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White House officials have undertaken eight rounds of negotiations with the Taliban over a series of months, led by Afghan-born diplomatic representative Zalmay Khalilzad
* The White House will be seeking a number of concessions from the Taliban in return, including a cease-fire and the renunciation of al-Qaeda * The deal would see the number of American troops in the region cut from about 14,000 to 8000-9000 - the same figure as when Trump took office * White House officials have undertaken eight rounds of negotiations with the Taliban over a series of months, led by Afghan-born diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad * According to Khalilzad's projections, a peace agreement could be struck within the next round of talks, scheduled to take place in Qatar later this week * However, doubts continue to persist about the trustworthiness of Taliban leaders and how to ensure they're following through with their side of the agreement
The Trump administration is gearing up to bring home several thousand troops from Afghanistan in a bid to strike a peace agreement with the Taliban after 18-years-of-conflict.
In return, the White House will be seeking a number of concessions from the Islamic fundamentalists including a cease-fire and the renunciation of al-Qaeda, US officials revealed.
The deal, which would also necessitate the Taliban negotiation a more rigorous peace agreement with the Afghan government, would see the number of American troops in the region cut from about 14,000 to somewhere between eight and nine thousand – the same amount as when Trump first took office.
White House officials have undertaken eight rounds of negotiations with the Taliban over a series of months, led by Afghan-born diplomatic representative Zalmay Khalilzad.
...buy agricultural product from the U.S. in large quantities, but did not do so. Additionally, my friend President Xi said that he would stop the sale of Fentanyl to the United States – this never happened, and many Americans continue to die! Trade talks are continuing, and...
...We look forward to continuing our positive dialogue with China on a comprehensive Trade Deal, and feel that the future between our two countries will be a very bright one!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday moved to impose a 10% tariff on a remaining $300 billion list of Chinese imports starting Sept. 1, after U.S. and Chinese negotiators failed to kickstart trade talks between the world's two largest economies.
The levies - which would hit a wide swath of consumer goods from cell phones and laptop computers to toys and footwear - ratchet up tensions in a war of tit-for-tat tariffs that have disrupted global supply chains and roiled financial markets for more than a year.
U.S. stocks fell after the news and oil prices plummeted, and further fallout was expected. The IMF has warned that tariffs already in place will shave 0.2% off global economic output in 2020.
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's (pictured) has seen his terror group become a greater threat to Afghanistan than the Taliban despite this year losing its caliphate in Syria and Iraq
Al Qaeda and the Islamic State gained strength globally as world powers prioritized the destruction of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, a top U.S. counterterrorism official warns.
"Al Qaeda has been strategic and patient over the past several years. It's let ISIS absorb the brunt of the world's counterterrorism efforts while patiently reconstituting itself," Ambassador Nathan Sales, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, told reporters Thursday.
"And so what we see today is an al Qaeda that is as strong as it has ever been."
Recent intelligence indicates that al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has a "heart complaint," according to a senior official involved in international counterterrorism efforts.
The official said the information suggests Zawahiri had a potentially serious condition but cautioned it was difficult to ascertain the severity of his health problems and what effect they might have on his longevity.
The possibility that Zawahiri, who just turned 68, is seriously ill increases uncertainty over al Qaeda's long-term leadership succession plans. Osama bin Laden's son Hamza bin Laden had been widely tipped to one day take over command of al Qaeda but a US official told CNN on Wednesday that the US now believes that he is dead.
WNU Editor: Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is 68 years old, and has lived a very stressful life. The fact that he may have a 'heart complaint" should not be a surprise. The question that needs to be answered is .... how and/or who told U.S. intel that Ayman al-Zawahiri has a health condition.
North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, the day before former Army Lt. Col. Mark Esper is to head to Asia on his first overseas trip as defense secretary, according to U.S. officials.
A defense official told Fox News the missiles were similar to the projectiles launched twice before in the past week.
The U.S. military is assessing how far and how high the missiles went.
* A video shows Hong Kong protesters shining lasers into facial-recognition cameras in an apparent attempt to blind them. * The video, broadcast by Hong Kong's Now TV, shows people shining laser pens at cameras, Hong Kong police officers, and government buildings. * Protesters have sought to remain anonymous by spray-painting and shining lasers at cameras inside the Chinese government office in Hong Kong, The New York Times reported. * The concentrated light emitted by lasers can heat up and damage sensitive surfaces like camera sensors, the International Laser Display Association says. * The protests, which started in early June over the territory's relationship with mainland China, have raged for weeks and show no sign of easing.
A video from the ongoing Hong Kong protests shows demonstrators shining lasers at police facial-recognition cameras in an apparent attempt to blind them.
More than 1 million people have demonstrated in Hong Kong's streets since early June against a proposed bill that would allow Hong Kong to extradite citizens to mainland China.
The bill's progress has stalled, but the protest movement has ballooned into a wider fight to preserve the autonomy of the region.
WNU Editor: These protesters are not naive. They know that the security services are trying to identify protest leaders, and these lasers will make that job just a tad more difficult.
China's military has released a video showing troops carrying out drills and cracking down on protestors in what appears to be a warning aimed at Hong Kong as the city approaches its ninth straight week of demonstrations.
The video was posted Wednesday by the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison on Chinese microblogging platform Weibo. In the captions, the military declares support for the city's Beijing-backed government, and emphasizes the army's role in protecting Hong Kong's stability.
The three-minute clip features troops unleashing rounds of gunfire, blowing up cars, unrolling barbed-wire barricades and launching missiles.
(BEIJING) — China’s government has threatened unspecified “necessary countermeasures” if Trump’s planned tariff hike goes ahead.
The Commerce Ministry said Trump’s announcement is a violation of his agreement with President Xi Jinping in June to revive negotiations aimed at ending their fight over Beijing’s trade surplus and technology ambitions.
The ministry said if the U.S. measures took effect, “China will have to take necessary countermeasures to resolutely defend its core interests.”
The statement issued Friday continued, “All the consequences will be borne by the United States.”
Trump said Thursday he will impose 10% tariffs Sept. 1 on the remaining $300 billion in Chinese imports he hasn’t already taxed.
The president earlier imposed 25% tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese products. Beijing retaliated by raising import duties on $110 billion of U.S. goods.
(BANGKOK) — Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha on Friday ordered an investigation into several small bombings in Bangkok that took place as Thailand was hosting a high-level meeting attended by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his counterparts from China and several Asia-Pacific countries.
Explosive devices were found or detonated at least six locations, including two at stations of the capital’s elevated Skytrain rail system. Other sites included a government complex on the outskirts of the city, and near the offices of a company associated with supporters of Prayuth’s new government, police said.
The city’s Erawan Emergency Radio network said it received reports that four people required hospital treatment for minor injuries.
“A group of ill-intended people have recently incited violence while the government is propelling the country forward,” Prayuth’s office said in a statement, urging the public not to panic and cooperate with authorities in investigating the blasts.
Thailand this week has been hosting an annual meeting of foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations — ASEAN — and their counterparts from other Asia-Pacific countries. The bombings did not disrupt the proceedings, which already were under tight security.
Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan told reporters the perpetrators were trying to create a “situation.” When asked whether it was connected to the junta’s recent relinquishing of power, he said “I don’t know either, let authorities investigate first.” Thailand recently ended five years of military rule following a 2014 coup.
The government that took power last month is led by former army commander Prayuth Chan-ocha, who staged the 2014 takeover and led a military government until he took power through elections this year. The government’s critics say the election was not fair because the rules favored the parties backing Prayuth.
Prayuth’s main antagonists are supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted by another coup in 2006. The action set off years of sometimes violent contention for power between his supporters and opponents. Thaksin’s supporters are now the main opposition party in the new parliament.
The explosions in Bangkok were not the first time violence has occurred at an ASEAN event hosted by Thailand.
In 2009, Thaksin’s supporters, seeking to force out a government of their opponents, stormed a hotel in the resort city of Pattaya that was the venue for the regional group’s summit meeting. The ASEAN leaders were forced to flee, some by helicopter, and the summit cancelled.
Police on Thursday said they had found two fake bombs outside their headquarters in central Bangkok, near the venue of the current meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers. Thai media cited police as saying that two men had been arrested in connection with the incident.
Arthayudh Srisamoot, a senior Thai Foreign Ministry official, assuaged concerns over the bombings.
“It seems to be an isolated incident, a minor incident, with the intent of trying to create news but not to cause harm to people,” he told reporters. He said none of the foreign ministers expressed concern.
The use of small, generally harmless bombs, though infrequent, is a regular part of the Thai political scene, though rarely do the perpetrators claim responsibility or get arrested. While opponents of the government in power at any given time are usually blamed, there is usually speculation that such incidents are a result of a power struggle of factions within the country’s highly politicized security forces.
Thailand has also experienced more serious bombings. There is a low level insurgency by Muslim separatists in southern Thailand in which car bombs and roadside improvised explosive devices are often employed, and Bangkok was stunned by the 2015 bombing at the city’s Erawan Shrine, in which 20 people were killed and more than 100 injured, many of them tourists.
The authorities blamed the shrine bombing on human traffickers angry at a crackdown, though some analysts believe it was carried out by members of the Muslim Uighur minority to protest Thailand sending their compatriots back to China, where they face repression.
(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — Saudi Arabia issued new laws early Friday that loosen restrictions on women by allowing any citizen to apply for a passport and travel freely, ending a long-standing and controversial guardianship policy that required male consent for a woman to travel or carry a passport.
The changes are a potential game-changer for Saudi women’s rights in the kingdom. The legal system was long criticized because it treated women as minors throughout their adult lives, requiring that they have a husband or father’s permission to obtain a passport or travel abroad. In some cases, the male guardian was a woman’s own son granting her the necessary travel permissions.
Saudi women fleeing domestic abuse and the guardianship system occasionally drew international attention to their plight, being dubbed “runaways” for escaping the kingdom and seeking asylum abroad. To leave the country, some Saudi women say they had to hack into their father’s phones and change the settings on a government app to allow themselves permission to leave the country.
The new rules, approved by King Salman and his Cabinet, allow any person 21 and older to travel abroad without prior consent and any citizen to apply for a Saudi passport on their own.
The decrees were published before dawn in the kingdom’s official weekly Um al-Qura gazette. It wasn’t immediately clear if the new rules go into effect immediately.
Other changes issued in the decrees allow women to register a marriage, divorce or child’s birth and to be issued official family documents.
The changes were widely celebrated by Saudis on Twitter, but also drew criticism from some conservatives.
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump intensified pressure Thursday on China to reach a trade deal by saying that beginning Sept. 1, he will impose 10% tariffs on the remaining $300 billion in Chinese imports he hasn’t already taxed. The move immediately sent stock prices sinking.
The president has already imposed 25% tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese products, and Beijing has retaliated by taxing $110 billion in U.S. goods.
U.S. consumers are likely to feel the pain if Trump proceeds with the new tariffs. Trump’s earlier tariffs had been designed to minimize the impact on ordinary Americans by focusing on industrial goods. The new tariffs will hit a vast range of consumer products from cellphones to silk scarves.
The president’s action came as a surprise, just as U.S. and Chinese negotiators were concluding a 12th round of what the White House called “constructive” trade talks in Shanghai. The negotiations ended Wednesday without any sign of a deal but are scheduled to resume next month in Washington.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which had been up nearly 300 points earlier, was down nearly 200 points soon after Trump’s tweets announcing the new tariffs.
Trump has long said he was preparing to tax the $300 billion in additional Chinese tariffs. But he suspended the threat after meeting with President Xi Jinping in Osaka, Japan, in June.
It isn’t clear when American consumers are likely to feel the impact of the additional tariffs, but higher prices could show up in stores this fall.
“Attention all Target & Wal-Mart shoppers … the price on the goods you buy ahead of the holidays are going up due to trade policy,” tweeted Joseph Brusuelas, chief economist at the consultancy RSM.
Trump also tweeted that “we look forward to continuing our positive dialogue with China on a comprehensive Trade Deal, and feel that the future between our two countries will be a very bright one!”
The president blamed China for not following through on stopping the sale of fentanyl to the United States or purchasing large quantities of farm goods such as soybeans.
The world’s two biggest economies are locked in a trade war over U.S. allegations that Beijing uses predatory tactics — including stealing trade secrets and forcing foreign companies to hand over technology — in a drive to overtake American technological dominance.
Talks had broken down in May after the United States accused the Chinese of reneging on earlier commitments.
“Unfortunately, these talks are not getting any easier,” said Wendy Cutler, a former U.S. trade negotiator who is now vice president at the Asia Society Policy Institute. “I don’t expect the Chinese to sit by … The combination of these latest tariffs, with Chinese counter retaliation, is going to take a heavy toll on US consumers, workers, farmers, and businesses.”
The effects of Trump’s trade war were a factor in the Federal Reserve’s decision Wednesday to cut interest rates in an otherwise healthy economy. Chairman Jerome Powell pointed repeatedly to the uncertainty caused by Trump’s pursuit of trade wars on multiple fronts as a reason for the rate cut.
