वित्त मंत्री निर्मला सीतारमण आज अपना दूसरा बजट पेश कर रही हैं। मोदी सरकार 2.0 के दूसरे बजट में निर्मला पर पूरी देश की नजरें हैं। नौकरीपेशा तबका जहां आयकर में छूट की उम्मीद कर रहा है वहीं, उद्योग कुछ रियायतों की आस में है।
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Friday, January 31, 2020
बजट में किसानों और गांवों को क्या-क्या मिला?
लड़खड़ाती इकॉनमी को सपॉर्ट देने के लिए ग्रामीण इकॉनमी को बजट में क्या मिला, यह अहम है।
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निर्भया केस: विनय की भी दया याचिका खारिज
निर्भया गैंगरेप केस में दोषी विनय शर्मा की भी दया याचिका राष्ट्रपति ने खारिज कर दी है। इसी के साथ अब विनय शर्मा के भी सभी कानूनी विकल्प खत्म हो गए हैं।
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करॉना लाइव अपडेट: RML में 2 नए संदिग्ध ऐडमिट
चीन में करॉना वायरस से अब तक 259 लोगों की मौत हो चुकी है और करीब 12,000 लोग इसकी चपेट में हैं। विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन ने करॉना को ग्लोबल इमर्जेंसी घोषित कर दिया है। भारत ने भी वुहान से अपने नागरिकों को वापस बुला लिया है। हम आपको बताएंगे दुनियाभर से आ रहीं करॉना वायरस को लेकर बड़ी खबरों के बारे में...
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मंत्रियों के फोन बाहर, मोदी की सबसे गुप्त बैठक
दरअसल, बजट बनाने की प्रक्रिया लंबी होती है और अगर बजट को कोई हिस्सा लीक हो जाए तो उसका बड़ा असर पड़ सकता है। इसलिए ये तमाम कोशिश बजट को गोपनीय बनाए रखने के लिए की जाती है।
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फिर से बहीखाता लेकर आईं वित्त मंत्री, जानें क्यों
वित्त मंत्री निर्मला सीतारमण ने बजट पर बहीखाते का चलन जारी रखा है। वह वित्त मंत्रालय के बाहर अपनी टीम के साथ आईं तो उनके हाथ में फिर से लाल कपड़े में बंधा बहीखाता दिखा।
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बजट प्रिंटिंग के दौरान पिता की मौत, पूरी की ड्यूटी
बजट की छपाई का काम कितना मुश्किल और जटिल होता है, इसका प्रमाण दिया डिप्टी मैनेजर (प्रेस) कुलदीप शर्मा ने। 26 जनवरी को उनके पिता का देहांत हो गया, लेकिन वह घर नहीं गए और कहा कि ड्यूटी पूरी कर ही लौटेंगे।
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Britain's exit marks first stage of Brexit saga, UK to follow bloc rules during 11 months 'transition period'; EU to recover from 'historic blow' as ex-member becomes competition
London: So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu. With little fanfare, Britain left the European Union on Friday after 47 years of membership, taking a leap into the unknown in a historic blow to the bloc.
The UK's departure became official at 11 pm, midnight in Brussels, where the EU is headquartered. Thousands of enthusiastic Brexit supporters gathered outside Britain’s Parliament to welcome the moment they'd longed for since Britain’s 52-48 percent vote in June 2016 to walk away from the club it had joined in 1973. The flag-waving crowd erupted in cheers as Big Ben bonged 11 times — on a recording. Parliament's real bell has been silenced for repairs.
In a message from nearby 10 Downing St, Prime Minister Boris Johnson called Britain’s departure “a moment of real national renewal and change.”
But many Britons mourned the loss of their EU identity, and some marked the passing with tearful vigils. There was also sadness in Brussels as British flags were quietly removed from the bloc’s many buildings.
Thousands of enthusiastic Brexit supporters gathered outside Britain’s Parliament to welcome the moment they'd longed for. AP
Whether Brexit makes Britain a proud nation that has reclaimed its sovereignty, or a diminished presence in Europe and the world, will be debated for years to come.
While Britain’s exit is a historic moment, it only marks the end of the first stage of the Brexit saga. When Britons wake up on Saturday, they will notice very little change. The UK and the EU have given themselves an 11-month “transition period” — in which the UK will continue to follow the bloc’s rules — to strike new agreements on trade, security and a host of other areas.
The now 27-member EU will have to bounce back from one of its biggest setbacks in its 62-year history to confront an ever more complicated world as its former member becomes a competitor, just across the English Channel.
French President Emmanuel Macron called Brexit a “historic alarm signal” that should force the EU to improve itself.
“It’s a sad day, let’s not hide it,” he said in a televised address. “But it is a day that must also lead us to do things differently.”
He insisted that European citizens need a united Europe “more than ever,” to defend their interests in the face of China and the United States, to cope with climate change and migration and technological upheaval.
In the many EU buildings of Brussels on Friday, British flags were quietly lowered, folded and taken away. This is the first time a country has left the EU, and many in the bloc rued the day. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen lamented that “as the sun rises tomorrow, a new chapter for our union of 27 will start."
But she warned Brexit day would mark a major loss for the UK and said the island nation was heading for a lonelier existence.
“Strength does not lie in splendid isolation, but in our unique union," she said.
Johnson insisted post-Brexit Britain would be “simultaneously a great European power and truly global in our range and ambitions.”
“We want this to be the beginning of a new era of friendly cooperation between the EU and an energetic Britain,” Johnson said in a pre-recorded address to the country broadcast an hour before Britain's exit.
In a break with usual practice, independent media outlets were not allowed to film Johnson’s speech, which the government recorded Thursday at 10 Downing St.
Johnson won an election victory in December with a dual promise to “get Brexit done” and deliver improved jobs, infrastructure and services for Britain’s most deprived areas, where support for leaving the EU is strongest. On Friday, he symbolically held a Cabinet meeting in the pro-Brexit town of Sunderland in northeast England, rather than in London.
Johnson is a Brexit enthusiast, but he knows many Britons aren’t, and his Conservative government sought to mark the moment with quiet dignity. Red, white and blue lights illuminated government buildings and a countdown clock projected onto the prime minister’s Downing Street residence.
There was no such restraint in nearby Parliament Square, where arch-Brexiteer Nigel Farage gathered a crowd of several thousand, who belted out the patriotic song “Land of Hope and Glory” as they waited for the moment that even Farage sometimes doubted would ever come.
“This is the single most important moment in the modern history of our great nation,” Farage told the crowd.
"The war is over," said Farage, who often describes Britain's relationship with Europe in martial terms. “We have won.”
Londoner Donna Jones said she had come to "be part of history.”
"It doesn't mean we're anti-Europe, it just means we want to be self-sufficient in a certain way,” she said.
But Britons who cherished their membership in the bloc — and the freedom it bought to live anywhere across of 28 countries — were mourning.
"Many of us want to just mark our sadness in public," said Ann Jones, who joined dozens of other remainders on a march to the EU's mission in London.
"And we don't want trouble, we just want to say, well you know, we didn't want this.”
Britain’s journey to Brexit has been long, rocky — and far from over.
The UK was never a wholehearted EU member, but actually leaving the bloc was long considered a fringe idea. It gradually gained strength within the Conservative Party, which has a wing of fierce “Euroskeptics” — opponents of EU membership. Former Prime Minister David Cameron eventually agreed to hold a referendum, saying he wanted to settle the issue once and for all.
It hasn’t worked out that way. Since the 2016 vote, the UK has held fractious negotiations with the EU that finally, late last year, secured a deal on divorce terms. But Britain is leaving the bloc arguably as divided as it was on referendum day.
By and large, Britain's big cities voted to stay in the EU, while small towns voted to leave. England and Wales backed Brexit, while Northern Ireland and Scotland voted to remain.
Candlelit vigils were held in several Scottish cities, government buildings in Edinburgh were lit up in the EU’s blue and yellow colours, and the bloc’s flag continued to fly outside the Scottish Parliament.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Brexit was “a moment of profound sadness.”
“And here in Scotland, given that it is happening against the will of the vast majority of us, that sadness will be tinged with anger,” she said in a speech in Edinburgh.
Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party government is demanding the right to hold a referendum on independence from the UK, something Johnson refuses to grant.
London, which is home to more than 1 million EU citizens, also voted by a wide margin to stay in the bloc.
Mayor Sadiq Khan said he was “heartbroken” about Brexit. But he insisted London would remain that welcomed all, regardless of “the colour of your skin, the colour of your flag, the colour of your passport.”
Negotiations between Britain and the EU on their new relationship are due to start in earnest in March, and the early signs are not encouraging. The EU says Britain can't have full access to the EU's single market unless it follows the bloc's rules, but Britain insists it will not agree to follow an EU rule book in return for unfettered trade.
With Johnson adamant he won’t extend the transition period beyond 31 December, months of uncertainty and acrimony lie ahead.
In the English port of Dover, just 32 kilometres across the Channel from France, retiree Philip Barry said he was confident it would all be worth it.
“My expectation is that there may be a little bump or two in the road but in the end, it will even out,” he said. "Somebody once said: short-term pain but long-term gain.”
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शाहीन बाग पर बात को सरकार राजी, बस एक शर्त
सरकार की तरफ से कानून मंत्री रविशंकर प्रसाद ने कहा कि सरकार शाहीन बाग में प्रदर्शन कर रहे लोगों से बातचीत को और उनकी शंकाओं को दूर करने को राजी है।
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निर्भया: दूसरी बार टली फांसी, आगे क्या होगा?
बता दें कि पहले निर्भया के गैंगरेप के दोषियों पवन कुमार गुप्ता (25), विनय कुमार (26), अक्षय कुमार (31) और मुकेश कुमार सिंह (32) को एक फरवरी को सुबह छह बजे फांसी दी जानी थी। लेकिन कोर्ट के रोक लगाने के बाद सवाल यह उठ रहे हैं कि आखिर 7 साल पुराने मामले में इंसाफ कब होगा?
