Department or Bihar Police Subordinate Services Commission (BPSSC)
The Bihar Police Department or Bihar Police Subordinate Services Commission (BPSSC) conducts the following recruitment procedure,
Selection Process for BPSSC SI Exam
Written Exam (Prelims & Mains)
Physical Fitness Test
Interview
Bihar Police Sub Inspector Exam Pattern
The BPSSC SI written exam has both prelims and Mains. Following are the Bihar Police SI Prelims and Mains Exam Pattern,
Bihar Police Sub Inspector (SI) Prelims Exam Pattern
The BPSSC SI Exam Pattern for Prelims examination is as follows,
Subject Name
No. of Questions
Marks
General Knowledge (GK), Current Events
100 Questions
200 Marks
It is an objective type of exam
There will be 100 questions for 200 marks
Bihar Police Sub Inspector Mains Exam Pattern
The Bihar Police SI Exam Pattern for Mains Examination is as follows,
Subject
No. of Questions
Marks
General Hindi
100
200
General Studies, Civics, General Science(GS), Indian History, Geography of India, Mathematics and Mental Ability Test
100
200
It consists of two papers (Paper I and II)
The subjects include are General Hindi, General Studies, Civics, General Science (GS), Indian History, Geography of India, Mathematics and Mental Ability Test
There will be 100 questions from each paper for a total of 400 marks
Download Bihar Inspector Syllabus 2020
BPSSC SI Syllabus and Exam Pattern are mentioned in this article. Aspirants who have applied for the Bihar Police SI Exam can check the Bihar Police Sub Inspector Syllabus below. And, check the BPSSC Sub Inspector Exam Pattern. Why because knowing the exam pattern helps to know where to concentrate more. Have a look at the Bihar Police Sub Inspector Syllabus in the following section.
BPSSC SI Syllabus 2020 for General Knowledge and Current Events
Defense
Soil, Rivers
Mountains
Ports
Common Names
Award and Authors.
Full forms and Abbreviations
Discoveries
Diseases and Nutrition
Capitals and Currencies
National : Bird/ Animal/ Sport/ Flower/ Anthem/ Song/ Flag/ Monuments
Eminent Personalities
Culture and Religion
Inland Harbours
Freedom Movement
Sports : championships/ Winners/ Terms /No. of Players
Languages
Wars and Neighbours
Current Affairs
Important National Facts about India
Heritage and Arts, Dance, History
Bihar Police Daroga SI Syllabus in Hindi 2020 – General Hindi
विपरीतार्थक (विलोम) शब्द
सामासिक पदों की रचना और समास विग्रह
उपसर्ग
संधि और संधि विच्छेद
प्रत्यय
वाच्य: कर्तृवाच्य, कर्मवाच्य और भाववाच्य प्रयोग
क्रिय ा: सकर्मक, अकर्मक और पूर्वकालिक क्रियाएँ
मुहावरे और लोकोक्तियाँ
अंग्रेजी के पारिभाषिक (तकनीकी) शब्दों के समानार्थक हिंदी शब्द
पर्यायवाची शब्द
वाक्य-शुद्ध ि: अशुद्ध वाक्यों का शुद्धिकरण और वाक्यगत अशुद्धि का कारण
अनेकार्थक शब्द
शब्द-युग्म
संज्ञा शब्दों से विशेषण बनाना
शब्द-शुद्ध ि: अशुद्ध शब्दों का शुद्धिकरण और शब्दगत अशुद्धि का कारण
कार्यालयी पत्रों से संबंधित ज्ञान
सरल, संयुक्त और मिश्र अंग्रेजी वाक्यों का हिंदी में रूपांतरण और हिंदी वाक्यों का अंग्रेजी में रूपांतरण
वाक्यांश के लिए एक सार्थक शब्द
BPSSC Bihar Sub Inspector (SI) Syllabus 2020 for General Studies
A question will be asked from Indian History
Indian Polity
Geography
Current Events
Economy
Current national & International events, banking, sports, etc.
Bihar Police Department SI Exam 2020 Syllabus for General Science
Indian History
Indian Polity
Current Events
Geography
Economy
Current national & International events, banking, sports, etc.
Syllabus for BPSSC SI Civics, Indian History, Geography of India
Economic aspects
Culture
Environment
Indian Constitution & Polity
Freedom Movement
Major features of Indian Agriculture & Natural Resources
Community development and five years Plan.
Panchayati Raj
Geography
History
General Knowledge of the Geographical
Bihar Police Sub Inspector Exam Syllabus 2020 for Mathematics
Time & Work
Area
Profit & Loss
Average
Percentage
Simplification
HCF LCM
Pictorial Graph
Investment
Problem On Ages
Bar Graph
Simple & Compound Interest
Time & Speed
Pie Chart and Data Interpretation etc.
www.biharpolice.bih.nic.in SI Syllabus 2020 for Mental Ability Test
Visual memory
Similarities and differences
Discriminating observation
Verbal and figure classification
Arithmetical number series
Analogies
Problem-solving
Relationship concepts
Analysis
Space visualization
Judgment
Decision-making
Non-verbal series etc.
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Recently Bihar Police has released the vacancies for the posts of Forest Guard for the eligible aspirants out there. Interested candidates who are applying for the posts can get here the complete Syllabus Details as well as the Exam Pattern. So, go through the full article to get details like Exam Dates, Question Papers, Test Pattern, etc.
Bihar Forest Guard Syllabus Pdf 2020 – Overview
Description
Details
Board Name
Bihar Police Department or Bihar Police Subordinate Services Commission (BPSSC)
Selection Process for CSBC Bihar Forest Guard Syllabus
Candidates applying for the post of Bihar Forest Guard need to undergo the following selection criteria:
Written Examination
Medical/Physical Fitness Test
Interview
Bihar Forest Guard Exam Pattern
Part
No. of Questions
Marks
Part-1
30
120
Part-2
25
100
Part-3
25
100
Part-4
20
80
Total
100 Questions
400 Marks
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Bihar Police Forest Guard Syllabus 2020 – Part 1
Current events of national and international importance
History of India and Indian National Movement.
Geography-Physical, Social, Economic Geography of Bihar, India and the World.
Indian Polity and Governance – Constitution, Political System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues, etc.
Economic and Social Development – Sustainable Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics, Social Sector Initiatives, etc.
Bihar Police Syllabus 2020 – Part 2
Basic numeracy (numbers and their relation, orders of magnitude, etc.) – (Matriculation or equivalent level), Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency, etc,- Matriculation or equivalent level).
Logical reasoning and analytical ability.