Sarah Bloom Raskin, a former Fed board member, and other economists have warned that the rate cut could embolden Trump to escalate trade battles because the president may feel confident that the Fed will then respond with additional rate cuts.
(KINSHASA, Congo) — The 1-year-old daughter and the wife of the man who died of Ebola in Congo’s city of Goma this week have tested positive for the disease, health officials confirmed Thursday, while Rwanda briefly closed its border with Congo over the virus outbreak that now enters its second year.
It is the first transmission of Ebola inside Goma, a city of more than 2 million people on the Rwandan border, a scenario that health experts have long feared. The painstaking work of finding, tracking and vaccinating people who had contact with the man — and the contacts of those contacts — has begun.
The man died on Wednesday after spending several days at home with his large family while showing symptoms. Congo’s presidency said the entire family was at “high risk” and in quarantine. The Ebola coordinator for North Kivu province, Dr. Aruna Abedi, confirmed the wife’s case to The Associated Press hours after that of the child.
“We’re seeing the first active transmission chain in Goma and expect more to come,” the International Rescue Committee’s Ebola response director, Andre Heller, warned in a statement.
This outbreak has killed more than 1,800 people, nearly a third of them children. It is now the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, and last month the World Health Organization declared it a rare global emergency.
Rwanda’s state minister for foreign affairs Olivier Nduhungirehe confirmed the border closure, a day after WHO officials praised African nations for keeping their borders open. Last week Saudi Arabia stopped issuing visas to people from Congo while citing the Ebola outbreak, shortly before the annual hajj pilgrimage there this month.
Congo’s presidency condemned Rwanda’s decision, and Congolese at the busy border expressed frustration. “I can’t understand why they don’t just test us instead of closing these borders,” said Angel Murhula, who works in Rwanda.
Several hours later Congo’s presidency said the border had reopened. A Rwanda health ministry statement called the events a “traffic slowdown” as surveillance for Ebola was reinforced. The ministry advised against unnecessary travel to the Goma area.
WHO has recommended against travel restrictions amid the outbreak but says the risk of regional spread is “very high.” Any border closure is likely to push people to avoid formal immigration posts. In June, three people who crossed on an unguarded footpath into Uganda died there before their family members were taken back to Congo for treatment.
The death on Wednesday in Goma “in such a dense population center underscores the very real risk of further disease transmission, perhaps beyond the country’s borders,” United Nations agencies said in a joint statement marking a year of the outbreak.
The man in his 40s was a miner returning from an area of northeastern Ituri province, Mongwalu, where no Ebola cases in this outbreak have been recorded, WHO said. He was exposed to the virus along the roughly 300-mile-long (490-kilometer) route from Komanda to Goma as he took motor taxis over a number of days through the densely populated region at the heart of the outbreak.
The man arrived in Goma on July 13 and started showing symptoms on July 22. He was isolated at an Ebola treatment center on Tuesday. He had spent five days being treated at home and then went to a health facility, where Ebola was suspected. Symptoms can start to occur between two and 21 days from infection, health experts say.
“He may not even have been aware of the exposure that he had,” WHO emergencies chief Dr. Michael Ryan said on Wednesday. Symptoms such as fever can be confused with malaria, which is endemic in the region.
Congo’s new Ebola response coordinator, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, has said there appears to be no link between the case and the previous one in Goma that was announced two and a half weeks ago. That case was a 46-year-old preacher who managed to pass through three health checkpoints on the way from Butembo, one of the communities hardest hit by this outbreak.
The declaration of a global health emergency — the fifth in history — came days after that first Goma case. It has brought a surge of millions of dollars in new pledges by international donors, but some health workers say a new approach is needed to combat misunderstandings in a part of Congo that had never experienced Ebola before.
Health workers responding to the outbreak have been attacked, even killed, in a region where rebel groups are active and the population is wary of outsiders.
There is no licensed treatment for Ebola, which is spread by close contact with bodily fluids of those infected, and survival can depend on seeking treatment as quickly as possible. And yet many people in the region don’t believe that the virus is real, health workers have said.
This outbreak is second only to the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa that left more than 11,300 people dead.
As a fairly reserved group, Scandinavians tend to be generally disinclined to chat to people they don’t know. But as the train for Berlin pulls out of Malmo station in southern Sweden late on a July afternoon during one of this summer’s many heatwaves, the atmosphere among the strangers seated in car 104 is almost festive. Mattias Berglund and Cathrine Hellberg, both in their 20s, chat easily—even giddily—with the four others in their seemingly 1970’s-era compartment, replete with faded velour seats and decidedly unairconditioned temperatures. Perhaps their conviviality was sparked by the close quarters, or by the 13-hour adventure ahead. Or perhaps it springs from a shared sense of mission. “We’re very concerned about the environment, and I felt guilty when we flew to Barcelona for our last holiday,” says Hellberg, a student, to nods all around. “I feel a little proud now to be taking the train.”
This is the season of flygskam, or “flight shame.” You don’t have to be Greta Thunberg, the teenage climate activist who recently announced plans to sail to New York in August, to recognize that a growing number of Europeans eager to reduce their carbon footprint are opting to limit air travel in favor of more environmentally-friendly means of transportation. Significant enough that even airlines are taking note, flygskam–and its counterpart tagskryt, or train-bragging—is encouraging both European governments and private rail companies to consider investing in the return of long-distance night trains. But the revival of a form of transport that has long seemed consigned to the pages of Agatha Christie novels poses significant obstacles of its own.
Leave it to northern Europeans to come up with a neologism to describe a complicated emotional state. As a concept, flygskam originated in Sweden, and refers both to the guilt that individuals may feel when using a means of transportation estimated to contribute between 2 and 3% of total atmospheric carbon and to the shaming they may face should they persist in flying. It was articulated by opera singer Malena Ernmann, who gave up flying in 2016 (and who just happens to be Thunberg’s mother), drawing the attention of other celebrities and the broader public to the cause. The summer of 2018, which brought record high temperatures to Sweden, and with them, devastating wildfires, drove the point home. “It had not been like this ever before,” says Marco Andersson, head of sales for Snålltåget, the Swedish rail company that runs the Malmo-Berlin line. “I think a lot of people started thinking, ‘Oh, I need to change my behavior, maybe I shouldn’t go on vacation to Thailand anymore.’”
Two grassroots initiatives, both launched that year, helped spread the word: Flygfritt, which convinced 14,500 Swedes to renounce air travel in 2019 (it’s shooting for 100,000 in 2020) and Tagsemester, a Facebook group with nearly 100,000 members, that offers information on how to travel by train. Throw in some selfies posted from the sleeping berth of the train Thunberg took to speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, as well as European and national elections in which climate concerns played a decisive factor, and Sweden’s anti-plane, pro-rail movement has taken off.
Eloi Rouyer—AFP/Getty ImagesAn image grab taken from a video from AFPTV on January 23, 2019 shows Swedish youth climate activist Greta Thunberg standing on the platform after arriving by train to Davos, in eastern Switzerland, during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting.
For Snålltåget, which acquired the Malmo-Berlin line in 2011, the impact has been striking. “From 2012 to 2017 we didn’t make a profit,” says Andersson. “Every year, we were asking, why are we still in this business? But all that changed last summer.” During the first six months of 2019, the company, which also runs night trains between Malmo and Stockholm, and, in winter, to the ski town Åre, has seen a 20% increase in ticket sales. Meanwhile, flights between Malmo and Stockholm have declined 10% in the past year, and across Sweden, domestic flights on the whole have fallen 4.5% in the first quarter of 2019 compared to the previous year, according to SJ, the national rail company.
Yet Sweden isn’t the only place feeling the effects of flygskam (in fact, the Dutch, Germans, and Finns have their own words for it). Flygfritt now has chapters in the UK, France, and Germany and according to Eurail and Interrail General Manager Carlo Boselli, flygskam is influencing the decision to purchase the rail passes (which allow for cross-border travel anywhere on the continent) as well. “According to an internal survey we did,” Boselli says, “the low carbon footprint of rail travel was relevant in the decision about holiday transportation for 71% of Interrailers in 2019–nearly 20% more than in 2017.” The popularity of sites like the U.K.-based Seat61, which offers information on train travel in Europe, or the recent expansion of Omio, a Berlin-based booking platform that links train, bus, and air tickets, only underline this growing interest.
Europe’s largest international passenger rail company, the Austrian ÖBB, has seen a 10% growth this spring and summer over 2018 on some of its lines, including the ones that run from Vienna to Zurich, and Rome to Munich. Spokesman Bernhard Rieder cautions that, in high season, they could do much more. “During summer, there’s no room for us to increase ridership,” he says, “ because we’re already nearly fully booked. On a Saturday in July in Italy, we could be running three trains a night instead of one.”
Nicolò Campo—LightRocket via Getty ImagesTORINO PORTA NUOVA RAILWAY STATION, TURIN, ITALY – 2019/07/22: A group of people use automatic machines to buy train tickets. On 22 July 2019 an arson fire in a rail transformer room near Florence caused long delays in high speed and regional trains. (Photo by Nicolò Campo/LightRocket via Getty Images)
It’s enough to make an airline executive nervous. Speaking before 150 of them at the annual meeting of the International Aviation Transport Association held in Seoul in May, director general Alexandre de Juniac warned of flygskam: “Unchallenged, this sentiment will grow and spread.”
So far, IATA has not noticed a drop in passengers, according to spokesperson Chris Goater. “But we don’t want to play down the importance of the debate. We’ve had targets for carbon for more than a decade–earlier than any other industry. From 2020, through capping and offsetting, our goal is to be carbon neutral. And from 2050, our goal is to reduce emissions 50% below 2005 levels.”
IATA hopes to achieve that more difficult goal through the development of sustainable fuels, and new technologies like electric planes, rather than by reducing the number of flights. “The enemy isn’t travel,” says Goater. “The enemy is carbon.” But it’s probably a telling sign of changing public sentiment that the Netherlands-based airline KLM recently launched a campaign, called “Fly Responsibly,” that among other measures, urges passengers to fly less often.
The idea that acting responsibly entails flying less is even spreading to the United States. A jet propulsion scientist at NASA started No Fly Climate Sci in 2017 as a platform for earth scientists who wanted to make public commitments to reducing their carbon footprints. Kim Cobb was one of the scientists to sign up. A few years ago, her research into the large-scale destruction of reefs prompted the professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech University to examine her own carbon footprint a few years ago. “I was gobsmacked at how large a portion—85%—was locked in from flying, mostly for professional meetings and conferences, and, some for field research. As a scientist, I couldn’t unsee those numbers.”
In 2018, Cobb managed to cut her flight miles by 75%, going from an average of 125,000-plus a year, to 25,000 or 30,000. The effort has come at some cost: “About half the invitations I receive to speak are withdrawn when I ask to present remotely or virtually,” she says. She still flies occasionally–as a member of the IACCP, for example, she is required to attend quarterly meetings—but she pays the full market price to offset the flights she does take. “That’s comes out to about $400 per metric ton of carbon, says Cobb, who, on the day she spoke to TIME was about to board a 22-hour train that would take her from her home in Atlanta to a symposium in Springfield, Massachusetts (a round-trip flight to the same destination would equal about a quarter of a ton). “If you’re going to get on a plane, perhaps you should have that number in your head.”
Still, even if they have the time and inclination to reduce their carbon footprint, travelers may find it difficult to choose a 16-hour, $145 train ticket from London to Barcelona, when a flight takes a little over two and can cost as little as $35. And in fact, it was the emergence of low-cost airlines like Easyjet and Ryanair in the mid-1990s that helped bring a near-end to the era of sleeping cars and couchettes. In 2009, the Swiss company SBB sold off all its night lines to ÖBB; Germany’s Deutsche Bahn followed suit in 2016. The state-owned Swedish rail company, SJ, sold its Malmo-Berlin line, in operation since 1909, in 2011.
As a result, few easy rail journeys between major European cities remain; the traveler who opts for that 16 journey from London to Barcelona will not only pay more for the privilege, but will have to change trains twice. For countries like France, which is currently considering banning short haul domestic flights, and Sweden, which recently committed over $5 million to developing international lines to various European cities, the lack of infrastructure poses a significant obstacle. (The U.S. suffers even more from a lack of investment in rail infrastructure, and it remains difficult for most Americans to overcome the lack of high-speed rail system and opt out of air or car travel.)
There’s still a long wait ahead for Europeans too. Austria’s OBB, for example, has commissioned 12 new trains, but they won’t be in operation until 2021. Denmark has plans to build the Fehmarn Belt Link, an 11-mile underwater tunnel that will cut the time it takes to travel from Copenhagen to Hamburg from five hours to two–but it will take an estimated 10 years to complete. And even after the Swedish government committed that money to developing night trains, the state-owned rail company, SJ, has said it is not willing to pursue them until the Fehmarn tunnel is completed. Determined to press ahead, the co-ruling Green party has said it may offer the lines out on tender.
Which means that those connections may fall to Snälltäget, which has to weigh whether the recent uptick is enduring. “Right now, there’s more demand than we can handle,” Andersson says. “Should we take on other lines? Should we modernize our fleet? I don’t think flygskam is a passing fad, but developing based on it is a risk, and we need to figure out how much risk we can take.”
