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| Belgian royal couple to visit India Posted: 28 Oct 2017 02:07 AM PDT Belgiums royal couple, King Philippe and Queen Mathilde, will visit India from November 5 to 11 on an invitation from President Ram Nath Kovind. The royal couple will be accompanied by six ministers of the Belgian government and a high-powered business delegation comprising CEOs of 86 companies and 13 chiefs of academic institutions, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) stated. This is going to be King Philippes first visit to India after his ascension to the throne in 2013. “The visit would further strengthen the historically strong ties between the two countries,” said Raveesh Kumar, MEA spokesperson. Belgium was also among the first European countries to establish a diplomatic mission in India after Independence. India is at present Belgiums second largest export destination and third largest trade partner outside the European Union. The bilateral trade amounted to $ 13.28 billion in 2016-17. Exports from India to Belgium accounted for $ 5.65 billion, while imports from Belgium accounted for $ 6.62 billion. Diamond trade overwhelmingly dominates Indo-Belgian commerce. Trade in gems and jewellery constitutes over 75% of the bilateral trade and diamonds make up more than 80% of Belgian exports and more than 40% Belgian imports from India. Belgian companies cumulative investment in India is worth over $ 1.01 billion for the period April 2000 – June 2017. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also have meetings with King Philippe. DH News Service Source: DH |
| Google plans software update to fix another Pixel 2 audio issue Posted: 28 Oct 2017 02:07 AM PDT
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| The King of Fighters World – Quick look at new Chinese mobile MMORPG Posted: 28 Oct 2017 01:37 AM PDT Just to recap, The King of Fighters World was first revealed back in January. With development led by China-based Ledo Interactive and IP owner SNK Playmore, the game recently entered the latest Android-exclusive Closed Beta phase in China. We decided to take a look at how the fighting game could fit into a mobile MMORPG, […] |
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| Bharat 22 ETF to open for public subscription on November 15 Posted: 28 Oct 2017 01:31 AM PDT NEW DELHI: Bharat 22 exchange traded fund (ETF) is all set to open for public subscription on November 15, ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company while filing the launch documents for the open-ended ETF said on Saturday. Anchor investors could participate in the new fund offer (NFO) on November 14, it said. The NFO will close on November 17. Announced in August this year, the government intends to raise in excess of Rs 8,000 crore from the NFO. The ETF would mirror the S&P BSE Bharat 22 Index that comprises of select companies from the CPSE universe, stakes held under the Specified Undertaking of the Unit Trust of India (SUUTI) and public sector banks (PSBs). These include ONGC, IOC, SBI, BPCL, Coal India and Nalco, among others. Besides, Axis Bank, ITC and L&T are a few stocks comprising in the ETF that are a part of the government's strategic holding in through SUUTI. The index has outperformed the BSE Sensex on a risk-adjusted basis over a 10-year horizon and offered higher dividend yield historically. For portfolio diversification, weighting of individual index constituent is capped at 15 per cent while weighting of each BSE sector is capped at 20 per cent. As part of the NFO, an upfront discount of 3 per cent would be offered to all categories of investors. The initiative is a part of the government’s disinvestment program, announced earlier by the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), Ministry of Finance and the government of India. “We believe the ETF offers an attractive long term investment opportunity to partake in the India growth story by way of a diversified blend of companies spread across several sectors and are available at attractive valuation and a good subscription discount," said Nimesh Shah, MD & CEO, ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company said. |
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| Modi govt’s big headache before Gujarat & Himachal: Oil at $60 Posted: 28 Oct 2017 01:11 AM PDT Fuel prices are likely to rise further and cause the government political headache during the election season as global benchmark oil price appears headed for a ‘new normal’ at $60 per barrel. North Sea Brent, the global benchmark for oil trade, on Friday settled at $59.30 per barrel, a tad lower than the $59.55-mark it had touched on Thursday, the highest level since July 2015. India meets 82% of its oil requirement with imports. Brent-benchmarked crude makes up about 28% of these imports, while the remaining 72% consists of cheaper supplies benchmarked to ‘sour’ grades from Dubai and Oman. The ‘Indian basket’— euphemism for the mix of crude imported by India — stood at $56.92 a barrel on Thursday and $56.79 on Wednesday. Since there is a day’s lag, Friday’s quote will be available on Monday. Technically then, there’s some