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मासिक राशि: इस महीने किनकी मुराद पूरी होगी
फरवरी का महीना, प्रेम, उल्लास और प्रकृति में नवचेतन का महीना माना जाता है।
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बजट से टैक्सपेयर्स को आज हैं ये 10 उम्मीदें
डेलॉयट का कहना है कि 5 पर्सेंट और 20 पर्सेंट में टैक्स रेट का डिफरेंस बहुत ज्यादा है। ऐसे में इसकी संभावना है कि 5-10 लाख पर लगने वाले 20 पर्सेंट टैक्स रेट को घटाकर 10 पर्सेंट कर दिया जाए और 10-20 लाख इनकम पर टैक्स रेट 20 पर्सेंट लागू हो। वर्तमान में 10 लाख से ज्यादा इनकम पर 30 पर्सेंट टैक्स लगता है।
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यह है वह टीम, जिसने इस बार बनाया बजट
इस बार भी सूटकेस की जगह बजट प्रपत्र को लाल कपड़े में ही बांधा गया है। निर्मला ने बजट की जगह बही-खाता का चलन पिछले बजट से शुरू किया था।
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देखें: बेवजह हॉर्न बजाने पर मिलेगी 'दर्दनाक सजा'
सिग्नल पर खड़े लोग उसके खुलने तक हॉर्न बजा-बजाकर परेशान कर लेते हैं। यह देखकर मुंबई पुलिस ने नया तरीका निकाला है। शहर के पांच ट्रैफिक सिग्नलों पर डेसिबल मीटर लगाए गए हैं और इसे ट्रैफिक सिग्नल के साथ जोड़ा गया है। जैसे ही डेसिबल मीटर 85 डेसिबल के पार जाएगा, सिग्नल का टाइमर रीसेट हो जाएगा। इस तरह आप जितना ज्यादा हॉर्न बजाएंगे, उतना ज्यादा इंतजार करेंगे।
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2 दशकों में सबसे कम बढ़ेगी भारत की 'इनकम'!
2014-15 और 2019-20 के बीच, प्रति व्यक्ति एनएनआई केवल दो बार 2016-17 और 2018-19 में डबल डिजिट में बढ़ी है। प्रोविजनल एस्टिमेट के अनुसार, 2018-19 में प्रति व्यक्ति एनएनआई 126,406 रुपये आंकी गई थी और 2019-20 के लिए यह 135,050 रुपये होने की उम्मीद है।
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स्मार्टफोन में करॉना वायरस, हैकर्स की बड़ी चाल
करॉना वायरस अब आपके पर्सनल डेटा की चोरी के लिए इस्तेमाल किया जा रहा है। दुनियाभर के शातिर हैकर बड़ी चालाकी से इसके जरिए यूजर्स के डिवाइस को ऐक्सेस कर रहे हैं। साइबर सिक्यॉरिटी ऐक्सपर्ट्स ने इस स्कैम से अलर्ट रहने की सलाह दी है।
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धोनी ने लगाया पत्नी साक्षी पर 'चोरी' का आरोप
साक्षी ने इससे पहले भी एक और विडियो शेयर किया था, जिसमें वह अपने पति धोनी को 'स्वीटी-क्यूटी' कहते हुए नजर आ रही थीं। हालांकि तब भी धोनी उनकी तरफ ध्यान नहीं दे रहे थे।
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LIVE: 11 बजे बजट, निर्मला के पिटारे में क्या?
वित्त मंत्री निर्मला सीतारमण आज मोदी सरकार के दूसरे कार्यकाल का दूसरा बजट पेश करने जा रहे हैं। वह दोपहर 11 बजे संसद में अपना बजट भाषण पढ़ेंगी। अर्थव्यवस्था की सुस्ती को दूर करने के लिए वह क्या डोज देंगी और मिडिल क्लास के लिए क्या वह इस बार सौगातें देने जा रही हैं, इस पर निगाहे रहेंगी...
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टॉप न्यूज: आज इन अहम खबरों पर रहेगी नजर
आज मोदी सरकार के दूसरे कार्यकाल का दूसरा बजट पेश किया जाएगा। दिल्ली के सीएम और आम आदमी पार्टी के मुखिया अरविंद केजरीवाल दो रैली करेंगे। स्टॉक मार्केट में कारोबार की सामान्य शुरुआत होगी। आइये जानतें हैं आज किन अहम खबरों पर नजर...
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क्या नौकरीवालों को 'ड्रीम बजट' वाली सौगात देंगी सीतारमण?
वित्त मंत्री के सामने ऐसा बजट पेश करने की चुनौती है जो न सिर्फ सुस्त रफ्तार पर एक्सलेटर लगाए बल्कि घाटा भी पाटे। जीएसटी और डायरेक्ट टैक्स, दोनों से जितनी आमदनी सरकार ने सोची थी, उतनी हुई नहीं है।
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राशिफल: शुभ योग में हुई महीने की शुरुआत
शनिवार को शुभ योग में महीने का आरंभ हुआ है। आज दिन रात चंद्रमा का संचार मंगल की राशि मेष में हो रहा है।
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Live: 324 भारतीयों संग आ रही स्पेशल फ्लाइट
वुहान, हुबेई की प्रांतीय राजधानी है। यहां लगभग 700 भारतीय यहां रहते हैं। इनमें से अधिकतर मेडिकल छात्र और रिसर्च स्कॉलर हैं जो यहां के स्थानीय विश्वविद्यालयों में पढ़ाई कर रहे हैं।
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ब्रेग्जिट: नई उम्मीदों के साथ ब्रिटेन ईयू से बाहर
कंजरवेटिव पार्टी के नेता जॉनसन पिछले साल ब्रेग्जिट यानि ब्रिटेन के यूरोपियन यूनियन से अलग होने की कवायद को आखिरी मुकाम तक पहुंचाने के संकल्प के साथ देश के प्रधानमंत्री बने थे। अब उन्होंने इसे देश की नई शुरूआत के लिए ऐतिहासिक पल बताया है।
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Thursday, January 30, 2020
मौत के मुंह कैसे बचे 21 मासूम, पूरी कहानी
फर्रुखाबाद में सुभाष बाथम नाम के शख्स ने गुरुवार को 21 बच्चों को बंधक बना लिया था। तकरीबन 11 घंटे तक चले इस घटनाक्रम में आखिरकार सुभाष बाथम को मार गिराया गया।
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शरजील पर शाह संग शिवसेना, सरकार में तकरार!
कांग्रेस सीएए और एनआरसी के खिलाफ देशभर में चल रहे विरोध प्रदर्शन में काफी सक्रिय है। इसके साथ ही एनसीपी से भी शिवसेना की अनबन हो सकती है। भीमा-कोरेगांव के बाद एनसीपी ने सामाजिक कार्यकर्ताओं और बुद्धिजीवियों पर यलगार परिषद केस थोपने का आरोप लगाया है।
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ब्रायंट ने मौत से पहले फैन से किया था यह वादा
ब्रायंट ने 25 जनवरी को यह वादा कैलिफोर्निया में अपनी मांबा स्पोर्ट्स अकैडमी में 13 वर्षीय ब्रैडी स्मिगेल से किया था। उन्होंने कहा था कि अगले दिन वह एक अच्छी तस्वीर लेंगे, लेकिन वह इस वादे को पूरा नहीं कर सके। वह अपने घर से अकैडमी के लिए निकले तो थे पर पहुंच नहीं पाए।
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MLA के संपर्क में था देविंदर संग अरेस्ट आतंकी
एनआईए के अधिकारियों ने निलंबित डीएसपी के परिवार से भी इस सप्ताह पूछताछ की थी। एनआईए अधिकारी श्रीनगर इंटरनैशनल एयरपोर्ट पर देविंदर के ऑफिस भी गए थे। डीएसपी की तैनाती एयरपोर्ट पर ऐंटी-हाइजैकिंग विंग में थी।
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Coronavirus hits global economy as fears grow that impact on China's markets will have ripple effect; Asia stocks, tourism worst-affected
Just as the outlook for the global economy had begun to brighten up in recent months, a new threat has suddenly emerged in the form of the viral outbreak in China's Wuhan. The deadly virus, which many fear is taking the shape of a global epidemic, has killed 213 people so far and spread to at least 22 countries, with 9,692 confirmed cases.
However, the direct human cost of the epidemic aside, it couldn't have come at a worse time.
The world's second largest economy, China, was decelerating even before the coronavirus hit. And the world's No 7 economy, India, was also coping with an unexpectedly sharp slowdown, which prompted the International Monetary Fund last week to downgrade its outlook for global growth this year.
Asian stocks and currencies fell as the death toll rose and more cases were reported with fears growing that the hit to China’s economy will ripple around the world in coming months.
India became the latest country to report a case — a student of Wuhan University — while anger and fear brought protests in South Korea and threats of strikes in Hong Kong.
"Markets will remain highly volatile as long as they feel that they only have an incomplete picture of what is going on, and what is going to happen next," said Agathe Demarais, global forecasting director at the Economist Intelligence Unit told Reuters.
What happens in China means a lot more to the world economy than it did when the SARS outbreak struck nearly two decades ago. In 2003, China accounted for 4.3 percent of world economic output. Last year, it accounted for 16.3 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund. A government economist said that the first-quarter growth could fall by one point to five percent or lower due to the epidemic, Reuters reported.
In a sign of alarm over possible damage, Bank of Japan deputy governor Masayoshi Amamiya said China’s huge presence in the world economy must be taken into account in gauging the impact the outbreak could have on global growth.
Alphabet Inc’s Google and Sweden’s IKEA joined other major firms in closing operations in China.
Concern is also growing that thousands of Chinese factory workers on Lunar New Year holidays may struggle to get back to work next week, due to extensive travel restrictions imposed to stop the spread of the virus.
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it had extended the holiday closure for some Chinese production facilities.
Tourism slumps across Asia
Businesses around the world that have grown increasingly reliant on big-spending tourists from China are taking a heavy hit, with tens of millions of Chinese residents restricted from leaving their country as the coronavirus spreads.
Hotels, airlines, casinos and cruise operators were among the industries suffering the most immediate repercussions, especially with the outbreak occurring during the Lunar New Year, one of the biggest travel season in Asia.
Tourism from China was already down before the virus hit due in part to the Hong Kong protests and the trade dispute between Beijing and Washington.
But about 134 million Chinese travelled abroad in 2019, up 4.5 percent from a year earlier, according to official figures. Before the outbreak, the China Outbound Tourism Research Institute predicted some 7 million Chinese would travel abroad for the Lunar New Year this year, up from 6.3 million in 2019.
Hong Hong, Thailand, Japan and Vietnam were top destinations, but Chinese tourists are big spenders in cities like London, Milan, Paris and New York.
Economist and tourism industry officials said the biggest threat so far is to China's closest neighbors, with the US and Europe likely to face major repercussions only if the coronavirus outbreak proves long-lived.