General mental ability.
BPSSC Forest Guard Syllabus 2020 – Part 3
General science – (Matriculation or equivalent level)
General issues on Environment, Ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change – that do not require subject specialization.
Bihar Police Department Exam Syllabus 2020 – Part 4
Knowledge of Hindi language – The aim of the paper is to test the candidate’s ability to read and understand serious discursive prose, and to express his ideas clearly and correctly in the language. (i) Comprehension of given passages. (ii) Usage and Vocabulary. (iii) Hindi Grammar.
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Bihar Police Steno ASI Syllabus 2020
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Bihar Police Steno ASI Syllabus 2020 – Overview
Description
Details
Board Name
Bihar Police Department or Bihar Police Subordinate Services Commission (BPSSC)
Post Name
Steno Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI)
Vacancies
Various
Post Category
Syllabus
Official Site
www.bpssc.bih.nic.in
The Bihar Police Department conducts the following recruitment procedure,
Selection Process for BPSSC ASI Exam
Preliminary Examination
Mains Examination/Skill Test
Personal Interview
Bihar Police ASI Exam Pattern 2020
Here is the detailed Exam for the BPSSC Prelims and Mains Exam,
Bihar Police Syllabus – BPSSC ASI Prelims Exam Pattern 2020
Check the Bihar Police Steno ASI Exam Pattern for Preliminary Examination,
Names of Subjects
Total no. of questions
Maximum Marks
Time Duration
General Knowledge
100
100
90 Minutes
Contemporary Issues
It is an objective type of exam.
The subjects include General Knowledge and Contemporary issues
There will be 100 questions in total for 100 marks
Each question carries 1 mark and 0.2 negative markings for each wrong answer
The time duration to complete the exam is 90 minutes.
Bihar Police Syllabus 2020 Pdf – BPSSC ASI Steno Test Pattern
Following are the Bihar Police Steno & ASI Exam Pattern for Mains Examination,
Subjects
Total Questions
Total Marks
Duration
General Science
100 Questions
100 Marks
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Mathematics
Civics
General Hindi
Indian History
Mental Ability
General Studies
Geography
It is an objective type of exam.
The subjects include General Science, Mathematics, Civics, General Hindi, Indian History, Mental Ability, General Studies, and Geography.
There will be 100 questions in total for 100 marks.
Each question carries 1 mark and 0.2 negative markings for each wrong answer.
The time duration to complete the exam is 1 hour 30 minutes.
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Bihar Police Syllabus 2020 for General Knowledge
Freedom Movement
Capitals and Currencies
Full forms and Abbreviations
Dance
Sports
Eminent Personalities
Soil, Rivers
Current Affairs
Important National Facts about India
Heritage and Arts
National Bird
Culture and Religion
Award and Authors
Discoveries
Diseases and Nutrition
History
Common Names
BPSSC ASI Steno Syllabus 2020 for Indian History
Architecture
The First Empire
Rural Life and Society
India After Independence
Political Developments
Women and reform
The Nationalist Movement
Social Change
The Establishment of Company Power
Colonialism and Tribal Societies
Sultans of Delhi
Culture and Science
Contacts with Distant Lands
Regional Cultures
New Kings and Kingdoms
Challenging the Caste System
Creation of an Empire
Bihar Police ASI Syllabus 2020 for General Science
Motion
Light
Compounds
Sources of energy
Acids, base, salt
Environmental concerns; regional & national
The Universe
Soil
Pollution
Molecule
Carbon
Metals & Nonmetals
Work & Energy
The structure of Atom
Electric current and circuits
Change of matter
Magnets & magnetism
Natural Phenomena
Natural Resources
Bihar Police ASI Exam Syllabus 2020 for Geography
Air
Resources: Types- Natural and Human
Geography as a social study and as a science
Human Environment: settlement, transport, and communication
The environment in its totality: natural and human environment
Agriculture
Planet: Earth in the solar system
Globe
Water
Bihar Police Syllabus 2020 for Hindi
तत्सम एवं तद्भव
वाक्यसंशोधन- लिंग, वचन, कारक, काल, वर्तनी, त्रुटि से संबंधित
वाक्याशों के लिये एक शब्द निर्माण
विलोम,समास
पर्यायवाची
अलंकार, रस
संधियां
लोकोक्तियां एवं मुहावरे
अनेकार्थी शब्द
BPSSC ASI Steno Syllabus 2020 for Civics
Unpacking Gender
Parliamentary Government
Local Government
Making a Living
Diversity
State Government
Social Justice and the Marginalised
Democracy
The Constitution
The Judiciary
Government
Understanding Media
Bihar Police Syllabus 2020 Pdf for Mathematics
Constructions
Number System
Negative Numbers and Integers
Mensuration
Introduction to Algebra
Quadrilateral
Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)
Cube root Profit & Loss
Fractions Exponents
Compound Interest Discount
Whole Numbers
Symmetry
Data handling, statistics
Understanding Elementary Shapes
Ratio and Proportion
Algebra
Geometry
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TANGEDCO Gangman Exam Syllabus 2020 – Overview
Description
Details
Name of the Organization
Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB)-Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Ltd (TANGEDCO)
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TANGEDCO Gangman Exam Pattern 2020
Name of the Subject
Number of Questions
Number of Marks
Part I
40
40
Part II
60
60
Total
100
100 Marks
Time Duration: 2 Hours
Type of Examination: Objective Type Question Paper
NOTE:
Marks will not be deducted for the questions left unanswered.
To use blue or black ink Ball Point Pen only.
Multiple shading will be considered as the wrong answer.
The answer sheet will be invalidated if shaded in Pencil.
The answer sheet will be invalidated if the box for Booklet Series is not shaded and could not be identified even by physical verification of the answer sheet.
Selection Procedures:
Here, only the most desirable candidates are going to hold a job in the Tamilnadu Electricity Board. To hold a job as Gangman post aspirants must qualify in all the selection process. They are,
Written exam
Physical Measurement Test (PMT)
Document Verification
Viva-Voice
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PART – I
TANGEDCO Syllabus of Engineering Mathematics
Determinants and Matrices
Solving system of equations
The rank of the Matrix
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Reduction of quadratic form to canonical form
Calculus and Differential Equations
Partial derivatives
Jacobians
Taylor's expansion
Maxima and Minima
Linear ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients
Simultaneous first order linear equations with constant coefficients
Formation of the partial differential equation (PDE)
The solution of first-order PDE
The solution of linear higher order PDE with constant coefficients
Vector Calculus
Double and triple integrations and their applications
Gradient, Divergence, Curl and Laplacian
Green's Gauss divergence and Stroke's theorem.