Annika Thomsson, an educator from Stockholm who was traveling with her 17-year-old daughter Saga to a holiday in Montpellier, France, even Snälltäget’s outdated trains represent a necessary concern for the future . “I had already been feeling bad about all the flying I do for work,” Thomsson said, “Because I know that climate change is going to affect my children, and eventually my grandchildren. And when I proposed this holiday, Saga said she would only come if we went by train.”
All told, the journey to Montpellier would take them two full days, though they were breaking it up with stops in Berlin and Paris. Saga, who also has participated in the school strikes for climate, was excited by the adventure of it–the train boards a ferry in the Swedish town of Trelleborg, crosses the Baltic, then picks up the rails again in Sassnitz, Germany before continuing on to Berlin—and spent much of the crossing in the ship’s restaurant, enjoying the buffet and playing cards with her mom. She was concerned about whether she would be able to sleep on the Snälltäget—without air conditioning, temperatures on board were suffocatingly high. But she was convinced they had made the proper choice. “You don’t travel by train to show off or make others feel shame,” she said as she stood in line to brush her teeth in the compartment’s small washroom. “You do it because you want to do the right thing.”
(CANBERRA, Australia) — An Australian crocodile farmer who found an orthopedic plate inside a croc’s stomach said Thursday that he had been told the surgical device was from a person’s body and had been contacted by relatives of missing people anxious for clues.
Koorana Crocodile Farm owner John Lever found the plate inside a 4.7-meter (15-foot-5-inch) crocodile called M.J. during an autopsy in June at his business near Rockhampton in Queensland state. He initially wasn’t sure if the unusual find had been part of an animal or human. But he said since making photos of the plate public, he had been told it was a type used in human surgery.
Lever estimated that M.J. was 50 to 70 years old when he died, several months after losing a fight with another croc. M.J. could have eaten the bone that the plate had been attached to by six screws 50 years ago, he said. All remnants of human tissue attached to the plate had been long digested.
John Lever—APIn this June 27, 2019, photo provided by John Lever an orthopedic plate is laid on a counter at Coowonga, Australia, after it was found inside a crocodile’s stomach.
Lever later said that Queensland police had told him they had opened a missing person investigation and asked him to bring the plate to the Rockhampton station on Friday. A police spokesman told The AP he could not comment.
Lever is continuing to make inquiries in the hope of discovering what decade the type of plate was used and perhaps who it had belonged to. “I wouldn’t call it an investigation, we’re making inquiries because we’re fascinated by this whole thing,” Lever said. “Obviously this crocodile has chomped on something and that plate has been left in its stomach complete with screws.”
Lever bought M.J. from a farmer in Innisfail, 1,000 kilometers (600 miles), north of Rockhampton, six years ago. Sometime earlier, M.J. had been trapped in the wild. Crocodiles are protected in Australia and are only trapped if they are a threat to humans.
“We’ve had a couple of people get in touch with us about their relatives that have gone missing in the northern Queensland area and they’re anxious to find out — there’s been nothing heard of these people, they’ve just disappeared,” Lever said. “We’ll certainly keep these people informed of any new news that we can get.”
The last fatal crocodile attack in Australia was in October when a woman was snatched while gathering mussels with her family in a waterhole in a remote part of the Northern Territory. The last fatal attack in Queensland was a year earlier, when a 79-year-old dementia patient was killed after wandering from a nursing home at Port Douglas.
The crocodile population has exploded across the country’s tropical north since the 1970s. Because saltwater crocodiles can live up to 70 years and grow throughout their lives — reaching up to 7 meters (23 feet) in length — the proportion of large crocodiles is also rising.
Dozens of people were injured Tuesday when a “tsunami pool” in China malfunctioned, sending a massive wave crashing down on swimmers, according to local media reports.
Visitors to the wave pool at Yulong Shuiyun Water Amusement Park in Longjing got more than they bargained for Monday when a technical malfunction caused a tsunami-like wave to disrupt the previously tranquil waters, videos posted on social media show. The wave appeared to quickly pick up height and speed and carried bathers in inner tubes across the pool, causing them to crash into other visitors. it even flooded into surrounding areas, knocking over bystanders.
Forty-four people were injured in the accident, the South China Morning Post reports, and at least five people were hospitalized for injuries including fractured ribs.
Despite rumors and jokes on social media that the wave pool operator was responsible for the mishap, local government attributed it to “a power cut that damaged electronic equipment in the tsunami pool control room, which led to the waves in the tsunami pool becoming too big and injuring people,” the Morning Post reports.
The park reportedly closed down the wave pool to investigate the incident.
The U.S. experiences its fair share of water-park injuries as well, the Associated Press reported in 2016. Though no federal figures exist, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimated that 4,200 people in the U.S. annually visited emergency rooms for water-slide-related injuries including scrapes, broken bones and concussions, according to AP.
Journalists imprisoned for their work in countries from India to Turkey to Kyrgyzstan are included on this month’s list of cases representing the most serious threats to global press freedom.
The list — updated monthly by the One Free Press Coalition, which was created by a dozen news organizations, including TIME, with the goal of defending journalists under attack — identifies the 10 most urgent cases threatening press freedom around the world.
The Trump Administration continues to face criticism for maintaining a close relationship with Saudi Arabia despite conclusions by U.S. intelligence officials that bin Salman ordered Khashoggi’s death. Last week, President Donald Trump vetoed bipartisan resolutions that would have blocked billions of dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Read about the 10 journalists on the August list here:
1. Jamal Khashoggi (Saudi Arabia):Stonewalling continues after new UN report implicates Saudi prince for journalist’s murder.
Months after his brazen killing, and despite findings from the UN and the CIA that point to the Saudi crown prince’s involvement, there has been noindependent criminal investigation.Calls for the White House to release intelligence reports have gone unheeded, along with a deadline to reply to Congress as required under the U.S. Global Magnitsky Act.
2. Azory Gwanda(Tanzania): Tanzanian official claims missing journalist is dead—then backtracks.
Azory Gwanda, a freelance journalist investigating mysterious killings in rural Tanzania, has been missing since November 21, 2017, and the government has failed to conduct an investigation or disclose what it knows. On July 10, Tanzanian Foreign Minister Palamagamba Kabudi said in an interview that Gwanda had “disappeared and died,” but backtracked amid requests for clarification.
Courtesy of Mwananchi Publications LimitedAzory Gwanda
3. Juan Pardinas (Mexico): Mexican newspaper editor targeted with death threats for criticizing new president.
Mexican media organizations and journalists have recently reported a sharp increase in threats and online harassment over critical reporting of the López Obrador administration.Juan Pardinas, the editor-in-chief of Mexican newspaper Reforma, received a barrage of online harassment and threats after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador criticized the newspaper in April. López Obrador acknowledged the threats against Pardinas and said that his government had offered protective measures to the journalist.
4. Paul Chouta (Cameroon): Journalist in maximum security prison blocked from seeing family.
Cameroon Web reporter Paul Chouta was arrested in May, denied bail, and charged with defamation and spreading false news. Chouta’s editor said he suspects the case was in retaliation for critical reporting. His case has been delayed until August 13 and he remains in a maximum-security prison.
5. Azimjon Askarov (Kyrgyzstan): Kyrgyz court upholds life sentence for documenting human rights abuses.
Award-winning journalist Azimjon Askarov, who is an ethnic Uzbek, has spent nine years in prison on trumped-up charges for his reporting on human rights violations. Despite persistent international condemnation and calls for his release, a Kyrgyz court that had reviewed his case in light of new legislation ruled to uphold his life sentenceon July 30.
Ayşe Nazlı Ilıcak, a commentator for opposition newspaper Özgür Düşünce and Can Erzincan TV, was arrested in 2016 and sentenced in February 2018 to life without parole for trying to overturn the constitution through her journalism. In a separate trialin January, she was sentenced to an additional five years for revealing state secrets. In Turkey, which has been the top jailer of journalists three years in a row, life sentences without parole equate to 30 years in solitary confinement, with limited visits.
7. Marzieh Amiri (Iran): Imprisoned journalist denied healthcare after covering May Day demonstrations.
Iranian authorities arrested Marzieh Amiri, aneconomics reporter at Tehran-based newspaper Shargh Daily, as she covered May Day demonstrations, and her family has had limited contact with her since. Authorities have accused Amiri of committing crimes against national security without giving further details.
8. Jones Abiri (Nigeria):Journalist re-arrested on terrorism and cybercrime charges.
Jones Abiri, the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Weekly Source, is behind bars on charges under Nigeria’s cybercrimes act, anti-sabotage act, and terrorism prevention act for crimes allegedly carried out in 2016. The charges are the same ones that a court threw out after he was held without access to his family or a lawyer from 2016 to 2018.
Courtesy of Jonathan RozenJones Abiri
9. Aasif Sultan (India): Journalist imprisoned one year without due process for covering conflict.
Aasif Sultan, a reporter for Kashmir Narrator, will have been imprisoned one year on August 27, arrested in 2018 and months later charged with “complicity” in “harboring known terrorists.” He has been repeatedly interrogated and asked to reveal his sources by police. Sultan continues to be denied due process, with ongoing delays in his hearings.
Courtesy of Free Aasif Sultan on FacebookAasif Sultan
10. Truong Duy Nhat (Vietnam): Blogger who disappeared in Thailand imprisoned in Vietnam.
Truong Duy Nhat, a Vietnamese reporter with Radio Free Asia, went missing in January in Bangkok, Thailand, where he had applied for refugee status. In March, his daughter learned he was jailed without charge in a Hanoi detention center. Nhat was previously sentenced to two years in prison in 2013 in connection to his critical reporting on the government.
Indonesia is deploying thousands of security personnel to fight fires after a state of emergency was declared in six provinces, an official from the disaster management agency said Wednesday.
Nearly 6,000 military, police and disaster mitigation officers will be dispatched, while aircraft will also try to douse the fires, Agus Wibowo, a spokesperson for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency said, according to Reuters.
Fires are an annual occurrence during Indonesia’s dry season, which normally runs from about June to October. The blazes — largely caused by illegal slash-and-burn farming methods by palm oil and pulpwood companies — cause serious haze problems in Indonesia and neighboring countries.
This year, nearly 50 million of Indonesians are facing drought conditions in 28 of the country’s 34 provinces, Dody Usodo Hargo Suseno, an official of the coordinating ministry for human development, told Reuters. An El Niño weather pattern is exacerbating the dry weather.
Wibowo said the number of hot spots detected by satellites has been increasing across Indonesia. The fires raging in provinces on the island of Sumatra and in Kalimantan on Borneo were severe enough to declare an emergency.
Fires in 2015, when El Niño caused droughts in a majority of the country’s provinces, were some of the worst in Indonesia’s history. More that half a million people were treated for respiratory illnesses.
Since then, Indonesia has faced international pressure tackle the slash-and-burn tactics that prompt annual fires. Residents in Singapore and Malaysia often face health issues when their cities are shrouded in pollution for weeks every year.
Earlier this month, Indonesia’s disaster management agency said that they would use cloud seeding to try to trigger rainfall to prevent fires and harvest failure, Reuters reports.
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THE European Union will ignore US sanctions against Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif by continuing to work with him in what is a major snub from Brussels to Donald Trump.
RUSSIA and the US look set to move closer to conflict after Washington officials announced they would withdraw from a landmark nuclear weapons treaty that was initially agreed in the Cold War.
ARCHEOLOGISTS are to join forces to hunt down the real meaning of Armenia's version of Stonehenge amid rumours the site was used as an astronomical observatory.
Delhi High Court Recruitment 2019- Apply online for 45 vacancies. Delhi High Court Recruitment 2019 advertised a Notification for Delhi Judicial Service Examination 2019. This Notification is released to fill up 45 vacancies in High court of Delhi. Delhi Government Interested candidates can apply online for Job Vacancies in Delhi High Court Recruitment 2019 @delhihighcourt.nic.in. Online registration for Delhi Judicial Service Examination is available from 02nd August 2019.
High Court of Delhi invites online application for 43 existing vacancies and 02 anticipated vacancies from the eligible candidates. Applicants qualified in Preliminary exam will have the Main examination and Viva Voice round before placement. The last date to apply for the service examination is 02nd September 2019. Indian Citizens are eligible to apply for the Delhi High Court Recruitment.
Delhi Judicial Service Examination 2019 – Highlights
Eligibility Criteria for High Court of Delhi Recruitment 2019
Candidates those wish to apply for the delhihighcourt.nic.in.recruitment can check the eligibility details such as educational qualifications, age limit and other complete details in the below section of this page. Make sure of your eligibility criteria and then apply for the post. Check the official notification of the Delhi High Court Recruitment to know the terms and conditions of Delhi Judicial Service Examination in detail.
Educational Qualification
A person practicing as an advocate in India or a person qualified to act as an advocate under the Advocate act 1961.