In Thailand, a favorite destination for Lunar New Year travel, officials estimate potential lost revenue at 50 billion baht ($1.6 billion). Many drugstores in Bangkok ran out of surgical masks and the number of Chinese tourists appeared to be much smaller than usual for the Lunar New Year. The government announced it was handing out masks, and that the airport rail link would be disinfected.
A spillover is also likely in Vietnam, Singapore and the Philippines, Tommy Wu and Priyanka Kishore, of Oxford Economics told The Associated Press.
Hong Kong is especially vulnerable because its economy and its appeal to tourists have already been weakened by months of sometimes-violent political protest. By November, inbound tourism to Hong Kong was already down 56 percent from a year earlier, reported SCMP
Visitors from mainland China to the autonomous Chinese gambling capital of Macau was down 80 percent on Sunday from a year earlier, a threat to a regional government that depends on gaming revenue.
Oil prices dip
Oil prices slumped to three-month lows this week in response to the widening spread of the virus in China, the world’s top oil importer, prompting OPEC to look to extend current oil output cuts until at least June from March, as well as consider deeper cuts if oil demand is badly hit.
China is the second-largest oil refiner and a critical growth engine for the global economy, so any material contraction in Chinese economic activity is expected to have far-reaching repercussions across several industries.
The aviation sector was a high-profile coronavirus casualty, with scores of flights to and from China cancelled this week.
Jet fuel prices and production margins in Asia slumped in response, hurting refiners and fuel exporters..
Greatly reduced mobility within China also hit gasoline demand, with Asia’s benchmark gasoline price falling the most in four years on Tuesday.
Commodities market takes a hit
The coronavirus has also roiled global commodity markets, raising fears of weaker demand and disrupting raw material supply chains in China.
Palm oil prices slumped as much as 10 percent on Tuesday as traders reacted to the widening shutdowns of offices, malls and factories within China.
Palm oil is used mainly in food courts and by catering companies in China, the second-largest palm importer behind India.
Base metals have also taken a hit as manufacturing plants and factories take protracted Lunar New Year breaks while they assess the fallout from the virus. Toyota Motor Corp and other firms announced extended plant shutdowns.
Industrial bellwether copper fell to near a fourth-month on Thursday and was set for an 11th straight session of losses on fears of an economic slowdown in the world’s top metals consumer.
Commodities futures exchanges have also remained shut longer than planned due to the virus, with the Shanghai Futures Exchange (ShFE) and Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) announcing extended closures.
Safe haven gold has won some support during a time of uncertainty, hitting a three-week high early in the week, and analysts expect the precious metal to remain bid while worries about the virus persist.
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चलते-चलते शख्स की सड़क पर मौत, करॉना के खौफ में दुनिया
चीन में करॉना वायरस अब कहर बरपा रहा है। 213 ज्यादा मौतें चीन में इस खतरनाक वायरस से हो चुकी हैं। वुहान प्रांत के लोग अपने राज्य से बाहर नहीं निकल पा रहे हैं। बता दें कि विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन ने इस बीमारी को ग्लोबल हेल्थ इमर्जेंसी घोषित कर दिया है।
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विदेश मंत्रालय में 50 साल का सबसे बड़ा बदलाव
मौजूदा सिस्टम में संयुक्त सचिवों और चारों सचिवों पर काम का बहुत बड़ा बोझ हुआ करता था जिससे मंत्रालय देश की विदेश नीति के मोर्चे पर ही उलझा रहता था और उसके पास रणनीतिक योजनाएं बनाने और मांग के मुताबिक बड़े कदम उठाने आदि का मौका नहीं होता था। अब नए सिस्टम में इन कठिनाइयों को दूर करते हुए वक्त की मांगों को पूरा किया जाएगा।
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रिव्यू: कैसी है सैफ और तब्बू की 'जवानी जानेमन'
सैफ अली खान, तब्बू और अलाया फर्नीचरवाला की फिल्म 'जवानी जानेमन' का बेसब्री से इंतजार किया जा रहा था। नितिन कक्कड़ के डायरेक्शन में बनी यह फिल्म आधुनिक समय में रिश्तों की कहानी है। अलाया ने सैफ की बेटी का किरदार निभाया है। जान लें कैसी है यह फिल्म
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सेक्स टॉय में फंसा पीनस, गैस कटर से निकाला
शख्स का प्राइवेट पार्ट 3 एमएम की इस रिंग में फंस गया था। इस केस के सामने आने के बाद जेजे अस्पताल के चिकित्सकों ने सर्जरी कर किसी तरह उसके प्राइवेट पार्ट को बाहर निकाला।
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'We will always love you': EU Parliament clears Brexit deal; Britain set to leave European Union after 47 years of membership today
Brussels: The European Union grudgingly let go of the United Kingdom with a final vote Wednesday at the EU's parliament that ended the Brexit divorce battle and set the scene for tough trade negotiations in the year ahead.
In an emotion-charged session at the session in Brussels, lawmakers from all 28 EU countries expressed their love and sadness, while some, notably from Britain's Brexit Party, their joy.
Some even cried and many held hands during a mournful rendition of the Auld Lang Syne farewell song that contrasted sharply with hard-headed exhortations that Britain won't find it easy in the talks that will follow the country's official departure on Friday.
“We will always love you and we will never be far," said EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Britain will leave the EU after 47 years of membership. It is the first country to leave the EU and for many in Europe its official departure at 11 pm London time on Friday, 31 January is a moment of enormous sadness and reduces the number in the bloc to 27.
With just two days to go until Brexit day, the legislature overwhelmingly approved Britain's departure terms from the EU — 621 to 49 in favour of the Brexit deal that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson negotiated with the other 27 EU leaders in the fall of last year. The deal's passage follows last week's backing by the UK's Parliament.
The parliament's chief Brexit official, Guy Verhofstadt, said that “this vote is not an adieu," adding that it is “only an au revoir."
Though the deal on Britain's divorce terms has cleared its hurdles, there are still huge uncertainties around the future relationship. After Britain's departure on Friday, a so-called transition period will begin during which the UK will remain within the EU's economic arrangements until the end of the year though it won't have a say in policy as it will not be a member of the EU anymore.
“That's it. It's all over," said Nigel Farage, who has campaigned for Brexit for two decades. On departing the scene, the man who arguably did more than anyone else in the country's decision to vote for Brexit in the June 2016 referendum, waved Britain's Union Flag.
EU countries are preparing for the possibility that talks on a new trade deal with Britain could collapse by year's end, and no-deal contingency planning for a chaotic end to the transition period is necessary.
Britain is seeking to thrash out a comprehensive trade deal within 11 months, a timetable viewed as ambitious by many observers of trade discussions, which can often drag on for years.
“We will not yield to any pressure nor any haste," French President Emmanuel Macron said in Paris. “The priority is to define, in the short, medium and long term the interests of the European Union and to preserve them.”
The EU has said such a timespan is far too short and fears remain that a chaotic exit, averted this week, might still happen at the end of the year if the transition ends without any agreement in place.
Von der Leyen said the precondition to granting the UK advantageous entry into its single market of almost half a billion consumers is that “European and British businesses continue to compete on a level playing field."
“We will certainly not expose our companies to unfair competition. And it's very clear the trade-off is simple. The more the United Kingdom does commit to upholding our standards for social protection and worker's rights, our guarantees for the environment and other standards and rules ensuring fair competition, the closer and better the access to the single market.”
Sticking to EU standards, however, is anathema to the Brexiteers who wanted to be free from any constraints imposed by Brussels.
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दिल्ली में महाजाम का खतरा, इन रास्तों से बचें
गुरुवार को जामिया में हुई गोलीबारी के बाद शाहीन बाग के बाद अब इंद्रप्रस्थ मार्ग पर भी प्रदर्शनकारी सड़क पर हैं। वह रास्ता फिलहाल एक तरफ से बंद है। शाहीन बाग रोड पहले से बंद है।
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J&K में CRPF पोस्ट पर हमला, एक आतंकी ढेर
बताया जा रहा है आतंकी ट्रक में सवार होकर जम्मू से श्रीनगर जा रहे थे। बन टोल प्लाजा में चेकिंग के लिए ट्रक रोका गया तो आतंकियों ने जवानों पर फायरिंग कर दी। जवाबी फायरिंग में पुलिस ने आतंकियों पर गोलीबारी की।
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बजट से पहले आज इकनॉमिक सर्वे, जरूरी क्यों?
आज सरकार की तरफ से दोनों सदनों में वित्त वर्ष 2019-20 के लिए इकनॉमिक सर्वे रिपोर्ट पेश की जाएगी। इस रिपोर्ट से देश की वित्तीय हालत के बारे में सही-सही जानकारी मिलती है। इस रिपोर्ट को आर्थिक जानकारों की मदद से वित्त मंत्रालय तैयार करता है।
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धांसू प्रदर्शन के बाद शमी ने यूं बेटी पर लुटाया प्यार
तीसरे मुकाबले में जीत के हीरो रहे मोहम्मद शमी अपनी बेटी को मिस कर रहे हैं। उन्होंने मैच से पूर्व संध्या पर बेटी की एक तस्वीर इंस्टाग्राम पर शेयर की है और साथ में मेसेज भी लिखा है।
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Sylvester Stallone Debuts His Natural Grey Hair
Stallone has been sporting a salt and pepper look, but now he has allowed his previously dyed black hair to grow out.from Top Lifestyle News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2uOSBwq
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राशिफल: बुध पहुंचा कुंभ में, बेहद शुभ इनके लिए
महीने के अंतिम दिन बुध कुंभ राशि में आकर शुक्र से मिले हैं। इससे शुक्र बुध का संयोग बना है और मकर राशि में चल रहा त्रिग्रही योग समाप्त हुआ है, जानें राशियों पर कैसा रहेगा प्रभाव?
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फेसबुक पर ऐसे डिलीट करें ब्राउजिंग हिस्ट्री
अगर आप फेसबुक पर दिखने वाले ऐड्स और फीड से परेशान हो गए हैं और आपको उन साइट्स से जुड़े ऐड दिखते हैं, जो आपने ब्राउज की थीं, तो इसे ऑफ किया जा सकता है। फेसबुक के पास ऐसे अनचाहे ऐड्स ऑफ करने के लिए एक सॉल्यूशन है, जिसकी मदद से अपना ब्राउजिंग डेटा फेसबुक से भी क्लियर किया जा सकता है।
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देविंदर को हिजबुल से मिलती थी 'तय सैलरी'?