Functions of Complex Variables and Complex Integration
Analytic functions
Conformal Mapping
Bilinear transformation
Cauchy's integral theorem and integral formula
Taylor and Laurent Series
Singularities
Residues
Residue theorem and its applications
Transforms
Laplace Transform
Inverse transforms
Application to solution of linear ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients
Fourier integral theorem
Fourier transform pair
Sine and Cosine transforms
Inverse Z transform
The solution of difference equations using Z transform.
Numerical Methods
The solution of the linear system by direct and iterative methods
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Name of the Organisation
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Vijay Shekar Sharma revolutionised digital payments in India with Paytm. It has invested thousands of crores to keep its dominance in the digital space. But it's not profitable yet. In an interview with Saloni Shukla and Ashwin Manikandan, Sharma speaks about how he expects the industry to evolve. Edited excerpts:You've launched an all-India single QR-based acceptance solution for all retail payment instruments without any fee. Would products like these be the norm in the zero-MDR regime?Last year we signed up 15 million merchants, of which nearly 10 million are active. The pace of digitisation is gaining acceleration which means people are way more comfortable understanding mobile-based payments and they understand the difference between a card, a wallet, and UPI. We saw an incredible opportunity to bring in an all-in-one product: single QR, that can solve problems in the acceptance of wallet, UPI and RuPay cards where merchants would be able to bring in an unlimited amount of money at zero fee. This is an unprecedented opportunity and we've launched this within a week of the government brought a notification on zero MDR.In 2019, your costs for acquiring new merchants exceeded your revenue, contributing heavily to your losses. Will this be how you conduct your business in the next few years?Last year, we announced Rs 10,000 crore worth of investments for the next few years which are primarily for customer acquisition and merchant onboarding. Consumers are becoming a lot savvier. An average customer is doing more than 10 financial transactions a month which is huge. Mobile payments are becoming mainstream and we are taking it to the masses. There is an immense opportunity in providing our customer base with value-added financial services.When do you expect to make profits?I think time will tell. I call our investments as infrastructural change where a customer comes in and their habits change, becoming more active in the ecosystem. So, I think this is as a long-term project to build what we're building and it is very valuable to build what we're building. You've seen wherever our products have reached, they bring huge value to everyone involved including the consumers, the merchants, the regulators and the government.Listing plans?The short answer is that we won't list Paytm before it becomes profitable and once you're profitable what is the need to list it?How do you envisage the MDR waiver to impact the payments industry?MDR is split between three parties: the bank that issues the card, the payment network and the acquirer bank. In this system, the largest chunk of fees, over 75%, goes to the issuing bank. The business models of intermediaries are sustaining on the fraction they're getting on these transactions. But companies like us who are using a large part of it on investments to cover these costs can take care of that. Because anyway, the standalone fee that you get on payments is not ample enough to sustain many of these businesses.While I am on the side of MDR becoming zero being a good thing for the merchant, the government should reimburse people who are acquiring merchants. If you look at Paytm's merchant acquisition model, it has come at the cost of our equity. And we have invested Rs 15,000 crore in the past.What do you think is the way out for these companies?I believe zero MDR for the growth of the industry can work out very well, but for us and other payment companies it would be better if the government reimburses. Right now, only those who have the risk capital of that size can expand. We all are trying to represent through regulators to put this point forward, but now this is a law. The ultimate decision on this matter lies with the parliament. Zero percent MDR with reimbursement would be an ideal move.What is the future of Paytm Payments Bank?The payment bank model is primarily a payment-led revenue model. Zero MDR takes away the profitability. An SFB licence will allow us to access a larger set of financial services. It'll add for us a few more revenue lines such as term deposits and treasury revenue.Primary revenue business today for PPB comes from the MDR on transactions and treasury income. We do believe, however, that these two for the long term for a large bank is not sustainable. SFB is a wholesome meal where the payment bank is a fast food brand; you can have it but not for a sustained period!Five-year timeline to convert to SFB?While payment banks don't bring in too many revenue lines, it is a very good model to acquire customers and bring them into the formal economy.But a bank itself can become more sustainable, scalable and profitable once it becomes an SFB and that's why we have shown an open interest. The five-year timeline was a surprise to us when it was communicated to us. However, we'll remain committed.Has India's digital growth plateaued a bit?The volume has increased only by 35%, which is not as high as when it was growing at a factor of 1,000 a few years ago. But it is to be noted that the growth is on a higher base and much more sustainable and more assured. More industry players and stronger fundamentals. Any which way, the business of digitisation of retail and wholesale payments will allow incremental addition of financial services to reach places where they have not.What about rising competition?We have been here since 2008 and a host of companies have come and gone. Which one are you talking about? I have a simple understanding. If we have a business with an incredible amount of customer edge, we'll build on that.
MUMBAI: The spouse and sons of Mahendra Agarwal, the promoter of listed logistics firm Gati, have approached the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) against him for alleged oppression and mismanagement in the company and have sought reconstitution of the board.Brothers Dhruv and Manish with their mother Neera Agarwal approached the Hyderabad bench of the NCLT seeking tribunal's intervention in the affairs of the company. They filed two separate petitions for Gati and TCI Finance, where Mahendra Agarwal is the promoter."Almost every single share in our father's control, including those in the name of private companies, is pledged to lenders," said Manish Agarwal, the younger son of Mahendra Agarwal. "So he is not an owner of the company in the true sense and it is very difficult for us as shareholders to repose our confidence in his decisions." The cases have been filed by Neera & Children Trust that holds shares of Mahendra Agarwal's wife and two sons.The plea estimated fair valuation of Gati, including all its investments, businesses and immovable assets on a conservative basis to be not less than Rs 2,000 crore. However, the petitioners said in the proposed transaction with Allcargo, Gati is valued at only approximately Rs 915 crore."How can the board of Gati approve or even consider a deal where the company is being valued at only Rs 915 crore, when they know that the fair value of the company as of November 2018 is at least Rs 2, 000 crore," Agarwals said in their plea.Shareholders of Gati on Wednesday voted in favour of a resolution for preferential allotment of shares to Allcargo. Around 87% of the voters in the EGM voted for the resolution.Similarly, in the case of TCI Finance, too, they have sought reprieve for oppression and mismanagement seeking interim reliefs injunction on the sale of properties of TCI Finance including shares of Gati.They have also sought that Mahendra Kumar Agarwal and Meera Madhusudhan Singh be removed as directors, an investigation into the affairs of the company and re-opening of its books of accounts.Neither Gati nor TCI Finance responded to an ET email seeking comments for this story. "We are seeking an order of injunction preventing TCI Finance from selling shares it owns in Gati, which is approximately 4% of Gati Limited."On December 19, the junior Agarwals had requested capital markets regulator Securities & Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to restrain an open offer from Allcargo to purchase additional shares of Gati citing various cases against Agarwal and a recent court mandate to attach his shares.In a letter to an official at the Sebi, Neera Agarwal and her sons cited a Hyderabad court order on December 5 to attach 1.6 million shares of the Gati founder Mahendra Agarwal that the latter sought to sell to Allcargo through an open offer."Once the board is reconstituted, we can reexamine whether such a deal is in the interest of shareholders. Our only motive is that we are really concerned as shareholders and are interested in maximising the value of our own shares," Manish Agarwal said.