Age Limit:
Maximum Age Limit – 32 years
Age Relaxation:
SC/ ST/ Ex-Serviceman Candidates – 5 Years
PWD Candidates
General – 10 Years
SC/ST – 15 Years
Application Fee:
Applicants should pay the fee through Online mode Net Banking/ Debit Card/ Credit Card.
General Candidates – Rs. 1000/-
Sc/ST Candidates – Rs. 200/-
Admit Card:
Applicants can get their Admit Card/ Hall Ticket for the Delhi Judicial Service Examination from the Official Website before 10 days of the examination.
Salary Details:
Candidates selected in Delhi Judicial Service Examination will have a salary in the 10th level of a matrix of 7th CPC Revised Corresponding Pay Matrix and Pay Level.
Rs. 56,100 – Rs. 1,77,500/-
Selection Process:
Prelims examination
Main Examination
Interview
How to Apply Online for Delhi High Court Judicial Examination 2019?
Candidates those who want to register for the Online Application of Delhi Judicial Service Examination can check the vacancy and eligibility details and then can register for the application. Read the information given in the Official Notification and then go for the Online process. Be sure you register for 45 Vacancies before the last date closes. Follow the below-given steps for easy registration and find the necessary links in the bottom of the page.
Firstly, Click on the Delhi High Court Recruitment Apply Online Link provided below.
Enter all the required details in the Delhi High Court Online Application Form.
Scan & Upload copies of required certificates.
Pay the Prescribed Application Fee.
Finally, press submits button to complete the Delhi High Court Recruitment 2019 Process.
After Successful submission, take a print out of the Application form for future use.
Important Dates for Jobs in Delhi High Court Recruitment 2019
Starting Date to Apply
02nd August 2019 (from 10.00 AM)
Last Date to Apply
02nd September 2019 (till 10.00 PM)
Important Links for High Court of Delhi Recruitment 2019
Firstly, The Delhi High Court was established on 31st October 1996. Initially, the High Court of Judicature at Lahore, which was established by a Letters Patent dated 21st March 1919, exercised jurisdiction over the then provinces of the Punjab and Delhi. This position continued till the Indian Independence Act, 1947 when the dominions of India and Pakistan were created. Furthermore, the High Courts (Punjab) Order, 1947 established a new High Court for the territory of what was then called the East Punjab with effect from 15th August 1947.
India (Adaptation of Existing Indian Laws) Order, 1947 provided that any reference in existing Indian law to the High Court of Judicature at Lahore, be replaced by a reference to the High Court of East Punjab. The High Court of East Punjab started functioning from Shimla in a building called "Peterhoff". This building burnt down in January 1981. When the Secretariat of the Punjab Government shifted to Chandigarh in 1954-55, the High Court also shifted to Chandigarh.
UPSSSC Result 2019: the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Board Result is available here. The UPSSSC careers for Agriculture Technical Assistant (Pravidhik Sahayak), Yuva Kalyan Adhikari, Jr Assistant, Lower Division Clerk & Other Posts Result, Cut Off, Merit List is given by board online. However, we help you find UPSSSC Result Online by given direct link here. Hence, click on the respective UPSSSC exam result link below and check the details.
UPSSSC Result 2019
To make it easy in finding the UPSSSC Result for the applicants, we have given the separate link in the table below. Hence, aspirants can find the link and check the Uttar Pradesh SSSC exam result online. Also, candidates can download the result of respective exams conducted by UPSSSC.
Generally, UPSSSC board announces the result in its official website after the month or twice from the date of examination. Hence, the applicants who appeared for the subordinate service commission written test can find the direct link on our page when the result is announced. Hence, keep checking our page to check your UPSSSC exam result 2019-20.
The UP Subordinate Service Selection Commission generally announce the Result on its official website. As the official site will be busy on the day of UPSSSC Result we help you in reaching your results. Here we provide a direct link for UPSSSC Result. So, the candidate can directly go to result page or even download the Uttar Pradesh SSSC Result pdf here.
UP Subordinate Service Selection Commission Exam Result 2019
UPSSSC Assembly/Forest Guard PET Result 2019– Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission, UPSSSC Lucknow, are recently uploaded PET Result for the Post of Assembly Guard | Forest Guard Examination. Those Candidates who have registered to the Following Vacancy can download PET Result now. UPSSSC organization have released the UPSSSC Assembly/Forest Guard PET Result 2019 on 01st August 2019. Applicants those who are waiting to know your status can download and verify your results from the below link. Moreover, candidates can get the complete details from the official website i.e, upsssc.gov.in.
UPSSSC Assembly/Forest Guard PET Result 2019 – Click Here
UPSSSC Combined Stenographer Result 2019 – Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission, UPSSSC Lucknow, are recently uploaded Result for the Recruitment Post of Stenographer Examination 2017 on 30th July 2019. Those candidates who have appeared in this Exam can Download your Result now. Applicants those who are waiting to know your status can download and verify your results from the below link. Moreover, candidates can get the complete details from the official website i.e, upsssc.gov.in.
UPSSSC Combined Stenographer Result 2019 – Click Here
UPSSSC Agriculture Technical Assistant (Pravidhik Sahayak) Result 2019 – Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Board is all set to announce the UPSSSC Agriculture Technical Assistant Result 2019. Here we have provided a direct link to download your result. Applicants those who have completed the Examination on 19th February 2019 for the post of Agriculture Technical Assistant can check your result from the below link. Apart from this candidates can get the complete details about UPSSSC Agriculture Technical Assistant (Pravidhik Sahayak) Result 2019 from the official website i.e, upsssc.gov.in.
UPSSSC Agriculture Technical Assistant (Pravidhik Sahayak) Result 2019
UPSSSC Agriculture Technical Assistant Result 2019
UPSSSC Agriculture Technical Assistant Result 2019 – Click Here
UPSSSC Tubewell Operator Result – Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Service Selection Commission, UPSSSC are recently uploaded result for the post of Tubewell Operator Examination 2016 on 27th June 2019. Those candidates who have appeared in this recruitment exam can download result now. Candidates can check the result @ upsssc.gov.in. However, they can just click on the link below to download the UPSSSC Tubewell Operator Result 2019. Hence, to check if you are selected, click on the link given below.
Uttar Pradesh SSSC Laboratory Technician Result 2019 is now up on the official site. Candidates can check the result @ upsssc.gov.in. However, they can just click on the link below to download the UPSSSC Laboratory Technician List 2019. The UPSSSC Laboratory Technician Result was out on 15th June 2019. Hence, to check if you are selected, click on the link given below.
Uttar Pradesh SSSC Laboratory Technical Result 2019 is now up on the official site. Candidates can check the result @ upsssc.gov.in. However, they can just click on the link below to download the UPSSSC Laboratory Technical List 2019. The UPSSSC Lab Technical Result was out on 1st Nov 2019. Hence, to check if you are selected, click on the link given below.
UPSSSC Results 2019 for the post of Yuva Kalyan Adhikari/ Youth Welfare officer will announce Soon. The UP Subordinate Service Selection Commission not yet given any official Conformation on Result. Hence, the applicants who appeared for the written test have to wait a few more days. Keep Visiting we update the details in the sections below.
UPSSSC Result for the post of Junior Assistant is available now. The UPSSSC Board has given the final result for Jr Assistant on 13th Oct 2019. The Candidates who applied for UPSSSC Recruitment 2016 for Jr Assistant can check the Final Result here. However, the candidates who appeared for Re-Exam can check the result from the link below. Hence, click on UPSSSC Jr Assistant Result 2019 link to check your Result.
Combined Lower Subordinate Service Exam 2019 – UPSSSC Result
The candidates who appeared for the UPPSC Combined Lower Subordinate Service Exam 2019 can check Answer Key here. However, UPSSSC is now allowing the aspirants to check the Exam Answer. We provided a direct link below. Hence, click on the link and download UPSSSC Lower Subordinate Exam Answer Key 2019.
Exam Name
UPPSC Combined Lower Subordinate Service Exam 2019
UP Subordinate Service Selection Commission Result is announced online. The candidates who are looking for the Yuva Kalyan Adhikari, Lower Subordinate Exam UPSSSC Result can check here. The direct will be updated immediately when the Result is out. Get the UPSSSC Latest News about Result on our page.
UPSSSC News about Various Posts Exam Result is updated on our page. The Aspirants who appeared for the UPSSSC Exams held can check results from our page. However, If you didn’t find the Result you are looking for, notify us in the Comment section below.
Steps to Check UPSSSC Result Online 2019
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Enter the login details if required.
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AP Grama Volunteer Result 2019 Released on Today, 01st August 2019 | Direct link Available here @ gramavolunteer.ap.gov.in, Get Ward Volunteer Interview Merit List, Final Selection List – Applicants those who are waiting for the AP Grama Volunteer Selection list 2019 can check your results from this page. Here we have updated the Live link for the Selection list from the below table. The applicants those who have attended the interviews on 11th to 25th July 2019 by Selection Committee will get the Intimation letters. Additional to this we have given Induction and training program date and other Important Date below in this article.
AP Grama Volunteer Selection List 2019
The Andhra Pradesh State Government has announced the AP Grama Volunteer Recruitment on 22nd June 2019. This latest job notice by Andhra Pradesh Government has 4 Lakh vacancies for Village/Grama Volunteer posts. A huge number of applicants have submitted AP Grama Volunteer application forms from 8th June 2019 through online mode. Also, the Interviews are done by the Selection Committee and now we have received the AP Grama Volunteer Selection list 2019. Here we have provided a direct link to download your Selection List. Along with this, we have given the important dates for this Recruitment process from the below table.
AP Grama Volunteer Result 2019 – Overview
Description
Details
Organization Name
Andhra Pradesh State Government
Post Name
Grama/ Ward Volunteer
Number of Vacancies
More than 4 Lakh (Single Vacancy for 50 Families of the Village)
All the candidates can get the AP Grama Volunteer latest updates from this page. Because we have dedicated this page to update all the information regarding the AP Grama/Ward Volunteer Results. It is to be noted that the applicants those who have been qualified can receive the Intimation letters on 01st August 2019. The candidates will be joining into their career on 15th August 2019. The selected candidates will attend the Induction and Training program on 5th to 10th August 2019.
If the applicants get selected in the interview process, they will receive the intimation letter. Also, they should attend the Induction and training program. After the training process, applicants will be appointed into AP Grama/Ward Volunteer Jobs. The organization will soon announce the AP Grama Volunteer Final list by online. Candidates can get the important dates from the below table.
AP Grama Volunteer Result 2019 – Important Dates
Events
Dates
Notification Release Date (à°¨ోà°Ÿిà°«ిà°•ేà°·à°¨్ à°œాà°°ీ)
22nd June 2019
Online Application starts from (దరఖాà°¸్à°¤ుà°² à°¸్à°µీà°•à°°à°£ à°ª్à°°ాà°°ంà°ం)
24th June 2019
Last date of submitting the online application form (దరఖాà°¸్à°¤ుà°² à°¸్à°µీకరణకు à°šివరి à°¤ేà°¦ీ)
5th July 2019
Scrutiny of applications (దరఖాà°¸్à°¤ుà°² పరిà°¶ీలన)
10th July 2019
Interviews by Selection Committee (à°®ంà°¡à°², పట్à°Ÿà°£ à°¸్à°¥ాà°¯ిà°²ో à°‡ంà°Ÿà°°్à°µ్à°¯ూà°²ు)
11th to 25th July 2019
Intimation letters to selected Volunteers (à°Žంà°ªిà°•ైà°¨ à°µాà°°ి à°œాà°¬ిà°¤ా à°µెà°²్లడి)
1st August 2019
Induction and training program (à°Žంà°ªిà°•ైà°¨ à°µాà°°ిà°•ి à°¶ిà°•్à°·à°£)
5th to 10th August 2019
The positioning of volunteers (à°µిà°§ుà°²్à°²ో à°šేà°°ాà°²్à°¸ిà°¨ à°¤ేà°¦ీ)
15th August 2019
AP Grama Volunteer Merit List 2019 – Get Direct link | AP Grama Volunteer Result
Applicants those who have attended the Interview by Selection committee can check your AP Grama Volunteer Merit List 2019 by today 01st August 2019. All the candidates can check and download your merit list from the below link as well as on the official website. If the applicants have qualified in the Interview can receive the Selection list. Also, they will be called for the Induction and training program. The officials will decide the Merit list based on the categories.
SSB SI ASI HC Admit Card 2019 will be available on August 2019. The Admit Card has been released for the post of Sub Inspector (Ministerial). Thus, the SSB SI Exam will be held in the month of August 2019. Hence, Candidates can get the admit card link from the official website. Hence the hall ticket will be released once if the officials released the admit card on their official portal. Scroll down to get more information about SSB Admit Card.
SSB SI ASI HC Admit Card 2019
Sashastra Seema Bal will issue the admit card only to the candidates who successfully registered their application. Moreover, Aspirants must download the admit card from the official site ssb.nic.in. Candidates who are going to participate in the Limited Department Competitive Examination can download the hall ticket. Appear for the exam along with the SSB Sub Inspector Admit Card. No Hard copy of the Call Letter/Hall Ticket will be sent by post.