एक रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक जम्मू-कश्मीर में गिरफ्तार किया गया डीएसपी देविंदर सिंह हिजबुल मुजाहिदन के पेरोल पर था। वह आतंकी नवीद से नियम से पैसे लेता था। जांचकर्ताओं ने बताया है कि सिंह जांच में सहयोग नहीं कर रहा है।
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पुलिस देखती रही, गोली मार दी: जामिया VC
जामिया मिल्लिया इस्लामिया की कुलपति नजमा अख्तर ने कहा है कि जामिया मिल्लिया इस्लामिया घायल छात्र के इलाज का भुगतान करेगा और उसके लिए परीक्षा की तारीखों में बदलाव करेगा।
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'शिवसेना आए, तो अब भी बना सकते हैं सरकार'
बीजेपी नेता सुधीर मुनगंटीवार ने कहा कि शिवसेना देती है प्रस्ताव तो बीजेपी को सरकार बनाने से को ऐतराज नहीं। साथ ही उन्होंने साफ किया कि एमएनएस की फिलहाल कोई जरूरत नहीं है।
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शाहीन बाग: यहां से आ रहा पानी और बिरयानी
शाहीन बाग को लेकर हर किसी का एक ही सवाल है कि कैसे हम इतने दिन से बैठे हैं। खाना कैसे आ रहा है। इसका जवाब खुद उन लोगों ने दिया जो यहां खाने से लेकर गद्दे तक लेकर आ रहे हैं।
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निर्भया: दोषियों की मांग, आज तिहाड़ का जवाब
राष्ट्रपति के पास दया याचिका लंबित होने और कानूनी उपचार बचे होने को आधार बनाते हुए अदालत में गुरुवार को अर्जी दायर की, जिस पर तिहाड़ जेल प्रशासन को आज अपना जवाब देना है।
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020
छत्तीसगढ़ में मीसा बंदियों का पेंशन बंद, उबाल
छत्तीसगढ़ में भूपेश बघेल के नेतृत्व वाली कांग्रेस सरकार ने मीसा बंदियों की पेंशन को बंद कर दिया है। सरकार ने एक अध्यादेश जारी कर नियम को ही खत्म कर दिया। इस पर बीजेपी ने हमला किया है।
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Donald Trump's West Asia plan robs Palestinians of nearly everything they had been fighting for
Jerusalem: For Mahmoud Abbas, the ailing octogenarian president of the Palestinian Authority, his life’s work — a viable state side-by-side with Israel — is quickly slipping away.
President Donald Trump’s West Asia plan deprives the Palestinians of nearly everything they had been fighting for: East Jerusalem as their national capital, the removal of Jewish settlements on the West Bank, and territorial contiguity and control over their own borders and security that a sovereign state normally enjoys.
While it was always presumed that such a State would be forged through talks with the Israelis, years of failure, a weak and divided Palestinian leadership, and an Arab world that has largely moved on have all emboldened Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to try to impose a solution of their own.
But the landscape has shifted so much in recent years that Abbas has few good options.
With only muted reaction from Arab neighbours, a struggling Palestinian economy, little apparent appetite among Palestinians for a violent response and the United States having abandoned any pretense of neutral mediation, a proposal that might have been considered outlandish a decade ago landed with little serious opposition.
Rather than fighting back, some Palestinian activists on Wednesday were saying the best option may be breaking up the Palestinian Authority, leaving Israel to assume the burden of providing for the West Bank’s 2.5 million Palestinians.
Abbas could decide that this is the moment for dramatic pushback, like walking away from the security cooperation that has long helped protect Israelis from terrorism. He could try to unleash violence.
But if his overriding motive is self-preservation, the safer option would be to try to weather the storm, hoping that Trump is defeated in November, or Netanyahu even sooner.
That focus on his own survival, as Abbas’ many local detractors are keenly aware, would place him in the same category as his US and Israeli adversaries — leaders whose personal and political predicaments appear to be driving them in making the weightiest decisions of state.
“One guy’s dealing with impeachment, another with an indictment, and Abbas is 85 years old,” said Dimitri Diliani, a 46-year-old member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council who is impatient for Abbas, who is still 84, to go. “He’s looking for a way to dodge the bullet and stay in power.”
But even if they wanted to, Palestinians have only a limited ability to stand up to an American-Israeli bulldozer.
Yara Hawari, 31, a scholar and analyst for Al Shabaka, a network of Palestinian analysts, said the Trump plan was becoming a cautionary tale about the diminishing importance of international law when those making the rules are unafraid to exploit their power.
“What happens here can happen elsewhere very easily,” she said. “If you don’t care for the Palestinians, at least care for yourselves.”
The assorted calls for action from Palestinian activists, thinkers and analysts eager to shake up the prevailing inertia sounded like variations on a theme of admitting the failure of the Palestinian Authority to grow into a state.
Some called for the authority to dismantle itself, which would require Israel to take on the costs of health, education, social welfare and policing of West Bank Palestinians and would remove an entity that they see as camouflaging the occupation’s ugliness.
“We couldn’t have seen 50 presidents and prime ministers in Israel last week if it was revealed as an apartheid State,” said Hamada Jaber, an activist in Ramallah, referring to a Holocaust commemoration in Jerusalem that attracted dozens of world leaders. “It’s still hiding itself behind the PA.”
But Tareq Baconi, 36, a Palestinian analyst for International Crisis Group, cautioned that any wind-down of the authority should be strategic, not impulsive.
“There needs to be a serious exploration — not another empty threat from the president’s office — of what dismantling the PA looks like,” he said. “How will the economy be managed, what kind of resilience infrastructure needs to be built to take its place, and how can security cooperation end without endangering Palestinians or risking instability?”
Abbas has remained typically opaque, offering little insight into his current thinking. One of the weaknesses and failings of the leadership, said Sari Nusseibeh, 70, the former president of Al Quds University, was “its inability to address the people openly and to present ideas.”
“I don’t know if they are doing any thinking at a deep level,” Nusseibeh continued, “and Abbas, as people say, is very much a one-man show.”
He is also increasingly authoritarian, as Hawari noted. “I’m trying not to fall into the trap of calling for anything so I don’t get arrested,” she said, adding, “I don’t see a just and free Palestinian future with the PA in place.”
Abbas called again Tuesday for elections, prompting eye rolls among critics who note he is entering the 16th year of what was supposed to be a four-year term. Few believe he is serious.
A better idea, several said, would be to hold elections for the Palestine Liberation Organisation as a way of revitalising the group still widely seen as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.
Still, many Palestinians view the authority, one of the few tangible achievements of the national cause, as worth preserving.
“Personally I don’t think handing over the keys is a smart move,” said Nour Odeh, a Palestinian writer and analyst. “A right-wing Israel drunk on power with Trump’s support couldn’t care less,” she said, adding: “We built these institutions with the blood and sweat of our sons and daughters. Why give it up?”
Raja Khalidi, a development economist who runs a research institute, said there was the added matter of a sense of duty. “I can’t see any political leadership walking away from the responsibility it’s assumed for 30 years and allowing Israel to return to that role,” he said.
Disillusioned about statehood, especially the kind of statehood now on offer, Palestinians are increasingly rejecting a two-state solution to work for a single state with equal rights and the vote for all people living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean.
That idea, though, is “unrealistic,” said Sani Meo, publisher of This Week in Palestine, a Ramallah-based magazine. “Of course Israel will never give us the vote.”
A more immediate measure many Palestinians want is an end to Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation, which they see more as collaboration with the enemy. Abbas has resisted that so far because the teamwork with Israel also helps keep Hamas at bay in the West Bank, ensuring his survival.
Equally popular would be national reconciliation and the healing of the 13-year, bitter schism between Abbas’ Fatah-led Authority in the West Bank and his rivals in Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza. There was a veneer of unity the night the Trump plan was announced, with Abbas and the head of Hamas’ politburo, Ismail Haniyah, speaking by phone. But few believe it will go anywhere.
And the leadership has other problems than disunity. Baconi of the International Crisis Group recalled that before the British election last month, he sat with Palestinian officials who expressed the seemingly far-fetched hope that Jeremy Corbyn would win, Netanyahu would be defeated and Bernie Sanders would be elected president of the United States.
“It misses the point that you don’t manage the context, you operate in it,” Baconi said.
So far, although the Israeli military sent reinforcements into the West Bank and along the Gaza border Wednesday, Palestinians were not taking to the streets in large numbers.
It would be wrong to read that as acquiescence, Hawari said. The Palestinian grassroots have been weakened over time, she said, not just by the Israelis but by the authority’s own repression, since protesters against the Israeli occupation also sometimes protest against autocracy and the corruption of their own leaders.
She added that the hundreds of Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers at demonstrations along the Gaza fence set a “really gruesome precedent” for how Israel might respond to a mass mobilization.
“If thousands of us went down to the streets in the West Bank, do you think that would be met lightly?” she asked.
Diliani, the Fatah Revolutionary Council member, said Palestinians were torn over whom to protest against. “Do we overcome our internal problems with Abbas first?” he asked. “Or with Israel?”
He added: “You will hear this conversation in every restaurant, everywhere you go. Who do we target first? Who should we fight?”
What Palestinians of every age and background still can agree on is the idea that merely staying on the land, with steadfastness, or sumud in Arabic, is an act of resistance.
“We are not going anywhere,” Odeh, the writer, said. Their mere presence, she said, poses a long-term challenge to Israel’s right wing, not to mention Zionism itself.
Khalidi, the economist, said Palestinians needed to focus inward while they wait for a better set of circumstances.
“How do we get back to being one community?” he asked. “What can we do to get people engaged in building their lives, and their nation, without it necessarily being a State?”
“What do I need a State for,” he added, “if it doesn’t give me more than I already have?”
David M Halbfinger and Isabel Kershner c.2020 The New York Times Company
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CAA विरोधी प्रस्ताव: EU में भी पाक पस्त, भारत यूं जीता
नागरिकता कानून के विरोध में प्रस्ताव पर यूरोपियन संसद में वोटिंग टलना भारत की बड़ी कूटनीतिक जीत के तौर पर देखी जा रही है। वोटिंग अब मार्च के महीने में होनी तय है।
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स्मृति ऐक्टिव, गांधी फैमिली के खिलाफ क्या प्लान?
कांग्रेस के किसी राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष को हराने वाली स्मृति इरानी पहली बीजेपी कैंडिडेट हैं। 2019 के लोकसभा चुनाव में उन्होंने तत्कालीन कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष राहुल गांधी को 55,120 वोटों से करारी शिकस्त दी थी।
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मजेदार: जब कीवी कप्तान ने समझाई क्रनॉलजी!