headroom till the Indian basket reaches the $60-mark. But due to the daily revision, consumers now feel the pinch every time the price of crude rises, unlike in the past when a spike in crude prices for a day or two would not matter much due to the fortnightly revision. Consumers have been steadily paying more since August. Till October 3, when growing public anger against high taxes forced the government to cut excise duty on fuels by Rs 2 a litre, petrol price had jumped by Rs 7.8 per litre and diesel by Rs 5.7 to hit an all-time high in Delhi. The government had cumulatively hiked excise on petrol by Rs 11.77 per litre and on diesel Rs 13.47 a litre between November 2014 and January 2016 to soak up part of the benefit of tumbling global oil prices. So if oil prices continue to rise further, consumers will still want more tax cuts. The government may find it hard to deny this without inviting public ire when polls in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh are in offing. But any more tax cut could upset the government’s math when it has just announced a massive stimulus package to revive the economy. The excise cut will reduce government revenue by Rs 13,000 crore in the remaining half of the current fiscal. The best hope could lie in factors such as an increase in US crude inventories and high US production and exports. These can ease some of the pains form a tightening oil market as Saudi Arabia pushes to extend the Opec production cut deal into 2018 with Russian support. But the reprieve is likely to be short-lived. Clearly, the writing is on the wall. |
| India and Bangladesh to restore snapped railway lines: Mujibal Haque Posted: 28 Oct 2017 01:11 AM PDT Bangladesh Railway Minister Mujibal Haque said an initiative has been taken to reconnect railway lines with India in 12 places, which were snapped after partition of the country in 1947. “We want to restore all the railway lines which existed before the partition of India. Now the initiative is on to restore rail connectivity in twelve places between Bangladesh and India. Both the governments are cooperating with each other in this regard,” he told reporters here last evening. Haque was in the capital to attend a conference of Rotary Clubs of both the countries. Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar inaugurated the conference. The Bangladesh minister said the second rail bridge on the Titas and the Bhoirab rivers in Brahmanbaria district of his country was completed with funding from India, and that it would be inaugurated soon. Apart from the ‘Moitree Express’ which runs between Dhaka and Kolkata, he said another train ‘Bandhan Express’ to run between Khulna in Bangladesh and Kolkata, was likely to be launched next month. “There is also a proposal from Bangladesh side to launch a train to connect Rajshahi in Bangladesh and Kolkata,” he said. Haque noted that the progress of the 15-km long ongoing Agartala-Akhaura project was satisfactory and land acquisition for the purpose in Bangladesh side was complete. Land acquisition for the project in Indian side has also been completed, West Tripura District Magistrate and Collector, Milind Ramteke told reporters earlier. The central government has released Rs 97.63 crore to acquire the land, he said. The process of laying railway tracks to connect Agartala with Akhaura in Bangladesh would be completed next year, Haque said. Out of the 15-km track, five km would be on Indian side and the rest in Bangladesh. Ramteke stated that the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) was the nodal agency for implementation of the project in Indian side. Former railway minister Suresh Prabhu and Haque had jointly laid the foundation stone of the project here on July 31 last. A flyover of 3.7 km will be constructed on the Indian side to save cultivable lands and the entire project cost will be borne by the central government. New Delhi is keen to establish the rail link as it will connect West Bengal and Tripura through Bangladesh. The 1,700 km distance between Agartala and Kolkata, which goes through the chicken neck in Siliguri, would be reduced to 350 km if passengers could move through Bangladesh, officials said. |
| Facebook vows more transparency over political ads Posted: 28 Oct 2017 01:11 AM PDT Under pressure in advance of hearings on Russian election interference, Facebook is moving to increase transparency for everyone who sees and buys political advertising on its site. Executives for the social media company said Friday they will verify political ad buyers in federal elections, requiring them to reveal correct names and locations. The site will also create new graphics where users can click on the ads and find out more about who’s behind them. More broadly, Rob Goldman, Facebook’s vice president in charge of ad products, said the company is building new transparency tools in which all advertisers – even those that aren’t political – are associated with a page, and users can click on a link to see all of the ads any advertiser is running. Users also will be able to see all of the ads paid for by the advertisers, whether or not those ads were originally targeted toward them. The