Candidates check with the admit card details in before downloading it. As per the official announcement, the board will release the SSB SI Admit Card on August 2019. The Board will declare the exact admit card date on the official website. Once, Aspirants got their admit card link check with the details listed below. Thus, Download the admit card by entering the details as in the application form. So, keep your application form on the side while filling the information in the SSB SI ASI HC Admit Card.
Candidate’s Name
Date of Birth
Exam Venue and Address
Exam Timing
Date of examinations
SSB Sub Inspector Exam 2019
SSB Examination will be conducted in August 2019. Likewise, the exam date will be declared on the official website. Hence, Candidates have to carry the hall ticket to take down the Limited Department Competitive Examination. Therefore, the exam centers will be allocated by the selection board. After the allocation, the board will release the notice on ssb.nic.in. Candidates are advised to visit the official website frequently to get the latest updates.
Aspirants who qualified the Limited Department Competitive Examination, they will be called for PET & PST Examination. Once who cleared the PET & PST exam there will be the medical examination. Contenders have to clear all the selection process with the eligible scoring. For each and every selection round, Candidates have to carry the SSB SI ASI HC Admit Card 2019. Download it from the official website or through the direct link provided below.
SSB SI Exam 2019 – Important Documents
Candidates have to carry the SSB Admit Card along with the Government documents. Hence, Candidates must carry any of the ID proof listed below. Therefore, Examiners can easily clear the doorstep verification process. Candidates can contact the officials if he/ she find any mistakes in the admit card. Contact details will be available on the official website.
Original Photograph
Voter Card
Pan Card
Employee ID
College ID
PAN Card
Passport
Driving License
Any other ID proof issued by a Gazetted Officer
Bank Pass Book with the photograph
How to Download SSB SI Admit Card 2019-20?
Click on the SSB SI ASI HC Admit Card link.
A Home page will appear.
On that page, Aspirants have to enter the Login credentials.
Once entered, the SSB Admit Card page will appear on the screen.
Enter the required details in the admit card.
Go through the whole information which is entered in the SSB SI Hall Ticket.
Finally, Submit the admit card.
Get to the download option.
Download and take a print out of the admit card.
Carry the SSB SI ASI HC Admit Card along with the ID proofs to the selection rounds.
FMGE Result 2019 (Announced) @ nbe.edu.in | NBE June Session Result, Cut Off Marks / Merit List – National Board of Examinations (NBE) released FMGE Result on 31st July 2019 at the official website of FMGE at www.nbe.edu.in. FMGE 2019 Result declared with Merit List and Cut Off Marks. From this, anyone can find the Pass/Fail Status with the help of Roll number and Name. We expected that Foreign Medical Graduates Examinations (FMGE) 2019 is going to be held in the last week of June 2019. Candidates can check more information about FMGE Result 2019, important document, important instructions, etc. from this page.
FMGE Result 2019 Released @ nbe.edu.in
After the announcement of the result, FMGE 2019 Certificate Distribution will be started. The certificates are issued via a login. The candidate who has applied for this examination and given the exam of this FMGE would check their result through online mode. In this article, Applicants can get more information like, How to check or download the FMGE Result and important dates which will relate to their result are given over their below. So, those who have attempted the Foreign Medical Graduates Examination (FMGE) 2019 on 28th June 2019, they must check this page. Moreover, you can check the Roll Number Wise FMGE Result 2019 June Session from the below sections of our article. The National Board of Examinations (NBE) had released the FMGE 2019 Result Today.
Foreign Medical Graduates Examinations 2019 is a Screening Test. The exam is conducted for the Indian nationals and overseas citizen of India (OCIs) with the Foreign Medical qualification wishing to register themselves with the Medical Council of India (MCI) or any State Medical Council (SMC). The give above dates are the FMGE result dates which are very important to that candidate who wants to know that what they have scored in their exam paper. Further, the candidate would get the details about how to check or download their result through online mode.
FMGE Cut Off Marks 2019 | FMGE Merit List
According to the official communication by the National Board of Examination (NBE), the candidates would need to score in this examination at least 150 out of 300 marks to qualify the Exam of FMGE Cut Off Marks 2019. Every applicant needs to obtain half of the total marks to meet the requirements in the examination, and they are entitled to partaking in the further admission procedure.
After the few days of the announcement of results, the rank list will be out by the authority. On account of the published effect, a merit list will be set for welcoming the contenders for the counseling way.
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Candidates will be required to partake in the FMGE does not retrieve any reflex privileges to obtain provisional or permanent registration with the Medical Council of India or any State Medical Council. The temporary or permanent record with the Medical Council of India or any State Medical Council is dependent on rewarding the standards according to the Indian Medical Council Act.
Vizag Steel Recruitment 2019- Apply online for 28 vacancies. Vizag Steel Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited authorities have announced a Notification for OCMs, Mine Foreman, and Other Posts. Aspirants looking for Andhra Pradesh Government Jobs have an opportunity to get placed in Vizag Steel plant Career. Online Applications will be available from 12th August 2019. Candidates will be recruited for Contractual/ Tenure basis work for 3 Years with a medical facility and other accommodation.
OCMs, Drill Technician, and Mine Foreman will have three shifts based work as per requirements. Blaster and Blasting Helper will be engaged for a general shift for 48 hours per week. Applications are invited from dynamic and experienced Indian Citizens only. Interested candidates can submit their Online Applications on or before 31st August 2019.
Vizag Steel Recruitment 2019- Apply online for 06 Medical Officer Vacancies. Steel plant Job Notification is released for MO Jobs in Vizag Steel General Hospital. Candidates completed a degree in medicine can register for the MO Jobs in www.vizasteel.com Recruitment. Eligible can apply online from 12th August 2019. Aspirants will be selected on a contractual basis for 1 year and may extend depends on the discretion of the Management.
Candidates selected for Vishakapatnam Steel Plant Job vacancies will be provided with a medical facility to the extent available at VSGH. Applications are invited from the Indian Nationals only. Experienced candidates will get preference during the shortlisting process. Online applications for Vizag steel Plant MO vacancies have to submit on or before 31st August 2019. Get down further details about Vizag Steel Plant Recruitment 2019.
Vizag Steel Recruitment 2019 – Apply Online for 559 Vacancies. Vizag Steel Plant has advertised a recruitment notification under Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited Board. This Notification for Junior Trainee and Operator CUM Mechanic Trainee Posts. Candidates looking for Jobs in Vishakapatnam can apply for Vizag Steel Plant Careers. Online Application for Steel Plants Trainee Post will open on 1st August 2019.
Candidates completed Diploma in relevant trade can apply for the Junior Trainee vacancies. Applications are invited from Indian Nationals only. Application from other modes will not be accepted. Candidates with higher qualification than Diploma/ ITI is not eligible to apply for the Posts. The last date to submit the Online Application for the Trainee posts is 21st August 2019. Interested check with the details given below before register Vizag Steel Recruitment.
Vizag Steel Recruitment 2019 – Apply for 10 vacancies. RINL proposed 10 Vacancies for Management Trainee Jobs. Candidates willing to be tomorrow's Corporate leaders can apply for these posts. Steel plant notification is released regarding stuff young, ambitious, talented candidates for HR and Marketing Trainee posts through UGC -NET Examination. Interested can apply Online for the MT vacancies in Vizag Steel plant – Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited. Aspirants can begin to commence your application form from 20th July 2019.
Indian Nationals who qualified in UGC- NET 2019 Examination are only eligible to apply for the Steel Plant Jobs in Vizag. The Applications should be submitted on or before 09th August 2019. Selected candidates will be trained for one year and after completing the training period they will have a probation period of one more year as per the contract. Applicants should be healthy and fit under Medical Rules of RINL.
About Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (Vizag Steel Plant)
The steel mill is located in the southern part of the city of Visakhapatnam, in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. The company also owns a captive limestone blast furnace at Jaggayyapeta (Krishna District), a captive Dolomite mine at Madharam (Khammam), a captive manganese ore mine at Cheepurupalli (Vizianagaram). He also has a mining lease for the sand of the Champavathi River. Making the impossible possible lies in man's determination and Sri Tenneti Viswanadham was one of those personalities. The struggle of thousands of such personalities has paved the way for the creation of such a large steel factory. The activities began with the appointment of the site selection committee in June 1970 and the committee's report subsequently approved for the site. In January 1971, the Indian Prime Minister laid the first stone.
With the offer of assistance from the government of the former USSR, a revised project concept has been developed. The DPR for a production capacity of 3.4 MTPA was prepared by MMN Dastur & Co in November 1980. In February 1981, a contract was signed with the Soviet Union for the preparation of execution plans for ovens. Coke, blast furnaces and sinter plants. The base of the blast furnace was built with the first bulk concrete in the project in January 1982. Construction of the municipality also began.
DSSSB Result 2019: Check the latest Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board Examination result 2019. However, we provide a direct link for latest DSSSB Exams Result 2019. Hence, just click on the respective link provided below and check your DSSSB Result 2019. Also, download the DSSSB Result, Merit List and the Selection List released by Delhi gov in Online below. For More Upcoming DSSSB Result Keep visiting our page. Will update the details immediately when the Delhi.gov.in announces regarding the DSSSB Recruitment Result 2019.
DSSSB Primary Teacher Supplementary Result 2019 – DSSSB Primary Teacher Supplementary Result 2019 is Available Now!!! All the candidates whoever waiting for the release of the DSSSB PRT Result 2019 had got a piece of good news. Since the officials of the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board (DSSSB) announced the DSSSB Primary Teacher Supply Result 2019 on 31st July 2019. Therefore, all the exam appeared candidates can download the DSSSB Primary Teacher Result 2019 from the official website.
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Delhi SSSB Result is available on the official site @ delhi.gov.in. Download the Scientific Assistant result. Check the DSSSB Scientific Assistant Merit List either on the official site or via the link given below.
DSSSB Result 2018 is available now. Check your results for DSSSB Grade II DASS post. The result was released on 3rd November 2018. The Link to check the result is on @ delhi.gov.in. However, Candidates can also use the link below to check the result
DSSSB PGT Result 2018 is released. The Delhi Sub Ordinate Service Selection Board is now allowing the Applicants of PGT Vacancies to check their result. Hence, the aspirants who appeared the DSSSB PGT Exam 2018 can check the Result from the link in the table. Hence, Click on the DSSSB PGT Result link and check your Result. All The best and share our link with your friends and family.
Delhi Government Jobs Result 2018 for the Post of Jr Stenographer and Stenographer Grad-III for Post Codes (47-2012, 211/2014, 152/2014) are given below. Hence, Click on the links below and download the DSSSB Steno Result 2018.
DSSSB Result 2018 has been released for various posts. Candidates who had applied for the LDC, Medical Record Clerk and Clerical Assistant posts can check their results now. Candidates can go to the official website or check the direct links given below. Therefore, go through the link below and download the DSSSB Result.
Candidates can check their DSSSB Result 2018 for the post of Assistant Sanitary Inspector. The result consists of the name of shortlisted applicants and only such can take up further rounds. However, we have provided direct links to help aspirants check their DSSSB Merit List. Since the result is released by the officials there can be no ambiguity. Make use of the link given below to check your DSSSB Results.
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Are you guys in search of DSSSB Exam Result 2018. Then there is the great news for such contenders. Aspirants can check their Post Graduate Teacher(Hindi)(Female) result here. The DSSSB Merit List 2018 consists the name of shortlisted applicants and only such can take up further rounds. However, we have provided direct links to help contenders easily check their DSSSB Results 2018 here. Only by checking results aspirants can evaluate their performance.
DSSSB Post Graduate Teacher(Hindi) Female Result – Click Here
DSSSB Result 2018
Great news for applicants in search of DSSSB Exam Result 2018. The officials of Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board has released its DSSSB Merit List 2018 for the post of Post Graduate Teacher (Hindi)(Female), Post Graduate Teacher(Hindi)(Male). Candidates those who have applied for the post and appeared for the examination can make use of this page to check your DSSSB Results 2018. Refer the link given below to know your performance.
DSSSB Post Graduate Teacher(Hindi) Female Result – Click Here
DSSSB Post Graduate Teacher(Hindi) Male Result – Click Here
Are you guys in search of DSSSB Result 2018 ?? then here is the great news. Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board released its DSSSB Supervisor Grade-II (Female) Result 2018. A good number of applicants had applied for the post and attended the examination. Hence such applied aspirants are eagerly waiting to check their DSSSB Merit List 2018. The DSSSB Exam Results 2018 consists of the name of shortlisted candidates. To help candidates easily check their results we have provided direct links.
DSSSB Supervisor Grade II Result 2018 – Click Here
Delhi.gov.in Result
DSSSB Result 2018: The officials of Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board has released its DSSSB Exam Results 2018 for the post of Junior Engineer. The result is released by the officials and hence there would be no ambiguity. However to help applicants get their DSSSB Merit List 2018 we have provided direct links. Appeared contenders can make use of this page to check their exam results.
The Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board has decided to release its DSSSB Result 2017 for the Grade – II (DASS), Pharmacist, Assistant & other Posts. A huge number of applicants had applied for the examination and are eagerly waiting to check their DSSSB Exam Results 2017. By checking the results aspirants can evaluate their performance in the examination. The DSSSB Merit List 2017 will be available on our page when released by the officials at delhi.gov.in. However, individuals can check their results here as we have provided direct links and steps to help contenders easily download their DSSSB Results 2017.
DSSSB Result 2017 to be released soon. Candidates who have taken up the examination for various posts issued by the board are now eagerly waiting for their Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board Exam Results 2017. Aspirants can visit this page to check their DSSSB Results 2017. As we are providing direct link and steps for downloading Results. We will update the date of the announcement of DSSSB Merit List 2017 in our page when released by officials @ delhi.gov.in.
DSSSB Results 2017 – www. delhi.gov.in
Aspirants are you in search of DSSSB Exam Results 2017 ?? Then you are on the exact page. The results will be available soon and can check them on the official website. However, we are updating the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board Exam Merit List 2017 on our page when updated by the board. The results are important for candidates who have attended the examination. Candidates who haven’t taken up their exams cannot view their DSSSB Result 2017. So, stay tuned our page to get the release date of the results.
Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board had announced its notification. A good number of candidates had applied for various posts. It had a total number of 1074 vacancies. However, aspirants were qualified by their performance in written test. The last date to submit the application form was on 21st August 2017. And aspirants had submitted their form before the given deadline. The candidates whoever applied had to pay an application fee as it was required by the board. Moreover, the mode of application was online. Now, candidates have taken up the examination and waiting for their results. So, aspirants, your search has come to an end as we provided direct steps and links to download the results to make applicants feel easy.
DSSSB Result 2017 – Download Delhi DSSB Merit List
Cut off marks is the minimum qualifying marks candidates must score to be part of the board. The aspirants who ever reach the cut off marks will be allowed to take up further rounds. The cut off marks are decided by the board. Moreover, it was given to eliminate a maximum number of crowd. So, candidates prepare well and get to know which part of the section has more weight-age and prepare accordingly. Applicants who do not meet the cutoff marks are eliminated from the posts offered by the organization. Qualifying marks play an important role for candidates and it proves the ability of the aspirants. You can visit cut off to get more information regarding the qualifying marks. So guys never miss this opportunity and try to reach the cutoff as specified. So prepare well and make this job as yours.
Download DSSSB Merit List 2017
Aspirants can view their DSSSB Exam Results 2017 only if they have attended the examination. The merit list contains the name of the candidate, roll number and this would help the candidate to get there results easily. As it is through this applicants can attend further rounds. So prepare well to be a part of various posts offered by the board. The board releases the DSSSB Merit List 2017 and then there is no ambiguity as it is corrected by the authorized person. We have provided steps to help aspirants easily check their results. Check our page to get the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board Result 2017. So, get ready with your hall ticket to view your results.
Steps to Check DSSSB Exam Result 2017
Visit the official website www.delhi.gov.in
After that click on the DSSSB Exam Results.
There you will find the latest news column.
Just click on that which will open a new page.
After that, a DSSSB Result 2017 session will be there.
Click on that and enter your relevant details.
And this will open your result.
Download it and if possible take a print out of it.
RVUNL Result 2019 Available here – The Candidates those who applied for various RVUNL Careers 2019 can check the result now. The RVUNL Recruitment Board allows the Aspirants those who appeared the Exam to check the RVNUL Result. However, we help you in finding your Result with a direct link given below. Also, get an individual link for respective RVUNL Recruitment. Furthermore, the aspirant can visit the official website of Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd for more details about RVUNL Result 2019.
RVUNL Technical Helper 2 Result 2019 – Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd (RVUNL) recently uploaded Result for the Post of Helper 2 Recruitment on 01st August 2019. All the Candidates who have appeared in this Examination can download your result now. Applicants can get your result s just by clicking one direct link provided below in the table. However, candidates can get the complete details from the official website i.e, energy.rajasthan.gov.in.
RVUNL Result for Technical Helper Recruitment 2019 is available now. The Applicants who appeared for the RVUNL Technical Helper Post Written Exam can check Result. However, we updated the direct link in the section below. Hence, Click on the RVUNL Technical Helper Result link below. Also, check the RVUNL Technical Helper Marks details from the link.
RVUNL Result for Tech Helper Post 2019 – Click Here
The Rajasthan Rajya Vidhyut Utpadan Nigam Limited announced the Result for Various Engineer, chemist and Other Vacancies 2019. Here, we provide a direct link to check your RVUNL Result for AE, JE, Jr chemist and Other Exams 2019. Hence, just click on the RVUNL Result for Engineer Link in the table below. Download the RVUNL Result Pdf for a respective post from the link. All the best for your Result.
RVUN Result 2019 Details
Name of the Organization
Rajasthan Rajya Vidhyut Utpadan Nigam Limited
Name of the Post
Asst Engineer, Jr Engineer, Junior Chemist, & Other
RVUNL DV Admit Card for AE & Other Posts 2019 – Get Here
The Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadam Nigam Ltd announced the Result for Various Posts like Jr Asst/Commercial Asst-II, Jr Accountant, and Other. The board is now allowing the Applicants to check their Result and download the Doc Verification Call Letters. Hence, we updated the links below. Just click on the links and check your RVUNL Result and download RVUNL Admit Card 2019.
RVUNL Result – Officer, Jr Accountant, Jr Assist 2019
Post/Exam Name
Jr Asst/ Commercial Asst-II, Jr Accountant, Officer Posts
RVUNL Result for Junior Assistant is going to announce soon. The Candidates who appeared the RVUNL Exam for Jr Assistant can check the Result below. However, we Update the link when the Result is available.
RVUNL Result 2019 for Junior Assistant, Junior Accountant & Others is available Soon. Also, the Aspirants who attended the RVUNL Exam are allowed to check the Result. However, we provide you a direct link to check your Result for RVUNL Careers 2019. Also, get other details like Exam Pattern, Cut Off Marks, Merit List & Final Result in the section below. Furthermore, we advise visiting the Official website of RVUNL i.e., energy.rajasthan.gov.in recruitment for more details.
RVNUL Result 2019 Details
Name of the Board
Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited
Name of Posts
Junior Assistant, Junior Accountant & Others
No of vacancies
3220
Category
Sarkari Results
Starting Date to Apply
22nd May 2019
Last Date to Apply
11th June 2019
Exam Date
Available Soon
Result Date
Update Soon
Official Website
energy.rajasthan.gov.in
RVNUL Result link
Click Here↓
The candidate who is looking for the RVUNL Result has to wait a few more days. Generally, Result is released 15-20 days before the Examination. So, keep visiting our site we will update the link immediately after the release of RVUNL Result 2019.
RVUNL Exam Pattern – energy.rajasthan.gov.in
The Exam Pattern for various Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited is as follows. However, go through the details below and check the exam pattern for the respective post you applied for.
RVNUL Stenographer Exam Pattern
Paper
Exam Duration
Marks
Transcription and typing (English) on computer
60 Mins
100
English SH Test (Typing Dictated words 100 WPM)
10 Mins
Transcription and typing (Hindi) on computer
70 Mins
100
Hindi SH Test (Typing Dictated words 100 WPM)
10 Mins
Exam Pattern for RVUNL Junior Assistant, Junior Accountant
Type of Questions
Part
Section Name
Exam Duration
Multiple Choice Questions
Part A
Concerned Subjects
2 Hours
Part B
Hindi General
English General
Mathematics
General Knowledge & Everyday Science
Reasoning & Mental Ability
RVUNL Cut Off Marks for Junior Assistant & Other 2019
The Authorities of Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited will announce the Cut Off Marks. Generally, the cut-off mark is the minimum mark one has to score in the Written test. Also, the RVUNL Cut Off Mark announces after the release of RVUNL Result. Furthermore, for more details on cut off Marks visit our Cut Off Marks page for RVUNL Cut Off for Junior Assistant, Junior Accountant and Other.
Merit List & Final Result of RVUNL career
The board announces the Merit list after the release of Cut Off Marks. Where the aspirants who got minimum marks are shortlisted and the merit list is prepared. Furthermore, the Final Result releases after the completion of Selection Process. The Authorities considers the Candidates Education Qualification, Experience, Age etc, for final merit list and result. Keep visiting our site we provide you immediate updates on Merit list and the Final result of RVUNL Recruitment.
Steps to Download the RVUNL Result 2019
Click on the RVUNL Result link given below.
We Redirect you to the official page
Check for the respective Result link and open.
Enter the login details and submit
The RVUNL Result is displayed on a new page.
Take a photocopy or save as PDF for future references.
Keep the Result Copy until the end of the Selection Process.
Assam Police Admit Card 2019 – Download Assam Hall Ticket for the Post of LDA, UDA & DEO Posts. Dear Candidates !! Who are in search of Assam Police Admit Card can get the direct link to download the admit card. Hence, the admit card link will be available on its official website. The Department has committed to release the hall ticket in the month of August 2019. Likewise, the Assam Police Department will conduct the written examination on August/ September 2019. Aspirants are suggested to bookmark our page to get the latest announcement of Assam Police Exam Date and Assam Police Admit Card.
Assam Police Admit Card 2019
Assam Police Department has decided to conduct the examination for those candidates who have submitted their application at the time of Assam Police Recruitment 2019. Aspirants make sure with the details of the recruitment notification and download the admit card from the below section. Assam Police Call Letter Download should be made by each and every individuals. Hence, Candidates make sure to get your admit card before the last date ends.
Written Test, Practical Test, Documents Verification
Admit Card Release Date
August 2019
Official website
police.assam.gov.in
Details on Assam Police Hall Ticket 2019
Contenders can view the Assam Police Admit Card on the official portal from August 2019 tentatively. The Police Department will release the exact admit card date on the official site. Get the Assam Police Exam Admit Card @ assampolice.gov.in. Provide all the necessary details in the admit card to download it.
Candidates Name
Name of the Candidate's Father
The venue of the Exam Centre
Date & Time of the Test
Reporting Time to the Exam Hall
Gender (Male/ Female)
Roll Number
Duration of the Online Test
Space for Invigilator's Signature
Registration Number
Name of the Test Centre
Category of the candidates
Space for Applicant's Signature
Name of the Exam Conducting Board
Photograph of the Candidate
Applicant's Date of Birth
Name of the Written Test
Important Guidelines for the Exam Takers
Full Name of the Applicant
Examination Centre Code
Signature of the Board Counselor
Assam Police Written Examination 2019
The Written Examination for the above-listed posts will be held on August/ September 2019. So, Aspirants have to download the Assam Police Call Letter to take down the exam. Hence, Candidates can get the syllabus and previous papers have been on the official website. Thus, Contenders have to go through all the previous year papers to get a clear view of the exam. The following content has been given for the Assam Police Written Examination.
The Exam Will be Written Objective Type.
The Exam Will be of 100 Questions and each question will be of 1 mark.
The questions will be set in four parts (i) Logical reasoning, aptitude, (ii) Matters relating to History and Culture of Assam and India, (iii) Comprehension and (iv) General Knowledge and Current Affairs.
Candidates can use black ball pen to answer the OMR based answer sheet.
There will be negative marking of ½ mark for each wrong answer.
Documents for Assam Police Exam 2019
Takedown any of the below-listed documents along with the Assam Police Hall Ticket. Document Verification will be made at the exam hall. So, Candidates should not fail to carry the original Government ID proof.
Original Photograph
Voter Card
Pan Card
Employee ID
College ID
PAN Card
Passport
Driving License
Any other ID proof issued by a Gazetted Officer
Bank Pass Book with the photograph
Candidates can contact the below-mentioned Helpline number to get the answers for your queries. If candidates found any mistakes after downloading the admit card, aspirants can inform to the board immediately through the Helpline Numbers.
Central Helpline numbers: 7636071992 / 7636071993/ 7636071991
Whatsapp Helpline: 7636071991
Assam Police Admit Card Download Steps 2019
Firstly, Click on to the Assam Police Admit Card direct link.
Choose the respective post admit card that you have to get.
Enter the login details that have been generated at the time of registration.
The Assam Police Call Letter page will appear on the screen.
On that page, enter all the valid details asked in the Assam Police Hall Ticket 2019.
Lastly, Submit the Admit Card to download it.
Download the Assam Police Exam Admit Card.
Take a print out of the hall ticket once downloaded.
Carry for the written examination and for all the selection rounds.
JVVNL Helper Result 2019 Declared now | Get Direct link here @ energy.rajasthan.gov.in – The officials of the Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited (JVVNL), Rajasthan has released the results for the Technical Helper II Written Test on 01st August 2019. So, candidates who have taken part in the held exam must check this page to get the latest information about the JVVNL Helper II Result 2019. Furthermore, you can also find the JVVNL Helper 2 Cut Off Marks along with the JVVNL Helper 2 Merit List 2019 from the below sections.
Latest Update: As per the latest information, the officials of the Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited has released the JVVNL Helper 2 Result 2019 on 01st August 2019.