तीसरे टी20 मैच में भारतीय टीम ने न्यू जीलैंड को सुपर ओवर में हराकर 5 मैचों की सीरीज में 3-0 की अजेय बढ़त बना ली है। मैच टाई रहा और फैसला सुपर ओवर में हुआ जहां रोहित ने टिम साउथी की आखिरी दो गेंदों पर दो छक्के लगाकर भारत को जीत दिलाई। इसे लेकर लोगों ने मौज ली है। देखिए...
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NCR में करॉना? गाजियाबाद-गुड़गांव में 3 संदिग्ध
अब गुड़गांव और गाजियाबाद से करॉना वायरस के संदिग्ध मरीज सामने आए। ये तीनों ही लोग हाल ही में चीन से लौटे थे। बता दें कि इससे पहले जयपुर, मुंबई, बिहार के छपरा से संदिग्ध मरीज सामने आए थे।
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चीन में करॉना का कहर, 24 घंटों में 38 की मौत
करॉना वायरस का संक्रमण दुनियाभर में तेजी से फैल रहा है। अब वर्ल्ड हेल्थ ऑर्गनाइजेशन ने भी अपनी चिंता जाहिर की है। चीन समेत दुनियाभर की सरकारें इस वायरस को रोकने के लिए जरूरी कदम उठा रही हैं।
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मोदी-नीतीश के चुनावी 'चाणक्य', PK की 10 बातें
संसद में नागरिकता संशोधन कानून (सीएए) का समर्थन करने के बाद से पीके लगातार अपनी पार्टी और सीएम नीतीश कुमार पर निशाना साधते आए और आखिरकार बुधवार को उन्हें पार्टी से बाहर निकाल दिया गया। बता दें कि प्रशांत किशोर की पहचान एक नेता से कहीं ज्यादा चुनावी रणनीतिकार के रूप में रही है।
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स्टार्टअप्स फेल? IT वालों ने पकड़ी 'घर' की राह
2014 से शुरू हुए बूम इयर्स में स्टार्टअप्स जॉइन करने के लिए बड़ी तादाद में मिड करियर प्रफेशनल्स विप्रो, केप जेमिनाई और इन्फोसिस जैसी बड़ी टेक्नॉलजी कंपनियों से अलग हुए थे। इनका हौसला तब टूटने लगा, जब स्टार्टअप्स उम्मीदों की उड़ान भरने में नाकाम होने लगीं।
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रोहित के '6' से मियांदाद वाली टीस कुछ तो हुई दूर
न्यू जीलैंड के खिलाफ हैमिल्टन में सीरीज के तीसरे टी20 में रोहित के सुपर ओवर में सिक्स ने पूर्व पाकिस्तानी क्रिकेटर जावेद मियांदाद के शारजाह में अंतिम बॉल पर लगाए छक्के की याद दिला दी। तब भारत को दिल तोड़ने वाली हार का सामना करना पड़ा था।
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'We will always love you': EU Parliament clears Brexit deal; Britain set to leave European Union after 47 years of membership tomorrow
Brussels: The European Union grudgingly let go of the United Kingdom with a final vote Wednesday at the EU's parliament that ended the Brexit divorce battle and set the scene for tough trade negotiations in the year ahead.
In an emotion-charged session at the session in Brussels, lawmakers from all 28 EU countries expressed their love and sadness, while some, notably from Britain's Brexit Party, their joy.
Some even cried and many held hands during a mournful rendition of the Auld Lang Syne farewell song that contrasted sharply with hard-headed exhortations that Britain won't find it easy in the talks that will follow the country's official departure on Friday.
“We will always love you and we will never be far," said EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
In an emotion-charged session at the session in Brussels, lawmakers from all 28 EU countries expressed their love and sadness, while some, notably from Britain's Brexit Party, their joy. AP
Britain will leave the EU after 47 years of membership. It is the first country to leave the EU and for many in Europe its official departure at 11 pm London time on Friday, 31 January is a moment of enormous sadness and reduces the number in the bloc to 27.
With just two days to go until Brexit day, the legislature overwhelmingly approved Britain's departure terms from the EU — 621 to 49 in favour of the Brexit deal that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson negotiated with the other 27 EU leaders in the fall of last year. The deal's passage follows last week's backing by the UK's Parliament.
The parliament's chief Brexit official, Guy Verhofstadt, said that “this vote is not an adieu," adding that it is “only an au revoir."
Though the deal on Britain's divorce terms has cleared its hurdles, there are still huge uncertainties around the future relationship. After Britain's departure on Friday, a so-called transition period will begin during which the UK will remain within the EU's economic arrangements until the end of the year though it won't have a say in policy as it will not be a member of the EU anymore.
“That's it. It's all over," said Nigel Farage, who has campaigned for Brexit for two decades. On departing the scene, the man who arguably did more than anyone else in the country's decision to vote for Brexit in the June 2016 referendum, waved Britain's Union Flag.
EU countries are preparing for the possibility that talks on a new trade deal with Britain could collapse by year's end, and no-deal contingency planning for a chaotic end to the transition period is necessary.
Britain is seeking to thrash out a comprehensive trade deal within 11 months, a timetable viewed as ambitious by many observers of trade discussions, which can often drag on for years.
“We will not yield to any pressure nor any haste," French President Emmanuel Macron said in Paris. “The priority is to define, in the short, medium and long term the interests of the European Union and to preserve them.”
The EU has said such a timespan is far too short and fears remain that a chaotic exit, averted this week, might still happen at the end of the year if the transition ends without any agreement in place.
Von der Leyen said the precondition to granting the UK advantageous entry into its single market of almost half a billion consumers is that “European and British businesses continue to compete on a level playing field."
“We will certainly not expose our companies to unfair competition. And it's very clear the trade-off is simple. The more the United Kingdom does commit to upholding our standards for social protection and worker's rights, our guarantees for the environment and other standards and rules ensuring fair competition, the closer and better the access to the single market.”
Sticking to EU standards, however, is anathema to the Brexiteers who wanted to be free from any constraints imposed by Brussels.
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Coronavirus outbreak: Toll rises to 170 in China with 1,737 new cases confirmed; WHO expresses 'great concern' over virus spreading outside country
Beijing: The death toll rose to 170 in the new virus outbreak in China on Thursday as foreign evacuees from the worst-hit region begin returning home under close observation and world health officials expressed “great concern” that the disease is starting to spread between people outside of China.
Thursday’s figures cover the previous 24 hours and represent an increase of 38 deaths and 1,737 cases for a total of 7,711. Of the new deaths, 37 were in the epicentre of the outbreak in Hubei province and one in the southwestern province of Sichuan.
The news comes as the 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan, the Hubei province city of 11 million where the outbreak originated, are undergoing three days of testing and monitoring at a Southern California military base to make sure they do not show signs of the virus.
A group of 210 Japanese evacuees from Wuhan landed Thursday at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on a second government-chartered flight, according to the foreign ministry. Reports said nine of those aboard the flight showed signs of cough and fever. Three of the 206 Japanese who returned on Wednesday tested positive for the new coronavirus, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said during a parliamentary session.
Passengers wear masks to prevent an outbreak of a new coronavirus in a subway station in Hong Kong. AP
France, New Zealand, Australia and other countries are also pulling out their citizens or making plans to do so.
World Health Organization emergencies chief said the few cases of human-to-human spread of the virus outside China — in Japan, Germany, Canada and Vietnam — were of “great concern” and were part of the reason the UN health agency’s director-general was reconvening a committee of experts on Thursday to assess whether the outbreak should be declared a global emergency.
The new virus has now infected more people in China than were sickened there during the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak.
Dr Michael Ryan spoke at a news conference in Geneva on Wednesday after returning from a trip to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior government leaders. He said China was taking “extraordinary measures in the face of an extraordinary challenge” posed by the outbreak.
To date, about 99 percent of the cases are in China. Ryan estimated the death rate of the new virus at two percent, but said the figure was very preliminary. With fluctuating numbers of cases and deaths, scientists are only able to produce a rough estimate of the fatality rate and it’s likely many milder cases of the virus are being missed.
In comparison, the SARS virus killed about 10 percent of people who caught it. The new virus is from the coronavirus family, which includes those that can cause the common cold as well as more serious illnesses such as SARS and MERS.
Scientists say there are many questions to be answered about the new virus, including just how easily it spreads and how severe it is.
In a report published Wednesday, Chinese researchers suggested that person-to-person spread among close contacts occurred as early as mid-December.
“Considerable efforts” will be needed to control the spread if this ratio holds up elsewhere, researchers wrote in the report, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
More than half of the cases in which symptoms began before 1 January were tied to a seafood market, but only eight percent of cases after that have been, researchers found. They reported the average incubation period was five days.
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EU Parliament debates anti-CAA motion, puts off vote till March; S&D Group says poll on resolution after SC's ruling on law will give 'more clarity'
London: A joint motion, combining five different resolutions tabled by Members of the European Parliament against India's Citizenship Amendment Act, was debated at the Plenary session in Brussels, with an expected vote on the motion on Thursday postponed until March.
The debate opened with a statement by Helena Dalli, the Vice-President of the European Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, who spoke strongly in favour of the "rich, frank and open" relationship the European Union (EU) shares with India.
She highlighted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's upcoming visit to Brussels in March for the 15th India-EU Summit.
"We believe that it is the role of the Supreme Court of India to assess the compliance of the law with the Constitution and we are confident that the ongoing judicial process will contribute to appeasing the tensions and violence witnessed over the past weeks in the country," said Dalli, who concluded the debate with a message to "pursue and intensify" dialogue with India as a "respected democracy" and valued EU partner.
Two Indian-origin MEPs, Dinesh Dhamija and Neena Gill, were among a host of members who spoke up in India's favour to point out elements of "disinformation" around the CAA and the NRC within the parliamentary motion.
File photo of EU parliament president David Maria Sassoli. Wikimedia Commons
Thierry Mariani, a French MEP, alluded to the "hand of Pakistan" in the motion being tabled, while others condemned it as meddling in another country's internal affairs.
Pakistan-origin MEP Shaffaq Mohammed and others such as S&D's John Howarth and VERTS/ALE's Scott Ainslie described the CAA as a "highly discriminatory" legislation and alleged that the EU had crumbled in the face of India's diplomatic lobby and prioritised trade and business interests over human rights concerns by postponing a vote on the motion.
"The only lobby that has won today is that of common sense and respect," countered ECR's Polish MEP Ryszard Czarnecki.
Earlier, the European Parliament had announced that the vote on the motion would be postponed to the Plenary session in March.