Vijay Shekar Sharma revolutionised digital payments in India with Paytm. It has invested thousands of crores to keep its dominance in the digital space. But it's not profitable yet. In an interview with Saloni Shukla and Ashwin Manikandan, Sharma speaks about how he expects the industry to evolve. Edited excerpts:You've launched an all-India single QR-based acceptance solution for all retail payment instruments without any fee. Would products like these be the norm in the zero-MDR regime?Last year we signed up 15 million merchants, of which nearly 10 million are active. The pace of digitisation is gaining acceleration which means people are way more comfortable understanding mobile-based payments and they understand the difference between a card, a wallet, and UPI. We saw an incredible opportunity to bring in an all-in-one product: single QR, that can solve problems in the acceptance of wallet, UPI and RuPay cards where merchants would be able to bring in an unlimited amount of money at zero fee. This is an unprecedented opportunity and we've launched this within a week of the government brought a notification on zero MDR.In 2019, your costs for acquiring new merchants exceeded your revenue, contributing heavily to your losses. Will this be how you conduct your business in the next few years?Last year, we announced Rs 10,000 crore worth of investments for the next few years which are primarily for customer acquisition and merchant onboarding. Consumers are becoming a lot savvier. An average customer is doing more than 10 financial transactions a month which is huge. Mobile payments are becoming mainstream and we are taking it to the masses. There is an immense opportunity in providing our customer base with value-added financial services.When do you expect to make profits?I think time will tell. I call our investments as infrastructural change where a customer comes in and their habits change, becoming more active in the ecosystem. So, I think this is as a long-term project to build what we're building and it is very valuable to build what we're building. You've seen wherever our products have reached, they bring huge value to everyone involved including the consumers, the merchants, the regulators and the government.Listing plans?The short answer is that we won't list Paytm before it becomes profitable and once you're profitable what is the need to list it?How do you envisage the MDR waiver to impact the payments industry?MDR is split between three parties: the bank that issues the card, the payment network and the acquirer bank. In this system, the largest chunk of fees, over 75%, goes to the issuing bank. The business models of intermediaries are sustaining on the fraction they're getting on these transactions. But companies like us who are using a large part of it on investments to cover these costs can take care of that. Because anyway, the standalone fee that you get on payments is not ample enough to sustain many of these businesses.While I am on the side of MDR becoming zero being a good thing for the merchant, the government should reimburse people who are acquiring merchants. If you look at Paytm's merchant acquisition model, it has come at the cost of our equity. And we have invested Rs 15,000 crore in the past.What do you think is the way out for these companies?I believe zero MDR for the growth of the industry can work out very well, but for us and other payment companies it would be better if the government reimburses. Right now, only those who have the risk capital of that size can expand. We all are trying to represent through regulators to put this point forward, but now this is a law. The ultimate decision on this matter lies with the parliament. Zero percent MDR with reimbursement would be an ideal move.What is the future of Paytm Payments Bank?The payment bank model is primarily a payment-led revenue model. Zero MDR takes away the profitability. An SFB licence will allow us to access a larger set of financial services. It'll add for us a few more revenue lines such as term deposits and treasury revenue.Primary revenue business today for PPB comes from the MDR on transactions and treasury income. We do believe, however, that these two for the long term for a large bank is not sustainable. SFB is a wholesome meal where the payment bank is a fast food brand; you can have it but not for a sustained period!Five-year timeline to convert to SFB?While payment banks don't bring in too many revenue lines, it is a very good model to acquire customers and bring them into the formal economy.But a bank itself can become more sustainable, scalable and profitable once it becomes an SFB and that's why we have shown an open interest. The five-year timeline was a surprise to us when it was communicated to us. However, we'll remain committed.Has India's digital growth plateaued a bit?The volume has increased only by 35%, which is not as high as when it was growing at a factor of 1,000 a few years ago. But it is to be noted that the growth is on a higher base and much more sustainable and more assured. More industry players and stronger fundamentals. Any which way, the business of digitisation of retail and wholesale payments will allow incremental addition of financial services to reach places where they have not.What about rising competition?We have been here since 2008 and a host of companies have come and gone. Which one are you talking about? I have a simple understanding. If we have a business with an incredible amount of customer edge, we'll build on that.