move comes after the company acknowledged it had found more than 3,000 ads linked to Russia that focused on divisive U.S. social issues and were seen by an estimated 10 million people before and after the 2016 U.S. elections. Facebook, Twitter and Google will testify in Congress next Tuesday and Wednesday on how their platforms were used by Russia or other foreign actors in the election campaign. The Senate and House intelligence committees and the Senate Judiciary Committee are all holding hearings as part of their investigations into Russian election interference. Facebook’s announcement comes a day after Twitter said it will ban ads from RT and Sputnik, two state-sponsored Russian news outlets. Twitter also has said it will require election-related ads for candidates to disclose who is paying for them and how they are targeted. Facebook’s Goldman said the company also will build a new archive of federal election ads on Facebook, including the total amount spent and the number of times an ad is displayed, he said. The archive, which will be public for anyone to search, would also have data on the audience that saw the ads, including gender and location information. The archive would eventually hold up to four years of data. Goldman said the company is still building the new features. They plan to test them in Canada and roll them out in the United States by next summer ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. “This is a good first step but it’s not at all the last step, there’s a lot to learn once we start testing,” Goldman said in an interview. Facebook already had announced in September that the platform would require an advertiser to disclose who paid for the ads and what other ads it was running at the same time. But it was unclear exactly how the company would do that. The moves are meant to bring Facebook more in line with what is now required of print and broadcast advertisers. Federal regulations require television and radio stations to make publicly available the details of political ads they air. That includes who runs the ad, when it runs and how much it costs. It is also likely meant to head off bipartisan legislation in the Senate that would require social media companies to keep public files of election ads and try to ensure they are not purchased by foreigners. Though Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, a Democratic co-sponsor of the legislation, has said his bill would be “the lightest touch possible,” social media companies would rather set their own guidelines than face new regulation. Facebook has responded swiftly to the attention it has received in recent months on Capitol Hill, boosting staff and lobbying efforts. The company has spent more than $8.4 million in lobbying Congress and the rest of the government through the third quarter of this year, according to federal records. The company’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, visited several congressional offices this month to convey that the company is taking the issue seriously. Facebook has also turned over the 3,000 ads to Congress and special counsel Robert Mueller, who is doing his own investigation of Russian interference in the election and whether it was tied to President Donald Trump’s campaign. Warner, who is the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, said on Thursday that the moves by the social media companies in the week leading up to the hearings “show a growing recognition of how serious this problem is.” Still, he said, he wants to see at the hearings next week a “fuller disclosure of exactly what happened in 2016.” Some analysts have warned that policing such online election ads can be difficult. It’s one thing to enforce advertising rules for a print newspaper or a TV station, where real humans can vet each ad before it is printed or aired. But that is much more complicated when automated advertising platforms allow millions of advertisers – basically anyone with a credit card and internet access – to place an ad. To address that challenge, Goldman says his company will try to create new tools for enforcement. “For political advertisers that do not proactively disclose themselves, we are building machine learning tools that will help us find them and require them to verify their identity,” he said in a Facebook blog post. |
| Mobile Aadhaar can now be used to enter airports Posted: 28 Oct 2017 12:41 AM PDT Mobile Aadhaar can be used as an identity proof to enter airports, while identification documents will not be required for minors accompanied by parents, according to a circular issued by aviation security agency BCAS. Passengers entering airport premises need to produce any one of the ten identity proofs listed by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) in its latest communication, which includes passport, voter ID card, Aadhaar or m-Aadhaar, PAN card and driving licence. “In order to ensure that a bonafide passenger is travelling on a valid ticket issued in his/her name as well as to avoid any controversy/argument with the security staff, any of the following photo identity documents shall be carried in original,” according to the BCAS circular issued