"Following a decision by MEPs at the opening of Wednesday Plenary session in Brussels, the vote on the resolution on India's Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) 2019 has been postponed to the March session, said a statement from the European Parliament.
One of the groups behind the motion, the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D), said the reason for the postponement was because the CAA was undergoing a legal process in India.
"As the Supreme Court in India will rule in the coming days linked to this issue and, as such, the law may be adapted, it was considered better to vote on the resolution in the European Parliament when there is full clarity on the situation," a spokesperson said.
However, another group GUE/NGL, objected to the postponement, saying they "disagreed" with the delay.
Meanwhile, the government sources in Delhi claimed a diplomatic victory over the vote delay and said friends of India prevailed over those of Pakistan in the European Parliament.
"Strenuous efforts of outgoing British MEP Shaffaq Mohammad to have a resolution passed by the European Parliament against India on the penultimate day before Brexit were defeated," a source said.
The motion takes note of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) statement last month, which described the CAA as "fundamentally discriminatory in nature", and also of other UN as well as the European Union (EU) guidelines on human rights as it calls on the Indian government to "repeal the discriminatory amendments".
The debate on CAA on Wednesday followed the European Parliament's historic ratification of the Brexit bill, under which the UK is set to formally leave the economic bloc on Friday.
"While the CAA's stated goal of protecting persecuted groups is welcome, an effective national asylum and refugee policy should be just and holistic in nature and apply to all those in need," notes the motion, which describes the CAA as "discriminatory in nature and dangerously divisive".
The Indian government has maintained that the CAA, which was passed by the Indian Parliament last month, is an internal matter of the country and stressed that the goal is to protect the oppressed minorities of neighbouring countries.
It has been extremely critical of the move in Brussels, which the European Commission the executive arm of the economic bloc has sought to distance itself from.
"As members of Inter Parliamentary Union, we should respect sovereign processes of fellow legislatures, especially in democracies," Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday wrote to European Parliament President David Maria Sassoli.
The European Parliament motion is critical of any protection being denied to Muslims and that even though India also shares a border with Bhutan, Burma, Nepal and Sri Lanka, the CAA does not bring Sri Lankan Tamils under its purview, who form the largest refugee group in India and who have been resident in the country for over 30 years.
"Amnesty International India has pointed out that the CAA does not bring under its purview other persecuted minorities, including Muslim populations such as the Rohingya in Burma, Ahmadis in Pakistan, Hazaras in Afghanistan and Bihari Muslims in Bangladesh," it notes.
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Donald Trump impeachment trial: Republicans move to block witnesses, driving case towards acquittal
Washington: The White House and Senate Republicans worked aggressively on Wednesday to discount damaging revelations from John R Bolton and line up the votes to block new witnesses from testifying in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, in a push to bring the proceeding to a swift close.
As the Senate opened a two-day, 16-hour period of questioning from senators, Trump laced into Bolton, his former national security adviser, whose unpublished manuscript contains an account that contradicts his impeachment defense. The president described Bolton on Twitter as a warmonger who had “begged” for his job, was fired, and then wrote “a nasty & untrue book.”
On Capitol Hill, Trump’s aides circulated a letter informing Bolton that the White House was moving to block publication of his forthcoming book, in which he wrote that the president refused to release military aid to Ukraine until its leaders committed to investigating his political rivals. That is a core element of the Democrats’ case, which charges Trump with seeking to enlist a foreign government to help him win reelection this year.
Before the trial convened, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, and other Republicans signalled that they were regaining confidence that they would be able to cobble together the 51 votes needed to block new witnesses and documents and bring the trial to an acquittal verdict as soon as Friday, after the revelations from Bolton, reported Sunday by The New York Times, had threatened to knock their plans off course.
Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, the No 3 Senate Republican, declared that he had “heard enough” and predicted that the Senate would vote to acquit the president by week’s end.
“I’m ready to vote on final judgment,” Barrasso told reporters. Asked if Republicans planned to move directly to a vote on the two articles of impeachment on Friday, Barrasso said, “Yes, that’s the plan.”
By Wednesday afternoon, Democrats were sounding a note of pessimism about the prospect of witnesses and securing new evidence in the trial, even as they used their questions to make the case that an impeachment trial without additional witnesses and documents amounted to a cover-up.
“We’ve always known it will be an uphill fight on witnesses and documents because the president and Mitch McConnell put huge pressure on these folks,” Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, said during a break in the trial.
“Is it more likely than not? Probably no,” Schumer said. “But is it a decent, good chance? Yes.”
For Republicans, it appeared as if they were on the verge of giving Trump what he has wanted all along: an acquittal that he could boast about on the campaign trail — delivered before he goes to the Capitol next Tuesday for his State of the Union address.
Inside the Senate chamber, senators spent more than six hours grilling House managers and White House lawyers about the definition of obstruction; the meaning of executive privilege; the history of security aid to Ukraine; the role of Hunter Biden, the son of former vice-president Joe Biden, on the board of a Ukrainian energy company; and the whistleblower who first raised concerns about Trump’s call with the president of Ukraine.
In accordance with impeachment protocol, senators wrote their queries on small cards, which were read aloud by Chief Justice John Roberts, who presided over the trial. In their responses, Trump’s lawyers offered their most expansive defence of the president to date, effectively arguing that a president cannot be removed from office for demanding political favors if he believes his reelection is in the national interest.
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“Every public official I know believes that his election is in the public interest,” said Alan M Dershowitz, the celebrity defence lawyer and constitutional scholar who is part of the Trump’s legal team. “Mostly, you’re right.”
“If the president does something which he believes will help him get elected, in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment,” he said.
Many of the arguments and much the day was tailored to convincing a few Republicans who remained holdouts on the question of whether to call witnesses. McConnell gave his party’s first question on Wednesday to Senators Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska in an effort to allay the concerns of the three lawmakers, Republican moderates who are swing votes on the issue. The trio teamed up to ask Trump’s lawyers how they should judge the president if they conclude he acted in the Ukraine matter with both political and policy motives.
The selection of Collins, who is facing the toughest reelection campaign in her long Senate career, was revealing: It suggested that McConnell was keenly focused on giving her every opportunity to have her voice heard before moving forward. When she rose to announce herself, she became the first senator other than the two leaders to have a speaking role in the trial.
Notably absent from the group was the fourth Republican who had expressed interest in witnesses: Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, a close friend of McConnell’s who has said he will not decide whether to support witnesses until after the question period has closed.
On Tuesday, McConnell had privately warned his rank-and-file members that he did not currently have the votes to stop Democrats from summoning witnesses. One after the other on Wednesday, in statements and interviews in the Capitol, they made clear they would side with their leader.
Senator Patrick Toomey of Pennsylvania, who had previously floated the idea of a witness deal, said Wednesday that he was “very, very skeptical” of new witnesses. Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado, facing a tough reelection in a swing state, issued a statement saying that he had heard enough and would vote against hearing from anyone else.
McConnell summoned Murkowski to his office on Wednesday morning for a private meeting before the trial began, and she emerged refusing to answer questions about whether she would ultimately support the call for witnesses.
“We still got some folks who are, like I said, assessing,” said Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the second-ranking Senate Republican. But the leaders were planning as if the defeat of a bid for witnesses was a certainty; Thune said it was likely that if it did fail, Republicans would move swiftly for an acquittal.
Democrats would need the votes of four Republicans to compel the Senate to subpoena witnesses and new documents. But it seems increasingly likely that Alexander, who is retiring from the Senate and is thus free to do as he chooses, would break from his party.
Trump is charged with abusing his power and obstructing Congress by pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rivals, including Biden and his son Hunter Biden, and concealing evidence of it from lawmakers who were investigating.
In the first hint of a possible crack in Democratic unity, Senator Doug Jones of Alabama suggested Wednesday that he might vote to acquit Trump on the charge of obstruction of Congress, though he said that the president’s own behaviour was strengthening the case against him. And Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia said he thought that Hunter Biden might be a relevant witness.
“I’m still looking at that very closely; there are some things that trouble me about it,” Jones said, without elaborating. “But I will tell you this about the obstruction charge: The more I see the President of the United States attacking witnesses, the stronger that case gets.”
Fielding friendly questions from Democratic senators, House managers reiterated the heart of their case and accused Trump’s lawyers of falsely stating that there was no evidence that Trump linked security assistance to investigations. Representative Adam Schiff of California, the lead House impeachment manager, responded to Dershowitz’s argument that a president who believed his reelection was in the national interest could demand a quid pro quo to help himself politically without consequence was “very odd.”
“If you say you can’t hold a president accountable in an election year where they’re trying to cheat in that election, then you are giving them carte blanche,” Schiff said. “All quid pro quos are not the same. Some are legitimate and some are corrupt.”
Democrats have argued that Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine was precisely the kind of corrupt scheme that the nation’s founders had in mind when they created impeachment, fearing that an out-of-control president would abuse his power for personal gain. But throughout the day, lawyers for Trump argued that all elected officials make policy decisions to help themselves get reelected.
Answering the question from the three Republican moderates, Patrick Philbin, a deputy White House counsel, said a president could not be removed for a “mixed-motive situation” in which he is acting out of both personal and policy concerns.
“There’s always some personal interest in the electoral outcome of policy decisions and there’s nothing wrong with that,” Philbin told senators. “That’s part of representative democracy.”
In one case, White House lawyers struggled to answer a question from Collins and Murkowski, admitting that they had no evidence to counter Democratic arguments that Trump became interested in investigations of Joe Biden in 2019 only after Biden became a candidate for president.
Trump’s legal team also argued that the House needed to prove its case “beyond a reasonable doubt” — a standard of proof that legal experts say has no basis in either the Constitution or the rules of the Senate. And the legal team said that the case was merely “based on a policy difference” between the president and the career diplomats who sounded the alarm on his pressure campaign in Ukraine.
Senator Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, sought unsuccessfully to ask a question about the origins of the impeachment inquiry that named the CIA whistleblower who filed the complaint that spurred it, according to a person familiar with the debate. But the query was rejected repeatedly.
White House lawyers had help making sure their speakers stayed within a five-minute time limit that Roberts strictly enforced, and he occasionally cut off speakers midsentence. Staff for the lawyers held up small white cue cards showing when the clock was about to run out; the Democratic House managers did not appear to have such a system.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Michael D Shear c.2020 The New York Times Company
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बजट में किसानों की योजना के लिए फंड में कटौती!