Automobile stocks are unlikely to offer healthy returns for investors unless there is a V-shaped recovery in demand in 2020, said HSBC. "2019 was the weakest year for Indian autos in decades. Weak macros, tight liquidity, uncertainty around tax stimulus and regulations all impacted demand," said the brokerage's analysts Yogesh Aggarwal, Vivek Gedda and Kushan Parikh in a client note. HSBC said sales could bounce back in 2020, particularly for passenger vehicles but the 'demand pull remains mediocre at best'. The brokerage prefers Bajaj Auto, Mahindra & Mahindra and Escorts in the sector. — Our BureauBAJAJ AUTOCMP: Rs 3,060Target Price: Rs 3,600Expected Returns : 18%HSBC has maintained its buy rating on the stock on the grounds that Bajaj is a defensive company with a strong export portfolio, which is not impacted by emissions and safety regulations. "We lower our FY21e (estimated) earnings estimates by 2% as we factor in lower volumes led by weak demand," the brokerage's analysts said.M&MCMP: Rs 524Target Price: Rs 780Expected Returns : 49%HSBC has maintained its buy rating on M&M as its target price implies a 49% jump in shares. The brokerage highlighted weak demand, higher competition, and, subsequently, low growth expectations for M&M. "We lower our FY21e earnings estimates by 3% as we factor in lower volumes, led by a weak demand environment," the analysts said.ESCORTSCMP: Rs 613Target Price: Rs 830Expected Returns : 35%The brokerage has valued the stock at 15 times 12-month forward price to earnings (PE) ratio, a 15% premium to the 5-year historical average owing to strong operating performance and improvement in return on equity (ROE) expected over the medium term. "Current valuations at 10 times FY21e (estimated) earnings are attractive in our view," the analysts said.Target price is by HSBC | Expected returns based on HSBC target price
At the corporate level, governance standards need to improve to regain investor confidence, says Deepak Mittal, CEO, ECL Finance, speaking on the sidelines of Edelweiss Credit Conclave 2020. Lending institutions also need to expand their reach, dispensing credit to deserving borrowers, he said in an interview with Saikat Das. Edited excerpts:Why is demand for credit muted?Demand for credit is linked to confidence and economic outlook. We have witnessed a slowdown in the economy and entrepreneurs are lacking confidence. As a result, demand is slow. However, green shoots are visible, and we think things will improve significantly, over the coming quarters. On supply side, systemic liquidity has improved significantly, and policy rates have also come down in 12 months, but transmission is still lagging given risk aversion coming from the events of the last year.Investors have turned risk-averse over the past one year. What needs to be done to bring back confidence?Some of the steps in terms of systemic liquidity and reduction of policy rates are already in place. We now need to work on rebuilding confidence, to get transmission going. This is something that will happen with passage of time and with collective effort of corporates, lending institutions and policy makers. At the corporate level, governance standards need to improve to regain investor confidence. Lending institutions also need to expand their reach, dispensing credit to deserving borrowers and on the policy front, we need to ensure that the initiatives which have been announced, get operationalised.Over the last 12 months, we are seeing signs of risk aversion ebbing from almost a complete freeze in Q3 FY19 to now where we are seeing credit flow has begun, albeit with high term and risk premiums. During this year we expect both the term and risk premiums to also come down. Is there any need for joint effort to kick-start lending?A collaboration between banks and NBFCs should be the ideal way to kickstart the lending cycle. NBFCs have the asset-side advantage, while banks are traditionally strong in their liability franchise. If both join hands, whether through co-lending or through active securitization, it will lead to better origination, credit appraisal and monitoring. Consumers will benefit with costs of credit coming down and the economy will benefit from expanding the credit footprint.Are global investors keen to tap the Indian credit markets?Global investors are seeing credit in India as a big opportunity, whether it is sovereign funds, pension funds, insurance companies or private banks. They are keen to invest in distressed assets and structured credit. Global investors with strong local teams are also looking at operating infrastructure and real estate assets. We are also seeing strong ECB inflows in the Indian corporate sector from international banks and fixed income funds.How do you assess the bond market sentiment?On one end, bond markets are seeing good returns because of favourable interest rate movements but there has been risk aversion, given the credit events in the last 5 quarters. With high quality new issuances and some of the resolutions moving forward, the risk aversion should reduce. Issuances like Bharat Bond ETF have clearly revived investor sentiment, which in turn, will aid in deepening the market. Although the year that has gone by has not been so encouraging, once apprehensions are allayed, issuers should come back in large numbers, to raise money.Global trends show that the bond market is one big source of long-term financing, which has been shallow in the past in India. Indian policy makers are keen on establishing debt market as a stable source for long-term financing. We do expect significant regulatory support to make that happen.What is your outlook for bonds for this calendar year?RBI's Operation Twist is helping to bring down the term premium and we expect that to continue. With risk aversion receding, we expect risk premiums to also come down, for a broader set of borrowers to benefit, from reducing interest rates.
BENGALURU: The government plans to change the proposed rules for policing online content such that the tough monitoring measures and takedown rules apply only to big social media firms, according to a senior government official.In 2018, the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) proposed to amend the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules under Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 to make social media firms more accountable for the content that they host.The IT Act currently provides a legal shield for technology intermediaries. Industry associations and cloud companies have objected to the proposed rules, which apply to all technology platforms despite it being framed to tackle the problem of 'fake' news on social media."The rules are meant only for social media content and, therefore, other ecommerce or streaming technology firms such as Amazon and Netflix must not worry about content takedown, traceability and grievance officer," the official said.IT industry lobby group Nasscom and Amazon Web Services (AWS) said last year that the rules must apply only to social media companies and not to technology intermediaries such as cloud platforms and the IT and business process management (BPM) sectors.AWS said such intermediaries will have to bear the cost of complying with provisions that do not apply to them. Facebook, YouTube and TikTok are among the companies expected to be impacted by the amendments to the guidelines.Notification of the new rules is likely to be done by January 15, MeitY said in an affidavit to the Supreme Court last year.
High altitude locations are some of the most beautiful and popular places to travel for vacation and work alike. However, about 20 to 50% of people who travel to high altitudes experience 1 or more of the common side effects of altitude sickness. By planning your trip, acclimating to the elevation, and properly dealing with altitude sickness, you can enjoy your time up high.
Plan your ascent into high altitude ahead of time. One of the most important things to do to prepare to enter a higher altitude is to schedule your ascent ahead of time so you can build in time for your body to acclimate and adjust.[1] If you are able to spend a day or two at a more moderate elevation (under ), you can give your body a chance to adjust to the higher altitude before ascending further, or give any side effects you may experience time to subside.
In most minor cases, people only experience side effects for the first 1 to 2 days after arriving at a higher elevation.
About 20% of people who travel to altitudes between and experience side effects. This number increases to about 50%, however, in altitudes higher than .
Hydrate well before entering a higher altitude. Arguably the easiest way to help you prepare for high altitude is to drink plenty of water before you travel, as well as during your ascent into a higher altitude.[2] Drinking at least of water in the days before your trip can help your body adjust to the high altitude quicker and ward off some of the unpleasant side effects.
To help you keep hydrating while traveling, bring a large water bottle with you. Try to keep track of how much water you are drinking and refill the bottle as frequently as you are able to.
Get plenty of sleep before ascending into higher altitudes. Being well rested is an important factor in helping you both avoid and get over the side effects of high altitude. In many cases, however, traveling can interrupt your sleep schedule. While you may not be able to avoid the impact of travel on your sleep schedule, you can make sure that you can plenty of sleep in the days leading up to your ascent into a higher altitude.[3]
Try to get at least 7 or 8 hours of sleep in the days leading up to your trip into a higher altitude.
Avoid caffeine and alcohol for at least 1 day in advanced. Drinking alcohol and caffeine in the days before you travel, as well as once you are traveling, can dehydrate your body, impact your ability to sleep well, and weaken your ability to fight any symptoms of altitude sickness.[4] As a result, try to avoid consuming any caffeine or alcohol for at least 1 day before you travel, as well as while you are traveling.