The JVVNL officials had released a recruitment notification for 2412 Helper II posts. For this recruitment, a huge number of applicants have been applied. To filter the suitable applicants for the present vacancies, the authorities of Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited decided to conduct the written exam. Remember, that you can only check your JVVNL Helper 2 Result 2019 from the official site. The JVVNL Helper 2 Results 2019 link will be activated by the Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited higher authority only when the results are out. The JVVNL recruitment team will hire suitable aspirants based on their performance in the selection process. And the selected candidates will be placed in the organization.
To get qualify in the exam, candidates need to secure the JVVNL Helper 2 Cut Off Marks 2019 in the written test. The energy.rajasthan.gov.in Technical Helper 2 Cut Off Marks 2019 not the same for all the candidates. Furthermore, the category wise cut off will be available at the official website of the JVVNL at energy.rajasthan.gov.in. Moreover, the JVVNL Technical Helper II Cut Off Marks 2019 should be changed as per the applicant's category ST/ SC/ BC/ OC & Other.
Category
Expected Cut Off Marks
General
75-80
OBC
72-76
SC
70-74
ST
68-75
JVVNL Helper 2 Merit List 2019
Applicants who will get good marks in the Helper II Written Test, their details will be available in the topmost section of the energy.rajasthan.gov.in Merit List 2019. The JVVNL Helper 2 Merit List 2019 and JVVNL Technical Helper II Result 2019 both are available at the same time at energy.rajasthan.gov.in. Applicants whose names appeared in the JVVNL Helper II Merit List 2019, they will get a call from the organization website for the next selection round. So, candidates need to download the JVVNL Helper 2 Merit List 2019 from the official site which is provided in PDF format.
Steps to Check The JVVNL Technical Helper II Results 2019
Visit the official site of Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited (JVVNL) @ energy.rajasthan.gov.in.
Scroll down the home page, and observe the Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited (JVVNL)
Under this "Consisting of following primary bodies" section.
Then, you will be redirected to the new window.
Furthermore, you can check the "Latest News" section.
Under that, find out the link that refers to the JVVNL Technical Helper II Results 2019.
Click on it and then enter all the required credentials to access the page.
Now, your JVVNL Helper 2 Result 2019 will be displayed on the screen.
Download and also keep it safe until the process ends.
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WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to impose a 10% tariff on $300 billion of Chinese imports from Sept. 1 and could raise tariffs further if China's President Xi Jinping fails to move more quickly to strike a trade deal.The announcement on Thursday extends Trump's trade tariffs to nearly all China's imports into the United States and marks an abrupt end to a temporary truce in a trade war that has disrupted global supply chains and roiled financial markets."I think President Xi ... wants to make a deal, but frankly, he's not going fast enough," Trump said.Trump made the announcement in a series of Twitter posts after his top trade negotiators briefed him on a lack of progress in U.S.-China talks in Shanghai this week.Trump later said if trade negotiations fail to progress he could raise tariffs further - even beyond the 25 percent levy he has already imposed on $250 billion of imports from China.The news hit U.S. financial markets hard.Oil prices plummeted 7%, with Brent crude registering the biggest daily percentage drop since February 2016. The benchmark S&P 500, which had been in solidly positive territory on Thursday afternoon, closed down 0.9%. Benchmark U.S. Treasury yields also fell.Retail associations predicted a spike in consumer prices. Target Corp tumbled 4.2%, Macy's Inc fell 6% and Nordstrom Inc was down 6.2%. Asked about the impact on financial markets, Trump told reporters: "I'm not concerned about that at all."Moody's said the new tariffs would weigh on the global economy at a time when growth is already slowing in the United States, China and the euro zone.The tariffs may also force the Federal Reserve to again cut interest rates to protect the U.S. economy from trade-policy risks, experts said.Raising tariffs would lower the prospects of a deal rather than expedite it, China's Global Times newspaper said. Beijing would focus more on efforts to survive a prolonged trade war, Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Communist Party-backed newspaper, said on Twitter."New tariffs will by no means bring closer a deal that the U.S. wants; it will only make it further away," Hu said.FRUSTRATEDU.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin briefed Trump on their first face-to-face meeting with Chinese officials since Trump met Xi at the G20 summit at the end of June and agreed to a ceasefire in the trade war."When my people came home, they said, 'We're talking. We have another meeting in early September.' I said, 'That's fine, but until such time as there's a deal, we'll be taxing them," Trump told reporters.A source familiar with the matter said Trump grew frustrated and composed the tweets shortly after Lighthizer and Mnuchin told him China made no significant movement on its position.Previous negotiations collapsed in May, when U.S. officials accused China of backing away from earlier commitments.American business groups in China expressed disquiet over the latest round of U.S. tariffs. The U.S.-China Business Council said on Friday it was concerned the action "will drive the Chinese from the negotiating table, reducing hope raised by a second round of talks that ended this week in Shanghai.""We are particularly concerned about increased regulatory scrutiny, delays in licenses and approvals, and discrimination against U.S. companies in government procurement tenders," said the U.S.-China Business Council's President Craig Allen in an e-mail.Ker Gibbs, the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, urged both sides to keep talking.Gibbs said that as market access in China "remains unnecessarily restricted," the United States should continue its dialogue with Beijing, and "also work with like-minded countries to persuade China that fair and reciprocal trade and investment benefits all."CROPS AND DRUGSTrump said Beijing had failed to stop sales of the synthetic opioid fentanyl to the United States, as it had promised to do. He also said Beijing had not fulfilled a goodwill pledge to buy more U.S. agricultural products.Trump has failed to make good on a goodwill gesture he said he would make after the G20 meeting to relax restrictions on sales to Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.Trump had been pressing Xi to crack down on a flood of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances from China, which U.S. officials say is the main source of a drug blamed for most of more than 28,000 synthetic opioid-related overdose deaths in the United States in 2017.China had pledged that from May 1 it would expand the list of narcotics subject to state control to include the more than 1,400 known fentanyl analogues, which have a slightly different chemical makeup but are addictive and potentially deadly, as well as any new ones developed in the future.The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday confirmed a small private sale to China of 68,000 tonnes of soybeans in the week ended July 25.It was the first sale to a private buyer since Beijing offered to exempt five crushers from the 25% import tariffs imposed more than a year ago. Soybean futures opened lower on Thursday as traders shrugged off the purchase because of the small volume involved, and losses accelerated after Trump's tweets.RETAIL IMPACTThe new tariffs will jack up prices for consumers at the start of the back-to-school buying season, four large retail trade associations said on Thursday."President Trump is, in effect, using American families as a hostage in his trade war negotiations," said Matt Priest, president of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America.Stephen Lamar, executive vice president of the American Apparel & Footwear Association, said his group's members were shocked that Trump had not allowed the resumed U.S.-China trade talks to proceed further before acting.The measure will hit U.S. consumers far harder than Chinese manufacturers, who produce 42% of apparel and 69% of footwear purchased in the United States, Lamar said.
State-run Punjab National Bank (PNB) is looking to reduce its gross non-performing loans at under 12 percent this year with better recoveries. In the quarter to June, the bank's gross NPAs came down to 16.49 percent at Rs 77,000 crore from 18.26 percent or Rs 82,889 crore. "In this fiscal, we expect two NCLT accounts--Essar Steel and Bhushan Power & Steel--worth Rs 7,000 crore to get resolved. If our normal recovery is Rs 15,000 crore this fiscal then our total recovery will be Rs 22,000 crore with these two accounts. This will help in the reduction of NPAs," managing director Sunil Mehta told reporters here. In FY19, the bank's recoveries stood at Rs 20,000 crore, which included Rs 2,100 crore through an one-time settlement scheme. "We have extended the scheme and expect to recover same amount in this year," he added. He said the target is to contain gross NPAs below 12 percent and net NPAs at 6 percent in FY20 from 7.17 percent. The bank is also targeting a loan growth of 10 percent, he said. The bank also managed to arrest fresh slippages at Rs 4,711 crore in the June quarter from Rs 5,250 crore. During the reporting quarter, the bank turned black with a net profit of Rs 1,019 crore as against a net loss of Rs 940 crore and attributed lower provisioning for this. "We reduced the provisioning requirement substantially in the June quarter. In the last two years, we had an impact of a fraud (Nirav Modi and Mehul Choski) for which we had to make a provision of Rs 15,000 crore spread over two years. In this fiscal, we don't have any legacy provisioning requirement," Mehta said. The lender will continue to focus on retail loans, which accounts for 54 per cent of its total loan book. In the first quarter, retail loans grew 22 percent led by a 30 percent spurt in housing loans and Mehta expects the ongoing "NBFC crisis to open larger window for banks for growing in the retail sector." The bank has a board approval to raise Rs 5,000 crore through a rights issue or qualified institutional placement. That apart it is also looking to raise Rs 3,500 crore through tier 1 bonds in this fiscal. The bank is planning to sell non-core assets, which include its erstwhile headquarters at the Bhikaji Cama Place in south Delhi and some of its investments, and mop up Rs 1,000 crore.
More than half a dozen non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) including Tata Capital Financial Services, Rural Electrification Corp, Aditya Birla Finance (ABFL), Tata Housing Finance, Mahindra Finance, IIFL Finance and JM Financial are preparing to raise as much as Rs 25,000 crore from retail bond sales.They could well be preparing for a spurt in festive season demand for loans after a damp first half of the year."For the need of diversification on its liability pool, companies are reaching out to retail & high networth individual (HNI) investors," said Ajay Manglunia, MD and head- institutional fixed income, JM Financial. "This could well be a year of record public issuances with a lot of them, especially non-banking companies, lining up.""With festivals kicking in, some NBFCS would be preparing for loan demand in coming months," he said.Tata Capital Financial Services is aiming to raise Rs 3,000-4,000 crore while Tata Housing Finance is likely to tap retail money to raise up to Rs 5,000 crore.Aditya Birla Finance too is in talks designing a bond sale of similar quantum.Rural Electrification Corp has appointed about seven domestic arrangers to launch its planned public issue to mop up Rs 5,000-10,000 crore. Earlier, it sold tax-free bonds via initial public offer.Emails sent to Tata companies, REC, ABFL remained unanswered till press time."Non-banking finance companies have been struggling to raise institutional money," said Ashish Agarwal, executive director, AK Capital. "That is why shadow banks are planning to chase retail money offering higher coupons than bank or corporate deposits. Retail issuances are going to rise this year that could see record public issuances of bonds.""Big names are expected to hit the market first ushering the path for others," he said.Such proposed bonds will start hitting the market from early August with multiple maturities ranging of three-five-seven-year to 10-year. Top rated companies including REC, Tatas and Mahindra could offer 7-8 per cent. Any double-A rated paper may yield 9.50-10.50%, dealers said.Such bonds would be designed to offer attractive options with higher interest rates coupled along safety and liquidity; key in the midst of a crisis of capital."The motive is to move away investors from traditional products such as bank/corporate deposits, riskier bets on equity and mutual fund debt schemes considered as only available investment options," Manglunia said.Mahindra Finance is also planning retail issuance of bonds where one of its subsidiaries too could raise money. Shriram Transport Finance is already in the market aiming to raise up to Rs 10,000 crore.IIFL Finance and JM Financial may go for smaller issuances with base size in the range of Rs 100-300crore. Total size may rise up to Rs 1,000 crore and Rs 500 crore. Indiabulls Consumer Finance too looks to sell such bonds."The budget proposal to remove the debenture redemption reserve (DRR) requirement for NBFCs (which is applicable only on their public issues) may encourage entities to tap the retail route," said A M Karthik, vice president and sector head, Financial Sector Ratings, ICRA.On July 5, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed scrapping the obligation of debenture redemption reserves (DRR), a provision that requires NBFCs to build a reserve over the term of the debt to repay investors. It was often termed as a stumbling block for NBFCs to raise money via public bonds.