एक सरकारी अधिकारी ने बताया कि संभावित लाभार्थियों की संख्या को ध्यान में रखकर अगले वित्त वर्ष के लिए बजट आवंटित किया जाएगा। कृषि मंत्रालय ने इस योजना के तहत किसानों को पैसे देने के लिए 60,000 करोड़ रुपये की मांग की है, जबकि 2019-20 के बजट में इस योजना के लिए 75,000 करोड़ रुपये का आवंटन तय किया गया था।
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शाहीन बाग में टैंट, खाना कहां से? हो रही जांच
पता लगाया जा रहा है कि आखिर इस आंदोलन के पीछे कहीं कोई षडंयत्र तो नहीं है। क्योंकि जिस तरह से प्रदर्शन को खासतौर से शाहीन बाग में हो रहे प्रदर्शनों को लगभग हर दिन एक वायरल मैसेज से दिशा दी जा रही है।
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दिल्ली: 6 लाख के लिए सहेली-बेटे की ली जान
जहांगीरपुरी डबल मर्डर केस में पुलिस ने दंपती को गिरफ्तार किया। पुलिस के मुताबिक, इस महिला ने अपने पति के साथ मिलकर अपने ऑफिस में काम करनेवाली महिला और उसके बेटे को मार दिया।
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बसंत पंचमी पर इसलिए होती है सरस्वती पूजा
माघ मास के शुक्ल पक्ष की पंचमी को मनाया जाने वाला त्योहार बसंत पंचमी इस साल 30 को मनाए जाने की तैयारी है। इस दिन विद्या, बुद्धि और ज्ञानदायिनी मां सरस्वती की पूजा की जाती है और इस उत्सव पर देश भर में रंगारंग कार्यक्रमों का भी आयोजन होता है।
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अजेंडा: बापू की पुण्यतिथि समेत ये बड़ी खबरें
खबरों के अजेंडे में आज कई महत्वपूर्ण अपडेट्स हैं। आज बजट सेशन से पहले सर्वदलीय बैठक बुलाई गई है। यूरोपियन यूनियन में सीएए विरोधी प्रस्ताव पर वोटिंग होगी। राजनीति, आर्थिक जगत, खेल और मनोरंजन समेत देश-दुनिया की सभी महत्वपूर्ण खबरों पर दिन भर हमारी नजर बनी रहेगी।
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राशिफल: बसंत पंचमी पर जानें कैसा होगा दिन
आज अपने खर्च पर संतुलन बनाकर चलना होगा क्योंकि आय की तुलना में खर्च अधिक हो सकता है, पूर्व नियोजित यात्रा हो सके तो टाल दें, परेशानी हो सकती है। नकारात्मक विचारों से खुद को दूर रखें। वाहन सावधानी से चलाएं और वाणी पर संयम रखकर बात करें।
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शाहीन बाग ISIS जैसा, दिल्ली को नहीं बनने देंगे सीरिया: BJP
दिल्ली के शाहीन बाग को लेकर बीजेपी के नेता हमला करने का कोई मौका नहीं छोड़ रहे हैं। ताजा बयान पार्टी के राष्ट्रीय सचिव तरुन चुघ का है जिन्होंने शाहीन बाग की तुलना आईएसआईएस से की है।
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करॉना: बढ़ा खतरा, आज WHO की आपात बैठक
विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन ने करॉना वायरस के प्रकोप का आकलन गलत करने की अपनी भूल को मान लिया है और इसे वैश्विक महामारी घोषित करने के फैसले के लिए एक आपात बैठक बुलाई है।
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सबसे ज्यादा ट्रैफिक: बेंगलुरु टॉप पर, मुंबई चौथा
एक ताजा सर्वे के नतीजों के अनुसार, सड़कों पर सबसे ज्यादा भीड़-भाड़ वाले दुनिया के टॉप 10 शहरों में से 4 शहर भारत के हैं। इस सूची में दिल्ली आठवें स्थान पर है जबकि एशिया में सबसे ज्यादा ट्रैफिक वाले शहरों में औसतन 56 प्रतिशत के साथ दिल्ली का स्थान पांचवां रहा है। पहले स्थान पर बेंगलुरु है।
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Tuesday, January 28, 2020
निर्भया: दोषियों के पास अब क्या विकल्प, समझें
निर्भया के दोषियों में से एक अक्षय कुमार ने फांसी से तीन दिन पहले क्यूरेटिव पिटिशन फाइल की है। निर्भया केस में अभी तक तीन दोषियों के पास दया याचिका का विकल्प बचा हुआ है।
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रोचक तस्वीर, नारायणमूर्ति ने टाटा के छुए पांव
हाल में रतन टाटा ने अपनी यंग एज की तस्वीर शेयर की थी, जिसपर लोग फिदा हो गए थे और अब और तस्वीर सामने आई है जो चंद घंटों पुरानी है, जो भारतीय मूल्यों की कद्र करने वालों के दिल को छू जाएगी।
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पिता मजदूर, बेटे ने विश्व कप में किया करिश्मा
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Australian scientists grow coronavirus in the lab — game-changing tool to diagnose, develop vaccines
For the first time, the novel coronavirus has been grown from a cell culture outside China, a "significant breakthrough" that may help combat the deadly virus which has claimed over 130 lives and infected thousands, Australian scientists said on Wednesday.
The researchers from the University of Melbourne and the Royal Melbourne Hospital said the advance will allow accurate investigation and diagnosis of the virus globally.
"Chinese officials released the genome sequence of this novel coronavirus, which is helpful for diagnosis, however, having the real virus means we now have the ability to actually validate and verify all test methods, and compare their sensitivities and specificities — it will be a game-changer for diagnosis," said Julian Druce from The Royal Melbourne Hospital.
"The virus will be used as positive control material for the Australian network of public health laboratories, and also shipped to expert laboratories working closely with the World Health Organization (WHO) in Europe," Druce said.
Doherty Institute Deputy Director Mike Catton said the possession of a virus isolates extended what could be achieved with molecular technology in the fight against this virus.
The deadly coronavirus has claimed 132 lives and nearly 6,000 infection cases have been reported in China.
The grown virus is expected to be used to generate an antibody test, which allows detection of the virus in patients who haven't displayed symptoms and were therefore unaware they had the virus, the researchers said.
"An antibody test will enable us to retrospectively test suspected patients so we can gather a more accurate picture of how widespread the virus is, and consequently, among other things, the true mortality rate," Catton said.
"It will also assist in the assessment of effectiveness of trial vaccines," he said.
The virus was grown from a patient sample that arrived at the Royal Melbourne Hospital's Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL) at the Doherty Institute on 24 January.
"We've planned for an incident like this for many, many years and that's really why we were able to get an answer so quickly," Catton said.
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Coronavirus causes 25 new fatalities in China, taking the death toll to 132 people
The deadly coronavirus continues to wreak havoc in China with 25 new fatalities reported from central Hubei province taking the death toll to 132 and the confirmed infection cases to nearly 6,000, as health experts warned that the epidemic may reach its climax in the next 10 days resulting in large-scale casualties.
The Chinese health authorities announced on Wednesday that 5,974 confirmed cases of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus had been reported in 31 provincial-level regions by the end of Tuesday.
A total of 132 people have died from the disease, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
In Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the provincial capital, 3,554 confirmed cases have been reported with 125 deaths as of Tuesday, it said.
Among the confirmed cases, 1,239 patients are in critical condition, official TV CGTN reported, adding that there are 9,239 suspected cases in the Chinese mainland.
The Hubei province has reported 840 newly confirmed cases, indicating that the virus continues to spread at a faster rate.
The death rate from the new coronavirus is not yet known, as more fatalities will likely be reported. Most patients who have died are above 60 and had pre-existing conditions, according to reports from local authorities.
The coronavirus can be passed between humans through close contact, Chinese medical experts say.
The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak may reach its peak in one week or around 10 days, Chinese respiratory expert Zhong Nanshan said.
"It is very difficult to definitely estimate when the outbreak reaches its peak. But I think in one week or about 10 days, it will reach the climax and then there will be large-scale increases," Zhong told state-run Xinhua news agency.
Zhong is the head of a national team of experts set up for the control and prevention of the novel coronavirus-caused pneumonia and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
"There are two keys to tackling the epidemic: early detection and early isolation. They are the most primitive and most effective methods," he said.
Zhong said fever and weakness were the typical symptoms of the novel coronavirus infection found in the majority of patients.
Ten to 14 days is a sound period for isolation and observation. When the incubation period ends, those who fall sick will get timely treatment and those who do not will be just fine, he said.
He suggested that hospitals be staffed with not only infectious disease specialists, but also specialists in treating severe cases to better save patients.
Epidemiologically, the novel coronavirus is homologous to the virus discovered in a type of bat in 2017, said Zhong, adding that the 2019-nCoV probably has an intermediate host that may be a certain kind of wild animal.
"The SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak lasted about six months, but I don't believe the novel coronavirus outbreak would last that long," said Zhong.
The country has taken a series of powerful measures, especially early detection and early isolation.
"We have sufficient confidence in preventing a major outbreak or a recurrence as long as the two measures are in place, although we still need to conduct much scientific research," he said.
Noting that the key for Wuhan is how to reduce infections inside hospitals, Zhong said he supported the construction of makeshift hospitals in the city to control the infectious disease.
The activation of top-level public health emergency response was aimed at reducing the chance of infection, he said, adding that the vaccine development may need three to four months or even longer.
"Now scientists are speeding up research of neutralizing antibodies of the virus, but it takes time. With help from across the country, Wuhan, a heroic city, will pull through," Zhong said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called the coronavirus a "demon" which should be brought under control.
China has ramped up efforts to contain the virus. The country has extended the New Year Festival holidays till February 2 to prevent reverse migration of millions of migrants works to return to their work from holidays.
Universities, primary and middle schools and kindergartens across the country will postpone the opening of the spring semester until further notice.
The government is focussing efforts to prevent mass gatherings and mass travel to ensure the virus is not spread fast.
Beijing has also launched temperature detection at 55 subway stations, including stops at railway stations and Beijing airport. Passengers with abnormal body temperatures will be sent to hospital.
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Donald Trump impeachment trial enters volatile new phase as senators get to ask their own questions
Washington: After six days of carefully-choreographed oral arguments, President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is about to enter a volatile new phase as senators are allowed to ask whatever they want of House prosecutors and White House lawyers.
It is a moment of opportunity — and peril — for both parties, as 100 senators engage in as many as 16 hours of questioning over two days of the House impeachment managers and Trump’s legal defence team that could shape the endgame of the trial.