on October 26. A passbook issued by a nationalised bank, pension card, disability photo identification and service photo ID card of central/state government, PSU, local bodies and private limited company will also be acceptable. Differently-abled persons will have to produce a disability photo ID or a medical certificate. Students also have the option to furnish a photo identity card issued by a government institute. The order, however, exempts a minor accompanied by a parent or a guardian from producing an identity proof. “There shall not be any requirement of identity proof in respect of infant/minor accompanied by their parents/guardian who is a bonafide passenger having a valid identity proof,” the order adds. If a passenger is not able to furnish one of the ten documents, then there is also an option to provide an identity certificate issued by a group A gazetted officer of central/ state government. For international passenger the requirement of producing a passport and an air ticket will continue. |
| Kancha Ilaiah under house arrest, cannot travel to Vijayawada to address meet Posted: 28 Oct 2017 12:37 AM PDT Controversial political theorist and Dalit activist Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd has been kept under house arrest at his residence here by the Andhra Pradesh police, with the help of their Telangana counterparts, since Friday night, to prevent him from travelling to Vijayawada. Ilaiah was supposed to address a public meeting in Vijayawada, 270 km from here on Saturday afternoon. The Andhra Pradesh police have denied permission for the public meeting, fearing backlash from the upper castes, particularly the Vysyas and Brahmins, who also sought permission to conduct a public meeting at the same venue. The police have clamped prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the IPC and under Section 30 of the Police Act. A police team handed over the order to Ilaiah and is keeping a vigil on his house. They may arrest him if he comes out of his residence. Activists from T-MASS (Telangana Mass and Social Organisations Forum), an umbrella group of 272 organisations, have gathered near his residence. They raised slogans against the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh governments, alleging suppression of the voices of weaker sections. Ilaiah, who serves as director of the Centre for Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy at the Maulana Azad National Urdu University here, stoked controversy when Samajika Smugglerlu: Komatollu, a Telugu translation of the English original Social Smugglers, was published recently. The book says, historically, Arya Vysyas used to eat non-vegetarian food, were agriculturalists and reared cattle. They turned vegetarian later. With the business community opposing the book and burning copies of it, tensions ran high and Ilaiah did not venture out of his house for days, fearing attacks from the community. However he got respite when a petition in the Supreme Court, pleading for a ban on the book, was rejected by the court. DH News Service Source: DH |
| Apparel exporters flag post-GST issues before parliamentary panel Posted: 28 Oct 2017 12:18 AM PDT
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| Deshpande for Siddu as CM again Posted: 28 Oct 2017 12:07 AM PDT Minister for Heavy Industries R V Deshpande said on Saturday that he would fully extend support to Siddaramaiah if he becomes chief minister once again. “What is wrong if he becomes chief minister again?,” asked Deshpande, speaking to reporters here. The elections will be fought under Siddaramaiah. So, it is good if he becomes the chief minister again, the minister said. He said everyone, including himself, has a desire to occupy the top post, but only those destined to it end up becoming chief minister. DH News Service Source: DH |
| Six women die as sand-laden truck hits auto Posted: 28 Oct 2017 12:07 AM PDT Six women on their way to a temple in a nearby town died in an accident near Modekurru of Kothapet block, East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh in the wee hours of Saturday. A speeding truck rammed the autorickshaw in which 13 passengers were travelling. While five women from Allavaram died on the spot, one more died on the way to hospital. The remaining were rushed to the KIMS hospital in Amalapuram, where their condition is said to be stable. According to Ravulapalem circle inspector B Peddiraju, the women were on their way to Vadavalli Venkateswara Swamy temple when the accident occurred. Relatives have identified the bodies of of the victims, Pilla Bhavani, Pilla Padmavathi, D Ananthalakshmi, Pulimela Ananthalakshmi, Nagamani and Pilla Durga. The truck that hit the three-wheeler was carrying sand and was moving at a high-speed, eye witnesses said. The accident occurred a day after the one in Vijayawada that took the lives of three bikers who were hit by an APSRTC bus running without proper brakes. Recently, four Spanish nationals, including a woman, were killed in Chittoor district as the mini-bus in which they were travelling collided with a truck. DH News Service Source: DH |
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