MUMBAI | BENGALURU: Representatives of the family of VG Siddhartha and US buyout fund Blackstone have agreed to resume talks for the potential sale of a 90-acre technology park owned by the Coffee Day group at an estimated value of about Rs 3,000 crore, according to people directly aware of the development. If successful, the deal will help alleviate the debt burden left behind by the coffee tycoon, who jumped to death on Monday evening.Bankers and investment advisers associated with the property have indicated willingness to revive talks with the world's largest buyout fund for a potential transaction, sources said."There were negotiations with representatives of Siddhartha's family. However, at this point, we cannot say how soon these negotiations can be converted into a transaction," one of the persons told ET. Blackstone declined to comment. An email query to Coffee Day Enterprises (CDE) did not elicit a response till press time Thursday.If a transaction happens, it will help Coffee Day Enterprises substantially reduce its debt and focus on putting the group back on track, the sources said.Blackstone Focused on Indian RealtyRegulatory filings show the total debt of CDE stands at Rs 6,547 crore, which includes loans from banks and securities sold to mutual funds.As reported by ET, Siddhartha is also estimated to have taken on debt of more than Rs 1,000 crore through entities that housed his personal holdings.Coffee Day group's subsidiary Tanglin Retail Realty is the developer of the IT-focused Global Village Tech Park that has 4.5 million square feet of built-up area.In a purported note, which surfaced on Tuesday, the late Siddhartha had estimated the tech park will earn Rs 250 crore in rentals over the next 12 months. The park has the potential to add 5 million square feet of built-up space. The Coffee Day group, through Tanglin, also owns Tech Bay, a 21-acre riverfront property in the coastal city of Mangaluru.Talks between Blackstone and Siddhartha had reached an advanced stage last December, with both sides close to signing a term sheet, said people in the know. However, progress was stalled when Siddhartha decided to prioritise the sale of his stake in Mindtree to L&T. That deal was finalised in May.In his final letter to the "Coffee Day family", Siddhartha had estimated the value of Global Village at about Rs 3,600 crore. In its annual investor presentation in March 2018, the Coffee Day group had said the tech park had total let-out office space of more than 3.3 million sq ft. It counts multinationals such as Accenture, Texas Instruments and NTT Data among its clients. Mindtree's head office is also located within the facility.Blackstone, the world's largest alternative assets manager, has been actively acquiring commercial office space in India over the past few years. The private equity firm started investing in Indian real estate four years after opening its local office in 2005.It is currently the largest commercial real estate owner in India with 120 million sq ft, of which including 20 million sq ft is under development.The realty sector has become a focus of Blackstone's India investments and this will continue, chairman Stephen A Schwarzman told ET in December. "We operate in the most transparent side of Indian real estate … we intend to continue with our strategy," he had said.
MUMBAI | BENGALURU: Representatives of the family of VG Siddhartha and US buyout fund Blackstone have agreed to resume talks for the potential sale of a 90-acre technology park owned by the Coffee Day group at an estimated value of about Rs 3,000 crore, according to people directly aware of the development. If successful, the deal will help alleviate the debt burden left behind by the coffee tycoon, who jumped to death on Monday evening.Bankers and investment advisers associated with the property have indicated willingness to revive talks with the world's largest buyout fund for a potential transaction, sources said."There were negotiations with representatives of Siddhartha's family. However, at this point, we cannot say how soon these negotiations can be converted into a transaction," one of the persons told ET. Blackstone declined to comment. An email query to Coffee Day Enterprises (CDE) did not elicit a response till press time Thursday.If a transaction happens, it will help Coffee Day Enterprises substantially reduce its debt and focus on putting the group back on track, the sources said.Blackstone Focused on Indian RealtyRegulatory filings show the total debt of CDE stands at Rs 6,547 crore, which includes loans from banks and securities sold to mutual funds.As reported by ET, Siddhartha is also estimated to have taken on debt of more than Rs 1,000 crore through entities that housed his personal holdings.Coffee Day group's subsidiary Tanglin Retail Realty is the developer of the IT-focused Global Village Tech Park that has 4.5 million square feet of built-up area.In a purported note, which surfaced on Tuesday, the late Siddhartha had estimated the tech park will earn Rs 250 crore in rentals over the next 12 months. The park has the potential to add 5 million square feet of built-up space. The Coffee Day group, through Tanglin, also owns Tech Bay, a 21-acre riverfront property in the coastal city of Mangaluru.Talks between Blackstone and Siddhartha had reached an advanced stage last December, with both sides close to signing a term sheet, said people in the know. However, progress was stalled when Siddhartha decided to prioritise the sale of his stake in Mindtree to L&T. That deal was finalised in May.In his final letter to the "Coffee Day family", Siddhartha had estimated the value of Global Village at about Rs 3,600 crore. In its annual investor presentation in March 2018, the Coffee Day group had said the tech park had total let-out office space of more than 3.3 million sq ft. It counts multinationals such as Accenture, Texas Instruments and NTT Data among its clients. Mindtree's head office is also located within the facility.Blackstone, the world's largest alternative assets manager, has been actively acquiring commercial office space in India over the past few years. The private equity firm started investing in Indian real estate four years after opening its local office in 2005.It is currently the largest commercial real estate owner in India with 120 million sq ft, of which including 20 million sq ft is under development.The realty sector has become a focus of Blackstone's India investments and this will continue, chairman Stephen A Schwarzman told ET in December. "We operate in the most transparent side of Indian real estate … we intend to continue with our strategy," he had said.
MUMBAI: A foreign investor in the Indian property market has alleged in a complaint to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) that Yes Bank and realty group HDIL have moved funds to evergreen loans.According to the offshore investor Ocean Deity Investment Holdings — an erstwhile arm of DE Shaw and the 78% owner in an Indian joint venture (JV) where HDIL entities hold minority stake — the loans from Yes Bank to the JV were not authorised by the majority shareholder and the money was transferred to bank accounts of other HDIL group companies, almost simultaneously, to repay loans taken by them from Yes Bank, sources aware of the matter told ET.Mack Star Marketing Pvt Ltd is the JV company and owner of a well known commercial property in Mumbai's Andheri East area."We have filed a complaint with RBI. We are not in a position to comment on the matter," said Sumit Saha, authorised representative of Ocean Deity.70490884 Fund Transfers between March '14 and March '16Denying the allegations, Sarang Wadhawan, MD of HDIL, said HDIL or its subsidiaries are not aware of any entity named Ocean Deity Investments or its dealings with Mack Star."We would like to state that Mack Star Marketing had purchased development rights from HDIL through certain investments by DE Shaw Composite Investments (Mauritius) and the transaction was limited to such sale of development rights with HDIL," said Wadhawan.It is learnt that DE Shaw Composite Investments (Mauritius) was renamed Ocean Deity investment Holdings following a change in the ownership in the Mauritius entity.Fund transfersOcean Deity is understood to have drawn RBI's attention to a series of fund transfers between March 2014 and March 2016 which showed that soon after Yes Bank disbursed a loan tranche to Mack Star, almost the entire amount was simultaneously transferred to accounts maintained by HDIL group companies with Yes Bank.Sources said that Ocean Deity told RBI that while Rs 140 crore was lent and transferred through such transactions between 2014 and 2016, there was a similar pattern of transaction, involving Rs 60 crore in multiple instalments, in 2011 and 2012.There were cases, the foreign investor alleged, where money moved to the loan escrow account maintained by Privilege Power & Infrastructure Pvt Ltd (an HDIL group company) with Yes Bank, and the current account of Sapphire Land Development (another company linked to HDIL) with the same private lender.Responding to ET's queries, Wadhawan said that "all transactions related to Mack Star Marketing were conducted by the company itself and HDIL had no relation in any borrowings or debt raised by Mack Star.Mack Star's relationship with its lenders was conducted by its owners DE Shaw Composite, Wadhawan added. Yes Bank did not respond to ET's email till the time of going to press. A bank official said the bank would not comment on client specific issues.Ocean Deity has pointed out to RBI that as per the Articles of Association of the JV, the company was barred from borrowing without the approval of the majority shareholder. The offshore investor has alleged that the primary objective was ever-greening of loans to certain HDIL entities and it was orchestrated by Yes Bank.A banker unconnected to the matter said that in all likelihood Yes Bank had done some paper work and maintained records which it could only share with RBI.
By Chandan TapariaNifty50 failed to sustain Wednesday's bounce and fell sharply towards the 10,880 level. However, it witnessed a 120-point recovery in the last hour of trade and finally closed in the negative below the psychologically important 11,000 mark. The index has been forming lower highs and lows on the daily and weekly charts, while resistances have shifted lower gradually.As long as Nifty remains below 11,111 level, weakness could continue and make Nifty retest the immediate swing low of 10,881 and 10,800 levels, while on the upside, resistance is seen at 11,050 and then 11,111 levels.On the options front, maximum Put open interest was at 11,000 followed by 11,200 levels, while maximum Call OI was at 11,500 followed by 11,300. There was Put writing at 10,700 followed by 11,000 levels, while Call writing was seen at 11,000 followed by 11,200 levels. Options data suggests a trading range between 10,800 and 11,300 levels.India VIX moved up 7.12 per cent to 14.55 level.Bank Nifty failed to respect its immediate support at 28,550 level and fell sharply towards the 28,000 mark. During the day, it corrected around 750 points from the intraday high of 28,820 and finally closed with a loss of around 500 points. The index has been making lower highs and lows on the weekly scale and it has broken all immediate support levels.Now as long as it holds below 28,888 level, weakness could be seen towards 28,000 and then 27,750 levels, while on the upside a hurdle is seen at 28,550 and then 28,888 levels.Nifty futures closed negative at 11,027 with a loss of 0.95 per cent. Long buildup was seen in Voltas, Ujjivan Finance, Chola Finance and Power grid while shorts were seen in ICICI Prudential, UPL, Siemens and SBI.(Chandan Taparia is Technical & Derivative Analyst at MOFSL. Investors are advised to consult financial advisers before taking an investment calls based on these observations)
NEW DELHI: Selloff in stocks intensified on Dalal Street on Thursday as the bulls succumbed to the bear assault, sending NSE's Nifty50 below the 11,000 mark for the first time since March. The NSE barometer formed a bearish candle on the daily chart and made lower highs and lows for yet another day, signalling that supports have shifted lower.The Wave Structure suggests Thursday's was only a counter-trend move, as the overall structure remained negative, said Gaurav Ratnaparkhi of Sharekhan. The index is in the fifth leg of an impulse structure that is unfolding on the downside, and is far from over, he said."A minor degree bounce, like the one Nifty witnessed towards the closing of Thursday's session, can be used as a selling opportunity. One can initiate fresh short positions near 11,020 and 11,040 level with a reversal at 11,150. On the downside, Nifty is expected to target the 61.8 per cent retracement of October-June rally, which is at 10,806," Ratnaparkhi said.The price action indicated continuation of a weak trend, said Arun Kumar, Market Strategist at Reliance Securities. "With the sell signal still in place and the momentum remaining weak, the index may attempt to test the 10,865 level in the near term," he said. For the day, the index closed at 10,980, down 105 points, or 1.24 per cent. It broke below its strong support at 11,000, suggesting that it can drag towards 10,800 if it fails to reclaim the said level soon, said Rohit Singre, Senior Technical Analyst at LKP Securities."If the index climbs above the resistance level, we may see a short-covering bounce," he said.
NEW DELHI: India's prominent information technology (IT) firms including TCS, Infosys and Tech Mahindra have told the government that doing business in China is not easy. In a significant development ahead of a key meeting of trade ministers to finalise the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, the IT firms conveyed to commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal that China's restrictive business visa regime, statutory compliance costs and high taxes are a huge hindrance for Indian companies looking to invest there. "They have highlighted that a 5% return on investment does not make it lucrative to invest in China," said an official, who was present at the meeting that Goyal had with the companies on Wednesday. The meeting was attended by senior managers of TCS, Satyam Venture Engineering Services, HCL, NIIT Tech, Infosys, Invento Robotics, Tech Mahindra and Wipro, as well as representatives of Services Export Promotion Council and industry lobby Nasscom. The companies flagged the issue of high taxes in China, where various levies on provident fund, medical, pension and unemployment add up to a staggering 44%. Moreover, China restricts movement of professionals inside the country and gives provincial visas for business travellers which impacts intra-province visits. 70488642 "Our services people sitting in one province can't go to other provinces. Also, Chinese companies are state-owned enterprises and the facilities offered to them are not available to the foreign companies," said an industry representative who attended the meeting. Companies are asked to open physical entities along with bank accounts in every province they operate in, said the representative. The IT firms also raised the issue of withholding tax wherein Chinese subsidiaries of Indian firms withhold 15% of the invoice amount and remit only 85% to the Indian parent. As per estimates, bigger IT firms employ around 12,000 people in China and 90% of these are locals. The meeting came amid pressure on India to conclude the RCEP this year, even though many member countries have not offered concessions on computer-related or information technology services and simpler cross-border movement of professionals. The 16-member RCEP grouping had earlier rejected India's proposal for a visa fee waiver on a common reciprocal basis, and an RCEP Business Travel Card aimed at facilitating liberal movement of professionals and tourists in the region owing to their fears over migration and loss of jobs. Goyal had a similar meeting with manufacturers, exporters and importers on Wednesday to discuss ways to increase goods exports to China and the US. "The minister urged India's IT services companies to explore other markets and not be inhibited in operating in countries that are non-English speaking… to create a corpus that will be spent on training manpower in languages like Mandarin, Japanese and Korean for accessing the markets in these countries," the ministry said in a statement on Thursday. RCEP is a proposed regional economic integration agreement among the 10 Asean countries and its six free-trade agreement partners – Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, South Korea and India.
Govt passes National Medical Commission bill amid huge protest by doctors The move comes in the wake of allegations of corruption against the 63-year-old Medical Council of India that regulate all aspects of medical education, profession and institutions in India
Maharashtra govt to act on units not employing locals Shiv Sena mulls legislation to cover contract labourers under 80% reservation for 'sons of the soil' in industries
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Railways denies scam in Vande Bharat manufacture There were allegations about not following a correct procedure while procuring electrical equipments for self-propelled trains.
Bihar floods claim 130 lives, state starts estimation drive Sitamarhi is the worst-hit part where 37 people have died, followed by Madhubani with 30 deaths and Darbhanga reporting 14 casualties.
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