Senator Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, wants to ask the leading House manager about the whistleblower whose confidential complaint about Trump’s dealings with Ukraine touched off the impeachment inquiry, and about Hunter Biden, whom the president asked Ukraine’s president to investigate. Senator Angus King, I-Maine, plans to question Alan Dershowitz’s criteria for impeachment. Senator Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, is seeking more information about the president’s personal lawyer, who played a central role in his pressure campaign on Ukraine.
“I’m a little bit curious about Rudy Giuliani,” Cramer said.
The questions, which will begin on Wednesday afternoon and could go late into the evening, will allow senators, who have been sitting restlessly in the Senate chamber for more than a week listening to duelling presentations from the two sides, the chance to participate in the proceedings, albeit indirectly. Under the arcane rules of impeachment, they are to submit written queries that will be read aloud by Chief Justice John Roberts, who is presiding over the trial.
The result is likely to be a lively if slow-moving Senate debate in which the leaders of the two parties — working in concert with the House managers and the White House lawyers — seek to elicit damaging admissions, highlight favourable points and give their side a chance to rebut the claims made by their adversaries during nearly 30 hours of arguments since the trial opened last week.
“On the top of my mind is Dershowitz’s assertion that abuse of power is not a sufficient criteria for impeachment,” said King, who has prepared more than 10 questions to be presented to both sides. He said Monday’s presentation by Trump’s lawyers “raised questions that I think the House managers need to respond to”.
When the trial resumes at 1 pm on Wednesday (11.30 pm IST), senators will submit tan-coloured cards to Roberts that include their questions, names, signatures and the side they want the question directed to. Under the rules, senators cannot ask each other questions, but questions can be submitted by more than one lawmaker.
The questions will alternate — one from the Republicans, then one from the Democrats and so on — for eight hours, or until there are no more. Senate leaders said they expect to get through about 10 to 12 per side before taking a break. A second session, if necessary, will take place on Thursday.
During former president Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial in 1999, William Rehnquist, then the chief justice, opened the question-and-answer session with a lighthearted moment, telling senators that “the chair will operate on a rebuttable presumption that each question can be fully and fairly answered in five minutes or less.”
Roberts read that quote on Tuesday.
“The transcript indicates that the statement was met with, quote, laughter, end quote,” he told the senators, drawing more laughter. “Nonetheless, managers and counsels generally limited their responses accordingly. I think the late chief’s time limit was a good one and would ask both sides to abide by it.”
The leaders of both parties have strategised for days about the best questions to ask. Democrats plan to direct some to Pat A Cipollone, the White House counsel, about what he knew about an unpublished book by John Bolton, the president’s former national security advisor, in which he said Trump refused to release congressionally-allocated military assistance for Ukraine until the country announced investigations into his political rivals. The White House has had the manuscript for weeks. Republicans say they will ask about why the House failed to subpoena the witnesses they now say they want.
In the House, the seven Democratic managers and their staff have been preparing briefing books as they try to anticipate Republican tactics. They are preparing for personal, “gotcha” questions aimed at two of Trump’s favourite targets among the managers: Representatives Adam Schiff of California and Jerrold Nadler of New York.
But a person close to the House managers said they are also ready to field friendly questions from Democratic senators in the hopes they will prompt them to repeat the most damning parts of their case against Trump.
The leadership offices of both parties are coordinating the collection of questions, weeding out duplicates, rejecting off-the-wall queries and attempting to ensure that every senator gets a chance. Officials in both offices said they are helping to give some order to the questions, grouping them into rough topic areas.
“Each of us, without guidance or direction, have put together our favorite topics in the form of questions,” Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No 2 Democrat, said. “The sequencing and avoiding duplication is just a bookkeeping chore. The substance of the questions I presented came from me and my staff.”
During Clinton’s trial 21 years ago, which turned on his lying about a sexual affair with a White House intern, the leaders of both parties tried to screen questions to make sure the topics did not too directly address the salacious nature of the charges.
In one of the worst moments for the House Republican managers seeking Clinton’s ouster, Representative Lindsey Graham of South Carolina — now a senator participating in Trump’s trial — answered a question by saying that “reasonable people can differ” on the question of whether Clinton should be removed, giving Democrats a much-needed excuse to acquit him.
“This is the first part of the trial that has spontaneity,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn, noting that the managers and White House attorneys will have to be quick on their feet. “If they try to do the canned version, it will fall flat.”
Hawley was eager Tuesday to reveal his intended questions, sending a news release to reporters outlining the nine subjects he hoped to cover. In addition to the whistleblower and Hunter Biden, Hawley says he will ask a series of questions about former vice-president Joe Biden.
Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn, told reporters last week that it would be “good if we had some joint questions” where a Democratic and Republican senator both sign their names on a single question. One such question was submitted in 1999 — from Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, and former Senator Russell D Feingold, D-Wisconsin.
It is unclear whether a bipartisan question will emerge from the current, highly polarised Senate.
Michael D Shear c.2020 The New York Times Company
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Coronavirus outbreak: Toll in China rises to 132, over 6,000 people infected; US, Japan begin evacuating nationals as experts fear mutations
Beijing: Countries on Wednesday began evacuating their citizens from the Chinese city hardest-hit by an outbreak of a new virus that has killed 132 people and infected more than 6,000 on the mainland and abroad.
China's latest figures cover the previous 24 hours and add 26 to the number of deaths, 25 of which were in the central province of Hubei and its capital, Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak. The 5,974 cases on the mainland marked a rise of 1,459 from the previous day, although that rise is a smaller increase than the 1,771 new cases reported on Monday. Dozens of infections of the new type of coronavirus have been confirmed outside mainland China as well.
A Japanese chartered flight carrying 206 evacuees from Wuhan included some who had coughs and fever on the plane, Kyodo News reported, citing health ministry officials. They were expected to be taken by ambulances to a Tokyo hospital specializing in infectious diseases.
Takeo Aoyama, an employee at Nippon Steel Corp.’s subsidiary in Wuhan, told reporters he was relieved to be able to return home. “We were feeling increasingly uneasy as the situation developed so rapidly and we were still in the city,” Aoyama told reporters, wearing a white surgical mask that slightly muffled his voice.
Another of the evacuees, Takayuki Kato, said their temperatures were taken before the plane left Wuhan and again by a doctor on board. Both Kato and Aoyama said they didn’t see anyone with obvious symptoms or feeling ill near their seats. All of the passengers were expected to undergo further health checks and were expected to stay home until a lack of infection was confirmed.
Aoyama said more than 400 Japanese people wishing to return to Japan are in Wuhan, including those who are working for a Japanese supermarket chain that stays open to serve customers who need food. He said it is important to step up preventive measures in Japan, but “I hope we can also provide support for the Chinese people, which I think would also help the Japanese people who are still there.”
A plane carrying Americans who had been in Wuhan left for Anchorage, Alaska, where they will be rescreened for the virus. Hospitals are prepared to treat or quarantine people who may be infected. Then the plane is scheduled to fly to Ontario, California.
The British government is warning against “all but essential travel” to mainland China amid the outbreak of the new type of coronavirus. And Hong Kong's leader said the territory will cut all rail links to the mainland and halve the number of flights to stop the spread of the virus.
South Korea also said it will send a plane, and France, Mongolia and other governments also planned evacuations.
China has cut off access to Wuhan and 16 other cities in Hubei province to prevent people from leaving and spreading the virus further. The lockdown has trapped more than 50 million people in the most far-reaching disease control measures ever imposed.
The Japanese flight was bringing 20,000 face masks as well as protective gear, all in short supply as Chinese hospitals treat a growing number of patients. Wuhan is building two hospitals in a matter of days to add 2,500 beds for treatment of patients with the virus.
The sharp rise in infections recently suggests significant human-to-human spread of the virus, though it could also be explained by expanded monitoring efforts, said Malik Peiris, chair in virology at the University of Hong Kong.
Experts worry the new virus may spread more easily than originally thought, or may have mutated into a form that does so. It is from the coronavirus family, which also can cause the common cold as well as more serious illnesses such as SARS and MERS, which both emerged in the past two decades and are thought to have come from animals.
The new virus causes cold- and flu-like symptoms, including cough and fever, and in more severe cases, shortness of breath and pneumonia. It is thought to have spread to people from wild animals sold at a Wuhan market. China on Sunday temporarily banned trade in wild animals and urged people to stop eating meat from them.
On Tuesday, Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to discuss the latest information on the outbreak and reiterate their commitment to bringing it under control, WHO said in a news release. “The National Health Commission presented China’s strong public health capacities and resources to respond and manage respiratory disease outbreaks,” the release said.
It said discussions focused on ways to cooperate to contain the virus in Wuhan and other cities and provinces and studies that could contribute to the development of medical countermeasures such as vaccines and treatments. Other WHO experts will visit China as soon as possible, it said. “Stopping the spread of this virus both in China and globally is WHO’s highest priority,” Tedros said.
The source of the virus and the full extent of its spread are still unknown. However, WHO said most cases reported to date “have been milder, with around 20 percent of those infected experiencing severe illness.”
The cases counted outside China include a German man who may have been infected by a co-worker visiting from Shanghai and a Japanese tour bus driver who had driven buses carrying tourists from Wuhan. Most of cases abroad have involved Chinese tourists traveling for the Lunar New Year holiday, people who visited Wuhan, or family members who had close contact with those already infected.
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लेफ्ट का विरोधी, CAA पर जहर...कौन है शरजील
पटना के सेंट जेवियर हाई स्कूल और दिल्ली के वसंत विहार के दिल्ली पब्लिक स्कूल में अपनी स्कूली शिक्षा पूरी करने वाला इमाम शुरू से ही मुसलमानों के खिलाफ होने वाले भेदभाव के खिलाफ आवाज उठाता रहा है।
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कुणाल पर फ्लाइट बैन, विरोध-सपॉर्ट में ऐसे पोस्ट
एयर इंडिया और इंडिगो ने स्टैंडअप कमीडियन कुणाल कामरा को बैन कर दिया है। दरअसल उन्होंने विमान के अंदर एक टीवी ऐंकर पर आपत्तिजनक टिप्पणी की थी। इसपर सोशल मीडिया बंट गया है।
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बजट 2020 में आपके PF पर आएगी गुड न्यूज!
ईपीएस के दायरे में आने वाले कर्मचारियों को इस बजट में अच्छी खबर मिल सकती है। योजना के तहत न्यूनतम पेंशन राशि को बढ़ाने की घोषणा की जा सकती है। साथ ही अटल पेंशन योजना (एपीवाई) का दायरा बढ़ाने की घोषणा भी संभव।
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