If you do choose to consume caffeine or alcohol while preparing for high altitude, make sure that you drink plenty of water to try to offset some of the negative effects.
Train if you plan to do any rigorous physical activity. If you plan on hiking, mountain biking, or doing any other physical activity once you arrive in a higher altitude, training accordingly can help your body ward off or bounce back quicker from altitude-related illness. While even professional athletes can suffer from the effects of high altitude, your body will be able to perform under the added stress of high altitude if you are physically ready for the activity at hand.[5]
If you plan to go hiking, for example, try doing several hikes near where you live. This can help you get in the physical condition needed to complete the hike while getting your body used to the ascent into a higher altitude.
Get a prescription to help you adjust to the elevation (optional). While most people can acclimate to higher altitude naturally with a bit of preparation and time, there are prescription medications that you can get before you leave that will help your body adjust more quickly. If you know that you won't be able to schedule adequate time to acclimate, or if you have experienced severe altitude sickness before, talk to your doctor about possibly getting a prescription medication to help you when you travel.[6]
Acetazolamide and dexamethasone are both prescription medications that you can take before and during your travel to a higher altitude.[7]
Buy a supplemental oxygen can to help you avoid side effects (optional). Once you are in a high altitude, you can help avoid or alleviate symptoms of altitude sickness by purchasing a personal oxygen can.[8] Oxygen cans are relatively inexpensive, easy to use, and are readily available online and in pharmacies, grocery stores, and outdoor supply stores that are in higher altitude locations.
Many hotels and outdoor sporting companies in higher altitudes will also have a supplemental oxygen source on-hand.[9]
Ascend into higher altitudes slowly so your body can adjust. Once you are in a higher altitude, try to give your body time to acclimate to the increase in elevation. The likelihood that you will suffer from side effects increases with every increase in elevation. You can try to offset this, however, by spending a day or so at each high altitude elevation before ascending higher.[10]
Avoid ascending more than per day. To help give your body time to acclimate to the elevation, try to avoid ascending more than per day.[11] This will help you prevent altitude sickness and therefore, enjoy your trip much more.
If you are particularly sensitive to higher altitude, you may want to avoid ascending more than per day.
Eat and drink water frequently to avoid altitude sickness. Staying hydrated and well-nourished can help you ward off many of the unpleasant side effects of high altitude, such as dizziness and headaches.[12] Try to eat at least 3 healthy meals per day, and keep snacks and a water bottle with you at all times until you are sure that your body has acclimated.
Granola bars are a great option for a quick and easy snack to have on-hand.
Steer clear of strenuous exercise for about 1 day. After arriving in a higher altitude, try to avoid any strenuous exercise for the first 24 hours. This will give your body time to adjust to the elevation. If you push yourself too hard before your body has acclimated, there is a good chance that you will experience some of the symptoms of altitude sickness.[13]
Stop ascending until your symptoms have subsided. If you experience any of the symptoms of altitude sickness, avoid ascending to a higher elevation. If your symptoms are mild, you can usually wait for your body to acclimate to your current altitude and then proceed with your ascent.[14] If your symptoms are severe and persistent, however, you will likely need to descend and in some cases, seek medical attention.
Common symptoms of altitude sickness include dizziness, headache, vomiting, swelling, slightly elevated heart rate, temporary shortness of breath, coughing, congestion, and trouble walking.[15]
If your symptoms are mild and temporary, you can likely proceed with your ascent after 24 to 48 hours.[16]
If any of the common symptoms of altitude sickness are prolonged (more than 1 to 2 days) or particularly painful or uncomfortable, they should be considered severe.
Additional severe symptoms of altitude sickness include a high altitude cerebral edema, pulmonary edema, and blurred vision.[17]
Eat and drink water to help your symptoms subside. If you are suffering from altitude sickness, hydrating consistently and eating a substantial meal or snack can help you begin to acclimate.[18] Even if you feel nauseous, it is important that you try to eat and drink water as often as you can in order to feel better quickly.
Move to a lower altitude if your symptoms are persistent or severe. If your altitude sickness is persistent, severe, or gets worse over time, descend to a lower altitude as soon as possible.[19] Your symptoms should begin to subside as you descend.
If your symptoms don't begin subside after you descend, you may need to seek medical attention.
Use an over-the-counter pain reliever to help with side effects. If you experience some of the side effects of high altitude despite your preparation, it can be helpful for you to have some over-the-counter pain relievers on hand.[20] Pain relievers like aspirin should be taken sparingly and in consultation with your doctor or pharmacist, however, as they will only treat the symptoms but do not help your body adjust or improve your oxygenation.[21]
Take a prescription medication to help alleviate your symptoms quickly. If you got a prescription for acetazolamide or dexamethasone, you can take either of these medications to help your body adjust to the elevation.[22] By helping your body adjust to the elevation, these medications can help alleviate your symptoms and get over your altitude sickness more quickly.
Use supplemental oxygen to relieve your altitude sickness. If you purchased an oxygen can prior to your ascent, you can use it as directed to help alleviate your altitude sickness. If you don't have a personal oxygen can, you may be able to get supplemental oxygen from a hotel, sporting company, emergency relief officials, or medical facility.[23]
If you have a passion for fashion and style and want to be your own boss, then opening a clothing store may be the perfect decision for you. However, this isn't a simple task. Starting a business takes a lot of thought and planning. Start by deciding on your target audience and the niche your store will fill. Then find the perfect location. Add up all your anticipated costs and apply for a startup loan if you need one. Market your business online to increase your sales. Finally, have a big grand opening event to kick off your new store.
Identify your target audience. Your target audience determines almost everything else about your store, from the products you carry to the location of your storefront. Start by brainstorming who you'd like to market to. Then use that decision to make other decisions about your store.[1]
Think big at first. Do you want to appeal to men or women? Then get more specific. Think about what ages, professions, and styles you want to appeal to.
To start, go by what you know. If you worked in a store that sold suits to businesspeople, then you already know that market. Consider entering a field you have experience in like this.
Consider where you might make the most money. Business suits might not be in high demand in a small town. But you may get a lot of tourists in the summer. In this case, it may be better to open a store geared to tourists.
Investigate potential locations for your store. Location is one of the most important early decisions you'll make in opening your business, so conduct careful market research. Look for a location that has a good foot traffic to get your first customers. Look for other businesses like yours. Small businesses often cluster together to attract as many customers as possible, so this may be a ready-made location for you.[2]
Don't locate yourself too close to identical stores. If there are a lot of other small clothing stores in the location you're looking, this market may be too saturated. Consider finding a different location.
If you're marketing to tourists, for example, then locate your store near the main attraction areas.
For good foot traffic, open the store near restaurants and coffee shops. Places where people visit often can bring in a lot of window shoppers.
Find out what the rent is in every area you look. This will be a big expense, so don't overlook it in the planning stage.
Find a specialty for your store's merchandise. Big department stores offer all the big brands at low prices, so your store won't stand out if you try to follow that model. Think about what would set you apart from larger competitors and other small businesses. Carry brands or products that department stores don't, or develop a specialty in a field that your area lacks.[3]
One good angle is carrying brands made by local manufacturers. This gives a much different flavor to your store than someone could get at a large retailer.
Your town may have a lot of off-brand boutique stores, but perhaps they lack a maternity store. This could be where you make your niche.
Develop a backup plan if your business isn't successful. Remember that starting any business is a risk and many small businesses fail. Don't let this discourage you, but also have backup plans in mind in case the business doesn't work out.[4]
Have emergency savings to cover 6 months of living expenses if you have to find a new job.
Remember that clothing stores usually have smaller profit margins than other businesses. Get into this because you love the industry and want to work with people. This passion will help you deal with below-average profits.
Determine your total operating costs. Figure out how much your store will cost to run before opening it. If you don't have a full financial picture, your store is unlikely to succeed. Operating costs, sometimes called overhead or fixed costs, are the expenses you have to pay regularly just to keep the store open. Add up all the costs that remain consistent each month and have to be paid. The resulting sum is your operating cost.[5]
Common items for operating costs are rent, utilities, insurance, and phone/internet connections. If you take out loans, paying them back is also a fixed cost.
Common advice is to keep your rent about 6% of your yearly sales. Keep this in mind when you add up your costs. If rent is $2,000 per month, that's $24,000 per year. That means you'd need about $400,000 in sales to meet this recommendation. If you can't project sales that high, consider finding cheaper rent.
Add up your inventory and labor costs. These costs are called variable costs, because they can change from month to month. For instance, you could buy less inventory or hire less workers and your store would still stay open. Add up what all your inventory will cost you and how much paying your employees will cost. Then combine this number with any other variable costs you have.[6]
Some other variable costs include advertising and marketing expenses, since you technically don't have to do these things to stay open.
Add up your fixed and variable costs to get your breakeven price, meaning the amount you have to make each month just to cover your expenses.
Draw up a business plan. A business plan is crucial not only to focus your own thoughts, but also because any potential investors will want to see your plan before providing any financing. Put together a comprehensive explanation for your business, including the products you'll sell, your operating plan, and all your expenses. Be ready to present this plan to anyone you ask for financing.[7]
Start by describing your business concisely. What will you sell and who is your target audience?
Then outline how you will fit into the current market. Explain the research that you've done and how you'll set yourself apart from competitors.
Finally, outline your total costs, both fixed and variable. Then note how much financing you'll need to get started.
Form a legal business entity. While forming a business entity is not a requirement, there are many advantages to doing so. Forming an entity separates your personal and business finances, so your personal savings are protected. Merchants, manufacturers, and lenders are also usually more willing to work with a business rather than an individual. Finally, you can declare business expenses and get tax write-offs as a business owner.[8]
The most common entities are a Limited Liability Company (LLC) and corporation. Most small businesses are LLCs because they usually don't involve a lot of people.
File for a business license in the state you're operating in. If you don't want to handle the paperwork yourself, you can hire a lawyer or other business to do the work for you.
Apply for a business loan or find private investors. If you don't have enough savings to open the store yourself, then secure financing from a bank or private individuals. Apply for a small business loan from a local bank. If the bank won't provide enough funds, a private investor may be a better option. Keep in mind that private investors usually want to see a larger return on their investment than a bank. They may want to own a part of the business in exchange for the loan.[9]
The amount of the loan depends on your total costs. Experts recommend having 6-12 months of expenses on hand when you start up, because it will take several months to start bringing in money.
Typical amounts for opening a small clothing store range from a low of $50,000 to over $200,000, or even more for larger stores.
It's better to have more cash on hand than not enough. Most small business fail within their first year because they don't have enough capital.
Contact suppliers for quotes on merchandise. With your financing and business plan in place, begin stocking your store. Look for suppliers or manufacturers in the niche your store is in. Find the best items for the best price and place orders for your initial stock.[10]
Consider buying items in bulk to save costs. However, don't order more than you think you can sell. If you sink all your startup money into merchandise right away, you might not be able to pay your other bills.
Try contacting manufacturers directly rather than wholesalers. You might save money by buying directly from manufactures.
Trade shows are also good places to pick up cheap wholesale items.
Carry products from local manufacturers to set your store apart. Small stores are part of their communities, and a great way for you to insert yourself into the local community is by showcasing local manufacturers. Contact jewelry makers, artists, and clothing makers to place their items in your store. This gives you a good supply of merchandise and is also great for your marketing.[11]
If you don't have room in your store for locals to stock their items all the time, consider doing a monthly event for local manufacturers. Set up a tent in your parking lot and let them come showcase their products, for example.
Hire employees if you need them. The number of employees you'll need depends on the size of the store. A common recommendation is for 1 full time and 1 part time worker for each of store. Think about how much work you can do yourself. Then hire more people as you need them.[12]
Have at least one trusted employee who can run the store when you're not there. You never know when you'll have an emergency or get sick, so someone should know as much as you know about running the store.
Remember that each employee you hire is another added expense. Only hire people you need.
If work is irregular, consider hiring seasonal employees to save money. If you run a tourist shop that is only active in the summer, you don't need many employees in the winter months.
Have a grand opening event. After all your hard work, arrive with a bang by having a big grand opening event. Invite everyone you know and advertise the event around town. This is your big chance to show everyone your store and get the word out.[13]
Offer special sales on opening day to give everyone a sample of what you have to offer.
Contact local media sources to come cover the event. This could give you some free advertising.
Invite the mayor or other local politicians to bring more attention to the event.
Use social media to place ads. Social media offers a great, cheap way to advertise. First, start a page for your store on all the major social media sites. Then start ad campaigns on these sites to spread the word to locals about your business.[14]
Since your business has a physical location, set the ads to target people living 5-10 miles from you. Advertising to people 100 miles away will waste your ad budget.
Update all your social media sites regularly. If you haven't posted on Facebook in 6 months, people may think your business closed down. Aim for at least 1 post per week on each of your accounts. Also make any major announcements, like sales, on all your accounts and website.
Remember that advertising still costs money. Work these ads into your budget to avoid going over costs.
Appear at local fairs and festivals. Most communities have events like these to showcase local businesses. Do your best to attend as many as you can to promote your business. Bring samples and items to sell so people can see what you offer.[15]
Always bring plenty of business cards when you attend these events. Pass them out to as many people as you can.
Check with your local chamber of commerce to find a list of upcoming business events. Attend as many as you can.
Don't leave the store unattended or closed when you attend events. Leave your best employee to run the store while you're gone.
Sell online to reach a wider audience. Websites like Amazon and eBay offer a massive platform for small businesses. If you only focus on your in-person sales, you're missing out on a huge potential to reach more customers. Make selling accounts on one or more online retail site and list your products. This is a great way to attract more customers or keep your profits up if visits to your store are slow.[16]
Stay on top of your online sales. If you get a reputation for poor service, you could get banned from these sites.
Include links to your online store on all your social media sites.
Remember that all online stores have fees associated with them. Find out all the fees you'll pay and price your items accordingly so you won't lose money.
Sometimes just the thought of a luxurious bath at the end of a long day can help you power through. When it's finally time for you to relax, make the most of your experience. Light candles, play calming music, and use oils or a scented bubble bath to create a restful atmosphere. Take your time soaking in the water, close your eyes for a few minutes, or enjoy reading your favorite magazine.
Start with a clean tub for the best experience. You won't feel very relaxed if you get into a grimy tub. Even if your tub has been cleaned recently, take a moment to wipe it down with a damp towel to clear away any dust or hair that may have accumulated.[1]
It's a good idea to wipe down the tub after you take a bath, too, so that there isn't a build-up of soap scum over time.
Fill the tub with hot water while you get the rest of your bath ready. Use water that is steamy and hot to the touch, but don't get it so hot that you can't hold your hand under the stream. Make sure to plug the tub's drain![2]
You can always add more hot water while you're in the tub if it needs a warm-up. or if you get lightheaded, get out and let the water cool down before you get back in.[3]}}
Add some bubble bath or a bath bomb for some aromatherapy. You could make your own bubble bath or bath bombs or buy some from the store. Bubble bath gives you the experience of bathing in bubbles, which can be fun and relaxing, and bath bombs are famous for creating beautiful colors for you to enjoy in the tub.[4]
If you're using bubble bath, pour about into the tub while the water is still filling up. The stream of water will help mix and distribute the bubbles.
Use essential oils to relax your body or clear your sinuses. Combine 6-8 drops of essential oils to of carrier oil, like coconut or jojoba oil. After the water has finishing filling, add the mixture to the tub.[5]
Eucalyptus and peppermint are great if you have a stuffy nose.
Lavender is a relaxing scent.
Lemon and rosemary can boost your mood.
Relax your muscles with epsom salts. Use 2 cups (473 grams) of epsom salts in your bath. Pour the salts in while the water is filling up to help it dissolve a little faster. You can also stir the water with your hand to dissolve whatever remains. Soak in the tub for 15-20 minutes or more for the best results.[6]
Your body will absorb the magnesium and sulfate from the salts, which can loosen your joints and relax your muscles.
Create a playlist filled with relaxing tunes to play during your bath. If you want to wind-down, avoid playing anything with a fast or heavy beat. Opt for instrumental or background music for a pleasant, calming effect.[7]
Many music-streaming services have pre-made playlists or stations specifically made for relaxation. Just search for "relaxing music" and see what pops up.
Clear away clutter so the space is visually appealing. Move dirty clothes, cosmetics, toys, and anything else that is taking up space on the bathroom counter. Put them away in drawers if needed, or set them out in the hall. The last thing you want is to look up from your bath and feel stressed about what needs to be cleaned up![8]
If you can, take 10-15 minutes to clean your bathroom before taking a bath. It might help you relax more easily.
Use a bath caddy to keep your things dry. With a bath caddy, you'll have space for a drink, snack, book, or anything else you'd like to have with you. Set up the caddy while the water is filling and put your things in place so that it's ready to go once the bath is done.[9]
You can buy bath caddies that have props to hold up books or magazines, slots for the stems of wine glasses, and more.
Dim the lights and light some candles for a relaxing aesthetic. Bright overhead lights could keep you from de-stressing, so opt to turn them down or completely off. Put candles on the countertops and around the edge of the tub if there is room.[10]
Use unscented candles if you are using essential oils or a scented bubble bath. If not, light one of your favorite scented candles to enjoy while in the tub.
After your bath, double-check that all the flames have been extinguished.
Tell your family that you're not to be disturbed when you're in the bath. If you live with other people and want to guarantee that you won't be interrupted while you're trying to relax, let them know ahead of time what your expectations are. If you have little kids, ask a partner or friend to watch them for 1/2 an hour so you can have some alone time.
If you have pets, you may want to keep the bathroom door shut during your bath. Otherwise, they might come in and beg for your attention and disturb the peace!
Give your skin some TLC with a face mask before you get in the tub. You can make your own or buy a mask from the store. If you have long hair, pull it back so it doesn't get in the way.[11]
Avocado, honey, olive oil, coconut oil, and even egg whites can be used to make a hydrating mask right in your own home.
Enjoy a glass of wine and an indulgent snack while you soak. Take this opportunity to savor a special treat that you've been saving. While chocolates or candies are probably the most popular bath-time indulgence, you can choose anything you'd like! It's probably best to avoid anything that might get crumbs in the bathwater, though.[12]
If you don't drink wine, choose something else! Sparkling water can feel special and there are tons of great flavors to choose from. Even coffee or tea can be enjoyable as long as it doesn't make you too hot.
Read a good book or magazine for some indulgent me-time. Bring along the book you've been meaning to read forever or grab a fun magazine the next time you're at the grocery store. Whatever you choose, enjoy taking some personal time to do something relaxing for yourself.[13]
Keep a towel nearby to dry off your hands so that the pages of the book or magazine don't get wet.
Use a body scrub to exfoliate and soften your skin after a long day. Buy a scrub from the store or make your own at home. While you're in the tub, scoop out about of the scrub and rub it over your arms and legs with a circular motion. Rinse off the scrub when you're finished.[14]
You can use body scrub at any stage during your bath, but if you don't like the idea of bathing in the rinsed-off scrub, just wait until you're about to get out to do this.
Dry off after your bath with a clean, fluffy towel. Before you get into the bath, take a moment to pick out a clean towel from the cupboard and set it beside the tub. That way, you won't have to use an old, damp towel from your morning's shower.[15]
Consider having a special towel that only you use for your relaxing baths. This will keep the towel in great condition and it'll make your self-care time feel even more special.
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